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PlushCare | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | Full-Time | Onsite | https://angel.co/plushcare/jobs

PlushCare is a fast-growing telemedicine startup with the mission of providing every person with affordable access to the best-trained physicians in the country. Our customers love us (5 stars on Yelp since we started in 2014): https://www.yelp.com/biz/plushcare-urgent-care-san-francisco....

Technologies we work with: Python, Django, React/ES6, Webpack, Elasticsearch, AWS EB, MySQL/RDS.

We solve many awesome engineering challenges at PlushCare - just this year, we:

- created the first EMR for telemedicine

- developed a rules engine for processing health insurance, and

- launched a brand new consumer labs product.

Our engineers have a ton of impact and freedom in working on problems.

We're looking for our 5th and 6th engineers to grow out our team:

- Fullstack engineer

- Android-focused engineer

Interview process: 20-30 min phone chat, technical interview and small project, onsite interview.

If you're interested in helping us improve healthcare, email us directly at <careers at plushcare.com> and mention that you saw us on HN!
This article is excellent.

It takes a common idea (Uber for X), puts it through a simple but appropriate 2x2 lens (skill & scheduling), and produces a valuable insight with broad applicability (most markets are not like taxis).

Thanks to Sam Madden for writing it and to you for sharing it.
It was more like the market tastes changed to products that Wham-O wasn't interested in making (video game consoles, electronics, etc). You can only make fad toys for so long until you run out of ideas.
This is the best explanation I could find.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/01/31/apple-probably-took-...
PornHub Network | Montreal, QC ONSITE, VISA | Full-time | PHP, Javascript, Android, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and more

https://www.pornhub.com/jobs/

Lots of opportunities to work on large scale projects on some of the worlds largest adult sites. I'm a new PM on the team, found the job through HN, and can answer questions about the process and team. My team specifically needs a Senior PHP Developer and Marketing, but many teams working on lots of cool stuff with ML, VR, crypto, and more!

Some open roles:

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Android: https://www.pornhub.com/jobs/job/android-application-develop...

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PR & Marketing: https://www.pornhub.com/jobs/job/public-relations-marketing-...
I thought Gitlab went back on the idea of using their own hardware anyway?
WRITERS | FREELANCE | REMOTE | https://hoopy.io

We're a developer relations and developer marketing consultancy working with clients worldwide.

We're looking for freelance writers who have a track record of writing compelling content for software developers. Experience working on dev teams is a bonus.

Email portfolio and hourly rate expectations to hello@hoopy.io. No recruiters.
i agree with you completely, but it seems irrelevant to this particular conversation.
Hmm yes, I mostly agree, in this case the answer is very short AND we can assume that OP only wants responses from the small percentage of people who do do this

I originally was imagining this thread to be a poll, and then the crowd was upvoting affirmative answers and downvoting answers that were the opposite
Who Is Donald Trump?
Three years in, Cronitor.io is finally paying both of our (SFBA) mortgages. My co-founder August did a great write up for IndieHackers if you're interested in learning more.
> All people ever wanted was just a way to write in one line ´Point3D = struct(x, y, z)´ that translates into the exact equivalent of [... a regular class with just an x, y, and z attributes].

You're giving up a lot:

* The namedtuple is dramatically more space efficient (which will be important if you have a lot of points).

* The namedtuple has a nice self-describing __repr__() (which will can important when you're debugging):

>>> focal_point
Point3D(x=10.2, y=8.5, z=13.1)

* The namedtuple defines an equality relation (which is important if you ever want to recognize that two points are the same or need to find-out whether a given point is in a container):

>>> new_point in visited_points
True

* The namedtuple is hashable (this will be important if want to pass points into a function that uses functools.lru_cache() for example).

* The namedtuple is unpackable. This will important with loops like such as:

for x, y, z in points:
print(x*y - y*z)

* The namedtuple works with just about every existing tool in the language that expects regular tuples (such as old-style string formatting).

>>> 'Horizontal: %f Vertical: %f Depth: %f' % focal_point
'Horizontal: 10.200000 Vertical: 8.500000 Depth: 13.100000'

* The namedtuple has lexicographic ordering (which may be nice if you want to pprint() a set of points in a deterministic order).

