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UK, London £40,000 - £60,000 CTO / Lead Developer

You’re a Python, Ruby or PHP web developer, and you’re bored of hearing about photo-sharing apps. You’ve always imagined putting your skills to use and making a real difference to the world.

Marblar needs your skills, and we want to put them to excellent use supporting over 10,000 scientists around the world already bringing about the next scientific revolution.

Here’s how Marblar is different to most other startups vying for your interest:

- We’ve launched (and even had a little TechCrunch coverage to boot)

- We’ve been revenue positive since day 1

- We’ve now got the backing of some investors who wants us to succeed not just for the money they’ll make, but because they love science as much as we do

- We already have a tonne of users using our product, and we’re learning from them every day

- We have several customers - from top Universities, to top tier law firms to learned scientific societies.

- We’ve got the hustle and we need your tech skills to match it.

Our team is made up of PhD students from a range of scientific disciplines, but don’t let that put you off. Our less academic advisors tell us their IQ levels jump a few notches after spending a day with us, but we know our limitations and we want you to join us as our web technology expert.

Your role will be to help us learn even more from our users and devise and implement solutions to their problems that can be iterated fast. We love making decisions on data, and we believe everything is an experiment.

Please e-mail hello@marblar.com with the subject “Look at my marbles”. No need for a CV if you don't have one, just give us some links to examples of your work and tell us why you'd like to work with us.

Salary: £40,000 - 60,000 based on experience + meaningful equity.

Benefits: Your choice of hardware and a generous training budget.

Find out more about what we do at http://marblar.com
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TubularLabs (Sunnyvale, CA) - Analytics Engineers and General Engineers.

Key technologies: Storm, Python, Tornado.

About Tubular: We're building tools to help YouTube channel develop their audiance. What this means is that
we're helping channels, programs and network increase their view base. We've recently closed a real series A
round and have customers lined up to use our products.

Glad to provide more details via email - david@tubularlabs.com
What a totally clever app. And extremely well done. Thanks for sharing! Brought joy to this not-so-old-but-old-enough child of the 80s :)
How about a SaaS company where I can drop my Amazon/Target and BestBuy account and have it scan (and lock in) the best possible price for me? It would be quite the answer to all those dynamic algorithm driven prices. A alogo to fight their algo and capture the lowest possible offer.
Seeking work - Remote.

- Good command over PHP.

- Experienced in working with Social Media APIs.

Online profile (for more info) : http://bilalbudhani.me

Email: bilalbudhani@gmail.com
Notice the preponderance of "seeking remote" posts, coupled with (mostly) far-flung locations, and I think that's the biggest clue. The type of developers in shortage are the ones that are onsite.
It's a bit unfair, I'd say, to compare a single military fighter jet incident rate to (all?, matured?) civilian aircraft incident rates, as such:

"It's like comparing over-powered motorbikes in the hands of reckless teenagers with school buses."

I'm not excusing the error rate, but civilian aircraft have a faily simple set of operations: fill aircraft with people and/or cargo, fly a pre-determined route at a relatively stable airspeed, and land. Also, what was the error rate of civilian aircraft during development (as the F-16 number reflects)?

Outside of the Concorde, I don't think they have to worry about supersonic speeds. Also, nor are they concerned high angles of attack, or reduced aerodynamics at low altitudes, or low/near surface flying, and a plethora of other uses and scenarios.

Unless I misinterpreted your statement, then disregard this reply.
To be honest, the options for Waterloo students is scarce.

Mail delivered on campus has been known to be delayed for > 4 days (sigh), and it's a great problem to solve.
It depends on when you fly. I haven't had a really bad (1 hour) security wait since 2002, but when the airports are really crowded, I've seen it get close to that.
Accelerating Polar Ice Melting & Geoengineering
Yeah, sometimes, if the code looks like shit happens that it actually is this :)

For sure it works only if you have someone with good sense of code quality.
Anyone who can afford this ride will be part of a paid Get Out of Grope program.
SEEKING WORK.
Remote work / short local in Europe but I'm open for US timezones.

