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SerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Sales Specialist | Austin, TX | Full-time | ONSITE or FULLY REMOTE| base + profit sharing bonuses

SerpApi is the API to scrape search engine results to JSON. We are looking for people to help our customer success efforts and our sales efforts.

For the customer success position, main tasks are interacting with customers, helping them solve issues they encounter, open tickets on GitHub if it's not solvable directly, invoicing, reaching out and following up, and some sales. Experience in customer support, sales, programming, Ruby, Javascript, proxies, APIs, SaaS, B2B, or Browser Automation are not required but are definitely pulses.

For the sales position, industry experience is really appreciated! Sales side includes cold calling, cold emailing, working/reaching out with current leads, and Enterprise contract negotiation.

Awesome work environment: Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub. We also value transparency, open books, profit sharing, and are a proud organizational member of the EFF.

Email us (mentioning HN): https://serpapi.com/team and jobs _AT_ serpapi.com
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: U of Chicago MBA, Excel guru. Multi-lingual.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: literalnorth@hiredinsight.co

Charismatic (or so I'm told), CFO, corporate development, M&A advisory and broad experience with industrial, advertising & retail businesses.

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Depends how bad it goes wrong. My org is a 24/7 one, but one Christmas back in the 90s (way before my time) some work was done on Christmas eve, I think it was on the phone system, in the days before widespread mobile phones.

It broke, which was a major problem, this meant that senior management were being phoned (ho), and relatively high middle managers were on site to deal with the fall out. Of course most suppliers were also closed so everything was harder to fix.

There's good reasons not to do changes when places are closed, or at least skeletoned, for 2 weeks.
The basis is the Extradition Act, which according to the judgment is a self-contained implementation of a bunch of different extradition treaties.

Hypothetically, let’s say the statute actually had a section with “no extraditions for unsavoury offences” in it. That’s pretty weird and ambiguous, so you might, subject to UK law on statutory interpretation, look to the treaty/treaties the Act is implementing to figure out what the legislature meant by unsavoury when they wrote it. Maybe a bunch of treaties had similar provisions using the word unsavoury, but the US one changed it, and you would analyse why they didn’t use the language again, or whether political offences as referred to by the US treaty would fit the bill... But according to the judgment, the Act is not ambiguous. There is nothing to look to the treaty for.

Still, the basis for the extradition is not the treaty. Treaties bind States (ie countries) against each other. The remedy for a treaty law breach is stern words from the UN, maybe a fine, whatever. But treaty law cannot establish domestic laws that govern things like extradition. The only requirement imposed by the treaty is on the UK as a State to implement the treaty in domestic law, which is how countries like the UK comply with the terms of the treaty. International law does not bind local decision makers who decide whether the extradition goes ahead. It also does not bind parliament, which can refuse to implement a treaty or decide to deviate from it. It should also be quite plain that Assange is not a State party to the extradition agreement, being neither the literal United States nor Kingdom, so he does not have standing to object to the UK’s implementation, and of course, is in utterly the wrong court for that :)

(That the UK is bound to comply makes for a strong suggestion that parliament actually intended to be true to the treaty when they implemented it, but this is only relevant where there is ambiguity in the domestic law requiring resolution, because of the primacy of legislative power and its ability to write laws in clear terms that can’t be wriggled out of.)
I think it was a matter of what libraries were available where. Namely, Lightspeed-webrtc uses the extremely popular & robust Go library Pion[1] for webrtc. It's a little over 500 lines.

The Rust Lightspeed-ingest[2] server is also ~500 lines of code, and primarily handshakes the FTL protocol used to communicate with OBS.

There is a Pion port to rust[3] that is in progress. I am not sure the state of this work. Pion is used quite extensively by many many projects; I'm not sure if the rust webrtc-rs port has any notable users yet. As I began by saying, I expect the trustability & extensiveness of Pion is what lead to lightspeed-webrtc being written in Go.

[1] https://pion.ly/

[2] https://github.com/GRVYDEV/Lightspeed-ingest

[3] https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc
Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Pandas, MySQL, AWS, SEO

Résumé/CV: http://kashifaziz.me/kashif-aziz-cv.pdf
Is there evidence of this?
It's not gold that gives fiat currency value. It's the courts and their enforcement arm, the US military, that do.

The reason the US dollar is valuable worldwide is because if you run into trouble, you can use the US courts to be made whole, and if that doesn't work, assuming the dollar amount is high enough, the US military or Secret Service will use violence to make you whole again.

Same thing with the Euro and all the other major currencies (and even a lot of the minor ones). They have the threat of legal recourse and military violence back them.

