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Credit Karma | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, Director of Engineering, Native Engineers | San Francisco (SF), Charlotte, Los Angeles (LA) | Full Time

Credit Karma is the top finance app in both the iOS and Android app stores and has over 85M users in the US and Canada. We help people make progress on their finances focusing today on Credit/Debt and Taxes. We make a meaningful impact on people who are struggling today, it's worth looking into if you are somebody seeking a mission that isn't a first world problem.

We're a very successful company: valued over $4B, profitable, hit more than half a billion in revenue a few years ago, and we have a ton of technical problems to solve. We're hiring in basically every technical position, multiple roles. We run on a stack that's scala, typescript, react, swift, kotlin, php (legacy), kafka, google cloud, dataflow, kubernetes, finagle / thrift, and all sorts of fun stuff.

My name's Matt, I'm a VP of Engineering here at CK and I'd love to talk to you about our roles. Email me directly matt (at) creditkarma.com (dot) com.

Thanks!
Only the wealthy can afford privacy. It has been true for a while, but this just makes it explicit.
Lumen5 | Sr. Frontend Engineer | Vancouver, BC | Fulltime, Onsite | https://lumen5.com
We're a small startup (11 people so far) that is growing quickly! We're writing software that uses machine learning to convert text content to video. We've found that what we're building is very attractive to marketing teams from lots of different organizations and we've got tons of interesting NLP, artificial intelligence, video rendering, and web scaling technical challenges. Right now, we're hiring a Sr. Frontend Engineer, using React, Redux, ImmutableJS, WebGL, etc. See the posting here: https://angel.co/lumen5/jobs/327963-senior-frontend-software...
To be clear, I mean that the the way US laws are enforced, to the best of my knowledge, being underage yourself doesn't mean you are off the hook for having underage material.

I'd be interested to learn if this isn't the case.
Basically, you are on your own (install open source packages yourself).

And that’s supposed to be a good thing, because… you get to install and test the latest stuff yourself. Because Apple can’t and won’t. OK.
AImotive | Research Engineers/Scientists - Planning, Control, Sensor Fusion, AI, Image Processing | Budapest, Hungary (EU) | ONSITE | https://aimotive.com/

AImotive is the largest independent team in the world working towards fully self-driving car technology. Our unique toolset is engineered to answer all the challenges of autonomous mobility, powered by advanced artificial intelligence, simulation technology, and supporting hardware architectures. This complex approach to self-driving car technology allows our team to develop systems quickly in the safest possible way.

Our team currently has over 200 members. The company has offices in Helsinki Finland; Mountain View, California; and Tokyo, Japan. The bulk of our development happens at our headquarters in Budapest, where a team of 140 highly skilled engineers spearheads our efforts. Among them are over thirty specialized artificial intelligence researchers, while 20+ members of our team hold PhDs.

We are looking for experienced researchers and developers for a variety of roles, including Research Engineers and Scientist in Planning and Decision Making, Control, Sensor Fusion, AI and Image Processing among others. We have cars on the road on two continents, ongoing projects with major car manufacturers and Tier1s and a really motivated team, which is still small enough that you can make a great impact. Budapest is a great place to live and superb connections to the rest of Europe make it easy to explore the whole continent.

See all open positions & apply here: https://aimotive.com/career/open-positions/ or reach out to jobs@aimotive.com if you have any questions.
I went to a Wharton School MBA program introduction the other day. Or maybe it was Berkeley Haas, I can't remember.

The lady leading the session to sell me a $150,000+ degree which requires me to leave my (extremely successful and promising career) for two years (and screw up my family life while doing it), started talking about how if people in the room got a bad grade in a certain area for their undergraduate degree - they might have to go back and fix it before they apply.

Did I mention I have to pay the costs of this program 100% myself since most employers (and mine) won't cover it anymore?

Once I heard that, I was done. Not only do I have to take three months to study for a stupid GMAT or GRE or whatever, I am also being held accountable for a grade I got over 12 years ago.

In that 12 years, I quit my business career ,taught myself software engineering, built multiple applications used by millions of people every month before resuming my career as a manager of technical evangelist teams.

The idea that I need to go get an MBA, take a GMAT, submit to covering for a bad grade 15 years ago after achieving a very high degree of proficiency in Objective-C and doing the things I have done since was so laughable it ended the desire for me to ever get an MBA.

Maybe if they paid me I might consider it. I just dont get it. It is something I might do if I got rich in cryptocurrency and needed a hobby to pass the time, thats about it.

