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SEEKING WORK - Remote

I have been shipping software for more than 10 years now, and love building high-quality products (or at least try my best for it!). I have recently started freelancing after my stint as a single founder, and recently finished remote contract work for another HN member's startup.

I am proficient with Ruby on Rails and generally quite adept at picking up new technologies as per the needs of the product. I call myself a generalist, and if you are a non-technical person, I can handle most of the things for you that go in to building & launching a software product (including screen flows, server-side programming, system administration, analytics & a little bit of digital marketing.)

I am open to a potential co-founder role as well, but as you know well, a lot of things need to fall in place for it. I guess it would be best if we work together on a short project first to see how good we are as a team.

Please see my profile for the contact & other relevant information. Just drop a line to say hello, it's always good to interact with fellow HN members!
For the same reason it tends to get used in Alternate Rock? A way to say, "we both know we're hipper than the average dude, and can use this word to shock Joe Q Public while just adding an inside emphasis for us cool dudes who won't over react to a four character word". Or that could be me overinterpreting :-)
The problem the way I see it is frustration and lack of satisfying results. Most programmers I have come across in my 20+ years of making game art have tried art (even just place holder art) and have scribbled but were not happy with the results and couldn't see any progress in their art.

Drawing is a lot harder than 'building' objects from simpler shapes in vector design program. It's more like playing with lego brick rather than try and convert a 3D object you see into a 2D drawing on a piece of paper. I find the 'just take pencil and paper and draw' advice not very helpful for people struggling to draw a stick figure. Usually the road to successful and rewarding results is very steep and long when you learn to draw. Placing a few shapes on the screen and playing around with those, can create results a lot faster and that's the goal of my blog. I don't have any intentions of teaching people to draw like the old masters or be the next comic book superstar. It's just about quick and easy ways to create visually pleasing art assets by people who normally shy away from anything artistic.
So the OP goes on and on about how terrible the screen is...I know he has other complaints but the display is clearly his biggest anger point.

According to verge, the screen is a "big upgrade" though it concedes that the colors look washed out in comparison to other phones
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589280/google-nexus-4-rev...

Ars says the display emits "bright, pure colors"
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/nexus-4-two-thirds-of...

Both publications say the camera on the 4 is great.

Given the opinions of two well read publications that provide photographic evidence, and a blogger who provides his Instagram feed, it's hard to go with the latter
Are hardware threads really that useful in any scenario? I tend to disable the functionality and use actual cores for capacity planning, especially in virtualization. Running a "make -j<cores>" generally runs faster than "make -j<threads>" on the same hardware in scenarios I've tried.

Is there solid empirical data on the threads vs cores thing?
As well as the first person I've seen who decries the screen on the Nexus 4, by far the nicest screen I've used or seen on a mobile phone.
Knyle Style Sheets: Documentation for CSS. Automatically generates styleguides
This article is just full of shit - It's just a rant about a guy unhappy with his phone, as with any other phone. Gone are the 5 precious minutes of my life.
"The only thing that matters is Business value. "

Yes... and when it takes me 3 days to make a change to an undocumented, untestable pile of crap, when it should normally take 2-3 hours, any requirements more than, say, 2-3 changes should entail gutting and/or rewriting, and that's because of business value, not because I'm some superawesome dude who likes to do nothing better than write code. I'm growing to hate it (the actually code writing part - not the problem solving part). But when I am responsible for delivering business value with code that I didn't write, all options are on the table.
When we launch LiveNinja ( http://www.liveninja.com ) in about a week, we will have coding experts/coaches available for you to hire and video chat/screenshare with. If you have any questions or would like to know more please email me at will@liveninja.com

Please also email me if you'd like to be featured on the site as a Ninja/Expert for our launch.

Thanks!
Xeon Phi (nee Larrabee) looks interesting, but it's not a real product yet. I.e., you can't buy one for your desktop computer.

As others have pointed out, with AMD Opterons you can stuff 64 cores on a server motherboard today.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Belgrade

Python / AJAX / HTML / MySQL

Advanced security testing.

