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Dstillery - NYC, New York

Dstillery is hiring Engineers!

Dstillery is a machine-learning product company that has built a strong foundation in the adtech industry and is exploring opportunities to branch out into other applications. Join us, and you'll gain deep experience developing systems at scale and working with a world-class data science team (winners of multiple KDD Best Paper and other awards). We're still pretty small on the engineering team, and everyone gets their hands dirty and makes a real impact.

We're mostly a Java shop. Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Cassandra, and Kafka are big parts of our stack, and we're always looking for new tech that helps us work at scale. Experience with these is a big plus, but if you've never used them before that's fine too. If you write clean, tested, working code, think through problems, and know how to ship, we want to talk to you.

We're a Crain's Best Place to Work in NYC for the 3rd year in a row. We play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, have a company band, game nights, and dev seminars where we talk tech and learn from each other. We keep sane hours and don't track vacation. And we've recently started using a work-sample in our hiring process, so no coding at a whiteboard with someone over your shoulder or other high-stress interview awfulness.

Contact me for more info, jason@dstillery.com, or apply:

Senior Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/dstillery/jobs/36447

Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/dstillery/jobs/11316

Software Engineer INTERNS for Summer 2016 - application deadline is Feb 12th! https://boards.greenhouse.io/dstillery/jobs/124826

All roles are ONSITE in NYC.
I agree with this, except for the last line. Software Engineering is a great career in a lot of ways (interesting subject, smart people, flexible, relatively less bureaucratic, good pay etc) and sometimes I forget how damn good I have it compared to most folk. But at the same time there are lots of other things I enjoy and want to do in life beyond just software engineering.

I think as an industry we get a bit obsessed about wanting rockstar programmers who want to do nothing but make software. I enjoy my work, I'm grateful for it and I want to get better at it, but there are also lots of other things I want to do, so personally I'm not going to spend all my free time programming and I think that's ok.
I have wondered about this for a while.
Does Southwest not share the information at all or do they not pay commissions like the other airlines?
The tooltip should change position if it's rendered outside the visible area!
You should have let the set-top box manufacturers run their own servers for your domain. Then they could find out how much it costed you.
PPTP/MS-CHAP won't do. It is the most common/popular VPN protocol and trivially decrypted[0]. I'd stick to L2TP/IPSec, SSTP, or OpenVPN.

PS - L2Tp/IPSec can be a "nightmare" to NAT traverse. OpenVPN is best for mobile applications.

[0] https://github.com/moxie0/chapcrack
The one real option is to ask people that work with you, to see how it all works out for them. For instance, I used to work at a place where all carriers claimed to have good coverage, while in practice, everyone at the office had AT&T: The reason? The building was built in such a way that nobody really had good coverage. What AT&T did was install repeaters INSIDE THE BUILDING, to get a decent connection, and with that, they got easily 2000 subscribers.

Similar things can happen with cable too: A lot of people in my hometown rave about Charter's speeds, but in my subdivision, nobody uses them: There is packet loss, outages... so the entire neighborhood ends up with UVerse, which, while far slower and more expensive, it actually works.
Salt Lake City, UT - Lucid Software (http://www.golucid.co)

Lucid Software is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Our first product, Lucidchart (http://www.lucidchart.com), is an online diagramming application with 4M+ users. We recently launched our second product, Lucidpress (http://www.lucidpress.com), which is an online layout and design application. Lucid is a startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress run with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucid your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Scala or Java - MySQL or other relational database - NoSQL databases - Cloud computing (AWS) Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=oa2cZfw7&s=Hacker_News

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress are powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Javascript - Google Closure compiler/library - CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation - jQuery - Native app development on Android and/or iOS Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=odrjZfwG&s=Hacker_News
Cvent Inc, http://www.cvent.com / ONSITE (McLean VA, Portland OR, Austin TX, Atlanta GA, New Brunswick CAN) / VISA sponsorship available

We have hired a few from this thread, and excited to try again!

Cvent is the leading SaaS product company delivering web/mobile products for the event, hospitality, and ticketing industries through the cloud. We have experienced consistent 25-30% growth YoY, and were recently highlighted in Fortune magazine (http://for.tn/1JeA6lB). Publicly traded as of 2013 (NYSE: CVT), we now have 1,900 employees across 8 cities worldwide.

We are big proponents of open source technologies, adopting cutting edge tools, and promoting from within to tackle our biggest challenges in scaling and automating complex solutions.

