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Advanced Simulation Technology, inc. (ASTi) | Herndon/Reston, VA | Multiple Positions | ONSITE

We’re a small company building innovative products in the simulation and training industry. One of our newest products is SERA (http://seraatc.com), the Simulated Environment for Realistic ATC. SERA helps airline pilots learn to communicate by simulating the entire air traffic control environment, including artificial intelligence for aircraft and controllers, speech recognition on pilot speech, and text-to-speech radio chatter.

ASTi has been around for about 25 years. We’ve been very successful in our niche (audio and communications), but we’re beginning to grow in adjacent areas and need your help! On-site, full-time engineering positions available for those interested in software, web, cloud and speech technology.

Stack: C/C++/C#, Go(golang), Python, Angular, Node.JS, AWS, Docker, RethinkDB, SIP, WebRTC, RaspberryPi

Check out this page for more information on ASTi, our unique work environment, and the full job descriptions: https://www.asti-usa.com/jobs/index.html. A few other reasons to consider ASTi: excellent compensation, profit-sharing, start at 4 weeks vacation (growing to 6 weeks over time), company-paid retirement plan, and we were included in Washingtonian Magazine’s "50 Great Places to Work" in 2015.

Get in touch via jobs@asti-usa.com. Thanks! Curtis (CTO)
Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Yes, please!

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC, javascript, ES2015, reactjs

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6tiab-UYLX-TGF1bDgzMjczak...

Email: ilya.pir@gmail.com

Experienced full stack web developer. Desperately looking for a job in a country with sane government. Keen of machine learning.
> Wouldn't it be better to spend those billions of dollars and take on some inevitable loss of life and annihilate them forever. From where did we all start believing in the defeatist mentality that world cannot take on ISIS?

You're grossly oversimplifying this. Remember Iraq? Afghanistan? It's easy for a large army to topple a government or kill some leaders. But groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda are basically ideologies that rely on guerilla warfare (al-Qaeda moreso than ISIS, since ISIS at least wants to establish a caliphate).

These wars have been going on for decades and are guaranteed to continue for decades more. Even if ISIS was completely wiped out, there would still remain the ideologies and history that making recruiting for such groups possible. Knocking over governments like in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, just creates even more power vacuums for these groups to grow and recruit in.

I'm not sure what the best solution would be. The U.S. and NATO seem content to just keep fighting proxy wars for the upcoming decades. Personally, I'd rather accept refugees and put the effort into successfully integrating them in Western culture. This would probably be much easier in the U.S. which already has a long history of immigration and serving as a "melting pot" of cultures. Maybe more difficult in Europe. Another big problem is the xenophobic and racist attitudes towards immigrants, and it's hard to successfully integrate people when they're forced to live amongst those kinds of people.

I'm not saying immigrants should be forced to abandon their cultures, just that leaving them to fester as an outgroup in impoverished countries lacking strong institutions can't possibly help win an ideological war. Many Western countries are already suffering from population decline. Offering a new home where the influence of toxic ideologies is weaker seems a better solution to me than indefinite war with no plan for what happens afterwards.
QA Lead & Core Engineer | Replicated | Los Angeles | $70k - $80k, $130k - $150k both with equity | https://www.replicated.com

Replicated is building tools to support how enterprise software is built. We are simplifying how cloud based SaaS vendors can ship private cloud and on-premise versions of their software. We are a Series-A stage company based in Los Angeles working great customers including Travis CI, npm, Code Climate, Sysdig, Circle CI and many others. We are a small team looking to grow in some key positions.

One of the most important next hires will be a QA Lead to own the testing of our hosted and on premise products. If you have experience building and scaling test automation it would be great to talk. Experience with Ansible, Golang and Docker are big pluses for us.

In this role you will be:

• Building and scaling test automation

• Performing manual tests and developing effective testing plans

• Implementing best practices to integrate QA into the development process

We are also looking for engineers to help build and scale our products. Experience with Golang, Javascript, Docker and bash are key in this role. In this position you will be:

• Delivering critical features of our installable and hosted products

• Participating in architecture and design decisions about the product

• Managing production servers

Sound interesting? Want to talk? Email: austin (at) replicated (dot) com
Speaking as a native American, I cannot disagree more. The spirit and very origin of our great nation is to never accept the bad with the good, but to doggedly pursue the very best in everything.
I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio.

I would assume it's due to the general breakdown of majors at those schools, but it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
It doesn't. jquery-ujs will still be there if you want it, but depending on jquery brings along a lot of baggage along with the legacy browser support it allows. This discussion is just about what the default should be, and I don't think its unreasonable these days to aim for modern browsers as a default for most sites.
Gambit Research Ltd (http://gambitresearch.com) | London, UK | ONSITE | Full time

At Gambit we research and manage automated sports betting algorithms on behalf of our clients. Their algorithms run on our proprietary execution platform which interfaces with a large variety of bookmakers and exchanges, enabling access to the best prices and massive liquidity.

