Something I’ve noticed that I didn’t expect is that people are able to guess a lot of albums in only one or two squares. Some of this is luck and image layout paradigms being surprisingly consistent (titles at the top!), but we also may have better context-based image memory than we think. There’s an obscure setting to increase the difficulty, which makes the squares smaller (or larger) to combat this.
Interesting idea about the reveal! I’ll consider adding that (or some cheap version of placing the image in the success modal at least).
Author here. I was inspired to make this by thinking about how Wordle, a game where a word is slowly unraveled by guessing letters, could apply to images (and specifically album art).
Perhaps clone is a poor word here and inspiration would be more accurate.
The main objection to computer-aided proofs is not that they are more difficult for humans to understand.
The main objection is that most proof-assistants use a different logical foundation than modern mathematics. Modern mathematics is built on ZFC[0] whereas most proof assistants, such as Coq, Isabelle, Agda, etc use different logical foundations, such as the Calculus of Constructions[1].
Many important results in modern mathematics are not easily stated or proven in systems such as CoC[1]. For example, Brouwer's _Fixed Point Theorem_[2], a pretty bog standard result in Topology that is useful to proof many things in Functional Analysis, has a clear statement in ZFC, but does not, to my knowledge, have an equivalent in CoC (and if it does it will be stated radically different).
If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.
We (Fraugster Gmbh) are hiring Go developers and devops in Berlin. We've always held a great amount of respect for soundcloud given all that you guys have done for the golang community in Berlin.
If any of you are not based here we can offer relocation/visa support, check my previous comments on whoishiring for more details or contact me directly stefan <at> fraugster <dot> com
Personally love SoundCloud and use it as my primary source for discovering music. I'm a software engineer at 10x Genomics, a Bay Area biotech startup, and we're hiring all sorts of engineers. If anyone is looking to move into a different industry and want to develop technologies that enable discoveries in the fight against cancer, feel free to reach out: kevin.wu@10xgenomics.com.
Hey Aaron, sorry to hear and thanks for posting. We're hiring at Instagram for roles in NYC, SF and Menlo Park; if you/folks on your team want a direct line feel free to email me and I'll connect them to the right folks on the team.
If there's a internal documents with links getting passed around (there was a similar thing when Skype shut down their London office) please add our company to it as we're hiring https://thoughtmachine.workable.com/
Living in Berlin, doing freelance. Just giving my advice here.
Now is a good opportunity for you guys to go that road. It's never been easier to find projects and there are lots of companies that can benefit the experience you got and offer short-term contractor work.
If someone needs help to get started in Berlin ( taxes, advice, etc. ) feel free to contact me.
Hey, SoundCloud employee here who's leaving -- I'd actually love to take you up on this offer. @brianegan on Twitter if you have a bit of time to DM. Thanks so much!
We're hiring at S23NYC, Nike's Digital Innovation Lab in NYC. We're very close to the SoundCloud NYC office -- we can see your Wifi!
Feel free to spread this to anyone in engineering in the NYC office (or anyone willing to relocate to NYC). Hit me up directly: jon.apostoles(at)nike.com
Mainly looking for native iOS and Android engineers, and backend engineers.
If an entire office is being shut down, then there's no issue with adverse selection. It's a rare chance for great engineers to be actively on the market.
Pandora is hiring for a few positions in our analytics teams. If you're interested in a career in big data analytics or data science have a look at some of our open roles.
These aren't under the best circumstances but if folks who are affected are interested in continuing their career in music in Oakland Pandora is an awesome place to work.
Feel free to contact me for any questions about our open roles, good luck with your search!
Alto Pharmacy is hiring in SF! We are a tech-focused pharmacy, and we are focused on building software that makes a meaningful impact on people's lives by providing a better pharmacy experience. We've raise $23 million to work toward our mission of building the best pharmacy for everybody, and we're looking for other caring, scrappy, humble engineers to join us! We are looking for full stack generalists, and our tech stack is Rails, React, and Go.
