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Washington, DC and Boston, MA -- Software Developers (full time)

NGP VAN (http://www.ngpvan.com/) is the market leader in integrated political campaign software and we serve only progressive candidates/organizations including the Democratic Party and President Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. We're looking for a few more talented software developers to join ~50 other developers in DC & Boston as we ramp up product development efforts on the next versions of our SaaS products in advance of the 2014 mid-term elections. See a bit more about us, our perks, and our culture on our CoderWall page: https://coderwall.com/team/ngp-van

In particular we're looking for folks that want to help change this country for the better and have experience in (or a burning hunger to learn) one or more of the following:

- AngularJS (or another SPA framework/library)
- node.js
- ElasticSearch
- Hadoop
- .NET (C#)

Please email me directly at tgoode@ngpvan.com if interested. Include a brief note about why you think you're a match and a link to your GitHub/BitBucket/etc profile.
Hi i am User interface designer with 5 years of experience, i create very customized and user friendly interfaces, i do html, css, Js and bootstrap frame work as well, if you are interested please visit my website http://www.sarath.biz or drop a mail at sarudsgnr@gmail.com, My charges are pretty affordable :)
They'd be better going after people who center themselves around Android dev and have a lot of followers on Twitter, G+, etc.
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Remote, USA, Full Time.

We are looking for 2 full-stack developers to join our exciting team. We are doing interesting stuff with research apps, content enrichment, APIs, and lots of other cool things.

This post might be a bit early, since we don't have the official positions online yet, but I wanted to post here so I didnt need to wait another month :)

Feel free to email me if you are interested! max.irwin at wolterskluwer dot co dot uk

--EDIT-- We are 'remote', but if you are in Boston(Needham), NYC, or Tampa, even better :)

--EDIT 2-- Some more info on what we do: We build research products for healthcare, and are expanding to other markets. We currently serve SaaS to over half the hospitals in the US.

Our current stack is REST API and UI running on node.js/express with redis/mysql on EC2, C and Apache on Solaris, C++ on Windows. We are looking to expand and rebuild our offering and are looking at using other languages (currently looking at Scala and Go - but we havent decided yet). We are also building apps on iOS, using Solr for our search backend, and creating a BaaS using a mix of Tech.

Familiarity with API design, Machine Learning, MVC, Git, Continuous Integration, and BDD are also a plus.

If you don't know any of the above but are talented otherwise don't be shy! We learn what we need, when we need to.

http://mediregs.com/
Ask HN: Does mobiles supports websockets?
I made a HTML5 game which runs fine in almost all pc web browsers. I also made a mobile version of the game but its not running in any of the browsers in Android/iphone devices. Not able to debug deep but as i am using websockets i am thinking it may be the reason. Does they support?

PS: I tested the game in PC by changing dimensions from Chrome dev tools. it was working the way i want but not in mobiles
as he is 100% sure (rightfully) that there is no chance of having fair trial

Why is there no chance of him getting a fair trial? Are you accusing Federal judges of being corrupt puppets of the Obama administration or something?
This assumes that the applications are provided fully compiled to object code. In situations where the applications are provided as bytecode (e.g. Android Dalvik) or are interpreted (e.g. Python) the applications of which you speak will run just fine.

...which (probably) explains why Google seems to be so interested in this new architecture. Besides Dalvik this new CPU architecture could also be used with the new Portable Native Client (PNaCl) which uses LLVM to compile to an intermediary bitcode. From this perspective, the Belt architecture makes a lot of sense.
I've volunteered a lot of places and money is easy to give, but to invest time is frequently more valuable and makes more of a difference. It's also a lot harder to give up a Saturday (or in this case a few productive engineers) in order to really help out. It puts the problem on your radar in a completely different way.
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Do you really think Starbucks would give up its captive portal? Have you seen it? It's full of Starbucks branding and content. I don't see that aspect disappearing with the new provider.
While a completely pacifist person would likely not face the gun, force is still applied, and the threat is still present. A person in their own home who fails to pay their taxes will be removed with as much force as the government needs to achieve compliance, whether that only needs a polite asking, handcuffs, handguns, machine guns, or rocket launchers.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Full time - Senior PHP Developer - Qandidate.com

Come and join our team in our quest to build the best recruitment software in the universe...and beyond ;-)

You will be working at our head office in Rotterdam, developing Qandidate.com, diverse internal back-office applications, internal and external API's.

