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Refersion | New York, NY | Sr. Backend Developer | Full-time | Onsite

Refersion is a 100% bootstrapped and highly profitable B2B app development company based in New York City. Our flagship product is a sales tracking (SaaS) platform in the e-commerce space, and we provide solutions to a large and growing client base ranging from established online retailers to smaller and emerging businesses.

At Refersion, our technical staff believes that software development is a craft. It's part of our culture. We are a small team which allows for a really strong collaborative environment and the ability to build amazing apps that delight the user. A get stuff done attitude. Small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. Our server stacks run PHP, MySQL, GraphQL, Serverless, ReactJS, ElastiCache, and more. If you're an intelligent developer who believes in doing what is best for the product, you'll love our team.

Who We're Looking For

A wonderful and unique opportunity at Refersion exists for a talented Backend Developer to contribute original and innovative ideas to our ever-evolving codebase. Working with our dedicated team and using cutting-edge technology, you will help develop and maintain our flagship SaaS platform, as well as provide invaluable input for the continuous improvement of our products. If you love elegant and streamlined code (adhering to the KISS principle), relentlessly exploring solutions independently, and are passionate about refining and expanding your craft, we want to meet with you.

Website: https://www.refersion.com

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Something interesting is that tipping wasn't seen as too different from bribing in 1920's America [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity#History
I tend to think the corrupt way is often more fair than nothing. But less fair than a less corrupt system. Notable legal corruption is totally a thing. Just because you're not expected to bribe an police officer doesn't mean the system isn't exploitative.
It feels like empty words similar to Steve Balmer's "Developers, Developers, Developers". Satya Nadella didn't have to say it. You could see it by what Microsoft was doing.
This kind of thing keeps happening, it's not as far fetched as it seems.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46547794

This Syrian guy was in Kuala Lumpur airport for 7 months.
This is not "just for the pros". It's just for an elite echelon of pro's that aren't the normal working professional. It is way overpriced for the spec. HN wasn't asking for that.
Interesting choice of adjective, haha
New ProTools Rig?
Apple doesn't release anything to allow 3rd party development of drivers that integrate into accelerated pipeline (afaik you can do basic frame buffers but that's it).

nVidia coasted on having been used in some of the mac hardware thus having access to at least some versions of the APIs, but it seems that what they have no longer works with Mojave.
You can create/generate & save new login on the fly from the sign-in screen. At least with 1Password. It's clunkier than I think is strictly necessary, but it is effective.
Apple iOS Background Tasks
Well, they're practically tax exempt, then. It's not like you're adding a bribes line on your tax report.
iOS 13 will support Xbox and PS4 controllers
Where do you think the 'switch' is in that? At what point do they switch something from what was previously offered to something not expected? I don't think there is any switch. The specs are presented as up-front as any hardware spec is.
Seems like there are a few bugs. I still subscribed. I hope this succeeds.
New Policies for Chrome and Drive
According to Mixpanel, the 5S / 6 / 6 Plus together account for a bit less than 10% of iOS devices they see. So it's not as big of a drop as one might expect.

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/iphone_models
That sucks. I didn’t think about it from the merchants side.
There is an app you can use on a jailbroken ios device that turns it in to a relay/web server which allows you to use imessage on any device. I guess if you really wanted to use it you could just buy an ancient iphone and leave it always plugged in.
> Apple themselves went and made an entire competing ecosystem that depends not just on a competing DRM standard (Fairplay), but competing apps and playback devices.

Yes! Exactly. And the fact that Apple was successful doing that is sort of a killer argument against an antitrust case.

Look, antitrust isn't about enforcing your personal idea of a perfect browser ecosystem. It's about protecting the competetive efficiency of the market by guaranteeing that new and smaller players (and new technologies) don't see an unfair barrier to entry.

Your argument is just that Chrome is an unhealthy monoculture ecosystem. I even agree. But that's not an antitrust case and you need to stop pretending that someone is going to come around and rule Chrome illegal for you. The arguments I've seen are all very narrow and will have very narrow remedies.
Or scrape/API, at most.
My anecdote.
I work with mining (resource) companies and am mining engineer myself.

I reckon one large company coming into our office and spending 2 hours describing their new software to assist with blast design.

They gave us a trial and while it was slick, it was not much better than our spreadsheet, that everyone can use and the few extra features they showed we easily implemented ourselves in the spreadsheet.

Hate to think how much money was spent developing this software that literally was a pretty GUI over a spreadsheet.
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There are times in life where sometimes you just want to built something amazing, and you don't want that process hindered by those who only work 9-5. I personally worked this way until my mid 30s, and the best companies I was a part of were those companies where most of coworkers were young, smart, and passionate about what we wanted to do, our lives had no balance because we all obsessed over what we were building.

