skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homelight | Software Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE | fulltime | https://www.homelight.com/about-us#careers

Current Interview Process: quick chat, engineering phone screen, onsite, team lunch, reference check, offer.

HomeLight is creating the best way for home buyers and sellers to find the best real estate agent using objective data about real estate agent performance. We're continually working on our matching algorithm (machine learning & data science) and currently working on some big initiatives to improve how home buyers and sellers and agents interact with homelight and with each other (mobile apps, new product features, etc.)

We're a small team of 7 engineers. Our stack is Ruby on Rails(4.2), and Postgresql hosted on Heroku. We're starting to use Ember, but most of the front end is well written javascript without any frameworks. We've got reasonable test coverage with rspec.

Tasks are reasonably defined, and its normal to push back on tasks to determine the business value in our work. We're not just a feature factory, we care about the value delivered in what we build. As engineer's, we have an enormous amount of latitude in the implementation details of our work.

Because we're small, you're going to need to know the full stack. You're going to have to write javascript here, sorry.

I applied via the link on the careers page, but if you have any questions, you can email me at evan@homelight.com. When you apply, make sure to mention you saw this hackernews post.
Oh, so not only would you be impolite enough to send such a contract, when questioned on it you would also be so embarrassingly impolite to not even answer that you stand by your previous insult. Gotcha.
Hi, nice, this is a lot similar to our initial approach. Glad to see that! To make this flow a bit more easier, we've created a tool [1] (apologies for the plug) that is on top of Helm. What it does, is taking a diff between a bunch of Chart references with values (the desired state) and what's currently in Kubernetes (the actual state), and perform a few create/updates/deletes. So for instance you don't have to add an explicit helm delete if you remove a component, instead just remove it from the desired state. In our day to day work we add and update tons of components through this system, only updating .yaml files, checking them into Git and have the CI/CD do all the work. Also our tool has a dry-run mode, which acts like a test stage for pull requests.

[1]: https://github.com/Eneco/landscaper
FWIW I thought it was a genuine comment. That's really specific, interesting advice in finding the sort of people who'd make good co-founders.
Are you a giver or a taker?
What about Java development necessitates a GUI?

I've never found I needed to use a GUI for developing software, outside of a browser.
The Texas Tribune | Software Engineer | Austin, Tx | ONSITE

We're seeking a Python developer (Django experience is a plus!)

Please see here for details:

https://www.texastribune.org/jobs/software-engineer/

Applying simply involves emailing your cover letter and resume to tech-jobs@texastribune.org. Also email there with any questions.
John Hancock Digital | San Francisco, CA | FULL TIME | ONSITE

https://angel.co/john-hancock-digital |
https://www.johnhancockdigital.com/

Head of Engineering (Ruby on Rails) | Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails) | Product Manager | UX Researcher/Designer | Double Threat Visual Designer |

John Hancock Digital uses machine learning, mobile chat innovation and automated money management to help millions of families better manage their finances. Our team has the impact and excitement of a startup with the resources and stability of a Fortune 500 company.

This is an exciting time for us, as we have completed a fully functional MVP, and have now released a private beta while working with a world-class digital design firm to refine key features before a public launch in 2017. Our work involves complex integrations with leading aggregation and clearing providers to enable real-time money movement, portfolio management and intelligent financial guidance.

We are currently looking to grow our team and are looking for:

- Head of Engineering (Ruby on Rails)
- Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails)
- Product Manager
- UX Researcher/Designer
- Double Threat Visual Designer

Join us as we redefine what’s possible on mobile.

Find more information here https://angel.co/john-hancock-digital or https://www.johnhancockdigital.com/

Or feel free to directly get in touch with me, Nahyun (Team Operations) here: nahyun@johnhancockdigital.com. Let's chat!
There are just so many products in this market I don't even know many of them.

We have done some work about keeping the form data encrypted. It is pretty popular among our users: https://www.jotform.com/encrypted-forms/

Thanks.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Strangling Snapchat?
Long Game | Software Engineer | SF | Full-time

We’re building a savings app for people that struggle to save money. How you ask? We’re using a new form of investment called prize-linked savings (new to the US as of 2014). The simple explanation is that you trade part of your interest for the chance to win from a prize pool of everyone's interest.

As a software engineer at Long Game you’ll be joining a small team of engineers and will have full exposure to all aspects of our product development processes.

We’re looking for developers that enjoy building fun mobile UX and/or engineers with considerable finance experience.

Our stack: React Native, Node, Postgres, AWS

Cheers,

adam at longgame.co
if you think communism is political, but capitalism isn't, you're an ideologue, full stop.
I largely agree with what you are saying but estimating the population transformation that makes the transformed data Gaussian from a finite sample is far from trivial.

If you have any pointers to results that show distribution free guarantee of increased power I would be super happy to read.

