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SEEKING WORK

Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5tvtr9nqb2ez9b/Ciaran%20McGhie.pd...

Technologies: Scala, Python, MongoDB, Qpid, Kafka, HTML, REST, Javascript, Java

Talented backend/full-stack developer with 4 years experience looking for short to mid term contracts in London. Recently started work on a native iOS project.

Available immediately.

ciaranmcghie [at] gmail (dot) com
Teach for America is a glorified temp agency
Why I teach people how to hack (2014)
>When the lone "insane" person is vindicated, great wealth and success seem to follow.

I must not have been paying attention. When did that ever happen?
Google | Mountain View / San Francisco / London | Software Engineer | Onsite

https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=907950...

Google for Work Labs/Incubation is a skunk works R&D team working inside of Google's Enterprise division, coming up with the next big google B2B product

The team operates as a startup, and has internal funding rounds for each of our ideas. On a regular basis our teams interact with [x], life-sciences, ventures, and other alphabet companies.

The team tries to solve the following question: What business technology need is currently going unsolved, that can be built today, where google has a distinct advantage.

Once we identify a product which meets that criteria, we'll evaluate and potentially create an MVP and raise a seed fund (from google). If the project's successful we'll keep going through funding rounds and raising money internally.

As a prototype engineer, you'll get to write software for custom circuit-boards & hardware, embedded computing, cloud computing, big data, mobile apps, and web-apps.

We're looking for candidates with a strong software background, and an understating of product.
Feel free to email me directly at bookman@google.com with your resume and a link to your github.
The Promise of Stateless Computing
It's a shorthand. Once you get tired of the long form, the shorthand will be appealing :P
> Is the despair and feeling of injustice that much larger when you are an idealist?

The feeling is what the feeling is when you're deep in the shit. Idealist, mentor, nice guy, none of that matters. He was a man in crisis and didn't come out the other end. Maybe we'll know why some day.
What kind of person is considered too immoral to be a debian maintainer?
What are the biggest myths about working at Google?
Statistical reasoning in general has failed in finance, especially 2008+... I don't think statistics or normal distributions are to blame. Rather the mindset that the risk scenarios are something that is avoidable with certainty. That's almost religious...
Pilloxa | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE

Pilloxa is an eHealth IoT startup looking for app/backend devs. We are in an early stage so a great opportunity to have a major impact on building the company and changing the eHealth industry.

Clojure(Script) (generally focusing on functional languages), React and possibly React Native for iOS/Android.

Help us save lives!

recruitment (at) pilloxa.com
REMOTE / VISA / INTERNATIONAL REMOTE / SAN FRANCISCO: Rainforest QA (YC S12) is hiring for all sorts of engineering and sales roles. You can checkout the details, plus more about the company at https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs :)
Get Lighthouse | http://getlighthouse.com | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

=== What we do ===

If you've ever worked at a painfully dysfunctional startup, or a big company wrecked by politics & clueless managers, you've experienced how bad management can make a good job miserable. We're changing that by helping managers with the fundamental habits of good management.

We're starting with facilitating better 1-on-1s through software, which help you be happier, and more productive when done right. (@RoidRage blogged about how we helped him at Travis-CI: http://bit.ly/LHpraise)

Lighthouse is profitable, bootstrapped, and generating hundreds of leads a month. I'm looking for someone to take over all things tech at Lighthouse, so that I can focus on making us more money by attracting and closing even more customers.

=== You are ===

- Player/Coach interested in helping build and manage a team

- An engineer that cares about design and the little details that delight customers

- Looking to get in on the ground floor of a high potential startup (ie- lots of upside/equity!)

=== Tech Stack ===

- Currently Rails, Capistrano, haml/scss, bootstrap, jQuery, Postgres, Stripe, GCal API

=== Interested? ===

- Email Jason at GetLighthouse dot com mentioning Hacker News in the subject line.
SEEKING WORK - Knoxville TN, travel, and/or remote

Senior Cybersecurity Consultant - Cybersecurity Program Development and Management, Risk Management, IT Security, ICS/SCADA Security, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Policy and Procedure Development, Training and Awareness Program Development

15+ years experience, holistic/common sense approach

Email: nespiers@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nanspiers
It is extraordinarily unhelpful to suggest that people who are endangered by mental health problems should avoid the mental health system.

There is a lot not to like about emergency mental health care. The experience is indeed akin to that of criminal justice, and can at times verge on dehumanizing. Our handling of these issues must improve.

