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NepFin | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time / Onsite | Vue.js / Python Flask

NepFin's mission is to digitize commercial lending and provide capital to the underserved entrepreneurs and business owners in the middle-market. To do so, we must fix a broken system where an average company takes over 3-months to secure a loan and pays hundreds of thousands in fees. With technology at the core of our business, we believe we can reinvent this world and rebuild it from the ground up, removing the inefficiencies in a $1.4 trillion market.

We raised our Seed round in January from a multi-billion-dollar family office and we have the support of a deep bench of advisors. We have an amazing team from online lending and traditional finance making us uniquely positioned to bring commercial lending into the twenty-first century.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build transformative web services for our customers and internal team. We're using Python / Flask on the server side with Vue.js on the front-end.

Reach out to me (Engineering Manager) if you have any questions at hyoo@nepfin.com.

https://angel.co/neptune-financial-inc-nepfin/jobs/271628-se...
AvE tore one down. It really was well-built. Too much so, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
(possibly NSFW for language - use headphones)
Non solid state storage likely explains most or all of the difference in responsiveness. SSD and high-resolution Windows laptops do exist, but they are priced about the same as MacBooks.
Tenstorrent | Toronto, ON | Processor Architect/Designer | Full-Time | Onsite, Visa | https://tenstorrent.breezy.hr/p/480bfd2cdf54-processor-archi...

Tenstorrent | Toronto, ON | Lead Software Engineer | Full-Time | Onsite, Visa | https://tenstorrent.breezy.hr/p/5a82a68765ba-lead-software-e...

Tenstorrent | Toronto, ON | Deep Learning Expert | Part-Time | Remote, Onsite, Visa | https://tenstorrent.breezy.hr/p/43d8f13cad5b-deep-learning-e...

At Tenstorrent, we are building a new processor optimized for deep learning. Our technical team is highly experienced, with a long list of pioneering semiconductor and software products under its belt.

Aside from the rare opportunity to contribute to a brand new processor architecture, we offer a rate of learning and career progress that is only achievable at early stage companies, as well as competitive compensation and benefits packages. This is your chance to become one of the first employees of a fast-growing startup working on cutting edge technology.

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I think it's more a shame that they didn't actually make a product anyone needed. Just remember that this was a thing actually said about real life humans who can walk and talk and dress themselves:

> One of the investors said they were frustrated with how the company didn’t deliver on the original pitch and that their venture firm wouldn’t have met with Evans if he were hawking bags of juice that didn’t require high-priced hardware. Juicero didn’t broadly disclose to investors or employees that packs can be hand squeezed, said four people with knowledge of the matter.

This was a dumb thing from the jump. Maybe all that money spent on an evenly-pressing juice-o-tron would have been better used almost anywhere else.
We call this development time at my workplace. Every two weeks, I spend the first half of my shift doing whatever I please, with encouragement for it to be work related, but no real guidance.

Last week I wrote a utility in Python to parse a configuration file that we had so far been editing by hand, or with bad, slow and cumbersome tools. Now our Linux guys can make the changes is seconds across multiple machines, and the parser is much safer than the bash hacks we had been tempted to use before.

Point being, development time can be great! More companies should embrace the idea of letting their employees improve their own workflow. Some of our best ideas were just that: a little spark that an employee had the opportunity to actually explore.
> Best I can come up with is binning

Bingo.
I have one of the first generation Dysons that just won't die, it definitely works as a vacuum cleaner, never use the rotary attachment.

GF has a German brand hoover I always forget that has insane suction.
She's definitely technical, way more than the layman, if she's comfortable managing ANY desktop computer. Vast majority of people I interact with sit down, barely remember their own login password, and launch a single web app from a shortcut on their desktop. Outside of that, there is zero understanding.
But if user A withdraws their consent for the social network to process personal data about them, user B's photo is still personal data about user A if the social network knows or could know that user A is in it.

As I mentioned before, modern technologies raise complex issues about third parties that we have barely begun to explore. SOP at social networks is very much to get people to provide information about not only themselves but also other people they know, and that's a minefield if those other people aren't happy about it. Obviously you can't just say social networks can do what they want if someone else provided the personal data, because that undermines the entire principle of data protection and privacy. But equally, if you require explicit consent from everyone for everything, you create a huge burden that might make the whole idea unworkable or at least remove a lot of the value these services offer to their users when maybe a lot of people wouldn't have a problem with, say, a friend tagging them in a photo anyway.

