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thredUP | Full-time | Remote, NA timezones preferred | Staff Engineer (Java/Ruby)

thredUP is the world's largest consignment and thrift store. We are hiring a staff engineer for our Merch Science team. This team is a nexus within the company, working to balance our two-sided marketplace. I'm really excited about the next few quarters - we are building systems and running tests to better understand the right rate of listings and mix of inventory for our customers, a huger lever for us. If this sounds interesting, my email is ryan at thredup.com.
No they haven’t been violently discriminated against for millennia. This is a common colonialist trope spread about India. Your language alone, using Western words like “caste” to describe a system that doesn’t fit that word, is influencing your perception. Caste based discrimination (and all the negative issues that come with it) is very recent, and was nudged into existence by British imperialism, which relied on divide and conquer to control large populations in countries they ruled. Historically Indian separation of these different groups was more like specialization of economic/cultural roles, and did not have the modern sheen of disrespect/classism/discrimination. Please don’t spread ignorant falsehoods like this.
no offense to you but I try to keep my interactions with facebook limited as close to 0 as possible
"Hospitalization for COVID is, unfortunately, quite common."

Not in the demographic followed in this study. Amongst healthy 19-year-olds the flu represents about the same threat of both hospitalization and death, and flu is possibly a little bit worse than Covid:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

https://www.lung.org/getmedia/98f088b5-3fd7-4c43-a490-ba8f47...
I had the same thought and was reminded of how old that makes me.

Those books were corny as hell but the fact that the hero saved the day with his wits made an impression on me as a young lad.
My comment was not about the candidates. or the parties. it was about what some people are willing to accept as "no lack of democracy".

OK let's revise the options: I'm going to amputate either your left arm or your right thumb. It's quite obvious that you should rather lose your right thumb. And I gave you the opportunity to make a choice. If you disagree that this is democracy, then you secretly want to lose your left arm. Definitely not a leftist.
It's convenient that Digital Ocean has a scapegoat for 2020 but his video doesn't explain the previous years of spammy pull requests.
I’m surprised that iOS still doesn’t support duress passcodes.
And do messages without an ordering key incur the same overhead?
I don't remember. Unused them in automotive applications, so they might need them.
“ Evidence from RCTs does not clearly support the intended benefits of nonnutritive sweeteners for weight management, and observational data suggest that routine intake of nonnutritive sweeteners may be associated with increased BMI and cardiometabolic risk.”

Azad MB, Abou-Setta AM, Chauhan BF, Rabbani R, Lys J, Copstein L, Mann A, Jeyaraman MM, Reid AE, Fiander M, MacKay DS, McGavock J, Wicklow B, Zarychanski R. Nonnutritive sweeteners and cardiometabolic health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies. CMAJ. 2017 Jul 17;189(28):E929-E939. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.161390. PMID: 28716847; PMCID: PMC5515645.
Parent comment is about multiple indians in a reporting group, not just one. This can greatly affect the group dynamic.
I hear your points, and I too yearn for the "good old" internet of yore. The days when the 'weird side of the internet' was the main side. However, two observations:

1. removing the commercial interests doesn't stop even half the trouble. Aside of commerce, there is activism, there is politics, and there is social tribalism. You can't even meaningfully remove those. Given that those three stay, the commercial part allows a counter-balance to the ideological and tribal concerns.

2. the healthiest communities are the ones that don't shy away from gatekeeping. With communities and gatekeeping being the key words. Check out IRC, the Eternal September seems to be fading away and already half way gone. Heck, even HN is a half decent example of a community that self-improves through gatekeeping.
I put “Read Later” things in a pg database via Retool[1], fetch RSS/Atom a few times a day into the same database, and serve it to Fiery Feeds[2] via the Fever API spec[3].

[1]: https://retool.com/
[2]: http://cocoacake.net/apps/fiery/
[3]: https://feedafever.com/api
Heh, I'm likewise the author of a newer Clojure dialect, Clojure RS (https://github.com/clojure-rs/ClojureRS), would that be enough to get considered? I'd love the job just to work with candid82 alone :)

(Also, I was linked here from reddit -- I've never used hackernews mostly, I have no idea if I'm posting this response in the right spot)
> South Asians (Indians) are very much over-represented in the "spam commit" category. And so, if people see this enough, they will build up a natural and understandable annoyance and resistance to future commits from such people.

Try applying this logic to literally anything else in life (say crime statistics) and you will wade into racist territory in short order. I don't see why we get to be the honorable exception.

