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Pivotla Labs | ONSITE in NYC, SF and many other locations | Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists | Visa and relocation assistance

Pivotal Labs is a division of Pivotal Inc.

We look for aptitude over APIs. It doesn't matter wether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, know some stuff and have empathy, we want to work with you.

Labs helps clients to become better at development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile -- in practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels. We have a growing data science practice, and some engagements include all four roles.

Our NYC office is growing fast to meet exploding demand for Labs, Cloud Foundry and Big Data Suite.

We are also hiring in all our offices, including new offices: SF, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Dublin, Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney.

We provide visa and relocation assistance. In the NYC office we have about 15 people from overseas, including Australians like me.

At the office we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong is not mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.

My time at Pivotal, in both Labs and CF, is the best job I've ever had -- I've learnt more here than anywhere else. Everyone is smart and fun to work with.

You can apply through our website: http://pivotal.io/careers. You can also email me at jchester@pivotal.io to answer any questions you might have and potentially help me score one of our generous referral bonuses.

Please note that emailing me confers no particular advantage over applying directly and I might not refer you. As a consultant I can only reply to emails during non-billable hours, I hope that's OK.

I also posted an ad for Cloud Foundry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311634
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SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC only

LiquidTalent allows you to click a button and request a phone call with hiring companies (both contract and full-time).

Hirers need to respond within 15 minutes or else the request expries, and you'll know what they decide in that time.

We've been sourcing hiring companies from our personal networks, events we go to, etc.

Right now, we mostly have web and mobile projects with clients based in NYC. If that doesn't help you, you can still sign up, and we'll let you know once we expand.

We're still in the early stages, so any constructive feedback is appreciated.

http://talent.liquidtalent.com/

We're a vetted community, so email me at ken@liquidtalent.com and mention HN if you'd like me to fast track your application.
> I've been working since I was in 9th grade and have NEVER had enough money saved up to take 3 weeks off, much less 13 months.

If you save 6% of your take-home income for one year, you'll have saved enough to take three weeks off. So if you take home, say, $500/week, put $30 each week into a savings account. You won't even notice that it's gone.

If you want to take 13 months off, the best strategy is to move from high ground to low ground. Eg, take a job in a city like SF, Denver, Seattle, NYC, etc that pays well, get a cheap place, get rid of any vehicles and use public trans, etc. Taking home $75k and socking away 1/3rd each week, you'll end up with $25k in savings - which is more than enough to spend 13 months roaming the country.

(In the past few years I've spent > 13 months roaming the country)
As a founder of a "peer-to-peer" insurance business I'm not a huge fan of this wiki article as it makes a lot of incorrect generalisations.

> In today's peer-to-peer models, insurance policyholders form small groups online. A part of the insurance premiums paid flow into a group fund, the other part to the insurer.

In a broker-based model this might be true, but you may also be regulated as an insurer, or have a commercial relationship with a regulated insurer.

> For claims above the deductible limit the regular insurer is called upon.

Or the re-insurer, depending on whether the business deals with the underwriters or goes directly to re-insurance.

> The only requirement is that all group members must have the same type of insurance

Not necessarily. In fact ideally not. There are significant savings to be made by leveraging an existing float rather than having separate pots, and the social density of your group becomes sparse if you can only insure your ferret with other ferret fanciers.

> The providers are financed through brokerage commissions of insurance companies

In some models. Others not so much. As discussed above, dealing with the underwriters isn't the only way to run this kind of business.

Also "peer-to-peer" is a misleading name in some cases. Crowdsourced might fit better.
Half of the trillion(s) spent in the Mideast wars, was spent on hauling diesel fuel. For air-conditioning tents. And it is never finished - have to keep hauling forever. For any protracted conflict, you only have to build an array once.

However a true disadvantage to arrays would be, a geostationary energy farm would transmit optimally to land directly under it - the air is thinnest. Steering the laser to remote places would lose efficiency as it traversed oblique slices of atmosphere at odd angles.
"On a failed integrity check, an error event is thrown. Developers wishing to provide a canonical fallback resource (e.g., a resource not served from a CDN, perhaps from a secondary, trusted, but slower source) can catch this error event and provide an appropriate handler to replace the failed resource with a different one."

Source: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/#...
If space debris can be detected and tracked, a fleet of garbage collector/deflector bots could clean the path in front of functioning satellites.

