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Weav (YC W20) | Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote
At Weav, we’re building a universal API for integrating with businesses’ commerce platforms (e.g. Stripe, Square, Amazon).

Weav makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to share commerce data with fintech companies and financial institutions. This enables these businesses to access new services and financial products that help them grow and succeed.

The company is currently fully remote and our development team is spread across the USA, Canada and Tel Aviv. We use Golang, Python, Docker, MySQL and AWS. We prefer candidates with 2+ years of industry experience.

We are looking for backend engineers who are interested in building a developer-centric product and are curious/excited about supporting the next generation of fintech. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of your work from development to testing to deployment.

We’re growing fast, join us!

Job description: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/33566 Website: https://www.weav.co

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails. Feel free to email me with questions stefan@weav.co
> The whole principle that you need to prove vaccination to be let into a country is not really new.

Requiring this for experimental and not-yet-approved vaccines is new. (The COVID vaccines only have Emergency Use Authorizations.)
With the Ingenuity helicopter being designed to take 3D images of the terrain, it would be amazing to get an updated VR rendering of Mars using real high-quality images. There was a VR experience from the Curiosity rover stereo mastcam 5 years ago that gave me an amazing feeling of standing with my own 2 feet on Mars, something I will never get to do. In an important way, I have already been there, so hope this keeps getting developed further.

https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/
I like the idea of letting the candidate do whatever they would if they were actually coding. I even think it could be interesting (in the initial part of the process) to ask the candidate what question they would like to be asked, and let them implement that.

Few things to point out though:

1. you can ask the interviewer questions

2. the problems are usually simple enough that you don't need to google them, and should have prepared for them in the first place

3. you should be somewhat efficient (being able to do basic stuff without googling) in at least one language, since you can choose the language for the interview do that
Say there were a command-line or .rc option to confirm you're over age X. How much effort would it be to auto-generate or draw-from a pool of throwaway accounts that over age X?
I had this happen on a gaming forum, they upgraded to new forum software and pushed users through a 'update your account' flow. I accidentally set my year to the wrong number and ended up locked out of what had been a long-term username.

It was bad, actually, because they had developed a system where your username on the system was tied to your in-game nickname as well so I ended up locked out of both and had to create a new username/nick.

The admin of the website literally said "there's nothing I can do". I'm sure this isn't to do with the law specifically but just some limitation of their tools.
I interviewed at SkyScanner around 5 years ago and they gave me some problems that I already had seen since I was interviewing like crazy. I solved them very easily and the interviewee had nothing else to say. Then her feedback to the interview was negative because it looked like I had already seen the problem.. like... :shrugs:
I believe these and other similar logistic considerations are precisely what this funding is to study and try to solve.
unemployment benefits likely offer that same runway
Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely.

For me I'm not "working from home", I'm "living at the office". I deeply resent that my work has taken over a part of my home. For the record: I love my job. I also really miss working from the same physical space as my colleagues. Meetings which I used to enjoy are now awkward and draining. Lastly: I even miss my commute home in the evening (not so much my morning commute, to be fair). It used to give my 30 minutes in which to decompress and switch my brain out of work mode.
Tiktok influencers are some of the most popular there are today. They’ve been sanctified when they started hanging out with Kardashians.
serious Q: how is that any different then from a normal starship launch or starship type system for travel? or is your agrument that starship for travel will never work for the same reason and/or the only reason current return systems don't trigger MAD is because the launches are a) known and perhaps b) for some reason are easy to distinguish from a normal ICBM launch (perhaps due to the way the launch / return)
Let's be clear: emailing the CEO and pretending that was a smart move is just idiotic. The article reads like they followed the standard resolution process, and got nowhere. Which makes sense, because at $7000 this needs a police report. The CC dispute can help a little, but that police report is what allows a seller to go "okay, you've committed to claiming to tell the truth, with jail time if it turns out you lied. We can now proceed in good faith".

Because remember: the refund process for products that have vanished isn't "you complain, then you get money", it's "you complain, the seller files an insurance claim with their insurance company, they get the (promise of) insurance compensation, THEN they pay you". You get paid with that insurance money, so: no insurance compensation, no refund.

And that's the only thing the police report does: it lets the seller go to their insurance company and go "here's the paperwork you need so you can justify honouring our claim", and then the insurance company will pay the seller, and if the amount is large enough, and its worth their time, the insurance company will do an investigation.

(and note that this is specifically the process when it comes to fraud or theft, where the law has been broken. It has, obviously, nothing to do with the refund process for a defective product)
Sean Combs and Salesforce to Launch Marketplace for Black-Owned Businesses
I'm fortunate that I worked from home by default anyway, so all I've lost over the pandemic is the chance for occasional trips to the office for a catch-up with (also generally remote) colleagues.

