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Citizen | Senior Engineers (iOS / Front End / Mobile / Eng Managers) and Lead Mobile Engineer | Full-time | New York, NY | 125k - 165k | ONSITE | citizen.com

Citizen is a Series A startup, backed by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund, located on Grand St. in New York.

Info about Citizen

What we do:

Our vision is to protect people by keeping them informed of all crimes happening near them in real time, using a variety of sources correlated with their location and concerns. We have a host of challenges we are working on like mobile video streaming, tuning distributed systems to support bursting from 100 to over 200k active users, and digital signal processing just to start. While a young startup, we're already growing quickly in NYC with 3% of the city already downloaded our app. We have expanded service to San Fransico, with more cities to come in the months to come.

Our Stack: Kubernetes on GCP, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Firebase, Go, Node, React.js, Swift (iOS), Java (Android)

Four of our Open Roles:

Senior iOS Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/citizen/38dea578-b6db-4386-9b0a-dadb7a...

Lead Mobile Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/citizen/933f4f40-70e7-49a8-ae63-bb9d59...

Senior Backend Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/citizen/34b01f0c-366d-4c34-a195-b4c362...

Senior Frontend Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/citizen/44d4eb8d-097f-40f4-a162-37edb2...

If you would like to learn more about one of Citizen's open roles, feel free to reach out to me directly - Stephen Fleming at stephen(at)citizen.com

Note:
Citizen offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, company holidays, stock option plan, commuter benefits, and various wellness perks.
1) At least don't send any personal data over http. It's 2018 for fucks sake. I can't believe there are companies out there with such a hand-wavy approach to this. Is it so hard to do https in this day and age? It's so basic wrt to a security audit, my head hurts. The fact that extra data is sent over https shows that they made an active decision to partition this data into non-important/important.

2) Just don't fucking send it to a third party. Every single time you do that you yield control over the data, introduce another party to the mechanics thus doubling the risk of disclosure and they you cry 'breach of trust'.

> Not everyone can afford to perform their own product analysis.

Then don't do it and don't store sensitive information. You're taking on a risk and if you don't have the money to roll your own analytics then you probably don't belong on the market. This is no longer a playground, this is the real world, especially for this kind of information. People can get killed based on Grindr leaks. It's the big boys game and if you don't have the backing, you shouldn't play in the first place. And this app specifically should not have any problems with funding, give me a break.
It's the other way around. Fake news is selective ignorance that distracts from the cancer eating away at our formerly-educated electorate.
>I suspect a more effective strategy is to enact legislation that makes companies liable under civil law, with private citizens empowered to sue.

There's no chance that will happen. It should, but it won't. By taking away the ability of individual citizens to sue, and vesting that power in a government agency, it protects the companies while empowering the regulators. The end result is fair toothless regulation and more donations/lobbying dollars flowing from the private sector to the public sector/politicians.

A number of anti-spam laws ended up this way.
How would you incentivize peer review with your approach?
I wonder if they will be ARM only or if there is some sort of x86 solution built in too. This report has basically zero info.
Spoke | Software Engineer - AI and Learning, Frontend, Backend | Onsite | Fulltime | San Francisco | http://askspoke.com Spoke is a young, San Francisco-based startup that is reinventing workplace request management. A few weeks ago, we announced $28M in funding from Greylock, Accel and others.
We’re a small team of designers, engineers and machine-learning experts who are repeat entrepreneurs and most recently worked at Google and Twitter. We are looking for exceptional engineers to join our team in San Francisco.

At Spoke we are using ML and NLP technologies to make workplace ticketing systems smarter. The work spans many disciplines: Information Retrieval, NLP, ML, and deep learning.

You can learn more and apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/askspoke
That's an interesting perspective. Do you think that humans are capable of similar sensor fusion? If so, then does that mean that we shouldn't be worried about bias?
Thank you. Fixed.
Oh, that was stupid :D
Visby | light field capture | visby.io | San Francisco (550 Bryant St) | Full-time | ONSITE | Mid to Senior Software & Support Engineers | $100-140k + equity DOE

What We Do: VC-backed seed-stage startup building natively holographic capture and playback for VR, AR, etc. Goodbye, uncanny valley (hello, a lot of math). We're a software company, but we have a big pile of cameras.

Stack: Python, C++, CUDA, Open GL, AWS.

The Team: There are nine of us total, six on the engineering team. Our team makes me laugh aloud a few times a week.

Values: We're solving hard problems, so we value creativity, communication, and generosity in equal measure. We welcome a wide variety of personal and professional backgrounds and consider applicants without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual identity or expression, medical condition, socioeconomic status, or any other category of experience.

