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Aircloak (https://aircloak.com) | REMOTE (UTC+2) +-2 | Full-time senior software engineer

We are looking for a particular kind of person. This job ad might not be for you. May you find a job you are happy in either way!

You like to work independently, you are pragmatic, and you have the confidence to take on hard problems lacking a detailed spec. You value simple solutions over over-engineered ones. Chances are things will change down the line and changing something simple, or better yet something that was never made, is much easier than changing a monstrosity. You should not need or want anyone breathing down your neck to be productive.

With the formalities out of the way, let me introduce myself: my name is Sebastian, and I am the CTO at Aircloak. Aircloak is a remote company that has built a privacy preserving data processing and analytics engine. Think of it as an SQL database proxy that generates actually anonymized results on the fly.

There are countless challenging things to do in this job. They range from parsing SQL, to doing extensive query rewriting and optimization, to ensuring that all results produced are safe and fully anonymous irrespective of the level of deviousness on the part of the analyst using the system.

The skills we are looking for in a candidate are:

- Intelligence and ability to deal with hard trade-offs
- Great communication skills
- The ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks
- A desire to learn and improve

The majority of our system is written in Elixir, but we have parts written in Rust and JavaScript as well. You’ll even find some opportunities to write F# if you want that. Knowledge of functional programming is a plus and experience with web development is not going to hurt either.

We do not specifically look for someone with experience in our particular stack. It is our experience that people who are smart tend to pick up the required tools very quickly. Likewise it is less interesting to us what your background is. At the end of the day it’s your skills, brains, and experience that matter.

Our team is exceptional and quite geographically diverse. The company was built as a remote-first company from the beginning, and we really enjoy the benefits this gives us.

We look forward to getting to know you and welcoming you to our team!

If you are interested, please write us at jobs [at] aircloak.com
I know the Chinese government has made a concerted effort to steal IP. Still I also find the descriptions of Chinese culture, and Asian culture in general, that demean it as imitative and incapable of creative thought not as rational descriptions of the world, but instead bizarre holdovers of old racist ideologies repackaged in more palatable contemporary business-lingo.
Saw some of the videos and reports, it is awful. One thing I don't understand - these cops are also from HK, correct? The protestors are fighting for the cops rights too, correct? If that is true, what is going on in the mind of a cop who is beating an unarmed protestor?

Or are these cops from mainland China?
BuzzFeed | Principal SWE, Core Infra | London and New York | Onsite Full time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/jobs/1895087?gh_jid=18...

BuzzFeed | SWE, Core Infra | San Francisco | Onsite Full time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/jobs/1855419?gh_jid=18...

We’re looking for engineers who understand how good tools can shape company culture, and who are passionate about creating tools and automation to develop and improve the platform that underpins BuzzFeed.

Email me - andrew.mulholland@buzzfeed.com - with any questions, or apply directly to the job specs above.
>>>> But, the idea of the US “stomping out” the PRC (or even somehow “just” rejecting it from Hong Kong) and installing its own preferred government is downright insane.

> Remember, the US's nuclear arsenal is far, far larger than China's. Such a conflict would be devastating to the US (and to many other places due to fallout), but China would cease to exist.

And if the US's war aim was to liberate the Chinese people from dictatorship, it would have failed miserably in that case, having destroyed them instead.
Thanks for sharing this article.

The part about McCord firing an employee is sad and funny at the same time. To begin with, it looks like a page from Vonnegut’s Player Piano:

“McCord mentioned letting go a product testing employee who “was great,” but eventually lost her job to automation.”

It isn’t mentioned if the employee contributed to the automation that eventually replaced her, but it may as well be so.

Nevertheless, her depiction of the conversation is a rare mix of sad and funny:

“So I called her up. I’m like, what part of this is a surprise? … And she goes, yeah, but, you know, I’ve worked really hard; this is really unfair. I’m like, and you’re crying? She’s like, yeah. I’m like, will you dry your tears and hold your head up and go be from Netflix? You’re the–why do you think you’re the last one here–’cause you’re the best. You’re incredibly good at what you do. We just don’t need you to do it anymore.”
why unfortunately?
Somehow racism is fine when it’s targeting Asians and Whites.
Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules
SEEKING WORK: Seattle or remote, part time or short gigs only.

Programmer since 2006. Tech includes Python and Django, plus the usual HTML/CSS/JS. Common Lisp (and other lisp-likes), and some oCaml. Postgres.

The thing that interests me most is helping not-necessarily-technical organizations with their technical problems. CMSs, databases, tooling, automation. I really enjoy figuring out tricky problem domains, and making tools that are well suited to those domains, and to their users.