Though a giant block of expanding foam might be cheaper.
FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE (but UK-only)

http://www.freeagent.com

Vacancies:

* VP engineering

* Team leads (aka engineering managers)

* Full stack software engineers (grad to senior)

At FreeAgent we're on a mission to democratise accounting for micro-businesses and freelancers. We have built an award-winning cloud accounting product (using Ruby/Javascript/RabbitMQ/Elasticsearch/MySQL) that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength, with over 42,000 paying customers and strong YoY revenue growth. Customers love our product and we've sustained an NPS > 74 for the past four quarters.

If you want to come and help us make small businesses awesome at doing their finances, take a look at our vacancies at http://www.freeagent.com/jobs.

We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now.
Yep, this is why I install brew into a subdirectory that I keep rsynced across computers.

$ which brew
/usr/local/brew/10.10/bin/brew

I'm thinking maybe its time to finish off ditching homebrew for nix.
I can't find the source now, but some estimate that removing only a few of the largest boosters on orbit each year would decrease the cascade risk significantly, since those boosters represent a large fraction of the mass. This is a much smaller move than many other avoid-the-end-of-the-world suggestions given throughout the years.

Now: better modeling would probably help us determine whether Kessler syndrome will actually happen.
Particularly if you're unhappy working where you are. I think using rainy-day money when it's sunny and you fancy sitting outside is a dangerous habit though.
Pipefy – Physical vs. Online Kanban Board
> they than have money to buy OTHER things, or for entertainment, travel, festivals, trips to mars, adding a 3rd story to their house, et cetera.

Believe it or not, there really is only so many other things that people will buy before you start thinking to yourself "hmmm...I'm not using these things at all and they're taking up space, perhaps I should stop buying useless things".

It's like my Steam account, hundreds of games I'll never have time to play and I have no idea why I bought them. So I've stopped paying attention to Steam Sales and Bundles.

There's only so many appliances, couches, nick-nacks, clothes, electronic goods that you can fit in your house, and only so much time per year to travel. At some point (and this really happens), you just stop buying stuff you don't need to and it just gets piled into various forms of savings.
Yeah, recently I stopped going there entirely. Mostly because of their heavy website, but also because of their clickbaity non-stories.
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How I Ended Up Purchasing and Owning Google.com
> I'm not read enough to understand exactly how the Kessler Syndrome scenario cstross proposes would interact with GPS

GPS needs 24 satellites to function as planned. (It might work with less, but 12 seem to be the minimum under optimal conditions).

• If a Kessler cascade happens in the GPS satellites' orbits, it will rapidly disable existing GPS satellites, and deny access to said orbits for new satellites. Replacements could be launched into safe orbits, but this will likely take years, and those orbits will have a faster decay rate and less visibility (so you'd need even more satellites).

• A Kessler cascade in LEO will likely deny access to higher orbits, so while existing GPS satellites will continue to function, they cannot be feasibly replaced once their 10-30 years life span is exhausted.
I have used ~/.brew for years—it means that I have to do a slightly custom install every time I move to a new machine—but have never had a problem with it.
This didn't work for me. Upon 3rd bullet point 'Reboot back into OS X' my system kept showing me the apple logo, black background and status bar. When the status bar progressed ~30%, information about my system would popup and then stagnate/momentarily freeze. Then the system would go to black saying 'os had a problem, rebooting in a few seconds' then...it would repeat this process again and again, without any input from me.

I'm not sure what to do to fix this.
Apple’s Siri is looking for exceptional engineers, designers, and project managers well versed in machine learning, natural language, speech recognition, server automation, and/or mobile software development. Siri is used on countless iOS and watchOS devices and handles over a billion requests per week.

If you’re passionate about home automation, maps, or one of a variety of open positions you’ll be right at home.

Apply online or send a resume and a feature request to brittanyd@apple.com.
20 inspirational quotes from Dr. Seuss that you might remember from childhood
Northwoods Software | Nashua, NH | Full time | Onsite | No H1-B

We're a small industry-leading company looking to hire a developer who can be dedicated at producing great graphical software. We produce diagramming libraries such as http://gojs.net and services such as http://goplanogram.com. We are located just north of Boston, MA.

The ideal candidate will have had experience designing, optimizing, documenting, testing and supporting a web-based complex software system.

Contact us at: hr@nwoods.com
How to plan your IT project
REX Computing (http://rexcomputing.com) is a new Founders Fund and DARPA funded Bay Area fabless semiconductor startup building a new processor architecture providing the highest energy efficiency compared to all other general purpose compute systems (including top of the line CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, and FPGAs). Founded by two Thiel Fellows, REX just closed its seed round. Competitive salary offering and equity will be offered as we are now hiring our first ~5 engineers, with three positions listed below. We're looking for people who are excited about the possibilities of new semiconductor startups, processor architectures and making the worlds best chip, and the positions below are not all encompassing... if you are interested in revolutionizing the semiconductor space, and excited about making a completely new processor from the ground up (with the full resources to go and do so), please send an email to thomas [at] rexcomputing.com !

