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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:55AM (#26313283)
Stripe (EMEA) | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Dublin, London, Berlin, Stockholm, REMOTE | Full-time

Stripe launched its engineering hub in Dublin a few years ago and we now have more than a hundred engineers in Europe. We’re not just headquartered in America, but in Europe too—and this year we'll rapidly scale our engineering footprint in Europe.

We’re hiring in-office and remote employees in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Sweden. (More countries soon! And if you're not in one of those countries, we support relocations.)

Interested in learning more?

- We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]!

- Explore open roles in the region: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=design%2Cengineering%2Cprod...

To read more about how we’ve been growing Stripe engineering in Europe so far, check out:

- How we started our Dublin eng hub: https://stripe.com/blog/dublin-eng-office

- A Dublin engineer's take on joining Stripe: https://leportella.com/new-eng-stripe/

- Our remote engineering hub one year in: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub-one-year

- Dec 2020 Irish Times article with John Collison: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/1.4438722

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021) on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:52PM (#25991152)
Stripe (EMEA) | Backend Engineers, Engineering Managers | Dublin, London, Berlin, Stockholm, REMOTE | Full-time

Stripe launched its engineering hub in Dublin a few years ago and we now have more than a hundred engineers in Europe. We’re not just headquartered in America, but in Europe too—and this year we'll rapidly scale our engineering footprint in Europe.

We’re hiring in-office and remote employees in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Sweden. (More countries soon! And if you're not in one of those countries, we support relocations.)

Interested in learning more?

- We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]!

- RSVP for our Feb 18 coffee chat (https://stripe.events/emeacoffeechat) to hear more from Stripe co-founder John Collison and engineers about what we're up to in EMEA this year.

To read more about how we’ve been growing Stripe engineering in Europe so far, check out:

- How we started our Dublin eng hub: https://stripe.com/blog/dublin-eng-office

- A Dublin engineer's take on joining Stripe: https://leportella.com/new-eng-stripe/

- Our remote engineering hub one year in: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub-one-year

- Dec 2020 Irish Times article with John Collison: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/1.4438722

- Explore open roles in the region: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=design%2Cengineering%2Cprod...

Re:Computer as Master Mind (1976) [pdf] on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:01PM (#14343639)
Knuth worked on ensuring that the max number of guesses never went above 5. I believe that it's an algorithm, but I haven't looked into this enough yet.

Another way to optimize is for the avg number of guesses. The algorithm for this approach is to choose your next guess based on the guess that will give you the maximum amount of information gain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#D...).

Re:Computer as Master Mind (1976) [pdf] on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:28PM (#14343372)
I've been studying the game of hangman (somewhat obsessively) for the last 6 or so years. I only recently discovered this Knuth paper via An Optimal Mastermind (4,7) Strategy and More Results in the Expected Case [1].

I think the reason it has captivated me for so long is because of the unexpected insight that choosing a known short-term failure or an increased chance of short-term failure (when optimizing for information gain) will result in quicker paths to your final goal AND decreased amounts of short-term failures.

My repo (currently being reworked) for simulating different strategies in hangman and battleship: https://github.com/chrisconley/hangman

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.1010.pdf

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:47AM (#12846817)
Data Engineers/Data Scientists/Javascript Engineers | Mountain View, San Francisco, and Philadelphia | Full-time | Onsite | RealScout, Inc.

* REALSCOUT *

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, home sellers and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

Our agents closed $1.5 billion in sales using RealScout over the first 8 months of 2016, which is growing rapidly as we expand across the country.

* THE TEAM *

We strive to cultivate thought diversity with candor, empathy and respect. We welcome people of different backgrounds, abilities and perspectives - it’s one of our core values.

We oftentimes pair program, hold hack days every other Friday, and maintain 85% test coverage in order to maximize learning as well as enable us to act quickly on those learnings.

We're open source across the stack - Ruby on Rails, Python (Caffe, TensorFlow, Pandas, Celery, etc), ReactJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and take time to give back to our community.

(For the curious, check out our team page [1] for a fun, short intro to everyone at RealScout.)

