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Passio | Menlo Park, CA | Senior Mobile/iOS/Android Dev | Full-time

Do you want to challenge yourself in deploying real-time neural networks on mobile devices to millions of users?

Passio is looking for a full-time Mobile/iOS/Android engineer to lead the development and support of our real-time neural mobile App and our FusionAI SDK.

Take a look at the demos:
- https://youtu.be/7k25KHvDr78
- https://youtu.be/0ojGscuhAuU

Passio is a spin-off from SRI international, funded by top angel investors of the valley and with a stellar team.

Apply Now: https://www.passiolife.com/careers
Wikipedia says that this is the conclusion of Wheeler's experiment:

> Any explanation of what goes on in a specific individual observation of one photon has to take into account the whole experimental apparatus of the complete quantum state consisting of both photons, and it can only make sense after all information concerning complementary variables has been recorded. Our results demonstrate that the viewpoint that the system photon behaves either definitely as a wave or definitely as a particle would require faster-than-light communication. Because this would be in strong tension with the special theory of relativity, we believe that such a viewpoint should be given up entirely.
Instacart is hiring Security Engineers, PMs and TPMs. Please apply via instacart careers
The rate of fraud is low enough that the cost reduce it further would be more than the savings. That sucks for you if you're a fraud victim, but the card companies don't really care if they make more money by not trying to stop more fraud.
Ask HN: Iterating to Product-Market Fit examples/stories?
How does product-market fit happen? By minor changes to product or big overhauls, or by targeting different market ? Or something else.

Are there some known stories of how some companies reached it? From when they started till they found PMF?

One great example I know is the famous video of segment founders.
King & Union | 2 positions: Javascript/Front-end developer; Python/Back-end developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE FULL-TIME

The point: We are an information security/threat intelligence company. Our goal is to make the threat intelligence process run more smoothly and help organizations share threat data better. Our web app pulls threat information (both our own and via external APIs) into a graph and enables real-time collaboration and sharing of the information on the graph. (If you're aware of the tools, think of combining Google Docs with a graph editor like Maltego and mix in some process automation.)

What we're looking for: We're looking for two positions: one a mid/advanced front-end developer for the front end of our web-based application; the other a mid/advanced back-end developer. The front-end is built with React/Microcosm/Material/Vis.js, and it talks to our backend using a mix of REST and WebSockets. The back-end is built in Python with Django/Django Channels. Ideally, the UI person we're looking for would be comfortable doing both the React programming side of things as well as the HTML/CSS/layout work, and the backend person would be comfortable with some Golang/command line work. There would also be some design work as we roll out new features to the site and migrate data graph db in the near future.

Perks of the job: early round shares, competitive salary, 401k, & healthcare benefits. Also, we work from home a lot and our focus is on getting the work done, not on face time.

A bit about us: We are a pre-A-round startup. We have a working product and paying customers, so we're in a good spot financially. We are based in Alexandria, VA but as mentioned above, working from home is common. We tend to meet up in Alexandria once a week.

We encourage all who are interested to contact us. You can reach me at: aaron@kingandunion.com
The tape drive may have been too close to the TV. RF power from some old tube TVs could interfere with the tape drive. I used to move the tape drive as far as possible from the TV when loading/saving.
In the short term a carbon tax would do the trick.

In the long term technological breakthroughs in renewable technology will hopefully bring the cost down.
I would also guess that RIAA/MPAA are somewhat responsible with the secrecy to enforce the DRM.

I've read a discussion in a forum where an AMD employee when questioned if it was possible to have a GPU's FW without DRM (or something like that) his answer was that would probably be a commercial suicide (OK, I'm little tired right now and I'm not recalling all the details of the conversation but I can try to dig it up... ^__^;)
Americans use the letter 'u' for the 'u' sound. (Hahaha, contradicted myself within one word.)