Email in profile.
“Perhaps at the root of this anxiety over being forgotten is an urgent question of how one ought to form a legacy;”

This is an interesting question, and one that I have to admit has never been on my radar. I don’t intend to have a legacy at all. Do others worry about this?
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I am very glad to see an American drone company in response to DJI's dominance of the consumer market.
I thought that pascal's Wager only works with infinite reward/ punishment.

End of humanity is in the grand scheme of things something trivial. It's just happens and then nobody suffers. so there must be a probability low enough to balance it out.
Location: Bangalore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (need VISA sponsor if abroad)

Technologies: Javascript(NodeJS, Chai, Mocha, React), Java, C++, Python, SQL, Docker, Git,

Résumé/CV: https://tiny.cc/CV-Mukka

Email: chaitanya.mvs2007@gmail.com

I will be graduating soon in 2020 and looking for opportunities around Software Development (full-stack in general), cloud development and/or software design roles. Open to work for start-ups.
Heart of Steel (Based on a True Story)
>> making informed bets on market fundamentals and enabling teams to deliver on them.

Given the recent 20,000 startup
ideas post, this is the perfect algorithm to cut through the noise
If you have smart employees respectful of other's time it shouldn't be a problem. I would tend to agree with Musk on this one. Processes are often put in place to counteract poor hiring. If you need inefficiency raising processes to defend your business from your own employees, maybe you don't have the right employees.
FWIW it seems that it is Apple, not Sonos, who killed off the ability to stream to Sonos directly from an iOS device.
Federal Judge Rules Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans
There are lots of articles about how Americans have become increasingly cynical and dismissive of science. Who knows, maybe another reversal will occur in a hundred or so years, with Americans abandoning science and the Middle East abandoning religion.
Book Trailer for Heart of Steel Based on a True Story
Location: México
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Java 8+, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Angular, React
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecxcZuAKq7Y72flqhizfaoz0sUV...
Email: nigm2005@gmail.com
Well, people actually familiar with the situation say that you have (at least the witch hunt aspect), so unless you know better than them, I'd say yeah.

According to those actually familiar with the case, certain recent actions by Stallman drew attention to his problematic decades-long behavior, which finally resulted, after decades of ignored complaints, in his dismissal.

There's no denying the well-established fact that the vast majority of cases of inappropriate behavior goes unpunished; in a few cases, some media attention can lead to action. The percentage of bad actors (and according to those closest to him, Stallman is a bad actor) that are finally disciplined remains, sadly, very low, but it's a start.

There are always hysterics who cry about a PC mob or witch hunts, but those who are interested in the facts, take the time to Google for relevant studies, consider the numbers, and as those shrill claims just don't square with the facts, so are best ignored.
War is not actually a contest to see who is strongest. If it was, then the strongest nations would always fight to the finish and the weaker nations would always be defeated and utterly subjugated. Clausewitz was not the first person to notice that this didn't always happen, nor the first to conclude that war must be viewed as an extension of politics.

As such, dictatorship and imposition of rule through force has to be considered in light of other political options. Oppressive government does not generally start with an all out war to subdue the populace, using strategic weapons like missiles and bombers. Insurrections are managed with lighter arms not because totally destroying the enemy is not a military option but rather because it is not consonant with the relevant political goals.

The right to bear arms isn't about what you do for all out war -- that's when you move from citizen soldiers to building armies -- it's about trimming the distribution at the lower end and improving the odds of the citizenry being able to make it up the food chain in a reasonable amount of time. (Knowing what guns are actually called is a surprising advantage there.) Even Hitler started small, and disarmed the citizenry early.
I assume it's being able to track an object, with extremely high precision, anywhere in the world (that's populated) without relying on a data or GPS network. That seems huge to me.
I'm not currently looking for a job, but I have stock answers saved over the years that I combine and tweak for these sort of essay-based, open-ended questions. I might spend an hour composing and editing an application for a senior position.

I don't see it as a massive burden, rather an opportunity to share my viewpoints & expectations and see if there's enough common ground to investigate further.

My only complaint is when you invest this effort and then the company uses some automated BS to immediately filter out your application; calling you out Plural Sight - how hard would it be to indicate "remote US-only" on the posting?
I have always been curious about this: Are you for real saying you can take an "You're an idiot" comment with the same equanimity as the 300 word option? Email/Forums etc already loses a ton of context. Merge that with semi-anonymity - I don't know how you can do it better with a short form answer.

IOW - Your comment is ignorant :D
Standard Cognition (YC S17) | SF | Rust | HPC Engineers and ML Engineers
Standard is deploying the most complex computer vision system the industry has ever brought to production. Imagine the challenges of autonomous vehicles, running in the back of a convenience store, and being rolled out to retailers across the world right now. Our goal is to have thousands of deployments in the next few years.

