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This is hard to have fun with given the current election status..

JoinHoney.com | FULL STACK ENGINEER| Full-Time | Los Angeles | ONSITE

Job Description -

You are a full stack engineer with extensive Javascript experience. You've scaled teams and products before, and have a desire to join a fast-growing company and make a difference.

You will be a part of the core engineering team at Honey, responsible for building new features and maintaining all parts of the core product. This includes backend web development (our main app is a Node.js/Express app tied to MySQL/Elastic/Redis datastores), frontend development (React/Flux), and browser extension development.

Most of our code is Coffeescript, but a knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript is a big plus.

Preferred Qualifications -

Experience developing and maintaining production web or mobile applications. Experience with Node.js/Express. Some experience with frontend frameworks (React, Backbone, Angular, etc). Comfortable with one of SQL, Elastic, or Redis. Self-motivated to build and iterate in quick cycles. Experience with git or other version control.

If you have any questions or want to apply contact nick@joinhoney.com

You'd have to move outside of the US to play online. Playing in person is very slow and a terrible lifestyle doing it professionally.

It's briefly mentioned in the article but I don't think ya'll realize Haseeb is a (in)famous ex-poker player. He made high quality training videos, and did very, very well in poker. He was also at one time Daniel Cates's (junglemans) roommate (and life coach? lol) who is probably one of the strongest poker players in the world.

All these other things were for sure the real factors into the negotiation/hiring. The bootcamp meant almost nothing (besides the 6m+ experience showing he could train people to code like he's proven he could train people in poker).

Really cool. I built something similar in python for giggles a couple months ago [1]. One day I'll get around to implementing other roles. Honestly the most fun part of it was co-workers hilarious attempts to break the script. ```!vote DROP TABLES```

https://github.com/nickweinberg/werewolf-slackbot

No.. From their documentation it says they use "Industry Standard Logistic Regression", which just means logistic regression. Which can be very useful, but is also the most basic model you could use.

If the entire point is to watch someone code something from scratch, why is there no dates on the videos? How can you follow a series from beginning to end if you have to randomly guess which order a series is in?

A common use case (and I'd imagine most common use case) is someone building an app from scratch. Usually this takes more than one video. The videos on the user page, and on the main video viewing page do not have a date.

So now it's almost impossible to watch old videos in order. I saw some interesting series I wanted to check out, but clicked around trying to find the beginning and could not find out which one it was and then gave up.

I hate Harrahs/Caeser's Entertainment. Where do I even begin.

Some interesting anecdotes:

The CEO Gary Loveman bought ~2.4% stake of NBA basketball team Boston Celtics in 2008. No Harrahs properties can take NBA bets on games involving Celtics or futures bets on who will win championship (Celtics could win) because CEO wants an inconsequential stake in an NBA team. How vain can you be?

Past couple months CEO and friends have been trying to split CET into two separate companies. One with all the valuable properties (Caesar's Vegas, etc.) the other with the stinkers (Atlantic City, etc.) bundled with debt and pension obligations. Trying to screw over all the workers. Judge recently ruled they couldn't do this, but they're still trying.

CET had option to build property on Kotai strip in Macau. CEO said it was too risky, so let it expire. The majority of profits of Las Vegas Sands (Sheldon Adelson) and Wynn Resorts Limited (Steve Wynn) comes from properties they built in Macau.

Wow, super cool. My first thought went to back in the day there were all those addons for SimCity like SimCar or SimHelicopter. Where you got to drive/fly around, respectively in your actual SimCity loaded in from a save file.

The article is just a review for a book.

I've never read the book mentioned but if this is a topic you're interested in I'd highly recommend, 'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr.

This article is trash. First he makes a dumb argument that comes down to, what's $2 in exchange for the warm fuzzies of imagining where you'll move with that money.

And then goes on to explain why now's the best time to waste your money if you like wasting your money because of the ridiculously obvious point that the jackpot is larger now.

This is abysmal garbage and the author should feel bad and so should everyone who upvoted this. I rarely ever get mad but the lottery is one of my biggest pet peeves, and this brings no insight or elaboration on the issue besides, "gee wouldn't it be great to instantly have millions of dollars."

Was pretty sure when I saw this headline on my feed it was an Onion article... nope.

