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Clover | Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE | Full-Time | Senior, Distributed Systems | USD $180k+

Who we are

We’re a small team of experienced software engineers tasked with ensuring that Clover’s rapid growth is sustainable over the long term. We solve for cross-cutting non-functional requirements like the security, scalability, and fault tolerance of Clover’s back-end platform and services. We design and develop the core architectural components, libraries, frameworks, tooling, and distributed systems at the heart of Clover’s global payment platform and services.

What we're doing

We recently completed a project to horizontally shard our transactional (payment) database cluster, which had grown to 10+ TB in size. Now we’re building a fully autonomous service for rebalancing merchant data across the shards to distribute load and eliminate hot spots.

We recently completed a project to lift-and-shift our production infrastructure from private data centers to public cloud in order to streamline our global expansion. Now we’re revisiting our architecture, processes, and tooling in order to more fully leverage the cloud environment.

We are actively working on the design, development, and deployment of data pipeline infrastructure to support richer analytics and reporting for our merchants and internal business needs. Our focus is on its security, scalability, reliability, and performance.

We are paving the road towards a decomposed architecture of horizontal core services (like authentication, authorization, placement, tokenization, and inter-device replication) and vertical product services (like device management, merchant boarding, inventory propagation, and customer loyalty programs).

We already have a healthy suite of functional unit and integration tests, and we are actively enhancing our automated stress tests and supporting infrastructure. That involves building the tools to spin up full production-scale environments, synthesize load, perform fault injection, and to collect, analyze, and surface test results in order to help drive continual improvement of performance and availability.

What we use

- Java for back-end services.
- Python for integration and stress tests.
- MySQL for OLTP. Snowflake for OLAP.
- Kafka for stream processing.
- Memcached for caching (duh).
- Wavefront and ELK for operational visibility.
- Redis for ephemeral shared data structures.
- Google (GCP) as our cloud service provider.
- Docker for building containers. Kubernetes for running them.
- Netty for speaking HTTP, behind HAProxy for load balancing.

This is the Clover of today. Come help shape the Clover of tomorrow.

Contact: zac at clover dot com (please mention you saw this in HN)
https://prisma.io | Backend Engineer (Scala, Rust) | Berlin ONSITE

At Prisma we are building the data layer for modern applications. If you are fascinated by the software that power large technology companies such as Twitter, Airbnb and Facebook but want the challenges and freedom that come with working in a small startup, then a job at Prisma might be for you.

Our tech is open source, so go take a look at https://github.com/prisma/prisma

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/prisma/jobs/4110596002
All open positions: https://www.prisma.io/jobs
I used to work in IT and had built this exact thing via Python for large scale, role-based, preference management on our workstations (particularly in lab situation at Universities). I wish chrome had something similar!
GM to Kill Chevrolet Volt, Cruze, Impala Passenger Cars
Redesigning Ethereum’s Most Used Token
For the sake of completeness, how many have they reflown?
I do. It's entertaining, especially since there's been some Qanon posts which seem almost plausible, and the rest of the time it's some guy with a neckbeard trying to get likes.
Looks badass.
I think you're on point except for cynicism in your last paragraph. Machine learning came from genuinely novel research into ai. Over time the connections between ml and statistics became apparent, ml tightened up it's statistical rigour, stats took on some new techniques, and data science was born.

I'm sure some have played the machine learning card cynically, as with any buzzword, but don't throw out baby with bathwater.
Even Digg didn't set out to die overnight.

Come to think of it, of all decade-plus websites, Tumblr is exactly the one for whom suicide is an entirely expected ending.

Moody, unique, too obscure for the mainstream but popular enough among the kind of people who would appreciate you. You were the kind to enjoy poetry and inspirational images, but those inspirational images just couldn't give you enough dopamine. You sought a higher high, and would happily do so unnoticed, until some higher-up found the hidden closet.
Zume Inc. | Senior / Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://zume.com/

Zume recently raised a round of funding for $375m https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/zume-reportedly-snags-375-...

