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Marble (YC S19) Is Hiring iOS & Backend Engineers—in SF & Remote
Marble is digitizing the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, starting with cashier-free checkout for restaurants. We're already helped serve over 280K users. And with contracts already signed with three nation-wide restaurant chains, we'll be poised for profitability once they're live!

We're still small — just two tech founders and one other backend eng — and we're looking to bring on a founding team iOS engineer and a backend engineer. You're going to have a huge impact implementing our infrastructure at scale, and building new features/interface/experiences.

We're based in SF and our team is backed by some pretty legendary investors like YC, the Conways and Naval Ravikant (founder of Angelist).

———What You'll Do———

-iOS: Own the Marble Order app: the primary way our customers interact with restaurants, and one of the most important parts of our company.

-Backend: Own the Marble Order API: the way we integrate with a restaurant's technical infrastructure, and one of the most important parts of our company.

- Design and implement end-to-end solutions, thinking through everything from user experience, data models, scale, operability and ongoing metrics.

- Maintain a high level of engineering quality and consistency across the board: our app, our infrastructure, and even the fundamental processes you help us develop as a team.

- Participate in our business and company decision making — as much or as little as you want. We want to be transparent, to help all our team members make the best decisions.

———What We Value———

- Ownership: While our team is still small, we want developers who are excellent at their craft, and whom everyone else can fully depend on.

- Foresight: What we build today will be the foundation for our future systems, so we need people who do things fast and still build for the future.

- Honesty and candor: if you have opinions on how we can make it better — our tech, our business, our company — we need to hear your voice and help make it so.

———Experience———

-iOS: 2+ years industry experience in iOS dev. Objective-C is preferable and experience in design is excellent.

-Backend: 2+ years industry experience

———Contact———

Email us info@marbletech.co
Funny how RSS managed to take off originally by focusing on discoverability (education about meta tags, the infamous orange “broadcasting” icon, etc.) and these days it’s still plagued by lack of discoverability or misunderstandings as to its use and reach.

All the blogs/sites I ran/run/manage have RSS feeds, and I still sift through roughly a thousand items a day over breakfast using Reeder and Feedly. RSS is very far from dead - it’s just not a common enough use case to be the default way for non-technical (or, rather, “non-motivated”) people to read their news and other info.

When you have the motivation and interest in following specific topics or sites, it’s not that much of a landing curve to pick out an aggregator (Feedly seems to be the most popular).

I’d say that RSS is in extensive use by humans, and that most shortcomings in comments up to now have fairly trivial workarounds (like truncated feeds, which can trivially be worked around by a client like Reeder, which can fetch the original homepage and render it in a format similar to “reading mode”).

In general, I think RSS has tremendous return if you a) pick your sources carefully and b) spend a bit of time figuring out how to get a good UX.
What if you genetically modified a species of tardigrade to hold data in their DNA? They would reproduce forever and are extremely hard to kill. That would be a form of storage that couldn’t (practically) be destroyed.
Nope, the prices were dictated by the UPU, a global treaty organization that the US is part of.
You are saying it like having just 4 weeks of paid holidays is a great achievement.
I don’t want to disillude you, but when I was very, very junior in EU 5-6 weeks were taken for granted from the first day of work, and in one case I had 7 weeks. Now I an not a permanent anymore, I don’t have any paid holidays whatsoever and I’m much, much happier.
Hum, my memory of the early days of "cloud" as a term paints a different picture.

You had highly resilient, scalable, backed up, distributed servers before the "cloud": cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable.

In that sense, "putting my data in the cloud" always makes me giggle, even though I accept how the term has come to be used. What people usually mean with that is that they are using an online file storage service that may or may not be implemented using a cloud infrastructure, but they don't really care.

I mean, why is OpenStack "a private cloud" (or Eucalyptus if you remember that one)? And why wouldn't you be able to do DNS on cloud infrastructure as well (in fact, many do)? FWIW, DNS itself is a prime example of a resilient (virtually no downtime), scalable, distributed service that predates "cloud" by decades.
You can easily get a carbon Synapse for less than 2K from almost any bike shop that sells them, or even REI.

True, REI has the Synapse on sale for $1700 right now not including delivery. Once you add a trainer of the equivalent functionality as the Peloton trainer, you're looking at $2500 spent. Add in a screen, and you're looking at $2700 for a small screen or $3500 for a similar-size screen as on the Peloton.
Its title specifying that it’s a “simple triple store written in Go” wasn’t enough to tell you that it wasn’t?
Just learned how to ride a motorcycle (more or less) on my own over about a month or so.

