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Solana | Engineering: Software Engineer, Languages and Compiler Engineer, Front End UI Engineer | San Francisco, Boulder, San Diego, Remote | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://solana.com/careers/

Solana is a web scale blockchain that can enable decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. We just raised our second round of funding and are about to launch Mainnet this fall – now is an exciting time to join the team.

Our team is highly specialized in distributed systems engineering and full-stack development, so we’re looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us find product market fit as we build out the Solana ecosystem.

If you’re looking to join a fast paced, problem solving environment at the center of the digital ledger space, then you should seriously consider joining our team. Here are some open engineering roles:

* Software Engineer * Languages and Compiler Engineer * Front End UI Engineer

If you're interested in applying, visit our careers page at https://solana.com/careers/ and mention Hacker News. Our offices are in San Francisco, Boulder, and San Diego, and we're also accepting applications for remote employees as well (at the moment, we don't sponsor US work visas).

Solana | Engineering: Software Engineer, Languages and Compiler Engineer, Front End UI Engineer | San Francisco, Boulder, San Diego, Remote | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://solana.com/careers/

Solana is a high performance blockchain that can enable growing decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. We just raised their second round of funding and are about to launch Mainnet this fall. In other words, now is a really exciting time to join the team.

Our team is highly specialized in distributed systems engineering and full-stack development, so we’re looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us find product market fit as we build out the Solana ecosystem.

If you’re looking to join a fast paced, problem solving environment at the center of the digital ledger space, then you should seriously consider joining our team. Here are some open engineering roles:

* Software Engineer * Languages and Compiler Engineer * Front End UI Engineer

If you're interested in applying, visit our careers page at https://solana.com/careers/ and mention Hacker News in your cover letter. Our offices are in San Francisco, Boulder, and San Diego, although we're also accepting applications for remote employees as well (at the moment, we don't sponsor US work visas).

Hi all, thank you for the thoughtful comments. I apologize — this might not have been the best forum to share this. Regardless, thank you for reading my story. I wish you all the best.

I wasn't aware of that! My apologies. Thank you for the info.

Anyone interested in organizing a meetup in Denver? Email me! ryan [@] decentraland.org

Yes, thank you for the source. I've fixed my wording in the original post.

I think it should serve as a wake up call for the rest of the world. Sweden has had incredible success with recycling in recent years, most notably touting the fact that they import other countries' trash to use in their recycling plants [1]. How can we recreate Sweden’s model in the US and have our own solution to the trash problem instead of giving it to China?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling...

EDIT: Fixed wording and added source. Sweden is buying other countries' trash, not selling theirs.

I can attest to this. I'm currently working my way through the college application pipeline, and my peers are laser focused on what it takes to get into a good college. Rather than pursuing what interests them, many choose challenging courses just to have a favorable transcript, and standardized test stress is an epidemic. Anxiety about "getting in" to a good school supersedes any dreams of starting a venture or pursuing an option that isn't a 4-year prestigious university.

The disappearance of new ventures can be attributed in some way to this new way of thinking. I've been told that college anxiety didn't exist 20 years ago -- maybe it's time to go back to those days. High school, in my mind, is a time to experiment and find what actually interests you: not to manifest into a homework bot that's dominated by stress.

This isn't always the case, though. The 25-year-old with life experience and a past of experimentation still exists, it's just not the norm anymore.

While this quote rings true most of the time, it's important to discern whether this mindset is merely enabling mischief or allowing for an acceptable level of disobedience.

Many monumental breakthroughs were accomplished by disregarding permission, and rebellious attributes are attributed to people like Stephen Wolfram[0] and Albert Einstein. The MIT Media Lab even has an award for disobedience [1].

This mindset, though, can manifest into an unhealthy obsession with breaking the rules. An uncontrolled expectation to "ask forgiveness" can lead to murky moral territories. Where do you draw the line between accepting rebelliousness and enforcing the law?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Education_and_...

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/

Sexting on Snapchat is rampant in high school today (I'm a current high school student). The self-destruction principle has allowed for people to feel comfortable about sending explicit photos to eachother -- in relationships, it's almost ubiquitous.

That isn't saying that Snapchat has removed the potential of spreading explicit content. As someone mentioned in another comment, screenshotting the snap circumvents the system. It's also just as easy to take a photo of the screen with another device -- both an untraceable and permanent record of the photo.

As a whole, Snapchat has had a net positive effect for people my age. I can attest that teenagers make unwise decisions now and again, and Snapchat has helped in that those rash decisions are less likely to bite us in the future. While I don't have the data to back up the claim that hundreds of thousands of kids have been protected due to Snapchat's impermanence, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it was true. It's the most popular social network in my demographic for a reason -- it oozes the ephemeral teenage spirit.

I'd love to learn more about this. Do you have any more info? Email is ryan [@] shea . cool

  Location: Denver / Boulder, CO
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Web Frontend, Event Production, Adobe Creative Suite, Lighting Design, Operations + Logistics, Video Content Creation
  Résumé/CV: http://shea.industries/resume.pdf
  Email: [email protected]

I'm looking for any internship or fellowship opportunities for the summer. I'm a jack of all trades looking to hone in my skills -- or even learn new ones.