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Affiga | Full time | Remote only

Affiga provides customer data for transactional businesses.

I’m looking for people who (still!) want to work with Ruby, and who are at least a little skeptical of JavaScript SPAs.

Remote only, but US/Canada based is easiest for me to work with.

I’ve raised a small seed round, but not enough to pay a FAANG salary. You’ll get full transparency of the company’s cap table and balance sheet though, and we’ll negotiate an actually-generous equity split.

On the flip side, you’ll spend basically all of your time building and none of it in synchronous meetings.

The team so far is just me, but I’ve got a track record of success — including a successful exit (universe.com sold to Live Nation).

Contact via email in profile.
I did a bit of research and hydrogen fuel cells look to be the most promising alternative to diesel powered shipping. Batteries are a no go, they would be need to be 10x more energy dense than they are today (which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon).
"Nagle is skeptical that the litter basket’s redesign will change people’s behavior, but she says these competitions aren’t futile"

It does seem to address issues like heavy load, but new yorkers with large amounts of trash will definitely just continue to throw it directly on the sidewalk.
Show HN: Sealistings – The Zillow/Trulia/Realtor of Boats?
I told my parents to always think: “Did I initialize this conversation to begin with?“.
If no, don’t act on anything and do your own research and purchase decision.

Workes as a universal solution. Don’t remember where I learned it.
I went to https://pulsar.apache.org but didnt find a "Why Pulsar and not Kafka" -- is there an answer to that, or is this another Kafka competitor with the same strengths and not a specific differentiator?
A dishonestly edited video of Joe Biden signals what’s coming
Are there any known cases of western police forces beating people with wrenches until they gave up passwords?
Was huawei ever banned, or only threatened?
Hey All!

Long time lurker here. I doubt there is a ton of interest on hn for this sort of thing, but my buddy and I have grown up in the boating community due to our location from the water.

The roots of the boating industry are very very interesting. It turns out that boating is basically just an American passion. There are some crazy statistics saying that most boats are made and used in the USA.

Long story short, we decided the avenues to search for used boats on the internet were very bleak, so we created a marketplace of our own!

We would like to eventually work on it full-time, but have absolutely no idea how we could monetize this without annoying ads.

Any criticisms are welcome.

Stack: Rails + VueJS on Heroku

We recently also launched basic React Native Webviews of our app using Expo. It seems to work pretty well, except that the limitations with Expo and React Native become really apparent really quickly haha.

Even if we never monetize and this never takes off, it was a pretty cool personal project to work on.
Making pedestrians go out of their way to get anywhere is a great way to discourage walking and treat it as a second class citizen to driving, when it should really be the other way around.

Plus, said catwalks need to be accessible, so how many elevators are you planning on putting in and maintaining now?

Pedestrian bridges flat-out suck. Better to get rid of as many vehicles as possible and slow the remaining ones waaaay the hell down so that people can walk along streets and across intersections safely.
I had a hard time figuring it out but my sense was these posts were happening over time starting in 1999.
> But for myself there is another factor that has been weighing more heavily on me which is, what do I want to do with the time I have left on this planet?

Please work on solving climate crisis.
Location: Boston

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (Bay Area, Seattle, New York)

Technologies: Rust (since 2014), C++, LLVM

Resume/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_resume_spring_2020.pdf

Email: jason@jpriest.me

GitHub: https://github.com/JustAPerson/

MIT '19 new grad* looking for work in backend / systems software development. Passionate about anything performant. I tinker with compiler and operating system development in my free time.
have you tried using RX with <any language>? it solves these concerns beautifully, albeit with a possibly steep learning curve.
Why is it not ready to go? I used truecrypt hidden systemvolume years ago?

I do not anymore, but did it decreased?
Seriously, when will the frivolous soothsaying on every decade predictions ever stop? As soon as I saw (2) and (3) and below I had to stop reading. They are the same speculative lunatics that attempted to predict the price of Bitcoin to rise beyond $20k. After looking at these latest predictions, I just drew a big sigh.

