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Alasco | Munich, Germany | Frontend (React.js) Engineer | On-Site| www.alasco.de

We are a Munich-based StartUp that helps construction companies complete projects on time and budget. We digitalize the processes in construction planning and execution by offering a cloud based workflow platform. Starting from Germany, we want to take on the world.

We're looking for Frontend Devs. More at https://alasco/jobs
Our stack: django/python + react/bootstrap on AWS. Our company language is English.

We're 24 people right now, wanna be the 25th? Reach out to schuon@cs.stanford.edu (Founder) or jobs@alasco.de
…which will only work if Google can track you.
Show HN: A web extension to hide unread counters from feedly
That's highly misleading. The tweet conflates gun ownership with gun counts. The chart largely illustrates the tiny percentage of gun hoarders expanding their collections.

> Rates of personal and household gun ownership appear to have declined over the past decades – roughly two-thirds of Americans today say they live in a gun-free household. By contrast, in the late 1970s, the majority of Americans said they lived in a household with guns.

> But America’s gun super-owners, have amassed huge collections. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each.

(See also the chart showing a couple percent increase in female gun ownership, but a fairly hefty decrease amongst men.)
AI predicts which movies will succeed–and fail–simply from plot summaries
Reserve a fixed amount and pull from it. That’s why I say it won’t work for larger programs. Though, you could resort to normal malloc after your stack memory runs out. This would get you the improved startup performance and runtime performance for smaller programs (those that use less memory than you initially reserve), without sacrificing anything on larger programs.

Edit: to be clear, I’m pretty sure that initial block could be reserved on the heap. The benefit comes from the large initial allocation, not from the memory being on the stack.
> homogenous teams perform better than diverse ones

What evidence do you have for this, and how do you define "homogeneous"? (Homogeneous in terms of what attributes?)

Maybe you've just been on teams where the people aren't very good at getting along with people who are different from themselves. For example, if adding a well-qualified woman to a team of men causes the team to lose productivity, that's probably a sign of immaturity in the team, not a problem with the new member.
It’s not just the speed. The costs are depressing as well. A 50Mbps connection (DSL, because cable is not even available in this area) at my current location costs €40/month. 40! It’s mind-blowing.
It's really expensive for companies, too. The company I work for (small to medium sized) has a 34/34 Mbit/s fiber connection and it costs us 600€ per month. Included are 8 IPv4 addresses and an 8h response time (which has never been met and when we sued after a week of non-working internet, we lost in court).

It's just ridiculous how expensive it is for businesses. We simply cannot afford a 100/100 MBit/s connection and we are located in a larger city near the center, not even in a rural area that needs an extra fiber just for us.

So it doesn't come as a surprise that German companies are so much behind Americans in the tech sector. My company has a lot of manufacturing customers and we don't even need to think about a cloud strategy because most of them are still on 6/0.6 MBit/s DSL connections. So it's on-premises or nothing.
That article aside, what are everyone's experiences with reCAPTCHA? We are using it to secure one of our contact forms and get a lot of spam through it. Upon research (googling) I found that reCAPTCHA is "broken", e.g. https://threatpost.com/uncaptcha-googles-recaptchas/140593/
You seem to have a rather negative view of managers.

In my experience, good managers can be quite valuable negotiating with other organizations in the company and with getting needed resources. In fact, I'd say that's a pretty significant part of their job.
I've never heard anyone claim that companies can't moderate content without becoming responsible for it. I've heard people say that if publishers show themselves to be capable of censoring, then the legal protections should be rescinded and they should decide if they are a platform or a publisher.

Are you sure you heard the argument correctly?
The current new captcha is invisible. It's no less evil since Google recommends to put it on all your pages...
I think you are missing the point.

If you move your loaned $1 trillion to another bank, your bank will have to find the reserves from other banks or from the Fed.

If it find it in other banks, no new reserves have been added, so, certainly, new money is in the system without the central bank doing nothing.

If it don't find the reserves in other banks at a good price, it will have to ask it to the Central Bank.

Now, the Central Bank have two options, it can give the reserves to the bank or it can refuse. If it refuse the private bank have to get the reserves in the inter-banks system. It have to. Otherwise it would be breaking the law.

So, it will be willing to pay anything necesary for the reserves. That will create additional demand in the reserves, and that mean that the interest rate will go up.

If the central bank wants to keep the interest rate in its target range it has to (it has not other option) to give the reserves to the bank.

Ergo, the central bank can choose the quantity of money in the system or the interest rate, but not both at the same time.

