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Transcriptic (YC W15) | Backend, Full-stack engineers, Designers | Menlo Park, CA | https://transcriptic.com | FULL TIME; ONSITE

Transcriptic is turning biology into an information science by creating a fully automated cloud wet lab. Biologists anywhere can submit and run experiments over the internet on-demand and without investing up-front in a lab facility.

The Transcriptic Common Lab Environment (TCLE) takes Autoprotocol (http://autoprotocol.org/), a high-level JSON description of a biological protocol, and executes it on our custom-built robotic workcells. The protocols we handle routinely involve solving constraint programming models with thousands of variables and constraints in order to find a plan that fulfills the scientist's biological intent.

Scientists manage their experiments through our web application or via our API. We provide a single platform that controls scientific devices from many vendors in a unified way, and an interface to control our automated labs.

Backend engineer: https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1092746

Full-stack engineer: https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1236117

UX Designer: https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1333745

Tech stack includes: Linux, Scala, RabbitMQ, Rails, Typescript, React, Ansible, Postgres

Benefits include: full medical/dental/vision insurance; catered lunch and dinner, and a fully stocked kitchen; flexible vacation policy; 401(k) with matching; gym and commuter reimbursement; and education reimbursement up to $3,000/year.
So it's interstate because it doesn't participate in interstate commerce?

Do tautologic conclusions make legitimate precedents? Dang...
How can they possibly "crack" the phone password? Won't the phone get locked after a few failed tries?
I missed that one. Read the other refutation.
It's probably obstruction of Justice.
Computer Engineer by education here, I posted about it a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209768

Pasting it here:

I went for it mostly to switch industries and geographies, as well as for the "learning" part, which I just find fun.

It worked really well for me, but I had clear expected outcomes. The marginal value of an MBA degree is diminishing as the knowledge is easily available anywhere, but there are a few things which still count:

- Network: unlike an usual MSc or PhD, an MBA class has 100's of people, and you spend a lot of time with them, building a very solid network

- Switching functions or industry: it gives you a very good starting point. If you're an engineer, it will be hard to switch straight into marketing, PM, finance, etc. Doing an MBA, plus a summer internship in your target function will make a huge difference.

- Switching geographies: the job marketplace for new MBA grads is global (visa issues in some countries aside), and salaries are usually similar globally, so it's a nice opportunity to chose where you to live moving forward

- You're being sponsored: just do it, seriously, don't even think about it

On the learning side, even if you can find all the stuff online, it makes a huge difference to discuss implications face to face with some brilliant professors. Here's the top stuff I learned:

* How to constantly assess your own decision biases and compensate for it

* Lot's of game theory and strategy applied to real world

* Negotiations

* You're not gonna beat the market, so don't even bother

* How power is created and traded inside organizations

Why should you get one? Because a lot of that knowledge and skills you don't learn just by reading a book. It takes a lot of experience, experience sharing, cases, games and so on.

Sadly, the enormous majority of engineers and product managers I meet are completely ignorant of basic product economics, business and finance basics, competitive strategy, etc. (Unsurprisingly, they don't consider themselves to be ignorant on those subjects, quite the opposite).
Not really.

Farms can't afford to pay municipal rates which people washing their cars do. If you look at the cost of a car wash paying even say 0.1 cent per gallon would make a minimal difference, but no farm could afford to pay 0.1 cent per gallon.

Any system that forces farmers to compete with other users of water means the farmers lose.
Swarm testing with Locust.io for the first time
BARTEC PIXAVI | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE | https://www.pixavi.com

BARTEC PIXAVI creates smartphone for oil & gas, mining, shipping, chemical production and similar fields (rugged intrinsically safe ATEX/IEcx devices). The devices are used by almost all Fortune 500 energy companies, and they are manufactured in Norway. We're currently working on next generation of our smartphone, and we need your help!

We're currently hiring for two positions:

--- Backend + App developer ---
This position is responsible for a new (greenfield) project for analysing telemetry data and customer bug reports (which include a lot of data). A big focus for the next generation is quality assurance, and reduced cost. You'll also be responsible for working on various apps that are shipped with the device, and used for over the air updates, and hardware testing (during manufacturing). And, if that isn't enough, you'll also assist with building software for automated hardware testing (software to control testing jigs, robot arms, analyse camera and sensor output, etc.). Some experience with statistical analysis is a bonus, but not a requirement (you can always ask your colleague with a PhD in mathematics).

Tech: Java/Kotlin; PostgreSQL (in our existing solutions, the new project can use whatever fits best); Docker; Kubernetes.

--- Mechanical Engineer ---
You will have a unique chance to learn how to develop a smartphone and other mobile devices completely from scratch. We do almost everything in-house, you will be able to work on all the different product development phases. Everything from a new product proposal, concepts and prototyping, manufacturing and sourcing.

