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Willowtree • www.willowtreeapps.com • Charlottesville, VA || Research Triangle, NC • ONSITE

We are looking for iOS, Android, Web Apps and Full Stack Developers (full list http://willowtreeapps.com/careers/). We also have openings for Ux Designer and Ux Strategist positions, along with Project Managers. I come from the engineering side, so I will describe that better:

Willowtree is a small but fast growing company that works with the world biggest brands to build them the best possible mobile experience. I've been here 3 years and came from a stereotypical large inflexible software shop in a big city. In contrast Willowtree is strange and unusual in the best possible way:

1) Organized into small, fast teams, with extremely disciplined software development process. This is the place develop and perfect your ideal work process.

2) Located outside overcrowded metro areas (my commute to work is 10min!)

3) Has a crazy amount of trust in each employee so you get to own and drive the product you are working on, even visit clients and tell them how your work can solve all their problems :-)

4) Large variety of projects and cutting edge technology to explore or research (I shipped 9+ major apps I'm very proud of in past 3 years or so).

5) Contagious enthusiasm. This is what you get where everyone is on top of their game and doing their best work. If there are problems, they get quickly identified and fixed without too much ceremony.

If this is the type of place you'd enjoy working at take a closer look at http://willowtreeapps.com
I first noticed the new logo in Google Mail, where I use the light grey theme, so the logo is grey as well, and small. My first impression was: bad, very bad. Too bold, and unbalanced. It's better on Google Search, but still somewhat unbalanced. I'll get used to it, I'm sure.

I'm curious how Brand New will rate it.

http://underconsideration.com/brandnew/
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or local engagements throughout Europe or the US.

I'm specializing in getting MVPs done, mostly web apps and full-stack work on websites. My daily rate is $450.

Languages: JavaScript, Lua, PHP, Ruby, Java, C

Environments: LAMP stack, NginX, Node.js, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD

Web Tech: HTML5, CSS, jQuery, React, MySQL, WebSockets, WebGL, Cordova etc.

About me:

* I started my career at an advertising agency
* made a toy programming language called np: http://np-lang.org
and I'm generally a language design enthusiast
* I'm a Ludum Darer: http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/udo/
* Github: https://github.com/Udo/

Profile: http://udo.click/

Contact me at udo.schroeter@gmail.com
Within the context of this discussion, one wonders how you paid the bills for two years without salary.
(And where the 15K seed came from)
When you're collecting the world's data, it's in your best interest to come off as cuddly as possible. It works.
[Front Row Education | Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time | Education Technology]

Infrastructure engineer to join fast-growing education startup that changes how over a million young students learn math.

- Our mission is important to us, and we want it to be important to you as well: over a million students learn math using Front Row every month. Our early results show students improve twice as much while using Front Row than their peers who aren’t using the program. Your work will positively impact millions of lives.

- You’ll be one of the first engineers on the team, which means you’ll have an immense impact on our company, product, and culture; you’ll have a ton of autonomy and responsibility; you’ll have equity to match the weight of this role. If you're looking for an opportunity to both grow and do meaningful work, surrounded and supported by like-minded professionals, this is THE place for you.

- While we have done plenty of infrastructure work over the years, we want you to be our main infrastructure engineer. You will work in step with frontend and application developers to delight our users with awesome experiences. You will work closely with the CTO and receive all of the necessary support to help the company progress. We value teamwork above everything else and do not believe in silos. Your everyday choices will directly impact the company for years to come.

- Learn Functional Programming and Haskell from people pushing the industry forward. We hire some of the brightest minds in the Haskell world and love teaching it to newcomers. The company has years of experience of bringing new Haskellers up to speed.

Full description and application at http://frontrow.workable.com/jobs/70963
Because Google has a new logo?

Frankly the article doesn't have a better reason ...
Wunder Capital https://www.wundercapital.com @ Boulder CO
Director of Growth [ONSITE]

Wunder was founded with one simple vision: to address the greatest crisis of our generation by accelerating the proliferation of renewable energy. Members of our team have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in private equity, developed energy infrastructure solutions for the Department of Energy, and built products used and loved by millions of people at tech companies like Facebook. Now we’re saving the world.

We have an amazing opportunity for an experienced, analytical, creative, and perhaps even technical marketing professional to join our fast-growing start-up. Like the rest of us, this person will wear many hats; you will work closely with our founders, partners, customers, and investors. Your role - broadly speaking - will be to solve problems and push renewable energy forward. Specifically, you will be charged with developing a strong investor base to finance the renewable energy infrastructure of the future by recasting solar in a new light and telling the Wunder story to the world.

If you get excited about bringing an entirely new asset class to market, closing million-dollar deals every week, building an organization aimed at saving the world, and ensuring that all of the details needed to make all of that happen are covered, this is the role for you.

More info here: http://assets.wundercapital.com/openings/director_of_growth....
I was a professional classical musician for a number of years before getting into programming. I'd say that this article lines up with my experience pretty well. Obviously to be successful you need to have some level of hard work and the more you work the better, but really talent is the main delineator at the very top.

I think there are basically 3 categories of talent.

Top level: I had a friend who practiced about 1 hour a day and now plays professionally in the Boston Symphony. Obviously she had bucketloads of talent. These folks are quite rare.

Middle Tier (this is where I was): Folks who worked quite hard for a decade or more squashing all of their performance weaknesses to get to the level where they could perform professionally. There are a fair number of these people.

Quixotic: Even when these folks practice 6 hours a day, they never progress beyond a certain ability level. They will never be professionals. Sometimes it takes a couple of decades before they give up. I have a lot of friends that fall into this category of talent.

Of course there are people who have top level talent and pour on bucket loads of work. The one guy I knew in college who was like this is now in the Canadian Brass.

I spent a couple of decades playing my instrument before quitting and I can say without a doubt that the idea that talent is actually hard work is complete nonsense.

There are many technical "sticking points" that most people need to overcome before they can perform at a professional level. The most talented performers breeze through most or all of the sticking points that everyone else has.

The non-obvious side effect of this is that the most talented players are often the worst teachers - because they have no idea how to help anyone else get through their "sticking points". But that's another discussion entirely.....
And here come the technocrats ready to say "let's ban driving and make driverless cars mandatory"...
This. A Million times this.

However I fear the subtlety will be lost on the majority, as we continue to construct our own cages around ourselves.
Location: Chicago suburbs, IL, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: SharePoint, XSL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, .NET
Website: http://sharepointexperience.com/
Email: hn(at)sharepointexperts.com

Always looking for SharePoint-related project work, from integration with existing LOB systems to new training, branding or development projects.
The term "Computer" dates to the 17th century and was used to describe humans performing calculations. "Mechanical Computers" and then "Electrical Computers" were machines that could replace those people. Quite clearly humans can perform computation in the colloquial sense.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Only San Francisco Bay Area

Technologies: HTML, CSS,JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Angular.js.

Resume: subratrout.com

Github:subratarout

Self taught, passionate about programming, web development especially full stack web development using JavaScript, ruby on rails and/or MEAN stack. Recently,completed Front End web development NanoDegree program from Udacity and Full Stack Web developer program at Coding Dojo, San Jose.

If you want a rockstar/ninja then perhaps you should not hire me. Not at that level yet. However I will put my 110% effort to work as an Intern or Junior Developer.
http://www.vicarious.com

AI research
Two driverless cars are about to crash into each other on a tight mountain pass (maybe a bug that couldn't for see the accident).

There are 3 possible outcomes:

1. Car 1 and Car 2 crash into each other killing all passengers.
2. Car 1 with 3 passengers drives of the cliff, car 2 with 1 passenger survives.
3. Car 2 with 1 passenger drives of the the cliff, car 1 with 3 passengers survives.

The cars can communicate with each other. The logical resolution would be to drive the car with the least passengers off the cliff to save as many lives as mathematically possible.

I don't know how I would feel about my car killing me although logically I wouldn't have a chance of survival anyways.
Instructure - Chicago, IL & Salt Lake City, UT - Software Developer

About Instructure: We make software that makes people smarter, including Canvas (http://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms), an open source learning management system used by universities and K-12 schools, and Bridge, a corporate learning platform (http://www.getbridge.com/).

What we're looking for:

- Front-end developers with experience developing single-page web apps, iOS and Android apps, and/or beautiful administration apps with modern web technology.

- Back-end developers with experience building web scale services in a loosely coupled but highly integrated system.

- We are a mixed stack and polyglot team with a deep commitment to quality and to using the right tech for each problem we solve. Tech includes Ruby (Rails), React, Node, and Postgres running on AWS.

My personal opinions on why I like working here:

- Rails at scale is a fun challenge (~1400 universities and/or school districts and often over 200k concurrent users)

- Strong engineering culture. We were founded and are still run by technologists which has a positive impact (open source commitment, addressing tech debt, quarterly hackathons, general openness)

More info at http://bit.ly/1MImhw5 or email me at mnomitch(at)instructure(dot)com if you have questions and want to chat.
EIZO Releases 27-Inch World's First Fully-Flat Bezel-Less Monitor
To me, it is surprising that the GPA is as predictive as it is, considering there was no national standard for how to grade things, nor what the curriculum should be.
Unimorphic Isoversal JavaScript What?
> regularly encounter people that use the "they are criminals" justification

The inclination to enslave others is ingrained into certain strains of the human species and they will take them where it can find them.
> I find your JVM related posts as borderline fanboyism

I think they're much less fanboyish than any other language/runtime discussion on HN.