Modern central banks target the interest rate. Ergo, all this quantity of money thing is nonsense.
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I came back from Germany in April. Infrastructure (trains, roads, airports) are wonderful, compare that with crawling slow internet.
It's such a shame that this poor article is getting attention, given that reCAPTCHA v3 is actually a terrible privacy violation.

Sadly, I don't think the author knows the difference between v2 and v3. The article is definitely not talking about v3.
Wait, average internet speed in the US is 120 Mbits? About a gigabyte in 1 minute?
Thank you for the PSA -- I just changed my old insecure password!
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Peter Thiel is a troll.

> how do know you‘re not living in 1973

I would glance at my local grocery store, shopping malls, cars, empty cemeteries, and inflight wifi.

First off, most manufactured things are incredibly cheaper now, due to real, complex behind-the-scenes advances.

We have a global supply chain that largely removes the constraints on geoghraphic locality for foods and manufactured goods.

That's paired with an almost-always-online wireless mobile internet, (that works up to 7 miles up in the sky!) that is absolutely amazing and darn inexpensive.

Our cars are much better at not killing us.

Many more diseases are treatalbe, and injuries curable.

Finally, why subtract screens? Modern screens are great.
A sane company will only employ workers to the extent it’s advantageous for them.

For that reason, I think it’s wise to go cautiously when making it less advantageous for companies to hire. Much of that ends up being taken out of labor rather than companies.
Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? Blog Network
exit interview advice (applies everywhere): politely decline the exit interview. there is zero upside to doing an exit interview
Go Time 93: If you've never been to GopherCon
My intention was to pose the following questions for arguments sake:

In a world with solid coverage of mathematical theory presented informally to appeal to a larger laymen audience, will the world produce more amateur mathematicians that make great contributions to science or less? Will would-be amateur mathematicians be less motivated to learn formal notation given that they can more easily read and understand the same material presented in an informal manner? If they did pick up a base level of formal notation, would they be less motivated to learn how to understand or write rigorous proofs using formal notation for the same reason?

I don't know what the answer is. Maybe there are studies out there that attempt to answer these questions.
I wrote about another technique at the end of my own captcha rant:
https://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/kill_captcha

The proposed solution would replace captcha entirely, but to my knowledge nobody has tried it.
Same, I'm a big fan.
Google moved puzzles from interviews onto random Internet users ;-) There must be some sophisticated internal metrics registering increase of puzzle takers somewhere, with a hidden goal of increasing general intelligence levels, adversarial-style. It's the only scientific explanation! :D
Why do you consider that expensive? If it’s reliable, it sounds very reasonable to me. 1 dinner out.
that's just a tell that you value ease of moderation and selling your potential community members out to G more than inviting new members to your community. certainly telling of the person running the blog.

i've had success with bayesian filters and shadowbanning myself, but it does require some effort.
I didn't even make the "for dummies" connection! The name is a huge fail but it looks like the author meant it well, perhaps someone should tell him that it comes across as intellectual elitism and exclusionary to people who perhaps feel a little insecure reading material on the internet that is associated with fancy universities and graduate schools.
When talking to someone at Amazon he remarked "You guys on wall street take a year to do what we do in a quarter." Five years ago that was a fair indictment, based on my current deadlines I'm not sure it's true any more. :-) P.S. I'm not complaining or humblebragging. I just enjoy the hell out of what I do and I've seen first hand a lot of institutional barriers fall over the last few years.
I have seen engineers making themselves look brilliant by intentionally taking down achievement of others. By successfully blaming own mistakes on others, by saying people they have to do things their way and then blaming them for doing what they have been told. Also by successfully claiming their subjective preferences are objective standards (in front of non technical manager).

By undermining competitors - equally smart skilled people who are not assholes.

By doing completely inconsistent unpredictable code review (forcing you to redo it each time differently in the same situation) and then saying that delays are due to shitty code.

Like, there are brilliant non-assholes. Plenty of them. But in some companies being asshole makes you look better.

The thing is, that in order to have cult around you, you have to consciously build that cult. And brilliant assholes is the person that consciously worked on building that following.
I can assure you that trains are as bad as Internet.
I usually prefer https://regexper.com/.
Especially when trying to make sense of regexes I come across in code I didn't write.
Germany sounds like it's about in line with suburban America.
Bush started after 9/11.
Man if I could just work there a month and then quit with 18 months of guaranteed paid severance...
I have lots of blocking turned on.

I imagine it's partly because I don't block cookies (I whitelist sites that get to store them across sessions and everything else is then session only).
Shialator: A timer app for lazy people ⏱️
Ibera is gutting Travis CI just a few weeks after acquiring it
Yes, there will be a free version. In addition, we are thinking on how to add suitable premium services in order to fund and extend development because we have many ideas on how to improve the Python Data Science experience :) What are your thoughts on this?
Wow, I wish you could get a reliable 50mbps connection in Australia for that cheap. The government is still installing new Fibre to the node (DSL) there which can max out as low as 12mbps.
the tone of this article is awful. it also has the history of recaptcha wrong.

