skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are really only two things an employee can provide that makes them worth hiring. First you have to produce more value than your expense, which is the baseline minimum and for some roles is usually sufficient to at least qualify as a potential hire. The second is that you make the people and things around you better, which makes you someone that increases the value produced by other people and processes.

The first is simply additive, the second is multiplicative.
SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES.

I'm a seasoned DevOps with 15 years experience hosting, tuning and sometimes building applications.

I work closely with developers throughout the application lifecycle to build scalable and long-term robust architectures. Load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it. For larger organisations I've even led whole infrastructure teams.

Recent work includes:

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large, distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Worked closely with developers to ensure services were the best possible fit for containerized hosting, resulting in a very scalable application that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Multiple stacks namespaced onto same k8s cluster for efficiency; containerization of all services; automated deploys from CI. Persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month in payments.

+ Chef-managed deployment of large microservice stack across varied configurations on cloud and physical servers

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancer thread.

+ Jenkins + docker-compose platform for efficient builds of microservice-based projects

+ Lots, lots more.

hn-2017-02@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4
Pop up window on my phone blocks my view. No I don't want to chat. I want to see what your product is.

Website designers must have a gear loose. Grrrr. Pop ups of any kind are anti-customer.
> type inference

There is a JEP (286) for that. Personally I consider it highly harmful. I regularly read C# source of unknown libraries outside of an IDE (Like on Github) and very often I don't have the faintest clue what type a var holds even it is just a type well known to me, making navigation of that code very difficult.

> lazy properties

This looks interesting. I don't think Java will ever offer it though.

> Dynamic

Why would you want to kill the static type safety we cherish so much? I only ever had to use dynamic in C# when working with horrible legacy APIs. Besides that, interface proxies and cglib proxies (bytecode manipulated classes) are heavily used in Java frameworks and do the delegation you talk about.

> Structs

Value types will be available in Java 10. (JEP 169: "Provide JVM infrastructure for working with immutable and reference-free objects, in support of efficient by-value computation with non-primitive types.")
make yours :) it is easy and fun.
Viking Education | Course Mentor | Remote | Part Time | http://www.vikingcodeschool.com

Viking Code School is a 100% online development bootcamp driven by the mission of launching a million high-growth careers around the world regardless of a student’s location, prior experience or economic standing.

Our mentor-led Flex Program pairs students with industry veterans who perform weekly code reviews as part of the learning process. It is a great chance to pass on your knowledge without leaving your day job (or your house). As a mentor, you work with your mentee(s) during their full time in the course, which typically takes between 6-12 months to finish. You meet with your mentee 1-3 times per week for code review and can work with anywhere from 1 to 10+ students, depending on desire and ability.

Our back end has two tracks (Ruby/Rails or Node/Express) and our front end covers JavaScript/React/Redux. As a mentor, you have access to the course materials so you can get up to speed on anything you aren't firm on.

Check-ins are compensated.

Requirements:

* 4+ years of professional development experience as part of an engineering team.

* Strong grounding in CS fundamentals like Data Structures and Algorithms.

* Relevant experience with CS, Ruby/Rails, SQL, JavaScript/React etc.

Email careers@vikingcodeschool.com with your CV, links and anything else that would prove your development or teaching ability and general awesomeness.
Brand suicide case study: British Airways
IBM Canada | Eclipse OMR Developer | Toronto, ON | Full-time, ONSITE | https://ibm.biz/BdsBQD

The IBM Runtime Technologies team is looking to hire motivated software developers to join our mission to nurture an open source community around the Eclipse OMR toolkit for language

runtimes (https://www.eclipse.org/omr).

We develop the Just-In-Time compiler for various language runtimes (Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby etc.) built on Eclipse OMR: https://github.com/eclipse/omr. The IBM runtime compiler team

also ports and optimizes industry standard open runtimes such as Google V8 and Node.js. We contribute industry-leading performance and capabilities across multiple hardware platforms

(Intel, ARM, IBM Power and z Systems) and operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, z/OS).

We are looking for software developers comfortable in an environment that is predominantly C and C++ based, but also willing to go down to the assembly language level. Polyglot skills are

an asset, as we work in a variety of exhibited scripting languages.

