skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
clearstreet.io | New York, New York | Lead Backend Engineer, Lead Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | ONSITE |

At Clear Street, we are disrupting the institutional brokerage and clearing market by modernizing archaic industry segments with brand new technology. We’re changing the way institutional investors interact with the markets; offering an alternative to working with big banks. Our cloud-based API technology will empower clients to clear, settle, and finance trading activity while accessing real-time risk and position information. Our platform is built on an incredibly modern tech-stack, by pragmatic engineers focused on building intuitive and frictionless user experiences. Our tech-infused suite of customer experience-oriented prime service offerings will increase our clients’ efficiency and provide real-time insights they’ve never previously experienced.

We're looking to hire:
-Site Reliability Engineers (Help us securely scale our platform by creating tools, frameworks, systems, and processes for building and deployment, while continuing to foster our DevOps oriented culture.)

Site Reliability Engineer - https://grnh.se/525bdcc91

-Lead Backend Engineer (contribute to code structure and system architecture; utilize a wide range of technologies to build services, simple API interfaces, and custom tools.)

Lead Backend Engineer - https://grnh.se/7f1eea161

-Lead Frontend Engineers (Design and implement new UI/UX features, while working closely with a passionate and collaborative team of engineers.)

Lead Frontend Engineer - https://grnh.se/f2eac9d41

-More roles on the website (Operations Engineer, Data Analytics Lead)

Clear Street Job Board - https://grnh.se/46bd5ebf1

Tech Stack: - Golang, JS, React/Redux, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, microservice architecture, etc.

If you are interested in reaching out and exploring any other options please email careers@clearstreet.io
> Then what are they doing with it or why else would they even bother?

Why? So "you can view all your payments, bookings, and subscriptions in one place". https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7673989
(do not forget that our CIA was an early funder of Google)

--> Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police <--

"When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.

The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine months earlier.

But after he spent nearly a week in jail, the case against Mr. Molina fell apart as investigators learned new information and released him. Last month, the police arrested another man: his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who had sometimes used Mr. Molina’s car."
PSA: The article is from 2011. This isn't a new publication for the 30th anniversary as I initially thought.
This doesn't raise the barrier to entry it lowers it. Players can continue to host their own servers for old games. Back in the day, teams would host their own servers and recruit good players they met on them. Also allowing LAN parties (not quite the same thing as hosting servers, but similar) fosters a physical sense of community which is crucial. The culture of kids going to each others' houses to play Smash is probably a huge part of why it's so popular as a competitive game.
The Gig Economy: How Businesses Cash in on Creativity
1) Build public support against hate speech.

2) Create laws to ban hate speech. This puts the government in charge of defining exactly what is and what is not hate speech.

3) The government tweaks the definition of hate speech slowly over the years. Eventually, hate speech includes anything which is against the official government line.

4) Profit. Err... Control of the country, which could be very profitable.
Liquid Robotics | Sunnyvale | US Only | ONSITE

entry level electrical | entry level firmware (linux,arm) | senior mechanical | senior software (Java, C++) | senior QA

Liquid Robotics creates autonomous wave-powered ocean vehicles- remote sensor platforms that are used in oceanography, oil and gas, defense and communications. The platform doesn't require fuel for propulsion, and can operate for up to a year in the ocean which creates unique engineering challenges for durability, fault tolerance and remote sensing. Engineering happens in Sunnyvale, field testing at our Big Island field site. We're building out some new project teams and some new capabilities.

https://www.liquid-robotics.com/about-us/careers/
I mean, at least Islanders try not to be inbred (IIRC genetic testing and such is a huge deal over there specifically to keep that from being a problem).
Zoomforth (https://www.zoomforth.com) | Engineering (Product) | US-based REMOTE | Full-time

Hey HN readers, we're looking for engineers to join us!

Zoomforth is like Squarespace for Enterprise. We help professionals design and manage beautiful microsites. Big companies love us because their sites are consistently branded, accessible by a tightly controlled audience, and we provide great support. Their employees love us because they can use a WYSIWYG editor to create, edit, and publish with ease.

Founded in 2012, we have a stable and growing base of big-name customers who love us. We need help in the following areas:

Product Engineer:

Responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and improve our frontend React application, backend Python app, and ancillary systems
- Work with the product team to help determine product direction
- Review and improve other engineer’s code

Our stack is AWS/Linux/MySQL/Python/React. We use modern dev tools like Vagrant, Packer, Webpack, and CircleCI.

We're a small, distributed team—so excellent communication, and a self-motivated work ethic are essential. Bonus if you’re experienced with remote work.