You get to work with experienced colleagues with a strong vision on web development and software architecture, giving you a full intellectual challenge every day. One day of your work week will be dedicated to R&D, prototyping and researching new processes, techniques and tools to move the development of Qandidate.com to the next level. If you want to push your web development knowledge to the next level, come join us!

# At Qandidate.com we use the following (and this list is growing):

- LAMP + Elasticsearch
- Symfony2 / Yii (legacy)
- Git and GitHub
- IRC
- Test driven development
- Constantly investigating new stuff like DDD / CQRS / Event sourcing / devops / ...
- Our architecture is moving to decoupled applications, working together to provide the platform that runs Qandidate.com.

# What do we ask from you?

- You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
- Strong object oriented programming skills
- Experience with developing with a framework such as Symfony2, Yii, or Zend2
- Experience with test driven development

# What do we offer you?

We offer an excellent salary, an Option plan (SAR’s) and additional incentives every 6 months when we hit our company targets. Think of a day at the spa, dinner for two at a Michelin star restaurant or designer sunglasses of choice. We also have a pension scheme and if you like socializing, you’ll be pleased to know that there are plenty of outings and get-togethers taking place!

Meet your new colleagues! http://qandidate.com/tag/meet-the-team/

# We also offer:

- 25 holidays days;
- flexible working hours;
- time and budget for training;
- communal lunch every Tuesday;
- laptop with SSD and 16GB RAM + docking station and two 24” screens at your desk;
- 20% time for R&D;
- great coffee ;-)

# About Qandidate.com

Qandidate.com is the new and free recruitment system for those companies looking to improve and take direct control over their recruitment activities. Designed for in-house recruitment, Qandidate.com offers customers an alternative to Outlook and Excel by providing a refreshingly easy-to-use online recruitment system. Qandidate.com provides all the information and tools they need to create an effortless recruiting process. Customers can track and manage their applicants anytime, anywhere. All for free!

Interested? Drop me a mail at iam.<my hn nick>@gmail.com.
>When you read "a + b * c"--and then test your assumption of what it does in a REPL--the result is a learning moment where that knowledge now sticks to you; from then on, you know which of the two operators come first. You only have to do it once.

If you're good at memorizing essentially arbitrary rules then you only have to do it once. For +/* you can argue that the precedence is standard in the domain language (mathematics), but in C-like languages there are often a dozen operators with their order, and there's no natural reason why >> should be higher or lower than /.

>The equivalent for Haskell is "find a Mathematical domain isomorphic to your problem domain; import a set of new operators which match the known Mathematical syntax of that domain; and then state your problem in terms of that Mathematical domain by using those operators." In either of these cases, nobody can really be expected to just jump in and read the code without looking something, or a lot of somethings, up.

Sure - code is written in the language of the domain. If you don't know what an interest rate calculation is then even the best-written implementation won't be readable to you. But that domain terminology should make sense (indeed a large part of understanding a field is understanding its terminology), whereas many language precedence rules don't - they're completely arbitrary, there's no way to derive them from first principles if you forget.

I'd argue that a language where you don't have to memorize a precedence list (such as Lisp - the precedence is always explicit from the syntax, one simply can't write (+ a b * c - so I'm kind of surprised you mention it). I'm surprised if Haskell is different in this regard) is, all other things being equal, better than a language where you do have to memorize a precedence list. But rather than having to write a whole new language, it's more lightweight to form a "dialect" by declaring "we will write C (or whatever), but only use constructs that do not require memorizing the precedence table".
Ugh, I know you meant well and are in support of Snowden (as am I) but try not to shoot yourself in the foot when making a point.

There's so much wrong with how you framed your argument that I won't bother picking it apart. Again, I know you meant well and I'm on your side.

Just don't join a debating team quite yet.

P.S. And YAY for Snowden!
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SEEKING FREELANCER - ON SITE - Copenhagen, Denmark

I know this is a long shot but let me try anyway: We are Aion - a small danish company specializing in democratic infrastructure. Looking for an on site 'all-around' developer with architecture in mind. First of all, a responsible person with great passion for web and code. You should be fluent in ruby and rails, with experience and work you can show.

