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Operational Results | tech@operationalresults.com | Salt Lake City, UT

We're looking for a full-time frontend developer to join our team of 4 in building our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) analytics application. We're a small company that has made its money over the past 10 years by doing traditional S&OP consulting, and now we're taking that experience and pivoting to becoming a product-based SaaS company.

Our company name is boring and our website looks like a stodgy consulting company (because, let's face it, that's what we've been until now). But we're coming up with a new name and an entirely new brand (something more befitting of a tech company), and we've got a really awesome product that is already used by several $1B+ companies and is changing the way they think about S&OP.

Our tech stack is quite exciting: AngularJS on the frontend (which is most relevant to this job posting), Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Elasticsearch on the backend.

We pay quite well, fully pay for health insurance on a low deductible plan (no monthly premiums for you), and have a great vacation/time off policy. Our team is smart and fun to be around.

Please get in touch at tech@operationalresults.com if you'd like more info!
I wonder if the `control group` were students that did not want to be enrolled in the program (introducing significant bias into the results) or students selected randomly to be tracked and not enrolled or given such an opportunity (the ones 60% more likely to commit a violent crime).
Looks nice. I was going to perform a shameless plug by mentioning my simple Linux OSD nanoproject (for those wanting to use some other recording matters, but still see the keystrokes on the screen):

https://github.com/przemoc/kaos/

but I just remembered that I still haven't fixed a bug I noticed on my computer at work, where I had Gnome back then. Nowadays I have awesome there too (just like on my laptop), so I'll possibly won't reproduce it, but notes I left should be enough to do the fix one day. ;)
Codeship - Rails Senior, Full Time, Boston, Vienna or remote in Europe

Codeship is a continuous integration and deployment service. We're running tests and deployments for thousands of teams and are growing quickly. We're currently a team of 16 and have doubled over the last 5 months.

As a developer tools startup we're putting a lot of effort into a great workflow with testing, code reviews and obviously continuous delivery.

You can read more about the open job here: https://codeship.com/jobs
Does VirtualBox VM Have Much a Future Left?
Nixie is a wearable camera that can fly. What u think?
I don't believe this is HN-relevant.
> I've been a professional Perl developer for a long time, and I've followed Perl 6 since the first announcements. There is some impressive and really interesting work going on there, but from my perspective it seems to be a new language rather than a new version of Perl.

It's both, really. If you use it (and after a while of getting used it), it just feels like perl.

> I fully support the development of Perl 6, but I really wish the name would change to something that doesn't involve Perl.

Well, in retrospect, it might have been a good idea to name it something else entirely. But that's too late now, and nobody has been able to come up with a good new name anyway. And the "Perl" brand is still very strong, so we are loath to give it up.

Finally, Perl 5 has many unsolved problems that will hinder its evolution in the upcoming decades. Once Perl 6 has become as fast and mature as Perl 5 is now, we want to provide the future that's closed to Perl 5.
How flexible is the subset type functionality in Perl 6?
3) The money has to come from somewhere--it isn't free. By canceling $31M in debt, the government is causing $31M in losses to corporations and institutions that were owed that money. That means $31M less in spending, economic growth, job creation, not to mention taxes, which will have to go up to compensate for the loss. These taxes (or inflation) will hit the poorest people while the rich horde more money or offshore it to prevent it being taken away.

Apparently you're not looking at both side of the ledger. The 31 million didn't disappear, it just stayed with the poor. So the poor have (had) 31m more to spend. And poor people do spend all their money, most likely on products that corporations sell. So this was effectively a stimulus measure supported by a tax on lenders.

I also don't see why you can think of raising taxes on the poor, but not on corporations. In fact, the government could easily raise taxes only on corporations. They may even have considered this, but the whole debt forgiveness thing is actually preferable to corporations since it's a one time thing.
Everyone should stop for a minute and imagine what would happen if this legal precedent spread to the tech startup world. We might then have situations where a highly experienced programmer might sign up with a startup, and sign a contract with that startup, but then have the contract declared null and void if the startup is acquired.

I can imagine a "less likely" and "more likely" way this might play out:

1.) "less likely" would be something bordering on blatant theft -- perhaps the contract specifies options or bonuses, but the parent company, after the acquisition, no longer wants to pay. That would be fairly blatant, though not impossible.

