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Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time

https://angel.co/lightning/
https://lightning.engineering/

Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge of innovation with regard to blockchain scalability, privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX. If you’re interested in one of the positions below, please send a brief description of your relevant experience and resume/github to jobs@lightning.engineering. And if you know someone who might be a good fit, we'd very much appreciate any referrals.

{Crypto Protocol Engineer}:

Experienced systems software engineer versed in applied cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, distributed systems, open source software, and cryptocurrency protocols to design and implement core protocol and algorithmic components of the Lightning Network. Solid programming skills, experience with Go, C, or C++. Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred.

{Frontend Application Developer}:

Frontend developer to build secure cross-platform second-layer blockchain applications. Our applications are built on React, React Native, MobX, and Electron, communicating with a Lightning daemon over a binary RPC protocol. Ideal applicants will have experience building and shipping React Native applications and maintaining open source projects.

{Infrastructure and Distributed Systems Engineer}:

Systems-oriented engineer to build highly-available, secure systems, lowering the barrier to entry for operating routing nodes and making Lightning more useable in general. Tasks include writing advanced software tooling for automated channel management, initial client channel selection (autopilot), ongoing capital management and optimization, monitoring infrastructure for routing nodes, and creating novel systems for obtaining and managing channel liquidity within the network.

{DevOps Engineer}:

We currently deploy a number of backend services that make Lightning easier to use built on technology such as: etcd, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and Traefik. Your role would be to help us secure and scale these systems via intelligent automation and robust service architecture. Experience with AWS is a bonus, as well as experience with Bitcoin, particularly in the area of key management.
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A minor quibble: it's irresponsible to bring it to market or otherwise operate it without additional safety measures. Creating it isn't directly a problem.
Huh, this is actually a good counter-example. I wonder why that is. Tidal tried to compete on exclusives and it doesn't appear to have worked out for them.

Spotify appears to be positioning itself as an destination for exclusive, original audio programs, but those aren't music.
? I used a Nexus 5 up until last year. Ended up upgrading last year, not because it had issues or because lineage stopped releasing for it, but because IT at my new job refused to let six-year-old devices on the network. Meanwhile, my parents complained continuously about their three-year-old iPhones getting slower and slower. Anecdotes, yeah, but...
Couldn't he have sent a text to his Elite friends instead?

Why announce it to the world when 99.9% of people are not affected by this?

Oh wait... They need your money to do it.
If developers cared about security or their users they would managed their dependencies directly. Most developers don’t cared because they don’t wish to be inconvenienced.

That isn’t primarily an ecosystem problem. It is a bad developer problem justified by common practice.
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Software Engineer experienced building Tech companies. Proven track record as a technical contributor, agile project manager and managing outsourced teams.

Have worked at Startups and large companies. Comfortable eliciting requirements, writing specs and developing the solution on time⏱⏱⏱⏱⏱. Have worked fullstack, mobile, devops, conversion funnel optimization and machine learning. Developed software used by thousands of paying customers
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I agree.

It's mind-bendingly frustrating to me that eating out in the UK seems to be a fundamentally unhealthy affair.

I just want meat and two veg, a curry without a wad of oil, spaghetti bolognese, whatever. A standard staple meal without a ton of additives or other weirdness.

If anyone knows of places like this in London I'm all ears. The best I can think of right now is IKEA food court which isn't the healthiest and isn't next to anything else.

Basically anywhere I can think of serves bastardizations of real food. Polish milk bars, as stated below, are the only time I think I've ever eaten real food outside of a private home.
The whole labor dynamic has changed in the US over the last half century. Manufacturing left and never came back. Unskilled labor is not in demand any longer, skills are, so it's no wonder that there are a lot of people with bachelors degrees. Most PhDs, at least in stem, are fully funded at least.
There's no fundamental law that requires neural networks be hard to understand. In fact debugging and interpreting neural networks is a very active area of research and getting easier everyday. In twenty years I would not be surprised if tools are so good, due to economic forces, that it's easier to understand why a neural network made a decision than it is to understand why some complex hand written conditionals program reached a certain result.
How about instead of colonizing mars, we colonize Greenland first? Or Antarctica?
The secret world of the CIA's social media team
IIRC, the barrier was damaged from an accident that happened 11 days prior [0]. One or two weeks later, I remember driving past the area of the crash a Sunday or two Sundays after the Tesla fatal wreck (I vaguely remember the time period because I remember picking up a visiting friend in early April). Traffic had slowed down to a crawl for miles, and it appeared that a crew was doing work on that barrier -- I assume they were fixing/replacing the barrier.

