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RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two years now, and our customers love us on Yelp!

We have a number of open positions:

1) We are hiring a Designer in San Francisco to move our product, website, and apps to the next level. We're a consumer-facing brand with interactions across mobile, web, email, and even SMS. We're also advertising across multiple media. Since our brand centers around a seamless and friendly experience, this is a prime opportunity for a designer who wants to have a central role in a 'rocket ship' startup.

2) We're also hiring a Marketing Manager in San Francisco to manage our creative campaigns, optimize funnels, and control CPA while comparing to LTV. This is a data-driven role, so analytical strength and ambiguity tolerance are critical attributes.

3) We're also hiring a Senior Operations Associate for our Los Angeles office. Responsibilities including managing a rapidly-growing team of drivers, and communicating with our customers and vendors. This is a great opportunity for a smart person with 'hustle' who wants to get in early on an expanding local office with.

4) Rinse continues to search for a qualified Senior Software Engineer. We're primarily a Django / Python shop with a fair amount of javascript and even a little Java thrown in.

Interested in the burgeoning delivery startup scene? Perhaps your family ran a dry cleaner or laundromat when you were growing up? Delighted with our service? Let's talk!

Email sam <at> rinse.com with questions, or contact jobs <at> rinse.com directly.
Ask HN: How to find engineering-intensive consulting work?
A couple friends and I are developers. We have each done a stint at one of the big name tech companies. We're at a couple different early-stage startups bootstrapping right now. We have been talking about taking on some consulting work together to allow us to self-fund for a longer period. We're aware that in exchange for that extra runway we'd lose some of our focus, but neither of our projects right now feel like they're bottlenecked on engineering bandwidth.

How we can find clients looking for what we have to offer? Most of the contracting work we can easily find is of the "build me a simple website" variety, and while we can do that our competitive advantage is really around more engineering-intensive projects. We're not sure how to find that type of work (or, honestly, whether the companies that require it tend to use consultants for it at all.) The standard advice for consulting lead gen is "start from your existing network," but we're hesitant to tap our closest contacts for this because we're already leaning on them for support for our respective startups.

We've thought about approaching other consultants and offering a % off the top if they're able to find us work, or just e-mailing a bunch of early-stage startups that seem to have slim engineering teams. Is there a better way of going about this?

We appreciate any and all advice, even just, "this is a terrible idea," "the kind of work you're looking for does not exist," or, "the kind of work you're looking for is unavailable to people doing it as a side gig."
Experimental MVC PHP Framework :) Looking for Feedback
Unfortunately, that's impossible/infeasable to prove quantitatively without access to the raw data. In the HN case, however, I've seen a number of submissions which get 10+ points in a few minutes (which will get you on the front page quickly), but the submission was on the second or third page. A quick Twitter search shows they were asking for upvotes.

People are lazy, yes, but when there's monetary/reputation values tied to placement, the incentives change.
It took me a day to use it as "notepad with syntax highlighting", couple of weeks before I started preferring normal mode to insert mode, and from there on I slowly evolved my configuration and the tricks I use/learn.

Nowadays when using vim I occasionally have people ask me "how did you do that?" and I won't even know what keys I typed. The keybindings are as natural as walking/grabbing things and require as much conscious thoughts. I usually have to redo it in slow motion to see what I did...

I can highly recommend Bram Moolenaar's essay on "The Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing" (http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html), it has a vim focus, but I think his points are editor agnostic

Edit: I started using vim as a windows GUI person in university since I wanted to edit over SSH and vim was the only editor with syntax highlighting on the servers. So it's not like I was a terminal wizard back then (I am now :p)
I think I can say with a good degree of certainty that the hundreds of editors I have used during my career so far, including vi, vim and some self-written, have been absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the success, failure, timeline or budget of any project I've ever done.

In case the question comes up. Why self-written editors? In the early days of using Forth to bootstrap embedded systems you pretty much had to write yourself a decent code editor to go with the system. I've never written an editor for other systems I've used. Whatever was available was always good enough.
What It's Actually Like to Buy a $500 House in Detroit
Overhyped as compared to what, Silicon Valley?
Even if you have no risk tolerance, you should be willing to pay up to $1.
PathSense | San Diego | OnSite | Software Engineer & Machine Learning Scientist

PathSense is building a better location stack for iOS and Android - better-than-GPS accuracy with 90% less battery drain.

We're funded by Data Collective and other prominent investors, have traction with many of the major location apps, and have an all-star team and advisers.