2.) "more likely" would, I think, be issues regarding copyright, which, with software, allows something of a fudge factor, since software is always changing, and no one programmer writes the whole of a large system. I'm thinking of my own startup here: during the years 2000 to 2002 I created a content management system, which then became the basis of a company that was formed in 2002. But the founding documents of that company gave me the right to specific royalty payments for the CMS, even if we eventually agreed to dissolve the company (which we did in 2008). But suppose the company was acquired, and then the acquiring company declared that the requirement to pay royalties was null and void? This is very similar to what apparently happened with Gravity.

Worrisome.
If only a powerful group like the MPAA would be opposed to such blatant exploitation of a person's creative work...

edit: grammar
Cool! Let's talk :)
Thanks for bringing a bit of reality check to the previous poster.

Now i would disagree a bit with you on d) : The only power the troika had was that the greek government needed to get regular loans to repay part of the interests of their huge debt and the salaries of the greek state workers. That did give the troika the power to keep a bit of pressure on the greek government and ensure it will keep reforming the country a bit.

And the reforms started to work, because now the greek budget is balanced enough for the state to be able to pay their workers without the need for additional loans from the EU.

Unfortunately, it means now that the greeks can effectively say FU to the european troika if they plan on stopping to repay their debt, without risking an internal chaos.

The only persons that will effectively have a hole in their budget as a result are the other EU states (states and not banks, meaning citizens), mostly french and germans.
Which ones? I know you're not talking about TARP because that was paid back, and the government even made a profit. So what is it you are referring to?
"NB." for comments in J made me laugh.
"Instead they just screw him..."

Just a quick correction, but Tess Gerritsen is female.

Otherwise, I agree. Very unfair and they deserve what is (hopefully) coming.
I have a Das Keyboard (http://www.daskeyboard.com/), specifically the Das Keyboard 4 Professional. A little pricey if you're used to generic $10 keyboards, but it's fantastic to type on.
x.ai - NY - Data Scientist

At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.

A Data Scientist will:

- Design, develop and implement statistical models to carry out various novel aspects of classification and information extraction from unstructured text, such as emails or email threads

- Using a combination of judgement and experience, create hypotheses to confront complex Natural Language Processing problems

- Be capable of designing stringent tests of these hypothesis and use results to guide further development towards performance optimization

- Familiar with or eager to learn various advanced statistical techniques to solve different optimization and constraint problems related to automating the coordination of people’s schedules and derivation of implicit and explicit preferences from email-related data

- Be capable of visualizing and communicating data science concepts to other team members, and seek meaningful feedback from them

Ideal Candidate:

- Quantitative degree and/or relevant experience

- Strong statistics background, ideally experience with Natural Language Processing techniques; loves building mathematical and probabilistic models and algorithms

- Code experience in a production environment; familiar with data structures, parallelism and concurrency

- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that comfortable working in a dynamic environment tackling challenging problems

- Bonus: Experience with Scala, Python, AWS, and MongoDB; implementation experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms

https://x.ai/jobs/#data-scientist
Even if they honor the contract she will get nothing besides being credited. Her contract states that she gets a percentage of the profits - and the movie will probably never make a profit.

Return of the Jedi never made a profit "despite having earned $475 million at the box-office against a budget of $32.5 million" (Wikipedia "Hollywood Accounting")

Very sad.
Derivative works and licensing are a huge part of the software development industry and open source.

Edit: Updated for civility.
Any quote I don't know the origin of, I've taken to attributing to Taylor Swift. It works pretty well.
FB is already obsolete. Teenagers are not using it. It's seen as an 'old people social network'.
I think my memory has created an inaccurate narrative for me. My account shows I signed up in December 2006 so I guess it wasn't SXSW that got me on after all :)
Not that I'm aware of, sorry.

Some of things it does:

* type specialization. It looks at repeated executions of a piece of code, and if the type of a variable or parameter is stable, it assumes it'll be always that way, and specializes the code for that (for example, always picks a method from the same class). And of course it inserts a guard clause to ensure that if the type should change, it takes the slow (but correct) path

* inlining

* container removal. In Perl 6, things generally become mutable by being inside a container (think pointer), and if the specializer finds cases where that's not needed, it generates better code for them

* reachability analysis and elimination of allocations are being worked on, iirc.
It is a good idea!
Another excellent editable wiki for proofs has existed for some time:
https://www.proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
It is nice to see growth in this fertile space.
It seems like a superficial tabs-versus-spaces kind of point, but when you see how the standard library is organized and how package names interact with actual programs, you grok why underscores make people wince; "foo_bar" should either be "foo/bar", or just plain "bar".

