skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some ulterior motive behind W3Schools besides to teach people web stuff (and to maintain its own existence, which is no different than MDN)? I use MDN because Mozilla literally implements a browser, and I'm not the biggest fan of W3Schools, but this mostly just feels petty. Tons of people get valuable answers from both sites.
This is the heart of it. Anyone can come up with an idea, few can execute it.
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We do grep and top on steroids in the cloud. Huge scale, exciting tech (AWS, Scala, distributed systems)...

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Well put.

10 years ago, I was the "idea guy" managing a team of non-developers. I grew frustrated with the pace of bug fixes and (what I considered) small improvements out of the development team. I got so frustrated that I started developing my own applications for my team, which greatly increased their productivity. Eventually that led to my career as a software developer. Years later as a CIO, I am frequently asked by the idea guys, "Can't you just build this one little thing?" and I get to be the guy who says "well that's probably a 3-6 month project." Invariably the idea guy starts to think that you're intentionally sandbagging him and sours the relationship. That and some other things ended up driving my predecessor to burn out, which is how I became the CIO.
Philips hue have this. You can set the fade-in to be 10-30 mins
Location: Edinburgh, UK

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: See below.

Résumé/CV: https://www.seanw.org/

Email: sw@seanw.org

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Summary: Currently self-employed but interested in seeing what's out there. I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience who can take web or mobile projects from concept to completion. I can work with you to achieve your business goals by creating minimal viable products, extending existing apps, giving software architecture recommendations and by reducing defects in your team workflows.

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Experience: I've delivered solutions for well known names like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own successful paid apps, managed teams as lead developer and earned a PhD from Edinburgh University. My past professional work has involved expertise in full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, React, WordPress, Django), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (performance, security & SEO).

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at time against 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included developing a custom subscription based payment system as well as researching and authoring a guide on modern web best practices (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Implemented with TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 20K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. It features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Implemented with Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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See https://www.seanw.org for my project portfolio, client endorsements and more on my background.
Top-10 Books Every Startup Founder Should Read
It's always hard to look at changes once you've gotten used to the status quo. When github first started I hated everything about it, wasn't clear at all how it improved over just using git.

Now that I've been using github a lot (we switched a lot of our corporate repos over to internal githubs) I don't even notice whether the GUI is good or not. I still feel a lot of common tasks are buried in weird icon/button/tab clicking sequences but I've committed them to my lizard brain so now it literally doesn't matter what the GUI elements look like or where they are.

It's the same with other tools that I've used for decades: VS, vi, word, excel. Do they have good GUI? I don't know but it doesn't matter anymore.
Parent is talking about unions, people, and it's a good idea.

There's no more effective way for labor to throw its weight around than collectivizing in bite-sized (i.e. company-sized) bargaining units; history tells us this is so and evidence gives us no reason to think it won't work again.

They're not perfect (no democratic organization is), but the only thing more corrupt than a union is management.
Veritasium did a video about this room (inside this room) and he says that this part is an exaggeration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI
Did anyone else notice the price has seem to have gone up $10 in the past hour?

I could've sworn when I read this initially, it was $89! I had some stuff to do so kind of filed it away to look at later and now it is selling for $99.

Also, this article seems like an advertisement/blogspam, plus with the sudden price change - I'm very suspicious.

That said, it looks like a really neat product. My daughter has sleep issues (falling asleep - staying asleep) and we've tried all sorts of different lighting to help (she can't stand full darkness) and I'm wondering if a self dimming bedtime lamp like this might help her.
"Your message wasn't delivered to support@revolut.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail."

Deleting my account now as well
Woflow | Full Stack / Front End Engineer | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite

Looking to add an engineer to our small team to help us keep up with growth!

Tech: Ember.js / Ruby on Rails

We are building the data backbone of the food delivery industry and have proven ourselves in the market with the worlds largest food delivery companies.

https://www.woflow.com
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Because they know marketing, design and electronics, not physics.

Money can be smart or dumb. Apple's money is smart where the company has edge in knowledge and expertise and dumb everywhere else.
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"Orange," "green," etc. in those graphs are just different models of lightbulbs. (Maybe using patterns - dotted, dashed, etc. lines - would have been clearer than overloading color.) For colors, look at the frequencies on the X-axis.

