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Toronto, ON - Slightly Crazy Web/Mobile Developer (http://www.myplanetdigital.com/careers)

We are change agents. With offices in Toronto and Chicago, Myplanet is a rapidly growing provider of technical and creative services for web and mobile platforms. Along with a top-notch user experience/interactive team, some of our main specialties include the Drupal Social Publishing Platform, the Magento E-Commerce platform, mobile development for Android and iPhone devices, PHP and Python-based web applications and integrating weird legacy systems (hello RPG code, how did you get in there?).

Our clients range from large public companies to startups, non-profits and government agencies. On any given day, we work on projects ranging from building creative new web and mobile experiences, to launching startups for clients, to helping clients understand and plan for adoption of new interactive technologies. We are, in essence, one part technology specialist, one part interactive agency, and one part business model incubator.

We like to work on things that matter with people who care.

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About the position

You'll be tasked with building important systems for interesting clients, with plenty of technical challenges and opportunities to learn as you go. You'll work in a Scrum team, primarily in PHP to start - you'll also likely learn how to build complex systems in Drupal through our 2 month intensive training program with world re-known Drupal experts.

About you

A background in Computer/Software Engineering or Computer Science is strongly preferred, but we're open if you can demonstrate you know your stuff and have a nonconventional degree. We're looking for 1-2yrs experience (if you're fresh out of school get in touch anyway). Double points if you have startup experience.

We mostly work in PHP, but diverse language experience is a plus. It's more important that you're smart and driven than that you're a PHP expert. If you've played around with iOS development, HTML5, Python, Ruby/Rails 3, Android dev, Facebook app dev, etc., those are all positives.

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Learn more - http://www.myplanetdigital.com/careers
Boston/Cambridge, MA

Crimson Hexagon is actively looking for:

1) An awesome UI/UX developer who writes smart HTML/CSS and appreciates both beautiful design and beautiful Javascript.

2) An intern who is a PhD student in machine learning, computational linguistics, or statistics with strong programming skills and an interest in the social sciences.

3) Any hackers generally interested in machine learning, distributed systems, and big data.

We use proprietary machine learning algorithms to measure public opinion about major brands, politics, etc. using the social web -- including the full Twitter firehose -- as our datasource. We make our findings available to our customers via a beautiful web product. We've collected, indexed, and are constantly mining an archive of over 100 billion web and social media documents, adding another 2+ billion each week.

Small and tight-knit team (7 engineers, 2 research scientists), plenty of free food and beer, impressive customer list, $5mm+ in funding, and growing fast.

Drop me a line at stefan@crimsonhexagon.com
'Ruby on Rails'? Who has time to type three words into the search box?

Compare 'rails' with 'node.js' and you see a different picture: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=rails,+node.js&ctab=0...

'node.js' has less than 15% the search volume of 'rails'.
As a JavaScript user, when I have a problem to solve, I make a search with "JavaScript" in the query. This contributes to the popularity of the word. It could be the same for Node.js or ROR. @chewbranca: the word "rails" has a more generic meaning than Ruby on rails and may be included in many more queries.
Agreed. But to be fair one would have to do the same for Node: add "node" and "nodejs". It'd be tough though, since like "rails" there are multiple contexts the words can be used. This is just one milestone; not meant as an exact comparison.
same here, that's why I recommended those sites.. I'm not sure who could reasonably expect a programming task to be done in 1 hour... for those so-called "emergencies" or critical tasks, you can't hire someone who has NO idea what the project entails, you need an expert who has worked on it before.
Anyone else notice that when you add php, python, javascript, etc into the graph, all the terms trend down since 2004? Why is this?
Seattle/Philly/Remote

Web Operations Engineer (DevOps) at PipelineDeals (http://www.pipelinedeals.com)

PipelineDeals LLC is looking for a
full-time Operations Engineer to join our team. You will be managing all services running at PipelineDeals.com, from developer testbeds to the very product our thousands of customers use. We need an individual to help build and maintain the supporting infrastructure for the services and to be responsible for running a superior service for our customers. Ideally, you'd be located either in Seattle or the Philadelphia area, but remotes are also welcome to apply.

