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DGAP··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
What's the pricing? Do you take the entire 3% commission? If so, ouch, and do you anticipate this will be affected by the recent anti trust cases?

Is your use of AI just chatgpt API calls? How quickly could you scale given there's still humans in the loop? What are the blockers to getting humans out of the loop?

Have you used your MVP to close any real sales?

DGAP··on What the interns have wrought, 2024 edition
Only if you think auto complete, Google, and Stack Overflow also make internships obsolete.
DGAP··on Priced out of home ownership
Stop subsidizing demand at the national level. Stop restricting supply at the local level.
DGAP··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
OK, then I'm going to stop using Signal after 6 years of use.
DGAP··on Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
Slack is not a fan of containers evidently.
DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
mParticle | New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, REMOTE | Software, Cloud, Devops, Backend, Security, Manager, iOS | https://www.mparticle.com/careers We're a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on our series D. I've been very impressed with our architecture since joining, we handle a huge amount of data and we have some very big names as customers. It's a great company to be a part of and we're growing rapidly. DM me on Twitter with questions or for a referral.

- Cloud Systems Engineer II: 2+ years exp; AWS, Bash, Python, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet; https://grnh.se/631ccd2f1us

- Security Engineer II: 2+ years exp; OWASP Top 10, AWS Security; https://grnh.se/bac592fd1us

- Software Engineer II - Integrations: 1-3+ years exp; OOP, SQL, C#; https://grnh.se/e34c33ff1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering: 3+ years exp: SQL-like, ETL pipelines, Druid, Fivetran, Redshift, Looker, Spark; https://grnh.se/d6297b3e1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems: 2+ years exp; https://grnh.se/f3b23d351us

- Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering: 2 - 5+ years exp; C#, .NET Core, AWS, DataDog, Cloud Trail, SumoLogic; https://grnh.se/68c60efc1us

- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering: 7+ years exp; C#, AWS, SQL / RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging; https://grnh.se/4b8357081us

- Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Engineering & Developer Tools: 5+ years exp; Kotlin, Swift; https://grnh.se/a112825b1us

- Software Engineering Manager: 3+ years exp; https://grnh.se/2670e04e1us

DGAP··on Daft Punk Break Up
Justice
DGAP··on Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?
Some good points in this thread though a touch overly pessimistic. For reference, I'm a security engineer.

The part of my job I enjoy the most is building things, mostly by writing code or working in AWS. If you aren't interested in writing code, I might suggest a cloud security role though if you're doing it right, that will also involve writing terraform or cloud formation or something code-like.

Pentesting is the cool field everyone wants to go into, but it also pays less than security engineering and is most often employed by consulting groups who have you repetitively testing web applications and writing reports.

All this to say, if you find cloud interesting then a cloud security role could be fun for you, and it's in high demand at the moment.

DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
mParticle | New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, REMOTE | Software, Cloud, Devops, Backend, Security, Manager, iOS | https://www.mparticle.com/careers We're a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on our series D. I've been very impressed with our architecture since joining, we handle a huge amount of data and we have some very big names as customers. It's a great company to be a part of and we're growing rapidly. DM me on Twitter with questions or for a referral.

- Cloud Systems Engineer II: 2+ years exp; AWS, Bash, Python, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet; https://grnh.se/631ccd2f1us

- Security Engineer II: 2+ years exp; OWASP Top 10, AWS Security; https://grnh.se/bac592fd1us

- Software Engineer II - Integrations: 1-3+ years exp; OOP, SQL, C#; https://grnh.se/e34c33ff1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering: 3+ years exp: SQL-like, ETL pipelines, Druid, Fivetran, Redshift, Looker, Spark; https://grnh.se/d6297b3e1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems: 2+ years exp; https://grnh.se/f3b23d351us

- Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering: 2 - 5+ years exp; C#, .NET Core, AWS, DataDog, Cloud Trail, SumoLogic; https://grnh.se/68c60efc1us

- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering: 7+ years exp; C#, AWS, SQL / RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging; https://grnh.se/4b8357081us

- Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Engineering & Developer Tools: 5+ years exp; Kotlin, Swift; https://grnh.se/a112825b1us

