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Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Engineers

I'm Ben, an engineering manager @ Checkr. We are an API for background checks- it may sound boring at first but there are interesting problems to solve and we've seen lots of success in the market. We are hiring for all sorts of engineering roles, and are working on expanding the product beyond APIs to target traditional enterprises and innovate in a space that sorely needs innovation.

A little about our stack: Ruby/Sinatra/Rails, MySQL and Mongo, RabbitMQ and Kafka for queueing, React and Angular frontends, growing Golang and Python microservices, Kubernetes and Docker for deploying, Presto for our data warehouse, moving to gRPC for service communication.

Come help us redefine background checks!

We are looking for: Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, DevOps, Data/ML, BI, Security, Designers, PMs, Program Managers

If any of that sounds like fun drop me an email if you want to learn more: ben+hn@checkr.com

A little about me/checkr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYHG0P494o
Such systems require someone trained at the receiving end. A quad can land and take off without much, if any, human interaction needed. That can matter if you perhaps want to drop something at a location where there might not even be any people waiting to receive it. (In SAR scenarios helos often drop supplies in fields even though those who need them are hours away.) Needing any physical landing/takeoff equipment at the destination also means that you can only deliver to prepared routes. So you couldn't do rapid response to remote locations. Physical equipment can also be damaged in disasters(hurricanes) after which air transport is most needed.
Location: Florence, Alabama

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Redux, Angular 1, Angular 2, mobile app submission process, some experience with Rails, Express, Node, and Firebase. I am of course proficient in all the basic tools of the trade: HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, HTTP, RESTful APIs, etc.

Résumé/CV:
Hi, I'm Casey. I've spent the last 5 years or so leveling up my programming skills working full-time as a software engineer at a few different companies-- from startups to medium-sized businesses. I primarily see programming as a way to provide value at scale and am pretty pragmatic about software; I'm a big advocate of using pre-built tools whenever possible to save time and minimize distraction and always recommend building only what cannot be purchased for a reasonable price.

I'm passionate about:

- Providing excellent customer service

- Radical transparency and the benefit of providing open, honest, candid and kind feedback

- Trading more verbose code for more readable and easily-understood code

- Keeping an eye on the business goals of a software project and doing my best to balance engineering trade-offs with the business purpose of the project

Here's my LinkedIn, although it's a bit light on info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-mcneil-a5625b11/

I hope some of the above info gives you a little bit of background info and might give you a starting point for any questions you might have for me.

I am open to contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time positions with great teams.

Email: caseymcneil@gmail.com

Phone (give me a ring if you'd like to chat!): 405-565-7527
Personal skills and good communication ultimately count for more in any team environment. Maybe suggest the awkward person get some coaching, attend Toastmasters, something like that. Regardless of technical skill, no manager or team wants to add someone who is hard to communicate or work with. Team cooperation and harmony are first-order drivers of productivity, much more than technical skills.
Leaked Report from Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on AAV Observed in 2004 [pdf]
Huawei announces the EROFS Linux file system intended for Android devices
Finland here. We transitioned away from national debit cards to Visas (and MC) about 10-15 years ago, I think these days we are almost exclusively Visa/MC. And practically nobody uses cash as primary payment method.
Not judging your other points, but if you say Tagsschau is the most unbiased program, then you have read too much Der Spiegel.
Tesla has semi-self driving in their cars already
That works fine until people sleepwalk into cashless society and then someone from the government will think you are undesirable and delete your assets.
Her | iOS and Android Engineers | San Francisco, SF | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred) + REMOTE

HER is the world’s largest community of lesbian, bisexual and queer people. We're' empowering womxn and queer folk by giving them a space to explore and express their identity.

We're looking to hire iOS and Android developers into our core team. You would be working in conjunction with team members from Product, UX and Design to build new features, collaborate on the development and maintenance of our mobile client apps.

This is a full-time salary + equity position. Remote is a possibility, but preference will be given to candidates local to SF. More into on company and job descriptions https://angel.co/her-1

Email: rok@weareher.com
China doesn’t have the same (recent) history of ‘military adventurism’.
When it comes down to it, rich is a very odd concept. I sometimes wonder if the overarching desire to get "rich" should be in the DSM
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...

(Also check the new relay guide: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide)
What do you call really backwards countries? Seems maestro cards are used in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)
I know, it seems great. But who is paying for that fraud protection? Who is paying for that customer service team? Who is paying for the fact you get paid to use it?

In the end.. It's you, through slightly higher prices on everything you buy every day because retailers have to price in the cost of credit card fees that pay for all that.
Just because you lost doesn’t mean that “politics is bad”.

This country is in a fugue state or something.

