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Close.io | REMOTE

WANTED: DevOps Engineering Team Lead

For someone special who wants to do both hands-on technical infrastructure-focused work AND lead/manage a small remote team (2-3 people) of really talented people doing the same.

WHO ARE WE:

At Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring product-focused engineers to help us unify the world's sales calls and emails into one beautiful workflow.

Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in Docker/Kubernetes on AWS. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes.

We open source – using dozens of open source projects with contributions to many of them, and released some of our own: https://github.com/closeio

https://close.io

Learn more or apply:

https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/26369307-318c-4fee-893d-a1d3d...
Of course it will be produced for as long as customers want it.
But the roadmap makes it also crystal clear where they are going: More DSP cores.
We likely won't see anything newer than the Cortex-A15.
TI builds what enough customers want, and if you're not locked in enough to their DSPs or general ecosystem, you'll move away. That in return means there won't be anything new. No single customer is big enough to warrant bigger cores alone.

A nice quote I remember "I'd rather buy TI stocks than their products".
>If someone uses my car for a malicious act

Depends on the act. In the state of Georgia, at least, if a passenger in the car you're driving throws litter out the window, you're responsible (not that this particular law is ever enforced).
Slap an @memoize decorator on a python function and you're good to go.
Bam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901
I agree about the arrow keys. I actually find the touch bar quite useful (especially when recording music with Logic Pro). I also love being able to unlock my machine using TouchID.
Pusher | London | Snr Platform Engineer Distributed Systems| Full-time | On-Site

Pusher’s realtime APIs power applications around the world across various industries. When you see an in-app chat, a collaborative text editor, or anything else that updates instantly—it could be us shifting events behind the scenes.

As a Platform Engineer you will develop foundations for our existing and future services. Your code will handle all traffic for Pusher’s new products. You will also build tools that help our product teams ship efficient and reliable software. Your work will have a significant impact on the majority of the engineering team.

Read more & apply here: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/788674
Yes, in Portland Oregon we have a grocery store called New Seasons that implemented a chip reader system where as soon as you walk up to the checkout you can insert your card, it tells you to remove it immediately and then the clerk continues to ring up your groceries. This might just be the way it works in other parts of the world, but in the US this particular implementation was surprisingly smooth compared to the multi step dance that other retailers require. Don’t insert card until all purchases have been rung up, ok now insert card, do not remove card, move to new screen, but still do not remove card, ok, now remove card, now sign, etc.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39403778
Management at one of my companies actually used this metaphor (expressed as below), along with another favorite: "If you put lipstick on a pig, it is still a pig."

"If it takes nine months for a woman to deliver a baby, getting nine women will not deliver a baby in one month."
Technical stacks from 20,000+ JHipster projects
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902967

The aim of this post is to explain why sequence to sequence models appear to perform better than "many to one" RNNs on signal prediction problems. It also describes an implementation of a sequence 2 sequence model using the Keras API.
HealthRhythms | Android Developer | New York City, USA | Full-time | Onsite

At HealthRhythms, we are working to make it easy to measure and care for everyone’s mental health. Our mission is to redefine not only how we measure and treat mental illness, but how we optimise wellbeing as a whole.

We're looking for independent thinkers who care deeply about the problems we're solving. If being one of the first 10 employees at an exciting, government-supported, startup in a meaningful field sounds exciting to you, please get in touch.

Find out more: https://goo.gl/jW6PnX
The application page you link to doesn't include a listing for the senior front-end engineer position, is this intentional?
Van Oord | Developer | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ONSITE

Van Oord is a major marine contractor known for building the world and palm tree shaped islands in Dubai and more recently some of the world largest offshore wind farms.

My team supports the business with collecting, analysing and reporting on data collected from users, projects and vessels. We are looking for:

- Python developer / data engineer with affinity with civil and or mechanical engineering

- Back end (web) developer for various applications based on Python/Pyramid/SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL/PostGIS

- (Freelance) Front end web developer to work on Vue/Vuex/Quasar offline-first web app

- Freelance ui/ux designer for intermittent assignments

We host most of our stuff on Azure VM's and are migrating to Kubernetes. We do CI, and want to do CD too. We make data available with QlickView and dedicated in-house solutions.

You can contact me directly, contact details in profile. See also https://www.vanoord.com/careers/data-analytics-engineer-soft...
I take the opposite view. Most of these debates overlook the fact that for a lot of people, it's simply more desirable to live in cities.

