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milani··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Klue | Backend/ML, Frontend Engineer(s) | Vancouver, Amsterdam, REMOTE in Canada or Netherlands | Visa | https://klue.com

Klue is a data-driven competitive intelligence web platform that helps Marketing and Sales teams win more deals by staying on top of their competitors. It is a VC-backed startup with big clients like Dell, Paypal, Nike and Hootsuite.

Our Stack: Ruby on Rails, Python, Docker, Tensorflow, spaCy, React.

Please take a look at job descriptions at https://klue.com/jobs

Drop me a line at morteza at klue dot com if you are interested.

milani··on Discussion on [scala]: usefulness of OOP (2009)
Continued on 2012: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-language/PIhmEeMg-Ms/3...
milani··on “Evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language”
Right, Elixir has hints rather than being truly statically typed.
milani··on “Evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language”
It sounds like Elixir ;)
milani··on Launch HN: Datasaur (YC W20) – data labeling interface for NLP
Congratulation for the launch!

To understand the scope of your work a little bit, if I have Prodigy with custom labeling needs set up for me, do I still benefit from switching to datasaur?

milani··on Suter
Iranian military forces claim they have seen a cruise missile in radars and targeted that which caused mistakenly shutting down of the Ukrainian plane. Can it be the result of using Suter by US forces?
milani··on [dead]
He was not head of IRGC. He was the head of Qods Forces.
milani··on Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
Although I got down votes, but I dont regret my question. Now I know why it is important for people to mention the language of a project. It makes sense now.
milani··on Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
Well, I dont get them as well.
milani··on Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
Why "written in Swift" is of any importance to be in the title?
milani··on Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
> Isn’t using this much power bad for the planet? Coal has a carbon intensity of about 1 kg CO2e / kWh (source), so one coal-powered lamp-day produces 2 kg, approximately one-third to one-half of a cheeseburger (source).

I don't think the author gets a cheeseburger everyday! And even if it is true, it adds on top of the cheeseburger.

milani··on Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (2017)
As an Iranian, this is the first time I hear about these windmills! Unfortunately, the only source of info about them is this National Geography video.

There is no exclusive page for them on wikipedia, but I could find how they work generally here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panemone_windmill

milani··on Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language
I think it will be an alternative to Github's Actions, except it is not tied to git events.
milani··on Slack just wiped out our data overnight
> by handing over data.

Except that they did not hand over the data. They just closed the account.

Plus, there is no mention of complying with US sanctions in ToS.

Overall, they could easily send a notice to take action (export data) before closing the accounts. It was their fault to allow companies build their trust in slack and it was their mistake not to follow the rules in the first place.

milani··on Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery
I believe that was not the case, at least for us. They simply helped us find factories we needed and they were not part of the process after. We were lucky that we had friends in HWTrek. They helped us a lot to resolve the issues.

In our case, we had to get help from experts to setup contracts and relations between parties. We naively thought everyone is responsible for their part. But it seems they can easily fool customers ;)

milani··on Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery
I have a similar experience manufacturing a kickstarter hardware in China. Although we could ship with a few months of delay, we lost $9k.

Our story was a bit different. We first got to know about factories through a hardware service provider and consultant firm. We decided to continue with two well-known factories, one for molding and the other for pcb and assembly. At some point, we paid $9k to start the final injection. Our project manager in the molding factory made up a story that their email were hacked and someone had intercepted the invoices and that we had paid to a wrong account! He knew we could not follow up the story as we were under pressure and investigating the issue could delay the production for at least a year.

We paid again, this time with a lot of double confirmations in each step. A lot more problems occurred after that. The final quality of the product was different from what we expected and from what we controlled in the factory. So we did not continue with them.

These factories have no control over their staff. There should be multiple points of contact to avoid these problems. Overall, hardware is hard and manufacturing in china is even harder.

milani··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
I experienced having my account suspended all of a sudden with no notice; the problem livingpunchbag is trying to avoid.
milani··on Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
I expected a reference to a kind of deformable convnet and its variants[1] that try to learn natural transformations.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06211

milani··on Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (2009)
Middle-eastern countries have used water for centuries to clean after the act. Nowadays, they are converting to western style as it seems luxury!
milani··on Ask HN: What are your impressions of the HoloLens so far?
I had the same bad experience.
milani··on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
Have you seen overleaf.com?
milani··on Ask HN: Do you prefer cloud or local storage for photos?
Are the options in order of priority? If not, which one do you choose?!
milani··on Ask HN: Do you prefer cloud or local storage for photos?
My question is whether it matters to the public or not. It seems it is not a big concern for most of people. And it is not about cloud as general. It is about photo storage because the nature of it: people use multiple devices to take shots.
milani··on Ask Us Anything: Y Combinator Hardware Companies Crowdfunding
What is the process choosing a manufacturer? How do you choose between them? Another question is, do you outsource the production to an EMS? If not, how one should handle assembling parts and packaging the product?
milani··on [dead]
I recently discovered betternet.co, at least it is free on android.
milani··on [dead]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/british-scientist-...
milani··on [dead]
Isn't it more like a baby kangaroo?
milani··on Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown
Is it based on html5? if yes, what container did you use?
milani··on Deckset: Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545456
milani··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
For anyone who wants to see how it can be built: CocoaPods does it for xcode and objc.
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