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StatusPage.io

StatusPage.io helps companies be more transparent with their customers around downtime. Companies like Atlassian, Citrix, Reddit, Cloudflare, New Relic, and Vimeo rely on our product to keep their customers in the loop when their site is down, slow, or undergoing scheduled maintenance. We're profitable, and believe in running a sustainable company with teammates that help us grow and enrich our lives.

Denver / San Francisco - Rails Engineer

Your job as a Full Stack Rails Engineer is to work on our infrastructure, and sling code for new features. Your domain is server land, ruby and rails, and all of the external services we use to keep the business running. You'll also be contributing to discussions around infrastructure architecture, performance and resilience of the system, and making sure everything is in tip top shape for us to continue to be a nimble development organization.

San Francisco - Account Executive

Your job as an Account Executive is to help scale our enterprise offering across new inbound signups, existing customers, and prospects. As one of our first Account Executives, you'll play a huge role in the growth phase of StatusPage and land some of our biggest deals to date. Numerous brownie points if you've sold to a technical audience before or understand the basics of web development, API calls, and server infrastructure.

https://jobs.lever.co/statuspageio
I'd suggest projects based on Javascript or a similar easy to learn language, which lowers down the barrier to entry. You may want to check Countly (http://github.com/countly/countly-server), a mobile analytics and push notifications platform.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

I used to use this quote all the time too...until I realized it originally meant something entirely different.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-ben...
The author mentions that his last lesson is always about the social resistance to evolution, and how he points out that maintaining your religion doesn't require rejecting evolution.

This seems like something that should at least be touched on at the beginning, so anyone swayed by that point would be open to the information while its being delivered, rather than after finishing the course.

But sounds like that might require re-animating Pope John Paul II to come present. :-)
Alaska is slowly melting away and people are still arguing about whether global warming is real. Inaction is kind of the order of the day.
There are multiple reasons, not only the direct harm from radiation. The latest book from Dr. Welch "Less medicine, more health : 7 assumptions that drive too much medical care" explains some of them. The table of contents provides a good summary of his message:

ASSUMPTION #1: ALL RISKS CAN BE LOWERED

Disturbing truth: Risks can’t always be lowered—and trying creates risks of its own

ASSUMPTION #2: IT’S ALWAYS BETTER TO FIX THE PROBLEM

Disturbing truth: Trying to eliminate a problem can be more dangerous than managing one

ASSUMPTION #3: SOONER IS ALWAYS BETTER

Disturbing truth: Early diagnosis can needlessly turn people into patients

ASSUMPTION #4: IT NEVER HURTS TO GET MORE INFORMATION

Disturbing truth: Data overload can scare patients and distract your doctor from what’s important

ASSUMPTION #5: ACTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN INACTION

Disturbing truth: Action is not reliably the “right” choice

ASSUMPTION #6: NEWER IS ALWAYS BETTER

Disturbing truth: New interventions are typically not well tested and oft en wind up being judged ineffective (even harmful)

ASSUMPTION #7: IT’S ALL ABOUT AVOIDING DEATH

Disturbing truth: A fixation on preventing death diminishes life
Is he still doing Jepsen tests? Thought he was doing Clojure work atm?
Another way to feel better about dilution is to realize that the valuation after every round is a mutually agreed abstraction. Until some actual liquidity event puts cash in hand, you have valuation not value.

The only meaningful dilution is the one where the founders become minority shareholders. Although loss of control isn't necessarily bad and can eventually pay off, unlike valuation it is not abstract, it's tangible.
The Central Valley is not and has never been a fully arid desert.

While the southern San Joaquin Valley does indeed get very little rainfall, the mountains that drain in to it normally get plenty of water.

Tulare Lake, once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi, was right in the middle of the driest parts of Kern and Tulare counties.

The lake has even reappeared following a period of unusually high precipitation and as recent as 1997.
The process is long, arduous, and holds no guarantee for the victim of extortion that the case will be ruled in their favor. Some of these cases go on for years before a ruling is made, especially in the case of corporations or people that are not necessarily household names. And this is when the paperwork is in order. I think this pay-to-play DNS naming scheme is awful and clearly a rigged system supporting an oligarchy.
Quantifind - www.quantifind.com - Menlo Park (Engineering)

Our engineering team helps drive smarter decisions at top tier brands such as Dominos, Verizon, Pepsi, Heineken and Taco Bell by uncovering hidden signals in massive amounts of data.

Check out this one minute video to get a better grasp of our product Signum - https://vimeo.com/113441758

- Front End Lead (Isomorphic Framework and Node.js)

- Sr. Backend Engineer (We built our own In-memory distributed framework in Scala)

- Data Scientist (This is a hands on role, requires programming experience not just algorithmic knowledge)

- Engineering Manager (Or VP of Engineering needs help and this is a chance to join an establish growing start up)

- DevOps (we are a SaaS company, no need to be on call)

We have a product, we have clients and we have a clear direction where we are going. All this is very unusual for a start up of our size, only 50 people. Come make a difference and help us grow while growing with us.

