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Clover Health | San Francisco, CA or Jersey City, NJ | Software Engineers & Data Scientists | Full-Time ONSITE
Clover is reinventing health insurance by working to keep people healthier. We're looking for seasoned engineers and data scientists to help us solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare.

We're using sophisticated data analytics, custom software, and machine learning to coordinate care and build a clearer model of our member's health and risk factors. We are on a mission to help seniors and low-income members live healthier while keeping costs down. This is an opportunity for those who want to be at the intersection of health and technology and thrive in a collaborative environment as well as the freedom of self-direction.

Tech Stack: Postgres, Python, Flask/Django, Frontend: React Cloud Services: Aptible, AWS, GCP Data Stack: Airflow

If you are interested in any of the Data Science and Engineering roles https://www.cloverhealth.com/en/about-us/careers To learn more about working here, check out our tech blog: https://technology.cloverhealth.com/
Ordoro | Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite | Full-Time

Ordoro makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to ship orders and manage inventory. Everyday our software helps thousands of small businesses save lots of time and make more money by simplifying and automating their shipping and inventory management. It's not a glamorous space, but we do our best to make it awesome. We're well funded and have strong revenue.

We're looking for an experienced engineer to join our team. You'll help us speed up and scale our services, integrate with third party APIs, and upgrade our infrastructure as we transition to GCP and Kubernetes.

We're a small team so you'll have the opportunity to make a huge impact. Our developers code hard to make Ordoro awesome. We're serious about having fun while we work and equally serious about taking time off to enjoy life. Bonus points if you can make us laugh or cry.

You'll get the normal startupy benefits:
- A paycheck
- Equity in the company
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k (though we don't match yet)
- Unlimited time off
- Whatever gear you need for the job

In our dream world, the person we’d hire would love:
- Using Python, Postgres, Redis, and exploring other technology that would make Ordoro awesome
- Tuning SQL queries to keep the API fast
- Automation and testing
- Using 3rd-party APIs and figuring out all the fun little landmines their docs fail to mention
- Deploying containerized applications on Kubernetes

In the first 2 days you'll commit and deploy code to production. In the first 2 weeks you'll commit and deploy a feature to production. In 3 months you'll completely own part of our codebase. In 6 months you'll be running the company :)

(edited to add proper header)
There are a few diseases that started as cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

Generally, infectious cancer is a result from a population that either regularly has open wound contact, and or is very closely related genetically.

Given enough time cancer can even start to survive on it's own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa It's actually become somewhat difficult to avoid cross contaminating samples with this cell line.
Airbnb employers and Investors. Most funds have a 6 - 8 year timeline where they plan to cash out to certain extent, so there will be pressure from employees and investors alike.
> No one was listening to us, and I can’t prove it, but I really feel in my heart: if Jahi was a little white girl, I feel we would have gotten a little more help and attention.

Their pain must be unbearable, I can't imagine. But we should not encourage or publish this kind of casual racism. If there is indeed a racial divide in deaths after tonsillectomy, then gather those statistics and publish them.
If you're interested in doing this automatically, I wrote a script that will upvote all posts containing a salary range:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284369
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I think you mis-read 'pre-domesticated' (already domesticated) as 'pre-domestication' (not yet domesticated).
Root | Columbus, OH | Full-time | Onsite | $80k-$150k | https://joinroot.com
Root is an auto insurance carrier, like GEICO and Progressive. We use data science to identify and insure good drivers, reducing insurance premiums for good drivers significantly as a result.

We're a startup — we're 70 people who have been working on this since March 2015. We've built an iOS and Android app that gathers data on how well people drive. We use that to set insurance prices. To build the best possible product and user experience, we went through the arduous process of starting an insurance carrier from scratch.

We're focused on becoming a national insurance carrier and are now live in 10 states.

We raised a $7M Series A from Drive Capital in 2015 and we're looking to bring on a couple more talented engineers.

Tech stack involves Ruby / Rails and Javascript / React Native.

Email us at jobs@joinroot.com to apply and we'll respond to you promptly.
> Are there other cases where the distasteful subject of the cost of a life (as valued by society rather than Bill Gates) comes into play?

Each time there is a decision whether to spend some money or not to reduce risk to human life, it puts a monetary value on life.