Anyway, the trick is that photoreceptor cells are sensitive to a range of frequencies, with weights centered on a particular color, and return a single floating-point output. So your blue cones cannot distinguish bright green and dim blue - that's only calculated by taking the input of the green cones into account, too. See https://i.stack.imgur.com/5snTb.png for what each cone's sensitivity looks like (in this graph, lines are light received by each cone, and the colors are semi-meaningful). If the goal is to not stimulate the blue cones at all, you need to emit as close to pure red light as possible. The wavelength of your light as measured by the single average or dominant color isn't as interesting as the spectrum of all light it emits and how much that overlaps with blue sensitivity.
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. The dictatorship of consumer goods has finally destroyed the barriers of blood, lineage and race; this would be good cause for celebration were it not that consumption, by its logic of things, forbids all qualitative difference and recognizes only differences of quantity between values and between men." - Raoul Vaneigem
Not the person to whom you replied, but: mentorship. Code review. Talk about means, not just ends.

I was fortunate to be a young developer with a desire to write things that could last, so I skipped a few steps and found myself doing the mentoring perhaps sooner than most, but instilling the notion that this thing needs to continue to function, and rejecting work that isn't in service of that goal, is doable.
Ivory tower software architects are a great example of terrible idea guys/gals.
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- Languages: Ruby/Rails, Elixir/OTP, HTML/Haml, CSS/Sass, SQL, HCL, bash, zsh, Powershell

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HqO | Senior Software Engineers, UI/UX, Product Manager | Boston, MA | Onsite | https://www.hqo.co

What we do: A tenant experience (TeX) platform that connects people to places, experiences, and each other. Aka the app for your building.

We've raised over 6.6 million in seed and have achieved product market fit. We've been raising additional funding and have capacity to hire more talent as we try to meet business demands.

Our stack is mostly JS with React Native + React on the frontend and a new Node.js/TypeScript/GraphQL backend. We've got amazing work/life balance and are looking for senior engineers to keep raising the bar and help revolutionize an age-old industry.

Shoot me your resumes/questions. Email in profile.

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Zenysis is building a data analysis product for national healthcare systems in developing countries. Our work is used by governments and institutions that provide services for over 130 million people. In the past year, we've helped governments fight epidemic outbreaks, respond to natural disasters, and allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare spending.

Our goal is to enable policymakers to make data-driven decisions. We're building early warning systems for disease outbreaks, automatically detecting low-quality data, and developing other ways to identify and visualize the most effective health interventions across entire countries.

We're looking for other mission-focused engineers who care about seeing their impact in the world and are comfortable building complex, mission-critical systems.

Apply here: https://www.zenysis.com/#careers
Degica | Software Engineer, Ruby | Tokyo, Japan | ONSITE | VISA | https://degica.com

Based in Tokyo, Degica is the leading provider of Japanese payment and game publishing solutions.

Work with our team of skilled engineers at our Tokyo office in Kichijoji, in a supportive environment where all members have a say in key product design decisions.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

* Ruby Engineer, Komoju Payment Platform

Salary range: 7,500,000 - 10,000,000 yen / year (depending on position)

See our careers page for more details: https://degica.com/careers.html
How can it get any easier than one of the 87 different mobile apps that let you send money to another person with a few taps?
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If you're interested in health care, helping doctors/nurses/staff take better care of their patients and work on the forefront of new healthcare models and the tools they are beginning to need, come join us. We're a profitable small company < 30 people, with double digit annual growth, no VC, and we move very fast with no red-tape. I actually found my current job on the monthly HN job post a few years ago, and still here :) This is a very unique position given it's a mix of pure engineering, and a significant customer facing role. Some testimonials of the software: https://www.pmd.com/reviews Contact: careers@pmd.com *Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. as a precondition of employment. https://www.pmd.com/careers
If AWS gets Serverless right....and they are so far with Layers and Runtime API, they are in for a new golden era.

I know people have been on the edge about serverless in the past but it's now reached a point where I'm planning to actively employ them. 2019, will be the Year of Serverless methinks.
Tesla could delay executing the loan for the first week to avoid the inconvenience you describe. Typical dealers want to execute the loan immediately because accepting a return is extremely rare, but for Tesla it's part of the business model to avoid needing a dealership in the first place, so it would make sense to set up the accounting in a way where the loan is locked in but not executed until the return period is over.
I would take the author's lesson and rewrite your comment as:

>> Your proposal has a significant drawback right away, _as_ I dislike it.
Incorrect. There was a recent study done on tariffs effects. The study found negligible effects on consumer good prices. Turns out most tariff costs were eaten by manufacturers in China. (The importers forced them to eat the costs) Which prompted them to either shut down or move overseas
Some stylized notes:

- If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for. Would you really want to own Lyft over FB and TWTR the day they went public? That's a very large ask of the public markets.

