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Oden Technologies | https://oden.io | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite

We are an IoT startup creating a hardware / software platform for Industry 4.0 factories [1]. We collect data from industrial machinery and analyze, aggregate and display it so that manufacturers can make more product with less material. There's a lot of exciting things happening at the company and now is a great time to get into a small (8-person) team working working on a lofty mission that will revolutionize an underserved industry.

* Data Engineer: responsible for building and maintaining scalable APIs, the secure and timely ingestion of millions of time-series data points daily, building realtime and batch data pipelines and integrating models created by our data scientists into our product in order to generate realtime insights and predictions about production processes.

* Frontend Engineer: We need a solid front-end / JavaScript engineer with React experience, to help us design, build, and deploy the next-generation factory analytics platform.

* Forward Deployed Engineer: You'd be responsible for deploying, installing, monitoring and improving our on-premise devices, as well as building out the code that runs on them. Much of the code is communicating at low level (ex: Modbus) with industrial machinery and reporting back to our analytics platform.

Read more on https://oden.io/joinus or feel free to reach out to us directly: hello@oden.io

[1] http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/...
MORSE Corp | Software engineer | Boston, Cambridge | ONSITE | www.morse-corp.com/jobs

MORSE is an employee owned company based in the technical hub of Kendall Square, Cambridge MA. We develop algorithms and software for operational systems, implementing leading edge technologies for robotics, autonomous air and undersea vehicles, and coordination of human teams.

We are hiring for several positions, including:

Full Stack Web Developer

Robotics Software Engineer

Vision Navigation & Estimation Engineer

Machine Learning & AI Engineer

Senior Software Architect

Visit us at http://morse-corp.com/jobs to learn more and apply.
Hah, nice! Do you use dead accents? I found it super useful to put all the dead `´^¨° on my altgr-shift-12345 in order to make any accented letter I might want. I use that instead of éèä etc as there's a bunch of variations of it in french, but I don't need them often enough.

This also proved really useful when I started writing in swedish and had quick access to å without having to switch layout.
GitHub backup tool written in Go
Sure, but unless I hire all the candidates and compare them after a week, I have I rely on some fallbacks.
Getting out of the startup rat race
Aclaimant, Inc | Software Engineer, Clojure | US | Full-time, REMOTE, aclaimant.com

Aclaimant is looking to expand it's development team. We're a small team that is looking to grow significantly this year. We work remotely from the comfort of our own homes. Our current stack consists of Clojure for our servers and ClojureScript on our front end. If you're interested in learning more, contact us at jobs@aclaimant.com
DTU Biosustain | Software Engineer (Web) | Copenhagen, Denmark | Full-time, ONSITE, VISA, http://biosustain.dtu.dk

We are seeking a developer to join our team developing a web platform that supports genetic engineering of microbial strains for sustainable chemical production at our center. We write services and UIs for storage, analysis and visualization of experimental data produced by our scientists.

Our stack in no particular order: JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Angular-Material, Python, Flask/aiohttp/gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL, NumPy/SciPy, Biopython, Docker

You would be expected to have strengths in developing single-page web applications, development using Python or both. A collaborative attitude, interest in science and willingness to learn matters more than knowing specific tools.

To read more about the position and apply, visit:

http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/132915/developer-for-scientifi...

You are also welcome to email me directly at lays@biosustain.dtu.dk
>Does it really matter if we leave some behind?

Who decides? Popularity and economic benefit? So we get to keep Call of Duty video games, but apps that benefit a niche industry or are simply not very popular but considered important should be left behind? In other words, my Mona Lisa isn't your Mona Lisa.

Not too long ago, maybe the mid/late 1990's, we had this battle with deteriorating celluloid from the earlier stages of Hollywood. The studios were happy to let many old movies that were never transferred to VHS or DVD just wither away because the cost of transfer would never be recouped. I remember a lot of petitions and outrage and the studios reversed their policy (perhaps with grants or other funding, I don't recall). It was a small controversy and most of those movies weren't critically acclaimed, but some were and they were all part of history.

Not sure how well this analogy transfers to software but it always makes sense from a practical and moral perspective to save everything than to curate a few, especially in the age of automation and cheap computing.
Hologram | Chicago, IL | Full-time | http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram

Our mission is to build the platform for creating connected products by tackling some of the hardest challenges at the intersections of hardware, connectivity, and software.

At Hologram, we believe in you and your immediate squad members to know what's best for our platform and enable you to make immediate customer-impacting decisions. You can see this in how we develop products and processes: Hologram pushes decision-making out to the edges of the organization to reduce management overhead and increase speed to market.