Here's a question for you , why not just deal with the quantiles directly (for example with quantile regression for regression tasks) and not map it to the quantiles of a Gaussian ?
PubNub | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full Time

Come work for one of the few entirely developer focused companies.
PubNub Data provides global cloud infrastructure and key building blocks for realtime apps. PubNub powers thousands of realtime apps around the world, from innovative start-ups to globally recognized brands. We manage 3 million realtime messages per second and 100 million devices per month. We support over 70 SDKs for mobile, browser, desktop and server. And we are globally scaled, with 16 points of presence and 99.999% SLAs.
Interview Process: Phone / hangout, a couple interviews, build a realtime app.
We're looking for:

* Backend Web Developer

The Business Applications team is responsible for the customer-facing administrative portal, data analysis and reporting, and internal system integrations.
Our mission is to use uptime, performance and scale as tools, to extend the fabric of real-time possibilities and stay true to the trust and confidence reposed in us by customers to deliver delightful user experiences.

Design and build REST APIs in Python, interfacing with various backend systems and a MySQL database. The APIs are consumed by the administration portal user interface as well as customer applications.

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Email bryan [at] pubnub.com if you're interested.
Inside the AI that beat the best poker pros
To be fair, they held on their own for centuries of constant warfare with Greco-Roman civilization, which at certain times consisted of the largest, most powerful political entities.
Martian Immigration Nightmare
Such is progress. And there is plenty of benefit: a cleaner, saner iOS, and software that's been updated can take advantage of the latest Apple technology.

Perhaps it would be more worthwhile to identify the apps/frameworks you value and bug their authors to modernize them to meet current technological standards. It's not like Apple is springing this one people. They're giving them ~18 months of warning.
It's more like "I make binoculars, but so many of my potential buyers are in a walled garden that only allows them to see half as far as the rest of them".
I once tried to help a company with similar infrastructure insanity recover from a massive failure. Absolutely brutal.

When my team finally got services up and running (barely) after ~18 hours of non-stop work, the CTO demanded that we not go home and get some sleep until everything was exactly as it had been before the failure.

Not my happiest day.
Not saying I'm certain, just that it seems the parsimonious conclusion right now.

(I did mean "boob" - see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boob .)
We don't use both in the same product. Currently we have a product deployed on k8s and a different one on swarm (well, 1.12 swarm mode, not the original swarm). We won't keep it this way forever, but we've definitely learned a lot about managing each in a production environment while running this way.
We royally fucked up with the internet. I literally have to question my own motives for things, and often wonder if I have been manipulated into my beliefs, opinions, and desires. It is kind of scary to think about!

How do we move to a less centralized internet and is it too late?
Hmmm....

It does look pectin can be degraded into methanol by some microbes. I'm surprised there was enough feedstock to generate a problematic amount of methanol, but I'm glad you're ok.
I'm not putting words in his mouth. He postured his question to be rhetorical. It's not even really a question at all. It doesn't seek clarification. It seeks a specific response: to get that person to admit to something they might not feel is true (that the company is awful or can do awful things). It's not nice and it's not an appropriate way to attempt to negotiate a contract.

He made things into a me vs you situation when. Had he formed his objections, those two individuals responding to his inquiries probably would have made an actual effort to resolve the issues.
IAV France | Paris area, France | Autonomous Driving development/validation engineer | ONSITE

IAV France is the French subsidiary of the German automotive engineering company IAV. We are expanding our Driving Assistance team to keep up with the fast growing of this exciting field.

Your tasks will involve in particular:

* Realize technical specification of the function

* Modeling the function (Matlab/Simulink, CarMaker…) and tuning it

* Possibility to manage some activities (work package management)

Your skills:

* System / Electronic / Software / Control Engineering degree (Master or PhD) with focus on ADAS fields

* Minimum 3 years of experience in ADAS applying System Engineering Processes such as Configuration and Requirement Management

* Highly interested in the automotive field: vehicle systems decomposition, functional architecture, ECUs etc.

* Functional modeling (Matlab/Simulink) dedicated to data fusion, decision process and trajectory planning

* Knowledge of sensors: Radar, Lidar, Ultra-sonic, Camera

* General knowledge of functional safety ISO26262 and of validation processes (V&V)

* Very good oral and written communication skills, in French & English, German would be a plus

Similar offers are available for USA (Michigan, California) and Germany.

Please apply at https://www.iav.com/us/careers/jobs/guyancourt-f#maincontent
>richest, most powerful country in the world?

To be fair this happened during a period of high unionization and a top income tax rate approaching 80%, or more. I'm not saying those things caused the growth, but they didn't stop it obviously.