Advanced in data acquisition and managing big databases.
Advanced in Linux. 7 years professionally in IT.

email: scndemail@gmail.com
A Detailed Look at a Small DCI Refactoring in Ruby
Thanks for posting the link to the beginnings.... This is where people interested in trying out inkscape and game art creation should start. The helicopter is the most complex and daunting project on my blog so far.
That's the same as 1.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / India

Electrical Engineer-turned-Designer with 6 years experience in Branding & Identity (logos, stationery etc). Have worked with startups in the US, UK and Singapore.

Latest project (Nov 2012): Logo design - https://plus.google.com/103149454458679997203/posts/V4eP2Gao...

Portfolio (Identity): http://dffrnt.com/design
Portfolio (Websites): http://dffrnt.com/design/websites

vijay@dffrnt.com (please mention HN in your email)
Again, I am not an expert on Thorium but it's my understanding that the health and safety risks involved are much lower than traditional nuclear plants.
Experienced IT Security firm on Indiegogo
My local Ruby on Rails organisation, in Australia, has a list of mentors available for different topics. I've both given sessions and attended them and they are always educational.

https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Available-mentors
The military has to keep engaged to justify its existence, and the blowback from this will give it an unending stream of future "customers".
CSS3 Responsive Boobs
SEEKING WORK - Bay Area/remote

Design (web/mobile) / Javascript / Python

Ex Mozilla (and various startups) designer and engineer, looking for cool projects to help out on!

Portfolio: http://www.gkoberger.net

Github: http://www.github.com/gkoberger

Email: gkoberger+hn@gmail.com
You were expecting... five life-changing minutes from a blog post about a cell phone?
From the article:

"The four-year test at Norway’s government owned Halden reactor could help thorium inch closer to replacing uranium as a possible safer and more effective nuclear power source. Many people believe that thorium is superior because it leaves less long- lived dangerous waste, makes it far more difficult to fashion bombs, runs more efficiently, and can be made meltdown proof."
Transitioning From Freelancing to In-House Developer
For what it's worth, she joined the BoD a few months before she became CEO.

I really don't have an opinion on her, but it seems like the OP of this thread was using a not very sound argument to attempt to pillory the woman.
SEEKING UX DESIGNER | REMOTE ONLY

I need an UX designer to assist in building two products.
Note: Not UI design. UX only.

Experience is not really important. Just a good understanding of UX design. You will be tested for skills.

Must speak clear English and be available to work around USA EST.

Please, no agencies. Individuals only.

No need to know how to program, but it would be a plus.
I'm sorry I don't think I was clear on what I meant by percentage. All the students would pay for example 5% of their salary for 4 years regardless of their salary. So it's not a lump sum and it doesn't "make the cost of education higher for those who earn less" (the opposite happens actually, those who earn more pay more).

Moreover, if universities only churned out software engineers then the supply of software engineers would be very high. This would make the demand for them lower and thus their salaries.
I'm surprised there isn't more negative backlash against the lack of a user-replaceable battery in the Nexus 4. I switched from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy Nexus about a month before the Nexus 4 was released, and the ability to pull the battery for a quick reboot has been invaluable to me since I went kind of nuts with the rooting and playing with custom ROMs and kernels (being my first Android after living under Apple's iron fist for so long I just couldn't help myself--I've since calmed down a bit and am sticking with an unrooted stock ROM).

I would think that a replaceable battery also extends the life of the device in general for people who don't necessarily need the latest and greatest every year or two, since it's easy to just buy a new one and pop it in when the old one starts to lose its ability to hold a charge.
I don't think you got the idea right. I am not trying to teach programmers to repaint the mona lisa. I am just providing a different approach and tutorials on how to use inkscape to create game assets that are good enough to be used in games. If you would have taken the time to read the first posts of my blog you would have realized that.
Interesting post but one I completely disagree with:

1. Some don't like the LCD screen on the Nexus and prefer the OLED screen of the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Nexus. Personally I don't like the OLED screens because the colours just feel wrong to me (oversaturation on the greens especially). I absolutely love the screen on the Nexus 4

2. I haven't had any issue with Data connectivity. I've been testing alongside an iPhone 4 on the same network (o2 which some claim has the best coverage in the UK) and haven't had any issue with real time connectivity except a couple times when the train goes into a tunnel.

