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igorsylon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

Trust Machines builds applications to make Bitcoin more productive. Our tech stack includes Rust, GCP, GKE, TypeScript, React.

Trust Machines was co-founded by Muneeb Ali [1]: OG Bitcoin builder, Stacks founder, and previous Hiro [2] CEO. Muneeb and his co-founder computer scientist JP Singh [3] bring a track record of long term vision and successful entrepreneurship to the table.

Trust Machines is well funded with $150M in backing from Digital Currency Group, Union Square Ventures, Breyer Capital (one the first investors in Facebook), and more.

[1] Muneeb Ali. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muneeb_Ali

[2] Developer Tools for Stacks. https://www.hiro.so/

[3] JP Singh. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/jps

Trust Machines in the news:

- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/03/muneeb-alis-tru...

- https://www.yahoo.com/now/trust-machines-appoints-coinbase-v...

- https://www.yahoo.com/now/trust-machines-brings-dan-held-143...

To apply:

Product designers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trustmachines/jobs/4603570004?t...

FE developers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trustmachines/jobs/4603581004?t...

Blockchain engineers: Email {sha256(”hello”)}@trustmachines.co

igorsylon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

Trust Machines builds applications, technologies, and infrastructure to make Bitcoin more productive and to enable its use as a decentralized final settlement layer for transactions in a wide range of applications.

Tech stack: Rust, GCP, GKE.

Why join us?

- Trust Machines was co-founded by Muneeb Ali: OG Bitcoin builder, Stacks founder, and previous Hiro [1] CEO. Muneeb [2] and his co-founder computer scientist JP Singh [3] bring a track record of long term vision and successful entrepreneurship to the table.

- Trust Machines is well funded with $150M in backing from Digital Currency Group, Union Square Ventures, Breyer Capital (one the first investors in Facebook), and more.

- Trust Machines is at the cutting edge of Bitcoin development and working on difficult to solve engineering problems and consumer app development that aim to advance the space as a whole.

Trust Machines in the news

- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/03/muneeb-alis-tru...

- https://www.yahoo.com/now/trust-machines-appoints-coinbase-v...

- https://www.yahoo.com/now/trust-machines-brings-dan-held-143...

- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trust-machines

[1] Developer Tools for Stacks. https://www.hiro.so/

[2] Muneeb Ali. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muneeb_Ali

[3] JP Singh. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/jps

To apply, email {sha256(”hello”)}@trustmachines.co

igorsylon Happy New Year Hackers

Shenzhen, China

igorsylon Ask HN: Anyone tried running two start ups at a time?

Elon Musk.

igorsylon Tell HN: Startup school acceptance emails are out

Here.

igorsylon Founders' Accents

This is a case where the founder has an American accent yet people did not understand what he tried to convey correctly. I think PG should have referred to founders' elocution, diction, communication skills, etc. instead of only their accents. As we've seen here one can have no foreign accent at all and you may still be misunderstood.

igorsylon Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

Why should anyone choose to use Apptimize over a free open-source alternative?

igorsylon Bitcoin rises

I always tell financially conservative people they can buy US$1 worth of Bitcoins just so they can learn how it works. I think many newcomers believe Bitcoins are indivisible.

igorsylon Other Examples of Craigslist Spam Tactics [NSFW]

"Respond to ads where people are seeking roomates. If they respond back, game on." I've seen most posts ask for not non-solicitation.

igorsylon Ask HN: possible to get paid $300/hour as a programmer?

Finance.

igorsylon A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it

I wonder what it sounds like in units of noise cancelling headphones.

igorsylon Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding

Support and hosting?

igorsylon Whole Exome Sequencing for $999

What does 80X coverage mean?

igorsylon Teen solves Newton’s 300-year-old riddle

Has anyone found the publication? All I have read is hype about this but I can't find the original source.

igorsylon “I’m just like a little kid. I get bored easily and computers excite me..."

“I don’t really like putting a price-tag on the stuff I do. That’s just like not the point,”

Eight years later he is finally putting a price-tag on it.

igorsylon Every time an engineer joins Facebook, a startup dies

People may create more value at a large company but most of the compensation will go to the founders and investors.

igorsylon Ask HN: How do you deal with missing out on the Facebook money train?

Should we expect an Occupy Facebook gathering later this week?

igorsylon Ask HN: YC Work At a Startup advice?

I'm surprised this post has received no comments or advice from Silicon Valley founders. I believe the competition for talent is fierce and most companies would love to have more developers readily available to join their companies.

igorsylon Ask HN: Where are all the iOS meetups in San Francisco

Meetup is an NYC-based company so it may be the case that SF prefers a locally-built solution instead.

igorsylon My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

The medical industry is in need of disruption. Has anyone played with the idea of "seeing" a doctor located in a different country using a video app? I imagine the experience would be better than what most people deal with in the states. US doctors have too much power and they take advantage of it. A remote doctor would be under more competition and be willing to provide better service.

igorsylon Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes

+1 for paying up -1 for calling it a mistake

igorsylon SparkFun Gets A Subpoena

Did Sparkfun send a representative to the court house? I'd be surprised if the court forced Sparkfun to show up and incur transportation and other related costs.

igorsylon Derek Sivers Renounces his US Citizenship

Did they disclose the fees before providing this service? Or they just surprised you with the bill in the mail? Was this tax-deductible?

igorsylon Unicode URL - ☃.net

Clever but how would mom and pop type this into the address bar? I guess this is meant solely for clickable links.

igorsylon Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB

What is Gumroad's competitive advantage? It doesn't look like it's its technology but its brand.

igorsylon FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites

I have several friends living in China. They use Chinese version of Yelp, Facebook, etc. They are aware that the government spies on their online activities. But they use these services anyways, albeit with much care. I believe most Americans easily forget about this.

igorsylon FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites

I hope this spurs the massive adoption of client-side encryption. Server-side encryption has proved to be just a marketing tool.

igorsylon Facebook to Set I.P.O. Price Range at $28 to $35

You are right from a technical point of view. However the psychology is very different.

igorsylon Ask HN: Who is going to 'Work at a Startup 2012'?

I heard many people submitted verbatim copies of their resume. Imagine having to browse through hundreds of applications and ASCII resumes. I suspect formatting of resumes trumped content.

igorsylon Ask HN: Who is going to 'Work at a Startup 2012'?

Did they reject anybody? There is a small marginal cost for every invitation they issued but a huge option value if any of their startups hires someone.