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Affirm |San Francisco, CA |Onsite

CEO Max Levchin, Cofounder of PayPal Nathan Gettings, Cofounder, Cofounder of Palantir Affirm, the next generation financial services company, offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale with partnership with merchants. We enable people to take out simple loans and turn any purchase into a monthly payments, 3, 6 or 12 months. All the pricing through us is adaptive based on data that prices marginal risk in real time and generates a risk score for every transaction, so every aspect of taking out the loan is completely transparent.

We're looking for Android engineer.
Tech Lead Platform Engineers (Python).
Manager/Director of Infrastructure.
Tech Lead or Senior Site Reliability Engineers - We're looking for anyone with strong systems and infrastructure background who cares for automation, scale, monitoring, etc.

Please feel free to reach me at kit@affirm.com if you're interested in learning more.

Exciting recent funding and Sweep acquisition to expand our business and get closer to our mission, building a modern bank.

http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/affirm-funding/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160427005152/en/Affi...

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DataCentred | ONSITE (MediaCity, Manchester, UK)

In a nutshell: We're looking for a junior web developer with solid design/front-end skills, interested in learning back-end web dev via Ruby. Also willing to learn the dark art of open source public cloud technology.

We believe in autonomy and giving people the freedom to solve problems as they see fit.

The company: We run the UK's largest OpenStack public cloud. Our platform is built on open-source software. We run vanilla OpenStack in conjunction with our own Rails-based apps. We do colocation hosting, too.

Interview process: 1) CV, portfolio, Github, etc. 2) Phone call/Skype/Hangout. 3) Face-to-face interview on-site at our office.

Pay: £18k-£25k starting salary. 5% matching pension, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, flexible working.

Apply: careers@datacentred.co.uk
British Airways scheduled me on a flight from US with an 45 minute layover in Heathrow. I don't know how the heck they expected me to make the connecting flight considering I had to go through customs, then security again, and go halfway across the airport. Their system even flagged me as "showed up too late for the flight" the second time I went through security.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript (MEAN stack, React Native, Ionic, PostgreSQL)
Résumé/CV: upon request, linkedin.com/in/calijackieliu
Email: 77.Jackie at gmail.com

Product-focused full stack developer looking for new challenges.
Something I've wondered for a while... in the long term (that is, I'm more asking about architecture than what exists today), is it possible to integrate Rust more deeply into the calling convention of another language, so that rather than generating "C" functions, it might generate true "Go" functions?

I'm also asking beyond Go, so if the answer is "M:N really screws up Go w.r.t. Rust", I'm also curious about whether, for instance, you could write native Rust extensions to Perl or Python or $WHATEVER by changing out the runtime or something. If it works better for some languages than others, which ones might they be?

It's nice to be able to generate true C functions, and it is of course perfectly appropriate and correct to start there, given the real-world state of the ecosystem. But a lot of languages take various forms of penalties to call into C, in order to ensure guarantees that are not necessarily required by languages that aren't C, and, simultaneously, miss out on guarantees that Rust may be able to provide that C can't express and thus the C bindings can't count on.
Yeah. We can still talking about paypal policy, instead of topic.
This was a search warrant issued at the time of her arrest (within less than an hour according to the article). The woman subsequently pled 'no contest' to the charges and unlocked her phone.

In short, this doesn't mean this is a settled issue - none of this has been tested in court.
Would a p2p architecture thwart this kinda blocking?
I have a feeling it's going to be a "soft-landing" in terms of the tech scene in SV. I was hoping for a burst and a bit of a fall-out, but unfortunately everything I'm seeing is that the bubble is deflating slowly which is allowing for another round of inflation in the subsequent year, without the cleansing effect of a true burst like 2000. That would be unfortunate because it will mean that the next burst 5 years from now will be all the more painful, and we don't currently get any relief from high housing/rent, traffic, etc.
I have to question the moral scruples of many of the real estate brokers who are selling these inflated properties to Chinese investors as if they are can't miss, can't fall, foolproof investments.

