skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another +1 to this! If anyone over 35, or (shiver) over 40 here has had to look for a job in tech after a period of unemployment due to this "culture fit" nonsense and faux downsizing, they would know that applying to and preparing for engineering interviews these days is a full time, olympic-level sporting event requiring generous reserves of money, perfect physical health and time. One doesn't doubt one's skill at white boarding, but getting invited to the on-site is the real trick after someone sees your face in a visual tech hangout that you nail to the wall with your updated skills and well-honed coding ability (showing a few smile lines). One can't keep in shape for these increasingly grueling, multiple white boarding inquisitions, apply to every opportunity one qualifies for, make side projects for zero pay, and learn every new technology that comes out while still having time and energy to eat and sleep and remain a sane human without the help of a cleaning staff (a parent?) or a private investor (another parent?). And think of those who are well-trained and looking for their first job in tech having come from another technical skill-valuing industry (higher education, the arts, the law, medicine) in which they have already distinguished themselves? The jobs in these fields are drying up, so people are leaving these sectors and taking that athletic step to reeducate themselves. These are not lazy oldsters, but brave folks who believe they can learn anything new and double-prove they can only to be turned away because of their age.

Then there is this "positivity" culture in tech that grinds anyone of any age. It's just that the older you get, the more you begin to recognize it for what it actually is: a method through which to enforce an outwardly happy compliance with an environment that is needlessly grueling and sometimes even abusive. It is designed to bully you into submission with conditions that are unhealthy. "If you can't remain positive, well, then you are out!" is the loud-and-clear on that one.
For all x -> y != For all y -> x

For all certain brain stimulations then ghostly feeling != for all ghostly feeling then certain brain stimulation
You wouldn’t want to hire them, but you probably would as they optimized themselves to your interviewing process. You’d have to add something to your process to weed them out, but then how could you tell? As hiring processes are all necessarily heuristics, they can all be gamed in some way.

This is why referrals or at least reference checks are so important.
These posts always read to me as being a bit presumptuous. The fact that you're looking for a job at that particular company means they're doing _something_ right, with regards to hiring, or shipping quality products, or having a good work culture, etc, etc. If I was the interviewer, I would never hire a person with this sort of "know it all" attitude. If you think you can be a better interviewer, then you have to show you are, rather than coming up with a logical argument of "doing it this way makes sense". Basically, unless you yourself are in that position, or have intimate knowledge of it, you don't know why someone made those decisions.
Why does an editor need SFTP support?

Is this similar to Zawinski's law of software denvelopment?
Hacker News does not provide a PM feature, you need to provide an email address
Fountain | Rails developers | SF | VISA | ONSITE/REMOTE

Fountain is a hiring automation platform for hourly workers (e.g. GrubHub, Deliveroo, Cabify, etc.). As a YC-backed, series A startup we focus on automation and machine learning to drive client success. We are looking for strong Ruby developers to join us immediately (> 1 yr professional experience)

Apply here:

https://www.fountain.com/onboardiq/apply/backend-developer-r...

Read more about us here:

1. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/onboardiq-9-1m/
2. https://blog.onboardiq.com/onboardiq-changes-name-to-fountai...

Shoot me questions directly:

howon+hn@fountain.com
We were the inaugural article in what was to be an entire journal dedicated to surprising/odd results. The salmon paper went through a pretty solid peer review as part of publication in JSUR, so we felt good sending it there.

Our paper came out and got a lot of attention, which was good press for the journal. After that the JSUR founders found that they didn't have much time available and the journal folded a few years later. In the end, we were the only paper it published.
yes, and thankyou for answering. Why use Node over the JVM ?
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I'm sorry, I am not the best representative to explain, and I'm also trying to make this easy to understand, rather than provide the actual guide. Hopefully someone more qualified can comment on this with corrections.

Most people who do significant transactions on Coinbase actually use the trading tool called GDAX. Which can be a little scary to look at first. It's a trading platform owned by Coinbase and transfers between the platforms are completely free.

Purchasing and selling directly through Coinbase has a similar fee to Paypal, especially if you are buying with a credit card.

Coinbase takes my money in U.S. dollars, then I transfer to GDAX, buy Bitcoin. You could actually skip Coinbase entirely and just use Gdax but the Coinbase interface is nice and its easy and I like to do it this way.

GDAX charges a .25% fee on the "taker" of a transaction. The maker/taker dynamic I am not equipped to explain, but only 1 of the parties pays that fee. If both my brother and I got hit with the taker fee on our transactions we would be losing .5% total, still much less than Paypal.