Check out our openings here -> https://pathsense.com/careers/
Most universities have way too much administrative "talent". Maybe they can demonstrate their worth the public companies to get hired.
The challenging sales cycle (if there is one) is this, "If this feature were added, would you commit to using this product?" that question is hard to ask and answer in a web based freemium world. In the enterprise sales cycle I've seen customers decline to buy 'for lack of a feature' and having that be a way to say "no" without explicitly saying no. When I worked closely with the enterprise account teams at NetApp that was always something to consider.
Mapme - Full time - Israel

We're looking for an awesome full stack developer to join our team.

In depth knowledge of the following technologies is essential:

● Expert level understanding of AngularJS / Backbone ● Experience with RESTful API development and integration ● Responsive Design Patterns ● NodeJS

Good to know: ● Experience in MongoDB ● Twitter Bootstrap ● Familiarity with Google Maps/Leaflet API's ● Familiarity with Phonegap/Cordova

We're a small team with an office at WeWork Herzeliya.
Love to hear from you: ben@mapme.com
Are you truly in denial about the fact that black people (specifically in America, but even on a global scale) have a unique set of experiences due to systematic and institutional racism? Additionally, there is a unique brand of racism pervasive throughout American culture (and again, certainly elsewhere, but I can only speak from an American perspective) wherein ignorant comments and questions are routinely made to unsuspecting black people. So given that, I think there are a good number of reasons as to why it's different than "ask a blonde person".
I dunno, because I don't have a tiny little mosquito penis?
They bought a tool called Equivio too, i work in the ediscovery/legal world and it was very rapidly becoming the industry standard. My understanding is Microsoft is going to integrate alot of the functionality into office/outlook, theres a lot of uncertainty as to what will replace it.

Maybe time to pick up some stock hah they seem to be making succesful purchases that make sense vs "diworsification"
Basketball data scientist
That is not a reasonable inference, even if there wasn't an explicit call-to-action. (Otherwise, why make the comment?)

This is the reason for the infamous IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO LIKE/SUBSCRIBE/COMMENT! phrasing that has plagued modern YouTube.
I think the point is to add features to the part of the lifecycle where you're bleeding the most users.

The desired outcome is a certain number of engaged customers, but which part of the lifecycle to target deserves serious consideration, certainly beyond the all-too-popular default choice of "let's build a feature for a fully engaged customer".
Thanks, I'll look into that. I don't think I ever explicitly configured gpg-agent, so there might be a lingering issue.
Who gets the mandatory ticket out? Who gets to stay and enjoy Earth?

Granted, I don't even want live anywhere on Earth. I would like a temperate place with good food, culture, infrastructure, sea is a plus.

The 60's idea was "we can make other planets exactly like Alabama", but guess what, not many people want to move to new Alabama.
Beyond 8200 – that's not what Startup Nation is all about
Blendle | Utrecht, the Netherlands | Operations/Backend/Frontend/iOS/Android/Business

One year ago we launched our pay-per-article startup Blendle in the Netherlands. The goal: put all newspapers and magazines in the country behind one (quite sexy) paywall, and make it so easy to use that young people start paying for journalism again.

Right now we're focusing on scaling internationally. We use Ruby, Node.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Sinatra, Clojure, React and more Ruby. We're playing with Go, Elixir and Spark amongst others.

If you're interested feel free to reach me at jurre[at]blendle[dot]com.

Job postings (in Dutch): https://blendle.homerun.hr
So significant that my mother who has flown a total of no more than 30,000 miles in her whole life (spread out over no fewer than eight airlines) has pre-check, gifted to her by one airline for no discernible reason. She was very pleased to get it of course, but the "significance" of the background check is highly questionable in my opinion.
Market Data Sources for US Trading Venues
The only Who Is Hiring posts that are allowed are the ones submitted by the account whoishiring. That's the reason it exists in the first place. So please don't post these: it will inevitably be killed, and in the meantime you've misdirected lots of users into posting in the wrong place.

Today's thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639001. We've moved all the comments there, except the ones where the commenter had already posted in the correct thread—i.e. the posts below should all be duplicates.
The folks @ http://overpopulationisamyth.com work on addressing the points often used to support the Malthusian catastrophe.
Those two are not equivalent. Actually, I'm surprised that people didn't find the first one harder: I've had log files that were larger than RAM before (mainly due to overzealous logging).
Every wish you have can change the world around you, when it is shared
Microsoft backing Cyanogenmod, bringing Cortana to Android, and now acquiring productivity apps...

Looks like they are making a strong play to compete with Siri/Google Now which will be critical to the future of these big tech corps. Once AI gets better, everyone will want a 'smart assistant' helping them organize their day.

