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SEEKING WORK - New York, NYC, Remote

Freelance developer with 5+ years of experience from companies such as Google, Uber, and various startups.

Elixier, Pheonix, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, React Native
> At the same time I understand that a lot of users DO like AMP content. I completely respect their right to enjoy it. But it would be nice if Twitter provided an option to opt-out from that experience for those who don’t.

- TFA
Sure, I get where it comes into play. A team usually has the "techie" guy who decides to roll some macros, and soon it becomes embedded. In the last decade and before this was the engine of an enormous amount of end user computing.

But in 2017, it is almost always a very bad sign. Which is why the competition have mostly abandoned automation of the 1990s Office sort.
+1. As a user, I love AMP and don't understand the fuss.
Do you min me inquiring about your opinion of Meteor. I here it's great for putting together an MVP, but it scales terribly past 100 users.
Available software constraints choices in many of those cases. Put two choices in front of an application team exec: rewrite and port an application from POWER/AIX, POWER/System i, POWER/System z for $X million, with all the attending risks that entails. Or spend same $X million on new IBM hardware, and get more capacity, performance, etc., while the system administrators/system programmers update the underlying OS, with lower magnitude of risks and impacts, and if the sysadmins screw up, that's another department, not yours, anyways. Even if porting is a one-time charge, and saves Y * $X million in N years (where N usually <5).

The choice to avoid risk is easy.

This is why, by the way, selling to C-suite, or above middle management, as much as it is hated in technical circles, is used. The higher you go in management, the more risk is able to be shouldered.

If Intel hypes up any AMD compatibility issues Intel can find, then that urge to avoid risk will play to Intel's advantage.
Uber succeeded because they can reliable predict demand for services. They have both historical data (rush hours, regular commute, etc.) and also future data (sporting events, concerts, night life, etc.)

I looked at starting an Uber for healthcare when it was getting hot, but I thought again about the problem. It's not possible to predict who will be sick when and where and doctors are very expensive. Having doctors go to people's homes is a lose lose situation because the time they spend driving is time they could spend helping patients.
SEEKING FREELANCER | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE & REMOTE

Fold is a cryptocurrency payments company backed by a number of well-known investors in the space. We're expanding into new currencies (Dash, Monero, Zcash) and launching a new project built on Ethereum.

Crypto experience is great, but an adversarial mindset is the real requirement.

Interested in breaking into the space? Email matt at foldapp.com!
> while Airbnb meets all three

Heh. Given that AirBnB is a year older, really we should call Uber the "AirBnB for car rides".
I think it pays more to be observant than to be butthurt on the internet.
This is sad, we need to fund projects like this.
Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | Mostly Backend (Systems+Ops) | San Francisco, CA (SoMa) | ONSITE

Hi! We're Nylas. We’re building an email platform to let our customers build apps integrating with email, contacts, and calendar. Under the hood, our simple APIs are powered by a large open source Python codebase that syncs data from providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft Exchange, and others. Thousands of developers depend on this platform for critical parts of their applications, so performance, reliability, uptime, and consistency are a must.

Most of our code is open source (https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine) and we heavily use open source software. We take pride in the diverse culture we’ve built (we just reached 50% women!) and are looking for more than raw technical talent

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/nylas

* We're a small team

* We have a paid vacation policy & value personal responsibility and ownership.
Benefits include free Lyft to & from the office, full health, dental, vision, and lunch every day. Some remote work / work-from-home is OK too.

Apply at https://nylas.com/jobs or ping me directly (karim@nylas). We're a diverse team, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
I saw a talk about something similar (non nuclear) a few years ago. Could have made building up a supply of fuel in orbit cheaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicklaunch
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Austin, TX, or US on site w/ per diem

I help early stage startups build their tech team. I work with you to identify the skills you need, develop a hiring plan, and team structure.

I'm also taking on JavaScript projects, full stack or front end. I can bring in other freelancers if you need a bigger team or other skills. I also have significant Rails experience but prefer JS projects.

See my website at http://driverdan.com
THat's not as true when we are talking about stock from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc... The risk is dramatically lower.
Very impressive. Will hopefully be launched in US as well.
At Opendoor we’re changing the way homes are bought and sold.

Moving is one of life’s most stressful events. We empower people with a simpler, more thoughtful approach to buying or selling their home.