A real estate friend has actually refused to represent clients on the buy side for a couple of years now since he cannot in good conscience facilitate a transaction that he seems as questionable in judgment.
Remember that relapse is part of recovery. Fall down seven, get up eight. Corny, but it got me through my hard times (and still does!)

DO NOT HAVE CHOCOLATE IN YOUR HOUSE. Ever. Even shitty chocolate. Even someone else's chocolate. If you know you'll binge on it, get rid of it.

Remember that chocolate will exist today, tomorrow, next week, next year. There will be a time in your life when you can eat chocolate again. For me, part of what always brought on bingeing was feeling like OH MY GOD I WILL NEVER EAT THIS FOOD AGAIN IN MY LIFEEEE. I had to, and still have to, remind myself that I can eat the food again so I don't have to EAT IT ALL RIGHT NOW OH GOD.
Because kind of this project.
Interesting. I read in Body By Science (McGuff) that drinking two liters of ice water a day will force your body to burn an additional 125 calories to maintain core temperature.

I know that since I've been following the weight-lifting protocol advocated by McGuff that my ability (and desire!) to sleep without covers, and skip wearing a coat in cooler weather, has increased.
Lyft seems to have the right attitude. I hope they gain market share, and overtake Uber.

Yea--Uber has always rubbed me the wrong way, on so many levels.
I seriously question the validity of that study. Racism has many forms and targets. You can't capture an objective measure of racism by looking purely at trends for the "n-word". You're capturing the researchers' bias as much as the subjects' racism. A foreign exchange student from Germany once remarked to me how she found it so odd that white and black students largely segregated themselves in the cafeteria (this was high school in rural Tennessee) and that she couldn't understand the racist tendencies that lead to this. Then I studied in Germany and realized that 1) there are very few black people there [1], and 2) plenty of Germans are racist against other populations, especially Muslims.

I wonder what this study would find if it expanded the "racist term" set. Maybe Texans are very racist against Mexicans. Maybe Washingtonians are especially racist against Asians. [2]

[1] It's not hard to overlook racism directed at a tiny fraction of the population because you just don't see it much. I didn't think there were really people in the US racist against Jews until I was an adult and encountered people who grew up around sizeable Jewish populations.

[2] I'm not asserting either of these as fact.
So glycemic load is more or less glycemic index times carbohydrate density times the quantity of food you'd need to eat before feeling full?
This wasn't a decision - it was simply a search warrant that included the demand. It's not a legal precedent or case law...
He didn't retract the blog post. He just agreed that the phrase "I confirm as member" was badly worded. He then replied by tweet: "@tomerkantor you are right - that is badly written. I’ve fixed it on the blog." The blog now reads: "I confirm Kleiman was a member of the team." The stuff confirming Craig Wright's claims is still in the blog post.
everyone wants to be in california because the climate is never brutal on either ends. although it has gotten hotter and hotter in most recent years.

but if you are considering living anywhere in california, and want nice warm weather, you should also consider orange county (~30-40 minute drive from LA depending), san diego (~3 hours south of LA) and santa barbara (~2 hours? west of LA, nice but maybe a little more expensive and also prob fewer tech jobs). the sf bay area gets colder than southern california but nothing extreme, it doesn't really snow and rain is infrequent (both a good/bad thing for california).
For those who don't know (like me):
"The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
I dont sure, if will be ok to host some kind of this project.
Where I lived in Italy had pretty good mass transit (although not up to northern European levels, most likely) and reasonable house prices.

