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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)
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Why would 10 people cause the server any problems?

We used to run corporate email server in the 90s with thousands of users, and they had 8GB memory and 2 processors - same as a Mac Mini. And their processors were slower than today's with slow hard drives, not the SSDs of today.

None of the services Mac OS X Server does is compute intensive.
Build to Discard – Some Thoughts on Front End Architecture
> Never underestimate the degree to which enterprise IT departments view change as something to be feared.

Never underestimate the management's ability to fire a Enterprise IT workers for applying an update that the developer's swear changes no behavior in the companies enterprise software, but actually does.

// been on both sides, we suck at testing and risk assessment in this profession
DroneSeed | Seattle | Full-Time | ONSITE | Software Engineer

Come help us replant the world’s forests, VIA DRONES! We are building out a web app for internal operations and customer data portal.

Looking for a full stack engineer who is up to date on modern web development.

Apply at https://droneseed.co/#jobs
Senior Database Architect / Administrator | Austin, TX | ONSITE | OwnLocal (YC W2010)

http://www.ownlocal.com/about/jobs/senior-database-administr...

OwnLocal provides online marketing tools to small businesses through our partners. We work with some of the biggest media companies in the world to provide our tools to their customers.

TL;DR: MySQL, PostreSQL, ElasticSearch, AWS RDS, schema design, DB optimization. We treat employees like humans and pay market rates. Think of this as the DBA equivalent of a full stack web developer. Full-time, local only.

Our web apps are Ruby on Rails on MySQL with a little Postgres. We've built a big API on ElasticSearch which serves billions of requests per month. You will be responsible for managing our database servers, optimizing them to scale, help troubleshoot problems (eg we have a lot of deadlocks), and work with the rest of the engineering team on database design and migrations. You must have previous senior level experience in this role. Our hiring process is transparent and fair. You'll know what to expect every step of the way.

No recruiters.
PromptWorks - Philadelphia, PA

Open positions: Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer

All positions ONSITE. Relocation assistance available.

We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web & mobile applications, APIs, products, and services.

Pair programming, continuous integration & delivery, kaizen, and TDD/BDD aren't just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work.

We use lots of Ruby, Python and JavaScript, some Elixir and Go. Lately we’re doing mostly React on the front-end and React-Native for mobile.

More info: https://www.promptworks.com/jobs/software-engineer
The AT&T/Time Warner merger must be stopped dead
Lead/Senior Java Engineer | Capital One UK | Nottingham, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE | Good Salary + Package

I'm looking for a brilliant Java engineer with AWS experience to take on a very senior technical role in my team. We're a super versatile, cross-functional group of engineers who work on our integrations with third parties.

Capital One is a pretty awesome place to work; nice balance of "grown up" company and fun startup. Good canteen, fun spaces, relaxed work environment. Salary and benefits are excellent.

As a senior/lead engineer at our Nottingham office you will work within an agile feature team on a wide array of intriguing problems; such as API authentication, on-boarding external developers and auto-scaling infrastructure. Our teams have a high degree of empowerment to own their products from design to production. We are just beginning a journey into the cloud and want you to help take us there.

This isn't a line management role; we call you an "individual contributor" who is at the top of their game and has a passion to focus on engineering over management. At Capital One we cherish engineers like you and have excellent career development opportunities that don't require you to take on a team.

Interview Process; we've worked on this for a while and it's slick. Simple online coding challenge, phone-screen, 1-day interview & we commit to being able to make a decision without getting you back for second-rounds

Find out more, contact me directly thomas (dot) morton (at) capitalone (dot) com

We're recruiting heavily across Nottingham & London, mostly for senior devs, feel free to check out the other roles: http://rolp.co/ZufH9
12.5" is tiny. I would not be able to fit both hands on the keyboard. That's almost at the point of the eeePC I once had that I had to balance on one hand, and type with the other. It worked for screwing around and pecking away a few notes, but I was some glad to pull out my 17" laptop if I had to actually do anything.
Anaesthesiologist seems like one of the first doctors that could be entirely replaced with a robotic system. They are basically there to monitor and asses multiple vital factors, which seems entirely appropriate for a control system.
SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality. Happy to work on my own or as part of a team.

I work a lot with Python (Django) and Javascript (React, React Native, D3.JS) to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

I build interactive web-based data visualisations (usually with D3.JS), there are some examples at https://tomparslow.co.uk. A visualisation I built for Pluralsight just went live at https://learn.pluralsight.com/resource/all-the-courses

I have been working React Native quite a lot since its release last year and have a couple of apps in the app store with more coming soon.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: https://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Technical Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227
The US is, by definition, a tax nightmare because there are generally three (and sometimes four) tax jurisdictions to consider;

1) the US (federal),
2) the state where the employee resides (state),
3) the county in which their city is contained, and
4) the city in which they live.

