skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toronto, ON. Local only.

500px - The worlds best photos.

Developer: Work with awesome stuff (zerorpc, numpy, scipy, rails, backbone, iOS/OSX, even windows 8) lots of apps, lots of ownership and movement. Work with some killer designers. $60k-100k ~.25% in stock options.

Designer: design awesome stuff. $55k-90k, ~.25% in stock options.

QA awesome person. Please. Save us. We have 10 products and one current QA awesome person. Similar range to a dev.

Data hero: whip up reports for the bosspersons and build out your coding skill around lots of smart people. A good roll for someone that loves the OK Cupid blog posts.

My email is in my profile. :)
An Internet of airborne things
HN freelancers, check out MyRudius.com -- it's a new spin on a freelancer marketplace. The model is a lot different than others and has several key benefits. Most notably, you'll no longer be buried by "spammy bids" from developers who don't even read the project description. Also, keep 100% of your income.
Curebird just gave out a free book containing all the treatments on the site
Padova, Italy: the company I'm consulting for needs a front-end/UX guy. The ideal person is someone who lives in the world of Javascript, and knows JQuery, as well as something like Backbone.js, keeps abreast of the latest developments in HTML5/CSS, and also has a good eye for design. Bonus points for knowing your way around a Linux server, and having some Rails knowledge.

The company is http://www.centervue.com/ and it's a pretty cool outfit. They make devices that take pictures of your retina, amongst other things. The team I work with are great guys, and smart hackers. However, we don't have a lot of UX sense, and we could also use some more front-end power on the team, which is where you come in. Email davidw@dedasys.com if you're interested.
LaterPay - Munich, Germany - remote and relocation help possible

Django Developer, Python Developer

LaterPay is a startup looking to change the way we pay for content online. The idea is micropayments, but the twist is that you pay after you accumulate €5, rather than paying into a 'wallet' up front.

We have a couple of positions open for python developers, and as we are still very small, those positions have a lot of scope for responsibility and choosing your own focus. We have a lot of Django work, so there's also a possibility to join as a Django specialist, especially if you also grok HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Other technologies we use include Tornado, Cassandra, Redis, and our code lives on github. Experience with these is a bonus but not necessary!

If you are interested, drop us an email with a resume and some code to look at - jobs@laterpay.net
@taligent: You're hellbanned, it seems!!!
Peter Thiel's class had an interesting part on Thorium: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23787022006/peter-thiels...
This article is loaded with implicit assumptions about what "business value" is and how it gets created. All software businesses are different and I dare say that most are not web startups. A company that develops SaaS, or compilers, or fluid modeling software are going to have different needs at different stages of development.
Copying from a bullet point list, and just pasting it here. Not that cool.
SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary.

Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web development and search (see https://github.com/fmw/alida for a link to a video of a talk in London on that subject).

Willing to travel if necessary. My contact information is in my HN profile.
Seeking Work.

C, C++, Java, Common Lisp, Data Structures and Algorithms, Network Programming.

Please feel free to ask for my resume.
SEEKING WORK, remote or in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I need some side jobs to pay my bills while working on my startup.

Linux system administrator / Python software developer

10+ years of experience with Linux mixed with commercial skills.
1.5 year experience in Python development

System administration skills:

* clustering (OpenStack, Ganeti)

* high availability (Keepalived, Pacemaker)

* office automation (Linux, Samba, CUPS)

* all possible server configurations: mailservers, DNS, etc.

Programming skills:

* Still junior, coming from system administration

* Mostly backend, Python, Django

* A bit frontend: Javascript, jQuery, HTML5/CSS3

Other skills: sales, marketing, SEO, SEA

Contact me at mail@bastichelaar.com. I live in Amsterdam.
HopStop
New York City | Full time | H1B okay.

HopStop provides public transit directions in hundreds of US, Canadian and European markets. Our iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are all ranked in the top 10. We have millions of users and are growing quickly - which is where you come in.

We're looking for passionate iOS and Android developers to help ramp-up our mobile development. In spite of our success to date, we're still a small development team and as a result we're very nimble and hands-on, so you'll have a lot of ownership and an opportunity to make a big impact as we continue to build-out the best public transit app experience. If interested, please send your resume to: jobs at hopstop dot com.
Having seen the first announcement of TouchStudio (the previous name for Touchdevelop) on MSDN and installed it on my WP7 phone, I can attest that the development team is constantly improving and updating the project.

My only beef with the WP7 version is that the increases in integration with online content have at times disrupted fluidity by delaying loading of portions of the app.