Because it's dense.
To be honest, I don't have Spotify and I'd still probably use it for that. Perhaps link to searches on multiple services? Youtube/SoundCloud/Amazon/iTunes maybe? With referral links you might even be able to make a few quid to cover the hosting at least.
Why I declined to “verify” SN's identity two weeks ago
Last time I came back to the US, customs stopped me before leaving the airport because I had "undeclared food items". Yes, I had a bag of snack sized Oreos and nothing more.
I guess it's easier in countries with some kind of address register. Denmark doesn't police it with physical police, just through the address register: you have an official principle residence, and can only list one. So by definition any other property you own is not owner-occupied. (At least in the cities, I think second homes outside the cities are handled differently.)

You can get away with some cheating there, e.g. a couple who live together can claim to be living separately and rent the second one out under the table, or someone who lives with their parents can be dabbling in under-the-table real estate with an investment property they don't really live in. But it at least keeps it to that kind of small-scale thing; the couple can pretend to owner-occupy two properties when they really live in one, but they can't do it with five.
In the cases that you've seen C/C++ being used, what alternatives do you recommend, that would have satisfied the same requirements without compromising on the safety?
Rust?
:))

Chicken or pork are also appreciated!
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No, I mean, disable Touch ID before any potential situation where the phone might be seized for any reason, not after a judge had ordered you to unlock the phone with a thumbprint.
Validating Satoshi (Or Not)
There's a lot of research being done right now, that suggests your gut microbiome has a lot to do with it. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-h...
seattle is just the SF situation with a few years delay and also wasn't as good as SF to start with.
The title makes it sound much worse than it is -- it's actually only a 72-hour shutdown. From the beginning of the article:

> A BRAZILIAN STATE JUDGE ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service for 72 hours...
Well at least they reached their target audience.
>I can also carry a clown hat all day long and it will keep the pink elephants away.

Not if you just _carry_ it it won't. Everyone knows you have to wear it.
I'm one of those in the 1/3rd, currently in the process of moving to the Denver/Boulder area.

I knew on paper the housing would be cheaper, but what's stood out to me is how much less crowded it is:

You can go to stores and find parking, and not wait 15 minutes at the cashier.

You can go to restaurants and actually get a table.

You can make unprotected left turns.

Things are busy during rush hour, but outside of that it's really not bad, and overall it doesn't perpetually feel like the infrastructure is about to collapse under the weight of being so far over-capacity.

There are some things I will miss, but I keep reminding myself that I can fly back to SF cheaply (or anywhere in the US from DEN, really) and hit all of my favorite spots. I am a little afraid I won't be able to find the same quality fruits and vegetables.

When I moved out to the bay area, I thought it would be great to have so many job opportunities and career flexibility. But now as I'm leaving I feel like that wasn't all it's built up to be. Having some options if your employment situation goes south is important, but I don't really need to change jobs every 18 months, or have 5 cold calls from recruiters in my inbox every week. I'd truly rather find a company where I am a good fit and just stay put for a few years.

I also think that is in some ways healthier too: having a bit higher switching cost forces you to learn how to work out some disagreements with your employer and boss, instead of just leaving at the drop of a hat.
> strict laissez-faire approach

You mean they allowed speech that didn't tread on the rights of others? I think racism is shitty too, but I'm not going to ban it. And that makes me sound like a bad person, but people's definitions of racism vary extremely widely.

It's not possible to say something without offending someone out there. If you think taking down posts that simply offend you is a good idea (rather than ignoring posts that you don't like and refusing to take those people seriously), then there are other platforms out there.

Better yet, you can make your own subreddit and stop complaining about the others on the site.

Everyone else has as much a right to reddit as you do.

> brogressive

Libertarian?

There's nothing wrong with having a differing opinion.

> blistering responses to BLM [...] demonstrate [conservatism] nicely

So you're saying that people who disagree with BLM in some way are conservative?

I disagree with their methods. Am I a conservative now?

