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Patientco | Engineering Manager, UX Designer | Atlanta | ONSITE

Patientco is the consumer payments experience for healthcare. We design easy to use technology that eliminates the pain points around paying healthcare bills.

We're looking for an engineering manager who will lead the team that builds products millions of patients use every day.

You will be:
* Managing three mid-level full-stack software engineers
* Writing and reviewing code

You'll be working with a state-of-the art Kubernetes-based microservice architecture, deploying code dozens of times a day, in several languages, including PHP, Javascript (AngularJS) and Golang.

If you're interested, shoot us a resume here: https://www.patientcolife.com/jobs/team-lead-software-engine...
Where are you getting this average credit card rate from?
Newsela | Full Time | ONSITE NYC, NY | React Redux Python Progressive Web Apps Full Stack

We're a leader in the ed tech market focused on bringing reading skills to students of all levels, and making teachers' lives easier! We are currently used in 90% of all schools in the US serving 20 million students and 1.5 million teachers. (And we just moved into the New York Times Building, so awesome views of NYC await you!)

We are incredibly mission driven, and passionate about helping teachers and students all across the country. A good portion of our staff are former teachers, and as a developer we even visit classrooms to see how our product impacts kids.

We're rapidly growing Engineering and are looking for talented engineers to join our diverse team. Our tech stack is React Redux on the front end with a Graph backend, so we're looking for talented Web/Javascript/Python devs. We're also actively hiring data scientists and QA people as well!

If you're interested in applying use this link https://grnh.se/6d73e4a71
or if you want to reach out with some more specific questions shoot me an email at john.nissen-hooper@newsela.com
Ideally I never want to encounter any other person that I don't actually live with at my residence. Condos are terrible, as are townhouses, and indeed normal houses built on tiny lots squished up next to each other ruled over by an HOA. L'enfer, c'est les autres.

Yes, condos have a place, and are necessary sometimes, but they're an unfortunate compromise, not even remotely a "dream home".
> Ending up with a "liberal facebook" and a separate "conservative facebook" seems like the worst possible outcome.

Indeed. Which is why two is still the wrong number, and the right number has three or more digits.
100M/year is ~8M/month. Some perspective on that, it could by you one of:

~400PB of data in S3.

~2600 bare metal "x1 type" ec2 instances running 24/7, 3 year upfront reservation.

~60M Write IOPS in dynamodb

~300M Read IOPS in dynamodb

~3500 16xl RDS aurora instances

Again, each of those is spending the entire budget on a single service, but that seems like a nonsense level of spending.

Maybe they really have that much data. Maybe they have 100PB of data in S3. Assuming 1B rides since day 1, that's 100MB per ride, which seems high. If the average ride is 20 minutes, that's 80KB per second. That would be 25% of the budget.

But assuming they generate 80KB/s/ride, that's ~1MB/second (assuming 1M rides/day). So maybe all of that hits DynamoDB, and between duplicate data, secondary indexes, and size of dataset we have 6 million write iops. And then we do big data processing jobs and have 5x the read load. That's 20% of the budget.

And to process all these events there is a massive EMR cluster of bare metal instances. About 1750 of them. That's 50% of the budget.

Leaving 5% (a measly 400k) for load balancers, and the like.

Those numbers are all a little outrageous to me, but I can see how they might be using that much.
N26 does most of what Revolut does, and it's a real bank. The exchange rates are a bit worse than Revolut but still better than the average bank. They have a webapp but you cannot topup with other cards, you can only transfer money into it.
As a long time Vim user (oh gosh 18 years already!), to me the Vim vs. Emacs war has always been a lighthearted joke. If there's any real war, it's more between text editors and IDEs.

I've been "attacked" on several occasions by IDE users for using Vim. Not once by an emacs user.
But you're also moving people from a low productivity environment to a high productivity one.
A gif of a gif in a excel spreadsheet? Are you mad?
Used to use Glassdoor, but it has become progressively more rude/pay-walled over the years, and they allow more paid employer astroturfing than they used to.