We want to hear from you, please apply here: https://ibm.biz/BdsBQD
Quividi | Python DevOps | Paris | REMOTE FULLTIME http://www.quividi.com/jobs-python-devops/

Quividi, founded is 2006, has become the world leader in measuring attention in public places, by developing and commercializing a video analytics solution. Using image processing algorithms, our software is able to detect and label faces. The data is then stored and displayed in a back-office hosting billions of anonymous audience events.
We are looking for someone to join the Web / Data team. We are a lean and autonomous team, with a lot of freedom in our projects and in the solutions we choose. In the past few years, we have been facing an important growth of the data flux to ingest, store and analyse, both on the infrastructure and software side.

Our technical stack consists of Python / Django / MySQL / Elasticsearch. Experience with Linux administration and these technologies will be appreciated!

Our interview process will start with a phone call, then a more technical interview on-site, and an on machine technical test.

The position comes with extensive medical benefits, competitive compensation and stock options. Send your resume / Github profile / Bitbucket profile / MySpace account at jobs-web@quividi.com
Viking Education | JavaScript Instructor | SF or Remote | http://www.vikingcodeschool.com

Viking Code School is a 100% online development bootcamp driven by the mission of launching a million high-growth careers around the world regardless of a student’s location, prior experience or economic standing. Our core program is the only online 12-week Immersive where students only pay tuition when they get a job.

We are looking for an experienced and opinionated full stack web developer who will lead instruction in that program and spearhead the ongoing development of our curriculum. You will work with students and assistant instructors to lead the Immersive Program while architecting changes to the curriculum and supporting materials which are used by all of our programs.

We cycle instructors through our development team (as desired) so you don't have to give up building in order to teach.

Because we are 100% online, this is a REMOTE OK position which allows for a high degree of lifestyle flexibility while giving you a chance to potentially affect millions of lives with the lessons, demos, projects and posts you create. Just note that program hours are based on US time zones.

As the leader of the Immersive Program instruction, you will also be eligible for incentive-based compensation when the students are successful in their job search.

Requirements:

* 5+ years team-based development experience, 3+ in JavaScript and relevant frameworks (e.g. Angular, React...). Strong CS, testing and data fundamentals. Passion for exploring, learning and teaching new and current technologies.

* Significant experience with writing, sharing and educating (e.g. blogging, delivering conference talks, podcasting, teaching, or committing to OSS). Great communication is prized over specific teaching experience.

* Experience running a team

* A legitimate passion for education and, preferably, also a quirky weird sense of fun.

Apply with your CV, a description of why you are a good fit, and any relevant links to Github, conference talks, blog posts etc. to careers@vikingcodeschool.com
That question is a symptom of the many problems in tech hiring.

1) interviewers spend all their time looking for any reason not to hire you, rather than looking for what value you can provide. Kind of odd for an industry with a supposed talent shortage. They'll make some claim about the cost of false positives, but it's nonsense, at least in America.

2) they expect you to be passionate about sitting in front of a computer all day (because, for some reason, it's not good enough to simply be competent and reliable) but during an interview they expect you to have sales skills and to sell yourself.
This would bring another reason for the billionaire in the 1997 movie Contact, to go to space to live just a little longer :P
> Older browser are a huge security risk and should be discouraged / not supported.

I think Microsoft allows it's enterprise customers to buy support for older versions of IE.
SEEKING WORK

Location: American (Pittsburgh, PA) living abroad

Remote: Yes (two years experience working remotely)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: ultra-modern PHP (7.x), Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, jQuery/Vue.js, MySQL/MongoDB, Git

Fields: Healthcare, Diabetes, Banking, Advertising, Translation

Résumé: I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and have worked as a full-stack web application developer in the U.S. since 1999 and Europe since 2009.

I have a Bachelors of Science degree in Computing and Information Science and am an author of Mastering Laravel 5, conference speaker (phpDay 2014, PHP UK 2015), and open source contributor.
My native language is English, I speak fluent Italian, and I regularly travel.

http://linkedin.com/in/chrispecoraro

Email: chrispecoraro@gmail.com
Sometimes people do plan things, although a lot of the stuff I mention was relatively spontaneous. But what sustains it isn't careful planning. It's most people going along with systems they don't understand, impulses they've never considered.

E.g., the impulse where they protect people like them and people familiar to them before people unfamiliar to them. That very rarely comes from a considered plan of "let's screw over black people". But that's often the effect.
They're even trying to replace their workers with automation in a similar way. See, for example, https://jobs.lever.co/gigster/19fc3d07-ba71-47d9-a77d-654c96...
I always wonder if in an increasingly automated world, these sort of mishaps will become more common, and take longer to elevate to a human level where it can be fixed.
ion interactive | Cambridge, MA | Full Time | ONSITE or REMOTE

ion interactive empowers marketing and design teams to produce data-driven, interactive experiences that engage, generate and profile higher quality leads.