* The nametuple has a _make() method for casting existing tuples without unpacking them . This is useful with the sqlite3 and csv modules:

EmployeeRecord = namedtuple('EmployeeRecord', 'name, age, title, department, paygrade')

import csv
for emp in map(EmployeeRecord._make, csv.reader(open("employees.csv", "rb"))):
print(emp.name, emp.title)

import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('/companydata')
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute('SELECT name, age, title, department, paygrade FROM employees')
for emp in map(EmployeeRecord._make, cursor.fetchall()):
print(emp.name, emp.title)

* The namedtuple is sliceable (useful for computing projections or partials to 2D points):

>>> focal_point[:2]
(10.2, 8.5)

* Many other little things as well: conversion to a dictionary with _asdict(), cloning with "newpoint = oldpoint._replace(y=0, z=1)", etc.
No Isolation | React Native Developer | Oslo, Norway | Full time | noisolation.com

We are a large-ish (20 and expanding) technical team with people working on everything from PCB-layouts to front-end web apps. We have just recently moved our mobile platform to React Native. You will be helping setting the foundation to how we use React Native to build mobile experiences.

To read more about No Isolation see https://www.noisolation.com/en/

To apply please visit https://www.finn.no/job/fulltime/ad.html?finnkode=102856945

If you have any questions send me an email doyle@noisolation.com
First object in space: 1944 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_before_1951
Yeah, I read the title and I thought it was going to be an ode to the joy of trying new things with your side projects, and spending a ton of time working something just because it is fun.

I guess the author and I have a different purpose for side projects. It sounds like the author is trying to actually start a business while still employed, while I am just trying to mess around and have fun.
HelloSugoi | Junior — Senior | Full Stack | Devops | Solidity | nodejs / node | Ethereum | Los Angeles | REMOTE | www.hellosugoi.com

We are event ticketing platform with high dreams of eating the entire event management ecosystem. Want to eliminate ticketing fraud? Want to create an equitable platform for event organizers, promoters, artists, vendors, venues, and fans? Then Join us and build it with us!

We are looking for full stack engineers and Solidity Developers. Don’t know Solidity? That's coolio, we will tech you. :)

- node
- serverless
- react
- redux
- react-native
- web3
- truffle
- AWS
- Mesosphere (DC/OS) [Soon]
- solidity <—> graphQL (in development)

Disagree with the stack? Sure, join our team and lets talk about it! More about us on medium: https://medium.com/hello-sugoi

Contact us at jobs@hellosugoi.com.
Clojure Developer
We are looking for Clojure experience with Java background. We are hiring for fulltime positions and location is NYC,NY
It does. You will want to search for "Watchman Campground"
Are you not at a disadvantage with it having a smaller community or is there enough content out there? I like to support new innovations but knowing I can easily find a prewritten component for Vue or Angular is a big selling point.
Fair enough. Waiting until the pioneers' questions have been crawled by Google is a good strategy.
Sauce Labs (San Francisco, CA, Vancouver, B.C., Berlin, Germany, Warsaw, Poland)

Sauce Labs provides the world’s largest cloud-based platform for the automated testing of web and mobile applications. Its award-winning service eliminates the time and expense of maintaining an in-house testing infrastructure, freeing development teams of any size to innovate and release better software, faster.

We are currently looking for:

Java Software Engineer (m/f) https://saucelabs.com/company/careers/job?gh_jid=814743

Senior Datacenter Engineer
https://saucelabs.com/company/careers/job?gh_jid=753888

Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
https://saucelabs.com/company/careers/job?gh_jid=772854

Software Engineer (Emulator/Simulator Cloud)
https://saucelabs.com/company/careers/job?gh_jid=804109

Software Engineer- Web Frontend (m/f)
https://saucelabs.com/company/careers/job?gh_jid=772953

If you’re interested in joining Sauce Labs and would like to learn more, please visit: https://saucelabs.com/careers
This comic strip about competing standards is quite relevant here, too: https://xkcd.com/927/

I don't think that a tool unifying all these apps is desirable nor even possible right now (because most of the protocols used are closed anyway): You'd either end up with an atrocity that tries to accommodate each feature of each of these apps or you'd have to settle for the lowest common denominator, which probably is just video, screensharing and chat. The latter might not be the worst outcome. In fact, an app that does just that could provide a superior user experience.

This begs the question though why this isn't possible with existing solutions already. Why do collaboration tool providers seem to be motivated to make their products ever more complicated or sometimes even worse than the previous version? Feature creep is a part of that problem but often collaboration tools are only seen as a small component of a more comprehensive ecosystem, as exemplified by the Skype / Skype for Business / Lync trainwreck. Skype was (and still is for the most part) an at least adequate solution. Then Microsoft bought them, intentionally made the product worse in some respects while rebranding their less-than-adequate solution Lync as Skype for Business in order to push their other enterprise products.