To me, this is likely who they are looking for, and why they are unapologetic about putting it there.

Typically founding team means a stake in the company, and that your efforts can shape the company and you have a voice at the table.

I'd say everyone could benifit from working on a passion project like this at least once, but that's just me.
If it is a HIPPA violation the fines are deliberately per instance - eg 12 million * (the fine), and I can’t recall whether hippa considers each piece of data a separate violation.

But I think to be a HIPPA violation it would need to have information about what tests are involved - eg just a monetary debt and knowing it came from a lab might be argued as not being a violation?

That said until there are mandatory per-person-per-data-leaked fines, coupled with liability for misuse of that data, companies are just going to continue leaking because they “compensate” people by giving them “free” credit monitoring.

That last bit is great because it only resolves financial service harm, and offloads actually preventing fraud to the victims of these companies.
Hi everyone!

I run a career platform and some of the most common questions I get from my readers and users are about cover letters. Whenever anyone asks about them, I usually just send them a couple of good examples of cover letters they can use as inspiration.

I thought I'd curate a bunch of great samples so other people can use them as inspiration too! They're sourced from some excellent career guides by places like Harvard and Stanford (links to the original guides are included too!)

Hope you find them useful :) Any feedback or feature requests, let me know!

Thanks!
Rohan

P.S. This is a side project to my main product, Resume Worded (https://resumeworded.com)(https://resumeworded.com/), which gives you automated feedback on your resume and LinkedIn profile. Would love for you to check that out too if you have a minute or two - would love your feedback.
I'd just build it myself and still install Mac OS... Ha, if that was a factor.
Slavery's Legacy: The Troubling History of Tipping in the US
Except it’s not ready to go because it’s not backwards compatible it seems.
This is definitely an overly ambitious project idea, but now that Google has Jetpack Compose and Apple has SwiftUI, and the web has React, I wonder if it would be possible to make a "meta-framework" that uses a single code-base to compile user written code into source code written in those 3 frameworks respectively.

Then you would get truly native, cross-platform development.

Now, the probability this would ever work is 1%, but it's something that has lingered in my mind anyway.
Read as s/over/on/
Is this the long march toward making Hackintoshes impossible?
In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a compelling discussion of how crows build resilient telecommunications networks using termite mounds.

Crows are smart as hell -- as a gardener, I've seen their devious intelligence all too often -- example : I had a pretty successful [commercially-produced] scarecrow in place for several weeks, which I'd move every night to prevent the birds getting inured to its presence and / or aware that it was a fake. I forgot to move it one night and then went out just before dawn next morning to move it; I seen an early crow peering at me from the mulberry tree.

When I came home that afternoon, every single corn seedling in the place had been snapped!
Or you live in a megalopolis.

I-95 between NYC and Philadelphia is 4 or 5 lanes wide at times and that's in the middle of nowhere New Jersey. Even if you build public transportation people won't use it. You'll just be shifting the problem. Now instead of wider highways you need more trains and bigger parking lots at the train stations.

Going further south I-95 between Philadelphia and Wilmington is 4 lanes wide near major interchanges. Approaching Baltimore it reaches 6 lanes wide at times. In DC the Beltway is itself 4-6 lanes wide and always packed.

Your off the cuff "just do this" comments are not helpful.
> For everyone on salary, just say: "our new office culture is a 2.5 day week."

That'd work for many, but many others would seek another job the same.

> For everyone on hourly wages, just double their wages and they'll adjust their own schedules.

That definitely doesn't work. Where has introducing or raising minimum wage caused workers to seek fewer hours, for real but less extreme example?
Let's not forget that Google has great influence over webRTC [1]. The source code is kept in their repositories [2].

[1]https://webrtc.org/

[2]https://webrtc.googlesource.com/
People don't respect police, so when government would want to massively increase their salaries, people would protest against it. Fines go down is a good thing for sure, but it'll reduce amount of money going to local budgets, so people in government will protest against it (because they'll need to find money to replace those from reduced fines). Taxes go up: nobody likes it. Anti-bribery goes way up: when everyone's corrupt, nobody wants it.

It might work when someone like president or minister really wants to do that and have support. But it's more like mini-revolution. It's hard to go there evolutionary. But may be I'm wrong.
The programming model for OpenCL is not near what CUDA is.
I honestly think it is, and becoming more so. I've personally already signed up for YouTube premium, because I hate ads. I've signed up to this as well.

I'd gladly pay for quality content. My time is worth it. And are most people's.
Try playing with door sensors. They are simply two magnets that are open or close. The detection effect is very visual. The sensor opens or closes and you get a signal.