Also your comment is dismissive of things like income inequality, companies hoarding cash instead of investing it, healthcare access, quality of life, stagnant wages, etc and other things have the US hasn't solved but has been better addressed in more liberal nations. That high GDP is nice, but it doesn't stop poverty in the south side of Chicago nor does it create jobs in the rust belt. Maybe if we took these issues more seriously we wouldn't have elections where loud-mouth populists win due to electorate anger and instead have a system of government that reflects the needs of the people more than corporations.
Does it require the subjective probability to be complex-valued? (as in eg https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9307019.pdf, http://physics.bu.edu/~youssef/quantum/quantum_refs.html)
Ditto. I think there are a lot of people interested in the online disinformation problem at the moment.
Well, that's a bummer. I was hoping for a good example of nicely built websites with the older technologies. All my examples have disappeared into the ether as well.
I am also proud to be an American and I could never live anywhere else (except perhaps with my extended family in Italy), but I am not unrealistic about the human costs that made the country what it is today.

But just because other people do bad things doesn't make it better to do them yourself. In fact it makes things much worse to excuse yourself and others in those ways. Is spitefulness really the the best that this species can do?
One good way to think about it is to ask what norm ("distance") between all the datapoints and your "central tendency" statistic you want to minimize, as the article alluded to.

For L2 (squared distance), you get the mean: For fixed x_i,

sum of i=1..N of (x_i - M)^2

is smallest for M = mean.

For L1 (absolute distance), you get the median.

For L0 ("identical or not"), you get the mode.

You can come up with other and alternative concepts, but it's kind of neat that the 3 most common descriptions of central tendency pop out of this one unified approach.
I've had "This is a standard contract and can't be changed."

I said I wouldn't sign it in that case, and suddenly it turned out it could be changed after all....
>For the by far largest share of web applications, easily everything to the 99th percentile, performance, in the "sense" of this benchmark, is wholly irrelevant.

Amen to that. Performance is incredibly low on the list of concerns for most businesses I've worked for. Getting code out quickly and making it work reliably are usually priorities #1 and #2.

Performance is a "sexy" problem though.
Datadog | New York, NYC, Paris | FULL TIME | ONSITE, REMOTE

Datadog builds state of the art monitoring tools. If you can make thousands of machines work as one, love grinding 10% more performance out of a function, build amazing data visualizations or just love hacking, drop us a line.

https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/
Researchers Dissect Potent “Locky Bart” Ransomware
Time to take a stand [on hold]
> Your most valuable asset to this company is your enthusiasm.

This makes me want to puke.
Can confirm this, my previous house had a conduction cooktop and it worked perfectly with my cast iron skillet.
> 2017/01/31 23:00-ish YP thinks that perhaps pg_basebackup is being super pedantic about there being an empty data directory, decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com

A long, frustrating day. Running destructive commands at 11pm. This is why pilots have duty time limits. YP should've been relieved by another engineer who was physically and mentally fresher. Human beings have limits, and when we reach them, we make more—and worse—mistakes. Any process that fails to account for this is broken.
The point is letting others use your data (vg. your valuations, prices, ...) without others learning/stealing your information, et vice versa.

It's usually explained using the Millionaires' Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao's_Millionaires'_Problem): "two millionaires, Alice and Bob, who are interested in knowing which of them is richer without revealing their actual wealth."
Bayes Impact | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full Time

Bayes Impact is a technology nonprofit that builds data-driven social services. Our services leverage software and data science to deliver personalized and scalable interventions for millions of underserved people across the world. We're funded by Y Combinator, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Since our launch in 2014, we’ve built the first state-level data collection system for police use of force in the United States, a nationwide digital platform for reducing unemployment in France, and predictive algorithms to improve community health for underserved patients. And we’re just getting started.

As a NGO, our belief is that new technologies can do more than generate profit. That’s why all of our work is open source and built for the global public good. Software and data science are incredible levers for change that can enable a few great people to make a huge positive social impact. Join our small but mighty team in building radically better social services for millions of people in need.

http://www.bayesimpact.org/careers

Or email me at Eric at bayesimpact.org
Better Android Development with Kotlin and Gradle
Trump is now at 43 mentions.

Obama is at 8.
Ubuntu 16.04 claims to officially support RPi 2+. See eg https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3169-3/ for a recent security patch to the RPI kernel package.
I mean Facebook for example, at its core for an end user it really just mirrors what the Internet was built to do. I can easily host my own profile and allow people to log in to it and talk to me. How did it become so dangerously centralized?
Scientists prove new approach to Polio vaccines works
I have found a video, but not the related paper, although I'm hoping the video points to the paper.

Dick Sites is the name of the presenter (super hard to search for!). The presentation is titled "Data Center Computers: Modern Challenges in CPU Design".

https://youtu.be/QBu2Ae8-8LM
Because all websites with cool features like working offline don't have those features on the iPhone.

