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ptioon Tell HN: Potential example.com outage on January 15, 2025

Update: The domains moved to Akamai.

ptioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

My team is responsible for the application layer protocol and control plane for commanding the Kuiper fleet, which includes satellites, ground stations, and customer terminals.

I'm hiring mid-level and senior software engineers. Here's one of my job postings:

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1595663/senior-software-deve...

For other Project Kuiper jobs see:

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/projectkuiper

We're hiring across many engineering disciples (e.g. software, networking, hardware, electrical, security) in multiple locations (Redmond, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; San Diego, CA; Northridge, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY)

Feel free to ping me at my amazon.com email address for any questions! My username is pxt.

ptioon Tell HN: Some thoughts on ten years on Hacker News

http://www.hackernewsletter.com

ptioon Ask HN: Best linux laptop for developers

I've got a 4th Gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Debian Testing. No issues.

ptioon Show HN: Amium – A better way to collaborate

Check out https://www.replicated.com

ptioon How to Read a Book [pdf]

Is this a good technique for reading programming and technical books as well?

ptioon Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

Hi, can you elaborate more on what you are asking?

ptioon Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

Note that Verizon has a division - Product Innovation and New Business - that is run separate from the telco business that you are mentioning.

In recent years Verizon has acquired technology companies EdgeCast Networks (CDN) and upLynk (Video Streaming) which form the core of Verizon's Digital Media Services [1].

Combining these assets with AOL (AdTech) and Yahoo (if the deal happens) gives Verizon an end-to-end platform for the creation, delivery and monetization of content (with focus on video) in the Internet.

Disclosure: I work at EdgeCast and we operate as a technology company, hate bureaucracy and try very hard to innovate and stay agile.

[1] https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/about/

ptioon Samsung Acquires Joyent

Samsung generates a lot of sensor/IoT type of data (e.g. smart phones, smart TVs, medical, industrial). They'll need the infrastructure to process and store all these data.

ptioon GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

True, but that's GitLab's business strategy anyway.

ptioon GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

GitHub should consider "open sourcing" GitHub itself so the community can submit PRs and RFPs.

ptioon Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone

A self-driving Uber-style limo/rideshare service might make sense and may result into less cars overall.

ptioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

Software Engineer | EdgeCast Networks (now Verizon Digital Media Services) | Playa Vista, CA (Los Angeles/Silicon Beach) | ONSITE

EdgeCast is a CDN operating a global network of SuperPoPs. We do a lot of work in media streaming to deliver videos and music for customers like Hulu and Spotify.

I'm part of the Infrastructure Engineering team and we are hiring Python and Clojure hackers to work on building and scaling out our telemetry, monitoring and automation platforms.

Email me at paulo.tioseco@verizon.com or visit https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/about and http://jobs.verizondigitalmedia.com/ for more info.

ptioon Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

Will Mailbox be open-sourced? [1]

Unfortunately not. We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, but this is ultimately not something we will support.

[1] http://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/

ptioon Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

Oh man this is sad news. I'm currently using Mailbox as my default mail app on Android. I'll pay for it is there was an option.

ptioon How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History

My grandfather, while studying law in the Philippines was drafted to fight for the United States Armed Forces of the Far East (USAFFE) during WWII.

I guess he was part of the few that got US citizenship as he was able to bring his children and consequently his grandchildren (me) to America.

I am thankful for what he has done so I can live the life I have now. In return I try to contribute to society the way I know best by writing software for startups, SpaceX, and now EdgeCast.

ptioon Red Hat is buying Ansible

Ansible creator, founder and CTO Michael DeHaan previously worked at Red Hat where he helped build Cobbler.

ptioon SpaceX Plans to Land Next Falcon 9 on Solid Ground

That's what Sea Launch used[1].

Note that the drone ship doubles up as a recovery vehicle to ferry back the stage to land. Also a sea launch platform will be a permanent structure while the drone ship's purpose is to be a test platform for landing on land.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

ptioon Pinterest Raises $367M at $11B valuation

For founders, employees, and investors that will make significant financial gains from the IPO.

ptioon Stages of learning Go, with code examples

https://github.com/pote/gpm

ptioon The State of Go

> "In general, pull request culture is not about code review."

Companies/organizations have different requirements for code reviews. Yes you can review code in pull requests, but in my opinion, it was not built for code reviews. In my previous company, we had a very rigorous code review process, which includes pre and post commit code reviews. We used Collaborator[1] and ReviewBoard[2] for code reviews and I totally understand why the Go team would use Gerrit over pull requests for code review.

[1] http://smartbear.com/product/collaborator/overview/ [2] https://www.reviewboard.org/

ptioon SpaceX Webcast of Falcon 9 DSCOVR Launch

I worked at SpaceX from 2010 to 2013, first doing software development on our manufacturing operations system, then later on on our telemetry/time-series platform. I think I averaged between 60 to 70 hours a week, which includes weekends if we need to support test or launch activities. In retrospect, that seems like a lot of hours, but it didn't feel like it because the work and the mission of the company is so inspiring. Elon was the final interviewer when I joined (I don't think he is doing that anymore) and he was explicit that working at SpaceX takes a different level of commitment.

ptioon The daily routines of famous creative people

This is very similar to this infographic: http://infographwetrust.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/creative...

Source: http://infowetrust.com/2014/03/26/creative-routines/

ptioon Ask HN: Should I quit my job if I am not learning?

Since you are interested in search, see if you can use Kibana for your dashboards (http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/). Kibana uses ElasticSearch which uses Lucene. If you are able to convince your team to use Kibana then maybe you can ask your boss to spend some company time contributing to ElasticSearch and/or Lucene.

ptioon Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Great news! Now I don't need to setup PostgreSQL myself.

Here is a related whitepaper if you still want to setup PostgreSQL yourself: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_RDBMS_PostgreSQL.pdf

ptioon Downtown Project Buys 100 Teslas To Launch Project 100

Interview about the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJ22TLBCiM

ptioon 4K gyro-stabilized aerial video of San Francisco

link to video: http://vimeo.com/62831216

ptioon Docker - the Linux container runtime

github: pau

ptioon The Next SourceForge

Very nice indeed. This could also replace Trac. http://sourceforge.net/projects/allura/

ptioon Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?

I've got Ubuntu 12.04 on a W510 and am very happy. Thinking about upgrading to X1 Carbon since the W510 is heavy.

Can you share more info about your experience setting up/using Ubuntu on the X1 Carbon? Any issues?