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Re:Show HN: M-Button: mute/unmute in a heartbeat on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:11PM (#25923456)
Hi HN,

I prototyped a mute/unmute button called M-Button for all virtual calls. M-Button is a small button that plugs into a USB port on your laptop. When tapped, it triggers the M-Button app to mute or unmute yourself in any meeting program. The M-Button app shows a tray icon to indicate if you are muted/unmuted. It mutes and unmutes your microphone at operating system level.

AMA.

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emacsnw/m-button-mute-u...

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020) on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:49PM (#22751489)
Location: NYC/NJ in US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: robotics (ROS, realtime communication, prototyping and design), web backend (golang, python, nodejs, postgres)

Résumé/CV: available through email

Email: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:44PM (#14026397)
Boxed (https://boxed.com) | Software Engineer (Logistics) | NYC or Union, NJ or Dallas, TX | https://www.boxed.com/careers/?gh_jid=651201

Boxed is the easiest and modern way to shop for bulk goods. As a mobile-first company, customers can shop directly from Boxed’s app on their iOS or Android mobile device, or online at www.Boxed.com. With Boxed, customers can have their household, personal care, and pantry favorites delivered conveniently to their home or office.

Our office is a dynamic, collaborative family of individuals. A technology company at core, we are a vibrant, fun and close group of engineers, designers, marketers, and operations specialists with a passion for driving superior value and experience to our customers.

The Software Engineer will be working with the Operations team to continue building out our proprietary warehouse management platform. The platform aims to accurately and efficiently allows our fulfillment centers to fulfill our customer’s orders.

Stack: Node, Objective-C, Go, Mongo, Postgres, AWS

Looking for middle to senior level engineers: https://www.boxed.com/careers/?gh_jid=651201

Congratulations! I'm a Clarifai user and have been very happy with their service, API (both Python and Go), and their supports. They recently added customized training feature which I use to train my own model. Keep it up!!!
Re:Using Gmail with Mutt on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:03PM (#12565589)
Like the post. What I did differently is to use fdm to fetch emails and store them locally. I've been using Mutt with Gmail for many years. The features I like most are:

- regex search

- faster actions (like batch delete, mark as read) using tag

- can use my editor to compose. I use emacsclient -nw and it's so easy to copy things from shared buffer.

- very easy to customize, for example, I want to see the timestamp as local time regardless of the sender's timezone, I wrote a smile Go program to do that https://github.com/wujiang/localize_mutt; I also run a cronjob to archive old emails.

Re:GoDoc: package letsencrypt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @10:24AM (#12539736)
understood. thank you.
Re:GoDoc: package letsencrypt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @10:00AM (#12539524)
wondering why not using `defer m.mu.Unlock()` right after line 279: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/blob/a18c646c3d0772313b7b...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @10:09AM (#11203022)
boxed.com | Edison, NJ or NYC | Full time | ONSITE | VISA transfer

Boxed is one of the fastest growing presences in eCommerce. At our core, however, we are truly a technology company that provides the best online wholesale experience.

We are a tech-driven team and utilize open software and hardware to solve real problems. We have lots of toys to play with, i.e.: raspberry pi, double robotics, irobot create 2, etc. Checkout our github (https://github.com/giddyinc) and apply from https://www.boxed.com/careers/?gh_jid=146428 if interested.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:00PM (#11014321)
boxed.com | Edison, New Jersey | Full time | ONSITE | VISA transfer

Boxed is one of the fastest growing presences in eCommerce. At our core, however, we are truly a technology company that provides the best online wholesale experience.

We are a tech-driven team and utilize open software and hardware to solve real problems. We have lots of toys to play with, i.e.: raspberry pi, double robotics, irobot create 2. Checkout our github (https://github.com/giddyinc) and apply from https://www.boxed.com/careers/?gh_jid=146428 if interested.

Re:Show HN: Salaries search on Friday May 22, 2015 @01:13PM (#9589673)
After saw this post (Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA), I figured someone might be interested in this simple tool: https://wageoffer.com.

API: https://www.wageoffer.com/api/company/uber

Filing multiple applications is legitimate as long as it is all the sponsors who pay the application fees. But a lot of these sponsors (ICC) do not actually pay these fees, instead they get paid by the applicants to apply H1B for them.
The worse part is that there are a lot of applicants filing multiple applications. They pay some agencies just to file H1B applications for them. This itself is against H1B application policy. There is an ongoing petition trying to get government's attentions: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/remove-and-ban-ch...
Re:Ask HN: How do you do home security? on Thursday April 02, 2015 @04:17PM (#9312918)
I used:

- magnetic contact sensor: http://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Sensor-Window-Warning-Switch/...

- raspberry pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Wired up all contact sensor and connect to gpio on pi. Use pi to detect circuit break and send messages or phone calls via google voice.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2014) on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:23PM (#8562897)
SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in NYC, 20 hours/week

Have been working as a full-stack engineer for over 5 years. Stack I've been using:

- Python

- Golang

- Pylons/Pyramid

- Django

- PostgreSQL

- MySQL

- Cassandra

- Redis

- SQLALchemy

- FormEncode

- jQuery

- AngularJS

- AWS

- Heroku

Contact: [email protected]