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RenoRun | Software Engineer | Montreal, ONSITE ONLY | Full time

RenoRun is one of North America's fastest growing venture backed startups, modernizing the way remodelling and construction professionals run their businesses. We are growing rapidly in Toronto and Montreal, Austin, TX, and our US expansion is underway.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our growing development team in Montreal -- you'll join a diverse team of individual contributors and teammates and help build profoundly transformative products for the construction industry; from just in time delivery of construction materials to online commerce tools, all the way to planning and realtime scheduling applications.

We're currently hiring for three teams: a web development team building our online presence and shopping experience in TypeScript, NodeJS and React; a mobile team building cross-platform applications in Dart and Flutter; and a backend team building the intelligence platform and support APIs in Java (and possibly, soon, Clojure!). Other technologies and providers you'll interact with include AWS, MySQL, Ansible, Prometheus and tons of online APIs.

You can find out more about us at https://www.renorun.ca/ -- we are committed to a diverse and inclusive team and want to hear from YOU.
In general I would ask a relevant researcher if a drug is any good at all for the desired effect, and a doctor if it's the right one from me. A negative response from a researcher is pretty disqualifying (unless it's a fringe opinion)
When you are a privileged American, that's all you can see: people who don't agree with you are the reason why people are overdosing and committing suicide. It's sad.

Just adding to what you said, which is correct, the issue is much more likely to be because the US nowadays is a very developed economy, but socially and culturally it is worse than many of third world countries. The country is only good for a very few. And I'm not even pushing some leftist view or anything. It's more like, there is so much data that says this is completely wrong and in many cases even dampers economic development.

For instance, just imagine if all black Americans would have a degree, how much GDP the US would add? Or if there wouldn't be an incentive for doctors to prescribe a lot of medicine to people?

In the US there are a lot of wrong incentives and this is what is killing Americans and making it look like a silly country when compared to other developed countries. Almost all the other developed countries, if not all, the people live better lives, of more quality, more happy... even though they have lower GDP per capita than US.
Phones have evolved to the point where we no longer have to make phone calls, we can instead use them to send tiny letters to each other.

Nobody I know, and maybe this is self-selection, likes making phone calls. Nobody I know likes receiving phone calls. In fact, at home I never even though about hooking up a phone when I moved 5 years ago. At work, when we moved offices 3 years ago, we never even hooked up the PBX.

The number one voice use I have for my cell phone is the kids' school: 3-4 times a week, one of their computers calls and usually leaves me a voicemail, which Google (badly, but good enough) translates to text. In short: They are sending me voice SMSes. :-)

I loved Asterisk 20 years ago. It was insanely cool stuff. But I mostly live in a different world now.
Ancient South Arabian Script
Dr Denis Roio: We want people to have full control over their data
Please see the FAQ entry about posting job ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

A new who's hiring has in fact just been posted and will probably be on the front page shortly. You might want to post to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419536
”Substantially increase funding for the IRS” (according to her own words linked by @mrep)
Airtame (https://airtame.com/) | Copenhagen, Denmark/ Budapest, Hungary | Full-time, Onsite/Remote

Airtame is a young Danish company that develops a wireless streaming product for businesses and education. We are based in windy Copenhagen but have offices in New York and Budapest.

We're currently hiring:

Full-Stack Engineer - Budapest or Remote (Europe) (https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4307730002)

Senior Software Engineer - Budapest or Remote (Europe)(https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4321086002)

QA Engineer - Budapest (https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/4449966002)

Meet Airtame engineering team: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUqPWEvMlg&list=PLnZhp4hHHk...)
From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
We are a two-person web development team (also hireable individually) with extensive experience in architecting, building, and managing large custom-made applications.

Recent projects: https://codetree.co/case-studies

Throughout the last decade we built Airbnb-like platforms, music streaming apps, healthcare/finance/construction apps, real-time GPS vehicle tracking suites, worked on core systems of big data platforms (millions of daily transactions) and more.

We mostly collaborate with companies, but also have a lot of positive experiences assuming CTO-for-hire roles to work with non-technical founders.

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Location: Central Europe

Remote: Yes, since the beginning of our careers

Willing to relocate: No

Email: ivor@codetree.co

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I specialize in front-end, UX design (Javascript ES6+, React, Vue, Svelte, HTML/CSS, Webpack, Node, etc.), and also do light back-end work.

My partner specializes in back-end, DevOps, system administration (Ruby on Rails, Java, PostgreSQL, Elastic, Docker, AWS, etc.), and also does light front-end work.