Specialized on vertical social networking sites on entrepreneurship an non-profit sector.
* PHP: Wordpress, Elgg
* Ruby
* Javascript (jQuery, Node.js, JSON)
* Git/SVN/CVS
* MySQL, PostgreSQL
* Linux
* HTML5

More info at: vizualize.me/dramirez
The PDF is free: http://trope-tank.mit.edu/10_PRINT_121114.pdf

via http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/11/10-print-book-from-mi...
Proper grammar helps to what?
(edit: parent comment previously ended in 'to.')
I usually like Herb Sutter's articles, but this feels a bit like special pleading to me. He made a prediction-- that the amount of hardware parallelism we'd have would be between 16 and 256-- and it didn't really turn out to be true. I would say that we now have something like between 8 and 12 way parallelism on most systems. If you take a 6-core i7 with hyperthreading, that's 12-way parallelism.

Talking about specialty hardware like the Xeon Phi HPC accelerator (which most developers have never heard of, let alone programmed for), just doesn't make sense. Similarly, GPUs may be ubiquitous, but how many programmers have actually written for them? Very few.

The reality is that CPU architects have done everything they possibly can to keep down the amount of parallelism. When you get transistors, you can use them for things like L1 cache, instead of adding more execution units.

The bottom line is that it's hard to predict the future. We can read stuff from the past, like mailing list posts about how Linux is irrelevant because "we'll all be using Sparcs in a few years," but the lesson that it's hard to make predictions never really seems to sink in.

I hope that we'll see more manycore chips in the future for developers to play with. The realities of physics seem to be dragging CPU architects kicking and screaming into the multicore world. But it may not be as fast as we once thought.
I guess it probably has to do with the ratio of freelancers to potential clients reading HN. Of course, some readers might be both, but I bet it's a pretty steep ratio.
OK. There are pros and cons to every device. The Nexus 4 isn't the greatest android phone ever built. But I'd wager to say it is the greatest android phone that launched at less than $300 off contract. Remember the S3 costs twice as much. Is it twice as good?
Intellij Idea 12 RC1 is available Looking cool and fast(first view though)
Author & Co-founder here.

Sorry if this sounded that way. I didn’t in any way try to imply raising money = success. In fact raising capital pushes you to succeed faster, which in some ways is not the right strategy IMHO. You need your organic growth.

That said, with Cucumbertown the relationship with our investors have grown to such a level that money has become least of the value they have added to our startup. You essentially have people on you side who can open doors for you with an email or phone call. These investors are mostly entrepreneurs of previous era who have incredible insights and connections that spell the difference between success and failures. Cucumbertown, 4 weeks into launch has 2-3 such examples already.

Cucumbertown didn’t intend to raise funds. It happened to us serendipitously. In retrospect, that’s probably the best thing that happened to us yet from a business development perspective.
To be sure, it makes sense to ship over making everything perfect under the hood. But to many who would read this post, it's granting implicit permission to write code that is utter drek. They hear you offering consent to make code that "just works" over actually giving thought to how users will ultimately use the code or how future coders will maintain and augment the project's codebase. Most developers I've met can't evaluate what "good enough" code is, and shouldn't be given license to release merely working code.

As a person who has spent the bulk of his career now cleaning up other people's lousy code and fighting technical debt, I would ask you to please stop telling other people that it's ok to ship code that, in reality, does suck.
SEEKING WORK -- NYC -- remote ~
Rails - more or less full stack, but I am not going to be very helpful if asked to open PhotoShop. I am largely language agnostic; tons of years with the LAMP stack, using rails a lot in the last 6 years. I am really excited for Erlang OTP and building backends out that can handle stress. I love coding html, and my JS abilities are strong, too.
I have only worked for startups in the last several years, so that's my temperament. I am looking to hack on something NYC - based that can fill something close to 30-hours a week-ish.

nbartley@indiana.edu
yup, i'm run it on opensuse and it's really buggy.
The cost of power from nuclear is quite competitive. Capital costs are high but, like renewables, amortized over a long lifetime with low operational costs. Your wiki link puts nuclear cheaper than solar or offshore wind, and barely more expensive than onshore wind.