I took a motorcycle course over one weekend. Took the license test another weekend. Bought a bike and filled out paperwork during the week (registration & insurance). Rode almost every day for the first month, practiced maneuvers (finding the friction zone, quick stopping w/o skidding) I wasn't comfortable with in a parking lot.

Now I'm comfortable riding almost everywhere. All told, it took one weekend of high effort (motorcycle class), medium effort for one week (1-2 hours daily of either: riding, reading a motorcycle riding book, filling out paperwork, researching/coordinating/buying the bike), and low effort for the rest of the month (15 - 60 minutes of riding -- FUN).

Only took a month of effort to acquire a lifelong skill
How so? I am running the latest Reeder on iOS, and it works great (always has, never found anything that was better overall in terms of reading experience).
I looked closely but I didn’t see abortion on the graphic.
Great point. What I’m suggesting is that, based on the article, perhaps there’s an alternate or (more likely) supplemental explanation to microcavitation.

Maybe the baby bubbles bursting apply both exert a physical and a chemical (per the article’s discovery) effect on the substrate. If nontrivial, applying/developing different coatings that are more resistant to h2o2 could be useful in real world applications.

I really don’t know, but it’d be a logical next step for applied research!
What is a "CA"? I tried googling it but seems there are many CAs. Which CA are you all talking about?
Show HN: Automudo.io the easy eay to buy or sell a car
My bad. Ripped off is not the right word. Though nice leverage, if you can afford it :).
I’m not at a testing computer, but I think that’s a shell glob, no?
Thanks for the extra perspective. At the end of the day, they're no different than Fedex bringing packages across the border.
But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to circle drawings
According to the book Autonomy, he was a pioneer in the field of self-driving car, and excelled at making things happen. That said, he was always controversial and ethically dubious even when he was in Google. As the org that he was in grew larger. And he certainly failed in large enough orgs, such as Uber.
Ashton Tate... whew, that rings bells.. dbase3 and foxpro :).
Thanks for the walk down memory lane, I get nostalgic sometimes for my C64 too.

And I'm not -that- old :)
How does that affect this?
It's clearly not a satanic pentagram but apparently some sort of authors inside joke. Sure, it's based on it, but as you can see there's more elements added https://imgur.com/PxKw5Yw

Throughout history five pointed star or its variations have been used in various cultures, ideologies etc. so I don't see it as a "deal breaker".
I'm pretty sure your comment misunderstands the original comment, and even if it didn't, it is rather aggressive.

Why are web-technologies suddenly inferior to native technologies? Maybe I want my playlist to be accessible through a website from all my devices instead of having to download a native app on each device.

The company saves money/releases an app that would otherwise never have existed, and I get to use a service in a consistent manner across all platforms. Oh, and web-apps are more secure because they have less permissions than a regular app.

The author of the comment said web-app. That probably means a progressive web-app. This means there is an icon for the web-app on the home screen (like a normal app) and the user interacts with it, like a normal app, although in reality, everything is being handled by the browser behind the scenes.

> Progressive Web Apps are installable and live on the user's home screen, without the need for an app store. They offer an immersive full screen experience with help from a web app manifest file and can even re-engage users with web push notifications.

I would argue that in this case it makes sense for the progressive web app to have all the capabilities of a native app since that's what it looks like to the user.

Of course, if by web-app, the author means "a tab inside Safari browser", then the behavior is logical and your comment makes sense, we wouldn't want Safari to churn through iOS battery.

> That's good. I don't want garbage in the background to do anything javascript-related at all.

Why is "javascript-related" garbage better or worse than native-related garbage? Arguably, "native-related" garbage is worse because it can do more to your phone than "javascript-related garbage".
As long as you stay away from the bridge and the packs of tourists, sure. But I quickly found myself wanting to over the bridge to get different/more challenging routes.
Indeed. But that's yet another topic isn't it.
I've been fasting weekly for a long time (after starting with intermittent fasting). I'm glad to see an article like this because I've been waiting to try fasting every other day. My subjective observation is that there is a misconception of what the body does with nutrients and that is why in general people won't think of even trying to fast ever.

To use contrasting analogies, it seems in general the perception is that the body works like a car and you have to re-fuel it every few hours in order to keep going. However, from my experience I think the body is more like a factory that creates its own energy. It needs materials, from which a part is used for energy, but thanks to having storage, you have plenty of supplies to keep going until the next shipment of resources arrive. In other words, fuel is burned in proportion to the user of the car, but factories don't necessarily use their materials as soon as it receives the shipment. Factories can store resources and their use is scheduled for a later use.

