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Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:

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You have to factor time value of money. MSFT offer was greater.
huh. i found it to be a satisfying endeavor in pattern recognition.
Here's a similar service: http://bubblevision.org/
Code Corps (https://www.codecorps.org)

We're helping volunteers and donors contribute to software projects for social good.

Monthly Goals:

- Refactoring work on both Elixir and Ember apps

- Build out Stripe integration so projects can start raising monthly contributions

- Redesign task UI

- Rework CSS to use flexbox and be more responsive

- Minor features in blog

Skills needed: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Ember.js, HTML, CSS, Sass, flexbox, UI and graphic design (Sketch a plus), dev ops (Docker, AWS)

Slack: http://slack.codecorps.org/

Elixir Phoenix API: https://github.com/code-corps/code-corps-api

Ember front-end: https://github.com/code-corps/code-corps-ember

WordPress blog: https://github.com/code-corps/blog.codecorps.org-site

License: MIT
Are there any examples of extensible protocols like this in the wild? I'm asking because the only such protocol that seems to get mentioned on HN is XMPP (and always with groans).
Sabotage speculation gathers around SpaceX explosion
i would have expected this to be on wired. but i guess he picked new Yorker when he compared prices.
I have written a webpack plugin which generates `.vue` files automatically and you just keep writing `js`, `css` and `html`.

https://github.com/pksunkara/vue-builder-webpack-plugin
I've a personal account which is on a browser profile with ad blocking enabled and tracking disabled but on a different business profile I am keeping an eye on ads. I occasionally click them deliberately.
Operation Code (http://operationcode.org)

Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.

We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.

HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode

https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C....

MIT
Apple's Second European Data Center Prepares for 2017 Opening in Foulum, Denmark
Motivation is for Losers
That's...horrible. This is not a comment on you or your experience, but is this typical for Python? I’m used to working in C++ code bases with several million lines of code. Does Python really begin to fall down that early? I’ve been looking at using it in an upcoming small project, but I expect it to be larger than 20K. Now I’m reconsidering.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)
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your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
Data federation is the key to complex data. In a month or two, the first cut anyway, I doubt it could be done in a week-end.
I would invite you to reconsider your position, at least as it relates to utilities. In the early, "wild west" days of utilities, when utilities were just beginning to be a thing, there was a large surge of competition to provide electricity and gas in the major cities. It was only after a lot of lobbying that monopolies were formed to push out the competition.

See "Myth of the Natural Monopoly" by Thomas DiLorenzo https://mises.org/system/tdf/rae9_2_3_3.pdf?file=1&type=docu...
I can agree with that, i interviewed at a couple of other places when i worked at my last job, mainly to see what i was worth, and found it was clearly higher than i was making. I loved the team i was working with and didn't really want to leave. i ended up getting a pretty decent size raise, and planned on staying a while...

Sadly 6 months or so later started multiple rounds of layoffs, while i didn't get hit, our team size went down 30% in one round of layoffs. Being my team was the reason i stayed, i ended up leaving another 6 months later...
> My thoughts are now, if you really want a java/c# style aot language, vala is the way forward.

What about D?
Kaligo Travel Solutions | https://www.kaligo.com | On-site, Full-time | Singapore | Visa sponsorship

* Senior backend developer: http://sg.startupjobs.asia/sg/job/18385-senior-software-deve...

* Senior front-end developer: http://sg.startupjobs.asia/sg/job/18384-senior-software-deve...

We're a mix of a booking platform and loyalty provider. Our users may book hotels and either pay with cash and earn miles in their airlines'/banks' loyalty programs, or (for selected partners) redeem their miles.

We launched our first product in October 2014 and since then we grew to team of 30. Now we're looking for senior developers to join us and help us building new, more advanced products, and improve our practices and quality of the codebase. There's a lot of challenges ahead of us and we need a solid, hard-working people to overcome them. We are a Singapore-based company with an international team (more than 10 different nationalities). As long as you're willing to relocate to South-East Asia, we're open to talk to you.

Keywords: Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, AngularJS, AWS, functional languages, single page application.

You can apply via provided links or simply contact me at greg@kaligo.com
GoCardless (YC S11) | London | Frontend, Backend, SRE, Data Engineer | Onsite | Full-time & Interns | Visa

GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we're now expanding to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in countries all over the world. We already support the UK and Europe and are aiming to expand to more countries over the next year.

