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Retool (YC W17) hiring engineers, designers, developer relations, etc. in SF
Hi — we're Retool (https://retool.com), a fast way of building internal tools. We launched on HN around a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966).

We're a small team based in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA.

Business-wise, we're profitable, growing revenue quickly, and well-capitalized. (We recently raised a Series A from Sequoia. Other investors include technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.)

Culture-wise, we're a small group who enjoys solving problems and working hard. We work closely with customers, and iterate quickly. We spend our days typically either writing code or talking with customers.

The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (go talk to any customer!), and whose usage is growing rapidly.

We've significantly de-risked the business (e.g. have significant revenue, have a good amount of paying customers, have raised $20M from Sequoia, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of stuff to figure out as well. For example:

- How can we quickly ship new products while keeping current customers happy?

- How do we design the UI/UX for a new programming environment?

- How do we concisely explain what Retool is, without a 4 minute demo video (https://retool.com)?

We're hiring for many roles, including engineering, sales, developer relations, customer support + success. We think you'd be a good fit at Retool if you enjoy:

- building things,

- deciding what to work on, independently, and

- getting things done + managing yourself

If you're interested, please email me at david@retool.com. Thanks!
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So this is cool, and I hate my current business bank (Bank of America). I've been waiting for someone to tackle the "banks suck" problem.

But FTA:

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"It’s not a bank, but in practice, it can replace a bank"...Brex now has many similarities to a bank...Brex Cash is backed by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), a nonprofit agency overseen by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that insures up to $500,000 and specializes in protecting customers of brokerage firms from the loss of cash and securities.

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Can you guys elaborate on this in non-marketing/PR speak? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...

Yes - I understand that legally a "bank" is a very specific and highly-regulated thing, so what this sounds like to me is that it's hard to expensive to launch a bank, but if you launch something that's basically a bank without calling it a bank (but in partnership with a bank) you can get around the regulations.

Do we want you to be getting around the regulations? Are those regulations in place to hurt or help us (the business owners)?

I'm genuinely curious here -- I am seriously excited about a real, digital-first, intelligent, non-physical business bank. But I'm immediately concerned that you're trying to "move fast and break things" and frankly I don't really want that when it comes to my business checking account.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I'd missed Pedro's post when I wrote this. To quote:

...because traditional banks separate checking and savings accounts, customers earn a lower yield on their money as a whole. Instead, we chose a different structure: customers put their cash into Brex Treasury LLC, a registered broker-dealer affiliate of Brex Inc., that invests the cash in low-risk securities, such as U.S. Treasuries.

This sounds..."clever". Do I want my corporate card to be clever? Totally! Be clever. Do your thing and put Amex into the ground.

Do I want my bank to be clever? I'm not so sure...
Which is going to be great, except for the older MacOS devices I have which won't update to Catalina. My old MacMini file/media server is doing a sterling job, in spite of having been left behind by Apple.

Lucky cron and rsync is still a thing...
On the other hand, plenty of people working other jobs that would like to have 2 entire months off every year.
> Interest compounds geometrically and wages grow linearly.

That doesn't seem right -- wages should grow with inflation.

Maybe there's a difference between the growth rates of the two, but I don't see how wAge grows linearly.
Commissions were only 7% of Schwab’s revenue. The real money is in 1) net interest on money in settlement funds, and 2) payment for order flow. For details see e.g. Matt Levine’s most recent news letter.
I recall reading somewhere that internet shutdowns during protests are usually counterproductive. People who were previously only voicing their frustration online or passing the time with entertainment are suddenly left with a lot of free time on their hands. While a shutdown can prevent coordination on the national scale, it can't stop people from taking to the streets and organizing spontaneously.

EDIT: Found my source: https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/05/06/shutting-down-social-med...