3. Battery life initially for my use was really poor but I then realised that it was because I was using my Nexus a lot more (discovering apps, playing games for long periods of time etc.). Once i'd settled with the device for a couple days, the battery usage was similar to that of the iPhone 4. This includes full data sync, 3G & WiFi enabled and everything and brightness set to auto. It really depends on usage in my opinion

I switched from an iPhone 4 to a Nexus 4 and couldn't be happier. I tried the Galaxy Nexus for a brief stint but the battery life was poor in standard usage and the screen always felt off. I was a major iPhone fanboy but my switch to the Nexus 4 has been nearly flawless (the ordering process was a bit of a faff)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Austin & New York / local - new social music startup

Stereotypes is looking to hire

* Full-stack Web Engineers (PHP, jQuery, MySQL)

* UX Designer (social, music, consumer experience)

to join us in Austin for 3 months as we prepare for launch at SXSW, with the possibility to continue on in NYC after.

Details: http://blog.stereotypes.fm/its-time-were-hiring/
Stereotypes: http://stereotypes.fm
Swwweeeet...Google+ page.
Ok, thats a good point. I'm not farmiliar enough with the globe to remember the great circle routes.
London, UK - http://www.oneis.co.uk/

We're looking for the third member of our team: someone who can help us in just about every aspect of building and deploying a complex web application.

We've created an interesting Platform for quickly building "information applications". It excels in handling masses of semi-structured information, and our users find it delightful to use.

ONEIS is a bootstrapped company founded in 2006, is profitable, and has lots of exciting customers and opportunities. We need your help to make the most of this exciting time.

http://www.oneis.co.uk/jobs

My email address is in my profile if you've any questions, or would like an informal chat and demo.
For a person who was considering buying a nexus 4, yeah! It takes less than a minute to decide things you know...

If I had just sat idle doing nothing, would have been better off.. #rant
Los Angeles, could be remote.

Lumi (http://lumi.co)

iOS Lead Developer

Developing the new version of Lumityper for iOS. Our app complements our light-sensitive dye products, Inkodye. The app makes it easy mock-up t-shirt designs and order the supplies to print them yourself.

* Experience working with image processing / filters

* Tying in external APIs

* E-commerce/Stripe integration

Show us your work: jobs@lumi.co
Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?

You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight — a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you!

Dave Hahn dave.hahn@twosigma.com http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
Madrid, Spain. Full time.

Node.js software developer

Candidates need to be based in Madrid, Spain.

We offer the possibility of working partly remotely.

MediaSmart is an startup solving problems in mobile advertising. Work is fun and fresh. You will work in real time bidding, performance advertising, and mobile tracking. Our tech stack is Node.js for the application layer, a No-SQL backend for persistente, and Express+Backbone.js for the user interface. Knowledge of iOS/Android development is a plus.

More info and contact information available at:

http://www.mediasmart.es/es/pdf/developer.pdf

When applying, please add you saw this offer in HN
same here. But I think it's not that easy to turn just any topology into a paper model (as you can see here: http://www.ufunk.net/en/techno/les-portraits-3d-realistes-en... )
Stereotypes (http://stereotypes.fm) in Austin & New York is a new social music startup, with two technical cofounders (ex-Shazam/Google/Etsy/Yahoo).

We're looking to hire

* Full-stack Web Engineers (PHP, jQuery, MySQL)

* UX Designer (social, music, consumer experience)

to join us in Austin for 3 months as we prepare for launch at SXSW, with the possibility to continue on in NYC after.

Details: http://blog.stereotypes.fm/its-time-were-hiring/
Stereotypes: http://stereotypes.fm
> This guy is the 1st person I've seen who praises the Galaxy Nexus camera

I was wondering about that too.

After having owned a Galaxy S2 I was really disapointed with the Nexus camera.
Ancestor. GPS has displaced IMUs in aircraft as the primary navigation device.
2600hz (http://www.2600hz.com) in San Francisco, CA.

We're the cloud telecom company. We build the stack that powers many of the biggest telecom architectures in the world.

Looking for multiple core developers. Remote work is ok, but definitely prefer local to SF. We have an amazing office in Downtown San Francisco full of people who really care about building amazing open-source technology.

Some of the things we work with

* ERLANG (Major Bonus points if you <3 Erlang)

* RabbitMQ

* FreeSWITCH

* BigCouch

* Chef

* Kamailio

* WebRTC

We're looking for someone who's hardcore, with a good sense of humor and is passionate about making a real difference in the global communications paradigm. Most of the core logic is written in Erlang, so having that skillset would be very much appreciated, but we know that hardcore coders come in all shapes and sizes so if the desire is there we're happy to teach (we actually teach Erlang all over the US).