I'm sorry but even my machine learning crystal ball forecasting an incoming tech crash in this decade is more accurate than the majority of these nonsensical 'predictions'.
Feel free to check out the source code on my GitHub: https://github.com/tvillarete/ipod-classic-js

I built this during my free time over the holidays and thought it turned out pretty great. Would love to hear your feedback!
This is a misleading story. Yes, the stock market rose significantly in 2019. But it had also dipped severely at the end of 2018. When you account for that dip, stock performance has been average.

Example: On Dec 21 2018 SPY (S&P 500 ETF) was trading for $240.70. Today it is trading for $323.07, which is a huge 34% jump. But on Sep 21 2018 it was trading for $291.99. Compared to that high, the increase is a mediocre 10.6%
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: GCP (esp GCE, GAE, GCS, Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery), Python C, C++, Java, some TypeScript, Django (incl rest framework), Drupal, some Angular, Linux, MySQL

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10YuxcfZj5Q4oyZ2WtHXI0XY3...

Email: david at newg dot as
Follow Up Boss | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://www.followupboss.com/about

We are a simple, sales-focused CRM for real estate teams. We’re a bootstrapped, profitable company started back in April of 2011. We are a remote company with a mostly US-based team. We are very customer-centric: https://www.facebook.com/followupboss/reviews and our customers love our product.

We are looking to hire 1-2 Senior Full Stack Engineers. Solve challenging technical problems and put your skills to the test every day. We've processed over a billion emails; per month we send nearly 3 million text messages and handle 700k+ minutes of call time for tens of thousands of active customers.

Strong expertise in front end technologies, we use React, JavaScript, CSS. Strong expertise in back end technologies, we use PHP, Aurora MySQL, Postgres, and Redis, to name a few.

You should have a successful track record for working remotely and can clearly show in past experience the value you specifically brought to the team and to the company you worked for.

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for / Apply at https://grnh.se/4396531e1
Off-course not. However, the economy would change a lot if we were to take that view, and we will have other problems.
Don’t forget giving money to poor people.

Just think of the wage growth and increased recreation if anyone could say “screw it” to bad employers and still have a roof over their head.

Give people a year off for parental leave, then young people get a 1yr placement in increasingly senior positions.
Happy AI New Year Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020
I'm not exactly sure why this was posted here. But I'm glad it was. It introduced me to a previously unexplored trail of the internet. Craigmod writes like he walks: circumspectly. His delightful collection of stories ("diaries", he calls them; found by following his link to Ridgeline) are just like his photographs: intriguing snapshots of a foreign land that's somehow not so foreign after all. What an unexpectedly enjoyable diversion.
PS Did you know 1 in 10 households in the US own a boat? I really didn't think it was THAT popular.
TT2020 is an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (travel possible) | Los Angeles, CA

I'm a freelance developer with 7 years of experience. I specialize in helping early stage companies bring their ideas to life as new apps and websites. Beyond creating a beautiful app with you, I'll make sure we're measuring the right things so you can get the best outcomes. I build apps to allow quick iteration and short feedback loops. My experience at startups has taught me how to pick the right features to build and validate quickly, which saves you money and time. I can help you integrate marketing, analytics, and sales to get the most out of your creation. One of the first companies I worked with, SwoopSrch, I helped take their rough idea of what they wanted to an MVP in a weekend. Then I spent a year helping them iterate on the idea. I spent a few years at Rackspace building massively scalable cloud infrastructure and making open source contributions to OpenStack. Then, I started as the first engineer at a startup, Triggr Health, building apps to help people in addiction recovery and help with mental health issues. One of my freelance clients was the University of Maryland, who I helped migrate some Flash apps to React and handle some challenging performance issues. Another client is HealthJay, who I helped to build an app to track seniors and detect falls. I built an Apple Watch app for them, as well as a React Native app (which also detects falls), a React back office app, and a Node backend.
I've got experience with:

- React Native
- React

- iOS/Android native development

- NodeJS

- Javascript and Typescript

- Python

- Django

- OpenStack, AWS, Ansible, DevOps

Website: https://www.nang.io

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshgachnang/

Email: josh@nang.io
I like your arguments against gun control: murder is illegal already, after all.
You may wish to re-calibrate your irony detector.
Tau, but not amyloid, predicts future atrophy in brain of Alzheimer's patients
Pre 9/11 was almost 20 years ago. Since then most American military installations have controlled access, meaning a DOD id card or something similar (and vehicle decals).