I can't imagine it actually taking 30 seconds to solve a reCAPTCHA. That needs a citation.
Perhaps that's Google's intention. They are using your human intelligence to make educated guesses, rather than using AI. Your choices will be added to their dataset.
Unsure about the Lyft deal, but the Pinterest situation was similar. What I found troubling about that was that they only got the pricing deal if they stuck with AWS as their primary service for the duration of the contract, so there is no way for them to every migrate effectively without a massive cost.
I do agree with you, when you are in a growth phase and trying to focus on the product or service that is the USP, taking eyes off the ball to manage power generators in data centres is a distraction.
Its not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious officials in the same vein as in many communist revolts. Much of the time it's slightly more subtle, like calling for violence against "Nazis" while simultaneously calling large segments of their political opponents "Nazis".

Just browse a left leaning subreddit like LateStageCapitalism or even just /r/politics and you'll see calls to violence from the left.
Home internet regularly costs $80 in the US, or roughly €72. €40 seems pretty reasonable by comparison.
My bad, tried to do math before consuming coffee.
> I don't want to ruin the language just so that it appeals to some people, it's already fine for me.

To an outsider his comments seem pretty reasonable. Why would they ruin Common Lisp?
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That's exactly the way I feel about it :)
Picnic | React Native Developer | London | Onsite | Full time or contract

We're a tiny, but well-backed, team trying to build an alternative to the ad-funded social media platforms of today, by prioritising face-to-face time over screen time. Between us we've previously founded consumer tech businesses, led product teams, run a micro-VC and even launched a (secret) music career.

We are looking for React & React Native developers who love creating products that people want to use. You understand that apps—and code—are for people, not for computers, and always strive to make our app and codebase more understandable and easy to use.

You'll be helping to build an app using the latest best practices targeting the web, iOS and Android. We're using TypeScript across the stack, React with hooks client-side, an event-sourced architecture using PostgreSQL and Redis server-side, and GraphQL for type-safe communication between the two.

We've taken care to make our hiring process as transparent and stress-free as possible. We won't do any whiteboard / algorithm interviews, and you'll be paid for any take-home test we ask you to complete. We aim to give honest feedback after any interview, so that the process is not a waste of time for you even if the role is not a fit for you for whatever reason.

To apply, or to find out more about the role and our hiring process, check out https://www.notion.so/React-Native-Developer-16c3336b77754d2...
Yep... I returned yesterday from Germany and it is awful. I thought the UK (rural) was bad, but Germany takes the cake. There are even (expensive) hotels which still ask money for using their wifi. When you go to have only a meal at a hotel, they tell you internet is just for guests (we had this 5 times in 2 weeks). And driving around with 3g/4g you notice massive patches without data reception. I live in the mountains of Spain where I have cheap 4g and even cheaper 'radio' uplinks. They are enough to download gigs a day (not that I need that; I need stable, not a lot of bandwidth, but it's both). I was used to drive out of London a just a little bit and everything dropping, but Germany is even worse. And when it does work, it's slow.

Compared to Thailand (including in the middle of the forest), Romania and other random countries I have been, it is strange to see such a difference.
Or, you know, Truman. Or Hoover. Generally speaking, people capable of getting themselves elected President have authoritarian tendencies.
It's all relative to what you can get in the market. It's very expensive compared to what is available in countries with good internet.
there is rarely a really good reason to speak. All our meetings would be about 10% of what they are if

- ppl weren't interrupted

- stayed on point

- things weren't repeated more than once
I was a TA.
Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007
Conservatism has never been about any of the things its supposed to be about. See: federal debt.
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> what common lisp lacked was a heavy sponsor from the big players in industry. Or academia, even.

I believe CL can thrive even without sponsors, most of the new languages in the town don’t have sponsors. (Like Julia, Nim, Ruby, e.g.)

> a ton of people that are more than willing to voice what they don't like about it.

The CL community can ignore people that just whine about the ((parens)).
What the CL community shouldn’t is constructive criticism from itself.

(For the record, I use CL as my side-project language, and use Clojure as my main language.)

> Just doesn't have folks also posting good blogs about it often.

IMHO, the CL community is too small to have much.
The percentage of people who blog about CL is quite high; but the denominator is too small.
Come to Ukraine.
They have the cheapest internet, mobile plans and Uber in the world.
And likely the worst air, food and city structure quality.
There is always a choice.
reCAPTCHA is turning into a punishement for those who don't want to consent to full tracking by Google.

