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Feather | Senior Software engineer | Full-time | Onsite | New York, NY

Feather is a furniture subscription company driven to provide customers with a flexible, innovative, and delightful way to furnish their homes. We believe that when life changes, your things should be able to change with you — without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process.
Every year, 9.7 million tons of furniture fills U.S. landfills. We know there's a better way by making furniture ownership sustainable and affordable.

In one of these roles, you'll play a crucial part in pioneering sophisticated software solutions. There's opportunity to contribute to the consumer facing e-commerce website, or you might work on the suite of internal applications that solve exciting new logistical, administrative, and operational problems that stem from our unique business model.

Open roles:

- Senior Back End

- Senior Front End

- Senior Full Stack Engineer

Stack:

Front-End: Typescript, React, Redux, Redux Saga, Storybook, Emotion

Back-End: Express, Typescript, MySQL, Redis, Docker, AWS

Benefits:
Our main goals are a high quality product and a high quality of life for our team. To this end, we offer:

- flexible hours and unlimited PTO

- medical, dental, and vision benefits

- commuter benefits

- delicious and healthy team lunches 3x a week

- a product cycle focused on long-term sustainable development

Contact:
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Even if the rumor / report is true it's not from Apple. The 11 isn't even announced and you would want to go from a X to something like an iPhone 8 (according to the report)?
> Few people want to be on the unpopular side of an opinion.

I can't relate to this impulse even a little bit, but believe that it's common. That being said, I don't see how its ubiquity makes it any less a failure of critical thinking ability.

The Internet is a pretty hostile environment for those whose epistemology depends on who's behind the pseudonym: it's not clear to me that shills are going to make these people much worse at thinking and processing information than they already are.

The same goes for those who do have appreciable critical thinking abilities: you shouldn't be credulously consuming the thoughts of any random pseudonym, and the same skeptical habits that inoculate you against dumb ideas from unpaid strangers work roughly as well on shills.
>On the contrary, for many people performance isn’t a factor, but they find the idea of using the same language (and thus code) client-side and server-side appealing.

Transpilation is a better option if you just care about using the same language because you have better control over the DOM and you can use HTML and CSS markup (which is the best widget set across any platform).
Blind people use screenreader software sped up so fast as to be indecipherable to untrained ears. The screenreader can give them near instantaneous feedback about where on the screen they are and what's there when it's so sped up, and with a bit of practice perceiving the sped-up speech imposes no burden at all.
how did you calculate that $2m is enough?
This so much. We had large media organizations and publishers of news/magazines/television/radio for decades and in some instances, centuries, before targeted advertising was even a thing. Traditional advertising is now nearly dead because it's worthless and as a result, media orgs have had to rely increasingly on these creepy as hell targeting advertising systems. Why?

We as consumers never agreed to this. We were never even asked. Make the entire industry illegal, and publishers will revert to traditional advertisement. Again and again it's been made clear that the ad tech industry cannot be trusted with our data, so why do we continue allowing it to collect it and use it to show us crap we don't want?

Throw it all in the garbage. The whole damn thing.
> You're gonna be ad-blasted, have inconsistent video quality, and be given a million popups.

If you're seeing ads and popups, you should get an ad-blocker and update it. No one should be seeing these in 2019. The quality I noted, but I also noted that you can torrent higher-quality video easily.

> Also, the availability is not nearly what you think it is.

> https://www.google.com/search?q=battlestar+galactica+2003+s0....

I clicked your link. Second page of results, first result, was a link to DailyMotion where the full 54-minute episode was available to stream in quality as good as it was in 2003.

I suspect the fact that this shows up on the second page of search results instead of the first is a success of DMCA threats against Google, not a success of DRM. But I'm sure if you added some combination of keywords like "torrent", "stream" or "free" you could get an illegal copy to show up as the first result.

I'm not encouraging anyone to do this. I encourage everyone to pay for content with money, preferably in the most direct way you can so the creators actually get the money. I'm just saying that DRM only affects people who want to do things the "proper" way. People who don't want to pay for content can easily bypass DRM with a Google search.
It depends on the speaker. Some speakers are particularly slow with lots of long pauses and others are faster.

I think anyone can get to 3x but it takes some time to adjust to faster and faster speeds. It also depends on what you are doing while listening. Distractions or listening while doing something else (driving for example) lowers my ability to comprehend. For example on the interstate without much traffic I'll listen to audiobooks at 3x, but in a city or a crowded highway I have to slow it down.
Of course at 1%, or really, any sufficiently small and centralized number, it becomes easier and easier to game the system...

I'm thinking specifically of attempts to artificially inflate crypto coin valuations for members, then quickly sell off before anyone catches on. Should be, I would think, impossible to do that across a large area of the market, but if everyone is investing in index funds, it might be, I would guess.

