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SEEKING WORK (Remote | India(NCR))

I am based out of India(IST) and looking for remote position (Preferably)
About Me
I am a developer by profession , explorer by nature and curious by heart.

Proficient in:

* Python ['django', 'flask', 'google.app.engine']

* Javascript ['node','socketIO'];

* NodeJS

* PHP [Doctrine, cakePHP, qcubed]

* Tinkering with GO currently

Currently working with one of the leading hyperlocal player in india as a backend developer (django/flask/python/redis/sql/ELK stack/Celery/RabbitMQ) and was working with india's leading Real estate portal prior to this (housing.com)

Day to day job @current workplace include ,

Integration with/for our clients.

Third party rest API modules (DRF).

Scripting module preparing various business reports built using python and pandas.

Regular contribution in product development like all internal portals,apart from various other features.

Other Projects

Also works as a Freelance Consultant and have worked with number of clients in telecom sector, government org, designer firms, startups(birac.nic.in,hellonomnom.com, signizers.com, teledna etc)
and have worked with various tools and tech stacks including PHP ,NodeJS (https://hackrtc.herokuapp.com/ -- node + webRTC magic)

Also have taken up completely unknown tech stack in the past and made peace with them easily!

My work profile

Resume: http://bit.ly/rohit_resume

Github: http://bit.ly/rohit_github

Linkedin: http://bit.ly/rohit_linkedin

Looking forward to hear more from you (listening on jain.rohit.2929[AT]gmail.com)--Please mention HN
Well, that's obviously a bug in OSX.

I'm not saying that accessibility enabled apps can't do any harm, of course they can. My point is that they can't do more damage then regular applications you run on your mac.

The only way to run third party apps in a kind of secure environment is sandboxing.

All this accessibility api lockdown stuff from Apple is just pseudo-security.
It's worth mentioning that many intersections in Melbourne, Victoria, have pressure sensors embedded in the road and the traffic lights react depending on whether there is traffic on the road.

It can be super frustrating in Berlin to stand at a traffic light with an empty road waiting for the lights to change, especially given the scowling looks of disapproval some older Germans will throw your way if you walk against the lights, despite the street being devoid of traffic!
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> I've personally found that I build more scalable things in Python, compared to something like node, because it lends itself to scalable architecture decisions. You can do a lot of things in node that are super convenient when you have a single server but that require major changes when you expand.

That's one of the major plus points of PHP too.
> but when people turn to 'magic spells' for many things ... you know there really are some deep issues.

All across Europe and North America (especially the US), people regularly turn to magic spells (praying). These are the places that us westerners think of as the primary 'civilised' societies, but 'magic' is commonplace there as well.
For me that was the great part of the post mortem, they identified the response process itself as the root cause.
> travelled to the Congo to train gorilla militia

I'm sure there are many gorillas in Congo, but I doubt he was there to train a gorilla militia.

Guerilla, perhaps?
> Heh - your comment reminds me of one of my impressions of Austria, where we spent a couple years: "a lot of the same bureaucratic BS as Italy, just administered a lot more efficiently".

German administration feels exactly the same. I have heard that situation being called "Prussian administration": slow and cumbersome to operate like a Prussian tank, efficient in its task like a Prussian tank.

BTW, here is a Prussian tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A7V#/media/File:A7v-wotan-dior...
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I love the Irish crossings. I'm from the UK and whilst I like our iconic Pelican crossings, the beep-beep-beep is pretty boring. I love the "KAPOWWW!!-tic-tic-tic" you get in Ireland.
Finance has existed longer than software development; I think you might be mixing up the chicken and the egg here.
> when people turn to 'magic spells' for many things ... you know there really are some deep issues.

People do this plenty in the USA. Alternative medicine, homeopathy, crystals, religion, fad diets, self-help programs, ...

The purveyors of “magic spells” I know in southern Mexico are also (1) incredibly careful and well trained observers of the human body, better than many western doctors, though obviously with differing gaps in their knowledge (2) experts in cures made from plants or other local materials, far beyond the knowledge of western doctors who just write prescriptions for pre-made drugs, (3) amazing storytellers, with deep knowledge of oral history/mythology, who bring hope and comfort.

You know what else we have in the USA, just like everywhere else in the world? Fraud, corruption, violence, child abuse, infidelity, broken relationships, drug abuse, misallocation of resources, propaganda, etc. etc.

Often our authority figures and institutions (police, doctors, social workers, clergy, teachers, government officials, newspapers, ...) can cause just as many problems as the quackiest witch-doctor.
My suggestion is based on that only you really know what to do but maybe we can help you find it. Begin with you daily life and solve a problem.

For example:
Do you need to water the flowers? Make it automatic with online ui.

Do you always need to check if your door is really locked? Make a lock status report system.

