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Spring Discovery | Data Scientist / Applied ML | Full-Time | Bay Area

Spring Discovery is accelerating the discovery of therapies for aging (and its many related diseases) using machine learning. Aging is the single greatest risk factor for the most detrimental diseases on Earth — by understanding and treating the biological damage accumulated as we age, we can find powerful new therapies for fighting disease and living healthier, longer lives.

(For newcomers: over the past few decades an unignorable amount of evidence has piled up from the best labs in the world that this is possible[1].)

We’re using machine learning to speed up experimentation in a field that has historically struggled to experiment quickly. Here’s more on our mission and approach: https://medium.com/spring-discovery/accelerating-the-discove...

We just raised a 4.25M seed from General Catalyst, First Round, Sam Altman, Laura Deming, and more[2]. We’ve got a team of leading aging biologists working closely w/ machine learning folks, and we’re hiring a pragmatic data scientist to round out our early team. If you want to battle disease, reach out asap: careers@springdisc.com

[1] https://ldeming.com/longevityfaq
[2] https://wsj.com/articles/spring-discovery-brings-machine-lea...
Gyroscope | Software Engineer | Remote Team | Full Time | $100–140k + equity

We're a small team building the operating system for the human body (see https://gyrosco.pe/). Quarter million users on the app now, and we're profitable with our Pro subscription program. This year we're building more integrations to give people more insights about themselves, launching our new places tracking feature, and adding new ways to get meaningful health improvements (weight loss, increased productivity, continuous monitoring of biometrics, etc.)

We're hiring for a couple engineering roles:

• iOS Engineer —— working with Swift, Objective C but also some JavaScript & React Native. We have a React Native app but there are many fully-native components, like our location tracking system, the HealthKit syncing logic, and many new features we want to add this year, like an Apple Watch app and tracking for time spent on the phone.

• Backend Engineer —— experienced with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with huge amounts of data. Build new integrations, manage our infrastructure, and use machine learning to help all our users become more healthy. We've got over 50 servers processing millions of new data points every hour, which have the potential for significant health impact if analyzed correctly.

We are a distributed team with team members in San Francisco, New York, Canada, and even Poland. We raised a seed round last year from top investors like True Ventures and Matrix Partners, and will be growing rapidly this year so now is the perfect time to join. More Info: https://gyrosco.pe/about/

Contact anand@gyrosco.pe
I would try myself at selling stuff perhaps start a business. You can just start selling water in front of a library. Learning to sell and fighting your fear of interactions will be an asset for the rest of your life.
What is the resource usage of the decoder in terms of 1999 hardware versus 2018?
Well that’s depressing.
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Sense | Web Designer / Developer | Cambridge, MA | Onsite, Full-time | https://sense.com/careers.html

* Are you a front end web developer and designer who wants to help fix climate change?

* Do you want to work on a consumer product which customers love?

Residential energy use is roughly a third of the global warming problem, and is a multi-trillion dollar market. Yet it's nearly impossible for most homeowners to measure, and you can't change what you can't measure. That's why we exist! With the Sense monitor, users get a live, device-by-device breakdown of your home's activity and energy usage. Want to know why your energy bill is so high? We can tell you. Want to know whether you left the garage door open? Our product can tell you.

Users love our product, we're growing quickly. We are looking for a creative and talented web designer-developer to help bring life and functionality to our website and other digital marketing efforts.

Web Designer / Developer: https://www.workable.com/j/63B9855CE2

Apply directly via the link above. I'm not the person hiring for this position, but feel free to get in touch with me directly via jonah@sense.com if you want to chat about the company!
I am in the process of moving from the States to Europe. I am not an American (EU citizen), but I have lived in USA for almost 8 years now. It is a process I am going though with my significant other. We started by identifying places that offer good job opportunities for both of us. Then we filtered out places that are too expensive to live or have housing shortage (like Stockholm) and places where it is difficult to live without knowing the language and the language is too difficult for us to learn (like Paris). We identified one best place for us. We have been learning the language for a few months now (online resources + conversations with friends), but according to many we would be just fine only knowing English. I have found a few interesting opportunities on HN's monthly "Who's hiring" [1,2] thread and applied.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492994 (March)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16282819 (February)
I do not agree there's a superior ideology. But unfortunately I'm not a researcher in this area so cannot provide more insight.
Having the private key on a server for a certificate authority in 2018 is an unnecessary risk. They should have had a hardware security module where the private key can not be extracted out.

