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We are looking for 3rd (and possibly 4th).
Primarily interested in an Industrial Designer/Mechanical Engineer who wants to take a product from early beta to market.
Also interested in a UI/UX pro not afraid to code. If you comfortable taking on some marketing responsibilities that's a big plus.

If you can code that helps also but we are pretty strong EE/CE/CS and Mech E.

We have some funding and are willing to share significant equity for the right person. We will be working in China as we near manufacturing in a couple months - interesting details if you ping me privately.
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I've looked around and I can't find one ISP that "support" ipv6 in Sweden. The big ones alway replies with "We have enough ipv4 addresses for a long time forward, you don't have to worry."

I'm not worried, I just want to have ipv6 access.
This is akin to the Waterfall method being touted as the dumb way that people used to say to write software. When the entire point of the paper that introduced it by that name did so as a straw man.

Also, do be fair. If "Knuth won" the argument, he still ultimately condemned goto statements. To quote: "I personally wouldn't mind having goto in the highest level, just in case I really need it; but I probably would never use it" Further, that paper is on the list.

And, I do highly recommend people reading the paper. It is, as usual for Knuth, a very thorough exploration of the topic.
And this is precisely why many large enterprises build things in house rather than license commercial tools. It's a lot more palatable to buy 3-5 full time developers to build and support and internal helpdesk than license ServiceNow, etc, for tens of thousands of users.
I'm pretty bad at this. I lose patience quickly when people don't get the hint that it's time to end the conversation. In these cases I usually just say I have to go to the bathroom or make a call and don't come back.
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I totally agree with you but I feel that our discussion is missing a crucial detail here. A bit of philosophical and cultural theory.

Did you notice how lots of people after the movie were like "Wow, I've got an epiphany, I've understood something." Did that something was about physics? No. It was about philosophy.

And damn, Interstellar philosophy is awful. Postmodernism at its worst.

Happy to share why.

Postmodernism is deeply suspicious of academia and academics. Who were the negative characters? Dr. Mann("the best of us") and Prof. Brand. "Do not go gentle in the dying light" A poem written for the poet's father losing his vision. Who was his father? Literature professor.

Postmodernism rejects reason as a epistemological foundation and states that rationalism is just another narrative. Who was right about the planet? Amelia Brand was. What did she say? "Maybe we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory. Love is the one thing that transcends time and space".

Postmodernism is dismissive of science. Did Romilly's data that he collected during the years of scientific pursuit help anyone from the crew or humanity at large? No. Scientific method of trial and error was useless, but "magical tesseract pixies" powered by love saved the humanity and the protagonist.

Millions and millions of movie viewers "understood" that science and reason is not as important as love and magic. My hypothesis is when people were watching this movie they had a bit of postmodern values imprinted in their minds. That was their epiphany.

Christopher Nolan made an dystopian world he pictured a little closer. That is if you agree that modernism or super-modernism philosophy is more conductive to development of humanity than a postmodernism one...

But you know what really gets to me?

Nolan knew all of that. His Memento movie is an example of postmodernist film in the Wikipedia! He was perfectly aware what he was doing.

This citation must be included in the discussion.

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On a deeper level, Jessica Chastain may have said it best when telling Entertainment Weekly that “Interstellar” is a love letter from Nolan to his daughter, Flora. The film’s production title was “Flora’s Letter.” Underneath it all, that's what "Interstellar" really is — a father-daughter story reflected in the relationship between Cooper and his daughter, Murph (MacKenzie Foy), the two lead characters at the center of the film.
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A love letter. Now the movie makes perfect sense as an educational content for a child. Question the authority. Promote love. Instill hope and faith.

But at what price for humanity at large? For me, a price that was too high. That's why I consider Interstellar to be harmful, irrational postmodernist trojan horse that supposedly promotes science but actually does the opposite.

Thank you, Christopher Nolan for making humanity a little bit less rational, thank you so much.
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How escape sequences work in unix terminals
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A manual brightness / contrast control would do wonders. My face was only 2 or 3 different characters/densities. Meanwhile the wall behind me is another several.
http://xkcd.com/927/

Sure, you can create a simple transfer protocol that meets 80% of the use cases. Now add on the other 20% of the use cases, and you will end up with equatable complexity. And then, congratulations, you now have two competing standards.
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Why was the Ranger launched from Earth on a giant rocket, but was single stage to orbit on all the other Earth-like worlds?

