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Orchard | Front-End Engineers (https://grnh.se/8d26e0252us) and Senior/Staff Engineers (https://grnh.se/c6a4e9a52us) | Currently Remote, New York-based | Full-time

Orchard is radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety, and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard has reimagined the end-to-end experience of buying and selling, from innovative home search tools to find the perfect home to the ability to buy a new home before selling your current one. Orchard customers manage the entire experience through a personalized online dashboard, while also getting the support of best-in-class Orchard real estate agents.

Headquartered in New York City and with offices throughout Texas, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, Orchard has over 400 employees and growing. We have raised over $130 million in equity financing from top-tier investors including Revolution, Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas and Juxtapose. Our investors have also backed the likes of Pinterest, AirBnb, Shopify and Sweetgreen. Orchard is proud to be recognized as part of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.
Didn't they lose partly because it was discovered that they were the ones uploading the "infringing videos"?
They only release the next 50 coins every ten minutes so that's constant. And then they adjust the work factor based on recent history so it's always reasonably hard.
Wifi drivers for one. They were awful at launch.
You picked out some good ones, but skimming through the list, I don't see many others that catch my eye. A lot that sound vaguely Turkish.

Probably some good Linux distro names in there, though.
Imagine that you could buy cigarettes with that...
Cancer button literally
Because he went through an accelerator. He'll be told for months that the demo day and the pitch will be super-duper important, because investors.

I attended a different accelerator than him (but also corporate and in Berlin), and the idea that bootstrapping may be viable, or even that waiting for another 6 to 12 months when one has real feedback from the market, was never brought up. This is especially sad, because the situation in Berlin is basically inverted to the one in SV: Living costs are cheap, raising (seed) money is hard.

Our Demo Day... afaik no startup got an investment because they met an investor there :-) Afaik, some proceeded to later (>12 months) raise money, one did have success with crowd-funding. But we all wasted a serious amount of time training our pitch...
Having helped start a business & taken it from no revenue to mid 7 figures in revenue, I think what's missing from this list is books that convey how

1/ uncertain & dark the days of building a business are
2/ you're at the mercy of randomness (despite having a strong sense of agency)

In that sense, a few books that tell you that darkness is a rite of passage for building great companies would be

1/ Soul of a New Machine - http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook/dp...

2/ Fooled by Randomness - http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Incer...

3/ Coders at Work - http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...

4/ The Innovators - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21856367-the-innovators

5/ The Hard thing about hard things - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-...

6/ Are your lights on? - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11221270-are-your-lights...
A little bit off-topic, but why were you walking so much? And where did you find so much energy to do so (I presume you would probably need to eat a lot (much more than 2,000 calories) to be able to walk so many miles)?
I'd like to clarify that http://nimbuild.nim-lang.org/tut1.html is for the devel branch. You probably want to use http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html if you're going to use the newly released version.
I am not a geek, nor some uber nerd. Tarsnap seems to be designed exactly for them. I once asked about a GUI of Tarsnap in one of the threads on HN few months ago and the very mention was heavily downvoted. So, I just think I don't fit in the fan-circle and honestly I am fine w/o it.

Another reason is price. I will put a good amount of data there lying unused for a long period so the extra dollars shall count a lot and since I'm searching for a client that would have de-duplication that one benefit would be settled too (as I've heard Tarsnap has de-dup).
Yes, exactly. If you want to read the article, you should respect their terms.
But how many television set brands have the brand recognition of Moleskine though?
I too was getting tired of the fan noise, heat, and extreme CPU usage caused by Flash. While I was tempted to uninstall Flash, I thought I'd try Click to Flash (http://clicktoflash.com/) first.

I've been happy with Click to Flash and appreciate having the ability to turn it on when I have to have Flash (Google Analytics, Pingdom, YouTube, Slideshare.net, Vimeo, Pandora, etc). Unfortunately, I just don't think it's possible to run without Flash and still be able to achieve the productivity some of the prior mentioned Flash-enabled websites give me.
I'm not a serious IT person, but I imagine a serious IT person would draw a distinction between synchronization systems (like Windows Mesh/Sync, database replication systems, RAID 1, source control systems etc) and true backup systems that create more-or-less non-editable snapshots of the data in question.

Simply because the sync systems can turn against you and amplify your own mistakes, deleting or altering all the copies of something, even when the deletion or alteration was in error. Real backup systems make that sort of mistake much more difficult or even impossible (in the case of write-once media). Certainly, both types of systems can save your bacon, but not in exactly the same situations.

