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Atlanta, GA - Onsite - Visas (must currently reside in the US but we will sponsor and/or transfer)

Pindrop is one of the fastest growing security companies in the country, and we're seeking experienced Software Engineers (Python), Software Development Engineers in Test, and DevOps Engineers to grow our Engineering team from 50 to 100 this year.

Our engineering team solves tough problems and invents new ways to battle fraud using big data and audio science in the cloud. Primary technologies that we use include Python, Linux, MySQL, all in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

We're growing fast and looking for awesome people to join our team. Perks include regular lunch & learns, tech talks, game nights, free lunches, endless coffee, annual professional development budget, relocation assistance, and a culture passionate about helping people.

Please check out our open jobs https://www.pindrop.com/careers-open-positions/ and email talent@pindropsecurity.com to apply!
Create Laravel e-commerce websites using Aimeos package
I was gonna send my resume, then I realize there's no company name, no website, just a google form. I'm a bit hesitant submitting my personal info.
This is a space ripe for entrepreneurs to build in.

The article talks about things like determining height, but that's a silly thing to focus on because it is enormously complex. The things to focus on are the single gene alterations that have large benefits, and that can be done either now or very soon in humans, with low cost and high reliability.

What can be done now or soon includes:

a) additional muscle, via myostatin or follistatin, with human trials on non-genetic manipulation of these proteins already showing positive results, at least one human recipient of gene therapy, several natural human mutants, and years of heavily muscled animal studies.

b) telomerase gene therapy, if you're willing to take the cancer risk. It lowers cancer incidence in mice, counterintuitively, but mice have very different telomere dynamics from humans. Also at least one human recipient.

c) extra lysosomal receptors, which has been shown to restore youthful liver function in rodents.

d) and fifty or more other genes with varying degrees of support for things ranging from a halving of post-stroke ischemic damage to lower pace of generation of amyloid to a whole range of other things that sound worth having.

e) and the hundreds of single-gene mutations that cause serious disease. Fixing those.

This is the stuff that will be rolling into action over the next decade. It is so cheap that it will absolutely go the way of early stem cell treatments with widespread availability via medical tourism. That is where entrepreurs can make a real impact The skills needed to build CRISPR therapies are just as widespread as those needed to run a stem cell clinic - and overlap to a considerable degree, so that a large fraction of the existing stem cell centers are quite capable of adding gene therapies to their offerings given a few years of organization.
GoCardless (YC S11) | London | Frontend, Backend, SRE | Onsite | Full-time

GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in countries all over the world. We already support the UK and Europe and are aiming to expand to more countries over the next year.

As an engineering team at GoCardless we care most about stable, reliable, understandable code. We rely on testing and code review and a culture of frequent constructive feedback. We define and manage our own roadmap and run projects in whatever way works best for us.

Our stack: Rails, Angular, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Docker, Chef.
We also have a bit of Go and Python knocking around.

We love learning new things and contributing back to the community. We open source everything we can and regularly host meetups and hackathons at our office in Angel. We have a weekly bookclub within the team and give internal (and external) talks about things that interest us.

Interview process: a couple of phone screens, one take home test, one onsite interview (pair programming and some chats - no whiteboards)

More info: https://gocardless.com/jobs.

If you've got any questions, let me know (email's in my profile).
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> 4 out of 5 of the largest companies on earth are tech firms, and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago

There's an exception to that group. Microsoft was one of the largest companies by market cap ten years ago. They've been very consistently in that spot since 1998.
Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I have been thinking about adding screenwriting support. For now it makes more sense to just focus on fiction, but it's very possible that I'll add the Fountain support in the future.

I'll think what I can do for NaNoWriMo. Now I'm focused on short stories, but it would be really awesome to come up with tools that would help writers to work on bigger projects. I'll just need to figure out a simple and elegant way to do that.
Interesting. Some, including the developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello[0], who's written extensively on first language acquisition, would say that the ability to share attention is central to human language.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tomasello
and what robot is going to do this bombing run you speak of? has it been built yet?
Netflix is only getting started, says Reed Hastings
Datto Drive just launched today and is giving away a TB of space for free: www.dattodrive.com
Gavin Andresen: I Was Not Hacked, and I Believe Craig Wright Is Satoshi
HubSpot | Boston/Cambridge, MA | Full-time, Onsite | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (inbound.org) | aoprisan@hubspot.com

HubSpot is looking for a senior full stack software engineer to help build a community of Inbound marketers on inbound.org. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to wear many hats and join a startup within a startup. We’re building the largest marketing community website, inbound.org, as part of HubSpot Labs, HubSpot’s R&D group. We get to test our hypotheses, iterate and ship code daily. Our full-stack engineers own features end-to-end, with unparalleled independence and flexibility.