The position also assumes that you have experience with:

– CAD systems (Solidworks) as well as good technical and practical understanding.
– Mechanical engineering and material science knowledge.
– Production processes like: Injection molding, insert/over molding, CNC machining, die casting and sheet metal work.
– FEM simulation capabilities is a benefit.

For more information, check out https://www.pixavi.com/company/employment/
Any questions can be sent to jobs {at} bartec-pixavi.com (or me, acb {at} bartec-pixavi.com ).
Yea, but what about his kids and grandkids?
> CEOs of Tesla

I'm fairly certain this is false. He has an undergraduate degree from Wharton and has expressed multiple times how he prefers to avoid hiring MBAs.
If you read the rest of the comment, you'd see that the relevant load time was <5 seconds, and that the longer load time was misleading. I was checking to see if the way they were measuring was useful or not. They clarified, and for some reason what was taking 3-5 seconds for me across multiple machines takes them 5x that. In other words, I was asking what his benchmark was, because it's easy to stumble into a misleading one, even for an experienced user.

I mentioned wifi dropping because that's exactly the reason it took 35 seconds to load. Every other time was sub 15.

Please follow the guidelines and respond to the strongest possible interpretation of what I'm saying, which is on fact trying to understand the issue, not in fact blaming someone. There's no reason to be rude or accusatory.
I think most criticisms I have seen of MBAs is not of the degree itself, but of the associated costs and the amount of debt the program leaves you with.
Same distance, same text size, and same font?
Yep, that's true.

I would also advise you to devote some time and collect feedback on such sites as Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustPilot, TrustRadius. Firstly, people search and read reviews before making their final decision. Secondly, reading about the competitors, they will find you. Third, sometimes bloggers use these sites to select the top 10 tools they will write about. If you are there - awesome. And finally, these sites sometimes do their own reviews and marketing campaigns. You better be there :)
IMO the term "censorship" gets thrown around way too much.
Perhaps increased costs of living and undergrad are taking opportunity away from more people that would be interested.
Textile

Remote | Summer interns | crypto / go / react native

Remote | Full-time | crypto / mobile

https://textile.io

We build decentralized mobile apps (e.g. https://textile.photos) and tooling (e.g. https://github.com/textileio/textile-go). Our aim is to bring fully decentralized mobile apps onto the otherwise centralized mobile platforms. We are censorship resistant, open source, and implement end to end encryption.

Stack: go, react native, java, objc, ipfs. soon matrix, blockstack

andrew@textile.io
well, that's exactly the thing - if you have to consider general public (choose what will work and what's not worth it) - you're not above it. This is a case of power and having it your way, not looking for reasonable outcomes
Tangential.

From what I have seen happen around me, the "new skill" isn't really as new as it seems; it is just tweaking and reapplying the already present skill.

To use human languages as an example, a monolingual English speaker learning Italian, or even the seemingly esoteric Urdu, is not as hard as it seems for all these are of the same (broader) family sharing many similar features, and the skill is transferable easily. However, learning something like Chinese or Arabic and being good at it is hard and only people who have no other choice engage in the activity, and may be stand to benefit more in terms of ROI.

In that sense, I would be interested to know how a C++ guy learnt and became skillful in Haskell or Erlang, more than learning Java or Python and churning out code with them.

Or to use a non CS example, its more interesting to know how a medical student learnt fluid mechanics in order to understand the human body better than to know how a mechanical engineer became a theoretical physicist.
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Pixelbook Revisited: Running Docker Containers
Owl Labs | Full stack web engineer | Boston or Remote (USA) | Full time

Owl Labs wants to make meetings more inclusive for remote workers. Our unique 360˚ camera provides an immersive experience for distributed teams all over the world.

If you're interested in building connected hardware and loves scratching your own itch as a remote worker, we're looking for a full stack web developer to join our engineering team.

Some highlights:
+ First HW product launched 1.5 yrs ago, tripled in revenue in second year ($millions), on path to profitability, industry leading NPS scores
+ You'll be helping us build new products to improve team communications

Feel free to reach out to me: phu@owllabs.com

Check out the product:

www.owllabs.com

or read the reviews on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Owl-Conference-Automatic-Spea...
I'm not sure I can convince you otherwise. If memory serves, even Socrates reached an impasse with Thrasymachus.
Can you tell us which companies and the reasons? Otherwise, it’s hard to learn from your comment.
There is a huge difference between physical and computer sciences. I agree that it's an excellent use of time for new students if the main factor for the work is time/salary. This paper was aimed towards medical/bio/clinicians and when you add material costs, the variability of biology and multiple people required to run large experiments everything falls apart. One of my PhD projects (Primate neuroscience and new medical devices) took 4 years2 grad students2 staff6 animals (only 2 made the paper)animal housing costs for 4 years + ~$150k in materials. And there are only ~10 research labs in the world that have the ability to do this type of research so no one is going to . We see a lot more replication via extension - "this theory worked for this group, what if we take that as true and extend it in a new direction, where does the science fall apart there?"
I'm not arguing that replication isn't important and a lot of false positives get through into the literature but without 10x-ing the research budget and infrastructure as well as changing the publication incentives there isn't going to be any real movement.
A great deal of older science was done by explaining what was already invented. We seem to have reached a point where rarely does a new invention throw off previous science without it being based on new science that was already in disagreement with old science. Part of it is because over the last century we had so many people with the freedom to invent that the easy inventions have already been invented, at least where the inventions don't pose significant moral/legal implications (such as someone inventing a new drug and getting people to try it without going through the proper channels).
Ugandan Prince and a Crypto startup are planning an African revolution
> That doesn't mean that everything has already been "invented" at the root.

Exactly. The "classical" view of evolutionary genetics is that new genes develop by mutation, are favored (or eliminated) by natural selection, and exchanged only within the same species by interbreeding. So the family tree of life is a map of how closely organisms are related, and they would share a gene only with the nearby branches of the tree descended since that gene arose.

We have long known that the simple model is not complete, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) exchange lots of genetic material outside their own "species" (trickier to define for bacteria in any case), but it is becoming more widely recognized that lateral gene exchange happens a lot in all organisms.

A recent popular book on the subject is "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen.
The site's dead now - the DNS record was pulled about an hour ago. But, I got a snapshot of the site and all the code before it got taken down, and I took the liberty of deobfuscating the big blobs of code:

https://github.com/nneonneo/steam-phishing-analysis

It's fairly simple code, in the end. The phishers copied the legitimate trading site, as well as the Steam Community login page, and then added some JavaScript code to both as well as tweaking the HTML a bit. In total, three snippets of JS were added: the first detects debuggers using https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect (the bit that the original blog poster found), the second pops open the fake browser chrome and sticks the fake login page inside an iframe, and the third (running in the iframe) harvests credentials off the copied Steam login page.
Most of my own experience with this has been as a developer/user. The user management is addon software tethered to ActiveDirectory. I've worked in one environment where it worked pretty well, and another where it sucked.

As to pre-installed software, not sure. I always just installed brew, and did what I needed myself. CA was already on the box and scheduled OS updates were, lets just say very rare. (don't do it yourself, it can break the authentication software integration).
Sessions: The Vim feature no one talks about
> Some users have speculated that the problem is related to a recent change in Apple's security settings.

> Since iOS 11.4.1 was released, the lightning port on iPhones can be disabled when the phone has been idle for a while. That could stop thieves, cyber-attackers or law enforcement officers accessing it.

> "In some cases, it might not charge," the company advises on its website.

This change in iOS 11.4.1 and the device not charging applies only when the device is connected to a computer. Apple's support page clearly states that the device would charge when connected to the USB adapter.

> However, Apple has not yet commented on the issue.

> ...

> Apple has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.

One of the many things consistent about Apple as a company is its reluctance to respond to any issues or comment on them. Sometimes a comment may come later on, starting out as a denial. Its strategy is always to investigate it internally and understand the issue better (as any other company would want to, so that the root cause(s) are found and dealt with) and then decide what to do depending on the number of users who seem to be affected, where they are, and the chances of lawsuits being filed. Most of the posts on Apple's discussion boards may just help create noise. Apple may monitor some of the discussions, but never has anyone officially representing the company post or respond there (there are several reasons why responding there may not be a good idea either).

This charging issue seems like a software issue, and should be easier to fix. But I doubt if Apple would rush a patch out for this issue in the next few days. What's more likely is that this may get addressed in iOS 12.1, which may be released later this month. What's also likely is that the release notes for iOS 12.1 (or whichever point release fixes this) will not specifically state if this issue is one of the things that's been fixed. For reasons better known to Apple (probably to avoid lawsuits), many a times Apple just stays quiet and lets things burn.
I run an MBA admissions site on the side and did some analysis on this.

tl;dr if you are confident an MBA can create a step increase in annual comp of even $10k, the cost is more than covered over the remainder of your career.
Very sad news. "Last Giant" of French song.

Aznavour, who was born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris to Armenian parents, sold more than 100m records in 80 countries and had about 1,400 songs to his name, including 1,300 he wrote himself. [1]

In 1998, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of Time Online from around the globe.

On 19 September 2018, his last concert took place in NHK Hall, Osaka, Japan. It was 11 days ago, he was touring at 94! [2]
Aznavour spent 85 years on stage.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/01/charles-aznavo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour
Where did you find yours?
Realtime oil painting effect
Unless it is a regulated occupation, what even bother with college. I know wouldn't if I was 18 today.
Ask HN: Why companies don't pay candidates for showing up at their interview?
Interviewing is very painful and time consuming for candidates, plus, companies spend a lot of money for that. Why companies don't pay candidates for showing up at their interview?