Door sensors have come a long way and are wifi-enabled these days [1]. Link them to your phone (or iPad if doing a projection on TV). Tape the sensors to door, window, drawer, your jacket, etc. Open them and see the signal sent to your phone.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=door+sensor+wifi
Exactly... they ended up doing nothing.
You can use Chrome Remote Debugging to access the developer console for a mobile device.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remo...

You can also load Eruda with Javascript.
https://github.com/liriliri/eruda
> If the highway is congested, then the rule becomes meaningless.

> If the highway is not congested, then the density is low enough that you should be able to change lanes as necessary

In my experience there is a lot of middle ground between these two cases, where there is enough traffic that you can't change lanes as needed to get around a slow person in the left lane (often because that person is driving right next to another vehicle in the right lane, and their speeds are so similar that it takes a long time to resolve which one is passing which), but there's not enough congestion that it no longer makes sense to have any designated passing lane at all.
Maybe the case makes up most of the price?
The beauty I see in it is that the corrupt official is offered the option to then pass this note on to someone else, whether that be whoever he needs to bribe or just a friend or family member affected by corruption. Giving someone else an alternative rather than just refusing to cooperate can catch them off guard and be quite disarming.
Hopefully they've included built-in battery powered GPS because at those prices and with the handy carry handles these are going to be walking away from their owners in record numbers.
Family is easy, I made them switch to Apple years ago and things have been a breeze since. Most of my friends using Android are also working in IT and are already using disposable/forwarding emails AFAIK. And... to be honest, I don't have friends using Windows :D
>No algorithm.

A personal observation...

On that Nebula site, I see creators like CGP Grey, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, etc. I learned about their existence from Youtube's algorithmic suggestions. Probably 99% of any channel I watch regularly on Youtube came from algorithms instead of url referrals of HN or reddit.

Yes, algorithms have a dark side such as the ElsaGate situation. All I can say is that they were effective in suggesting the type of topics (education) I like.
Ha, I can't imagine why I might trust Apple more than Facebook or Google. /s
At my office every single one of the new macbooks (since about 3-4 years ago) has had the keyboard fail. Some of them have had the keyboard fail repeatedly after getting apple to fix it.

The ifixit tear down shows that the 2019 model has done nothing to fix the issue. I highly recommend the Dell XPS over a macbook pro. The form factor is very similar but the hardware is much more reliable and fixing it is way way easier as most parts can be replaced separately.
Mozilla dropped the ball on this? They never had an opportunity to do this. Apple will only succeed by bulling developers that want to stay in the AppStore. Mozilla doesn’t have the market share or financial leverage to do anything like this.
Well, I’m that case Microsoft has been monopolizing their XBox’s as well as Nintendo and Sony with their consoles since you can’t buy physical or digital games without the respective owner’s approval.
> he was still going dangerously slow

On a city street that's essentially an oxymoron. You have to deal with stopped and slow traffic, turning traffic, etc. A slow cyclist should not be any different.
Flutter's not a PR campaign for Dart, they're a separate project that chose Dart based on its technical capabilities [1].

Given Flutter enables the nicest native x-plat dev experience today I'd say it has a very bright future, which they've also recently announced Flutter for Desktop and Embedded devices.

Jetpack compose is years away from the same kind of x-plat support that Flutter's providing for Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded [2].

[1] https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos...

[2] https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/Flutter-io19.html
Doesn't the power supply draw that at max load, rather than consistently? (Honest question)
"[Sign In with Apple] will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is commercially available later this year." https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06032019j
Google Play Services and Firebase Migrating to AndroidX
I would expect everyone going at different speeds in different lanes to increase congestion, because it encourages people who want to go faster than the general flow of traffic to jockey around a bunch, which then adversely impacts the speed at which everyone else can go as they react to all those sudden moves, which ultimately slows everything down even further.

Not entirely unlike how turbulence in a pipe decreases the overall rate at which water can flow through it.
And who is that problematic authority? The social network defers to the fact-checkers, of whom there are multiple independent ones, and who should be corroborating the government's story not taking it at face value.
Breaking them up into what? It’s not like Google where you can break out the search functionality from the maps.
For comfortable work with gui applications, 60 fps and low response time (sub 16ms) are the minimum agreeable specs. For 4K uncompressed stream, that is 3.8GiB per second and the datacenter must not be behind too many routers. The bitrate would be substantially less with lossy compression (video streaming works), however text and gui elements look bad with that, so only lossless compression is reasonable. Still, I think very few places have a strong enough network connection to a datacenter to use remote server in this way. The idea isn't bad, especially with GPU prices skyrocketing last few years, but the network quality will have to go up order of magnitude to make it realistic.
If you had multiple social networks, people would still aggregate toward one. That’s kind of the definition of a network.
With Lyft and Uber, maybe. Since I already don't use Uber and will no longer use Lyft, I am personally only concerned about the impact with real taxi services and didn't consider ride-sharing in my response. That was an oversight.