In any case, though, thanks for sharing your experience.
I think for that you want "but it's a bit nippy in here".
America is a nation of goose-stepping cowards willing to give up their most fundamental freedoms based on an incredibly unlikely event. They'll shove cheeseburgers down their gaping maws and virtually guarantee they get diabetes and heart disease, which is vastly more likely to kill them, while cowering and whimpering about terrorism.

I live in Newark. I'd be about 100 times more likely to get killed walking to the bus to get to the airport than I would be in the plane, even if we had no security at all.

Anyone willing to tolerate this shit is a drooling fascist who also doesn't understand security if they think this bullshit will stop even one determined and competent terrorist.

We should do security like El-Al, modifying it of course for the practical differences between the threats we face, and for our own constitutional protections. People say that would be "expensive" but then, these are the same morons who think we should piss away fundamental rights millions of Americans have fought and died for for hundreds of years. And these morons want to talk of "expensive?" Please.
Wiki has more information (ok, more like speculation) on what a Fogbank is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK

"Many arms experts believe that FOGBANK is an aerogel material which acts as an interstage material in a nuclear warhead, i.e. a material designed to become a superheated plasma following the detonation of the weapon's fission stage, the plasma then triggering the fusion-stage detonation."

Also, just because someone's retired doesn't mean you can't ask for help...
There is always a trade off between security and usefulness.

The best secret is one that no one knows. It is also completely useless. This trade off is one that startups/hackers deal with all all time and there is no right answer, just worries.

Are we too insecure? Is our security costing us users? How much security is too much/little?

It is also a problem you can never finish just continually review and refine.
I always get selected in about 90% of the times I travel.

I can think of no other reason than I look like I'll be easy to search and they have a quota to fill. I also think it's because I often travel alone.

In no way could I be being racially or behaviourally profiled.
Yep on the spine thing. A morning workout is a good way to get metabolism up after resting, but anybody training (except for marathons, which largely start in the morning) should work out at night, when the body is more efficient.

A workout in the morning now and then helps, as the body isn't accustomed to working out in that time period. It's similar to the way a lifter changes workout structure to prevent the muscle from getting accustomed to a particular lift.
The problem is that the time it takes a startup to succeed is different for every type of startup so it's hard to come up with a rule of when you should quit and give up. There have been plenty of startups that started out slow and then exploded a couple years later.

So the real question becomes, how do you know when to quit and when to keep going?
I was more aiming for, "If my personal life isn't a basis for a pay raise, it's damn sure isn't a basis for a pay cut".
Rage clicks pay, shallow dismissals are easy to produce -- no
time-consuming investigative journalism necessary.

Most important perhaps is that new media like
Substack are in direct competition with traditional newpapers like the
NYT.
Coase's great insight (in: The Nature of the
Firm, 1937) was that firms exist in order to reap economies of
scale. Traditional newspapers reaped economies of scale from printing,
paper distribution, subscriber and advertiser management. Essentially
all of this is gone. What modern newspaper scale on is branding, and
and selling influence, but this is in direct contradiction with strong
journalists' interest (who do not like to be told by their editors what to write and how). Until recently, top journalists could not go alone, since they lacked the expertise to handle monetisation of their writing. This changed with the likes of Substack, which centralises
(automates) subscriber management, and technical infrastructure, but
without editorship.
Hence, top writers are increasingly moving away from
traditional newspapers to something like Substack, with Greenwald
and Scott Siskind being two high-profile examples. They won't be the
last.

Newspapers see the writing on the wall and fight back.
It's not about the cost of the end-user bloat (although that's a problem), but the cost of development and maintenance required by complex front-end frameworks and architectures.
> (1) How is its database connectivity?

Databases are not really my thing but:
From what I hear: It is ok. Not amazing. But decent.

LibPQ.jl is very mature (we run it in production).
MySQL.jl exists, I hear about SQLite.jl being used pretty often.

I know people use ODBC.jl, and JDBC.jl, though only because they complaint about things. I suspect there are a fair few people using them without complain that i never hear from.
Though I haven't heard any mention really of JDBC in a while.