Zume is on a quest to be the most powerful source of health and well-being on the planet. To achieve our objective, we must facilitate the provision of wholesome, affordable food on a global scale and in a sustainable manner. We are meeting this challenge by providing an end-to-end, scalable platform that reduces the time and distance between clean food sources and dense population centers, using cutting-edge automation and transportation logistics. By developing better tools and processes, we can feed people healthier, sustainably-grown food, delivered fresh and free from chemical stabilization.

Our stack:

* Node, Express, Vue, Javascript, Postgres, Redis, Heroku, RabbitMq

* Moving from large monorepo to smaller services in TypeScript using docker and GCE

All open positions (Seattle, San Francisco, Mountain View): https://boards.greenhouse.io/zume
It's possible to code this fast but hardly possible to host it the way it would handle the load without a million dollar invoice or to find an investor that would pay it this fast.
Forestry.io (https://forestry.io) | Remote | Full-Time

Forestry.io is a content management system for static websites that are built with tools like Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby (static site generators). Developers around the world are leaving WordPress and Drupal for more secure, performant, static sites and Forestry allows their non-technical teams to manage content. Forestry takes a Git-based approach to content management. When content is edited in Forestry, all updates are saved as commits in the Git repo for that site. Our product is a Rails application and we are currently seeking a senior Rails developer to join the team and help us continue to build out the product.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

• Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

• Devops Engineer

• User Experience (UX) Researcher:
User-centric, CMS-loving, product geek. Your role is to assist our product team and help us build the best CMS on the planet.

• Enterprise sales leader:
Someone who has experience with inbound, developer-tool enterprise sales. A person who can do sales and build the early sales team.

All positions are open to remote or on-site candidates
Please send a cover letter, resume, and code samples (where applicable) to jobs@forestry.io and mention this post in the subject.
Yeah you really have to be tactful about it, and do parallel reconstruction wherever possible. Once they know their devices are bugged their behavior will change to evade you.

On the other hand, like sysadmins who enjoy reviewing network logs to find which married executives spend their days skulking around Grindr there are a lot of parents that abuse this to become straight-up voyeurs. There's even an episode of Black Mirror about it. Regardless of your moral/religious convictions, you really don't want to discover or become party to your kids' sexual proclivities without cause.

I don't bug my kids' devices, but I did have to resolve a sexual harassment issue with my own daughter. Her behavior was starting to become worrysome-- lengthy secretive sessions on her phone, followed by signs of distress, anxiety, not eating, etc. When she didn't have access to the phone (or the battery died) it was even worse. So I black-bagged the damn thing, found out what was going on, and confronted her only on the nature of her behavior ("you haven't been eating lately"), gently guiding the questions toward what I knew to be the truth ("is someone bothering you?") and letting her do the talking.

She's none the wiser, the problem got resolved to mutual satisfaction, and I don't have to continuously violate her trust or privacy.
Playing Machiavelli in the Middle East in “Conflict” (2014)
Any attributes for required/optional fields?
This news also seems relevant to the Net Neutrality fight. Once Verizon feels they have to protect us from harmful images or thoughts, where will it stop?
This was the first time that SpaceX has launched-and-landed the same rocket on three separate missions.

https://mashable.com/article/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-r...
Are you only looking for senior devs?
Huge market opportunity for OnlyFans.com and similar Patreon-for-porn sites.
That's a different subject entirely. Beginners should learn from resources teaching fundamentals, both primitives and patterns like abstraction/decomposition, using a simple language with minimal, incidental complexity. Once they grok that, my next recommendation is using another simple, but real-world, language like Python or Go with lots of code they can practice on. Read, modify, and debug. Then, with key skills, they can tackle hard stuff like C, C++, and Rust.

Pyret at pyret.org is a good candidate since there's a group called Bootstrap successfully teaching it to middle schoolers. That's bootstrapworld.org.