I suppose that's just a sign of the times, and I don't necessarily have a grudge against the company for doing so. It does however mean that the site is no longer useful to this end, at least for me.

As for directly contacting a company, I tend not to. Sometimes this works out, other times not. I thought I would hate my current job and thought I was quite unqualified, but it turned out to be pretty fantastic. Just going with the flow sometimes works out that way.
That's the point though, it's inaccurate to do so. Money is a finite resource, but its value constantly fluctuates. It's just a unit of exchange that exists for convenience. The total supply of money does not correlate to the amount of 'wealth' in the world, such as it is.

I know this makes it a pain in the ass for you to make / explain your point, because there's no unit of measurement for wealth (hence why you used money at any given point in time). It just doesn't work that way though.
Because 80% of Americans live in urban and suburban areas.
Ferrari has revealed the first official photographs of the F8 Tributo
PG&E Says Its Equipment Was Probable ‘Ignition Point’ of Camp Fire
syllable.ai | Sunnyvale, CA | Onsite | Full Time | Email andrew@syllable.ai Hi! At Syllable we're building natural language interfaces to enable healthcare companies to have a conversation with their customers and patients, through text or voice. We are a well funded start up that moves fast. As Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll have ownership of large projects and the ability to shape the product.
* Frontend: React, Redux, Webpack, React Native

* Backend: NodeJS, Python, Postgres, AWS, Docker

Requisites:

* 3+ years of hands on experience building frontend applications (mobile or web) and backend web services

Bonus Points:

* BS in Computer Science

* Interest / Experience in NLP / AI

Compensation:

* We offer Silicon Valley competitive market rate compensation

* Stock options

Perks:

* Excellent health benefits for employees and their families

* Great vacation plan, we encourage work life balance
I'm sorry, this is bog-standard capitalist clap-trap. Capitalism has killed many more, and will continue to kill millions and millions as the effects of climate change worsen, than the concept of equitable distribution of wealth.
i agree with the general trend that new platforms drive new growth, which is great. but they don't necessarily work out for the participants in the platforms, and in fact the very platforms themselves can be highly exploitative depending on how people engage with them.

example: uber is a marketplace for transferring illiquid wealth assets from drivers to uber itself, along with a fraction of the revenues from each ride. put differently, uber may be making its drivers poorer in an abstract way which they may not understand because they are being paid for the labor required to extract value from their vehicle.

another example: freelancing platforms. everyone knows that these platforms depress wages for the freelancers and are a race to the bottom. businesses can grow more because labor costs less on the platform than off of the platform, and they can expect the platform to handle the infrastructure of paying and managing the labor to an extent. but freelancers on the platform could almost certainly make more money if they weren't on the platform because then they wouldn't be competing with as many others for a given opportunity. sure, some people make it work. but on average, people earn far less and expectations are much higher.
Are the McMansions you are talking about in the same desirable area?
The prediction was that ride-sharing would become a winner take all market and that Lyft and Uber would fight it out to attrition, but I'm not sure if this is the case. Both of these companies are massive and I don't see one reaching escape velocity to leave the other in the dust. At a point the losses will matter and the realization will need to be had that the other will not die.
Seconding the Philips wake up light. They're rock solid and have a capacitive front for snooze which is nice(just wake up and tap the front face of the light to make it stop alarming for a bit).
Current top comment on the WSJ:

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The examples given are "contrarian bot" rather than "fact checking bot."

e.g., "The doctor quoted in this post does not have proper qualifications." Fine, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.

e.g., “The internet has a lot of information on drinking water. Doctors say not all of it is credible.” No kidding. But this doesn't mean "stay hydrated" was bad advice.

I'm having difficulty finding the value of something like this is. I suppose if you're too timid to push back against other people it might be nice to have a bot to do it. Like the example where it's culturally inappropriate to push back on your elders, so you introduce a piece of software to contradict everything they say.

Fine, maybe that feels good in a strange way, but it seems dysfunctional, passive aggressive, and unproductive. The bot isn't giving advice, it's just saying "that's YOUR opinion" to everyone else's advice

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I think you’re correct.

