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When people disagree with you, that does not mean they are ignorant.
Location: San Diego

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Android/Java, Actionscript, Haxe, Flask/Django, Python, a tiny bit of
Haskell

Resume: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydagorn/

Email: jeremy.dagorn@gmail.com

I am a programmer with mostly front-end experience. I worked on really dynamic UI, shipped to millions of users in the last two years. I am someone curious, caring about testing and quality code, with attention to details.
On my spare time, I work on some Android apps, and other projects using Python and Haskell.

I am looking for any kind of full-stack position, where I could be learning a lot and get challenged. I am a fast-learner. Working using some functional language could be fun as I have an increasing interest in Haskell. I am also interested in the backend world, but don't have any experience yet, thus the full-stack position interest.
Ellen was also an EE major as an undergrad (at Princeton, which is known for its hard sciences, IAS et al...), a partner at a firm that has invested into many other consumer audience startups (i.e., I'd think she knows very well the difference between a site like Reddit and BI), and a reddit user prior to her role at reddit.

Finally, why should we hold a law degree someone has obtained 20 years ago against them? (Fwiw, this is a background quite similar to Peter Thiel: years in "the elite", until finding a better home).
Nice feature, but, again, not available in CloudFormation. I understand the challenge to coordinate releases, I can live with a week or two lag, but usually it's months - CloudFormation still doesn't support basic AWS services. I really am considering abandoning this gem, which is highly neglected and underutilized. Terraform [1] looks like something I can extend myself easily if the upstream doesn't support something just yet and contribute it as a pull request.

[1] https://terraform.io/
The risk of shattered teeth stopped me from trying that one.
They moved many of their popular Java projects recently: guava, guice, closure tools, gson.
It really does not.
I'm old enough to remember buying your basic sandwich bread at the grocery store and taking it to the bread slicing machine. I guess the idea was that it would keep the bread better until slicing it, after which it would quickly be turned into all the lunch sandwiches for 3 or 4 kids for the week. I think the presliced bread cost a little more since it had shorter shelf-life or something.

These days, even my local grocery sells fantastic artisinal breads. Which you can either keep in the loaf and cut at home, or take it to a similar machine and have it pre-sliced for you. You can of course get the old basic sandwich bread in cheap loaves...$2-$3. But even the "fancy" breads are usually under $4 a loaf.
> you'd still trivially be able to find that number given a single known password.

I understand that it's because the salt is entirely appended in clear to the hash. Isn't it better to have a second static salt implemented in the code, in case only the database would be compromised?
How is this idea any better (and cheaper) than a static site generator like Jekyll?
Moving to git is great, moving to github can be terrible for some projects that are more collaborative, as if you want to change someones PR you cannot..
Very cool product! Finally we could search personal photo album like Google Image Search...
What stops these drugs from being developed in European countries with more relaxed rules and then brought to the US market afterwards?
I was introduced to the glorious bocadillo a few years ago on a couple visits to Barcelona. I've been trying to replicate a certain ham/cheese version of it here in the U.S. since then. It seems so simple and basic in Spain, where the ham and cheeses are unbelievably good, but here in the U.S. they're just different enough that you can't quite do it.

Not to mention getting the right kind/shape of bread is impossible.
For the person who wants to put time/effort into investing, where you suggest they start?
Coming Home (Alexis Ohanian Returns to Reddit)
Me too, my brain is wired to read Gerrit as a common Dutch first name, so I thought he was talking about a person named Gerrit.
Tell the company what sort of work you are interested in.

They see you as a strong candidate, hence the offer, but may just be filling in an open cog in the machine. Since you don't want the cog position anyway, there's nothing to be lost by being honest and opening yourself up for dialog.

It may also turn out that the position is different than you imagine...or positions: both the one offered and the ones in the area your interested in.

Good Luck.
To the siblings to this post: it seems rather unlikely as the research is being generated at a rate that far exceeds any one person's ability to read it (especially when they are already busy marrying C and CSP [which is easy to build as a library or add-on to any other existing language] & type theory isn't their specialty).
I believe that Grothendieck always insisted on spelling his first name "Alexander" rather than the French "Alexandre." If this is true, as I believe it is, let's make an effort to respect his wish.
How can you possibly know (unless you're a member of Google leadership team)?
Still, more truthful than the Honorable Director Clapper...
So, you're criticising someone for not doing something that's impossible? Just stop.
I created an account a month or so ago, but never completed the signup. Why would a service snoop into my bank accounts instead of, let's say, withdraw $10/month via ACH?! I really don't get this "spare change" idea (like BofA's). $10/month sounds much easier to grasp, implement, and it's safer at the end.
I mean you were on Mission street. I raise an eyebrow to the "loathsome gentrification" stories that pop up pretty regularly.
Why does hacker news not have a reddit style 'below threshold' to display none subthreads? :/
It is! Gerrit (our new code review system) is named after Gerrit Rietveld (the designer), as it Rietveld (our old code review system).
I'm not fully sure why you've been downvoted, but I think your comment on SSRIs is a bit misguided. I don't know enough about the others you've mentioned (statins, Xanax, Adderall, etc.) but the evidence for the efficacy of SSRIs is very strong and they certainly aren't intoxicating.
It's not necessarily top talent.