Moving to small modular reactors, as many outfits are trying to do, will lower the required investment and time to production. Liquid thorium or fast uranium would largely eliminate long-term storage problem...in fact, we'd eliminate the long-lived wastes we have right now. (In the meantime we should keep wastes in a form we can use for fuel later.)

Renewables are great as far as they go, but there are only so many places you can build a good dam, and wind needs either a large oversupply, an economical energy storage system (which, other than the limited hydro, doesn't exist), a drastically souped-up and expensive power grid, or possibly all three. You don't have to worry about that if you're just adding power on the margins, but you do if you want to run civilization carbon-free. Taking all that into account, it's questionable whether wind would really be cheaper, especially as we're forced to expand into less suitable locations.
SEEKING WORK — remote. Long-term and short-term projects.

I develop full-featured web applications and back-ends for mobile apps.

* Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Python
* Rails, Django, Express.js
* HTML5/CSS3
* Ember.js, Backbone.js
* MongoDB, Redis, Postgres
* WebSockets/Pusher
* Heroku

Kinds of apps I've delivered recently:

* in-house solutions
* SaaS's
* analytics software
* real-time apps
* e-commerce apps
* LMS's

Some of my previous projects: http://goshakkk.name/projects.html

Feel free to reach me out at me@goshakkk.name
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Automatic landing of drones is and has been a reality for a long time.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/...
I can't even get Dell to honor my warranty on my traditional Windows laptop, extended warranty purchased, which died in under six months.

"Well supported."
Makefile + jade + stylus
Frisco, TX (North Texas)
Front-End Web Application Developer

JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone, Asp.NET / C#, Entity Framework / SQL

You’ll be an integral part of a small engineering team with many years of experience. We’ll expect you to learn quickly and make critical and significant contributions. Currently, we’re working on some tools for our customer service team and will soon start on developing a more mobile friendly version of our website.

We currently develop in JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone, but you’ll need to also be comfortable with Asp.NET / C# to support our existing website. Strong CSS/HTML skills a must and you should have a keen eye for design and usability. Participate in a 24/7 on-call support rotation and provide technical support to our customer service team.

If you’re interested, we’d love to see your work. It could be anything from a side project or your github profile.
OwnLocal (YC 2010) - Full time in beautiful Austin, Texas.

We're saving local newspapers by enabling their online revenue. And we're having success.

Our tools include Ruby on Rails, Cucumber, Javascript, Mysql, Redis, Amazon Web Services and Git.

Check us out:

http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/ruby-systems-engineer/
Very cool, far ahead of the curve.
WalletKit (Mountain View, CA and Chennai, India).
We are looking for python and javascript hackers in India to work for our growing global startup.

WalletKit is the easiest SaaS platform for businesses to create,manage and deliver to its customers digital Boarding passes,Tickets,Store cards and Coupons for mobile wallets like Apple passbook and Google Wallet

We are funded by 500startups and part of current accelerator batch.
More details at http://walletkit.com/jobs
Spot-on. I came to post this. A CPU core != a Xeon Phi core != a GPU "core". Memory architecture matters a LOT, and much of CPU area is devoted to cache and memory infrastructure. In a GPU, my understanding is every ~32 cores share a small cache and MMU, which makes some SIMD operations / algorithms more challenging to implement. Good for some algorithms, not so great for others.

I think the whole focus on "cores" misses lots of issues. Memory infrastructure is only one. Instruction-level parallelism (superscalar & out-of-order) execution is another - even single-core processors like ye olde Pentium can execute multiple instructions per cycle. It's very easy and tempting to look at the number of cores and use that as a rough estimate of system performance. But this approach will land you WAY off of real-world figures. It's akin to using the number of cylinders in a car's engine to determine how fast it is - sure, to the first order, cylinder count is correlated with engine output and hence car speed, but it's only a very rough correlation.
Is that an analogy?
The big difference between Rocket & BufferBox/Amazon is the implementation of the idea. Rocket doesn't just take an awesome idea and bring it home, they CLONE the initial product, usually copying layout and look & feel. It's this cloning action that draws the ire of the tech world, not the fact that they take international ideas and implement them locally.
They're used for a lot more than the military, and contractors have the flight time to qualify as pilots for them.