Here is our stack:

* Rails 4 (mysql, postgres, mongo), Rspec

* JS, Coffeescript

* Less + Twitter bootstrap

* Linux

You can drop me an email at eugene@aion.dk
Hi all. Delyan here.

I'm kinda bummed I didn't submit this myself. I would've loved to cash in on those most precious of internet points. Oh, well. :)

To address the question of discussing this publicly: I don't think I'm doing them any favours right now. I'd like to think that the developer crowd (especially the one at HN) is not as easily swayed by competitions, challenges and brands as to forget sleazy behaviour like this.

I'm calling them out publicly because our places of discussion are very rarely guarded by tall walls. Instead, they let everyone in (and that's what makes them great). The price is that every once in a while we all have to push some people out. That's what I'm trying to do by writing this post.

Also, I apologize for the spelling and grammar, I wrote it early in the morning and my brain was still complaining about sleep deprivation and whatnot. Stupid brain.

P.S. also, guys, can I ask a quick favour? If anyone notices the site is down, please drop me a line (my email is in my profile). It's shared hosting and I'm not sure how well it will cope with top-of-HN. Especially when PST wake up.
That's why I rarely take anything these people say seriously. I mean, they talk trash about PHP and how it's horrible but look at the porn industry? We push millions of visitors a day over a typical LAMP stack... But hey, it's shit, right?
Neat - so I guess they will stay in Toronto?
They could have just bought some ads on Stack Overflow. From the Help Center:

> If a large percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons. Our advertising rates are quite reasonable; contact our ad sales team for details. We also offer free community promotion ads for open source projects and non-profit organizations.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/behavior

That would have been a lot less sleazy, and probably would have gotten more views than most questions about programming contest code.
Let's look at this carefully. According to the scenario you've outlined, the "robber" has asked for my wallet, and indicated that if I am violent towards him, he will respond with violence.

It is not a crime for anyone to ask me for my wallet. Nor is it a crime for anyone to tell me they will shoot me if I attack them.

It appears I can simply walk away. Neither crime nor violence will have occurred.

A crime occurs when the robber threatens to shoot me unless I comply with demands he has no right to make.

On the other hand, an IRS agent telling you to pay your taxes has every right to demand that you pay your taxes, and will never threaten to shoot you if you do not. He will threaten to shoot you if it looks like you're about to physically threaten him.
SEEKING WORK - NE England or remote

* Good at all aspects of paid search marketing; use me to find out if you are getting the most from this channel or if it is claiming credit for results it shouldn't

* Onsite SEO; helping large sites make all their content reachable

* Web Analytics; setup the best tools to report on the right things. Then analyse the results to produce actions

I might be a growth hacker, or even a data scientist but I find these definitions a bit obscure; I use my skills to make businesses better.

Specifically, my skill are domain knowledge of the areas above combined with a large helping of maths and a bit of code. If that puts me in the buzzword of the moment bucket then so be it!
SHOWHN:Auto syncing a forked github repository with the parent
SEEKING WORK — India( remote )

I've been designing logos and building websites for over 6 years now. Check out my portfolio: http://www.dffrnt.com and my dribbble: http://dribbble.com/vjk2005 for a peek at some of the stuff I've done.

Email: vijay@dffrnt.com
If anyone is on the fence about this, get it. I recently moved to IntelliJ IDEA after being an Eclipse head for a few years and took a co-workers suggestion to try out the free version and absolutely love it.

One big seller for me is a native vim plug-in that works for free. The interface is also very minimal and doesn't get in the way and is packed with shortcuts to show/hide windows. Comes default with attractive themes that don't hurt to look at for hours. It's also highly portable (like eclipse), but seemed to be better than eclipse at recognizing new android devices on my linux distros (Ubuntu/Xubuntu).

It would be nice in their Ultimate Version if you could natively convert .form swing files from NetBeans into something IDEA could use. There is a third party app [0], but it'll run you $80-100 for a license which makes it an expensive move for any heavy Netbeans user. That's my only real gripe. Excellent IDE overall.