About us:

PipelineDeals is a web-based CRM platform specializing in getting sales teams organized. We're 6 years old, boostrapped, profitable, and proud. We built the company from the ground up with no external investments other than our own, and we are our own bosses. Now we have tens of thousands of customers in nearly 100 countries. You would be the 11th person to join our growing team!

Environment:

We believe strongly in metrics, testing, continuous integration, and working fluidly and harmoniously with our engineering and product teams. Everything we write is designed for simplicity and maintainability. We take security very, very seriously. All our code runs in the cloud (AWS).

Skills and Requirements:

You should have:

- Advanced experience in systems administration, packaging and installer technologies.

- Experience with Amazon EC2 and the AWS stack (we use fun stuff like S3, ELB, ElastiCache, EBS, IAM).

- Experience with Chef, Puppet or another configuration management system (we use Chef).

- Experience administering MySQL and InnoDB deployments.

- Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Excellent organizational skills.

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, under pressure.

- Have opinions on the right way to do things, and are comfortable sharing them, respectfully.

It would be great if you have any of the following:

- Experience developing and documenting plans, policies and procedures in support of IT security, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

- Experience deploying and running build and test automation tools (we use Buildbot, Cucumber and Jasmime).

- Knowledge of web application server configuration (Nginx and Unicorn).

- Familiar with source control systems such as Git.

If interested, please email Grant at grant@pipelinedeals.com.
Playing the devil's advocate here but I believe humans do not need preserving. With 7 billion individuals and counting, it seems we're doing just fine. Regardless of how poor the living conditions are for many of us.

For this particular species of insect however, having the last 24 remaining individuals of the entire species (presumably) be dependent on a single small shrubbery makes me think the effort put into this rescue was more than warranted.

Specially considering their extinction was (indirectly) our fault and a mistake that could have been prevented with better education and oversight on who and what was brought along during our travels. Had their extinction been an entirely natural process, I might have agreed that their rescue would not have been such a high priority.

Of course there is the question of us disturbing ecological balance somewhere is natural or not. We are after all natural beings ourselves. Whether we are intelligent or not and have the capacity to reason about our actions is irrelevant in a strictly biological sense. But this discussion opens up a whole different can of worms.

edit: Fixed some grammar.
Funny, I had the exact same thought but with regard to Dart's maps (a.k.a. associative arrays, hash[maps], [hash] tables, dictionaries, records, objects (Javascript), or even just arrays (Tcl)).
There is also WebCL, an effort underway to put OpenCL in the browser, and River Trail, an experiment to execute subset of JavaScript using OpenCL as a backend. I don't know how difficult it is to write a CPU compute device driver, so I don't know if WebCL will become a viable general stategy for multicore execution in a browser though.
Happens all the time. If you are either very good or a bit naive, or both.
To be fair you'd have to compare "node" and "rails", which is almost entirely contaminated by out-of-context results.
I guess I should go with a short description. Thanx for suggestion.
Richmond, VA; Washington, DC; Charlotte, NC

iOS, Android, Java, and .NET engineers

CapTech Consulting (http://www.captechconsulting.com/careers/jobs)

CapTech helps our Fortune 500 clients solve interesting problems in mobile, web services, and traditional desktop software. Join a thriving mobile development group and help design some of the most popular App Store and Marketplace software.
Very nice effort. Hopefully this will help start a shake up of the entrenched videoconferencing industry and all their expensive and cumbersome technology...
See blog post for more details

http://blog.verticalset.com/launching-verticalset

There are many innovations involved in this platform and would love to get feedback on what you think of it as a search engine and more importantly as a platform.

