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mts_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Grab | https://grab.com | Seattle / Singapore | Full time ONSITE

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing platform. We solve critical transportation challenges and make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam)

Our production scale is massive. We process thousands of bookings a day and regularly see hundreds of millions of traffic data per month. When you push out new code tons of people will see what you made within seconds. Operating on this level is hard but incredibly rewarding. As a leader in an exciting and fast-paced industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented engineers to join our team. You will specialize in building elegant products that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere.

Singapore:

    - Marketing Engineer
    - Senior Mobile Engineer (Android / iOS)
    - Engineering Manager (Mobile / DevOps / Full Stack)
    - Director of Software Engineering
Seattle:

    - Senior Software Engineer
If you're interested, please get in touch:

- https://grab.careers/

- matias.singers [at] grab [dot] com (mention that you saw this on HN)

mts_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Grab | https://grab.co | Seattle / Singapore | Full time ONSITE

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing platform. We solve critical transportation challenges and make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam)

Our production scale is massive. We process thousands of bookings a day and regularly see hundreds of millions of traffic data per month. When you push out new code tons of people will see what you made within seconds. Operating on this level is hard but incredibly rewarding. As a leader in an exciting and fast-paced industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented engineers to join our team. You will specialize in building elegant products that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere.

Singapore:

  - Marketing Engineer
  - Senior Mobile Engineer (Android / iOS)
  - Engineering Manager (Mobile / DevOps / Full Stack)
  - Director of Software Engineering
Seattle:

  - Senior Software Engineer
If you're interested, please get in touch:

- https://grab.careers/

- matias.singers [at] grab [dot] co (mention that you saw this on HN)

mts_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
GrabTaxi | Singapore | Full Time ONSITE

GrabTaxi is a South East Asian startup that aims to transform the way 600 million people commute every day. We want to improve the safety and efficiency of our taxis by leveraging on advancements in GPS and mobile technology.

Our production scale is massive. We process hundreds of thousands of real time bookings a day, and when you push out new code, tons of people will use what you made. Operating at this level is hard but incredibly rewarding. As a leader in an exciting and fast-paced industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented engineers to join our team. You will specialize in building elegant products that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere.

   - Senior Mobile Engineer (Android / iOS)
   - Database Engineer/Lead
   - Security Engineer/Lead
   - Engineering Manager (Mobile / DevOps / Full Stack)
   - Director of Engineering (Mobile / Full Stack / Backend Payments)
If you're interested please get in touch:

- https://grab.careers/

- matias.singers [at] grabtaxi [dot] com (mention that you saw this on HN)

mts_··on Jiro Ono and René Redzepi Have a Cup of Tea [video]
For those who didn't know who the two men are:

Jiro Ono, Japanese sushi chef, is often regarded as one the greatest sushi chefs. Owner of "Sukiyabashi Jiro" a three-Michelin starred sushi restaurant in Tokyo. The documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" is about Jiro Ono, the restaurant and his son.[1]

René Redzepi, Danish chef, and co-owner of the two-Michelin starred restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark. Voted the best restaurant in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. Renowned for reinventing and refining new Nordic cuisine.[2]

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Redzepi

mts_··on Npm Private Modules
Organization accounts are coming soon:

  Currently, private packages are only available for individual users, but support for organization accounts is coming soon. Feel free to create a user for your organization in the meantime, and we can upgrade it to an organization when support is here.
https://www.npmjs.com/private-modules#organizations
mts_··on Npm Private Modules
That's a very good point!

I hadn't thought of it from the point of encouraging/incentivizing the authoring of more public packages.

But couldn't the current model then discourage the authoring of public packages, and lead people to start primarily publishing private packages.

I assume whatever reason people are authoring public packages today won't change because they get a paid account. Let's at least hope that's the case.

mts_··on Npm Private Modules
Everything looks pretty awesome, except the payment model.

I'm a little surprised they didn't go with a model similar to GitHub: - Payment plans with X number of private modules, or $1/month per private module - Unlimited paying/non-paying collaborators for private modules (perhaps only read access for non-paying)

With npm's model all my collaborators will have to pay for npm private modules as well.

mts_··on AngularJS Cheat Sheet [pdf]
Services like $timeout and $interval are basically just thin wrappers around their vanilla JS relatives(setTimeout and setInterval), there are more examples like this.

The APIs look identical, some with a little added functionality - but the primary reason for the AngularJS wrappers is that they'll automatically call $scope.$apply() for you, so that you don't have to do it yourself.

mts_··on React and Angular Meeting
> ReactNative is like Titanium/Alloy. It uses native components to render views, not the DOM. So it has nothing to do with Phonegap except for the use of javascript.

I believe the original poster was referring to the fact that Cordova's whole purpose is to be a testing ground for new browser APIs - and that the goal of the project is to basically become irrelevant at a later point because browser vendors hopefully will have implemented similar APIs.

Sort of like a testing ground for web standards.

