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Segment is hiring a fullstack engineer to build our developer platform
Hey HN,

I’m Calvin, one of the co-founders of Segment. We’re looking for a senior engineer to help us build out our developer platform.

Up until this year, Segment has been an easy way to connect all of your data. But today, we’re starting a new chapter.

We’re starting to open up our data infrastructure to let other companies build upon our platform. We want you to come help and create the tools to make sending, receiving, and managing data at scale a pure delight.

Concretely, we’re working on:

- infrastructure which allow users to upload custom pieces of code that process hundreds of thousands of RPS
- a powerful online IDE for users to craft their own custom functions
- new superpowers to combine, modify, and transform data coming through the pipeline
- new customer-facing APIs for accessing and controlling data as it passes through our pipeline

If you’re interested in APIs, distributed systems, a magical on-line editing experience, and building a platform for other users, please apply here: https://segment.com/jobs/1812086/

To give you a flavor of the sorts of work we do:

- https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/ (infra)
- https://segment.com/blog/new-data-visibility-features/ (product)
- https://segment.com/blog/partners-integrate-in-hours-not-weeks/ (product, you'd be helping make these tools even better)
- https://segment.com/blog/use-filters-to-control-the-data-flowing-to-your-favorite-tools/ (product)

If you have questions, feel free to email me as well. I’m calvin at segment. We're hiring in the US and Vancouver.
> That being said, the Teams UX will slowly and steadily improve

You think that they people who brought us "The Word Ribbon" and Metro UI are going to make things better?

That's not how M$FT rolls. Their customer base is deathly allergic to change. They lose their minds if things change perceptibly from what they looked like when they bought the system.
Do any states allow emojis on plates. I saw a red heart recently. ButI don't know if that was the license number or the background.
I think people inspect AUR packages before compiling, at least I do, so something obvious will be caught. But something like backdoor hiding in plain sight as an RCE vulnerability or even just more obvious code sneakely integrated into the source and waiting for a specific time far into the future to activate is very unlikely to be caught.
Is there an enterprise hosting option? Any open source options? If no, and no, there is your quick answer. Also, the target user base and UX of the application make it unsuitable for a wide range of business cases.

I think something like Discord for Business could be an amazing opportunity for growth. This isn't the first time I've seen someone bring up the idea.
Main issue killing me with Teams is that the desktop client can't be joined to two servers (at least, last time I checked). As a contractor, I have a Teams at my company and a Teams at my client, and I had to pick one, which is terrible.
Use smaller plows. They can be fitted to ATVs/quads.
I strongly caution you against doing it yourself, but if you're determined, here are some things you'll need to deal with at high level.

1) Image standardization: All user-submitted images should be the same resolution and the same size on at least one axis.

2) Pre-processing. Rotation, skew, and binarization, mainly. You could do this yourself or let an OCR API handle it for you (many do, both local and cloud).

Then there's basically two paths in a rudimentary solution. You could do full-page OCR, store the coordinates of extracted n-grams, and then inspect the area where you think or know the text you want to extract will be. Or, you could crop the image to a rectangle where you think or know the text will be, OCR the rectangle, and see if the text is there. The latter is computationally cheaper but the rectangle isn't guaranteed to contain the text of interest-- assuming it's there at all-- and you won't easily be able to define things in relation to each other.

The top commercial products are a lot more complicated than this, though. A "template" for extracting Box 1 from a W-2 would do something like this:

- Crop the document to just the top third and OCR it

- Match the string "1 Wages, tips, or other compensation" which itself is something like "Try to find that exact string. No? Look for a 1 or something that resembles a 1. Is there an n-gram to the right of it beginning with the word Wages? No? OK how about wages in lower case. No? OK restrict the pattern match to just 1 line. Does that work? OK good. Does something like the word 'tips' appear in the n-gram? Ok that's probably it."

- Underneath that line, offset x to the right, look for a string of digits matching this regex.

The string matching is done probabilistically in branches based on the specified rules (like "there's this n-gram over here that seems like what you're looking for but you said it should be in this other location, so we'll mark that as a possibility but it's probably not what you're looking for") and with the assistance of a really powerful dictionary.

If you don't want to totally roll your own and you happen to write Java, check out OpenKM, which I believe has some of the necessary abstractions built in for zonal OCR.
Hah. You should have seen what they did in closing the acquisition of Data Tree (the group that built the database). Undisclosed shareholders abounded, people dead, people left for Caymans, careers and finances ruined. Fvcking godless Indian CEO who could lie without blinking.
Mac OS Adds Early Support for VirtIO, QEMU
This plus reproducible builds will go a long ways toward preventing it.
Lots of newer devices compensate for that. The HomePod and QC35 for example.
Is there a big difference between 3D printing metal filament and sintering it in a crucible here and -- for instance -- 3D printing a plastic model, making a cast, filling it with metal particles and sintering that? Besides the former permitting voids, I suppose.
Honest question: Is is status signaling, or an attempt to avoid the wrath of the [ad buying] puritans?
A/B testing will often recommend it if you optimize for time spent or even for clicks, because at least some people will click randomly until something happens. Short-term A/B testing doesn't measure whether people hate your site afterwards.

Be careful what you optimize for.
Those cultural expectations and societies reinforcement of them also fall under that term.
Sure, I've done so. Happy to, if it's central to the article. The goal here is to get the fairest, most substantive discussion of the article and minimize predictable, stupid, always-the-same flamewar.

> someone on HN removed the "Black"ness from the story because it made them uncomfortable

That was me, and it didn't and doesn't make me the least uncomfortable. What does make me uncomfortable: people jumping to conclusions and accusing us of ugly motivations based on a made-up interpretation of almost zero information. Internet users have no compunction about doing that, and there's a kind of widespread implicit agreement to pretend that it's cost free. It's far from cost free.
The range extender version is also quite neat for a fairly small increase in purchase price. We rarely use it but we fairly often cut it close with battery capacity and it's nice to have the backup.
It does look exactly like a blurry, distant photo of an Electra leg...

That's why they're launching another search. It could be other things, but it could also be debris from the exact same type of plane she was flying.
An Ebola cure is impressive but what's just as impressive if not more is the method of getting to the cure. Virus based infections have notoriously been hard to cure once infected. The fact that antibodies can now be engineered to cure a virus-based infection is mind-blowing to me.
‪$3 million for Tumblr seems like an incredible deal.‬

‪(As a comparison, Automattic bought a small bootstrapped startup [WooCommerce] in 2015 for $30 million)‬
You can also just buy a used EV. If it has more than 40-60k miles, has already paid itself off. Completely, not just the extra cost of manufacturing.
> there was an initial need for regulation that still needs to be met

not necessarily. we have kneejerk reactions to statistically anomalous events all the time. Some things happen so infrequently that the regulation does far more harm than good. People have a desire to do something, anything, but never question if something should be done in the first place and establishing rational criteria to determine if they shouldn't act at all.
For the ones that don't know you, you are the CEO and founder, Matt Mullenweg [0].

I am curious to hear more about the: "...to be more of a Berkshire Hathaway-inspired model and businesses with a lot of autonomy". Could you share some details?

Thanks for building Wordpress. When I used to be a prolific blogger, it was my platform of choice.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg
I had the misfortune of renaming a file that was shared in Teams and we were chatting about. This completely broke it so if you click on it you can see the chat but it won't open and has the error "This item might not exist or is no longer available".

You can now only open it from Sharepoint and changing the name back didn't fix anything. Thanks teams.
Reproducible builds can't prevent hidden malware. They don't do much at all for security.
Hate to be that guy, but you left a mile-wide hole open in your argument: What about child porno?
What are you using Matlab for? Ever try Octave, Scilab, or Julia?
Reminds me of myself: when gmail came out I got my name@gmail

The name is my 6 letter last name.

I've received thousands of emails from random people. There are so many letter.name or number.name similar addresses that I'm constantly getting very personal emails of other people (deaths, marriages, invoices, business reports, etc)
Off peak travel time, and my destination was waaaay past Sacramento. For journeys like that, a two lane highway would be totally adequate. But the massive crush of traffic at commute time is another story...

The observation was really about freeways being built on valuable land taken under eminent domain by the state while passenger rail is mostly relegated to being a second class citizen on freight routes laid out 150 years ago.
Muslim women ‘sterilised’ in China detention camps, say former detainees
Airlines Defend Dormant 737MAX Jets from Corrosion, Insects and Time
Not really. The important bit is that some-degree of resource should be left to higher-level stuff.

Ex: Few people bats an eye at FAFSA, which encompasses a nation-wide accreditation system for colleges and nation-wide student loan assistance.

There are national-level Police forces: ICE, FBI, and ATF to name a few. Obviously, political groups have taken issue with how these agencies operate, but their efficacy cannot be denied: they can do things more efficiently than local police forces.
I guess not all CEOs know what muting a channel means.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190812160133/https://medium.com...
Hi just to let you know your acronym for the LGBT+ community (LGBTQIKAP+) is unecessarily long and it comes off like you're trying too hard. I'm pretty into tumblr identities and queer politics and I can't think of any identity which starts with a K. Queer is just as good as the common LGBT+ but some people still associate it with the slur and don't feel comfortable with identifying with it. The plus really is the umbrella for asexual, intersex etc that is "left out" by just using LGBT+
The OP explains what's happening with the examples it provides. Was that explanation not convincing?
> hat seems like a gross mischaracterization of the article.

