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GiveCampus (YC S15) | Engineering, Product, BizDev | DC, SF | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.givecampus.com/careers

GiveCampus builds fundraising software for colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. The company is 4 years old, profitable, and serves more than 500 schools, including 30 of the Top 50-ranked colleges in the United States. We're backed by Y Combinator and YC's CEO listed us among the 20 YC companies that he expects to be a household name by 2020 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296). You can read a bit more about what we do in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...).

For engineering, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel. We're looking for people who like having ownership of the product, and can own the process from idea to development to deployment and maintenance.

For product, we're looking for someone to drive innovation and execute product initiatives across the company, working closely with the CTO and engineering team. We want someone who will take ownership over the ideation, technical development, launch, and measurement of success.

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, please reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of.
A few of my friends have Google Home and I found it very interesting they have to shout louder at the device when the music is louder, I've never had a problem with the HomePod hearing me, even if I whisper and music is playing. I have a HomePod in the livingroom about 15 feet from the bathroom and it can always hear me in the morning. I also find it's good at knowing what HomePod in my house to react on, and handing the request off to the HomePod if my iPhone picks up. My only complaint is that if my iPhone is upside down Hey Siri stops working on the HomePod.
> Why do you presume that men must risk their jobs ? It sounds like some some macho-requirement.

One of the cornerstones of their entire industry accounting for the uncertainty of the future. They're already risking their jobs (and, indeed, their companies) every day.

Contrast that with a statistically insignificant number of false accusations.

If they are truly afraid of false accusations (like they say) rather than true accusations, then they haven't clearly done the math.

(If, on the other hand, they're afraid of true accusations, they should proactively cease to sexually harass women and maybe they'll have a less guilty conscience.)

I'm not imposing a macho-requirement on anyone, just asking that they exercise some sense of consistency here.
Combination of a few things :)

1. I have good margin and am profitable, but not enough to cover lifestyle. See below:

2. I have a high cost-of-living, deliberately. I live in NYC, have a kid in private school, and travel a lot.

Now, I fully recognize that I could lower my project risk by living a more austere lifestyle, but I'm comfortable with the tradeoff that I'm currently making.

Of course, I'm still stressed and impatient, but that's more of an internal problem :)
show me better sources and data?
On a related note, this is the one article which after reading I wanted to subscribe to, but could not find a newsletter or subscription. Dan, if you're reading this, this might help: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-mailchimp/?n...

I'm guessing the site is built with gatsby from the theme.
I think this was brought up in another place on HN recently, and somebody argued it's probably a couple orders of magnitude off in the conversion to "today's dollars" apart from the accuracy of the figure in sesterces.

My thought is $15 billion in today's dollars is an absurd amount for "a years supply of grain for Rome", since Rome was supposedly around a million people. $15,000 per person for food alone is more than the global per capita GDP in 2018!
Try saying:

“Hey Siri, create a 10 second timer”

“Hey Siri, play some Rolling Stones”

Find yourself picking up the phone to stop these two actions?
Unfortunately the article stops short of actually stating how this would be useful as you couldn't really do this in real time on an unsuspecting card holder (Hey, can I casually hold my phone over your credit card while my buddy over there buys a TV?). My best guess is that you physically control a compromised card and use the reader-emulator setup to drain the card as quickly as possible. Think of a scenario where you are holding the card at your secret hideout and then send out a team of goons, each with an emulator, to buy gift cards using the stolen card a la NFC. This just feels like a much more complicated version of card cloning.
I had to deal with this crap more than once. It's a real thing. The article doesn't mention a helpful strategy that kept false claims off my own record: having a diverse team with plenty of women who respect you and will have your back. Even some that don't like you but have character that they won't lie about you. They told the truth about me to anyone that asked. That included what they liked, shrugged over, or really hated (about 99% shit I'd say). The world of difference between what a few women claimed and what my coworkers said spending years with me in private got those claims discarded before they could touch my record. One I had to hold back so she didn't do something crazy since women hate false claims about this stuff about as much as men. Those claims create false perceptions that undermine attempts to deal with actual harassment and sex crimes. So, a certain percentage of women working with me go all out fighting any BS they see like that.