Anyway, I am reminded of an exchange in the comments of Language Log. A British actor wanted to practice American rhotic accents. He said he was having trouble figuring out how Americans insert the 'r' sound. Someone explained that Americans use the 'r' sound where there is an 'r' in the word. He responded that he was baffled that the rule was that simple.
"spending inordinate amounts of money on technology and owning more Raspberry Pi's and you're willing to admit to publicly"

Never have I seen my tech obsession summarized so succinctly!
$5 a month is rather cheap for web hosting.
I agree it doesn't scale, but holy cow, 5000+! That is a lot!!
Have had high-ish to actually high bp for some time. Meds didn’t touch it.

I was in the doc looking for some chemical assistance for having to deal with my ex. Was found to be diabetic, and was referred to a clinical pharmacist.

He was going over my stuff and saw the high bp, along with low potassium and suggested that it could be hyperaldoseronism. A couple of blood tests later suggested that this was the case, and the CT scan was ordered which found the tumor.

That was last year, next month I’m going in to have the gland and tumor removed.

Symptoms of hyper aldosteronism:
* high bp
* low serum K
* inability to gain muscle (aldosterone is a testosterone antagonist)
* lack of energy
* lack of ability to concentrate
* increased blood glucose

Probably more but this is what I experienced
It mixes configuration as in ./configure related with generation as in build generation.
Thanks, that was insightful!
Solvemate | Berlin | Onsite, Full-time | https://www.solvemate.com/

Solvemate is a tech company from Berlin that is making customer support fast, painless, and cost-effective. Our platform lets companies train a virtual agent to integrate on their site or in their app.

We're looking for

- API Engineer – Python
- Platform Engineer - Python
- Python Software Engineer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- Angular Developer
- React Developer

https://www.solvemate.com/careers
College or $70,000/year? Aviation scrambles for mechanics as retirements loom
Much appreciated, thank you
Zenly (part of Snapchat) | Mobile Developer (Android or iOS) | Paris, France | Full-time | Onsite | Visa (Relocation package)

Zenly tries to change the way the people interact with a map by extracting as much context from users location and building cool features around
it !

We're still a small team (4 Android, 5 iOS) devs passionated by beautifully crafted products.

Apart from classic mobile development, stuff we do include:
* Hacking on the UI Framework (Fake 3D, crazy animations and transitions)
* Hacking a lot around MapKit and Google Maps limitations (3D, gestures, clustering, shaders)
* Mobile video rendering + encoding (using OpenGL/Metal, gLTF, + custom lightweight rendering engine)

Our mobile stack include:
* Kotlin / Swift app frontend
* Go on Mobile for app backend (transport, data, more...)
* RxSwift/RxJava between Go and app
* OpenGL/Metal

We love open source, we contribute to projects we use and open source some of our own (http://github.com/znly)
We don't care about your academic experience or resume, most of us are self-taught, we only care about your skills and motivation.
No phone screens, no whiteboard, we do send assignments and schedule meetings with the team tho :)

We are looking for nice product oriented people who love shipping stuff to a large audience while learning a lot at the same time :)

corentin@zen.ly
I know, which is I don't use any of those.

The alternative is to not use shitty web apps.
The middle of that period represents "the good old days" for old farts like me, I'd suppose.
There’s generally a large pushback against over-anthropomorphization in the scientific community I think frequently to push back a bit on the public only focusing on the most charismatic animals, and in the general public especially when people are confronted with the meat industry.

The problem is that field researchers who study almost species (especially mammals) tend to differentiate personalities and a lot of human like traits.
First, I'll say that I can't speak for all of St. Jude — it's a big place and it's going to vary from position to position. On-site has historically been preferred because of the energy on campus and the nature of the work. In my opinion, the institution as a whole is starting to become more open to the remote working arrangement.

For these positions, I'm considering remote applications. If you apply, just be sure you specify it in your cover letter (and be sure to email me directly if you don't hear back!).
Yes, this gets you the data that's printed on the front of the card.