Apple is working on their SSO project (Sign in with Apple); I hope they will also consider the use-case of being able to tell a site that you're a human without sending any information.
The only thing that scares me is the IP factor if I work on stuff after work.

From what I am hearing, if I am not in Cali, I am at risk even if I don't use company time/equipment?

Amazon pretty much doubles salaries in areas outside of California, so it's extremely appealing money-wise if you stick around for the vest.
I don't have faith in that chart. Average US internet speed is 120 mbps?! Do they mean advertised max speed? No way the average internet household speed is that fast. Maybe half. Maybe. I like to live away from town, but even when I could get FiOS, the normal package was 50 mbps. I happen to have 400 mbps now (which flies in the face of my argument, I know).

EDIT: oh, I see. They are charting megabits not megabytes. That is more in line with what I would have thought.

So Germany averages 10mbps?! That is terrible.
I'm still waiting for sites like 8chan to be permanently housed in a darknet. I know they have an onion, but we get lost when we offer both a clearnet and an onion service. It's contradictory and hypocritical. Just offer the onion service under a really well provisioned VPS (that can handle absurd amounts of traffic) and be done with trying to find a WAF[0]/CDN every time shit hits the fan

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606569
Recaptcha is a free mechanical turk for Google. Right now they re training waymo's cars, but soon they 'll need to train other networks. Prepare for "Click on all images showing intraductal papillary biliary neoplasm". C'mon, don t be lazy
> But Deutsche Telekom, Ger­many’s dom­i­nant op­er­a­tor, took a less costly route in 2012, up­grad­ing its ex­ist­ing cop­per net­work through a tech­nol­ogy called vec­tor­ing.

The article keeps mentioning this company repeatedly. Is Deutsche Telekom really the only game in town across the whole country?

I thought Canada’s oligopoly was bad, but one company for a much bigger country sounds like the perfect recipe for this type of thing.
I was actually hoping for this response. This is something that I fundamentally feel like many startups/companies miss:
You should not be pursing any activity that is not inherently profitable given your cost structure.

Let me say this a different way, if you can expect $10 of revenue, the absolute most you can spend is $10-your minimum profit margin (for normal businesses... for VC backed, it is more about “value/market share creation for eventual earnings).

If you can not do the above, while ensuring the value, you are in the wrong business.

Business 101 dictates you spend less than you earn. The question is can you really do it given your cost structure. I would go even further that if you cant afford to pay what the market dictates to achieve a specific business outcome, you should not be pursuing that business outcome in the first place.
"Wheareas in the real world" is an interesting phrasing for that poylemma.
I don’t see anything in this article about Amazon offering the author a job, so I’m a bit confused by the headline. Were they offered a position at Amazon the same week as this non-compete dispute became public and forgot to mention it?
My payment provider (Braintree) required me to implement reCAPTCHA v3, despite the fact that I had already implemented server-side fraud checks (MaxMind). I didn't have a choice if I wanted to continue taking credit card payments.
Doesn't almost every religious group fall under it then?
Presumably in that case they could avoid paying you by canceling the non-compete. They could decide whether the information you learned during your one month is worth paying you.
> Isn't the author talking about recaptcha v2?

Yes.

> My understanding of recaptcha v3 is, that it just gives you a score for how well google can track you and then leaves it up to the site operator to block users who aren't transparent enough.

Yeah, that's the one where you're supposed to put it on every page of your website so that Google can collect more information on your users. If they can't, they'll return a low score that you'll use to mark users as "bots".

> What I really hate about recaptcha v2 are those artificial delays before loading the next image (which it can happen to several times on a single card). And then in the end you frequently fail, despite answering everything correctly.

I think this is just what Google does when it thinks you're a "bot": i.e. they don't know who you are.
It's not supposed to be satire, no. I'm guessing you disagree with the article?
I don't mean this in a hostile way, but seriously, just go, then. If Clojure is best for you, vaya con dios :)
I pay about that for ‘10 Gbps’ in CH. I don't even have a machine with a 10 Gbps port, but there isn't anything cheaper here that makes sense.
I live in Central Berlin and the issue is present here as well. I had to choose the Telekom, one of the most expensive providers, because they intentionally blocked requests from other providers to service me with internet in my apartment.
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Approximately 68 seconds for a gigabyte then. So about a minute?
I prefer regex101.com because that site assigns different colors to different capture groupings. I made a previous comment on this and why it's helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581692

(For some reason RegExr.com is submitted to HN much more often than regex101.com. Is there a compelling advantage to RegExr that I've overlooked?)