Far as Rust, Ill also note people exploring the language or doing quick-and-dirty coding can just use reference counting if they want. Rust supports that. There's a performance hit but that's probably fine in those use cases.
"(...) the only place to ever exist where women could safely express their sexuality."

Some female friends of mine used to like fetlife.com. They say its like facebook, but with... fewer family members and coworkers I guess you could say.
Has anyone tried to use this to create a distributed cloud? If storage and certain types of computation could be encrypted, anyone could sell their spare computation power without trust issues.
How 1,482 emails resulted in a $590,000 seed round
> While in reality at least in my experience the developer would be very much happy to fix the code, it's just that you don't get any time to do that. It's only new features and new products.

I agree. At GitLab, I'm trying to build our "Support Engineering" group into people that have the time and mandate to fix the things that spring up leaving product devs to focus on new features. It's been working pretty well:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16511 (40% view speedup)

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?scope...
Engineers are commodities. If this is what the board and shareholders want, an engineer has a ~0% chance of leading a revolution and changing that. This is real life capitalism not The Hunger Games.
This. So many technically-minded people are so wrapped up in their configurations that they forget that sometimes you're placed in a situation where those configs don't exist. Good defaults ensure a decent, minimal, baseline experience that isn't hair-tearingly bad.
That's what happens when you want 30% of sales
I forgot to say - We have experience relocating candidates from US and can help cover costs and navigate the visa process. If you are tired of the SF rat race, then Berlin has a lot to offer :-)
Why can't you monitor (almost) everything? Unless it's at a friend's house, my ten-year-old has no access to tumblr. I fail to understand why children must have access to internet connected devices.
Prevoty Is Hiring Software Engineer, Java
Deployment Best Practices with HashiCorp, Heptio, and LaunchDarkly
> Hosting your own server gives you full control.

And exposes you to all kinds of problems to care about including DDoSes, pwners, lawyers, hardware failures etc.

> You can also create a Tor Hidden Service.

So (I feel sad about this but this is how it seems) almost nobody will ever find it, but child porn lovers and other kinds of ultimate weirdos will and you will have hard time banning them.
Nah, that’s the justification googlers use to not leave their well paid position.
What a garbage CEO Pichai has been. I suspect that Brin and Page's decision to hand over the reins was because they didn't have the courage to lead Google morally but they also didn't want to get their hands dirty.
You saved my life with every essay I had to write at university
How much of this success is because of Elon?
19 times as of today
How a simple bug in Microsoft Macro Assembler could be exploited for backdoors
Pintrest is the same way... there are tons of pro-ana pinboards/etc up there, so beware.
So the 'steamroller' is now up to speed.

Does anyone have any ideas if Spacex will actually grow the launch market, rather than just dominate.
What new things become possible with lower cost access to space.

Spacex are developing communications satellites for internet, what else?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies so far, I was thinking more down to earth (di dum ch) things rather than theoretically possible.
Eg I know that certain drugs are made in space because the crystal structure requires zero g (or something), so is that something with pent up demand, or some exciting materials that are awaiting lower cost manufacture.
Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, Not mobile phones
Reddit isn't exactly known for its tolerance of sexual content that doesn't harm anyone (or violate anyone's privacy).
Bitcoin is close to becoming worthless
Kitty Hawk: Project Cora | Flight Software Engineers for Certification of World's First Commercial Air Taxi Vehicle | Atlanta | ONSITE, Full Time | http://cora.aero

We are Kitty Hawk, an innovative aerospace company backed and led by proven visionaries. Our mission is to design and build vehicles for everyday flight, reducing the world's traffic congestion. Although an audacious challenge, we have been at work on a self-flying air taxi since 2010, tackling some of the biggest challenges in aviation. Our world-class team contributes decades of expertise in commercial aviation, aerospace, automotive engineering, advanced manufacturing, flight test, industrial design, customer experience, and regulatory compliance.