As things stand, taking the GDPR at face value, I don't see how it would be legal for a social network to retain any photo in which someone is identifiable if that person doesn't consent, unless that social network also took rather dramatic steps like avoiding any sort of automated processing and analysis of photos that might identify people in them, as well as removing features like letting a user tag someone who isn't a member of the social network.
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- Series B Funded by top healthcare investors
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We are looking for Engineers, Data Scientists and Product Managers who possess an entrepreneurial personality and the talent to think outside the box to get things done.

Job descriptions can be found at http://leantaas.com/careers If you're interested please send resumes and a blurb about yourself to hireme@leantaas.com and mention you saw this on HN.

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I think they went about getting to market wrong. They should not have targeted end consumers with their equipment.

They should have went after the convenience store market using the soda dispenser/automated latte/vending machine/icee making business model. Basically convince the store owner to have some refrigerated space dedicated to the pouches and then put the machine nearby for the customer to make their own juice in real time.

I see a Juice company in the SF Ferry Building selling fresh squeezed juice for over $8. If they could have positioned themselves somewhere between that and $2 pasteurized/packaged juice from the grocery store, they could have done very well.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/sow-juice-san-francisco
Consumers will (and do, all the time) spebd $700 or more for kitchen appliances, provided the use of the appliance is expected to provide adequate value to warrant that. The fact that it's a juicer, and that you are locked-in to Juicero packs, is what limits the market, not the fact that it is a “kitchen appliance”.
That is only as pedantic as it is pedantic to say that science can't prove things right. There is no fundamental quality that makes a statement "positive" or "negative", so "proving X wrong" is always "proving ⌐X right". It's possible to be very precise about what we mean when we talk about evidence and logic, so coming up with these wishy-washy principles like "science can only prove things wrong; oh, you know what I mean" just confuses things.

As for applying that to math, yes that's true to some extent. And on rare occasion, mathematical proofs are found to have flaws in them years after they have become commonly accepted. I think there's an important distinction to be made, though, between the certainty of deductive reasoning, and the uncertainty of deductive reasoning as interpreted by humans.
Aspiration | Los Angeles and Remote | http://www.aspiration.com

Aspiration is one of the fastest growing fintechs. Our products include a checking account(Money Magazines best checking account in 2015) and investments(Morningstar top 1% for large cap funds). We were named one of "Inc.’s 25 Most Disruptive Companies of the Year".

We're hiring:

* Senior Software Engineer

* Devops

Our current stack is Python, Ruby, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Memcached running on top of Docker managed by Rancher.

Join us to help break the banks.

Email tlehr@aspiration.com for more information
I can totally relate.
No, that’s never the argument I’ve seen. It’s always been fairly well accepted that fast pages are good and AMP helps to make pages fast. The common argument - one which I unreservedly agree with - is that pages could be made fast without the use of AMP and especially the web-breaking nature of Google’s implementation.

The fact that users like AMP is not material - the problems that it causes are not ones they are going to see in the short term.
Thanks for the comment, sounds like I should revise the text. You actually get a real human (ahem, duck), even one that can code and ask questions about what you are doing, and potentially help debug the problem.
yup pressing/blending fruits destroys any nutritional value. You're left with basically sugar water. Yes it's "natural sugar", but it's still not the healthy food people make it out to be.
Sent a mail to the email mentioned and got back a reply saying that email will never be checked!
Can I connect with you?
I'll pick one up in the liquidation sale.
Along those same lines, I think spas, fitness centers, salons would have been good segments for them.
Threatening to retaliate against the press is another thing (after the no-poaching agreement) Google should not have copied from Apple.
Shopify Apps can be largely just API calls using any language/framework you'd like, or you can use their Embedded App SDK which is more JS-heavy. I built the Custom Fields app with Drupal 8 and PHP 7. I chose that stack because that's what we work with on a daily basis as a web-dev agency.
this is another teardown with a similar conclusion

https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensi...
And that if case and point of the problem we face with the sheer size of AWS.
And how did you market it initially? Did you market it to voice artists or clients? How?
Are they shutting down using a super-complicated completely over engineered method of shutting down, or the regular way?
This is a good data set to calibrate in larger orgs or an industry. You should be within a std deviation I would say for your role. Software engineers are lucky in that we can work across industries.
Yes, I'm using GNAT. Right now I'm working on a text based adventure game with procedural generated content. I was initially interested in the language because of how it allows for nested functions, so I bought a book and started working through it, and like a lot of the other features it offers.
Hey, fellow job seekers!

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Don't worry, I got my fair share of criticism. I had no clue what AMP was when I first enabled it, all I heard was that it might help my site rank better and I was sold.