Our system lets shoppers take what they want from a store and get charged automatically, using nothing but computer vision. No lines, no scanning, and no waiting. Checkout what our real-time inference engine looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeS8TJwBAFs And hear more about how we use rust https://youtu.be/JgkKQlXFyHE

We're looking for talented video engineers, camera engineers, and Rust developers that love high performance parallel processing. You are an engineer that's passionate about working on diverse, challenging problems in an independent and fast-paced environment and want to work on cutting edge applications.

We're hiring in SF, but we're also expanding outside SF! If you're a strong rust engineer and are interested in helping to kickstart and grow a team in your city, shoot us a message!

Email jfisher@standard.ai
Qatalog | Engineers, Designers | London, United Kingdom (Shoreditch) | Full-time, Onsite | https://qatalog.com Qatalog is building the modern operating system for companies to run on. It is an online platform that brings all parts of the organisation together, streamlines operations and enables building the next generation of software to run companies (esp distributed/remote orgs). We're VC funded by some of the best investors in Europe and some of the best angels around. Product is its early stages and you can have significant impact in shaping it.
Hiring for the following roles:

- Software Engineer, Full-stack (React, NodeJS, TypeScript, Koa, PostGres)

- Software Engineer, Frontend (React)

- Software Engineer, Backend (NodeJS, TypeScript, Koa, PostGres)

- Product Designer

Hiring at Mid to Principal levels. We're an ambitious, experienced and compassionate team with some tenured ex-Amazon and ex-Transferwise leadership. Looking for strong technical talent that wants to work in a tight team, contribute and grow with the company. Benefits:

- Above market compensation + significant equity

- Premium private health insurance (including physiotherapy, mental, dental and vision)

- Pension contribution

- 25 days (5 work weeks) holidays

- Your pick of equipment

- Very nice office in the heart of Shoreditch

- Friendly, great to work with colleagues

Email: work [at] qatalog [dot] com
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Haskell, R, C/C++/C#; machine learning and statistics.

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-max-alexander-8940469/

Email: w.max.alexander@gmail.com

Master's degree in computer science and 5 years of experience in bioinformatics. My bioinformatics experience centers on data processing and analysis workflows for proteomic mass spectrometry experiments. I'm also interested in working with deep learning and other advanced machine learning techniques for biology/biotech applications.

Open to either full-time employment or consulting opportunities.
Location: London (NYC sometimes)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Excel, SQL, some Python
CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasweltman/
Email: douglas.weltman@gmail.com

- Business generalist w/ strong very analytical and business skills. Seeking: early employee focused on commercial, operations or product.

- Background in product strategy & investments.
> > Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China, and coincidentally China hasn't been able to produce any viable competitor to those products.

>Already debunked in this thread.

Seems to be true, although they're only manufacturing interior parts. Certainly nothing high tech.
I agree that nuclear is a very viable option, but how viable will it be if it takes decades to get a reactor design approved, a location approved, multiple lawsuits over "I don't want that in my backyard", approval over funding, funding will for sure run out, and we will be stuck with wasted time and money. It's a contentious topic.

Alternatively, solar panels are proven, and can be strapped to every roof top right now. Battery storage has been show to stabilize the grid. It's something we can do right now by incentivizing individual building owners
Time to start making tin foil hats. They will sell like crazy. (looking for investors)
> Take the two e-mail addresses I still use; one is on GMail, the other under my domain. There are two "brands"

Hmm, I don't see email as an example of a "branded" communications at all. If we're exchanging emails, it doesn't matter to either of us who our email provider is. The identity is our email address, which is not necessarily linked to what email provider we're using.

> what about the author's use of the word "brand" seems to conflict with the usual use of that word? Especially when you include the extended meaning that gives rise to terms like "personal brand"?

A "brand" is a marketing thing -- it's the sum total of the iconography, art, marketing, and so forth of a product or company. It is distinct from the actual product or company.

I don't have a "personal brand" at all, because I don't market myself in a way that would require one.

This is clearly not what the author means, though, which is why I find its use to be confusing -- I don't really know exactly what he means by the term.
The concept is known as "incorporation"--Wikipedia has a detail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...

In short, until the 14th Amendment (and even for some time afterwards), it was generally held that the Bill of Rights only bound Congress. The 1st Amendment starts with "Congress shall make no law," explicitly limiting it to the federal government. While the other amendments don't explicitly mention Congress or states, the original proposals did explicitly include mention of states in some of them, which were struck out before being accepted by Congress.
Corrupt societies hurt everything they touch. Decriminalizing bribery, as you suggest, would help turn the USA into a stereotype of a third world country - where government officials and private businesses alike demand graft and bribes at every step of a business transaction.