Technologies we use: ReactJS, Docker, languages of your choice, CouchDB, Redis, AWS, Chef, Elastic

Who we need:

- Site Reliability Engineers

- Internet Operations Engineers

- Application Security Architects

- Software Developers & Architects

- Quality Engineers/SDET's

- UX Designers & UI Developers

- Product Managers

Excellent benefits, great office culture, and equity packages for every employee.

Interested? Please email eyoon@cvent.com, and include "HN Response" in your subject.
I've been programming for 15 years, since I was 21. It used to be my passion, work, and hobby. Over the last 3 years I've gradually shifted from development to managing projects and product development, and recently moved to the team leader/manager.

Right now I really like the product and management side of the work, but the technical / programmer side I am very burned out on. I used to spend my free time consulting, coding, researching, and had dreams of starting my own company. Now I want to go home and relax, work with my hands out in the yard/garden.

I've been at the same company for 7 years now, we typically have enough freedom and project variation to learn new skills and keep from being bored. There are simply to many frameworks/languages to keep up with to stay relevant. I don't see myself finding another development job after this one, at least not without time off/a break. The money is great, and I've been fortunate to save well, and we live will below our means.

Honestly, I'm working on a plan to be out of the industry by the time my daughter graduates high school and I'm 45.
CloudFlare https://www.cloudflare.com/ | San Francisco, CA; London, UK; Singapore, SG | VISA, ONSITE

CloudFlare is building a better Internet -- performance and security optimization at the edge. Our long term goal is to give every site the same performance, security, and reliability that major sites like Google and Facebook accomplish, without any specialized network hardware or complicated administration. We enhance millions of sites, including this one. We're hiring for a variety of roles -- started 2015 at 128, ended around 220, doubling again in 2016. This is a perfect time to join -- product market fit is established, but there's a lot of great engineering, product, sales, and support work to be done. We've publicly said we're profitable and on track for long term independent success.

You may wish to check out our blog to see the kinds of engineering work we do. (https://blog.cloudflare.com/). https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team has a listing of positions.

We're always hiring for operations/SRE, sales, general systems engineering (mostly in Go, nginx, and network, as well as DNS at scale), and web development.

Specific roles we're keen to hire include:

0) Great operations/SRE staff: operating our system at scale (80+ datacenters around the world, 24x7 coverage, >4 million sites) requires highly competent, hard-working, and communicative engineers.

1) Product designer(s) -- we're looking for great talent to help build UX for new products, and to improve the interface and user experience of our existing products. We have a range of customers, from consumers with a single blog all the way through some of the largest sites on the Internet, and designing interfaces which work well for all of these users is a big challenge -- are you up to it?

2) Great front-end engineers -- building new UI/UX to expose controls and data to customers is an increasing portion of what we do. Our current front-end stack is Backbone + Marionette with Browserify and Sass. Our new projects are using React + Redux + Babel + css-modules, and generally adopting Higher Order Components. We're also starting the process of re-imagining our main WWW Front-end stack with a migration to Redux.

3) Systems Engineer -- looking for people to help serve even more traffic, build infrastructure for security and robustness, and contribute back to open source projects. We make extensive use of nginx, lua/luajit, and ssl-at-scale.

4) "Prototyping engineers" -- people who want to prototype things in go (backend) through js frontend. We're adding a lot of new products in 2016, and people who love building the first prototype and pilot versions of these products make everything faster.

(Also -- We're particularly interested in people with Mandarin experience; we have a joint venture with Baidu, and want to make the experience for both Chinese Internet users and Chinese sites abroad as great as it can be.)

If you're interested, please apply through the https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team link
It's still not in the TOS today. You can read Google's privacy pages today in vain for a mention of "we read all of your incoming and outgoing email and sell the information to companies so they can target ads at you".

The closest statements are mealy-mouthed ones along the lines of "we collect information about how you use our services and use that information to improve our services". Which is true of every single business in the history of the world.
Uber Advanced Technologies Center — Pittsburgh — Full Time

We focus on vehicle autonomy, mapping and automotive safety systems. We're hiring across a range of specialties to support this work: machine learning, planning, control, mapping, perception and simulation.

We're also looking for exceptional product managers and software engineers, no robotics or automotive experience necessary. iOS and backend engineers (python, golang, c++) particularly.

http://www.uberatc.com/careers.php or send me an email: sweeney@uber.com
Here's my advice after 7 years of freelancing: https://medium.com/@marknutter/advice-for-the-freelance-deve...

(sorry for the blogspam, I'd repost it here but it's long and I'm too lazy to paraphrase right now)
I've worked in open offices, they made it impossible for me to program, so I spent all day "collaborating" and doing scutwork until everyone went home at 5, then I'd stay til 9 to get the stuff I needed to get done done.