But the alternative to being locked in a room with police officers watching the door is something far worse than that.

People with suicidal depression, severe anxiety disorders, or post-traumatic stress disorders can endure episodes where they almost completely lose judgement, or experience dissociation and derealization. You can't simply gut these things out: you need to be in a safe space, ideally attended to by professionals who can intervene medically during the worst of it.

If you are feeling suicidal, or that you're not in control of your own actions and concerned about harming yourself or others, you should call 9-1-1 or go to a hospital ER. It won't be pleasant, but it will be safer than the alternatives.
Why is this absurd? Order-dependent installation and massive node_modules trees seem a lot more absurd to me. Why not just have node parse all the package.json's (or, perhaps, npm-shrinkwrap.json) at startup time? Then `require` could easily parse that and know what dependency version from the flat node_modules to deliver.
Tesla Model S catches fire at supercharger in Norway
Young, beautiful and broke
SEEKING WORK – iOS Developer

Location: London, UK or remote

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomweightman

http://www.tomweightman.com

Build award-winning apps for the past few years (several editor's choice, two iPad apps of the year, and a BAFTA)
Full-Time Frontend Engineer | Warsaw, Poland

codebeat (https://codebeat.co) is a developer-oriented static code analysis startup. We're primarily backend engineers and computer scientists (ex. Google & Facebook) and have developed a set of state of the art algorithms for language-agnostic static code analysis. We built an MVP around it which we quietly launched (supporting Ruby and Go for now) but we badly need help with frontend magic.

YOU are proficient with JavaScript and are comfortable with different frontend frameworks. Our current frontend is built using Marionette and Backbone so we'd like you to be able to jump right in. In the long run however we would like you to cleanly rewrite the frontend using the technology of your choice. Our primary working language is English and so we require working proficiency.

We are a startup but we're fully funded and we can ensure that the successful candidate is happy with their renumeration and benefits package. International candidates with EU work permit are more than welcome provided they're willing to move to Poland.

If this sounds interesting please kindly send me your resume to marcinw[at]codebeat[dot]co.
Joyce and Jon were two of the nicest people you could meet. They both left us way too early it seems.
This guy needs his funding. We all need him.
Ivy Softworks | Atlas | Seattle, WA & San Francisco, CA | Full-time, ONSITE, VISA

Hey all,

Ivy Softworks is looking for talented, motivated team members in Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA (SF SoMa). We're a startup that builds startups and are providing an alternative to early stage venture capital though the creation of an Innovation Studio. We are looking for entrepreneurs seeking new adventures. Check out our website for open opportunities: http://www.ivysoftworks.com/careers/

I’m also very happy to share that just last month we unveiled our first spinout, Atlas. So if you want to get a taste of what we’re working on, check out http://www.atlas.co/ or one of the recent press articles:

* http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/contextual-search-platform-...

* http://www.geekwire.com/2015/innovation-studio-ivy-softworks...

Current open positions:

Platform Development Engineer
Software Development Engineer – OS Internals
Distributed Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Distributed Graph Engineer
Software Development Engineer – OSX
Software Development Engineer – Test
Program Manager

If you are experienced and looking for a specialty not listed, we're always on the lookout for those who our model resonates with strongly, so shoot us an email or reply here. Some of the languages we’re looking for: C, C++, Ruby, Python, Javascript, and more. We’re developing on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Positions are ONSITE.
FundApps - https://fundapps.workable.com/ - London, UK - Onsite - Permanent - Full-time.
FundApps was recently recognised as one of the top 50 fintech startups in Europe. We sell a web service that automates financial regulatory compliance. We're a company of 17 right now, and somewhat unusually are a bootstrapped startup are growing rapidly through acquisition of customers rather than funding. Current openings we have in London.
-Full Stack UI Engineer -Infrastructure / Ops Engineer -.NET / Backend Engineer
email me direct - james.peters@fundapps.co if you have questions. Thanks!
True as far as it goes, but there are a lot of other factors influencing why some ideas spread widely and others don't. These days we can even track how it happens.
Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Mission) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops)

Hi! We're Nylas. We build N1, the extensible, open source email client, and the infrastructure powering it. We're looking for fronted application engineers (React, Electron, JS), designers, backend systems engineers, & infrastructure/operations engineers.