No low-trust society ever legislated its way into becoming a high-trust society. I remember America before the "honest services mail fraud" statute was in place, and contra your assertion, 1987 America didn't resemble a third world corruptocracy anymore than it does today.

if employees are receiving a significant percentage of their income through cash bribes from customers, it’s unlikely they’d report it properly on their income tax.

s/bribes/payments/ ...this is a risk you run by allowing cash. Of course, the risks of not having cash as a method of payment are different, and in my thinking more substantial.

Do you also believe an employee stealing or embezzling funds from their employer should be a civil, not criminal matter?

Of course! While we're at it, I also believe that tax fraud is a criminal offense. Note that none of these need the contrivance of honest service fraud to have been well prosecuted in the past, nor should they need the federal prosecutor's favorite GOTOs of mail & wire fraud to secure a true bill from a grand jury.

Edit: to add, some of the colleges in the admissions scandal were public, not private colleges - USC and UCLA. So bribery of the officials in that case was bribery of an employee of the state, not just a private business. It should be obvious that legalizing bribery of state employees is a very dangerous path to go down.

So...any state employee? I mean, bribing elected officials and officers of the court is already illegal; I really don't lump college admissions officers (or college garbagemen, lifeguards, sysadmins, psychiatrists) into the group of people the corruption of whose duty is so serious as to merit prosecution in federal courts, simply by dint of where they get their paycheck from.
What they should have been examining is why "legacy" (read: people who have already donated, or are likely to donate seriously to Harvard) candidates are so favored...

(Speaking as an old Harvard alum ('76).)
I did the opposite, I left a very toxic environment after over 4 years, which caused a lot of people whom I used to consider mates, or even friends to cut off any contact with me (I suspect they might have been influenced by some bad actors but this is outside of my control and will to be controlled anymore).

I started being more active on social media (only to an extent - for example I use the built-in Instagram timer to only allow up to 15 minutes of usage a day) to cope with the lack of interactions I used to have at work and around it. Some of the old 'friends' found and started to add/follow me but there was no other meaningful interaction from their side. Before they would call and ask to go out and do something after work - not anymore. I reached out to some of them a few times but felt that there is an imbalance in both quality and quantity in communication from their side. Since I found that to be very shallow, I started regularly wiping my contacts who are there just to leech on my private life and give nothing in return.

Some people aren't your friends, they just happen to spend time with you because of common activities in your and their lives - they're simply stuck with you in the same place and time. I cut these people off from my life and trust me, it has been over 2 months and I have less relationships but only the high quality ones survived - it makes me much happier, less drained on a daily basis and more content knowing that they're the few good ones.

There is no need to be attached to people who aren't attached to you. And there is no need to force anything - it will only cause harm.
Is it normal for a very private vps to receive thousands of ssh attempts per hour?

Well, I haven't bothered looking in a long time. But, back when I first got a cable modem back in the late 90's the malicious access attempts filled up my hard drive in just a couple of weeks. I don't remember the size of the HD, but I can only imagine the situation has gotten much, much worse since then.
She forgot to quit meat, dairy, grains, booze, weed, going out, staying up late, having sex, and so on

Also: to get a flip phone and disable JavaScript
XKCD on "Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send": https://www.xkcd.com/2048/
A Charger for Your Home
Figure 2 and 3 legends don't start at zero. What in the world?
I'm still thrilled at how hypocritically calm the US are about this whole topic and China in general. They're always ready to "export democracy" except when the receiver would be some kind of business partner (or lacks natural oil sources).

So, how long until the US at least express an opinion on the matter?
I don't know - but is your question meant for us to prove the innocence of the victim here?
Where can I read the decision? Article is paywalled.

Edit: here it is: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.165519/...
Any chance you can say what company you're working on, either publicly or privately?
Read the seed on boot, replace it when possible.
Co—Star Astrology | Full-time | On-site | New York | $130-150k + equity

https://www.costarastrology.com

Co-Star is bringing astrology into the 21st century with a social, personalized experience that helps people reflect and connect in real, meaningful ways. We just raised $5m from the people behind companies like Glossier, Rent the Runway, eBay, Periscope, and Everlane.

We’re looking for iOS, Android, and full-stack software developers to join our 8-person team in Chinatown, NYC.

We want your help:

• Transforming NASA data into astrological patterns that astrologers can write and map copy to
• Using TB of data to define and create personalized, emotionally resonant content
• Developing internal tools to give our writers superpowers
• Shipping new features & A/B tests in our Apple-lauded iOS app
• Scaling our backend infrastructure to >1M daily users

Our stack includes

• Haskell for our backend
• Swift and Android Native (kotlin) for our mobile apps
• React and TypeScript on the web (costarastrology.com + internal tools)
• AWS to host our infrastructure
• PostgreSQL

Competitive comp, $0 deductible fully-covered health care, unlimited vacation (min 4 weeks), conference/book/whatever budget

Read more details here -> https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs + feel free to email directly with questions -> banu at costarastrology.com