I intend to change from current closed nature of search engines to more open one where any developer can control what appears in search results.
$50 off iPad2
My team at LinkedIn (Search) is hiring engineers and engineering managers. We are in Mountain View, CA. Full-time only, and we can sponsor H1B. We are building reusable infrastructure, some of which we'll probably release as open source according to the LinkedIn tradition (see my blog post about it, http://diegobasch.com/open-source-and-big-data-two-things-i-... )

Apply here:

http://www.linkedin.com/jsearch?keywords=search+engineer&...

Or contact me if you prefer. My email is in my profile.
This is incredible PR, in my opinion. Prior to this interview, all I had known of Kim Dotcom were from photos and videos of him in private jets, on the beach, in expensive cars, etc. He seemed like a playboy who was above the law.

In this interview he strikes me as highly intelligent, metered, and well versed in the various copyright laws. It seems like he has managed to operate his business from within a legal loophole, and it will be interesting to see how that plays out in court.
tl;dr -- young rails fanboi thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread... doesn't know tim toady...
I think it's good to have a choice of language for front end web development and I think primarily this is what Dart is providing. That said unless Dart proves to be considerably faster than Javascript I don't think I'll be converting any old Javascript code bases.

I agree they're certainly going to have to provide a convincing case for me to switch to Dart in the future but like I said right now it's at least nice to see a second choice being developed.
Same as with anything else, really - if they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be so starry-eyed about it...
Stolen NASA laptop held Space Station control algorithms
I am sincerely wishing that there were multiple upvotes to dish out. My little brother, at 16 and new to hacking, turns out Rails apps like nothing. It's part of the charm of a framework that is so easy to get started with. What's wrong with embracing that instead of trying to wear some sort of 'I do rails, thus I am the 1%'-badge?
As a founder -- I'm fairly sure that if I hadn't started reading HN in 2007, it's unlikely I'd have had the temerity to leave a company that was screwing me over and just start my own thing. Entrepreneurship was never in my blood, but HN made it easier to take the leap by making it seem normal when in hindsight it seems somewhat rare.

Reading this site exposed me to a lot of writing about entrepreneurship that was new to me. As the site has grown there has been more and more self-promotional linkbait spam, but some is pure gold and the best bits are often buried in the discussions rather than the articles. The last few years have been a financial and emotional struggle, but it's been tremendously helpful to see other people go through the same ups and downs and often be so open about what works and doesn't work for them. So I'm grateful to Paul and many of the other regular commenters here. Answering this question is a no brainer.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I dream in JavaScript. My specialty is mobile applications on the bleeding edge of browser APIs. I'm well adverse in the Mozilla Web APIs and maintain my own fork of B2G. I don't rely on JQuery or any other JS training wheels. Currently working on an abstraction layer for IndexedDB based on redis commands. I also have an app (written in Java) in the Android market.

See my many projects at https://github.com/matthewp, and a sample application (note, I am not a designer) at http://atwork.mobi. Read about some of my projects at http://matthewphillips.info/projects.html

A 6-12 month contract is preferred. Less would be considered.
I usually think during my commute, and implement that thinking when I get home to save time.
It's 2012. Zero excuse for not encrypting a laptop. If you don't encrypt a mobile device, do not be sad when someone else reads the data on it.
Every time I see someone ask, "does this belong on HN", I think exactly that. Obviously it was interesting enough for 200+ people, so if it's not interesting to you as an individual then you can move to the next article. It astonishes me how many people seem to think it's <Your Name Here> News instead of Hacker News.
I didn't say that it was a dichotomy, actually I tend to think of the space as roughly split into three: lists, arrays and annotated/sorted trees.

Lists and arrays are really common though, so I think it makes sense to make it easy to refer to them using short words.
The End Of Advertising
Dart is not "intended to compile to Javascript". Dart is intended to compete with Javascript. Compiling to Javascript is just intended as a fallback.
CloudMine now allows you handle any 3rd party HTTP callback with their platform
Really pretty, but what about :hover effects? I know this is primarily geared toward mobile apps, but hover effects help the desktop UI a lot.