We have a number of open positions and would love to hear from you!

+ Embedded Systems Engineer: http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram/jobs/561434 *Remote Available

+ Full Stack Cloud Engineer: http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram/jobs/562395

+ Full Stack Engineer: http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram/jobs/562369

+ Customer Success Engineer: http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram/jobs/541597

+ Product Designer: http://boards.greenhouse.io/hologram/jobs/580826

For any questions, feel free to email me directly at derrick@hologram.io
it normally has to be "related" to your employers business for it to be valid
Respond with a very matter-of-fact tone saying: "If the answer to that question isn't obvious, then I'm not sure why I would choose to work here."
Are PCs finally cutting into Apple's domination of the high end?
I give a similar reply when being asked to remove an interest penalty clause for late payment.

"We always pay our bills on time so there's no need for that!"

"Great! In that case you don't have to worry about every paying it either so we'll leave it in!"
Because your enthusiasm is your most valuable asset. Enthused employees tend to be a lot more productive, and also drive up the morale among their peers.
Nava | Washington DC & San Francisco SF | DevOps/Infrastructure/Systems Engineers, Software/Fullstack Engineers | Product and Project Managers | On-site - Full-time | $100k-$160k+ + equity + benefits

We're a small team of engineers, designers, and product builders that were brought in to help fix Healthcare.gov in the winter of 2013. Our revamped application is used by millions, converts 35% better, and halves the completion time.

It turns out there’s a lot more to reimagine within government services, which is why we’re partnering with both the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare. With the VA, we are working to modernize their appeals system, making millions of veteran’s lives better through the process. Today, the average appeal takes 5 years to process; we can fix this. For Medicare, we are designing and building the architecture for Medicare's historic transition towards value-based care.

It’s surprising how much can be done by a small group of empathetic people with a Silicon Valley mindset, deep technical experience, working closely with dedicated civil servants in government. We’ve started Nava as a public benefit corporation to radically improve how our government serves its people, and we believe that the services our government provides should be clear and reliable. If you feel the same way, we'd love to hear from you at jobs@navahq.com

Learn more about working here: http://navahq.com/careers

Job descriptions: http://jobs.lever.co/nava

Our blog: https://blog.navapbc.com/
You identify one of the important structural problems — that media outlets have partisan audiences, which for business reasons they need to keep happy. This means that an outlet like Vox will continue writing from a liberal perspective, and using headlines that get traction on platforms like Facebook. If they stray too far from their current strategy, their existing audience will disappear. And they have nothing to gain by becoming more moderate, since they have very few readers who are not liberal (who would read more from them if their coverage was more moderate)

We see this as a potential benefit to facilitating people reading from both sides: if we can bring moderate/other-side audiences to news outlets, they will have more of an incentive to make their coverage more moderate.
As an FYI, I started a who is firing thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528301

Please feel free to contribute if you know any companies involved in layoffs or want to find out who is conducting layoffs.
Definitely been in this camp before at previous places I've been. It's particularly crazy that this is happening with NHS, given Google's very public partnership with them to collect and process their medical data through DeepMind.
There are quite a few python JITs over the years - Psyco -> PyPy, unladen swallow, pyston, numba ; that's in addition to Python2C, ShedSkin and Nuitka (and even Cython) which are AOT by way of C.

And yet, none emerges as a general clear choice. I have the feeling this is because python is too dynamic making this a sysiphean effort.

I urge designers of future dynamic languages to study Lua and LuaJIT if you want your language to not inhibit JIT development.
It's not. It's honesty, and keeping the measurements in the form that will remain more usable. What we measure directly is the redshift. The estimation of the distance (that is, the exact value of the H0, the Hubble constant) is done using various methods and the results aren't bad, just not precise enough to use it combined with the redshift. That's what makes us preferring the redshift now, as the speed can be exactly calculated from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift

Knowing that the Universe is "flat" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe )
allows us also to do good calculations, even if we still don't have the exact value of H0. In fact, it's also not so bad: the estimates based on the Planck satellite, measuring the state of the Universe 13.7 billion years ago as the galaxies and stars haven't existed, and the ones based on the Hubble satellite data (measuring the state of the Universe much more recently) mismatch only some 9%. It is amazing enough for me. This difference, after more research, can produce some new physics discoveries or make us improve some engineering (and we surely should invest in more research) but it's quite good for everybody else: even if the "emptiness" from this article affecting the Milky Way is not 700 million but 730 million or 670 million light years, it won't affect our plans: for example, the Andromeda galaxy is just some 2.5 million light years from us and we estimate it will collide with the Milky Way in some 4 billion years, give or take. Should we care much if the "emptiness" is 268 or 292 times farther than the Andromeda is at this moment?