- Software Engineering Manager: 3+ years exp; https://grnh.se/2670e04e1us

DGAP··on Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles
This is how it works in Texas at HEB and Central Market. It's about $10 to do curbside grocery pickup, more around $15-$30 I believe for delivery, which is done through Favor, a delivery subsidiary of HEB.
DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
mParticle | New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, REMOTE | Software, Cloud, Devops, Backend, Security, Manager, iOS | https://www.mparticle.com/careers

We're a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on our series D. I've been very impressed with our architecture since joining, we handle a huge amount of data and we have some very big names as customers. It's a great company to be a part of and we're growing rapidly. DM me on Twitter with questions or for a referral.

- Cloud Systems Engineer II: 2+ years exp; AWS, Bash, Python, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet; https://grnh.se/631ccd2f1us

- Security Engineer II: 2+ years exp; OWASP Top 10, AWS Security; https://grnh.se/bac592fd1us

- Software Engineer II - Integrations: 1-3+ years exp; OOP, SQL, C#; https://grnh.se/e34c33ff1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering: 3+ years exp: SQL-like, ETL pipelines, Druid, Fivetran, Redshift, Looker, Spark; https://grnh.se/d6297b3e1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems: 2+ years exp; https://grnh.se/f3b23d351us

- Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering: 2 - 5+ years exp; C#, .NET Core, AWS, DataDog, Cloud Trail, SumoLogic; https://grnh.se/68c60efc1us

- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering: 7+ years exp; C#, AWS, SQL / RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging; https://grnh.se/4b8357081us

- Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Engineering & Developer Tools: 5+ years exp; Kotlin, Swift; https://grnh.se/a112825b1us

- Software Engineering Manager: 3+ years exp; https://grnh.se/2670e04e1us

DGAP··on California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
HN is so strangely anti tech and anti startup at this point. I'm not sure exactly who's on the platform at this point. Unemployed OSS devs bitter that everyone else in the valley is making more money than them?
DGAP··on California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
Exactly. If I'm in California and I want to challenge the incumbents with my cool new idea about how to do delivery better, now I can't. There's no way to effectively scale a sales team in the beginning to reach out to all these restaurants. And as you said, all the successful incumbent players already used this strategy to become big, now this won't materially affect them. They already have sales agreements in place with all the biggest sellers on their platforms.
DGAP··on An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)
All issues with stock options aside, if you are confident in an exit isn't it better to exercise as they vest in order to minimize the income tax you'll pay during a liquidity event?
DGAP··on AWS CloudShell
Ah you're correct, I misunderstood the feature.
DGAP··on AWS CloudShell
Is this different than https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide... ?
DGAP··on AWS CloudShell
Had to get feature parity with GCP, huh. Is this similar to SSH via SSM in that it could be a security improvement? Can I disable port 22 and remove the SSH client altogether and still use AWS CloudShell on an instance?
DGAP··on Teardown of the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal
Can someone explain to me the economics/ technology of Starlink and why it beats out traditional geosynchronous internet providers? Is it that owning your own cheap launch platform makes launching lots of satellites instead of one big one feasible? Is it some new antenna miniaturization technology? If that were the case, I would think this would have been invented by one of the myriad existing players in the space. Why is this apparently revolutionary progress in internet satellite technologies coming out of nowhere from a company (SpaceX) that has nothing to do with connectivity or satellites?
DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
mParticle | New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, REMOTE | Software, Cloud, Devops, Backend, Security, Manager, iOS | https://www.mparticle.com/careers

We're a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on our series D. I've been very impressed with our architecture since joining, we handle a huge amount of data and we have some very big names as customers. It's a great company to be a part of and we're growing rapidly. DM me on Twitter with questions or for a referral.

