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AdQuick | Senior Software Engineer, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com

AdQuick is like AirBnb for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads (e.g. billboards, transit ads, etc.) easy to both buy and measure.

We are an early-stage startup: we're 2.5 years old, we have 26 people total and an engineering team of 10. The founding team consists of startup veterans who were early employees at Instacart. We've raised 3M in funding from Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized Capital.

We have all kinds of interesting problems to solve:

* Building a consumer-grade product experience for marketers planning/buying/executing outdoor ad campaigns that includes searching, sorting, filtering, grouping, tagging, commenting, etc.

* Mapping: efficiently displaying 1M+ points on a map, integrating census & other data onto maps with visualizations

* Analytics tools: e.g. pulling data from our customers' ads accounts (e.g. AdWords, FB Ads), to visualize the impact of their outdoor ad campaigns

* Coordinating things in the real world around printing design assets and installing billboards

* And much, much more

We're looking for:

- Experience in Ruby, Rails, React, Webpack, Postgres or similar technologies

- 3+ years experience in working on production systems

- People who want the startup experience: taking a lot of ownership, having a big impact, and building amazing products that customers love.

Fill out our quick google form here if this sounds interesting to you!

https://forms.gle/dCVT5tUgfpE87JcP8
Oh right, it's that day... so this is all just April Fools' BS.

Is it possible to get a [Parody] tag for HN to just highlight "Intelligent discussion need not happen here."
I'd make a related argument:

When people are producers they don't like deadlines but as soon as they are consumers they demand them.

Go build a house and you'll be constantly asking "when will it be done" and "whenever" isn't acceptable to you.

Order something from Amazon and "it'll arrive whenever it arrives" isn't acceptable to you.

Sell some stocks and ask your broker when you'll get the cash and "whenever, in a few days, not sure man, asking me about dates really takes me out of my Flow State" doesn't sound so great.

We want deadlines. We want to know when our iPhone will be repaired, when our drycleaning will be done, when our children's schooling will be done for the day, when our plane will take off, when our car repair will be done, when the movie will start, and so on.

I always find that these kinds of articles can too often come across as "deadlines for you, but not for me" if they don't really grapple with that reality and try to come up with explanations for the dichotomy.
Asset Pipelining is a dingo plug-in, but a built in for Rails.
I think the concept here is like Code Golf. It can be fun to just write code that meets certain odd requirements, even if the end product is nothing super special.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national...
The current deal from Feb 2 is $2.50 for taxis, $2.75 + $0.75 per passenger for rideshares. I'd expect it to remain given the lack of popular revolt.

The real question is how will bridge and tunnel tolls be credited given the multiple independent tolltakers that won't welcome any encroachment on their fiefdoms that threatens revenue.
"Hope the baby boomers die off of old age before the panopticon is built."

The current builders of the panopticon are very young and work for Google, Facebook and others. This has nothing to do with age.
I feel like using MFC would have been a better choice here for future portability.
Let’s not forget that 8% of SSRI users end up having an SSRI-induced [hypo]manic episode. It’s a hidden epidemic.

Additionally, there are few longitudinal studies that show antidepressants as being effective and reasonably side effect free.

Worse, neuroleptics leave the majority of long term users with lifelong tics, tremors, rigidity, and other Parkinson’s style symptoms.

But yeah, there’s a study showing they make people happy with a slightly better efficacy than placebo.

Playing with fire has its risks. Listen to the burned ones, it’s more complicated than a whitepaper.
Testing emergent gravity with gravitational lensing [video]
You're right, but it's still relevant to note whether something is successful on its own accord, or whether it's being propped up by the government. If something can't be profitably done in a country as dense as China, there's no hope of it ever working in the US. At that point you might as well go with planes and spend the savings on carbon sequestration methods instead.
Hey man, you sound like a prime candidate for Lambda School. Check it out. It was a Y Combinator company that seems pretty solid. Free up front (you pay if it gets you a job), and allows you to work on a lot of group projects so I've been told.
I have never been involved in an okr system that wasn’t an utterly pointless waste of time that no one but hr and back office people took seriously.
unnamed project | los angeles | software | part-time | onsite

This is mostly a stealth project and I'm trying to form a team. I'm the one that did the original search for this thing in about 2015 and have done a lot of startups for about 20 years. There's a couple exits in there.

This is the ground floor and I don't waste my time with vague nonsense ideas. There's existing code, a business plan and it's about to close a couple million dollar round.

