skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human API | Software Engineer, DevOps, Data Engineer | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE, https://humanapi.co/careers

Make a difference with technology: specifically, by helping to fix healthcare. We're building a real-time data network that allows getting health data from anywhere to anywhere in close to realtime. We roll up this data in a clean RESTful API that developers use to build apps that make peoples' lives better.

We have a whole pile of fun, interesting problems, and a team of smart, passionate people that love working on them. We like to work iteratively in small teams, and to give people autonomy and ownership to solve those problems.

Some of the things you'd be working on:

- Mapping, modelling and indexing the world's healthcare data
- Scaling and optimizing our APIs
- Modelling human health
- Scaling our ingestion pipeline
- Data engineering and building tools for data science
- NLP and Classification
- Extracting healthcare data from a wide variety of unstructured, unclean formats
- Building intuitive UIs to allow users to find and share their health data

Open positions:

- Data Network Engineer (node.js, MongoDB, RabbitMQ)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/f35d3379-1220-4cf1-a117-d1dc06778459
- Data Engineering Lead (node.js, Python, Kafka, Cassandra)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/6a1d2a62-5561-4ba3-818a-adb0017c6f36
- Customer Team Engineer (node.js, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/2b4ad954-8eff-47d1-a189-ba48a469537b
- DevOps Engineer (Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Mesos)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/c74886f1-1e50-4323-a846-7ccac5855164

More information here: https://humanapi.co/company/join

The process: a quick phone screen, a screen-share technical interview, then an onsite to meet with the team and pair with someone on a problem.

We'd love to hear from you even if you don't "fit" one of the job specs -- we hire for people, not roles. Contact us at jobs@humanapi.co -- we're nice!
Relayr | Berlin/Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full time | https://relayr.io/

We are a 3-year-old, rapidly growing international company of 150 IoT experts in 8 cities across 4 countries on 2 continents. And we have been described as one of the most successful startups in the industry!

We are currently looking for developers to join our teams either in Berlin or in Munich. Your outstanding passion for all things tech, combined with your desire to solve our customer’s biggest challenges with innovative solutions could make this the perfect job for you!

Open Positions in Berlin:

Senior Scala Developer (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=38

Frontend JavaScript Engineer (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=74

Embedded Developer (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=82

Full Stack Solution Engineer (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=71

And in Munich:

Data Scientist (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=78

Backend Java Developer (m/f) https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=81

Check out our career page for other open positions at https://relayr.io/jobs/

Any questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch! julia.rovnik@relayr.io
Square, Inc. | Software Engineer, Payments | Atlanta | ONSITE , https://squareup.com/careers/jobs

Square's Atlanta office is hiring an engineering position for the backend services that power our payments platform.

What we do:
Develop and support routing and gateway support between Square’s products and payment processors in the US and abroad.

Design and refactor these systems for high reliability and scalability.

Why it's cool:
Our system is critical: without it, Square products couldn't exist.

The Atlanta office has a history of working on mission critical projects. Infrastructure used throughout Square was designed and developed here. We’re continuing to increase our footprint here.

Our work environment includes lots of Silicon Valley style perks, plus all the advantages of working in a smaller office where everyone knows each other.
Square products are widely used by the general public, so you constantly run into people who use our products.

Who we're looking for:
Experience with Card Payments would be terrific!
Engineers familiar with Java, Go, Ruby or another high level OO language.
At this time, we are looking for developers with at least a few years industry experience.

Tech we use: Java, Go, Ruby, Objective-C, Ember.

If this matches your background and interests, I'd love to talk to you -- email zundel@squareup.com, hiring manager for this position in the Atlanta office.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873083
Pages are static sites served from separate infra from the main github.com from what I've heard, so you should be fine in almost all cases. I've never had one go down unless I pushed a dud build.
And as mentioned, Amazon will eventually sidle into this market as well.
It looks like there is some correlation between passionate and python: https://www.hntrends.com/2017/july.html?compare1=passionate&...
So when will people start treating these officials like the criminals they are?
Great contrast to Google deciding to leave China.
Just commenting to notify you that you probably intended to comment in the actual hiring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901313
So the question is - how good are you? It could be an easy task, or, a bit tricky. Get evaluated by a trusted entity so that you can define what "better than me" really means. That's how I would go about it. Example, apply at google, FB, etc. for fun and see if you get an offer. If not, apply to companies like dropbox, stripes, salesforce, etc. If you don't get an offer then apply at a financial institute or small startups. That'll give you a good insight about your level and what you should be aiming for. Going through all these interviews as a candidate will also help you prepare for your future interviews as an interviewer.
Most certainly, and this is what really stuck out for me:

>The nuclear project now accounts for 18 percent of the electric bills of South Carolina Electric & Gas’s residential customers. Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility, has increased rates five times to pay for the reactors.