So, that led to a generic solution building on what I was already doing. Just bring more women (and minorities) into your workplace, treat your workers well, spend time with them (in public if you're worried), build relationships, have their back where they need it, and they'll probably have yours, too. I actually don't have much charisma or management skill only working one job like that. I was the favorite boss of most of my people for years, though, just doing the above surviving all false claims of all types. It probably helps that I'm pretty genuine where they just knew what I would or wouldn't do.

The people, men or women, who my bosses thought weren't motivated would sometimes work hardest for me. It's just because I treated them respectfully. Also, helping them would where I could. Such tiny things go so far to bring out the best in people. As a side effect, they also reduce the number and effectiveness of false claims. So, I recommend companies just do more of that. Treating people well, inclusive behavior, and so on. Every company I know like that out here gets good results of some kind.
All of the hiring managers I've talked to recently have the JQuery/JS dichotomy applied to React now. That is, they don't seem to really care that there's a difference. You can say you're good with JS, Vue, DOM etc, but if you don't check that React box, it's not good enough.
Don't get me wrong, I love Rust, but I think any programming beginner starting with Rust as a first language is pretty likely to fail.

Ownership is a hugely important part of designing programs, and it's something people need to come to terms with eventually, but a language where you can't do even hello world without understanding ownership adds a lot of mental overhead to the learning process when someone is still not even comfortable with for loops and function calls.
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The zip code you’re born in continues to be one of the strongest predictors of your economic mobility. Our team aims to build a more equitable world by expanding access within it. Remix is the first platform for transit and city planning, helping 300+ cities around the world design transit and street networks quickly, confidently, and clearly.

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- Product Manager: https://jobs.lever.co/remix/df5c4ed5-2fa2-4a60-9b04-b2796551...
Ultimately, I don't think the percentage of cases really matter: we have a tendency to have an irrational fear of things that have a very low probability. (Like child abduction etc.)

I don't think this is any different. The chance of being falsely accused is probably very small, but I know I'd absolutely crushed, both mentally and physically (lack of sleep for months in a row) if it happened to me. Even if, a year or two later, they'd clear my name. It's sufficient to have just a few high profile cases to increase that fear.

That doesn't mean that I'd go out of my way to avoid hiring women...
Yes, while reading the Gulag Archipelago about the forced labor camps and how people would be worked to death or freeze due to inadequate clothing, it definitely seemed the atrocities held back faster progress rather than promoted it. If they had been more humane they might've industrialized even faster.
For a related (but less complicated) project, see Mozilla's RNNoise project, which uses neural networks to better tune classical signal processing algorithms to reduce noise in recorded speech:
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/
That's more than misleading.

Having made poor choices in the past (drugs) they now have the neuro-chemical pathways cut into their ~brians~ brains; literal ruts that signals will prefer to get to the end-state (high/low).

With enough use, heroin doesn't leave a person with choice, but rather impulse.

[edit] lol, brians [/edit]
Leaving NYC for Nashville
As an aside, one neat side effect of hey Siri is that often multiple devices can hear you at the same time. In my office I have my XR, iPad, and for dev an iPhone 7 and 8. When I say hey Siri I often hear all of them start to respond, but then all but one cancels listening. I've never really paid attention to which one wins the battle, but it does usually seem to be the device closest to me.

Just thought it was interesting as something they had to accommodate -- multiple devices all phoning home to determine if there's a race, and if so who should field the request.
But it commonly is, and you commonly don't.
Overdose deaths are only a fraction of the casualties of this particular war on people. We should also count all the people who are in prison on charges of self-medicating, and all the people who die in prison while being punished for hurting no one but themselves.

I didn't know anything about Methadone until I'd taken a few people to the various methadone clinics. I thought they were just medical drop-offs... and thought it odd that their trip home was just a few minutes later. Eventually I learned these people were going for their daily dose of methadone. One fellow said he'd gotten addicted to painkillers following a car accident, and that he'd never imagined himself needing to visit a methadone clinic every day.

Towards the end of my taxi driving experience, I had a woman going from WalMart to a half-way house. She'd spent 5 years in prison for sharing a single opiate pill with a friend (circa 2010). She said something about the cop who wrote her up for prosecution chuckling as he filled out the form. Over her five years in prison several of her fellow inmates died from neglect. She'd gained a lot of weight on prison food, which isn't very nutritious.