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Carbon Calculator (by Trees for the Future)
Almost like Trump was playing 4D chess and exposes fake news by using fake news to spread fake news.
Why so many people to start with? Seems like they hired a ton of people.
For startups of their sizes, it's unlikely they have strict data controls. So, probably anyone working on the product side of things, support, engineering, services, has access to their analytics data. Basically, most of the company likely has access to that data. Grindr really shouldn't be sending that data to their analytics providers.
This is a great comment. The ping time is so much less meaningful for recursive service than for authoritative. The latency difference between cached answer and uncached answer is in several orders of magnitude. The cache hit ratio also plummets without some sort of cache sharing, which many recursive services don't implement. So you may end up with great ping time, but something like:

```
;; Query time: 12 msec
;; Query time: 149 msec
;; Query time: 14 msec
;; Query time: 238 msec
;; Query time: 112 msec
;; Query time: 27 msec
```

For less popular names.
> How much of the campaign to stop smoking was out of concern for the health of future generations? And how much of it was out of the annoyance of second hand smoke?

Aren't they often the same thing? You don't want your kids breathing other people's smoke at restaurants, parks, museums, and ballgames.
What about services which use anycast/geolocation to decide where to serve you data from? They will get bad location data as they will get the location of the resolver. This can have a direct impact on services.

An example of my own is from about 10 years ago when Netflix started streaming. We got a Roku and signed up but the service terrible due to the stream stopping to buffer every few minutes. After researching and trying several things I eventually came across the fact that the stream was coming from servers in over a thousand miles away with pretty bad latency between. Long story short, I eventually figured out it was due to my using the level3 resolvers for DNS. As soon as I changed to our ISP's DNS servers it worked great and the data was streaming from very close.
Oh my god, popcorn lung is real! I thought that was a name for some fibrotic illness thst made your lungs look like popcorn, but it’s actually from popcorn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans#Dia...

I... I... need get to bed.
After seeing some of the old UPS batteries bulging to the point we had to cut them out of their enclosures, cracking the battery cases, etc., I've generally just classed all batteries as things to get out of the house/business as fast as possible after they're out of service.
Just to be very clear on your use of language: Vaping has nothing to do with tobacco. Period. Calling "vape" a tobacco product is equivalent to calling coca-cola a "coffee product". They essentially share a single active chemical (nicotine), and even then many vapers elect to vape nicotine-free liquid.
Not only is your argumentation and example really not solid -- the steamboat technology would in this case cover the steam engine, used in a large range of other sectors to solve the same and other problems. As such, you would not use the steam engine technology in anyway in the "derived invention".

If we go back to your original claim, you appear to be implying that a blockchain, to begin with, is a good solution of a immutable log -- it is not.

Depending on the scenario, there are in ALL cases that I have encountered at least, a better alternative solution, which is more efficient, already well researched, developed and tested. If you recon that you know an example where this is not the case, I would love to hear about it.

At the same time, you really do see people and companies who every single day, do use the blockchain as an excuse for a little extra gains in their stock valuation, like Maersk (the same Maersk who cannot even figure out how to divide their network into virtual lans, or have som network level malware protection).
I smoked for about 18 years and I made the switch to vaping a few years ago. I haven't completely given up tobacco smoking but I have cut back tremendously.

I tried to quit several times, I tried the gum, the patches, Chantix and cold turkey. None of them allowed me to successfully quit. Vaping was good enough to temper the nicotine cravings enough that I could otherwise function without regular smoking. I have cut back on nicotine content over the years. Now, I'm using the lowest nicotine content liquid that I find readily available. The next step is to mix it with 0 nicotine liquid until I can make another attempt at quitting.

I agree that non-smokers (especially children) shouldn't do it because it can lead to nicotine addiction but for smokers, it's a miracle product.
My questions:

ARM?
Walled garden of an app ecosystem?
Command line?

There has been convergence between iOS and MacOS for a while now.
> heterodox/Marxist economists like Ha-Joon Chang

Clearly this discussion is going nowhere if you believe this is a good description of Ha-Joon Chang.
At least in my state, you're supposed to allow something like a minimum of 4 seconds or some length of space between you and the car you're behind. The argument is that the car rear ending you should have been far enough behind to stop.

Effectively, if you get into an accident with a car infront or to the side, you aren't at fault when the guy right behind you hits you too.
The two parties are striving to use the power of the state to ram their ideologies down the throats of their fellow Americans.

So no, there's not a lot of room for libertarians right now.

On the other hand, the heavy-handedness may cause a backlash hunger for some individual freedoms.

In the meantime, there's EconTalk :-P
> That's why users of old computers are going to Pale Moon if they know about it, or back to Internet Explorer, or just not upgrading to the newest Firefox.

Malware authors rub their hands gleefully when they see sentiments like this being spread online by people like you.