We recently launched N1, have accumulated 14K stars on GitHub, and are looking for core application engineers to design an extensible platform around email, calendar, and contacts. You'll not only use modern web tech to build a better email experience, you'll design the developer platform to power the next generation of email apps. See more about N1 here: https://nylas.com/N1 & code: https://github.com/nylas/N1

We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. We're scaling heavily and if you have experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code, we're for you. :)

We take pride in the diverse culture we've built and are looking for more than raw technical talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7sHc4P4zPg

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* N1 uses javascript (ES6), React, Flux, SQL for offline caching, Electron, and no jQuery

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/nylas

* We're a team of 15 (12 engineers)

* We have a paid vacation policy & value personal responsibility and ownership. Benefits include free Lyft to & from the office, full health, dental, vision, and lunch every day. Some remote work / work-from-home is OK too

Apply at https://nylas.com/jobs or ping me directly (spang@nylas). I'm Christine, one of our co-founders. We're a diverse team, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
I flagged this and tbh I hope dang deletes your comment and this reply.

I agree with you that these are serious problems. But you're still much better off dealing with them than being dead. This post is very unhelpful.
Conversify (http://www.conversify.com)

Where: Groningen (NL) or REMOTE

Looking for a fulltime Chief Intelligence Officer / Data-scientist.

Conversify is helping e-commerce sites with optimizing their conversions by using persuasion. We have tons of data, big customers and a stack consisting of: MongoDB, Python, Django, JavaScript, Postgres and much more ;-).

You: Fluency in Python (numpy/scipy), MongoDB, R or Matlab and Django.

More info?

E: bart[at]conversify.com

Skype: bkappenburg
Paul Graham didn't write it.
SEEKING WORK - Full Stack Web Development

Location: New Jersey, USA near NYC.
Remote: Yes

Small consulting firm composed of local freelancers. Would love to chat! http://luma.im/

ryan@luma.im
There are some people who feel strongly that graduate school is a waste of time, a moral failing, or worse. The author is clearly one of them. Fuck 'em.

More reasonably, nobody has the right to dictate to you how to spend your time, once you are an adult. If you want to study a subject in depth (and contrary to the author's assertion, there are some things that are virtually impossible to learn on your own) you have every right to do so. If an employer doesn't respect your education you almost certainly don't want to work with them.
An acquaintance was feeling suicidal, and I convinced her to talk to her doctor. Her first concern was being involuntarily committed; she referred to some statute by number, that she thought would prompt whatever provider or authority she talked to to lock her up. What a terrible barrier to help. (She did see her doctor.)

You call 911 for help, and they send someone with a gun.
I believe that people tend to be more forgiving when it comes to comedians and actors, simply because they have an emotional attachment, "to the time they spent with them". Simply put, they have a different context in which to remember him. Robin Williams is the quintessential example of this. I remember Mork through so much of his entire catalogue of work. I am currently writing this on Debian Jesse. That's "my time" and that is part of Ian Murdock's legacy.
Netflix set to launch in India
And it readily brings the famous Nazareth's evangelist to mind- Jesus Christ.

Considering the 6 stages of his blasphemy trials between Religious and Roman courtrooms (especially, the burdened denial of right and wrong between Herod and Pilate).

And contrasting that unfortunate crisis of conscience greeted by the reported mob justice with how many billion people today follow a religion borne of Christ's personality, it just reinforces one thing Mark Twain endeavored to deliver as important message in that essay:

"Think for yourself."
Dude was murdered by police with his death getting astroturfed.
Simple and flexible authorization in your Rails controller
How boring is it to be a software engineer at Google?
> We don’t seem to have a cultural construct for good people who made mistakes.

Well said man, I think that remembering him because he

> was also the kind of man who’d not only call and verify my identity, but reaffirm an insecure high school nerd’s ability to meaningfully contribute to the world at large.

Is an excellent form of memorial. This is my favorite post about the guy, who was not on my radar before this week. (Though, I have used Debian and regularly use Ubuntu.)
This seems to be aimed more at humanities degrees than mathematics or computer science or other such technical degrees. I do still think applies in some cases to some jobs.

Edit: looking at another post, http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/08/29/voices-of-the-defen..., it's obvious that she is only considering humanities degrees and ignoring STEM fields.
Yes, syntax matters. What is in question is why syntax has to be so tightly bound to intrinsics of a language? I think it is possible to have a meta layer above any programming language that can bridge particular flavor of the syntax of your choice to the underlying language. In fact, I have been practicing that for the last 10 years (MyDef).