I should have RTFM and never enabled it, but it's not how it played out.
Nice timing. We are working on "Uber for Sex" or "Tinder + Buy It Now". On the lower end of the market, it can be a low skilled job in the sense that a lot of people know how to have sex well enough to satisfy a lot of clients. Certainly going upscale or into niche offerings that doesn't hold true. So our system is somewhat split into people primarily booking on cost and schedule, versus people booking on the entire experience. I think we'll manage to handle both acceptably enough for all parties involved.

On-demand? There are a lot of scheduling difficulties. Getting a sex worker on short notice, even in a popular and mostly-legal city is a nightmare. And it runs into the Airbnb-pre-instant-booking issue: You contact several people, they don't all get back right away. Then an hour later, you have several replies, and since you can't book them all, some end up annoyed you're wasting their time. Not to mention any screening issues or other deal-breakers.

And if someone does have some last-minute availability? They can't easily fill that slot. It's hard to just offer sex work in a few hours here and there - you'll spend all your time answering phones.

But it isn't just the "Uber" aspect that we're working. Sex workers lack cohesive unions and shared resources. We'll be able to pool for things like security agents. We can handle client verification one time and be done.

We'll do photography of workers, then advertising and bring clients in. This benefits less entrepreneurial workers that don't want to try to manage an online presence, deal with SEO, try to A/B test their photos and copy, etc.

There are other similarities. Uber had to avoid LE, so do we. Uber has to deal with partial cash payments and reconcile, so do we. Uber offers some insurance, so do we (legal). But we'll be far less sexist than Uber, that's for sure.
Seems like the perfect thing for an airport. :)
ReverbNation | Full Stack Web Developer, DevOps Engineer | Raleigh-Durham, NC | FULLTIME, ONSITE

http://corporate.reverbnation.com/careers/

ReverbNation is in the business of helping the aspiring Artist at any stage of their career, but we care just as much about helping our team members advance themselves, too. Looking to grow in a creative, collaborative space that will push you to do your best? You’ve come to the right place.

Full Stack Web Developer: http://reverbnation.applytojob.com/apply/xL4UIzlrkJ/Full-Sta...
DevOps Engineer: http://reverbnation.applytojob.com/apply/WMtf3F4PQE/DevOps-E...
There are a million amazing discussions that could be had, but there’s little point in starting that when the existing implementation is so rotten.
Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories"
[edit: it's been fixed now]
I always assumed that the revenue was going to come from selling the bags of fruit. The machine is easily and cheaply cloned, but a network for distributing prepackaged produce would be much harder to copy and provide the recurring revenue that really matters.
Both services return were widely predicted here even before they left. It wasn't a hissy fit, it was a calculated move to reduce business costs, and it worked better than I think they even expected.
Depends on how you measure success. Uber has yet to make a profit and they depend on VC capital to subsidize every ride. It hasn't yet established itself as a legitimate business model.
I've always remapped the prefix key to Ctrl-A, since that is also same as `screen`. Add a line to.tmux.conf, `set -g prefix C-a`. If not, I remap to something easier like ctrl-space. Anyway, tmux prefix key that gets used so frequently, it's worth remapping.
A bit off topic, but one thing I've always wondered about Homejoy is how it went bankrupt, yet somehow the leadership team seem to have gotten out richer than when they started. At least, I assume you have to have some money on the bank to be able to become a YC Partner, and Adora Cheung is a YC Partner now. Maybe this is an incorrect assumpion on my part.

Anyway, I'm not trying to single them out, they seem great people and had enough shit to handle. But I am wondering how this happens because IIRC Homejoy isn't the only case like this. If a company tanks, how is it possible for the founders to cash out? Did they sell some shares to investors in earlier rounds? Is that common? Wouldn't it be a huge red flag for investors for a founder/exec to cash out early?
Here's the reference to the pilot's cap:

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Concorde-s-arrival...
https://www.recapped.io is what I actually launched 2 months ago since I was frustrated by the lack of existing solutions for my sales team.

Around $600/mo now, but believe I should hit $2,000+ MRR by next month.

TL;DR: Sales-enablement that helps sales reps communicate, collaborate, and engage with potential customers.
HeyJobs | Big Data Software Engineer | Berlin | ONSITE, https://www.heyjobs.de/en

Looking for a Python developer to work with our BI team

- You’ve worked with Python for 3+ years, and have experience with numerical programming packages/tools
- You ideally have experience with web/API scraping
- You ideally have distributed systems knowledge, for example with Apache Spark
- You ideally have machine learning knowledge
- You ideally have experience with / knowledge of AWS
- You are focused on quality in your work

At HeyJobs we do recruitment as a service. We advertise jobs for our clients on the most appropriate channels across the web, collect applications, and forward qualified candidates to them. Data processing, automation and statistical analysis are an integral part of what we do.