Don't do any of those suggestions. Disable multiprocess mode in the Firefox config if you find it eats too much memory, stick with the ESR if you're scared of upgrading and use Edge over IE.
Visas would be disproportionately skewed toward people from well-off countries, effectively closing the door to people who want to pursue better lives in America for themselves and their families.
Please don't take HN threads even further into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is that incentive per application or per grant?
It does seem to presupposed agency on the part of the machines being studied. We aren't worried about making sure all of our other machines are ethical. Why not?

That is, we should maintain that the people involve are held to ethical standards. But I don't see that being up for debate. Is it?
I think this was inevitable given the insane YoY performance increase we've seen from A-series chips.

Anyone want to chime in on why Intel can't get more than 5% YoY while Apple has been getting 30-40%?
> We have an entire generation of young people entering the workforce who cannot go 30 minutes without taking a vape break outside

This is the most absurd hyperbole I've heard so far this week. Granted it's Monday so you had a lot working against you. An entire generation? Every thirty minutes?
Its hardly a report. It is at best a rumor.

My strategy with any apple news: ignore it until its released or said from the horses mouth. Remember the iphones that had clickwheels like ipod rumors prior to the iphone? Thats what I consider this.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Methinks you don't understand the problem space. Putting it in your profile is intended to save the afflicted from wasting tons of time and energy on a. talking with people who will immediately nope out when they learn your status and b. dealing with a lot of emotional BS from people who want to see themselves as nice but who aren't really ready to deal with you and your situation.

That can be a hard enough conversation to have even if they know. Being straight up rejected by some high percentage of people who started to chat you up and are done the minute you mention HIV would be a dreadful experience. It's possible they are on the app precisely for the ability to pre-screen people for their willingness to hook up with someone HIV positive.
I'm pretty happy with my Xeon.
When they decided to make their own ARM chips and went on to build the best mobile implementation by a pretty long shot?
Compile India | Full Stack Developer | Bangalore, India | Full-time, Onsite https://www.compile.com/careers/software-engineer-web/
Our goal at Compile is simple: help organizations benefit from the intelligence that’s hidden under big data. Our customers, which include Fortune 500 to hyper-growth startups, use our insights to power their enterprise solutions.

We are now ramping-up our team as we tackle harder (and more unique) problems and are looking for talented and motivated people to be part of the ride. If this excites you, drop us a line at careers@compile.com
Microsoft (Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/

Join Microsoft's JavaScript runtime team! Chakra is the JavaScript runtime that powers Edge and other Microsoft properties. ChakraCore is the Open Source heart of Chakra. We work primarily in the open (on github), and with standards bodies and the Node community. We are actively looking for engineers who can help us on our mission to make JavaScript fast on Windows, Linux & other platforms. This is a great opportunity. Your work will ship to 100s of millions of users (literally), and you'll have opportunities to shape the JavaScript language and browser programming for developers around the world.

- Responsibilities:
- Solve hard problems
- Work effectively on a team
- Read & write low-level C++
- Low-level performance tuning on a variety of OS platforms

- Qualifications:
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- Expertise in low-level performance tooling and investigations
- Excited to work in public open-source communities, as well as behind-the-scenes with internal partners
- Compiler/Runtime experience (preferred)
- API design (preferred)
- 5+ years of experience – you’ve made some mistakes & had to live with the consequences. (preferred)

You must be eligible to work in the US, and must pass Microsoft background checks prior to the start of employment (further details will be provided).

If this sounds like fun, send us a short intro + resume to chakracore (at) microsoft (dot) com.
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Horizons is building the modern technology university. We're building a better software bootcamp and helping interested students learn about tech and programming. If you've TA'd in the past or enjoy explaining things (and thinking about how to do that well), we'd love to talk to you. I'm one of the instructors and we're looking for more to join for our high enrolment this summer.

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I found this introduction to Linux namespaces very good

https://medium.com/@teddyking/linux-namespaces-850489d3ccf
Well yes, but the whole market is taking a dive today. -500 on the DOW last I checked.
1. that shouldn't matter. you don't need to be "trained" to produce art. Where even is the threshold? Is it only art if you're a professional, i.e. getting paid? If you took classes? There are so many problems with this definition. Art is creative expression; unskilled creators tend to create bad art. that should cover all the bases.

2. performances are art though.. so that distinction is meaningless.
Except apple has demonstrated they can design cpu’s that outperform the (android) competition. Who is to say they can’t make ARM cpu’s that genuinely outperform intel? Intel hasn’t executed all that well lately anyway.
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I get your point but as I understand it, the source of the nicotine for those liquids is tobacco.
The data is already in Grindr’s systems, this means it is ALSO at Localytics (and others). This is not as safe as if it was only in Grindr’s own systems.
Since 2014 HP ENVY batteries were recalled because of risk of fire, I'm gonna go ahead and say it was an OEM battery. ;)
Do you consider 100:0 just?
Reminds me of the relationship between the Mafia and the homosexual community of the early-mid 20th century. The Mafia didn’t particularly like gays, but they ran all of the gay bars because it gave them the opportunity to blackmail their patrons.
As someone who reads text all day, going up to a 27" 150 PPI monitor was huge. There is a tangible improvement in how that text looks, especially on an accurately colored monitor.