Duties:

* Develops and maintains both client-side and server-side of scalable software that works on a wide variety of modern browsers
Mentors and develops more junior software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

* Contribute to the overall design and architecture of inbound.org's deployment product, as well as creating technical design specifications

* Participates as part of an agile product team in all stages of the development lifecycle including architecture, design, coding, unit testing, and code reviews

* Works autonomously at a senior level and trusted to run with a project without constant guidance, while following conventions and best practices

* Talks with customers to better understand real-world software use cases and proposes product roadmap features

* Works with marketing and growth teams to come up with technical solutions that balance time to market with community and growth impacts

* Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues

* Ability to automate machine image startup/shutdown with scaling and fault tolerance considerations

* Works with designers to implement a consistent look and feel

* Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Qualifications:

* Not afraid to ship small, functional pieces that allow us to validate hypotheses than creating perfect solutions

* 4+ years of full-stack software engineering experience

* Ability to work with a remote team and meet deadlines

* Excellent communications skills, written and verbal

* Highly motivated with strong attention to detail

* Portfolio of relevant work that you can share or show us

More details: http://www.hubspot.com/jobs/apply?gh_jid=206395
No exports of the F-22. It's apparently got some technology they're not willing to transfer, even to allies.
Nextdoor
Honestly, please report back with a plan that gets the USA from 30 million people in 1860 to 300+ million people today without using the internal combustion engine.
Captain401 (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

We're building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We make essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.

We also raised a substantial seed round from top investors, and were recently covered in the Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/02/24/captain401-ra.... If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.

We have a lot of open roles, so we'd love to hear from anyone interested to working with us. Specifically, we're hiring for:

* Software engineer (experience with JavaScript, Node/React.js, and Golang a plus)
* Product designer
* Account executive (sales)
* Operations associate (entry level)

Reach out to careers@captain401.com, or apply at https://captain401.com/careers
> Compared to x264, it offers 15-20% better compression rates, but is ~5x slower.

This is interesting. H.265 and VP9 claim to use nearly 50% lower bitrate at the same quality level as H.264. Is this just a case of x264 being really well optimized that VP9 can only compress 20% better at the same quality?
Handshake | San Francisco | Front End / Full Stack Engineers

Handshake is building the career network of the future for college students and young alumni. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with 60 universities, including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan and Texas, and has more than 1.3 million student profiles and 40,000 companies recruiting on the platform.

We are looking for Full Stack Engineers at Handshake to work on our core product offering as well as separate services within our full system. You'll be working on small, nimble teams with other Engineers, Designers and Product.

What qualities are we looking for?

* Passion for building quality products

* Engineers with an general interest in the "full stack", but a particular interest and knowledge in one part of the stack

* A love of good design and UX

* Healthy appetite for automation, testing and building robust systems. Engineers who enjoy and value clean, concise code that scales to keep large teams productive

* Experience working with frontend javascript frameworks and methodologies

Interview Process: Code with an engineer on the phone, then stop by the office and hack on a project / meet the team for a day.

Applications: https://joinhandshake.com/careers/
Fullstack + Front-end Engineers for Flexport in San Francisco!

Want to build software that connects people? Here at Flexport, our mission is to fix the user experience in Global Trade. To do so, we need a mix of brilliant technologists and logistics experts interested in solving challenges that come up with reshaping a trillion dollar industry. To keep up with our explosive growth and international expansion, we’re looking to grow the team by ~2-3 engineers per month in our San Francisco Headquarters.

Check us out if you:
-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code every day
-Take a product-first approach to building software;
-Care about the real world functionality of your programming;
-Desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity;
-Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals; and
-Know modern javascript frameworks.

Our stack:
Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend, we use React for the views,organize the data flow with Flux architecture,and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Want to learn more? Email Kristen@Flexport.com or check out our AngelList at https://angel.co/flexport/jobs.
> and if the whole process was public there would be too much bikeshedding and pressure on the negotiators.