This fee could be avoided entirely by becoming the "maker" but that exposes you to some risk, because you are setting the price you think Bitcoin should be traded at, and you must wait for someone to agree to the price you are setting.

https://www.gdax.com/fees/BTC-USD
Twitter Data Analysis with Grakn: Optimising Insertion Throughput with Batching
> This is an area where most open-source developers have avoided, as it's a "solved" problem, but it really isn't.

I've found the complete opposite to be the case. This is one area where there are hundreds of different shells out there as it seems a "cool" thing to try since it's basically just an extension of writing your own language. Most never go beyond pet projects though.

If you're curious about Go shells, I'm writing one too[1]. It's also alpha but you can already write some reasonably complex scripts in it since it supports message passing, network sockets and background processes. It's definitely not fast though. Fast enough for what I need it to do but there's plenty of room for performance tuning once in beta.

[1] https://github.com/lmorg/murex
Millions of open source packages. Right.
I get shit for free daily!
Not parent but we always talk pre-tax in the UK. Take home on £60k is ~£3,548/month or ~£3,255 if you have a student loan.

"Survive" is the right word. It's likely insufficient to save enough money for a deposit anywhere commutable to their job while also contributing significantly to
savings and a pension.

A single person in a studio/1 bed with a not-too-bad commute would probably spend £1300-1600 on accommodation/travel/council tax/utilities. (Sure, you can find god-awful "studios"/houseshares for less...).

We basically just accept less and less. 1 bed -> studio -> house share. Give up idea of buying a house. Contribute less to pension. etc

People who want to earn more in London tend to do contracting.
Muck Rack | Sr. Software Engineer | Remote or on-site at our SoHo, NYC office

We're looking looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform.

You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes.

We're a remote-first company, where everyone has the opportunity to work on-site or from anywhere in the world.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible.

More info here: https://muckrack.com/job/14/senior-software-engineer and you can apply at jobs@muckrack.com
It may be personality differences but I went to dinner with a guy's parents and a couple of other friends less than a month after meeting him in the NYC subway.
I've been trying to tell people this for a while - I do believe in net neutrality, but the title II classification is a boondoggle, and those laws need serious rewrite. I'm not seriously concerned about getting arrested for downloading pornography - When was the last time you heard of someone getting arrested for shouting "Fuck!" over the phone? - But I am concerned that those laws were written for Bell Telephone, and survived the breakup and re-integration of the Baby Bells. I don't think they're at all a good fit for how the internet works.
Apperio | Front End Engineer | London, UK (Holborn) | Full time ONSITE

We are a B2B SaaS startup building a real-time fee tracking and analytics platform for the legal industry.

Tech: React, Redux, AWS, Python, Django, Postgres, Linux

https://www.apperio.com/careers/engineering/front-end-engine...
Yep, I’m very distrustful of FB.

But that’s good to hear. That’s what I would hope.
> Should be maximum a high school project.

Snarky dismissals are not allowed on HN, especially not allowed in response to new work. That's like trampling someone's garden when new plants are sprouting. From the Show HN guidelines:

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and follow them when commenting here? We'd appreciate it.
San Francisco, CA / REMOTE OK in the US | Experienced Full Stack Rails Developer | Stitchfix | Full-time

Hello, we're continuing to do a ton of hiring at Stitchfix. I'm responsible for a small team working on cross functional projects; Last year we worked on expanding Stitchfix to support Mens clothing, and then we also built the engine that drives stitchfix's Style Profile and made it more flexible. We work closely with the Data Science team, and our goal is always to serve our customers better using the information they provided while not being creepy :-)

Stitchfix is a clothing / style personalization service. Search Instagram for #stitchfix, which will tell you a whole lot about us, how much our customers love us and you'll get an idea of our business. Come back when you're done.

There are many other super interesting open dev roles across stitchfix, including in:

* the Consumer Facing team
* the Warehouse Tools teams
* the Styling Tools teams
* (and many others)

You can reach out directly to me (gal at stitchfix.com) - I'm a Principal Engineer and a hiring manager at Stitchfix. Here is a job posting roughly covering the role I'm hiring for: https://www.stitchfix.com/careers?gh_jid=455296&gh_src=r8m5v

Stitch Fix's "Multithreaded" Tech Jobs blog & site (http://technology.stitchfix.com) has a lot more about the
team and other positions (we’re also hiring iOS, DevOps, and UX)

(BTW I used to include an ASCII sweater in this post but then Hacker News mods told me to stop, so now you have to go here if you want to see it: http://ascii.co.uk/art/jumper)
I feel like in 2017 nobody should have to wear clothes that need ironing.
Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | Palo Alto, CA | REMOTE | Full time

Finale Inventory helps ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.

