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SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote - Frontend - Javascript, HTML, CSS

I'm looking for a number of people who are interested in freelance work in (primarily) JS. Remote is fine, prefer full time (or close) availability and some overlap with US Eastern time would help.

The development will be using our API and the Google Closure library (experience not required). A strong background in JS/HTML/CSS is needed.

There are a large number of projects available and they require little coordination, so they are pretty ideal for remote freelancing.

Contact me (Tom) at tjanofsky at monetate if you're interested or have any questions.

Thanks!
New York, NY or remote. Intern developer or Junior developer.

Beagle is like Craigslist, but just for college students. We are creating a simple, secure network for students to post and run tasks and errands in their community. getbeagle.com

This is a chance to work on something that will be used by thousands of students, and to be one of the first ten team members.

All software engineers will be working on one or two of our main projects:

#API: Our API is the core that powers everything else. It’s written in Clojure. You’ll be the one actually implementing all the features and exposing them in a developer-friendly way. This is a fun challenge for anyone interested in software design and architecture. We use MongoDB on the backend so it’s best if you are at least somewhat familiar with it.

#iOS app: We have a hybrid iOS app, which lets us have a native experience while staying agile, with quick iterations and frictionless deployment. You’ll mostly be working with the Python web app, but will also have to work with the native iOS shell occasionally, too. You’ll have to work closely with the API, as all new features are be added there first.

#Website: Our public-facing website is a simple Node.js app. You’ll be working closely with the API to mirror certain features from the iOS app to the website. Familiarity with MongoDB is preferable.

Additionally we have some other projects planned like a new administrative interface to the API, and a dashboard that reports key stats we can track.

Please contact Julian at julian at beagleapp dot com.
Appeals to some evolution-determined human nature fall flat for me. The greatest thing evolution endowed humans with is conscious reasoning that can overcome our cognitive instincts. You will see even great humans revert to their instincts when situations are dire, but the project of civilization is to eliminate those situations.

Trying to frame _every_ human goal as a form of greed/self-interest/winning is tautological. There are substantial differences in the way humans experience altruistic, compassionate self-interest and individualistic, combative self-interest.

Certainly we can experience varied social arraignments emphasizing different negotiations between every individual's self-interest. When one's argument considers the vast history of human societies and reduces them to all to self-interest enablers, is it saying anything at all?
Because it is not as useful as other languages?
SEEKING WORK, Remote

Generalist web developer, based in Calgary, AB (Canada).

I've worked with several different technologies on the front and backend. Django, Flask, Go, jQuery, Knockout.js, CoffeeScript.

Recently I've been playing around with CouchDB (but can't claim expertise).

I care about what I do and I strive for producing high quality work.

See my profile for contact details.
Can an API be MVP?
Can't agree more with you. I still have my Pre and, 3rd party application support excepted, it's a wonderful phone.

Too bad phones these days are mostly pocket computers that make phone calls.
OT, but: "[they] work so well they are used by NASA" is hardly an argument.

NASA can also use piss poor technology. Remember that Challenger disaster?

Plus, wasn't NASA that did the BS publicity stunt of the supposed discovery of "life based on arsenic"?
Mountain View (we just moved onto the same street as YC)

BloomReach (http://www.bloomreach.com) is a small, fast-growing startup that is tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their highest quality, most relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it. We're delivering a 95% uplift in non-branded organic search traffic for brands like Neiman-Marcus, William Sonoma, Buy.com and others.

Here's a Quora post why one of our engineers chose to work at BloomReach: http://www.quora.com/Stormy-Shippy/Posts/There-is-this-littl...

Backed by Bain and Lightspeed. See our advisors here:
http://www.bloomreach.com/who-we-are/our-investors-advisors/

Take a look at open engineering positions here: http://jobvite.com/m?37H9sfw9

Email jason at bloomreach dot com if you'd like to chat before applying. Interns welcome too.

We commit to moving through the interview process quickly with you, if you're interested.
So what you ended up doing?
Grad School, Startups, Million Dollar Funding: An Interview with G.Weinberg
Worst Startups
You're confusing your own choice to give away your own work with the choice of many to take work of others not freely given. It's unreasonable to assume that everybody would make the same choice as you, which is why a creator's right to make that choice is important.

Would you, for example, feel the same way about publishing a book if you had no right to keep other people from putting their name on it and claiming it as their own? Or would you rather not have that choice at all?
You're being dense. Why do I have to make a perfect copy? Without copyright protections, I could get a copy of your book, remove your name from the title and use my name instead, and then sell it to others. Who would of course be free to do the same.

Where's your marketing strategy if people just think you're one of the 250 people who claim to have written the book?

