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Nash | Cryptography Engineer + Others (see below) | Remote | https://nash.io/

Our goal at Nash is to make trading, holding and interacting with cryptocurrencies safe and accessible to everyone.

We are looking for an engineer to help deploy bleeding-edge cryptography. You will have the opportunity to develop new cryptographic products and see them move from academic papers to operational systems with hundreds of thousands of users. In particular, we are looking for people to help us build ECDSA-based products using multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs. This role comes with significant autonomy and responsibility.

We are a team of 35 people, 100% remote. Our tech stack is primarily Elixir (for backend), Rust (for cryptography), and Typescript, React, and GraphQL (for frontend and mobile). We value diversity and welcome talented people from all backgrounds.

Other open positions (https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io):

- Backend Engineer

- Frontend Engineer (React / React Native)

- Platform Engineer

- Technical Project Manager

I am a co-founder, feel free to reach out to me directly with questions at ethan@nash.io.

Nash | Backend, Mobile, Platform, DevOps | REMOTE | https://nash.io

We are looking for talented people to help us build and secure infrastructure for the cloud-based components of our distributed, non-custodial exchange. If this sounds like your skillset, or even sounds like something you'd like to learn to do, we'd love to hear from you! We are a small team (about 30 people) and our main hiring goal, whatever the position, is to recruit more brilliant, humble people. We work primarily in Elixir and TypeScript for our core services.

A few notable things about the company:

* We employ people from more than 14 different countries. Everyone is remote, including the founders. Pluralities of the team are in the US and Europe.

* We are well capitalized and raised money from both traditional VCs and the public. We launched the first ever public sale of a regulated security token in Europe, NEX (Nash Exchange).

* While we are building a consumer focused non-custodial (often called "decentralized") exchange, we believe strongly in regulatory compliance and have acquired the necessary licenses to operate trading and payment services in the US and Europe.

* Some keywords for people scanning through: elixir, rust, cryptography, distributed system, kubernetes, blockchain, security token, bitcoin, ethereum

Open positions:

* https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io

* Mobile: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/c6af3c24-ff17-4154-add9-225b9b....

* Backend: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/1928193c-a2d8-47a4-a392-a99987....

* Platform / DevOps: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/665430a0-f9a4-4cc8-8c76-fa4066....

Also feel free to email me directly at ethan@nash.io. I'm our CTO and happy to answer any questions about the company.

Nash | Backend, Mobile, Platform, DevOps | REMOTE | https://nash.io

We are looking for talented people to help us build and secure infrastructure for the centralized/cloud-based components of our hybrid decentralized exchange. If this sounds like your skillset, or even sounds like something you'd like to learn to do, we'd love to hear from you! We are a small team (about 30 people) and our main hiring goal, whatever the position, is to recruit more brilliant, humble people. We work primarily in Elixir and TypeScript for our core services.

* All open roles: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io

* Mobile: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/c6af3c24-ff17-4154-add9-225b9b...

* Backend: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/1928193c-a2d8-47a4-a392-a99987...

* Platform / DevOps: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/665430a0-f9a4-4cc8-8c76-fa4066...

Also feel free to email me directly at ethan@nash.io. I'm our CTO and happy to answer any questions about the company.

Nash.io | DevOps/Platform Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://nash.io/

We are looking for talented people to help us build and secure infrastructure for the centralized/cloud-based components of our hybrid decentralized exchange. If this sounds like your skillset, or even sounds like something you'd like to learn to do, we'd love to hear from you! We are a small team (about 30 people) and our main hiring goal, whatever the position, is to recruit more brilliant, humble people.

Job link: https://jobs.lever.co/nash.io/665430a0-f9a4-4cc8-8c76-fa4066...

About our company: https://nash.io/company/about

Company jobs page: https://nash.io/company/careers

Also feel free to email me directly at ethan@nash.io. I'm our CTO and happy to answer any questions about the company.

We do this as well. It definitely helps build social rapport and trust across the company.

In US we do payroll. For other countries the employees are legally contractors, though still with equity and not treated any differently from anyone else on the team

Similar things can be said about starting a company with a fully remote team. I’d estimate we saved much more than $1M for our thirty-person company. An additional benefit is that you can recruit the best talent from anywhere, so long as they have experience working remotely (it’s a bit of a risk to experiement with someone who hasn’t done remote work before). With this setup, I’ve been blown away how easy it is for us to recruit amazing people. It would be much harder recruiting for local engineers wherever you are based, whether that’s SV or Philadelphia.

Yeah, this is something many people are excited about. We are doing a public security offering along those lines at NEX.

Neon Exchange (NEX) | Engineering and Blockchain Roles | Remote | https://neonexchange.org

NEX is building the first high performance, cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX). Today's DEXs cannot handle large order volume and in general offer very poor usability. Further, unlike most centralized exchanges, users cannot trade in national currencies. We are solving this problem through a fast, off-chain matching engine and a global network of banking partners. We are also among the first blockchain projects to launch a token as a fully regulated and compliant European security.

