It might be more efficient (and effective) for the filtering to happen closest to where the water is drank. If it happens at the treatment plant, then you end up filtering lots of water that is used to water lawns, shower, etc. Only a small percentage is used for drinking.
Agree, you also need chlorine in the water to treat the distribution system of pipes to your home. So you need to filter chlorine at point of use anyways.
Square | Back-end or Full-stack Software Engineer | REMOTE (US and Canada) | Full-time
Apply to join the Channels & Fulfillment team at Square. We are helping many traditionally in-person sellers succeed with moving parts of their businesses online. The two forms this is taking right now:
- Make it ridiculously easy to list your products across many channels/marketplaces (e.g. have your product start appearing in the Google Shopping search tab)
- Expand Square's common fulfillment APIs to simplify the "behind the scenes" operational part of what happens after they receive orders and need to execute on these contracts
We're already seeing a lot of success, and it's been really rewarding to help these businesses. This is a massive project, and most of work is in a new Go / Golang codebase hosted with the help of Redis, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Note that the job post says "Canada" but we're open to folks in both Canada and US for this remote position. Please start your message with "[HN]" when you apply. Feel free to send any questions in comments. https://smrtr.io/4RcLd
Square | Front-end or Full-stack Software Engineer | REMOTE (US and Canada) | Full-time
Square builds common business tools in unconventional ways so more people can start, run, and grow their businesses. When Square started, it was difficult and expensive (or just plain impossible) for some businesses to take credit cards. Square made credit card payments possible for all by turning a mobile phone into a credit card reader. Since then Square has been building an entire business toolkit of both hardware and software products including Square Capital, Square Terminal, Square Payroll, and more. We’re working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed on their own terms—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape tomorrow at Square.
Many teams are hiring at Square, but I am the hiring manager for the Channels and Fulfillment team. Note that the job post says "Canada" but we're open to folks in both Canada and US for this remote position. Please start your message with "[HN]" when you apply. Please send any questions in comments.
Stitch Labs | Full-stack JavaScript: Node + React | San Francisco | Full-time
As a full-stack engineer at Stitch Labs, you will be part of a passionate, rapidly-growing team of engineers solving complex problems at scale.
From syncing 1000s of products and orders per second, to automating entire online businesses, we are the team that is solving the most interesting problems in commerce today.
A few tech-focused initiatives underway right now include Dockerizing production to perfectly match development, migrating a legacy system to a new API with the help of TDD, and accelerating tests to improve build speed on CI.
We need your help with:
• Building integrations between our API and physical inventory warehouse APIs
• Adding new features to our inventory management product
• Beginning the migration of an Angular front-end to React
Please only apply if you meet these requirements:
• At least 2 years professional experience with Node
• At least 1 year professional experience with React or Angular
To apply, please send the following to eng-recruiting@stitchlabs.com:
1) Your resume
2) A brief story describing the professional engineering achievement you are most proud of in your career
That probably sounds like a joke...but why should a traditional expensive university be the only structured way to get exposure to broader human knowledge?
An intensive bootcamp model doesn’t actually make sense for breadth (they are designed for the opposite)...but if you told me I could be part of a structured organization in my city where I’d be introduced to interesting broad humanities topics through lectures from experts and assignments over several months then I’d be interested.
If the answer is 'no', we have to ask why people are "4 years off work, 100k+ interested"?
There is a value to history, the arts, humanities. But that value isn't always well captured by our current society.
Optimization systems (like our economy) optimize for what I'd easy to measure, and ignore what's hard.
A lot of those fields accrue value to the commons, which is value which is hard to measure, as a result their dollar reward is often lower than the value they produce.
There isn't an easy solution - and often when faced with hard problems the answer taken is fall back to the tools were used to using to measure.
Stitch Labs | San Francisco | Backend Engineer | ONSITE
Stitch is the leading online inventory control solution that simplifies multichannel retail business. It automatically syncs inventory, orders, and sales across channels, which provides retailers a holistic understanding of their operations. With Stitch, retailers save time, make better decisions, and grow their businesses. Stitch integrates with top sales channels such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Square, as well as add-ons including Quickbooks, Xero, and ShipStation.
A few tech notes:
- We are a pioneer in using an open source MySQL clustering solution called Vitess. It was created originally to host the data for YouTube and has just been accepted as a cloud native computing foundation project. We have worked with the google team to implement it here at Stitch and have enjoyed contributing to the project.
- We recently migrated our dev environments from Vagrant to Docker, and we have active initiatives to Dockerize our production environment.
- Our main application is running on Laravel 5.5 and all applications are running PHP 7.1
- We have various microservices running Laravel and Lumen all running out of Docker containers orchestrated through Kubernetes
- We regularly host the Laravel SF meetup group (Come join us!)
- All applications we write have a heavy focus on Object Oriented Programming and automated unit / functional testing
- We have invested heavily in getting all of our internal company data into BigQuery. We use it to introspect and drive decisions frequently, especially in the engineering department.
First Step Coding | Growth Marketing Manager | SF or Remote | REMOTE | Full-time
First Step Coding is hiring a growth marketing manager to join a small team of three to grow a profitable education business with product-market fit.
We occupy a unique niche in the coding bootcamp space. For most of our students, our classes are their first serious foray into coding. Since we focus exclusively on the introductory level, we have opportunities to partner with many other organizations in the space.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Primary ownership of marketing, advertising, and copy to grow top-of-funnel
• Regular blogging to build the community and position our company as a thought leader
• Tracking and reporting of analytics to drive decisions
• Lead expansion of online and in-person offerings
When I first invested in Bitcoin several years back, I tried to imagine ways that it could one day be deterred from becoming increasingly adopted and valuable. Government regulation and hacking were obvious possibilities, but I never considered “death by fragmentation” at the time. I think Bitcoin would be a lot more valuable today if it had not been for the explosion of largely greed-motivated shitcoins (and later ICOs) entering the market.
