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SEEKING WORK | Location: Remote (Lisbon/Barcelona/Munich)

Specialties: Ruby/Node/PHP, iOS/Android

We are a tech collective based in Lisbon, Portugal ( http://www.minuscode.com ), with experience helping startups going from concept to market.

Feel free to contact us to get a better sense of who we are ( contact at minuscode.com )
Location: Des Moines, IA
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C#, Java, F#, C/C++, Rust
Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfkw1md73yz1ebu/Resume.pdf
Email: ian.herbig@gmail.com

I'm a recent graduate looking to get my foot in the door. I don't have a ton of experience, but with an internship under my belt I can confidently say that I can learn whatever is thrown my way. I'm most interested in systems development, getting into the nitty-gritty, and I want to avoid the web sphere.
Aquto https://www.aquto.com Boston, MA - Full-time ONSITE -U.S Work Authorization required

Front End Engineer/Javascript, Back End Engineer/Scala, DevOps Engineer

Aquto makes mobile data accessible to all and increases mobile engagement by bringing the ecosystem of mobile operators, marketers and app publishers together through data sponsorship.
What is Sponsored Data?
Zero-rating - where users can engage with content free from data charges.
Data rewards - where users can receive mobile data from 3rd party sponsors to use to consume any mobile content.

Located in the Boston Seaport district; 10 min. walk from South Station. Up to $150/mo. reimbursed for your monthly T or commuter rail pass.
More details on the positions here:

https://angel.co/aquto/jobs

Feel free to reach out directly to me:
lplante@aquto.com
Location: Emmeloord, Netherlands

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Basics of PHP, Java, Python (Django, Bottle), JS, (My)SQL, HTML, CSS, Git, manual testing, helpdesk

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/1Ri7aIO

Email: remigiusz.zetkowski+hnh [at] gmail.com

I studied CS for 2 years in the past, dropped out it because of work (unfortunately, completely out of CS field). Since forever I was passionate about computer related stuff, so I want to change my career path. At the moment I see myself as a perfect candidate for a tester, but I would not hesitate to try working as junior or intern. I am willing to spend time on learning any stuff needed for a job before starting.
Location: Remote, semi/nomad close to GMT

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Considered if required, remote primarily

Technologies: Ruby, associated backend technologies

Résumé/CV: on request to potentially interested

Email: therubysolutions@gmail.com

If you need a Ruby developer for your project or contract work, and you have no time to waste, hit me up so we can chat.

Special rates considered if you're working on an MVP.

Can also take other types of projects, email if in doubt.
Third Iron | http://thirdiron.com | Minneapolis | Full Time | iOS & Android | REMOTE

We are a remote-first company since our inception in 2011. We build software to help academic libraries and researchers stay up-to-date with peer reviewed journals.

We are looking for a passionate mobile developer to help architect, write automated tests, and build our iOS (Obj-C/Swift) and Android (Java) app, BrowZine, in use by academic researchers around the world in a wide variety of fields, whether STEM, social sciences, humanities, and beyond.

Using Obj-C and Swift, Cocoapods, XCTest, and CircleCI for the iOS app, and Java, Gradle, Roboelectric, and CircleCI for the Android app.

We have a small dev team where your contributions and input will make an immediate impact.

If you want to work on both iOS and Android on a great team of polyglot programmers, email info@thirdiron.com
>"It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment run by utopian radicals."

I can't believe nobody has responded to this with [citation needed] yet! ;)

OK seriously now, I kind of remember some rumbling about the challenges facing the project: crowd-sourcing a general purpose encyclopedia, generating enough money to keep things running without showing ads - who would write the content, the quality would be terrible, etc.

I'm not sure it was "widely" considered as doomed, but I'm also sure the breadth and depth of topics and overall result ranges from outright shock to pleasant surprise of the naysayers.