Do you missing people trying to ring the bell at your house because you are in the garage? Make a camera which sends a mms with a picture of who is infront of the door.

Solve something you want to be solved!
No, I don't think you can fix the 'remember choice' feature. Practically all apps ask me for that when I click on a domain I haven't clicked on before. 'Remember' will only remember the choice for that domain.
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"..here in Berlin I get the impression that they're just some placebo to limit your impatience.."

Pretty much describes a lot of the pedestrian crossings here in the UK.
Hi Rusanu, some people or subcultures have a higher propensity to magical thinking. In Kenya for example all kinds of conspiracy theories exist about the origin of AIDS.
There doesn't need to be an extra agency that intentionally spreads disinformation to explain this phenomenon. That there are agencies involved in this type of manipulations in general is a fact though, not sure who the parties would be that are threatened by this. NGO's would welcome reliable results I think

Also read this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427625/no-fbi-didnt-cr...
You could have an overlay network to give full visibility between hosts avoiding NAT completely. Also, inside the overlay network the IP addresses do not necessarily change, as opposed to the public IP address of your laptop when you move it somewhere else :-)

I work on an overlay network solution called Wormhole: http://wormhole.network
> A similar phenomena was witnessed in South Africa with the Marikina massacre of 2012, where miners believed that herbs provided by a witchdoctor would make them invisible.

The US market for homeopathic products was $6.4 billion in 2013: http://www.pharmacytimes.com/publications/issue/2013/Septemb...

In Italy, post-earthquake survivors are being provided homeopathic products: http://www.ilpost.it/2016/08/27/regione-marche-terremoto-ome...

Credulous people are everywhere.
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> sometimes you need to refactor the root inefficiency rather than patch the symptom.

This is also my view on a lot of fintech.

However... if the incumbents aren't doing something, then eating away at the edges may eventually either overcome the incumbents or force them into change.

I don't think Stripe could replace what govts do, but I can certainly see that Stripe being successful will put them at the table to influence or direct the which the way govts do things.
Auth is a routine job, only a really silly developer manages to make simple token auth vulnerable. There's no a "tradeoff" in leaving auth to MitM because it's "hard", oh also there's bunch of libraries out there doing it for you on your servers.
> Between those six and my university's copy of Harris' Trading and Exchanges, I learned quite a bit. I bailed out on the AVR challenges though.

I really enjoyed the Stockfighter levels too, and reading The Big Short / Flash Boys / Moneyball in preparation. The levels had the right level of difficulty & I kept feeling I levelled up (especially when optimizing levels, I'm still proud of my Level 5 score). I didn't enjoy the AVR levels the same way & bailed quickly on those.

I got spooked after someone posted on HN that their Starfighter referral had only bypassed the CV screen of the job interview, not programming or whiteboard challenges. That made me question the time I'd spent on Starfighter - I kept a time log in Harvest along the way, and it's about the same amount of time I'd spend on developing a new product to sell online.

I still enjoyed playing Stockfighter though, and it helped me sharpen my Golang skills.
I agree. I only spent very little time with C++, but that book was both highly interesting and very entertaining to read. Highly recommended!
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Probably, but the context here was mobile. The monospaced parts are too tiny on my iPhone 5c.
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The only actual verification is to send an email saying "Hello, is there anybody out there? You gave us your address [some way], still interested?"
What about showing a portfolio of data analyses? Anybody has experience on this?
add costs for the new camera R&D and there you have it.
Or are you one of the "Apple is just marketing, no substance" guys?
So many complaints about placebo-or-not buttons in comments. Feels like from countries that have no such dead simple thing as digital countdowns on traffic lights. You see infinity or --, you push the button.

Google: traffic light countdown timer.
I would say it's a relational database more than only an improved CSV: you can absolutely use it as that. While it was meant to model whole databases, I don't think there are any disadvantages if you only have one table. You can even easily make the library parse lines without the table prefix (which is unnecessary if there is only one table). However that use case is more trivial and might not justify depending on a library.

Physical units are absolutely in scope. In fact thanks, I hadn't thought of that, if we can find a reasonable default implementation and syntax I might add them to the built-ins. (But you can also add them yourself as a user of the python API).

Depending on your taste, you could let them have a unit suffix.

% DOMAIN kilograms Kilograms precision=3 suffix
% DOMAIN seconds Seconds precision=3 suffix
% DOMAIN metres Metres precision=2 suffix
% TABLE Example kilograms seconds meters
Example 1.0kg 5.042s 4.42m

Or

% DOMAIN laptime Time infixunits
% TABLE Laptime laptime
Laptime 4h05m03s

> Have you ever seen recutils? It's a similar concept although I have no experience of it, at a glance I prefer WSL.

Yes, in fact I gave it a closer look. The scope is different; as the name says it's more record or even hierarchy oriented:

- Records are written on paragraphs instead of lines; each member on its own line
- Multi-valued members
- Field names are explicit in each record.

It doesn't really try to be a clean interpretation of the relational model. While it is also a query language and there are some sort of joins, the multi-values member notation combined with joins seems to quickly lead to cases where it's not clear how to interpret the resulting data. Also, due to the more complex multi-line data format, it's much better suited for consumption by humans than machines.

WSL instead opts for unnamed records on single lines to be very easily consumable by machines as well, and is designed to enable very easy to use reader and writer APIs.

Note that the python library is rather slow; on my old machine, the 220KB example database needs about 200ms to parse. With a C implementation, I reccon there could be a 10x speedup. However if you care very much about speed and do not always read in the data completely, sqlite3 or one of the big iron databases are a better fit anyway. WSL trades speed for semantics and plain text representation.
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Surely you understand the difference between middle class people taking some sugar and people believing unwaveringly that herbs will protect them from that shotgun.
When I see one of these I reminded of Jan Gehl saying they are for reminding people who walk that they must keep asking permission to cross the road (cartoons at http://reviewanew.com/2014/11/17/the-cartoon-case-for-walkab... ). They might be attractive to some, but you soon tire of them. In the last five years the design has changed to remove the red light just above the button to acknowledge your request has been received, so now if it isn't working you'll never know. As Jan Gehl keeps saying to governments who invite him over here, you need to remove the buttons but that seems to fall on deaf ears. However we've been able to detect people who drive and even those on bicycles now with ease. Sigh.
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Here's a rough test: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltglpxexfaxoplk/Test%20Subject.pdf...

A production version obviously wouldn't have the language about it being incomplete or not legally binding.

On the backend, it just uses HelloSign for the signature.
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Btsync isn't open, is it?
More beautiful images from Reidar Hahn:

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-physics-photos-fermilab-...
Yeah this kind of validates my experiences lately.

I recently moved to Europe form Australia, I was a successful tribesman but voluntarily left my tribe because I liked the idea of relocation/traveling.

I was awarded an decent paying job in Netherlands but left soon after due to toxic culture which I wanted to protect myself from. I received other offers but non paid well so I tried to find a remote position. I had no options but "cold applications", which means I was heading for dire straights.

Essentially I went from a somebody to a nobody. I worked in a very successful team as a SRE/Production Engineer in Sydney to nothing, from precious metal to polluted soil.

The "cold apply" method has failed me for months, countless coding challenges and technical tasks (which I successfully completed) have left me without a job. Oh, I've done several dances and jumped many hoops without any fruits of my labour.

I fell into bad depression. I've had to work very hard to get out of the depression. Coming out of it I can see I need to change my approach and on the bright side it's been an important period of self discovery and learning.

I've now admitted defeat and will head back to Australia, start everything again and take little for granted. I'm blessed I have the option of retreat.

Thanks for the response.
I'm not so sure.

I was thinking that this would be interesting for product photography but not sure whether it would work. For example, if I'm shooting a row of coffee cups for the side (diagonally) but want the front cup to be in focus and rest in the row gradually going out of focus.

[Edit]

The point being Apple uses algorithm to detect face to 'compute' the depth of field - would the same work for any random object? I'm not sure about this.
It might not be sufficient, but I would no longer pay for education and do it "on the record" without first taking the equivalent free classes.

From what we know about human memory the practice of cramming a topic for 3 months is not helpful and just the result of resource costs.
As usual, Apple was not the first to came up with the technology, but the first to make it work really well and put it in many hands.

Look at HTC. They tried and failed. Dual camera, but the Bokeh is actually a gimmick. It doesn't work.
Ubuntu, (gnome edition) used to be almost perfect for me.

Same goes for Mandriva (KDE edition).
Here's a much better version of what actually gets sent by Lob: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5oh7qut3f3qic5/ltr_5e9a1648c3d137...
What, you mean you don't want to add some dude you sold a couch to on Craigslist in 2009 to Your Professional Network?! Why not??? (No thanks, Linkedin. No thanks.)
I try not to be toxic, I just don't like working with other people. Overwatch is heavily team-based.
Given the "gift in one hand, gun in the other" history of western actions in Kenya and other African countries over the last centuries, it's hardly surprising there's going to be the random pocket of paranoid skepticism, no matter how good the UBI marketing/education.

I'm personally confused as to why anyone would think it's a good idea to trial UBI in Kenya, as a sort of private charity initiative, given the sordid historical background. It cannot be feasible to get any meaningful data from such projects. There is so much background noise.

Put the funding into microloans or (unfashionable in the west and yet a vital layer in Africa's commercial middle class) labor organization (= unions). Protect the free media and lobby for laws against corruption in politics. Invest in documentation of the continuous crimes against the public interest. Help break the sociopathic power elites that run most African capitals and national economies. Invest in schools. Pay families that keep their children in school. Create demand for local high technology skills, by looking for local partners & experts before flying in foreigners. Name and shame organizations that don't do this. Name and shame national and international companies that overcharge for Internet, for transport, for medicines, for books.

There are surely so many ways to spend money to help Africans continue to break free of the grip of generations of thieves in power (as they are doing in many countries), and pull themselves out of poverty.

In this context, UBI seems... extraordinarily misplaced, and I can't fault people for refusing it.
It's the first time the bokeh effect is successfully implemented. AFAIK, competitors never managed to get it right (see HTC for example).
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To start my own company and become a billionaire in ten years time so that I can fully concentrate on pursuing other life interests for the rest of my life. (I don't mind becoming politically influential as I intend to use those powers for the good (no seriously) but that is secondary.)
I forgot it had so many gibs! I think you can turn them off, but if you don't gib anyone, there's little blood, which is why I was confused.
I know I'm only one (Australian) person, but I've known this for as long as I can remember and have interacted with them. I've never noticed people pressing it in confusion, but I do the same thing where I touch it if I've got headphones in so I know when it turns green.
I wasn't trying to be smug. Clearly, I came across that way.
You should watch Max Tegmark's talk "Connections between Physics and Deep Learning" if this interests you [1].

Additionally, a paper that has everyone excited about deep connections between the mathematical analysis of physical systems and the hierarchical feature learning paradigm speaks of the connection in terms of the Renormalization Group [2].

Regardless of it's practical utility, the philosophical implications do tickle the intellect. On a dreamy note, I wonder if it would be possible to draw Category-theoretic parallels between some physical theories and statistical learning theory. There is so much to learn, and I am trying my best to teach myself (on the side) the mathematics that they don't teach in my CS grad school. So much to learn, such little time. :)

[1] https://youtu.be/5MdSE-N0bxs

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831
Over 90% of people are not blind. Why deprive them of extra information they are able to use? And even if we wanted, reducing everyone to blind person's abilities won't work: If there are 5 people waiting for the same traffic light they can't all hold their finger on the button at the same time.
I removed the Dropbox app from my iPad when they started to require a active GPS to upload files. [about two years ago] If you disallow GPS for that app, it disallows you to upload files. Stupid decisions!?
I've actually never seen any of the complaints you talk about.

I've never seen the buttons with a light in it - maybe NSW just never used them?

The "smaller metal lozenge" vibrates for the blind (and headphone wearing), plus provides direction. I've never seen people use it in confusion.
True enough.

shrug

What did you expect me to do? Argue? You made some good points. :-D

Although you do realize the god part was hyperbolic, showing an absurd maximal beauty. I'm not even very religious, it just seemed a fitting representation of such an absurd beauty. I thought that was pretty clear from the context...
There are some places in the Netherlands that have great pedestrian/bike traffic buttons.

- They have distinct ticking sounds for: locating them (slow tick), when the button has been succesfully pressed (slightly faster tick), when you can walk (very fast tick) , when the traffic light will turn red soon (intermittent fast tick) so you know to hurry up and then back to the normal slow tick.

- They have a ring of leds around the button that lights up when you've pressed it and then counts down by turning of the leds one by one to when the light is gonna turn green.

- The ticking can be felt through the entire pole

- Often there are two traffic lights on it. One big one above and a smaller one at eye-level.

Here's a button that shows the wait-indicator ring:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Tr...

They're not available everywhere unfortunately.
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This is bad example, because it creates more questions than it answers:

- what if the master pod dies (or I transfer it to another node pool)?

- how do I make sure if everything dies, my data is safe?

- how do I use peristent disks in this scenario?

- how can I have a service that handles both the master and the replicas?

- what happens when I update the node pool to a new version of Kubernetes

- How can I achieve true HA?
I dislike the ones that are used in at least LA. The buttons don't have much haptic feedback to them, plus they shout "WAIT!" at you if you press it.
I really like the slideshow UI. Anyone know which software was used to make this?
Fanboys be blind to the hypocrisy and all that jazz...
> Spending power around the world varies by several orders of magnitude. If there's one "world price" for a crop, that price will be incredibly cheap for rich countries and incredibly expensive for poor ones. Agricultural poor countries will not be able to afford the food they grow.

Significant numbers of both poor and rich countries do not subsidize food today. Many agricultural products are commodities and traded at the "world price" already. This is the world you live in right now. Have a look at what is actually happening rather than speculating...

>In the US, SNAP (food stamps) costs about $75 billion per year and is about 80% of the spending on the farm bill

Food Stamps are not a subsidy to farmers, they are a welfare program for poor people. They just are part of the "farm bill" for political reasons.
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