While there is nothing like SQLAlchemy,
a nice thing about DataBases in julia is they all conform to Tables.jl tables.
So very easy to take your DataFrame library of choice (or CSV reader, or Arrow.jl or a dozen other formats), and use that is the input or output from a database query.
A thing is “worth” whatever people are willing to pay for it. T-shirts are cheap because they are cheap. Diamonds are expensive because they are expensive. But perceptions can be changed, and circles can be broken. These things are not unalterable.
Unrestricted goto considered harmful.
I'm pretty sure that Rockstar North would have some tests in place. The creators of the reverse engineered project, simply couldn't access these tests as they wouldn't be included in the build. (At least, I'd imagine).
Also: It may be interesting to note that GTA:V's leaked build logs featured some notes about an "auto play bot test failed at {mission}". I'm pretty sure they would have to have similar tests (although perhaps at a smaller scale) for older GTA's as well.
I've been awaiting a new Adam Curtis documentary for so long now. They're always a little bit more interesting, more thought-provoking and insightful than most of what is out there about whatever topic they are dealing with.
I'll risk being misunderstood and/or downvoted to note that "coupling" is a synonym for "sex". It's not quite "learnintercourse" but it's close. Apologies if this comes across as condescending or prurient or juvenile; just looking to help in case the association wasn't clear and you might gain by moving to a different domain.
Hey Trias!
Yes, our flashcards run on top of Anki, so they can be used completely offline - that was of our main intentions when making this product, as many apps require internet access.
What an incredibly stupid and dangerous take. Life having risks doesn’t justify putting innocent peoples’ lives at risk.
I don't know how the battery situation will play out but in Europe Tesla sales have already flattened (while other manufacturer EVs are picking up) which is not a good sign.
Dunno... I don't actually have any 3.5" media... but got one because back then, I was more inclined to help people with things.
Yeah but no one kept tabs on who all you were sending letters to and who all were sending letters to you, and what you were writing in those letters and so on so that they could show ads to you...
(A small note, that lathe incident was in Yale)

edit: s/Columbia/Yale/
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." - Someone, probably with a T in their name. [1]

Having one or two layers of bureaucracy can provide a powerful buffer to voters doing things for immediate gains, or based on popular trends. Certainly some of how modern governments are set up is based on the time information took to travel and the distances involved hundreds (or thousands) of years ago, but I don't think that this point was lost on the early founders of democratic systems.

People (especially Americans) often forget that a bureaucracy that slows things down can provide the occasional benefit, right along with all its costs.

[1]: http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html
Looks very cool. There are a few typos littered throughout the page that the author should fix:

accessility -> accessibility
maet -> met
I thought I read once scheme was to run a water pipe into the desert and build your algae ponds their? No farmland, lots of sun. Not sure about it though.
A huge hole in this press release is how apps use location information. An app can easily log a user's location and send it anywhere along with whatever other data the app has access to.
More frequent requests to get nearby WLAN access points and cell towers.
As I posted, secret / anonymous votes are essential as long as there is economic or other inequalities within the voting population. Bribery and enforcement are serious problems. For instance, it is well documented, that you can buy the national "mail votes" of Italiens living in Germany for as little as 40 Euros!
One might argue, that for the voting system within a party, secrecy is not as important. However, many, many members of the Pirate Party in Germany broke up with the party, exactly because of this missing feature, when Liquid Democracy was introduced.
When I still worked for Google the shops were split into four rooms with separate certification process and access for each. It was easy to get access to the EE or Woodworking shop, harder for the Metalworking and Welding.
The pursuit of Happyness. - Based on a true story - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness

How one man had nothing and today is a multi-millionire.
Hopefully I have a better solicitor than the poor chap who had iOS location data submitted into evidence ;)
For little known authors the pay out is well bellow 50k going through traditional publication methods. This is why so many maintain jobs while writing. It is much akin to creating a startup where you do not expect an instant pay out, but our driven by a much higher return in the long run.
Furthermore, most beginning authors have careers that pay considerably less than 50k a year.
Magic 8-Ball says: disturbing.

Seriously, Apple should offer some way to turn this off. At the very least, the file should not be created if you are not allowing anything to access your location information.
It doesn't quite work, because Steve says "you need to be more open to fixing annoyances" and Rich responds "Look what a mess would it be if we fixed everyone's annoyance!". There is a big continuum between the place Clojure is now and the hypothetical absurd described by Rich.
It will be only tracking and surveillance data that the TV uploads to the mothership. It's not like they will let you stream YouTube, Netflix or Prime on their inbuilt 5G connection.

So the cost will be minimal and further reduced by the bulk volume that the manufacturer would purchase from the telco. Like how Amazon Kindle comes with a free 3G connection to download your books and upload your reading habits.
Both node and deno can run Wasm. Also see WASI that the sibling mentioned.
There aren't any Tesla chargers in my town of 120k people and there are over 200 other kinds of chargers, all of which have worked fine whenever I've needed them.
So what's actually being purchased in a transaction? Post-purchase, how is it any different than simply turning up & using the land?
You can just do `:r !ls` to do that. Using <C-R>=system('ls') is way overkill.

That said I do agree that the expression register is amazing.
Because moving the air keeps the virus from collecting in rooms.
A projector also makes an excellent second monitor, again pros and cons.
That's an http page, why would you expect it to be encrypted with SSL??
Yikes this is horrifying.