See my other response here for the way you can calculate the distance from the speed, based on your preferred estimate of the H0, it's simple, just less precise at the moment than simply stating the speed (or the redshift).
Amazon | Edinburgh, UK | Full Stack Engineers - On-site Only | Relocation Assistance Available | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship available

Amazon development Centre (Scotland) is looking for experienced software developers with strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Our development centre in Edinburgh is responsible for devising and growing innovations for Amazon around the world. Small teams of developers, designers and leaders run major parts of Amazon’s business, technology and operations. From interactive UI design to large-scale distributed systems and machine learning, we do whatever it takes to deliver great products and experiences for our customers.

Our work is characterised by high scale, complexity and the need for invention. We offer great opportunities to work on big data, machine learning and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
We use a wide variety of languages including Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript; Open Source technologies including Linux, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS; and we build on top of Amazon’s world-leading AWS platform.

For more information take a look at our microsite - http://www.amazondc.com

Feel free to get in touch with me – contact details in my profile - if you are interested in having an informal chat about roles here.

(Please note, I only recruit for the Edinburgh Dev Centre, so cannot help you with other roles/locations)
And large parts of the Python community are offering their software for free. Without that software, there would be no need for a CDN or the PSF with all its "directors".

The software on the other hand would do quite well without a lot of organizations that do peripheral work and take the credit.
"My brain is wired for language..."

Omitting the first part keeps the message and sounds cleaner to me, without risking the person thinking "not good at math? like basic logic?" (rather than the cal 3 you had in mind or whatever).

It's rarely beneficial to use up time highlighting anything you're bad at, rather than better emphasizing what you are good at.
I used to wonder why people would inject predictable boilerplate questions.

Basically, they want to make sure you have the right skills as well as have the decency to be able to prepare correctly and not take things for granted or take anything too lightly.

I mean, if you can't answer a boilerplate question, hoe can they expect you to fulfill the occasional proforma task?
Solworks | Full-stack Developer Node.js | Leicester UK, Nottingham UK | ONSITE | Full time

We: Are a small startup creating beautiful SaaS applications to help companies manage employee time and holiday in a simple and consistent manner.

You: Are an enthusiastic developer who loves all things JavaScript, including its quirks, and wants to write modern, clean code. You are able to learn new things but also aren't
afraid to teach what you know.

Using:

* React

* Sequelize

* Semantic-UI

* Hapi, Nginx

* Swagger / OpenAPI

* Babel & Gulp & Mocha & ESLint

Bonus Points:

You can spin your own VMs or Containers, you know all your IDE shortcuts, you have existing open-source contributions.

Benefits:

* Exciting challenges.

* Free pizza Friday every month.

* Staff social events including coastal sailing and barbeques.

* Working with passionate, like-minded people.

* Great tea and coffee.

* Relaxed atmosphere and great facilities including our new table football

* As many monitors as you want!

* On-site parking.

If this sounds like your sort of opportunity, drop us a line at hello@sol.works
The post you replied to had how much it raises in Australia: AU$2B/year. That compares to AU$258B/year in income tax[1]. The health, aged care and sport spending allocation is AU$89.5B[2]

[1] http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/5506.0

[2] http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/C...
> I'm 100% confident that you're not bold enough to call me an idiot in person but you're happy to do it via a textarea...

No, I didn't call you an idiot.

> Because you're a loser.

Loser is as loser does.
"I worked at GitLab."

Googles name + GitLab, finds postmortem

Highly likely, and now you don't get to tell your own story and emphasize what you want to.
I've been a longtime Buffett follower. I haven't seen the HBO documentary yet but am looking forward to it.

I would recommend Buffett's authorized biography "The Snowball" by Alice Schroeder. Before writing it, WB told AS that if she got different stories from different tellers to go with the one that was least flattering to WB.

Since it was written, WB hasn't denounced the book, but has broken off what were cordial ties with the author. Speculation abounds, but mostly it's because she hints that Susie wasn't entirely faithful to Buffett when she left Omaha and moved to California. (She never comes out and says it, but it's implied.)

In any case, it's an excellent book, and the one written with the most access to Buffett and his notes.
The ability to carbonate water (for soda) without yeast/alcohol is very much a relatively modern industrial invention.