Bitcoin does not have that. If someone takes your Bitcoin, there is little recourse to be made whole again. Now maybe if the US government decided to buy up a significant amount of bitcoin, they would have an interest in using the courts and military to enforce it. But the US government doesn't like competition, so most likely they would be buying up bitcoin to get people to exchange bitcoin for dollars, making the dollar even stronger.
Can you fire your plumber, dentist, lawyer,...?
I agree it can be improved and created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/merge_request... to do so.
On what basis does the UK continue to hold Assange? Until today, they were holding him based on an indictment in the US...if they are not going to extradite him, then what? Permanent incarceration without due process??
> If I had to write a performant library at work, I too might rely on CPU-specific assembly wrappers in my code. But IMO, such code has no place in a general-purpose cross-language benchmark site.

My guess is that other people would take your "performant library at work" premise as justification for including that code.
This seems needlessly dismissive. Who do you buy ads from if not FB and Google?
Of course it's not. But in some ways it is. China is totalitarian which the US isn't, and the US doesn't execute as many people, but still the US locks up a larger percentage of its population than China.

The US is better than China, but that's a low bar, and in a few areas it's only barely clearing that bar.

In other areas it's a lot better of course. Censorship is the big one. Also, the way China has oppressed some minorities (Uyghurs) hasn't happened in the US in decades (black people, native Americans). And the oppression did happen in a different way. But "different" isn't always better.
That may be an unrealistically high bar. Only smallpox has ever been successfully eradicated, which speaks to the difficulty in completely eradicating a disease. And since some animals can carry and spread the virus, eradicating this virus may be impossible with current technology.
Location: San Jose, CA area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not at this time
Technologies: Strong in C#, PHP, SQL, JavaScript,
Competent in C/C++, Perl, Lua, Java
Résumé/CV: Please email
Email: hnjs2021jan@gmail.com

Experienced software engineer looking to start the new year with a new opportunity after a health related break. My main focus has been on the back end with server applications, both monolithic and SOA via REST, and some SOAP in the past. On the front end, consuming from the backend, DOM modification, keeping things from blowing up.
That would just mean that “controversial” isn’t the best term for “whatever that thing is they’re optimizing”, not that that thing is fundamentally machine-unlearnable.
That is just a matter of priorities. That $2M house in Noe Valley is a $500K house elsewhere as many ex-Californians have already found out. Yes, that'd imply moving elsewhere which creates another stack of priorities to sort out, some of which actually would point towards moving as well - where do you want your potential or actual children to grow up, etc. Still, sometimes there is a need to give up some temporary comfort to preserve a longer-term comfort.
Looks like it was redesigned for job seekers. Having said that, the layout feels a bit off in places (odd placement for 'Our Agency, etc.)

Also, the etching style applied to the main portrait is visually distracting and it looks like a fingerprint over the person's face.
Everybody's different. I've been wfh since the pandemic started, and it's been one of the best times of my life. Even in school I didn't have the bliss of never having to leave my home. My health, exercise routine, diet, sleep routine, work productivity, social life, personal productivity, quality of life in pretty much every aspect have basically all been perfect. Even outside, people keep a little more distance. Aside from the coronavirus danger itself, the past 10-ish months have been a dream for me.

Unfortunately there is no compromise that can please everyone if things return to how they were before, just finding an employer that caters to one's personal preference.
I did read quite a bit of it. The article is a typical "Gish Gallop", just throwing out questions hoping that the reader will not bother following up on any of them, and end up believing because of the sheer weight of argumentation.
I wouldn't call an accuracy-performance tradeoff a bug, rather a design decision
I don't see anything particularly hard about regulating bitcoins.

You're registering your wallets with your government and that's about it. Bitcoin is fully transparent, so government can track every transaction and if you're doing transaction to some non-verified wallet, you have to explain it to your government.

I would argue that bitcoins are even easier to track than bank accounts.

What government can't do is to steal your money or block your access to your money.
It seems like in the scenario B) has the added teeth of deterring leadership from forcing unpaid overtime, as some management do, though it is possible even with the union-enacted mandate they will still try to sneak it in, as you suggested.

> I'm either explicitly forbidden from working more on a project even if I want to

This sort of nitpicking is always cited as a reason for why unions are bad but would a union really get up in your case over something like that? And furthermore, would a tech union birthed natively in this industry, created and populated by tech workers who have also worked spent evenings or weekends voluntarily to work on projects they themselves were passionate enough to finish, really penalize its all members for doing the same? Wouldn't they, you know, have an insider's insight of the needs and interests of working in tech?

