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bignison Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

Pearson VUE | Application Architect | REMOTE (US based) | Full time

Pearson VUE provides exam and test-taker services to clients who want to assess the skills of their candidates. Example: a doctor who needs to take a test that is created by a medical board.

Stack: C#, Angular, Azure

https://pearson.jobs/virtual-usa/technical-architect/D3D4CF0...

bignison Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5

I can see this being very useful for the managers, if the engineers reliably add the labels. In your experience, how do you overcome the problem of "laziness" where the engineers skip over the labeling step?

bignison Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Thomson Reuters | Eagan, MN | Onsite full-time

Lead Software Engineer (Big Data applications) - more details in the posting at https://toc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&...

bignison Amazon Launchpad for Startups

I'm interested in the flip side of this. How, as a consumer, can I discover cool new products from startups that Amazon thinks are noteworthy? I wish the also announced an section of the website like amazon.com/launchpadproducts where I could see a list of qualified products.

bignison Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

Is it practical and desirable to have it both ways? Be published in a journal but also publish it on your own blog for free access?

So if you publish a paper titled "XYZ" in a journal and also put it on your blog, making sure your blog is visible to search engines - anyone searching for the paper's title "XYZ" will find it for free on your blog?

(I'm not involved with the science community)

bignison Show HN: CodeMill – a marketplace for pull requests

I'd suggest making that more obvious somehow. Before seeing this comment, I had no idea how to see open tasks that are looking for developers to take.

bignison Show HN: ScholarCheck – Programmatically verify students' emails

I'd suggest having your landing page explain a few common scenarios of where using ScholarCheck would be helpful. I'm not clear on why someone would want to use this. (or who the target audience is)

bignison Ask HN: Can anyone solve this puzzle without an algorithm?

Looks like we'd have to install it and play it to know how the gameplay works. Is it based on a well-known puzzle that's already described online somewhere?

bignison Scroll down and click Destroy this Site

Not seeing "Destroy this Site" on the page. Ctrl-F text find didn't come up with anything either.

bignison Open Source OCR in JavaScript

It demos well, but then I tried a simple test - a photograph of some text (http://imgur.com/TCnGlZG), Ocrad.js utterly failed at it, almost all letters were incorrect.