That all being said, I kind of agree that complaining about it is futile. I think that smart and practical Indian dudes should account for this kind of racism during their career. Hence my advice (which I follow myself) to them to stick to writing proprietary software and improve their skills in that arena. Or play the open source game on extra hard mode, it's their choice really.
I use the Feedbro extension for Firefox, but grain of salt, I only just started using it a week ago. Not sure what features are good for Feed Readers, but this one is great for my office computer. I don't really "need" it to carry over to my other devices like Inoreader can do.
What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
I'm running it on a pi1B ethernetted to my router and it always amazes me when I'm on someone else's wifi or my lte connection.

It also does a good job of blocking pr0n if you're looking for that too
For someone competent at coding, a good way to get into the chip industry is as an embedded programmer, writing firmware. These are usually in high demand in the industry.

If you do want to go straight on, FPGAs are a good and fun option.
Exactly. There are still many temples(Hindu religious places of worship) in India where lower caste dalits are not allowed to enter.
No, they mean that the memristor acts like the synapse.

It was the last remaining basic two wire circuit element (the others being the resistor, capacitor, and inductor). We could model cells, up to the memristive portion, entirely with basic circuit components (albeit in very complicated arrangements). We were missing that part of our bits boxes. Now we aren't, well, sorta. It'll be a while before we get these in our hands.

Also, these things are a bit bigger than just modern hardware. It's as if you just added a new primary color to Bob Ross; everything changes. We're going to need to redesign computers from the electrical-engineering-ground up.

Well maybe, it'll be a few years (hopefully not decades)
Misaligned incentives always cause trouble, scapegoats not withstanding.
Just updated https://github.com/liuliu/dflat/ with Apple's atomics. Seems to be just some naming changes from glessard ones (when doing the change), otherwise a pretty smooth transition.
I'm a big fan of GoG and Bandcamp.

Weirdly, Steam doesn't get enough credit for being DRM-free for many of its games; games that don't ship their own DRM or use Steam CEG are effectively as DRM-free as GoG games are. You can't transfer them out of your account, but you could zip up the folder they reside in and copy it to another machine without problems.
As many people in this and other threads have pointed out, we don't have any prior measurements, so we are absolutely unable to conclude that Rodriguez didn't have myocarditis and constipation of the heart prior to contracting COVID.
I have been wanting to read “The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom” by Nicholas Dirk - that’s somewhat related.

He addresses caste more directly in a later book “Castes of Mind” - but I haven’t read that one either.
Here's a great piece on caste in America: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson...
A strategy I'd think of:

- Make the petition on Change.org or something like that

- Put it on HN (there are a lot of HN'ers who'd want it)
I've used MST on a project and it was everything I'd hoped. Obviously one project isn't a lot of data, but I'd certainly use it again if another opportunity arose.
This doesn't appear to be a prediction market at all. There's no price signal or equivalent constrained property (and no - reputation isn't the same: You can't "stake $X of my reputation on this precise prediction").

It seems to be more like a clone of the Good Judgement Project.

Edit: Apparently there are shares. I can't tell because I'm not in the US/Canada and they don't appear mentioned anywhere.
Or you could just say that you have no caste and don't believe in it. Upper caste Hindus would like you to believe that you HAVE to disclose caste. I am also a convert and straight up tell them that my religion doesn't have the concept of a caste and end the matter there. It also helps that I changed my last name.
I don’t think it would help. All of the value in Reader was its integration with the wider Google ecosystem. Just the mechanics of its RSS interface are easily copied (and have been).
Head of line blocking as a service!
T-shirts are worth significantly more (relatively) in poorer parts of the world. It might be worth 0.5hr of average wage in the us but be worth 5hr of average wage in India.
We have compression enabled for data older than 3 months. This gives us enough wiggle room to insert/modify anything recent.
My partner loves hot pot, so I bought her a home hot pot kit for Christmas last year. At first she didn’t want to use it at all which was disappointing, but then it become a huge hit when all the restaurants closed down for Covid. Home hot pot has now turned into our fun date night tradition on Friday’s where we eat together for a few hours while talking.

Here’s our list of ingredients we like if anyone is curious. Would love to hear other recommendations to try too:

King oyster mushrooms, Shitaki mushrooms, Tofu skin dried, Frozen bean curd rolls frozen, Fried tofu, Bean curd nuggets, Choripdong Oriental Style Noodles, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Corn on cob, Lotus root, Beef (thin sliced), Shrimp

Part of the fun is plating the ingredients before eating and working on our presentation skills together. It’s really rewarding when we can make it look like they do at the restaurant.

After some trial and error, we also recommend the Little Lamb broths. They comes in different spice levels and taste just like the restaurant. All you need to do is add six cups of water: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Sheep-Soup-Base-235-Grams/dp/B...

FYI that’s not an affiliate link, I just like hot pot and wanted to share.