When you can buy one relatively cheaply even from yubico, there is simply no excuse to not using one as a CA.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubihsm/

All of their certs should be revoked and they should go out of business for technical incompetence plain and simple.
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Indeed | Full stack engineer (RoR or Java) | Onsite or remote | Austin TX | Full time

We are looking for senior Java and Ruby engineers to join our team full-time.

Our Assessments team has a simple mission: help candidates get the right job. We let people build a profile to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities using job assessments… we’re trying to make the resume a thing of the past. Our team is highly distributed geographically so this position is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US or Canada as well as in our offices in Austin and San Francisco.Our team is nimble and scrappy. We ship new capabilities often and quickly by explicitly asking ourselves the 80/20 question a.k.a. the Pareto Principle.

You will:

Build the core functionality of our assessments platform and own design and execution

Develop our API and integrations with external applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse and Jobvite

Scale to serve 100M+ job seekers

Please apply here:

https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobDetail/Sr-Remote-Java-Engi...

https://www.indeed.jobs/career/JobDetail/Remote-Software-Eng...

Indeed provides a variety of benefits that help us focus on our mission of helping people get jobs.

View our bounty of perks: http://indeedhi.re/IndeedBenefits
Doesn't this line of thinking break down from the fact that you can replace the religious concepts with litteraly anything else you can dream up, as you don't really demand any evidence or even a cogent argument from the answers to these metaphysical questions?
If you think insulting people on the internet is fun because "it's not real life" that makes you an asshole.
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StreetShares | Software Engineer | Washington, DC (Reston, VA) | Full-time, onsite | https://streetshares.com | $80k-$125k and equity

The company: Streetshares is a veteran focused startup, striving to bring small businesses and investors together. We provide loans, lines of credit, and other financial products to small business owners while offering investors a chance to support like-minded businesses. The company was founded by two veterans of the US and South African air force.

The team: The engineering team is currently small (6 people) but diverse, including a US Marine Corps veteran and teammates with backgrounds in (building) architecture, communications, physics, music, and computer science. We even have someone from Wisconsin. We recently secured additional funding ($23 million, https://www.nasdaq.com/article/streetshares-a-small-business...) and are looking to greatly expand the team.

The position: We are seeking software engineers of all levels to contribute to the development of our online platform. You will work in a fast-paced environment and should expect to contribute significantly to the future of our system. The ideal candidate is comfortable being an intricate part of a small team, can engage across functional areas, and can deliver reliable, testable, and maintainable code. We are seeking both frontend and backend developers.

Contact: To apply, email me your resume at andrew@streetshares.com. Also, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me as well. I won't reply to generic emails, spam, or recruiters.

We are hiring a designer too, but I am less involved so you can apply at https://streetshares.workable.com/ or https://angel.co/streetshares/. It won't hurt to mention HackerNews and maybe my name.
Founder / author here.

tl;dr - I spend too long trying to find that email I know I have around here somewhere. Or was it a Slack message?! Coulda been a Trello ticket... so I built something that helps.

CTX - https://getctx.io - is my side project, which I've recently launched.

It lets you sign up with a couple of clicks, invite your team members and index your;

- Slack messages
- Trello tickets
- GitHub (issues and markdown)
- JIRA issues
- Google Drive files
- emails (that you send to your unique inbound address)
- and more integrations in development.

The target market is people like me - working in smallish teams or mid-sized digital companies. The kind of places where you use a bunch of SaaS tools to store collaborate on things, but it's easy to lose track of what you've stored.

Right now it has a couple of plans for different sized teams, - and free trials.

It's been live for a couple weeks now and I have a small amount of traction, so I thought now was as good a time as any to talk in public and see what kind of feedback I get. Gulp.
>not by the police department, but by a separate agency with a separate budget

Is that a thing that even happens? Most PDs I'm familiar with have a lot of control over their own cams. Even after getting caught using them to plant evidence, many still have some questionable cam practices.
The MIT billion prices project. They basically wrote a program to go out and index a bunch of prices on the internet and see how they change.

The results are pretty similar to the CPI.