The only thing I've been able to think of was that they used some kind of exotic propulsion, like antimatter, therefore there was no sense wasting such a precious commodity to leave Earth if you had a rocket available.

But nothing in the movie seemed to explain it.
It depends on what you mean by fully formed. For example the idea of vectors and quaternions, which seem so natural, is quite new (~250 years old) [1]

When maxwell derived and unified electromagnetic theory, he didn't use constructs like the gradient and divergence of vector fields (those concepts didn't exist), instead performing those operations 'just' partial derivatives [2]. Sure, the math is explicitly identical, but the modern concepts of operators on vector fields that is so powerful just didn't exist which, to me, is rather telling about the evolution mathematical thinking: we are all doing the same thing (and have been for a long time) but way we think about it evolves with our notation. And notation that we are used to is actually quite new

[1] https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~temple/MAT21D/SUPPLEMENTARY-AR...

[2] http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/155/459.full....
This seriously sounds like malpractice. If I were you, I'd be consulting a lawyer.
My team at Microsoft builds the query federation engine that's behind the Power Query addin for Excel. We're a team of eight that's looking to add 2-3 devs. Some links to job descriptions:

https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?jid=162282

https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?jid=162286

https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?jid=162294
Sure, but I imagine there is some correlation.
I bounce my eyes in and out of this many times a day. Whenever I see two like things next to each other i'll line them up. Eyes, light switches, books. I've been able to do this at will since I was a young child.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I had never heard of Plain English, will be making an effort to use it going forward.
Ask HN: As a CTO for a seed company how much am I worth?
In general I would like to know. Here's my personal position if you would like to comment on it:

I've been working with a business partner on an app. I've decided to come on as CTO, and we're now hashing out how much equity / salary I should get. Here's the facts:

- The CEO has been working on it this entire past year. He's been iterating over his idea and had a prototype developed.

- I've been taking $1500/week to freelance for him for the past 3 months under the assumption that I will join on eventually. I'm worth $4000-$5000/week from a freelancing standpoint but took the less pay because I believed in the idea

- At my previous startup I was paid 175k + 5% equity. I'm very high in demand.

- I'm developing an iPhone app and until I get a developer that means I will be doing the backend and Frontend programming (both of which I'm skilled and experienced in)

- The CEO plans on giving himself 55%. His father who has paid for the freelancers that he's hired over the past year will get 20%.

- We live and work in NYC

- We have a great working relationship. We work in the same office and get along great and are always hashing out ideas.

He's offered me 8% / 125k. I told him I don't feel like a cofounder at that amount and asked if 15% / 100k was feasible and he didn't think so. We talked for length about it and I feel like I'm worth a lot more than he's selling me on.

Is it fair that he get so much more equity and am I being unreasonable in expecting more?
Yes, they could do, but then they might have to have another employee or some other such that means they make a little less profit, so fuck the workers, if they don't want the job there's some other sucker who'll thank me for the chance to be exploited.
I didn't get an anti-science vibe. If anything the scene at the school was a pretty transparent poke at the folks today who seek to take accurate science out of school curricula.

The main professor lied to everyone in order to create the will to work on "Plan B", the frozen embryos. He thought folks would never work on that if they all thought they were doomed.

The evil scientist turned bad because of the extreme isolation and thought that he would never see anyone again. It's a variation of the "space madness" trope from 100 science fiction plots--tired, but not anti-science, in my opinion.
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AppNeta is an application performance company that strives to elegantly answer questions about performance that developers and users face each day. We make TraceView, which enables distributed tracing (like X-Trace, Google Dapper, or Twitter Zipkin) for all major web servers, frameworks, languages, and browsers, and provide a service that collects and analyzes that data to provide beautiful charts, graphs, heatmaps, and request detail that help our customers better understand their application performance in real time.