I think not. The idea is to guard against when management oversteps its boundaries, not to police other workers. And if the union inevitably does fall short and do the latter, then by being part of a union, you would have the power to make changes within it.
Yes, it has been a lot of fun working on these "basics" and double the fun since I was also translating the material to French, which forced me to really dig deeper and explain things properly[1]. I also worked on the concept maps and made them available as a standalone free file, in case that might be of interest to you, see [2]. Last but not least, I highly recommend learning SymPy[3] in parallel with your math review—it's a computer algebra system whose API closely mirrors the math verbs (e.g. expand, factor, simplify, etc), so it makes for great practice tool.

[1] https://minireference.com/blog/multilingual-authoring-for-th...

[2] https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...

[3a] https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmath_v5_previe...

[3b] https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... (same as above but in IEEE journal format)
The manufacturer doesn't know anything about this that isn't public information.

Yes, two doses are almost certainly better than one. But those are not the choices.

When there are far fewer doses than the number of people to vaccinate, the question is if it's better to give N people 2 shots, or 2N people 1 shot.

The test data looks like 1 dose gives ~80% protection vs ~95% for 2 doses. The 2x80% scenario is clearly better than 1x95%.

And, of course, everyone would get the second dose as soon as production catches up.
Django Tutorial #2: URL Configuration
>they are usually killed by right wing extremists who are unofficially sanctioned by government and often not prosecuted.

Big citation needed here. You'd be hard pressed to find any deaths here that weren't obvious, often video-documented cases of self-defense. Even then, the state has zealously prosecuted them, in Jake Gardner's case overriding the local prosecutor's determination that no crime had been committed and leading Gardner to suicide. Most ridiculous of them all, Kyle Rittenhouse is facing murder charges when every single one of his so-called victims is on video assaulting him.
I think you're right about the motivation. But I also think it's wrong-headed.

They should lean into who they are: The biggest, baddest, most secretive government organization on the planet. THAT's their brand. That appeals to some and turns away others. But trying to pretend they're anything else will fail to persuade anyone. Those who are attracted to the truth about the CIA are likely to be turned off by this mass-appeal approach. And those who hate them are unlikely to feel differently based on this.

It's like the Freemasons: What makes them attractive to those who are interested is the secret nature of the organization. Trying to make the organization more friendly and open is counter-productive.

Lean into the mystique, gosh darn it. Very few "brands" genuinely and organically have that kind of mystery about them. The CIA, like them or not, definitely have it.
> This person is valuable in that they are trying to make completely excessive situations work. Telling people (or demonstrating to them) they are being ridiculous is not his responsibility and is a tight rope to walk in his position.

Usually the way VFX works is that technology (R&D) is very moved away from production. The artist job is getting the shot done regardless of technology and they have very short deadlines. They usually push the limits.

Digital artists are not very tech savvy in a lot of disciplines, it is not feasible to have a TD in the delivery deadlines of the shots for a show.

The person at Weta also told you how Weta actually worked in Kong which is very typical. You don't know upfront what you need. And you dismissed it as something unnecessary, still, is how every big VFX studio works. Do you feel that you know better and/or everyone is doing something wrong and hasn't really thought about it? If that is the case you might have a business opportunity for a more efficient VFX studio!
I saw that. I happen to know what "nocoiner" means, and immediately stopped reading.
I suspect that the Chinese vaccine will be the most used outside of US and Europe.
Teylor AG | Backend (Golang) & Frontend (React/TS) | Remote (Europe only) | Full-Time B2B

Teylor develops a SaaS product to bring SME lending into the 21st century by digitizing and automating the entire SME credit cycle. Our platform consists of many modules that enable banks to automate their lending processes such as onboarding, credit scoring, KYC, document analysis, contract generation and more.

Our stack is NodeJS with TypeScript with increasing Go on the backend and React with TypeScript on the Frontend. Also using AWS technologies with CloudFormation, CI/CD and other expected modern development tools.

We're currently looking for two remote positions:

- Backend engineer - Golang. Bonus points for finance experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/33e4f3aef5f001-senior-backend-eng...

- Frontend engineer. Must have React experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/6176d972313101-senior-frontend-en...

We are also looking for one onsite position in our Zürich headquarters:

- Product Manager with finance/lending experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/2d470ef07fb101-product-manager-le...

Please apply via the links above. If you have questions please reach out to me (CTO) at josh [@at] teylor.com
That's half true, password management piggybacks on top of a system which doesn't have these characteristics, so it means no special work needs to be done on the development side to support them, and it's activation function is only determined on one side of each edge (the user side.) For this cert system to work, you have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem since it requires both sides of the user-service graph to have done work pre-emptively to support it.
Looks exactly like Dropbox
Show HN: Debian packaging file syntax highlighting for Sublime Text
>Under British rule, Hong Kong never had democracy in the first place.