It's young / youngish single people who are willing to kill their bodies with insane hours at the office that most startups are after.

Those people are generally in SF, or at least the kind of people who can actually afford to live in SF on ~$100k.
The level of resistance the cops will put up to maintain their current status is obvious, with the armed robbery, assault, intimidation, disregard for the law, and general "violent gang"-like behavior. I expect strongly that at least some amount of actual shooting-war will be required to correct this situation.

What I'm suggesting that a necessary step in the basic concept of having a police force. The nature of the job by necessity requires us to grant some extra powers and exceptions in law to the people we hire to enforce it. Unfortunately, history shows that not only can we not trust that those powers will not be abused, we also cannot trust that the usual check against abuses of power will be implemented (or even attempted at all). Various types of regulatory capture, institutional corruption, and far too many people choosing to look the other way have demonstrated very clearly a list of methods that do not work.

The key problem in all of that tends to center around someone being able to abuse their powers freely while retaining a very high level of trust. Tying police powers to the camera separates these issues, and might be the start of a much-larger plan to fix this mess we're in. I don't expect that the people currently benefiting from the situation will like it. In fact, as they are (by definition) violent criminals, I expect the people committing the worst abuses will fight back. Hard.

I suggest we start solving that problem now, regardless of the difficulty. Power accumulates, so this will only be harder in the future. I don't have a miracle solution for how to enact these ideas - that is going to be hard regardless..
With your companies 401k or equivalent. Just put whatever percentage you want into a low cost, broad index fund. The most important part is to make this allocation before your paycheck gets cut (i.e. you never see the money).
But have any of these supplements been proven to have "decernable benefit" (aside from the placebo effect)?

ed on 2012-05-15
Dietary Supplements and Cancer Prevention: Balancing Potential Benefits Against Proven Harms
Authors
Abstract

Nutritional supplementation is now a multibillion-dollar industry, and about half of all US adults take supplements. Supplement use is fueled in part by the belief that nutritional supplements can ward off chronic disease, including cancer, although several expert committees and organizations have concluded that there is little to no scientific evidence that supplements reduce cancer risk. To the contrary, there is now evidence that high doses of some supplements increase cancer risk. Despite this evidence, marketing claims by the supplement industry continue to imply anticancer benefits. Insufficient government regulation of the marketing of dietary supplement products may continue to result in unsound advice to consumers. Both the scientific community and government regulators need to provide clear guidance to the public about the use of dietary supplements to lower cancer risk.
© The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press.

http://m.jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/04/24/jn...
Not geographically far can limit you to a tiny distance if you have commuters on caltrain, bart, and muni. Lots of people scoff at the change going from a 5 minute walk from the transportation depot to a 15 minute walk makes, but that made me leave a company. Of course, virtually nobody doing that walk fails to understand, but execs drive.
Steve & Alexis wanted to write an app that would allow you to order food from your feature phone. PG thought it was a bad idea, but liked them, so he suggested the "front page of the Internet" idea.[1]

And Swartz was fired, not quit. He went to Germany then didn't show up for a couple weeks when he got back. [2]

[1] http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/reddit-co-founder-speaks-power-open-i...

[2] http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html
Who is this guy? Why is he important?
Following your reasoning, it makes sense why North Korea was able to produce a small amount of it in a relatively short time. They were well funded thanks to the left-leaning South Korean administrations from 1998-2008 who practiced Sunshine policy. The last bit is that they certainly want it bad enough but have failed to produce a nuclear weapon with significant power (nothing in the range of WW2 nuclear weapons). So if a country that wants it so bad like North Korea have been able to produce a controlled nuclear explosion, why can't they produce anything significant enough to be recognized as a nuclear state? The only thing that would stop them seems to be either expertise or lack of key material or perhaps lack of monies.
Re: reading comprehension, being "made good" was specifically in reference to the distribution of Fire vs e-reader impressions -- which was in fact made good by subsequently restricting the campaign to Fire (see BI story). That's 100% consistent with Amazon's SVP statement on the matter.