It is great to see HN finally giving the project some deserved attention. Previous submissions regarding the project have fallen flat.

Thanks and keep up the good work.
Thanks for response!

For sure I don't mean that you should write crappy code. I mostly talking about premature-optimizations. Right now there are lot of tools and techniques that allow to control code quality. At least test, code-reviews and code analysers.
The first version was called "TouchStudio."
ouch.. :)
my ad blocker plus blocked the site on chrome.
was puzzled for a while.
>nu-cu-lar is baaaaaad

Nuclear is not the panacea almost every 'informed' internet citizen thinks it is. It is EXPENSIVE. Wind and hydro power are already cheaper, for example. On top of that, whilst any new nuclear power plant will take many years to produce, costs for renewables continue to fall, and, it obviously has a huge number of risks (not just 'meltdown' but costs, security, long-term storage etc). Off the top of my head i think a wind farm is also more energy dense than a nuclear power plant, given all the space required around it.

That is not to say it is 'baaad' because it does have some uses; eg it can provide a baseline power. Basically, we need many different sources, but there are (more?) informed people who oppose nuclear for very good reasons.

OTOH thorium could be great, but it has not been proven commercially yet. We'll see what happens but i remain sceptical until proven otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_cost_of_electricity_g...
Seeeking remote Web Design work

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I am a freelance web designer from Iceland with 5 years under my belt.

I design as well as code the front end in HTML5, CSS3 and jquery.

My portfolio can be seen at http://www.gilli.me and you can contact me by sending a mail to hello@gilli.me

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I love working with developers so the hacker news individuals should be a great fit. Companies also welcome!

In all my work I strive to deliver great user experiences by providing just what’s needed, without confusion and frustration.
Agree. I was talking mostly about web-services, as its mine main specialization.
Please do not submit off topic posts
Read what I wrote before you go quoting pg.
Thanks! Exactly what i mean.
Windows Blue The Future Operating System With Annually Updates
Tobi // Brisbane, CA (near San Francisco) // Senior Software Engineers (FT, local)

What you should know about us:

o Learn/use Ruby on Rails / Postgres / Git

o We built our own platform to optimize everything: social, mobile, ecommerce, warehouse operations, etc.

o Engineers make key decisions - no managers, PMs, or “business people”

o Startup culture without the BS

o Proven, tangible business model (we sell clothes)

o Huge market in a fun space (fashion)

o Profitable and growing, but still small team & early stage

o Self-funded - no VCs, no board politics

o Profit sharing bonus plan paid out 2x/year

==> LEARN MORE: engjobs@tobi.com or http://eng.tobi.com
I know this refrain has been repeated often, but I'll take the bait again:

The tone of this article, like so many, continues to perpetuate the notion that Startup Success(TM) = Raising VC Money.

Lest we forget our past (1999-2001), it is in fact possible to build a _business_ -- that happens to be in the startup stage of life -- that actually generates revenue and, dare I say, profits. Both may be small at the outset, but perhaps enough to get the ball rolling. Maybe even enough to scale (slowly).

Then, if there's a real opportunity and you think some outside funds might help scale quicker/better, you could raise some money. If you really need it.

(And though many of these lessons will still hold true then, the process will be quite different and less of a 'game'. I assure the budding entrepreneurs out there that the old adage "Banks want to lend money to people who don't need it" holds true for VC as well.)
The issue wasn't account termination - the account was still live, just without a valid CC on file. Which does not equal termination.
To be fair, I don't think you can reasonably consider Facebook's mega-crazy (mega-crazy being applied without value judgement) PHP-to-C++ scaling method to be the same as surviving using a scripting language. You can also argue that (most) of the heavy lifting Github does is in git itself, which is an amalgamation of C, Bash and Perl.. and the "good" stuff is all in C. Bash is mostly interfaces and perl is for random stuff like sendmail, cvs import, etc.)

Just because your Java team was slow doesn't mean all of ours are ;)
Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required to start. Team growing quickly working on more flexible officing (possibly west coast, remote) as we grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Managers to be key part of our fast growing Digital Experience and Mobile team focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and digital products on the go, online or in-store. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post:
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Senior-Product-Lin...
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com, ben at hedrington dot com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington
If you want to use BitBucket, but still get the exposure of GitHub, its relatively easy to setup an hourly sync.

Just turn off the wiki and issue tracker at GitHub, and link to the BitBucket ones in your README or something like that.
San Francisco

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/

The first meetup a couple of days ago was successful- thanks Dan for organizing it and Coderwall for hosting. Hope to see more of these.

