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xycodexon Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley

Btw Amazon actually did this, they have space for 200 a night right in one of their hq buildings in downtown Seattle called Mary’s place.

xycodexon Writing tools I learned from The Economist

I'm not too sure about the paper quality/weight/foldability tradeoff, but I appreciate the fact that it's really light and I can just fold it in half and stuff it into my inside jacket pocket and go out and read it over coffee.

xycodexon Why do most top performers have the highest count of commits and pull requests?

It might depend on the CI process. If the CI is only run on the tip of the branch being merged, then the PR should squashed, otherwise if a rollback it required, it would be possible to rollback to a commit that was not tested by CI. Unless there is a list of 'known good commits' somewhere.

xycodexon Spreadsheet Horror Stories

I wonder how those mistakes were caught - I guess it is hard for them to track since they seem to rely on news reports.

If it is usually some audit firm, seems like it is working somewhat as intended, at least in the business related ones. - in other cases like research it might be important enough to hire an audit firm to verify your spreadsheet model/data provenance.

xycodexon Master of Orion

+1, played when I was a kid, picked it up again a few months ago for nostalgia, I must say it holds up really well. It’s feels well-constructed, put together from simple concepts/components, in a way that makes it quite replayable. Many decisions have big-ish consequences, and there is not too much micro managing, unless you play really big galaxy and want to exterminate everyone. Very tight UI as well for the era. I like it much better than Moo2. I only wonder what would have to be different if there was multiplayer.

xycodexon Master of Orion

Bought the 1+2 package on gog, works on catalina

xycodexon I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced

I don’t understand how they were able to get the actual transactions, which op verified as correct

xycodexon Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions

Schwab gives you a few free domestic wires a quarter I think, I ran into this situation as well which got me out of such a pickle

xycodexon For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment

Options usually have an expiry when granted, i.e. they need to be exercised (employee pays cash at the strike price for it) before the expiry.

You need to pay capital gains tax when the gains are realized, I.e. at exercise.

I’m just speculating here but I think the problem is that the value of Airbnb stock has increased so much that the taxes due on the capital gain large enough that these option holders can’t afford to pay it without a liquidity event e.g IPO, where they could just sell the acquired stock to pay taxes.

So these early employees that were compensated in options are in this weird place where they can’t afford to exercise and are short on luck if their options expire before an IPO.

Also if you leave the company, your options usually expire some time after (perhaps 90 days?). I think that’s why some employees are complaining the lack of an IPO prevents them from moving on.

I presume later employees are conpensated in Restricted Stock Units which don’t have this problem.

xycodexon How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

How was this promotion not regulated? Sounds a lot like lootcrates.

xycodexon The Shirky Principle (2010)

H&R Block is the egregious example, with their lobbying against making tax returns simpler for taxpayers, their customers.

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

AWS Elastic Container Service | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/612027/software-engineer-ecs

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale. This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud.

This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale. This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon Elastic Container Service, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

Please mention this Hacker News post when applying! =)

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Docker on AWS) | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/584558/software-development-...

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale.

This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud. This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS.

You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale.

This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

Please mention this Hacker News post when applying! =)

Backend Engineer - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/584558/software-development-...

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Amazon EC2 Container Services (Docker on AWS) | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/584558/software-development-... The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale.

This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud. This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale.

This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

Please mention this Hacker News post when applying! =)

Backend Engineer - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/584558/software-development-... Senior Backend Engineer - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/484421/senior-software-devel...

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Amazon EC2 Container Services (Docker on AWS) | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale.

This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud. This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale.

This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

Please mention this Hacker News post when applying! =)

Backend Engineer - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Amazon EC2 Container Services (Docker on AWS) | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale.

This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud. This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale.

This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

Please mention this Hacker News post when applying! =)

Backend Engineer - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

xycodexon When did software go off the rails?

I would posit that the decrease in price of computational resources drives a couple of things - better quality (more resolution, colors, for e.g) and ease/cost of development.

You might see individual applications do the same things, and consume more resources due to the layers and layers of abstractions, BUT be cheaper to build. As a consequence, many, many, many more applications being built, for cheaper, reaching more people, "eating the world".

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

AWS EC2 Container Services | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale. This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud.

This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale. This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

AWS EC2 Container Services | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale. This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud.

This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale. This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

AWS EC2 Container Services | Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/544896

The Amazon ECS team is looking for Software Engineers to build services that allow our customers to run, manage, and deploy Docker containers at scale. This team addresses very unique scaling challenges that directly impact how developers and organizations consume computing capacity in the cloud.

This is an opportunity to be part of a world-class team in AWS. You will design and operate distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on a massive scale. This is a high growth team as we are working in the competitive and rapidly evolving space of containers and orchestration. You will be building the future!

To learn more about Amazon EC2 Container Services: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs

xycodexon Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access

I think the python implementation of jsonpath is more appropriate for doing this sort of untyped access. If clean dots are really preferred, make classes! :)

xycodexon Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee granted US asylum

what's the point he was trying to make?

xycodexon The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

Why is no one talking about the #1 book on legacy code?

xycodexon Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

no pdf?

xycodexon Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban

did you sign up for tsa precheck and/or clear? If you travel that much the amortized cost would make sense. You basically get inserted into the line right after the "check id" part and don't have to take off shoes/ laptops

xycodexon Uber’s subprime leases put drivers on road, but leave some shackled

Hmm, sounds like a great idea, except that they should do this with cheaper, used cars. if you have bad credit, you shouldn't be buying a brand new car.

xycodexon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)

  Location: SF / Bay Area
  Remote: Maybe, from Singapore?
  Willing to relocate: Yes, only to LA, Seattle, NYC
  Technologies: JavaScript (7yr), Python (2), ActionScript 3 (7), C/C++ (1), Open to others.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whoisbenli
  Email: whoisbenli+hn gmail

xycodexon Denmark is inching closer to becoming cashless

Bad idea. Cash is the ultimate failure mode for on-site payment systems. What if the internet/phones went out? What if I'm visiting from abroad and my card is declined for potential fraud?

xycodexon Show HN: Crime Doesn't Climb in San Francisco

What about adjusting for the greater probability that a given area is residential the higher the elevation? Perhaps more crime occurs outside residential areas. Just speculating here.

xycodexon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Adap.tv, Inc.

http://adap.tv/careers/engineering

Hack Madison Ave!

Adap.tv is online ad technology platform for video. We are changing how video ad campaigns are planned, trafficked, optimized, and tracked.

Our stack: - C++ (We wrote our own event driven web server, malloc, and more) - Flash/ActionScript 3 - AngularJS - iOS/Objective C - Android/Java - Python

We are hiring aggressively across departments and experience levels.