I'm currently quarantining a family member in my guest room, whom I don't know if they have a common cold or not. I'm wondering if just letting my ozone machine (5,000mg/hr) run after they're done in shared rooms, such as the bathroom etc. — unoccupied of course— would be enough to keep things sanitized.

This is all incredibly stressing.
This works if you have the right kind of personality. For others it's just impossible and will lead to depression/burnout.
The eternal September was 1993. I remember that change well and the earlier flavour I remember nostalgically. And it was tied to the rise of the web. There's a good argument to say the web killed the internet.

But all things change. Every phase has good and bad points. IMHO
Sorry about that, I usually assume people are my age and were alive and voting at the time.
If i would ask to shut down the camera when doing private stuffs that would be ok.
Wait but goog fb and amzn have been aggressively trying to capture global markets. They have been increasing the footprint, does not that count for % increase from 2014 to 2017 ?? Does not make sense ..point about web is dying is opinionated. Today I can watch Netflix, order from doordash and connect with my family through FaceTime. All via web.
I apologize for not writing an essay carefully specifying what "worth a lot" means to me.
I'm not sure I have the moral authority to weigh the good and bad things the US government does and choose which it does more of.

I think we agree on just about everything else. Local government is good, it always starts local.
So it definitely transfers 'near'. You'll get better at the dual-n-back test. And possibly other visio-spatial working memory tests. But the question of far transfer- will it make you smarter- is probably not. Here is a link to a 2015 meta-analysis that looks at the question of working memory training (including dual-n-backs) transferring to other working memory tasks:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/084fvteji1tyz8t/2015-schwaighofer....

Melby-Lerva g & Hulme, 2013, is also pretty damning.
Discussed ad nauseam recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26723399
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724237
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725915
After checking the site I can tell it has quite a few tracking cookies enabled - so for sure it is profitting from the illegal content.

Ps. This also doesnt cover copyright claims.
I know critiques of political movements are painted as identity politics, but the opposite is true. Being able to discuss the merits of something like the precise role of the courts should be possible amongst people that abhor the politics of politics.
A nuclear plant went offline due to the recent event. Pretending this has anything at all to do with the type of power generation, instead of properly weatherizing infrastructure is absurd.
No, this has nothing to do with profit at all.
Well you wont be able to prevent rich people from getting their regular life extension treatments.
There might be a privacy issue here. I seem to have gotten the page another user requested, and not the one I typed in: http://imgur.com/QB6Yc.png
That photo was taken in the small bavarian village Oberstaufen (pop. 7,000). Their marketing people invited Google (and baked cake for them [0]) when the debate about Street View was heating up in Germany. As a consequence Oberstaufen was the only town or village you could visit on Google Street View two weeks before the service launched with all the major cities. Suffice it to say, Oberstaufen received tons of free media coverage because of that.

I think that’s a pretty genius move of the marketing people in a small village in a tourism region.

[0] http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/11/special-preview-o...
Beta adrenergic receptor antagonists (beta blockers) are routinely used by people who have a physical reaction (shortness of breath, tachycardia) to public speaking. If the other techniques that people here are recommending are not enough to get you exactly where you want to be regarding comfort, it is reasonable to talk to your internist. It's worth noting that having a crutch like this can make a bigger mental impact than physical (you feel more confident because you believe the beta blockers will help keep you from messing up). Also, like a crutch, most people grow not to need beta blockers after some experience.

I'm not saying that you should immediately turn to medication, but since public speaking is more feared than death, I think it's only fair to mention something like beta blockers, confidence in which can help reduce the fear.
Because the other cliché is even less political correct.

(And I am German, but don't live there any longer.)
The site is currently down. Why is it so hard for most blog software to do the most basic thing of the web: delivering static content?
But then he wouldn't get the Amazon affiliate revenue :(
One of my professors swears that "curling his toes" before he speaks calms his nerves. He's a little out there, but you never know.
I interviewed as a single founder as well. They spent the entire interview trying to directly match my idea to existing markets. I probably appeared stubborn as I tried to explain how my idea was different.

How could I appear other than stubborn?

If they had said, OK I think we understand your idea but your market doesn't seem big enough (or something to that effect), maybe things would have turned out differently than 11 minutes of what seemed to me like "we don't get it," when they probably did and didn't believe in it.

Well, in any case, I got some good feedback and I still appreciate the opportunity to discuss my company with them.

Hindsight may be 20-20, but I still have to fend off the regret for not redirecting the conversation.

As a word of advice to future single founders, they are going to aggressively push you the entire time. Be prepared to concede to them at some point even if they don't "get it." Otherwise, you will appear stubborn.
We have not yet decided on that at this point. Definitely something to consider.