The costs of mistakes like this are massive!

A failed $100 million storage experiment has little impact. This $9B experiment is a financial disaster. Heads should roll for such poor decisions.
It'd be nice to have a simple way to limit a chrome tab's available CPU in the same way. The computers, tablets and phones most people browse on are an order of magnitude slower than the desktop machines we use to develop.
criticizing the UK Home Secretary? Sure sounds like harassment to me!
Its great that the CTF organizers fielded a neutral architecture that no one would be familiar with. This helps put everyone on a more even footing and tests their knowledge of their tools and reverse engineering instead of knowledge of architecture internals
Hotel Boom in SeaTac Is Unfettered by $15 Minimum Wage
Blogging can be incredibly helpful (even if no one reads it) because it forces you to articulate your thoughts clearly + become a better writer + thinker.

Do it.
Just commenting to notify you that you probably intended to comment in the actual hiring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901313

and not this copycat one
LogicGate (https://www.logicgate.com) | Chicago, IL | ONSITE | Front-end Engineer
LogicGate is looking for a full time Front-end Engineer. LogicGate is building technology to help businesses automate and track disorganized processes. Our office is in the heart of River North with less than 10 minute walks to Brown/Red/Blue CTA train stations and multiple bus stops. We work with AngularJS, D3, Gulp, SCSS, HTML, and more! We are currently experimenting with Angular 2.0, Docker, and other cutting edge technologies.

To apply, please visit https://logicgate.workable.com/j/754D01A18B
Check out something like locust[0]. It's a web load testing framework in python.

[0]:http://locust.io/
How are private prisons incentivizing politicians to write new laws or stop other laws? Are you saying there are people who have invested in prisons who are lobbying for tough on crime policies in order to fill their prisons with people? Do you have examples of this? Can you even get wealthy enough running prisons to have much influence in congress?

As far as I'm concerned this doesn't have to be the case for me to be critical of private prisons and I'm otherwise generally libertarian for most issues. One of the things government should be doing is handling criminal justice and running prisons should be a part of that IMO.

I don't see much utility in letting private organizations run them, there's no real competition and 'success' seems merely a matter of a) political connections or b) offering the lowest price. Prisons should be focused on reforming criminals and treat them well, so a low budget hyper price-conscious system sounds like a negative incentive to me. The cost of criminals on society is high so giving appropriate resources for handling them should be a priority.

If the US want's to reduce their massive prison bills they should reduce their massive number of criminals.
Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails / Front End / UX | 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/ES6/React/d3.

Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.

http://www.aha.io | email: engineering-jobs@aha.io
I live in the service area for this power company and toured the construction site last year. During the tour they told us that the reactors were "twins" of reactors under construction in China. In fact, they took regular trips to China to learn from the team there because they were further along in the construction process. I wonder how the Chinese project is coming along.

A lot of people were laid off yesterday and that's a tragedy. But even more tragic is that these reactors were supposed to be the solution for meeting the regions rising energy demands. Now what? There was no plan B.

note - this is a burner account for privacy reasons
How fintech trends can be beneficial for the future of business
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Berlin - Content Marketing / Marketer

- Content Production (Blog Content, Product Texts, Newsletter)

- Content Marketing Strategies (Long Term SEO Optimization, Newsletter Campaign, Growing your Mailing List)

- Landing Page Optimization (.e.g Best Practices Guidance, SEO, Conversion Rates)

- Dedicated Content Promotion (Social Media, Reddit, HN, Influencer)

- Social Media Channel Optimization & Assistance (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram)

- Landing Page or Blog Setup (e.g. Hosting, Domain Registrar, Initial Setup)

I am eager to work with you or your company on these things. Feel free to reach out with questions or contract offers: https://www.iamliesa.com/
Bluetooth battery indicator? No, wait, that's been there for years.
Exactly. Thanks.
It sounds like the kind of blog I would read! Can you share the link please?
Parallel Performance Existentialism [pdf]
ChatLingual | Full-Stack Developer (Node.js) | Denver/Boulder, Colorado | Full-Time | ONSITE

ChatLingual gives businesses access to new markets by removing one of the oldest barriers to entry: language. We've built a platform that allows people to communicate in 89 languages, which companies can use to support their customers around the world. We are looking for an experienced, broadly-skilled developer to join our team as we grow. This is a senior position.

Stack is Node.js, Postgres, Redis, and Angular hosted on AWS.

More details can be found on AngelList (http://bit.ly/fullstack_details) or by emailing us at 42@chatlingual.com.

Investors include: Foundry Group, Royal Street VC

Oversight team includes: Jeff Rohr[0], Former CFO at Deloitte; Ben Rifkin[1], Partner at Royal Street Ventures; Tim Joyce[2], Former CIO of Xerox Customer Care; Lucas Dickey[3], Head of Product at Stealth Co (an a16z portfolio company)

Feel free to post comments with feedback/questions here as well — I'll be around.