If this sounds exciting to you, please see our full job posting and apply at: https://share.zoomforth.com/product-engineer

Thanks!
Senior Frontend Engineer | Make School | REMOTE or in our San Francisco HQ

Who are we?
We are a computer science college for the 21st century. Our education combines liberal arts, computer science, software development, and character development with a strong emphasis on fully preparing students for successful careers as software engineers, product managers, or entrepreneurs. Our alumni work at Facebook, Google, Apple, Snap, LinkedIn, Lyft and more.

Our college is accessible to students of all backgrounds, 40% are underrepresented minority students and 50% come from low-income families.

What You'll Do:
-Play a key role in the continued architecture and implementation of the Make School educational platform
-Analyze and improve the efficiency and reliability of the Make School infrastructure
-Write code with best-practices (including TDD) and participate in peer code review

Our Stack:
React, Apollo, Relay (legacy), GraphQL, ES6, Webpack, Jest, Cypress, Ruby on Rails (marketing site), jQuery (legacy)

If interested, please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/makeschool/1edb94b9-0757-4f2f-a0bb-9cb...
OR send me an email at: madelyn@makeschool.com
That is a very odd way of looking at the issue. The scientific literature certainly has a bias in favor of publishing positive results rather than failures. However, the scientific literature in no way affects FDA/regulatory approval. Drug/treatment candidates that fail regulatory approval are not on the market.

As far as negative results being "distorted" to present "positive results" is concerned, yes it is quite common to take a patient population that overall fails to show statistically significant benefit and see if there is a subset that does in fact show a statistically significant benefit. One could call that p-hunting, but as long as it is followed up and confirmed, it doesn't seem like a nefarious thing to do.
15th century England had no ritual or requirements in order to lawfully murder another human being? 15th century England, which had had the beginnings of English Common Law for 2 centuries, had no laws against murder? The Magna Carta wielding English had no laws against murder?

In the Magna Carta:

"39. No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."
"You should have been paying attention" can be said with respect to all such incidents. If we don't have the outcry and register our protest then you can pretty much guarantee that nothing will change. In this case, Google's scanning could be benign, but the fact that they're building large scale systems to do this is what is scary. It only takes one or two economic downturns to make a company like Google turn full-on evil; when the bean counters start ordering the engineers (if that hasn't happened already).

>This is how Google makes money, and they're not very subtle about it.

And us being not very subtle about our protest is how Google has reversed policies in the past.
Some of those issues are issues that all populations face (death from disease, government bureaucracy, policing, destruction of environment). I don't think its fair to claim that these are intentional parts of a genocide.

There definitely were some bad policies in the past (residential schools, no oversight on medical care, lack of diversity in policing), but the rest is just a culture clash between two completely incompatible cultures. That's not a genocide, it's just a shitty side effect of two cultures trying to find a way to be compatible with one another.
strongDM | Engineering and Customer Engineering | Remote (core hours ~UTC -6, any latitude) | Full-time | https://www.strongdm.com | https://zoom.us/j/874728147

strongDM is an identity-aware proxy for managing and auditing access to databases and servers.

We build secure, high-throughput networking systems in Go. If you enjoy writing code that is parsimonious, correct, yet featureful -- you may enjoy coding with us. If you enjoy shipping a product that is appreciated by a growing population of happy, paying customers every day -- you may enjoy shipping with us :)

We're a fully remote (UTC -5 to -8), but close-knit team. We have high standards and high levels of respect for each other and our customers.

Stop by if you have a minute! I'll keep this Zoom session open for the next 90 minutes:
https://zoom.us/j/874728147

Current roles:

* Lead Engineer / Engineering Manager

* Senior Software Engineer

* Customer Engineer - West (anywhere UTC -6 to -10)

If this sounds like the type of work and the type of environment that would suit you, send me (Justin, co-founder & CTO) a note: justin@strongdm.com
A fun story is that this is more or less the conversation we were in with AOL Instant Messenger 19 years ago: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2596085/aol-foes-accus...
SEEKING WORK | Reno, Remote

We are two freelancers, technology & marketing, specializing in strategy, and productizing our integrated PPC + Landing Page offerings. Significant experience in international e-commerce and major marketplaces.

Especially interested in finding additional US partners in LA & Phoenix, and European partners in Berlin & Budapest, where we co-locate ourselves regularly.
Yeah, I admit the amount I would settle for isn't scientific. I'm also not in the website squatting business. I just happen to have a couple of domains that I haven't gotten around to using yet.

It's more so, that I paid for the domain and pay the yearly renewal, and unless it's an offer that I would profit a bit over those total costs, I wouldn't consider it because if I happen to need a good domain in the future, it will cost me more to find one than to just hold onto the one I own and continue paying renewals.
Software engineering has to do a lot with your mind space and knowledge of how each tool available can be used to make something in your head do a thing in a black box (to the general public it's a black box executing the code) and sometimes present a result to a user.