"It's almost as if copying something isn't actually the same as taking a physical object from someone." It isn't. The legal system and laws concerning copyright are very different than those concerning taking a physical object, and have been for centuries. Anyone saying they are the same either 1) don't know the law, or 2) deliberately want criminal property law to include civil copyright law. Probably so they can have the police do their dirty work.
Vienna, Virginia

Come work for WordReference.com, the top website for translation dictionaries. I have a position open that I think would be a great fit for a reader of Hacker News. It is for a coder with business sense who will be in charge of nearly all technical aspects of running one of the largest websites in the DC area.

This position would be great experience for a person interested in someday launching their own online business. You would work on nearly all technical aspects of running a large website, and work with me in launching new features. While we need to work closely together, you can work from home much of the time. (I highly prefer somebody who lives in the Washington, DC area.) We’ve been around 12 years so we aren't exactly a startup anymore. While there are no stock options, one advantage is that we have sane working hours.

Requirements:
- Ability to code and an interest in creating and running excellent websites.
- Not religiously opposed to working mostly with C#, JavaScript and MySQL.
- An interest in or knowledge of foreign languages is a plus.
- Serious web development experience is a plus.

If this sounds like something that you would be interested in, write me through jobs@[our domain name] and I (the founder) will be in touch.
producing a barrel is not even hard with a well set up lathe, is it? I mean, certainly you can outperform muskets easily enough.
Obviously there are still many who don't get it, even here. Until everyone understands what the problem is, it's still worth repeating. We can only declare beating on a dead horse, when the horse is dead. This one is not only alive, but getting stronger. We have a long long way to kill it.
Capitalism is only possible where knowledge is shared unequally. For example, if many people knew how to obtain the proper license or whatever and where to go to buy wholesale, then they would bypass retailers entirely. Similarly, if many people had knowledge about how to start a business and knew several friendly venture capitalists or bank officers, many of them would start their own businesses and there would be few people to do the actual work.

Having said that, I think its important to emphasize some of the things that capitalism gets right: it is still a relatively open and distributed system that is able to evolve more freely than systems that are less so. Open in that many people can actually apply for loans etc. and start their own businesses. Distributed in that there are numerous options and usually no single point of failure.

I don't think that greed is necessarily fundamental to human nature. That's an oversimplification. Humans do need to compete sexually, but I don't think that extreme hierarchies are necessarily a requirement for that. Much of what is considered human nature is just the current state of our culture.

I think its hard to create a system that operates consistently and soundly as a whole but at the same time is robust, distributed and free to develop in different directions.

However, I believe sure that we can improve our current situation by injecting a more egalitarian belief system as well as more science and technology into the power structure and its operating principles, which means the financial system. For example, "economics" is now mainly gaming strategies for maintaining point (monetary) counts and the power that goes with them. But because economics is so critical to human decision making, it must at some point incorporate human needs, social science, and physical science such as ecology. There is a false belief that somehow these monetary gaming strategies and point/goods exchange systems (the economy) incorporate scientific knowledge, measurement, and technological knowledge automatically. That is not the case currently.

One of the problems with all of the systems, capitalistic or anti-capitalistic, is the tendency to move, either quickly or more slowly, towards centralization. When wealth/power as well as goods and services production concentrates it leads to vast inequality, poor distribution, stagnation, inability to cope with local conditions, etc.

I think we need to do a better job of centralizing information schemas and holistic knowledge but do that in a way that does not compromise the ability to evolve those knowledgebases and distribute production or lead towards centralization of power, etc. Its not easy, but I think its a technological problem we can solve.
Wsj has a style guide, which presumably says no Oxford commas.
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Readable isn't the issue IMO, typable is. You can brute-force a pretty onion domain beginning with a few letters you choose, but nobody can remember the random numerical garbage following it.
Because that would be running TOWARDS the trial.

Why should he go back to a country he has left just to have a trial?
> unlike the other projects you mentioned, Android development happens behind closed doors,

That doesn't make it any less free than any other project. This is a governance issue, nothing more. If you get an Android handset you're able to download all parts of Android that went into it.

Software freedom is not about getting access to unreleased software.
When you read a comma in writing, there is a pause in the flow of the sentence, like there would be in speech. Overusing commas can distract from the point you are trying to make.

I find the Oxford comma is completely unnecessary. If you find yourself in a situation where you feel a common turn of phrase (like black and blue) necessitates the addition of a comma, try switching around the items in the list (i.e. 'black, red and blue' vs. 'red, black and blue'). Less commas == more flow.

PS. I am only posting my 2 cents because you misused "it's" in your last parenthetical.
Different application area but we implemented Lua into a MUD (online RPG) as the scripting interface for all area builder development and it was probably the single most valuable change we ever made. Check out the 'lua coding' section on Aardwolf.com if you want to see some examples. Over 200,000 lines of lua now, millions of prog executions per hour and still as fast as ever.
Currently, I'm locked into a teaching contract for the next 2 college semesters. When my contract is up, I am definitely going to be checking out Khan for New Grad openings. Since I have ~9 months before I start sending out my resume, what types of things are you going to be looking for? I'd like to spend these 9 months preparing and hopefully surpassing your expectations.