EDIT To be clear I"m talking about their valuation multiple not the abs valuation.

- working with JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and Jefferies. So I guess we know 3 banks who won't be on the Uber IPO. Goldman probably has that locked up

- doing a traditional IPO

- banks pitching a valuation of $18 to $30 Billion, I believe their last round as at $15.1B

- Seems rushed to beat Uber to market, maybe there is only room for 1 hugely money losing, $10B+ ride sharing company?

- how do you loose $1B in a year on $2.2B in revenues and ave any concrete plan at all to become profitable?

> Lyft generated $563 million in revenue in the third quarter, up from $300 million in the same period a year earlier, a person familiar with the matter said in October. Losses increased to $254 million in the period from $195 million in 2017, the person said.

So losses increase as revenue increases, again, what's the profitability plan?

I actually have no idea how to value this company? What metrics should we be looking for? How do use future cash flows to evaluate a company when their future cash flows are all negative by even the most optimistic of estimations?

- Will be interesting to watch the first 6 months, if things don't go well, Uber could be in for a rough ride on the public markets. Uber has a much more diverse product line, maybe that will be their pitch.. Watch Uber's S1 to see if they promote food delivery, etc over ride sharing.

- Part of Uber's pitch may be their stake in Didi ala Yahoo and Alibaba, if that's true

- can't find any info yet on how long employee's and investors will be locked up

- Lyft has lots of room for international growth as they are only in North America

- shareholders with more than 5 percent of stock

- Rakuten Europe S.à r.l.with 13.05 percent

- General Motors Holdings LLC with 7.76 percent

- Fidelity associated entities with 7.71 percent

- Andreessen Horowitz associated entities with 6.25 percent

- Alphabet Inc. entities with 5.33 percent.

- Lyft's founders did negotiate for a special class of stock that gives them 20 votes for each of their shares. Will be interesting to see if they get locked out of indexes for this. Index/ETF flow can be a godsend to management as they tend to be passive and long term holders.

- from the S1 "We have incurred net losses each year since our inception and we may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability in the future. We incurred net losses of $682.8 million, $688.3 million and $911.3 million in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively."

- will list on Nasdaq under ticker LYFT, sweet ticker!!
Big Fish Games | Senior Android Developer | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://www.bigfishgames.com

The Big Fish SDK and Client Engineering team is seeking an experienced Android software developer to work on a number of current Android projects. We are looking for software engineers with extensive experience in the Android platform who are looking for a real mobile challenge. Our team is not only responsible for delivering the company's Android SDK for all our mobile games, but also has a part in Android initiatives across both game studios and Engineering as a whole. If you passionate about developing for the Android platform, and are willing to roll up your sleeves and jump in on any problem from SDK work, to game development and everything in between, then this position might be right up your alley.

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- Design and deliver new APIs to amplify game developer's usage of Android features

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I think that by "personality" he means "story".

Like, a cool story that you can somehow attach to the product. So when people see the product they also think the story.

And then they think, "woah, what a great product!". (But what they really mean is "woah, what a great story!")

I see this in the art scene. It's like the art-piece isn't enough for people. They want an artist's statement. A philosophy. Who made it, why did they make it, where did they make it. Tell me the 20-chapter story of your heroic struggle from ugliness to beauty...

(Personally, I think what's going on here is either dim art or blind people. Either of which will produce a failure to make that connection)

Which is to say, it's like people don't care what they see, hear, smell etc. What they care about is what they think. It's all about the story.

And that certainly says something about people and how they interact with reality.
In an unprecedented dogfight, a 50 year old MiG21 flown by the Indian Air Force (IAF) was able to take down a 4th generation F-16, flown by Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
Conductor, a WeWork Company | New York, NY | ONSITE & REMOTE | https://www.conductor.com/careers

We are looking for engineers across the board, including technical leads and engineering managers for product development and infrastructure. Our recent acquisition by WeWork has helped galvanize our efforts to becoming a premier engineering organization, focused on building a world-class, customer-driven SaaS platform. We deal with petabytes of data, sophisticated parsing engines, streaming Kafka pipelines and analytics. All of this is presented to the customer through interactive data visualizations and predictive insights.

Our stack

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