Therefore it is better to optimize for quality of materials, rather than frequency of consumption! Your body will use the materials it gathered from the past few days of consuming food (no citation here, but again just my experience), and the only problem of not eating is the BRAIN's expectation of eating food every day and that feeling of satiation, which is basically a hit of dopamine and not a true sign of wether you need materials and/or energy to survive.
Chrome employs a neat trick where background tabs have all timers set to at least 1000ms:

https://codereview.chromium.org/6577021

Works on mobile as well.
SpaceX Starhopper ‘hops’ to around 500 feet
It's an interesting layout but has an annoying feature I've noticed in similar infographics. The division looks like it should be proportional to occurrences, but it is not.

EDIT: appears i was bitten by how I was viewing it originally - downloaded the graphic and it appears to be roughly proportional with areas (i.e. I didn't find more than 10% error)

mea culpa!
A mythical form of space propulsion finally gets a real test
Interesting! So you were right to call it an assertion rather than a cast
A+, the Programming Language of Morgan Stanley
WorldBrain's Memex
How does making things more complicated make it easier? How does windows explain to users that folders they can see don’t actually exist and ones they can’t do?
That talk was at CCCamp 2019. I'd say most attendees looked like that.
>I don't think anything magical happened in 1971. Rather it was a collection of events that spanned into the 1980s...

How can you look at those graphs and not see the unmistakable, virtually overnight phase change? There are lines that run together until 1971 and then diverge. There are lines that cross axes in 1971. There are lines than run flat, and then begin a meteoric ascent in 1971.

The whole point of putting these graphs together is to show that something sudden happened then.
It would be cheaper as a society for us to just pay one-time to relocate these people to more populated areas and set them up with new jobs (if they can work), and then cut off many of their services. Those who choose not to avail themselves of the relocation offer would then have to pay extra for services.

Why is our society responsible for subsidizing rural dwellers' lifestyles anyway? Note that I'm not talking about people living in small towns. These people choose to live this way because our society subsidizes their lifestyle, and don't actually need to live there. People who do (e.g., farmers) don't need any subsidy as they make enough money to afford living where they do. I grew up in the rural South; these people aren't actually contributing to the economy in any way, they just like living in the middle of nowhere, and are enabled by cheap gas prices and the subsidized provision of many services.
See the Most Beautiful 4 Minute Tour of America
>> NYC and SF (which are both very bike friendly).

What? You need to visit some more cities. Just because bikes & cars co-exist in a city does not make them bike friendly.
The idea is to link to the previous post when it had "significant attention" whatever than means (something like at least 20 upvotes or comments?).
More details in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
It occurred to me that the portrayal of Union workers as care-free, rather than sternly walking a picket line, completely changes the impression I have of them. Specifically, I think I naturally feel more sympathetic to a smiling face. Have modern progressive movements experimented with using more positive imagery? (I'm more familiar with stories of angry protesters than happy ones)
SEC Chief’s Crypto Skepticism Sets Up Facebook Clash over Libra
Many of us do not believe IP is a legitimate property right.
Just FYI: EEE-class ships carry ~18000 20' equivalent containers. That's $11.5m per journey.

Presumably they make a profit on the journey to N. Europe, and take a loss on the return.
That's because Mozilla literally owns Pocket, and sure, it's also perfect for an extension. So you can see why they might be willing to take on that maintenance burden for an uptick in usage.

And I'm not sure how that invalidates anything I said above, or really is of any relevance at all.
> For example .. In fact this problem is so common ..

So whats the problem here? Assuming there are no misconfigurations anymore, and just spiking loads.
I think a lot of this comes down to resources and innovation.

As more money is invested and spent on research and development of new ideas, I think some things will eventually start to work providing a solution to these issues.

For more money to flow into the ecosystem, we need people to see value from being carbon neutral personally.

If you'd like to become carbon neutral, I'd suggest you check out https://projectwren.com/
There's something deep here with respect to the underlying noumenal nature of the Universe, waves, and information in general...

Note to Future Self: Revisit in the future...
If Win10 would just let you do what you want instead of forcing you down various half baked paths it wouldn't be too bad. I ran Server 2016 for awhile, which had a few drawbacks, but overall was a much better experience. The lack of customization for basic stuff is obnoxious both in Win10 and Server2016, and third party solutions to core windows things (Start Menu is a good example) can be hit or miss.

I'd be a little more generous if this most recent round of Win10 update hadn't messed a bunch of stuff up which was working, and rather than spend 4 hours googling esoteric windows registry settings I think I'll just switch to Server 2019.
"If you buy us, you'll also buy some Waymo code"
Yes. Was visible in Tim Dodd's stream. Some people speculate it was part of the landing cladding.
This California effect of lax regulation is also credited with the move of motion picture production from NYC to Hollywood in the early 20th century.
What's Next for Vault and Kubernetes
Ditto, and I get them occasionally.
Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?
The Pu-Erh Tea Brokers of Yunnan Province (2017)
This is Google harassing him.