- Cloud Systems Engineer II: 2+ years exp; AWS, Bash, Python, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet; https://grnh.se/631ccd2f1us

- Security Engineer II: 2+ years exp; OWASP Top 10, AWS Security; https://grnh.se/bac592fd1us

- Software Engineer II - Integrations: 1-3+ years exp; OOP, SQL, C#; https://grnh.se/e34c33ff1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering: 3+ years exp: SQL-like, ETL pipelines, Druid, Fivetran, Redshift, Looker, Spark; https://grnh.se/d6297b3e1us

- Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems: 2+ years exp; https://grnh.se/f3b23d351us

- Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering: 2 - 5+ years exp; C#, .NET Core, AWS, DataDog, Cloud Trail, SumoLogic; https://grnh.se/68c60efc1us

- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering: 7+ years exp; C#, AWS, SQL / RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging; https://grnh.se/4b8357081us

- Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Engineering & Developer Tools: 5+ years exp; Kotlin, Swift; https://grnh.se/a112825b1us

- Software Engineering Manager: 3+ years exp; https://grnh.se/2670e04e1us

DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
mParticle | New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, Remote | Software, Cloud, and Security Engineers | https://www.mparticle.com/careers

I work remotely and have really enjoyed being a part of the distributed team, the engineering organization, and the company culture. The benefits are also great.

- Security Engineer: https://grnh.se/bac592fd1us

- Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/f3b23d351us

- Staff Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/d73ad1f21us

DGAP··on Ask HN: How to prepare my first annual review?
Keep a running list of accomplishments throughout the year. Often but not always you'll be given a chance to self-review, so include your wins in that.

If your employer publishes criteria for different levels, try to aim your evaluation to hit the responsibilities of your current and next level.

It's best to start this process as an ongoing discussion with your manager and ask them what you'll need to do to get a high mark or a promotion and track your progress against the goals you develop together.

DGAP··on Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
Open offices are popular because they're cheaper to build than private offices, no one making these decisions ever believed they were doing it to "increase collaboration."
DGAP··on Bicycle Attacks: Quantifying the Damage of Widespread Password Length Leakage
Yes! But that has various pros and cons as well.
DGAP··on A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Boldyreva
DGAP··on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
If you like Ptacek, read this: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to.html

But more importantly, why do you need stateless auth tokens?

DGAP··on I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
Anyone who's ever worked with Sift knows this is an unfair characterization. It reads like every other article in the NYT about tech or cybersecurity - uneducated fear mongering.
DGAP··on Most Americans Say Parents Do Too Much for Their Young Adult Children
I'm pretty sure 90% of my friends and peers in the 21 - 25 cohort receive financial help from their parents. This is due to the fact that they're either still in school, which is increasingly expensive, or that they can't find full-time jobs in their chosen fields, or that they've chosen to live at home to save money.
DGAP··on Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
Why not just use any of the number of existing satellite telecoms providers?
DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
Favor Delivery | Austin, Texas (TX) | Android, Frontend, Senior, Backend, Test Automation, QA Analyst, QA Manager | Onsite | Full-time | https://jobs.lever.co/askfavor?lever-via=WUDy1PL7mZ

We're an on-demand delivery company based solely in Texas and growing rapidly. "Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more."

Usual benefits & perks including: - Complimentary meals, commuter benefits, dependent care, and delivery credit - Unlimited PTO - Brand new dedicated office space - Premium health, vision, dental and 401(k) options

Feel free to comment here or on find me on Twitter for questions - I work on the engineering team. We're also hiring in Support, Product, Sales, and Design.

Tech stach and keywords: PHP, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Java, Node.js, React, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, XCUITest, Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, Espresso

DGAP··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
Favor Delivery | Austin, Texas (TX) | Android, Frontend, Senior, Backend, Test Automation, QA Analyst, QA Manager | Onsite | Full-time | https://jobs.lever.co/askfavor?lever-via=WUDy1PL7mZ

We're an on-demand delivery company based solely in Texas and growing rapidly."Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more."

Usual benefits & perks including: - Complimentary meals, commuter benefits, dependent care, and delivery credit - Unlimited PTO - Brand new dedicated office space - Premium health, vision, dental and 401(k) options

Feel free to comment here or on find me on Twitter for questions - I work on the engineering team. We're also hiring in Support, Product, Sales, and Design.

Tech stach and keywords: PHP, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Java, Node.js, React, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, XCUITest, Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, Espresso

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