Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring Engineering Managers in Toronto

Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring Engineering Managers in Toronto

I’m Jay, the VP of Engineering at Taplytics. We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead / Manager to help drive team growth, deliver software, and refine our processes. We are working at a significant scale and are poised for massive growth in 2019 and beyond.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Solder Alloys and Metallurgy

Solder Alloys and Metallurgy

But the IMCs formed in soldering are strong enough, and their formation is at the root of why every solder alloy uses tin. Concretely, when moving from soldering with lead-based to lead-free solder, there are two big changes:

As this PDF by Kester indicates, the tin in solder joins not only to the solder joint, but also dissolves the copper and iron in the tip itself, which is why tips eventually wear out. A tip that is designed for 63/37 lead-based solder will consequently not last as long when used with lead-free solder such as Sn99.3Cu0.7 or Sn95.5Ag3.8Cu0.7 because the iron plating will dissolve into the tin significantly faster.

Source: hackaday.com

Never-Slow Mode a.k.a. Slightly-Fast Mode

Never-Slow Mode a.k.a. Slightly-Fast Mode

For these sites, the browser imposes per-interaction resource limits, giving users a better user experience, potentially at the cost of extra developer work. The following policy logs errors to the same endpoint but does not modify content:

The heart of NSM is a set of policies derived from experience analysing hundreds of sites. In practical terms, this means that sites should attempt to host as many of their resources as possible from a single origin and explicitly budget connections for third parties.

Source: github.com

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is gearing up for an antitrust investigation of

Alphabet
Inc.’s

Google, a move that could present a major new layer of regulatory scrutiny for the search giant, according to people familiar with the matter. The FTC and the department have been in talks recently on who would oversee any new antitrust investigation of a leading U.S. tech giant, and the commission agreed to give the Justice Department jurisdiction over Google, the people said. A Justice Department investigation would put Google—and potentially other tech giants—in an unwanted spotlight at a time when major internet companies already have seen their political fortunes turning, both in the U.S. and overseas.

Source: www.wsj.com

A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

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The ruling established an ABC test whose three parameters must be met for a worker to be independent under California wage orders that govern things such as minimum wage and overtime. A former newspaper reporter who has freelanced full time for the past 20 years and previously served as the president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Dotinga has been working with a coalition of 16 national non-profit groups that represent professional creatives to draft a letter to legislators explaining the impact of Dynamex. Brigid O’Farrell, with the Northern California chapter of the National Writers Union, says the organization supports the Dynamex ruling, but is also concerned about its effect on freelance creatives who satisfy all but Part B of the new test.

Source: www.cjr.org

‘This could ruin us’: A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

‘This could ruin us’: A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

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The ruling established an ABC test whose three parameters must be met for a worker to be independent under California wage orders that govern things such as minimum wage and overtime. A former newspaper reporter who has freelanced full time for the past 20 years and previously served as the president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Dotinga has been working with a coalition of 16 national non-profit groups that represent professional creatives to draft a letter to legislators explaining the impact of Dynamex. Brigid O’Farrell, with the Northern California chapter of the National Writers Union, says the organization supports the Dynamex ruling, but is also concerned about its effect on freelance creatives who satisfy all but Part B of the new test.

Source: www.cjr.org

Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing

Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing

10x Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing
Faster Python without restructuring your code
While Python’s multiprocessing library has been used successfully for a wide range of applications, in this blog post, we show that it falls short for several important classes of applications including numerical data processing, stateful computation, and computation with expensive initialization. Code for a toy image processing example using multiprocessing.The difference here is that Python multiprocessing uses pickle to serialize large objects when passing them between processes. The variability of the Python multiprocessing code comes from the variability of repeatedly loading the model from disk, which the other approaches don’t need to do.This example takes 5s with Ray, 126s with Python multiprocessing, and 64s with serial Python (on 48 physical cores).

Source: towardsdatascience.com

Introducing Librem Social

Introducing Librem Social

Librem Social is part of a network of social network servers already boasting over 2,000,000 users! Librem One is accessible via:

Librem Social is proudly built on Mastodon, part of what is known as “The Fediverse”, as well as many other Free Software projects that we actively work with and contribute to. Librem Social is designed in the context of a service bundle, so you know what tool to use for the right job, with no oopsies – and, more importantly, with none of your personal details on our server.

Source: puri.sm

The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space

The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space

Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union collapsed. While tanks were rolling through Moscow’s Red Square, people built barricades on bridges, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union went the way of history, Sergei Krikalev was in space. Four months earlier, Krikalev, a 33-year-old flight engineer, had set off for the Mir space station from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in Kazakhstan.

Source: www.rbth.com