Reading the comments here, I worry how much the WFH newcomers will have their goals of continuing dashed by the crab mentality of those who want to go back to an office.
//You are looking for an extrovert to initiate team picnics//
Good one :D
Methane exhaust isn't what I would call poisonous although Starship will kick up a serious dust cloud wherever it lands. The noise might be the worst part.
I'm lead dev on a rather large frontend project, and I still feel like I'd struggle in a frontend-focused interview today. Underappreciated by many I think is the ability to solve problems. I solve them (almost) every day, but sometimes it's easy, and sometimes it's really tough. But eventually, if you know how to ask the right questions, you'll get to a workable answer. That kind of real-world experience doesn't seem to surface well in a typical interviewer/interviewee type setting.
> great for racing

that could explain a bit
I feel Cobol was more used in "main business critical applications" and perl was found much more in "wedge this here to keep the first working" but I don't have much to back that up beyond anecdotal evidence.
It's not like the only two options are cities and sprawling car-dependent suburbs. (Well okay, in the US those are mostly the only two options.) That suburb I mentioned in a sibling comment thread with the 30-minute rail commute is a town of about 13,000, houses there generally have backyards (though not huge front yards), there are plenty of quiet side streets, it's still walkable, etc. It's an "in between" kind of density. The problem is we've mostly legislated these places out of existence; you can't build places like this anymore in almost all of the US. I just happen to be in an area that was built up before modern zoning codes prevented it.

This video is a good overview: https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0

Of course, if you want to live super far away from the city and drive in, that's fine, I just wish that wasn't basically the only option besides living right in the city. Places like this still exist, and I think there's a lot of demand for them, but because they're not expanding (again, legislated away) the cost of living there will just keep going up because supply will never increase.
Scientists discover a new genetic form of ALS in children
Do you need to build an entire compiler or "just" the backend/code generation to port something? Although "just" a code generation for Rust means building one for LLVM, which I'm sure is harder than some C compilers out there.
> their culture is different which doesn't make for the most efficient collaboration.

Could you expand on this?
Open Systems | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time (80% possible) | Redwood City, CA or Remote US / Canada

We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at different seniority levels to help us scale our cybersecurity and secure network services. Looking for US or Europe based engineers, remote-friendly and 80% friendly. One interesting specificity is that our services are highly distributed in all the network nodes of our customers (cloud & on-prem), which makes understanding service levels and building for reliability especially challenging and interesting. We have to think creatively when it’s not only what can go wrong in your DC or your cloud setup, but what can go wrong in the world.

We also have an operations center in Honolulu which you’ll be able to go to for a few months from time to time, if you want to. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, get in touch!

Email me at tfavre[at]open-systems.com or apply directly from the job description (see careers page for different locations):
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https://www.open-systems.com/
Totally! On their laptop being the key. I interviewed at Pivotal around ~6 years ago and the person had some customized VIM setup which was a PITA to work with. He had a very good workflow with it and I honestly looked dumb trying to achieve the same things as him in his computer...
This looks interesting. Does you compensation differ based on the location? e.g. as a Bay Area resident, I'm hesitant to even apply if the compensation levels are that of Canada even if the position is advertised as being Remote friendly.
New tabs are gross. Wastes so much space. Luckily there is that Firefox-UI-Fix linked elsewhere in this thread. Pretty much wanted to complain after upgrading and found that repo, which fixed most my complaints. Sadly I now have to make sure I keep that maintained ...

I'm really unhappy with the UI changes.
Using google maps on a pc is one thing

Using bing maps via the bloatware app... not used by ordinary people.
Well, if a 3-year old toddler watches age-restricted videos on his mother's verified account, is that against child protection laws?
Could you share a link, please?
If the title was a comment, it would be breaking the site guidelines.

More importantly, it's throwing out absolute opinions on why interviews are broken without demonstrating a real problem. There have been hundreds of articles saying hiring/interviews are broken because <logic/opinion>, and almost none that point to data showing that companies are not able to hire developers, nor that developers are statistically unable to get jobs.

Interviews can be difficult and frustrating for both sides, but that doesn't mean they're not working. Despite the fact that the article is correct that looking things up is routine in a dev job, I still may prefer to hire the candidate who doesn't need to during my interview question that was specifically designed to not really need to.

I don't know how often coding challenges disallow using the internet, but the last time I interviewed it was allowed. I've seen lots of companies allow use of any language, and spend your time searching the internet if you want.
Comcast (Xfinity Wifi) | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Philadelphia | ONSITE (Partial WFH)

The Xfinity wifi engineering team is responsible for the setup, monitoring, and quality improvement of the Xfinity public wifi network of more than 22 million access points around the US.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer who is eager to learn new technologies, collaborate internally/externally on building new solutions, improve reliability/performance, and mentor junior team members. In addition to building high throughput backend systems, you'll learn how RF and Networking concepts are applied at a large scale.