You could also get this data by... seeing the card ?
year end bonus that is influenced by your work during the year, our profitability and where you live

You should pay me for the value I bring to your business, where I chose to live shouldn't have anything to do with how much I get paid for remote position. Gitlab pull the same trick, and wrap a complicated set of metrics around it, but it still comes off as cheapskating.
Good to know. That breaks a lot of stuff. Good thing we always had the enterprise plan at work.
I don't know... It can certainly backfire if even the claim "many humans will die or suffer greatly" is false, then sure. But otherwise, I don't see anyone claiming "well, technically, only 90% of humans will die" would dampen mitigating measures. But of course, I could be wrong.
Nepal cracks down on lucrative helicopter rescue scams
Unfortunately, it also looks like a tank.

Can recommend the s series however (have the 420s and am still happy).
Install GoCD and become a happy person again.
I love how he says "by mistake" as if he didn't personally add a bunch of people to his blocklist deliberately simply because he was mildly annoyed by them.

Hey Wil, when you personally are responsible for taking away the livelihood of a bunch of marginalized people, you don't get to complain about being "attacked really viciously" by your victims.
The idea is that by offering tax breaks, you get them to build in your city and provide tax-paying jobs to locals. Hopefully the net result is more taxes coming in (and better employment).

Of course, what I think you are probably saying is why allow it anywhere -- if there is a general legal prohibition on giving any specific company preferential tax treatment, then that puts all potential headquarters locations on equal footing.
Where can I get this?
Similar to the Omega2+: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/omega2p.html
... except Vocore2 is slightly smaller and the Omega2 is ~30% cheaper and has an SD card slot.

Vocore2:
MT7628AN 580 MHz MIPS with 128MB DDR2 and 16MB NOR: $18

Omega2+:
MT7688 580 MHz MIPS with 128MB DDR2 and 32MB flash: $13

Both have b/g/n Wifi and are 10/100 ethernet ready. Omega2 software is based on LEDE.

Note that there is a SMT version SoM of the Omega2+, the Omega2S+ which is around $10 per unit when buying trays of 50.
Shake looks promising to me. It has a Haskell front-end, and clearly has had a lot of thought put into it. That said, I have never tried it.

Despite CMake's attrocious syntax, the underlying compilation model has always worked more or less as I expected. I can't say that about most of the alternatives I have tried. I was frequently left confused and frustrated by my build systems until I found CMake.
"One strategy I've developed to make voice-to-text seem less odd to bystanders is to talk into my phone up to my ear as if I were on a call (rather than talking into it like a microphone as most people do with voice-to-text)."

Wow this is brilliant, and I can't believe this wasn't obvious to me when I've considered voice typing but felt weird about it.

I just got a Note 9 and I love that I can pull out the pen while the screen's off, jot a note and put the pen away without having to unlock my phone. And in the app it can be OCR'd for searching, editing etc. I'm sure once I get into the habit of using this I'll be forgetting ideas less.
Uber | Back-end | Amsterdam, Netherlands | FULL-TIME ONSITE VISA

Amsterdam is the home of Uber’s European HQ, as well as our largest engineering office outside the US. We are looking for senior back-end engineers on the following teams:

* Payments: building the future of payments for on-demand services. We build most of the payments architecture at Uber, which means challenging problems and exciting opportunities.

* Site Reliability Engineering: build systems that are best-in-class for monitoring, alerting and automatically resolving issues on top of our payments stack.

* Developer platform: build tooling that will make hundreds of our engineers more productive (and happier!)

Learn more about our team at http://t.uber.com/amsterdam. Interested? Shoot gergely@uber.com an email.
Ask HN: How to change lifestyle to reduce negative environmental footprint?
I'm a student and would like to work towards more environment-friendly lifestyle. There are currently two problems with this:

1. There's a whole market built around overpriced "vegan" goods, bamboo toothbrushes, etc., everybody saying their product is _the_ one that will save the world.