As an engineering team at GoCardless we care most about stable, reliable, understandable code. We rely on testing and code review and a culture of frequent constructive feedback. We define and manage our own roadmap and run projects in whatever way works best for us.

Our stack: Rails, Angular, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Docker, Chef.
We also have a bit of Go and Python knocking around.

We love learning new things and contributing back to the community. We open source everything we can[1] and regularly host meetups and hackathons at our wheelchair-accessable office in Angel. We have a weekly bookclub within the team and give internal (and external) talks about things that interest us.

Interview process: a couple of phone screens, one take home test, then a couple of onsite interviews (pair programming and some chats - no whiteboards!)

For more info and to apply: https://gocardless.com/jobs.
If you've got any questions, drop me an email (it's in my profile).

[1] Notable examples are Statesman (https://github.com/gocardless/statesman) and Coach (https://github.com/gocardless/coach)
Etcher.io | node.js & frontend javascript engineers

Etcher [1][2] is an open-source project by resin.io, the only cross-platform, open-source flash drive writer. Etcher is developed with Electron, node.js, and Angular.js. We're growing Etcher to solve more IoT device problems and looking to bring on board experienced javascript engineers who love to create incredible user experiences and solve hard, cross-platform problems for hundreds of thousands of users, all while working in the open.

[1]: https://etcher.io, [2]: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher
Thats clever. Most public bus systems I know in the US still see frequent cash payments onboard (the elderly, mostly). Is this not the case in Sydney, or is the system cashless?
I’m comparing products like https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex41 with similar performance at DigitalOcean and AWS’ EC2 cloud to get those numbers. The linked example is an Intel® Core™ i7-6700 with 32 GB DDR4 RAM, 2TB HDD storage (in a RAID, so raw capacity is 4TB, but usable is 2TB) and 1Gbit/s network connection (30TB traffic inclusive), for 40 bucks a month.

Compare with DO: The closest comparable product at DO runs at 320 bucks a month, and you need to buy extra traffic (you get 23TB less traffic).

On EC2, the best comparable model would be the m3.2xlarge, for 280 bucks a month. (plus another 100 bucks for the 24/7 phone support).

Now, let’s try getting the same performance with service-as-a-service things: At heroku, 24/7 phone support alone is 1000 a month. Let’s assume a standard workload for that machine, we’ll use half of the RAM for Postgresql, and about 512GB storage for the database. With Heroku, that adds 750$ / month.

If we take the cheapest solution – a single dyno of the most powerful type – we end up with 1250$/month + support. If we use seperate dynos for our services, as many as the original example server could run, we get 17 Performance M dynos at 250$/month each, overall reaching 4250$.

And Google’s Firebase and Container Engine prices are at the same costs, same with Amazon Lambda, etc. And Hetzner isn’t especially cheap – any dedicated hoster will provide you their services at those prices. It’s just the nature of virtualization and higher abstractions that they are expensive.

If you can handle servers failing in your infrastructure, go with the cheapest possible option – like KimSufi, Online.net, scaleways, etc. If you want the standard quality and price, use Hetzner, OVH, and all the other industry-standard hosters.
DRW | Singapore | ONSITE | Software Engineer, Quantitative Researcher, Network Admin | https://drw.com/

Software engineer? Pop quiz!
http://proveit.drw.com/?code=hn382 (Takes less than 15 minutes, will be closed later this week.)

DRW Singapore has a few small trading teams with a focus on Asia. We do quantitative research on large time-series data, build our own trading software, and deploy often. We use a lot of C++ and Python, mostly on Linux.

See the full range of positions here: https://drw.com/careers/listings?location=Singapore

You're welcome to apply directly. If you also email my username at the above domain I’ll read it personally.
Thinknum | New York | Backend Engineer | On-site - Full-time | VISA | $90k-$130k + equity

=== Who We Are ===

Thinknum is a Fintech company that organizes the Internet’s commercial activity into data models. Thinknum provides real time granular data (e.g., the average discount for Michael Kors handbags vs Coach handbags across retailers). We have hundreds of clients across major financial institutions and corporations. We're a profitable company that is growing quickly.