My point is, it seems premature to blame CA DOT for its role. Do you have evidence that the delay in replacing that particular barrier was slower than the normal time window? Because it seems likely that fixing that barrier is a construction job that can only be done on a weekend, because it's impractical to jam the 101 during a weekday commute.

[0] https://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-i-team-investigate...
Mercurial has been pretty good, especially with tortoiseHg and seeing the visual branches flowing along.

We use this in a fairly large team with remote workers, and it works like a charm. Only the merge conflict interface could use work, but it integrates with visual studio code quite nicely.

https://tortoisehg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/pbranch....
What would you suggest Caltrans do instead, other than replace the attenuator more often?

I can think of various other things that Caltrans can place there for people to crash into, but at some point there will be the start of a rigid wall.
> I think affirmative action is a bad idea for exactly this reason. It has eroded the narrative. It's trendy for left-wing types to argue things like "Harvard isn't a meritocracy" or to sneer at the idea of a meritocracy altogether (don't get me started on the right-wing types).

I too hate those people passionately. I'm all for meritocracy in general. I'm just also for pareto-optimal outcomes in resource-constrained environments.

> I think doing this in the open would be a disaster. What won't destroy the narratives is implementing your idea in the background. This has already happened to some degree. Most students at Harvard don't pay very much. Their education is subsidized by rich families one way or another.

Ya it's definitely already a thing in the background. And maybe that's the right level for it, i'm not sure. Though I think we could basically be providing free tuition to say, 75% of students by opening it up to people who aren't willing to donate a building, but could pay say 500k/year. Which is quite a large group of people, especially when you consider international students.

> But I don't think that's a good thing. Somewhere along the line our institutional narratives have become cliched in people's minds. Maybe this will lead us to a wonderful new world where we can be perfectly rational and implement ideas like yours. But I doubt it. I think if we lose the institutional narratives we're going to lose the institutions. Maybe the new institutions will be better, who knows? (I'm not optimistic).

That could be. But I think a big part of the problem right now is that we don't treat education enough like a financial investment. The narrative around it is already too imbued with some moral character that it doesn't really have. We have people going into debt to earn degrees in poetry or psychology, in part because of this odd narrative that a college degree magically endows you with the ingredients for success - regardless of what that degree is in. I think dosing that with a degree of financial realism might be a benefit.
> Claiming that boot time doesn't matter to servers is a good argument?

I'd say so, yeah. Unless you think boot time does matter on a server, in which case I'd ask why.
I think there's a lot of inherent ability tied within ability to be accepted into an elite program (SAT score, etc) that I simply don't have. That doesn't help matters at all.
6.5m sure does feed a lot of mouths.
Yes indeedy, they are. 94% of people with software jobs can't fucking write code at all, no matter how many certifications they have cheated their way to.
Screen Recording for Bug Reports
ICBMs
No, not really. People that get into Stanford or MIT did cool stuff when they were younger to get there. I still haven't done cool stuff!
The "ain't broke don't fix it" attitude makes sense when you consider e.g. a medical scanning device with a Windows-based console. Those things generally live offline and get tested and approved as an integral unit, including the exact software loaded on them at the time.

Unfortunately, that attitude in healthcare leaks to things which _are_ connected to the internet, and you get disgraceful incidents like the hacking of Britain's NHS in 2017.
You also can't live in your gold investment
Following. I wonder if there's any difference in the type of fields people enter in compared with CompSci majors vs self-taught coders.
Tim Cook is both exceedingly pleasant and extremely successful. The world needs more like him.
Reading between the lines: donate the building while your kid is in diapers and get that dividend 18 years later.
It says "now we know that there’s water there"

"Know" ? According to Wiki, "scientists have conjectured since the 1960s that water ice could survive in cold, permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_water

That article is full of qualifiers. Considering how much thorough science is found in WP ... and the -strong desire- many feel to verify this as fact ... where's the beef?

We "know" Mars has methane, too.

Suppose there really is water. In what quantities? Where? (If they don't land near it ... transport?) Who is going to -bet their life on it- ??

