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jchmbrlnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

GeoStrategies | Software Engineer & GIS Developer | Turlock, CA | Full-time, ONSITE

Do you have a passion for online mapping software? So do we! GeoStrategies is a consulting firm that makes powerful, strategic maps: maps of value, maps of danger, maps that make or break your business. And powerful maps need a powerful platform.

Our own Epiphany Analytics is that platform. On it our analysts generate and deliver beautiful geographic models to businesses of all sizes. And Epiphany needs another programmer.

Specifically, we're looking for an engineer experienced in both GIS and full-stack Web development. Which you know best isn't important–you'll soon be an expert in both. The person in this role will have no lack of variety from day to day, and will be expected to have and develop educated opinions on matters ranging from statistics to UX to devops.

Our tech stack is PHP, Go (golang), AngularJS, some Python, Docker, and lots of PostgreSQL+PostGIS.

If you love maps and the Web, and desire a foundational role in a growing company, send me an email at josh@geostrategies.com.

jchmbrlnon U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’

Not according to this article (which I guess could be wrong):

> The Federal Circuit denied the transfer by relying on one of its[i.e., the Federal Circuit's] precedents from 1990.

> ...the high court's own precedent from 1957 held that patent suits are governed by a specific law allowing suits only where defendants are incorporated.

SCOTUS didn't change its mind. It overturned/"smacked down" the Appeals Court's 1990 decision.

jchmbrlnon Sending Jobs Overseas

> I'm not sure what the author was trying to imply here - obviously something about Obama getting help from corporations in an effort to force a couple of states to - gasp - treat humans with dignity and respect.

I believe the author's point was broader than that, more about the dangerous power that corporations wield over their supply chains. From further up in the paragraph you quoted:

> International corporations are constantly threatening and laying down the law to backward societies.

And from the previous paragraph:

> If the English people were better, they could have had those jobs, but they have proved unworthy—they have failed the global supply chain. Any sense that the economy should serve the citizenry and not vice-versa tends to get lost.

In other words, the citizenry are only a link in the chain that can be replaced at will, and have thus become subservient to the corporations, for good or ill. Thus the author closes by saying,

> It is hard to say whether we were right to go down this road.

Even if the ring is used for good, it might not end well.

jchmbrlnon Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy

Not the OP, but I read this one recently about Puerto Rico: https://www.thenation.com/article/after-a-century-of-america...

jchmbrlnon A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]

This is fun, but here's the actual, less snarky, response from Postgres developers, as previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201353

jchmbrlnon Ask HN: How do you evaluate a job offer and the company offering it?

Additionally, salary is about more than gaining wealth–it's the indicator of whether my time is well-spent. All else being equal, a company can pay me well because my skill-set in their hands creates value. Contrarily, if a company can't pay me well, presumably my time won't be spent doing something valuable.

My morale is directly tied to a sense of value and pride in my work, which means it's directly tied to salary, and not because I'm greedy.

Don't work–or at least be very careful–at a company that can't pay you well but hopes to someday. Unless things change quickly, it means you're not creating something worthwhile.

jchmbrlnon Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Probably valid, though in this case while us-west-1 is still serving my static websites, I can't push at all.

jchmbrlnon Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Yeah, bad morning. I started by trying to pull a Docker image. When I couldn't, I tried to push some stuff to S3. Now of course I'm checking HN. :p

jchmbrlnon Recommend a Founder for YC

I don't have an opinion on YC one way or the other, but...do you have an axe to grind? There are only three numbers in that list that don't overwhelmingly support the claims made. You call that a list that "goes on and on", "PR/marketing BS", and "lipstick all over the pig"?

jchmbrlnon Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

GIS. I've been using PostGIS a ton at work in the past year, and I've read _PostGIS In Action_[1], but I've really just scratched the surface. I want to play around with making my own projections.

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/postgis-in-action-second-editi...

jchmbrlnon Power Poser: When big ideas go bad

Cuddy wrote that she was "concerned about the tenor" of the discussion regarding power poses and other disputed studies, worrying that such criticism could have a "chilling effect on science." Cuddy’s not the only one....Fiske, a professor of psychology at Princeton, referred to scientists who search for errors in published studies as "destructo-critics" engaged in "methodological terrorism."

Yikes. So when a study is seriously flawed, the bad guy is the one who uncovered it? I'm more concerned that peer reviewers aren't searching hard enough for errors.