"Under a blackout, each successive day of protest had more violence than would typically happen as a protest unfolded with continued internet access. Meanwhile, the effects of shutdowns on peaceful demonstrations, which are usually more likely to rely on careful coordination through digital channels, were ambiguous and inconsistent. In no scenario were blackouts consistently linked to reduced levels of protest over the course of several days. Instead of curtailing protest, they seemed to encourage a tactical shift to strategies that are less orderly, more chaotic and more violent."
Yeah, but with such a short distance between the wheelbase I'm not sure how important this would be apart from the very tightest of corners.
"All this means is we get a conservative spin on the question rather than the usual liberal one."
You have excellently explained the purpose of comment you responded to.
The result would be millions of parents scammed out of the money...
useful quick watch:

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2019/10/ira...
It really irks me that comments like this are downvoted, including my comment on Tesla. Presumably it's from people who drive Tesla. Come on guys.
I had friends tell me I was taking an unreasonable risk by quitting my job at Microsoft early in 2009, but I couldn't take it anymore and left anyway. I took a couple months off to work on a Burning Man project, spent a year doing contract work and messing around with electronics, then got a job doing firmware. It was fine. I would have made more money if I'd stayed, but not enough to make the experience worthwhile.
Another point which needs to be brought up is insurance. If accidents are being caused by this technology, insurers are eventually going to either: increase rates on cars with FSD, or just stop offering insurance on cars with FSD.

IMO if Tesla were really confident in their summon technology, they would cover accidents with it themselves. Relying on errors with their technology to be covered by outside insurance is reckless.
> Doesn't take much to disrupt a radio-based service

Particularly satellite signals, because they're very weak to begin with.
IANAL, but it seems like the most conservative expectation (baring some new law or clarification) would be that you're simply liable in the same way as if you were driving if something bad happens. Similarly, someone with standing might try suing the automaker if autopilot was implicated as defective or unsafe.

It's probably not clear yet how safe the "summon" feature is. Presumably the sample of it's performance is still small, but those videos don't look very encouraging, not just in the sense the car made "mistakes" like failing to yield, but also qualitatively. I would certainly have misgivings about being responsible for the results.

It seems like a less risky strategy to improve fully autonomous operation this way then on the freeway, but still risky. Perhaps the thinking is that parking lots are expected to be low speed, low stakes environments, and the car is pretty good at detecting pedestrians and avoiding low speed collisions, so the likeliest problem is property damage. However, people have a way of occasionally doing things that are hard to predict or imagine when we are defining our safety assumptions.

In the worst case, a wrongful death suit or something similar might be affordable in dollars but probably not publicity. Even a few less severe accidents seem likely to test the patience of both regulators and the public. Maybe autopilot will get better with more real world use and training data. Or maybe it won’t, or not fast enough. I’m really curious to see how this turns out, but not be being personally responsible when somebody gets hurt :(
I moved myself to this, along with the family plan ($99/USD/yr, IIRC). The nice thing is that you can still buy the Office suite separately if you want. The other thing is I finally wanted to settle on "one" cloud storage provider for me and my family, so the addition of OneDrive sealed it when combined with Excel.

Honestly, Office365 is something of a model for the SaaS software I've bought: the core offering (Office) is still available with an eternal license, but the SaaS offering is very good, well priced, and the value add of OneDrive is great when competitors charge for storage separately. There are a lot of issues with SaaS (velocity, feedback loops) but they did this one right, I think.

(The funny thing is I have an iPhone and almost exclusively use Linux, so obviously I live in a bizarro world.)
I do get that dealing with the main argument and providing a counter argument is hard, but I don't think you can actually win an argument by attacking the credibility of deliverer rather than the argument they propose.
Dropbox has equal access to your files as Microsoft does. Which is why Syncthing/Bittorrent sync is very useful.

It's also limited to just being a shared folder feature.
When I say robotic I'm not referring to the reptitiveness of the work.

I'm talking about the singularity of focus and mind founders often posses for things that are utterly mundane. Making an energy bar is surely exciting at first. Creating recipes, working out deals to sell them, building a brand.

But at a certain point your energy bar is about as good as any other. And it tastes as good as any other. And your branding is as good as any other.

And the only thing that really differentiates you is how well you can wedge your prybar into the market. That work is really mundane but there is a type of person that thrives doing that.

I've known a few people in this situation and many of them are like this guy. When the struggle is over, the mission is achieved and they just kind of shut down.

They've spent so much time obsessing over how to sell a freaking energy bar that they've never developed themselves or their passion.
Perhaps. I'm not saying there was any divine knowledge involved, whether about interest or pork. It's just that if you're looking for evidence in favor of the quote at the beginning of this thread, these three organized religions - one of the longest-living cultural institutions on the planet - are good examples.
True, but jamming is even easier (and cheaper) -- particularly if you aren't especially concerned about incidentally jamming nearby frequencies.
the shia are also protesting fwiw

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraqi-police-open-fir...
> I believe (although I can't find it now) that it was Nassim Taleb who said something like, "Every truly long-lived civilization has banned interest."