Wikipedia has flaws but overall it is a great reference on a massive variety of topics. Here's an anecdotal example: I'm a hiker and a friend and I ran across a weird looking fruit on the trail. After taking pics and asking around we were told it was an "Osage orange". Never heard of it, so I went to Wikipedia and found a lot of info and yes, that was definitely it. I can't imagine Encyclopedia Brittanica, World Book, any of those I remember from my youth, would have had as much info on the Osage orange!
Can't do much FP in Kotlin. Unless your definition of FP is programming with lambdas.
Don't know that it's so much repulsion as the simple inability to play the game without playing $$$$$$ for a very long time (until 1995 for GNAT). Even now, I remember reading that the fully free GNAT runtime is said not to be all that hot.

All that, and the costly tools above the language and runtime, is a major reason I'm ignoring this ecosystem in favor of (tentatively) the seL4 one. Hmmm, and how close are Ada and SPARK to being supplied by a single source?
Yes. Personally, I like to say: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is to separate it from good men with enough levels of abstraction".

Or as the great HN quote goes,

"Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam."
-- dsirijus, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227941
I've been using Kotlin on Android for about six months, and can't recommend it highly enough. If you're stuck in the Java ecosystem, Kotlin will make your life much better.

I also recommend it for people coming from the world of dynamic typing (Ruby, Javascript, Python, etc.). If you can appreciate the guarantees of a static type system -- and I submit that anyone who has worked on a project of more than a few KLOC can -- give Kotlin a try. It's much less verbose than Java, and gives you the tools and constructs to program in much the same style as you would in a dynamic language, but with extremely good compile-time correctness checks. It may not be Haskell, but it's pragmatic, practical and productive.

The tooling is also world class, as you might expect from a language developed by JetBrains. I recommend using Kotlin with IntelliJ -- the intellisense is guaranteed to boost your productivity.

Seamless Java interop has been a huge priority for the developers, so the ecosystem is also quite good. Its biggest weakness (for my use case anyway) is the lack of a good, modern web framework. Hopefully now that Kotlin is more stable a native library ecosystem will emerge that plays to Kotlin's strengths more than Java's.
Full Beaker | Bellevue, WA | Onsite | Software Engineer/Web Developer

We are an online marketing company building sites that help nurses and mortgage consumers make more informed decisions. Our stack is Python, Django, MySQL and Postgresql, Redis, and AWS on the backend. Our process is Github Flow. We’re looking to hire a software engineer with at least 3 years of experience to work with us across the stack building new applications, improving user experience, optimizing site performance, and automating our operations.

Questions or to apply, email mike@fullbeaker.com
Because everybody thinks they know better. The fact is, the less real difference there is between the options, the longer the argument goes on about which is better. Because you can't actually tell the difference, you can never settle the argument.
> We should do this again sometime.

I completely understand the glee to be had watching a clueless CEO bumblefuck their customer relations, but I really do not wish for this to happen to anyone else.
European cities are ok too, as long as buildings don't have a fenced territory.
Nokia to Test Steve Perlman’s pCell technology, 50 times 4G LTE capacity
I don't think it's ever been about perfect equality. That would never work. Rather it's more about having less inequality.

There will still be a hierarchy and it's not a bad thing but we need to reduce the leverage and power being concentrated in a few hands that have the potential to change everyone else's lives (for better or worse).

I'm a big supporter of capitalism and believe in everyone being able to do what they want and to succeed to whatever levels they can, but we need to have checks and balances when it comes to how wealth can affect the rest of society.
Ask HN: As a dev/sysadmin, what can I do help refugees in Europe?
This is a very heavy topic, but let me get more specific: every night when you turn on the TV news in Europe, it shows pictures of refugees trying to flee their country.

It shows kids drowning in the sea. It shows women and elderly people having to sleep outside, without food or shelter, because they're trying to get away from a warzone. These are incredibly confronting images.

And every night these images are shown. Every night I keep wondering what I, as a limited human being with limited resources, can do to help these people.

I don't feel like making a 50$ donation to the Red Cross would have the impact I'm hoping for. As a developer or a sysadmin (or anyone in IT, for that matter), what's the most efficient use of my time to help those people?