I mean the article itself says that the other improvement are much less significant than the overall 2.5 speedup of the amphtml page. Whether the user will have to do 1-2 more seconds is immaterial , when you have typical newspaper websites that take 10-30 seconds to load.And you don't implicate google's caches (which will at some point refuse to render you if your page is against their politics) in any step.

Regardless, i believe amp will fail equally to how html pages fail now: newspaper marketers will keep adding more and more stuff to their amphtml webpages (and amp makes it easier to add extra components), and no matter how fast it loads, they will become heavy as hell and your phone will again start to smoke. We just dont see that yet because it's early days - but newspaper sites were also bare html 20 years ago. AMP is an evil bandaid with significant sideeffects
The alternative is to live with market failure: watching your locality make poor investment decisions that transfers wealth to neighboring cities and counties.

If you want to work together, the cities need to form up a larger scale contract and work together. If you are willing to compete against your local cities, you are allowed to do that as well.
"Why are skeptics like you usually so freaking lazy?"

Because there are an endless number of fools, liars, and lunatics demanding that we do their work for them.
That would still be an issue with Oracle, SAP, and Netsuite....

Fundamentally, it's not worth it to build a new financial backend to meet the unusual needs of .001% of their customer base.

If you want to have listings in two currencies, you should create 2 accounts. That is exactly how it is done in most financial systems. eBay is just making that transparent to their sellers.
My first car had a lovely, circular radiator repair job that was exactly the diameter of the bolts on the fan blade. It must have thrown a bolt at some point.

The placement of the dents on all the fins reminds me a bit of that. Looks to me like something broke off, got wedged under one of those stabilizers, smacking the hell out of every single fin on the way before it was finally thrown clear.
Hold up, what? I was using it until last week (I'm no longer with that company), and it was the semi-de-facto IM solution, because the entire team isn't on Slack, and worked well enough to serve our needs- the person we want to talk to is at another location right then (we moved around a lot) and we needed to talk to them.

Discontinuation is news to me.
> Google has an almost immeasurably large influence on the public commons and society.

I disagree. Google does not have much in the way of meaningful influence over the public commons and any influence they do have is offered up voluntarily by the public to google. If google wants to curate specific content that is their prerogative and if people don't like it they should boycott and protest against google. Every single google product is non-essential unlike e.g. corporations that dominate food, real-estate, and medicine. If the people determine that access to an internet index is a human right, the government should create its own index instead of picking a particular corporation and effectively nationalizing its product.

> In my view anything that has such a large influence needs to be regulated to ensure the public interest and good.

I agree that tech companies need regulations, but those regulations should apply to all companies instead of being applied to companies that we personally disagree with.
Surge in arrests of foreign teachers in China
LOI's for enterprise clients are totally fine and tying it to a trial is common in my experience, although in my experience that is for trials that last months and may take weeks to months to configure and setup. We have used LOI's quite a bit to help us find the right business model and to gather support before we were actively making final sales. It also can help you show intent and early demand to investors.

Overall enterprise clients generally are quite receptive to these, at least for more complex products, as they are not contracts, simply non-binding letters which generally also do not require much if any legal review. If you put detailed terms into the LOI that is when things can get stickier and then legal review becomes necessary at most enterprises.

What are you trying to use the LOI for, if you had 10 in the next 2 months what would change? In my view a product that can be tried by an enterprise in 7 days means there is not a ton of complexity to the product and likely a low barrier to entry so an LOI may be useless or worse delay trails and conversions. If after 7 days you know if they are buying or not then why do an LOI? Reality is it may take 1-2 weeks to get an LOI done at a fast moving enterprise and a month wouldn't be atypical at many.

If the product takes 2-4 weeks of setup or you need to install equipment etc at their site than an LOI would be smart to show intent. But you'd still have to define why you want an LOI and what comes after. Is it just because you want to gauge their interest before spending weeks configuring the product, then ok. Is it to show investors demand? If so then it may not help you a ton, as the investors will wait to see LOI to conversion rates since the trial period is so short.
In RoboCop, crime-ridden "Old Detroit" was to be transformed by OCP Corporation into "Delta City"[1]. One can imagine a newer version of the story, with OCP replaced by "The FAANG Group".

[1] https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Delta_City
You don't know the cause. Could have been a bird ingestion on this or a previous flight.
While I agree in general, the article indicates this was stopped after 681 of a planned 725 patients, which seems okay.

Additionally, my understanding from a quick read is that the SPMS trials were aiming to delay progression in disability, rather than eliminate the effects altogether. That seems trickier to measure, and also more subject to just... not spending enough time looking at it.