There's half a dozen people involved and it has something to do with games and fintech. I know this is very vague, but if you can trust me, contact me at my username @ gmail.com. It should be fun.

I promise nothing more than adventure.
Capitalism's hubris... co-op workplaces, organized labor and sharing salary info are musts. We don't need fascism nor communism to solve inequality, just a shift back to decency and earned respect through workplace action. Power concedes nothing without organized resistance. Violence carries water for the opposition, so only nonviolent disobedience will be strategically-successful.
It will be even more interesting to see if this changes the root behavior. Will people still cheat if they know there’s a high likelihood that it will come to light? Will people still agree to get married if these outcomes become more common?

A lot of people have pushed for mandatory paternity testing and it’s usually rejected at the state level. This looks a lot like de facto mandatory paternity testing.

Seems like it will lead to positive outcomes tbh.
Been building Django apps for almost 10 years and after seeing the amount of wasted time going into organizing things into apps, I settled on this technique.

It doesn’t really swim against the current as long as you import models into the __init__.py file in their package.
This is good. Ive found communicating OKRs steadily on a cadence (weekly) as well as show the team the progress towards a goal at an all hands to be effective. Its rare for someone to miss all the all hands meetings.

Commms, progress, priorities, from a company down to tactical execution level are easy but require discipline.
This is a great idea, I never thought about being a volunteer assistant.

It's common sense, but it's just great!
Yes, that's a hotel. You have "home-sharing" and hotels. Just because it's a single house does not make it less of a hotel.
You can follow the rules laid out and still be accused of saying something offensive. The risk reward isn’t worth socially engaging with colleagues.
Because their deployment model is 'git push' your source code, they need to actively support a language in order to use Heroku at all. Every extra language they support directly translates to a larger market size. New, niche languages are disproportionately important to Heroku's target market, because they're frequently used by startups and hobby projects and Heroku's best use-cases are often for startups and hobby projects.

It's also not that much technical effort to support an additional JVM language: they already support runtime deployments on the JVM, so they just need to learn & automate a new build toolchain, and then the deployment artifacts are basically the same as for the JVM. I'd bet this portion of their stack is isolated from the runtime & auto-scaling parts, so they can assign a few engineers to it, build out the tooling, and then have it just feed into the existing JVM stack.

High profitability + low cost = it makes a lot of business sense to do it.
The Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy
There are so many quality products there that never quite caught on.
If it was set up well the journalist could have the exact new phone in hand disconnected from any wires that might flash it before announcing he was a journalist. I don't think there is a way with current technology to discretely have people or computers setup to recognize Greenwald (let alone all his friends) in a good percentage of Apple stores before the transaction is completed. Even if it is possible to identify Greenwald and friends before the transaction that access is probably only available to the actual NSA, not ex NSA employees.

On the other hand - you've now identified the phones for remote exploit. Also identifying which journalists are significant enough to be beneficiaries of this program is probably hard.
Even volcanic eruptions crop up with surprising frequency and result in vast disruptions to air traffic. Those disruptions can last for weeks and can shut down a single hub or potentially multiple hubs across a region depending on which way the ash cloud blows.

As an example, every few years the volcano on Bali comes to life and hundreds, if not thousands, of flights get delayed or canceled.
Companies and institutions have every right to define what is acceptable speech in their own universes

And freedom of speech isn't an absolute right – not even in the U.S., but even less so in pretty much any other advanced Western democracy.
Sounds like a quirk we should correct.
Trains are a messy, loud and dangerous way of moving stuff. But yes, it's fuel efficient. But so fucking dangerous and primitive in so many ways.

Rail needs a lot of technology, and then it will be amazing. I don't think it's thsy far off.
Amazon Web Services - AWS IQ | SDE and/or Web Dev | Seattle, WA or Vancouver, BC | Onsite, Full-time

AWS is cloud company. You've probably heard of us. Although it’s a large organization it’s made up of lots of small product teams. We are a 2-pizza team building a new AWS product we are going to be launching later this year. We need a few more folks to help us launch. Unfortunately we’re pretty secretive about new products so we can’t share too many details about the product with you yet. What we can say is that we're part of the AI division and, as you might guess from the job title, the product involves web technologies. We expect this product to have a huge impact on the entire AWS ecosystem.