[0] Jeff Rohr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jprohr

[1] Ben Rifkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrifkin

[2] Tim Joyce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-joyce-ab25081

[3] Lucas Dickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasdickey
http://locust.io/ for example
For those less-than-brand-new browsers, there's at least one polyfill (https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill).

Not ideal, sure (especially if you're JavaScript-averse, like I am), but it's a start.
Butterfly Network | Cloud Engineer | NYC, NY | ONSITE

At Butterfly Network we are building a device that will make medical imaging accessible to everyone in the world. It’s a breakthrough that will save millions of lives.

As a full-stack cloud engineer you are expected to take ownership of several aspects of the architecture and to be able to contribute at different levels. Here are some of the technologies being used and skills required to apply (knowledge and experience in all of them is not mandatory)

• 3 or more years of experience developing flexible cloud-based computing environments

• Experience with cloud computing leveraging AWS

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Comfortable with Linux system administration

• Experience with modern web frontend development (React, css modules, ES2017, Webpack)

• Experience with designing RESTFUL APIs for a microservice architecture

• Experience developing with Python environments

• Experience developing with NodeJS environments

• Experience with Graphql or similar technologies

• Experience with scripting, management, and automation tools for CI and CD

• Experience developing high availability systems and software for fault-intolerant applications such as medicine, scientific computing, aerospace, and finance

• Experience with fast and agile development life cycles

Apply through https://angel.co/4catalyzer/jobs/40282-full-stack-cloud-engi... or email me at gtagliabue @ 4catalyzer.com

https://www.butterflynetinc.com
If I not only don't understand something, but also believe that the people flogging that thing don't understand it, I'm certainly not touching it myself. So, no, skipping ICOs, thanks.

Exploiting the hype, on the other hand, I am entirely comfortable with.

I've flipped a few GPUs on eBay and easily doubled my money, and am currently trying to do the same with a small number of hardware wallets. Further, I'm holding a couple hundred bucks each of ZEC and ETH in anticipation of volatility, potentially from the shakeout of current BTC movement, from ETH moving to Proof of Stake, or from just the nature of these (currently, albeit not by intent) all being speculated investments that I'd be willing to go long on--so if I miss a spike, I'm comfortable waiting a year or two.

What a weird space.
Many of us pro devs have boilerplate build scripts that make setting up a new project easier. I've done this for many projects — but one day I look forward to NOT using one.

For enthusiasts, most really do load the entire bundle via CDN. For Bootstrap 4-alpha6, that's 192KB of CSS and another 47KB of JavaScript.

They just copy and paste and override the raw CSS. Many don't even know what a preprocessor is, much less how to set one up. Now they don't have to.
>At some point in the (very) near future, we'll all be forced to realize that the deck is stacked against you if you're black in America.

Why did you pick race instead of gender? The justice system is far more sexist than racist, and if our society won't come to terms with how far the legal system is stacked against men, why would it ever come to terms with how far it is stacked against minorities?
Quora | ML Engineer | Mountain View | ONSITE, www.quora.com/careers

Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. We are an internet-scale Library of Alexandria, a place where people go to learn about anything and share everything they know. At Quora, we use Machine Learning in almost every part of the product - feed ranking, answer ranking, search, topic and user recommendations, spam detection etc. Within the past few months we released a large duplicate question dataset [1], built out Quora on Alexa and Google Home [2] and linked Quora Topics to Wikidata [3]. As a Machine Learning expert, you will have a unique opportunity to have high impact by advancing these systems, as well as uncovering new opportunities to apply Machine Learning to the Quora product. As a ML Infrastructure Expert, you will play a key role in developing tools and abstractions that our other developers would build on top of.

Machine Learning Engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/4ea5b0e2-b570-439f-a3a1-1f301042....

ML Infrastructure Engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/5ae871e6-12a7-40d2-829a-64041e24....

Product Infrastructure Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/quora/37d396ed-a089-4cc2-a817-8ab65fb6....

Please submit online at the link above and mention my HN user name. Or email "%sn@quora.com" % my_HN_user_name

[1] https://data.quora.com/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-....
[2] https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Quora-on-Voice
[3] https://blog.quora.com/Announcing-Wikidata-References-on-Top....
I don't know if your heel touching the ground first is the same thing as what you're describing. I usually run as a 'midfoot' but I sometimes let my heel touch the ground first. I don't drop my weight onto it, though. I just roll the foot forwards. 'Heel striking' doesn't mean running on your heels.
King & Union | Front-end developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE FULL-TIME

The point: We are making the threat intelligence process run more smoothly and helping organizations share threat data better. Our solution pulls threat information (both our own and via external APIs) into a graph and enables real-time collaboration and sharing of the information on the graph.