Nonetheless, for my situation, index funds are the best rational solution. That or hiding all my money under my mattress.
If I never associated a phone number with my account am I safe, or does it also include phone numbers from contacts lists people let Facebook copy?
Man jailed for criticizing court system
When I was a kid, my father worked at a place that was pushing the "Five Nines" methodology for manufacturing. I'm guessing the next management fad should be Seven Something.
I still haven’t mastered it. I trigger it when I don’t want to and can’t trigger sometimes when I want to. I’m still only about 50% successful bringing up the app switcher.
Heads up: when Facebook asks you to give them your phone number to "prevent you getting locked out of your account", they really just want it so they can identify your other profiles in datasets they've bought/own (e.g. WhatsApp). If you've ever given the service your number, you should consider your real identity linked to it.
>$1000/month jobs aren't just limited to cashiers and janitors... They're also starting youtubers, musicians, artists, models, freelance programmers and designers etc, startups and small businesses.

How that plays into the UBI/NIT discussion?

A person in a shitty $1000 job might quit because of UBI, and that's OK.

An entrepreneur starting a "startup and small businesses" obviously doesn't do it to just get to make $1000/month or close. So UBI wont be a deterrent for them to not start and keep going at their business idea.

If anything, it would help MORE people try out business ideas, with the knowledge that even if they fail and lose all their money, they'll still have the UBI to fall back to.

And musicians/artists do it for the passion. If $1000/months allowance stops someone from trying to be a musician, then they shouldn't be a musician in the first place. Where they in it just for the money, and for so little money in fact that they're OK to not be musicians for $1000/month?

As for $1000/month preventing aspiring "youtubers" and "models" from attempting a career, that would be a net benefit of UBI!
Yes, politicians never give up, they will try again.
> to figure out Agile was the way you did software development

This is the problem. This stuff gets cargo culted from one fad to another. I'm curious to see what comes after Agile.

Oh wait! I actually have the answer. It's called GROWS: https://toolshed.com/2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html
Or just use google ads for those regions.

Which probably pays the most anyway because I doubt the Chicago Tribune has a big EU direct marketing department.
Ask HN: Suggest tools to create animation for my AI algorithm?
I am having a tree based algorithm in the decision planning area, and I am searching for a tool to create an animated video of how the algorithm works.
Can you show some apps using Blazor?
I've known a lot of people that push podcasts, videos, and audiobooks to extreme speed. I knew a guy who'd turn video speed up to 8x so he could binge watch a season of generic anime in an hour flat. I knew a girl who'd get through paperback romance novels by scanning each page diagonally, in 10 seconds each. And here in this thread we have a lot of people bragging along the same lines.

I just don't get the point. If you can process content much faster than it was meant to be played, it doesn't mean you're learning much faster than you could, it means the novel information density is low. Any content that can be sped up that much without loss is not worth listening to in the first place. You're just skipping the trite cliches, filler, and obvious facts.

I can read fast, and I typically go through fluffy NYT bestseller nonfiction at 600 WPM. But when I do this I constantly have a sneaking suspicion that I'm just wasting my time. When I read a good book full of new ideas, I barely go at 150 WPM, but the time always feels well-spent.
A family member was a patient in the Psilocybin study dealing with cancer / end of life anxiety and the experience utterly transformed her life in a positive way.

Seeing this center open brings tears to my eyes.
That's a false equivalence, because you're assuming that this system is the only one which benefits the poor.

The worlds poorest will suffer from climate change the most and this system is only making it worse.

They may be (ostensibly) better off now, but their children certainly won't.
Lots of revived interest in psychedelics that is finally coming front and center in no small part due to Michael Pollan's recent book "How to Change Your Mind". Rolland Griffiths plays a pivotal role in the book (and in the real life advocacy and study of psychedelics) and Pollan probably seeded the ideas of psilocybin's potential into the right ears around Berkeley and on his book tour [1]. Think there's a ton of potential here and looking forward to what research comes out of this new group.

[1] The center's operational expenses for the first five years will be covered by private funding from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and four philanthropists: Tim Ferriss, author and technology investor; Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress; Blake Mycoskie, founder of the shoe and accessory brand TOMS; and investor Craig Nerenberg.
Scott McNealy was a protegé of Jack Welch, and Scott applied the Six Sigma philosophy to Sun. There was a whole corporate effort to get people trained up as black belts, etc. During the mid-2000s when the company was struggling, it was quite telling that the first people laid off from any organization were the Six Sigma Black Belts.
There's something that warms my heart about Chromium using "wtf" as a "protocol message".