I'd never do that again, if a company puts me in a position where I can't work during work hours I simply won't, will raise concerns and if not resolved leave.

Life is too short to do 70 hour weeks when you are only getting 30 hours work done.
Yeah, that should bring in some accessibility. Right now the library uses `data-hint` attribute. We could use `aria-label` attribute instead!
Fynd — NYC, NY — Frontend web dev (fullstack) — ONSITE Full-time or Intern

Fynd is the personal shopper for everyone. People hate having to open tabs with different online stores and browse page after page of results. Fynd curates the best fashion stores from around the web and gives everyone a personal shopper that you control with a simple set of likes.

We’re looking for employee #1. Fynd is seed-funded and we have a prototype that we’re getting great responses to. You’ll be our second developer and will have a significant say in the product and the technologies we use. If you’ve been dreaming of being part of a startup from the very beginning, here’s your chance. Compensation includes base salary, benefits and significant equity.

We’re looking for a front-end engineer, especially if you can go full-stack. We’re a dynamic fast moving team and need someone who can completely own parts of the product and knows when to go with the stable and proven tech, and when to go with newest and shiniest.

Do you have strong opinions on developing for the web in 2016? Do you care deeply about usability of the web? Do you love data? Love fashion?

Frontend stack: React, redux, immutable.js, babel 6, webpack
Backend stack: Node, express, knex, bookshelf, neo4j, postrgresql

Get in touch at adam@fynd.fashion
Interesting how LO can import MS Visio files (2000-2013) but MS Office cannot.
Alphabet may overtake Apple in market capitalization
Thanks for the link, I've not seen a book that deals in algorithms that didn't assume calculus knowledge.

My CS education wasn't exactly MIT or Stanford, so this should help plug the holes left by my university and shameful lack of curiosity years ago.

Thanks again!
nvpy is a functional but admitedly very ugly linux clone. Both can use Simplenote, which works similarly if you're fine with a webapp.

For the windows crowd there is the also ugly-but-functional ResophNotes.
London, UK | full time | ONSITE

Osper https://osper.com | Mobile Banking for Young People

We are looking for mid to senior developers to join our small team of 5 developers. They will want to get their hands dirty and design, develop, and deploy awesome technology to help change the way young people save and spend money!

Our current technology stack includes: Python, Postgres, AWS, Cordova and a whole lot more.

You will be involved in all aspects of designing and deploying banking services for young people, working in a truly agile and collaborative manner. You will have the ability to understand business problems and define technical solutions that are released quickly and effectively.

As an outline of some of the tech we are working on:

* Using microservices for real without creating API spaghetti

* Building the right thing the right way - surprisingly hard even in a tight-knit team using TDD/BDD

* Coding with Young People

Check the rest of the job description at:
https://www.workable.com/j/AC8254AAA5

We are also hiring for a few other non-tech positions, see: https://osper.com/jobs/

Feel free to contact me with any questions. I've been a backend developer here for one year and it's an awesome place to work!
> language doing this exists

In fact, there are many such languages, for example F# or OCaml. Dylan and Common Lisp both offer a very advanced object system on top of usual functional features. Smalltalk is inherently functional in its usage of closures (blocks) and so is Io and JavaScript and other related languages. There's also Swift and Rust, not to mention even Python supports many FP constructs.
If anyone out there is looking for alternatives, last time this happened I switched to the MCP2221 from microchip. It's been in about 6 hobby projects now and I'm very happy with it. Half the price in small quantities and easier to hand solder (14SO or even DIP vs 28TSSOP)
Momentum Machines | San Francisco | Onsite | Embedded Engineer

Momentum Machines makes the most advanced restaurant robots in the world. We're a small team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers who work alongside very bright robots. We all focus on making the highest-quality gourmet food.

We're looking for an Embedded Systems Engineer to assist our team as we develop this amazing technology. You will drive the development and deployment of cutting-edge robotics and automation technology. You can rapidly turn ideas into efficient, reliable, and maintainable code. You believe that the customer's experience will determine the success of the automated food industry. You know that code and robotics will change the way we interact with food at large.

The stack: C++, Python, Finite State Machines & Statecharts, Linux, and various cloud services.