Compare Vancouver with a small town of less than 100k people just up the Fraser valley (Chilliwack). I've lived in both.

Vancouver has better restaurants, more concerts of every sort, better transit, access to the ocean, better internet, is more diverse, more liberal politics, better social services for the homeless and those needing mental health services, better access to diverse foods at the grocery stores, better night life, etc.

Sure, I paid a lot more when I was living in Vancouver that. I was in Chilliwack, but it's worth it.

No amount of videoconferencing technology can make up for the fact that if I want to go out for good sushi and I live in Chilliwack, I have to spend 2 fucking hours in the car each way.
I'm trying Gitlab atm, it's great to see something simpler than Jenkins to do CI/CD.
They do, and this university came out pretty high up, though probably not at the top. My reason for choosing it, though, was that they provided a maths-CS double bachelor programme. In my experience, their maths programme is of very high quality, so that makes up for it.
Perfect platform for sharing stickers on slack
I live in the US where you essentially have no liability for fraudulent transactions (if you identify them in a reasonable amount of time) - so while it’s annoying to have to get a card reissued once every couple of years, it doesn’t seem like such a big deal
You can do that if the bank decides that you have not been negligent. Whether you have been negligent seems to be correlated with how much money was taken from you ;)

Anyway, it is pretty immoral to rely on reimbursements - actively funding and making thievery profitable.
Location: Long-term in New Zealand, Australia or Canada. Short-term anywhere. Currently living in France near Geneva, Switzerland. British passport by descent.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Embedded, control systems, Apple II, AppleScript, Bash, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, TensorFlow, Verilog.

Résumé/CV: http://peterburk.free.fr/PeterBurkimsherResume.pdf

Email: peterburk@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Peter, an international geek. I graduated with a first-class MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering from Lancaster University in the UK with an exchange year in UCSB. Then I went to many places on Working Holiday visas to choose where I'd like to live. I now have 4 years continuous relevant work experience from a memory card manufacturer in Taiwan, where I wrote software for the microSD testing machines. I dislike military funding. I like side projects, and I upload my software here on Show HN and hardware to Hackaday.
... is there any way to destroy the mag strip a CA ed with a chip?
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Downtown LA, California)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python, Erlang (being replaced with C++) and Javascript for React, relying heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent in the following roles:

* [Senior] Front-end Engineer - React; London & LA
* Data Engineer; London
* Senior Backend Engineer; London
* Low-Latency C++ Engineer; London
* Generalist Software Engineer; London & LA
* Senior Security Engineer; London
* [Senior] Mobile Developer; LA

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers .
> And after certification, what if the company wants to push a quick update to all of its cars every now and then, through a remote update?

Late and a bit rough but here is my idea:

Install redundant self driving units in at least a good number number of the first few thousand cars in each generation.

When planning a release, push to the redundant unit in the cars already running in "production".

Use only primary unit as input to car as usual, but log the diffs between the new version and old version in the same way they now log driver intervention.

I think there is a number of issues this won't catch, off the top of my head what if the new self driving unit attempts to turn slightly faster on slippery road etc.

But it should be able to collect up realistic feedback really fast i.e. in a few months (crazy slow for modern application developers like me but more than fast enough for anything that should be allowed to drive unsupervised I guess :-)
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers

For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From the YC S14 class to raising a $100 million Series C in April 2018 to the profitable, fast-growing company we are today, it's been quite the ride.

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

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

Backend/Fullstack - https://grnh.se/sw604uyn1

Frontend - https://grnh.se/gcb4q2vl1

Sr PM - https://grnh.se/f97c45151

If you have questions feel free to reach out to me at sean.mccann@checkr.com
> I sincerely doubt a model variant costs hundreds of millions either, or the majority of the laptop market would be unsustainable.

Yeah, but the majority of the laptop market aren't doing brain-damaged things like removing ESC keys, adding pointless touchbars and designing keyboards which are beautiful to look at but which fail at actual typing. And the majority of the laptop market don't have to pay for Sir Jonathan Ive to remove all colour, ornament, affordance and delight from the design, moving as close to a featureless white rounded-rectangular prism as possible as he can for this iteration.