With the addition of a new Atlanta location, we invite talented and ambitious engineers who share our passion for flight, to join our team. Specifically, we are now hiring for software engineers to assist in the development, analysis, review and verification of flight software which runs on-board our Cora aircraft. Preferred experience includes: embedded systems engineering, firmware engineering, experience with RTOS development, RTCA DO-178C or DO-178B, SAE ARP 4751A, software test coverage analysis. Please apply via the following link:

Flight Software Verification Engineer - Atlanta, GA
https://jobs.lever.co/kittyhawk.aero/5fe8399b-82ab-44bd-9c35...
EPFL, Blue Brain Project, Neuroinformatics team | Software Engineers, Knowledge / Data Engineers and more | Geneva, Switzerland | ONSITE

The goal of the Blue Brain Project is to build biologically accurate digital reconstructions and simulations of the rodent, and ultimately the human brain.

Are you looking to work on an open source project using cutting-edge technology in a nice working environment while contributing to the greater good?

Come join our Neuroinformatics team to help us build Blue Brain Nexus ( https://bluebrain.github.io/nexus/ ), a knowledge graph for provenance based, semantic enabled data management and data driven science.

Since Google Knowledge Graph announcement years ago, knowledge graphs are becoming ubiquitous as simple, flexible, expressive and powerful way of integrating, searching and sharing data in large organizations. In a knowledge graph, a domain of application is broken down into entities - the Things- (people, organisations, software, workflows, events, etc.) connected by mean of relationships whom semantic are explicit. This simple and expressive data model makes knowledge graphs suitable for powering intelligent system and services. By joining Blue Brain Nexus team, you’ll contribute to the development of a large scale.

Some of our technology stack: Scala/Akka, Typescript/React, Openshift/Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, RDF based Graph Database, Linked Data, SPARQL, JSON-LD.

We have many positions open. For more details and for applying:

- Scala Developer: https://go.epfl.ch/bs8

- Frontend Developer: https://go.epfl.ch/bs9

- Knowledge Engineer: https://go.epfl.ch/bsA

- Data Integration Engineer: https://go.epfl.ch/bsB

- Data Integration Specialist: https://go.epfl.ch/bsC

- Manager, Data and Knowledge Engineering: https://go.epfl.ch/bsD

- Computer Vision Engineer: https://go.epfl.ch/bsE
There are some things about VB syntax over C# syntax that I like.

1) Having the type-name come after the variable name makes for more readable code (in my opinion). The variable itself is more important than its type. (Other languages use a colon. Example: "counter: int;")

2) Having the block "ender" name match the starting name makes for less confusion and block-related IDE miss-matches. All the C# "}" look the same to the IDE and human eye. However, I do wish VB's block naming were more consistent, such as "while...end while" instead of "while...wend". (The later versions mostly fixed this.) In other words, always have the pattern be "X...end X" so you don't have to think.

3) Better switch/case syntax, because it's set-oriented. Needing "break" is silly.

4) Not needing parentheses in IF statements.
Probably beneficial for Google that he quit and is no longer working on the project
Engineers can move up and have influence.
> free speech just isnt applicable when it comes to children

Are you arguing that free speech must be abandoned, just in case children happen to be listening?
I read the two anecdotes shared as mere allegories of the reaction tumblr is taking to the content that is being banned from the platform, not a 1:1 comparison of pornographic content and body image content; that in mind I think these types of stories are just as relevant when looking at how we signal collective approval of the types of content we are willing to expose ourselves and our young ones to-and the impact these disparate types of content have, wouldn't you say?
Kathleen Booth – Machine Learning Pioneer
I saw someone speaking in this way once; they were immediately accused of maintaining and cultivating the "rape culture" and seemed to get more heat than the supposed offender.
The reasoning I heard was that since most gladiators were unlikely to make it past the first few fights, why waste expensive food on them?