Feel free to ask any other questions here! Our website is relatively vague, but I'm happy to answer most questions here, and a lot more over coffee or a phone call! Also note that the titles are not final, and as we are building a team from scratch, our early engineers will be forming the company around them.

Some articles on REX: http://technologyreview.com/news/539416/startup-attempts-to-...

http://fortune.com/2015/07/21/rex-computing/

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/07/22/supercomputer-chip-sta...

REX Computing | Compiler Developer | San Francisco Bay Area | On site ; Remote] | Full Time | Citizen | LLVM ; Compilers ; Backend

REX Computing | RTL/Verilog Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | On site ; Remote] | Full Time | RTL ; Verilog ; VHDL ; Chisel ; ASIC ; FPGA

REX Computing | VLSI/Digital Chip Design Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | On site ; Remote] | Full Time | FPGA ; ASIC ; Synopsys ; Cadence

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Is it intended for that page to render html tags as well as content (in a very unreadable form) if I have javascript disabled?
If the particular Vegan is objecting to meat on moral grounds, are morals still in play when the meat was grown from some original chicken cells, endlessly replicated?
The Blockchain Insurance Company
Harvard Center for International Development - Onsite in Cambridge, MA (next to Boston)

https://github.com/cid-harvard/job-descriptions

* UX/UI Developer (VISA)
* Web and Data Developers (VISA)
* Web Development INTERNS

What we do:

We take real world government data and research, and turn them into interactive data viz tools. The Atlas of Economic Complexity is our current online tool that lets you interactively visualize a country’s trade and explore growth opportunities for more than a hundred countries worldwide. There are also other National Atlas projects launching soon, one for Colombia and one for Mexico.

Our stack:

We use python, django, mysql (hopefully postgres soon), elasticsearch, ansible for the back end. For the frontend, it's ember / d3 on big national projects, jquery/d3 on atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ and WebGL with Three.js on some 3d projects that we’ve launched such as globe.cid.harvard.edu/
Everything we do is open source: https://github.com/cid-harvard

Demo of the current atlas:

An example of how the atlas is useful take this story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/21/world/europe/h...

Last year the EU placed sanctions on sales of oil equipment, but not on oil imports. Why could this be? Almost 70% of russia's exports are petrol products:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/all...

And Russia exports the overwhelming majority of its petroleum products to Europe:

http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/sho...

The big blue chunk is europe, meaning a sanction would really hurt Russia. However, when you look at who else the EU could buy from, the situation is grim:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/net_export/sho...

There’s practically no one who’s a real political ally that Europe could depend on, save for Norway. It’s interesting how it’s practically impossible to buy oil from a country that’s relatively stable and doing well on the HDI front.

It’s worse if you consider the cost of transporting it, and how close Russia is:

http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/map/net_export/show/all...

Which probably explains why EU hasn't placed sanctions on oil imports from Russia.

Get in touch:Send us some work you're proud of to greg_shapiro at hks dot harvard dot edu.
Singapore's radical new public transport plan
Some orbits are much higher than the atmosphere, so they are stable for a long time.
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SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington DC and remote

I'm a software engineer specializing in designing and building stable, scalable consumer-facing websites and refactoring large codebases.

Most recently, I was a principal engineer at Vox Media, and worked on some notable projects:

- Simultaneously upgraded their 81k LOC monolith to Ruby 2.1 and Rails 3.2 with no downtime http://product.voxmedia.com/2014/5/29/5759244/vox-media-ruby...

- Built a live blog for The Verge that handles 1.2 million uniques during iPhone events http://product.voxmedia.com/2012/6/15/5426782/introducing-sy...

- Converted all image processing to Thumbor (https://github.com/thumbor), and scaled it to resize 1.3 million images a day

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Golang, Python, Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, AWS, Chef, StatsD, Varnish, ElasticSearch, WebPageTest

Github: https://github.com/clifff

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clifreeder

Blog: https://clifff.com

clifreeder@gmail.com
Steel can be stronger than titanium depending on the alloy and heat treatment. It's not uncommon to see heat treated 4130 upwards of 100ksi which is right in line with titanium. At those hardnesses it tends to be more brittle, though, unlike titanium.