Why should military pilots be flying them? Lots of them are on non-military missions.
Any experience here with https://telegr.am/?
Thanks for response. I did't said that code should be awful, sure you should control code quality, to be maintainable. I mostly talked that premature optimizations and rewriting from scratch is bad.
It's the most virally popular off-topic content that you need to moderate. Off-topic content that doesn't get attention doesn't do much damage, and popular content that is in line with what you want the site to be is good. But popular questions that threaten to absorb huge amounts of attention at your site, promote unproductive threads of conversation, and attract karma whores and trolls, those need to be closed.
Austin, TX - new group - let's see if we can get together.

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-ATX/
My impression of my country, the US, is that we don't change with pain, we double down, so we can convince ourselves that we aren't wrong. Education methods ineffective? Assign more class hours and homework. War not going well? Pour more money and blood into it.

We don't have an education crisis and improvement cycle coming, we have a crisis and "surge" coming.
San Francisco, CA.

FreedomCP (http://freedomcp.com/)

We're sysadmins/developers using our backgrounds in computer security and network research to automate the management of cloud servers and the web applications running on them.

What we need help with right now:

Front-end engineer: Javascript · Security ($80-$100k, 1.0%-2.0%)
Back-end engineer: Python · Security ($80-$100k, 1.0%-2.0%)

https://angel.co/freedomcp#recruiting

Or email me: kevin [at] [domain] :)
> ...not as elegant as the BASIC version

Beautiful statement. So much unintentional irony, and at the same time so very true in this context.
SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area - Remote or Local - Long or Short Term Projects

I'm a full-stack Java and Rails developer as well as a published mobile app developer.

Web/Back-End Development - An expert in Java and Rails environments. Comfortable with web development, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Significant JavaScript experience, including client-side MV* with Backbone.js as well as back-end Javascript with Node.js.

Mobile Development - Have deployed multiple apps across iOS and Android platforms for phones and tablets. Experienced in both native (iOS, Android) and cross-platform HTML (Sencha Touch, JQuery Mobile) development.

nick.kleinschmidt@gmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickkleinschmidt
Hitler’s Strange Afterlife in India
But you need only small amounts of it. In a LFTR, one ton of thorium, about the size of a beach ball, is sufficient fuel for a one-gigawatt reactor to run for a year.

Compare that to the enormous quantities of coal ash we produce every day. It's hard to imagine chemical toxicity being a major problem. People used to make lamps out of the stuff.

In fact, given that thorium is a byproduct of rare earth mines, and currently considered a hazardous waste, it'd be nice to have something to do with it.
That would be a rational, well-informed counterargument against traditional nuclear power plants. It is not a counterargument against seed-level funding for R&D towards a completely new reactor technology, which has different economic and safety characteristics. Accelerator-based reactors, which are what have been proposed for publically-sponsored research in Norway, are a completely different beast. Yet they are treated as if it was a proposal to build 1050s Soviet-style reactors.

I am not trying to be hostile here, but you are making the exact same assumptions and fallacies as most of the Norwegian detractors to thorium reactor research. Although the criticism I was referring to in my post was rather the type you most commonly see: Uninformed dismissals of the type "We're still feeling the effects of Chernobyl", "Nuclear reactors are inherently unsafe" and "Nuclear waste cannot be handled in a safe way".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcritical_reactor

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf35.html

Traditional counterarguments to nuclear energy should not be enough to dismiss using a couple of million a year to look into promising, alternate solutions.
SEEKING WORK — Mobile & Web Product/UI Design (Chicago/remote)

Focus on visual and user experience, as well as front-end web development. Almost 10 years of experience designing products.

http://www.dribbble.com/jordanful

Contact me at j.fulghum@gmail.com
Louisville, CO - Sr. Software Developer
Applicants must be local.