In your role you’ll focus on building our web app, but you’ll be expected to act like a startup member and participate in every aspect of creating a great product. That includes innovating, designing, prototyping, developing, testing, deploying and operating this new AWS product. You’ll learn about Amazon’s peculiar culture and internal processes. Our web app is built using common web technology including React/Redux/GraphQL, and Webpack.

Our team is split between Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. You can choose to work in either place. Feel free to reach out to me directly at vikhyak@amazon.com if you have any questions or if you'd like to learn more. Alternately you can apply directly here:

Seattle, WA:

* https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/782968/software-development-...

Vancouver, BC:

* https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/820360/software-development-...
* https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/818401/front-end-engineer-aw...
You can hover over the graph and it'll show you the percentiles in increments of 1. The 50th percentile is the median.

I'm a little suspicious because the median and mean are equal for several of the larger subsets (years of experience). I clicked several combinations to filter by and the difference between the median and mean was always low-mid single digits.
For what it's worth, the Interstate Highway System and connecting roadways also receive special financial and political consideration, often and infamously to the detriment of working class/politically-disadvantaged middle class (and often minority) communities.
You don’t spend much time with people that live in cities do you? I’d be less likely to move away if my city implemented congestion pricing, got rid of most street parking, and used that space and money for things like protected bike lanes, improving walkability and public transit. Significant improvement in day to day life, and relatively minor inconvenience occasionally when I do need to drive (picking up something heavy, out of city weekend activity, etc).
Any examples with regard to "national security" i.e. mass surveillance, perpetual war, besides Kennedy?
This is particularly true of, say, many mobile games. But conversely, if not hours of enjoyment, then by what metric do we gauge a good game? Perhaps there’s a line here between hours of enjoyment and hours of mindless engagement?
Waldo Photos | Senior Software Engineers | Full-Time | Austin, TX or REMOTE (Globally)

Waldo Photos (https://waldophotos.com/) is a photo finding platform utilizing facial and object recognition to empower consumers to toss their selfie sticks, put their phones back in their pockets and live in the moment. Waldo is the only platform that removes all of the friction in getting photos of you taken by others and creates new opportunities for photographers to market and sell their photos. Users can enjoy life’s most precious events and automatically receive images taken of them right on their phones or share images of others they’ve taken without having to lift a finger – whether between friends and family or a professional photographer.

We are enjoying tremendous growth in summer camps and private schools, where photos are already a common way to connect and share experiences of the children with their parents, but locating the photos of your child or loved one becomes a job itself. And while camps and schools have been the first areas that Waldo has gained traction, the challenge of matching and delivery of the photos you care about is luckily not limited to just summer camps and schools which is further driving our product and market growth.

To meet this demand we are hiring immediately(and through the year) for:

* Senior Backend Engineers : https://waldo-photos.workable.com/j/BE760CF400

* Senior Frontend Engineers : https://waldo-photos.workable.com/j/7038D86015

Our tech stack consists of predominantly of Python, Node, React, Redux, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS.

Our team is globally distributed, remote first, and highly collaborative where we are united in the vision of delivering quality as well as joy to our users. As part of the team you can expect:

* Autonomy, voice and empowerment to make an impact
* Market Competitive Salary
* Stock options
* Unlimited vacation policy
* Fully remote work environment with a flexible work schedule
* Startup growth and energy

If this interests you or you have questions, please reach out to me via email using the address in my profile and I will be happy to answer anything or you can apply directly via the links above.
> Trains are a messy, loud and dangerous way of moving stuff.

How so?
I hope other cities don’t actually follow suit. I don’t know about Seattle but SF’s public transport is rather poor. If it were as good as that in Manhattan, congestion pricing would be perfectly fine, but they shouldn’t be heavily taxing vehicles when the only reasonable mode of transport is vehicles.
Filtering, Adblocking, VPNs are commercially viable. More of a B2B play than B2C though
Some other issues are that high speed rail is not green, and it is not affordable either.