We are a customer focused startup led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies.

You will be joining a small engineering team with members located in both the US and Europe. You will have personal responsibility for designing and delivering features that delight customers and grow the business. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript, using Node.js on the server and React for the user interface. We are open to hiring people with various experience levels.

Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com
A normal international bank transfer costs more than that if currency conversion is required. It depends on the banks and country you are transferring to.
Yeah. :\ Another reason not to use it.
Software Matters in the World
>my body doesn’t naturally produce enough “good” acid.

Most acid reflux is due to mechanical action of a sphincter not working correctly. This, if correct, is an edge case.

This is most likely an evolutionary flaw that can't be fixed short of genetic engineering. I also have this my experience is your opposite. Carbs cause excess acid for me and that means my leakage rate is higher. Eating more meats and veg helps a lot. As others have stated, the traditional human diet is relatively low carb, so our modern diets are things our bodies are fairly unequiped to handle (carb crashing, obesity, celiac, etc).

I'm glad you found something that works for you, but most reflux sufferers don't have a "good" vs "bad" acid problem, they have a sphincter problem.
> If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment

I haven't read any of his work, what is impressive about his development environment?
digitalasset.zone | NYC and Zurich | SALARY: 160k-200k CHF/USD | ONSITE | For Zurich: EU-Passport holders or eligible to work in Switzerland, For NYC: Only people eligible to work in the US

We change the reconciliation industry with blockchain technology. We are probably one of the few companies world-wide that built a production-ready blockchain product and not only a POC.

Our platform delivers flexible infrastructure for regulated financial institutions to share processes and data securely, on a need-to-know basis, without the need for reconciliation. We have solid funding, and our clients include stock exchanges.

We have around 100 employees Zurich, NYC, Budapest, Sydney, London and Hong-Kong. We have these roles opened:

- Cryptography Engineer - Zürich or NYC: Secure multi-party computation (e.g. using zero-knowledge proofs), review cryptographical work with the team, groom and communicate the cryptographic aspects of our security roadmap, drive and manage vulnerability processes and third party cryptography audits.

- Lead Build Engineer - Zürich or NYC: Design, support and promote scalable practises for fast and seamless build, test and release engineering to adapt to growth and changes of the organisation.

- Security Engineer - Zürich or NYC: Reporting to the CSO and to our Head of Delivery, review software to ensure high level of confidentiality, integrity, availability. Swiftly Identify, track, classify, and manage vulnerabilities. Help secure infrastructure and services and, help identify and track outstanding risks. We're using Java and Scala for backend development, Haskell for DSL tools and formal methods.

- Software Engineer - NYC or Zürich: Be involved in all aspects of the software development life-cycle. Primary focus on Financial Services Post Trade but other functional domains are being investigated, too. We value a healthy mindset and attitude towards formal specifications and verification, as well as testing and quality. We use Java, Scala, and Haskell for backend development of new technology concepts. We look for strong engineers. Regardless of which language you use or how you learned it, we’re looking for people who can write clean, effective code

- Test Engineer - NYC or Zürich: Testing software is the whole team’s responsibility. Your job is to make sure the right things are tested, in the right way, at the right time. Identify weaknesses in code, plan and execute tests which will flush them out. Be a developer: You’ll need to wrangle our APIs, think about execution paths and edge cases, and come up with creative ways to break our products.
Send us an email with the job-title you are interested in and your first- and lastname (please all in the subject line) to:

jobs_hn@digitalasset.zone (sorry for funky domain ending, but this is how we have it configured atm)

Interviewing process:
1) CV check and quick call about your past
2) Remote call with some of our engineer
3) Onsite half-day
I'm looking for a small scale solution (several orders smaller than linkedin) for change data capture into an ordered queue that Flink or Spark can consume continuously. The solution needs to be reliable and highly available, latency needs to be reasonable and relatively consistent to keep aggregates relatively fresh. Do you have a recommendation?
I didn't say it was my hypothesis
Is Moore okay? His charming homepage (http://www.colorforth.com/) has been down for a while now.
There are already companies that allow you to pay federal taxes with Bitcoin (by converting them to USD for you). There are already debit / credit cards that allow you to have your account funds in Bitcoin, but convert to USD for a merchant when you use them.

I guess to me it doesn't seem fundamentally impossible that those things could be based in a national / fiat currency that is not the same currency a large number (or even majority) of people use.
I just spent four years in Belize and you can't walk out your front door without having a conversation with a stranger. It is the happiest place I've ever lived, despite horrible corruption and grinding poverty.
Yes, but I suspect most scripts that parse this page look for yearly salary; the job post stands to lose out if someone tries a sort, etc.
CrazyGames.com | Full-stack developer | Leuven, Belgium (20 minutes from Brussels by train) | Hiring Full-time and Part-time employees.

