skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HoneyBook | San Francisco, CA and Tel-Aviv, Israel | ONSITE

We're building a market network [1] for creative professionals. We have a workflow product that members love, and now we're working on building the network and marketplace on top. The team is great and the work is challenging, and although we're growing fast, it remains feeling small because we take care to keep it that way.

Stack: Rails, Angular, React

Info: https://www.honeybook.com/careers

Check the descriptions in the links, and let me know if you have any questions. I'm Eddie, on one of our development teams: eddie a t honeybook , com

Some key roles we're looking to fill (but there are plenty more!):

-Data Analyst (SF): https://boards.greenhouse.io/honeybook/jobs/750812

-Sr UX Designer (SF or Tel Aviv): https://boards.greenhouse.io/honeybook/jobs/143687

Also plenty on the sales, finance, and operations side too.

-- [1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/from-social-to-market-netw....
How do you go about promoting it? I've been kicking the idea of writing fiction on the side too for quite some time.
You want to work for a company where you cost them $150k in salary and benefits and only add $50k in value? That's a very insecure position to be in, it doesn't leave much room for growth, and it means you have very little leverage overall.
Been running Linux as desktop since circa. 1993 and the 0.97/0.98 kernel series and the SLS distribution [1]. Even that far back, if one was running older, common, hardware it nearly "just worked".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
If a company can find "other labor sources" then they really don't have a reason to say "we can't find labor".

Employers are saying "there is a shortage of workers" when what they really mean is "the market price for workers is more than we want to pay" or "we don't want to share more of the profits with the employees (who actually make the product) then we used to". To "fix" this, they want some sort of special treatment that will decrease the cost of employees - like being allowed to employ more indentured servants (H1-B) at below market rate.
Rackspace | Remote* | Senior Software Developers

Rackspace is hiring remote software developers for the Rackspace Private Cloud (RPC) Operational Fabric team. We're currently 4 senior devs and a technical manager and all work from home. You'll help develop and deploy automation to observe and control many clouds.

For more info about this job, see our job description and application instructions on Github: https://github.com/rcbops/rackspace_privatecloud_jobs/blob/m...

* Edit: Only US / UK remote workers may take this position.
How is performance? Last time I checked LuaLaTeX was significantly slower than XeLaTeX was significantly slower than pdfLaTeX (on the order of 5s > 1s > 0.1s for the same document).
> If you have fixed pitch, you can't really autorotate anyway

Helicopters are not fixed pitch... your run-of-the-mill hobby multi-rotor is, but that's due to the reasons mentioned above in my previous posts (eg. simplicity at this small scale).

> Safety would be provided by redundancy

Unless you suffer a total electric failure. Or even just a failure on one side of the aircraft (or even just one motor, in a quad setup). Being able to mechanically work these systems is fairly important, since it's less likely both mechanical and electrical systems fail simultaneously.

> In a hybrid system, you anyway decouple the propeller and turbine with the electric system

Unless your electric system is the failure.

> Your car gearbox operates at much lower speeds (because it's not attached to a turbine)

Even some model multi-rotors use gearboxes. You have a motor, spinning either slower or faster than the desired RPM for the rotors... a gearbox solves that difference, and provides a mechanical means of fully decoupling from the motor should the need arise.

> Helicopter powertrains require a lot of maintenance

This is true, but this is not really an issue... and nobody really is looking to "solve" this non-problem. Aircraft require a lot of maintenance and inspections.
This -- or a rail gun similar to this concept -- in my mind is the key to true low-cost LEO cargo. The investment wouldn't be that great in comparitive terms, and it promises to bring an order of magnitude more cargo to space at an order of magnitude less cost.
If I were buying a Chromebook today I'd get either a Samsung Chromebook Pro or an ASUS Chromebook Flip C302CA
(probably the latter). I often travel with the smaller Asus Chromebook but it's been in need of a hardware upgrade for a while.
Datanyze | Multiple Positions | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE

Datanyze is a small, profitable Silicon Valley startup. Our mission is to empower modern sales and marketing professionals to make smarter data-driven decisions. We have a SaaS platform, API integrations as well as one of the most popular Chrome extensions for sales professionals.

Positions we're hiring for: https://www.datanyze.com/careers

+ Software Engineer

+ Senior UX Designer

+ VP of Sales

+ Sales Development Rep

+ VP of Finance

+ Sr. Customer Success Manager
Weedmaps | Irvine, CA | Tucson, AZ | Denver, CO | Remote | Frontend (React, Next.js, GraphQL) | Backend (Elixir, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails)

Come join the World's largest cannabis tech company! We're hiring across the board, have tons of interesting engineering challenges, and get to work with an absolutely cutting-edge stack. If you love building awesome things with cool people, we want to hear from you!

https://weedmaps.com/careers
Such negative Nellies. This is why I don't publish anymore. You try to teach people something fun, and show people you can do quite a lot with very little. But it's nothing but criticism, and none of it constructive.
How much capital did you need to put in to generate that 4K?
Cyndx Networks | Multiple Positions | Santa Monica, CA | Onsite Full-time | https://doppler.ai

Cyndx is building tools for helping companies and investment banks raise capital.