Also:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn http://sfhn.eventbrite.com
Webby (http://webby.rubyforge.org/)

Branch with ruby 1.9 fixes is at https://github.com/namelessjon/webby

It is not under active development, but is for me feature-complete, stable and incredibly flexible. Advantages are:

- pure ruby (no liquid templates needed)

- each page has its own subdirectory where one can put
images, scripts etc; your article becomes a 'package'.

- chained templating filters; you can do erb->markdown->your custom filter with minimal effort.

- mostly implemented by extending rake tasks, no extra api to learn and if you know rake you can continue adding features forever.
Canada (Toronto) - Looking for co-founder / CTO to lead development on a advertising optimization product. Strong computer science + statistical analysis skills are a must, ideally with previous experience building out low-latency transactional-type systems. Previous experience in ad-tech is not necessary, although would be beneficial.

You will be joining a team which has already built+sold a company in the online ad space, and has been working in the industry for 10+ years (and accordingly is very well positioned to succeed with this new venture). We are bringing an unusually advanced approach to online media buying, previously only seen in the financial markets.

Sound interesting? Email me a paragraph breakdown of why you're interested & why you think you're a good candidate to the email listed on my profile.
HN folks in St. Louis, check out the StartLouis startup group. Our next meetup is this Tuesday!

http://startlouis.com
Vancouver*

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Vancouver

* - New group! Let's see whether there are enough of us to start a regular meetup.
The great circle route from NYC to Tokyo flies over virtually no part of the continental United States, aside from New York. (Canada, on the other hand, would be below the plane for much of the trip, but is sparsely populated enough if the north that I suspect you could route around major population centers easily.)
SEEKING WORK. remote, US citizen based in Prague. Long or short-term projects. Specialize in cultural and artistic contexts, but willing to work on any interesting project. General skills, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript/jQuery, Drupal, git, photoshop, final cut pro, after effects, logic. Combine skills of a visual artist with ability to solve problems in code. MFA from U of Iowa.
Initially released as a Windows Phone 7 app only, the driving force was to treat mobile as first class computing devices. Think QBASIC for mobile to allow user scripting of the device.

That idea is important because mobile phones are the way in which most of the world can experience owning a computer. Touchdevelop on the phone allows a poor Kenyan to express her potential as a programmer without obtaining a traditional computer.
Even awesome code won't automatically scale because the developer is a genius. The idea of premature optimization applies to architecture and infrastructure as well.
Quite a lot of what we might regard as good content (with niche rather than mass appeal) could be helped by this but it won't free the big budget mega-hits any time soon.
My point was that barriers don't matter much when you have a healthy market to receive your app. So while we might work on lowering barriers, its all for not if the store is a ghost town. This is very humbling to us PL/tools researchers.

What keeps you working on Apple's platform is the popularity of the app store, if you couldn't get customers; you would leave in a heart beat for a platform that had a healthier market. Look at all the people who learned Objective C...not because it was the best language, but because it was a technical barrier that was necessary to overcome to access a healthy market (and technical barriers are much easier to overcome than market barriers!).
It's common to give contractors a bad wrap, and certainly some deserve it. But, many DOD contractors are ex-military persons, either retired, discharged, physically unable to remain in service, or simply choose to work "on the other side of the desk" (as they say).

Almost all the contractors I know were in the Air Force, Marines, Navy or Army for some period time. (It's usually very helpful as they still have the necessary clearances and don't need to be sponsored to get one.)
Interesting business here. Anyone know if there are companies who provide this service (price-scanning, recommendation, and adjustment according to a set of business rules) to non-huge retailers?

Amazon, Walmart and Target have the resources to develop this internally, but I wonder if smaller guys might be willing to buy in to a system that lets them compete on a similar playing field...
Proper grammar helps tooooo.
Meh... you know what I want? I want to be able to go to Tokyo and not have the ticket cost multiple fucking days of work. In 2012, four-digit airfares for coach are fucking inexcusable. We were supposed to be better than that, 20 years ago. And don't get me started on business class: those tickets are more than some people in the world make in a fucking year. I want travel that doesn't belch a bunch of CO2 into the air, leaving our grandchildren with a world where there are palm trees in Winnipeg and a year-round hurricane season. That's what I care about. If this Mach-5 travel costs the same as airfare currently does, and burns a bunch of fucking hydrocarbons to get there, then I'm not impressed.