=== Who We Are Looking For ===

We're looking for back-end engineers that can streamline our data collection process. You will design and implement systems that collect data from websites and make it available to our customers on our platform. Looking for engineers with experience in Python and Javascript and familiarity with the DOM and tools for parsing the DOM like Selenium and BeautifulSoup.

=== Interested? ===

Interested? Drop me a note at jzhen@thinknum.com

Learn more about us: https://www.thinknum.com/

Thanks, Justin
Citymapper. London, UK. (ONSITE VISA INTERNS)

Cities are complicated!

We use the power of mobile and open transit data to help humans survive and master them.

We are building

- The best apps
- With the best A to B routing
- From the best data.

Read about blog! https://medium.com/@Citymapper

If you want to help us in this mission, please apply at https://citymapper.com/jobs/

Contact me at emil at citymapper dot com

Some keywords: Python, Go, golang, C++, iOS, Android, data science, site reliability(SRE), DevOps, AWS, distributed systems, marketing.
Samsung Slumps by $22B as Note 7 Safety Warnings Pile Up
I am not criticizing it, but I am not using it either (I did use it, out of novelty and because of couple of friends of east Asian descent).

Ultimately, it is not about features or quality, but what the majority of your social network uses. Personally, I would dispense with all the messengers altogether. I usually ask people to e-mail me for the non-urgent stuff, call me for really urgent stuff, and for everything in between there is text and iMessage.
Yahoo and Microsoft compete in most of the divisions. Namely search, sports, news, video, mail, chat and advertising. Probably, the news & media part of Yahoo is the only thing better than Microsoft at this point; Even, that I don't see remaining as such for long time with MSN coping up well.

So, if Microsoft would have acquired Yahoo they would have surplus of divisions and similarly talented people & infrastructure; Which would eventually lead to more layoffs and more time wasted consolidating teams, infra, design and resources.
Nava | Washington DC & San Francisco SF | DevOps/Infrastructure/Systems Engineers, Software/Fullstack Engineers, Frontend Engineers| On-site - Full-time | $100k-$160k + equity

We're a small team of engineers, designers, and product builders that were brought in to help fix Healthcare.gov in the winter of 2013. Our revamped application is used by millions, converts 35% better, and halves the completion time.

It turns out there’s a lot more to reimagine within government services, which is why we’re partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize their appeals system, making millions of veteran’s lives better through the process. Today, the average appeal takes 5 years to process; we can fix this.

It’s surprising how much can be done by a small group of empathetic people with a Silicon Valley mindset, deep technical experience, working closely with dedicated civil servants in government.

We’ve started Nava as a public benefit corporation to radically improve how our government serves its people, and we believe that the services our government provides should be clear and reliable. If you feel the same way, we'd love to hear from you at jobs@navahq.com

Learn more about us: http://navahq.com/careers

Job descriptions: http://jobs.lever.co/nava

Articles:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-se...

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3047856/innovation-by-design/me...
HospitalRun (http://hospitalrun.io/)

HospitalRun is an offline first, Ember based, Hospital Information System for charitable hospitals in developing countries.

> What do you hope to build this month? We are focused on ongoing work toward reaching the 1.0. For a list of outstanding issues, see this GitHub milestone on the frontend app: https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/mileston...

We're in need of folks with the following skills: Ember JS experience for general app development; internationalization and localization; New Relic instrumentation experience; automating deployments from GitHub; HL7 experience; product and UI design for lots of CSS and UI cleanup (https://github.com/hospitalRun/design); design systems experience for working on a styleguide and pattern library; docs writing for app documentation; web and marketing design for the hospitalrun.io site (http://github.com/hospitalRun/hospitalrun.github.io)

To contribute, check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file on GitHub (https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/blob/mas...) and join our Slack team.

HospitalRun is open source under the GNU general public license.
3D Fab Light | Full-time, South San Francisco or REMOTE | CAD/CAM Developers

Join our startup laser cutter company! Build a great CAD/CAM experience that helps people make things using metal sheets and tubes. Our industrial-quality machine is ready for market, and we’re looking for:

Frontend: JavaScript, with strong opinions about CAD and machine UI

Backend: Geometry lovers who have shipped something using C++, .NET, OpenGL, etc.

Interested? Email a CV and GitHub or portfolio to jobs@3dfablight.com.