Also, a request on the slideable element: On my Touchpad you can either slide the slider or tap the "grab" area and it slides over. Could maybe a click do the same thing?
speaking of aesthetic, this post has huge fonts, and a horizontal scroll.
luckily there's readibility: http://rdd.me/ycoese07
That's not the formula at all.. You can 0 signups but if you drove 1000 people who don't want your product, it doesn't mean much... they just might not be your target audience. However, if you drove 1000 people who you know are interested in the general field/industry and they sign up, that means something. In the end, feedback is is more important - talk to customers, nothing can replace that.
The Erdos- de Bruijn theorem
“It’s a value to people like a stock option is a value,”

Of course it isn't. It doesn't generate dividends and I can't sell it. Idiocy.

My real fear: Continental starts paying Kayak and co. for data on who is searching for what, and when. Price 'insurance' becomes necessary because Continental jacks up prices as soon as they see a spike in demand.
Chartbeat is hiring in NYC (Meatpacking District).

We're a realtime analytics platform focused on providing data to the people on the front line (people who can take immediate action), rather than the analysts in the back office. Our stack is Python (django/tornado), C, MongoDB, and Google Closure for our JavaScript needs. Hiring engineers and designers of all sorts. :)

http://chartbeat.com/jobs/
Dude, it's New Zealand. Their couter-terrorist police have to do except deal with a few Maori separatists, and the French Intelligence.

Well, NZ has a fairly low crime rate. And Kim was armed, and had security. And he was a little ... odd. Better safe than sorry.
Yes, the .tap() stuff is a holdover from jQTouch. It doesn't work very well, with some things responding correctly (buttons) and others not (inputs/checkboxes).
SEEKING FREELANCER. Remote work ok.

Looking for a sleek web developer who can build a dashboard and possibly a full website for a cutting-edge product our company (www.sensenetworks.com) is releasing.

3-8 weeks project. May hire for other jobs as well if excited about work.
Is Economics a Real Thing?
Totally not true.
Look at the scale. ROR is on scale of 1 and Node.js scale is 0.08.
Node.js is searched 0.08 times ROR indicating ROR is 12 times more popular still.
"So few of us actively try to envision the future and change it for the better. Even small tweaks, such as coming up with a new way to explain a coming technology to the public, can have big positive consequences. Let’s use Future Day as an opportunity to promote the big goals, like extending the human healthspan, spreading freedom, and healing our environment."

— Christine Peterson, Chairman, Personalized Life Extension 2012, Co-founder, Foresight Institute
The issue I see so rarely raised is who exactly is law designed to protect.

We can imagine a world where copyright is enforced they way content producers want and everybody is a proper citizen and pays for music and movies.

We can also imagine a world where only commercial copyright is enforced (and preferably for a limited time), and people are free to share music and movies.

The basic question is, "Which world do we want to live in?". It's a choice... there is nothing fundamentally "right" or "wrong" about either. The discussions about stealing and morality are completely besides the point. It's all about consequences. Will expanding copyright make for a better world, or is it just a reaction of the incumbent industry trying to protect its profits? Will cutting copyright protection (definitely not destroying it) make things easier for the little guy, protect human rights (like free speech and privacy) and ultimately increase creativity, or will it cause a collapse of the entertainment industry and lessen the available content?

We should be free to make this choice, vote on it and suffer the consequences.
Productivity Versus Performance: Fighting the Good Fight
How does the mobile version have photo of the island but not have a photo of the insect? Quite absurd. "Pics or didn't happen"
NYC, New York

Greatist is looking for a technical leader.

Passionate about building products that help inspire & inform the world to make healthy choices? We’re looking for a brilliant technologist with passion, vision, strong people skills, and killer dev chops excited about making a genuine and lasting difference in the health & fitness space. Someone who builds stuff for fun that’s been successful and (ideally, though not necessarily) works out now & then. Someone who wants to share the Greatist vision and transform it. This position is full time & based in NYC.