If people disagree, please post some counterexamples!
There is a separate conversation to be had around how quick some people are to "blacklist" individuals and organizations they think did something objectionable. But at least in that case, it's a bunch of individuals voting with their wallets and/or time, as opposed to a central authority.

Put another way, there's a reason free speech (as it's defined in the US) applies to the government and not private entities.
You're not wrong and this isn't just a throwaway sentiment. Yours is an actual realistic criticism of the ideas of the article despite what the urbanites think.
The Gosnell Movie Success Indicates the Death of Old Media
I don't entirely agree with that. Up until IE6, MS made a LOT of efforts towards making web apps work relatively well compared to alternatives. DHTML worked a lot better in IE5-6 than in the Mozilla counterpart at the time imho. It wasn't until around when Firefox (then firebird) came out that it started to really shift. IE was stagnant for what seemed like forever. IE7-8 were relatively insignificant shifts supporting some newer features, but still didn't resolve some of the huge memory holes with the JS engine and rendering engine separated by discrete COM layers. (separate issue)

I can agree with that in some regards, but I do think that MS has done a lot of things better. I think classic ASP was much better than PHP, though most of the unique functionality you might need was captured behind third party COM components. I think C# was/is a significant improvement over Java, and prefer .Net in general. .Net Core has been a very good shift, though some things seem more convoluted than they probably need to be.

As someone who tends to reach for Node first, I really do appreciate MS's efforts in that space to get things running as smoothly in windows as in Linux and Mac. As an early adopter (0.6/0.8 era) windows use was pretty painful. VS Code is imho was leaps and bounds ahead of brackets and atom at release. I also really do like MS Teams, though lack of a Linux build of the client is just stupid and short sighted.

I still use chrome first, but have ublock origin enabled, and tend to be picky about my exclusions, pisses me off to no end when sites just don't work with it enabled.
A million times this. I usually phrase it as "ideas are a dime a dozen. The thing that is of actual value is the hard work of execution."
Removing the last commit message 'because commit messages are often bad' was one thing, but tossing out the last change date alongside it with nary a mention? Unforgivable.
Thanks, this is an interesting insight. Still, looking at aircraft with flat screen "glass cockpits" without HUD, they tend to follow the Model S pattern:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_Mustang#/media...

Critical displays and controls in front of the pilot, other controls readily accessible by feel/muscle memory. Aircraft designers tend to be very conservative due to safety, but cars involve safety considerations too--which is why I think car designers do tend to stick to standard configurations.
do you think marketing executives are fascists because they use propaganda to mislead others into doing what they want? do you think the US and ROK are fascists for sending counter-propaganda into DPRK and blasting kpop across the border?

which highlights another point: if you're actually this ignorant and incapable of thinking rationally yourself, what exactly is the point of pretending to have a rational discussion? it's all theater.
None of that seems like an explanation for banning them.
also interested to see how this pans out
> The obvious comparison is Travis Kalanick

That's why I said outside objective measure. By any objective standard 90M is an insane amount of money for one person to have. One billion is so far off the scale it is impossible to describe.
Key Values is a very cool idea! Have you thought about adding a location filter?
Montreal startup raises $4.5M to help sell life insurance to millennials
That might be true for US tariffs, but what about retaliatory tariffs enacted by China?
Location: Cairo , Egypt

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate : Yes

Technologies : HTML ,CSS, Javascript, React , Responsive design , Git, Bootstrap , Materiallize.css

Resume/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Oyk1eMy5hpT3ZYZ1JUbzl6ZXM...

Email: husseinlotfizaki@gmail.com
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Gladly

Willing to relocate: Gladly

Technologies: [Geo]physics ([MS]BS), c++, c#, python, MATLAB, React, Machine Learning (tensorflow), MongoDB, redis

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/977lbcm70snbspl/resume.pdf?dl=0

Email: ishtaygrud@hotmail.com

Objective: To specialize as a machine learning engineer while working full stack.

