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by manlio 5y ago
HAL.xyz | Backend (Golang), Frontend (Typescript), Product | Remote We are building the IFTTT for blockchains - a tool to query, trigger and automate blockchain data :) [0] We recently raised a $3M seed [1]; it's 9 of us at the moment
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by manlio 9y ago
I was taken aback by how incredibly naive/amateurish most of the answers so far are, but I'd rather upvote and try to highlight this post instead which is excellent and very insightful. An extra piece of advice for anyone serious
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Ask HN: I'll be in NYC soon, any recommendations?
1 points by manlio 9y ago|0 comments
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by manlio 10y ago
The first and fundamental question you want to ask yourself is not how, but why: when your reasons are clear, the path naturally follows. I can see three strands: 1. For health reasons. This is IMO the weakest reason. I'm not intereste
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by manlio 10y ago
* The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley. [0] So famous it became a bit of a cliche. I read it years ago and it didn't make any sense to me. But now that I've been studying Buddhism and practicing meditation for a while I picke
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by manlio 10y ago
I helped writing the Alexa skill for The Guardian [0], and I really didn't think highly of it, nor I thought I'd ever use it myself: the voice recognition is still poor, and it's difficul to understand what you can/canno
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by manlio 10y ago
We also have an open API ;) http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
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by manlio 10y ago
Yep - I was lucky enough to be hired by The Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com ) :) Oh, and we're still hiring! Happy to help if you have questions, or want to be referred. All positions are in London, UK.
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by manlio 10y ago
I hit the front page with "Where is who is hiring hiring?" [0] I got my current job through it and from time to time I still get "thank you" emails from random people telling me it helped them get a job too - a really go
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Show HN: Every conversation you ever had on Facebook (that you can Cmd+F)(github.com)
2 points by manlio 11y ago|0 comments
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by manlio 11y ago
I got my current, first job through "who is hiring?" alone. The response rate was insanely high, I reckon >80% if I include the "thanks no thanks" answers. A few (obvious, but HN-oriented) tips: 1 - don't spa
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by manlio 11y ago
Fell in love with this one years ago, and still love it... #!/usr/bin/perl APPEAL: listen (please, please); open yourself, wide; join (you, me), connect (us,together), tell me. do somethin
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by manlio 11y ago
I know the feeling. We're somehow wired to blindly believe in the decades ahead of us for so many aspect of our lives -- be it compound interest or love affairs. The most peculiar aftermath of losing somebody you love way too early is
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by manlio 11y ago
Lots of good essays already, so I'll chime in with some literature/fiction suggestions off the top of my head: - Borges, Ficciones ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones); that's the quintessence of min
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by manlio 11y ago
Could you elaborate on what kind of MAs are you into? I always wanted to try, but I hate the hyper aggressive, macho-alpha-thing attitude that I suspect I'd find in, say, the box gym down the road. Is it even a true stereotype?
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by manlio 11y ago
Contributing with what I bookmarked so far: * Watsi - https://watsi.org/ - A nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform * Akvo - http://akvo.org - Akvo builds open source internet and mobile software which is d
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by manlio 11y ago
Thank you, but I want to point out I'm driven by selfish reasons just like anybody else: spending your life on something you hate/don't believe in is the recipe for alienation. Also, I suspect a lot of companies are exploitin
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Ask HN: Which companies are doing anything good for the world?
11 points by manlio 11y ago|7 comments
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by manlio 11y ago
Done! Better late than never ;)
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by manlio 11y ago
The awesome thing about Tinder is: a ton of hot girls use it; not just girls: hot girls. This sounds shallow, but it's not. They somehow managed to make them believe there is nothing wrong with looking for a hook up online (and that
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by manlio 11y ago
Unfortunately no, 1) you can't trim the whitespace if you're matching cities, 2) matching the cities lowercase opens up too many false positives. At the same time, matching every city with its uppercase equivalent doubles the time
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by manlio 11y ago
All these strategies are interesting, but I'm afraid we are over-engineering the problem here. The pretty simplistic strategy I'm using now is basically just pattern matching, and so far I had only 4 misplaced posts out of the 840
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by manlio 11y ago
Fixed that.
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by manlio 11y ago
Love the alphabetize idea! I just fixed that, thanks for the suggestion :)
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by manlio 11y ago
Aaaand, feature is up ;)
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by manlio 11y ago
HN Hiring Trends is really sweet, I didn't know about it. I do include only top level comments; and incidentally, digging through HN's HTML code was... uhm... let's say a bit messy .
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by manlio 11y ago
Not really, but if you want to do it all it takes is to replace the URLs to wget (i.e. you want to wget all the "Who's looking for work" pages instead of the "Who is hiring?"). You can easily build your local Sqli
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by manlio 11y ago
> I've pretty much determined that some degree of manual review will be needed You're spot on with everything. I did a lot of manual review and the site already filters out "NO REMOTE", "REMOTE no", "Re
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by manlio 11y ago
Quite the opposite, both Venice and Santa Monica had so many posts I decided to treat them as independent cities, e.g. http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/Santa%20Mon...
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by manlio 11y ago
I actually thought about it, but it's a total mess to parse :( Think of posts like "We're sorry we can't sponsor H1B at the moment, but we might get you a VISA for our London office". On the other hand, once you&#x2

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