The breakthrough here isn't that they can make it strong, it's that they've made it both strong and tough. Toughness is how much something deforms plastically rather than breaking. Mild steel is very tough but not terribly strong, you can easily make it 4x (or more) stronger by sacrificing toughness.

Not having to make an engineering tradeoff between strength, toughness and price would be pretty fantastic.
Living where your family and friends live and being able to meet them in person on daily/weekly basis is of a high value. Unfortunately the most of us recognize this only after moving to a far away city or country. Leaving home and taking a job in the "most expensive city in the country ... 2,500 miles away from your family" is a lot like a job on an oil rig or as a mercenary. You need the right mindset and motivation. Wanting to "not to fuck up" or to "make mommy and daddy proud of you" or just to "work on a great product" might be fine but in a lot of cases it ends up in burn-out. If you are tough enough and want to make a kill (saving up the fuck-you-money within 5 years and doing after that whatever you want) than set your price and go for it. If you are not tough enough but you want to make a kill than find the best people of the industy, learn from them, set your price and go for it. Otherwise staying next to your family and friends might be the best option on the long run.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC and remote

Skills: Product Consultant, PHP, SQL

Websites: http://www.nivshah.com

Email: nivshah@gmail.com

I am a developer with PM experience that can help you with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling. My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!
Location: Montreal, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Firmware, C, C++, Python, Embedded, FPGA

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/guillaume-olivier-gagnon/75/55a...

Email: guillaume.ogagnon@gmail.com

I'm a recent graduate in computer engineering, specialized in embedded systems and software development. I'm passionate about firmware, microprocessors, FPGAs and SoCs design and verification, among other things. Also have experience with Python back-end development. Bilingual (English and French). Multiple projects and internships listed under Linkedin. Formatted CV also available.
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LiquidTalent | ONSITE in NYC

LiquidTalent allows you to click a button and request a phone call with hiring companies (both contract and full-time).

Hirers need to respond within 15 minutes or else the request expries, and you'll know what they decide in that time.

We're looking for a senior Rails dev to help us build out more powerful search and discovery features on our platform. You'd be working with the engineer lead (Rails dev), 1 other junior Rails dev, 1 senior Angular dev, and 1 Swift dev.

We're a super early startup with seed funding. It's an amazing time to join, as you'll have a lot of autonomy, and you'll have a good amount of control over the direction of the product. Every week is a completely different experience.

If any of this sounds interesting, contact me at ken {at} liquidtalent {dot} com

http://talent.liquidtalent.com
I see. Genuine question: I haven't thought this through but why not just execute the file in the context of the original file?
China's development is already beginning to slow. It is not headed towards global dominance, it was merely catching up with the rest of the developed world. China will likely continue to enjoy a modernizing economy and growing middle class, but in terms of growth it looks to be headed the same way as Japan.
I got into programming because of my love of video games. Unfortunately/Luckily, I couldn't get a job in game industry immediately out of college. As I started reading online forum about game dev, I realized almost every corporate game developer complained about it. I was no longer thinking making video games as one of the best job in the world.

I understand when you are sole developer or owner of the studio who is burning midnight oil. I have done that on some of my projects. But I could never understand how people would give up their lives to make someone else's dream come true for average compensation.

I still love video games but now I try to play good indie games and hardly ever play anything from big studios.
Future business opportunity: Space Garbage Reclamation. I'm only half-joking here, it would be a net benefit to anyone trying to put things into space by avoiding Kessler Syndrome and the junk itself could be valuable. Once we have space-based fabrication facilities, any materials that are already in space are much more valuable than those same materials on Earth.
JavaScript Promises and Error Handling
No, but it would make those activities more expensive and unpredictable.
Yep. I lived there for a year and just didn't dig San Francisco (blasphemy, I know!). Reading the author's experience returning home, how she felt awakened again, really resonated with me because I had the same experience.

After one such trip home to North Carolina, my girlfriend and I - sitting in the SFO terminal - started looking at NC houses, just to see. Three weeks later we closed on our home.

The valley culture isn't for everyone.
How about an additional attribute named "global",
"shared", "public", "use-global-cache", share-with="*",
etc. that the developer can use to opt in to the behavior?

Allowing people to opt-in to a cache poisoning vector seems like a bad idea.

A second idea would be to wait until several unique domains
had requested the asset before turning on the behavior for
that asset.

This just raises the bar to a cache poisoning attack from "owns one domain name" to "owns a couple". Some gTLDs are $0.99 per year, or free. (The user would only have to visit a single page, which has a dozen other sites open in invisible iframes)