I'm sure the technology is cool, but would someone please solve the real problem? The real problem is that transportation hasn't improved since the 1960s. In the US, we call exorbitantly-priced, 130-mph trains "high speed", we use airplanes for mid-distance travel and it's ass-expensive as it should be because it makes no economic sense, and most of our transportation relies on burning fossil fuels in tin cans that can't be safely operated above about 90 miles per hour. Solve that one, please.
You may believe that, but the evidence from many surveys shows that it is not true. The vast majority of students and parents really do feel that the purpose of university is to "get a [better] job".
Luckily there are people that write good code, is difficult to find them but they exsist.

If you want to speak about the average (or below average) coder I agree, they write crappy code and you have to deal with it, someday
AlpineReplay (Remote, anywhere)
Junior iOS Engineer
Company: We make action sports measurable, sharable, and comparable. If you like to play outside, you should come work with us.
Email is in my profile
SEEKING WORK - Remote (USA, American Citizen)

I go a little beyond what they call "full stack". I write code for both sides of the HTTP request as well as both sides of the USB cable. My current project involves d3.js, node, LLVM, and custom hardware. Somewhere between frontend and embedded, there's probably something I can build for you.

I primarily work with:

- HTML5, CSS (LESS), JavaScript (CoffeeScript), jQuery, Backbone
- NodeJS, Python, Flask
- C, C++, Linux, Git
- PCB design, AVR & ARM microcontrollers
- among many more

See some of my projects at http://kevinmehall.net, and shoot me an email: hnfreelance@kevinmehall.net
SEEKING WORK. Bulgarian citizen based on Turkey. Remote.

PHP, JSON, ExtJS, MySQL, HTML5, Statistics, R.
Yeah I knew it will look so. I wish someday hacker news will have better editing options. Anyways job description matters more than how I have copied it from my word file.
I'd actually say it's more like the IE5 for Mac of the email world.
Yeah, i'm working on it...

BTW, this blog is open-sourced, and if someone helps with grammar i'll be grateful :)

https://github.com/buger/buger.github.com/blob/source/source...
NestaCMS got my vote, because it's what I use for my blog. Is it really a static site generator, though? It can be used as one, I guess, but I think of it as a dyamic Sinatra app.
SEEKING WORK -- Sydney -- prefer remote

I'm a full stack guy (Linux and Windows), provided that this doesn't include visual design. Most experienced in back-end stuff.

Specialties:

- Web scraping and automated interaction

- Prototyping (currently web only) -- anything from a quick proof-of-concept demo to full blown MVP

Buzzword section:

C# (ASP.NET), Erlang/OTP, JavaScript (Node, Backbone), Python, PHP, Scala (Play), Scheme, SQL (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server)

My details:

hermanbosma@gmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanbosma

https://github.com/hermanbosma
In Israel.

MyPermissions - https://mypermissions.com/careers

Familio - http://familio.com/jobs
A bit off-topic but per the NYU/Stanford "Living Under Drones" report[1], the use of military drones for "fighting terrorism" has been frightening, to say the least. It turns out that only about 2% of the people killed in Pakistan by drones are high-level terrorists, and collateral damage including women and children is a extremely common. Furthermore, "double-strike" standard operating procedure specifically targets first responders by hitting a target a second time minutes or hours after the first strike. The whole thing is pretty sick and based on the accounts in the report, drone activities terrorize the population as simply being near a terrorist (or someone profiled as a terrorist based on their behavior) can get you killed.

[1] http://livingunderdrones.org/
Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist?
When I used to play online poker, I had weekly coaching sessions over Skype with a pro who reviewed my play, or talked me through particularly difficult hands, and gave me things to work on. It was incredibly helpful.

I am wondering if any similar thing exists for programmers. I would love to have guidance to improve my programming by someone that is better at it than I am, and be able to get opinions and guidance on my thinking and decisions about particularly complex problems.

I do read a lot, and I have discussions with other programmers, but what I am looking for is something more in depth. I would like a situation where I can get regular, specific feedback.

I haven't heard of such a thing before, and would love to know if there are people out there doing this, or that would be interested in doing this.
SEEKING WORK. Remote.

7+ years of experience in product management, content development and online marketing

- Wireframes, ideation, customer validation, product management
- Content creation, ultimate manpower to produce high quality content, mainly for blogs and SEO channels, also help for solving chicken and egg problem
- Online marketing: social media, SEO, PPC campaigns, search engine marketing and more.

Contact information: harryjerry22 [at] gmail
Is it kind of strange that given the developer "shortage" that we keep hearing about, all of the posts here have been seeking work? Maybe someone can explain that to me as I don't have ears on the ground in this industry so to speak.