Cheers :)
What kind of food do they like?
I also want to do that. I look at and whistle with the birds in my town for quite a while, but I am not sure what would be good food to carry around for them.
This isn't a good article.

The title is distilled clickbait.

The 3 simple tricks in the article don't have their value or necessity proven in the article; they're just stated.

The conclusion of the article is "I built an app"

>As we have finished the alpha version, we are calling it as a success. We need 5 more weekends to upgrade the design before we launch beta. Want to be a part of it?

So it's essentially marketing couched in mediocre productivity advice.
Highly recommend Joel Salatin's works - he has a really interesting perspective.

Here's a talk of his on Cows and Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4

From my recollected (watched that ~6 mo ago), the amount of land needed to grow food for his herd is less than the amount of land that would be needed to purchase it elsewhere, because the rotation of the animals keeps his fields fertilized and trimmed to the optimum length for fast growth. Plus, by rotating in chickens, he's double dipping a bit.

There are some people doing some interesting research into using herd animals to prep beds for annual vegetables: they let the animal graze as the seeds are starting to germinate, animals eat everything green. The germinating seeds are then able to fill the void left behind faster than anything else, because the farmer timed it properly.
Yep, that's a frustrating reality -- I've had my share of close calls too. Out in the suburbs there's usually a shoulder/bike lane that's wide enough for safe passing, but on city streets that are too narrow to fit a bike and a car side by side I ride right in the center of the lane. That's the only way I've found to prevent distracted drivers from zooming past with only inches to spare.
Dictatorships/oligarchies work very well when you have a good dictator. They work horrifically bad when you have a bad dictator.

Conversely, "democracies" work pretty ok when the people leading are doing a good job, and they work sort of bad when the people leading are sucky.

The difference being, democracy spreads out decision making to effectively limit risk.

Think of it like an investment. You can put all of your money on one really volatile stock. Maybe it will do really great! But maybe you will lose 95% of your money in an hour. Or, you can put it in a basket of carefullly-chosen stocks that have the collective goal of a slow, steady climb in value while limiting volatility.

Different goals.
For that use case, if you have Emacs locally, you could use TRAMP - which basically works the way your script does. It allows you to transparently access files, directory structures, or even run shells on remote machines. It supports many protocols; the typical way it works, is it starts an ssh connection in the background, and uses the shell to ferry the file you want to edit to your local machine, and then transparently ship it back when you save.
The Vayu craft strongly resembles the prototype passenger-carrying tilt-rotor-wing craft Airbus is test flying at the Pendleton, OR test range:

http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/robo-air-taxi-makes-first-flig...
The outcome of wars determines how protests are seen. Do you think there were no large protests against attacking the Nazis in WWII ? Anti-war people are anti-war. They have as little concept of just wars versus unjust wars as the people they accuse of warmongery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_World_War_II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrhjmT4Zg5I
Sooner or later there had to be a catchy term for the new(ish) business model of artificially low, VC-subsidized prices intended to drive all the competition out of the market and create a monopoly where you can then jack up the rent. "oligarchic subsidization" is as good as any.
In all honesty, the main selling point of Emacs for me isn't just how configurable it is but also how performant it is in different environments. Since VSCode uses Electron editing feels sluggish, high ram and cpu usage is expected, and there's a noticable latency between keypresses. While these may seem like trivial issues, they actually negatively impact my typing experience to a high degree.

I'm currently using the Doom-Emacs distribution for Emacs and everything is working very well. I can use vim keybindings in addition to many other customizations and improvements with very little time invested in actually writing elisp. This is mostly because the developer of the distribution is passionate and optimizes his configuration for modern languages so there is very little needed to change.

If VSCode or any other text editor managed to provide a fast yet highly configurable editing experience without draining my laptop battery instantly, I would immediately switch. So far, none have been able to meet this specification even though I have tried almost all of the common text editors.

I'm hoping a project like the Xi text editor might one day actualize my desire.
Works for everything that goes through your router if you set your router's DNS to be the piHole's IP.
Sure, but they lack users.

If one of my friend groups introduced a new platform, I’d have that one + Facebook. If five of my friends introduced new platforms I’d probably have 6 platforms.

Aside from that, a lot of the alternative platforms aren’t really better than Facebook. I’m on discord for instance, but they also make a living of my personal data.
Most businesses deploy Firefox ESR, so I wouldn't be surprised if they omit the Tor capabilities in that version.
...and if you haven't given TRAMP an honest shot, you definitely should. I took the leap not too long ago, and it is absolutely amazing. Whenever I can't access a host using TRAMP (does happen, but very rarely), I put off whatever task I have to do on that host for a very long time.

