hkothari

Brigit | Local, NYC | Full Time | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer

Brigit is one of the fastest growing startups in the FinTech world. Our mission is to improve the lives of the under-served by breaking the vicious cycle of overdraft fees and predatory loans. As a mission-driven company, we want to create a legacy of building simple, fast, data-driven products that break the paycheck to paycheck cycle and empower people to take back their financial freedom.

Our team consists of results-driven innovators who have managed successful products and businesses at Amazon, Deutsche Bank, Palantir, Two Sigma, and Credit Suisse, and have a strong desire to improve the financial lives of under-served Americans.

Backend Engineer (Java) details: https://jobs.lever.co/brigit/5a5907e5-6e08-4bb0-8f7a-4dd4594... Frontend Engineer (React/React-native) details: https://jobs.lever.co/brigit/9b63d682-91e2-4a93-83df-1c4b010...

Am I missing something? The first line says: "Armis Labs revealed a new attack vector endangering major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux, and the devices using them."

Why is the title singling out Linux? Reading through the rest of it, it seems like this is on pretty much everything.

If you are interested in the code behind this, I wrote an overview last month on the functionality and links to the different code that backs the improvements they talk about: http://hydronitrogen.com/spark-220-cost-based-optimizer-expl...

There's a fair amount of overlap, but where the databricks article explains the techniques with charts and high level explanations, I go over the code instead.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention any sort of social stigma against the work (beyond the low pay and danger). Logging is cutting down trees and in a world where we're raised now to conserve our forests I'm not surprised that logging as an occupation is not on the forefront of people's minds.

Even if it's done in an environmentally sound way, I'd assume that there's a stigma that would be hard to get past.

As a customer of simple I cannot agree with this statement more. This is disheartening news for me.

I've tried for the past few years to use them as my primary bank but it's actually unusable in that regard. Lately I've been asking myself what they're actually good at and it seems like the answer is mostly for providing prompt customer support to work around the issues that they're imposing on me in the first place by not being a real bank. I'm now slowly trying to transition away from them to something like Ally which seems to at least have some visible benefits.

The craziest part to me:

"As a result of the failures described in Paragraph 18, on or about May 12, 2014, an intruder was able to access consumers’ personal information in plain text in Respondent’s Amazon S3 Datastore using an access key that one of Respondent’s engineers had publicly posted to GitHub, a code-sharing website used by software developers. The publicly posted key granted full administrative privileges to all data and documents stored within Respondent’s Amazon S3 Datastore."

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1523054_ube... Page 5

I came here wondering the exact same thing. Seems insane.

Can someone explain how this differs from something like HDFS? I'm kind of confused as to why there's no comparisons or mentions of HDFS here which makes me think I'm missing something important about what this provides that's special. Is it the easy to install part?

I'm just imagining what would happen after a wildly successful presentation from which much applause ensues.