It’s possible people might wander (especially on Army posts) onto ranges out in the sticks, but the actual garrison area will be off limits to the public (esp in the Navy and Air Force). A quick glance at Google Maps for some Canadian military installations shows them without gate guards and open to the public.
I'll point out a couple highlights of why I down-voted you:

* The CBC is not a "branch of government", it's a crown corporation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporations_of_Canada)

* FOIA is American, ATIP is Canadian. Anyhow, of course they aren't "free", no one said they were. It's (at best) incoherent to make straw-man arguments against the wrong thing...

* Just because there are worse things in the world doesn't mean we can't consider lesser ones. It's not like journalists are all only ever allowed to write about whatever you consider to be the single most pressing topic at the time.

* Just because this article doesn't interest you, personally (it obviously interests other HNers, considering it's on the front page) doesn't mean that it's a "Buzzfeed-tier piece of shit article".

* Not all government spending is bad, as you seem to imply, and some oversight is absolutely necessary to prevent corruption.

* This ATIP request resulted in an interesting article that covered Canadian culture, geo-location games and trespassing issues, the health of the ATIP program, as well as humourous anecdotes on how military policy discovered and handled the issue of PokemonGo.
Top Apps to Keep Your New Years Resolution
Location: Northeast U.S.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends

Technologies:

* .NET (Core, Web API, XAML, desktop and server applications)

* JavaScript (Node, Vue, Leaflet, Dojo, mapping and geospatial SPAs)

* Infrastructure (AWS, ArcGIS Online, virtual server administration)

* Python

* SQL

* Misc (federated security, network analysis and exploitation, GIS, technical documentation and policy writing)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ram-tech/

Email: ryanandrew at gmail

I have 14 years of experience in software and system engineering. I'm Passionate about data analytics and mapping. Experience in full-stack web, desktop and REST API development along with all the standard supporting tech/processes like git, Powershell, Scrum, SQL, data design, requirements gathering and basic project management.
And which monopolies were replaced with a good competitive landscape. Nobody is saying innovation can't replace monopolies, just that they are more likely to be replaced by another innovative monopoly rather than several competitive businesses.
Interest rate, Stablecoin and new opportunities
A SaaS company in the analytics & feedback market, Hotjar is a successful, self-funded/bootstrapped, start-up that operates on a fully remote basis, and with an essential emphasis on personal development.

Hotjar | Software Engineer, Frontend | Remote

Hotjar | Software Engineer, Backend | Remote

Hotjar | Engineering Team Lead | Remote

You can apply for any of our roles via https://careers.hotjar.com/
Password Law Enacted in China
Yup. Bikes are 'cars' unless being walked. That includes crosswalks.
Location: Southern Utah

Remote: Yes|Only

Willing to relocate: Nope.

Technologies:

- DBS: Postgres, MySQL, faunadb, mongodb
- languages (ranked by familiarity): PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Elixir, Rust, Golang (Would love to work w/ go/rust more)
- Backend Frameworks (ranked ^): Laravel, Rails, Express/Node.js
- Frontend Frameworks (ranked ^): Vue, React, Svelte, Angular
- CSS: Tailwind, Bootstrap, Bulma
- Mobile: Quasar / Ionic Framework / React Native
- API's: AWS, Rekog, Polly, Fedex, UPS, Craigslist Bulk Posting, Amazon Product API, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Clockify, etc...
- AI/ML: Rekog, Polly, python/NLTK == created image classification to search emails by images in ads.
- Cloud: Aws/Azure/GCP. Learning Kubernetes/terraform.
- Serverless: Some small projects, looking to use more in the future.
- Business: Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Jira, Accelerator (Boom Startup)

Resume: https://patrickcurl.com/resume

email: patrickwcurl (at) gmail.com

Currently working on an open source (soon to be released) SaaS boostrapper w/ teams|plans|projects built using laravel+vue+inertiajs+tailwindcss.

I also work 40-50 hours weekly on freelancing work including a modified clone of reddit for a community focused site.

I've been working in php/laravel since 2013 and have a number of published articles on laravel, linux, vue, etc... at https://medium.com/@patrickcurl

I'm looking for exciting projects as a developer, product manager, project manager. I'm also open to working as a CTO or consultant for architecture planning or as a mid-level devops.
I would assume that whoever that was now has a copy of your keepass database. However, it may be that your computer was simply added to a botnet, in which case the harm done to you personally may be minimal.
SEEKING WORK - US Remote - Front-End Developer

I’m a front-end developer with an eye for design. I can help create a user interface that is beautiful and performant. Though I specialize in building user interfaces, I also have experience with backend development which helps in making me adaptable to the needs of whatever team I’m on.

If you’re interested in working with me, feel free to send me an e-mail at the address listed below.

ReactJS / Redux / HTML / CSS / Ruby on Rails / PHP

Location: Orange County, CA
Email: david@activatedapps.com
> Our 2010 decision to stop cooperating with Chinese government censorship on Search results was the first time a non-Chinese corporation stood up to the Chinese government.

I didn't bother reading the rest of the post after that claim.

Maybe he means that Google was the first non-Chinese corporation to stand up to the Chinese government specifically regarding Internet search?
You might want to check out this blog post I wrote comparing Kafka to Pulsar: https://kafkaesque.io/5-more-reasons-to-choose-apache-pulsar...
I've grown the habit of telling people (in walking context) there are ultra marathons where people walk 5000 km and (in cycling contest) that I know low end cycling enthusiasts who do 300 km in a day - pushing as hard as they can. Their fitness is much closer to ours than to those winning the Tour de France.

In my mind that means looking up to 1.5 km walk or 10 km of cycling really says more about me and you than it says about the distance. The world walking record is 175 km in 24 hours. Think about it, that is much more than a hundred times 1.5km. Someone some day cycled.... over 900 km in a day! Climbing Mount Everest is only 20 km but it takes 55 days!

You have to be in terrible shape to look up to 1.5 km.
SEEKING WORK | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Remote Only

Native iOS developer, experienced in refactoring old code as well as writing in modern Swift. Previous experience includes senior positions at various multinational companies, all of them with apps in top 5-15 of their respective categories. Currently co-founder of a new parent-teen productivity app under development. Up to date with core Apple frameworks like SwiftUI, and very interested in building something on top of upcoming SDKs like CoreML and ARKit.

I have been remote for 5+ years, and would prefer to stay so, but if there's an amazing opportunity that requires a little bit of onsite time, I would be glad to discuss!

Flexible about availability, timeline, schedule.

Email me -- saurabh@gargs.nl

Website: https://www.gargs.nl
lol imagine choosing Ruby in 2019
I find "scream" and "yell" to be incredibly subjective terms, and more often than not applied hyperbolically relative to my meaning of the words.
Location: Moscow

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Solidity, Ruby, Enterprise Stack, Haskell, Java

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/fractastical/distributed-governance/blob/master/my_experiments.md

Email: joel@swarm.com
Are you open to remote work? I am a scala senior data engineering that has built several similar projects (namley analytics based on transactional graph systems) and am currently working on side projects in the space of neuro simulation applied to AGI, but am located in the United States and am not interested in relocation to Europe currently.
Ehh, come on, crises come and go. Humanity will not give up so easily, you can always at least have the next iteration of money. It's only a question of the path. We can start with the most basic question: will it be inflationary or deflationary? Already that is hard to say, and may depend on the currency.

