Raphomet

You are living my dream. Happy to hear it's going well.

I'm a note-taking power nerd who has used all the buzzy apps on Macs. Obsidian is by far the best — it's become my personal journal, my knowledge base, a quick and dirty blog, a place to keep loose notes.

The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous. They're constantly pushing updates, and seem to handle all facets of app development with aplomb.

No affiliation, just a happy user!

Anyone know what tool the author used to make those nice animated SVGs?

Lob | YC S13, YC Continuity | Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Senior Frontend Engineer | Full Time, ONSITE | San Francisco, CA

Lob exists to create APIs that help developers automate things in the offline world. Our first product was our Print and Mail API (programmatically send letters, postcards, checks). Our second is address verification, CASS-certified by the USPS.

I'm Lob's head of engineering. We are building an open, collaborative, experimental, evidence-driven culture because we think the best innovations will come from everywhere in the company—especially from engineers. Read more about our engineering team here: https://lob.com/blog/category/engineering

We're currently looking for:

- experienced software engineers who can lead entire projects

- a frontend engineer who can take ownership of our frontend ecosystem

- engineering managers who are technical, great at hiring, and have a track record of coaching strong problem-solvers

We hate contrived interviews, so our process rewards practical problem solving (based on real problems we've faced) and excellent communication.

Apply at https://lob.com/careers if this intrigues you!

Lob | YC S13, YC Continuity | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time, ONSITE | San Francisco, CA

Our first API was to programmatically send physical mail. Our second, announced 2 months ago, (https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/31/ycs-continuity-fund-leads...), is CASS-certified address verification. Our long-term goal is to provide the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world through APIs.

I'm the head of engineering at Lob. In between my last job and this one, I spoke to 42 organizations before I found what I was looking for in Lob: an exceptional team at the beginning of its growth phase, and also a company with a track record of being deliberate about its culture and which is intentionally building a good place to work.

We are a small and mighty engineering team with a ton of product and infrastructure problems to solve as we keep pace with rapid growth. So, we're currently looking for experienced software engineers who can take ownership of entire projects. We hate contrived interviews, so our process rewards practical problem solving (based on real problems we've faced) and excellent communication.

Apply at https://lob.com/careers if this intrigues you!

Lob | YC S13, YC Continuity | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time, ONSITE | San Francisco, CA

Our first API was to programmatically send physical mail. Our second, announced last month (https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/31/ycs-continuity-fund-leads...), is CASS-certified address verification. Our long-term goal is to provide the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world through APIs.

I'm the head of engineering at Lob. In between my last job and this one, I spoke to 42 organizations before I found what I was looking for in Lob: an exceptional team at the beginning of its growth phase, and also a company with a track record of being deliberate about its culture and which is intentionally building a good place to work.

We are a small and mighty engineering team with a ton of product and infrastructure problems to solve as we keep pace with rapid growth. So, we're currently looking for experienced software engineers who can take ownership of entire projects. We hate contrived interviews, so our process rewards practical problem solving (based on real problems we've faced) and excellent communication.

Apply at https://lob.com/careers or drop me a line at raph@lob.com if this intrigues you!

Lob | YC S13, YC Continuity | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time, ONSITE | San Francisco, CA

Our first API was to programmatically send physical mail. Our second, announced just yesterday (https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/31/ycs-continuity-fund-leads...), is CASS-certified address verification. Our long-term goal is to provide the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world through APIs.

I'm the head of engineering at Lob. In between my last job and this one, I spoke to 42 organizations before I found what I was looking for in Lob: an exceptional team at the beginning of its growth phase, and also a company with a track record of being deliberate about its culture and which is intentionally building a good place to work.

We are a small and mighty engineering team with a ton of product and infrastructure problems to solve as we keep pace with rapid growth. So, we're currently looking for experienced software engineers who can take ownership of entire projects. We hate contrived interviews, so our process rewards practical problem solving (based on real problems we've faced) and excellent communication.