Would love to have you join our network, so candidates can find great new homes quickly and easily whenever they're ready http://www.layoff-aid.com/hiring
Sorry, my wording left out a bit of detail and was confusing. Our process is:
1) 30 minute intro phone call to see if both parties are pushing in the same direction
2) technical review, which can take one of two forms:
a) 1 hour phone call (no computer needed)
b) take home coding exercise
3) in person phase to meet team, cross functional team members, and ceo
Because of the nature of this comment, I thought it'd be helpful to offer up option 2b directly if someone wants todo it without a phone call blocking things.
We offer the coding exercise as an option for a few reasons, but the most important one is that some great engineers are good on the phone and some aren't. While good communication skills are a must to performing well, doing well on a tech phone call isn't.
Two things - not every engineer in good standing at a well known company can do FizzBuzz. And it speaks to compliance -- if someone is annoyed by a simple coding exercise, imagine how annoyed they might be if I ask them to do some not fun wizzbang work task after they're actually hired.
I really don't see much wrong with a 1-2 hour coding exercise. I'm really averse to "projects" that are supposed to span more time though, since I have a full time job and also a life besides.
Others have mentioned engineers not being able to do fizzbuzz, and that is certainly the most important part. Another one is, I've personally worked in larger orgs where "engineers" stick around for years, but haven't really done any solid coding whatsoever in years. They use tools developed by others to "assist" their team, but are actually the least productive people. One of the strategies that help this is by not automating certain repetitive tasks, so that it seems to require the attention of a full time engineer. e.g. I knew a person whose job day in and out was clicking in the Jenkins UI to run the jobs (!).
Of course this is not universal. But a small coding exercise is a good compromise imo.
On that note, my team (I am the technical lead) at Rocket Lawyer is hiring engineers in San Francisco to work on Scala/Finagle/Finch services within our legal services platform. Rocket Lawyer is replacing a distributed monolith with a proper API-oriented application designed to run on Kubernetes and this team is at the center of that effort. Feel free to contact me by email (chodapp at rocketlawyer dot com).
Edit: My company is also hiring backend devs for another team in London.
Thanks Aaron - we're aggressively hiring for iOS and Android at Speak (YC W17) in San Francisco.
Speak is an AI English tutor that has spoken conversations with users who want to become better at speaking English -- so audio is core to our experience. If you were on the mobile team at Soundcloud we'd love to talk - email me personally at connorzwick <at> gmail.
If any SoundClouders are reading this thread, consider Flexport!
Flexport is a freight forwarder, which is a really old industry. We're bringing it to the information era. (It turns out computers are really good at solving information problems.)
Flexport is growing the engineering team of ~35 in our downtown SF office. It's a great time to join: we have 20% MoM growth and we're about to enter the peak season where retailers are getting ready for the holidays. There's lots of opportunity for personal growth because we still have tonnes of stuff to build.
Our stack is React, Rails, Postgres, AWS. We're experimenting with GraphQL & Relay too.
We're hiring across the stack. Check out our careers page below. If you're interested in frontend, contact me directly! (email is in my profile).
Flexport is great, and we're proud to have your team as one of our awesome http://www.Layoff-Aid.com startups that are already on our hiring network in SF.
Thank you for posting here, for making yourself available directly.
- You ideally have 4+ years of full-time experience and a salary expectation of $90-110k
- You have worked with or are interested in Unix, functional programming, Elixir, Elm, JavaScript, PostgreSQL
- We build cloud software for the marine shipping industry; thousands of people at companies like BC Ferries, Seaspan and many others use our products to build ships, reduce fuel consumption and manage their day-to-day operations
- We have a disparate stack with technologies like Rails, Meteor, Angular and React in production, but are standardizing our product line on Elixir/Elm
- We have group benefits, flexible time off, flexible work hours, working from home, and will buy you the tools you need to do your job well
I am sorry to hear what you guys are going through, and kudos for posting this here.