The other footnote should be that display prices have been crashing recently. You can get an IPS 24" FHD monitor for like $90, and a QHD version at 27" for about $150. Those would have been twice as expensive a few years ago.

That being said, all those 768p screens are crappy plastic laptops with really slow hard drives. That I guess is what we end up with the Intel took what should have just been the natural evolution of notebooks - small SoCs running a high PPI display in a metal frame - and made them into some premium brand name product with a huge margin on the prices of chips that cost peanuts to manufacture because they didn't have any real competition in the space for a very long time (and even then, their monopolistic behavior lets them keep AMD out of all the major brands premium notebooks anyway).
Isn't the rate of voting much higher for 40+? As a method for controlling a large block of voters, this probably pretty effective. How many of these people are also going to see other sources of news? They probably have the TV on for comfort (fear), everything else is a side effect.
I don't know where all this conjecture is coming from. Have you seen benchmarks of apple A11 chips? They have some of the best CPU technology in the world now. They are competitive with low end Intel chips already while using significantly less power.

Before they went to Intel, they were at the mercy of Motorola, which couldn't keep up with Intel.
> That's illegal in many countries (including mine) and it demonstrates an unbelievable lack of regard for user privacy or safety.

There's a very strong chance that this is illegal in many states in the US as well (not sure about federal law).
Indeed. These are very dangerous. The fire itself and the initial explosion if someone was in the room but not at proximity of the laptop. On the other hand, the spray could hurt and do incurable skin damage.
Steve Jobs mentioned in interviews what a hell of a job his teams did in the initial change to x86 and the immense work it required.

I wonder what he'd say in this scenario. Not saying "Steve Jobs would have NEVER allowed this apple is going to shit", simply wondering if the effort required to move to x86 should be essentially discarded (depending on the implementation)

Edit: I agree with the replies, they are a good reminder to me of the sunk cost fallacy
Run it with "sort -k 22 -n" to to get it listed in order of performance:

*norton is faster for you:

norton 35 ms 33 ms 33 ms 31 ms 39 ms 34 ms 22 ms 25 ms 24 ms 33 ms 30.90
cloudflare 32 ms 33 ms 34 ms 39 ms 36 ms 35 ms 29 ms 57 ms 48 ms 33 ms 37.60
google 43 ms 38 ms 37 ms 60 ms 34 ms 30 ms 30 ms 50 ms 32 ms 67 ms 42.10
neustar 32 ms 30 ms 32 ms 35 ms 31 ms 34 ms 29 ms 28 ms 138 ms 34 ms 42.30
cleanbrowsing 36 ms 48 ms 40 ms 49 ms 56 ms 35 ms 36 ms 49 ms 49 ms 46 ms 44.40
quad9 30 ms 139 ms 25 ms 35 ms 49 ms 36 ms 34 ms 32 ms 27 ms 47 ms 45.40
opendns 32 ms 33 ms 28 ms 69 ms 32 ms 91 ms 37 ms 75 ms 67 ms 39 ms 50.30
comodo 55 ms 52 ms 51 ms 52 ms 47 ms 48 ms 58 ms 59 ms 48 ms 48 ms 51.80
adguard 98 ms 95 ms 101 ms 97 ms 104 ms 129 ms 103 ms 110 ms 95 ms 111 ms 104.30
yandex 217 ms 233 ms 203 ms 199 ms 215 ms 380 ms 210 ms 204 ms 258 ms 205 ms 232.40
I notice the new Broadcom Wifi bwfm(4) drivers. Anyone with better knowledge of the project know what hardware is supported by that? The manpage doesn't mention specific chips: https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4
Sounds good.

The unblocking probably should be done only by certified technicians (Hipstafridge Certified Technician, HCT).
Cause they started with atrocious performance?
DJIA and NSDQ are both down about 3% right now so at least half of it is a general slump/profit taking
Good point. I guess I would respond with the difference being that Microsoft developed the technology continually during that time whereas something like the Newton was a relatively short-lived product.

For the record, I had a MP120 and absolutely loved that machine.
I was helping my mom deal with her phone that was injured in a crushing accident and treated the damn thing like a hazard (stuck it outside on the driveway in a water resistant container to wait to go to the store the next day).

I was quite surprised that the employees didn't think anything of the potential for a damaged battery.