Please contact Dmitry Perkin (Technical Recruiter) at Dmitry@quantifind.com I will try to answer any of your questions while helping you learn more about our company.
A problem is that for many projects, the maintainers don't bear any cost when someone new tries to join a project, invests a bunch of time+effort and ends up nowhere. Therefore, even if they really don't have time, energy, or inclination to spend time mentoring, they can just say "welcome to the team" and toss the new member into an ocean of code to sink or swim. Some will in fact swim.
Conversely, if they do spend a bunch of time on detailed mentorship, the new contributor doesn't have to stay

Another problem is that
I have to admit, when I saw the username, I sorta hoped it was.
It's a neat thought, and everyone who's watched a light turn red ahead of them just as they cleared a green has thought it before, but there is a serious downside. Urban stoplights should be optimized for the safety of non-motorists (pedestrians and cyclists) above all else. Giving cars more uninterrupted travel leads to higher speeds and more collisions. I'm happy that where I live there's more attention paid to traffic calming and bicycle infrastructure than motorist travel-time optimization.
Maybe if they were african songbirds.
Indeed. To close the loop, for those who don't see it: the companies that make "dietary supplements" have all the same incentives that Big Pharma does.
His numbers are wrong (and he admits as much), but they're really just illustrative anyway. The entire point he's making is that if you're growing quickly, dilution isn't a big deal.

And the VC equity split usually changes by round and market conditions: A is usually 30-35%, B is usually 15-20%, C+ are usually <=10% (this is for a typical startup; Cloudera is a unicorn so the rules are out the window). The general rule of thumb is that founders drop below 50% sometime around the C round. Most VCs are hesitant to dilute founder equity too early because it can hurt recruiting and make it harder to fund later rounds.
Love the "in the moment" tagline. Good job.
Cursive Writing: The Pen to Digital Screen Void
Redphone/Signal has its own signaling protocol for voice calls as well. This service uses SIP. The Redphone protocol is simple in design, while SIP is the opposite.
Another consequence of that is that even MD5 collisions aren't at all trivial to exploit in general. An attacker can create a collision, but it's a slow process, and the colliding content is pretty constrained. You'd probably need to be very well informed, and invest quite some creativity to find two messages that are "valid" to whatever system is processing those and have sufficiently different meanings to be useful to you.

Clearly doable in specific instances, but it's not going to be an addition to the script-kiddie attack handbook anytime soon.
Avocarrot - http://www.avocarrot.com/ - San Francisco & Athens, Greece

Looking for:

1. Full stack software engineer (Node.js, MySQL, Elasticsearch)

2. Front end software engineer (Ember.js, HTML, CSS)

3. iOS software engineer

4. Growth marketing expert

What is Avocarrot:

Avocarrot is a native mobile ad network with offices in Silicon Valley and Athens. We are building the next generation of mobile advertising technology. Backed by leading corporations as well as institutional and angel investors from the Valley, our aim is to become the de facto standard in mobile app monetization. Our platform has served several billion ad requests and keeps growing at a fast pace.

You can check out all open positions here: http://avocarrot.workable.com/
The tracking lets us know that someone who applied came from Hacker News. Ultimately it's no big deal if you don't want us to know that. It just means we're in the dark about where good people come from.
Great work, Django team!

I recently switched a project back to Django after some time playing with Rails.

One of the biggest attractions of Rails is the asset pipeline, but splitting the project and building the front-end with Ember-CLI takes away that advantage, leaving Django far ahead (IMO) with its cleaner ORM, less magical module importing, and Python's indented syntax.
Desal plants are at sea level on the coast. Most headwaters are thousands of feet above sea level and hundreds of miles inland.

Water infrastructure is almost entirely gravity fed. Even if we could justify the immense energy usage, we can't drive existing pipes and canals in reverse.
We use C++11 pretty heavily (with a few exceptions). We also use exceptions, and a very judicious use of boost. You can browse the code here -- https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/next/src.
I think the image of Massachusetts as a bastion of "leftist" or liberal thought and ideals comes mostly from people who have never lived here. For various historical reasons the state is dominated by Democrats but many of them are comparatively conservative.
Landscaping typically accounts for half of all residential water use. To some the value of a lawn is close to zero. Saving 5% of all water use by eliminating something with close to zero value is a huge gain.
Kourtney Kardashian Shares Epic 1970s Baby Pics with Mom Kris Jenner and Late Dad
FoundationDB had a lot of open-source code on Github. Good luck finding a copy now.
Sad part is, a huge portion of agriculture is to feed animals which then become our meat. It is just not sustainable. The best way to conserve water is to eat less meat. This book has lots of interesting numbers - http://www.amazon.com/Meatonomics-Rigged-Economics-Consume-S...
There are lazy hacks like using hidden fields.

