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SEEKING FREELANCERS - National Public Radio (NPR) - Washington, DC

Seeking multiple individuals to join a world-class product development team on-site at Washington, DC

Work could include a variety of projects including Responsive Design, new and existing public and private APIs, or digital audio applications

technologies: PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, HTML5, CSS3, JS, NodeJS

nice-to-have: Java, iOS, Android

duration would initially be 6 months with good potential for extension

no remote, unfortunately

Send resumes / inquiries to nprtechteam AT gmail
Folks, this post is an April Fool, and not even a very funny one at that.
This is obviously an April Fools joke :-)))
Alibaba Dips Toe in Developing Markets
x86 implementation detail....
+1 Funny. Congrats on walking the fine line of parody and realism!
Calculating the Impact of Cyprus’s Bailout
I think this is called price discrimination[1]. Joel wrote a good article on this topic called Camels and Rubber Duckies[2]. Here is a quote:

>You see, by setting the price at $220, we managed to sell, let's say, 233 copies of the software, at a total profit of $43,105, which is all good and fine, but something is distracting me: all those people who were all ready to pay more, like those 12 fine souls who would have paid a full $399, and yet, we're only charging them $220 just like everyone else!

>The difference between $399 and $220, i.e., $179, is called consumer surplus. It's the extra value that those rich consumers got from their purchase that they would have been perfectly happy to do without.

>It's sort of like if you were all set to buy that new merino wool sweater, and you thought it was going to cost $70, which is well worth it, and when you got to Banana Republic it was on sale for only $50! Now you have an extra $20 in found money that you would have been perfectly happy to give to the Banana Republicans!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

[2]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
The issue here isn't getting a patent to cover the R&D costs, it's a case of the patent expiring, the drug company reformulating the drug slightly and then applying for a "new" patent on what amounts to a slightly modified version of the previous drug.
I am somewhat confused by the term "article you posted" in your comment.
I had believed that I had posted a variety of different articles from several different sources, one of which was written by Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and presumably someone who knows how much a drug costs to develop.
Roughly a good sample size is around -log(d/2)/(2 e a^2) where d is the significance you want and a is the difference in conversion rates you hope to measure. See http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/03/a-bit-more-on-sample-...
Etsy is hiring software Engineers in Brooklyn and Remote. I believe we have one of the best engineering culture in the world.

https://www.etsy.com/careers/

I manage the International Engineering group. If there are some internationalization engineers please send me a message or reply here.
Does HN filter out April Fools' pranks?
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SEEKING WORK - New York or Remote

Experience with full stack web development, primarily focused on C# and javascript (while also comfortable with php and python).

https://github.com/pdwetz

Email: pdwetz@gmail.com
Is it by design that it always re-sorts by name before sorting when selecting a new column to sort by? If it didn't, it would be possible to sort by multiple criteria.

Also, it seems like the value column is sorted like strings in Opera.

Pretty neat overall. I'm glad I bought most things at sale, and not the price shown..
In the case of an online auction, it seems pretty obvious to me that more detailed images of the item being sold will increase interest (I've been scrolling past lots of potentially good deals on graphics cards on ebay recently, because there wasn't a detailed photo of their output sockets...)

In the other cases, it seems more like "a change happened" and "conversion rates went up" - far too many changes at once to imply one specific change caused it :-/
What's the startup scene at Harvard?
The second is also false if I understand you correctly. In some cases a busy, non-minimalistic design can be appropriate, e.g. casinos, games, clothes, cars, etc. As little design as possible implies no decorations and decorations certainly have their place in design.
Noowit’s attempt to take on Flipboard: A news reader that mimics biology
How to Foster More Startup Thinking Outside the Box
Mountain View, CA - full time - hiring Scala Backend Engineer / Machine Learning & Information Retrieval Engineer / Full Stack Engineer / Mobile Engineer (would prefer someone local so we can easily bring you in the office and show what we're working on)

We're FortyTwo, a stealth-mode well-funded startup in Mountain View, CA. We're working on a consumer web product that will be released in the next 4-5 months. We started about 5 months ago, and are looking for engineers who can hit the ground running and work with our existing team. We use Scala, Play!, Akka and JavaScript. Check out our site for complete job descriptions, and to learn a little about us: http://www.42go.com/join_us.html. Also, check out our engineering blog to see about some of the problems we're working on: http://eng.42go.com/

• Backend Engineer:
Growing and scaling up FortyTwo’s backend. At this stage of the company it means going all the way from building clusters of services, optimizing concurrent processing, building data pipelines, working with various types of databases and implementing devops automations. We are building our systems on using technologies like Scala, Play, Akka, ZooKeeper and Guice.

• Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer:
FortyTwo is dealing with massive amounts of user events, analytics data, social graphs and web documents. You will be asked to design and build a new breed of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval systems that will be of large scale with tight throughput and latency requirements.

• Frontend Engineer:
Design and build high quality, modern consumer web user experiences. Our front-end engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (database, server, browser).

• Software Engineer, Mobile:
Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. Define and implement APIs (library and network) for mobile apps. Our mobile engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (storage, server, multiple mobile platforms).

http://www.42go.com/join_us.html or email us at towel@42go.com
Nicely done, at first I was in disbelief, but then realized that it's satire. It's unfortunate that I know of companies that have implemented so-called "agile" and basically didn't even get what the heck it was supposed to be.

1-2 week sprints, Mini-waterfall, bringing back deadlines. I've actually been thru this kind of "fr-aglie" implementation by bone headed leaders who were aware of the buzzwords and hadn't carefully examined what the process(es) entailed.
Yep, that third 'b' in dribbble always catches me. Thanks for the spot on that ;)
You're probably not thinking about all the use cases.

My girlfriend has over 400 friends (and she aggresively culled). But she was secretary for a political party, and also has a lot of "friends" from an online game ("My Fishbowl").

It's odd to find a girl with LESS than 100 facebook friends. Men in my social sphere, OTOH, don't have as many facebook friends unless they're actively trying to date through facebook itself.
This is common in a lot of Rails shops - they are so proud of the extensive Cucumber tests, of the endless gems required just to run the tests, of the layer-upon-layer of crap, and look all the tests passed, it must be good right?

Wrong. The worst code I have ever seen. Written to pass tests, unmaintainable, fragile as hell due to the turtles-all-the-way-down architecture of relying on a thousand-and-one third party gems (and the checkins showing how frequently that very same code barfed and broke 'vital' things').

Agile is a pox upon software development, but hey, it sells books, provides employment for otherwise unemployable 'project managers' and finally putting to rest any semblance of engineering in software and systems today.
Why is it insane that you can argue that? If it were cut-and-dried that they were killing many people and providing no benefit, something would likely have been done about it by now. As it is, they exist in a grey area with plenty of room for argument, but I don't think that makes it an insane situation on its own.
one of the tradeoffs involved is between general expressiveness of the framework and ui unobstrusiveness. E.g. direct manipulation "naked objects" interface with fully automated objects placement on screen is quite generic but fairly ugly. My http://www.nestgrid.org user interface pattern improves on that by allowing free form editing of quasi html page, hence providing for mostly manual placement of objects, but it's still no more "unobtrusive" than Excel is. That is, it takes getting used to.
Atlanta - TourBuzz

2 Senior Web Developers -- front end, back end, architecture, etc.

Come work for us -- and bring a colleague with you!

TourBuzz empowers independent real estate photographers to achieve their goal of delivering beautiful photography while running a successful business. Our platform gives them all the tools they need from order taking and scheduling to image processing, virtual tour hosting and image delivery to clients.

We are a polyglot shop -- everything from PHP, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Lua, iOS/Obj-C, Flash/ActionScript, etc.

We are profitable, growing, and have great customers. We take a craftsman approach to building software. If you like solving problems, working with customers, and delivering beautiful code in a productive but fun atmosphere, you'll probably like it here!

http://tourbuzz.theresumator.com/apply
http://www.tourbuzz.net
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IFTTT - http://ifttt.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA

IFTTT is looking for experienced engineers to help build the next generation of its platform.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the core architecture of one of the web’s most innovative and exciting services. You’ll get to work on challenging technical problems alongside a small but driven group of developers, and play a key role in shaping both the product and team culture.

IFTTT’s mission is to help people to create connections between the services and devices they use every day. We’ve built a system that enables users to set up simple “if this, then that”-style recipes, which allow activity from one web service to trigger activity in another. The current system supports over 60 unique services and runs nearly a hundred million recipe-handling tasks per day, and we plan to dramatically expand on our flexibility and scalability. Under the hood, this translates to building a platform that can talk to and move data between virtually any API you can think of, all in realtime and at massive scale.

We’re hoping to find candidates who speak fluently about distributed architectures, databases, and ops, who enjoy rolling up their sleeves and writing code at all levels of the stack, and who have the confidence and depth of knowledge to take ownership of long-term projects. IFTTT currently runs on a polyglot mix of technologies, including EC2, Rails, Node.js, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, and Chef. Experience with these is a big plus, but we’re constantly evolving, and we value creative problem-solving and desire to learn over domain knowledge.