Read more on https://codetree.co/
Seems like Google got a good deal.
Navigating the New Seed Landscape
"Sprint Planning" -> "How much work can we overextend our developers with"

"Sprint Retrospective" -> "How much did we screw up from overextending so much"
I'm so sorry. Have you had full blood work done? My PCP had labs ordered that he normally only does for 70+ year olds. This was after more than a year and a half of suffering. I had plead with him to run everything. Pituitary, testosterone, etc.

The most frustrating thing was that doctors doubled down on their initial diagnosis of clinical depression. Surely there's no way that a young, "healthy" male could actually have a problem!

I hope you feel better soon.

I elaborate in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419313
This reminds me of the E-13B font [1] seen on checks since the early 1960s, but in a square format. The goals are similar, produce machine readable and human readable text. There have been attempts to also make a version with alphabetical characters as well in OCR-A [2] in the late 1960s.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A
> He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (Tetraethyllead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known by its brand name Freon

Some would argue that his impact wasn't even net-positive. He might have done it in good faith, but it didn't really work out well.
> Linux won because the GPL has proven to be more suitable to businesses, and especially commercial open source business models as practiced by companies such as Cygnus and Red Hat.

That's an interesting take, but I'm not sure I understand.

Are you saying Linux would've lost (presumably to proprietary OSs?) if it used a permissive license?

If the GPL has been proven to be more suitable for business, why is the use of GNU GPL licenses declining in favor of permissive licenses?

I don't have a hog in this pen and so I'm not trying to provoke. I'd just like to hear thoughts on why it looks so different from where I sit.
Does it have a 6 day battery? My Fitbit does.
The problem with this is that it's prone to error (doesn't have error correcting bits). Unfortunately, that combined with speed of scanning is really what's key for codes.

I have worked in the space, making some strides in speed & error correction.

Some of my public work is here: https://austingwalters.com/chromatags/

Your best bet is actually an overlay of two codes. A regular image (for humans), plus a code embedded in a color space (see linked post for how to do that).
> Have you found any good sleep trackers that aren't wrist-based? Any recommendations?

Unfortunately not. :(

Whoever can crack that nut is going to be very wealthy.
The feeling of never finishing anything is probably the thing I hate must about agile. Just little bits completed off an ever growing backlog.
In two years they'll finally release a smartwatch while Apple is releasing AR glasses.
How many topics do you have time and energy to be “educated properly” on? What are the odds that learning about the issue would lead to a different outcome than what Mozilla is doing? Firefox's openness means it attracts a lot of attention from people who have relatively uncommon preferences but believe they speak for a large group of users and that group tends to portray every disagreement as a betrayal rather than reasoned decisions.
Why isnt it Alphabet buying Fitbit, instead of Google? Does that make a difference?
Clover (https://www.clover.com)| Sunnyvale, CA and Colorado Springs, CO| Multiple Engineering Roles | Full-time | REMOTE

We build the hardware and software that powers the point of sale at hundreds of thousands of small businesses around the world. It really is a great place to work. I've now worked here for over 6 years, even though when I joined I expected to stay for just a couple of years.

We are looking for software engineers to help us with the following:

- API Governance - Staff engineer

- Infrastructure Security Engineer

- Software Engineer - Server Applications

- Software Engineer-Data Infrastructure

- Senior Cloud Network Engineer

- Senior Database Engineer

- Senior Site Reliability Engineer

More details: https://www.clover.com/careers#find-your-dream-job
This has nothing to do with scrum and agile. Or if it does, then they are part of the solution, because one of the rules is that you don't do overtime. If there's too much work to include all features before the deadline, you drop some of the features. Scrum is meant to help estimate based on real work by developers, rather than on overly optimistic planning by managers. They empower the developer and give them the autonomy to do the job the way they see fit.
The race to find the next blockchain unicorn is on in San Francisco
SEEKING WORK | Dubuque, IA USA | REMOTE ONLY

Full snack JavaScript developer well versed in React.js, Vue.js, Node.js, GraphQL, React-Native, Webpack, Docker, and Dokku.

I eat sleep and breathe JavaScript. So much so that my license plate is NODEJS https://twitter.com/joshmanders/status/853640782460456960

I've contributed heavily to open source both in tools I use, and my own code being open sourced. You can see my github profiles at https://github.com/joshmanders (personal) and https://github.com/aniftyco (my company org)

I'm building an application performance monitoring service on top of Google Lighthouse you can see at https://appmetrics.co

I'm available for whatever you need. If I don't know it, I can pick up on it quickly to get the job done.

Email me josh@joshmanders.com make sure to mention this thread.
Diaporama not working on my mobile brave browser and white on lime is unreadable for me
I spend about 70+% of my day in tmux. I usually have 15-16 windows (which I work hard to keep pared down), and some key windows with 6 panes (that I have muscle memory regarding what they are precisely doing). I've got a fairly tight 242 line .tmux.conf that I git sync between my various workstations, with affordance for Linux/macOS/WSL to handle things like the clipboard.