Hiring process is phone interview, take-home project, then on-site interview.

More info: http://3dfablight.com/careers
after all, it's us the users who want free internet services, so naturally these companies are building beautiful walled garden with free admission to lure us in, and suck our privacy or whatever we don't care about to feed themselves.
Runtime Introspection of Flow Types in JS
> I find it funny that in most discussions around mocking, a database is the given example. 100% of the time when I need a database for "unit tests", I use a database. Not a mock. I don't want to know that when I do select blar from flar I get back the value 7, and hardcode it. I want to actually load the data and see it happen. Because if I don't, how do I know that my code will actually work in production?

That is not a unit test. What if your database is corrupted? What if your mock Netflix API is buggy? The second you do anything like that you're no longer unit testing. The whole point is you're testing a single method/class in isolation -- Mockito gives you the power to assume external structures (the database) work as expected.

If you don't like unit testing, sure. But unit testing is what Mockito is all about.
History navigation, bookmarks, and reloading are all supported using any modern framework. I think this is a 2012 topic.

Some browser features are not used for a good reason. The Alert, Prompt, and Confirm popups for example block the whole browser -not just the current tab- because they're older than tabs.
PID 1 shouldn't have anything complicated about it. A comp sci student should be able to write it in 10 minutes. This is a solved problem[1].

A run control system, which should be a completely separate project, could easily be written in a higher-level language than C. For instance, the traditional Linux RC system is written in sh, and the official GNU RC system[2] is written in scheme.

Daemon run control isn't a domain where performance is crucial; transparency is much more important there, so the argument for using a higher level language to control daemons is pretty strong.

[1] http://git.suckless.org/sinit/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
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Bitnami | San Francisco or West Coast REMOTE | Senior SRE | Full Time

Bitnami is on a mission to bring awesome software to everyone. Building and configuring software stacks can drag down an organization’s time to market with their applications but we make it super easy for anyone to run software in the cloud.

I’m hiring Senior Site Reliability Engineers to join BItnami who will help us build the next generation of cloud infrastructure and will have an impact on our products. We work with all of the major cloud service providers with code written in Ruby, Go and Javascript as well as operational tooling that leverages AWS, Ansible, Rundeck, Packer, Git, Icinga2, Cloudwatch, Monit, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ELK and other state-of-the-art enabling technologies. We’re focused on tools and event-driven infrastructure to bring automation and autonomic computing to systems that smoothly scales up and out for production use cases as well as scaling down for development.

Bitnami’s SRE team is distributed around the globe in timezones separated to optimize for hand-offs and humane on-call. We offer competitive compensation, flexible time off and other benefits. We have regular outings in Spain (travel provided by the company) and other fun activities together.

More information about the position is available here https://jobs.lever.co/bitnami/29d26810-26b2-4af2-a014-7f720d... and you can feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Principals only, please
While it's clear that your theory is not exactly popular opinion here, I find the bit about the NSA hoping to move people from the GNU ecosystem to be amusing. I mean, it's not like GNU software ever has any serious privilege escalation that persist for 25 years before being discovered like the egregious Shellshock vulnerability in... GNU Bash (Debian's non-GNU dash shell replacement was not vulnerable, nor was ksh).
https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2
Somewhat reminiscent of this Line / Instagram combo https://www.techinasia.com/line-instagram-ecommerce-thailand all together in a single app.
What about code in a bitmap-based language like Piet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
Capitalism can only exist within a framework of "statist regulation". Complaining about it is like a goldfish being angry that there are aquarium walls. You can argue that the aquarium is the wrong shape, or the castle is the wrong color, but you would not like a world where there were no state-enforced rules.
yes. there was no spinco or remainco as it has now with the fdic filings.
Etcher.io | REMOTE | node.js & frontend javascript engineers

Etcher [1][2] is an open-source project by resin.io, the only cross-platform, open-source flash drive writer. Etcher is developed with Electron, node.js, and Angular.js. We're growing Etcher to solve more IoT device problems and looking to bring on board experienced javascript engineers who love to create incredible user experiences and solve hard, cross-platform problems for hundreds of thousands of users, all while working in the open.

If the above sounds exciting, drop us an email at join@resin.io

[1]: https://etcher.io [2]: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher