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GiveCampus (YC S15) hiring full-stack and front-end engineers in DC
We are GiveCampus, and we build fundraising software for educational institutions. Our engineering team is currently still small, and we're looking to add to the team to keep up with our continued growth in sales.

We are looking for someone who's been working professionally for at least two years, and has great front end chops, but can still manage some of the backend functionality as well. The ideal candidate would have an eye for clean design (though not necessarily need to be a designer), and be able to implement and iterate quickly. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, with mostly Bootstrap on the front end, and we're moving toward React where appropriate.

Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and have quadrupled the number of schools using us since it was published.

Shoot us a message at careers@givecampus.com with your github and a little about why you're interested in GiveCampus!
Unsurprisingly this was already mentioned a million times =D
That's an unreasonable expectation. Many websites have complex content and layouts, and no web designer will build their site to gracefully fall back with CSS disabled. That just doesn't happen.
I would of setting up a browser for my preferences didn't take 1 hour of my time.
I work in Tech (programmer) in Sudbury.

Their is far more money here than appears on the surface. Years of 10,000+ miners making 100K+ per year + nickel bonus saw to a rather well off retirement community and thriving big ticket item market. Yup, lots of them borrowed to get there quickly. But it was also paid off quickly.

Now, that being said, Sudbury is a very different place 15 years later. The vast majority of the mining jobs are gone, the infrastructure is falling apart. But I wouldn't even come close to calling it poor. Is the future bright here. Nope. But I wouldn't call lots of the major centers to the south prosperous either.

Myself. I never had a CC until I was in my 40's. Even then, they are rarely used, and, paid off immediately. Despite what I think is an artificially inflated local housing market, I manage to save a significant chunk of my income every month. The root cause of the debt problem, I think, is the lack of education. Schools haven't taught 'money' in ages. Managing a household is no different than managing a small business. People have been purposely NOT taught how to manage their money by our education system, it borders on the negligent.
I was not talking about this particular climate change action that he did, I was trying to say "in general" it's hard to change person's mind when he is already negatively looking at the subject.
Exercising of options is taxed, which is what I interpreted the OP to be talking about. From the employee's perspective, it seems ridiculous: I'm exercising an option in hopes of future payout, but right now, it's worth literally $0 — I can't convert it to cash — but the government taxes it at >$0 nonetheless.
HPC4Mfg project aims to reduce costs and time of manufacturing LED lights
Pixel Art tutorials using GIFs
Keep in mind facebook employees are not in any way/shape/form "halfway decent traders". The halfway decent trader group will take profit off the table the moment they can - if at some later time it looks like there is a profitable long position to be had then they take it. Amateurs take/hold positions when there is nothing happening at that moment.

tldr; You don't hold something because you think it will go up. You open long when it is going up and you think it will continue. The reason for the 90/90/90 statistic is because of mindsets like those facebook employees you mention.
As the other reply stated, I did not mention conservatism at all, you read that into my comment somehow though, which is itself interesting.

I should relay my bias, however meaningful or meaningless, that I am still shocked that the candidate who scored the lowest of all in factual accuracy according to all the factchecker sites (note: not "lying" as the left often claims, which requires intent; but simply not being factually-accurate) is now our President.

I did see a lack of critical thinking on both sides of the aisle, though.
I was taking the high end of that estimate. I don't think having one drink a day makes someone an alcoholic though. Heck, in France it's common to have a glass of wine with lunch every day. Though my own tendency is to have 0-2 drinks Monday - Thursday, and then 5-7 drinks on the weekend.
I would explain it as improper English.
Planaritify – My iOS game about planar graphs, made in one day
Key Vote NO on Sponsor, Cosponsors of S. 1297
Nobody wants the product you just built
Credit Scoring – A Machine Learning Tutorial
> But you can stop it. By balancing the browsers, choosing to use not just what’s convenient, but what’s lesser used, you can make the business case for monopoly plays a bad deal. Consider it your civic duty as a fan of the open web.

Internet Explorer was a monopoly because it was the default web browser installed on the most prevalent operating system. It's the same reason Safari has a majority on Macs even while it lagged behind a couple years.

Chrome is convenient, but I'm not about to start using Opera or Safari because Google is making a better browser. I tried using Safari on my phone and navigating was just so rigid compared to the gestures in Chrome. Safari is behind the times and slowly catching up on web technologies, but also has taken some weird side-steps by ignoring standards like "filter: blur()" and implementing their own "backdrop-filter" that no other browser uses. Chrome and Firefox are the leaders in feature advancement and cross-browser standards.

edit: Would like to clarify that when I mean ignoring the "filter: blur()" standard - Safari will remove a background image instead of blurring it.

Use what's convenient so other browsers step it up.
I've happily used Firefox for over a decade now (since version 2.0). The web's changed a little since then, but I think Firefox has adapted well and has been the source of a lot of innovation. I've tried Chrome and other browsers, but never really thought much of them - but I'm very glad they exist! Variety is a great thing to have.

It's disheartening to see developers with the attitude that they only care about users using the same browser as them and it's been frustrating over the years to see services neglecting non-Chrome browsers (example: Netflix + Linux up until recently). What happened to cross-browser testing, progressive enhancement and other best practices?
Currently mental health treatment in the UK is under severe pressure, and it's going to get worse if the conservatives win.

However:

> Here in the UK, most people with moderately severe depression or anxiety have to wait several months to get access to CBT

Here's the data for Jan 2017: http://www.content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB23831

> 90.2 per cent waited less than 6 weeks and 98.7 per cent waited less than 18 weeks to enter treatment

Most people wait less than 6 weeks to start treatment.

I agree about the rest of your comment: the CBT model should be 12 to 14 weeks of one hour sessions face to face with a therapist (we're not sure if the experience level of the therapist makes much difference), and many people are getting a much reduced version of this: 6 to 8 weeks, of 45 minute sessions, sometimes in groups or over the phone.
I already know and read this link. That alone should prove that I am more than equipped to participate in this discussion and willing to understand other people's viewpoints. I regularly force myself to read opinions I strongly disagree with. In this case, however, my disagreement remains firmly.
Easements and contracts are not the right way to do this.

Easements mean that the US taxpayers are further subsidizing farmers by paying farmers to literally do nothing.

The government needs to actually buy the land and make it into parks / preserves. This way it stays a natural resource, and can be sold (for a profit) later if it's no longer needed.
but that's only a comfort for the programmer's ability to reason about the code

A way to mark functions as pure for this purpose would be great! Especially if it's not as fraught as const in C++.
Let me fix this for you, from the perspective of a profitable trader.

"A growing number of traders are betting..."
"A growing number of suckers are betting..."

They are suckers for betting. Coin flip traders provide liquidity on the ride to the cleaners. I hope they don't stop doing so though, because then it might actually be difficult to profit from them.
The problem is the deep integration between iCloud and Apple devices.

Lots of stuff can't be just backed up to a different cloud provider/do locally.
Embracing ES6: Part 1
But having some roses can help.
Nice, I see it has a graph section too.
Embracing ES6: Part 2
I don't think any CCs have the endowment mechanism to create lasting return on a gift that size.

Also, most donors making gifts of that size are interested in both the academic and research portfolios of the institution, since that much money will necessarily go into many different projects across the university.So while a large gift to a CC, if they have the means to administer it sounds great, it probably doesn't feel that compelling to a donor.
As a Christian I don't understand how I would be able to put up with reality without the perspective Christianity provides.

I appreciate your attempt to share an unusual alternative (for this forum) in a non-confrontational way.
It would be nice to see a comparison of fastest growing words between the last 5 years vs 10 years ago. I'm wondering about the demographics of this site and if they've changed.
I'm not understanding the point you're trying to make. The article you posted states clearly that fossil fuels are the largest net contributor (4-5 gigatons/year) to atmospheric carbon:

"Before the industrial revolution, the main source of fluctuation in atmospheric carbon was from changes in biomass and soil organic carbon. Now, fossil fuel burning is the greatest factor in atmospheric carbon fluctuations."

Lots of carbon is absorbed into the soil and lots is released as part of the normal carbon cycle, with the net effect being:

"The soil organic matter pool is currently losing about 1 to 2 gigatons of carbon per year to the atmospheric pool."

> Erosion is not the result of global warming

If global warming causes more droughts, and droughts cause soil loss, then isn't global warming contributing to erosion?
Pendo Announces Free Product Analytics, Surveys/NPS and Onboarding for Startups
There is a reason why chrome has such a large market share and it's not because it's preinstalled. It's simply the best browser experience in many ways.
Hard pass. I'll just change my user-agent and call it a day.
Dear Sasha,

this is brilliant. I know the perfect person to give your map as a present and will buy the high-quality PDF no matter what. But let's try an experiment!

Can you name a price for setting the map free? By which I mean, releasing it and all source materials under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license of your choosing?

If so, then, dear Internet, let's crowdfund at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/... (just based on the honor system, from both sides). If you love Sasha's subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads as much as I do, then consider pledging a certain amount at that Etherpad for setting the map free.

Cheers,
Ingo

Update: Sasha replied to a private mail of mine in a very kind way. He won't set the map free right now. Please still consider supporting him if you like his work. :-)
This may be a bit repetitive of me, but wondering if you can add some color around the phrase "higher level layers of the software".
Lightweight and modern terminal animations using async/await
It would probably get rid of all bidding period, and it would create an unnecessarily adversarial relationship between parties who need to work together productively across multiple projects.

Also, if you follow this logic through to it's conclusion, you end up with a bankrupt contractor, a project that's still unfinished, and embarrassed politicians. It's usually still a better deal (within reason) for the person already doing the work to be the one to finish the work.
We actually did have this once, but it wasn't really worth it, so it was removed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940624 is the HN discussion, but it looks like the link might now be wrong?

It was also a very, very long time ago, and so today's Rust might be different enough that those reasons don't apply any more.
Darpa UAS effort looks to do more with less
If there are a million different variables, how can you "know" anything about whether an asset will appreciate or not?
There's an accompanying article[1]. It's all incredibly moving. Erica Baker said one of my favorite quotes from the video, "Everybody talks about diversity and getting people in the door. We measure those numbers. We don't really talk much about the inclusion part. What are you doing to make sure that everybody is included and feels safe and supported and valued in your organization?"

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2017/06/women-engineers-rampant-sexism...
Sometimes I think it must really suck to be in public administration. If you want to do something about anything, you get attacked for trying to limit people's freedom. If you don't do anything, you later get blamed for letting the problem happen.
The achievements of past cultures are often so impressive. I have seen ancient Egyptian artifacts (King Tut's exhibit) and on the same day got to see some ancient Mayan and very old Japanese Art. All of it interesting and quite amazing (especially the intricacy and exactness of the admittedly much more recent Japanese Art).

To keep these ancient achievements in perspective though I recall working at Texas Instruments in the 70's (doing real-time process control programming). One of my friends there related to me his experience in giving a job interview, years earlier, to a young machinist, classically trained in Germany. The job seeker brought his final project as a sample of his work. A highly polished, precisely square, solid cube of polished steel, or so it appeared to my friend. It had all been made with hand tools, no fancy milling or grinding machines.

My friend marveled at it, but then the young man said "watch this" and proceeded to slide the upper half of the solid cube on a dovetailed channel that connected the upper half of the cube to the lower half. My friend, a mechanical engineer, said he had never seen anything like it; it was so carefully made that the channel was invisible to him when the cube was squared.
The main shaping tool used in the construction of this cube was simply a file.
There are two major problems with public speaking:

1. Many do public speaking for the sake of public speaking. To prove themselves something. That they can publicly speak. This is wrong. You need to have a clear goal. Your speech is an enabler. E.g. you want to attract new clients, employees, funding, whatever. Even just to strengthen your personal brand doesn't work either. Behind this semi-goal must be again a clear and meaningful goal. E.g. increase personal brand because you want to sell x or position yourself as expert in field y.
If you have this clear gloal your speech will fly by itself. If not you will utterly fail and you feel it every second of that speech.

2) The bigger problem is that people heavily learn their speech before. Just learn the first five minutes. Then try to speak to the public like you would speak to a good friend. Don't learn sentences. Just have a rough outline of the speech in your head. The best speeches usually come when you didn't prepare at all (but this never happens).
There are a factions in the strong AI community whose members espouse the idea that a planned economy would become feasible given greater computational capacity and better software.

I have to think that the major objection to this is that the complexity of a socioeconomy also scales with computational capacity. Planning an economy is quite likely always beyond the capacity of any portion of entities within that economy, for the same knowledge problem.

Running up a rigorous approach to proof/disproof of that would be an interesting exercise, of course.

But it is an interesting example of the point that AI has a way of being all things to all people, when rigorous testing of ideas is not applied. For the would-be communists and socialists it is a road to a perfect planned technocracy, regardless of the fact that this looks less than feasible.
How to Version an API
Even assuming a $200k payout after 20 years is a very optimistic startup outcome.
I wouldn't assume that any SaaS requires the big 4 to be their customers to qualify for a high evaluation. Users are used to search that's incredibly smart thanks to Google and it is an extreme technical challenge to roll your own smart search. Many mid size and small companies would save tons of money by buying it from someone else.
Apple's focus on privacy has always been a splinter in the eye of Chinese authorities.

I strongly believe that this is an excuse Chinese authorities had been looking for that will use to pressure Apple in China at the same time create the illusion to the general public to not trust Apple.

I find it especially suspecious that the Chinese media put so much emphasis the privacy concern of this event and in modern Chinese culture, privacy is much less regarded as compared to western countries.

Anyone remember the propaganda while Google was being driven out of China? Straight up false info about Google were broadcasted on CCTV-1, the prime time national channel. A lot of my friends in China became very patriotic and viewed Google as some sort of evil corporation trying to undermine Chinese culture.
Do HN users have much to say about Brave? I've been hearing quite a bit about it lately but haven't tried it out yet. I'm figuring that if I switch browsers, it would be to something with some interesting edge like this, rather than going back to Firefox.
Exactly what I've been saying.

I actually enjoy working. I don't see myself not working when I retire. It will probably be more casual work at my own pace, but I'd still like to be useful.

Many of the "retire early" people I've interacted with on /r/personalfinance are doing it because they hate their jobs and want to spend their life travelling or otherwise not working. To do that, they spend as little as possible (and save as much as possible).

Many people are okay with that. I'm not. I tried simulating that again for the first few years out of college to pay down some student loan debt. I stopped the minute I was able to refinance all of my existing debt into one with lower interest.

I think I dislike living frugally so much because I grew up poor and being poor sucked.
I assumed bait and switch now encompassed this marketing tactic. If you know the exact term this tactic is called please let me know.

> The consumer can choose to stay or leave.
. It's difficult to leave, but it's the same kind of deal when your apartment's lease is not renewed. I can't really see this as anti-consumer

Your argument is simply: consumers deal with something like this for an unrelated industry so it is not anti-consumer. That is not a good argument.

edit: also, renting is a very poor example. There are laws that govern how much rent can be raised that vary based on jurisdiction. If renting wasn't anti-consumer why would such laws exist? No such laws against gouging against for data storage which undermines your argument.
IE was a majority browser while being bad. Chrome is the best browser available (for average joe at least). No plea to use another browser will be heard, until there is an as-good or better alternative.
I've often reacted with annoyance towards the attitudes and behaviors you describe.

I did find the above comment on christianity as an option fairly chill. Might just be my current state of mind. I found it interesting to know what he gets out of it and found it brought up in fairly good (hehe) faith.
Surprised to see this from a CTO. Shows a lack of technical understanding in time series dbs, visualizations, and alerting​.
ML vs. Fonts
Excellent post! Very well written an detailed in its analysis. Loved every part of it, especially in the end when the author speculates whether Central Planning could possibly work with the advances in technology in the future (TLDR: maybe).

This is actually pretty fascinating. If we reach a level of automation such that factories are completely automated, I wonder if the data that is gathered from all those factories, along with more powerful computers and algorithms in the future, would allow central planning to work better than no planning. Some of the problems mentioned by the author are caused simply by the data being wrong, because of lying factory managers: automated factories would eliminate that problem at least.

At the very least, I hope that in the future there will be a centrally planned economy managed by the government to provide a decent living standard to most citizens, while minimizing environmental impact. More productive or talented citizens would/could choose to opt to earn more wealth and purchase from an open market.
Noah has been ranting about this long before Amazon and Onedrive did this.
This is an excellent series of posts! Parts 1 and 2 give a ground-up description of the core concepts that redux-saga uses (generators, describing effects, etc), and Part 3 covers some real-world use cases. One of the best tutorials on redux-saga I've seen.

If anyone's interested, I do have links to other tutorials and articles on redux-saga in my React/Redux links list, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .
Ride Sharing – IGM Survey
One problem is that more and more, people expect the browsing experience to include a lot of responsive features that require a bunch of client-side JavaScript.

Except JavaScript blows, the emerging JS extension ecosystem that tries to fix that is still highly in flux (and mostly blows), so developers try to keep their server-side stuff NOT JavaScript, and then supporting server-side rendering means re-implementing everything twice.

Of course, this doesn't excuse document-centric sites like news and blogs.
Here you have the chronology in an infographic made with an automatic tool that I'm working on:

http://history.takethejuice.com/output/MTQ5Njk0MDc1NC1NYXRoZ...
A frequent post then would be:

"Using VR to train a deep learning neural network on driving and react correctly to unexpected conditions, a bot implemented via a microservices stack using aws as a container and of course connected with cars and related traffic devices via the IoT, logging unexpected events into a blockchain."
This is just the technical equivalent of dumping or subsidizing, and has become fairly common in quite a number of industries to keep out competitors. The complete lack of regulation enforcement has been a problem for at least the last 40 years. To me it also seems to be a hallmark of the SV venture capital scene, where the majority of the capital isn't used to build a better product but to flood the market for a few years to gain a controlling share.
The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn (2015)
Show HN: Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives
Of course I can only be as certain as the evidence we have. I also know that our understanding will probably evolve and change and we learn new information.

As for chance? Well, for every Earth (only one we know of) there are (as far as we know) billions of dead planets. After billions and billions of dead planets I'm perfectly will to accept that one with life is just chance.