Why is there - as you rightly said - no common standard like email that works across all UI implementations? I think the answer to that question predominantly lies with the fact that we still have too little remote collaboration, particularly in-between organisations. As soon as remote collaboration becomes more widespread - which it inevitably will - the default even rather than the outlier we'll sooner or later have to agree on common standards just as we had to with technologies like the phone or electric power distribution.
Peek | Software Engineer - Backend | San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-time

Peek makes the world's tours & activities easily bookable — anytime, anywhere.

We're looking for talented engineers to come work on our backend services in Ruby and Elixir. Join us!

See the full job description and apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/peek/jobs/787143

Check out the rest of our stack: https://stackshare.io/peek

If you have any questions, feel free to email jacob AT peek DOT com.
It has been proposed that we could construct one of these nuclear potato guns to launch things into space[1]. One digs a multi-kilometer deep borehole in say a salt dome(easy to drill), lines that with steel, puts a bomb at the bottom, some reaction mass(essentially trash that will vaporize in the explosion), and a projectile we wish to launch into space.

So this solves several problems over other nuclear bomb based propulsion methods like Project Orion[0]. Foremost, we can contain almost all of the fallout. Second, we aren't accidentally triggering nuclear war by lobbing a bunch of nuclear bombs into orbit. In addition, if the nuclear charge is 150 kilotons or less and that charge is detonated underground then it's in full compliance with certain treaties.

So aside from the shear political impalatibility of using nuclear bombs, there are a couple problems. Namely, even if we use a very long shaft, the acceleration is still on the order of thousands of Gs. So no launching humans. Second, it's impossible to get into earth orbit purely with a cannon launch. And because it's difficult to make stuff that can withstand thousands of Gs of acceleration, orbital circularization will be difficult.

So one suggested use case is to literally shoot the moon. One fills the projectile with things that can withstand the high acceleration like water, construction materials, MREs, propellant, and carbon(extremely rare on the moon, but extremely useful for refining silicon for solar cells). We launch this projectile, which should mass ~3000 tons or so, to the Moon and then harvest everything we need to bootstrap a Moon base from the impact site. Perhaps we can even save money on our MREs by letting the acceleration do the food processing. For example, for apple sauce, all we need to is put cored apples in a plastic bag. The thousand G acceleration of the launch and lunar impact should be more than enough to reduce them to pulp.

Now, while we can't get into Earth orbit easily, if the projectile velocity is sufficiently high we can put the projectile into solar orbit.

It is a questionable proposal, but interesting nonetheless.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
[1]https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/150-kiloton-nuclear-ve...
[2]https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-optio...
Ask HN: Looking for beta users for my CRM for startups
I spent the better part of the last 4-5 months developing a simple relationship management tool that's geared towards startups and consultants. Looking to the great HN community for providing some feedback.
Scientific software development (mostly biomedical), Telecommunication software development, Computer science / Budapest, Hungary / Laszlo K / kocsis1977 gmail

Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lkocsis
Here's a section from the fast.ai course where Jeremy discusses learning rates and saddle points (about 2-3 minutes in)

https://youtu.be/V2h3IOBDvrA?t=26m5s
Separate issue, but I'm quite frustrated with countries being lumped together by geographic proximity regardless of culture and language. It's possible to drive from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg or Riga on a single tank, but as Dota matchmaking will thoroughly demonstrate, it might as well be a different planet.
I love hexagons too! Hexagon related but not related to the original article:

- http://esolangs.org/wiki/Hexagony - a hexagonal layout programming language, implemented in Ruby, which is also the name a gemstone made of corundum, which crystalizes in hexagonal shapes ;)

- http://hexagons.info/ - "It is likely that HEXAGONS will continue to increase in popularity over the coming years, as humanity enters a glorious new hexagonal golden age, and all sentient beings on our planet ascend to a new, higher state of hexagonal consciousness."

That said, hexagons seem fine for things of the same size (such as the solar cells in the article), but rectangular construction seems to work better for assembling components of varying size (like a house made of rooms of different sizes)…
$250k base or $250k INCLUDING stock??
Contract Simply (YC S17) | Sr. Full-Stack Developer | Austin, TX | ONSITE Full-time

We're looking for a senior full-stack developer based in Austin (or willing to relocate). We're a small team (currently 4 full-time, 1 part-time) who just went through the most recent batch in YC. You’d have a chance to work closely with the founders, have lots of opportunity for growth, and have an immediate and large impact in our company’s trajectory. We offer competitive pay and benefits, in addition to equity.