* NEXT STEPS *

Feel free to peruse our open roles [2] and submit an application there or reach me directly at chris (at) realscout.com.

Once we hear from you, we'll reach out to schedule an initial 20 minute conversation to answer your questions about RealScout to see if it looks like there's a good fit.

Next, it's your choice whether you'd prefer a 2 hour take-home coding exercise based on our production code or to schedule a 1 hour pairing session with one of our engineers.

Lastly, you'll visit the office to pair program with 2-3 engineers and chat with our VP of Product, CEO, and/or COO.

Our hope is that by the end of the visit, you have a good idea of who you'd be working with, how we work together and what challenges we work on day to day, as well as a full understanding of our product and business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

[1] http://learn.realscout.com/team/

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/realscout

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:16PM (#12629337)
Data Engineers/Data Scientists/Javascript Engineers | Mountain View, San Francisco, and Philadelphia | Full-time | Onsite | RealScout, Inc.

* REALSCOUT *

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, home sellers and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

Our agents closed $1.5 billion in sales using RealScout over the first 8 months of 2016, which is growing rapidly as we expand across the country.

* THE TEAM *

We strive to cultivate thought diversity with candor, empathy and respect. We welcome people of different backgrounds, abilities and perspectives - it’s one of our core values.

We oftentimes pair program, hold hack days every other Friday, and maintain 85% test coverage in order to maximize learning as well as enable us to act quickly on those learnings.

We're open source across the stack - Ruby on Rails, Python (Caffe, TensorFlow, Pandas, Celery, etc), ReactJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and take time to give back to our community.

(For the curious, check out our team page[1] for a fun, short intro to everyone at RealScout.)

* NEXT STEPS *

Feel free to peruse our open roles [2] and submit an application there or reach me directly at chris (at) realscout.com.

Once we hear from you, we'll reach out to schedule an initial 20 minute conversation to answer your questions about RealScout to see if it looks like there's a good fit.

Next, it's your choice whether you'd prefer a 2 hour take-home coding exercise based on our production code or to schedule a 1 hour pairing session with one of our engineers.

Lastly, you'll visit the office to pair program with 2-3 engineers and chat with our VP of Product, CEO, and/or COO. Our hope is that by the end of the visit, you have a good idea of who you'd be working with, how we work together and what challenges we work on day to day, as well as a full understanding of our product and business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

[1] http://learn.realscout.com/team/

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/realscout

Re:New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:33AM (#12613065)
This is great - we'll try to get our Tensorflow and Caffe AMI repo updated soon: https://github.com/RealScout/deep-learning-images
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:37PM (#12019455)
RealScout | Ruby/Python Software Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists | Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016) on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:22PM (#11816274)
RealScout | Ruby/Python Software Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists | Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:11PM (#11613327)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time - Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:52PM (#11204522)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time - Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 400% since July.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Re:Installing TensorFlow with Python 3 on EC2 GPU Instances on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:47PM (#11037521)
Thanks for verifying, it wasn't working for us a couple weeks ago but haven't check since then.

I'll give 3.5 a go in the next couple days and update the guide as necessary. Thanks!

Re:TensorFlow Tutorials on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:16PM (#11035419)
This is great!

If anyone's interested, yesterday we put up a fairly detailed guide to installing TensorFlow on EC2 GPU instances with Python 3.4.

http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:35PM (#11016158)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 400% since July.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

Congrats! Lever is a joy and probably my favorite hiring tool I use at RealScout. Can't wait to see what is to come in the next few years.

(HackerRank integration would be awesome!)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015) on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:20PM (#10493832)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:58PM (#10314206)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:07PM (#10153379)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:59PM (#9997719)
RealScout - Rails Engineers/Front-end Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, our agents have closed $1.1 billion in sales and this number is growing quickly.

(Check out our latest hack days project we released last week: an Atmel AVR 8bit microchip emulator [3] built with Rust, React.js, Redux.js and Docker.)

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date)

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

-Chris

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - http://realscout.github.io/avr-emulator/

Re:Flux Architecture Visual Cheatsheet on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @10:45AM (#9968970)
While we're not using Redux in production yet, it's been an amazing library to work with so far.

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