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I've come close to setting up https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode several times. Things like this always demo better than they actually improve my productivity, though. Especially with modern frameworks that don't let you redefine everything. (Odd that common lisp is still head and shoulders above most languages with how much you can redefine at runtime.)
I thought of that, but if you’re wealthy enough to watch YouTube and submit PRs on GitHub, is that really that much of a reward?
Building an Overkill workbench for home office Part 4
This is true, but GJP explicitly isn't a prediction market. Instead it's a specific way to make predictions.

You can't bet more of your points in GJP if you are really sure about an answer, hence it isn't a prediction market.
I think the difference is that you're seeing it as akin to someone saying "I was trying to work out what religion they were."

Yes, it's illegal to discriminate based on religion, but in many parts of the country it's a big curiosity about other people (is he presbyterian?) and so many people may not be able to help privately trying to suss it out.

The difference is that cast is a rigid hierarchy, based on society-accepted discrimination, and there is no reason to try and figure it out other than to decide where they are in the pecking order.
Couple minutes, free t-shirt, I'm sure folks say "why not?"

At the local sandwich shop folks will stand in line for an hour to get a free crappy sub $5 sandwich...

Otherwise some folks in other theads indicated that in some places, specifically india, participating in hacktoberfest and getting PRs was good for resumes and educational recognition.
> Sorry, but stereotypes exist for a reason

Because for very good reasons relating to survival in a no-tech world with dangers around every corner, the human brain jumps to over-generalities.
“Only load the CSS you need” is the piece I don’t have a go-to tool for. Coverage in Chrome DevTools provides a quick but manual way to identify above-the-fold CSS. Critical, criticalCSS, and Penthouse all look like good options for a build process. [1] [2]

[1]: https://web.dev/defer-non-critical-css/

[2]: https://web.dev/extract-critical-css/
By the way, in addition to ordered messages, Pub/Sub has recently gotten a number of new features including message filtering, dead letter queues, and retry policy (some GA, some beta). You can find out more here: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/release-notes

Disclaimer: I work on Pub/Sub
Two charged with felonies in robocall scheme aimed at suppressing voting
'Speculative' is an interesting word choice.

There are assumptions in play, but I doubt they are the ones you are thinking of.

The two main ones are that physics is the same everywhere, and physics is the same all the time. We have no way to say if these assumptions are correct, but we don't have evidence that they are wrong and we do have observations that are consistent with them being correct.

If we take those two assumptions as true, then astrophyiscs is squarely in the middle of the model and measure of hard sciences.

Modelling in particular is wide open for speculation, but there is no reason to think speculative models will be maintained if they are not consistent with measurement. Even the simplest speculative models necessarily have falsifiable and testable claims - if they don't then they don't say much about how the world is.

The nature of astrophysics means that we are able to test and measure in so many ways: near and far, in the present and in the past, atomic scale and galaxy scale. As long as we hold those two assumptions above, we have a lot of evidence and reason to believe our current astrophysical models of the universe.
At first I was like: "There's no freakin' way"

But then, sure enough wolfram alpha: 100,000,000,000,000 carbon atoms is ~0.167 nano mols.
Or ~2 nanograms of carbon. Dang.
$1 for the 2m of cable, another $1 for plugs, $1 for manufacturing costs/packaging/shipping = $3. This results in a market price of $10 (30% goes to the retailer [amazon FBA fees etc], 30% goes to the manufacturer and these have to cover salaries, office space, tax, etc etc)
I found this with literally 30 seconds of googling. https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

Don't be willfully ignorant and don't expect other people to do your homework.
Yellow Messenger | Full Time | Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer | Bangalore, Dhaka, REMOTE (around IST timezone)

Yellow Messenger is a Bangalore based Conversational Engagement Platform. We are a tightly knit engineering team and growing. We have recently raised our series B investment of $20M from Lightspeed Ventures. At Yellow Messenger, we help enterprises build chatbots that help them grow their engagement across all messaging channels. We have a proven solution that works for all industries. We are currently processing over 1B messages per month and growing. Currently we are looking for passionate Frontend (React & Redux) and Fullstack Engineers (NodeJS) who can be a part of our small clan.

What the team uses currently - Language: NodeJS - Frontend: React, Redux - Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis - Infrastructure: Kubernetes - Analytics: Druid - Other tools: Kafka, Jenkins

Requirements: Minimum 2+ Years of experience

If you are interested please mail me at anik@yellowmessenger.com and add [HNHIRING] to the subject.

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You can be pretty damn poor and do both of those things.
Why not? If it takes 3 minutes of effort and you get to say you've been there (a developer) and you got the t-shirt.
That's what I use too. It's better than Google Reader was.
Probably Kafka according to his comment.
Any sufficient large number of people will behave idiotically (from lat. idiota, ignorant)
rss2email: https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Prior to that I was using Miniflux, but I wanted to apply some filters to a particular feed and I realised that I already had a tool with advanced features for filtering and organising short messages with a subject and body: email.
By the time there were 50000 cases we had already lost any realistic chance of eradicating the virus. That's unfortunate but we can't change the past and have to deal with reality. At this point shutting things down causes more harm than good.