Then there are guilty hacks like when you find some way to achieve something with three lines of jQuery, but feel (rightfully) guilty for not achieving it from the code-behind or not being able to justify it in your documentation.

And then there are plain ugly hacks that you'll just never, ever use, no matter how cool the result is.

I'm inclined to classify this as a member of the third type.
Beego?

http://beego.me/
Location: EU
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: maybe
Technologies: C++, C, assembly, network protocols/IP routing, embedded linux
Résumé/CV: will provide upon request
Email: jobycomb@gmail.com
San Francisco needs to keep its personality.
Toxicity in Reddit Communities: A Journey to the Darkest Depths of the Interwebs
Yes! He was a Joyce scholar, among many other things. One, perhaps several of his books and plays reference Flann O'Brien's work, which is how I came to know about it.
Surely you would keep this in a private network? Layer 2/Encrypted VPNs?
SoundCloudify – Music streaming extension for Chrome
Does it let you disable 3rd party cookies, or are Microsoft throwing us to the advertising / tracking companies?
SoundCloudify helps you listen to endless music from Youtube and SoundCloud, right in your Chrome Browser, without the need to open a new tab. It's an extension, a little player with all the power you need.

It's not just only a player, it's a way to discover new music. SoundCloud is a place for sound creator to share their works, while Youtube is just great for everything. Soundcloudify take advantages of both and help you have all the music in one place.

And ... it's free, yaaaay!!!

KEY FEATURES:
- Music Discovery: Top Charts, Search from Youtube & Soundcloud.
- Player: all you playing history will not be cleared until you do it. 'Up Next' feature help you planning your playback without the need to stop the current song.
- Playlist: keep track of your loving music. Make them organized.
We aren't picking on almonds arbitrarily. 10% of the state's water goes towards almonds alone. That's a significant amount of water! Yeah, sure watermelon is worse, but they don't use 10%. California produces 80% of the world's almonds. That makes no sense.

Cash crops shouldn't be more important than having cheap drinking water for people. Californias now have to cut their personal usage by 25% while these cash crops get a free pass? This is very wrong.
REMOTE - Developer - Portland, OR - http://teamtreehouse.com

We're hiring five backend developers. Any language experience is fine, but you'll be working primarily with Ruby and Coffeescript.

At Treehouse we're on a mission to make technology education affordable and accessible for everyone in the world. Come join us and do the best, most meaningful work of your career.

https://teamtreehouse.com/jobs/at-treehouse-14dc98d6-2fc9-47...
I made something similar a year ago. You just have to be on the same local network. https://zach-share.herokuapp.com/
Will this be available on f-droid? Many people don't like having google play on their phone, especially those concerned with privacy and open-source. I know the user can always compile this themselves.
There is a huge difference between interest rate changes, which are set in large part by the Fed, versus deflation, which is not set by the Fed.

The return on a 10yr (govt bond I assume?) is set by the market - this is not just picked or changed arbitrarily, although returns there are likely influenced by Fed rates.

People control the interest yield for many products through the Fed, so we can avoid a deflationary spiral just by having the Fed change the interbank loan rate (among other things they can do).

Deflation (caused by many types of things from demand shocks to economic fears to war) is often not easily dialed back, and can lead to a deflationary spiral, which cannot be simply tuned by the Fed.

This is the reason the Fed targets slight inflation instead of zero inflation; the controls are not magic and the inflation/deflation tends to hover around where the Fed targets, and by staying away from zero we avoid possibly triggering a deflationary spiral we cannot control.

In short, we have good tools for dealing with inflation. We do not have equivalently good tools for dealing with deflation.
Because that would be ridiculous? The distance between Alaska and California is huge; there is tons of fresh water that is closer to California than Alaska.
Education.com announces it will become a cat-based learning platform
Announcement: http://www.education.com/cat-based-learning/
"Science" article: http://www.education.com/magazine/article/cat-co-learning/
Homepage (they added cats): http://www.education.com/
Treaties do not have "the same power as a Constitutional amendment." They have the same power as ordinary laws. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Money_Cases. And the Constitution takes precedence over both: Reid v. Covert. If they are not self-effectuating and Congress does not pass enabling legislation, they have no domestic effect. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_v._Texas.
C++ algorithms and data structures
I would like some advice. I'm coming from a pretty naive situation. For 2 months from 1st July 2015 to 31st August 2015, I plan to deeply master and have a grasp of C++(including STL), algorithms and data structures. Do you think that if I have mastered the material I can easily get a part time programming job. In particular I plan to master stuff like graph theory. To be specific I plan to use material from Tim Roughgarden and Robert Sedgewick from Coursera. You are welcome to ask me any question about this topic if you find it relevant for the discussion. Thank you.
Rocket-Internet SE - https://www.rocket-internet.com - Berlin, Germany (VISA) - Security team

# About the job #

Rocket-Internet's security team is seeking talented and motivated security professionals to help us in protecting our key information assets.