2. There's a lot of contradictory info; e.g. somebody saying that paper bags in markets are a great move, while others are pointing out that the production of said bags is x times worse than that of plastic bags when it comes to carbon footprint.

I don't know who to believe, and there's nobody I know who is well informed on these issues. But maybe somebody here could help me build a list of things/actions (or share his/her own) that help to reduce one's carbon footprint or to preserve the environment in other way. I'm sure many people here care about these issues and try to fight them, and thus are better informed than my peers.

(e.g. 1. Don't use car for <5km rides 2. Don't use plastic bags when buying fruit, use reusable linen ones instead 3. ... )
Would you be able to test to see if your problem is power-filtering related by powering the board from a battery rather than from the wall?
Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time

https://angel.co/lightning/

https://lightning.engineering/

Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge of innovation with regard to blockchain scalability, privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX.

If you’re interested in one of the positions below, please send a brief description of your relevant experience and resume/github to jobs@lightning.engineering. And if you know someone who might be a good fit, we'd very much appreciate any referrals.

{Crypto Protocol Engineer}:

Experienced systems software engineer versed in applied cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, distributed systems, open source software, and cryptocurrency protocols to design and implement core protocol and algorithmic components of the Lightning Network. Solid programming skills, experience with Go, C, or C++. Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred.

{Frontend Application Developer}:

Frontend developer to build secure cross-platform second-layer blockchain applications. Our applications are built on React, React Native, MobX, and Electron, communicating with a Lightning daemon over a binary RPC protocol. Ideal applicants will have experience building and shipping React Native applications and maintaining open source projects.
First, I don't wish for anyone to become quadriplegic.

I have a few questions:

1. How does your body react to not moving. Part of the problem I face working in Technology is that I have to spend lots of time in front of the computer. After a few hours my body needs to move. Does your body need to move? Or are you fine not moving for all day long?

2. It might be a bit of a creepy question but I have always wondered. If an eye lash gets inside your eye, how do you get it out. Is there someone out there looking out for you for these small details? Also does your eyes still get tired from looking at the screen.

I'm sorry if these are weird questions. Just a bit curious of how life is for a quadriplegic.
as a data scientist, I would struggle to answer 'what % of your work involves programming in python?'

I'm like well uh that depends. 95% if you include #import sklearn and basic numpy and pandas operations. 01% if you consider 'real programming'. 'so what %?' ...

That aside, there is a real problem in the tech industry when it comes to developing talent. Universities teach mostly theory and rely on the industry to teach us best practice, 'production level coding'. but then once they get to the industry, they get no mentorship.

companies don't want to spend time training someone who will leave in 2 years. however, if everyone did solid mentorship programs, the entire industry would benefit.
“I’m winding down operations at our startup & en-route to sell our products to interested companies; to focus on physical & mental health.”

Admire the fighting spirit. But this is rough. If you are planning to do some limited amount of remote work going forward this might be a good platform to mention it.
Seems like a good way to go would be 15 isolated teams of 10. Some teams might make the schedule. Pick the best project at that point. Big bonuses for the people that get it done and extra for the final winners. Seems like a huge waste of effort, but it looks like that is the way to go. This would be similar to what happens when a company just buys a small startup that has created what they need.
Ask HN: AWS vs. GCP(Choosing a Cloud service provider)
I'm currently at the prototyping phase of an App and I"m looking to choose a Cloud PAAS for my application. The buzz now is AWS, I currently have my static site hosted on Google Cloud. Will like to know your thoughts on which Cloud provider you chose over another. This is especially for the startup use case.

Thanks!
SCRUFF | Tech Lead | New York City (NYC) | Onsite | Full Time

SCRUFF, one of the largest global gay social networks worldwide, has an opening for a Tech Lead in our New York office.