> it's about not making exaggerated claims

I am not making exaggerated claims because perfect for me (and, by definition 95% of people) is precisely how I've defined the requirements from a runtime like Java (or Go, or Python, for that matter). So, if I say "it gives you all the layout control you need", I don't mean all the layout control you need to write a DSP, or all the layout control you need to get 100% performance -- only 99% performance. I think most people make the same assumption (because they're not writing DSPs), and I find your posts nitpicky and possibly misleading for the target audience (who, by and large, don't write DSPs or medical devices or particle accelerator beam controllers -- at least certainly on threads not discussing those interesting but extreme use cases). I don't think it's reasonable to qualify every statement for some negligible (possibly nonexistent) portion of the participants, especially considering that that minority already knows the statements don't completely apply to them. Not doing so doesn't qualify as exaggeration IMO, but reasonable expressiveness, or else every discussion will be bogged down in irrelevant detail that will only distract from the main point.

So, yes, I stand behind my claim that value types give you all the control you need to get 99% performance for 99% of the use cases people would normally use Java for.
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I prefer

window.prompt("Press Ctrl-C then Enter", text);

I don't want sites to be able to randomly clear my clipboard.
OTOH, if you start applying the law to the letter as it is written in the books, you'll quickly see how stupid certain laws are. And here stupid could be anything from not enforcable without arresting everybody, inconsistent, contradictory, etc. Think of it as formal verification of the law. The result, in turn, you can show to politicians or the people and convince them to change it.
You completely ignored the part about the 2R variant or just failed to understand the text.
Also you cherry-picked one study (the Dutch family) and try to use it to discredit the rest (read the WHOLE page and more importantly the links with studies, also other pages on this issue with statistical data collected from humans/animals).
I think it would be great if at some point some lanes of the freeways are dedicated for autonomous vehicles connected to a city or state-controlled system with some fallback. I suspect there is a fallacy somewhere in my idea, but I think the first step is to make some lanes only for autonomous vehicles on the freeway, and eventually all lanes as autonomous vehicles become more commonplace.

I'm not a civil engineer, but I suspect this could eliminate a lot of traffic if all the cars are placed in the most optimal lane, assuming all vehicles on highways are autonomous.
I love Atari, and I can see some small similarities (the capital 'G' and the lowercase 'e'). But overall, I can't say that I agree. For what it's worth, I like the Bauhaus font a bit more.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE, Part-Time (Bristol, UK)

Full-Stack web developer. Jack of many trades, quick learner, a worker with an extra attention to detail.

Technologies: NodeJS, Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, bash.

Tools: ExpressJS, Django/Flask, Rails, Wordpress, KnockoutJS, Bootstrap, Continuous Integration with Capistrano or Fabric, Git.

I can:

- Build you a RESTful API from scratch with NodeJS, Python or Ruby, integrating with existing architecture (databases, other services, etc). Testing comes without question.

- Set up a continuous integration and deployment environment and flow for existing codebases.

- Take on building individual features (or whole websites) for your project with considerations to your already used technologies, performance and code quality.

- Anything else, which would require a versatile approach.

CV: http://adomasven.com/cv/

Email: adomas [dot] ven [at] gmail . com
UrbanFootprint / Calthorpe Analytics | Berkeley, CA | Onsite / Remote | Front/Back-end Software Engineers

Help us build SimCity for real! We’re hiring software engineers to help us build the world’s most sophisticated urban planning and data analysis platform. We are an established, successful business creating and scaling a cutting-edge, browser-based geospatial web application that serves a broad range of public and private-sector users.

We have an aggressive product development plan, the funding to get it done, and a strong current and potential user base. We are looking to build out our software team with senior and junior developers who combine coding chops with creativity and passion. We offer competitive compensation, a fantastic location in Berkeley, CA, stock options, and a chance to be part of something in its early stages.

Our stack is rapidly evolving but you'll be sure to run into at least:
* Python/Django
* PostGIS
* Leaflet
* Maps, maps, maps and the data behind them

What we do: http://calthorpeanalytics.com/
Open positions: http://calthorpeanalytics.com/hiring.html

Interested? Send a cover letter, resume, and link to your Github profile to softwarejob@calthorpe.com.
Placemeter – New York, NY or Paris, France – Computer Vision Engineers FULL TIME

APPLY HERE: http://grnh.se/1yvxfb

We are looking for computer vision engineers from entry level to experienced level, to extend, develop, and maintain our algorithm stack.

