Hacker News: zavulon

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?"

zavulon — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:27:10 +0000

(shameless plug) I work at Yieldstreet. Our company is filled with people just like yourself. Our policy is 3 days a week from the office and 2 days remote, so obviously we tend to attract people who like working in an office - in person collaboration, grabbing lunch, etc.

We have engineering offices in NYC, Miami, Boston, Malta, and Brazil (Porto Alegre and Florianópolis). Many open engineering roles (recently raised a $150 million Series C) https://www.yieldstreet.com/careers/

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

zavulon — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:34:00 +0000

Yieldstreet | Senior Back-end, Senior Front-end/Mobile | New York, NY or Malta or Porto Alegre/Florionopolis, Brazil| Fulltime | ONSITE, partially remote

Yieldstreet is a mission-driven fintech startup dedicated to bringing prosperity to everyone. We give individuals access to high yield, low risk investments previously only available to hedge funds, private equity, and other institutional investors.

We are #1 fastest growing company in NYC (Inc 5000), and in Top 10 Best Places to work in NYC (Built in NYC). We are led by experienced execs with $1 billion in combined exits, and are Series B startup with $162 million raised so far.

Technologies we use: * Back-end: Java, Akka, Play Framework, Lagom, Kafka * Front-end/mobile: React, Redux, React Native

All jobs: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet

Sr. Backend Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/c0207fcc-2b66-4af9-975c-76...

Sr. Front-end/Mobile Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/74515852-87b8-430c-958c-cd...

New comment by zavulon in "Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out"

zavulon — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:11:39 +0000

> Mr. Tate said he thought frequently about the story [outing Tim Cook] afterward, and even wondered whether Mr. Cook’s parents had known about his identity before the report. “It’s something that gave me pause and that I thought about, but I would do it the same way again,” he said.

This right here tells you everything you need to know about Gawker and people that worked there.

How to run a hackathon during a global lockdown

zavulon — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:51:03 +0000

Article URL: https://distributed.yieldstreet.com/how-to-run-a-hackathon-during-a-global-lockdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046560

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

zavulon — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:37:57 +0000

Yieldstreet | New York, NY | Test Engineering Lead | ONSITE | Full time

We are looking for a test automation expert to lead small but growing test engineering team.

The exact technologies you're familiar with don't matter that much, but we use Cypress, Appium, Gatling, Jenkins, BrowserStack, etc.

https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/7a24d1b3-7ee1-4c85-bfdd-15...

New comment by zavulon in "Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home"

zavulon — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:34:46 +0000

Good idea.

Maybe put a Youtube video of the comedian's performance on the detail page, so we get a little preview?

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)"

zavulon — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:56:04 +0000

Yieldstreet | Senior Backend, Senior DevOps, Senior Test Automation | New York, NY or Porto Alegre, Brazil| Fulltime | ONSITE

Technologies we use: * Back-end: Java, Akka, Play Framework, Lagom, Kafka * Front-end/mobile: React, Redux, React Native * DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible

All jobs: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet

Sr. Backend Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/ca85823c-7291-4ff8-bbaa-f3...

Sr. Devops Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/b799da7d-d6c6-46ac-bd23-ea...

Sr. Test Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/yieldstreet/57e8e682-56e1-4e12-8420-75...

Is It Really Five Stars? How to Spot Fake Amazon Reviews

zavulon — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:28:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-really-five-stars-how-to-spot-fake-amazon-reviews-11545314400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18728200

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

zavulon — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:31:49 +0000

I thought I was the only one! The Magicians is by far the worst and least enjoyable book I’ve ever read, and I read ~ 100 books per year.

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?"

zavulon — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:28:57 +0000

This. Cliff Stoll is better known for his other book, where he got a bunch of predictions about the internet wrong, but Cuckoo’s Nest is a lot better read. Based on a true story, how a few cent $ difference led him to discover a massive hack going on, and how he was chasing the hacker.

New comment by zavulon in "Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For"

zavulon — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 01:16:50 +0000

This exact issue caused me to use Amazon a lot less.

these days, I check Consumer Reports for a review and usually buy their recommendations. Most of the time, still on Amazon - their delivery is still top notch.

But - not all the time, as there are now viable alternatives that do 2-day delivery well enough. For example, I started ordering some stuff on Walmart.com. A lot of things that are “prime pantry only” on Amazon are available for the same price on Walmart.com, without any restrictions.

New comment by zavulon in "How Booking.com manipulates users"

zavulon — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 02:30:10 +0000

For most events (at least in the US), you can only get tickets via TicketMaster. Venues sign an agreement with TM that forbids them selling tickets elsewhere. TM controls venue's entire ticket sale workflow, including inventory, printing and sending tickets, etc.

Going with another vendor is a gigantic undertaking, you would need to overhaul most of your processes. Most venues don't have the resources/bandwidth to pull that off.

And that's how TM stays a monopoly.

Source: used to work for a large venue.

New comment by zavulon in "Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years"

zavulon — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:27:36 +0000

https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/

New comment by zavulon in "How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters"

zavulon — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:21:17 +0000

See my comment above - it would require a significant effort to get off the ground, as the app without data would not be useful to first users, and without the data provided by those first users, it wouldn't be useful to others.

New comment by zavulon in "How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters"

zavulon — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:19:50 +0000

Thank you! I definitely considered doing something like that, however — the amount of work required to crowd source the data would be significant. There would be a “chicken & egg” problem — the app wouldn’t be useful to first users, and without the first users, there wouldn’t be enough data to make it useful for everyone else — so this would require a fairly large marketing campaign to get off the ground. But — one day I may still do it :)

New comment by zavulon in "How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters"

zavulon — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:43:43 +0000

The API didn't change, they just made it private "for MTA use only"

How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters

zavulon — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:23:53 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@alexkharlamov/how-mta-shut-down-my-app-for-penn-station-commuters-39e1cf69395f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751871

Points: 168

# Comments: 118

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: What pressing world problems should a graphic designer work on?"

zavulon — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:40:18 +0000

I work for a company called Mark43.

We make software to help police officers do their jobs more efficiently - our applications literally help save lives. There's a lot of interesting design challenges - for example, emergency dispatchers look at our CAD (computer aided dispatch) software for many hours on large monitors.. how do you design it so their eyes don't get tired?

And then cops look at the same software on their laptops, as they're driving to respond to an emergency.. how do you make a notification "suspect is armed" stand out so they notice it among all other data?

We are looking for designers to help us solve these and other problems:

Product Designer: https://www.mark43.com/careers/700918/?gh_jid=700918

Sr. Product Designer: https://www.mark43.com/careers/119568/?gh_jid=119568

(New York City)

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: How do you decide on when to leave/switch job?"

zavulon — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:40:54 +0000

If on a Sunday afternoon you get a sinking feeling of despair about having to go to work tomorrow, it's time to leave.

New comment by zavulon in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)"

zavulon — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:40:28 +0000

You hit this just as we were deploying the new version of the site :) it works now