Doppler is our self serve CRM and Recommendation engine for matching companies to investors who may want to invest in your company.

We're hiring all across the spectrum right now but are especially interested in people who have deep knowledge of Ruby, Python, Javascript or Devops.

We're also looking for some junior QA engineers as well as customer support people (entry level)

If you want to hear more you can even join our slack channel for candidates by going to https://doppler.ai/jobs or just reach out to jobs@cyndx.net
Or raise prices...
SketchDeck (YC W14) | Full-Stack Developer | Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE Full-time

We're looking for a full-stack developer to join our team here in Silicon Valley. SketchDeck is a technology-powered design agency designing for companies like Dropbox, Reddit, YC, Okta and Rémy Cointreau. We're a small eng. team of three, we've grown our MRR a lot this year and have a lot of opportunities to pursue.

If you're interested, love to chat! david@sketchdeck.com
Lyft | Security engineers (application security; detection & response) | San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA | Onsite https://www.lyft.com/jobs

Lyft is hiring for all positions, including mobile, frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product roles. We're working on interesting and challenging engineering and product problems to improve people's lives with great transportation.

I'm specifically looking for a couple of security engineering roles:

• An application security engineer (https://www.lyft.com/jobs/software-engineer-application-secu...) who’s excited about helping Lyft ship safe software quickly. You’ll help product and engineering teams at Lyft develop new features and products that are innovative and protect our users, build systems and tools to make it easy for engineers at Lyft to develop safe software by default, and promote security throughout the company.

• A detection & response engineer (https://www.lyft.com/jobs/software-engineer-security-detecti...) who’s excited about protecting Lyft and our users through swift detection of and response to security incidents. You’ll develop and automate techniques to hunt for and alert on attacker behavior with high signal-noise ratio, test our detection and response capabilities to improve our tools and processes, and act as a calm and rational incident commander when incidents do occur.

We are also hiring security operations and consulting roles, though we don't have job postings up yet.

We try to approach security from a software engineering standpoint: we believe in scaling security through automation and tooling, and we ship frequently. You'll help to scale security at Lyft to support our continued growth and your work will have significant impact and visibility. If you want to learn more about the kinds of things we’ve built, check out our security-related blog posts at https://eng.lyft.com/tagged/security.

If you're interested or want to talk more about working on security at Lyft, ping me at steve.woodrow@lyft.com.
This Week in Numbers: Serverless Adoption on Par with Containers
I like to use C-z for tmux and Super for my window manager, but I really prefer chords over modes (as you can guess, I use emacs rather than vim). In my ideal world, applications would handle Ctrl & Meta, tmux would handle Super and my window manager would handle Hyper. But I don't live in a perfect world.
Cultist Simulator: Behold Our End
Paylock [http://paylock.com] | Remote | Full-time | Senior Backend Engineer

We're growing steadily and to meet new demands, we’re developing new products that motorists and city employees will rely on to ease their parking concerns. To do that, we're scaling our fully remote, distributed, agile team which is interested in being hyper-productive but not working long hours to do so.

This position is for a full-time, REMOTE Senior Backend Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience. This engineer will work semi-autonomously and as a part of a small, but growing, team to design, architect, implement, test, deploy, and maintain web-based, back-office software which runs our business, as well as significant portions of our customers' as well as on-the-street (usually literally) mobile software.

For starters, you'll need a solid foundation in Object-Oriented Design. We are looking for someone who is highly familiar with our stack: C#, SQL Server, .NET. Developers on our team also work on and develop database schemas, so you should have experience (and proficiency) with that as well. Since most of what we're doing is web-based, it helps to have some background with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and knowing how the Internet works work can't hurt you. If you understand that much, you probably know a lot about many other things and are constantly adding to your repertoire. In fact, you might not even be able to stop yourself. That's a characteristic we really, really dig: fast, eager, creative learners.