Our distributed, concurrent system has a core written in Erlang, which interacts with a wide variety of Python processes across the rest of the business. Some of the other technologies we use are: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Docker, Ansible, C, C++, Julia, R, Go, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Sentry, Git, GitLab.

We have a very flat hierarchy and an emphasis on employee freedom. We encourage our team to work on projects that interest them, as we believe people are happiest and most productive when intellectually stimulated. You don't need to be interested in sports or betting.

We're actively hiring for the following positions:

- Software developer
- Junior/mid level front-end developer
- Data engineer
- DevOps engineer
- Linux systems administrator

If this appeals to you, please email hn@gambitresearch.com
MORSE Corp | Boston/Cambridge, MA | $80k - $140k | US Citizens only

MORSE develops algorithms and software for operational systems, implementing leading edge technologies for robotics, autonomous air and undersea vehicles, and coordination of human teams.

In particular, we are hiring:

Computer Vision and Robotics Perception Engineer -- Focus on pushing the state of the art in computer vision to eliminate reliance on GPS and greatly increase the perception capabilities of future robotic systems. Develop and implement vision processing algorithms to enable visual odometry, landmark correlation, and target recognition for various robotic and unmanned vehicle applications.

Senior Software Architect -– Focus on designing and developing software for autonomous vehicle systems. The domains are diverse, including real-time autonomy, machine learning, AI, mobile devices (Android, Windows Mobile), and web development. Creative candidates who want to make an immediate impact will thrive in the MORSE environment. This role will involve both leadership and hands-on development.

If either of these sound interesting, email us at info@morse-corp.com. Please include your resume.

Visit us at http://morse-corp.com/jobs to learn more.
As a Bronx resident this sounds very exciting.

As a jaded consumer of modern media this sounds suspiciously one-sided. What are the downsides? It doesn't seem to generate revenue or lower costs for the city. Why would a politician back this plan?
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Savvy – global platform for 1:1 live video learning is hiring in San Francisco: Senior Full-Stack Developer - https://angel.co/savvy-7/jobs/124420-full-stack-developer-fu...

Savvy - http://www.savvy.is - is changing the way the world learns by enabling anyone with expertise to teach. We're building a global marketplace that connects teachers and learners for live, 1:1 video sessions.

We’re looking for a passionate, senior frontend engineer to join the engineering team at Savvy. We're a small, focused, and ambitious team, so you’ll be working on creating a beautiful, interactive user experience using technologies such as React.js, Node.js, Coffeescript, PostgreSQL, Heroku, HTML5 & CSS3, Ruby on Rails, Stylus, and WebRTC. This role requires technical chops as well as leadership. We’re communicative and collaborative, value diversity, and learn from each other within engineering and across disciplines.

Savvy is in the start-up sweet spot. There are seven of us, we're well-funded by international VCs and Angels, just launched our Public Beta.

Press is excited: http://entrepreneur.com/article/271819 You will be instrumental in our push to build a first class product from the ground up.

Are up for the challenge to solve tough technical problems as we touch many people’s lives worldwide?
Get in touch: tom@savvy.is
Being fired lost much of its stigma in highly intellectual professions. Often, it has to do with disagreements over certain business/technical decisions, rather than incompetence.

I have seen great people fired by terrible managers.

As an interviewer, I appreciate the honesty/brevity, and if the explanation for being fired is reasonable enough, it needn't be a huge red flag.
Manzama | Bend, OR | Onsite or US Remote | Full-time

Head of Engineering, Senior Fullstack Developer, Data Scientist/Engineer

Manzama is an enterprise SaaS platform that helps professionals find, discover and monitor news that is important to them and their clients. We've been around for a little over 6 years, focused on the legal vertical, and are profitable with very loyal and happy customers. We are looking for a Head of Engineering, Senior Developers, and Data Scientist/Engineers to join our small but growing team. You'll be an integral part of building and expanding our current platform including expanding our machine learning and NLP functionalities to help us deliver the most relevant news possible. We are based in beautiful Bend, Oregon but we do support remote workers as well.

Tech: Python, Django, Postgres, Solr, GCE, BigQuery, Datastore

You can email me directly at jamesp@manzama.com for more details or to apply
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That's true, the priority of U.S. News and World Report reflects not just the popularity of that particular list, but that most of those schools have fairly canonical names that are easy to text-mine against ("text-mine" in the most crudest form, string matching and some regexing)...this project started out as an attempt to find out how many Congressmembers had reached various levels of higher education (e.g. B.A.,B.S.,MBA, etc) but the descriptions of educational events is too inconsistent in the Congress bioguide (that's even before considering how school names changed over the centuries).