Our tech stack:

- Go, Kotlin, Python, Github, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, RabbitMQ, Kinesis, Terraform, Postgres, TimescaleDB, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Concourse build server

Apply here: https://jobs.comcast.com/jobs/description/tpx-jd-template?ex...

Feel free to mention "HN who's hiring post" in the application
This page on Tom's Guide has good background, a list of devices and instructions on how to opt out.
https://www.tomsguide.com/reference/what-is-amazon-sidewalk

Amazon App> More > Settings > Account Settings > Amazon Sidewalk > Disable
I'm curious about the reasoning behind these statements.

For example:

> if we're talking about a specific problem, I want you to be able to give/walk me through a solution even if we don't finish the problem"

Why does this matter? Why do you want this? How do you correlate what you're stating you want here with actual job performance?
> most tech role interviews involve some sort of coding challenge

He is talking about coding challenges specifically.
Amusingly, if you compare to https://onlydarkchocolate.com/tag/5-stars/, it seems that the individual preferences vary fairly strongly.

It would be interesting to have a matrix decomposition of preferences.
Revelle | Head of Product | CTO | NYC | ONSITE

Imagine walking into a store knowing that everything there was going to fit you perfectly. Welcome to Revelle.

Revelle is on a mission to help women feel at home in their bodies. It shouldn't be so hard to find clothes that actually fit, so we've created a personalized online shopping platform to help women navigate the inconsistencies of the size chart. Our proprietary algorithm is based on the premise that a woman's shape, not her size, is more important to determining what will make her feel beautiful when she gets dressed in the morning.

We are looking for a Head of Product as well as a CTO to take ownership of our product roadmap and bring our technical infrastructure to the next level. We've seen explosive growth with a very lean team over the past year, and are ready to shore up our foundations and get ready to scale.

Stack includes: Python, Django, PHP, CSS, React, Wordpress

For more info see https://revellenation.com/

Email resume or questions to revelle@revellenation.com
My favorite reasonably priced chocolate brand, I think I heard about it first here on HN way back when.

If you’re ever in Austin, El Rey’s only US location is a tasting room in Stonewall, TX, out on 290 just before Fredericksburg, near all of the little hill country wineries that sure do try.

Highly, highly recommended.

https://goo.gl/maps/opLzBTVcMZDKvtW37
Where are you interviewing that they don't let you google stuff? I've gotten to the point that I don't even ask anymore, I just open a new tab and explain what I'm looking for. If the interviewer takes issue with it that's a big red flag for me.
> Most interviews I conduct (algorithms) include puzzle-like problems.

The reason for your predicament is in your comment.
I wish Facebook was a lot more clear about what it shares and when. People need to be aware of what information exposure they have to digital platforms.
Thriva Health | London, UK | Full-Time, Remote during COVID pandemic | https://thriva.co

We started Thriva in 2016 with the aim of building the world's first preventative health service.

There is no simple and convenient way to track what's really going on inside your body which means most people are forced to wait until something goes wrong until they can react - we want to change that.

We're hiring for lots of different roles: https://thriva.co/careers

Tech stack: Vue, React Native, Nuxt, Javascript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Looker, Heroku, GitHub, CircleCi, RabbitMQ, Redis, Python (machine learning service)

Find me on LinkedIn by searching "Clement Thriva Health" on Google if you have any questions :)
The truth doesn't care whether you like it or not or whether you find it "helpful". We can't really ever exclude the possibility that we're merely playthings for beings far more advanced than ourselves. Usually we don't need to assume that such things exist to explain our observations but if we do encounter observations that don't fit our models of reality we do need to consider other possibilities.
It is certainly possible and I myself am living proof.
I see posts like this all the time on HN and I really wonder if there's an alternate world of really stupid interview practices out there that I've just been lucky enough to avoid.

In this case: I've never heard of, participated in or administered a programming interview where the candidate couldn't Google things.

I remember when I interviewed at Braintree, I spent a good chunk of the pairing interview searching for Linux command syntax because I was new to using it. I got the job and spent 7 years there.
I used LTSB/C for ages but when WSL2 came along I had to ditch it for the Pro version. Is WSL2 working on LTSC now?
byrd (https://getbyrd.com) | Berlin, Germany | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Visa | Onsite (During COVID-19 crisis, working REMOTE) | Logistics / Supply Chain

1) Senior Python Engineer 2) Dev-Ops Engineer 3) Site Reliability Engineer 4) Scrum Master

Backend: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL (SQL Alchemy), Heroku / AWS

Frontend: Angular 10, Ngrx, Material, Karma / Jasmine, AWS S3 / CloudFront

Apply now: https://getbyrd.com/en/jobs/

About byrd:

byrd is a logistics start-up which aims to make shipping a simple and effortless experience.