The fact that TRAMP lets you open files on remote systems in and of itself is fairly mundane. What makes it really cool is that it works seamlessly also with dual-pane dired, and just about anything you do in Emacs. It turns remote filesystems into local ones.

Being able to, in my regular file manager (I like Sunrise Commander), treat any combination of remote and local filesystems as though they were local, is a huge productivity boost.
Yep, you're right. I misread.
> A sizable portion of the population in CA and TX are not eligible voters but they are represented in the electoral college anyways.

This is intended behavior. IIRC it was to address the question of whether slaves counted as members of the population for the purposes of determining number of congressmen.
Thanks for your effort! If I can ask, how much overlap exists between your team and the team overseeing the implementation of security protocols within Firefox e.g. HSTS, CSP, etc.? It'd be neat to see Firefox drive innovation here alongside the effort to weave Tor into the browser; although I wouldn't necessarily treat Tor integration the same as I might the implementation of other security specifications, I can see how the teams working on such might overlap, hence my question.
I guess that’s the point, to avoid thinking time. It’s from the interviewer point of view
Currently trying Vuepress. Works great so far!
In all fairness credit cards have a much better reliability track record than any cryptocurrency.
It’s time to mine ETN
FPTP satisfies two out of three Arrow's conditions (unanimity and universality). It does not satisfy independence of irrelevant alternatives, but in this sense only dictatorship is better (which satisfies all three).

If you exclude dictatorship as trivial solution by adding it as the fourth condition, no other voting system can be objectively better (satisfy more than three out of four conditions). You may prefer some side effects to others, but any such comparison is going to be subjective.
It's not just you: Visa outage disrupts payments in parts of Europe
Both the US and China are superpowers. One sort of capitalist/representative, one sort of communist/oligarchical.

Maybe it just means that extremes don't really work that well.
> Every voting system is suboptimal in some sense due to Arrow's impossibility theorem.

Arrow's theorem only talks about single-winner elections. Most of the world's countries use multi-winner electoral districts and some form of proportional voting for their Parliament elections, totally circumventing Arrow's theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_meth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
My suggestion was to have Firefox support both Gecko (with uplifted component) and a pure Rust renderer, with the latter to be used in the Tor mode where security (to preserve anonymity against resourceful adversaries) matters over compatibility.

For security, instead of a JIT, a simple JavaScript bytecode interpreter written in Rust to be used exclusively in the Tor mode would be ideal, for maximum security at the cost of worse performance.

Another option is a JIT that generates code that is easily proven to be safe (e.g. because it does a bounds check on all memory accesses and only does indirect jumps using a jump table, or because it's the only thing running in a process and jumps are still constrained with a read only jump table and read only code).
they don’t apologize, the ads say “fake news is not your friend”
It's probably partially that, and partially the fact that the VPN usage here is obviously beneficial. The information doesn't leave the device and it doesn't interfere with the normal workings of the apps (like ad blocking does). There's no reasonable complaint to levy against what Charles Proxy is doing. Versus ad blocking, which many people think is beneficial but which is clearly detrimental to app developers (especially when they end up blocking more than just ads, as sometimes happens).
Are there public discussions somewhere yet? I always find it interesting to peek into these processes.
It wouldn't be the House of Representatives anymore, it would be the Colosseum of Representatives or Sports Arena of Representatives.
Data Science Leaders: There are too many of you
Show HN: Dine-amo Diet/exercise journal for foodies
How San Quentin Inmates Built a Search Engine for Prison
Most of the time there's no explicit CC charge so you'd still be paying for it whether you paid cash or not.
That's what the Senate is for.
Except knowing this is not the hard part - even professional investors sell too early on the upside and hold on to the losers too long. What does "already appreciated" mean? Is it Amazon today? or stock you bought for $60 and sold for $300? Is Walmart "cheap" today because they're well positioned for distribution from digital sales, or expensive because their bricks&mortar stores are dinosaurs?

So, yeah, we can mine his answers for subtle nuance, but it seems we quickly return to the crux, which is "but how?"
I had to stop and ponder the number of layers of humor intended when, in the movie WALL-E, the captain’s interface to the ship is a robot that resembles a ship’s helm. Yes, there’s a naval metaphor... but it’s also an example of a root user acting not through root privilege, but through wheel privilege. :)
It does sounds like a great idea, but would require setting up a remote service which I'm not ready to maintain at this time
Oh shit.

I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...)

Also, Microsoft acquisitions do not seem to go well. Look at Skype, LinkedIn, etc.
10 euro-bucks says you're either from Austria or the Netherlands!
Clearmatics | London & Palo Alto | Theoretical Cryptographer | Onsite or Remote | Fulltime | https://www.clearmatics.com/

Clearmatics is developing a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) system for interbank settlements called the Decentralized Clearing Network (DCN). It uses a federated ledger with central bank-backed digital cash as its settlement asset. The first implementation of the DCN architecture is the Utility Settlement Coin (USC), referenced in the BIS’s Money Flower taxonomy [1].