Apparently the State of Arizona is negligent-homiciding prisoners in the name of helping them correct their behavior, which doesn't make much sense to me. I'm sure all the other states' jails and prisons have similar conditions.
This bit, within the linked story, seems relevant:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
It happened once and 5 years ago. And not a big deal anyway.
SEEKING WORK | Auckland, New Zealand | REMOTE

G'day. I'm a contract web and mobile developer in New Zealand. The timezone works surprisingly well for remote work on the US West coast (I spent 18 months working for a company in Oakland, CA). I just live in the future so can give you all the /lottery|election|sportsball/ results.

My first programming language was AmigaBASIC, but most of my recent experience is across the JavaScript stack: React, quite a lot of React Native, Express, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Heroku, Jest. I'm an Arch Linux daily driver.

Right now I'm teaching React and Node at Enspiral Dev Academy here in Auckland, but I'm available for work in the new year. Let's talk.

* GitHub: https://github.com/richchurcher

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richchurcher
Few of my projects have ever had any tests. And none of the even remotely successful ones have. Luxury I just can't afford.

The work I do for clients is always much higher quality from a purely technical perspective, but when you're solo and working on side projects, you optimize for a completely different set of variables (or fail).
Fossil algae reveal 500M years of climate change
Well, there is a healthy community concerning a particular obscure kink I have been 'given', that is not present anywhere else. I wonder what are suitable places to migrate to.
The targets are completely unknown. They were experimentally solved, but not submitted to the Protein Data Bank. You basically get a target every day (meaning sequence of amino acids) and then depending on the category, you have three days to predict it (I think upto two weeks for "human" servers). In the modeling category they participated in, you can submit 5 models. A model is a fully predicted 3d structure of the protein. The targets are mostly independent. Some targets were split over a few days. But in principle, a target on day X has no connection to a target on day Y. The targets have varying difficulty. There are two categories: TBM (templated based) and FM (free modeling). You don't know which protein corresponds to which category, you can just guess by looking at the available template data. They focused on FM targets. Meaning there are no homologous available. It's hard to say how good of an indicator the results are. Looking at the contact prediction results, many methods are getting very good at constructing MSAs (gathering similar sequences). We already saw this at CASP12 - I think the FM targets are getting "easier" in that sense. There is basically zero feedback throughout the whole competition. Some targets are released after the deadline (because of publications), but in general, you don't know anything until the CASP meeting, which currently takes place. The competition ended in August.
One of my favorite lessons in making a difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
The path to production: how and where to segregate test environments
You're correct. Firefox compares a hash of the URL in question to a local database of hashes of unsafe URLs. If a an unsafe hash match is found, Firefox will then double check by contacting Google's Safe Browsing server to request the current status for a truncated part of the suspect URL plus some random "chaff" hashes. So Google never receives the suspect URL or even the URL's full hash.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
Do you have any citations/references to support this?

All of my jobs have been as the GP describes, where managers see after-hours problems as the dev's responsible for the relevant feature's "fault", and expect them to both manage communication with business stakeholders about the problem and make it go away within short notice.
>Revisionist theories in order to support a vegetarian agenda are pretty annoying to me. A lot of it doesn't even pass a common sense sniff test.

That Plinius with his historical revisionism. Calling gladiators barley-eaters is obvious propaganda from the vegetarian lobby of ancient Rome.
sampleinajar is stating that when doctors were over-prescribing the patient became addicts. When those patients were cut-off from legally buying the drugs, they turned to black market where the quality of the drug is unknown which leads to overdose.
It's small relative to the total number of deaths in the U.S, but large relative to deaths for that age group (< 55):

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...

I assume overdoses are classed as "unintentional poisoning" - they're the leading cause of death for ages 25-45, nearly double car accidents and 3x suicides. They're a very small fraction of deaths by cancer & heart disease, but those usually happen after 50+. In terms of "preventable" deaths they and car accidents are by far the biggest culprits. I'm surprised there's not more of a push toward self-driving cars and mass transit, but other than that it makes sense to focus on overdoses.

The other interesting thing that stood out to me in the data was how much the homicide rate has dropped since 1980. We have this perception that the world is getting more dangerous, but it's not actually reflected in the data, and by far the biggest danger to us now is ourselves.
Dilution effect: https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social...
Apparently you have no idea what a simulator is.
With a proper antenna you can do this from a distance. Or just a gentle tap on someones wallet.
But those costs may have been worth the benefits. We weren't part of the decision-making committee, so we don't know what factors were weighed. It certainly doesn't look like an obviously bad decision to me. There was a big loss, there was a big gain... which one was bigger, I don't know sitting here 10,000 miles away.
The US has not grown that much. It's grown to 1.52x, 1.25x, and 1.22x the population for 1972 (car crash), 1993 (gun), and 1995 (HIV) respectively so it is above everything except the 1972 car crash peak. It's a big deal.
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Our core services team has 2 open positions for senior level full-stack developers. Preferred experience is React/Node. Stack also includes MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Nats running on AWS. For remote candidates, we have a strong preference for US timezones.