It wouldn't surprise me if Apple have to pay an order of magnitude (or two) per model, just to end up with something which is ultimately sub-par.
TESSIAN | Machine-intelligent filters to secure enterprise communications | London, UK | On-Site | Full Time | Visa sponsorship possible | www.tessian.com

Our mission is to keep the world’s most sensitive data private and secure - to do this we're looking for backend engineers to help build out both our backend platform and machine learning models to support our next stage of growth following our $13m Series A this year.

We're hiring for Python Backend Engineers (all levels) and Applied Data Scientists with 2+ years of production experience.

- - -

Data Scientist - Read more & apply here: http://bit.ly/data-science-at-tessian-2018

Tessian couldn't exist without our machine learning models; it’s at the heart of what we do, and it’s what our clients rely on day-to-day. We're looking for data scientists who are excited about the opportunities and challenges that come with researching, building and deploying real-time production models.

- - -

Python Backend Engineer - Read more & apply here: http://bit.ly/python-at-Tessian-2018

We build high volume, low latency data processing for some of the world’s largest organisations. The backend systems power the whole company and our teams have touch points with all of our engineering teams. From deploying data science models in production to integrating with our front end, you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business.
Dolly | Senior Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, On-site

Dolly's mission is to create freedom: of choice, of time, and from worry. We do this today by building and operating the top marketplace connecting customers who need help lifting, loading, and transporting big and bulky items with local pickup truck owners who can help them. We put the customer in control of their experience – when and how a pick up/delivery happens, how much help they need, total visibility into what is actually going on in real-time – all wrapped in an incredible customer experience.

You’ll be working on things ranging from the backend for our apps to our platform and tooling. Projects may include: building endpoints for the apps, working on proprietary algorithms for things like fulfillment and pricing, and helping to build out tools for our Operations Team to succeed. We work focused on deadline driven results within an agile methodology.

Stack:

- Node.js

- React web

- Mongo

Send me a note with [HN] in the subject line to chad@dolly.com
Sure! Let me buy this expensive piece of concrete that wears down my battery.

The practical method is to turn my phone off. It can be done as a ritual and it takes a while until it's available again. Bonus: It works everywhere.
I've seen you claim wireless cards are really insecure a few times in this thread. I was wondering about a source, and about the mechanism.

Certainly, using rather basic NFC smart card technology, all but on-line attacks could be eliminated. My question is then, what kind of low-protection protocol do they use in practice to make this so insecure.

Specifically, I am asking about an offline attack that allows an actual spend the bank would accept. I am also only interested in debit cards (because that is what I have) so just reading a CC number from NFC doesn't bother me.
It was definitely fun to go to the computer lab in high school and play with/program the Commodore PETs. These were the 4K models with the chicklet keyboard.

I will say this though. I disagree with one word in the author's text. He said the machines of the time were "constrained." They weren't constrained at all. They had limitations just like today's machines do. But we weren't aware of the limitations because we weren't time travelers coming from the future with more computing power in our pockets than most corporations had in 1983.

In fact the exact opposite was true. The computer industry was bursting at the seams. It was exploding. It was not constrained at all.

Then they cloned the IBM PC and the rest is history. Every machine you're reading this post on descended from those.
Feedback:

When I open the site I have no idea what I am supposed to upload. So naturally I click 'about' to understand what the site is about. Nothing about editing essays there, it mentions reading and downloading historical book. Sure enough, the 'home' page lets me do just that. But I came here to edit essays with the community so it must be somewhere. Back to the 'write page'. Maybe uploading something will take me further so I upload some random file. It says thanks but nothing else happens. I reload the page again. Finally almost by accident I find that the "read essays" is a link so I tap there, maybe I can find some community written and editable ones there? Sure enough I see some essays (no idea if they are community made though). And a few empty boxes as well. Anyway I click into one of them to see what this is about. Strange way to display an essay, are these excerpt or something since it is super short. No wait, those were comments. It's hard to know directly since there is zero indication that they are from someone, no name or date or anything.

Anyway I downloaded an essay but I am still wondering where the community is, and the editing tool.
I re-read it recently. It still holds up fine, but as the technological equivalent of historical fiction now. When it came out, it had a 1940s section built around the tech of the time, and a "modern" section built around "modern" tech. The only real difference is that the later section is now a 1990s section built around 1990s tech.
Have you ever gone to an EO meeting? Or another event for folks who are in a similar industry or job?

It’s founders because it allows for entrepreneurs to connect around challenges specific to their lives.