These decisions can relate to how many doctors and nurses to employ, what and how much medical equipment to buy etc, but also more removed like investing into the reliability of infrastructure, the cost of education to become a doctor, deciding how much to value economic benefit vs. potential harm to humans through pollution, etc.

Each time you decide to spend the money, you put a lower boundary on the value of life. Each time you don't spend the money, you put an upper boundary on it.

Each time these boundaries become inconsistent, you could save more lives by spending money elsewhere.

I really wish society wouldn't treat the subject of the cost of life as distasteful -- more consistent decisions would arguably raise the quality of life.
Privacy focused Turing Phone maker to go bust?
AirBnb is illegal or short term rentals? I recently stayed in a short term apartment rental that I booked through booking.com. It was fully licensed, etc..., but was an apartment in a building of otherwise long term renters.
Everyone knows what free healthcare means. They know it means it’ll come from taxes. Otherwise they are just furthering an agenda? That seems like quite a stretch.
Back in the day, there was something called a personal home page. These were simple html pages, sometimes with <blink> tags, where a person would present themselves to the internet. Often there would be a list of bands, or hobbies, a picture, or whatever.

There was a company that maintained an index of home pages made by women. Clearly adolescent in intent, it was otherwise completely benign. There was no leering in the text on the index page, nothing slightly pornographic, nor any apparent selection criteria except that the person represented was female.

Back then, the internet was dialup and very slow. A page took long enough to load that one could perceive the elements as they arrived. It was great. There were hundreds of them. Each page was a little drama of revelation.

The page color would show first (what made her choose vivid purple?). Then headline (Roxie's Place on the Web - who is she?). Then the first text (back then, people admitted to some pretty mundane stuff). A picture probably started loading (duck lips wasn't yet a thing, nor digital cameras). Each detail revealing a portrait painted by some person who wanted to be seen. There was an innocence to the stories told in those early days, before porn, before fake news, even, to some extent, before cynicism.

I think the page might have been maintained by Tucows, now a successful internet company. I have always felt the need to defend the idea that someone could be interested in women on the web without any pornographic intention but, that's what this was. I look back on it fondly and, thanks to whoever did it.
how do you provide evidence driven by personal disgust about writing style? Especially when that style of writing is only journalism which is the lowest form of writing.

Vox, Slate, Salon, New Yorker pretty much all the same, ... except a major difference (that makes it even more annoying). With the former I generally expect utter trash and am not surprised when it is trash, but the latter is trash dressed up in fancy pseudo-intellectualism.

reading Taleb's Black Swan might help also understand some peoples distaste for it: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/877259529196642306
It got similarly banned in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Except there they aren’t having an issue cracking down on illegal sublets/short term rentals. It is showing in the real estate market too, there are a lot of properties newly on the market in the FQ.
There aught to be a name to the tendency that as tools get better and better, the more your time goes from having your mind in technical-space to social and news-space. It's like the authority to create goes from the individual first-principles (by necessity) maker, to the control over development being in the hands of an external group, and then all your time is spent keeping up with what they're doing. A similar thing happened with a lot of javascript frameworks. It also happened with the transition from building servers from the ground up, to it all being managed by AWS.
Teachers Pay Teachers| NYC (New York City) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...).

Tech Stack: We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services. We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes.

Some of the roles include:

- Engineering Manager, Search and Personalization

- Senior Software Engineer, Resource Experience

- Senior Software Engineer, Schools

- Software Engineer, Data

- Senior DevOps Engineer

- And more! Check out our careers page: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting AT teacherspayteachers.com
I use Newsblur now (and even pay $25 or something for the yearly subscription) and it's pretty good but I still miss Google Reader.
This strikes me as a very odd class for them to be doing.

1. YC has no problem filling up Demo Day, and I know of even high qualify, professional angel investors who don't get the in person invite. So it isn't like they have a shortage of angel investors. If they wanted to have more and more diverse angels at their event, they could just find a bigger venue, which YC seems averse to.

2. Isn't this a big conflict of interest? This is a company teaching me the basics of angel investing who conveniently happens to directly financially benefit if there are more angel investors pumping money into their companies. Now I'm sure the class will be done well because YC generally does that, but I'm surprised YC is even wading into this. Angel investing is either a bad or at best extremely risky way for the average (even rich) person to invest their money in. Hopefully YC has a lot of disclaimers at the beginning of this class about this fact. I'm all for more information being out there, but angel investing is the type of thing where depending on which facts you omit you can make it seem very different from what it is.
I had the perfect use case for something like this last year.