I'd say at least in the beginning it would be deflationary because existing and "approved" monetary tools are close to being maxed out and it'll take time for common people and governments to accept money handouts and other hardcore stimulus plans.

Obligatory read by Ray Dalio on "monetary policy 3":

https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/MMT_%20MP3_MK.pdf
I was curious about this and didn't get an answer, but I found this:

Japan now supports tourism efforts but charging 1000¥ to leave the country!
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/10/national/japans...
This is one of the best designed pub/sub messaging systems available, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
I've watched some of Kitboga's streams on Twitch and you are correct. They will not same do not call your children, but they will say they need them to stay on the line over the duration of the call. In fact, if you do get disconnected, they are very quick to call back.
Take a look at https://ocobook.cs.princeton.edu/OCObook.pdf, and in particular section 1.2. The online shortest path problem is a good example of an online optimization problem that's not related to machine learning.
Realistic Predictions for the 2020's
There's no "best", all of them have tradeoffs. I recommend looking at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ which has an extensive list of various providers along with various privacy criteria.

I also think it's important to understand that despite the marketing, using a VPN isn't a hard privacy improvement. All it does is move the trust you'd otherwise place in your ISP elsewhere. Your traffic is still visible to a third party with unverifiable practices.

Back to the subject of providers, personally I use Mullvad, ProtonVPN, IVPN and NordVPN at various times. Mullvad is great for privacy, IVPN has WireGuard and plenty of locations, ProtonVPN is one of the only providers with a server in Russia (I use it for region-unblocking) and NordVPN has an insane number of locations.
Not just ended with every down, but made a significant fraction of that drop happening on a single day (Dec 24th).

It was a good day to do tax loss harvesting...
AI Powered Search (New Book)
It's a desire to be lazy ;)

The gist is - by having many simple-but-powerful tools along with many simple-but-powerful ways of composing such tools, it makes programming real problems way less intense. The cost of course is the learning curve. So I think of it has shifting variable cost of development to fixed costs upfront.

The end result in my experience is being able to handle more complexity than otherwise (good for side-projects.) Or to handle the same complexity with less time and effort (good for FT engineering...to make room for said side-projects.)

(Those terms actually have very general and simple definitions that I've seen interns learn in one teaching session. But they are infinitely useful problem solving techniques that I use all the time.)
Don't push back. That is, don't try to stop them doing this. It is absolutely within the product owner's purview to change and enlarge requirements at any time.

But make it clear to them when they do this that there is a cost. "We estimated building the profile page based on doing it in one language; we can certainly internationalise it now, but it will take quite a bit longer". It's then up to them to decide whether the cost is worth the benefit.

As long as you are working as well and efficiently as you can on the work you have been given, you can feel satisfied with yourself.

Unless of course you're being judged for schedule slips caused by your product owner, in which case you're screwed, and you should quit and find a job somewhere less awful.
A list of space industry events happening in 2020
Message queues and message logs do different things. The idea of the log is that subscribers can show up after the log is written and read or reread it from the beginning. In an event sourced architecture you use the log as the source of truth and all consumers can replay the log against a local store to reconstruct a view of the system’s state. You also can use a log for pubsub, but if that’s all you need one of the MQ solutions is usually a better fit.
Probably a race condition. I once worked at a bank where the core banking system had a bug where if you asked account data for user X it would about once in a thousand queries return data for some unrelated user Y if the system was under a high load.

The official, vendor-certified "fix" was that since the reply to this query contained the user ID, when calling this API you should always write a do-while loop like:

do {
accountsReply = bankCore.getAccountsForUser(myUserId)
} while (accountsReply.userId != myUserId)

This massive, embarrassing bug was not really documented anywhere, i.e. "silent information". You just "had to know" when writing code against this API that once in a blue moon, it could return data for the wrong user. But only in production, since the test environment was never under such heavy load it could trigger the race.
The problem is people do unfortunately see those things as harming them.

It's a misguided attempt to control the culture of their community, but in their mind I think they really feel threatened and harmed.
Dell updates popular XPS 13 laptop with 16:10 screen, IR camera