OPENINGS

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps: https://ioninteractive.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=29

Product Designer: https://ioninteractive.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=28
React-Native and Node Tutorial – Build a Meetup App from Scratch [Part 1}
True, but you were still in school for most of the day, right? You were probably alone for a couple hours in the evening and busy doing stuff with friends on the weekends, but don't you think it would have gone all Lord of the Flies if you were alone all the time? I remember staying home alone from age 10 or so and I was fine, but I also remember that bullying seemed to be a much more serious problem then than it is now.
I've given co-workers a bit of push-back in the past when they've wanted to give too much weight to passion-related questions when we interviewed candidates.

Not that it can't be important; it can, but the downside is that passion often evaporates when things get difficult. So I'd rather hire someone who is driven by determination and discipline, and uses passion as a nice boost when they can.

It's frustrating to work with someone who gets sulky when we have to slog through the non-fun development tasks that are part of nearly every project. Yes, those parts are no fun, but the faster we buckle down and power through them, the better off we are.

Interestingly, I've found that the best developers I've worked with were the stone cold professionals who just powered through everything, whether it was enjoyable or excruciating. They weren't a bunch of grumpy old farts, either. They were some of the most friendly, jovial people I've had the pleasure of working with over the years.
Canonical seems to embody a company culture which is just about non-directional enough to start mirroring the overall Linux ecosystem culture, so yeah, rather weak.
In my career I only had one case of #2. The person called me and said something like "if a partner isn't willing to sign agreement X, then we shouldn't be doing business with them". I said "ok" and hung up.

An hour later that guy's bosses boss called me to apologize..
On a practical level, if I sell my small business, is a non-compete really something that's practical? If all I know is furniture sales and all my contacts are in the furniture business, etc what am I supposed to do now, assuming the sale didn't make me incredibly wealthy to the point where I dont need to work ever again?

Its unrealistic to expect people to suddenly learn new skillsets later in life, especially if they have decades invested into these skillsets. I think this is why non-competes in many industries are ultimately unenforceable and why the courts or state legislatures never want to make non-competes powerful. People aren't machines. They can't really be retooled. If I get a job with Bigco and then switch to Smallco, Bigco shouldnt be able to tell me I can't be a programmer there. Corporations shouldn't have this level of power over us.

Even if we dismiss the first scenario as a 'business sale' I'd argue that sole proprietor businesses or any business with only a few people is much closer to being an employee somewhere. You can't expect someone to give up their only skills for 5 to 10 years for a modest sale. Not every sale is a SV-like billion dollar plus sale.
Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails & Front End Engineering | REMOTE

Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails, Javascript and front-end engineers to develop rich interactive experiences in React with a Rails backend. Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits.

We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/CoffeeScript/React/d3. Our entire team is remote - primarily in US and Canada.

http://www.aha.io | email: amy@aha.io
we are discussing Deep Learning at the math meetup @ BuzzFeed!

https://www.meetup.com/Math-and-Algorithm-Reading-Group/
Uken Games | http://uken.com | Toronto | Full time | Onsite

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services (SOA) that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Rails and MySQL, but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, Spark and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is Unity.

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com
Wow, that's like a poem.
Yes, there are a multiple candidate, 8 peoples including me.

I'm the only one from my country that apply for this position (how do I know? they tell me).

This interview process, is not the first process. before the interview, there is a "skills assessment" session, that I am passed.
How about thermal printer receipts? Most are coated with BPA. How many are in your pocket right now?

How about the fact that most McDonalds grill their burgers on grills that are covered with disposable teflon sheets? They don't tell the public that.
Powerley | Data Scientist, Android Developer, iOS Developer, NodeJS Engineer | Royal Oak, MI | Full-time | http://www.powerley.com/

Powerley is connecting the smart grid to the smart home and building the next generation of home energy management.

Here are some of the things we do:

- Real-time energy use visualization and personalized feedback

- Energy signal disaggregation to understand of how individual appliances drive aggregate usage in the home

- Home automation and control using key smart home protocols (ZigBee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Thread)

- Identify problems with appliances before they occur

We're looking for experienced Data Scientists, Android & iOS Developers, and NodeJS Engineers to help us build the platform that provides both the utility and the homeowner a new level of connectivity and intelligence.