I wanted to make a (very) short movie with a similar feel to Waking Life, except instead of rotoscoped images I just wanted to do varying degrees of edge detection on each frame. It came out looking pretty good but it took a lot of tweaking individual numbers in a python script and repeatedly rendering the same clip before I could even get a set of choices to decide between.

Having something like this with me when I was filming it would have made a huge difference!
The hardest parts with computer vision, like with any advanced field, are

1) making the algorithmic bits in the first place (see opencv, vxl, itk, or insert any other vision library here where many of these bits are made for you)

2) knowing how to achieve the desired result using those bits

Many of these data flow tools show you boxes and arrows, and pretend that connecting bits with arrows instead of function calls is where the magic is.

But if one of those boxes is called, say, "ComputeOpticalFlowBetweenTheseTwoInputImages", how is that any different from calling the ComputeOpticalFlowBetweenTheseTwoInputImages function in the underlying algorithmic engine that they're building on top of?

The new layer doesn't solve either of the two hard problems for you.

Giving a live result is cute, but it's not something that you can't already do with a Python IDE without having to learn some new arbitrary modeling language.
A very large portion of the WCD community, especially the more active members of the forums, have largely moved to [Redacted] or [God of Music]. In case you never found out and would like to possibly re-unite with some old friends from WCD.
JavaScript code running in a properly sandboxed modern browser can potentially exploit these vulnerabilities.
Rockset | Senior Infastructure Engineer, Lead Frontend Engineer, Software Engineer | San Mateo, CA | Onsite | Full time

At Rockset we are building the next generation of cloud-native data infrastructure. Our team includes founding members of RocksDB, Hadoop Distributed File System, Facebook's search engine (Unicorn) and social graph serving engine (TAO). We are backed by Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital.

We are building our infrastructure on top of Kubernetes on AWS, and are using systems like RocksDB, Kafka, Zookeeper, gRPC and Terraform. Most of our codebase is in C++ and Java.

Open Roles: https://rockset.io/careers

To apply, email us at jobs@rockset.io
Where the gender wage gap most affects home affordability
The number of people in this situation in this country is so huge people just cannot accept it and ignore it for their own bias/sanity. That woman is stronger than me as I would never last out on the street and have always said I would end things when it gets to that point. The savings will run out soon enough and the last room in the last corner of the last resentful family I have is wearing thin, so my resolve will be tested sooner rather than later. I have avoided the addiction route so far as most drugs just make me feel worse, but I can completely see how it so easily happens to so many. There comes a time you just want ANYTHING to take away the pain or make you feel different if even for a moment.

It's enraging to know what you need is very possible and being done elsewhere...but you aren't "allowed" that chance to live and people all around you are adamantly against it. I will never understand this cruelty and selfishness.
No mobile audio. I wonder if it works on desktop.
I was the Engineering Manager for the Storage team at DigitalOcean that took the Block Storage project from conception to launch (though I no longer work there), so I might be able to shed some light.

In general, it's really hard to do at-scale network-backed storage - by the time your applications get access to the file system, there are a myriad of abstractions that aren't always receiptive to the idea of the network "going away", or even a modicum of lag. On top of that, in order for it to be profitable, you need to work at a massively-shared scale. This means expensive SSDs, servers and switches that require a lot of capex and no guaranteed revenue because it's a new product. For us, this meant building entirely new network architecture in some places to allow the massive amount of data being shared in the storage cluster and across VMs to not overwhelm existing traffic, etc.

In order to create the reliability in network and persistency that your normal application desires, you need extremely strong consistency and low latency. Every replication strategy (replication and erasure coding) requires each write to touch more than one SSD/HDD/NVMe device in order to acknowledge the write, and that all needs to happen in a shared system with an immense amount of contention, every time.

It takes a while because you only get one opportunity to get all of this right - it's one thing if the network has a few more blips in a month, or if there's a bit more CPU contention than you'd like, but you absolutely can't lose peoples' data.

