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LitCharts | Full Stack Engineer | Remote Only | Full-time

LitCharts provides high quality literature guides, analysis, and related literary tools and resources. Over two million students, teachers, and general interest readers use the LitCharts website and mobile apps every month.

We are looking for a full-time Full Stack Engineer to work on all aspects of the site, both front- and back-end. Must be comfortable with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Javascript and jQuery, AWS and S3, Haml, SCSS, Erb, HTML and CSS, and working remotely.

Additional nice-to-haves: devops/sysadmin experience, UI/UX design, React Native / Android / iOS, Nodejs, Elasticsearch, a background or interest in literature, literary analysis, data analysis, and/or EdTech.

We’re a small team, and the code you write will have a direct impact on our success as well as reach millions of users. You can work from home or anywhere. We work flexible hours but typically stick to 9am-5pm EST and are looking for someone able to do the same. All applicants must also be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Please email your resume, Github profile, samples of your code/work, or anything else you'd like to us to know about to hiring@litcharts.com to apply. Thanks for reading!
Location: Greater Toronto Area, Ontario.

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Anywhere

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Swift, iOS, Java

Résumé/CV: http://mattbettinson.com/about/

Email: mattbettinson@gmail.com
First - predictive analytics for real estate | Front-end Engineer | Durham, NC or Remote | Full-time | http://first.io

First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of predictive analytics and real estate tech. We identify when and why people will move, and build products to change the game for real estate professionals and consumers.

Our team is focused on shipping great products and driving innovation in a massive industry (2014 realtor commissions were >$69B). We believe in continuous improvement and that great teams win.

As an early and senior member of a growing team, you’ll have significant ownership, input, and influence over the work that we do, and how we do it. You will work alongside our CTO and Director of Design to help guide key design, architecture and technology decisions. You will own the web front-end and mobile apps (currently WebViews in iOS and Android), developing a product that meets the needs of our rapidly growing userbase. This includes driving the product roadmap, bringing "design thinking" on product features, coordinating development efforts across the team, and working alongside designers to iterate on product UI/UX.

Stack info: Rails + React + Python (predictive model)

Check out the full job description here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/first/jobs/652505 or shoot us an email at jruss@first.io

Come work with us. Change the real estate industry. Learn and grow every day.
they should start with Excel ..

once they have a solid desktop excel replacement, that allow users to at least import their excel sheets and have 100% of the functionality that had in Excel, they have a Path, I think PowerPoint, Work, Access and Outlook are all a lot easier to give up compared to Excel

Excel is IT/Computers for many users
Grove Co. (https://www.grove.co) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

I'm co-founder and CTO of Grove and we're looking for an experienced
full-stack web developer to join our engineering team and help
hundreds of thousands of families across the country access
high-quality, non-toxic household products.

Consumer packaged good are the last great multi-trillion-dollar
consumer category to come online and Grove is the brand leading the
way.

Our company of about 30 people is backed by some of the best investors
in the country. We're driven by our collective sense of mission
(we are a B Corp!), and a high-performance culture filled with kind
and caring colleagues.

Our flagship product is our website: www.grove.co. We've created a
unique, subscription-based commerce experience that leads the sector
in engagement and repurchase. But the majority of our complexity
derives from internal needs; we build in-house forecasting,
purchasing, and logistics tools that power the company.

We speak Python (with Django) and ES6 JavaScript. We
write tests, contribute to open source (see github.com/groveco/),
and typical day sees 5+ production deploys.

We've grown 4x in the past year, and plan on doing it again this
year. It's a heck of a lot of fun, and I'd love to tell you more
about it.

Contact chris@grove.co.
Investors invest based on promise of future value. How much is Ford expected to grow?
I could see this working in mathematics and many branches of computer science. How would this work in environments that require large outlays of money to do experiments? Do you just hand untested individuals large sums of money and leave them alone?
If you ever visit Ottawa, you're far better off booking through an aggregator. Most hotels have a very, very strict cancellation policy.
7 Guidelines on Selling Some of Your Stock in a VC Round
I believe my company is really well priced. Our pricing is industry average but we put in way more work than what the industry average is for the price. We start at $1670 per month and that includes weekly content marketing. https://www.21strenaissance.com/
I'm biased to US construction methods of course. Note that while bricks are themselves of a worse r-value than wood, but wood isn't actually a great r-value either.

