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SimplyCredit, Inc., | Backend Engineers: FT and Contractors | SF (preferred) or Remote in US
We are looking for a talented backend engineers, both full-time hires and contractors, eager for a defining role in building a company. As an early employee you will be responsible for architecting and building key aspects of our platform, work autonomously guiding the technologies we use and create, and help develop our company and engineering culture. You’ll work directly with the founders who have deep experience in consumer lending, data science and business development from their work at companies FICO and Kaggle.

RESPONSIBILITIES
* Build RESTful APIs that will power the user-facing website and mobile apps * Write secure code and ensure the privacy and safety of sensitive user information * Interface with financial system APIs such as the credit bureaus and payment systems * Architect the backend to allow for sophisticated deployment of machine learning algorithms and data science * Design and build the data warehousing infrastructure * Define key workflow infrastructure including automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployments * Experience with PCI compliance, payment systems or other banking applications is a plus * Language/stack experience in Scala or Clojure * At least 4 years of backend experience with web applications

If you’re itching to get in on the ground floor of building a new product and company, then we’d love to hear from you!

Email jobs@simplycreditinc.com with a LinkedIn profile or resume, a little about yourself and why you’d be a good fit at SimplyCredit.

About SimplyCredit -- At SimplyCredit, our mission is to redefine consumer lending as it is known today. We believe in doing right by the consumer: no fees, no penalties, no gotchas or fine print. We want to bring sanity back to lending and ensure that consumers get the value and service they deserve. Using advanced technologies we are creating credit and lending innovations in line with these values, all delivered through seamless customer experience. www.simplycreditinc.com
I hope someone is archiving this folklore properly. It's a bit scary that it's only in a Reddit thread.

(ditto for the stuff that's languishing in Google's Usenet archive.)
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> Even if you make it impossible to 'pass down' these structures as property, you will have de-facto inheritance through nepotism and clan structures.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (credit/apologies to Douglas Adams)
I don't know why Paul couldn't use the term "consumer surplus" in the essay, because I ( perhaps erroneously ) see that as what he is defending.

Let me define terms. "Profit" - nominally, returns above investment - can either be rents or a reflection of consumer surplus, or a mix of both.

If there is a problem here, it is that we have a hard time
distinguishing ... consumer-surplus-bearing-profit from rents. Because this isn't easy. We are also confused because monopolistic - monpsomistic, really - behavior as re the application of the Sherman Act against Standard Oil resulted in lowered end price for consumers. This is a WTF> rich environment.

I suspect that if we worked harder at it, rather than relying on just-so stories, we'd be better at it. So to me, the whole argument looks like learned helplessness. As a culture, we seem to prefer to not be able to distinguish between them.

As to the rest of your list, IMO ( and very aggressively-and-error-prone IMO ):

- tax-avoidance is just inevitable, and there's arguably nothing wrong with it re: Tim Worstall's continued line of reasoning. The entire edifice of using taxes to modify behavior is rather nauseating. It is inherently a game and trying to de-gamify it seems utterly pointless.

If you've ever had a conversation about tax-avoidance with a tax-avoider, it's clearly not much about the money any more. Milton Friedman talks in places about how it costs more to avoid most ( well-made ) taxes than to simply pay them - which is consistent with my observation.

- Buying political influence is of dubious ... provenance - we, again, get just-so stories and bias confirmation instead of hard empirical work. "Access" isn't an obvious good, and seeking photos with famous people who happen to be politicians seems like seeking photos of yourself with famous people, to me. As a thought experiment - is there enough money in the world to make, say Ted Cruz, embrace, say, abortion?

- corruption is well understood and easily preventable. It exists if and only if the public face of the polity presents the contradiction that we want a public servant to work for less than what their market value is. "Renormalizing" the ... values-field of the tax scheme is in order.

To my ear, the (inevitable) corruption surrounding alcohol Prohibition in the US is the mechanism for parsing this out. There's little more to it than constructing good, sound models in which we price corruption and then do what we can to behave as if we mean that.

- nepotism seems insoluble outside of somehow magically adding market pressure to make it unpleasant. It's also hard because we, at the same time, say "hire people you know from within your network because that information is expensive." But I suspect it's its own reward, from firsthand observation.

- inheritance is empirically rather uninteresting outside of a handful of pathological cases.

See how easy this is? I've solved the entire thing in a blog reply. HA! :)
Barnes & Noble is in no danger of going out of business. Even when Borders went kaput there was a long warning, and that was a very differently run kind of business (although eerily on point for this topic, as it was run into the ground by PE).
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I meant that companies that are trading very cheaply despite having a lot of cash on the books do so because investors think they'll burn through it without producing revenue.
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I don't know what it is, but I love implementing Solitaire to learn new languages and frameworks. It's always a fun exercise, and the engine gets better with every iteration. My latest attempt is https://solitaire.gg - it's a Scala/Scala.js WebGL/websocket Phaser web/native app with hundreds of games.
>Why don't we improve languages so that they have pronouns for the stuff you're doing right there?

Interestingly, we do sort of have that - in most CAS interfaces "Ans" can be used to refer to the last calculated value. A lot of programming REPLs can do this sort of thing too.

Another example might perhaps be Bash's $1, $2, $3 etc for positional arguments.
Is "kids going back to a maker mindset" anything other than a narrative?
I've used this for writing term papers back then. Very useful little tool.
I would have loved to see at least one screenshot. Without one, there is no incentive for me to further look into the project.
So you bet your time. It's how I got my job too, but that should be the norm (unless there are guarantees).
Companies should cover the expenses of finding employees, instead of crowdsourcing the unemployed.
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Wonder how well the Dedicated server part would run on a raspberry pi :)
Twitter shares plummet on rumored shift to 10,000-character tweets
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Ahh, yes - that would be a good idea.

Well, really anything would be better than stopped at a stoplight in front of some dudes yard on 19th ave....
I guess I just disagree with you that they're taken out of context?

1. Bond posits Yudkowski thinks that racism is mostly due to genetic difference, and not about the deliberate, mostly political disenfranchisement of minorities.

You say this is a wrong because his appraisal of the situation as being caused by genetic disparities is benevolent, and that he wants to work to "fix" it.

These aren't in contradiction- to say that it's unfortunate that society is racialized, but that it's due to traits rather than politics, is better than being wantonly racist, but still a well-known form of fallacious racism. Some would say this latter one is actually worse in terms of perpetuating the situation.

2. Of course it's "controversial from the get go". He looks at the disproportionate representation of certain people in ie: tech, and concludes that it's because they're "more competent". Nothing here seems to be a counter, you're just basically saying "it's politically incorrect so it's probably right".

3. Clearly it's just a story. This point eludes exactly nobody. The whole point is that these kind of people find these questions ("is rape really bad?") really intriguing rather than obvious. It makes you wonder about the power of Bayesian reasoning- the exact point of the essay.

I think you're too uncharitable to critical writers like Bond (it took me a while to acquire a taste for this vicious kind of writing), underestimating their and their audiences' understanding. As a result, you think this context adds way more than it does.
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I bring it up in comments here any time it's relevant, but it hasn't had its own discussion. Adoption is the only obstacle, but tools and infrastructure are obstacles to adoption. There's lots of software to write before it's easy for people to install a mobile wallet app that banishes oligarchical influences from their personal economy.

A bug/feature that needs to be addressed is that this mechanism can be used to enforce any rule enough people decide to pursue. We've discovered a lot of the ways our form of governance can go wrong over the past few hundred years, and we've even fixed some of them. We have to do the same thing for merit capitalism and limit its use until we know how to use it without causing catastrophes. Luckily, we can use merit capitalism to limit the use of merit capitalism: if someone breaks the "constitution" of acceptable uses, they can be sanctioned. We can slowly evolve the constitution as we learn more.
> I don't understand what you mean when you say it's "only" due to India and China starting to have a middle class. That is literally the definition of decreasing inequality globally: people who were previously below middle class have increased their standing.

Two points:

1) Income inequality in these countries is very similar to that in the US. In the case of China, where I am, it is arguably worse than the US. So they are not producing a decrease in global income inequality -- rather they are helping accelerating inequality by dramatically increasing the inequality in the two largest nations.

2) The concept of middle class is completely orthogonal to the concept of income inequality. Whether the middle class is increasing or shrinking tells you nothing about if income inequality is increasing or shrinking. Being middle class simply means you are bought into the system, so not working class, but not wealthy enough to not work, so not upper class. You a house and your children are being well educated. You have a vested interest in maintaining the society but not the power to control it.[1] The middle class be grown and it can shrink. It has no connection to quantiles. It has no connection to the median or average income levels other than how they relate to the cost of living. You can have low income inequality with a tiny middle class (classic low development nation). You can have high income inequality with a large middle class (traditional example being the US). You can have high income inequality with a small middle class (typically middle income countries such as Chile). Of course you can have, what in my mind is the ideal, low income inequality with a large middle class (Sweden being a good example).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class
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> if you start with any prior, will enough additional pieces of evidence always let you converge on the truth?

That's the general trend: pooling data tends to make priors converge. However, converging priors isn't quite the same thing as everyone converging on the truth.

Statistical expressions themselves are an incomplete explanation, we routinely use assumptions about the direction of causality that aren't captured in them. See Judea Pearl's "Why I am only half Bayesian" paper for a discussion as well as an intro to how his framework approaches such independence assumptions.
But human nature is not as variable as human circumstances. Jealousy and envy can be just as strong even if you aren't starving.
Why? Please explain.
> Cognitive scientists conjecture that our brains incorporate Bayesian algorithms as they perceive, deliberate, decide.

As a Cognitive scientist myself, this amused me. The reason being because in the 1950s, Cognitive scientists thought that the brain worked like telephone switching equipment.

Basically, we fit our current model of cognition to the most popular model of computing at the time. Looks like the trend hasn't stopped (although to be fair we we were talking about the Baysian model of cognition 20 years ago, so at least that one lasted a while).
No, it's an argument against using statistics without first considering the strength of your data.
> Or this essay from from New York Magazine, which explores their evolution and cultural implications.

Why is a link to an "essay from from New York Magazine" trying to take me to youtube?

How do you open your article with non functioning links and then immediately jump to criticizing the design of someone else's website which seems to work just fine?
It's always worth pointing out that the only reasonable way to compare or talk about regions is at the level of the MSA. Every "city" has its own weird (often very silly) political boundaries, but they are basically irrelevant when talking about regional issues.

Edit: I don't think it's disingenuous, though. People genuinely do get confused about the difference between what a thing really is and what a thing is officially called.
Tbh, $4-5k/year isn't a minuscule percentage of my expenses.
Sure - let's assume for a moment that inheritance tax does work to distribute ownership. That simply removes 'ownership' as the instrument for control, positions within the corporate structure would then become the 'title' to the assets, and these would be passed down through nepotism and clan structures as I mentioned.
Why not close supermarkets out of respect for labor unions as well, for 2 weeks. I think the solution lies somewhere else - such as automating humans out of retail and services to the extent possible. For instance, speaking of gym, I would keep the facility open staffed just with with security and reception. Shut down non-core functions: new member office, group sessions, cafe etc.
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Added the info to the site
Could you explain what you mean by "open code"? What is the philosophical underpinning?

That is, it seems that most of the argument for "open code" in the scientific review sense implies that 1) the software should be available at no cost, and 2) there is no need to support commercialization of said software. These principles are different than the four freedoms of "free software", and I have difficulties in reconciling the differences.

For a concrete example, I am self-employed. I sell scientific software. All of my customers receive it under the BSD license, after they pay me a good chunk of money. Thus, I sell free software for scientific research.

The FSF says "Selling a copy of a free program is legitimate, and we encourage it. (Quoting https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html .) But most of the time when I see people say "open code" or something similar, they want the right to view, use, test, and modify the source code at no cost.

If I publish a peer-reviewed paper about the software, should I be required to distribute the software to readers for no cost? Or may I set a fee of, say, $25,000 to get access to the source code under a free license? (I'm well aware of the loophole where I could publish that something is "open", but require a payment of $1 billion. My question is, what is a reasonable and fair price to charge?)

On the flip side, if I am required to publish my software under a free/open source license and not charge for access to the code, then that means any reader can take my source code and commercialize it, or even simply give it away. Commercialization is part of the four freedoms of free software, but it ends up reducing my market size and knocking other parts of the four freedoms. I won't have as much money to continue my self-funded development and research.