British Hong Kong has elected local council and officials that are given power and budget within their constituency. The small council was disband just after 1997. Hong Kong had far more democracy than it ever had under China.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115
Or use mattermost with Slack as the fallback
Unlike your resume, which contains a complete accounting of every bad thing you've done, right?
I see nothing extreme about giving 10% of your income to help others.

Thank you for the recommendation for The Fountainhead -- I'll consider finally reading it some day so I can form a personal opinion of it rather than basing my opinion off others' comments of it.
What makes it impossible to believe the DOJ under one outgoing president declined to prosecute a case, and then a new DOJ under a new infamously press-hostile president took it up?

Extradition requests are not platonic and timeless, they are issued by specific people for specific reasons at specific times.
As electric car sales soar, the industry faces a cobalt crisis
Nexedi | Lille/Plovdiv | ONSITE | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for:

- Nexedi | Industrial Automation Developer | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | Cython Developer | Lille/Paris/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

- Nexedi | TSN Developer | Lille/Munich/Plovdiv/Stuttgart | ONSITE/REMOTE

- Nexedi | System Developer | Lille/Paris/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | Cybersecurity Developer | Lille/Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | ERP5 Developer | Lille/Munich/Tokio | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi/Rapid Space | Telco Developer | Lille | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | Numpy Developer | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | Developer for Artificial Optical Inspection - AOI | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

- Nexedi | Developer for Open Source PLC for Industrial Automation | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE
This won't help with the Friday Beer SIG.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632346.
While I don't doubt the term started as a pejorative, there was a recent post by a self-proclaimed "nocoiner" who apparently took ownership of the term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626184
Cutting battery industry's reliance on cobalt will be an uphill task
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Leadership, management, or a really good technical IC.

Location: Denver, CO
Remote: Sure
Willing to relocate: Absolutely

Technologies: AWS, Java, Rust, Go, Postgresql, SQS, Kafka, Mesos, ZooKeeper, Kubernetes, Javascript, React, Vue.js, webpack, animations, webgl, opengl, Vulkan...

Résumé/CV: please email
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To add to the list, India plans to domestically produce 1 billion doses of AstraZeneca this year, with 50 million already produced.
The idea is that you're able to (optionally) tag coworkers and collaborators in your work experience and projects. Although this doesn't track 1:1 with the traditional CV use case, it felt like a great way to celebrate the people you work with and create lightweight endorsements.

If you choose to print or save your profile as a PDF these tags are hidden automatically, making it much more of a traditional CV, appropriate for job applications etc.
Seam (YC S20) | Backend & FullStack | SF, Near-Remote | https://getseam.com/

At Seam, we're creating the API for home/building IoT.

Our goal is to put an API endpoint in front of every home and building on earth, to enable developers to open doors, control elevators, read energy meters, control thermostats, and much more. Achieving this requires bridging on-prem devices with our hardware hub as well as providing synchronous APIs to a fundamentally asynchronous world.

We're looking for experienced backend and fullstack engineers. Full description of roles here: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/21800

You can email founders@getseam.com or use YC Work at a Startup. Thanks!
I'm sure anti-vaxxers were lucky for a period of time too, until they weren't. You're immortal until you die.
GoodRx | San Francisco/Los Angeles | Full-time

GoodRx helps Americans find access to convenient and affordable healthcare.

We're looking for a strong product manager to help us take our content efforts to the next level. This role will work closely with research, SEO, data, UX and more as we build and deliver new types of online health content and tools. There's a lot of excitement around this initiative internally - it's a great time to join. https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/a37d2e63-223a-4489-b1c7-54e28b2...

We're also hiring a number of engineers, SEOs, designers, data scientists/engineers, content folks, and more. There's never been a better time to join the team: https://www.goodrx.com/jobs

Questions? Reach out: john@goodrx.com
Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
Thanks for posting this. I do think we are greatly overreacting to this. The drug industries have wanted to push mRNA treatments for years and have never been able to get them approved. They have a vested interested in leveraging this perceived crisis.

Vitamin D, ivermectin and even some inhaled steroids have all shown to been effective in treating the worst cases. The insanely high amplification of PCR assays are padding case numbers with false positives. Any contradictory information and academic viewpoints are getting censored on every major platform. This is totally madness.
The kitschy history of the Bay Area's themed Fry's Electronics