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alonsonic··on Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B
How are cities like NYC not diverse?
alonsonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Mastercard | NYC | Lead Software Engineer | Full-time | On-Site Join us to build the future of payments at Mastercard Foundry in NYC!

We're looking for software engineers with a strong product sense and a hunger for innovation to join our NYC R&D team. At Mastercard Foundry you will have the opportunity to build the next generation of payment solutions that will power the commerce experiences of the future.

More details about Mastercard Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FvjIQx_tg

Learn more and apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2544148561/

alonsonic··on Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding
Was looking for exactly the same.
alonsonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
Mastercard | NYC | Lead Software Engineer | Full-time | On-Site

Join us to build the future of payments at Mastercard Foundry in NYC!

We're looking for software engineers with a strong product sense and a hunger for innovation to join our NYC R&D team. At Mastercard Foundry you will have the opportunity to build the next generation of payment solutions that will power the commerce experiences of the future!

More details about Mastercard Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FvjIQx_tg

Learn more and apply here: https://mastercard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CorporateCareers/jo...

alonsonic··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
Because Facebook is the most vocal opposition. There is a bit of media bias too because a headline with Facebook gets more attention, but there is no doubt that they are putting themselves in the spotlight by publishing big pieces in the NYT etc.
alonsonic··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
Definition of looking at the glass half empty. Nothing is a zero sum game, we need to learn to reward good actions and punish bad ones. Here we need to support this decision by Apple instead of deviating attention to other issues. We will never get anything done if we always go back to the "but what about that..." mentality.
alonsonic··on How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?
Agree, the author doesn't paint the picture of what might be coming. Would love to hear from the HN crowd on what's coming next in API design. I see a lot of buzz around grpc, will this be the next standard?
alonsonic··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Do you think it's a good idea to delay the application for Green Cards until after November to understand better the political landscape and also hopefully see a recovery of jobs given unemployment would affect PERMs?
alonsonic··on Starting a Business in Silicon Valley
Just you. What's with all the hate to Mark lately? Even tho Facebook has its issues today it was a very innovative and well-executed product.
alonsonic··on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
Funny how most people here are missing the point of this tech and talking about how this could be achieved by using an API or talking binary over the phone with another bot.

The idea here is to leverage an existent merchant base by adapting to how they work today. Suddenly they just integrated to millions of restaurants by adapting to them and not the other way around.

I'm sure Google Assistant will first check if there is a way to use tech like OpenTable to make the reservation and fall back to a phone call if there is no better alternative.

alonsonic··on Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?
Really like your resume layout. What did you build it with? Is that an open-source layout? Would love to use it.
alonsonic··on How Canada became an education superpower
You're not taking into account the size of the US. If you look for per capita Nobel prizes the US is not even in the top 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...

alonsonic··on How Canada became an education superpower
It depends on your definition of a good university.

For you, the most important result might be economic gains/growth and for others, it might be scientific/academic achievements such as Nobel prizes, research papers, major scientific breakthroughs, etc.

If that's the case then the US is not the only education superpower.

alonsonic··on Pebble's next step
That sounds like a really good idea, and gives more confidence to the early adopters that the platform might live even if they fail
alonsonic··on Pebble's next step
I can't believe this, just got a Pebble 2 a week ago and now they are literally saying it may not work in the future.

If we rely on their cloud services for activity tracking and app downloads then it will be useless if FitBit doesn't maintain the platform.

I have to say I'm really disappointed and this is a huge blow to people that invest in startups offering hardware. If the company fails forget about the smart stuff you bought, it just won't work anymore.

We should look for ways to minimize the impact on backers. Sadly we'll see more of this in a future in which the products depend a lot on the company cloud services to operate.

alonsonic··on Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results
This is totally viable and many countries are already using that approach.

You do gain a lot by going digital with the voting system as you can quickly count the votes.

But at the same time you can count on the integrity of the votes by keeping a physical backup with the paper votes, which can be checked if needed.

alonsonic··on “Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39
if they are reporting the news they can dig a little bit further than just reading the obituary
alonsonic··on Miles Deep – Open Source Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Deep Learning
If you take the time to read about the project it might actually have some really good applications like parenting tools
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