+ You will design the next generation of computer vision algorithms
+ You will optimize and deeply understand these algorithms and scale them
+ You will design and maintain the quality assessment tools required to make sure
our algorithms perform well

We use computer vision at a massive scale, on a large number of rich and ubiquitous video feeds, to understand what is going in in the physical world in real time. We measure how busy places are, what people do, how fast cars go, and much more. We offer that data to developers, citizens, cities, and retailers, radically changing the way they interact with the physical world.

ABOUT PLACEMETER

Placemeter uses computer vision algorithms to create a real time data layer about places, streets, and neighborhoods. Placemeter’s technology gives businesses, cities, and people the ability to take a place’s pulse.

APPLY HERE: http://grnh.se/1yvxfb
Rescale | wwww.rescale.com | Product Marketing Lead | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

Join us to solve some of the most challenging problems of our time and work with the most interesting companies of our generation. Some of the exciting applications of Rescale’s simulation platform include: developing rockets for space exploration, building more efficient vehicles to reduce carbon emissions, and computation drug discovery and development to cure disease and extend life.

Responsibilities:

* Translate new product/technical capabilities into meaningful customer benefits, including concrete positioning and messaging for all new product features

* Generate and nurture qualified leads via content marketing (white papers, case studies, social media, infographics, webinars, etc.) and digital marketing (SEO, A/B testing, email, ads, etc.)

* Evangelize and demonstrate the product to relevant technical and nontechnical audiences at trade shows and conferences

* Organize and execute successful product launches, working closely with product, engineering, PR, design, support and sales

* Create copy, diagrams, videos and concepts to bring Rescale to life on the web site, in collateral, and in presentation materials

Our investors include Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Y Combinator, SV Angel, DCVC, and other leading experts in cloud computing, SaaS, and enterprise software.

Let’s make the world a better place by allowing the world’s best engineers and scientists to rescale their simulation capabilities.

This is a full-time/on-site position in our Downtown SF office. If interested, please send your resume to jobs@rescale.com.
Remote or San Francisco - www.followupboss.com - Director of engineering, Fullstack and front end devs

We are seeking outstanding developers to join our small productive team building software used every day by sales teams.

We practice Scrum with 1-week sprint cycles for faster development and feedback, chat in Slack constantly and meet in person on regular company retreats. Our roadmap is packed with UX improvements and new features with the goal of making the best product in its class.

We're profitable, customer first and growing.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/followupboss#.VeXdIdOqqko
Capital still is a necessity because people still want to eat and put a roof over their heads.
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Both of these are important observations. And, as far as I can tell, both of them exist largely because of corporate politics.

If you could design a corporate culture that minimized the incentives towards both, I think you'd be a long way towards having a more sustainable company viz technology.
Cool, thanks much for taking the time both explain your thinking and creating another analogy! Seriously, kudos! :)

> My analogy also shows that even if the event is predictable, or as he would say, "the rules of the game", it doesn't mean it's just in any ways.

I agree with your statement. However, in the specific case of being a landlord in a rent controlled district, I feel that -today- the rent controlled laws are entirely fair. In the late 1970s, there was good reason to complain about how you lost expected value in your "investment". Today? No. As timr said:

> If you buy a rent-controlled building today, you know that you're buying a building with a defined revenue stream. It is not "opportunity cost", except in the sense that you chose to buy the building in the first place.

I have no sympathy for landlords who purchase a currently occupied rent-controlled building with the expectation that they will be able to make money by removing the existing tenants. If the success of your business plan relies on very low probability events, or it relies on causing misery and human suffering, it's a bad fucking plan. :)

To speak to the "lost opportunity cost" angle: If one purchases a rent-controlled apartment, the correct thing to do is to expect the value of that property to remain exactly the same for the next seventy years. Any opportunity to increase the rent in a unit should be seen as an unexpected windfall. It's completely unreasonable to think otherwise: when one bought the property, one either knew what one was getting in to, or one is so unaware that one has no business running a business. :)
Have you ever seen a toddler obsessed with Google just because of the colorful logo? It happens all the time.
JavaScript Learning Path
What do you think happens in this situation currently with human drivers?

Are we holding machines to different standards than we hold each other?
I'm playing the devil's advocate here but another alternative would be to write laws that are meant to be literal and enforced 100% of the time.
Tuft & Needle | Phoenix, AZ | UX Designer

We're disrupting the mattress industry by providing a high-quality mattress for less by cutting out the middle-man markups and scammy industry tactics. In 2013, we set out to build a better product, and a better experience than what was offered to us. Along the way, we've found a passion for creating products of value. Careers at Tuft & Needle go well beyond competitive pay, benefits, and perks (although we have all of those). We're much more than a mattress company. At Tuft & Needle, we are a collection of entrepreneurs who have come together to build something we could not have done on our own.

https://www.tuftandneedle.com/jobs

email sean at tuftandneedle dot com