In addition to just keeping all my states managed cleanly, a couple of the many key features that I love about tmux:

o No need for a mouse - this has been a life saver in the past when I was working on a customer site, and they had me locked down on a terminal environment where there wasn't any mouse pass-through for things like copy paste.

o tmux restore/resurrect are a godsend. I can do weekly kernel updates on windows-fast ring/lose power, and get all of my sessions and scrollback history

o A side benefit of the restore/resurrect capability, is that I can tar-ball my session state and have all my scroll back and commands on a separate system.

One of nice tweaks that has made a difference for me is creating new-windows and requiring they be named -

bind-key u command-prompt -p "WinName: " "neww -n %1"

that Ensures all my windows have a name that makes sense.

Love tmux, though, you can go down a rabbit-hole tweaking out your .tmux.conf.
Chrome's example clearly shows that having secure default options, while also giving users more control and educating them about possible drawbacks, is a viable alternative to restricting user freedoms and keeping users ignorant.

The extension was running remote code from Google Translate. The extension's author could no longer run a safe, unlisted extension in their own browser. Mozilla should have no business in what code people run in their own browsers, when that code was distributed outside of Mozilla services.

This is esentially arguing that user scripts, and the extensions which enable them, should be banned too.
We Asked 100 People to Draw Famous Logos from Memory. Here Is What They Drew
Exploring lighter alternatives to Electron for hosting a Blazor desktop app
Cosuno | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | ONSITE | VISA Support
https://www.cosuno.de

We are a venture-funded early-stage SaaS venture in the construction technology space. Our platform automates the bidding process for construction projects and enables general contractors and subcontractors to collaborate more efficiently.

Full-Stack Developer (React)

We are now looking for experienced full-stack developers. As an early contributor, you will have a lot of responsibility in shaping the architecture and development processes, and contribute to product decisions.
Our tech stack is based on React (Typescript), Node.js and Apollo/GraphQL. Ideal candidates have several years of React experience.

Product Designer

As a product designer, you are given the responsibility to plan features from a conceptual perspective, as well as implement the graphical design that our engineering team will use for the implementation.

Great candidates have experience with UX Design as well as product management in startups.

If you are interested, email us at ms@cosuno.de
I recall a story about street performers in London demanding -- and getting -- copies of the videos of them doing their thing which were captured by CCTV. Just because something is performed in public doesn't make it legal to record it, and unless you sign a contract to the contrary, in the US you retain copyright to all original performances.

So... if you posit that your life is an act of performance art can you sue the intelligence agencies for violation of copyright by making and storing recordings of your original artwork (especially if you have the habit of working on your Silly Walk and speaking in impressionistic voices throughout your day)?
I agree, this is not representative of the normal population and calls the results into question.
Americans, Japanese and Korean people tend to do that sort of thing because the work weeks are punishingly difficult. If you worked part-time for a period and put serious effort into thinking about something to do, this question would mostly answer itself. Of course this isn't possible in most working situations.
> However they were slower - but not much

I don't think we should underestimate how much performance differences can color opinions here, especially for something like CLI tools that are used all the time. Little cuts add up. At work I use both git and bazaar, and bazaar's sluggishness makes me tend to avoid it when possible. I recall Mercurial recently announced an attempt to rewrite core(?) parts in Rust, because python was just not performant enough.
Sweetgreen | Senior Data Engineer | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time, Onsite Preferred, but Open to Remote

Sweetgreen is a mission driven company looking to leverage technology to connect people with fresh, healthy food. We are currently undergoing a major technological transition to create a data-centric, technology enabled platform to accomplish our goals, and we could use some help!

We're looking for a core contributor on the data platform/infrastructure team to help evangelize data in the company by building software and creating new avenues for the rest of the company to access our data. We consider data to be our biggest asset to growth, and expect the company to heavily lean on our data platform to drive company direction and impact decision making.

We are an AWS shop, and our tech stack features a breadth of platforms that include Redshift, Spark, Kinesis, Snowflake, etc. We are big fans of AWS, and we'll be sending one of our own to AWS Re:Invent this December to do a brief presentation of our S3 data lake topology!