The kinds of things you might find yourself working on are:

-Building and/or extending a RESTful web api for an AngularJS web application

-Database tuning and rewriting/extending/creating SQL stored procedures

-Designing and building business management tools (to help our business and our clients')--things like dashboards, alerts, and other "knowledge radiators"

-Building and/or rebuilding a data movement pipeline (we do lots of data integrations with our clients and other 3rd parties)

-Mobile apps for our in-the-field and on-the-road workforce, and for motorists

-Tools for us, the developers, to make our own lives easier

Apply with resume and description(s) of your greatest achievements to dsoudah[at]paylock.com. Include Hacker News in the subject line.
Google employees order 10-pound box of live lobsters for Burning Man meal
"Uber For X": "Grab as much as you can by playing match-maker for customers and employees you refuse to classify as employees or treat as employees. Works well if the system you're replacing is so terrible and ossified people are happy to see it go even though drivers may well be making less than minimum wage once gas and other costs are factored in."
I feel sad that we're (and possibly always were?) in a world where what you've said is true.

The collective lack of discernment and the collective lack of outrage (with appropriate action) make it seem like humanity would, probably by the turn of this century, live in one of those dystopian societies that we know of only from science fiction.

I'm trying to hold on to hope that there will be a revolution - decentralized communications, strong encryption as defaults, privacy conscious people understanding how they're manipulated and using solutions that help them stay out of "bubbles" and in control of their privacy, etc.
> Only Xeons offer ECC

> And only [1] i5/i7 offer unlocked multiplers.

These statements are false, which you yourself acknowledge later in your post. You don't get credit for noting a caveat when the caveat is that your point is entirely false, at least in my book.

Intel no longer manufactures 2-core Xeons so Pentiums and i3s support ECC nowadays. This isn't uncommon, this has been the norm literally since they stopped making 2C Xeons (Haswell?).

And there are currently unlocked i3s in the lineup, just like there have been unlocked Pentiums in the past. It's the norm that Intel offers a barnburner overclockable SKU somewhere in the low end. They don't always, but they do it probably every other generation.
I don't get why companies can't just hire a bunch of more "questionable" applicants at a lower rate, say $45k - $60k or so for junior devs in most cities.

No need to spend much effort on the interview process, just make sure they can solve a couple standardized problems, and then "hire" them as contractors for a 90-day trial.

Put them onto teams and throw them in the deep end, then get rid of all the ones who can't swim, which will probably be like 75%. But you'll also find quite a few unexpected gems that way.

I mean, that's exactly what we did in Call Center management and it worked great. Hired people at $10 / hour for the first 90 days, then a $2 raise up to $12. We did have super high attrition for brand new employees (since we didn't technically do a contracting period,) but who really cares.

We just kept on filtering and eventually had dozens of shockingly intelligent and competent call center employees for like, $13 / hour. (This was in the Midwest.)
Lead of ML at Jungla | Bay Area, CA | Full-time

Jungla’s mission is to ensure we all find meaningful answers to the increasing number of questions we ask of our genomes as patients. Personalized medicine depends upon accurately finding and interpreting our genetic differences. While technological advances have revolutionized our ability to find these differences, genetic tests often fail to interpret these differences, leading to inconclusive results and clinical uncertainty. This is both a limitation of existing data and approaches. Jungla’s strategy unites experts in functional genomics, computational biophysics, and machine learning to develop proprietary solutions for genetic interpretation. The guiding principles at Jungla are rooted in knowledge generation, performance, scalability, and transparency. Our team strives to make genetic tests more useful, faster, and less expensive.

What You'll Do: At Jungla, you will help patients better leverage their genomic information across a wide-array of genetic and genomic tests. To achieve this, you will develop new models and systems that learn from diverse and increasingly complex computational and experimental data types. In addition, you will help establish and promote a culture of engineering excellence.

Opportunity: Ownership and Direction; Engineering Excellence; Technical Development; Improve Healthcare

Let's Talk If: You know deep learning: Tensorflow (preferred), (py)Torch, Caffe, Theano, etc.;

You are passionate about driving insights from data;

You care about code;

You own your work.

Why You'll Love Working at Jungla: We combine competitive compensation and benefits with the opportunity to work on challenging and worthwhile problems. You will work with an interdisciplinary team at the interface of computer science, biophysics, and genomics, developing elegant technological solutions to improve patient care.

Mission-Driven Organization; Values-Driven Culture; Team & Growth.

Send your details to MLjobs@oxeonpartners.com
This is pretty interesting and apt. One thing I'd quibble with is their claim that many professional skills aren't fungible; this is true in general but there are many cases where a non-fungible skill is fungible for a major use case.

In particular I'm thinking of doctors. I care a lot about having exactly the right doctor (a good one, a specialist, etc) much of the time, but there are many medical services where I simply need anyone competent to pass their boards with a prescription pad. (I have been taking the same three or four prescriptions since I was six for a few common ailments--I don't need someone to tell me special information about albuterol.)
> constant crashes, my desktop freezes when a video starts playing

my r9 270 started doing that and died completely (as in, stopped POSTing) a couple weeks later. i'd try to RMA.
Tucson, AZ and Denver, CO locations as well ;)
It's basically the tried and true idea that progress and growth comes from difficult exertion of one form or another. If the muscle isn't ever tired, it probably isn't getting stronger. If there is no uncertainty in how to solve any parts of the problem, one won't learn as much.

