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BACtrack | Senior Python Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco | https://www.BACtrack.com

We make breathalyzers from the ground up. Everything from the hardware and firmware to the software. If you were to go to your local drugstore or BestBuy/Target/etc to buy a breathalyzer, you're buying one of ours. We are hiring for our software engineering team to build our next generation stack.

This position will be working in Python on AWS to build out our APIs. Do you like building APIs and working with large datasets?

BACtrack is a "20 year old startup" in that we build our own hardware, we have customers that pay for our services, the team is the right size that it's possible to know everyone, and each individual can have a large impact.

Our office is in San Francisco (North Beach) but we're fully remote. The local software engineering team comes in to the office once a week but it's optional. We're currently hiring in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas – if remote is your preference, you'll need to be in one of those states.

Come build cool things with us! Email me at Eric dot Willis at our domain name.

Grindr | Backend Engineers | Java/AWS | Full-Time | Remote

You've probably heard about Grindr :)

I'm hiring for several positions but the most critical ones today are Backend Engineers to work on our API (Java,) SRE (AWS) and data science/engineering (Python.)

Our HQ is in West Hollywood but we're a fully-remote team forever (not just during covid.)

Happy to chat, email me at eric@grindr or apply directly https://www.grindr.com/careers

> Case in point, when providing a search interface, only return as many results as you want to, not as many as you have.

Do you have an example of this? Seems like a bad way to run search.

> instead let them flood the results because they used keyword tag spam

Tag spam largely doesn't work but it's not impossible. Flagging these results makes them go away and brings them to our attention.

> Make it hard to navigate by hiding everything behind hashes, to prevent fair use downloads.

Huh?

> Keep tags in beta for 15+ years.

Double-plus huh? Flickr is only 13ish years old. It's not ready to get a drivers license yet.

> Sadly, I'm afraid a much more extreme data storage reduction approach awaits faithful users of Flickr.

Nope! Unless you know something I don't?

> When Yahoo! bought a large photo blogging site in Taiwan, it simply shut it down with about six months notice, deleting everything as it did.

That sucks. Which one?

Beautiful work and amazing photography!

Interested in making things at Flickr? Drop me a line at eric at flickr.com :)

Haven't had any luck connecting either. It seems like I can only connect to the iPhone if I have Personal Hotspot turned on. Even when turning it on, Notifyr still doesn't find the device.

I was but was also able to check out anyway. I emailed a screenshot to gumroad's support address.

You make a great point of: penny wise, pound foolish. At first, shopping for the day can be like that. However, buying things like spices, oils, rice, etc, in bulk that do not go bad is a part of it. Ingredients you buy daily are exactly enough tomatoes, exactly enough ground turkey, just one small onion, etc, items that are priced per pound rather than cheaper in bulk.

I think that buying your perishables daily (if you can) can save you a lot of money and wasted food.

It's possible to eat out cheaply and healthy in SF but it requires years of practice (in my experience.) You'll eventually figure out where to go and what to get where based on the day of the week (specials), time of day (portion sizes) and time of the year (seasonal items.)

For instance, I just happened upon a place in Mission Bay that makes a custom salad (literally, they make it in front of you) with meat, cheese and two other items for $7.50. This salad must weigh 1lb. It's huge, healthy, a great deal and could be split into two meals.

Don't give up!

For years, I've been behind the 'stop at the grocery store every day on the way home' way of not wasting food. My wife and I have a routine that is IM around 4pm, decide on dinner, one of us stops for ingredients on our way home. At first, it seems like a pain to go every day but when you realize how little you throw away, it's fantastic. (Granted, we live in a city where hopping off of public transit to stop at the store is no big deal.)

Something else I discovered very late in life: when buying fancy cheeses, you can select a pre-cut/pre-priced piece that is bigger than you need and ask to have it cut in half, a third, whatever and the store will open the cheese, cut it, re-weigh it and re-price it. Then you don't end up with too much five-year Gouda.

Someone signed up for their Wells Fargo account with my email address. For weeks, I tried to get in contact with Wells Fargo about the problem. I spent a lot of time on the phone with the 'security team' and nothing ever came of it. In the end, I kept receiving all of this person's banking information.

It wasn't so much a security problem so much as it was annoying to get this person's banking info all the time. (I assume I would have needed more than access to email to get into his account.)

In the end, after several phone calls and then tweeting at Wells Fargo, it was the Facebook reps that were able to get someone to call me and sort the problem out. The rep who called even verified that the first three of my social didn't match the account holder, so it wasn't identity theft.

Completely annoying but in the end, it just took finding that one person that understood and cared to help.

I read HN for the comments. I read reddit for cat pictures.

Often, the HN comments are more interesting and insightful than the article/link itself.

I'm doing the same in the next week :)

Considering a dowry joke with her father... but maybe not since it could really wrong, really fast.

Oh, no, what I was saying is I don't want to do that. I would simply state that "Your account has $10" rather than masking it with credits.

We're totally committed to making the guides better! The more specific issues you can cite (formatting, the destinations you tried, etc) the better we can do to fix them. Do you know of other resources that we can poll for events that maybe we've missed?