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) helps banks manage their construction loan payments. Construction loans have a complicated payments process where payments are broken up into monthly disbursements called “draws”. This process is currently managed with excel, pdfs, and emails. We’ve built a system that makes this whole process simpler, faster, and less prone to errors.

We value transparency, mastery, and, above all, getting things done.

Our stack is currently a Rails backend and React frontend, hosted on AWS and managed via Opsworks. Bonus points if you have experience with one or all of those, but it’s not a hard requirement.

Email me at andrew@contractsimply.com if you're interested in learning more.
Zeus | Full-stack or Frontend Engineer | San Francisco, CA | On-site | Fulltime | zeusliving.com

At Zeus, we're changing the experience of renting a furnished home. Traditionally, renting a furnished home involves either paying exorbitant rates or a grueling, soul-sucking search on Craigslist. We believe the best way to fix this process is not to make another rental search site, but to own the entire stack so we can control the whole experience. From fast and easy booking on our website to a friendly welcome when you check in, Zeus ensures your stay is convenient and seamless.
Zeus has raised over $3M in seed financing from Bowery Capital, Initialized Capital, Floodgate, and Google Ventures. The Zeus founders have all had previous exits and have worked in real estate and technology for over 10 years.

We are looking for a full-stack senior engineer who can run projects and help establish the foundation of our team. You'll primarily be working on web development. Your projects will be split between our public-facing website that our tenants and landlords use and the custom software that runs our internal operations.

We are also looking for a frontend engineer to focus on building our UI. You will set the foundation for the front-end code base and ensure it is performant and maintainable. We want someone who wants to work with world-class designers and PMs to build an amazing user experience.

We currently have a small engineering team of 4. We are looking for pragmatic engineers who communicate well and get things done. We like to ship things fast and iterate quickly. Our stack is AWS, Postgres, Rails, JQuery, and Bootstrap. It's not required you know any of these technologies as long as you're willing to learn.

Apply here if interested: https://jobs.lever.co/zeus
I'm curious what they look like. Is there a place online I could see your work?
You have an account with an exchange. You click a few buttons and the money is in your bank account a few days later.

This is the user experience for an EU citizen. It's probably similar for people in the states.
> I doubt shareholders are pissed considering the stock has grown 500% since 2009 while paying decent dividends.

> It hasn't affected their bottom line yet.

it's unknowable what the bottom line or stock price would be with different circumstances, but there is no question that security disclosures like this are a downward pressure on it.

who knows; maybe they did get an even bigger lift from the collusion.

the only way it will change is if consumers start pricing in this kind of behavior (paying less for compromised products).

it's too bad that's such an unlikely goal.
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Our services put clients back in control of their logistics and supply chain needs. We offer faster freight quotes, lower prices, improved visibility and notifications, and advanced analytics. Our team of logistics managers offer world-class customer support to ensure all shipments exceed our clients’ expectations.

Backed by Google Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, First Round Capital, Y Combinator and many more, Flexport is redefining how companies manage their global supply chain.

Flexport is hiring Full Stack Engineers in SF

Want to build software that connects people? Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are building products that are enabling anyone to participate in trade regardless of geographic, regulatory or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing goods from overseas, we aim to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs benefitting from the wonders of international trade.

To do this, we need a mix of brilliant technologists and logistics experts interested in solving challenges that result in reshaping a trillion dollar industry. We are growing our book of business by 20% every month & expanding teams in out SF HQ & internationally.

Started in 2013, we've raised $94M from investors that include Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, & more.

Check us out if you:
-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code every day
-Take a product-first approach to building software
-Care about the real world functionality of your programming
-Desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity
-Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals; and
-Know modern javascript frameworks.

Our stack:
Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.
Want to learn more? Email kristen.hayward@flexport.com or check us out at flexport.com.
Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign work very well for me under WINE.

There are cases where those programs don't work 100% but they work 99% for everything that I need which is fine for me. It feels much faster than running the same programs under Windows 8.1.
De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015) [pdf]
I did a rewrite from Angular 1 to Vue recently and it didn't take long at all plus it fixed a bunch of bugs that were problematic to fix in Angular. If you write your Angular 1 code in component style, moving them to Vue is pretty straightforward and a lot of the template conversions just involve changing keywords (e.g. ng-if -> v-if).
It really reminds me of a power law distribution : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

Some are very well paid/employable/competent, but the vast majority are not. Many people think the job search should be like a normal/Gaussian distribution, most people rambling about the mean. But it's not that for the searcher nor the employer; the employees you want are to be paid on a power law, and the jobs you want are as a common as a power law.

Curiously, this works for populations of cities, star luminosity, start-up success, and many other things.