There is absolutely nothing in there that states that by "made whole" Discover meant the campaign should solely target 1-click conversions. That is pure speculation and runs counter to all the email evidence.
and, more importantly, bart is only convenient in a very narrow corridor of sf, so this could be turning 15-25 minute commutes into hour plus commutes, spanning two transport systems in sf. A recipe to make your employees hate it.
What about someone like me with no 401k?
I've always had a gut feeling that Sam Altman is not what he acts like.
Just because Paul Graham says he is great doesn't mean he is. It's just his personal belief and could be just a propoganda.... Nothing can be believed in this world anymore, news are not actually news, People don't mean what they say, they say what they don't mean, they act different that the reality and internet world is going crazy, unethical, greedy and more... Start ups are just made to make money, People are easy to fool, one guy comes up and make millions, says start up is great and all the people like Donkeys and Yaks start a 'Start-up'. Why? To make money.... doesn't matter what their action's effects are, they are just crazy to make money. They are dishonest, greedy but they call themselves successful...why, because they earned money... Bring on the Artificially intelligent machines, get rid of the humanity... sooner than later...
What problems have the lack of generics caused you in development?
FTFY: "Stephen Job"
Because of government controls and bureaucratic incentives: on the one hand, the FDA is by its nature and rules inclined to block new drugs and medical devices; on the other hand, potential inventors are either turned off or handicapped by the FDA rules and controls.

I've developed internal software tools for healthcare companies -- having had to study and learn the FDA rules, and having seen what these companies go through, I'd rather give up on engineering than work in the development of medical devices. A sane, creative mind cannot work and flourish under compulsion.
I tried this for a little while but I really did not like how variable the monthly amount was depending on how many transactions I had. It's much easier to budget $X per month.

Their fees seemed higher and fund selection lower than my other banks. Probably I'm just not the target market for this because it's a really cool idea.
When Citibank built the tower in LIC, I'm sure there were people that weren't happy, but I doubt they lost many employees. That's about 7 miles driving distance from wall street.
git is still git - people don't even need a github account to have full functionality.
I feel your pain. This is coming. In the meantime, we've detached this subthread from its parent so we can mark it off-topic.

All: predictable flamewars add no new information, therefore have a signal/noise ratio of zero, and therefore are off topic for Hacker News.
The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
What happens if someone went on CNN/whatever and just went "so we got this NSL..."

Guantanamo?

I'm a bit surprised someone hasn't simply opened their mouths. I applaud the EFF and everyone fighting this fight. Money is free speech but you can't talk about super-aggressive and highly-invasive (probably unconstitutional) NSLs even to say you got one.

So utterly bizarre and disheartening. Although maybe disenfranchisement is half of the point.
You can makes changes to a PR that you didn't open.

If you want to change the title, edit/delete comments, close the PR, assign a person or labels then you'll need the proper permissions.

If you want to make changes to the code you'll need to have push access to the same repo (which is usually the case if you're on the same team because then you don't need to use forks). Otherwise you can always amend the commit(s) before merging them into master.
It has a fun tag feature, which is quite awesome for sending custom thumbit messages to friends.
They're using Gerrit for code review, where you can modify patches submitted by other people.
Working hard is habit.

Habit is born of doing. Doing is born of necessity. If you don't have an inner need you probably won't develop hard work habits. So find the need.

It's an emotional thing at the basic level really. If you aren't emotionally attached to what you are doing, the best thing you can do is something else. Not all the emotions involved are positive either. Fear, hunger and frustration are powerful motivators. But so is the joy of accomplishment. I do work hard and always have. I love building things. And I'm scared of being old and in poverty. The two of these together get me moving every morning without even thinking about it.
> I will never know the true reason behind his behavior

I think he devoted himself to nuclear disarmament and became disillusioned by the fact that his peers did not take the issue seriously.
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That's craziness. Why wouldn't you?
Call your boss for Dinner at the top floor of a big building, show him the cars running on the street, get around him, give a nice kick. Make sure he screams while falling down, record the clip and post it in Youtube.
This looks like it could be really helpful for someone like me who wants to up their C game.
I think those schemes are pretty silly, but as long as you're using a well-tested implementation of a real KDF and not some goofy scheme you hacked up yourself so you could add the second secret nonce, I don't care.
Python as part of a production machine learning stack at Stripe
Volvo is using Google Cardboard to get people inside its new SUV
Given the nature of the sniffing, the best offering would probably be "turn off cell antenna, use wifi."

Given the above, I wonder if the airplanes are also listening to other stuff past cellular.
GitHub and BitBucket are proprietary web applications. This makes them unfit for hosting Emacs.

Also, the pull request system is not very good, IMO. It encourages bad practices like having to use git push --force to submit a new patch set without opening a brand new pull request (I suppose you could delete the remote branch and recreate it each time). And then there's the merge commit that it adds if you merge via Github, rather than rebasing to master and doing a fast-forward for a clean history. As ugly as it is, I much prefer submitting a patch set to a mailing list.
> the company that owns the wires is a sanctioned monopoly, protected from competition

Not in the UK. Anybody can lay their own last mile. It's simply that it'd be expensive to do so, and the company which owns most of the last mile across the country is forced to share it fairly with all ISPs.