Or at least, I hope this will soon be the case. Sadly, it not working on the iPhone will probably mean it's often not worth investing into at all.
Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer

Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-al...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.

Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend

Here are the listings: https://www.raise.me/jobs and here is a bit about life at Raise.me: https://medium.com/@raiseme/life-raise-me-69d546d65c6b

Apply to jobs[AT]raise.me or you can email me directly at ryan[AT]raise.me.
FreeSWITCH Solutions, LLC | Work From Home | Full Time

email brian at freeswitch.org, You'll work on and with the FreeSWITCH core team on some exciting projects.

/b
SEEKING WORK - Remote.

I have been building MVPs for a few years. I work on backend and also the frontend technologies (JS or Android). On Android, I prefer working on some core libraries. Most recently, I built an OCR tool that can read details from govt. documents (such as Tax cards, etc). I enjoy contributing to opensource and my latest repo is https://github.com/flipflopapp/turnbased-games-with-firebase . I am also working on a game these days https://halfchess.com (current preoccupation).

If you have a freelance work related to Bitcoins or Crypto currencies (and have some legroom), I am willing to work on slashed rates.

Please reach out to me to work with someone who likes to build future with his work.

Email: navalnovel at gmail dot com
> I've never heard of anyone keeping backups of these on their local laptops.

Hmm... That's an interesting idea!

You could do that on a separate (empty) branch. Maybe call it `__project`, and you could just have folders of markdown files. You could have two root folders for `issues/` and 'pull_requests/', and two subfolders in each for `./open/` and `./closed/`. And a simple command-line tool + web UI. You could just edit the file to add a comment.

It would be really nice to have a history and backup of all of your issues. I also like the fact that you could create or edit issues offline.

Then you could also set up a 2-way sync between your repo and GitLab / GitHub / Trello.
That might be nice for you but it would be annoying for those of us who use non-latin scripts.
Scientists determine identity of all 23,000 atoms in a nanoparticle
I'd reduce that to 'REMOTE (?:ONLY)?'.
Please don't advocate for making willfully misleading statements to one's employer which might have legal repercussions (IANAL, etc).
google will also penalise sites with such fields without https in their search results, which is possibly an even more important thing for site owners.
Im waiting for the day that a "positive energy" trumps energy efficiency in germany. With solar prices dropping we may get to the point that it is cheaper to not insulate or otherwise reduce energy use and instead achieve positive energy entirely by slapping on more solar panels. Zero-carbon is a net measurement. You dont actually need to be efficient in terms of total energy use.
They're still pretty enforceable. Not legally enforceable, but most people don't know their rights and aren't brave enough to test them, so waving some documents in front of them while saying "you agreed to this!" is enough to get compliance.
Wonderful! This is something that has been asked about for so long, I'm glad it's been implemented.
(more spoilers)

Yeah, Big Head on the roof chilling with the other guys - awesome :-)
A very similar thing happened at GitHub a while back: https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage
Cofounder here. Really appreciate the discussion and all of the feedback. The spirit of the contract's never been intended to be unreasonably restrictive -- though I totally understand the concern. We wanted to include certain terms since as part of our model, we do own the code written specifically for Gigster projects. We certainly don't want to own code folks write outside of Gigster projects.

We've received very similar feedback recently and were going to do a review of the contract with our lawyers highlighting this specific issue. We'll also consider adding an FAQ around any contract nuances. We care about doing what is fair and while a lot of terms here are standard we'll try to review terms to make our position much clearer. Will share important updates.

Thanks
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Funny, TLS + internal CA + multiple roots is how my microservices determine who is allowed to talk to whom.
Apple pays newspaper to intentionally mislead readers
Truveris | New York, NY | Full Time | ONSITE

http://truveris.com/

The systems we build help millions of American afford their medications and bring transparency in the complicated space of pharmacy benefits.

We like simple and robust systems and we need people who first write code for their peers. In the perfect world, you're a UNIX philosopher and Pythonista, fluent in SQL (we love PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy) and you've abused public cloud APIs (we use AWS). We're very team-centric and while you'll have the opportunity to work on your own, you should be kind, have good communication skills and a sense of humor.

Stop wasting your talent placing ads, working in finance or building yet another social networking app, join us to improve healthcare in America.

Required:

- 3+ years of coding under your belt, be it open source or commercial

- Python experience

- RDBMS (we use PostgreSQL but a decent exposure to any SQL system is good)

- Experience with version control, ticket systems, code review

- Experience with Linux/Unix (you know your way around a shell)

Nice to have:

- Experience building and working with APIs and web apps

- AWS experience (we use EC2, S3, SQS, Redshift, RDS, VPC)

- Experience with SQLAlchemy, Pyramid (or Django, Flask)

Email me (CTO): bertrand@truveris.com or https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/131066/software-engineer-truv...