That's a feature, not a bug. Whence this argument that trade negotiations are somehow different from every single other aspect of good governance? For all other mechanisms of government, everyone agrees that transparency is a vital mechanism for preventing corruption, and that whatever inefficiencies it introduces into the system are a necessary evil. Yet somehow free trade agreements operate on a different set of rules; even though time after time it's been shown that this invites boatloads of the exact corruption that government transparency is meant to combat. [source: every TPP/TTIP leak thus far]
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The wait times are way up now.
Show HN: KaldiiOS on-device speech recognition framework for iOS devices
I recently released KaldiIOS framework, an iOS (Objective C) framework that provides automated speech recognition functionality on device (no need to talk to the cloud servers).

More details at:

http://keenresearch.com/kaldi-ios-framework

and a proof of concept demo app that uses the framework at:

http://github.com/keenresearch/kaldi-ios-poc

This is an early release; a number of new features, especially around making it easier to specify what the recognizer is listening for, are coming soon.

Thanks,
Ogi

PS. under the hood the framework uses Kaldi (http://kaldi-asr.org), state of the art speech recognition system developed at Johns Hopkins University
You could start a brand new Harrier programme right now, same basic design but new build airframes, avionics and engines using modern materials, and you would still beat the F35 not only into-service, but in a stand-up fight if it ever came to that.
It's only a matter of time until some asshole blows up a security line. If you look at countries with real terrorism problems (eg Israel) they handle their airport security very, very differently.
CETiTEC | Pforzheim, Germany | ONSITE | Full time | INTERNS

CETiTEC is an independent german software development company which employs an international team of engineers and focusses on automotive networking solutions. Our customers include many of the leading car manufacturers. We are offering frameworks, applications, gateways and tools for all major automotive networks (CAN, MOST, FlexRay, LIN, Ethernet). For ethernet solutions we are are covering control protocols (e.g. Thrift, SOME/IP, OEM-protocols or also HTTP and websocket based for web connectivity) as well as audio/video streaming protocols (AVB). We are not only focussed on the classical embedded automotive technology but also try to take modern consumer, web and IoT technology tech into concern to deliver the best possible solutions.

Our domain and technology stack is very broad. We are working on everything between embedded software for microcontrollers with RTOS (C/C++), Linux and QNX Kernel drivers (C), user-space applications and daemons (mostly C/C++, some Golang and node.js - but might get more in future), developer tools (mostly C#) and web user interfaces (js/ts).

We are looking for engineers for software development and testing that feel comfortable in any or multiple of these domains. Knowledge in implementing network security (e.g. applying state-of-the-art encryption) and testing for common security mistakes is also very welcome. Experience in automotive software is not necessarily required, but a good understanding of system-level or embedded software and network stacks is desired. Prior knowledge of german is also not necessarily required, but you should be willing to learn it (we have german courses for our international team members).

We are also offering internships and student jobs.

Some further information and general contact information can be found on http://www.cetitec.com/careers.html. In case of tech questions you can also reach out to me directly (matthias[dot]einwag[AT]cetitec[dot]com). But for general questions and applications it is the best thing to use the contact addresses from the homepage (I'm not directly involved in the hiring process).
Yes!

Since the genesis block is hardcoded in the software, what likely happened is Satoshi generated it in advance, added it to the code, and then did a few more days of final testing prior to release. Block #1 on the other hand was mined after the initial announcement on the cryptography mailing list: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/... (about seven or eight hours after if I got my timezone conversions correct)
Persyst (http://www.persyst.com) | San Diego, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Software Engineer

Persyst is the worldwide leader in EEG software. Our software is used daily by thousands of neurologists at hundreds of hospitals around the world. We have pioneered the use of digital signal processing and neural networks in order to remove artifacts and interpret EEG data. Now we are looking for an additional software engineer to help develop the next generation of tools with the ultimate goal of replacing the routine human interpretation of EEG data. We are a small company (15 employees) that has been around since 1987 with stable and growing revenue.

Our software is written primarily in C++ and C#, but experience in those languages is not required. Please contact us at jobs@persyst.com.
well, a binary order of magnitude maybe
Some private (corporate) jets are the same size as typical commercial aircraft.

We learned on 9/11 that as soon as word got out about the possibility of terrorists using aircraft as a weapon, the passengers are ready to tackle anyone who appears to be doing this, so the threat was already gone months before the TSA was formed.

Similarly, the military would now shoot down an aircraft in similar circumstances. This does not address the loss-of-life concerns, but does redundantly prevent the use of an aircraft as a weapon.

Also, since it is easy to get weapons through TSA security (it's done often by other government agencies as part of various audits)... There is no reason to believe that the TSA line makes anyone any safer (though the above points do make people safer).