> BLM, GamerGate, Trump supporters

Do you think these groups should not be allowed to use reddit?
It's almost like Brazil is the most technologically advanced poor-3rd-world-nation

I know from my brief time at Facebook, they use Brazil user-searches in their intro classes to tableau reporting on users' graphs - "show me everyone in Brazil who is 18 years old and posted about subject-X"
Article about Manhattan rental prices dropping: http://ny.curbed.com/2016/4/7/11381852/manhattan-market-repo...
I think one problem with this discussion is what is encompassed by "tech". If you just use "tech" as an abbreviation for "technology", then sure, tech has been driving human civilization for millennia. Agriculture? Buildings? Roads? Language? Writing? Man, those are some technologies that have paid off big time.

If by "tech", you mean "high tech", well, that encompasses an awful lot of different things, and of course the goalposts are constantly moving as today's high-tech becomes tomorrow's tech becomes the next day's obsolete.

If by "tech" you mean computer hardware, software, networking, and networked services, then sure, that's a pretty important driver of some other advances, but likewise advances in other fields help to drive this as well. Globalization, shipping, mining, energy, RF engineering, photonics, aerospace, and so on all play into this, and all both benefit from and contribute to the success of computer hardware, software, networking, and networked services. But just because this form of high tech can help with other fields, doesn't mean it's driving the economy. It may be increasing productivity to a certain degree, but there is an awful lot of the economy which is only minimally influenced by these kinds of things.
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Finance seems to be a strong employer there, no?
Providing a fingerprint isn't considered testimony, and the law doesn't currently make an exception for a fingerprint used as the equivalent of a passphrase. The fifth amendment protects knowledge, but not physical constructs like a fingerprint or DNA swab[1].

So, you can be compelled to provide a fingerprint, and the use that the fingerprint is put to is outside the scope of 5th amendment protections.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-207_d18e.pdf
Yes, but he actually got lucky. Given the average of any 10-year period in the last 100 years I believe Simon would have been wrong.
The warrant was issued when she was arrested - it would not be at all unusual for police to get warrants for things discovered during an arrest, nor would it be unusual for them to be prepared to request one.
My main gripe, which is pretty trivial I guess, is that I'm so used to just swiping the card and throwing it back in my wallet. Using the chip requires leaving the card in the reader until the transaction is complete, so I've almost walked off without my card a couple times. I agree though. I'd rather have better security. I just need to adjust my habits :)
I've never been overweight, but eating ~once per day works for me too.

Good point that laziness helps. Being busy helps. Eating only after exercising (I run ~3 miles daily) also helps.

Eating only once per day also helps to learn what food is good and bad for me. If hours after the meal I feel bad taste in my mouth - the food probably had a component that I should eat less. Sugar in big quantities is definitely once such bad component.
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Mine won't accept my right thumb after a day or so. (other fingers seem to be ok though) Probably due to diabetes and the way my medical condition causes clubbing of the fingers (I just re-add that thumb over and over)

If she ate a bunch of salt and swelled up a bit, it might have the same affect. Providing the finger scan isn't the same as promising it unlocks.
EU law explicitly allow reversing for compatibility issues. Which exactly what i am doing.
Weill Cornell Medicine (Cornell University's Medical College) | New York City (NYC) | Full-time | Onsite but Remote is possible, too

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to help us build our next generation Identity and Access Management stack. (You must be willing to develop on JRuby and deploy on the JVM.) You will work on applications for:

* Credential Management
* Duo MFA Device Mangement
* Authentication Service UI (this is actually in PHP)
* Account and Group Management
* General User Lifecycle Management

Our stack includes (but is not limited to):

* JRuby (because we need to use some Java libraries)
* Rails
* Ansible and Salt
* Git and GitHub
* Splunk (Splunk, and more Splunk)
* RHEL
* LDAP (with both LDAP and REST interfaces)
* Active Directory
* And more

You will be an integral part of the team, and will ship code on a regular basis (while most of the organization does ITIL, we don't), as we have been tasked with delivering a lot in a relatively short period of time.

And might as well mention this here, as it reads in the official job posting: "Visa sponsorship is not available for this position."