Do you have any specific complaints against the CPI? It's actually a pretty well thought out measure.
Can this work in learning a new programming language? I'm seeing parallels in that you'll need to recognize/encode patterns/syntax in both.
I don't think it was GitHub's memcached instances. It was other public instances that with spoofed network requests ended up sending traffic back towards GitHub's network.
Hi, I started and run park.io by myself. It is a place to backorder expiring domain names. I started it for fun and it grew into a business. You can read or listen to an interview I did on Indiehackers here: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/034-mike-carson-of-park...
"Long term depression" canonically describes decreased synaptic "connection strength" and is certainly not a bad thing (otherwise, your neural net's weights all tend towards 1).

"Chronic depression" would be a much better term for the title.
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I considered that, and while it's ultimately more accurate in specifics, I think it's much more confusing in general considering I'm not aware of much much competition in the data link layer (or at least I'm unfamiliar enough with it to make me unsure of any argument I might make). I don't think there's much difference in the important points by going up the OSI stack slightly, it's still a physical connection and a protocol over it (even if there may be additional protocols between those).
He took it to the next level on the "Let Forever Be" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0
I think this is 100% spot on correct. Life is damn hard and cruel without our help as it is. We don't need to add to it, and yet we do. Thank you for posting this.

Being able to have a conversation with someone of differing opinion, and keeping it a conversation and not an assault, is immensely valuable for both parties.
Not sure as in having done research, that's what I picked up from news reports.

Still even if, its not like people in China feel threatened or even abused. Like I said, everyday life is almost completely unaffected. The occasional political rant on social media gets deleted sure, which people are annoyed by, but there are no consequences to that unless you really push for it, which brings us back to activism.
Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails / Devops / Front End | REMOTE

Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails, Javascript and front-end engineers to develop rich interactive experiences in React with a Rails backend.

We are also looking for a Devops engineer, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure.

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/ES6/React.

Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.
> From what I gather, the attack here was possible because Github engineers accidentally left the memcached port open.

That is incorrect.

The attackers made requests that were forged to have the sender IP address of Github to multiple public memcached instances. Memcached then responds back to Github instead of the attacker.

This is documented in more detail in the Cloudflare vulnerability report[0]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-a...
SEEKING WORK | Based in Laramie, Wyoming looking for remote work

I'm looking to team up with an early stage startup to help them build their MVP to get them to their next round of funding.

I'm a full stack web and mobile application developer with over a decade of experience building a wide variety of apps for companies big and small. I've worked alone and I've also lead teams. I love Elixir & Phoenix, Ruby & Rails, React, React Native, Relay, and GraphQL.

I've got a portfolio at https://carterparks.com but I'd love to get on the phone to talk to you about your project. Shoot me an email: carter@carterparks.com.
The lore says so but Osborne didn't actually announce anything because they were not dumb, it was a leak from a meeting of sales and marketing people working for the company where they were being shown the roadmap for the upcoming year.
The "gig" economy as some people are calling it appear to be closer that of subsidized serfdom by the wealthy. What else do you call it when you pay people to feed you, shop for you, and drive you aruond?
Applied on LinkedIn for about a month, did phone interviews for 5-6 different roles. Failed some and passed some others. From the ones I passed I rejected some, others rejected me after finding a local candidate and finally I accepted an offer.
> gorgeous graphics (for the time)

Google image search "age of empires 2." Those graphics are still amazing and can't really get much better, which is why all they need is HD remastering.

Gorgeous and captivating 2D work, just like booting up the game Pharaoh after all these years. Just needed a user-made patch to allow higher resolution support.
I saw an ad on StackOverflow Jobs for a position at an NGO in Monrovia, Liberia. Since my better half, who was living in Tokyo at the time, was born there I thought it would be interesting.

I applied and got the job very quickly, after a couple of interviews and an online test for competence. It was a contract and I ended up staying for six months.
Nulogy https://nulogy.com/

Toronto|Full Stack Developer|On-site

Apply via link below
https://boards.greenhouse.io/nulogy/jobs/4005998002

Every day, millions of dollars of consumer products are processed by Nulogy’s platform across a broad range of market segments including food, beverage, consumer goods, life sciences, high-tech and hard goods. The software we build plays a very important role in the supply chain space. At Nulogy, you will build software that allows supply chains to be more responsive and efficient in responding to the demands of the consumer market. This means your work will have incredible, long-lasting impact, but also means you must make tough choices in complex situations.
Psiphon | DevOps | Toronto | $60k-$90k | corp:<https://psiphon.ca/> product:<https://www.psiphon3.com/> | <info+hn@psiphon.ca>

## Overview

* Live service management to ensure that the production stats system continues to service both indexing and query requests in a timely and error free fashion.