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With Echoes of Harvard Case, University of California Faces Admissions Scrutiny
Syllable.ai | Senior Dev Ops Engineer | Sunnyvale, CA | Onsite | Full Time | Email andrew@syllable.ai

Job: Senior Dev Ops Engineer

At Syllable we're building natural language interfaces to enable healthcare companies to have a conversation with their customers and patients, through text or voice. We build NLP and AI tools to assist humans, reducing cost and improving service. We are a well funded start up that moves fast.

Job Description:

Total Ownership of all Syllable infrastructure and operation critical software. This includes:

-Using Cloud Formation or similar cloud configuration language to formalize infrastructure requirements

- Building on our existing CI/CD pipeline and formalizing code deployment processes for efficiency, security, and regulatory compliance.

-Ensuring high availability of dockerized services running on AWS ECS, as well as complete visibility into all services using robust error reporting and logging facilities.

-Managing a framework to provide each service common facilities: logging, database setup, error handling, configuration management, etc. You’ll take ownership of this framework and shape it to your vision.

-Managing internal user roles for accessing infrastructure and databases according to the principles of least privilege with comprehensive auditing

-Spearheading our efforts to maintain regulatory compliance with HIPPA

-Building automation and tooling software to assist in the above responsibilities

Requirements:

-3+ years of previous Devops Engineering experience - either in a formal Devops Engineering role OR as a major, continuous part of the responsibilities in a Software Engineering role

-Programming fluency in a modern software language

-A passion for building infrastructure, tooling, and formalized development processes
I’m fully convinced that 70-80% of my energy and brain function during an interview is spent on listening, formulating responses, breathing and in general trying to interact in a social situation with people I don’t know. That leaves very little to solve problems that I’m not prepared to speak about, usually a riddle or coding puzzle that has no bearing on my day to day.

As developers we are a bit introverted so being in a room with 2-3 people knowing that after this there will be another 2-3 people for round 2, is very difficult. As an interviewer I’ve watched candidates open up talking about what they know and why they enjoy being a developer and completely fall apart (sweat, shake, refuse to get out of their chair) when you hand them a dry erase marker and show them the white board.
Yes it does. Again, you have no idea what a simulator is.
Not just that the cave gets damaged, but they tend to attract people who go in and get lost, injured or die due to being unprepared and not having extensive spelunking experience and training.
> …the opaqueness was not conducive to creating a culture of power users and "semi-developers" unlike the PCs of the time.

Utter nonsense, as anyone who has ever used ResEdit can tell.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Also, extended file attributes are alive and well.
> I believe releasing it to open source makes the code more trustworthy

I don't, and I think it's dangerous to assume that. Many open source projects have systems in place for publicly reviewing and approving code, but microsoft does not have a history of conducting public code reviews for their projects. I would never assume that publicly viewable code is being reviewed by others who know what they are doing if it's not obvious that they are.

> Now, anyone can go in and verify how it works. Any backdoor would be visible in the code

I would only trust those with a high degree of mathematical knowledge, specifically around the subject of cryptography to be able review the code in any meaningful way. The rest of us can verify that it builds successfully and, well, that's about it.
BlueConic | Senior Product Manager | Boston, MA | ONSITE | https://www.blueconic.com/

BlueConic is an international venture backed martech start-up that’s growing fast and is now in scale up phase. We love what we do, we’re proud of how we do it, and we’ve teamed up to create a truly exceptional product and company. BlueConic is leader in the white-hot Customer Data Platform (CDP) space and it’s our job to make sure every marketer gets in on the fun.

Are you the type of product manager that wants to set the bar for achievement at a fast-growing start-up in one of the hottest SaaS markets? Does getting in on the ground floor and helping drive the company’s success get you excited? Are you motivated by playing a critical role in building the future of the company? Send me a note on martijn@blueconic.com or take a look at https://www.blueconic.com/careers/product-manager/