The chromium bug report is here, for the curious:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=981129

[later...]
This is all I got for searching "wtf" in the source, it looks like an abbreviation for something longer, would love it if someone could fill us in on the full name (or the story): https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%22wtf%22&sq=package:chrom...
Too bad some people can't even reach the keyboard switcher button when holding the phone with one hand. It makes the one-hand options pointless if I need both hands just to activate it. It's now as far to the left of the screen as possible on the X (and above) and I can't reach it with my right thumb when holding the phone normally.
This is still a very Europe-centric analysis though. There are many non-European civilizations that precede Christianity though, are you talking about all of those as well?
Six Sigma, where statistical process control has turned into... a beast.

I would say I've seen 2/10 projects be SPC related. Although 1 of those 10 were pretty loose.
Arithmetic operation in shell script can be dangerous
Not really, Mozilla tells you to use its browser. So does every product. Why is that an issue? You're telling me you want to live a life where people aren't telling you how you should live? Just by the fact of the organization asking the people for feedback is an invitation for people to tell them what to do.

If you don't want people telling you what to do, Hacker News ain't a great place to be.
Or lossy when the decoder has a different volume of data points and extracts totally different information or even info that never existed in the first place. Kinda like those anime/retro game upscaling filters, except with way higher variance on what comes out between decoders, or the same decoder at different times. Gives me an idea for a new JPEG decoder with a floating ADC as input.
It's trivial to know that it has more than one possible solution since less than 8 of the possible numbers are on the initial board meaning any valid solution that is found has a mirrored solution with all of one number swapped for all of another number.
Oh man, our provincial health region recently went through a “Lean” transformation. Talking to people on the inside, it had some positive efficiencies come out of it, but it also resulted in some pretty terrible negative consequences. For example, medication shortages in rural areas, because they figured it would be better to send it to areas that needed it Just In Time. Except... some of those areas only get weekly deliveries, or worse.

Similar story with diagnostic medicine. Smaller laboratories shut down because they were redundant, and then lead times for blood work etc go up because of travel time. We used to have a provincial bus/courier system in place, but the govt shut that down because it was losing money, and the health care system suffered for it. Last I heard, rush samples between major centres are currently being shipped by 3-hour taxi cab rides.
Though I didn't call it out specifically, I wasn't ignoring it, hence the mention of C#.

Again, some languages are unnecessarily wasteful of cycles.
This is, of course, a matter for debate, but as a huge Monkey Island fan, I think Portal 2 is funnier, at least in part because of the excellent delivery of the lines.

Regardless of which title you think is better, though, I think the morale is clear. Never pay more than $20 for a computer game.
Nothing is public/demoable at this point, sorry. They're using Bootstrap with a Material Design theme applied, nothing too special (CRUD). The app I'm working on has a more complex UI.
having done software for scheduling air crew onto planes, one of the biggest factors for them are the various aviation authorities rules / airport certifications etc. That shapes a lot of their lives, but airlines do have their own methods for trying to get the "best" out of their staff.
agile is the new cool methodology
Define "considerable". I'm just about certain that the lawyers are going to be arguing about whether that event crosses the threshold or not.
So Australia, Canada, and the US are going to be returned to their previous owners?

There is zero consistency in these kinds of claims because what is really happening is an influential family with plenty of resources for lawyers is going to grab a shipload of German taxpayer euros using tortured legal arguments.
There is unfortunately no way to prevent that part.

BidRequest Data [0] and Request Time is already enough to fingerprint the user.

"Google prohibits multiple buyers from joining their match tables." part is not technical, it is contract based.

[0] Sample Data from Bid Request

ip: "F\303\006"
user_agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; Pixel XL Build/NOF26V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Mobile Safari/537.36"
url: "http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/popeyes-buttermilk-biscuit-29980768"
cookie_version: 1
google_user_id: "CAESEIMlaNwMN-rtiDFzjwNIX6Y"
timezone_offset: -360
detected_content_label: 39
mobile { is_app: false 3: "android" 8: 1 12: "google" 13: "pixel xl" 14 { 1: 7 2: 1 3: 1 } 15: 412 16: 732 18: 70092 19: 3500 }
cookie_age_seconds: 12960000
geo_criteria_id: 9023221
device { device_type: HIGHEND_PHONE platform: "android" brand: "google" model: "pixel xl" os_version { major: 7 minor: 1 micro: 1 } carrier_id: 70092 screen_width: 412 screen_height: 732 screen_pixel_ratio_millis: 3500 }
They really don't, since they don't reflow. Viewing a PDF paper on a phone, for example, is a nightmare because you have to zoom in and out and pan around to even be able to read the text.
For now. Let's throw some money their way to make search by phone number happen? I have donated just last week and I will do that again next month.
My ideal SE:
Updated camera with gyroscopic stabilization.

No camera bump. Instead, make phone slightly thicker and give larger battery.

Next, remove headphone jack, and Touch ID.

Include edge to edge screen like modern iPhones.

Have option for e-Ink or Mirasol screens, to improve battery life and make it easier to read in sunlight.