CrazyGames.com is a browser games company reaching 6 million people per month, based in Leuven, Belgium. We're looking for a full-stack developer who will be the second full-time employee (and the third developer). The qualifications we're looking for are general web software engineering.
Our stack is Javascript (Server-side rendered React) and Python (Django) running on AWS.

A full job description can be found here: https://www.crazygames.com/jobs
If you are interested or know someone who might be, you can reach out to raf@crazygames.com.
Thanks for the interest. Emails seem to be flowing, but you can also contact rwoollen@sigmacomputing.com directly.
Sure, but that also isn't the case for software engineers like the ones in the OP. These guys aren't coal miners in Appalachia, they're software engineers in Silicon Valley.
Not OP, but I think that is pre-tax. Most salaries I've seen are quoted in gross terms.
As far as living in London, a lot of people have roommates/live in flatshares to save on rent or live in the commuter towns around the M25 belt (big highway surrounding London).
Startups in London offer significantly less salary than SF/NYC. You can earn by being a perm employee in finance or contracting.
NSA put effort into cyrotrons for much of the 1960s and 1970s. NSA's history says that they got to a successful special-purpose machine (probably a key-tester), but never went all the way to a general purpose computer.

As CMOS got better and passed the limits of cyrotrons, the cyrotron effort wound down. NSA continued to try various cryogenic computing concepts, and there's a published proposal out there for a modern cryogenic computer, but mostly this seems to have been a dead end. Price/performance just isn't very good when you need liquid helium and liquid nitrogen and refrigeration gear.
Nylas | San Francisco, NYC | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.nylas.com/jobs/

The Nylas Cloud API makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business to business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work.

We’re hiring senior engineers to help us scale and build new products on top of our APIs. Right now our open-source Python-based sync engine regularly archives terabytes of data across a massive SQL cluster, and our APIs handle tens of millions of requests a day. We aim to scale that several times over in the next year.

Our team (https://www.nylas.com/team/) is roughly equal by identified gender (including engineering) and is comprised of startup founders; Debian contributors; {{Large Tech Corp®}} alums; MIT, Columbia, Yale, CMU, Olin, alums; and a professional dancer from the San Francisco Ballet. We actively and regularly work with the entire team to shape our culture to our ideal of honesty, transparency, individual empowerment, and kindness.

You must have a growth mindset, have enough engineering experience to architect complex systems, have a track record of managing your own projects, have a strong sense of practical shippability over engineering purity, have a natural tendency towards humbleness in your own abilities, and have an innate desire to pass that knowledge onwards.

Email evan@nylas.com directly if interested!
I think I'd prefer the one who tells me the potential consequences of not doing a repair, without me having to specifically ask about it (or pry it out of them) and then verify the answer from another source.

Dealer service departments always fail this test. They will never tell you that it is not necessary to do a repair. Some will even say "I don't feel comfortable letting you drive it off the lot like this." Then you take it to another mechanic that says, "Yeah, this might affect your fuel economy by a tiny amount. I wouldn't worry about it in a car this old, unless you plan on moving to California."
Lucova Inc. | Toronto | Front End Developer and Full-Stack Developer | Full Time | Onsite

https://www.lucova.com

https://www.fiitpoe.com

> Lucova Inc. is an emerging technology company headquartered in downtown Toronto with a North American presence. We bring technology, data and people together to enhance the human touch-points in the world of offline commerce - think IoT for physical stores. Our tools help brands realize their customer experience aspirations by turning customers’ smartphones into intelligent Bluetooth sensors that interact with the in-store point-of-sale infrastructure - informing staff of their customer’s presence on arrival, enabling hands free payments and generating opportunities for brand moments.

We're a Ruby + Java + Angular based company with a small group of developers looking to add additional developers to our core team. Our culture is great and you get that startup feel while working with experienced developers. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems and loves to get their hands dirty (if you full-stack then it's a major bonus). We are located near Adelaide and Spadina.

Apply at https://www.lucova.com/careers
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Next-generation HPC image processing backplane that delivers unparalleled performance and predictability, cloud to edge.

We have an innovative team and are looking for outstanding contributors in a lot of areas - feel free to reach out.

- contribute to a fast-paced venture-funded startup in an exciting field

- get mentorship from senior developers

- invent!

Please email (see my profile) with:

- your development experience

- technologies you hope to learn or things you find interesting

- anything else!

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