Virgin are one company which lays their own last mile, there's another cable company which operates in Scotland which does as well, and there's a few rural community ISPs which lay their own last mile.
US government accused of spying with fake cell towers
What's the incentive for the utility to keep upgrading the wires?
I don't link to branches because if the file gets moved (which it very frequent especially for doc), the link goes 404.

Think of it as a use-after-free :)

Blobs are mostly immuable and you have to edit in a fork anyway, unless you have rights to the repo.
It was at least interesting how quickly those goalposts moved.
An interesting essay on different drugs used in different countries, from a doctor: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-des...
Nexus 6 review: The best Nexus yet, if you can tolerate its gargantuan size
I wouldn't be too quick to judge a project by the version control system. OpenBSD, OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenSMTPD, and a few other affiliated projects all use CVS.
I'm curious - why does the area code matter?
> Pull requests require the contributor to create a public fork of the repository they're committing to.

You can create Pull Requests within a repository. You don't need to fork the repository if you have push access.
I, too, would like to see an entry to set my preference for my account. I prefer tabs of size 4.

In fact, this is the only remaining issue I have left at https://shurcool-legacy.github.io/bettertogether/.
A disruptor shakes up angel investing
How many Github projects accept git format-patch submissions? There's functionality beyond the basic DVCS commands.
> It was not accompanied by increased investment into the actual wires that ran into peoples' homes. Indeed, it eliminated any incentive to invest in those wires--why pour billions of dollars into infrastructure you'll have to lease out at cost to your competitors?

The trouble is without competition they have exactly the same lack of incentive. Why invest in those wires when you can charge customers the same amount whether you make the internet faster or not, and the customers don't have any better alternative?

There are two valid ways out of this. The first is to somehow create competition at the wire level, but that seems rather implausible. Running new fiber to every American household is so expensive that nobody wants to do it unless they can have a monopoly. Creating competition would require some plurality of companies to do it even though the competition, if effective, would eat all of their margins. If anyone can describe a way to make that happen it would probably be worthy of a Nobel prize.

Which leaves the second alternative, which is writing the incentives into the regulations. Set it up so that the nationwide average ISP speed is regularly measured and the ISPs with above average network performance are allowed to charge more by an amount that justifies making regular upgrades.

Or just require the last mile provider to install fiber everywhere once and then let the competing ISPs who lease it provide their own terminating equipment, since the terminating equipment is the thing that needs to be upgraded but isn't the thing that constitutes a natural monopoly.

> People mention the "unbundling" requirement as if its a panacea, comparing it to what has been done in Europe, but ignore what makes that policy work in places like the U.K.--the company that owns the wires is a sanctioned monopoly, protected from competition, that is guaranteed return on investment through statutory means.

Your criticism seems to be that we aren't doing exactly the same thing they're doing. Is there a reason we can't just do exactly the same thing they're doing?
Thanks, edited the part about quit. I didn't mean their idea was an infogami in the sense that it was functionally similar to infogami, but rather just that it something that similarly never worked out.
The application OS is basically irrelevant when talking about cell communications. They'd have to design their own boards to even have a chance at isolating the "baseband" processor - to say nothing of controlling its behavior, especially as carriers want to keep its workings secret for "security"

Most phones (anything CDMA, or most everything LTE) use a Qualcomm SOC, with both the baseband and application processor sharing the same memory space. This is a recipe for anything on the application processor being pwned beyond recognition.

The last time I played with Qualcomm/CDMA (around 2007), I used proprietary software (QPST) to do undocumented incantations to clone an ESN from one phone to another. When I called the number, both rang. Picking both up led to hearing the conversation in both. This tells you precisely how good their idea of "encryption" is.

The entire Qualcomm ecosystem is a black box, and is there even a remote chance they don't have a partnership with the NSA? I'm sure San Diego is seen as a key national security interest - if it weren't "secured" by the NSA, then China/Russia intelligence would do so (or an uppity colony looking for a leg up).

I'll happily eat these words when there's an open source GSM or CDMA stack, portable hardware to run it, and the ability to pay for network access anonymously. But fr now, I see Wifi/Mifi as the only plausible way forward.
There are a lot of usability issues but the most blatant anachronism in my opinion is having to refresh the entire page to check for orangereds. Long polling has been ubiquitous for a decade, and nowadays everyone is using WebSocket for push.
IRA or equivalent. If you have no option for a tax advantaged account, the advice to pick a broad unmanaged index fund or etf still holds.