Wearing masks in close contact settings may be fine for a few months but it's obviously not sustainable indefinitely. Most likely this pandemic will play out much like the HCoV-OC43 pandemic did in 1889.
I think that there has been a sea-change in computer education over the years. It has become more and more high-level built on abstraction.

Additionally, computers have become both locked down and "civilized".

Say you had an apple computer in the woz era - there's a good chance you had to deal with signals and hardware along with having a bootrom instead of an operating system.

Nowadays, apart from something like the raspberry pi, there's a good chance people have never done assembly language programming, and have never been able to interface with the machine or external hardware.

too bad, actually.
bazqux.com, highly recommend.
Note to the downvoters: This is one of the reasons why betting on elections is illegal in the US:

https://www.legalsportsreport.com/37949/2020-presidential-el...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=122622&page=1
Also, here's a lengthy summary of a wide variety of instances of racial bias in the justice system from policing to sentencing and so forth with links to primary sources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/system...

Again, don't be willfully ignorant and don't expect other people to do your homework for you.
> I have little respect for someone who went into a position of trust with intent to betray.

It’s clear that he didn’t enter the intelligence field specifically to commit crimes against the US. He grew up in a government family, joined the Army before being discharged due to injury, and then entered intelligence.

Before claiming what he did was betrayal, it’s pretty important to look at the circumstances he acted under and how he disseminated the leaked documents.

Speaking of betrayal, he saw the highest ranking intelligence officials blatantly lying to Congress in oversight hearings because he knew all about the domestic spying. The whole “you can’t handle the truth” attitude that was revealed by the military brass was an absolute disgrace and has deeply damaged trust in the US government.

Snowden also placed numerous boundaries around how the information he gave to the Guardian could be published by having final approval on stories. He expressly forbade fishing expeditions and only permitted journalists to write stories that he deemed were in the public interest and not a threat to personnel or ongoing military operations. You’re welcome to review that reporting and decide for yourself if any of it was published purely with intent to damage US national security. Based on what he walked away with, if his goal was truly to undermine national security, he undoubtedly left major ammunition untouched.

When you took your oath to serve, it was to serve the United States, and not Michael Hayden, John Brennan, etc., correct? If you were in a position to see people like that lying to Congress regarding the oversight of civilians, would you not do something about it? Many before Snowden tried, like Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, etc. They followed the rules and didn’t walk out with receipts, and their lives were completely ruined because of it.
I think you are right. I had this part of the comment in mind:

> Then there is the case where if an Indian gets into management, they will start
> filling everything with their friends. Other management positions, they will start
> fighting to bring in some contractors from some place like Infosys.

This was not my experience. I also felt that the overall tone of the comment was negative, so I wanted to share that not everyone has had a negative experience with Indians in management.
Yeah, most people aren't aware of it, but that's exactly the problem with this object fixation we've been doing as a society...when all you do is look at Covid, you can easily convince yourself that Covid is unusual and terrifying.

I personally still have a wheeze (slight, but it's there) from a cold I had years ago. If someone asked me to self-report it as part of a "long-haul rhinovirus" study I might, but nobody ever looks for that.
In the unordered case, there should be no noticeable performance degradation. This was something that we looked into extensively from both the server side as well as with our client libraries.

Disclaimer: I work on Pub/Sub.
Microsoft announces new keyboard, mouse and other accessories
> If your employer doesn't take it seriously, you can send an anonymous note to the candidate, which could support a lawsuit or complaint to the labor board.

Unless your concern rises to whistle-blower levels with external agencies, that sounds like a quick way to be fired.
Hmm.

From the Firmware Liberation Project page[0]:

"Second, depending on what subindustry (i.e., specific class of devices) seems most responsive to increased enforcement activity and willing to provide compliant source releases quickly, we will launch, coordinate and fund an alternative firmware project for that class, or, if appropriate, merge our efforts with an existing alternative firmware project for that class of device."

It is hard to read that as anything but an incentive for vendors to be less responsive, in the hopes that the SFC focus their efforts elsewhere.

[0] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
Hi Taylor, this is one of the cooler (probably coolest) consumer products to come out of facebook in a while. I was following it closely since the announcement a few months back.

My question is: I am sure you guys are familiar with crypto-based prediction markets like augur.net and prediqt.everipedia.org that use smart contracts and real money for predictions. Given that facebook is also building Libra and getting into blockchain, do you guys see that down the line Forecast could be something that moves to facebook's blockchain and/or you guys collaborate with crypto-based products like the above mentioned? That would be truly exciting since it would bring pure market dynamics to the predictions. I'm aware of the regulatory hurdles there, but thought I'd ask anyway. Great job! This is so fun to use.