I’m confused as to why this bothers you — no one is saying you can’t go on a hike or start your own group.

Nor does it mean non-founders can’t like to hike. I’m simply offering a group that I run that is already running as an option for folks here - many of which are founders.
Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build server
Kubernetes taints and tolerations, pod and node affinities
Ask HN: Tabless browsers that integrate well in a tiling WM (Linux)
I use i3 on a daily basis, and am looking to improve my usage of web browsers in it.

I have grown to dislike using tabs at all in browsers, and think they should be dealt with by the WM. I think that aligns with suckless's surf design. I am therefore looking to find a good tabIess browser to integrate in i3. Here's what I've tried:

* surf [1]: this wonderful WebKit2/GTK+-based browser integrates perfectly in any WM AFAIK. My only gripe is not with it per se, but many websites don't show up right, or their scripts don't work in surf. Also YouTube doesn't work with it out of the box, etc. I don't believe it's a failure on surf's part, but I still want to access these websites as easily as I can with Chrome or Firefox.

* Chrome: AFAIK this is the browser all websites are developed for, so it has an advantage as far as the core functionality is concerned. Chrome emphasizes tabs, but you can open nice surf-like windows in its app mode, either with the --app-id argument if you created a Chrome app from within Chrome, or with the --app argument to which you can pass a fully formed URL. In this mode it integrates quite well in a tiling manager; except that opening links in another window/tab opens them as a new tab in an existing tabbed chrome window, or creates a new one. I would much prefer a surf-like behavior where these links would open a new tabless window.

* Firefox: I would enjoy using Firefox in this way but AFAIK there is no tabless mode. Calling `firefox URL` opens a new tab in an existing window.

Does anyone have any experience in this regard?

[1]: https://surf.suckless.org/

If it's of any interest to anyone, I have written myself a Python3 script to open URLs / search stuff and interact in a basic way with a bookmarks file (like a tiny homemade Omnibar) [2]. It uses dmenu and integrates fairly well between i3 and chrome's app mode.

[2]: https://github.com/trosh/dmenu-bookmarks
Pure Labs (http://jobs.purelabs.io) | Product Engineer | Munich, Germany | Full time
We at Pure Labs are a small team of entrepreneurs building tech products that delight and make sense.

Pure Labs has to working modes: Retainer ("agency/consulting-work") & Co-Venturing (Help founders build their tech products as part of their team)

Working this way, we built up a quite interesting & diverse client base as well as bootstrapped multiple companies (biggest one is currently a pre-series B).

It's super important to us to not just work in the company (day-to-day), but _on_ the company. That's why our vision is to create an environment where people can be successful & most efficient building tech products - employees first.

Our tech stack is based on Python/ Django in the backends and React.js in the frontends. Of course we do 100% peer reviews, high test coverage, CI, CD, deployments via Docker - the usual.

Find out more about us at http://jobs.purelabs.io/o/fullstack-product-engineer-python-...
Can't agree that the effect is net positive.

It adds another level of confusion and doubt in technology, since occasionally people will figure out what's going on or read articles like this one.

How about showing a timer on the traffic light when they will turn green, or temporarily disable traffic lights when there is little traffic (using live data).
I use Pocket to grab interesting content as it swooshes by. :-). If it's worth keeping, I send it to Google Keep, then use Keep's color codes to organize material by rough use cases (code, product management, hobbies, behavior, ...)

I then periodically clump similar content into a single Keep note, usually by simply cut/pasting the relevant links. This happens once every 3-4 weeks.

Now if only Google's Keep team would publish an API...
JavaScript Arrays and ES5, ES6 and ES7 Methods You Should Know
>He's trying to find a solution but it's too late for coal now.

There's already good solutions that have had decades of use.

Ship it (by rail) to stranded renewables, convert to coal gas and or use Fischer trope to convert to oil or propane then ship that back.

Heck there's even work on gas to biocoal, all the nasty stuff can be left behind and you get a nice clean burning substitute that can complement pure renewables in shortage periods. Rail is likely to be near coal mining areas anyway, so short branch lines or reactivation of old routes can be built at relatively low cost. The entire process could be lower than the electrical needed as distribution can continue to the end user along existing depot routes using cointainers.

Might even qualify for any renewable tax breaks and the like.

The problem is oxidation.
Sealand: The smallest country in the world that doesn’t exist