Properly architecting and successfully deploying this technology could better facilitate interbank cash settlement and reduce the need for posting margin and holding reserves against unsettled obligations, freeing significant amounts of capital for more productive purposes and mitigating a source of systemic risk in the banking system.

We are hiring theoretical cryptographers to work on hard problems involving zero knowledge and hardware enclaves, among others. You will be able to publish if you desire. The company is a 30 person startup with an academic culture, currently raising a Series A.

Please contact me if interested: byron dot gibson gmail.

[1]:https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1709z.htm
> I think bing is close to Google in quality. Some people might even like it better. On the other hand I think DDG is the Sprint of search engines.

Isn't DDG just a Bing wrapper with a few frills in the results?
waymo started collecting lidar data so much earlier, it would be shocking if they weren't ahead! they're ahead in so many ways, too. some of those google vehicles I used to see driving around mountain view were so friendly and round, making constantly awkward if perfectly safe stops like a student driver, you felt empathy for the cars like you were watching "brave little toaster." they're taking their time on a complex problem. meanwhile uber and tesla were racing to be the first to earn the inevitable "robo-car kills human" headline. there's a tenacity to that, but it's not winning any fans. by staying mostly in the background so far, waymo will likely be perceived by the public as more of a lovable underdog, even though it's an alphabet brand and not at all an underdog.
GMBN
Vicarious AI | https://www.vicarious.com/careers/

In addition to AI researchers, we're looking for the following (fulltime onsite in San Francisco area):

- Senior SW Engineer -- robotics and computer vision

- Senior SW Engineer -- data and application services

- Graphics Developer / Visualization Scientist

- IT Engineer

Some of the perks: private chef for all meals, unlimited vacation, company phone plan, massages, free week getaway to Hawaii every year for you and your family.

Please apply directly (referencing this post and saying Alex sent you).
If you're about to use your Visa card to pay for something in Europe, you may want to use cash instead.

Visa announced Friday that it's experiencing a "service disruption" that is preventing transactions from going through. Right now, it seems like these problems are localized to the UK, Ireland and parts of Europe. Visa says it's aware of the problem and developing a fix, which might be working already. Major UK bank HSBC claims that service is slowly returning.
There will undoubtedly be a lawsuit again soon over whether companies are allowed to transfer data out of the EU to US government warrantless requests.
I3D Robotics | Robotics/computer vision C++ | Kent, UK | on site | visas considered

www.i3drobotics.com

I3D builds 3D imaging systems for industrial applications, primarily using stereo (also LIDAR in varioua forms). We're working in a number of sectors including production lines, nuclear, agriculture and steel-making in collaboration with other companies and universities. The company is growing year-on-year and we're looking to expand. The team collectively has decades of expertise in optics so this is a great opportunity to learn, as well as teach us what you know!

We're hiring for a software engineer who is familiar with robotics. Specifically you should have experience with ROS and C++. We also use Python for day to day scripting. Bonus points if your background is computer vision, particularly for mapping. This job would really suit someone with a hacker mentality who enjoys tinkering with stuff. We have a lot of cool toys in our lab (thermal cameras, spectrometers,3D printer,lots and lots lasers...).

You will be working on software to interface cameras with other robotic systems e.g. arms or rovers. This includes general product and IP development as well as developing custom vision systems for clients.

The work is variable and interesting and there is scope to focus on projects that match your expertise. Some experience with hardware would be useful (eg basic electronics or CAD), but not necessary.

Any questions, please email jveitch@i3drobotics.com or nbantin@i3drobotics.com
Location: Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany

Remote: Maybe, but I would prefer onsite

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: The current web stack incl. container and resource scheduler. A few technologies I have worked with are Go, PHP, Redis, Memcached, MySQL, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Saltstack, Chef, Apache, Nginx, Kafka, AWS/GCP

Résumé/CV: Please email me about my detailed CV. I have a bachelors degree in business economics + computer science and I am 9 years on the job. I started as a PHP programmer doing agency work with TYPO3. In the last 5 1/2 years, I am doing Site Reliability Engineering. I've helped to expand from one datacenter to five now (from the software perspective). I built a team around this. This team is lead by me since 4 years now. Since 2 years we introduced AWS and GCP into the stack for various areas. More details during a conversation.

Email: andygrunwald@gmail.com

What I am looking for: An exciting job. I am an engineering manager and software engineer with a high focus on backend and infrastructure. Let us talk!