For celebrity gladiators I imagine the calculation was different.
Advertisers are being given undue influence in the evolution of our culture.
Your comment reminds me so much of my PM who asks questions like these to give an appearance that he is putting in some serious effort and energy to understand. Add a few words like 'value', 'leverage' and 'resonate' and the impersonation would be pitch perfect .... Looks up contact detail oops spoke to soon should have guessed.
alias brev=abbreviate
What a lovely profile. I worked at Google early enough that I got to know Jeff and Sanjay, although never worked directly with them (to my regret). Every aspect of this article rings true to me, the way they are, the way they work together. I always admired how incredibly collaborative they were. They never competed with each other. Or really with anyone else, either, they just quietly did excellent work and helped others do their work too.
Some people on Reddit are recommending Pixiv, a Japanese site.
From three different launchpads. A hat trick!
Why do you think they're GPL-licenced? Did I miss the license on the page?

Also, if you read about the FSF they don't advocate for all non-software to be free. Some documentation from the FSF is not included in Debian because the Debian developers deemed it not free enough, because some parts are marked as non-modifiable.
Interesting that it's Pinterest-like! I'll check out the user experience. Does it support documents?
Don't want to be evil? Don't become a public corporation.

Three cheers for the bootstrappers! Patience is a virtue.
Yesterday's BitChute discussion [0] brought up the unfortunate fact that many ostensibly free-speech zone sites such as Voat and Gab just end up being havens for far right bigots and conspiracy theorists. Made me wonder if that toxic stew could be balanced if far left activists brigaded those platforms. With this story, it'd be even more amusing if amateur erotica creators and kink community people migrated from Tumblr to those places as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583211
What Makes a Data Scientist Valuable?
The friendship that made Google huge
Gonna start using this one (https://www.gnu.org/graphics/I_run_GNU_by_GNUlancer.png) on my Windows PC at work
> What new things become possible with lower cost access to space.

Mars.
Success works on an inverse veto system, where everyone has to perform right for anything to happen at all. That includes Elon, who invested a lot of his own funds in the beginning, and as I have heard manages actively.
Adobe | Web Application Engineers | Full-time, Onsite | SF

Join a startup team at Adobe SF to help re-imagine Photoshop for the web. We're building a user-first, non-pro focused app that empowers everyone to easily build the stunning images and design they can imagine - with the simplicity, power and joy of playing with simple building blocks.

Good design is hard, but the applications we use to build our designs should make it easy, so we're using the power of excellent UX and machine learning to help make that a reality.

We're solving challenging, engaging problems that include:

- Creating a highly performant rendering on low-end devices in a browser environment
- Offline-first real-time collaborative image editing
- Large scale social discovery, learning, sharing, remixing of creative imagery & content
- Utilizing machine learning to speed up and improve the creative process

We’re a small but rapidly growing team, backed by the tech and resources of Adobe. Our modern web stack includes: TypeScript, React, Web Components, WebAssembly, Canvas/WebGL, Node.js, AWS. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute back to open-source projects.

Join us to change how the world creates images.

Learn more and apply here:

Full Stack / Backend Web Engineer (SF): https://adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/external_experienced/job...

Web Automation Quality Engineer (SF)
https://adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/external_experienced/job...

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The predictability of the Amiga desktop enabled vast productivity for me. I could play it like it was Sonic 2.
Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption unfortunately only works for a pretty limited set of workloads and FHE is still mind bogglingly slow so a general purpose cloud for arbitrary computation isn't going to be a thing any time soon.
I have my own share of mental issues, but I just have a hard time seeing how I could ever get involved in one of these groups, much less believe the bullshit they are spouting.

What is the situation that makes these seem like a solid choice?
How about "Starting wage housing"? Something that implies a financial beginning rather than a financial slump or misfortune.
Some people don’t understand why I have a basic, utter distaste for Microsoft. You might.