The import statement at the top of the file can clarify what the origin of a package is, but in the program body itself, the package name should make the library feel as natural as "fmt" or "io" or "math".
For a specific example of real problems caused by killing Google News Archive search, it affected the work of Wikipedia editors. I and a lot of other editors had found it very useful as a high-quality and fast way to find good sources for articles we were working on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_English_newspap...). There's not really anything else like it, so you end up combing through tons of general Google results that don't qualify as reliable sources in order to find a few newspaper articles.
But that's too late now....

Come now; that was the excuse given five and ten years ago.

the "Perl" brand is still very strong

Some would argue (including the post to which you're replying) that the brand is much less so, thanks to the very line of thinking you're defending.
x.ai - NY - Data Engineer

At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.

A Data Engineer will:

- Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out of free form text

- Jump between architecture, implementation, infrastructure management, and firefighting

- Design, implement and evolve Natural Language Processing software modules

- Solve various optimization and constraint problems related to coordinating people’s schedules and preferences

- Constantly improve our development processes and tools to reduce friction from idea to deployment

Ideal Candidate:

- Build maintainable, well tested and scalable code

- Experience with building big data processing system

- Strong statistic background, ideally experience Natural Language Processing techniques

- Data modeling and architectural skills

- BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field)

- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that is comfortable with uncertainties

- Want to be part of a passionate and collaborative team, looking to make a mark in the world

- Bonus: Experience with Scala, AWS, MongoDB and EMR/Hadoop

https://x.ai/jobs/#data-engineer
> I just described one approach where than can happen.

And I'm telling you what you described can't happen. So either you don't understand what is happening or are not describing it well.

>There is no need to publish pending transactions in such a way that you can get your executed on a different exchange before that one propagates.

Luckily that does not happen.

> However any trading strategy based on implementation details is counter productive to a free and open market and thus it harms the U.S. economy.

This is demonstrably not true. If a trading strategy brings the prices between exchanges into rationality faster or cheaper than it could be done by a single exchange or by coordination between existing exchanges is very productive and useful to all market participants.
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Off-topic: Strangely enough, it reported the same size for the MP4, but downloading it [0] shows that it's 1.1 MB. Inspecting it with `mediainfo` shows that it was encoded with the Baseline Profile, so that might explain the counterintuitively large size. (This profile is used for supporting low-powered devices, like phones, and results in a higher bitrate being used; 757 vs 252 Kbps in this case.) It seems that Gfycat just reports the WebM size either out of technical constraints, and/or for the sake of boasting higher amounts of bandwidth saved.

[0] http://fat.gfycat.com/GrimOpenDutchsmoushond.mp4
Thanks for the links. I'd like to help build a world where people have access to useful information as easily as possible. Of course, with ease of access to information people will need to become more responsible. I'm hopeful we can get there :)
It allows arbitrary code to define the subset. So it's very flexible, but it also means that compiler usually can't be clever about subsets. We can't solve the Halting problem for you.
My b.s. meter is tingling at a lot of what you said (enough that on reddit I'd accuse you of being a shill), but you're being blatantly disingenuous about healthcare. It's true that emergency rooms won't turn anyone away (and maybe you bailed on the resultant bill as a "poor" college student), but Medicaid does nothing for most and even for those who qualify it gives nothing in the way of preventative care.
There's actually a number of bands in Germany that uses various old/dead languages including Latin. In most cases they are just musical adaptations of historic texts, though, not novel works entirely.

As far as rap music goes, I particularly enjoy this[0] interpretation of the "love" song "Ich was ein chint so wolgetan" (it's actually about rape, from the perspective of the victim[1]). It's alternating between Middle High German and Latin.

[0]: http://mp3.pm/song/13460415/Schelmish_-_Ich_Was_Ein_Chint/

[1]: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Helium_Vola:Ich_Was_Ein_Chint_So_Wol...
Cool! I'll take a look :)
x.ai - NY - Backend Engineer

At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.

A Backend Engineer will:

- Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out of free form text

- Jump between architecture, implementation, infrastructure management, and firefighting

- Design and build a system that enables seamless human-machine interactions

- Solve various optimization and constraint problems related to coordinating people’s schedules and preferences

- Integrate with various external APIs

- Constantly improve our development processes and tools to reduce friction from idea to deployment

Ideal Candidate:

- Build maintainable, well tested and scalable code

- Experience with building big data processing system

- Data modeling and architectural skills

- BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field)

- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that is comfortable with uncertainties

- Want to be part of a passionate and collaborative team, looking to make a mark in the world

- Our backend is built in Scala so direct experience will be preferred

- Bonus: Experience with AWS, MongoDB and EMR/Hadoop

https://x.ai/jobs/#backend
The great part about the Amazon reviews is that for any product you can read some of the 4 and 5 star reviews and some of the 1 and 2 start reviews. Seeing why people were satisfied and why people were dissatisfied is very valuable in determining which start ratings reflect what you care about when purchasing a product.
Maybe a course in something totally different in another country? Art or philosophy for example
My interpretation is that the __typenames__ are merely there as placeholders so the program will compile, but fail at runtime during the tests. It's a tad odd, but the user is meant to replace the __typenames__ with their own values to make the tests pass. While doing so the user would be reading all of the code, and hopefully wind up grokking it.
Most everybody on the #perl6 IRC channel, the central part of the Perl 6 community, is preferring the MoarVM backend. It's only a matter of time and policy until it becomes more "official" in one way or another than the other backends.
Economists called the move "unprecedented."

I assume those economists never read any history at all, or they would have known debt forgiveness has been used since ancient Sumeria to help rebalance messed up economies.

https://archive.org/details/Debt-The_First_5000_Years
I'm not an economic expert but all these points seem plausible except I was wondering about this one:

> $31M less in spending, economic growth, job creation...

Wouldn't there also be a corresponding $31M increase in spending from the people who got their debts canceled, making it a wash? They'll spend it quickly I'd imagine, on food or other necessities. Just the money would flow into the economy via a different route.
VR Porn Reactions on Oculus from First-Time Virtual Reality Viewers
Then you want to a a little experiment: Do sign up on facebook, using the e-mail adress that you normally use to communicate with your friends.

Don't enter any other correct information about you. Just have a look at the suggestions the sign-up wizard will be showing, based on nothing but your e-mail adress. You will be surprised.

(You should immediately delete the account again when you're done if you don't want to stay on facebook. In this case, make sure to clear your cookies.)
My. Heart. Fucking. Bleeds.
As @Joeboy points out, the title is a play on "The loneliness of the long distance runner", so it's not literally about loneliness.
For anyone interested in such matters (actually, every engineer should be to some degree), a seemingly neverending (yet tenderly curated) stream of similar interesting observations and stories is posted to:

"The RISKS Digest, [or] Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems":

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

A summary from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISKS_Digest:

"It is a moderated forum concerned with the security and safety of computers, software, and technological systems. Security, and risk, here are taken broadly; RISKS is concerned not merely with so-called security holes in software, but with unintended consequences and hazards stemming from the design (or lack thereof) of automated systems. Other recurring subjects include cryptography and the effects of technically ill-considered public policies. RISKS also publishes announcements and Calls for Papers from various technical conferences, and technical book reviews"
Don't apologize. Your English far outclasses my Croatian. Interesting, from what you write it seems as though Croatia is dominated by a two-party system, like here in the U.S. Is that true?
Clay.io - http://clay.io - San Francisco, CA
Hiring Full-Stack Engineers. Shoot me an email: austin@clay.io

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What we're building
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We're building Steam for casual mobile games - competing with the app stores to provide a better way to discover games on mobile. The approach we're taking focuses on mobile web games - games people can access immediately without the added friction of installing them in an app store.

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Where we're at
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Small team of 3, with large audience of 5,000,000+ users to push code to. https://github.com/claydotio/clay-mobile for general idea of the quality of code we write.

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Our Stack
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Node.js, CoffeeScript, Docker, Zorium, Gulp, Ansible, MongoDB, MySQL, ...
But that does happen, in way. The most well-known was Zynga - when they were getting ready to go public they did a claw-back on their outstanding options and shares. They screwed over a friend of mine that was one of the early employees.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702046219045770183...
Do you know who it might be best to talk to about the AST/bytecode specialisation? I work on a compiler with AST specialisations and I'm interested in their approach.
Good point. The times that are reported are what the government has captured as time until you get to see a doctor. I haven't confirmed but I think you're right. If it's a life threatening situation the hospital will probably treat you right away (I sure hope they will, anyway). I'm also not sure who makes the call whether or not you should get treated right away.