I say avoid trying to teach them code at all cost and don't try to explain the black box. Also try to bring what you do into physical reality. Maybe a flashy arduino project where you change the code in front of them and the arduino does something markedly different. Like a 3d LED matrix or something maybe with spread sheet as input.

My niece is 7 and we make easy robots together all the time. The key is attention span, a sentence of explanation maybe two then do something. If you choose the right project maybe they can suggest changing variables too. Remember what tools they have, basic math and that's about it. So anything past if statements might be a bit to hard to grasp in the time you have to explain so I would suggest making the visible code they can suggest stuff about not use for or while loops or classes etc. Just so any kids thinking about it have an easier time day dreaming about what they can do. Also make sure your variable and function names are self explanatory maybe with comments that you never explicitly point out for the kids actually reading and trying to understand it.

I think though the code should definitely be visible even if you aren't going in depth about it. Just so they get the understanding that just ideas alone can make things happen in real life.

Also thinking about it right now, you might hate it but maybe mod minecraft with them. Like something goofy and easy like shooting chickens as arrows or something.

Good luck let us know what you ended up doing and how it went.
Well, yeah, so the central bank bears the debt instead of the government general fund. So I guess I repeat the question.

I meant "how is it more effective stimulus?". The contention upthread was that we shouldn't use government spending for stimulus when monentary policy works better, to which I replied that monentary policy doesn't work at all in this situation, to which the suggestion comes back "well, just helicopter in money from the central bank as stimulus", which is... not monentary policy. It's just the same thing as spending modulo some accounting.
Fixers | London, UK | Onsite | http://fixersworld.com/

Fixers is a travel and experiences marketplace that took part in YCombinator in the S18 batch.

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Rails Developer based in London to join our founding team and work directly with our CEO and product/engineering team to take our platform technology to new heights. This is the ideal role for somebody looking for a senior engineering role within an extremely fast-paced and rapidly growing startup.

Tech Stack: Rails, React, Postgres, Heroku

Link to apply: https://fixersworld.com/careers/senior-developer

Email me with questions: kyle@fixersworld.com
I'll second the idea of letting them explore browser developer tools (assuming they have access to a computer). I teach elementary school as part of my job, and it's such an empowering experience for them. When I do a lesson on privacy, I set up this special website that uses some known security issues to expose to them the difference between what a company/site may be "telling you" with what's actually going on under the hood and is possible. They absolutely love it.
No, I disagree on so many levels.

A) the land ownership issue is existential and could blow up the entire country. Every treaty is also different.

B) This is not a money problem. If aboriginal communities were given the land to sell, it would be sold to outside interests and the money would be gone in a generation.

C) The 'system' that they are pointing at are the residential schools - they were ended a long time ago.

D) Many reserves have a high degree of self governance. Self governance requires responsibility. The last government forced transparency among local aboriginal communities and it showed widespread corruption. That said - many communities were managed very well i.e. 'as diverse as the country itself'.

E) The government does not create or propagate anything: 35 million Canadians live very well in Canada, there's no reason most Aboriginals could not live off reserve and do the same things that the rest of Canadians do. Obviously, not an option for some, but for most - absolutely.

We need pragmatic studies, pragmatic programs, oversight, accountability - but in the end, there is no way that anyone else can lift the aboriginal communities out of whatever conditions. They have to do it themselves. Today we could hand them money, education, jobs - and it still wouldn't work, so there are underlying issues to work on.
In a bad harvest year you were going to starve, in a wartime defeat you were going to be killed or sold into slavery, and in an epidemic you were going to die.

Futures were far from certain with those existential threats on the horizon.
DOBCO Medical Systems | Fulltime | Zele, Belgium | Software Engineers | ONSITE | https://www.dobcomed.com/nl/content/vacatures (Dutch)

DOBCO Medical Systems is a young, innovative and fast growing software company active in the healthcare sector.
Our main activities revolve around the development of our PACSonWEB cloud platform, that visualizes medical images and distributes them between healthcare providers.
Come join our small team in our brand new offices in Zele, away from traffic congested areas and easy to reach!

We use a combination of technologies

* C#, still on .NET Framework but upgrading to .NET Core

* SQL Server 2016

* Javascript/Typescript (our web viewer is entirely built with HTML Canvas)

* DICOM (the international standard for communicating and managing medical images)

* Xamarin

* etc.

Perks to working here include a company car, fuel card, hospitalization insurance, travel insurance, phone, laptop and more.

Please get in touch by sending an email to info at dobcomed.com or by contacting me (one of the devs) directly at a.moerman at dobcomed.com and we'll take it from there.
Try Regus. A businessworld membership is $70/month and let’s you use business lounges everywhere in the world, and gets you WiFi in a lot of places, too.
No-one got killed. Everyone got bubble bath and cake.