So I decided to make the text-mining easier by just searching for well-known schools. It's possible that a few of the big public prestigious schools, such as University of Michigan, would be near the top. The raw text from each Congressmember's biography can be found in the repo:

https://github.com/dannguyen/congress-colleges/tree/master/d...

It's probably possible to (easily) automate the classification of how many Congressmembers served in the military or passed the bar...but I can save that for another day.
http://explainxkcd.com/1688/
Sourceress | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Full-time | Onsite (Remote possible, see below)

We're a (human-assisted) AI sourcing platform that delivers great results (customer quote: "I'd have a panic attack if you guys stopped existing"). One of our founders previously sold a company and is very technical, and the other was Chief of Staff at Dropbox. We've found a way to reallocate talented individuals to mission-driven companies, allowing them to grow and actually change the world.

2nd engineer (very significant equity possible)

We have a real business with interesting AI/ML/NLP problems that are core to our product. We want to work with you--a prolific, empathetic engineer who cares about personal growth and doing the right thing.

Strong familiarity with Python is a requirement, and familiarity with Django, AWS, PostgreSQL and Javascript are bonuses.

Email josh@sourceress.co

* Remote is a possibility (we have experience with distributed teams)

edit: there is nothing on our website because we have a very long waiting list of customers, so making a website has not been a priority. Happy to explain more via email!
I'm sure there's a lot wrong with Singapore but the closest countries with comparable quality of government are Australia and Taiwan or Japan.

If the Lee family have a cult of personality it's invisible to tourists too. And Cambridge didn't even put the thumb on the scales to let in the current generation of the royal family, you really think they care about the Lees?
>I've yet to find a practical use for multiple profiles

I use them all the time with GNOME terminal. I prefer different themes/fonts for different applications. If you have trouble seeing and need some apps that don't allow you to configure the colors to have a high contrast theme you can just use a specific profile for that app. Plus I like switching between dark and light and medium themes on the fly.
I have lived all over the country, there is nothing special about people in the bay area.

You may think you are special, I assure you you are not.

Sort of like companies claiming to only hire "the top 3%".

The rest of your comment shows why the area as a whole is often kind of stupid.
You don't need to change human nature. Not at all. You just need to figure out why organizations like schools, clubs, fraternities, churches, sports teams, etc. are so good at helping people make lasting, meaningful connections and replicate that formula at scale. That's certainly what I'm trying to do with Krewe, but I think there are many other ways to approach it.

People have been forming close-knit communities for all of human history. But modernity has changed things as we now have fewer excuses to interact with each other. People still want and need that sense of community, and I think giving people a way to meet over and over again that's both comfortable and convenient is what is needed.
If you use an hammer to kill a mosquito obviously it's a bad idea. The hammer is useful to put a nail in the wall.
In my current job I introduced a configuration store based on serialization.
Obviously, instead of storing everything in a blob, I created a table with some generic string id columns and a generic key that is an object serialized in JSON and a value that is the configuration object serialized in JSON.
In this way I can have the best of both worlds, a generic configuration store that is also indexed on the string ids and searchable on the generic key.
With basic needs met, how many people will strive for more? Will we see an increase or a reduction in the workforce? Many people seem to have no idea how a free market economy works, or what is the role of government.
I believe that most people are in favor of the concept of "no taxation without representation". In other words, people want to have a say in how their government spends the taxes collected from them. How would this work out in the "basic income" system? Government taxes would be collected from those who were earning money (leaving out the fact that a large percentage of them may work for their government and thus are not actually adding value to the economy). The taxes then get distributed to the non-working, non-contributing people collecting their "basic income". As fewer people see the need to work, the economy collapses. (See "The Economic Collapse of the Soviet Union.") Aside from the honorable egalitarian intentions, how is this a good thing?
Same exception with IcedTea 1.6 in Iceweasel on GNU/Linux.

Second edit: It's because I had OpenJDK 7 as the default JRE. It works fine when I switch it to OpenJDK 8.

Tip: stick 4 spaces before the stack trace to not munge newlines.

Edit: If I run it with appletviewer, I get a more helpful exception:

$ appletviewer http://tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: quantum/GameWindow : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
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MM.LaFleur - https://mmlafleur.com/ | New York City, NY | Software Engineer | ONSITE

We're a small engineering team (4 full time and 2 contractors) in need of more engineers to help build out not only new features and a better experience for our customers, but internal tools that will allow us to continue to scale and grow at the fast pace that we are growing.

We're looking for engineers that love what they do and aren't afraid to tackle difficult problems. We use a variety of modern programming languages and tools like PHP, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Objective-C.

