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SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY

Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com

Email: vijay@dffrnt.com

Experience: 14+ years

Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on helping startups get both their marketing and product off the ground ASAP. I cover everything from logos and business cards to websites and web apps (Node + Mongo). If you have an idea and a plan of attack, I can build it out for you.

I'm proud to be the designer of the branding for io.js, which has since become the new Node.js — https://behance.net/gallery/23269525/IOJS-logo-concept. I also did the social marketing banners for their Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/official_iojs.

Previously, I was a front-end engineer at Infinera working on web-based telecom solutions, mainly focused on bringing their Java-based DNA NMS to the web using Angular and D3.js. The highlight of my work there was building a D3.js-based semantic zoom-pan interface that allowed customers to start at the node level and drill down into the servers at each node, then into the racks inside the server, continue still further down to the chips and lasers inside the racks. This works similar to how you can zoom-pan from the world map all the way down to the street level in Google Maps. This allowed navigating the interface with zero clicks so NOC engineers can see an alarm and simply scroll to dig deep down into a node and identify the faulty piece of equipment. Besides this, I also designed and implemented a standard style guide/design language for all their internal apps along with a unified icon theme.

Over the years I have been lucky to have found quite a few clients from these threads and it has always been exciting to work with HNers. My one and only regret so far was when I almost landed the logo design for jsDelivr CDN; even though they paid me for the job, I found out later they later decided to go with a different design that has an angular.js/HTML5 bent to it. I use their service quite a bit and I would've loved to see my work on their website. That would have been a big break for me and I'm sad to have missed out on it.

Hope to redeem myself soon with my next project. Looking forward to meeting some new faces this time around, cheers : )
> hard time focusing on things that I don’t like or want to do

Not trying to be insensitive, but doesn't that describe everybody? At what point does difficulty motivating yourself to do something unpleasant become an actual pathology? I identify with a lot of the symptoms he lists, but I've never thought that meant there was anything "wrong" with me, I thought everybody felt that way. Are there really people out there who can cheerfully do things they don't want to do?
The last bit 100 times over. The pain of trying to play AIV and DIVX files 15 years ago was generally miserable. To me VLC saved me from codec hell on, iirc Windows ME, and I've never looked back. Downloading and installing codec packs back then felt like it was a dice roll to getting a virus. It was also the only player I've used that could easily play FLV videos back then. Honestly, VLC is the only software I shove on friends computers if we're trying to play video.
Teamshares | Senior Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE (U.S. only) | Full-time | www.linkedin.com/careersite/teamshares

Teamshares helps small businesses become employee-owned, going from a single owner/operator, to a company that is owned by all the employees. You can think of us as a hybrid of a software company, an investment company, an education company, and a support network. We are a small, 19-person fully remote team.

We are looking for a couple mid or senior-level full-stack engineers with:
- 3+ years experience developing user-facing features in a modern web stack (Ruby on Rails strongly preferred)
- An empathetic approach to and passion for solving customer problems. You’re able to think in terms of product, not just code.
- A creative, entrepreneurial mindset. You love jumping into new problem spaces and figuring out the right solution.

Please apply on our careers site or email your resume to ania@teamshares.com
Ladder | Software Engineer | Clojure, Clojurescript, AWS | Palo Alto, Remote within the US | https://www.ladderlife.com Ladder is building life insurance for consumers: instant, simple, and smart. We're looking for software engineers who are excited to help us reimagine what life insurance can be. Our tech stack includes Clojure(script), Datomic, Kafka & AWS.
Read the full job description and apply here: https://grnh.se/d9f5b5cc1us
How feasible is it to disable the hardware for this stuff?
The #1 video player that always worked. Can you imagine a time before Youtube and cheap hosting for a college student? Well, that was a time for me involving FTP servers, hosting on some place with great bandwidth, a time of Emule, Limewire, sharebear?, I can't recall it all.

There were so many video extensions like .avi, .mpeg, and my favorite was .dvix. When you use some reguar player, it was always say "codec not found". I always knew it would run in VideoLan. VideoLan you are my codec saver and many hours saved and enjoyed!

Happy Birthday!
Ulysses (https://homer.sonnet.io ) - a little text editor I built when I felt burned out, so I could improve my writing fluency, de-stress (more context: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/).

I have no idea how many people are using it regularly.

I think it's more than one, but I don't really care, I enjoy using it immensely and I've been writing ca. 1k words per day, consistently, for more than a year. Can't ask for more:)
Why doesn't VLC have good support for casting? I mean LAN is in the name - I shouldn't have to use a half-baked Chromecast solution that's proprietary, can't be a server and can't display most subtitles.
Ask HN: What happens on a database level when you sell a stock like $GME?
How do you actually "sell" a stock to somebody?