If you're interested in learning more about how 2600hz, drop us a line at info@2600hz.com. We're growing like a weed and would love to add some serious engineering talent.
Curious, is there any video of expert D&D players playing? I used to be a big DM in my area back in the day (probably around 1981/82), but since the internet wasn't as prevelant there was a lot less communication about how the game was supposed to be played (and I wasn't in a large metro area -- so I pretty much set the rules for the town).

To this day, I'm curious as to how the game should actually be played.
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Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - San Francisco

Hope you are having a fantastic weekend.

I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We're a small team of 7, we have over 400,000 users and are about to hit a $1M annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead and just around the corner we're expecting even faster growth through some interesting things we're launching.

2 key areas we're looking for help with:

- JavaScript (+HTML5, CSS, Backbone.js) to lead our webapp and browser extension development

- DevOps (we're PHP/MongoDB on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and it's been put together by a couple of full stack hackers so there will be a lot that could be improved!)

If you're interested in coming on board, you will:

- work primarily with myself and my co-founders Leo and Tom

- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing with others

- be a Buffer user (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)

- be friendly and comfortable helping our users

- be based in or willing to move to San Francisco

- have experience working with another startup before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)

You’ll be amongst people who are striving for success and pushing themselves forward each and every day. Everyone here seems to progress at an incredible pace, we want to do everything to make that happen for you as well. Whether you want to start speaking, blogging, learning marketing or have other areas of personal growth, you’ll have my personal support and the whole team as a resource too.

Great salary and equity - $85k-$140k, 0.5-1.5%.

If this sounds fun, let's have a chat. I'm looking forward to it! I'm Joel, drop me an email directly - joel@bufferapp.com.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856207
I like this concept (in fact, it's one I've been playing around with in my head for a while) but there are 2 major blocking-points you'll have with user-adoption:

1) People won't want to give their amazon credentials out to what may simply be a fly-by-night startup. Until you get some semblance of reputability, you'll have a hard time with UA.

2) Amazon could very easily write in a feature like "buy when < N dollars" and completely invalidate your startup.

Anyone have any ideas as to how to combat these issues? Would the general HN populace be interested in a service like this for say, either 10$ a month or X% of what you saved as a result of using the service?
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Two-man freelance interface design studio. We work with businesses to design and build UI for internal and consumer applications, marketing sites, and Wordpress blogs (we can dev themes as well).

We like to work with companies who have trouble due to a lack of good design (confusing/hard to use, needs to look more credible, more cohesive with an existing brand).

Open to startups, small teams, and any company that appreciates the value of design and its positive impact on business.

http://wellroundedgent.com
studio@wellroundedgent.com
Google Acquires Waterloo Startup BufferBox
You are aware that most people find it hard enough to draw cubes and circles, right?

Your advice is great for the artistic minded but for those 'artistically challenged' the 3D thinking is a very alien concept.
Kiwi Crate - Mountain View, CA

http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs
PROS (prospricing.com) - Houston, TX

Check out our job postings, many positions available.

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Father builds automated drone to watch son walk to the bus stop
Yeah, this and the move towards MTP for storage (rather than an SD card) has turned me off the Nexus line. My biggest complaint about the Galaxy Nexus has been MTP - it only works half the time, requires the phone to be unlocked sometimes, can freeze up the file browser (happens in both Linux and Windows), isn't compatible with many other pieces of software (like if I want to FTP a file from a server, through my laptop, to my phone via USB using FileZilla), and transfers files extremely slowly.

Since I can't get a new phone on contract again (don't want to lose unlimited data on Verizon), I'll probably buy a used Galaxy S3 some time next summer - by then it'll hopefully be $100-200 for one that's in good shape. The Galaxy S3 has a strong modding community around it, so I can just install a stock Android ROM and things will be fine.

> I would think that a replaceable battery also extends the life of the device in general for people who don't necessarily need the latest and greatest every year or two, since it's easy to just buy a new one and pop it in when the old one starts to lose its ability to hold a charge.

Don't forget about the option of getting a bigger battery when it can be removed, for those who need their phone to last longer.
Y Combinator: Bookmarklet
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