But yes, in a technical sense React Native is closer akin to Titanium than Cordova/PhoneGap in its current state.

mts_··on Show HN: Messenger.com Native
Correct, the main differentiator would be the notifications and the additional styling on top of the web view.

Goofy was created before messenger.com and had a bit of extra styling afaik.

mts_··on Show HN: Messenger.com Native
I've been using Goofy for a couple of months: http://www.goofyapp.com/

This project looks super nice, but native notifications would be nice.

mts_··on What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
> they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea Exactly!

It's even in their mission statement: > Rocket identifies and builds proven Internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leading online companies.

mts_··on Your Uber and Lyft rides visualized
Yeah, the now deleted comment said something about a bug with the site.
mts_··on Your Uber and Lyft rides visualized
Seems that there was an issue if the first batch of receipts were all of the old format, the guys behind pistats.io is looking into it right now[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/pistatsio/status/580214043715072001

mts_··on Ask HN: I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to
> 1) Rendering. > 3) Hover states.

It's all HTML and JS under the hood, each "app"(artists, playlist, etc.) differs in their stack - but web technologies. All wrapped up in CEF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework

There is even an ongoing list of core functionality which is now broken in the client: https://gist.github.com/TobiasBerg/350a06131d41d2996098

Bonus: try dragging a local file(any extension) into your Spotify client - and yes a HTML file with JS will render(hello alert())

mts_··on The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
Theoretically speaking, if you were building an PhoneGap/Cordova app binary using a compromised seed of Xcode it would be no different than building a non-PhoneGap/Cordova based iOS app.

So I'm not sure why you are referencing Facebook switching from a WebView-based app to a more native approach.

In addition, if the Xcode installation was compromised nothing should be considered safe on that device going forward.

mts_··on A game running in your browser's address bar
Along with all the Flappy Bird clones, somebody made something Flappy Braille: http://flappybraille.ndre.gr/
mts_··on Small Introduction to Markov Chains
I like the visualization vicapow did on Markov chains a while ago as well.

"Markov chains explained visually": http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/

mts_··on “Why does a car like the Tesla still have old-style fuses?”
The referenced link from the reply: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5...

And link to the comment: https://www.facebook.com/stevewoz/posts/10153145090701282?co...

mts_··on SASS in Java Webapp
Small pet peeve: http://sassnotsass.com/
mts_··on Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
Check out Issue Stats[0]: http://issuestats.com/

The project won the "Annual Data Challenge" on GitHub this year.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/hstove/issue_stats [1]: https://github.com/blog/1892-third-annual-data-challenge-win...

mts_··on EditorConfig
There is JSCS for Javascript: https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs#options
mts_··on Failed Startup Post-Mortems
It seems the book has been taken down now, returns a 404.
mts_··on Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users
My account (@matiassingers) got some very interesting numbers, and most of my photos definitely do have a caption and hashtags.

    PROBABILITY FEMALE: 0.003 
    PROBABILITY MALE: 0.001
mts_··on Rocket Internet finally confirms that it will pursue IPO in 2014
Relevant to the story last week about a Zalora IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261742
mts_··on Shout – A web IRC client
Wow, what a great job!

This is a really good looking web IRC client and it works so well with notification sounds, favicon updates etc.

mts_··on Online fashion giant Zalando confirms Frankfurt IPO plans for 2014
The press release from Kinnevik announcing the plans can be found right here: http://hugin.info/1114/R/1853369/647977.pdf

Interesting to see how ~41% of all visits to Zalando are from mobile devices in Q2 2014. [1] DACH still accounts for a significant share (56.8%) of the total revenue in Q2 2014. [2]

Zalando's ownership looked like this after Rocket Internet technically exited last year: [3] - Investment AB Kinnevik: 37% - European Founders Fund: 18% - Anders Holch Povlsen: 10% - DST Global: 9% - Holtzbrinck Ventures: 8% - Tengelmann Ventures: 6% - Others: 12%

[1]: p7 https://corporate.zalando.com/system/files/zalando_financial... [2]: p8 https://corporate.zalando.com/system/files/zalando_financial... [3]: http://techmoran.com/rocket-internet-exits-zalando/

mts_··on uilang – a minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers
Benjamin De Cock (creator) wrote a post on Medium about the philosophy behind uilang: https://medium.com/@bdc/the-educational-side-of-uilang-92d39...

EDIT: This thread should probably merged into @benjamindc's own submission here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8256416

mts_··on Ask HN: Startup School Europe: were invitations sent?
Just received my invitation as well!
mts_··on CubeSlam
Taken from the behind the scenes blog post: http://www.inear.se/2013/07/cube-slam-behind-the-three-scene...

Try for yourself with the ?dev querystring.

Some of the settings also bind to a key. In the game, try to select thedifferent cameras by pressing 1-5. Or press E and H to preview the explosion/heal effect. Or perhaps stresstest the physics by enable God Mode in the menu and press “Create Puck” or hit the P.

The mirror effect is also using a render target of it’s own. You can try the effect by pressing “M” in the game.

Full list of cheats can be seen here: https://www.cubeslam.com/cheats.html

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