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Bridj | Boston | Onsite http://www.bridj.com/jobs

Bridj is your everyday transportation system that adapts in real-time to where you live, work, and play. Powered by data, we use a network of express shuttles that offer efficient and flexible trips that are as dynamic as the city you call home. We’re revolutionizing mass transit by connecting travelers directly with their destinations. We’re live in Boston and Washington, D.C. so far, bringing joy to hundreds of people’s commutes each day. And we’re just getting started.

We are looking for developers who will be excited to put their skills to work solving some of the most difficult and important transportation problems, helping people travel through their cities more easily.

We are hiring for a couple positions now:

1) iOS developer: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Bridj/84143330-mobile-engine.... You’ll be driving development of the iOS app that our passengers use to book travel. We expect you to be a mobile-first thinker, with up-to-date knowledge of the iOS development world (including things like Swift and ReactiveCocoa).

2) full stack / backend developer: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Bridj/84142588-full-stack-ru.... You’ll touch all of our systems: mobile apps, client-side javascript and HTML, server-side APIs (building ours and consuming others), back-end data processing — you name it. Our stack today includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Redis, but we’re growing fast and building new things, and will expect you to help us shape the stack of the future.

3) backend tech lead / architect: No official job posting yet. You'll help us build out the technology stack we want and need as we grow. Do you have production experience with multiple tech stacks? Have an opinion on whether Rails is a good choice for a high-performance API backend? How we should store real-time data about the locations of buses? How we should be versioning our services? If you want to dig in, write a lot of code, and make things the way you think they should be, we want to hear from you.
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We (Compose, YC s11, now part of IBM) are hiring for a bunch of positions. Notably —

* Platform engineer (https://www.compose.io/jobs/#platform-engineer): if you like working on distributed systems, containers, and tremendous database problems in the real world, this is for you.

* Technical Content Creator (https://www.compose.io/jobs/#technical-content-creator): This is an interesting role, it's not quite marketing and not quite engineering. If you like creating content, can explain how to solve problems, and know how to talk to developers, give it a look.
The man hours (and there would be many) required to document the need, apply for permission, potentially attend hearings of some sort, argue for, and comply with the conditions of permission most certainly have non-zero cost to the utility company.
Especially since you can make the same thing at home in 5 min for <$1.
But vpn is another matter entirely. You're explicitey trying to avoid the limits of your current access point / physical location.

They could comply and say to he cnil "if vpn is bothering you, then you should regulate vpn use".
Within French IP addresses you mean. I am in France and can access the "American internet" with a VPN easily. According to France Google is breaking the law because it let me access illegal search results from France. So France is just trying to enforce the law within their borders after all (at least, so they could say)
http://exercism.io has a bunch of exercises in tons of different languages you can run through to help you out.
There's similar behavior today with the Bitcoin network. People are guided by community norms alone to stop doing things that are destructive in the short term but with which there's nothing theoretically wrong (e.g. Tons of tiny transactions). As the network overcomes the technical limitations, people will start to do those currently problematic things again without the need to use the work-arounds they're currently resorting to.
Check this out: Watch what happens whenever they try to raise interest rates: https://www.stlouisfed.org/Publications/Regional-Economist/A...
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By saying people are reflexively against market solutions you're assuming they have not put any thought into this. I don't think it is that simple.
Keep in mind that we're talking about exponential growth which by definition means that in every step you consume more than in all of history combined. So today the boundary can be very far away, and it will stay so until suddenly you hit it and then act surprised. "Increasing our energy consumption by orders of magnitude" means that in 200 years we'll eat the sun, and in the next 200 years we'll swallow the galaxy (actually we won't, thanks to the speed of light limit, but I guess we'd be indistinguishable from a universe-destroying ever-expanding shockwave). We really do have to slow down at some point, exponential growth is not sustainable.

Also, the primary problem is not really the growth itself, but the need for it that is built into the basic assumptions of economy - because if and when we'll eventually hit a speedbump, everything will collapse.
We're also looking for an NLP Engineer!
Really? Have you ever heard of a case where this occurred?
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WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. | SF | Remote (US Timezones) | 1HB VISA

You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a personal level. Walmart's mobile apps are highly rated and the services we write to support them are the base of that success. We started from a small company acquisition with a single product. Today, we power a platform and a suite of products running on mobile devices and systems in retail stores.

We're still a small, flat team of engineers. We work with our own tools and make our own build-or-borrow decisions. Our culture is a healthy mix of sharing and pushing each other to be better at our craft. For example, we use pull requests & code reviews liberally. We make refactoring time. We deploy often, with a single line of code run from a REPL. Engineers on our team are challenged to work through our full software stack and be part of our product management. We believe that people are more engaged, fulfilled and happy when they feel responsible for actually shipping their work.

The environment at WalmartLabs balances moving fast and breaking shit, with the knowledge that we could break shit for 150+ million people every week. It's a tough balance but we've found the payoff to be worth the challenge and responsibility.

Some aspects of our work that are important to us:

- high performance distributed systems
- robust & well-factored codebases
- simple & fast deployments
- automating the hell out of operations
- thorough system test coverage
- managing our own development process and work backlog
- pair programming when it makes sense (locally and remotely)
- contributing back to the clojure & open source community

What we do:

- write all our production systems & tools in Clojure
- create and orchestrate massive distributed systems
- spin up RESTful web services for consuming & ingesting large volumes of data

For a glimpse behind the scenes, check out a talk I gave at Clojure/West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9Xi6CNqq4.

Does this sound like something you're into? Shoot me an email at amarcar@walmartlabs.com
I hadn't really gotten into Python in the heyday of IronPython. Can you explain why you don't like it?
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Example project: https://github.com/darithorn/messaging

Let me build your MVP Rails app for just $200. I won't do any graphical design but I will work on the front end if needed.

Why so low?
This'll be my first time programming something for someone else so the low price is there to accommodate any issues if there are any.

What I'll require of you:
1.) Email me your idea and once I'm ready to commit we can have a Skype call and scope out the requirements.
2.) The ability to promptly reply to emails. I believe in good communication.
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5.) You own the code, but I reserve the right to talk about and put images of the app on my portfolio.

Given that your app will be placed on my portfolio it is in my best interests to make sure you're happy with your app.

Thank you to ceeK for the idea.

Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.
I got bored and wrote it in Go[1]. It's about as ugly as you'd expect.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/EricLagerg/beb586714cd9f509c812
discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997326
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

High-DPI displays are clearly the right long term solution. It was amazing to use one for the first time - I couldn't see the individual pixels anymore, and it was disconcerting in a really good way. It's like a bit of Hollywood fakery brought to life.
Urgent Consult | Senior Software Engineer | New York City, NY | Full Time, Remote OK (EST preferred, US time zone required)

Urgent Consult is an innovative, award-winning health tech startup that's tackling some of the most pressing problems of the healthcare system. We connect patients to the right providers and make sure they receive the highest quality care. We're a small team, but passionate about what we do and about building the best product. We are Pilot Health Tech NYC 2014 winners; members of the Blueprint Health family; winners of Design for Health's award for Best Provider-Facing Design.

Here's a bit more info re: the kind of background and skills we're looking for:

* Production and developer automation stacks leveraging docker, consul, and ansible
* Microservices with Nginx and Node.JS
* Building Hypermedia APIs, browser-based web applications, and reactive architectures
* Distributed databases and cluster computing, with stuff like Cassandra and Spark

Please email your resume to hiring [at] urgentconsult.com if you think you're a good fit.
Seems like battery swaps are the solution to this. Essentially the battery pack is designed to be easily removable and you just "lease" it in one way or another.

You go to a fuel station and swap your battery packs with some that are already charged. Here's Tesla's pilot program http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/battery-swap-pilot-program

There's a lot of big challenges to this (weight of batteries, standardization, convenient swap stations, etc.) but I haven't heard of any better ideas at this point.
We need a society-wide change of mentality here. People need to stop thinking about "having a job" as a source of dignity.
I submitted an application last month and heard nothing back.. not even a "no thanks"
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> What I want is adblock/ublock/ghostery for my phone.

Doesn't Firefox on Android give you exactly that? I never used the Android version but at least with its Maemo predecessor the ability to use Adblock Plus et al. was a given and really good to have.
I think that's the least of Twitter's product woes. They're struggling from user growth.