* Software engineering to support and enhance our internal and external stats systems, and business/client facing interfaces to that system. The core technology stack for our stats system is ELK.

* Support for internal teams and their use of stats.

This role also includes monitoring, technical problem solving, root cause analysis, and documentation. Design and maintenance of automated monitoring solutions and identifying/resolving performance issues across the infrastructure are also critical elements of this role. We are looking for people passionate about technology.

In return, you will gain exposure and experience working on a wide variety of exciting and key strategic projects as well as becoming an integral part of the team providing the world’s largest censorship circumvention platform, helping millions of people a day gain access to the full and uncensored internet-at-large.

## Experience/Skills

### General

* Takes initiative and has desire to independently research solutions to complex problems

* Excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills.

* You thrive as both an individual contributor and team member, consistently taking accountability for results.

* Good organizational skills; Methodical and good attention to detail.

### Technical

* Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or other cloud services

* Experience with monitoring tools (nagios, prometheus, etc.) and/or scripts

* Experience with scripting (shell/perl/python/etc.), Linux system administration

* Ability to create “proof of concept” prototypes or models.

* Ability to research & create tools to support development and test.
> and a nation-state not (inherently) being a deviant.

I think modern Russia is a deviant. Here’s a recent news about high-ranking officials doing large-scale international drug trafficking, using a government jet for that:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-argent...
Remarkable that $59 an hour puts one in top-5 percent of wages. That corresponds roughly to 120k a year, which is certainly accessible to many software folks.
Dark matter (LCDM) solves some problems and creates others, just like modified gravity theories solve some problems and create others. Hopefully more experimental data will lead to an answer.
That can depend heavily on the context. There are things that are things for which 'mysterious' is basically a mathematical description: chaos, for example. Anything more complex than a few variables with simple relationships rapidly spins out in to the hyperspace of 'unpredictable and non-repeating'.

So, while I agree that there's a reoccurring pattern in human operation that will resolve cognitive dissonance in a self-serving kind of way, I'm not sure we can resolve this issue in particular so easily, without some very high-level assumptions. As far as I'm concerned, the question of "what is intelligence" is up there with the deepest mysteries out there.
> Order usually gets you better productivity and Autocracy usually gets you better military power. This design actually matches reality very well

It doesn't match reality at all in fact. The exact opposite is true for nearly all cases (China being the sole exception).

The major liberal economies are radically more productive than countries like China, much less the other 'order' type nations. The order economies, save partially for China (which is still extremely poor in the bottom 2/3), are on average impoverished, backwards, and with very low productivity. Even China is still shockingly backwards at a lot of common economic tasks, such as farming (they have ~1/40th the farming productivity of South Korea).

The liberal economies have dozens of major success stories, from Germany to Canada to the US to Sweden. The 'order' group has one, and only insofar as China liberalized its economy and moved away from a rigid command & control economy.

Autocratic doesn't get you a superior military. It typically gets you an economy that is bled and debased to feed the military, which ultimately is self-destroying. See: Russia, whose people are very poor ($8k GDP per capita; $4,000 median net worth). Meanwhile Putin diverts vast resources they can't afford at all, into military spending.

Liberal economies produce superior militaries pound for pound, because they can afford to sustain them over time.
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They literally banned the word “disagree”. Literally.
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Tbh that's one of the reasons I always focused on teamwork at my last job, even though I was evaluated only on how fast I closed out my specific tickets. Since everything at the company was dysfunctional, I didn't really care about being employed long-term or getting promotions. Thus the only things relevant to my career beyond doing enough to maintain my salary was to build relationships with my team mates (building out my network) and developing transferrable skills for the future.

So basically the long-term effect of these systems was me to slack on whatever my manager deemed important to get done to whatever extent I could while I did whatever would win me clout points with other developers or let me learn a cool skill.

I also got pretty jacked from sneaking off to the gym etc. Lol it was lit
I don't think it is about actually hiding or being secret. It's just about stalling. Getting through a locked door takes time that responding officers can use to get to the school. Most school shootings stop as soon as the first responding officer engages with the shooter.
> Maybe they decided preparing CSR is too hard for their clients :/

It seems that a lot of businesses and people feel that making things "easier and more convenient" takes priority over best security practices. For example, we can't support client side TLS cert authentication (in addition to a username and password) because customers won't be able to generate the CSR or know how to import the certificate into their client. Instead, let's use SMS or email based two factor authentication.