Thanks.
There's a book called Kill Decision that came out about a month and a half ago - drone bombings are a major part of the plot.

http://thedaemon.com/killdecisionsynopsis.html
Most probably, and they will sue Apple if they ever use a similar design. Motorola is under Google's management now. So, they must do whatever it takes to protect the Android ecosystem and thattheir partners. Sadly, that mostly means to sue somebody these days.
SEEKING WORK (Bremen/Germany and Remote)

I'm calling myself Toolsmith and Bughunter for Unix look like systems. I'm a long term Unix and internet hacker, who has his line in Linux changelog, and owns his own provider independent class C network.

Hot topics for me are UN/EDIFACT, and machine learning - but I also know how to do web-work in a lean way, or how to administrate a Unix cluster.

Preferred Languages are: Smalltalk, Lisp, Lua and C - but I also published CPAN modules, and know how to hack Python, Ruby, Javascript and the other usual (scripting) languages.

Take a look at:

- my resume http://kephra.de/dox/resume.html#en

- my rates http://kephra.de/dox/Stundensaetze.html#en

- my linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=188834007&trk=ta...

You can contact me (kephra or kraehe) in #lug-bremen on freenode for chat, or use the contact form on my website http://kephra.de
"What I meant is just because bad person A has opinion X, it does not invalidate opinion X. So just because Sexist A is skeptic it does not follow that every skeptic is sexist."

Of course not.

But as he, I also noticed a lot of them being sexist.

At some point you have to stop the "just because X is A and B, doesn't mean that every A is B", and make an empirical observation based on the statistical information you have available.

Else you fall into the "no true scotchman" fallacy.
SEEKING WORK or a contractor position. Remote.

I will relocate to Sweden soon, but can't speak Swedish - that is the problem. I'm engineer with 15+ years in the field.

site - http://karma-engineering.com/lab/

schiptsov at gmail.com
HealthExpense - Full time positions in Sunnyvale, CA

http://HealthExpense.com/

Lead Software Engineer of the Data Team: backend development using Scala or C++, SQL, Data mining.

Job description on LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/RxGALg
I hate driving and can't wait to get my hands on such a car. I've got far more interesting things to be doing with my time than staring at a road. Don't you?
a 5 year old may be taught neurosurgery - the point is what is the point?
That thread's been modified heavily since then. And I mean heavily. The first 300 posts were all memes back then.
Redwood City, CA - UI Engineer

Tidemark Systems (http://www.tidemark.net, note ".net") is hiring.

Like everybody else in the industry, we're finding hiring to be a difficult problem. For those of us on the UI team it's been an extra challenge -- there are lots of people out there who have experience with toolkits like jQuery, Ext, Sencha Touch, and a whole bunch of other ones, some of which we've never heard of. But we're not simply using frameworks, we're pushing them well beyond what they were intended to do. So if you've got relevant framework experience, that's great. But we really need engineers that are good at the basics: JavaScript, DOM, HTML, and CSS. You'll also need to be decent at UI design and user experience. If you're not just good but great at either of these things (or both!), that's awesome, but we also need you to be able to write code. This isn't just a run of the mill web dev job. This is actual, hard core software engineering, it just happens that the stuff we're (the UI team) doing is all running in the browser.

Tidemark is building a hosted business analytics system, which is way more interesting than it might sound. The company is well-funded and we have people with decades of experience in the field.

We've got a bunch of other openings as well (see http://tidemark.net/company/careers)

* Technical Support Engineer
* Director of People Operations
* Operations Engineer
* Graphic Designer - Web Developer Emphasis
* Sr. Technical Writer
* Enterprise Account Executive
* Application Tier Developer
* Computation Engine Developer

If any of these positions sound interesting, my email is on my profile page.
The rant is a mixed bag:

The state of Android visual GUI editors? Much improved but that just moves them from abysmal to shameful.

Animation? General-purpose property animation, which debuted in Honeycomb is very powerful. LayoutTransition is less-general, but very convenient for transition animations.

Declarative UI in XML is the worst possible way to do it, except for every DSL that's been tried. If you prematurely proliferate different layout files for different configurations, you are screwed. There is no solution, except to convince your designers they will never get the pixel-perfect results they get on iOS. Maybe lie to them and tell them they get only three size variations and two density variation: Big tablet, small tablet, and handset, plus hi-res and medium-res.
I have no interest in writing a book. Why would I do that for you? I said "I am happy to describe to you something I own so that you can make a copy of it". That is not - I repeat - not the same as "I am happy to write a decent book, edit it properly so you can understand it, make it pithy, smart and worth reading so you can get the most of my "description", pay someone to draw some decent diagrams, etc, and then ship it over".