SCRUFF is a software company at its core, led by a team with educational and professional experience at Stanford, MIT, Google, Microsoft, and more. We run a major AWS infrastructure using the latest Gen-5 AWS VMs, Ruby (Sinatra, not Rails) 2.5, Docker, Aurora, Redshift, Kinesis, and many other cutting-edge pieces of cloud services. Our client was one of the first apps in the iOS and Google Play app stores, and today is built with the latest mobile development languages like Swift, Kotlin, and React Native (in addition to Objc and Java of course).

We are a dedicated group building a digital community for GBTQ men that is unique, welcoming, and (per our app store ratings and user interviews) widely liked. We are growing quickly both in the USA and internationally, and have major feature work that continue to push the boundaries of what many in years past dismissed as being a "hookup app."

Ideal candidates have a minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience, 2+ years managing development teams, and have shipped major software projects. You will be responsible for managing projects distributed across a team of 10 engineers, some based in NYC and others based in remote home offices.

There are myriad skills a Tech Lead must possess and cultivate, but the most important are sincere empathy, crystal clear communication, and technical excellence. These skills are equally weighted. The Tech Lead is a “hybrid” role with one foot in management and the other in engineering, and acts as a liaison between project expectations and development tasks.

We have additional roles for Mobile Software Engineers and Ruby Engineers. Check out https://www.scruff.com/careers for more details.
The gear is actually very very simple.

eckbox.sourceforge.net/hardware.html
I quite liked Vienna (http://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss) while I had a Mac. It has options to run both as a standalone application and synced with various online services.
AdGear - ONSITE - Backend Engineer (Erlang, C, Rust) - Montreal - FullTime
AdGear - ONSITE - Data Engineer (Scala, Spark, Kafka, Vertica, AWS)- Montreal - FullTime
AdGear - ONSITE - Front-end engineer (SASS, Bootstrap, Webpack) - Montreal - FullTime
AdGear - ONSITE - Javascript Application Engineer (TypeScript, React) - Montreal - FullTime
AdGear - ONSITE - Ruby Application Engineer (Ruby, RoR) - Montreal - FullTime

#erlang #c11 #rust #scala #ruby #typescript #fsharp #opensource

Following its acquisition by the Visual Display division of Samsung in 2016, AdGear is now focusing on enabling brands to connect with Samsung TV audiences as they are exposed to digital media across all devices. We're trying to bridge the gap between traditional TV advertising and digital advertising!

For more information, complete description of roles, and details on applying, please see http://jobs.adgear.com/
At GitLab we pay market rates instead of paying the same wage for the same role in different regions. Paying the same wage in different regions would lead to:

1. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team.

2. Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income then ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

3. Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and unlikely to leave even when they are unhappy.

4. If we start paying everyone the highest wage our compensation costs would increase greatly, we can hire fewer people, and we would get less results.

5. If we start paying everyone the lowest wage we would not be able to attract and retain people in high-wage regions.

Also see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
One downside I found: it makes heavy use of symlinking which doesn't always play well with other tools (in particular: Go tools) and I found made things particularly annoying when I used Bazel from inside docker and outside docker (the symlinks left don't match what's on my host).
I've never been a fan of password managers, but I've found a much better way than paper:

1. Create a complex password to re-use everywhere. Memorize it and don't write it down.

2. Create individual simple passwords when you need one. Write them down

3. Create a method to combine the complex password and the simple password. Memorize it and don't write it down.

I figure there are two main attack vectors: online and offline. Online attack vectors are either a dictionary attack, which requirement 1 solves with a complex password, or using hacked passwords in one site to gain access to other sites, which requirement 2 solves with different passwords for each site. Offline attack vectors are someone discovering your written passwords, which requirements 1 and 3 solve by memorizing pieces of it.

The only weakness to this scheme is if someone is A. deliberately targeting you as opposed to a mass attack, and B. gains access to two or more of your passwords, allowing them to figure out your password system.