This is one of those things the people don't really think about, and I know I didn't, but it really seems that a lot of the power resides in getting appointed to these committees. And it's something that people don't get to vote on.

To be fair, I thought the point of an editorial was for the author to express their opinion. [1]

[1] From dictionary.com: 'Editorial definition, an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor'

Thank you. Thought I was losing my mind with all these apocalyptic comments on how a sixteen year old girl dropping out of high school with a cohesive plan, and parental guidance, would suddenly be completely socially challenged and lacking any other ways to gain insights into the world.

Woah. Reading the comments here is absolutely surreal, am I still on HN?

Traditional high school is absolutely not a place where you go to "learn how to socialize" or you get to learn all about "history" and being a "well rounded person. It's a place where, for the most part, you go to get babysat so your parents can go to work and not have to worry about you.

Very surprised at the reaction here, where in a different context I'd imagine the same people would be talking about the failures of public education instead of how much a sixteen year old is supposedly missing out on by dropping out.

Yeah. This seems odd. I get you're running a business but ostensibly the reason for this report is to allow people to view the legitimacy of the program and not as a means to get people on your mailing list.

I don't think we disagree. You don't have to ditch your old friends, but if you wanna build side projects you should find new people who are into that instead of wasting time trying to convince people who obviously aren't.

Look, it may sound harsh, but get new friends.

Take the time that you'd spend trying to find some way to get your friends to work on a project with you and channel that energy into finding other people who actually want to work on stuff. Join meetups, find local groups, get out there.

If you feel like you're pulling teeth now to just get them to start, imagine once you're actually working and hit a speedbump. Trust me, you're gonna have a bad time.

Even though I normally would agree with the premise in the headline, the article is a waste of time. The author goes on many tangents and doesn't seem to have a coherent point besides the title. "Some tech billionaires have some things in common with previous capitalist titans". If you find that point facile, like me, then you're better off not wasting your time.

Thanks for clarifying. That's exactly what I think whenever I see a headline like that and skip the article.

"I know the salary range for developers in my area is $y to $z."

This is a great suggestion. Shows you're savvy, doesn't give anything away and gets the ball rolling.

patio11 is correct.

You should always try to come from the frame of you being excited about the opportunity and first want to make sure it's a good fit. The onus isn't on you to give a number, and in fact it's pretty ridiculous for them to demand it.

If you've reached the final stages you should be getting an offer letter with a salary amount and then you can negotiate from there. That not happening sounds strange.

With all that said it's pretty straightforward to use a site like glassdoor to see what salaries are at similiar jobs in the area. I see you made a new account just to ask this, iss this a larger company?

Yeah, it is pretty hard to believe.

Personal anecdote. About eight years ago I knew a guy who had a small diner in Michigan and the weekly deposits came out to be just under $10k, so $8700 this week, $9500 the next week. Nothing nefarious, that's just what it happened to be. I guess after three months of this the bank closed his business' account for "suspicious activity".

All this really proves is Airbnb knows how to get press. Article should be titled, "Here are pictures of new Airbnb office". It looks cool, will be interesting how it can scale.

The concept of, "not the worst place ever in the world to work" call center isn't some magical break through. See Zappos, booking.com etc.

It doesn't. But that's why people are protesting now. I doubt they are protesting anything to do with Peter Thiel. Just they want to bring attention to their cause.

Yes. Peaceful. Until cops started beating people, arresting them and chucking teargas.

The people vandalizing have nothing to do with the protesters.

This is what happens when you beat and tear gas peaceful protesters. Look at the videos of the Berkeley protest and you'll see the police instigating, shoving students, decked out in full riot gear. They were ready to go with tear gas and rubber bullets, before anything untoward happened.

It was absolutely shameful. They are protesting now not just because of some incident thousands of miles away, and not just because of an abstract systemic problem but because of actual injustice witnessed first-hand several days ago. A man has seizure and the police won't allow him medical care. Beating 19-year olds with batons, chucking flash grenades. Hundreds of people arrested.

You think this kind of thing only happens in the south. But it's happening here, and it's scary and disgusting.

I'm surprised, a couple of guys I know went on Hired in the bay area and it said there weren't enough jobs at this time.

Definitely not a true statement, unless you have some other background/experience that a company is willing to give you a shot in a junior role.