I can understand why companies are so hesitant to do this - there may be technical debt in their software/network stack that makes it very difficult, or they may not want to proceed unless they have the right set of experts working on the project.
Chandler is on that list! That's the failed PIM desktop software that Mitch Kapor financed as a hobby project and which was the subject of the book "Dreaming in Code"by Scott Rosenberg. Terrific book, shame about the software.
Interestingly the companies are the other way around on the Google Play Store. Not sure why that might be...
There was also a site called "A FISH, A BARREL, AND A SMOKING GUN". (I just googled it.) It was iconoclastic back when that was unusual. I liked reading it.
Kogan.com | Full Stack Developers, Front End Engineers, Back End Engineers | Full Time | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE | https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/

Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australia's online retail industry and Australia’s largest pureplay online retailer.
Our software engineering team have end-to-end responsibility from idea to launch for all kogan.com built apps - including Kogan.com and dicksmith.com.au as well as purchasing optimisation and other internal applications.
We see our high volume, large scale apps as an exciting opportunity for innovation and revolution - both in technology and business.
We welcome new technologies, ideas and ways of working.

To give you an idea on our stack we use Python and Django on the backend; React on the frontend and tools/technologies such as: Elasticsearch, AWS, Trello, Docker,
Postgres, Redis and eClaire (our open-source Trello card printer for our physical wall https://github.com/kogan/eClaire).
We run an Agile practice - adhering to our processes and refining them through retros.

Check out what some of our engineers have written: https://devblog.kogan.com/

Our careers page has a pretty good rundown on our team and hiring process: https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/
Our in person interview is generally focused on debugging a python script or javascript on a laptop, with full access to google/docs/tools you prefer.
We want you to succeed. We're interested in how you get there.

If you've got any specific questions about our team or process I'll be happy to answer below.

We're looking for juniors, seniors, and everything in between. If you’d like to apply, send an email to dev.jobs@kogan.com with the subject line beginning with "HN: " and some content about who you are.
Feedly is where I have migrated to, but I too miss Google Reader.
That's my preference but I'm not always choosing.
Stanford's EE 380 had a talk on these vulnerabilities yesterday, from the Red Hat guy working on mitigations. There were some CPU designers in the audience.
(Not Hennessey, though.)

The general comments were that Meltdown is a huge and easy to exploit vulnerability. Under Linux, any process can effectively read all of kernel RAM. There are straightforward software and hardware mitigations available. The next generation of CPUs should have that fixed.

Spectre is much harder to exploit and much tougher to fix. It's not an inevitable problem with speculative execution. IBM Z-series mainframes apparently don't have this problem. But it's going to be tough.

The real problem is all that hardware and software out there in the field vulnerable to Meltdown. There will be unpatched systems for years to come. That's what worries the RedHat guy. They have customers wanting patches to old kernels they no longer support.
And they pay for that too. A RAD750 was about $200,000 each according to wikipedia.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted here—I disagree with you, but nothing you're saying is objectively unhelpful.

> I find it very sad that the people that are making these critical decisions that could affect my life is some randomly appointed panel of "experts".

Two things there—first, they aren't "experts", they're just experts. These are people who had access to the best literature on what is possible and were respected in the field for their opinions. This is evidenced by the fact that the report they issued was not forced upon anyone. The 27 states that issued new definitions of death were not under some external pressure to adopt those definitions. If there was some deep controversy about the report, then it doesn't have to lead to anything. These experts were empowered to do precisely one thing—issue their opinion. That so many states adopted their opinion suggests that it was pretty good.

> Why should these people in particular have any say in the matter? Or have more say than I do about whether I live or die?

If you are permanently comatose, then those experts, by virtue of having thought about the issues deeply and also having viable brain function should have more say than you do while you have no brain function. If you provide advanced directives about what should be done in case of catastrophic brain damage, then that should by all means be taken into account as well.

> It's also sad how so much of the medical community tries to hand over the ethical decisions to others, and treats their words as inviolate truth instead of thinking for themselves.

The medical community does this because they are in an emotionally compromised position. Because they have a relationship with the person their family, they might ignore what is medically possible or likely and attempt heroic measures that would lead to huge expenses and/or lead to an undesirable outcome. Asking dispassionate outsiders for their opinions should improve the overall outcomes. I also would
Moravec's Paradox
You know, it's creepy for a single person too though. I know you're storing only metadata to build an index, but that is still a lot and I think for most it causes a big feeling of unease.

In my opinion your service would be great if it were fully-local. This would also open up the path to full-text search for documents, without being creepy. I'm not expecting you to do that for free of course, I mean as a paid product. (Haven't dug into your current pricing details)
Fyi your `pricing` link just links back to the homepage