Interested? Check out the link below! :)

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/sweetgreen/jobs/1939889
My friend used to be into "bending" talking toys this way. My favorite was the bent Furbys they took the "fur" off of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srf1oreJ_Vo
A New Documentary Explores the Underrated Art of Movie Sound
My friends and I have this theory that the top management at Google feels they are extremely close to general AI. With acquisitions like this we would hazard the guess that they want to see what data they are missing that could feed that borg and then buy a company that could supply the missing bits. They just have to promise that they won’t use it for ads. But if that AI gets better and better soon they have enormous new opportunities.
Just a theory though.
Yeah but Facebook got sued for that because those violated existing laws. There’s no regulation around using any data for targeting purposes for most regular or political online ads, and I’m saying that should be the focus when it comes to regulation but have not heard anything other than “Facebook is destroying democracy!”
Cops Destroyed This House to Arrest a Shoplifter
DrChrono (YC SW11) | iOS, Full-Stack, Backend, Product Manager | Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Hunt Valley, MD | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULL-TIME, VISA

If revolutionizing healthcare excites you, join our growing team and help us achieve our mission to build better software for doctors and patients and improve healthcare for all. DrChrono was founded and is led by two software engineers, Michael Nusimow and Daniel Kivatinos. Unlike other healthcare companies, our company is built from the ground up to address modern healthcare through technology and innovation. We believe in open APIs and being part of an open ecosystem.

QA Lead - Sunnyvale, CA: https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/77b0b8d8-d913-47dc-abed-1bfdd...

Director of Software Engineering- Sunnyvale, CA: https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/a83259b8-5c90-4995-bdb4-4a9e3...

Director of Software Engineering- Hunt Valley, MD: https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/5e6ddbb2-d226-463d-b9a6-c2887...

Senior Software Engineer (Python Django) All Locations (Remote): https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/8f0e9a1e-8681-42d7-aa98-c23e6...

Senior Software Engineer (Python Django) Los Angeles, CA: https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/f32194c6-071e-4e1c-a8d5-17c4a...

Senior Software Engineer (Python Django) Sunnyvale, CA: https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/46df156d-71cb-48d0-8172-01327...

Software Engineer (Python Django) Hunt Valley, MD:
https://jobs.lever.co/drchrono/2416b594-e44e-48fb-8b04-51915...

Software Engineer (Python Django) Sunnyvale, CA:
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Software Engineer (Python Django)All Locations (Remote):
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> probably made more sense for IT departments

Yes, the older method of extension side-loading, supported at some point by Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, was for IT departments who created OS deployment images with software (incl. extensions) burned into them. Usually this was combined with Group Policy / Device Profile settings that made the extensions impossible to deactivate or remove ("force enabled") and potentially blocked any extensions other than those preinstalled.

I believe that all the browser makers have, at this point, reached a consensus that deploying extensions directly as on-disk files this way makes it 1. too easy for malware to just set itself up as seemingly "deployed by Group Policy"; and 2. makes it too hard for these extensions to be updated as often as they might need to be, or disabled if the browser-maker declares incompatibility with an API in them, etc.

What all the browser-makers seem to favor nowadays, for IT departments who want to do OS-image deployment, is an approach where the burned-in Group Policy will just list out a set of extension IDs that are to be force-installed and force-enabled; and then the browser itself will do the work of retrieving and installing them (but will still treat them like any other extension as it goes through the install process, vetting it for compatibility, upgrading it through its registered upgrade channel, etc.)

This means that every extension in these browsers now has to live in the browser's extension store—even if it's a private, just-for-your-own-company extension. (Which, honestly, there's not much to be said against; the "enterprise deployment" parts of app-stores don't usually force developers to go through pre-vetting before new versions are published or anything. It's just cloud hosting—with the proviso that, due to having download logs, the app-store can see if your "enterprise extension" has an install profile that looks more like that of a virus rather than an enterprise, and then blacklist it.)

Here's Google's documentation on the Group Policy settings that modern Chrome looks for, for comparison: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7532015?hl=en. Probably Firefox wants to move toward a similar model. And more power to them, honestly; right now, Firefox's extension ecosystem is far too easy a target for malware authors.
I'm unfamiliar with PL/Python. Can you have a Python object be the returned value of a sql query? Because that's a requirement of my example.
If you have an uncommon issue most doctors won't be able to help you beyond a superficial level. Asking a wide range of people is helpful as long as you weigh there input accordingly.
> How do you know this? Are you going to bed with an EEG every night?

I had a sleep study done which indicated I get very little deep sleep, but no apnea.

Another data point is that I remember almost all of my dreams; I could literally write a few short stories if I wanted to every morning. Frequent dream recall is not a good sign since it indicates that REM is getting disrupted. REM is the precursor to deep sleep, so if REM is getting disrupted, you're probably not making it to Phase 3.
California Nursing Home Residents Told to Find New Homes
I think that one of the pervasive problems of these kinds of technology is that each individual violation can be individually tailored to the person in question.

In my opinion, it's not going to be some blanket thing that is immediately obvious, but rather a collection of individual actions taken against individual people in exactly the way that is the least suspicious for that person specifically.

Plus with the level of surveillance, those in control of the centralization will also know the dissidents well before they become a serious threat and can take preventative measures should they need to.