Root beer and Ginger ale are named as such for the obvious reason.

My small disappointment in the current fad of "hard" sodas is that they are often malt beverages/"distilled" beer at ~5% alcohol rather than, say, traditional recipes in the ~2-3% range.
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The government started the drug war to keep drugs from "destroying" our bodies.

Surely big daddy government keeps bad chemicals out of the products we all use since he is so interested in keeping us healthy and safe. Yup we are all in safe hands.
I was a tad exaggerating. However living in Canada made me scared of how much the federal govt was looking so victorian.

They are scared of everything, making blood wurst the traditionnal way (by taking blood, spices and milk) is forbidden!

They almost pasteurize everything, even the cheeses !

And god curse the queen, Québec has awesome cheeses better than most UK and germany.

Cheesus God! I don't want to take part in the global fight against tasty food!

Tripes, boundins, alcohols, bagels, couscous, kebab, pierogi, pizza, bo bun and so much more should be the symbol of a new generation, giving up on flags for the profit of what should really unite us: happy fooding!
Have you looked at kops?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kops/
https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
H-1B allows dual intent, but H-1B does not require dual intent.
Location: American (Pittsburgh, PA) living abroad

Remote: Yes (two years experience working remotely both for U.S. and European companies)

Willing to relocate: Yes

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

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
This is a stupid headline. They're tripping the request limit from a single ip, which makes you fill out a captcha. We've been hit with that a few times where I work.
Jupyter notebooks make sense since you can modify the whole block. When I used Python or Clojure, the REPL is singles line. So small changes necessitated modifying out of repl and pasting.
Apple considering legal action against Trump travel ban
"Why should I work for you?"
I've worked on contract projects for years too and I couldn't have written a better response. In that time I only had one client where the standard contract was reasonable. Contracts are 99% of the time changed before being signed.
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Since it is clear by the fact that you asked this question that you have no clue what you want or why you would hire anyone I no long want this job. Thank you for the interview practice. Perhaps we will meet again.

Of course most people who are interviewing actually need a job and so they cannot afford to tell the truth. So you need to BS your way though, but this is not a useful question to ask in the first place and it reflects bad on them that they did. If you are lucky enough to get two offers this is a sign you should choose the other.

This is the right question to frame the interview around: why should we hire (or not hire) this person. However interviewers need to ask the types of questions that a well prepared interviewee cannot lie and fool the interviewer. There is plenty of research on how to interview people: people who are interviewed have incentive to lie, and probably have done enough research to figure out what lies to tell.

The problem with "Why should we hire you" is you learn one of two things: how good the candidate is at delivering a prepared statement; or how good the candidate is at lying himself out of a tricky situation when put on the spot. The first is interesting only if you are hiring an actor - but in this case you can get more information by giving the actor a short speech and a few minutes to prepare before delivering it. I guess the second is interesting if you are hiring a thief for a job where he might get caught.
Legal Shit 101... if someone asks you to sign a contract, right away assume it's weighted in their favor. You have to read the contract before you sign it. Take your time, feel free to ask for a take-home copy and ask your lawyer to review it. Having asked a lot of people to sign contracts over the years... I'd say 90-95% don't read it and just sign where they are told to. Expedient...

The contract template was written by the company's legal team to protect the company, it may have some terms in it that seem like they are an "agreement" (like how you'll get paid)... but really the goal is to keep the company safe. And, to be fair, I'd fire any lawyer who didn't give me a contract like that... so it's not the lawyer's fault. But if you sign it... you're agreeing to it. Easy solution: don't sign it. (But of course you presumably want the job.)

Middle-ground solution: Read the contract, red-line / annotate things you have concerns / questions about, and ask if you can speak with legal. If it's a small business... they will probably weigh you comments against their lawyer's hourly cost... and more often than not just agree to let you cut things out of the contract. If it's a larger company... you're probably locked in if you want to work there -- that's just the reality of it. If you talk with legal, do your best to understand what their motivations are and make sure the contract is explicit. You can also ask for exceptions for side projects by simply declaring, "Any work done for side projects X, Y, Z shall not fall under the scope of this contract."

Anyway look, it's a negotiation. You can test the limits, nothing is set in stone. You're the only one who is on your side. Everyone else is out to fuck you. Safe assumption.
Might be a plus for your organization, and it might be devised as a trap by another. It's like the biggest weakness question.

Oh, we can't hire someone who has made a mistake THAT big.