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indeed30··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Peakon, a Workday company | Backend, Frontend, Data Science (all levels) | Copenhagen, London, Dublin | ONSITE | https://peakon.com/life-at-peakon/careers/

Peakon is an employee experience platform that helps employees have their voice heard by their employers. We're part of Workday, but we have dedicated engineering and product teams that operate from Europe. You get all the advantages of working for a big company while retaining the agility of a smaller team.

Working here means that you can work with an incredible dataset that can tell you how to be a better manager, or reveal what actually motivates people. As an engineer you will be working on features that directly lead to worklife improvements for millions of people.

Apply through the link above. I'm the hiring manager for the data roles and you can reach me at the email in my profile.

indeed30··on I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)
I'm confused - that isn't what I understand O(1) to mean. To me, O(1) means only that there exists some constant that bounds the runtime, while individual invocations can absolutely be sometimes faster.
indeed30··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
Yes, recruiters have accounts with companies, but in my experience the recruitment fee is a percentage of salary, and the individual recruiter compensation is on a commission model. In short, I personally have no problems in believing that the higher the salary, the higher the payment to both the recruitment company and individual recruiter.

However, I think we all know that closing the deal is far more important to the recruiter than negotiating small changes to the salary, so your point stands.

indeed30··on AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
I agree and find that caveat baffling. "The ability to search a store of information for user-supplied input" is fairly clearly elasticsearch functionality, but it seems that is allowed? They have to be more specific on what this means.
indeed30··on Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
My guess is that it means Microsoft is the only one that gets direct access to use the model itself, everyone else is forced to go indirectly through the OpenAI api, with all of the limitations that entails.
indeed30··on The New Austrian Railways' Intercity and Nightjet Sleeper Train Interior Design
It used to be a thing. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/end-of-volo-tv-on-fgw-h...
indeed30··on Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
This instantly made me think of Qbserve.
indeed30··on Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
250k is the fine, 61m is the top salary, 250k/61m is 1/244
indeed30··on Qualcomm says Apple is $7B behind in royalty payments
Cases similar to that certainly exist. In the UK you can owe royalties up to 4% when buying a piece of art on the secondary market, for example.
indeed30··on Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
Also zsh is pre-installed with the latest few versions of OS X anyway.
indeed30··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Peakon | Backend, Product, Marketing | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE | https://peakon.com/jobs/

We’re a team driven by the belief that we can radically change the world of work. We believe – and hear from our customers every day – that when an organisation understands itself better it can create more fulfilling jobs, and grow in ways never before imagined.

Enterprises big and small trust our products to provide visibility and clarity in areas once characterised by hearsay and uncertainty. With the insights delivered by Peakon, these organisations become more agile, responsive, and able to make the changes and investments that their employees care about most.

We’re in the business of creating great places to work, so it should be no surprise that this is our highest priority at Peakon. With ambitions as big as ours, we see individual growth and development as the key strategy for growing our business.

We're looking for:

  - Lead Backend Engineer
  - Product Manager
  - Product Marketing Manager
  - Technical Sales Engineer (Could be based in London)
  - Plus more Sales and Marketing roles (based in London) at the link above
indeed30··on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
In my experience, recruiting is a fairly cut-throat industry with a very high turnover rate of staff, so once you come to use your list you may find that a fair proportion bounce (or are redirected to someone else). It can't hurt though!
indeed30··on DeepTraffic is a gamified simulation of typical highway traffic
Yes, similar experiences here. It seems relatively easy to hit the 70mph mark but it gets tough past that.
indeed30··on New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/ has the current p2 spot prices
indeed30··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
OpenSignal | http://opensignal.com/ | Angel, London | ONSITE

Our mission is to become the global authority on wireless networks; our Wifi and mobile signal crowdsourcing apps have been downloaded over 15 million times, our public reports reach a wide audience and our OpenSignal Insights are purchased by key players in the telco industry. We need to expand our team to enable us to deal with the terabytes of data we crowdsource more effectively. You’ll also be making our clients happier (and helping us grow) by developing more-extensive and more-accurate measurements of critical aspects of cellular networks.