We are currently looking for full-stack and backend-focused engineers who are interested in building innovative performance tools and helping us scale to meet our ever-increasing faucet of customer traffic -- we currently process tens of thousands of events per second. Our frontend is built with D3.js and Angular, and our backend is almost entirely Python, a bit of C++, MySQL, RabbitMQ, EC2, DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, S3, SQS, Hadoop, Celery, SQLAlchemy, etc.

We sit atop mountains of data and strive to provide intelligent, actionable insights for our customers about the performance of their app's code & servers. Processing & visualizing it all at scale is a big challenge, and we’re looking for talented engineers to help us. We're especially interested in engineers with experience dealing with large amounts of data in Python.

TraceView grew out of a Google-Ventures-funded startup called "Tracelytics" and continues as a tight-knit, smart team backed by a strong, growing company that is investing heavily in our product's future. Our application engineering team is made up of several engineers each in Boston and Providence, with our instrumentation team based in Vancouver.

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or contact me: Chris Erway, Chief Architect (cce@appneta.com)
Sorry.

All I can really say is that we have a culture of cooperation and interaction that relies, in part, on physical proximity. It may change in the future, but for now we prefer folks to be in the office where they can interact with others with less friction.

We're a lean company, so 'Services' encompasses all positions for which we're hiring.
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Location: Paris, France

Remote: Possible

Willing to relocate: Not immediately but we can discuss it.

Technologies: OCaml, Haskell, Python, C

Resume: http://www-apr.lip6.fr/~millon/cv-emillon.pdf

Github: https://github.com/emillon

Blog: http://blog.emillon.org/

Email: me AT emillon DOT org

My background is in security & formal methods. In my PhD thesis I wrote a type inference system to detect security bugs in the Linux kernel. I'm passionate about open source and contribute quite a lot to Debian.

Happy to chat with you about cool opportunities!
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No, but I regularly see GitHub replacing Git in "technical" forums.
Isn't it interesting that governments can get their act together and come up with big distributed systems crunching tens of Gbps in real time but still continue to implode spectacularly when it comes to large-scale webapps (e.g. Obamacare, UK NHS systems, UK taxation systems.)
Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Within Canada

Technologies: AngularJS, Rails, Django, PostgreSQL, Cordova

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gWy7FTtwNAMExPbVJoa2Fna1k...

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GitHub: https://github.com/wmill

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Inspecting the environment of a running process
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/stress

"Evidence from experimental studies does suggest that psychological stress can affect a tumor’s ability to grow and spread. For example, some studies have shown that when mice bearing human tumors were kept confined or isolated from other mice—conditions that increase stress—their tumors were more likely to grow and spread (metastasize). "
The ineptitude of doctors never ceases to amaze me. One particularly idiotic fellow proudly announced to me and the entire office that he'd discovered I have diabetes. Even if that has been true, the manner in which he announced his pleasure at the epiphany made me want to punch him in the balls. hard. After a confused and sad ride home it only took a short talk with my extremely unqualified wife to convince me that he is mentally challenged and had no idea what he was talking about. Of course she was right.

In a fun twist, a month later I contacted a different Dr's office in the same plaza to get a new doctor. I wanted to verify it wasn't the same location, so I specifically asked if he worked there. The attendant said "No, but why do you ask?" I told her the story and she said that he had applied to be a part of their practice and, after my call, ther was an extremely slim chance of that happening. Made my day.
It's not really gossip, more like planet.git, or planet.github. In the early days of blogging pretty much every project had this kind of syndication for their contributors.
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Not to mention there's a lot of SysAdmins out there that will do the job very well for a lot less than $60K a year. You don't need to hire a SysAdmin who used to work on Google sized infrastructure to run your internal startup's IT.
Maybe the Jedi master blade smith has a different opinion. And may he/she being from a galaxy far away, there's different technology.
I think the issue with Glass is that when it started out, it appeased to our inner sci-fi geekiness of wearable technology that can do it all all without lifting a single finger. However, two years onward and nothing but a prototype running an unsupported and outdated chip, I can see the criticism being levelled at Google Glass.