Requirements - Java, some php, MySQL, experience working in a startup or small-company environment.

Responsibilities - Help develop new website features, extend backend operations.

Door to Door Organics is an online grocer specializing in organic, local and natural foods.

Please send cover letter and resume to jobs@doortodoororganics.com. Visit our website at http://colorado.doortodoororganics.com
What a nice call for mediocrity.

How about instead of "your code sucks, but you shouldn't care", you had used "your code sucks, improve it a bit and commit in a better one".

Also, writing readable and understandable code is not a premature optimization.Quite the opposite. What you are "selling" is to write quite and dirty site and then just patch them up. It is a road to unmanaged and intentional technical debt.
Farewell, USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier)
If you are a mathematics professor than your education got you a job worthwhile to the community. Many people get degrees which have not prepared them to contribute because they can't find a job that matches their qualifications.

I went to school with plenty of people who were there because thats just what you do. They partied too much and studied too little and now they are overqualified and underemployed. The fact that you can be overqualified to me is the loss of "sturdy common sense", not everyone is as centered as you appear to be and I think you overestimate more than a few people.
Toronto:
http://www.meetup.com/HNToronto/
This is one of those big challenges. Deciding when to tear something out that is subpar to replace it. I'm going through this now with code inherited from others and stuff I've written in the past that I think I can do better. As a lead it's my job to "prune the tree" of code and guide it but I can't just roll over every decision ever made simply because I want something better.

It's never perfect.

So what I do is for every chunk of code I think needs to be replaced or solidified I ask myself first how it will impact my schedule, how it will impact other coders as they do maintenance, if the end goal is a better user experience, and if so does that serve the business? From answering these questions I can determine if we should make a change now, or if we want we can defer the change to a specific place in our timeline and plan it out. This has worked well for me in the past.
Phrozn. PHP based, still in beta but been using it for months now without any problems.

http://phrozn.info
Dev Ops, Mobile, Front End, Back End - Toronto / San Francisco / Remote

Top Hat Monocle

www.tophatmonocle.com

Come to Top Hat and solve Real Time, Large Scale problems. We are a venture backed and disrupting the education industry and want you to join us!

Great salary, stock, benefits, work from Toronto / San Francisco office, or if you are amazing you can work remotely.

* Front End Developer

JS, Backbone, HTML, HAML, CSS, SCSS

* Dev Ops

AWS, RabbitMQ

* Back end

Python, Django, C++

* Mobile

Android, iOS, Windows Phone

Contact kent@tophatmonocle.com for more details!
Yes we do. In 50 years a decent programmer looking at your code will think it's crap.
Man, the whole story is quite sad.

Dream company?

Hope you love working there for ... ever!
Exactly, you have to worry mostly about the coldest parts of Canada and maybe Russia

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Lessons Learnt Building mongoengine (MongoDB)
NYC - DaisyBill.com - Full time Senior Ruby Developer.

Our development process is collaborative and emphasizes sustainable coding practices like domain-driven design, test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, and smart design decisions. We have state-of-the-art continuous integration and continuous deployment infrastructure.

Currently we are working out of Pivotal Labs NYC, but very soon we will be moving into our own loft in Union Square.

You may be a good fit if you:

- Have 3+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with test-driven development ("TDD")
- Interest in (or experience with) pair-programming
- Have strong grounding in OOP and SOA principles
- Git/Github experience

http://www.daisybill.com/careers/1
This is a great idea.

I'm not sure if others work the same way, but I know my coding-brain is much more receptive to learning and improvement when the feedback is on code that I've already (tried to have) thought through.

I could read 100 books on Advanced Ruby Theories and "learn" a lot, but take a block of code I've already written and tell me how I could make it better and my synapses will go wild :)
Hyde has not been significantly modified in nearly a year. If you're looking for a Python-based static site generator, Pelican <http://getpelican.com/>; is under active development.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Pelican project committer.)