MM.LaFleur is a professional womenswear company that aims to be the go-to wardrobe solution for modern women of purpose by delivering luxury-quality clothing via a seamless, direct-to-consumer stylist experience.

Our hiring process usually consists of a phone conversation and one or two technical interviews. We offer a competitive sallary, benefits, and other perks.

If you're interested, you can send me a casual email at luke.evers@mmlafleur.com to say hello, or apply directly here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/mmlafleur/jobs/134873

No recruiters please.
> Religion is not required for morals and community values.

See, I agree, but probably because I understand "religion" differently than you do.

I would say, though, that love of God is required for morals and healthy community (not sure what 'community values' are). There are a lot of difficult things in this life (addiction, betrayal, chronic illness, corruption, oppression) that are difficult to tackle with bald reason, raw force of will, and whatever teamwork we can scrape together.
Managing break parts for cars with Java EE 7
just like the “best and the brightest” who brainstormed the Vietnam war
or may be the insanity someway contributes to the extreme wealth. you can't build a $250 billion business always thinking in a sane way:)
Come to think of it, a variant of it is still packaged in Debian, package is called "arc".

Incidentally, for anyone choosing a name, the namecheck program from the Debian devscripts package is handy for checking if a particular name is already in use. Not perfect, but handy anyway.
>There is no force to join a religious community.

I don't want to be rude, so instead of replying I'll just bow out of this conversation. Farewell.
Agreed, this is SUPER disappointing. I started reading your blog post on the train this morning and was SO excited, because I've also been self-studying QM/QED lately, and your description so closely mirrored my experiences. So imagine my excitement when I saw that you'd made a game as a way of developing an intuition—a really fantastic idea, and one I had been thinking of myself! And yet I have effectively no way of even seeing it! Not even the code?!?! :((((
http://qz.com/493542/japan-is-building-a-giant-robotic-lettu...
That's less "new", and more a re-emergence of feudal dynamics in child-rearing that probably never left as much as we'd like to pretend.
"offer to buy it" meaning investors would come in? That could sabotage the vision down the road.

If bumping up rates would benefit the community, why not?
> That doesn't mean we share A SINGLE value.

You probably value a good party, right?
> The only guard I know of for this is strong competition and disciplined consumers, people have to be willing to express their dislike of price hikes by shopping elsewhere otherwise the system won't work.

Why would you need BI if that existed in the first place? Then people would have the discipline to not work shitty jobs and strong competition would provide them the work they want! What has BI solved, then?
data-method is probably the biggest reason why. When your biggest auth library (Devise) makes logging out, one of the most common actions you'll add to an app after signing in, a DELETE request, then having a quick one-attribute means to provide that link is very valuable to have.
Software Engineer | True Link Financial | San Francisco, CA (onsite)

A YC company in 2013, True Link Financial exists to provide quality financial services for all: from protecting grandma’s money from scammers to providing supplemental financial tools that support disabled Veterans.

About us:

* 90% of our work is in React and Rails, 5% is in Java, and about 5% is DevOps—AWS

* Our team works to meet high standards of usability, security, and availability - because our customers depend on our products for their immediate (today's groceries) and long-term (retirement investments) financial needs. So we move fast, but we can't be cavalier about breaking things.

* We also get to experiment and build cool things: We've used Twilio to craft a useful and constantly-improving IVR for customer service, and we help make our customers and operations folks happy by processing inquiries via SMS.

We'll probably get along wonderfully if:

* You've got a minimum of 10 months of software engineering experience, preferably with Ruby on Rails

* You’re a nice person who has worked on hairy, wacky full-stack code in production

* You enjoy exploring implementation options and collaborating with product folks

* You can improve the codebase without being rude, judgmental or arrogant about it

* You would describe yourself less as more of a 'session musician' (e.g. Carol Kaye) than a 'rockstar'

* You're looking for a full-time, on site role in San Francisco

Our engineering team is striving for true inclusion, since we know what it's like to be underrepresented in tech. Our engineers didn't go to 'top CS schools' and have fought to get into this industry, so we question all tech industry platitudes. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

You can apply through Angel List https://angel.co/true-link/jobs/31301-software-engineer or by emailing jobs@truelinkfinancial.com.

We promise to reply within 2 business days!

Keywords if you Cmd+F’d the page: rails, RoR, ruby, sloth_gifs, ReactJS, Flux, Ansible, fintech, full-stack, twilio
Microservices: The Spring Boot Way
I have not knowingly seen this used in the wild but it looks intriguing. I've seen a lot of conformal coatings used to increase shock resistance but from my experience that is only half the battle. The thermal expansion and contraction can be the real slow silent killer. The caveat being that I was dealing with devices rated (and used) from -30°C to 85°C.
Princeton has the Wilson school for MPPs, so it's actually pretty big in Government and policy circles. I'm surprised the number isn't higher.