Years ago the Chinese had a reputation for subtlety. Anyone remember that? Article has less nuance than a Michael Bay Transformers film.
For each engineering discipline highlight the relevant part of a drone and how they're responsible.

aeronatical: props and flight control

mechanical: chassis

chemical: batteries

civil: constructing buildings that don't fall over when a drone crashes into them?

nuclear: nope, refer to civil engineering
Portchain (container shipping startup) | Full-stack software engineer | Remote | Copenhagen, Denmark

Requirements:

5 years minimum of professional experience in Software Engineering. Experience with any or all of the following technologies is a plus: Node.js, React, TypeScript. Startup experience valued.

Our company:

Did you know that 90% of all goods globally are transported through a container, and the largest container vessels are 400 meters long and can transport 20,000 containers at a time? The container shipping industry is the back-bone and enabler of global trade, but it is struggling. At its core the industry is fundamentally inefficient: 50% of all container vessels globally are delayed coming into port, and key planning processes are done manually on a global scale. This leads to high operational costs, lost revenue, and unnecessarily high greenhouse gas emissions

Portchain is a 2 year old Danish container shipping startup devoted to help container carriers and terminals reduce operational complexity and optimize planning through software and cutting-edge analytics leading to both a better bottom line and less greenhouse gas emissions.

We are an international team of 15 people serving a global customer base and several of the largest companies in the industry. We have received $5M in funding to expand the team in order to serve our increasing customer traction.

Apply here: https://www.portchain.com/careers/full-stack-software-engine...
Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology
Hacking a computer is great in that you probably cannot damage the internal components of that machine.

Hacking society has issues given that random internal change of a society can have serious consequences for the members of that society.

Modern democratic society has various safety nets that to various extents cushion members from random fluctuations that happen even without hacking.

Sure, it seems fine when a group of individuals start-up a system "knowing what they're getting into". But it's generally no really possible for 19 year old joining the latest new trend to really know what they're getting into. We saw a whole flock of cults and unfortunate effects coming out of the hippy communes in the 1960s. But when a commune went bad, it was somewhat minor because the people could just leave. I shudder to what happens if things go bad in a platform in the middle of the ocean (and recall problems have already appeared).
Location: Bay area
Remote: Yes, or Bay Area
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Java, Javascript, Node.js, TensorFlow, Keras, HTML, CSS, Linux & bash
Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/y2rzsp5w
Email: spikej50@gmail.com

Hello, I am looking for a junior position in machine
learning / data science roles. I have a BA in applied math from Berkeley, and I just finished 10 weeks
studying under Google engineers in applied machine learning.
Highly motivated to work.
But let's stop them (or at least criticise them heavily) when they're doing it just to avoid any responsibility to others, when they're doing it out of an idea of "I've got mine, screw you".

If they were genuine attempts to recast society in a new light, they would be interesting. Most of them are simply childish attempts to evade tax. And many, many people trying to opt out of things like social safety nets will end up needing them. Are we to leave them to die, as their choice would seem to dictate?
Exactly, this the perfect article to send to all your friends who don't follow all the ##l0pht #h4x blogs.
> and most folks are not used to accommodating
One thing to remember is that most rewards credit cards also do similar aggregation of purchase data - https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-chase-are-still-confusingly-o...
> Mineral oil, contrary to the remark in TFA, is 100% organic.

Thanks for the correction! From what I was reading, olive oil goes rancid (and acidic; but mineral oil does not).
Location: HYDERABAD, INDIA
Remote: YES/ONSITE IN HYDERABAD, INDIA
Willing to relocate: YES
Technologies:PRODUCT MANAGER
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DX7472XlBUWnZL8Fjl0WUG4qn2TWvyM6/view?usp=sharing
Email:GSUMIT.PM@GMAIL.COM
> And because of this we should drop this whole democracy thing ? Parliaments have shown plenty that if the need is high enough, action can be very quick indeed.

You've constructed a straw man argument. Instead of advocating for eliminating democracy, I highlighted some of the issues with relying exclusively on fiscal policy. An independent central bank can help resolve some of these concerns. Afterwards, I stated there was a need for both fiscal and monetary policy:

"Ideally, carefully considered monetary and fiscal policies are implemented and utilized to maximize potential for economic stability."
>Exactly....I was like, people are surprised by this? How did they think gmail worked?

The problem is Google continuously changes the terms of the deal. For e.g. If in 2006 I looked at what Google did with my data, and decided to create a gmail account, that is not the same trade-off that exists today. Its a never ending privacy creep.
This isn't secret; features that openly depend on this are key Gmail selling points.