And, as Bruce Schneier points out, one could simply put explosive liquid in a tomato sauce container and attempt to go through security. If it's found, it would be thrown away and the passenger would board without being caught. If it's missed, the system has been thwarted and an attack can occur.

So aside from the initials in TSA reminding of us the concept of security, the agency does little to actually make anyone safer. I'd argue that we have a false sense of security against all but the most unsophisticated attacker.

Also, the main reason the TSA was created was to shield private firms from risk if a banned item got through security and did result in an attack. There was a big restructuring of the terrorism insurance market post 9/11, and the government now "owns" much of the risk. This was thought to be necessary to keep planes flying after 9/11, since the market price of insurance (and flights) would go through the roof if an airline would be held accountable for a 9/11 style attack if one of its minimum wage employees missed a box cutter in someone's bag.

So now we have the TSA and an absurdly regulated public/private partnership that fails in every measurable way and as others have pointed out wastes a tremendous amount of time and resources.

I apologize for the rant, I'm sure you have heard this argument before.
You're responding to something so far from what I said that I don't know quite what to tell you. What I said was that you shouldn't have posted this to HN:

> But the company absolutely does not give a damn about their impact on the people around them.

... because (a) you can't know such a thing and (b) it's corrosive of the kind of discussion we want here.

Reporting specific experiences is fine. Crossing into grandiose denunciations is not. Those add no information; their purpose is to gin up rage, which puts salt on the slug of thoughtful discourse.
I have run a coding-dojo type project internally at work at ADP. We had two PRs in Go, so while we are on this topic, are there any improvements that can be made to the Go submissions?

Does anyone want to submit a best-practice Go solution?

https://github.com/alexellis/xservedbyfinder
That's a pointless article. When you have a few GB of data, you can use anything. Command line tools or SQLite or anything in between would've worked fine.

Realistically, anyone contemplating Hadoop or anything bigger than traditional relational databases is dealing with the hundreds of TBs to PBs range which is not going to work with some unix tools.
> The USD and the Euro are backed by the fact that the government will only accept payment in those currencies.

If you limit the use-case to "within the borders of a nation state" then its not easy to make a strong case for Bitcoin being anything other than a fringe currency.

If you consider that increasingly, the bulk of all commerce is international, a truly stateless, international currency starts to make more sense than a currency managed by any one state or group of states.
You can be compelled to provide fingerprints based on a warrant; I'm unsurprised (and not particularly bothered) that you can be compelled to use them on your own device. If you care about security, don't use a fingerprint alone; at most, only use it as a second factor for two-factor authentication. More generally, don't use anything that removes your ability to make a choice under duress, in whichever direction you see fit, based on what you're protecting and what you're being threatened with.

I find the ongoing case of someone being jailed indefinitely for refusing to supply a passphrase far more concerning than someone being compelled to supply a fingerprint.
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Reno, NV or remote. Partial on site would be ok for west coast.

Full stack Javascript engineer. Around 6 years of experience with companies ranging from startups to US Government. Lately, I've been doing a lot of work with Javascript single page apps (specifically Angular 1 and React). Other technologies: Node, Express, Restify, PHP, AWS, MySQL, Postgresql, Mongo, Cordova, responsive html/css.

Github: www.github.com/andypandy

Portfolio: www.andrewsamuelsen.com

Email: andrew.samuelsen@gmail.com

Cell: 775-721-2242
Next up: "Every Cold Call Kobe Bryant Ever Made".

We caught up with Kobe Bryan recently about his start-up Baller.ly to talk about the key to his success.

"I think the thing it comes down to is relentless follow-up. If you look at the numbers we are doing as opposed to the numbers you are seeing elsewhere, we are just making more dials. And when you are making more dials, you are going to see the results, but you are going to see them over time. So if you look at what we have been doing in terms of dials and in terms of strategy, I think that is where the success comes from."

We live in an incredible world.
Coursera | Mountain View, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Have you taken a Coursera course? Come join us to make them better and build the future of learning.

We are building out our enterprise, learning experience, growth, and infrastructure teams.

We are looking for frontend engineers for both product development and also infrastructure, that will help develop our modular web architecture based on react/flux with isomorphic javascript.

We also use scala/play, cassandra, kafka, swift, kotlin, and other technologies across our stack. If you're interested, apply and we'll be in touch!

https://www.coursera.org/about/careers https://tech.coursera.org/
https://github.com/coursera/naptime