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bennetthi··on Made an app that summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News
+1 that'd be awesome. As I don't have time to read a single article fully, but I definitely don't have time to 200 of them.

Also....excited to learn a new word, "exegesis"

bennetthi··on E-ink is so Retropunk
Do you sell anything bigger? I only saw the 7.5, I’d be way more interested in something like 24.
bennetthi··on Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI
> that are kind, but indicate clearly

Yes! And if you could just add this to your "profile" so you didn't need to add it each time, prompts would be that much shorter.

bennetthi··on Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month
I feel like there should be a word for this.
bennetthi··on Reliability: It’s not great
Nicely said. I remember AWS outages (S3, EBS, and RDS) in the early 2010s when their products were younger. But given time to improve each has become more and more resilient.
bennetthi··on Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
I'm surprised how most chatbots focus on a 1:1 interaction with the user and the bot. I find chatbots most productive and novel when you allow the one bot to interact with a group of users. For example, deploy bots, where each user can have the bot deploy as well as they can see the chat history to get context on what has been deployed.
bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Button | NYC | Full time | H1B - yes | Remote - no

Roles: Front-end, Back-end, SRE

I've been a Back-end engineer at Button for 1.5 months and it's the best job I've ever had.

Some specifics:

- a monetizable product that I can get behind

- an amazing team of 16 intelligent, friendly, and experienced individuals across all parts of the organization

- a slew of fun engineering challenges

- a focus on delivering excellence in everything we do

- a team where everyone is deeply committed to making the best product, company, and lives for all of us

- a culture focused around questioning everything

At Button, we think unlocking the interconnection of mobile apps through deep linking is the next big step in the evolution of apps. Deep linking is critical on the web, so why does it barely exist on our mobile apps? Button is focused on tackling this issue, so that your app experience isn’t on-par with the web, but better! Watch our demo video on http://www.usebutton.com/ to learn more.

If any of this resonates with you we’d love to hear from you, so please apply at http://www.usebutton.com/join-us or drop us a line at recruiting@usebutton.com.

bennetthi··on A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures
Here is another repo of streaming papers: https://github.com/sorenmacbeth/streaming-papers
bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
Button - NYC - http://usebutton.com

Come be Engineer #6 at Button! We’re looking for full-stack generalists and iOS and Android pros.

WHAT WE DO: We’re building a platform and loyalty network that connects mobile apps together. We’ve announced partnerships with Uber, Resy, and Tablelist, and we’re just getting started. (The nature of what we do puts us in touch with a lot of growing mobile startups.)

WHO WE’RE AFTER: We’re a merry band of hackers and entrepreneurs, and we’re looking for someone similarly minded. Our backend is a mix of NodeJS and Golang, and we have a rich iOS SDK (and need help building Android).

Ideally you’ll have 5+ years of experience working on hard technical problems in a related environment. But more important is an ability to work through hard problems, a drive to innovate, and an insistence on clean and well-tested code. Our lead engineers are veterans of Google and Venmo.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: As engineer #6, you’ll either specialize in our mobile SDK or our backend. Both are being built to integrate into hundreds of top-tier apps, with millions of users per day, so performance and correctness are absolutely critical. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, so as an early engineer you’ll have a lot of influence over design decisions and directions.

CONTACT: Interested? Apply at http://www.usebutton.com/join-us or drop us a line at recruiting@usebutton.com, and Chris or Mikey will get back to you! (Please mention HN, too!)

bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?
Really interesting approach. Thanks for the resource.
bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?
I hadn't, so I just did. Thanks for the suggestion. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simianarmy-users/59r...
bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?
Yes, but that doesn't answer the question, who is actually using it.
bennetthi··on Statistical Learning
I found the Stanford ML class on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/ml) really amazing. Although it uses Octave, not R.
bennetthi··on Building a natural description of images
Here is the HN post from yesterday that also points to the NYTimes article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621658
bennetthi··on Boost by Mercedes-Benz
Disrupting busses!
bennetthi··on Screeps – the world's first MMO sandbox strategy game for programmers
Really cool idea.
bennetthi··on AWS Config
It's pretty amazing how many products AWS is releasing at re:Invent.
bennetthi··on Diversity at Amazon
It's unfortunate they don't include any total numbers, just percentages, on the donut charts.
bennetthi··on Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
It seems like a bunch of people are using docker + CoreOS, is anyone using Docker with Marathon in production?
bennetthi··on Www.crunchbase.com returns 403
Still getting a 403 :(
bennetthi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
awe.sm (http://totally.awe.sm) - San Francisco, CA

We're seeking an DevOps Engineer to help us maintain the reliability of our core services, grow our engineering processes as we build new applications, and automate as much as possible.

We are a small, close-knit, and enthusiastic team of hackers building analytics that measure the ROI of social media. Our engineering culture embraces data-driven decision making, failing fast, and abiding by the UNIX philosophy: building small, powerful tools with clean interfaces. Additionally, we live on our internal IRC server, relish an opportunity to discuss new technology, and have a bi-monthly board game night.

Learn more about us or apply at http://totally.awe.sm/jobs

bennetthi··on How to choose the right tool for the job: awe.sm’s language journey
Thanks! I can't imagine you'd want to use Dropwizard with Play! since they both accomplish similar tasks. That said, I'm not really familiar with Play, but to my understanding its a full web application framework. Dropwizard focuses more around creating web APIs but it does include a templating library in case you want to create applications beyond APIs.

Also, here is a presentation from the author of the "Play Framework Cookbook" walking through using Dropwizard: http://spinscale.github.com/dropwizard/2012-03-intro.html#/