We're looking for a Back-end Developer / Data Engineer to take responsibility for existing core data products, including the newly built online platform of OpenSignal Insights, as well as internal reporting tools that help us grow by providing our marketing and sales team with critical information. We're also looking for a Data Analyst to work on competitive benchmarking of network operators and new analyses of our key metrics. You’ll be supported in all of these responsibilities by Ajay and Joe (that's me), experienced data scientists with relevant Telco and math PhD backgrounds.

Contact join@opensignal.com with any queries. Apply via the workable links below:

Back-end Developer / Data Engineer: https://opensignal-limited.workable.com/jobs/293248 Data Analyst: https://opensignal-limited.workable.com/jobs/296676

indeed30··on Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]
Yeah absolutely it does - the omnium on the track features events, such as the elimination race, with all countries represented at the same time, as does the road race. The road race is particularly interesting as while it is officially national teams that participate, there also sometimes exist looser bonds between riders of the same pro-team.
indeed30··on Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]
Cycling. Although that rather proves your point as politics are most definitely on-show there.
indeed30··on Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
I got that message a while back and up until this moment had genuinely believed that was a message from our CEO.
indeed30··on The State of LTE in September 2015
Since we're collecting data from the actual user location, we really do capture the true experience of coverage - if a busy, popular, location has good coverage that will be reflected already in the data. This means that a large country could do extremely well, provided it covered the important urban locations. It obviously still takes more effort on the part of the operators to provide this coverage in a large country, but we're less affected by this problem than more traditional geographic coverage approaches.

Although, that said, I think it could still be interesting and it's definitely feedback we'll take on board for next time. I'd say that the gap between 50% and 80% time on LTE is actually pretty important to the user.

indeed30··on The State of LTE in September 2015
I work for OpenSignal, and produced the data used in this report, so I'd like give some assurances around the coverage aspect. The principle is to calculate the percentage of time that each user was connected to LTE over the period in question, and then average over such users to arrive at an average figure per network. Naturally I'm understating some complexities around minor issues (mainly around cleaning and combining users' measurements), but it isn't like we've gone completely off-road and developed a black-box procedure here - it's pretty much what you would expect.

On the first point, yes, you're completely right that we are measuring the whole package, however we'd argue that this is what users really care about.

indeed30··on Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'
I wasn't trying to deny their usage, in fact I have no problem believing these things are out there. I'm just trying to understand the data log that was posted.

I work for a company with a huge dataset of cell tower observations, and so I was interested in locations that I could investigate. I'll try your suggestion and see if I can find anything suspicious.

indeed30··on Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'
Have you had a look at it? There's no location information that I can see so the usefulness is somewhat limited. There are 160 lines with "Suspicion: LOW" or higher, but I'm really not sure what I'm looking at.

If someone with a bit more domain expertise could point out the smoking gun here, it could be very interesting.

indeed30··on Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart Butterfield
Although you can't change the bg color, you can certainly change the coloured left-border.
indeed30··on Markov Chains vs. Simulation: Flipping a Million Little Coins
I'm struggling with this comment, I don't necessarily disagree with the spirit of it, but I feel that you're doing Markov chains something of a disservice by claiming they're mainly useful for "finitely few states".

You're completely ignoring immensely important topics like MCMC which (can) operate on uncountable spaces. The vast, vast majority of MCMC research and usage is with continuous random variables.

indeed30··on Fundraising $5000 for my Startup
If you want money, you'll need to explain to me:

1) How kibitzO is different to Quora

2) How moozeekaa will be better or more than just aggregated youtube tutorials

3) What on earth kingdomlove actually is.

I'm not trying to put you off, but I think you need much more focused plans for each of these.

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