So far as adding more passenger rail lines, it isn't easy. For instance, plans for HSR in California are unrealistic because you don't save any time from SF to LA unless you can go from downtown to downtown. Sure you can build track in the Central Valley, but it would be pretty hard to take enough land by eminent domain to build a track into the cities even if these people were not the most feared NIMBYs on the planet.
It seems newsworthy. Hot IPO, a lot of money involved. Also, it is public stock now, so daily fluctuations mean quite a lot. If it popped 10% today then there would have been articles about that too.
I’ve visited Europe many times and I do like how the region is so easily accessible without a car, largely because of trains, but there are many more factors outside of just having trains. European cities are far more walkable and accessible without a car. For decades the US has just not been built up in this way so just dropping trains in doesn’t suddenly make them preferred and thus viable. The reason people drive small/medium city to small/medium city is because once arriving in that city they now need transportation while there. Currently the most convenient and cost effective way to do that is to simply bring the car you already own for moving around in your home small/medium city. If the US is going to move to an environmentally friendly passenger rail system it is going to take a MASSIVE cultural and shift in mindset to reshape cities across the country. Many of which are broke. I’m not saying it’s impossible or an unworthy goal. I simply think it is an extremely unlikely goal until mindsets shift and realize things need to be done differently.
That cuts both ways. Corn farmers get massive subsidies which amount to subsidies for soy as well due to the popularity of corn/soy rotation (soy, being a legume, has nitrogen fixation properties that improves soil quality.)
These numbers seem amazingly small.

I would expect there to be at least 10 billion lab-mice worldwide - enough for an almost 1:1 pairing with humans. You can't do large population scale studies of disease spread and antibiotic resistance etc. unless you have big populations. We also have tens of thousands of man made chemicals we need to know the safety of, and a simple test on 100 mice isn't going to detect the subtle side effects.

Mice are so easy to keep, they could be entitely mechanicly reared, and an experiment involving 1000 mice should be a simple matter of a few clicks on a computer.
When I stopped taking Venlafaxine (Effexor), the side-effects were immensely unpleasant. Brain zaps, panic attacks, hypersensitivity to light, barely any cognitive function. My psychiatrist was a sweet lady, but she did not appear to understand how tough it was for me. It boggles my mind she did not get it, she must have had so many patients stop with the medication, did she just not take any of them seriously?

In the end, I opened up the plastic casing of the pill, which turned out to contain a few dozen grains. Over the course of 2-3 weeks, I took a few grains less every day, until I was completely done with them. I don't know if you're allowed to do that, maybe there is no guarantee that every grain contains the same amount of medication? I'm not a fan of tampering with medication, but I didn't feel like I had a choice.
At the same time, I was a bit younger when I tried and had the best experience of my life and it fixed my stutter and led me to become more empathic.

Maybe I was just lucky, the friends I made were into Timothy Leary and Shulgin books, and I loved internet and Erowid was the perfect place to read experiences, learn about dose, environment and how to fully succeed and get what you want out of the trip.

But different time, different era, this was before the bath salt craze.

But doing it is something I'll never regret.
Rail is publically funded pretty much everywhere (i.e. it doesn't make a direct profit if you factor in infrastruture costs). Just because the market won't pay for it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile.
I made a little explanatory document (https://goo.gl/Vq3Fsb) to go along with the typing tests that I streamed today, and that was one of the things that I mentioned (copy/pasting from there):

Q: Can you play a real song so that we can see what it types out?

A: This isn't as satisfying as you may think since the entire typing range is only about two octaves, and most songs exceed that range, so nothing actually gets typed when you play those notes. Anyway, here's Wonderwall: Iuiuigaezobzgbxgebiuiuigaezobzgbegz

(that's actually the right hand of Für Elise)
It's true that diets with high added / refined sugar are unhealthy. But diets with lots of beef and dairy and low on vegetable fiber are also unhealthy.

The link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol is much weaker than previously hypothesized, that's true, but there's ample evidence of the superiority of a vegetable rich diet.

The medical and scientific consensus is still that diets high in saturated fats - especially animal fats - as well as trans fats increase your risk of heart disease and high cholesterol. Other lifestyle risk factors are obesity, lack of exercise, smoking and diabetes.
I understand that "hours of enjoyment" can get extreme with addictive personalities and I think it's super relevant to point out games that use tactics specifically to trap users and extract in-app purchases from them but...

As a general rule I think "hours of enjoyment" is about as optimal as you can get for leisure payoff, the alternative "how much I learned" is nice too, whether that's literal stuff (like trivia), strategic growth or else can vary on a title-to-title basis.

But I do understand where you're coming from.
Mice breed really fast - why does a mouse command a high price like that if you can make a new one for $10 in feed and 3 months?
The reason is because most managers became managers because they didn't mind leaving tech behind. They didn't really like it. So they assume everyone else is the same as them.
I liked the article, but about a third of the way in I thought: "This article needs a good editor"

Rule number one of writing is to be willing to cut some good material out because it does not fit your current piece.
There is Eurotunnel but that’s not exactly a rail station.