We are hiring for several positions at Amazon in our Seattle office working on some really cool stuff. Please send resumes to sarthomp at amazon.com and say you found out on Hacker News. We'd love to make this work for you.
We're hiring at Adobe | Behance in NYC. We're a diverse team of people passionate about our craft, our product, and open source. https://www.behance.net/careers
Atrium is hiring for Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, and Frontend Engineer. See postings here! We want you! https://www.atriumlts.com/
ClassPass is hiring engineers in both New York and San Francisco.
We're a marketplace that connects people with studios and gyms so they can take yoga, martial arts, or other classes near them. We have a solid working business model and are growing. We're hiring for backend, frontend, full-stack, and infrastructure roles.
I'm a technical lead in SF and happy to talk to anyone on either coast. Contact me at (my HN username)@classpass.com or apply directly at https://classpass.com/jobs/openings.
Would love to have ClassPass join our network, so candidates can find great new homes quickly and easily whenever they're ready: http://www.layoff-aid.com/hiring
Feel free to apply yourself, forward to recruiting, or give me a shout with questions.
Even if you don't join, very much appreciate you posting here and making yourself available.
Sorry to hear this news. We have a position for a Senior Software Developer at Rainforest QA. We're looking for several years with Postgres (or other SQL experience) and Ruby-on-Rails (or similar technology). We're a distributed team so you can be based in the Bay Area or anywhere in the world. More here https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/ or reach out directly. Best of luck to you all.
Twitch Berlin is hiring. We're looking for data scientists and distributed systems engineers working on one of the largest live video CDNs in the world at a huge scale that makes things interesting.
Would love to chat with anyone from SoundCloud interested in earnest.com. We're building the future of finance.
I'm a tech lead for one of the teams, feel free to email directly: alex (dot) cusack (at) earnest (dot) com
Looking for smart people interested in solving hard problems. Stack is JavaScript/Node and Java, but flexible on background in those specific languages
CeleraOne is hiring in Berlin, actually around the corner of Soundcloud's HQ in Berlin Mitte. We 're looking for engineers in Python, C++, JavaScript as well as Operations and Machine Learning. See http://www.celeraone.com/en/careers for a complete list or contact us directly career@celeraone.com.
Shutterstock is looking to hire top-flight talent in NYC, we have a number of roles open: https://www.shutterstock.com/jobs/listings. For the search team we are working on building the best image and video search experience out there and could use more ML engineers, data engineers, or experienced development managers.
Sorry to hear about the closure, Aaron. If you or your colleagues are interested, Parabola Labs is hiring React and Node engineers in SF. We build tools that let non-technical people leverage data science and automation. https://parabola.io/ Feel free to email me at brian [at] parabola.io
Although we're not in SF or Berlin we (CliniCloud) are actively hiring a backend developer well versed in Golang. If anyone is interested in a change of hemisphere to Melbourne, Australia check it out here - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/389443269/
NFL is hiring in Los Angeles. We get to work with a lot of bleeding edge JavaScript and have a few popular open source projects like React Helmet that we actively maintain https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet. Drop me a line and I can get your resume to the right place (james.hush@nfl.com)
Hey Aaron -- super sorry to hear about the situation. Soundcloud is a fantastic product and company. If you or your colleagues are interested, Plaid is hiring engineers in SF. You can find a full description here: https://plaid.com/careers.
Or, better, just drop me a line directly: zach [at] plaid [dot] com
If you're interested in solving problems in transportation and connected cars, we're hiring at Smartcar. We're based out of Mountain View and are looking for Frontend and Backend engineers, as well as Sales/Business Development.
Prefer(https://prefer.com) is looking at hiring both frontend engineer and product designer in both NY and SF. We are a Benchmark-backed company working on rebuilding the service professional marketplace.
Feel free to reach out, my email is siong [at] prefer [dot] com.
I am hiring for a project I am running at A^3 ("A Cubed"), Airbus' office in San Jose. Looking for smart generalists with experience in Python and interested in a hybrid R&D and product environment.