Dont get me wrong, people (some) with MBAs I have met are often quite smart. But it seemed like an awful lot of time, stress and money and administrative nonsense for what the result is.
I used to use the + system but ran into too many issues of it not being accepted and it seems some are smart enough to strip off the + and everything after.

I moved to wildcard forwarder on my own domain so that *@mydomain.com get forwarded to my main email account. This gives me all the tracking I want and I can ban addresses if needed.

That still gets me the zero overhead and practically infinite addresses with none of the downsides of gmail--and I can easily change my main email account as an added bonus.
> it has much more to do with not wanting to reimplement the language/break compatibility

I don't know what "language/break compatibility" means.

The GIL is needed because Python's reference-counted memory management system is not thread-safe, and this can't be fixed without compromising either portability or performance. It's really that simple.
Despite what he has said, my hypothesis is that he purchased it as an investment. He figured that he could buy it, do enough legal wrangling to restrict beach access, and create a much more valuable private beach for rich people.
I wonder what Apple run their builds on, a Hackintosh?
"It really isn't easy to fully learn it as it used to be."

If you carve out the Python 2.0-ish subset and taught a class on that, it would be as easy as it ever was. But if your students take that knowledge and go to the Django tutorial, they're going to find themselves missing several concepts, and Django doesn't even use everything in Python, being rather old itself.

That said, I still think I'd rather take a Python 2.0-ish subset and teach students that, than give them some new custom language that they can't expand on or use in the field. Python 2.0-ish is still pretty useful and there's a clean upgrade track if you do want to continue down that road. And even the latest Python is still, at worst, middle-of-the-pack on language difficulty, if not still trending towards the easy side in the list of top 10-20 languages. But it's definitely a non-trivial upgrade path now.
What a cool business idea!
I'm not sure if it's to the same degree as law degrees, but there's definitely a strong element of credential value from top schools. The conventional wisdom for law degrees is that, if you can't get into a top school, most people shouldn't bother. That's probably at least somewhat true with MBAs as well.
People making crazy 20+ million a year salaries boosts the average quite a bit. But, yea the median change in salary is much worse than the average change in salary.
Twine | San Francisco, CA | FULL TIME | ON-SITE
https://twine.com/jobs/

https://angel.co/twine

Open positions:

- Backend Engineer

- Android Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Senior Product Designer

- Visual Designer & Art Director

- Recruiter

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Twine empowers people to save more, save better, and save together. We use dynamic technology, design and cutting-edge automated money management to change the way people make financial decisions.

The Twine app launched in late November 2017 and since hitting the App Store has already been featured in ‘Apps We Love’ and as the ‘App of the Day’ (January 2018 and April 2018). The team is now ramping up growth initiatives and drawing on user behavioral and account data to continue to make the app more effective – driven by a core mission of empowering millions of families to achieve more secure, happier financial lives.

We operate as an independent startup group – backed by the resources and stability of a Fortune Global 500 powerhouse. We know that we’re stronger with every thread – our culture is driven by sharing, learning and iterating together. Feel free to get in touch with Nahyun (Team Ops) at nahyun@twine.com. Let's chat!
BioRender (https://biorender.io/) YC W18 | Senior Front-end Software Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | Toronto, Canada | Onsite

About us: BioRender is a fast growing seed stage SaaS startup. We’re creating the standard visual language of biology and the suite of tools to communicate it. We’re a team of passionate engineers, science illustrators, designers and entrepreneurs and are backed by an incredible group of investors including Y Combinator. We nerd out on cool science stuff and solving big problems.

Problem we are solving: Each year, biomedical researchers waste over a billion hours trying to communicate their research by drawing complex biology figures using tools like PowerPoint. At BioRender, our mission is have every visual representation of biology made and communicated with our tools. We reduce the time it takes scientists to create visuals from hours to minutes while drastically improving the quality. BioRender is used around the world by over 500 institutions including Stanford, Harvard, Genentech, Abbvie and many more of the best research institutions in the world.

Stack: Javascript + Typescript (React frontend, Node.js backend, MongoDB), AWS (S3, cloudfront)

Team: 8 people total, 3 developers

Remote considered for exceptional candidates.

Email your resume to katya at biorender.io

More info on the position: https://biorender.io/senior-fullstack-developer
https://twitter.com/biorender
> Is being searched before you get on a plane or enter a customs checkpoint some kind of hideous infringement of your civil liberties? No!

No. But they are looking for items that would make the flight unsafe, as well as controlled substances.

If they are searching your bits, they are not looking for either of these things, they are looking for thought crimes. Not only now, but in your past.