The value of twitter is directly correlated with the time and effort they put into curating their personal feed. Power users do that all day long; most new users don't, never see the value, and leave the service.

That's probably 99% of Twitter's problem right now. It's so hard to see the value in Twitter if you don't invest a lot of time and effort.
Hi there,

Are you guys able to sponsor Visas, H1-Bs or TNs?

Thanks
> I've never understood how Los Angelenos can be satisfied with their air quality. So many people are like you, and say that it is a solved problem.

As a non-resident of the California republic, I don't know that I'd called the problem "solved", but I'd say it's a hell of a lot better than it was, and the contrast is stark enough for me to give the EPA and CARB every budget dollar they ask for. Parent does not exaggerate when stating that the LA air of the 70s was "barely breathable". So maybe it's a matter of perspective, as I go there now and think "wow, it sure ain't like it used to be". "Extremely smoggy"? Perhaps I just go on the good days, but I'd describe it as "hazy, knowing full well it's pollutants" rather than "extremely smoggy". That's on the bad days when I'm there. A lot of the times I'm pretty impressed with the clarity of the air given it's a city in a hot valley.

Disclaimer: I have no allergies or respiratory problems of any kind, so maybe I don't notice the air quality of modern LA as much.
I think that would still fit pretty well with "those providing 'real' value are so productive that they support all that dead weight and yet still continue to grow".
How good is a cheap smartphone?
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>Do you think complex languages are simpler to teach, debug, optimize, and understand?

Obviously yes, I do think it, and I gave an example.

Or rather, I think that number of language features is not related to how easy it is to teach, debug, optimize and understand.

Python has tons of features (maybe even more than ES7 for which he laments) and yet it's an easy to teach and understand language.

And inversely, C is succint and has few features, but it's complex to teach and debug.

One key insight it: a language might be big, but you don't need to use all of its features (or even teach them all).

You can start someone with basic Python, for example, without delving into async or metaclasses and he can still do tons of stuff. Contrast with the "simpler" and much smaller C, in which he needs to understand pointers (a tricky subject) in order to even use the standard library.

A second insight is: a language might be big, but its features could be orthogonal and easy to understand in isolation, not the "features subtly affecting each other" mess C++ is.
I agree, it's pretty hard to know in this case whether the one breaking the law is the VPN provider (since is "smuggling" illegal search result into France) or the illegal search result provider.

EDIT: I wonder how it works for drugs for example: if someone sells drugs from a country where it's legal to France, could he be found guilty in France? (I am pretty sure the smuggler/dealer will ^^)
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No, I can't. You can go look at the SEC like everyone else who can be bothered to actually have a clue before making comments. This is public information, there is no need to be so lazy as to not even bother looking.

Issuing debt does not mean a company is "drowning in debt". The term "junk" debt does not mean a company is "drowning in debt". If a company has more cash on balance sheet than debt, it's net debt is negative. When they issued this debt they had negative net debt. Now they have negative net debt. They were not, are not and have never been "drowning in debt". Promoting false information about a public company is potentially illegal.
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What is your evidence for the claim that, "YC has not shown a good understanding of the life sciences"? (and what evidence will change your mind?)

Our biotech investments are currently all too young for something huge like an IPO, but many are continuing to grow and prosper. For example, Ginkgo just raised a $45M Series B: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/23/ginkgo-bioworks-takes-on-zy...
I believe in Swift. Xamarin would be nice choice as a cross platform with native output. But I guess it has also a learning curve and some disadvantages. It also will ignore my Objective-C know-now. Am I too judgmental about this?
> Interpreters don't necessarily do GC

Of course, but no one claimed that interpreters necessarily do GC either, so this statement is not very useful. You keep arguing against claims that aren't there. The only claim ever made in response to OP was that precise GC requires runtime information, and that this can sometimes be easier when it exists anyway (as in JITs and real-world interpreters), but can also be implemented when the compiler produces it AOT. I hope that's clear enough :-)
That's a terrible analogy, and here are two good links on why:

http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2015/03/cancer-genomi...

http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/reading-the-human-geno...
For new companies, you are on the money. But twitter has been around for 9 years. It is way past time to draw that line in the sand and turn towards profits. Even ignoring the 9 year history, their user growth curve is flattening, and has been for a year. The second it started to go flat, they should have turned to profits.
Yes, it is an opinion. There are laws that are above those agreements, and they are continously broken by the US. Again, and again, and again.