Fortunately, difficulty is often correlated with interestingness (not always though).
I could talk about the SEO behind it for days but:

We did use the reset to our advantage to pick up rankings, but I don't think it mitigates the authority of bigger players much. The reset tends to wash out small-time players in the space and bigger players who can't niche effectively more so than it does committed players. Now that I have traffic, I don't worry too much that we are going to get bounced in the reset. I am much more worried that someone will beat us with better content for the next year. Everfest is another startup that I have seen that appears to have pretty much conquered the reset at this point.

Funtober had a very hard time displacing a couple mid-sized players in some of our seasonal niches that were established. Even with the reset, it can take years for their information to become truly out of date and people to look for alternatives. There are also a few things that they can do to keep their information current with little effort. We're just about even now with two in particular that I have in mind, but it took 5 years to get there.

Black Friday would be an obvious example of an area where the reset should be biggest if your theory is true. I think the players there have been pretty consistent and my internal estimate is that even with the reset it will take 5+ years to crack it.
Basically a rocket tries not to accelerate too much until it's above most of the atmosphere. (Which isn't as far as you might think - just a few tens of miles up.)

i.e. it climbs, but does not try to gain much horizontal velocity (i.e. the kind necessary to orbit).

On the way back the heat is just a way of shedding energy. So they shed energy "slowly", to keep within the thermal limits, they do that by shedding energy while still relatively high up.
How about 100$ bread? Is that a shortage? People literally starving to death, because they can't pay for food?

But supply is meeting demand at that point, right?
CJ Affiliate is hiring: http://engineering.cj.com

We're currently looking for senior software engineers.

We don't have any designation other than Software Engineer - everybody works on everything.

We do a lot of TDD and pair programming, and you're empowered to fix things that annoy you. You generally have a bit of time to work on things you care about that don't fit in your domain.

Honestly, it's the best place I've ever worked.

If you have qustions or for some reason you don't get a response from the online form, send me an email to msumme@cj.com.
Nice work. It works great! Hopefully you'll get some more data in there soon. It's interesting.

Lately it's been a little surprising for me what I make vs market rates. I knew I make a little on the low end, but over the weekend doing some salary comparisons on Glassdoor I discovered I was making much less (to the order of 15 to 60%) than more similar roles and contractors in other departments in the same field, and probably the equivalent of interns or just above throughout the company...

It's good to have some data
TravelPerk | Senior Back-End Developer | Barcelona | ONSITE travelperk.com
Are you a Back-End Developer with extensive Python experience? Do you particularly enjoy working with amazing people, having fun at work and building something awesome? If so, this role may just be a fit. As a senior developer you will work as a part of the team that builds a next-generation application for business travel. On a day-to-day basis you will work with our product team to design, architect and implement the back-end of our product. Your code will run fast, efficiently and will never break. This position involves: System architecture design, implementation and testing. Product development in Python and Django of a travel related web-based product. Integrations between our product to 3rd party APIs. Work in Agile environment with strong attention to a well-documented code, unit testing and continuous integration. Being able to mentor/coach/train other colleagues as a subject matter expert. What do we offer? Competitive compensation including base salary, bonus and equity in the company. 24 vacation days per year and flexible working hours. This position requires full-time, in-house work in Barcelona, Spain. We can help with relocation from anywhere in the world. English is the official language at the office. Spanish is NOT required.
The link to apply is https://travelperk.com/jobs/
Uber's main success was to take something that already existed (taxi services) but then found a way to work around local labour laws on a technicality.

Because Uber drivers are all self-employed, they're not unionised or protected in any way. Thus, Uber pays its drivers a pittance, and is able to undercut and undermine existing taxi services who are forced by unions and law to pay drivers a living wage.

That's the key to being Uber for X. Ask: can I use the internet and shady business practices to exploit workers to undercut a business that previously workers were protected in?

If the answer is Yes, then you can be Uber for X.
Yea, people just email me out of the blue asking for help sometimes.

I used to freelance full-time, and I wrote a number of articles to help market my services. Between that and my open source work, I'm pretty easy to find. I think at one point, my site was ranked 6th on google for "JavaScript Expert".

I lived in SF for a while and then moved back to Ohio and started a local JS meetup. I did a lot of presentations there, although I'm not sure if it would count as mentoring. I had a son about a year after starting it, so I handed off the reigns to a local agency with a bit more free time then what I suddenly had.

I've also helped some of my friends' children get started on Khan Academy (programing and other things), and I'm looking forward to when my son will be ready (he just turned 3 ;)