Ebola, on the other hand, has a binary outcome (dead vs cured) with a timeline of a couple weeks, IIRC.
And I still can’t set urgent priority on a reply
Consider for a moment that there are lots and lots of properties in Detroit with an advertised price of less than $10K. How many people in the USA have the financial resources to speculate with that kind of money? Millions? Tens of millions? And yet ... they don't. There is probably a reason nobody else is snapping up these properties.

I actually know someone who bought a house for 6K. He did not buy it from the land bank so he might be able to sit on it, theoretically, and hope it gains some value. But do your due diligence because there may be big taxes, unpaid utility bills, etc, encumbering the property.
A small amount per code review. That's why PR's should be small. Because after around 45min-1 hour you start skipping over stuff
There really should be a corporate death penalty for these sort of massive failures.

Dissolve the company, sell of the assets, and bar all the C-level employees from management work for a period of time.
Of course it's ridiculous. The empirical question is what minimizes flamewars. If you don't think that matters, I disagree. It's the difference between this site functioning vs. being nasty, stupid, and not long for this world.
Interesting approach. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
Anxiety is one of the emotions that I have to consciously think about how to express. I have to imagine what people look like in the movies when they're scared, and then I try to reproduce it. I can show many other emotions naturally, without thinking about it: happiness, anger, disgust. But fear I have to consciously simulate. (I suppose if I was in a bus going off the edge of a cliff or someone stuck a gun in my face, my repressive instincts would be overcome and I'd look terrified, but in normal situations it doesn't come out.) I think I've internalized the ability to hide it, to camouflage it as annoyance or boredom, so thoroughly that I have to layer a bad acting job over my lockdown of the natural expression.

I didn't know this until I got in group therapy and realized that many of the other people in my group (the women, in fact) didn't register the fact that I was feeling a lot of anxiety, even though I talked about all the time. When I talked about it, they didn't see any reflection of it in my face or body language, so what I said didn't register. I could say that I was feeling anxious, I could tell them about situations where I was paralyzed with anxiety, and still the absence of the expression they expected outweighed what I was telling them. They even accused me of withholding and not being open about my feelings until I learned how to act it out for them. I had to fake it to be accepted as authentic; my words were not enough.

This knowledge has proved to be very important to me. I realized that in many situations where I have mentioned my fear of something without expressing it physically, people have assumed I was lying. For example, when I talk about my fear of the financial consequences of a purchase, if I don't show fear, my wife may assume my fear is not real, and I'm making up an excuse because I want to spend the money on something else. Also, in situations where everybody else is feeling and expressing fear, if I don't consciously produce an expression of fear, I will come off as apathetic and detached.

It's very, very frustrating. From a young age we learn we are punished for showing fear, conditioned to hide it, and then later we realize there are situations where we are punished for our inability to show it.
> it’s fine all year round.

How does it do on potholes? And on ice?

I really wanted to love the i3, but the bicycle tires looked liked they'd be fundamentally unsafe on the ice or on any unmaintained (pothole-filled) road.
No more than the dangerous shit that all of us are taking in constantly living in the same environments.
Teams has mute on channels
The paywalls are implemented in javascript FYI, no javascript: no paywall.
No one outside the US has heard of Verizon and most of the products (whatsapp, messenger) you named have the majority of their users outside the US. Most internet users today have also not heard of or have any nostalgia for Yahoo Messenger or AIM.
Your comments were actually not backed by any sources.

On the other hand, our comments are backed by reputable sources, and in my case also by actual experience dealing with theaters and movie studios, including as an advisor.
Interesting how he bashes ML translation as having little scientific interest
Possibly didn't want to take you into Brooklyn. The Manhattan side isn't really walkable.
London is putting charging points in street lamps:

https://www.electrive.com/2018/08/21/char-gy-new-player-on-l...
The GP's comment merely says that your environment can have a huge detrimental impact on your mental health. In no way is that dismissive of seeking help. They even applaud the use of the 'normal' tools.

In fact, the scenario that you describe of a person exhibiting symptoms of anxiety disorder because every day is distressing is pretty much exactly the same scenario the GP is saying about a life-setup that is causing you harm.
They've changed. Now they routinely redesign stuff. Add stuff that no one wants and cripple or remove those they want. And then make it slower.

Outlook web is a perfect example. It's 10x slower since the last redesign and their exclusive killer feature - SWEEP no longer works for me.
> people want to signal status

People are biological animals first and humans at a distant second. It's short-sighted to so brazenly dismiss the long term effects of periodically associating a brand with the strong feelings that come with an orgasm.
With the phone you lost?
The Indian version of personal retirement fund NPA website does this, I learnt a lesson. Every certain weeks you Have to change password. No big deal. I will just add an incremental number. Ok, password now is PasswordPass1. Lets login, Wrong password? Why? Error Password length exceeded.

So, the password change page will accept any length password, will silently truncate it if longer & save it. Now on login page you have to guess the password length or reset.