Apply Here:
https://cornellu.taleo.net/careersection/2000/jobdetail.ftl?...
I'm going to guess you meant... thwart?

Maybe technically, but probably not legally, although I understand very little of the issues at play.
Well there's definitely an inverse correlation between housing costs and convenience of travel. Apartments near Caltrain stations or in SF being more expensive than those that are farther away, etc.
That sounds socialist and would just stifle the free market. The governments only place is in war and womens vaginas.

I may have been in the US too long.
Snapdocs | DevOps & Security Engineer | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full-Time

Snapdocs (YC W14)- we're hiring our first DevOps Engineer

We currently use OpsWorks to deploy to AWS. We're looking for someone to move us to an even-more-modern workflow. I'm thinking something like Docker and ELB? But that will be your decision.

Snapdocs is an early-stage, rapidly growing company tackling the absolutely massive mortgage market. We're bringing modern, elegant software to a field that still relies on fax machines and manilla envelopes. We bring security, efficiency and joy to a paper-based pillar of the US economy.

Snapdocs’ culture is one that strongly values diversity and drive. We want to work with people of different backgrounds and different paths in life. We value experience and curiosity over college degrees.

We trust our team members to make smart decisions. This means we value both independent work as well as seeking collaboration. We're becoming ubiquitous in one segment of the market and we're looking to hire another core engineer to help us expand further.

Skills & Requirements:

* Experience deploying to AWS.

* You build a stack that is secure by default, while still actively monitoring against threats.

* Experience with auto-scaling servers.

* Experience making a CI build that maximizes coding joy.

* You would be the 6th member of on a fast-growing technical team. This means helping to form a healthy and happy culture. We strive to be respectful of each other's time and point of view. We're learning how to do this together. We're creating a place where it's OK to fail, and that you know the team has your back the whole way through.

* You're self-motivated. To us that means when you get an interesting problem, you will rip into it until you understand its nuances and perhaps have a glimpse of the solution.

* Knowledge of Rails is a huge plus.

Please drop us a line at jobs@snapdocs.com
You can't fix social problems with technology. The issue here is Brazilian law and the failure to understand the implications of encryption by the courts, not WhatApp's connection architecture.
> The 9-11 hijackers used razor blades. So, its been done.

Only in the days when we didn't lock the cockpit doors. Now that the cockpit doors are locked, even an actual gun wouldn't be sufficient to hijack the plane (the cockpit doors are essentially impossible to open from the outside, at least not without equipment that would be impossible to bring on a plane and would be rather conspicuously slow to use during a flight).
> Why are people astonished?

Because politicians keep making promises in regards to privacy that they don't keep in regards to "confidential" information.

Similarly, most of the medical value from such information [e.g. Frequency of X within a given population fitting certain characteristics] would likely deanonymize people.
> Least of all did I imagine that this story would throw me headlong into a study of Soviet bureaucracies.

That is kind of like trying to understand the history of the Internet without understanding how the US Congress, DoD, (D)ARPA, and NSF relate and work.
No more than if you were ordered to open the door or a safe for a search warrant.
> Guess some tsa agents are just not very good at their job.

Probably depends on the metric you're using to evaluate that.
Although, I've seen a lot of US/Canada only postings as well, so Mexico and S. America excluded.
Not unsympathetic to the brasileros affected, but this is not the first time this happened over there - surely at this point the fragility of centralised platforms, and becoming reliant on them, is well known by now?
WOW. This infuriates me.
Sure, we'll find out and write you. We were extremely busy in December/January and didn't have a dedicated HR/Recruiting manager yet.
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You ask for email at techjobs@ziprecruiter.com, yet you cannot answer it.

How many mails did you receive since April when you posted this again? Was it hundreds, thousands, millions?

Is it too much trouble to take ten seconds of your time and actually paste a canned negative answer to the emails you receive?
Yes, your are right. Its kind of big risk. But we have some situation in past.
It is ICQ vs Miranda case. And all still alive and usable.