There is a big difference.
Are there any well regarded studies that show that hiring an MBA graduate as a manager benefits the company compared to having an "old school" manager who's only qualification is being clever and shrewd? Or studies that show the opposite?
If [the government, businesses, etc.] could not (or did not) find these vulnerabilities, most of which seem like things your average techie might have checked for, what evidence is there to suggest that [the government, businesses, etc.] know how to fix them either?
The Robert Venturi Effect
Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
You can grow intellectually in only one single domain in the Bay Area, which is Tech. That's what it's known for, that's also why high figures like Thiel, Ferriss, etc. left the Bay. It is good for a short period of time, but if you're above average in terms of curiosity as a whole, you need to move out to grow intellectually. You'll get stuck in the Bay otherwise.
>I would also argue that hiding "the aim behind the submission" is soft of the point, submissions should be able to stand on their own. If more context is required then a better link should be found IMO, a HN submission title is not the place for an opinion piece. Worst case scenario add a comment in your submission explaining your rationale.

I feel like that then runs afoul of HN's other guideline to prefer primary sources.

Consider the following scenario: PopularSoftware v.6.2 sneaks in a one-line mention in its changelog that the software will now proactively scan the contents of your computer. This would obviously be newsworthy and would make for a popular point of discussion for HN. How best should that be communicated in the submission? If we follow HN guidelines, the submission title should be copied from the main page, "PopularSoftware v.6.2 is released!" That doesn't really make it clear to the HN user casually scanning the front page that the submission is really trying to draw your attention to that particular, controversial bullet point.

An alternative would be promoting someone's blogpost or analysis of PopularSoftware 6.2 and its disclosure of hard-disk scanning. But as I mentioned earlier, you'd be promoting a secondary source over a primary source simply for the sake of clarity in the submission title.
Brain Corporation | San Diego, CA | Onsite Only

Brain Corp is a San Diego-based AI company that specializes in the development of self-driving technology. We are taking our proprietary BrainOS (robot operating system) and putting it on machines to turn them into self-driving, autonomous robots. We have raised $110m from SoftBank and Qualcomm Ventures.

We are hiring across all engineering functions (Research, Software, Firmware, Electrical, Mechanical). Our full job board can be found here: https://braincorporation.applytojob.com/apply/

Highlighted openings:

* Sr. Software Engineer(AWS Cloud)

* Depth Perception Research Scientist

* Application and Tools Developer (Qt)

* Robotics SWE

* Site Reliability Engineer

* Software Test Automation Engineer

All positions are posted on the website. Please apply there if interested; respective hiring managers do first resume reviews.

Typical Interview Process: Code challenge, technical phone/skype screen (x2 if non-local), onsite, offer.

Contact us at careers@braincorporation.com. If you don't see a role that matches, feel free to send your resume over to us and let us know what you would be interested in.

Thanks! -Rawson https://www.linkedin.com/in/rawsonleavitt/
No you don't... It's just another agent. Granted, this one sees very little traffic each day, so probably less inclined to annoy you out of spite.

Perhaps if you carry a diplomatic passport, that's a different story altogether.
Perhaps, in this economy and the rising student debt crises, it's hard to suspend work to go get an education to get a loan and graduate to find a job that may or may not pay enough. I know others are doing part-time MBA's but I cannot see anyone getting into debt to get an MBA if you are in the middle class. I think this is probably due to deteriorating middle class more so than the degree losing luster.
Xfce.org is back with temporary DNS from Gandi
Goes to show that the best ideas don't always win, especially when they collide with the interests of critical partners. Maybe it took Napster et al. to really break open the status quo.
So I did a fair bit of an MBA as part of a joint course with Engineering at a well known UK institution. It wasn't literally an MBA, but the MBA there was just one year whereas there was an equivalent amount of time spent at the business school if you chose the right electives.

A couple of my classmates went on and got full 2-year MBAs from very prestigious US institutions.

The verdict, both from those who went on to do something technical, and those who went on to other things, is that Engineering is harder. It may not pay as well, and it's harder, but it's probably more fun if you find the right job. My friend who is a PE partner wondered what he missed out on, since a girl he knew from Engineering went and joined SpaceX very early on. There were a few stories about people who got into F1 as well.

The other part is that you don't actually learn a great deal about business in business school. You won't learn how to make decisions in a strategy class. You won't learn how to invest in a finance class. You might learn some things about the history of thought in the field, eg Taylorism. But generally it is not what it says on the tin.

By contrast I built a working radio in my first term as well as a bridge that an adult could stand on.

A really big issue, which to their credit they pointed out at business school, is that it might be better for managers to have domain knowledge in what they manage, rather than just be general management "specialists". I happen to fall into this more Teutonic camp.