The hardware: microcontrollers, tons of sensors (food is imprecise, after all), and tons of actuators. You will work closely with mechanical engineers.

https://jobs.lever.co/momentummachines/82aded6a-6560-48a5-b9...

http://momentummachines.com
Gambit Research Ltd (http://gambitresearch.com) | London, UK | On-site | Full time | Python/Erlang/DevOps | Experienced and Graduate Positions

At Gambit we research and manage automated sports betting algorithms on behalf of our clients. Their algorithms run on our proprietary execution platform which interfaces with a large variety of bookmakers and exchanges, enabling access to the best prices and massive liquidity.

Our distributed, concurrent system has a core written in Erlang, which interacts with a wide variety of Python processes across the rest of the business. Some of the other technologies we use are: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Docker, Ansible, C, C++, Julia, R, Go, JavaScript, AngularJS, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Spark, RabbitMQ, Celery, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Sentry, Git, GitLab.

We have a very flat hierarchy and an emphasis on developer freedom. We encourage people to work on areas of the code base that interest them, because we believe developers are happiest and most productive when intellectually stimulated.

We are looking for developers who have solid fundamentals in programming and maths and an ability to pick up new technologies. You don't need to be interested in sports or betting.

If this appeals to you, please email hn@gambitresearch.com
If your browser usage patterns include frequent "private browsing" or frequent cache clearing, this can be a noticeable speed boost.

I often using "private browsing" as a way to get another login session (e.g., login a test user while still having admin user logged in).
Or just set a date and start rejecting 1% of all requests on that date, 2% the next day, etc. Software that retries immediately will get slower and slower, which will hopefully cause someone to investigate before bandwidth costs become ridiculous. Even if it doesn't help the API users to notice it, you can estimate better what it will do when you turn it off for 100% of the requests.
Location: London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Résumé/CV: http://scattered-thoughts.net/resume/

Email: jamie@scattered-thoughts.net

I was previously at Eve, designing languages, databases and query compilers aimed at end-user programming (demoed in https://youtu.be/VZQoAKJPbh8?t=1176). Before that I spent several years consulting, bringing basic CS and performance knowledge to companies who need it.

I don't have strong opinions on what I want to do next except that I would like to branch out into another field, either by learning on the job or by studying part-time. I'm particularly interested in cognitive science and group collaboration.

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/01/17/after-eve/

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/01/26/rationally-cho...

https://github.com/jamii/imp/blob/master/diary.md
If you are competing with Microsoft Office network effects, "Compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats" is the #1 feature. Everything else is a distant #2.

By definition, Microsoft Office scores 100%. What % less than 100% would be acceptable for Libre Office? If only 90% of the documents I produce render correctly in Microsoft Office, do any of the other features matter? It would be very interesting to have an objective test suite that calculates how close Libre Office is.

The other path is Google Docs which solves scenarios that are underserved by Microsoft. Like collaborative editing.
I know about Bleacher Report[1],the second biggest sport site in the world after ESPN, and Pinterest[2].

[1]https://vimeo.com/128349620

[2]https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/introducing-new-open-...
> But at the same time there are lots of other things I enjoy and want to do in life beyond just software engineering.

I absolutely agree and I learned that the hard way. I guess what I meant was my regret is that it's simply not healthy to program during every waking moment, even though I often wish I could. It's a nice problem to have and certainly better than hating your profession.
I believe he means that doing the MBA had no effect. Might as well try something interesting even if ending back in the same place.
RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two and a half years now, our business fundamentals are solid, and our customers love us! We have a number of open positions:

1) We're looking for qualified Software Engineers of all degrees of experience. We're primarily a Django / Python shop with a fair amount of javascript/HTML5/Backbone.js thrown in. We're building tools and for our customers, our drivers, our internal staff, and our vendors. It's a "target rich" environment with plenty of opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the business! We're solving problems as varied as demand forecasting, route optimization, QR tagging for inventory control, and a suite of mobile apps for our customers and staff.

2) We're also hiring a Customer Experience Director to scale and lead our (excellent!) customer service team. We pride ourselves in delighting our customers with surprising attention and thought, and would love to bring someone on board who knows how to scale and manage this important function, without compromising our values.

3) We have an opening for a smart and experienced Director of User Acquisition. The idea candidate would have strong analytical skills, a good eye for the kind of marketing that would improve our brand, and experience creating and managing both performance marketing and content marketing campaigns. Since we're a growing consumer business, this is a great role for someone who wants to manage a significant advertising budget over multiple mediums and ad networks.

Interested in the burgeoning delivery startup scene, but want to join one with a sustainable business model? Perhaps your family ran a dry cleaner or laundromat when you were growing up? Delighted with our service? Let's talk!

Email sam <at> rinse.com with questions, or contact jobs <at> rinse.com directly to apply.