Summary: I am the generalist your startup needs. I've worked geoscience, nuclear science, numerical simulation, game development, and more. My own ML venture has not found success, so I'm looking to help with yours!
That's true, but not difficult as many people may think. In most cases you only need to remember most-used ~20 instructions and leave the remaining to reference. Sure it requires other domain knowledge, but it has almost nothing to do with asm itself.
There's more to zoning than just wanting nice looking grass. For areas not originally built to house 3-4x the density, there's likely issues with capacity for: utilities (sewage/water), roads/traffic, stormwater runoff, school enrollment, and local services. That's not even considering veiled NIMBYism manifested as environmental concerns: tree removal, disruption of ecosystem, natural/green spaces, etc.

Even still, in growing suburban areas, you do typically see what you're proposing: conversion of a multi-acre lot to many, high-density homes (e.g. 'carriage' houses.)
My customers often use Windows so my options are:

1) Don't bother testing what I write

2) Quit

Occasional Windows use seems like a great compromise.
Oh, and depending on the company and their product/service, I'd also look at their other social media accounts. For example, some have active Instagram and/or YouTube accounts which can be incredibly insightful.

Ps. One lesson I've learned: never judge a company based on their marketing website.
This style of writing is becoming more common and it is frustrating. The author seems hell bent on making their words the focus rather than a window through which you view a story.
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Depends on the location

Technologies: Javascript/HTML5/CSS, ReactJS, Typescript, Java, Play framework, Python, SQL (Oracle, SQLite), Git

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-_NZrdkqJdv0rJNOa_XGgiaYFVQ...

Bitbucket: https://namedbynumbers.bitbucket.io/

Full stack developer with ~2.5 years of experience in Javascript (React) and Java (Play).
Depends on how you look at it. $1.24B profit sounds pretty good to me.
I like the gesture-based interfaces/interactions, they seem natural and intuitive (no futzing around with buttons or an app).

- the "twist" (to adjust brightness)

- "wiggle" (for low light)

What other smart home products exist that are innovating the manual UX for objects like this?
It's not a matter of benchmarks really. It's more of a matter of MeCab simply not knowing that certain grammar exists. For example 〜ちゃった for 〜てしまった is a pretty common form. MeCab doesn't understand the word 忘れちゃった because it only knows 忘れて and しまった as completely separate words and can't combine them in any way, but Ichiran can because my word-form generator is much more sophisticated. This is also why I cannot compare the results of segmentation directly: I combine words and their suffixes into a single "compound word" which has a tree-like recursive structure [1]. MeCab and other tokenizers can only detect basic forms and leave suffixes as a completely separate "word". Which makes them automatically inferior.

[1] https://ichi.moe/cl/qr/?q=%E5%BF%98%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A1%E3%82%...
I have both an Amex and a Monzo account, and the Monzo account is far more reliable than the Amex when it comes to instant notification. Yes, both have this feature, but I've found that only Monzo does it 100% reliably.
Would it really be better? It takes money to do all of things people want to do to reduce CO2. That's what developing produces.

I think a lot of people view money as a way to buy stuff. That's true but they'd be better off view money as magic. Making it creates problems but on the upside: magic.
In our case, it's a bunch of senior citizens who stand outside and stare down anyone who walks in and immediately call the police if someone parks in a reserved spot.

I am genuinely amazed at how petty they are. They also upgraded the part of the complex they live in for 3 years in a row and keep postponing the other areas.

They write hilarious monthly updates cheering how much damage their new tall speed bumps have done to cars.

I would be pretty pissed if I actually owned one of the condos, but as it stands, its pretty funny.
It looks like they spend a bunch of pages on rider retention and gloss over what I think is the primary issue for the gig economy: provider retention.

It's just like Groupon, you can't have a good sell-through product indefinitely if the service providers aren't happy and churn at a high rate.