Does some counter in one database get decreased by 1, and another counter is increased? Surely it must be more sophisticated.

Also, how can two brokers trade securities between each other?

How can you prevent somebody from duplicating a stock like you would duplicate a file?
By default, VLC tries to seek exactly to the timestamp you tell it to, which may requiring reading and decompressing a significant number of I-frames.

Various other players, including mpv and MPC-HC, will instead just snap to the nearest keyframe and display that instead.

Try turning on "Fast seek" in VLC's Input/Codecs preferences tab. It's still not quite as fast as other players, in my experience, but it's significantly better.
So much. Open-ended or poorly defined projects can really spiral into attentive dysphoria for me. Productive procrastination – room cleaning and the like – is particularly appealing in that state, just to feel like I'm making progress on something.
Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (US), Full time | Many positions: JavaScript, Java, DevOps

At Ambra Health we help the health care system solve complex problems with storing and sharing medical imaging data (X-rays, CT's, etc), at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are expanding the US-based, remote-only engineering team, there are many frontend, backend and operations positions open:

https://ambrahealth.com/about-us/careers/

The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/planning decisions. But don't be afraid to reach out if you think you're the right less-experienced person.
Culture Biosciences | Senior Frontend or Fullstack Engineer | South San Francisco, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE | Fulltime | https://www.culturebiosciences.com/

Write software to make cells grow in custom made robots! We're a 35 person startup, we build our own hardware in our own lab and we need a great addition to our software team of 4 to help keep the cells, robots, and customers happy.

If there’s one thing that’s important to know about Culture it’s that we have a good culture.

For example:

* We value kindness and empathy over intellect and strong opinions.

* We don’t use the word “resource” to refer to people.

* Imagine a typical bro-y startup… now imagine the opposite… that’s us.

And I think it’s because of these things that we ship great software and have fun doing it. We’re looking for folks who have a similar perspective.

We're looking for a frontend/full stack engineer towards the senior level to be the third member of our customer software team.

This is an opportunity to build an amazing number of high impact features that will have customers sending you personal thank you notes.

We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience shipping software, preferably some of that at company of our stage. Some who is product-minded would be ideal!

If you're interested in chatting send me an email: satshabad@culturebiosciences.com
It's a controllable risk that can enable some useful things like getting meaningful error messages instead of a single check engine light.
My theory is I get a bit hypoglycemic with the typical American breakfast of pastry/bagel/cereal, but I kind-of don't care why.

Bacon is my go-to breakfast food; can cook up a bunch at a time and heat up what I need in the morning. I make some eggs to go with it if I have the time. The great thing about bacon for me is that it's so salty that I cannot overeat on it.
I'm very confident Stadia will shut down, but I'm also confident Google will give some offramp for people who bought games, either by refunding the full price or offering a digital key for some storefront.
> Lastly, caffeine does help from my testing, especially caffeine combined with L-Theanine. I used to take 100mg of HVMN "Sprint" pills as a test whether I had ADHD; it helped quite a bit. It didn't make me jittery and it let me focus much better.

Caffeine is an adenosine A2A receptor antagonist.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_A2A_receptor_antagon...

You may want to check out this paper, Adenosine A2Areceptor as potential therapeutic target in neuropsychiatric disorders: https://scihubtw.tw/10.1016/j.phrs.2019.104338

Caffeine has a problem though:

> Moreover, considering that caffeine has a half-life of 2.5-4.5 hours [137]the once-a-day schedule of administration used in clinical trials in ADHD patients could be insufficient to antagonize A2AR throughout the day; thus, in future trials different administration schedules should be used or, as an alternative, selective A2AR antagonists could be tested in animal models of ADHD. In particular, it would be interesting to test the efficacy of the A2AR antagonist istradefylline in view of its approval for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease in Japan [138].

Ironically, I just started taking Nourianz (istradefylline) (link: https://www.nourianz.com/) as a last-resort drug for my severe restless legs syndrome, which has been going phenomenally well. I also have ADHD combined type (inattention and hyperactivity), and fairly severely.

Anyways, I have been taking the the istradefylline for a week now, and it has made a tremendous difference in many of my ADHD symptoms. In addition, it greatly increased my sense of wellbeing within 1-2 hours of initially taking it, and it has been sustained for the entire week.

I hope you find this interesting! I take Vyvanse for my ADHD.