That will likely heavily influence which OS customers choose in the future as the data sensors need to sync across platforms to be really effective (desktop->mobile->watch->car etc).
Yes, but there is a difference between expected payout and a person's willingness to play a game of chance. The expected payout of a lottery ticket is the same for every ticket before the drawing, but everyone has a different willingness to purchase tickets. The person is being asked about their willingness to take on risk and not their objective analysis of the payout.
what /newest trick? do upvotes count for more if they're made from the new page rather than the front page? (and if so, does it track state when you click through to the comment page first, then open the article in a new tab, read it, and then upvote from the comment page?)
An upgrade I've made to my Alphagrips (with the optical trackball) is to use either a stainless steel ball or a teflon ball instead of the cheap plastic trackball.
Edit: Just remembered I also replaced the tiny balls holding the trackball with teflon balls. I think the biggest improvement was just from replacing the main trackball though, I rarely have to clean the sensor/rollers anymore.

My biggest issue other than that is the behavior of Shift doesn't match other keyboards :\ Can't shift click to select ranges of text.
I recently started reading Philip E. Tetlock's Expert Political Judgment[0] and Ehrlich gets namechecked pretty early in it. For me, this article proved timely.

Ehrlich gets credit in my book for making concrete falsifiable predictions and acknowledging some are wrong. He follows a classic pattern identified by Tetlock in claiming his major error was a matter of timing.

My questions:

1. To what extent did his efforts help forestall the catastrophe he predicted? Any at all? In the article, his efforts are cited as having a significant impact on Indian family planning policies. Any way to measure the impact on the population numbers?

2. Was anybody citing Borlaug and the Green Revolution at the time he made his prediction? Was the Green Revolution complete at that time or its impacts a foregone conclusion? If not, how much more probable might his predictions have been absent this revolution? (I guess question hints at another excuse-making Tetlock pattern: the historical counter-factual or "I just got unlucky!")

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/dp...
As one of the researchers in this article, i have to add my 2 cents, i like how this story tells the tale of this work, it was challenging and invigorating.

The long-term predictions were always provided as "no way this can happen" but if nothing changes about people's behaviors, and these trends continue, this is what the world would look like. Always meant as a guide to how serious the problem we were facing was, never as an actual prediction.

I second @dmlorenzetti and their comment. Real-time support of decision making and guiding policies is more about rough estimates of things being better or worse and if your lucky a way to rank the possible actions on that scale. Decision-makers are grateful for any qualifications and estimations they can get in the uncertain world which they are operating in.
This, I'd love to give it a try, but I'm not going to touch it until there's a Makefile and a minimal documentation. Until then, it feels like an engineering experiment, not a major company-backed project.
By far my favorite To-Do List app. Microsoft purchased my favorite Calendar app a few months ago. What will be next?
This is awesome! Go's channels and green threads were one of the features I really liked about Go. One more reason for me to go past basic prime number programs in Nim :)

I'm hoping to see Rust get green threads/tasks/goroutines too. I'm working on a GC myself, and hopefully someone is trying out a green thread scheduler.
Yes. This.

It's the same model as SPDY. See a problem (HTTP1/x utilizing the network poorly). Implement a proprietary protocol from just your clients talking with your web properties. Work out kinks. Standardize as HTTP/2.

I wonder what the HTTP/2 equivalent of QUIC will be.

Interesting aside. As I typed that summary above. I couldn't help but think of Microsoft and how SPDY might still exists as a private "market leading feature" if Google sold server software...
There's a huge hole in your logic: countries where law is upheld already have reproduction rate lower than needed to stabilize.

And most of overpopulation is in countries where law is... episodic.

Imagine "tax penalties" in Kongo or Nigeria where people live off ground on less than 2$/day. Funny.
good idea. What do others think?
Amazon tests out robots that might one day replace warehouse workers
Who says what I'm willing to do? I'll admit You are willing to pay $1.

The question was malformed. Should have been, how much can you pay and still make money, on average? Or better yet, what is the break-even point.
There are many analogs being passed off as MDMA. However, it's normal that a given drug won't affect everyone in the same way.

I've had pure MDMA several times (tested). I've supplemented with 5-HTP and antioxidants, made sure to eat, and even then I've often had issues where it left me depressed and anxious for days afterwards. My friends, who never supplement, do not experience such a crash. At this point, I generally avoid MDMA because the crash is too painful to be worth it.

I've recently had my genes sequenced and found out that I have a slow variant of the TPH2 gene. This gene encodes for the enzyme (tryptophan hydroxylase) which makes serotonin. It's normal that I have more aftereffects after MDMA use, because my brain is probably 2-5x slower at replenishing serotonin. No amount of supplementation will fix this, because tryptophan hydroxylase is the bottleneck.