Fundraisers? I think the world has become immune to these kind of events, they don't pay of. Monthly donations? I feel that my contribution just isn't worth it.

What can I do to really make a difference?
Belgravia Gallery
Houston; Full Time; Onsite

BrainCheck is a funded Digital Health startup developing an innovative platform for tracking cognitive fitness and assessing conditions such as concussion and memory impairment. We sell to schools and athletic teams, industries where it is critical to be alert (e.g. oil & gas, trucking), as well as directly to individuals (especially athletes, parents, and those concerned about aging family members). Our state-of-the art technology is mobile-first (iPad & Android), gamified to appeal to a wide variety of test-takers, and HIPAA compliant.

If you have a passion for neuroscience, big data, big ideas, and building technologies that can make a real difference in people’s lives, this position is for you.

You'll:

- Add new features to the existing app/backend in an elegant and maintainable manner
- Think through technical challenges and build clean solutions
- Maintain the existing application and consult with the team about possible technical issues down the road
- Deploy on a regular basis (daily/weekly) and iterate quickly
- Help maintain foundational open source projects

Skills & Requirements

You should have:

- Strong fundamentals (HTML/CSS & JavaScript)
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails, Cordova, and front-end JS frameworks (hopefully Ember)
- Attention to detail and pride in your work
- Ability to plan and implement structural and technical architecture
- Ability to work with a team that has diversified skillsets

If you're interested in meeting with us to learn more about BrainCheck and the position, please email us at careers@braincheck.com.
WiserTogether | Boston, MA | Full-Time | ONSITE | Full Stack Jr. Software Engineer | Apply here: http://careers.wisertogether.com/apply/cnKYcQ

We offer healthcare decision-making tools that serve millions of users at Fortune 500 companies, health plans, health systems and exchanges.

Engineering team is small (~15 across web dev, data science and devops) and developers get to take significant ownership and responsibility over projects. We aim to double the size of the team over the next year. We're based at WeWork in Boston and beer is free :-).

Please email employment@wisertogether.com for more info - we're also looking for engineers for our data science team, so shoot us a note if interested.
Blockchains: the great chain of being sure about things
SEEKING WORK | Location: West-Africa | Remote Freelance Only

Full-stack Software Developer with 5+ years experience.

Front-end Skills
Javascript (jQuery, AngularJS) with ES6
HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap, foundation

Back-end skills (Proficience rate beside each):
NodeJS 95%,
Ruby On Rails 60%,
PHP 90%,
Python (Flask) 50%,

Mobile
Android 90%

Testing:
Mocha, Karma, Jasmine (I always write tests especially when developing with Javascript)

Degree in computer science and worked for 3 companies as a software developer. Competent with Linux and Mysql databases, Postgresql and NoSql(MongoDB).
Passionate about speed, performance and use the Agile approach
towards software development. Loves learning new technologies :)

Little dev-ops knowledge especially with Azure

Can work for 20hrs a week

Everything about me here -> http://goo.gl/de0PFd
Rocketmiles - Chicago IL.

Rocketmiles, recently acquired by Priceline, helps frequent travelers vacation faster by earning huge rewards for booking hotels.

We're looking for a front-end developer (Angular) and several backend developers (Java/Grails) to round out our development team here in Chicago.

You'll work with our CTO and head of product at a small, but growing, company solving interesting challenges while having fun with a very solid and experienced team.
Email me (head of product) at jordan@rocketmiles.com
I think I'm being too elliptical. I'll be blunt: my prediction is that the overwhelming majority of startups that are willing to offer equity in exchange for contracting work are going to fail, and fail at a higher rate than other startups.

A willingness to pay in equity for consulting would to me be a red flag that the startup I was talking to was poorly managed.
And you are asking for a PhD in computer science for back-end and front-end engineer? smh!!!
FYI: your link is broken: it has an extra "%3E" at the end
The Next Major Technology to Shape SaaS
Not in an environment with any level of decent IT management going on. Most managed IT environments look fairly homogenous in terms of gear, and anything that's not an exact or very close match will immediately draw attention.
William Hill | Java; Web; Full Stack | Leeds, UK; London, UK | Full-Time | Onsite

William Hill are hiring:

* Java Developers [0][1]
* Graduate Java Developer [2]
* Senior Developers [3][4]
* Full Stack Developers [5]
* Web Developers [6][7]

For our Leeds City Centre and London Shoreditch offices.

