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kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)

I'm looking for someone to join my small but wily team of engineers and help me build a new, open source (https://github.com/Flowminder/flowkit-ui and https://github.com/Flowminder/flowkit-ui-backend), data platform for the humanitarian and development sector. (There's lots of other interesting and impactful things to get your teeth into as well, but the role is primarily for this project to start with).

We use things like:

React, Linux, Mapbox, Deck.gl, Python, FastAPI, Docker, make, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Terraform, CircleCI, Github, GCP, OpenAPI, Auth0

https://www.flowminder.org/about-us/work-with-us/full-stack-...

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

Flowminder is a pioneering, internationally operating non-profit organisation that supports disaster relief and development efforts through several products including the analysis of data gained from mobile phones and household surveys in privacy and security preserving manners.

We are now looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with excellent communication skills to facilitate and (depending on experience) drive and lead the expansion of our small but worldwide infrastructure and product installations in cooperation with key technology partners.

We use terraform, docker, linux, python, Postgres, airflow, GCP and anything else that gets the job done. Our infrastructure sits in mobile phone operators' data centres in interesting places around the world, and we use it to help people.

We value autonomy, a drive to make stuff better, and being curious.

kidnoodleon Shepard Tone

A thoroughly panic inducing example is the basis for Anna Meredith’s Sawbones - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TsgNYUfdv9A&feature=share

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

Flowminder Foundation is looking for a senior developer to help us open source, and augment our mobile phone data analysis stack.

We’ve used this tool to do things like monitor displacement after natural disasters and conflicts and help understand disease spread in low and middle income countries.

Built on docker, python, and Postgres. We also increasingly use JavaScript for visuals, R if appropriate, and anything else that’s the right tool for the job at hand.

Diverse and friendly team of mostly academics (although we’re looking to increase our diversity on that score), free terrible coffee, lot of opportunity for travel to unusual places. We can’t currently sponsor visas, but are open to some degree of remote working. Full job spec is at http://www.flowminder.org/vacancies/senior-developer

Feel free to drop me a mail at Jonathan.gray at flowminder.org if you’ve got any questions!

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Flowminder Foundation is looking for a senior developer to help us open source, and augment our mobile phone data analysis stack.

We’ve used this tool to do things like monitor displacement after natural disasters and conflicts and help understand disease spread in low and middle income countries.

Built on docker, python, and Postgres. We also increasingly use JavaScript for visuals, R if appropriate, and anything else that’s the right tool for the job at hand.

Diverse and friendly team of mostly academics (although we’re looking to increase our diversity on that score), free terrible coffee, lot of opportunity for travel to unusual places.

We can’t currently sponsor visas, but are open to some degree of remote working.

Full job spec is at http://www.flowminder.org/vacancies/senior-developer

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

Flowminder Foundation | Product Manager | Onsite, Southampton UK | £50-60K

We're looking for an awesome product manager to help us take several internal software tools open source, and help guide the vision for their future development.

Flowminder Foundation is a non-profit, working to analyse mobile phone data for good. We work with telecoms operators all over the world, and a bunch of humanitarian and development agencies, providing unique insights on human mobility.

Friendly, interesting place to work, with a really varied team of academics from all over the world, incredible variety of projects, and the opportunity to make a huge difference to people's lives.

We're also looking for a kickass analyst/data scientist. Applications here: http://www.flowminder.org/vacancies

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Flowminder Foundation | Product Manager | Onsite, Southampton UK | £50-60K

We're looking for an awesome product manager to help us take several internal software tools open source, and help guide the vision for their future development.

Friendly, interesting place to work, with a really varied team of academics from all over the world, incredible variety of projects, and the opportunity to make a huge difference to people's lives.

We're also looking for a kickass analyst/data scientist. Applications here: http://www.flowminder.org/vacancies

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Experiences going part time?

I work 4 days a week, which allows me to spend one looking after my daughter. I had the option to do that, or take a (hugely) better paid job. Don't regret it for a second, and I don't think it has actually had that significant of an impact on how much I actually get done in a week.

At least until my child starts school, I wouldn't even consider working full time. Even then, I think the positive difference the extra time has made to me, and my family would make me think hard about going back to a 5 day working week.

kidnoodleon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2016)

Location: London, UK

Remote: Possible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SciPy/Numpy, R, Java, Javascript

Résumé/CV: http://greenape.github.io/cv/j_gray_cv.pdf

Email: j.gray@soton.ac.uk

I'm just finishing up a PhD in complex systems simulation and social statistics, where I've mostly been crunching social survey data, and building agent-based models in Python. Looking to apply my data wrangling and python powers to interesting problems.

kidnoodleon Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

I have a blog post I've never quite finished writing, walking through some analysis of the 34,686,770 Amazon reviews in the Stanford SNAP dataset (https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-Amazon.html, but there's a newer and better one at http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/).

Somewhat surprisingly, the median review score is 5, and if you look at median scores for products, the skew is very much left. So, the data pretty much backs up your observation!

kidnoodleon Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

A todo list with dependencies, using webcola (http://marvl.infotech.monash.edu/webcola/).

kidnoodleon Systemic traffic jams caused by small groups of drivers, study says

Yuki Sugiyama and co did some lovely research on this phenomena and were able to reproduce it on a circular road. A rather splendid video of said experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm-pZp_mi0