The other thing is that "sales tax" is collected by states, not by the Federal government. They are generally pretty inept at collecting tax from out of state entities and won't bother you until you are doing a lot of business in their state. Nominally your customers are responsible for paying it, not you.

Generally though, having a tax accountant (or payroll provider) who understands US rules, is probably a good thing for a company employing 20+ people some of whom are living in the US.
No problem! I can stay still for hours on difficult tasks, but am all over the place for mundane things. Just considering the spectrum of things people use for ADHD (accountability w/others -> stimulating music -> caffeine -> prescription drugs) has been helpful for figuring out ways to power through boring things.
You can retire the AirPods argument.

The W1 chip is in the AirPods, the device that it connects to doesn't need to have a W1, the only requirement is OS support, that includes Macs running Sierra.

Under system requirements: "Mac models with macOS Sierra or later"
Maybe we need liability for software vendors? With exemption for those who provide full source code.
I love brain.fm as well. Use the focus music. I have hearing aids and a wireless transmitter so people don't even know I am listening to anything.

When I do mindless stuff I put on google play and listen to whatever I feel like. Might be Buffet, Hot Tuna or even just environmental music.
Orgmode
Verge 3.0
theSkimm | Applications Engineer | New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE

theSkimm is looking for a full-stack software engineer (2+ years full-time experience) to collaborate on the development of its primary applications. Although we're best known for our daily newsletter, which has a list of over 4 million active subscribers, theSkimm's mission has always been to enhance the lives of its audience across all of their routines and thus, across mediums. Earlier this year, we launched an iOS app — it's already been featured in the Apple store multiple times and each month, it is among the top grossing apps in the News category.

As a member of the tech team, you'll build new components and refine existing ones as theSkimm advances on an aggressive product roadmap. Our tech team is a small group of experienced, resourceful programmers who are equal parts smarts and humility. We add process when adding process makes sense, and we take honest looks at our productivity and course-correct as a team.

Current tech stack: Rails apps, Postgres, React/Redux (Internal CMS) deployed to AWS

Send your resume to jobs@theskimm.com with the subject line "TECH APPLICATIONS Skimm'r" if you're interested in learning more.
Really? It's called Bottled Water? Are we really getting that ridiculous with our naming?
As I mentioned in another thread, there is some work on this: https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle
> Cursive is awful, with no practical redeeming values.

Being able to write quickly seems pretty redeeming.

Note too that there are different forms of cursive. I'd agree that the Palmer method is awful (seriously, the letterforms are grotesque), but Italic cursive (e.g. http://s226.photobucket.com/user/caliken_2007/media/zapf5601...) is beautiful.
I think it's erroneous to blame the security industry wholesale, tempting as it may be.

Let's set blame aside for now. What caused this botnet?

- The tendency of IoT/smart-device vendors to eschew engineering discipline
- The tendency of _all_ companies to eschew security as an optional extra
rather than the cost of admittance to the marketplace
- The historical tendency of big companies /not/ being burned to the
ground after a massive hack makes security a lower priority to
many businesses
- The lack of a secure automatic update infrastructure (which also led to a
recall), for which the vendor could have mitigated the vulnerabilities used
- General ignorance about the risks associated with default/weak/hard-coded
security credentials (e.g. passwords)

Now let's look at each line item and discuss possible solutions:

+ Regulation could help here. Require third party security assessments on
IoT/smart devices to be sold? It's not the most elegant solution, but it
would be a vast improvement over the current state of affairs.
+ This is a cultural problem that makes application security painful in
every business vertical. It takes a lot of one-on-one communication to
resolve. Seeing large companies lose their shirts over security negligence
might change the conversation.
+ This is a huge problem for all software. (See link below.)
+ Education.

Regarding secure automatic updates: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...

Now let's circle back to blame. What is the security industry responsible for? In my view:

- Failure to communicate with other industries and professions,
such as electrical engineering.
- Failure to communicate with developers in general.
- Failure to educate people outside the industry of our own
conventional wisdom.
- Failure to learn the challenges that others are trying to overcome
so security can be on the same team rather than yet another obstacle.

Through the blog posts on my company's website and a concerted effort to clean up Stack Overflow, I've been trying to educate PHP developers about better security practices for the past couple of years. It pays forward in spades. The rest of the security industry could do a lot of good if they did the same for their own respective communities.