Whilst we have a very well-established high street presence and brand (over 2500 stores, founded in 1934), this accounts for only half of our business - the rest coming from our online presence. We're seeking to differentiate ourselves in the industry through our speed to market, agility, and our ability to innovate.

There's a massive culture shift underway and we're looking as much for techies as well as people with the vision to modernise how technology is delivered and works.

Feel free to send me any questions and I'll put you in touch with the right people.

[0] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre...
[1] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/appcentre-1/brand-2/candidate...
[2] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre...
[3] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/appcentre-1/brand-0/candidate...
[4] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/appcentre-1/brand-0/candidate...
[5] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre...
[6] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/appcentre-1/brand-2/candidate...
[7] https://williamhill.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre...
When I try the proofs of concept in Firefox 41, I see all font requests being done at once at page load time, regardless of whether the font resource is used or not. This actually foils the exploit.

I suppose this is the way to mitigate the issue, to download unconditionally all the font resources for which the `unicode-range` is smaller than a minimum number of characters?
Do you mean: I visit abc.com, abc.com serves me an abc cookie, then I visit xyz.com, and xyz.com makes a call to abc from my browser, so that they can use the abc cookie to track me?

Well, that is effectively using abc as a tracking server, and abc.com would quickly be added to the adblockers lists. Effectively this is the current model.

The other thing is that I may visit abc.com and xyz.com but this particular combination may be unique to me, i.e. I may visit nytime.com and ford.com which may use the same ad network, but you may not visit nytime.com at all and instead wsj.com.

Browser fingerprinting is a different problem. It does defeat the same origin policy. But I suggest you look at the sources of entropy:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
With javascript off, there is virtually no entropy, just your user agent and HTTP_ACCEPT header. You can't fingerprint a browser at all.

If you enable javascript but not plugins, then the Browser Pluggin details give you some entropy, although looking at the list those a relatively generic and would likely be the same on many machines.

If you enable plugins (flash, silverlight, java) then you have a massive amount of entropy but realistically all of these plugins are almost gone from major browsers.
tl;dr - My best isn't necessarily your best. We're different people with (likely) different needs.

That seems pretty foreign to me. While I would definitely look at something like that (although I've never heard of either of those sites until now, thanks), it seems weird to me that people would assume what some website thinks is "best" is so accurate as to accept their recommendation without doing any research whatsoever and immediately going out to buy that.

Even when I was a kid and had a Consumer Reports subscription I never just bought whatever they said to buy I have always done my own research. It doesn't seem that difficult to me if you have at least a rough idea of what you're looking for in an item and can prioritize those things.
There are a lot of highly intelligent people at all levels of income distribution, so while there might be a polarization effect, it's not to the point of being segregation.

Intelligence can help you gain wealth, but if you're never given an opportunity or don't have a lot of drive you'll struggle perpetually.
Hopefully this will be a look forward beyond Voyager rather than going back again..
Sorry-- that rule was added in June and I hadn't re-read the instructions since then. Fixed.
It's like the reverse of Lester, Obama's anger management translator.
Entelo - San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full-time - http://www.entelo.com/ ; ONSITE only, no remote at the moment.

Our mission is to help organizations build diverse, cohesive and better teams. We've been building a variety of hiring solutions to help companies like Tesla, Zenefits and Lyft leverage the wealth of information online to find amazing prospective employees and make better hiring decisions. The sales and marketing worlds have many solutions that enable them to be more efficient and productive and it is our belief that we can adapt the best that sales and marketers have to recruiting/talent departments.

We're currently looking for a variety of positions including:

-Sr. Backend Engineers: Our backend team deals with crawling, parsing, normalization and aggregation of hundreds of millions of social profiles (i.e. Linkedin, Github, Twitter) and use complex algorithmic and statistical methods to match disparate social profiles. We use a Ruby/Postgres architecture for the backend and have dabbled with using Go.

-DevOps Engineer: We're looking for our first dedicated engineer to own DevOps for the long term. We take a software-centric (as opposed to an ops-centric) approach to DevOps, and have every engineer setup on PagerDuty in case something breaks in the middle of the night (hopefully we'll avoid that!). We use a variety of modern technologies including Docker, AWS, Rails, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and other tools such as New Relic, Loggly and PagerDuty.

-Lead Data Engineer: We're looking for someone to help us continue to build out our analytics framework for prediction of when people are most likely to be looking for a new opportunity. We use Amazon Redshift for data warehousing but are open to those that have extensive experience with "big data" stacks (Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Kafka, etc.)

If you're interested in any of our open positions, you can reach out to me directly (I'm the founder) at jon at entelo dot com
You mean that time when "having the newsfeed app forces you to use the messaging app and vice versa" started out as forced, and then opt-out, and then opt-in? That seems like the /opposite/ of forcing people to use a given feature :P

(I see what you're trying to say, that people are forced to install two apps instead of installing one - I just disagree that having two separate apps is "forced" while having apps bundled together is "choice")
Can't wait to see what it will be like, was entertained by every series so far.

Hopefully more like most of the series and less like the new movies.
Upwork | San Francisco (SoMa) / Mountain View | Lead platform engineer (Java) | Onsite/Remote

We're hiring for quiet a few positions across engineering at Upwork; the world's largest freelancer marketplace formed from the merger of Elance and oDesk. All open positions are listed at https://www.upwork.com/about/careers/.

We're building the next generation of our site from the ground up and need help in areas such as scaling micro-services, working with AWS products, investing in NoSQL solutions (where it makes sense) and more. Along the way, you'll get the opportunity to work with a globally distributed team (we have more than 200 freelancers, representing greater that 50% of our engineering headcount, hired off or our platform working on and leading various engineering teams) and hang out with them on our bi-annual offsites (my team just returned from one in Lisbon).

I'm specifically looking to hire someone who can be an engineering lead on a team that's building Java based micro services (deployed on AWS). You will be responsible for working with the product and other engineering teams to architect said services, deploy them, manage them, break them (and then fix them) and help other teams who are not as familiar with concepts such as service boundaries, benefits vs. costs of asynchronous architectures etc. More about the position is at https://goo.gl/lqJZcF.

We have two offices; one in the city (SoMa) and another in Mountain View. Feel free to contact me at rmanoch@upwork.com for any questions about this or any other openings you might be interested in.
Another thing to note is that the auto parts industry does a pretty good job leveraging tools like Amazon and eBay. Autozone, Advance, Summit etc. They have stores and websites but also use those platforms to sell stuff and the price is generally consistent with their websites and stores or reflects the cost of using the platform (e.g. buying stuff from Summit is usually slightly cheaper for the stuff they list on eBay and I assume this is a reflection of shipping discounts.

Obviously, a franchise can't really take advantage of additional platforms the way a chain can.
ImpactFlow — Portland, OR. Onsite — Front End Engineer

Nonprofit-giving startup seeks a front end engineer to join our product development team. You will work with a small cross-functional group of engineers to develop front-end JavaScript for our SaaS web application/platform.
Responsibilities:

- Write features within the platform's Backbone.js application

- Write unit tests and webdriver tests for everything you build

- Collaborate with designers and product stakeholders to shepherd products through development

- Test and fix bugs across multiple platforms and browsers (IE9+)

- Peer review code prior to merging/deployment

Learn more about the position and how to apply: https://gist.github.com/Lochlan/a97296e04977ba2cc735
Seems a bit like Laser Tag for the 21st century. In general I think the space of "real life + tech juice" sort of things is a pretty under-exploited market segment. From pacman on the streets of NYC to Ingress to Puzzle Rooms to Geocaching. It seems like a lot of different ways to take this.