Note that bricks are not a strong as wood under tension. They do well under compression, but that is not all the loads to account for. Bricks are used in cities and commercial construction primarily because they do not burn and so you can use them as a safety barrier.
This is a really great point and something I had not considered. If everyone did it at the same time (like washing machines) it could indeed happen and make everyone more miserable, the human worker coffee shops become 'top end' like tailor made suits.
Clever idea, would probably work well for an arcade style game if you're set on a first person view. For a "driving simulator" type (Forza, for example) game, first person is used for a more authentic experience, in which case, you may as well turn the minimap off anyway and learn the course the way you would in real life.
High doses of vitamin C to improve cancer treatment passes human safety trial
>Really though, what is there in an university that justifies a dedicated team of managers?

Conflict resolution, as one example. Plenty of faculty members ready to screw their students.

If you spend enough time there, it is really scary how much power professors have to screw their students over.
If you leave your wifi on when you're not connected to a network, your device will automatically start sending probes for known networks. For instance, if your home wifi network is called "duggan's network", and you're at an airport across the world, your phone will advertise to all devices in the vicinity that you're looking for "duggan's network".

Then, a malicious person can advertise an SSID of "duggan's network", and in certain cases, could get your device to connect to that network without you interacting with your device, or even realizing that something has changed.

Ask most infosec people, and they'll tell you that they _always_ turn off their wifi when they leave a trusted location.
Actually, soy milk competes with oil in grain use.

What goes to feeding animals is mostly what remains after extracting the (more expensive) products destined to human consumption.

Besides, Brazilian animal agriculture does not use much soy. It would even shrink in area if it started using more.
Verba Software | Software Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE, SALARY:100-150k | https://www.verbasoftware.com/

Verba Software tackles textbook affordability through radical transparency. We work with more than 350 colleges and universities of all sizes to reach over 3.1 million students each term, with software for students, professors and bookstores. Our success means we need to grow and we’re looking for talented engineers.

We work in a beautiful exposed-brick office two blocks west of Union Square in Downtown San Francisco. We are a small, open and friendly company. We currently use Ruby, Javascript, ES6 and Coffeescript, and layer on Rails, React, Backbone, Node, MySQL, AWS, and Chef, but we’re always open to using the best tech.

Please email resumes to jobs@verbasoftware.com . Thanks!
Talk to the stock admin at your company. They will provide you with an exercise form.

> can I use the check date as "exercise" date, meaning that I'll be sure the valuation for AMT purposes will still be the one of the Series B

Correct, it's whatever date you'll have on the exercise form, but still, talk to the stock admin for the most recent common stock valuation.

You don't have to disclose your departure, your ISO exercise is an independent event and can happen at the advice of your tax advisor.
Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JS/NodeJS, Python, Kotlin, PHP, Bash | HTML5, Bootstrap, Sass, ReactJS, Electron, Flask/Django, Laravel | AWS Suite, Docker, Nginx, Linux | MySQL, MongoDB | Unit testing and end-to-end testing (MochaJS, PyTest, Spectron, etc)

Portfolio: https://vikborges.com

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikborges
Oh I don't mean they don't work, they work very well in my opinion. What I meant was that, while "open" as in open source is very important to us as developers, I feel like open as in "it's your computer and you do whatever you want with it" is just as important, and it's often a neglected criteria, and I feel this is one of the things where there is little if any competition to windows that is ready for prime time.
Kahoot! | Senior Frontend Developer | London, Oslo | ONSITE | https://getkahoot.com/

Crafted using a design-led approach and game-based pedagogy, Kahoot! is on a mission to make learning something that everyone wants to connect with.

With over 40 million monthly active users and a public library of over 15 million games on our platform, kahoots are being played in over 180 countries, both in the classroom and beyond.

https://getkahoot.com/jobs/front-end-developer-1

As our frontend developer, you'll be making and maintaining web apps with some of the latest JavaScript tooling such as React and MobX, but also staples such as Angular and Backbone.js. Working on Kahoot!'s frontend platform, building on our pattern library, you’ll be drawing out UI components to build robust modular systems making up rich interactive experiences.

We're also looking for the following roles:

- Backend Developer
https://getkahoot.com/jobs/backend-developer-search-oslo-or-...

- Android Developer
https://getkahoot.com/jobs/android-developer-oslo-norway
This could just be something very odd going on with my computer, but Warning!

Going to https://www.intelligentvoice.com/ as linked leads me to a spam page "Birthday Lottery". Without the https I get to your real page.
Sweet news for free software.