But, with real taxis anyway, this is what I will do.

> You could also just ask the driver to turn the screen off without threatening to cancel the trip as a first step.

Yes, that is the actual approach I'd take. It's always nice to start as nonconfrontational as possible. But since I won't be taking the ride if the screen is on, the entire exchange has to be complete before the ride actually starts.
At least they're upfront about I guess. Unlike most companies including those that fall into BIGCORP where you're stack ranked out if you aren't competing on hours spent in office.
Note: this is about the Bitcoin Cash internal fork, not Bitcoin proper.
The 256GB SSD is for people who just have the OS and apps on the drive, but the multi terabyte files they're manipulating (e.g. video editing) reside on NAS or LAS, hence 10Gbe and 40Gb TB3.
Personal attacks now. You're out of intelligent arguments. Attacking both intelligence and rationality. I've given my reasons and they are rational. If you can't see that you can go f-k yourself. What an ass.
> the crummy all season tires cars in the US have

They're fine for the allowed speeds on US highways. Obviously if you're going to be driving at high autobahn speeds you need tires that are rated for those speeds. (Although I've never seen a tire in the US that wasn't rated for at least 110 mph, which would be fine for a lot of autobahns given the 80 mph typical speed mentioned in the article.)
Point is people who understand NN support it. I did not mean to imply non-techies get it, only that when they do, they largely support it.
I know that it isn't binart but I can't help but note the irony: if they don't last forever and their demise isn't from obsolescence but a competitor isn't that a statement contradicting preventing competition?

One could be technically more precise and limit prevention to "full effectiveness in all in their domain" or use it loosely enough that simply making one potential competitor unable to set up due to lower margins or investment in efficency is not wrong in a pendantic sense separate from the legal definitions.
Piecewise Is Hiring React Native Devs in New York City
Hey HN,

I am Reshad, a co-founder at Piecewise. Everyone knows that student debt is a huge problem in this country: 45 million Americans owe over $1.6 trillion in student debt.

What is less known is that 40% of that debt, worth $600 billion, is on track to default over the next four years. Piecewise is a student loan payment platform that financial institutions and universities use to lower student loan default rates.

Consumers use Piecewise to overcome debt and save money. We analyze student debt borrowers’ financial activity to guide every borrower to a payment plan they can afford, that changes with their income and that saves them as much money as possible on their debt repayment.

We just closed our pre-seed funding and looking to hire React Native developer to help us improve the core product experience for the student debt borrowers.

Here is a link to the job posting:

https://angel.co/company/piecewise-1/jobs/566660-react-native-mobile-developer

If you have questions, feel free to email me as well. I’m reshad at piecewise dot co.
Both are kinda true - Yoga started as a C library, but was ported over to C++ ~a year and a half ago.
Adding bunches of trees will overfit the accidental patterns in your data.

I have an explanation here why reducing variance is not the same as reducing overfitting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20089890
No mention of dust filters or keeping out dust.
And? INAL but I believe taking bribes is worse legally than not paying taxes so if you are willing to do the former, then why does the latter really matter? If you are going to take bribes, you are obviously not going to report it for fear of that second infraction because the first one would be worse and thus you wouldn't take the bribe in the first place if the latter infraction scared you.
> Not sure what good two 10gbe ports do.

1 x 10 GbE for your regular Ethernet/IP traffic and 1 x 10 GbE for your storage traffic. You do run your network storage over a physically separate network, right?
Thats fair, always need to optimize for your use case. I run thousands of small transactions per second so no keep-alive would absolutely kill us.
> What kind of problem is it then?

Regulatory capture?
The ancient Egyptians had a conception of zero, and used a herioglypical symbol for zero. China had a counting rod system, with an empty space being a zero and Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections had a round symbol being used for zero. Other authors were familiar with the concept of negative numbers.

These are alll before Indian "invention" (probably be discovery) of zero.
I don't think that really means what you think it means. It's very similar to the way "Apple Pay has a Web API"—websites may implement it for authentication BUT it won't allow users on a Linux/Windows machine to Pay, either. This is the same thing. You'll need to use Safari on a Mac, or it won't appear.
Bitcoin was designed to eliminate the human influence that devalues fiat currency.

This war proves bit coin has failed in that regard.