To illustrate what I mean by meta layer, the preprocessor (macros) is a (crude) example of meta layer that is (in fact) independent from the C language. In fact, M4 can and has been used on top of many independent languages. But to have a fuller syntax layer, we'll need a more sophisticated (not necessarily more complex) system than M4.
This is absolutely true, and very well said.
Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy ad
What the hell? If I'm hiring, I'd much rather see time in grad school listed rather than a gap. Getting a Master's or PhD takes time, focus, dedication, and intelligence. Those are all good things to show, even if the specific subject matter is different.

Also: I'm wholly of the opinion that people who have strong backgrounds in multiple subjects are deeper and more creative thinkers. (And just generally more interesting to have around.)
This is a great post! Bookmarking this for future reference.
Basically because of the EFF.

He worked full time at the EFF 2002-2006 and was named an EFF Fellow when he left. That combined with his blogging and fiction writing left him a reasonably high profile privacy and technology spokesperson.
What an awesome gesture, thank you for your generosity and best of luck. Happy New Year!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/hotlines

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWResources/comments/1c3p3z/helpful...

i've always found it useful that those guys keep an updated list handy.
This is a hodgepodge of several different arguments. You should pick one and flesh it out.

Do you mean to say:

1. That it's impossible to add 10,000 new housing units per year? That seems pretty unlikely.

2. If SF added 10,000 new housing units per year, housing prices wouldn't decline? Why not?

3. The politics of SF rule out the construction of 10,000 additional housing units per year? I agree, but think that needs to change; that's my whole argument.

4. That both politics and logistics would enable SF to add 10,000 additional new housing units per year, but that shouldn't happen because it would change the character of the city? That's an intellectually coherent argument, but one that I think a lot of people don't find compelling; I think if you're coming from a place of "save San Francisco's status as a postcard city", you should be up-front about that, rather than pretending that your argument is that fixing SF housing is somehow impossible.

(I took the "10,000" notion from your comment).
Happy New Year to you, have a great one!
The author of this post seems to be laboring under the impression that everyone has a nice neat career trajectory in which everything fits neatly into place. And he doesn't like MBAs so he thinks people who have them ought to hide the fact even at the cost of having a gap on a resume.

Sure, don't emphasize irrelevant stuff but, in general, this seems like pretty silly advice.
SEEKING WORK - Python Backend Developer

Location: Paris, France or remote

Django expert, open source solutions specialist & devops
I love building products for the modern web

https://nextcairn.com
https://github.com/La0

Email : bastien (at) nextcairn.com
All the courses I took had such notes, true. But I often found that they were of poor quality, sometimes completely outdated compared to the video.
I came away from the article feeling that the author missed the point of a PhD completely, at least for the hard sciences. When you complete a PhD, you have by definition extended the scope of human knowledge. You must conduct original research to get a PhD, its not just another couple of years of showing up to class. A PhD student will typically have 5-7 journal papers, a couple of conference presentations, perhaps a best paper, and an entire thesis by the time they get out.

That is a lot of proven work, ability, and expertise that very few other people on the planet have in your specific area.
Yes, syntax matters but I suspect that how we react to a language depends on which languages we come from. Familiar syntaxes usually make learning a new language easier.

Go through the code at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Letter_frequency and whatever your background is you'll see some programs that will look almost incomprehensible and others that you can understand even if you don't know the language they are written into.

And then there is the aesthetic: some of those programs look beatiful, some look ugly. That matters too.
How many applicants and for how long you are going to support?
This article can't be serious...

> Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake.

Studying something is a mistake if you don't dedicate the rest of your life to it, really?

> She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons

This tells you everything you need to know about the author.
> paid (or free) tutorials, which uses text and pictures to convey information rather than videos.

Isn't it called a "book"? :)

I'm with you, I often find videos on Coursera et all pretty useless and inefficient. More effective for me to just buy a book on the topic I want to learn about.
(The author uses "her" in her biography section)
Yes. If they had used something like Python, it would probably be heaps better. (Though to be honest I'm not really sure I trust the cmake developers' collective judgment. I'm sure they could manage to make it awful.)

But, even though it's horrid, I do find it CMake easier to work with than make on a day to day basis. CMake's scripting language is at least straightforwardly imperative; CMake has at least some support for working around certain platform/toolchain differences (though this support is rather half-hearted in some key places); it has a couple of handy features that make working with C/C++ libraries quite easy; it has builtin support for test suites. All more convenient than doing it all by hand in GNU make, and you've got support for multiple backends too. Oh, and it supports Windows, too.

Though I admit it only through gritted teeth, it provides value.