Apply at https://lob.com/careers or drop me a line at raph@lob.com if this intrigues you!

Thanks for sharing. Cathy O'Neil is one of the most credible voices in the room when it comes to understanding the unintended consequences of applied big data algorithms.

The original post is sensationalistic and massively overstates what's currently possible when it comes to micro-targeting.

The USDS is working on vets.gov, not 18F. Apparently this effort involves taking hundreds of microsites that all look and behave differently and combining them into one unified effort. It's not surprising that this would take a long time, and my understanding is that this is one of USDS's top priorities.

I think it's easy to underestimate how hard it is to ship something on the scale of vets.gov from the outside.

Source: had early talks with the VA to join this project. I didn't, but came away with a lot of respect for the team working on it.

Hi! Just curious, why did you stop running the code? Seems like a useful thing.

Chiming in - PagerDuty has saved many butts at Airbnb, too. We love to hate getting pages from you guys.

Presumably this was a design choice: "Ixoth" doesn't really sound like anything else, which means Siri is unlikely to confuse it with another name or command.

Startup School in 2010 was the reason I quit my job and went straight to Airbnb without taking a single day off in between.

This event is a life-changer.

Hey, thanks for your feedback! We're continually working to improve the core experience on Airbnb, and we'll be fleshing out some updates to the calendaring system in the near future to address problems like this.

(I'm a backend engineer at Airbnb - feel free to write me at raph@airbnb.com if you have any other feedback to pass along.)

There's a Hire HN thread that shows up here about once a month.

That sounds amazing. Link?

Yeah, thanks to YC for organizing it and to the speakers for volunteering their time. I have almost never learned so much in one day for free. You guys have really made me think about what I want to do with my life.

I felt this way before taking my current job, but I took it anyway. It turns out that you can learn way more way faster when you're working in a team on a real project.

There's _a lot_ of stuff that your teammates can teach you in five minutes that would take a day of Googling and experimentation to learn yourself, especially when you're a beginner.

I don't know if I'm anyone's favorite programmer, but I derive enormous satisfaction from building working applications - even unsexy CRUD applications - from nothing. What we do professionally is already god damn wizardry: we turn text into something that moves.

I'm frankly surprised that 29% of tweets DO produce replies or retweets. This really changes my perception of how the average user uses Twitter - people are interacting with each other a lot more frequently than I thought.

I guess this might be a result of Twitter hiding replies to your followees' tweets if you don't also follow the repliers.

New Twitter feels like Old Twitter, except it's faster and puts more of the stuff I want to see in front of me.

Facebook has many, many more features than Twitter does, and the features it has are not as easy for users to understand or use. When they reorganize the UI or change fundamental site behavior, users struggle to relearn how to use the site. It is a necessarily evil side effect of iterating on complex application features.

Yes, it's a lot closer to Microsoft's Consolas than it is to Courier.

A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders).

Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.

Having built it once, you could probably write it again in half the time. Even if you don't have the code, you have the experience.

Writing code changes you.

Check out the video on the wall playing at 2m35s; it's an HTML5 <video> transformed with CSS3!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo#t=2m32s

We're hiring web developers at Context Optional, in San Francisco. We make web applications on social platforms. We use Rails, but we're open to a range of backgrounds and experience - we've even got a summer internship position open! http://www.contextoptional.com/

Write me for more information: rleeATcontextoptional.com

The Firebug team officially supports Firebug Lite for Chrome. Have you tried it? It still doesn't have full JavaScript debugging, but it'll cover 80% of everything else you need.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bmagokdooijbeehm...

Hey! It's like Marmaduke Explained (http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/), but, in a subversive twist, the commentary is less funny than the comic. Postmodern!

Oh, man. From the title I thought _why came back in a brand new geriatric form - Why the Granny Coder. It's going to be a long day.

Adobe employees will be fine - they get an unheard-of 24 days of PTO per year (three of which are automagically consumed during the holidays).