Brains are more unique than faces. Pretty much every protein involved with monoamines has multiple common genetic polymorphisms. You really shouldn't expect MDMA or any drug to have the exact same effect on everybody.
HelloFresh San Francisco Bay Area

We are the leading global company in the expanding online recipe kit delivery market. We are growing VERY rapidly and are in need of three new members on our team: Production Supervisor, Production Manager, & Assistant Director. These positions are at our distribution center/warehouse in San Francisco, but we are moving to the East Bay in the coming months. We offer complete transparency, benefits, weekly team lunches, and of course, recipes to take home and experience yourself!

Please apply if you are:
• A natural leader who can motivate people and get the most out of your team
• Proactive, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work and think beyond the scope of a given assignment
• Entrepreneurial and can make things happen
• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with constant change and limited direction, comfortable making split-second decisions with far reaching consequences
• Passionate about our business: a foodie or an operations and problem-solving zealot

Production Supervisor:
You will be on the floor leading and supervising a team of hourly leads and crew, ensure quality, health and safety standards are maintained, keep thorough counts of inventory, follow instructions and communicate with managers when appropriate and perform day to day administrative duties such as printing & creation of spreadsheets.

Production Manager:
We are looking for someone who has strong project management skills and experience with building or improving inventory management, order management, and warehouse management systems and processes. You will develop operational procedures for executing handling and disposition of products and outgoing shipments. You will be responsible for achieving all operational goals, and tracking and improving accuracy and productivity levels, driving strategic planning and forecasting, and motivating, developing, and managing 40+ employees.

Associate Director:
We need a highly analytical general manager to help lead our expansion! You will help us oversee the start to finish process of delivering hundreds of thousands of meals across the country, ensure accurate receiving, inventory, and fulfillment, build and manage a team of managers, supervisors and hourly crew.

Preferred Experience:
• 4+ years of management experience in fulfillment center/warehouse operations; prefer food service/e-commerce experience
• At least 3 years of management experience in Receiving, Inventory Control, and/or Order Fulfillment
• Have a MBA and/or a background in management consulting, operations, e-commerce, or investment banking from a top-tier firm

If interested, please send a short note & resume to Blake @ HelloFresh.com
Thank you!
Merchbar - San Francisco, LOCAL, REMOTE is also an option. Competitive Salary, Etc.

We’re building the online source for authentic music merchandise from your favorite artists: Nicky Minaj, Chvrches, The Rolling Stones and more.

We help people find and purchase the best authentic gear for their favorite artists, and it’s important to us that our customers not only find the best gear, but that they thoroughly enjoy shopping with us.

To get an idea of what we're building, check out our iPhone app: http://mrchbr.co/1CGdVxC and our website: http://www.merchbar.com

What are we looking for? Interested and motivated engineers and designers of all skill levels; people who enjoy teamwork, discussions, and getting things done. If you’re interested in working with us-- get in touch! Email me at ganit@merchbar.com, and tell me about yourself in a sentence or two, show me what you got (github, dribble, or a link to your latest project or side project), or just say, “Hi!”

Ganit
Okay, so you basically want to interact with your UI using only using keyboard shortcuts. I would agree that it does indeed provides a productivity boost.
Well you can already use Nim threads (http://nim-lang.org/docs/threads.html) and channels (http://nim-lang.org/docs/channels.html) - the model is similar although the implementation uses system threads rather than coroutines.

Nim also has lightweight coroutines using `async` and `await` (http://nim-lang.org/docs/asyncdispatch.html) - you can run a bunch of these within one thread.

Also, have a look at gevent for Python.
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if value of constant can be changed, it's not constant. In my understanding. And by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_(computer_programming)
Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems to me that the alignment between elements (at least in C++) is not being taken in account (or maybe I've misunderstood something).
Mac App Store != iOS App Store
Location: London, UK

Company: http://www.podaris.com

We're a small startup which is aiming to change the way that cities are designed. We're not quite hiring, yet -- we're still seeking financing and will begin bootstrapping our first product later this month. If you're interested in what we're doing, then please do get in touch. We're using Meteor.js to implement a transport-planning-focused parametric CAD/GIS platform. If you're interested in urban design or transport planning -- or doing cutting-edge geospatial things with the latest web technology -- then drop us a line!
Optimizing bounds checks in compilers is very important for performance, and, as the article points out, often the bounds checks can be completely optimized out. This was done in at least one Pascal compiler in the 1980s, but the technology has been lost. Now it's needed in Go and Rust.

The article extends range checking for compilers to handle the case where the index variable wraps around due to arithmetic overflow, as intended behavior. This is neat, but isn't a real problem.