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mvonthron

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mvonthron··on Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard
Boeing statement: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...

This PR is helpful in that it reminds me that there are actually people paid to take a simple set of information and mix in with a ton of PR bullshit so that you have to read it 4 times before you actually understand that yes, they screw up.

mvonthron··on Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
reviewers are not paid by the publisher in the current system either

basically:

  - authors pay to publish their work
  - readers pay to read the articles
  - reviewers review pro-bono
now you are thinking "well where the hell goes the money" and you are in the same situation as 99% of scientists
mvonthron··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
mnubo | Software Engineer | Montréal (full-time, ONSITE) | mnubo.com

mnubo provides data analytics/insights/data science for IoT manufacturers (either to power customer-facing feature, enhance R&D, predict product failures... http://mnubo.com/about/overview/).

We are looking for software engineer with big-data/data mining/distributed system architecture experience (or any relevant experience obviously) to join the team responsible for the data ingestion+enrichment+storage+querying.

The platform is written in Scala and relies on the usual suspects: ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, etc.

Other openings -> http://mnubo.com/careers/

Any questions? -> [mvonthron at mnubo dot com]

mvonthron··on Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society
Note that the company is named "Tesla" and isn't a Serbian engineer! :)
mvonthron··on Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
Absolutely!

And to be honest, the Linux client disgrace predates Microsoft take over.

mvonthron··on Creating a Virtual Printer Using Node.js [video]
It can only print text in Comic Sans!
mvonthron··on The answer to the eternal question: “Where do I find a technical cofounder?”
When I meet such people in meetups, all I hear is "I am the next Zuckerberg but I have no idea how things work. Where do I find someone to do the work for me?"
mvonthron··on Show HN: New Hacker News web client
The world needs two things: a new Javascript framework and a new HN reader!