Kill switch for cellular baseband.
Rather than trying to exhaustively predict all the pages you could ever want, maybe it would be smarter to build this as a middleware. That way you could also support things like post requests, multiple emojis in a path, or paths off of something other than root.

Additionally, you could allow your code to accept a mapping of emojis to strings. That way people could use other emojis without hammering you to support them, and the same emoji could be used to represent different strings on different sites.

Overall I think its a cool idea, but if I were you I'd be worried about the huge amount of work to extend this functionality as-is if it got popular.
> Deming’s methods became systematized into Six Sigma

I think Deming and anyone who has seriously studied his work would take exception to that. Most of the underlying mental models are missing from Six Sigma, and all that remains is a watered down version of Statistical Process Control 101.
Side question: I wonder if anyone has actually finished the entire Malazan series. It takes some serious dedication. I would be curious of the story still makes sense to you by the end when listening at that speed.
oops, yes I meant Shazaam! thanks for the help!
Nobody is going to space, mate.
Perhaps get ahold of some d2o. It freezes at 38.8°F so (I think) a 50-50 mixture of d2o & h2o would have it's phase change right in the middle @ 35°F. That's an ideal point for refrigeration, and a phase change thermal mass battery has a lot more capacity.
Why?! Why at this topic I get so much ads? Is it a part of their IPO? Or what? What the hell? It's a "little bit" annoying. You wanna share your experience -- go ahead, we're ready to listen.
True, but there are some design differences (including the addition of TouchID), while the 5S and SE are almost identical. (You also mentioned the 5C, which was an alternative to the 5S.)
You would think so, but I've been surprised at the diversity of topics on there. There's especially good stuff for folks who are interested in some of the ideas of people like William Bernstein[0], who advocate for index-based portfolios that are more complicated than the bog standard two- or three-fund ones.

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/William_Bernstein
Just wanted to chime in and let you know conceited was precisely the word I was looking for. You sound excessively proud of your city (SF) to a fault.
I tried this right now with the trick below. 2x was no issue but 3x... that was a big step. It sounded like word salad. As if my brain was decoding the words out of order and was unable to assemble them into sentences.
In an autocomplete + simplify situation you usually type a little more than the simplified version before autocompleting and then allow the hiding to apply a lossy simplification. E.g. when the simplification is substituting a localization ID with the English text there might be multiple IDs mapped to identical texts and then the difference between the IDs is lost in the simplified representation. Differences which might be important, for example if the IDs are for different semantic concepts that map to separate texts in other languages. These simplifications are valuable because they are allowed to be "leaky", they can make the easy case even more easy by leaving the tough ones to the underlying raw, unsimplified truth.
> templates, directives and the prop names all remind me of Angular

Yes, but those are commonplace in any library/framework that uses templates. Like you said, this is just a very superficial comparison. Angular is framework that comes with lots of abstractions, modules, dependency injection, etc. It's a very different beast than Svelte.

> The "rails" that react provided that I found useful where more around opinionated data flow with props (especially with Flux).

Right, but React is only the rendering part. You are probably refering to Redux.
Not that I have much sympathy for those folks, but what does their (il)legitimacy as nobility have to do with their right to own property and possessions? There are solid arguments against their claims, but this isn't one of them.
1) there is a cheap, user-creatable open-source methodology
2) but I have one that is proprietary and expensive
3) mine is better
Bulma Swatch is great.

Shameless plug for https://bulmathemes.com as well.
If the last Half-Life fan game is anything to go by, don't get too excited about that.
Not sure why your being downvoted, if you think about it this is an interesting application for smart contracts where you need less or no intermediary between investors and owners.
Overcast has a great feature where it cuts out pauses and otherwise leaves the speed intact. It easily speeds up podcasts by 30% and more
+1 would thoroughly recommend
The comment was indeed saying that TUI is easier to set up over SSH than GUI.

In my experience, it depends. X can be a pain, but getting a compatible font and terminal behaviour on the client can be a pain too.
The database has been taken down:

> The database was originally found by security researcher Sanyam Jain, who said that he was able to locate phone numbers associated with several celebrities. It's not clear who owned the database nor where it originated from, but it was taken offline after TechCrunch contacted the web host. There is no word on why the data was scraped from Facebook or what it was used for.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-number-l...
> Why even bother with commit messages then?

For me, it's all about understanding context of a change, the "why" (commit message) not "what" (code comments).

I can run regression tests to find where things broke and, with the messages, have a good understanding of the context and mindset the developer was working in.

In my editor, I can select some code and click "show history for selection" and get a complete log of what happened on those lines. If the commit messages are good, I'll have on understanding of the context of the change.

Missing commit messages usually result in "I don't remember" type emails from the author when I inevitably ask what them why they made a change.