We currently have two open positions:

* Security Engineer - https://goo.gl/pdCRkM

* IT Security / Penetration Tester - https://goo.gl/pGYSvR

If interested (and for questions/doubts), please drop me an e-mail at luca DOT bruno AT rocket-internet DOT de

# About Rocket-Internet #

Rocket is the largest Internet platform outside of China and the United States. We identify and build proven Internet business models and transfer them to new, underserved or untapped markets where we seek to scale them into market leading online companies. We are focused on online business models that satisfy basic consumer needs across three sectors: e-commerce, marketplaces and financial technology. Our company was founded in 2007 and now has more than 25,000 employees across its network of companies, which operate in more than 100 countries on five continents.

We currently several open engineering positions, not only in Berlin: https://www.rocket-internet.com/join-us/engineering
https://www.futureadvisor.com - http://nyti.ms/X3N7r2

== Experienced infrastructure engineer, San Francisco ==

FutureAdvisor is an automated investment manager. We help our customers cut their investment fees, avoid excessive risks and save on taxes, so that they and their families will face better choices down the road.

We're seeking an infrastructure engineer. Your job will be to keep FutureAdvisor running smoothly. It might be deploying and maintaining server clusters on EC2, building tools to automate our deployment pipelines or designing and implementing a new piece of the request pipeline. Your job will be to make FutureAdvisor as fast and reliable as possible. You'll work on building out more tools to manage and track our server cluster using AWS technologies like EC2, S3, OpsWorks, and VPC.

Skills you'll need:

Experience working with AWS
Experience provisioning and maintaining VPC instances on AWS
Knowledge of service oriented infrastructure
Knowledge of working with Linux and Bash scripts
Experience with infrastructure management tools like Chef or Puppet
Bonus Experience launching Ruby on Rails apps

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26313#.VRxkb...

== Interactive designer, San Francisco ==

You're seeking meaningful work solving problems in an organization that supports design. FutureAdvisor distills the complexity of finance into a simple interface so that our customers can understand and grow their life savings. We're giving working- and middle-class households a powerful portfolio management tool that they never had access to, until now.
What we're looking for:

Background in interactive design
Portfolio of web and/or mobile apps
Empathetic and practical individuals

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26309#.VRxkj...
try this: https://zach-share.herokuapp.com/ both devices need to be on the same network.
The enhancement I'm most looking forward to is the use of systemd for process management. Docker handles that itself, and can lose track if the process forks strangely and/or badly.
Depends how you do it. I live in a mixed use neighborhood, with lots of shops and stores and it's great.

Likewise, downtown montreal is pretty interesting. As a pedestrian, there are plenty of things for you to do at street level, while people live and work above.

Versus downtown toronto, where there's little for pedestrians to do in much of downtown. You don't see nearly as many people walking around.
It's a bummer that division is not going to be supported in ES9, but boson() seems really useful ;)
The title led me to believe that Amazon had teamed up with Parse for this which I would have found surprising.

This has nothing to do with Amazon Dash other than using a button trigger an HTTP request.
I suspect that the actual density in terms of average people present per square km is increasing (as opposed to the number of people living there on paper). Especially during working hours.

Tons of people commute in. Competing with the businesses that use the space for commuters is expensive
The open source projects that participate in Google Code-In (GCI) cater to beginners with little to no experience: https://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/list/public/google/gc...

For GCI, they have to maintain lists of tiny tasks that can be completed in just a few hours. You don't have to be participating in GCI to work on those tasks. They will also have people in their community interested in helping you.

Source: I'm the admin for one of the GCI orgs.
Yes, I am arguing against taxes. I'm against taking things by force from other people, which is what taxation appears to be, as I understand it.

You are correct, of course, that land owners are taxed.

I don't expect to live to see the day when most people realize that initiating force against others is counterproductive. But I do think it's helpful to look into the essentials of things.

Thank you for a good discussion. It has helped me to clarify my own thinking.
Seems like a great project, but I'd argue governments would heavily try to undermine it.
The interesting part of the Dash isn't the backend (something that can handle API calls), but the hardware, and how cheap they can make it.
I was kind of surprised by that too. Even down here in Tea Party HQ (TX), at least Austin and San Antonio have had water restrictions for years if not decades.
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