We're big fans of SoundCloud here at Feed.fm. If you still want to deliver music to the world, then join up with us! We cater to businesses already making money, instead of struggling to make a profit selling directly to consumers.
If anyone fancies a pivot from audio to robotics, Automata are a growing robotics startup in London looking for developers all the way down our stack from the web interface to embedded C, with some C++ and rails in between. Drop us an email!
I actually did it for a while. I started my career in biotech and worked on an instrument. When I told them I was moving they wanted to keep me on and sent a couple of scanners to me.
I do realize that's a special case. They knew me for eight years prior, not nearly the same thing... but I thought I'd ask. There may be a fair amount of work that can be done via simulation, or applications level stuff, but yeah, a long shot.
We're hiring software engineers, machine learning engineers, and ML scientists at Freenome to work on early detection of cancer: https://www.freenome.com/careers.
My email is in my profile; feel free to reach out if you have questions.
Teachable (online course platform) is hiring across the stack in NYC - well funded, we control the board, have 10 years of burn left, come have a great time building awesome software with us. Teachable.com/careers or email me directly at noah@teachable.com if you're interested, would love to chat
Trello's hiring for a bunch of different roles, Front and Back-End (node), Internal Tools Developer, and Site Reliability Engineer are all listed at https://trello.com/jobs . Anywhere in the US.
We've also got a lot of Product roles coming up, specifically PM positions and some product design stuff on the horizon. Feel free to reach out to me (Lydia M: lydia@trello.com) or my colleague Carrie (Carrie Marvin: carrie@trello.com)
Aha! is always hiring quality folks to work on our Ruby on Rails and Javascript (React) application. We are fully remote (work from anywhere in North America), profitable, and we offer excellent benefits.
We recently closed a $50m Series B from a consortium of the six largest global banks, as well as Google. We are growing rapidly (in Harvard Square, NYC and DC) and are looking for exceptional engineers to complete our team.
We are hiring across the stack. See more on our careers page:
www.kensho.com/careers
We (Managed by Q) are hiring in NYC, especially Backend Engineers, Engineering Managers and Product Managers - https://www.managedbyq.com/careers. Feel free to drop me a line - eseidohl@<our domain name>
We (Songtrust) are a music startup helping songwriters get paid more money, we are hiring python engineers, tech support, and a marketing/growth lead: http://blog.songtrust.com/jobs/
The fact that the word after 'turn' is 're-turn' makes my mind go to the usual purpose of prefixing words with 're': to do again. That's not how it's used here but then in 'repurchases' it is. There's too many twists and turns (no pun intended) from a language standpoint.
I'm trying to follow your logic here and am failing. I automatically read it the way I'm sure it was intended, and there is no alternative meaning to "return" (not-hyphenated) that would cause ambiguity. Are you a native English speaker?
I clicked just because I was curious and then discovered that this company is founded by someone I went to high school with and haven't seen if 13 years. Small world.
we (Pusher.com) will be happy to welcome engineers from Soundcloud to our London Office. we have some job listing on https://pusher.com/jobs but please still do reach out even if any job description fits your profile, we are always looking for talented people in every area.
University of Alberta has a very strong pure mathematics department (especially in Functional Analysis and Algebra). Pairing this with a strong Computer Science department could eventually bring it to a level to compete with Waterloo.
On the other hand, as someone who grew up in edmonton, I don't ever want to live there again. It's a tough city to live in, though it has its beauty when you look hard enough.
- getting dark around 4/5pm
- extremely dry and cold
- winter starts in October, lasts until late April
- massive urban sprawl so the city core is dead during the winter, and therefore the city feels lifeless.
That's particularly bleak and definitely biased, but it's not far from the truth.