I've never found a definitive source for this "know". I'm all eyes.
Those things are available on cheaper phones that don't come with so many ads.

(for example, the Moto G7. Of course, lots of people have Lenovo concerns)
Is it that Tesla drivers are actually worse, or that Teslas stick out to you more than other mundane cars and are pretty common around Silicon Valley?
Does it make sense to add support for Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG) to this?

https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/121
I've been using Chargify. It's a bit expensive if you're not pulling in a decent baseline of revenue from your site, but it's worked quite well for me the past eight years.
In most cases philanthropy is for the tax benefit, everything else is just dressing.
> west coast [...] South China Sea

Or to use Occam's Razor: There's a greater density of assets to control, nearer at hand.
> Given that, you buy your house to remove risk of local changes to your detriment.

If you own real estate you're buying into local risk. Real estate generally isn't insured against things like acts of war, so if NYC gets nuked or whatever then you lose all your money.

If you're buying real estate right now then you're basically betting against war, automation, AI, climate change, energy price spikes, etc. Even if you don't think that any of those things will happen imminently, do you really want to bet against all of them over the next 30+ years?
I'm definitely near the fence.

Everytime the job posting comes up I pop up Zillow and try to do the math, but quite literally a comparable house to mine is $700k-$800k where mine is only $300k-$400k in TX near Dallas. I don't believe I would be able to support and provide anyway near the same quality of life for my family, especially without jeopardizing future savings I am currently able to make now.

You say after the tour of duty like you aren't able to stay employed, is this true?

If I was single and had no dependents, I think I would have already applied, because money wouldn't matter nearly as much.

I feel it is extremely unfortunate USDS doesn't offer remote work because they could pull talent across the nation given the lower pay and higher CoL.

I know this would be a much more rewarding position than working for another mortgage company or consultancy..
I don't know the current situation, but in the past most US carrier-sold phones have not had the antenna pin connected on the chip.
Nextdoor depends on where you live and who you live near. I've learned a lot about my city and local politics from my neighbors. It's a great place to get recommendations for local contractors. I live with a lot of nice people around and I appreciate getting the exposure to that.

There are definitely stories about needle sightings, break-ins, and package thefts, but I've found needles at the park and I've even had police come to my door asking about a dead body found nearby in a tarp. It's not like staying off of Nextdoor really stops my exposure to bad things, but I do get to learn more about my neighbors and keep in touch with what's going on in the 'hood.
Worked there, It might be that I was in a wrong place (and folks I know), but high quality standards, sometimes vague deadlines that can be moved desire to do the best thing result in a very slow dev process.

I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing
It’s clear from what Elon said about high definition maps that Tesla’s stance is that roadways are dynamic environments that can change at any time.
This comment nearly floored me. Let me tell you why.

I nearly launched a startup to do exactly this because I realized the same thing you did. After leaving the US military, I started a handyman company with a friend and along with my GI Bill that paid for college, our little fix-it shop helped pay for other life expenses. Growing up, my dad was an electrician and carpenter, passed skills down to his boys, a high school friend I was in the marching band with was like me, except plumbing. He became my business partner.

You're 100% right, scheduling and communication among the trades is something I noticed many of my competitors at the time struggling with mightily-even when I went to work for an electrician's shop and ended up getting promoted to "project management" scheduling, coordination and resource management was something that I spent a lot of cycles trying to improve-and as I went from company to company through my career I began to notice how widespread the symptoms were. This was a cultural challenge as much as it was a technical challenge just finding the right systems for scheduling, planning and ultimately billing.

There's a lot of really powerful software out there that looks to at least solve the technical challenges behind scheduling and customer care, but in the handyman field-unless I've just overlooked it, there's a lot of room to bring some good practices regarding systems of work and flow from the tech world into scheduling, customer relations and project planning to the home services industry.

The idea of launching some kind of service that 'outsourced' such backoffice tasks for handyman type companies has forever been in the back of my mind having been in that world.

Your comment has motivated me to give it another look, so thanks for that.
"Mostly science payloads, mostly NASA. Some commercial."

reminded me of

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
Great description. It’s also interesting to note that the description of gentrification given is indistinguishable from colonization, except that the colonizing is internal to a nation.
It's hard to imagine whatever war that started ending without nukes.
I've been trying to imagine what programming will look like in the far future, and I just can't believe that it will be fundamentally structured around typing English-like text into a text editor, with a smattering of tools to help manipulate the text and debug the resulting binary, like it is now. There has to be more that computers can do to augment our brains and help us become more efficient at writing code. Gary Bernhardt's "Whole New World" talk (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world) is a good start, but it could go so much further.