Also, note that very few people that I know report taking an MBA to learn anything. They generally are as cynical as they ought to be about it (!) and did it in order to have better job prospects. It's worked out very nicely for them.
I don't have any knowledge, but wouldn't running an ancient full-scale commercial fab academically/for small volumes be very uneconomical even if they got the fab itself for free.
What roles did those people end up having after the MBA?
Sounds really interesting. I’ll be applying
One possibility is to catch dumb criminals who have draft messages stored locally via email client that have illicit content 2012 source - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/12...
I’d argue that you don’t need one, since you’ve already accomplished so much and have a proven track record. An MBA is mainly for people who want to switch careers entirely. Maybe an EMBA would be more appropriate for the stage you are in your career.
Inform is a fun little thing. I have to say, I much prefer the old Inform 6, that was basically C-ish, to Inform 7. Trying to write something feels very squishy and indistinct, and I never am quite sure if what I think I'm instructing is what I think it is. It's a little on the magic side, sort of like other natural language DSLs (e.g. Cucumber).

Guess the verb and satisfying the parser is a time-honored part of playing interactive fiction; I'm not really sold on the idea of it being a core part of authoring it.
Because they can. Civilisation spent centuries building up rights and due process, and then the authorities suddenly decided none of it mattered in this specific context because we let them. We should be livid. It's an absolute disgrace and an embarrassment to post-enlightenment humanity.

I can't use the visa waiver program to travel to the US because I was arrested once. Not convicted of any crime, mind you, just arrested. In the rest of society it's a pretty strong principle that guilt is decided in courts, not by police officers. No matter: anything that makes you seem less than the lowest possible risk is enough to deny you something. No presumption of innocence, no visa waiver program for me.

My girlfriend's mother has applied for a family visa that would allow her to immigrate to my country (where her daughter lives) permanently. The application takes several years. In the meantime she applied for a tourist visa to visit us for Christmas later this year. It was denied. We can only speculate why, but of course I suspect that since she has demonstrated a desire to immigrate permanently, the authorities consider her at risk of overstaying the visa. A mother who has done nothing wrong can't visit her daughter for Christmas because of this, and it makes me furious. She has no intention of overstaying: if this is why they rejected the visa it is again an assumption of guilt instead of one of innocence.

I wonder if there is any way to make it an election issue in any country. Parties seem to be unanimous on the topic, and most people don't travel, so it's probably not much of a pull for votes. Influential people travel more though.
NoRedInk | Director of Engineering, Full-Stack Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and Engineering Managers | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Pacific Time (PST) to Central European Time (CET)

We’re an ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become strong writers! Our team may be small, but NoRedInk is used by 1 in 2 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 5 billion questions on our platform.

We’re a group of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other. We discuss past mistakes openly so we can adapt our processes to the challenges that come with progress. Puns flow freely across our San Francisco office as well as on Slack, and we have remote engineers spanning six different time zones.

Our engineering team [1] prides itself on code quality and innovation. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our new front-end code, and have been migrating legacy React code to Elm as well. Our back-end is primarily Ruby on Rails, although we are working to split off smaller services as we scale to keep up with our traffic. You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog! [2]

In addition to spending work hours open-sourcing useful libraries we develop [3], we also invest financially in open source. We hired the creator of Elm, Evan Czaplicki, to develop Elm full time. [4] Evan discusses his plans for the language with the team every week, periodically pairs with other engineers on Elm, and cracks up members of the sales team with his lunchtime jokes.

We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure and automate all of our deployments using Chef and OpsWorks. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. Our process for new features begins with our product team and in-house visual designer, continues with a GitHub pull request from a feature branch into master, and ends with our in-house QA specialist trying to break it before it reaches production.

We’re looking for engineers who want to work on a mission that makes a difference and who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness, over convincing the group they’re right.

For our Director of Engineering role, we're seeking an experienced engineering leader who’s operated and scaled a high-performing team, cares about tackling complex technical challenges, and maintains a high bar for talent and engineering practices.

You can learn more about what to expect through blog posts about our interview process [5] and on-boarding experience [6].

If you’re interested, please apply through our jobs page! https://www.noredink.com/jobs

[1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team

[2] http://tech.noredink.com/

[3] https://github.com/NoRedInk/

[4] http://tech.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan

[5] http://tech.noredink.com/post/145260396603/our-engineering-h...

[6] http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...
Anyone knows where large e-ink displays can be purchased directly for electronic projects/prototyping?
Your side business saw growth from what you learned from your MBA? Could you elaborate on that a bit more? What did you learn that you were able to apply to your business that lead to growth?