Interested? Please send (a) your favorite health & fitness tip as well as (b) a resume and/or links to your online footprint & project work to kelli at greatist dot com. Show us what you can do, tell us why it matters, and convince us you’re passionate about the same space we are.

http://www.greatist.com/careers/#techleader

For more details, read here: http://www.derekflanzraich.com/2012/02/looking-for-technical...
Raizlabs (http://raizlabs.com) is hiring software developers who build awesome mobile applications. We focus on iPhone, iPad and Android. We are also looking for designers who obsess about the details. We're located in Boston.
Come make advanced website publishing accesible to the world.

scroll kit is hiring a third team member in NYC.

http://scrollkit.com/s/127

Check out out what we've built so far: http://scrollkit.com/
Global Rainbow lights up the North-East England
SEEKING WORK - Remote (or onsite Bristol, UK)

Looking for projects (long-term or short term) to fill gaps in my availability.

I do high quality work with ASP.NET MVC. My skills include: PSD to HTML(5)/CSS(3), SQL Server, jQuery, RavenDB and most common things in-between. I'm a fan of using cloud hosting (AppHarbor), TDD and clean (and simple) code.

I'm able to manage all (technical, not design) aspects of web apps and sites.

Contact: email in profile
Company: http://www.orangelightning.co.uk
I really didn't want to since my wife has family here. I have no attachment but she does. I'll do it anyway since we've joked in the past that if I got some knockout offer out of state we'd take it, especially somewhere warmer.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I run a fun design & development shop called http://TwoGiraffes.com, where I work with startups & businesses to create beautiful designs + great markup/backend dev. Im available for select projects for cool people/companies.
Seattle/Philly/Remote

Join the team of happy hackers at PipelineDeals! We’re looking for a talented Rails developer in the Seattle or Philly area (remote work ok, for the right type of individual)

About us:

PipelineDeals is a web-based CRM platform specializing in getting sales teams organized. We're 6 years old, boostrapped, profitable, and proud. We built the company from the ground up with no external investments other than our own, and we are our own bosses. Now we have tens of thousands of customers in nearly 100 countries. You would be the 11th person to join our growing team!

Perks:

- Join a tightly-knit small team of very talented coders to help drive the product.

- We are very progressive with the technology we use. Chef, kiji-ruby, authlogic, Backbone.js, Coffeescript. We implement the things we find promising, and encourage all developers to help bring ideas to the table. Let your voice be heard and your opinion be respected!

- Our team is very test- and spec-driven. We typically use a peer-review model to ensure that none of us are going off the deep end with a solution. We are striving towards continuous deployment. We have our CI server run our test suite upon each push to the remote repo. We measure almost everything.

- You are encouraged to contribute to open source, and we have open source Fridays!

- Relish in the fact that the projects you will be working on will be used directly by thousands of our customers worldwide!

- Reimbursement for conferences or meetups you would like to attend, books you want to buy, screencasts you want to watch.

- Great benefits package, a competitive salary, and lots of room for growth. Our goal is to ensure you are comfortable so you will be productive.

Requirements:

- Must have at least a year of experience working directly with ruby, either with a company, or via open source. Past contributions to open source projects, or maintaining your own, are looked very highly upon.

- At least a year’s experience working with Rails, either your own or at a previous company.

- Experience with jQuery, Backbone.js, Coffeescript
- Solid familiarity with git or other distributed version control system.

- Enough SQL to understand what rails is doing in the backend.

- A good sense of humor is a strict requirement. Company culture is very important to us, and we are absolutely NOT a bunch of straight-laced, profit-driven, cubicle-sitting curmudgeons.

- Remote work OK, but it is highly preferable if you are located around the Philadelphia or Seattle area. You will be expected to be at the office sometimes. We do get lonely.

Check out the site, play with the demo. http://www.pipelinedeals.com

Interested? Email a link to your Github account (or resume) to Grant Ammons at grant@pipelinedeals.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
(he's German not Finnish)