Unfortunately it seems like most working programmers are deeply suspicious of new paradigms for producing programs. Understandably so, since all the "visual programming" tools up until now have been either teaching toys or unusable disasters, but I think we're limiting ourselves tremendously.

But it may not be possible to arrive at my glorious imagined future incrementally. It may take some genius just sitting down and working on this for years and producing a completely finished system to convince people of its capability.

Sorry this is a bit lofty and light on specifics. It's more a feeling that I have that it would be ridiculous if programming in 2100 looked the same as it does now, and not something I've thought about deeply.
Can you live in the same property in 30 years?

Would you feel comfortable installing a new kitchen or bathroom?
Google cites the rate from 3 years ago. From the horses mouth on the 11%:

https://dailytrojan.com/2019/03/28/usc-fall-acceptance-rate-...
Those are nations, not citizens. Nation states don't get constitutional protections.

Russia invaded parts of Ukraine, is actively trying to take over the governments in the Baltic states, and is directly interfering in the elections of democracies. What kind of punishment do you think we'd give a person who did that? It would be more than a 'ban' from Mastercard, it would be more like life in prison or possibly execution.
What the above poster is describing is effectively how the status quo works, but more explicit and with transparency. Universities are not purely meritocratic. They factor in race, gender, and VIP status into the application. Donating money is one way of obtaining VIP status.
Fix in stone the time to go to sleep. 7 days a week. No matter what. Emergencies apart, nothing justifies breaking this rule.

Now getting regular, reliable rest, waking up naturally ( no alarm ) and yet earlier because of this, with all good effects it has on health, work, and even dealing with other people.
Without a global magnetosphere, or an atmosphere to breathe, I think life on Mars will be pretty miserable. I see less of a great migration and more of a tiny outpost.
I think an argument could be made for "No Taxation without Representation", one of the causes of the American Revolution.
I've got the same email, dated 23rd October 2008, and very impressive that the link still works and has the updated binaries listed.
Neat!

I don't know if I'd ever want to target IE at all (I'd prefer to pretend it doesn't exist), but I do like to test stuff on niche browsers (NetSurf, Dillo, lynx/links/w3m) and see how usable the site is.
Oh interesting. How do you do that? I don't see anything obvious in the settings area.
> And it's false

Is it possible that Damore witnessed specific instance(s) of an explicit bar-lowering (or a trend for one team/manager) but no general policy at Google?

I am asking out of curiosity, I don't want to skewer or stick up for Damore.
Chromium, to be precise.
I've switched to the new Edge beta at home and prefer it to Chrome.

Google Meet does block me though..
Very impressive photos. And curious to see because there’s no obvious lighting source.

This one of the olive tree is a bit haunting, I can’t not see an Ent in the tree :
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/science/2019/...
There should have been no delay - it is designed as a critical part of highway safety infrastructure, as the death in this situation highlights; it should have been immediately reconstructed - and hopefully this lawsuit will lead to that protocol being implemented/adhered to.
America's most populous city is New York.
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I think in this case we don’t yet know the consequences:

- It hasn’t ramped up

- They’re still haven’t fully integrated with LEOs (people must report the traditional way, but this could change)

So here are some obvious observations:

it increases surveillance (people can be followed across these networks via facial recognition).

If more people who commit crime are reported and LEOs become more effective (better evidence/leads/suspects) then it’s possible this could put down pressure on burglaries and other street crime.

Maybe it will depend on neighborhood, composition, attitudes, engagement, etc.

Begrudgingly I find it useful knowing to look out for bands of roving thieves, meter maids, anti social behavior, etc.

Do I like where it’s going? It has good and it has bad. No verdict yet.
“For Southeast Asian neighbors, China’s navy may be intimidating, but its prowess is limited to waters near the country’s shores.”

- A retired PLA officer

^This quote from the article basically summarizes the whole article. The rest of the content is speculation or facts that prove the Chinese navy isn't as powerful as the US navy, except for anti-ship missiles.
Jacob Wohl’s Business Plan: ‘Make Shit Up’ to Game Political Betting Sites
And lazy candidates!