We recently secured a new round of funding, and we work hard to do right by our employees. New hires at IFTTT enjoy competitive salary and equity, full benefits, sane work schedules, and a flexible vacation policy. Much more than that, we offer interesting, deep projects and an amazing team experience. We operate on the philosophy that the best job perk is fantastic teammates, and to this end we’ve assembled a staff of intensely curious, well-rounded, talented people who happen to be great engineers. We’re hoping you can be the next one.
New York - Full time or intern Rails devs
Aidin's mission is to bring transparency to the healthcare system and empower patients with data to make more informed decisions on where they receive care. We're backed by the best institutional investors in both consumer internet http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/aidin-seed-round/. Aidin was born out of Blueprint Health (3% acceptance rate), a Techstars affiliated healthcare IT accelerator. We're surrounded by amazing talent as we currently reside in Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com/), a highly selective co-working space housing the best startups in New York.

As a software engineer on a small team, you'll touch on every aspect of the technology related to the company. It’s a broad job description and we’re looking for someone who loves being part of a fast-paced, constantly evolving work environment where your opinions and decisions will seriously affect our technical direction. We’re looking for a technology generalist with interest in specializing as necessary - It's more important that you love learning and can adopt new languages/frameworks/APIs very quickly.

There are few companies poised to actually make an impact on people's lives, but Aidin is one of them. Join a team of people committed to leave a lasting impression on a part of healthcare that one day, we too will rely on. We couldn't be any more excited about what we're doing, and so is the tech community! http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/meet-the-three-most-fund-ab...

For more info email mike@myAidin.com, or feel free to contact me (info in profile)
Software Engineers in Boston area (Waltham, MA)

Actifio (http://www.actifio.com) is looking for software engineers. Actifio is radically simple copy data management. We've invented some really cool technology to do things no other system can, and we're dead easy to use. This is not your mother's enterprise software!

Actifio has been invested in by top VC firms (one of the very few East Coast companies in Andreessen Horowitz's portfolio) and is growing super fast. Recently, we closed a 50 million dollar round of funding.

We're always looking for smart engineers in every team, but since I'm on the deduplication team, I'll have to pitch you on that :) Briefly, our other teams include Java, C++, and Adobe Air, and work on things like VMware interaction, snapshot management, scheduling, databases, etc.

As for the dedup team: we write in C, and use Python for debugging and support scripts. Dedup seems like an easy problem to solve, because it's so conceptually simple: split the data up into blocks and make sure you only store one of each. But at scale, it becomes a whole different animal.
When you've got 128TB of 4KB blocks, you have 32 billion unique blocks of data to manage. Making our dedup ingest, restore, and garbage collect fast is a great challenge, especially with "only" 128 GB of RAM.

If you'd like to chat about a job opportunity (in dedup or otherwise!), I'm at chris.murphy@actifio.com. Since I'm an engineer, I'm not going to type a list of silly requirements. Just send me a resume and whatever else you think I'd like to know.
Business Outsider
What kind of capitalism are you talking about?

Patents are government-granted monopolies. Nothing further from free markets.
Electric car maker Tesla says it's profitable
Bitcoin exchange rate reached $100 USD per BTC
SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - Remote

Web site availability monitoring service currently in development. Looking for help with either of the following skillsets:

- Web Front-end UI - PHP, jQuery, advanced charting/graphing, complex PHP data structures (Initial 120 hours to begin Q2)

- Python back-end - multi-threading, client/server, sockets, XML/JSON navigation, MySQL (Initial 80 hours to begin Q2)

mail keith _at zmonitors.com
Educreations (http://www.educreations.com) - Full Time in Palo Alto, CA

Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance.

At Educreations, we believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.

As a first step, we've made it extremely easy for teachers to teach online. Our top-100 app transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and students are using it daily to learn from each other anytime, anywhere.

We're looking for some passionate people to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are funded by Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels.

If you want to make a dent in the universe and are a strong Python hacker, have experience with Objective C or are an awesome designer, we want to talk to you.

http://educreations.wufoo.com/forms/join-educreations/

We are looking for:

Full-stack Engineers (Python)
Mobile Engineers (Objective C/Cocoa)
Visual Designers
Launchpad LA companies are hiring in LA / Santa Monica:
http://launchpad.la/about/jobs/
I can pretty well understand Sanskrit and have learned it for 10 years. It is definitely not difficult to learn. 'Sanskrit' died several hundred years ago as a spoken language - and efforts to revive it by adopting it has yielded mixed results. (The villages you mention are adopters). A language is said to be living when 1) There are people who speak it for daily purposes 2) It continues to evolve to address needs of the present. Sanskrit passes criteria 1 with some determined followers, but fails criteria 2. Point to be noted is that characteristics that make Sanskrit orderly and strict, is an offshoot of the language being ear marked for restricted scholarly usage and not the tenet of a living breathing language. That said, there is a vast literary treasure awaiting people who are determined to learn Sanskrit and there are enough avenues available in India and abroad for the same.
Big Data Meets Livestock
1. Bigger images usually improve click-through rates. Why? There are a number of reasons. An image is used to to tell part of the sales message. People relate ideas to images and understand the message you are trying to send better. Also, a lot of people love reading what is under images. As a result, your copy gets read more often. A bigger image amplifies this by turning the landing page into a sort of short story.

2. Big buttons work. They are the call to action, and big call to actions get a big amount of attention.

3. When picking images, be mindful of the market you are selling to. The race of the people in the images are very important. Not because of racism, but due to how people relate to those who look like themselves. A self-taken photograph usually nets better results than stock photos. Even one from a mobile phone.

4. If you are selling a service, then include a photo of the dashboard/main area in the main page. People want to see how it looks like without signing up.
Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure
And this is why medical research should be directly funded by goverments, exactly like they fund military research, the cost shared among the developed nations, and directly throw away the patent system.
BufferBox, Thalmic and ...??
Adzerk - Durham, NC (also Raleigh/Chapel Hill)

Senior Software Engineer

Ready to put all those ideas about scalability into practice in a situation where you really need it? We’re helping Stack Overflow, Reddit, and other sites that you’ve probably heard of serve billions of ads per month. At that scale, things get very interesting.

Adzerk engineers are responsible for working on all parts of the system. This includes the front-end web application, back-end services, and the ad delivery engines. Our platform is built using Node.js with Coffeescript, Mono, JQuery, MongoDB and Hadoop, with a whole lot of AWS and Chef. We’re currently serving over 10,000 req/sec (and growing fast), so you’ll get to work on some real scalability challenges.

Performance and scalability are our two primary concerns, and with the traffic and growth rates that we’re experiencing, lots of the lessons that you’ve learned start to break down. Because of that, it’s not as important what you know right now – what matters is how quickly you can learn and adapt.

- Your work will have an immediate and profound impact on our product and business.

- We ship code dozens of times a week, and you will write code and push to production on your first day.

- You will be responsible for making important decisions about what tools and libraries we use.

- You will have a direct role in building the team, helping us choose additional team members as we grow in size.

- We test and review our code. All changes come through pull requests.

- We prize open source contribution. You should have a GitHub account already.

- Everyone gets equity. We want a team of partners.

- Unlimited vacation. We work hard, but at a sustainable pace.

- Flexible work schedule, including working at home part-time if you want.

If you think you might be a great fit, drop us a line at jobs@adzerk.com.
SEEKING WORK.
From Porto, Portugal, E.U.; remote

* Python development

- Django (South, Celery)

- Fabric

- Google App Engine

- Red Hat Openshift

* Javascript

- Dojo Toolkit (including Dijit development)

- JQuery

- Node.js

Mini - Resume: https://gist.github.com/f7245484c4c18b6ef567
IMHO it's strange that we are discussing hiring Mr reality distortion field for a technical position here. If he were reincarnated and looking for a job now, he would probably go into sales. What do they care more about in sales, team playing or closing contracts for new leads? Then there is the "motivational speaking", another fruitful and remunerative area of endeavor for this sort of people :)
Stereotypes - New York City

iOS architect & UX designer

http://stereotypes.fm & http://angel.co/stereotypes

Stereotypes is a new group messaging app that uses music as a message, a reminder, a gift, and a hug, so you never lose touch with the friends you love. It helps you relive past memories as well as create new ones using music, and it gives you the feeling of being together with your friends—even when they are not around.

We have two technical co-founders (ex-Shazam/Google/Etsy) plus one awesome iOS dev. We launched in the App Store 5 weeks ago, and are coming out of the Dreamit incubator, which has put us on a great trajectory.

We're looking for one music-loving iOS architect, and one music-loving mobile UX designer to join our team in NYC. Both positions are fulltime and local in NYC. Must be: awesome, startup-minded, experienced, music-loving. Deep music, iOS, mobile, social experience a plus.

Interested? Email eric@stereotypes.fm with your details, best time for a 15-minute Skype chat, and your favorite song-of-the-moment.
I am looking for contributors to work on a project bitcoin-like based on an universal dividende: OpenUDC.org

https://github.com/Open-UDC/open-udc
https://github.com/canercandan/django-openudc

Thx.