Will switching to Intel hardware and adding in a few missing pieces of functionality be enough to save Glass? Who knows. For something like Glass to succeed, you need to have the support of developers who will write the apps and drive adoption, but it seems Google are fighting a losing battle at present to get developers to stay or new developers to enter the fray. There is just no incentive at the moment for people to care about Glass. I think Google needs to make its intentions clear, there is too much uncertainty and I think that is what is holding Glass back, perhaps even killing it. At present the perspective of many is Glass is just another Google experiment that can get cancelled at any time.
I'm on Chrome and Win7 and it was fine for me (aside from the text column scootching rightward, starting at 175% zoom, but just scrolling to the right fixes that).
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No, it really isn't. One of the stated goals of the GNU project is to develop an entirely free (as in libre) operating system. Calling Linux "GNU/Linux" allows them to say they've completed that goal, despite little details like their continual failure to deliver a finished Hurd kernel. Linux's userland isn't even primarily GNU software, and I think GNU may not even be the single-largest contributor to the core userland anymore.
edit: I'm replacing my entire previous comment about the superiority of ct/pet-ct vs *mri scanning; it looks like some groups are doing work with MRIs that are comparable in accuracy and nearing clinical use. I still think daily whole body scans are a spectacular waste of human capital for relatively little benefit.
Salary is just a part of the total cost of an employee. You have to take into account: recruiting, office space, food, medical insurance, payroll tax, stock options, etc. Usually these things will be equivalent to the salary.
There's also considerable risk-aversion at large enterprises. Getting themselves into a position of significant dependence on a SaaS provider can be unappealing for at least two reasons, even if the pricing works for them initially: 1. risk that the pricing gets raised significantly, or the business's employee/customer profile changes in a way that raises the price to them significantly; or 2. risk that the SaaS provider goes out of business, is acquired, pivots, or otherwise significantly changes the service.

Building something in-house probably doesn't usually result in a better product up front (and definitely not for less up-front expenditure), but it can reduce some risks and be less constraining to future moves if you own the app.
The second comment on his blog says he's just repeating what Marx said, which is not quite correct but in the right ballpark. People who don't know anything about economics tend to do that.

The "problem" of exponential growth is the belief that it will result in using up all available resources rather than finding more efficient ways to use resources we didn't even know we had. Engines become more efficient, power generation becomes lower cost, food production moves from farms to factories... all of these are good things. We feed the world with far fewer resources today than we did a century ago when many more people were starving, even while we use more resources building smartphones and sending spacecraft out to explore the solar system. We solve problems our ancestors didn't have because they still hadn't solve the problems they faced.

Economically, exponential growth is required to keep the monetary system stable, but in human terms we live in a world where new problems always arise, and require new solutions.

Before Watt and Newcomb we didn't have many problems related to steam power. Before the Wrights getting to the airport was just not an issue for most people. Human invention creates new problems which human invention solves, and that is a treadmill we cannot get off.

Capital markets turn out to be a remarkably good method of funding new solutions, and private enterprise turns out to be a remarkably good way of exploring the landscape of new solutions. No one has ever been able to figure out how to incentive socialist managers to explore that landscape with anything like the same efficiency--particularly given the opportunities they have for corruption--and when you look at how inefficient capitalism is you'll realize that's saying something.

So we continue to press on, while a certain type of person who has been more-or-less loud in the past two hundred years shouts at us that it is all going to end badly Real Soon Now.

Somehow it never does. It could, certainly, but we're centuries away from that. Possibly millennia. In the short term, if the naysayers are so sure of their analysis, I recommend they apply it to the stock market and use their impressive prescience to get rich. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone who has the kind of deep insight into the workings of the world that they claim to have to manage that.
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Web developer with experience building fully featured web apps using a variety of technologies. Intelligent, adaptable and a quick learner. Looking for a full time position, ideally working with Ruby, but open to anything interesting. Available to start immediately.
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Ruby Engineer
We are a venture-backed startup in Chicago, and we are looking for smart engineers to join our team. This is an early-stage opportunity with a healthy amount of equity and the chance to have a significant impact on technical process and company culture. We’re looking for well-rounded engineers who are comfortable working throughout our entire stack.

This position is an opportunity for an engineer to take ownership of significant technical areas in a small, growing company. In particular, this position offers the chance to tackle complex analytical problems across a large data set in a tech-centric company.

https://www.risk.io/jobs/ruby-engineer
Actually, this is a pretty good idea! It's going on my idea list.