They can't sue him in a civil suit, because, as a Google employee, Google made him sign an arbitration agreement. There's already been an arbitration between him and Google, there was some settlement, and Google is now barred from suing him.
The comment I responded to did not add substantively to the discussion, and I pointed out why.

I am not "policing" anything. I have no power to arrest someone or censor someone for being an asshole online. I expressed an opinion about the kind of community I'd like to be a part of. Also, it seems like you're doing what you're criticizing me for. I don't think the world's got enough of minding one's own damned business regarding people's health, body, and appearance, and that having more of it would make a positive difference. This conversation is about the science of fasting, not whether Jack Dorsey looks thin.
Note the use of past tense in my comment. And oil still flows, as a liquid, from wells. Sometimes thicker, sometimes more volatile. But liquid.

The most productive wells and fields tended to be heavy initial producers. Among the most prolific single wells I'm aware of is the First Oil Well of Bahrain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Oil_Well,_Bahrain

Drilled in 1931, initially flowing at 9,600 bbl/day, peaking at 80,000 bbl/day, and (as best I can make out still producing at 35,000 bbl today, 89 years after first oil.

Contrast with stripper and marginal oil wells, producing 10-15 bbl/day, or less.

But even a stripper well produces a liquid, which stays a liquid (modulo condensate and NGLs). You can pump liquid from the ground, and store it in loosely-covered tanks. It will flow through nonpressurised or lightly-pressurised pipelines.

Methane hydrates are solids which sublime to gas. You can't pump solids. You can't store gas in unenclosed containers. Piping requires pressurisation, cooling, or both. This is done, yes, but gas remains generally more problematic than oil. Whilst not an intractable problem, it's a more technical, constrained, limiting, and expensive prospect.

Something tells me that "a little warm water" becomes a more complex prospect at deep-sea depths, pressures, and temperatures.
Here's their getting started page (not terribly mobile friendly though)

https://zerotier.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/8454145/...
The Librem 5 isn't designed for people who use WhatsApp. Signal and some other actually private messengers should work as they already have official Linux clients.

That said I currently don't plan on buying it, simply because right now I'm not heavily relying on the phone. It is however the first phone released in the last ~5 years that I'd call interesting and unique.
I would think that doesn't belong in a gathering of childhood fatality statistics, pretty much by definition.
Government works on law not on what makes sense, if the punishment you are describing is not in the law. they can't do it! and have to process all the filings.

I think just about all legal systems have catch-all regulations that allow for fines for abuse.

Moreover, law isn't actually mechanical rules like computer science - people who skirt the law systematically often find themselves facing serious legal problems and intention is a big consideration in some (but not all) regulations. "Obstruction of justice", "contempt of court" and so-forth are broad statutes that let courts lean on those abusing the system. etc.

The actual problem, I'd note, is that courts and cities are much more hesitant to go after large, monied interests as compared small interests. A local crank doing what Uber, Airbnb or others do could go to jail, these companies just count their money.
This is typical of most "growth" companies. Yeah, the revenue doubles.... but so do the losses.
>> Robert C. Martin: Smalltalk was also an image based language. Very few programmers have ever wrapped their minds around what that really meant. So, unfortunately, the language languished compared to all the text-file based languages. <<

Where is the evidence?

Back in the 1990's IBM taught many of their consultants Smalltalk, and researched what made learning Smalltalk difficult —

Smalltalk, although recognized as a good platform for rapid prototyping and software reuse, is widely regarded as difficult to learn. Unlike learning a procedural language like Pascal or C, learning Smalltalk is dominated by browsing and code comprehension. Learners of Smalltalk typically experience a long, slow start-up phase in which they become familiar with the class hierarchy and object-oriented computational model but do little meaningful work (our colleague Dave Smith calls this "climbing the Smalltalk mountain").

Programmers having to wrap their minds around the class hierarchy and OO was seen to be the problem.
Both practices are bad. Sharing passwords and weak passwords is doubly bad. Don't do that. A $47 billion company like WeWork should know better.
Between this, andy rubin, and all the nest stories, the "leadership" at google has demonstrated a willingness to enable tons of borderline behaviors.
Does Nextcloud have end to end encryption on it yet? I'm a fan of it but until it does I might wait
There is no such common understanding. Everyone has their own subjective understanding of such questions. Who are we to judge whether they're right or wrong.

Please justify your assertion that self identification of being Asian should be cut off based on ancestry at 1227. It seems awfully arbitrary. Do you actually have a logical reason for picking that year, or are you just making things up to suit your own preferences?
Thanks so much for sharing!