What we're looking for: We're looking for a mid/advanced front-end developer to take over development of our sites UI (we're in-housing development of the site after contracting it out for about a year). The front-end is built with React/Microcosm/Material/Vis.js, and it talks to our backend using a mix of REST and WebSockets. Ideally, the person we're looking for would be comfortable doing both the React programming side of things as well as the HTML/CSS/layout work. There would also be some design work as we roll out new features to the site.

Perks of the job: early round shares, competitive salary, 401k, & healthcare benefits. Also, we work from home a lot and our focus is on getting the work done, not on attendance or face time.

A bit about us: We are a pre-A-round startup. We have a working product and paying customers, so we're in a good spot financially. We are based in Alexandria, VA but do a lot of working from home, and tend to meet up in Alexandria once a week or so. Also, since we have an existing contracting relationship for our UI development, we're very flexible about start dates for this position.

If you are at all interested, please send me a message: aaron@kingandunion.com
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company | Staff Data Scientist | Shelton, CT | FULL TIME, ONSITE

Since the flight of the world’s first practical helicopter in 1939, Sikorsky has been a global innovator in rotary-wing aircraft. As a member of our Analytics team, you will use your data science experience to improve operations and reliability for some of the world’s largest helicopter fleets. We are looking for a technical leader who can bring their experience to our team by mentoring data scientists and analysts, exploring new modeling methods, and helping extract new insights from large, challenging data sets.

Please apply through our jobs site, here:

http://search.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ShowJob/Id/83641/Data-S...

http://search.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ShowJob/Id/85447/System...
I'm not defending such comments, but there's more to them than just gatekeeping. Speaking from my own point of view, the "I was a geek and it wasn't cool" sentiment comes from feeling betrayed by having your lifestyle become an industry that too often focuses on profit more than on quality; the "I know CS from the ground up" comes from frustration with all the people who dismiss learning from the ground up without understanding all the insights it gives you; and "nobody deserves to have an easy path to being a coder" is an exaggeration of "when you try to make learning easier than it can really be, you end up dumbing things down".

Recently I found myself struggling to formulate my attitude towards software development and the best I could come up with is "lifestyle coding": sure, it's important to me to make something people will use and like, something that will improve life in some aspect, but in the end, I'm in this because I love to create programs. To me programming is more than my job, more than just means to an end, it's what I truly enjoy. People like me will often feel bitter about many aspects of our industry and it takes a conscious effort to keep aware of that feeling and to make sure it doesn't taint our decisions.
In many cases I guess more the ability to extend or completely replace their tools.
All crypto schemes I studied rely on hash collisions. Meaning your ballot is hidden within a herd of ballots. This works for hypothetical elections where there are lots of voters and simple ballots.

Alas. Our actual elections are administered per precinct (say 0 - 1000 voters) and have complicated ballots (dozens of issues, races). Meaning your utterly unique ballot is unlikely to collide with any other cast ballot.

The blockchain-based schemes I briefly studied rely on fuzzing timestamps. A different kind of collision.

Here's the takeaway: Our elections administration is finely tuned to the Australian Ballot. Any new voting system has to specify the style of ballot, which circumstances are applicable, and how the laws, rules, and procedures will have to be modified to adopt it.
> This is the problem with the government demanding to read all communications... the idea that they have the right in order to prevent you committing a crime. Its not only impossible to prevent someone committing a crime (anyone can snap and do truly horrible things without prior communique), its insane to think that you can arrest someone for pre-crime.

This is exactly what Bruce Schneier saw with his "data mining for terrorists" essay more than a decade ago. Trying to prevent terrorist attacks is impossible if you rely on data mining alone, because of all the false positives it can create, making it useless in actually preventing real attacks.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_f...
It's computed over 6 blocks: "the MTP of the tip of the chain is 12h or more after the MTP 6 block before the tip".

So it takes 6 consecutive blocks to be found "fast enough" (that is, within a 12h window) to return to the normal difficulty algorithm.
Overview of Jacobian Inverse Kinematics
The Efficient Startup
Determine Network Availability in a NativeScript with Angular Mobile App
Nuclear has been "failing" for decades. The TVA plant that recently came online was started 43 years ago.

Nuclear has a long, storied history of costing multiples of estimates at every stage -- building, operation, decommissioning, etc. And as the GP mentioned, black swan events ("it couldn't possibly happen...oh it happened well that's not a true Scotsman") are so enormous that it needs government to take the liability.
> Companies are constantly making trade-offs between security and 'usability', and it is here where our experts believe opportunities may lie.

Amber Rudd's "experts" couldn't prevent a simple brute force attack on her own parliament that would have easily been mitigated with 2FA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/26/parliament_email_ha...)