The principles are important because they help set guidelines for other questions. Can I require that people register their use of the software before getting access to a no-cost copy? Can I wait 6 months to respond to those requests? How long am I required to host the software, or will the journal manage all of that? May I include non-free license terms, like a requirement to cite X if someone uses the software? Does minimized/obsfucated code suffice? And many more details that have been resolved in the context of F/OSS software but have not, I believe, been resolve in the context of what's needed for peer reviewed publications.
We approached Stripe with several million/mo in processing across hundreds of merchants. The rate they offered us was almost as laughable as 2.9%+30c.
Yes, I think SF desperately needs more subway, and given the choice, I would allocate resources to that (making the city healthier and more robust) than a tunnel through the city (which helps people get through the city).

Presidio to Financial subway would be amazing.

At some point, however, people north of the GGB need to get to SFO and while I, traveling solo, would be happy to park and ride in Marin (which I already do with the Marin Airporter) if I am a traveler who rented my car at SFO or if I am traveling with an entire family, you need the ability to drive to the airport...
For anyone unfamiliar, circumaural headphones are "full size" in that they encompass the ear and are the easiest to block out noise by the physicality alone.

Next down in supra-aural that presses into the ear (rather than around it), and then you get to earbuds and in-ear headphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

- Richard P. Feynman
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Related: https://nvbn.github.io/2015/10/08/how-thefuck-works/
The service may be niche but pricing should depend on various factors like complexity, value add compared to competitors (you always have competitors even in niche) and ultimately the most important: Who is your target audience ?

$15/Year could be too low in fact for a niche. You may as well charge $15/Month and still get enough clients. In fact, I will say that a good niche service should be high margin because it is most likely low volume. This means your pricing should be high enough to create a sustainable business.

Going back to the Target Audience point. Imagine this. You have a service/product that for some reason can be sold to both students and large educational institutions. Would you ask a student to pay $15/year ? Perhaps you won't get much luck there. Would you be able to get $15/Year from an institution ? Most likely. Of course, sales cycle may be longer and it may take a bit more time to get the institution on board. But they may easily pay you $15/Month or even $100/Month if they get enough value out of what you are offering.
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For those who have history exam tomorrow: 1953.
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I came here to say the same thing. This project is quite old (over 5 years old according to some of the commits). I would expect a little more polish for something that has been around for so long.
It looks like it is starting to get some attention at least. Here is HN discussion of the article that seems possibly the primary source for the video:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329733

It sounds like the system does not currently use politics and such, but the government would like to combine it with the existing citizen tracking system which is employer based.

And a BBC article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186

I think the US system is fairly insidious as well and has more government influence than it might seem (look into "redlining" for instance and the role the government played). Creditors can know quite a bit about your private life (particularly if you significantly outside the mainstream) and I don't think it is that uncommon for individuals to share credit scores. In any case, I think it is worth considering how "social trust systems" work everywhere and not just in the worst imagininable case. It is harder to think about in the less obviously centralized cases.
My last office stint was open-plan with lockers and hotdesking.

Absolutely despised by the developers; we would have been ecstatic with cubes.
I am talking about Twitters biggest problems from the point of whether it will survive you talk about it from the point of whether it's a better product experience.
Isn't that the problem here? It seems like Dick Smith was already well on the way to failure, but Anchorage comes in and props it up like it's succeeding enough to cash in on a stock offering.
This is interesting:

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In yesterday’s post, I reacted to Paul Graham’s much talked about essay on inequality by suggesting that the premise — entrepreneurship causes inequality — is far from obvious. Indeed, I conjectured that if things were working as they should, entrepreneurship would tend to decrease inequality. My argument was based on where the entrepreneur started in the income distribution, where they ended, what their innovation did to the incomes of others and what they ended up doing with the wealth they accrued. Suffice it to say, that’s alot of moving parts and I will admit that it was hard to see how it fit together.
The BladeRF is full duplex for just a little more than the hackrf, definitely a viable option for enthusiasts.
Argumentum ad Ignotas Extraneus
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I'm British - the police over here killed 3 people last year, and that was an above average year. The USA is not the entire set of Western Liberal Democracies.
Bolting on replication into an existing product is very hard. It usually is something that has to sit at the core of the product to be done right. It seems this sort feature cuts vertically from core all the way to the user level API.
Here is a link to the study publication from Vanderbilt University about the program in Tennessee:

http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/research/pri/VPKthrough3rd_fin...