Sumer? Babylon? (Pre-Islamic) Persia? (Pre-establishment of Christianity) Rome?

Did Taleb say it? Maybe. Is it true? No.
If you're looking for a dataset, the GAIA project public data releases[1] are probably the best you'll find.

[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
Would be a good deal in most parts of the Bay Area! Though I'm surprised San Diego is this expensive.
I'm interviewing for the first time in years, totally forgot how degrading it is. For one company had 1 interview/week (each relatively short) for 4 weeks, passed the technical (my third interview) and then the 4th/final interview I was asked 95% the same questions that were asked in the 2nd interview. I gave the same answers. And then I was turned down.
Cosmic Origin of the Chemical Elements (MIT 8.007, Fall 2019)
Schwab is an ethical company, in stark contrast to most banks and other financial institutions, that view their customers as revenue opportunities to be harnessed for maximum profits. Happy customer for years.
> That's my dispute. We know X will kill you in a certain time frame. We have thousands if not millions of data points. I fail to see how the control group is really telling you anything you do not already know.

I don't think you understand the purpose of the control group.

It is irrelevant how much we already know about what Alzheimer's disease does, because the control group is not intended to tell you anything about that at all. The justification for the control group is not that it will tell us something about what Alzheimer's does.

The purpose of the control group is to determine if the treatment works. That's it.

You seem to be suggesting that when doing a research study of a new treatment, it would be unethical not to give this treatment to everyone on the planet who has the disease. That makes no sense at all. The experimental treatment may do nothing for them, or may actually harm them. Giving an experimental unproven treatment to everyone would be unethical.

If you want to argue that it is unnecessary to have control groups in an experiment, you need to first understand what the purpose they are said to serve by those who believe they are important (which is pretty much any statisticians or methodologists).
After I saw this happen a few times, I stopped taking the time to carefully place my trash, and just held onto it until I found an emptier receptacle. After all, emptying public trashcans is already a terrible job. The garbageman isn't carrying a broom and dustpan. Why make his job more difficult?

(I would distinguish public trashcans like this from e.g. commercial trashcans for the use of customers of private businesses. First, they should never fill over halfway. Second, the whole thing should be kept clean. Anything else is a failure of management.)
Is the galactic center moving and if so how?
Hm, they all look kind of slow and Telerik's demos were broken on Firefox (the comboboxes wouldn't work). Only matblazor's demos looked responsive enough.

Though they all seem to provide basic controls like checkboxes, sliders, date pickers, etc. Shouldn't those be part of the core Blazor toolkit?
On one hand, I would ask why? I always have my phone with me to use as a hotspot and I usually have my cellular iPad. The iPad can last 24 hours as a hotspot (https://www.imore.com/yup-ipad-air-still-gets-24-hours-batte...)

On the other hand, seeing that I always have my phone with me, I don’t need my cellular connection with my iPad either and I could save that $20 a month.

I do wonder if even T-mobile would be as generous with data with a laptop as they would with a tablet.
Great video from 1937 on differentials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
Ah okay, so you don't actually care about the selectability - just the immutability.

In that case a third party is the answer and has been the answer forever - if only the bank has a paper record of your mortgage then you have no guarantees they won't alter that contract on the sly - if it's lodged with a mutually trusted third party that doesn't have a vested interest with either participant then you're safe. The best I've ever seen with physical documents is a guarantee that the document hasn't been tampered with, but there isn't really a way to prove which document is the real document.
Including US culture 50 or more years ago, when most programmers were women.
> Redis is one of the simplest data stores around to use and its persistence is solid.

I've lost countless amount of data in production systems running Redis. Haven't ever lost anything in Postgres. (I still run both.)
They use Payment for Order Flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_for_order_flow

(Just like Robinhood - https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001400766...)
It's covered by The Jargon File.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html

> wheel of reincarnation

> [coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)]

> Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.

> Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Samsara, and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea.