Potential outcome: Companies would attract more "talents" by filling up their pipelines with a lot more qualified folks (assuming they'd still decide whether or not you're worth bringing on site). Something like $1000 per onsite and big companies could literally 10x that for very special candidates. On the other hand, I could actually make money by showing up and taking a day off work while going through the most painful step of our profession.

What do you guys think? Could almost turn into a full time job for certain people :)
While having considered it, for me, unless you are planning to move to Business org, it seems an MS in something technical is more valuable, even in engineering management, or Product Management, just looking at the degrees people at my company have in those positions.

Is it the same at other places?
Heart attacks increase by 25% When we lose that 1 hour of sleep by switching to Daylight Savings time.
Hacktoberfest is back. Contribute to open source and get a cool T-shirt
Full-Stack Engineer | OfficeLuv | Chicago | Full-time, Onsite

We’re growing here at OfficeLuv (https://www.officeluv.com) and are looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to help us shape the momentum! You will help develop, solve, and produce the technology that helps power OfficeLuv and our loyal customers. You will work with the small product team to build applications in the cloud, in the browser, and on phones that will iterate rapidly and provide direct benefit to customers you'll talk to. We're building for the long run. You'll be excited about the two-sided marketplace you can shape here. We're standardizing and automating an industry that's ripe for it. You'll be shaping the supply and grocery of offices across the country!
Read more and apply here: https://officeluv.applytojob.com/apply/Lv6mQy0m2I/Full-Stack...

https://officeluv.github.io
The best part of a good story is when it genuinely surprises me, does something I totally did not expect.
DataKitchen | Boston/Cambridge, MA, ONSITE full-time | Multiple Positions in Engineering, Customer Success | http://www.datakitchen.io/

Due to customer growth (not a cool investor pitch deck), we are adding six+ positions to our team:

'Senior/Principal Software Engineer
'Site Reliability Engineer
'Software Engineer in Test
'Data Engineer

https://www.datakitchen.io/company.html#hiring

DataKitchen, Inc. enables analytic teams to deliver value quickly, with high quality, using the tools that they love. DataKitchen provides the world’s first DataOps platform for data-driven enterprises, enabling them to support data analytics that can be quickly and robustly adapted to meet evolving requirements. DataKitchen is leading the DataOps movement to incorporate Agile Software Development, DevOps, and manufacturing based statistical process control into analytics and data management. Our company is bootstrapped, profitable, stable, rapidly growing and stock is part of the package.

Learn more about us from the Software Engineering Podcast: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/08/29/dataops-with...

We offer very competitive pay, benefits like a company funded 401K, experienced team, technical leadership, bootstrapped growth, amazing customers, equity, and a cool office location.
How I Create New Ideas and Fail Quickly
Feedback loop is a better symbol of life than the helix
Doesn't stop the people in this community from working for his startups and making him richer unfortunately.

I worked for a Khosla company a few years ago and it was pretty depressing to know that if we struck gold, I might get a few million dollars to set my family up, but Vinod would get hundreds of millions to trample on people who werent millionaires. There's no winning in that situation.
Very good point.

However, I still think an auction system would create less distortion than case-by-case measures to de-prioritize agriculture in allocation conflicts.
Multi-Game Hunter and files off of your local (or LD) AmiExpress BBS did this for SNES/Genesis.

http://videogamedevelopmentdevices.wikia.com/wiki/Multi_Game...
Sounds like you actually mostly used Python and JS?
Checklists are great for not forgetting about things, and forgetting about things is a common source of human error (oh man, I forgot to run unit tests/recover those foreceps from the abdominal cavity/etc). It’s not sufficient, because sometimes you have to make judgment calls and creative decisions, but even then, I’d rather be free to think about that stuff without having the back of my mind worrying about some fiddly steps I may forget.
Bloomberg | C++ Software Engineer| Lugano (Switzerland) | Full-time | Onsite

Every day, Bloomberg absorbs billions of data points from hundreds of financial markets. Our software engineers build the core foundation required to deliver data-intensive applications, which fuel the markets by providing intelligent analytics and transparency.

We build systems comprised of services, libraries and data pipelines capable of integrating, transforming and aggregating information from different sources to service product areas including multi-asset Portfolio Analytics & Performance Attribution, Indices, Stock Screening, etc.

Our teams share a passion to solve problems of today to innovate for tomorrow. We write high performance, low latency and scalable code using proprietary and open source technologies to develop large-scale systems. We like to work hard, collaborate seamlessly and deliver real life solutions to clients across all industries.

You can see more details and apply here: https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/66579
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