I lived and worked downtown in the late 90s/early 00s, and going back recently, I have to say that it is a lot better than it used to be. There is an incredible amount of investment in the core, and the whole ice district area on 104th ave is pretty remarkable, including the new museum, hockey arena, and Stantec tower—which will be 68-stories high, quite surprisingly, the tallest tower in Canada outside of Toronto. The city has also invested in light rail expansion, and just installed a new bike grid in the downtown core. Things feel very different than they used to.
The short days are definitely tough. The shortest day of the year has less than 8 hours of sunshine. Sun comes up at 9am and sets by 4pm. However, Edmonton is usually quite sunny in the winter.
Conversely the summers are great. It's light from 5am to 10pm, so get almost 17 hours of sunlight. If you include twilight, it's more like 18 hours.
Yeah, I agree. I lived in London, UK for a while and found the lack of sunlight much worse. Edmonton has a lot of sun, which makes it pretty tolerable.
The past couple years winters have been worse in New York than in Edmonton. Maybe that's the new normal now. The hard part isn't the cold so much as the lack of daylight during the winter solstice period.
Oh God, I looked at a homemade video of Edmonton snow... even the crunching sounds set my teeth on edge. I don't see how anyone could endure that all the way from October to May.
Meh. It's such a personal thing: I never found it particularly bothersome.
People talk up how hard winters are (and let's be honest - we all prefer temperate temperatures) but good clothing goes a long, long way in your maintaining winter comfort. A good windproof jacket, warm socks, waterproof boots, long johns, and warm hat and gloves go a long way. Get good at layering and things get a lot easier.
I find winters in New York harder to deal with: I have to dress warmly for the outside, and everyone seems to set the heat to "roasting" inside. Weird.
Did you go to school in Edmonton in 1890 or something? I grew up near Edmonton too and while January/Feb can certainly cross the -30 mark from time to time (and barely), -40 is unheard of. Maybe with windchill, like once or twice a year.
For the week of January 7th, the highest temperate was -28C. Lowest was -37C.
The prior week had a high of -25C.
Go back another year to 1997 and the temperature for the week of January 19th was a high of -30C and a low of -41C. I remember it fondly. The temperature never got above -30C for almost 10 days.
Does the reproducible builds project have a hand in the project to give Security/Binary Transparency to Firefox? I ask because i don't know, and I saw no language to suggest that in the page linked.
We are looking for an impact-driven Senior Data Scientist to solve exciting problems in recommendations, search, and personalization using Machine Learning. As a Data Scientist at SoundCloud you will work closely with other data scientists and engineers to find opportunities and build, tune, instrument, and evaluate machine learning models.
Some projects you might work on include:
* a personalized playlist recommendation model to empower curation at SoundCloud
* offline evaluation to improve the search experience of our users
* prototyping deep neural networks and demonstrate their benefits in powering recommendations for our users
* iterating on our Spark-based locality sensitive hashing implementations to improve recall.
I'm an engineer on SoundCloud's Recommendations team. We are looking for scala engineers to help users find lit tracks on the world's largest audio platform. You'll work alongside data scientists and engineers in a stack based on Spark, Scala, Finagle, and Cassandra.
SoundCloud is a wonderful place to work and Berlin is an amazing city to live in. I relocated from Canada and haven't looked back.
I can vouch that working at soundcloud has been an excellent experience! It's truly an opportunity to work with such thoughtful, talented, and driven colleagues. Never a dull moment. We are also hiring iOS developers - ping me for details so I can refer you for iOS. https://twitter.com/meghafon or https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghaphone
Hey aaron, I'm an early bird soundcloud user and very interested in working for your company but don't have a lot of scala knowledge. Just did some lessons at home and some research at my last job including spark, prediction.io and the finagle stack. Does it make sense to apply to this job?
What's the salary range of this opportunity? Considered Berlin ops in the past but the companies are notoriously cheap. Always need to establish upfront if the company is one of the rare Berlin companies offering internationally competitive packages or another trying to get by offering experienced devs 50k EUR with .1%-.2% equity, fruit, free drinks, and a foosball table.