This applies to all types of coprocessors and hardware offloading. But it's pretty funny to think that the effect is first observed in GPUs, and today the main player is still the GPU. The history is already established, 50 years ago.
NTWRK (https://thentwrk.com) | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | Los Angeles, CA (LA, Hollywood) | ONSITE

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We're growing fast and are backed by great investors: Jimmy Iovine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Foot Locker, Live Nation, and more. Our team is made up of engineers & leaders from top tier companies including Facebook, Y Combinator, Snapchat, Legendary, HBO, and Fullscreen.

We're looking for engineers who can hit the ground running and contribute to our Golang backend and React/React Native front end.

Our engineering team is small and growing quickly - you'll play a pivotal role as an early member of the team.

Shoot me an email and I'll get you fast-tracked in our system! alex@thentwrk.com

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> The United States has often chosen the latter

Seems like it's usually a government that's popular with its people that gets overthrown and replaced by a "democratic" government.
On a related note, I just moved to the USA yesterday and am not sure where to open a bank account.

I don't need anything fancy, but looking at Nerdwallet it seems the traditional banks each have different drawbacks (one or more of: monthly fees, high fees for ACH transfers to other people, fees for incoming wires, poor customer service etc.).

I see that N26 now offers a US bank account, but it's via a partner bank I've never heard of.

Where would you open your first US bank account in 2019?
Indeed. High-gain antennas and some math trickery can compensate a bit (see e.g. GPS and its below thermal noise floor signals), but I don't think a commercial transceiver could in any way win with a 50kW signal on a broadcast antenna turned jammer on a nearby hilltop.
> My issue isn't with the feature of driver signing but its application. I can choose to be in test signing mode on Linux or not, and if I am, it doesn't gimp the system in arbitrary ways.

I don't know what "gimp the system in arbitrary ways" means. I've been running Windows in test-signing mode for years with no problem. Microsoft doesn't officially bless it, but that doesn't exactly matter in any material way.
> zebra mussels have helped clean up Lake Erie [...] modern druid, who laments that humans so often avoid the ecological solutions mother nature has provided us.

Zebra mussels are an invasive species that were transported to Lake Erie (and the rest of the Great Lakes) via unnatural and unintentional methods. They also make murky water more clear which does not have anything to do with how clean or healthy a body of water is.

They're more like cane toads in Australia than the restoration of the wolf population in Yellowstone.

But apparently they make for bigger salmon in Lake Ontario https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=878434... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you for pointing that out. I have to use Windows 10 often enough to wish for something like that, and had been looking, but FancyZones was the closest I'd found yet.
Its relative, I have plenty of friend who work in restaurant, they wouldn't want to trade with my software job. True that software development job is physically lot less demanding but for them its mentally exhausting.
The largest amount of revenue comes from the interest spread on cash balances that people have in their accounts.
Not this minimal, and not restricted to two to three tokens :).
Tesla just bought an AI startup to improve Autopilot
And... it's now a soy field /s
1. USA ousts Saddam Hussein, and is obligated to help Iraq transition to a democratic government (because they invasion was done under the pretext of liberating a country from a mad dictator with weapons of mass destruction, instead of the commonly cited argument of securing resources for the American empire).

2. USA backs a candidate and initially gets a government elected that is favorable to the USA. However, these politicians turn out to be kind of scummy and screw up just about everything.

3. Iran realizes that elections can be influenced (they watched the USA influence the first election), and having lots of paramilitary type forces that are trained in information operations, decides to capitalize. They flood across the porous border to spread propaganda (the current scumbags in government make it so the Iranian propaganda doesn't even have to lie, it just has to point out how much the current guys suck).

4. Iraqi citizens, growing sick of the crappy politicians they elected initially, start listening to the propaganda and elect a government friendly to Iran. This is the first time this has happened in a long time, Iraq has not been allies with Iran for several decades.

5. End result- USA invades, eventually loses influence to Iran. The global hegemony USA got outplayed by a regional hegemony because they backed unethical and incompetent sellouts rather than finding a good candidate.
What's cool is that if people take a more nuanced view of gender and sex than saying it can be measured by one test with only two options, it means they can't take the narrow view that either of those things are binary. Here's hoping!
My gf interviewed at google from 8am to 2:30pm (after 2 half-hour to hour-long phone screens).

Northrop Grumman had a (wasteful) 8 hour "college day" that was an hour of technical interviews, 4 hours of propaganda, and 2 hours of arbitrary fluff like team building games among the applicants.

The ~5 or so on-sites I've had apart from NG were 2-4 hours.