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richiverse··on Most Popular HN IPOs to Date
Based on:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query="s-1"&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

Omitted are Cloudflare, and We Work as they haven't begun trading yet.

richiverse··on Python post-Guido
Why not try a president of Python every 4 years with no term limits? Similar to BDFL, except there are chances for change and a consistent voice throughout a term. Voters would consist of core devs and PSF.
richiverse··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Newsela | Senior Data Engineer | Remote 1 - 2 times a week is OK | NYC New York | https://newsela.com

https://grnh.se/u2co4x1 -> Application link

Newsela is a fast-growing startup obsessed with a single ambitious goal: to unlock the written word for everyone.

We provide engaging, relevant content that both teaches and inspires. With hundreds of thousands of teachers signed up, Newsela is already helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries.

We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

* Must have skills

- Python

- Some AWS experience (We currently use Redshift, s3, Kinesis)

- SQL

- ETL experience (We currently use Luigi)

* Nice to have

- AWS Spectrum/Athena

- familiarity with data lake

- familiarity with event sourcing

- familiarity with Kafka

richiverse··on AWS Serverless Application Repository
Want!
richiverse··on Startup Ideas
Like the firefighting idea. Might as well throw policing in there as well. An army of sufficiently smart drones should be enough to drastically reduced the size of those labor pools.
richiverse··on What programming lang/tech offer the most opportunities in the upcoming years?
Now that JavaScript and Python are #1 and #2, respectively, it opens the door for Elm/Haskell in the next 5 - 10 years. As noobs continue to flood/dilute the market, FP seems like a good bet to move the state of advanced computing forward. That being said, the frameworks react and tensorflow/scikit learn will still be in demand for the next 5 years so there's still high demand for the right framework knowledge.
richiverse··on Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox
As a python programmer, I found R's pdftools to be indispensable for messy text based PDFs. I couldn't find a python lib that worked as consistently across variously different formats.
richiverse··on Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are (2014)
http://www.theonion.com/article/insecure-frustrated-bully-wi...
richiverse··on Study finds connections between birth month and health
Would be interesting to see this study done for disease in just children since their birth month should correlate much stronger with weather and environmental factors
richiverse··on Neo900 – Crafting the private phone [pdf]
Can't you just boot Ubuntu touch on a Nexus 4 or dual boot a oneplus with 3gb ram?
richiverse··on Show HN: Soothe – Uber for Massages
süther?
richiverse··on Use Python in Excel without add-ins
xlsx: https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/ powerpoint: http://python-pptx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ word: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/docx/0.2.4
richiverse··on The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth
Misappropriation of public funds is the greatest driver of economic growth! Let's do more of that.
richiverse··on Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps
Maybe we should have some kind of tor phone that randomizes phone numbers and scrambles the sound over the wire and reconstitutes the sound through some well engineered Kickstarter phone.

This would render most govt taps moot.

richiverse··on Designing a timeless smartwatch
you could get a steel and/or swap out the band and watch skin.
richiverse··on HUVr Board
This should be possible with a powerful enough acoustic field, no?
richiverse··on Thoughts on Bitcoin
My biggest issue with bitcoin is that it should be redeemable for something tangible other than $USD. The first virtual currency that addresses this and is directly convertible to watts or calories will be the currency to beat.
richiverse··on MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete
I read this as MIT wristband would make 'Atlantic City' obsolete. Perhaps some kind of card counting helper. ;)