Fulfillment warehouses and online sellers suffer from old and outdated software that is un-intuitive and hard to use. We want to change that by using state of the art technology to disrupt the European logistics industry!

We built a platform that connects multiple partner warehouses with e-commerce online shops. This logistic network helps our customers to ship more efficiently than ever before and enables them to provide the same high quality service such as online giants like Amazon or Zalando.

byrd was founded in 2016, is a successful startup with real customers, and we’re looking for your help to support us in growing further!
An in-orbit refueled starship parked in GeoSync orbit providing satellite communications/intelligence would be a very difficult target to kill with anti-sat weaponry. The ship could even boost itself out to a lunar trajectory and resume operations in a few days time.
Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed
Probably very controversial opinion, but so far, my favorite type of interviews have actually been take-home problems.

Of course, it sucks if you've invested time into those, and get ghosted afterwards - but luckily I have yet to experience that.

Some people excel on taking test, some people excel on projects, others in both - I've personally never been the type to perform well on banging out code on whiteboards, but I will perform well on projects.

edit: Let me expand a bit on this

All my take-home problems have been very reasonable. Usually they've been more big-picture / architecture oriented, and not some specific implementation - some coding, some presentation, usually takes 2-6 hours to complete, depending on how much you put into it.

It is of course unfortunate if someone decides to code up something for a whole weekend, like 20-30 hours, only to get ghosted or similar. I guess it comes down to identifying free work from actual interview problems.
A SaaS company in the analytics & feedback market, Hotjar is a successful, self-funded/bootstrapped, start-up that operates on a fully remote basis, and with an essential emphasis on personal development.

Hotjar | Software Engineer, Security | Remote

Hotjar | Software Engineer, Engineering Experience | Remote

Hotjar | Senior Data Engineer | Remote

You can apply for any of our roles via https://careers.hotjar.com/
We're so far past the days when competitions were held for the best website under 5 kilobytes... which was then increased to 10kB to allow for JS [1]. Last time it was run was 2002.

Just goes to show that the software devs always squander more resources faster than hardware developers can create it. It is kind of like when you increase the radius of a ball by 2X it's volume grows by 8X.

Except this shouldn't be a law of physics. Most of it seems to be for developer convenience and faddishness. Perhaps if they noticed just how much everyone rushing off to the latest framework resembled ever teenager rushing off to buy the latest fast-fashion trends, it wouldn't happen so much.

It is just incredibly disappointing to see performance of even major websites visibly degrading every month to the point of unusability (yes, even on a CAD-/gaming-level rig), while obscure sites are still snappy. These are the very well-funded sites that should be able to optimize and streamline everything.

[1] https://www.the5k.org/
Floating Wind Good, Floating Wind Plus Green Hydrogen Better
What for exactly you use it?
BetterOmics | SF Bay | Onsite

If COVID has taught us anything, it’s that our way of life and millions of lives depend on our ability to rapidly and safely develop new drugs and vaccines.
At BetterOmics, we are building a data engineering platform for the life sciences. Our software enables and accelerates discoveries to treat the diseases of today and the pandemics of tomorrow. If you’ve ever wanted to put your software skills to use solving hard problems in the Life Sciences space this is the team for you. Previous biotech experience not required.

We’re hiring software engineers to focus on backend, full stack development, infrastructure. If you’re interested send us an email at info@betteromics.com and reference the HN posting to get ahead of the queue!
I presume a starship trajectory is not the same as that of a ballistic missile payload?
There is actually a small community still interested in poking around what little software related to Prevue we’ve found. Did you have any other involvement with the Prevue software?
The US military is currently having to rethink its whole power projection approach from "place something here" to "place something near here, but out of A2/AD range, and then go to the place". Because everything on sea and air is kind of getting vulnerable to being taken out now, before you can get the payload ashore. Probably they would use Starship as a "fire brigade" to move things between US-controlled theaters (or from middle of theater to the very edge of defensible airspace) when there was an emergency need for something.
We have https2 but most pages use a root/app Id div and generate everything after all resources are loaded. Stealing your bandwidth.

It is most odd that this practice is tolerated these days.

Yes, sure, state management "simplified" but at what cost.

This is worse than all the 3party cookies and tracking scripts, this is a combination of both.

Even delayed loading of resources and whatever tricks are used will not help here.
Outside the US railways have to be fenced along their length.
In this framework, does "validity" signify anything? Is there such a thing as an invalid emotional state?