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We built something a bit novel that is focused on composable integration testing in Clojure. We've used this for many years and found it quite useful for keeping a large testing codebase sane.

Overview: https://eng.amperity.com/posts/2019/04/greenlight GitHub: https://github.com/amperity/greenlight

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022) on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:47AM (#33069147)
Amperity | Seattle / NY / Zoomverse | Remote | Full-time

Amperity is hiring a variety of technical roles: Engineering Manager, Applied Data Scientist (Lead), Senior Software Engineer.

Interesting problems: - Ingesting and cleaning massive amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events - Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph - Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage - Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data - Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage.

Tech stack: - Clojure/ClojureScript - React/Reframe - Mesos/K8S - Spark - Kafka - SaltStack/Terraform - Riemann/InfluxDB/Grafana

For a full listing of positions, see https://amperity.com/careers/ -- apply there or reach out to me directly with questions. [my hackernews userid] at amperity dot com.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:27AM (#29067966)
Amperity | Seattle, WA & New York, NY | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-time

Amperity is a unicorn company building a comprehensive, data foundational CDP. We're hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic identity graph

- Using algorithms to generate new insights based on behaviors (e.g. predicting customer lifetime value)

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 5-year-old company. More at https://eng.amperity.com/

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018) on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:25PM (#17663990)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time

Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic identity graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 2-year-old company.

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018) on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:23PM (#17208425)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 2-year-old company.

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:26AM (#16967819)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 2-year-old company.

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:01PM (#16740620)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time

Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 2-year-old company.

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:14PM (#16284171)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time

Engineers! Amperity is hiring SDE's across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

Tech stack:

- Clojure/Clojurescript

- Aurora/Mesos

- Accumulo/Hadoop

- Spark

- Kafka

- SaltStack/Terraform

- Riemann/InfluxDB/Grafana

For a full listing of positions, see https://amperity.com/careers/ -- apply there or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Inside Amazon Go on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:43AM (#16202183)
That has always annoyed me as well, though in fairness the two times they caught a discrepancy at the exit it was in my favor (forgot an item at the checkout in one case, double charged in the other).
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:01PM (#12206731)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE & REMOTE | Full-time

Amperity is a startup company founded in January 2016 to tackle the problem of customer data unification at scale.

We are hiring experienced engineers to write Clojure (and ClojureScript for the front end inclined) in Seattle, WA. Remote is an option as well for the right candidate.

This is an early stage opportunity at an ambitious, well funded startup company. Full stack Clojure, not "a bit of Clojure on the side". You'll write Clojure all day, solve difficult problems at very large scale, and get paid.

Background in large scale data processing, distributed systems, and machine learning are all major bonuses. Other elements of the stack include Mesos, Apache Aurora, Finagle, Spark, Kafka, Accumulo, Onyx, SaltStack, and Riemann.

For a full listing of positions, see http://jobs.amperity.com -- apply there or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:08AM (#12021332)
Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE & REMOTE | Full-time

We are building a probabilistic record linkage system to enable unification of customer information from a wide variety of sources at massive scale.

We are hiring experienced engineers to write Clojure (and ClojureScript for the front end inclined) in Seattle, WA. Remote is an option as well for the right candidate.

This is an early stage opportunity at an ambitious, well funded startup company. Full stack Clojure, not "a bit of Clojure on the side". You'll write Clojure all day, solve difficult problems at very large scale, and get paid.

Background in large scale data processing, distributed systems, and machine learning are all major bonuses. Other elements of the stack include Mesos, Apache Aurora, Spark, Kafka, Accumulo, and Onyx.

We’re also looking for a site reliability engineer (SRE) and a data scientist.

For a full listing of positions, see http://jobs.amperity.com -- apply there or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.

Re:DevTools Challenger for Firefox on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:21PM (#10500966)
tl;dr This is a series of interactive demonstrations showing off some of Firefox Developer Edition's developer console features, with emphasis on CSS animation.
Re:Tesla Model S Autopilot Features on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @06:33PM (#10389995)
> Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel.

This seems odd, my understanding was that drivers needed to "check in" every so often, not handle the wheel at all times.

Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:52AM (#10301869)
They revealed today that the base model has a 90kWh battery, which is currently the top-of-the-line pack size for the Model S. Thus, it's almost certain that the starting point will be north of 90k and very likely over 100k with a few basic options thrown in.
Re:Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:16PM (#10076190)
Some early ideas have already hit the repo[1]. David Nolen has been focused on ClojureScript bootstrapping work[2] of late, but I expect he'll get back to Om Next in the coming weeks.

1. https://github.com/omcljs/om/blob/master/dev/om/dev.cljs 2. http://swannodette.github.io/2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/

Re:ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:32PM (#9985311)
The source code for the post is available[1], as is the macro[2] which is loaded via XHR.

The short of it is that a load function is passed to `cljs/compile-str`, which provides the mapping. In this case, it doesn't bother to do any mapping because it knows that it is loading `bar.core`. However, `bar-url` could instead be in a map from the namespace to the URL. Surprisingly simple, actually!

1. https://github.com/swannodette/swannodette.github.com/blob/m... 2. http://swannodette.github.io/assets/cljs/bar/core.cljs

Re:Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:12PM (#8625681)
It's certainly possible that these could be used in combination. GCC optimizations aren't significantly enhanced by JSDoc annotations, so presumably this could generate code for GCC to optimize without losing major benefits on either side.

The React.js team has been explicit about the library being GCC advanced mode compatible, so they certainly have awareness of its capabilities. Whether they are using them together internally or they use a different solution for tree shaking et al is another question.

Re:Boiling Sous-Vide Eggs Using Clojure's Transducers on Monday October 06, 2014 @11:20AM (#8416326)
The two temp solution works, or you can just get rid of the unappealing loose/runny parts of the white by gently rolling the cooked egg over a paper towel. The following chart can be helpful when you're getting started.

http://www.cookingissues.com/2011/05/03/tea-time-cooking-iss...

Re:A State of Xen – Chaos Monkey and Cassandra on Friday October 03, 2014 @02:48PM (#8406967)
> ...but inside a datacenter, network partitions are rare

It's ... complicated.

http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:04PM (#8120847)
IMS Health (Tech & Apps) - Seattle, WA

We're building a global, secure healthcare PaaS using modern technology (Docker, Kafka, Redshift, etc) to enable applications which put our petabytes of unique healthcare data into action.

Looking for pragmatic hackers at various experience levels who are interested in solving hard problems in an entrepreneurial environment. Specific background isn't important, but some exposure to "big data" type things and building service oriented things with modern functional hybrid technologies (C#, Clojure, Scala, etc) is helpful.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/63900/platform-softwar...

Re:Arithmetic is Hard--To Get Right: Wolfram Research on Excel bug on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @02:18AM (#59737)
Article summary:

Math is hard, buy Mathematica, buy Mathematica, here's a picture of Excel, buy Mathematica, buy Mathematica, math is hard unless you buy Mathematica, buy Mathematica, BUY MATHEMATICA, BUY MATHEMATICA, ... I SAID BUY MATHEMATICA OR MATH WILL BE HARD!!! BUY IT!!! BUY IT NOW!!!

Note that the salesmanship in the summary is a bit more subtle than the actual article.

Re:Food Ideas for Startup Guys on Thursday September 20, 2007 @09:31PM (#57744)
According to the online calculator, I was in the "acceptable" zone even when I ate a can of tuna virtually every weekday. There are higher levels of mercury in albacore tuna, but generally speaking most people are going to be just fine.

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