We have to be on a web where stuff like nude boobs is considered NSFW, where sites that allow users to sell used digital goods are instantly sued to death, etc.

These things are all based on a US-centric moral framework.

The whole web is full of that. And Google, a company that, until recently, was legally headquartered in Ireland, applies only the US moral standard for their products.

Even if I am in europe, I can’t upload a movie to YouTube that is allowed to be shown on TV in Germany during daytime just because the US moral standard says nude boobs are not okay.

If the US and its companies want to force their moral and legal standards upon us, we will force our standards upon them, too.

Which is one of the reasons why TTIP contains the "local IP" part: Only sparkling wine made in France may be called Champagner from then on, only Parmesan made in Italy may be called this, etc.
I guess that depends if you consider Uber some kind of brand new business type or just a lower class limo service combined with a taxi dispatch. Because there are plenty of drivers out there that do receive benefits, even if Taxi drivers aren't one of them.
Location: Moscow, UTC+3
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Willing to relocate: not right now, mb in the future
Technologies: Ruby, MongoDB, AMQP, Go, Clojure, AWS, Chef, Git.
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Important:
I spent all my career (from 2006) building projects in ruby, and I'm about to move on. I'm interested in joining some project on early stage to get real world experience with clojure/go (or even with erlang/ocaml) and to improve my english communication skills. I would like to spend with your project no more than 20h/week with low rate for the first couple of months.
I totally don't like: php, python, perl, windows, rails, socials networks, outsourcing and boring client-side (making forms with bootstrap isn't for me).
And I'm not a freelancer and want to be attended to one project for a long time.

Feel free to send any questions to my email.
^ Maybe we've uncovered what companies are trying to signal when they say you can push to prod your first day :)
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The entire point of the question I asked was: given energy source, what is the comparison between 1) sending out electricity to batteries, or 2) creating liquid carbon-neutral fuels.
If this submission doesn't get any traction, then you should probably do a "Show HN" submission, so it will be listed under the "show" link in the top menu, and people will know you want feedback. The rules for doing a "Show HN" submission are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Hopefully one of the mods will change the title of this submission.
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unfortunately we do this already in the USA..remember the 1990s and 2000s high crime rates and subsequent fall of crime? Most of that was economic based crime and those who did it got a free food and bed ride in prisons.
Google doesn't have a problem being subject to multiple jurisdictions, just as an American company it reasonably doesn't want to apply French law outside France's jurisdiction.
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A product designer's take on IFTTT
This is fantastic; I'm just learning about TCP/IP and websockets and find the whole subject very difficult to get through. There's a lot of magic-looking numbers and weird standards that don't make sense without context. I'd find myself spending a lot of time hunting things down, which while effective, is difficult to do while maintaining focus.

There's so much wonderful context and 'why' to this series; it's honestly a bit of a revelation. Even if I don't care to learn about e.g. UNIX details, that little peak behind the scenes at the right time really helps create a coherent mental model.
I recently found myself having a lot of ideas on how to make IFTTT more accesible as a product. All feedback is greatly appreciated!
And as far as what I heard before, they even periodically "flush" hardware revision history from their server, so more components can be replaced over time.
Prior discussion (same article on different site): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996038
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We build things that make buying and selling houses easier – and we're looking for a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. Currently, our Product team consists of two senior-level Rails developers and one frontend developer/designer. We maintain a custom-built, in-house CRM that supports our consumer-facing service, Agent Pronto.

We build our products using the following tools and languages, and we’ll expect you to be proficient in each:

- Ruby, Ruby on Rails
- HTML (Haml)
- CSS (Sass)
- Javascript (jQuery, CoffeeScript, Ajax)
- Data stores (MySQL, Redis, Memcached)
-(Testing tools (RSpec, Capybara)
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Linux
- Git
- Nice-to-haves: Bootstrap, Backbone.js

We’re looking to hire immediately for a full-time, salaried position. You can expect to be paid a competitive market rate and work around 40 hours per week. We request that you reside in the United States, but once hired, you’ll have the flexibility to work from anywhere. You'll also be provided with perks and benefits, including:

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