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/heyjobs/178ac2ba-4ee4-4cbc-ba99-7a212d...

And if you have any questions about the role or the company, you can email me at dave.williams+hn@heyjobs.de (I'm a tech lead here, on a different team)
This will serve as a good example for future startups where taking one concept from one market does not always work in another market. Keurig managed to make a great product at an affordable price range, both the machines ($80-$250) and the K-Cups (~$0.85 per pod). However, a $400 machine, that just squeezes the pack for juice, and each juice pack running several dollars is enough to kill anyone's wallet. I liked how they made an attempt to promote a sustainable healthy lifestyle, but ultimately there are cheaper alternatives.
Wouldn't chewing fruit destroy all nutritional value as well, if that were true?
HealthLoop | Software Engineer (Fullstack) | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE, REMOTE, VISA, http://healthloop.com/
At HealthLoop, we empower patients and enable medical care teams to achieve better healthcare. Imagine if your doctor could call you every day to encourage you, inform you, and keep track of you -- especially when something important or scary is going on. HealthLoop makes it possible for every patient to have that experience, and in doing so, drives better medical outcomes at lower costs for hospital systems.

We are looking for a versatile, experienced, full stack software engineer who values empathy, positivity, and personal connection just as much as clean architecture and code quality.

Visit our website at http://healthloop.com/
Submit resumes to mayank@healthloop.com
Analogy I've stolen from a Uni. of Toronto brain doctor: fill a mason jar (skull) with water (cerebrospinal fluid), and throw in a golf ball (brain). Shake the jar, the golf ball will hit the side of the jar.

You could bubble wrap the jar (helmet), but the ball will still collide with the inside of the jar.
Maybe that's just because of GitHub's overwhelming popularity, hosting their code there is probably the best way to get attention and lots of contributors as they build up the product.
St. Kitts Launches Probe of Herpes Vaccine Tests on U.S. Patients
Really? Looking at your Twitter, you work at toptalkedbooks.com which according to your associate that posted in this exact thread a few posts below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149593) isn't even making any money. Hmmmm?
CarDash (YC S17) | Backend/Full-Stack Engineer | Menlo Park, CA | ONSITE Full-time | cardash.com

CarDash is building the infrastructure to modernize the auto servicing industry by bringing professionalism, transparency, and convenience to the customer. We currently partner with large companies like Google and provide concierge auto services to their employees as a benefit. There is tremendous upside in this industry with near-universal distrust ...

We have a very highly leveraged engineering team and have been able to get this far ($5M+ raised) with only two engineers and a few contractors. Our stack is all JS: React+Apollo on the frontend, node.js+GraphQL on the backend, MySQL, dockerized and deployed via beanstalk

We’re looking for teammates who are well versed in our stack, can hit the ground running, and are looking to give 100% to a fast growing startup.

You can check out our careers page: http://careers.cardash.com

Or email me (evan@cardash.com) and cc andrew@cardash.com
Agreed. Generally, at any point of time I have two types of side projects going on:

#1. One that I am very clear about how to implement. One that I want build, ship and grab users as fast as I can. The real goal of the project is to get it out their in the market and make a tiny dent in the universe ;)

#2. One that I am not very clear about what it's gonna become. This one I want to take it slow. Experiment. Play with tech that I haven't had a chance to flirt with. The goal is to enhance my toolbelt and learn new concepts/tech.

Clearly keeping these projects separate helps me keep things clear. I quickly take decisions and move fast with one. I play and experiment a lot, no matter what the outcome is, with the other one.
and there's onetab[1], and dog ear[2].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dog-ear/kgnhaokbia...
I am fully aware that this is business as usual these days, but that doesn't make it any less destructive to society or any less a scam. What you're saying is basically that as long as people fall for it and you don't go to jail it's ok, I don't agree.
I think it's the easiest way. Creating your own app or service from scratch, marketing it, and retaining users long-term is nearly impossible (seems like). All of those problems are solved by integrating with a 3rd party.. Granted, that has it's own risks and limitations, but seems worth it for small side projects.
It is a trait of the environmental movement to present the topic as apolitical. The basis in science is important for predicting the future and creating solutions. But the basic ethos is inexplicably linked to politics. We absolutely do not have to live sustainability. The desire to do so is a moral judgement that has to pass the popularity taste test. It is political.

It doesn't help that terms like sustainability and environment are so general and wooly. It can include a vast range of different social, economic, ecological and health issues. Each with different ramifications for the public. In developed economies it is often used as a way of avoiding public debate about these issues in favour of a pseudo scientific process. That makes people feel disenfranchised.

The environment is a massively important issue. But we need to stop generalising and branding using these kind of meaningless terms. You can't opt out of politics.