If you have any questions feel free to send me a PM or comment. You can apply at http://www.powerley.com/about/careers/

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I get the whole 'this isn't fair argument.' But these contracts impact peoples livelihood so I will attempt to help.

First, don't respond to HR with a complex set of legal questions. They wont know the answer and will push back -- corporate attorneys will charge astronomical amounts and these questions could even get the board involved -- which the CEO usually doesn't want to do.

My suggestions:

1) The strike:
Print the document, strike out what you don't want. Scan it, return it to the HR dept. with, "Hey cool signed!". Only do this if you are pretty senior.

2) The re-write:
Take the document rewrite it, with the statements you don't like removed, then return it to HR with, "Hey cool signed!"

3) The 'it is coming!' (for junior guys):

Take the email and delete it. Say you never got it. They will resend it, take it and place it into your spam folder, two weeks later say you never got it. Then reply back with your w9 two weeks later. Then if they complain reply with a w9 3 weeks later. Continue until you have clout then do 1 or 2.
Ballmer was CEO for windows 7 (perhaps the best windows ever), heavily expanded MS enterprise and cloud and pushed (against Gates) for the creation of an in-house hardware team. Everything MS is succeeding at today is the result of his tenure as CEO.

He had his share of bad/terrible calls (Vista, killing IE, one UI everywhere, missing the smartphone market window, etc) but overall, he wasn't just a lame duck riding on the success of Gates.
Uber implements new automatic deletion process after #DeleteUber
It depends on the company and individuals, like everything else. I've had both positive and negative results with honesty.

I was honest with my current company. I told them 5 years from now I'd be considering moving back closer to family with sufficient experience and promotions on my resume to demonstrate my ability to acquire work that pays better than what engineers typically make in that region. I also told them it's unlikely I'd be at the company longer than 2-3 years without some very interesting work.

I had a similar level of honesty with an employer I was interviewing with several years ago and they turned me down (without indicating the reason, but clearly the honesty for that question either worked against me or had little or no impact on the decision).
ITT: Web developers being surprised by the meaninglessness of microbenchmarks.
I wonder if it will turn out that some random computer in the NHS was infected with a SEO scraping bot.

But no, that is impossible. The NHS is clearly much, much better at running IT than Google is.
Indeed. Few people talk about were the deep (or for that matter shallow) dirty laundry is. NNs require a fantastic amount of babysitting and trying out different configurations, the first time around for a specific dataset/task. Once done, you do get great results.
Location: Quebec Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, React-Native, Redux, Mongodb, NodeJS, Elxir

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuelquimper/

Email: quimperemanuel@gmail.com
Surprised the article didn't bring up radiation hormesis as a plausible explanation. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the observed effects?
Distil Networks | SF, DC (Arlington) NC (RDU), London, Stockholm | ONSITE (with a few exceptions) | We block bots on the internet.

Hey y'all - Distil Networks is a growing startup in the web application security industry. We build SaaS that blocks automated threats, like bots and scrapers, 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 / engineer here and still have a great time. Closing in on 3 years for me. I really like all my coworkers (physical and remote) 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 (please oh please!) (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/b81d473f-b69b-4050-a481...)

- Front end engineers (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/85ecd904-11db-4444-91bf...)

- Engineering Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/38019be7-7d8a-4d70-83af...)

- Senior full stack devs (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/b8ee33fb-5a15-400c-a51a...)

- Product manager - Data Vis (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/d278ca16-8256-449e-a0dd...)

- Support engineer (Arlington) https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/b53c1890-d4e7-4149-bea6...

- Software engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/c2a5db5c-12ce-40f2-949c...)

Many of these jobs have openings in multiple locations.

We’re also hiring for Marketing, Recruiting, Finance, and Sales! Basically everything.
Every app that uses Swift embeds its own copy of the Swift runtime libraries, since they are not part of the system (the ABI isn't stable yet).
Location: Remote (EU timezone)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, JavaScript(ES5, ES2015+), React, Redux, TypeScript, C#, ASP.NET MVC and Web API, SQL, functional programming

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/luiwNY

Email: can be found at the top of resume

Experienced web front-end engineer capable of creating top-notch user experiences. I focus on simple, modular, highly maintainable and performant solutions. I'm also comfortable with back-end development including APIs, databases and web frameworks.