Linux crushes Microsoft, not only on servers but on customer devices.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 2011 - "It is very hard to be excited, for me, about the Android phones."
I have always seen the interview process as a an opportunity to understand how the other person thinks. These questions may do that to some extent but they limit it in ways that make it almost mechanical.

I personally find "What is your favorite programming language?" or "What systems architecture to you find more compelling?" to be far more valuable. It gives some insight into their commitment to the trade and gives you an opportunity to make it a conversation to dive into their reasoning process and depth of knowledge about a topic. I think it's far easier to weed out the fakers if they can't express why Erlang is interesting to them than for them to tell you how to implement a linked list which is very easy to google and memorize(but won't necessarily prove any skill).
It sounds sad and short sighted to me. Maybe they are turning away volunteers because interest is so high. That would be a rare Open Source project.
From the about page of mpegla.com:

"We are the world’s leading packager of patent pools for standards and other technology platforms used in consumer electronics, as well as chemical, eCommerce, education, energy, environment, healthcare and biotechnology, manufacturing and materials, transportation and wireless technology. We developed the pool market space. (view link) Our business model supports a large number of patent users – creating reasonable access and profitable opportunities for all parties."
If only they hadn't spent a decade going circles producing nothing, it could have been. Just like Blackberry and Nokia could have provided entirely different phone ecosystem, if only they had woken up.
Windfall Data | Data/ML Engineer, Lead Data Scientist | SF | ONSITE | $110k-$160k

At Windfall Data, our goal is to determine the net worth of every person in the world.
Its a super hard problem with broad applications.

We're looking for:
- experienced data engineers to help build our infrastructure and help us scale
- lead/senior data scientists to build a team and take our ML and predictive algorithms to the next level

If you're interested, send a message to cory@windfalldata.com
Prototyping for Business Analysts: Q&A
15gifts | Junior Data Scientist | Brighton, UK | ONSITE http://www.15gifts.com

15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, EE, Sky and The Times, and we're growing rapidly. We are now looking for a talented data scientist to join our team and help shape the recommendation algorithms that underpin our product.

You'll be working on the algorithms that underpin our product, and will be responsible for interpreting large amounts of behavioural data to discover the underlying stories and opportunities. Then you'll identify, help implement and test algorithms and optimisations that drive real improvements to our product's performance. You'll work closely with other parts of the business to ensure that the whole product is focused on maximising the benefit of the algorithms that we develop.

The ideal candidate will be familiar with SQL and Python and/or R, have a firm grounding in Data Science principles as well as experience in analysing and visualising data sets. The process will start with a phone chat, and then an interview based around a dataset that we'll ask you to analyse in advance.

Get in touch via work@15gifts.com and mention hacker news.
The trouble with Amazon is everything that isn't their retail site has terrible UX so I'm not hopeful.
The logging is also the primary reason why I'm not getting a Tesla.
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Santa Monica, California)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent in the following roles:

* Senior Infrastructure Engineer

* Frontend Software Engineers (London, Los Angeles); React knowledge is a plus

* Software Engineers (London, Los Angeles)

* Web Developer, to join our marketing team

* QA Engineer

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers/ . (Some time ago I wrote an overview about our engineering challenges, which you can find at https://smarketshq.com/the-challenges-of-running-a-betting-e...)
This headline reads like a race between Nicola Tesla and Henry Ford, with some Musk character unable to get a third revision done.
There's an attitude I'll caricature as dividing all claims into either sanctioned certainties or mere opinion. Reasoning is a competitive game of justifying those conclusions that'd benefit your side, on the basis of arguments within the blessed circle.

Against this, you might pit an ideal bayesian reasoner tracking a degree of belief in all possibilities. But that's too hard. It is possible for humans to roughly track a few possibilities; if you pick simple ones, none will be exactly right, but you can learn from how they go wrong or not. It's like "try the simplest thing that can possibly work" in programming: you expect there's a good chance it won't, but it can be the most productive way forward to figuring out what will.
Why doesn't this have a huge benefit to Tesla. They always seem to be short on cash, but if you are worth that much shouldn't cash be super simple to raise for Tesla?

Why push for high stock prices if it gives little benefits.

Seems like a nutty evaluation even if Tesla knocks over the established players in the future. I do in fact think that there will be an iPhone moment where established players who have not taken electric self driving cars seriousness will be eradicated like Black Berry and Nokia.
Well said, Civilization is indeed a contract. However there are various ways to enforce the contract. In the middle ages in Europe is was enforced via religion. Behave or go to hell. In communist countries it was contribute or go to work camps. In capitalist societies so far it has been behave and reap upward mobility or go to jail. When there is no upward mobility, I am not sure if jail is enough to enforce the contract.
I would think that once the relocation was public knowledge, well-funded property speculators would beat potential renters to the punch, leading to the same problem all over again.