Our founders are responsible for creating CoZ, one of the largest open source blockchain communities (https://github.com/CityOfZion), where we have created software used by hundreds of thousands of users. Collectively, our team includes PhDs from Stanford and ETH Zurich, YC alumni, and award winning designers.

Some tech highlights:

- Elixir for our matching engine

- React / Redux for our front-end components

- NEO and Ethereum for smart contracts

We are looking for front-end and back-end engineers, developers familiar smart contracts, and PhD-level researchers in security or distributed systems. Please use the following form link to express your interest: https://goo.gl/forms/9vei5MhQ96Ug7Xs02

Also feel free to email me for more information: ethan@neonexchange.org

Neon Exchange (NEX) | Engineering and Blockchain Roles | Remote | https://neonexchange.org

NEX is building the first high performance, cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX). Today's DEXs cannot handle large order volume and in general offer very poor usability. Further, unlike most centralized exchanges, users cannot trade in national currencies. We are solving this problem through a fast, off-chain matching engine and a global network of banking partners. We are also among the first blockchain projects to launch a token as a fully regulated and compliant European security.

Our founders are responsible for creating CoZ, one of the largest open source blockchain communities (https://github.com/CityOfZion), where we have created software used by hundreds of thousands of users. Collectively, our team includes PhDs from Stanford and ETH Zurich, YC alumni, and award winning designers.

Some tech highlights:

- Elixir for our matching engine

- React / Redux for our front-end components

- NEO and Ethereum for smart contracts

We are looking for front-end and back-end engineers, developers familiar smart contracts, and PhD-level researchers in security or distributed systems. Email me for more information: ethan@neonexchange.org

just as a point of optimistic contrast, i've taken only three required courses over my PhD. some of my peers (who came in with better undergrad prereqs) have taken less, and in a few cases, none

Oddly enough, just got some coverage today: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142908-siri-rival-can-...

Our group at Stanford is building an open source conversational agent for data science:

Github: https://github.com/Ejhfast/iris-agent

ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05015

This hoax article was published in "Cogent Social Sciences", which so far as I can tell is a new and disreputable journal (borderline pay-to-publish).

I do research in computer science, and am regularly spammed by similarly low quality journals offering to publish my work, sight unseen. So does this really speak to problems in the Social Sciences? I think the problem here has more to do with the proliferation of low quality journals across academia more generally.

We did a similar analysis of gender stereotypes in the Wattpad online writing community last year: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM16/paper/view/...

The conformity with existing stereotypes was pretty depressing, and they're perpetuated more or less equally be male and female authors.

Thanks, fixed!

https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/empath-chi-...

This is great! We recently released a tool that allows computational social scientists to analyze text using a set of lexicons generated from word embeddings (https://github.com/Ejhfast/empath-client). Would be awesome to port this automatically to new languages.

One of our projects, Meta, built out (and beyond) many of the ideas mentioned in this post: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/meta.pdf

We found that auto-documentation via these kinds of run-time traces is really powerful. If you add in a bit of centralization (connecting traces across many users), this can also be a useful way to capture bugs or unforeseen behavior.

Would be very cool! Probably not possible to find data extending back 30 years, though.

And NYT findings are of course not entirely representative, though we did run a small validation on Reddit.

"The second is that there needs to be a political or a regulatory response. We need to have a national and an international conversation about redistribution, about safety nets, about measuring this technology and correctly anticipating its arrival. People are aware of this."

With similar motivations, we did some work measuring public perception of AI (to appear in AAAI 2017). Recently, there's been a clear increase in concern about AI displacing human jobs (Figure 3F): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04904.pdf

Along similar lines, we did some work investigating public perception of AI over the past thirty years: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04904.pdf

From Figure 1, it's clear we are now in a boom.

Postdocs aren't that common in computer science. They exist, for sure, but most of the recently hired CS professors I know came straight from their PhDs.

Source papers:

Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aaai-ethics16.pdf

Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06977

Check out Spacy. It's fast, incorporates the latest research methods, and has run a number of benchmarks against other tools: https://spacy.io/

I can't speak to Google ATAP or Disney, but getting a job at MSR almost certainly requires a PhD. HCI is an incredibly broad field, though: do you have more specific interests? Did you do any research as part of your MS? Broadly speaking, a PhD is only going to help you to the extent you want or need to participate in the academic community, for example by publishing papers. That would be the case at MSR and other research labs, but not so much in the majority of industry jobs.

(I'm an HCI PhD student at Stanford.)

Here's a video that describes the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lrp7ctc5FM

(Had a hard time finding details on the website)

Nice, that's a clever use of decorators. A bit annoying that you need repeated "defs", though.

Here's another approach based on Macropy (basically, macros for Python): https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy#pattern-matching.

I'd heard of sparkler, but my impression was that macros prevent it from working with CoffeeScript.

There's also matches.js, which is the deprecated precursor to sparkler: https://github.com/natefaubion/matches.js

Yeah, I'd second your thoughts about academic contributors.

I know a few HCI grad students who are interested in sharing their work in more informal kinds of venues (I'm one of them). Sure, conference papers are nice, but almost no one reads them. A lot of research in our field would appeal to a more general audience.