The only problem with doing that is: There's no effective and ethical way to monetize it. I make more money from helping e-commerce sites recover from being hacked by easily preventable mistakes than I ever have from making the software that powers 30% of the Internet more secure. https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/12/year-2015-in-review

Solving the core problems is good for society, but society doesn't reward this behavior.

The security industry is broken because society is broken.
As a former volunteer CS instructor (for high school students), the cloud IDEs were great for use on school owned hardware that got wiped randomly, often had boot issues, etc.

As long as the students had a working machine, they'd be able to get to their projects regardless of whether it was on the machine they used the previous day (without have to deal with git/etc).

In my professional life I would never use these tools.
Climate Proves to Be a Key Voter Issue in Florida
> Cursive is awful, with no practical redeeming values.

I've not seen a study, but the classic advantage of cursive that is still brought up today is that it is faster than print.

Personally for fun and potential faster writing I've just started learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script. My handwriting is awful (both print and cursive) so unfortunately I won't be a good test case on whether it is easier to write fast legible cursive than print unless I also go relearn print.
Magic Leap | multiple positions | Dania Beach, FL; Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Full-Time; Intern | Visa (full time) | Computer Vision; Embedded; Machine Learning
http://magicleap.com/

Magic Leap is an eclectic group of visionaries, rocket scientists, wizards, and gurus from the fields of film, robotics, visualization, software, computing, and user experience. We are growing quickly, and this is the time to get on board and play a role in shaping the way people will be interacting with the world tomorrow.

In the press: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr/

We are hiring in the following areas:

computer vision
machine learning
embedded systems
software engineering
hardware and pcb design
android systems
embedded algorithm optimization
game dev tools (Unity, Unreal Engine)
cloud computing/apis

For more information or to apply: http://www.magicleap.com/#/wizards-wanted
Someone could make a mint selling a Java applet runner to government agencies.
ZeroCater - San Francisco - ONSITE

https://zerocater.com/careers

Help bring people and ideas together through food. Our engineers appreciate good design, whether it’s clean API or good UI. Enjoy working with Python or Ruby and have worked with Django or Rails. Here are our technical roles we currently looking for:

Full-Stack Engineers
Head of Product

The work we do is bringing tens of thousands of people together every day. Shared meals are a fundamental human experience. To us, food fosters relationships and new ideas. We’re obsessed with improving our customers’ lives by making every meal count.

Contact people@zerocater.com or https://zerocater.com/careers
http://www.concertzender.nl/en/

One of my favs, for any task or absence of.
That sure is a good way to thoroughly screen a candidate...
Location: Trondheim, Norway (at least until June 2017, then who knows)
Remote: No thanks
Willing to relocate: Yes please
Technologies: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Web development, JavaScript, NodeJS, IoT, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, C, C++, Assembly (ARM), VHDL, Elixir, Scala, Go
Academic interests: Bio-inspired computing, Neural networks, Artificial evolution, Cellular Automata, Machine learning
Résumé/CV: http://ma.thiaso.se/
Github: https://github.com/mathiasose/
Email: mathias.ose+hnhiring@gmail.com

Graduating M.Sc. Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) ca. June 2017.

Looking for something exciting to do after that, very open to relocating.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844271
But when you tell someone "That's not secure, you can easily get hacked. You need to [insert good security practices here]", what response do you get ?

In my experience, most answer along the lines of "So what ? What could they get ? I have nothing important." or "Why would anyone ever hack me ?" or "But I have an antivirus, doesn't that make me safe ?".

And then spend the next 15 minutes explaining to them how things actually work and why they need to take it seriously and offer to help. 9 out of 10, they never reach out. And it's not their fault, but the way security in general is perceived.
Fieldbook | https://fieldbook.com | San Mateo, CA | Software Engineer, Lead Designer | Full time, Onsite, Visa OK

Fieldbook is a new information tool that combines the best of a spreadsheet and a database. We help business teams get their operations out of spreadsheets—from project tracking, to data collection, to content management systems.

We're pursuing a big vision to bring the power of relational modeling to non-technical end users. It's an ambitious project with deep technical and UI challenges—but one that will transform people's relationship with the tools they use every day.

Our 4-person team has backgrounds from Amazon, Google, and Facebook. We've raised a total of $2.9M to date from investors including Accomplice VC, Pejman Mar Ventures, Naval Ravikant's AngelList syndicate, Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Steven Sinofsky (ex-Microsoft), Eric Ries (Lean Startup), and John Collison (Stripe).

We were #1 on Product Hunt with over 1500 upvotes: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fieldbook-2

This is an early-stage opportunity that is perfect for someone who wants to optimize for ownership and impact.