The first solution that comes to mind is to legislate that certain pieces of property must be the legal primary residence of the owner.
H1B is one of the few ways of getting a greencard, aside marriage. Do I need to be a rocket scientist just to join the republic... its crazy man!
[IANAL] "Computer programmers may no longer be eligible for H-1B visas" -

This is absurd and incorrect. The USCIS memorandum is rescinding a document dated December 2000 because it doesn't want the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) to use the old guidelines for issuing H-1B visas for computer related positions. The NSC started adjudicating H-1B applications last year after a hiatus of around 10 years.
OUToftheCLOUD: The Next Generation in File Sharing Solutions
You should call a tax lawyer ASAP. This is above HN readers' pay grades.

FWIW, we had a similar situation at Zenefits, but were advised it would probably be all right if we exercised before the company officially started raising $.

George Grellas comments on Hacker News frequently, he may be a good option.

I'd also look into secondary markets for selling some of your shares to offset the tax burden.
Endgame’s security platform enables organizations to hunt for adversaries within their networks and secure their most valuable assets. We are characterized by a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, intellectual engagement, and a competitive compensation structure that rewards performance. We work within a fast-paced, driven, and flexible work environment that allows for both professional growth, as well as unwinding through team events like weekend family brunches, happy hours, and outdoor activities. Endgame values engagement within the tech community. We provide opportunities for open source contributions, speaking at meetups or conferences, and participating in our technical blog.

Senior Fullstack Engineer | SF | http://app.jobvite.com/m?34y8viw2

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There are a bunch of other positions check them out: http://app.jobvite.com/m?3IA8viwI
At my previous company we used mailcatcher[1]. Worked fine, but with lots of e-mails, the service might crash.

[1] https://mailcatcher.me/
What happens when you put all your eggs in one basket..
When I got my first cell phone at the end of ’96, I paid $40/mo with 1000min on VoiceStream (now owned by TMobile). There were no long distance charges. Meanwhile, my friends were paying $60/mo to what is now CenturyLink (Qwest at the time) plus long distance charges.

I realize it’s anecdotal, but I think phone service got ~30% cheaper at minimum (much more when including long distance). If you remember at the end of the 90’s, the telco’s were running crazy amounts of long distance advertisements (i.e. 10-10-220) knowing full well that gravy train was coming to an end.
This sort of matches Duverger's Law[0], which holds that given a particular set of constraints that sound a lot like the smart phone market, you will always end up with 2 players/political parties.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Django-cra-helper: The missing piece of the Django and React puzzle
are you sponsoring VISA?
If they can properly pivot into the electric car market, a lot.

Ford has all the infrastructure that Tesla is attempting to build now (aside from the batteries, but that is something that Ford could easily partner with another manufacture to get). They know how to mass produce cars (granted right now, ICE cars). That's not an easy feat. They have a large manufacturing and maintenance base that, frankly, Tesla can't replicate. The bet is that Tesla will be the first successful company to market, or that they will hold some patents which will prove valuable in the future. The market is not betting that they'll beat Ford or GM.
Well, it is the NYC dating scene. There's a ton of head cases in this town and you more or less get used to it after awhile - it becomes normal.
Thanks for this. Just a mild constructive criticism: not sure how useful the Anki deck is. One thing to keep in mind when constructing cards is keeping the information very short. As it stands, there's no way to really remember the flip side of the card. Aside from that, really solid info!
KISURA | Software Developers | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | https://www.kisura.com/

We are looking for experienced software developers to help us build Europe's first Digital and Personalized Shopping Service for women’s fashion.

Our mission is simple: to send women handpicked outfits tailored to their budget and style and make them feel beautiful and confident.

What’s in it for you? An opportunity to build a scalable, customer-centered solution in a quiet office in the middle of Berlin’s famous Kreuzberg district. Which means easy commute, lots of lunch, meetup and party options close by.

We are looking for:

- Software developers (PHP/OOP)

- Front-end developers (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3)

- QA engineers

Speaking German is not required.

How to apply: email me directly at mirek (at) kisura.de :) (I'm the product manager here).

More info at https://www.kisura.com/jobs.
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How about legalizing building? SF could easily accommodate far more people.