We have an amazing team of talented and passionate engineers and data scientists. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers, Data Infrastructure Engineers, and Generalists to help us change the real estate industry. Leadership experience is a plus.

Technologies we work with: Rails, React, React Native, PostGIS, Python, AWS, Webpack, Phoenix (Elixir), Kubernetes, Docker.

https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or reach out to me clay@opendoor.com
Nice catch, I should have included the HERS Index. It's a decent standard with wide adoption.
Teachers Pay Teachers | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers | NYC (New York City) | Full-Time

TpT is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M.

Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...).

Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes. We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services.

If you want to learn more about us, check us out on The Muse: https://www.themuse.com/companies/teacherspayteachers/.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting@teacherspayteachers.com or check out our careers page (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers).
How did you find people who were looking to hire? I want to create something similar for a niche industry.
I think urgency should be driven by lead time (when i want it - when i get it).. for e.g. Getting a web design guy may take you upto 3 weeks or more or 45 days if you hire but if you get the same guy in a week or less then the model still works.

Comparing Web design urgency with taxi doesnt make sense.
Ask HN: How did you acquire your first customer? How do you handle sales?
Right. This person is saying "The last time I bitched on AMP it got hyped, so here it is again". I'm not talking about the author. I'm talking about the crowds on here that vigorously vote up everything anti-AMP.
Idea 6 is firebase
"[In 2011,] Hill was a cub reporter at Forbes, where she covered technology and privacy. At the time, Google was actively promoting Google Plus and was sending representatives to media organizations to encourage them to add "+1" buttons to their sites. Hill was pulled into one of these meetings, where the Google representative suggested that Forbes would be penalized in Google search results if it didn't add +1 buttons to the site.

"Hill thought that seemed like a big story, so she contacted Google's PR shop for confirmation. Google essentially confirmed the story, and so Hill ran with it under the headline: "Stick Google Plus Buttons On Your Pages, Or Your Search Traffic Suffers.""

""I was told by my higher-ups at Forbes that Google representatives called them saying that the article was problematic and had to come down. The implication was that it might have consequences for Forbes, a troubling possibility given how much traffic came through Google searches and Google News.""

Ugh. Google was reportedly throwing their search traffic weight around.
There's the GALE data provided by LDC (https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/):

- GALE Phase 1 Arabic Broadcast News Parallel Text - Part 1 (LDC2007T24)
- GALE Phase 1 Arabic Broadcast News Parallel Text - Part 2 (LDC2008T09)
- GALE Phase 1 Arabic Blog Parallel Text (LDC2008T02)
- GALE Phase 1 Arabic Newsgroup Parallel Text - Part 1 (LDC2009T03)
- GALE Phase 1 Arabic Newsgroup Parallel Text - Part 2 (LDC2009T09)
- GALE Phase 2 Arabic Broadcast Conversation Parallel Text Part 1 (LDC2012T06)
- GALE Phase 2 Arabic Broadcast Conversation Parallel Text Part 2 (LDC2012T14)
- GALE Phase 2 Arabic Newswire Parallel Text (LDC2012T17)
- GALE Phase 2 Arabic Broadcast News Parallel Text (LDC2012T18)
- GALE Phase 2 Arabic Web Parallel Text (LDC2013T01)
We built verification into the language in Pascal-F, 30 years ago.[1] That's rarely been done since in real-world imperative languages. It's much easier to keep the verification statements correct if they're in the same file and the same language as the program.

But Pascal was a small language. Getting this into today's bloated languages is tough. Back then, we looked at Ada, sized the project, and realized it was comparable to building an optimizing compiler for the language.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/verifier/verifiermanual.pdf
If a person wanted a no fuss, no thinking required, place to quickly set up a reasonably attractive blog, where could one do it? medium, is that what it is?
You are correct! The implementation is strange, however. I'm not able to directly override any of the nginx settings already set. As there is no route overriding in nginx, this makes things real tough in trying to allow/deny access by route.

The hacky workaround is to create a more specific regex to override any existing routes. So "Location /" becomes "Location /(.*)"

Other alternatives like running your own nginx configuration or apache2 is possible, but no current documentation exists (some is available, but it is outdated and following steps results in a landslide of errors). Plus I don't like the idea of using a different configuration as far as new updates breaking my instance goes.

This is just one example as well - and one I chose because simple IP allow/deny IMO is not an enterprise feature, but a very common use case for anyone running CE.
Lie with dogs, get fleas.

Joey Gibson has repeatedly embraced some truly horrible people in Portland, and claims ignorance when he is met with fury. He's a provocateur and knows exactly what he is doing.

For example, Allen Pucket, a frequent speaker at his local rallies:

http://rosecityantifa.org/articles/allen-pucket/

This guy has been a fixture in Portland for years, but entered national prominence when he showed up to scream at brown people at the Portland airport after Trump's first visa ban. He regularly harasses pride marchers in Portland, stands outside gay bars with a megaphone to harass patrons, but he managed to find a friend in Joey Gibson's Patriot Prayer - all in the name of Freeze Peach, of course.

SSDD
People management & leadership | San Francisco | Allen | http://allenc.com

I've been a software eng. manager for a couple of years now, currently a director of engineering at a mid-sized fintech company. I've always mentored other managers within the companies I worked in, but I'm realizing there's plenty folks who move into mgmt. for the first time w/o much support, and even a chat or two goes a long ways to making the role transition less daunting.
How do you think such visualizations are useful? Is this important for evaluation of the market when you need to recruit somebody from a concrete area?
Avalara - Seattle(Onsite) - Senior Backend Javascript Engineer

Avalara automates sales tax for businesses, world-wide. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Job Duties

Understand the business requirements
Understand the system designs and correct them where needed
Design the code, develop the tests
CI/CD the solution into existence as AWS Lambdas behind an API Gateway
Reflect, Improve the process and move on to the next theme

Qualifications

Computer science degree
3 years of experience
Expert Javascript (ECMAScript 6 preferred) & TDD
Modern tech (GraphQL, Git, AWS Lambdas, API Gateway, Security)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing CI/CD tool chains
Great documentation skills to share your skills
Solid architectural chops

If interested, please send over your resume to: john.conner@avalara.com
Uber got closer. They give you a subprime mortgage on your car where the payment comes out of your Uber fees and if you are behind, a remote inhibitor does not allow starting the car.
Re #4: the "analog signal" would be light here, right?
Less exploitative is clearly better. If you don't like Uber, make something better or lobby for Uber to change, but don't wish for things to go back to how they were worse.
I actually find that unless I do some amount of project management (i.e. use Trello or Pivotal Tracker), I easily get myself sidetracked. I'll use other tools for longer running timelines, but splitting things out into small stories actually helps me stay focused without getting bogged down in considering the implications to every design decision I make.

For a lot of software, making the best decision today without worrying about tomorrow, while still following tried and true engineering practices (i.e. test driving, etc), leads to a project that continues to progress.
Location: Banglore
Remote: No preference
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Nodejs Python java git Linux sql mongodb HTML CSS MEAN stack
Résumé/CV: alafazam.com
Email: alafazam@gmail.com

1 year of experience in mnc
6 months in bootstraping an e-commerce startup
JOIN Elimination: An Essential Optimiser Feature for Advanced SQL Usage
This is a crucial point. Another way to look at the viability of these casual labor startups is to what degree is the service dependent on trust, and how generic is the delivery?

For the most part, a car driver is the same as any other car driver, but a baby sitter, house cleaner, or dog walker is someone you need to trust with things that you care deeply about. When you find a good one, you'll be happy to pay a premium out-of-network wage to keep them.
Possibly, assuming they make something that fits your needs. The market is really shallow at the moment.
That's true, but that doesn't make it indentured servitude, or even close to it.

Medallions exist to keep the supply of taxis limited. It ensures cab drivers have a certain standard of living. They can also be sold, so if the driver is retiring or wants to change to another career, they can do that.

It's not a perfect system but it strikes a decent balance between worker protection and limiting externalities (e.g. by making sure not everyone decides to become a cab driver and clog up roads).

edit: I guess Uber shills are out in force today.
What all countries/regimes/dictators have tried this? And what has been their results? I surely would like some source to back up what you said.
ProGlove | Software Developers | Munich, Germany | Full-Time | Onsite only

Hey HN,

Johannes from ProGlove here.

We're a Industrial IOT startup in Munich, Germany, and we build wearable technologies that connect workers to the IIOT.

On top of being at the forefront of wearable technologies and shaping industry 4.0, you will be part of an excellent team that values communication and openness as well as "getting shit done".

We work with agile methods (not only in development, but nearly in all departments); and development is done in interdisciplinary squads with members from backgrounds in design, electronics, hardware and software.

We're hiring: Software developers (Embedded), Software developers (Web/Frontend), Software developers (Backend/Systems), Software developers (SAP/ABAP).

If you're interested in any of those opportunities, just have a look at our "carreer" page over at http://www.proglove.de/company/career/.
Looks impressive, now only one question remains: did you find out what is the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto?
Vanguard mutual funds. About an 80/20 split between VTSAX (Stocks) and VBTLX (Bonds). Nice and simple. I re-balance with monthly contributions.
Private cars services are hardly a 'technicality'. They've always existed and always been competitive with taxis, it's simply that their practice was to hire by the hour, and only do A-B transactions between major landmarks.

Uber was a private car service with black-cars only to begin with and evolved to allow more car types, which made it competitively priced to taxis.

Critically, when they began, they were intended for limo businesses to use to minimize driver downtime, hence the idea that Uber is merely a contract marketplace was normal and non-exploitive.

Now, that people are driving for Uber "for fun" or "to make extra bucks", Uber has found itself dealing with a large unsophisticated assembly of drivers, whom it can be claimed that they are exploiting (i.e. exploiting their ignorance). Is it a fair assessment? I'm not sure, but I can point at other business verticals like residential cleaning services, and moving companies that function as a market of independent contractors who united only under a 'brand' that does client-contractor matchmaking. At least in this respect, Uber is not unique.
How would you feel if Twitter turned off the support for format that you liked, AMP in your case, even though that format was readily available, and instead forced you to use some other format you don't like?

Regular web pages is the format that I personally prefer to interact with.
This is terrible. This lady was simply trying to protect patient privacy and follow hospital protocol. This officer was way out of line. It appears he is the one that should have been on the phone with his own supervisor to get the appropriate paperwork to get blood if the police had decided that a blood draw was necessary to preserve some type of evidence. He above all else should know what is required to get blood from someone (person urn arrest, patient consent or signed warrant/court order).

Good for the nurse for standing her ground. She may not feel much like it but she was definitely the person doing the right thing in this scenario.
4GB? I wouldn't expect most open world games to perform well with 4GB. I think 2010 was the last time I had a laptop with less than 8GB. My current laptop has 16GB. Game developera and certainly mod developers don't optimize for bargain basement hardware.
That's not always the case. Sometimes monopolies are born and the companies charge more money out of arrogance that there isn't anyone out there that can "truly" compete with them. But that same arrogance is often what ends up bringing them down.

See Nokia and BlackBerry's arrogance in relation to the rise of the iPhone. They were still charging similar or higher prices than the iPhone for their flagships a few years after the iPhone first appeared, and with no touch features to speak of or anything close to an iPhone experience.

The inertia of success definitely plays a role. For instance, BlackBerry was logically concluding that they "must be doing something right" a few years after the iPhone came out because their financials still looked pretty great, due mainly to the global expansion (the iPhone wasn't in that many countries at first, and Android still had single digit market share). So that's how they rationalized keeping their high non-competitive prices.

I assume something similar is going on at Intel. They continue seeing a large influx of server buyers even with AMD's EPYC being out because of inertia - customers already deciding to buy Xeons in 2017 a few years ago - like say Google which bragged so much about being the first to get a Xeon Skylake. So Intel rationalizes this as "having no reason to reduce its prices, and in fact it could even increase them since it sees so much demand!"

But that logic is going to hurt them a few years from now, when AMD or perhaps some ARM competitors like Qualcomm start becoming more established in the market and they've had a few years of "people hearing good things about their products." Right now the new AMD and ARM chips are untested and the majority of companies like to play it safe.
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https://www.creditkarma.com/careers
Until your single-source vendor decides to turn up the heat. Realistically if Intel doubled all prices tomorrow most enterprise customers would just pay it.

The huge cloud vendors should be buying and deploying AMD systems right now to ensure that never happens; it doesn't matter if there are some kinks to iron out. As an insurance policy it is very cheap.
stephen brennan wrote a great article [1] on how to write a shell in C. it's a little more simply than DAS' implementation, but it's a fantastic read.

[1] https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/
As Wikipedia says: "Alan Jacobs is a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic."

He has more than a passing interest in technology as I do in literature, but I think his lack of web optimisation skills or interest for a website that normally isn't deluged under oncoming web traffic is at least as excusable as my writing ones are.