Contact: careers@fieldbook.com

More info: https://angel.co/fieldbook/jobs
Toaster is required to pass safety standards because of the there is strong economic incentive (UL requirements) to do it. Without UL, it can't get on the shelf on any stores in US.

There are no such thing and UL security requirements for IOT device.

Time for such regulation?

But "internet + regulation" normally raise a lot of objections internally from the IT industry.

If someone (MSFT) proposes secure boot are required for all IOT devices, the first one to oppose it likely be EFF. :-)
So, "companies think that security is unnecessary" is a sign that the security industry is working?
Distil Networks | SF, DC (Arlington) NC (RDU), London, Stockholm | ONSITE (with a few exceptions) | We block bots on the internet.

Hey folks - Distil Networks is a growing startup in the web application security industry. We build SaaS that blocks malicious bots, scrapers, and scripts from attacking our customer’s websites and APIs. This reduces fraud, content theft, spam, and helps eliminate lots of security issues. We have a global network that actively blocks web traffic based on human/ non-human signatures. Our customers love us, our investors love us, and we’re growing and hiring.
We have offices in SF, DC, North Carolina, London, and Sweden! I’m a data scientist here and still have a great time, 2+ years in. I really like all my coworkers and we have a near-zero jerk count.

What we’re looking for (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks?lever-via=3TYvimYmGi):

Specifically we need:

- Data Engineer (mostly Java) (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/b81d473f-b69b-4050-a481...)

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- Site reliability engineers (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/3dde76b2-5153-42ac-93c4...)

- Systems engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/2a99d594-ffcb-4c15-a482...)

Many of these jobs have openings in multiple locations.

We’re also hiring for Marketing, Recruiting, Finance, and Sales! Basically everything.
Its hard to implement those without timestamps and anonymity is impossible with timestamps plus ubiquitous cameras and modern image analysis software, not to mention "the internet of things powned by foreign governments and corporations".

I'm not implying anything, but an anonymous vote for Trump was registered into the blockchain at 9:55:01 at XYZ elementary school, and at 9:55:23 a hacked gas station security camera across the street shows a dude walking out the door and into a car license plate WTF-123 that seems to be registered at the same address as drivers license number 1234-XYZ which happens to be VLM and his rather studly DL demographic data (height weight race gender) seems to match the dude in the video... Meanwhile VLMs phone, which is powned by the NSA, KGB, and god knows who else, records VLM's GPS coordinates as in the voting booth at 9:55:01 and shows him driving the car back to the coordinates of his house. And of course VLM's kids went to that elementary school when they were little. So it could just all be a coincidence, but I think I might know who VLM voted for ...
But is IS dumb programmers (or more likely, dumb programmer management) causing this problem. Every IoT company has the same workflow: you take thing out of the box, hook up thing, use your smartphone to connect to thing with some app, and then it works. Everyone expects this experience and it's stupid because somewhere there is a hardcoded password.

This is made more asinine by the fact that we've had extremely easy to use methods of establishing trust between devices on a permanent basis, but because that would add three steps to the setup process the marketing people refuse to let it happen.

Nobody wants to spend the money to do it right, and nobody wants to spend the money on devices that do it right so here we are and I see no way out of this situation.
I have laptops from Lenovo and Dell that shipped with FreeDOS. One of the Dell ones even came with a nice FreeDOS cd-rom and a paperback copy of the GPL.

Why are you having such a hard time with this?
If the US or EU did that, it would still be a very good start simply due to the size of those markets.
I did a six-flight trip once (one overnight stay involved due to final flight being on an EAS leg), with 56 hours, I think, of traveling. Could have pushed it to 7 if I hadn't already been at the one international airport in the origin country, and I could have cut the EAS leg out if my family had driven 2 to 4 hours each way to be able to get me at a larger airport. Friend of mine did a trip that required, I think, 9 flights once. (from somewhere in the Alaskan bush to BDO)

I think anytime I have to flight with multiple flights over 4 hours is brutal. I've done ATL-DXB direct flights with a flight on both sides of that, and I've done ORD-DXB with a stop at LHR or FRA with an additional flight on both sides. I'd much rather have one 15 hour flight than two eight hours. On the 15 hour you can sleep some, maybe get a little ahead of jetlag if your timing lines up well. On the eight hour, you just get abbreviated naps, no sleep cycle, and you might think, oh, but you can get out and stretch your legs, usually what ends up happening is you get stuck going through customs somewhere and stand in line forever, then cram yourself into another plane. Give me one flight.
I've been assuming that a large portion of the people giving it such high marks read it in the original Chinese. The motivations of some of the characters also seems stilted, but that's the kind of thing I would breeze over if I was sufficiently "in to it".