Thanks to istradefylline I can now focus seamlessly and without effort. I can just "lock in" to whatever I want to do. Before, it would require some static force ("friction") to be able to "lock in" my concentration to do the task. I can also just focus, without hyperfocusing. It now comes naturally to me. I also no longer find myself pacing around the house aimlessly. I also do not randomly get up from my seat or fidget hardcore. I can also lock back into a flow state without effort if I am disrupted.
There might be an accuracy/speed tradeoff. mpv encourages skipping with keyboard shortcuts rather than clicking in a timeline, but I don't think it actually guarantees those shortcuts will skip the same time ahead.

It also might be pre-decoding to enable trick play (rewinding etc).
What this article partly talks about is one of the reasons I think "cultural appropriation" is such a silly and offensive concept, an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of the American left when it comes to things like multiculturalism and race.
The German government announced its intention to phase out nuclear power 20 years ago.

What is the plan to phase out natural gas use?
Overview and Live Demo
https://www.titaniamlabs.com/titaniam-protect-arcus-for-elas...
Deflationary policy means that if you spend it today you lose out on future gains, so preferably you just don't spend it, ever.
The Staircase of the Self: An Illustrated Dive into the Progression of Identity
Demo:
https://www.titaniamlabs.com/titaniam-protect-arcus-for-elas...
FYI. Something something something the great suspender stealing all your data.
Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly remember mb-tree coming out and x264 quality/bitrate performance changing from good to supergood, and reading Dark Shikari's check in note about taking the implicit dependency graph and using it to propagate the relative quality of the blocks and it was a 'wow' moment. Also the Loren Merritt quote page still holds up well http://www.x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/loren.html . Thank you
> when Microsoft/Epic approaches the studios for games on their platforms they front the entire development cost

We once had a Microsoft rep come visit us to get us to publish our upcoming mobile games for Windows Mobile Tablet notreallysurewhatwasthatanymore. When we asked what kind of support they were ready to provide, they offered to lend us a device for a few weeks.

Of course it's not representative of how things should happen, but for every big partnership or exclusive you read about, there's a dozen dumb wastes of time.
BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Bay Area, Remote | Full-Time
BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and make them available to everyone.

Come join us and shape the future of how engineers build and test software! You’ll write and ship open-source code, own production systems used every day by 1000s of engineers at big companies, and help us shape the future of the product. You'll work with and learn from a team that's built software at both successful startups and FAANG companies. Your skillset will grow and you'll join a team excited to solve problems in the developer tool space.

Our tech stack is simple, stable, scalable: Golang, Redis, MySQL, Protobuf, React, Typescript.

SE: https://www.buildbuddy.io/jobs/solutions-engineer

Sr. SWE: https://www.buildbuddy.io/jobs/senior-software-engineer

SWE: https://www.buildbuddy.io/jobs/software-engineer

Don't see a perfect fit but still interested? Great, we still want to hear from you! Email us at hiring@buildbuddy.io
Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Remote: Yes
Relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Svelte, Node.js, HTML, CSS, SVG, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/seancolsen/resume
Email: colsen.sean@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Sean, an experienced full-stack web developer with a bent towards front-end work and a passion for TypeScript. Having been a tech generalist for over a decade, I'm now looking to bridge the gap between casual freelance work and serious front-end engineering using React or Svelte. My ideal role would be an entry/mid-level position at a small/medium sized company working remotely. I'm ardent about writing clean code, adept at asynchronous communication within distributed teams, and eager to write tests, docs, and code reviews too.
Aren't health insurance companies losing money by paying out? It's in their interest that their paying customers stay in good health.
I would suggest “Free as a white elephant.”:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/white_elephant
This is about runtime binding vs static binding, not static objects or static members. There is still a "this", but the code that will run is known up front -- "ahead of time".

C++ went through this 25+ years ago: runtime binding, what in C++ is virtual functions, is a niche technique. Most C++ programs don't use it at all, or use it in only one or two spots. When it is the right thing, it makes the work convenient, but it really is just a dance with function pointers. In C++, templates do the heavy lifting.

Java never offered any other support for organizing programs, so inheritance and virtual functions have been your go-to for everything, no matter how bad the fit. In a static call there is only one bit of code to run, and it never changes over the life of the program. Just like almost everything, really, except here your runtime knows up front.

It was always a dumb choice to make member functions default to virtual semantics, when they almost always don't need it, and it just costs performance to no purpose. That is what comes out of treating language design as a marketing exercise: Java's designers really (and openly) cared less than nothing about object-oriented programming. They thought people really ought to be coding Lisp. Forcing runtime binding was a way to sneak in something a little bit lispy, and maybe get people used to production code running no faster than Lisp.
I think the problem there is that there is not much to show. But it will require that page at some point. Maybe it would help now as well as managers and other "decision makers" might understand it more. And they have to implement it in the end right?
Man, I am the same way. How have you coped with this? I work in a pretty open-ended environment without a lot of processes, so you can imagine it has been a struggle for me. I have tried to create tickets for myself but I seem to also struggle with defining the "done" state.
Cortx | Machine Learning Engineer - Deep Learning | Baltimore, Maryland | Onsite, Full-time

Cortx is a profitable, stable, and growing artificial intelligence startup that is building an NLP product that automatically writes content about any subject with the same level of quality, factual accuracy, and usefulness as a human. This product already has thousands of monthly paying subscribers and is quickly growing - in 2020 our month over month MRR growth was >10%.

You would be at the intersection of research and production code - taking our research roadmap and helping make it a reality. You will be helping our AI team take nascent research concepts and turn them into state of the art natural language generation. You will be constantly ingesting research papers, building prototypes, and later turning those prototypes into production code.

Our work almost exclusively involves very heavy deep learning (transformers) and we primarily use PyTorch.

You will be working directly with our Founder/CEO (me!), who is leading the AI team, both as a manager and an individual contributor.

We sponsor all visas, including H1B and Green Card, and we pay market rates for SF/NYC despite being located in an area with a significantly cheaper cost of living.

If you have done work with transformers for text generation, information retrieval, or text style transfer (and especially if it has advanced SOTA), we would be very interested in talking with you.

Contact us by emailing alex@cortx.com with "HN" in the subject line.
I’m building a minimalistic, 1v1 MOBA game (Dota/LoL) that’s all about grand strategy at the macro level, like chess. It is designed from scratch to accommodate AI development.

OpenAI gave up after beating 99% of players in a limited version of DOTA2. They essentially just figured out how to out-micro human players. We want to let players play alongside AI assistance, like a racing car driver backed up by their team of mechanics and engineers.

https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller
I believe that apart from legacy certificates in a lockbox under grandma's bed (and non-traded private classes of stock) it is actually true.

What DTC trades are assignments of stock held by Cede corp, what you own are assignments of assignments held by brokers - it's how you take physical stock certificates and start trading them electronically (back in the 60s)
Pretty much all players are just libavcodec, so the only differences are coincidences or default options, not original research in the player app. This goes double for encoding apps.
You could look at https://www.gie.eu/index.php/gie-publications/maps-data/lng-... which shows the already existing infrastructure and capacities. Also existing LNG-terminals in for instance Rotterdam, and the pipeline networks from there to Wilhelmshavn, Hamburg and Brunsbüttel. We don't even need that. It's non-sense. Uncle Sam is just angry about us giving our money to Russia instead of him. That's all.

/me shrugs.
> Are there a lot of armed robberies committed by smokers in NYC because they can't afford cigarettes?

I can't really quantify "a lot" or whether the thieves were smokers that couldn't afford them, but it's clearly happening. Here are some armed robberies from 2020 in NYC that involved stealing cigarettes at gunpoint: [0][1][2]

> They might buy from bootleggers if they can't afford the fully-taxed cigs

I would guess this is the preferable option to robbing stores, but if you literally have no money, even bootleg cigarettes are off the table.

[0] https://abc7ny.com/armed-suspect-pulls-out-gun-steals-cigare...

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/02/18/robber-armed-with-rifle-hits-n...

[2] https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/man-robs-nyc-7-elevens-...
PS Now is great. It has most (all?) Sony exclusives and they run great on your desktop or laptop. The only issue is that I don't think it is available for OSX/iOS.
There's only two outcomes: Either Google gets bored and kills it because it doesn't generate ten billion dollars a year in profit or it becomes so ingrained in our society killing it might cause an angry mob to attack Google HQ with torches and pitchforks.

Why it can't spin these side projects off into their own companies to survive or die on their own merits I don't know.
And did it lead to better understanding?

This is the kind of phenomenon I miss in remote work
Ask HN: How do you overcome depression/suicidial thoughts?
i am a depressive person nearly three year. my life energy is draining and i think suicide is only way last few days.

i am 22 year old, alone ( no friends, no family ), financially awful and drowned in debts. i can't work, i can't sleep, i can't enjoy from life.

i was freelancing in android & linux area till this month but i can't continue to this because i don't even want to write a single line of code.
trying to do anything is backfiring to me and make everything worse than before.

i do not know how to overcome this situation by mentally and financially. i need solution to this and different view to world for gaining back life energy.

sorry for my bad english, english is not my native language.
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