If you can't see the difference between those two things then your perception and judgement is so hopelessly skewed as to render almost anything you say inherently untrustworthy.

If you can see the difference, then you know full well that you've constructed a false argument. Why you would do that I have no idea. Maybe you don't like the argument at hand and you want to change it to one you do like. Maybe you're suggesting that someone else who had done all those things would not be so keen to let someone copy it. That's great. I'm not someone else.

As an aside, I do not think that piracy is okay. I do think it's not the same as taking physical property. I do think it's not the same as selling credit card numbers. That's my argument.
Yeah I was just going to comment on this too-- "a" vs. "an" actually has to do with pronunciation, not strictly words that begin with vowels.

Maybe the author is Irish =)
SEEKING WORK, St. Louis / Remote

Frontend Architect, WordPress Guru, Product Designer

I can help focus your product into awesome sauce, and make sure the frontend code is rock solid and maintainable. Let's talk!

http://dylanhassinger.net
Curious, what do you do as a 'growth hacker'?
...or from the right, as in fascism...

Fascism was (by modern US standards) a center-left ideology. It emphasizes collectivism/corporatism, authoritarianism and nationalism.

You are also using the term "corporatism" incorrectly. Corporatism is a political system which elevates the rights of privileged corporates (a better modern term would be "special interest groups") above the rights of individuals. A good example of modern corporatism would be disparate impact-based policies - e.g., "we shouldn't allow this neighborhood to gentrify because a privileged corporate might disproportionately move out of this neighborhood."

I think what you meant by "corporatism" is actually "cronyism".
If you're going to be smug it's helpful to not be wrong!
It was 1997. I was 6 at the time so I don't know, but probably python/etc. were less known at the time or deploying them was harder than C++ on Windows.
And even his lunar landing, where he took manual control as the automated sequence was landing them in a boulderized crater side, and managed a landing in a safe place with 20~30s of fuel left
just use an alias wrapper like:

alias zls='z \!*;ls;cd -'

(with additional zll etc for ls -l or -a)
Yes, most do both.

Some are more geared towards Symbolic Math (like Maple), some others are focused on numeric computations and even if they do symbolic math are severely limited.

You're right, Theano does symbolic differentiations, but this looks like it's in support of its main purpose (multi-dimensional problems)

TL;DR: If you want to calculate a triple integral symbolically go for Maple (or maybe SymPy), if you want to calculate its value go for NumPy or Theano
CDPATH, as desribed in man bash

'The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for destination directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is ".:~:/usr".'
That 'I can fix it' attitude is such a freeing feeling. My wife used to travel heavy, and it's taken me a few years, but she's now got it as well - 'if I forget my hairdryer/etc., I can just find or buy one'.

Not optimal, but definitely better than being stressed about everything.

I mean, really, what's the WORST that can happen, that's within your control?
Lot's of Google employees on hn, doesn't surprise me at all when certain stories/comments get upvoted and downvoted.
I imagine that that's CYA; one thing both party organizations have in common: they are saturated with lawyers.
NYC - Novus Partners: backend and frontend engineers

We work in Scala on the back end but don't mind training people up if they lack Scala experience. Our interviews are tough but the people we work with are just incredible. You don't have to be the next gift to mankind, just be comfortable in what you know and what you don't. I don't think there's anyone who doesn't hack on the side here.

Front end is written in jQuery and D3 with the signature open source project of nvd3 (novus.github.com/nvd3/) Take a look. Also, we don't support IE. Image that? Life is good.

(Edit) Oh yeah, great health care and no co-pays.

oreese AT novus DOT com
There's no rush or urgency to build the app I have in mind. It's going to be a learning experience. I'm just tired of using the same framework and php. I've been doing quite a bit of node.js at work and it's pretty sweet. I just want to branch out and try new languages / technologies. The app I have in mind will be using phantomjs, possibly backbone for the frontend, and it looks like I'll be learning RoR for the backend.
Patents are not the only way to incentive innovation. You know what's a great way to incentive innovation yourself? Became an angel investor, those guys are investing in innovation and pushing progress forward many orders of magnitude better than intellectual property is. Don't have enough money? Join an angel group, or fund a kickstarter project. I don't know about the us, but many.countries have programs to inventive innovative startups with funding, incubation and mentorship.

Bottomline is, there are.still means to inventive innovation without granting monopolies. If intellectual property magically ceased to exist, men would still invent awesome stuff. You can have my word on that.
Apple Goes to Court Again Against Samsung for its Galaxy SIII
Things like killing your neighbour and then leaving the country is pretty much what the international wanted list is for. Interpol mostly deals with ordinary crime and very rarely calls on Jackie Chan.
I think that's been a big problem with this stock: people using wrong comparables. Facebook's product is much more similar to Yahoo/AOL than Google.