Sooo... what's the churn for the drivers?
TransferWise.
Location: Naples, Italy

Remote: true

Willing to Relocate: true

Technologies: biosensing && processControl && powerGeneration(!nuclear)

Resume: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g1ILZ0hfEo1YLlP9wuAp29sEcx...

Email: marco . santonastasi at gmail.com
Yes, that's a pretty bare modicum of effort.
I hear stories about the founder of the company I'm at now, gone before I started. He'd have an idea and implement about 10% of it, then hand it off and say "I've got it half done, now you finish it."
It's also just the cost. A condo is appealing to me because they're cheaper and I don't need a big place, but when you add in the HOA fees (SFH don't have HOAs around here), they start to look pretty close in price.
The Electoral College was put into place to avoid the USA devolving from a non-monarchy to a country ruled by its people?
Probably vim.
Column arrays have been in postgreSQL since 9.1 at least.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/arrays.html
> We can't sit there and leave interests rates low forever.

I very much agree on this.

To me, it seems like the Fed left rates too low for too long coming out of the recession in 2000, which set up the bubble of 2008. They don't want to do it again.

And when 2008 hit, they wound up against the "zero bound" of interest rates, where they couldn't lower any further, and they don't want to do that again, either. If they want some distance away from the zero bound, they have to raise rates sometime.

"But we can't raise them now! The economy is too fragile!" Yeah, we've been hearing that for a decade. And, as the parent said, we can't sit there and leave interest rates low forever.
ClearBrain (YC W18) | Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://clearbrain.com

ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve predictive analytics platform. We help companies automatically predict and analyze when their users are most likely to convert or purchase. Think a supercharged Google Analytics, based on internal tools our team built at Google, Netflix, and Uber. Fortune 1000 companies use ClearBrain to deliver billions of user-predictions every week and drive double-digit lift in their digital campaigns.

We're a deeply technical team (we were the first engineers on Google Ads and Optimizely), and are backed by early investors in Dropbox and AdMob. We're hiring for machine learning engineers to lead on new cutting-edge products we'll building. We work in Go, Python, Node, Scala, Spark in the backend and React, Javascript, Firebase in the frontend.

To learn more about who we are and our engineering culture, check out: https://www.keyvalues.com/clearbrain

For more about the role: https://angel.co/clearbrain/jobs/177711-machine-learning-eng...

If interested, please reach out to grant [at] clearbrain.com - we look forward to hearing from you!
I do think their Office 365 and Azure strategies will keep them around for a long while. It's significantly better than the alternatives. All the same, most of my efforts have been towards not deploying to windows centered infrastructure, though Azure itself is decent enough.
> The founders (theoretically) created $20B in value and you think $90M is sufficient compensation?

...yes? I don't really see what's so absurd about that idea.

It also seems more than a little disingenuous to suggest that the founders were the only ones that created that $20B in value. They didn't single handedly create the apps, the marketing platform, drive the cars, etc. etc.
> Is it a crime to criticize the political party in power?

In most of the western united states, you can be ostracized for supporting the current federal govt.
Yeah, but the original point you were responding to was endorsing the idea that “you should invest time in optimizing/performance last, and focus on making something people want to use first.” I’m saying your point that videogames have to be performant at the end is irrelevant to the point at hand because that’s exactly what the games industry does, they prototype without care to optimization to make something worth optimizing—i.e. something internal stakeholders reasonably believed there would be a market for.
Location: Chicago

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, Vue, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HdoQ4baZrX_-TT0EKO_mj1GX...

Email: dschadd@gmail.com

Website: http://schadd.co/

Github: https://www.github.com/dschadd
It's really easy to use as a light. And the UI is completely unobtrusive. My girlfriend has some smart switches in her place that are provided by her alarm system company, and the amount of work she has to do to turn off one switch is a huge inconvenience. Not to mention how unreliable the cloud service is.

It's wonderful to see a company building smart equipment that doesn't require a smartphone to operate.
I generally describe Churchill as an object lesson in how history can decide that getting one big thing right (that Nazi Germany was an existential threat that needed to be taken seriously) outweighs getting basically every other thing wrong.