[0] http://www.formdev.com/
I'll bet Snowden is a Hacker News and Reddit user. I expect that he might read this thread when he gets to a computer, perhaps even taking the time to do a Reddit AMA.

If so, Hi Ed! Thanks for doing what you did!
There was a team called Manchester Dataflow Group. They have spent 25 years on researching dataflow-based computers, languages, whatever.

They made some brilliant contributions to CS in general, but - as they realized as well - DF is not the holy grail.

http://cnc.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/dataflow.html
Anyone who finds this shocking, I have news for you; every large company has been and is doing this type of astroturfing all over the internet for well over a decade now.

I guess it can be surprising when you get asked to participate in it directly, but every type of site that's driven by "the public" (Slashdot, Digg, reddit, Twitter, Stack Overflow, etc.) is going to be a target for this type of activity.

It's usually pretty obvious, and I think if we ever want it to stop I think it's important to publicly shame companies who do it like this.
Just curious, I know nothing about low level ARM stuff. I was wondering is this iPhone/Apple specific tech or is the work you've done portable to other mobile platforms? Congrats on what you've done. I couldn't quite work out whether you've optimized the hell out of the standard DCT algorithms or whether you've come up with new algorithms. If it's the latter would you be able to publish them or would that give away too much secret sauce? ;-)
Without knowing anything else more, I'd say with others leaving that puts you in a strong position to negotiate.
I've gotten brisket in the mail. It is surprisingly good considering it was shipped accross the country. http://www.rudysbbq.com/store/c-10-smoked-meats.aspx
So the NSA hires someone who's supposed to be not smart enough yet was able to steal passwords as well as laptops from them...

I'd say that their security measures are a joke and I am concerned about how many other people can utilize NSA capabilities for personal reasons. Say, some geek who was picked on in school who decides to settle the score now that he's got the chance to dig up dirt on his tormentors. Or a jilted lover who decides to use NSA databases to stalk their ex.

We're supposed to just blindly buy the story from the Puzzle Palace after they've been caught out in more than one blatant fabrication or omission?

Sorry, not me, I can't trust people who deceive me.
The KKK was actually formed for the purpose of protecting women's rights iirc. There were black members in some area's and they lynched Caucasians occasionally.

edit: Still terrorism and what they did was despicable, just saying that it wasn't their original purpose.
Kaplan Test Prep - NYC

Software Engineers (Full Time)

Kaplan Test Prep is an Education Software company in downtown Manhattan. We are looking for .NET Developers to join our Engineering team. Since 1938 we have been an organization with both deep roots in NYC and a passion for helping others gain access to better futures and careers via our educational products and services.

The majority of our work is web development using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and Visual Studio. We have many interesting and challenging problems and we are constantly implementing new technologies and supporting new lines of business.

We are proud to be members of an Engineering team that delivers technology transforming the lives of our students. The Engineering team believes in the following principles:

* Write maintainable, high quality and high-performance code
* Test-driven development and continuous integration
* Be empowered to use the best tool for the job
* Work in a collaborative team environment using agile development methods
* Build products our customers love to use and achieve their educational goals

Requirements:

* At least 3 years experience developing scalable, high performance systems
* Writing HTML and CSS using industry best practices
* Using modern JavaScript patterns and libraries
* ASP.NET and C# development using .NET 3.5+ and Visual Studio 2010+
* Solid experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
* Excellent communication skills both written and oral
* Ability to work well within an Agile team and with external supporting teams

Check out our Engineering blog: http://engineering.kaptest.com

Please send your questions and resume to jobsintech@kaplan.com
Boxfish \o/ - Palo Alto, CA - Full Time -> Mobile Dev (mostly android, but we're doing crazy stuff across all mobile platforms) - H1B OK (visa sorted)

Boxfish (http://boxfish.com) captures and indexes every word spoken on TV. Our mission is to harness this vast resource and deliver on our platform, beautiful and inspiring consumer focused products that reimagine TV discovery. We launched our product, 'Boxfish Live Guide' on iPhone, iPad, and Android (mobile + tablet), which a TV discovery app and remote control and are continuing our march onto GoogleTV and connected devices.
We're a team of 9 and growing, with a position open for an exceptional mobile developer. Long story short, we're looking for developers to build products that use our index of TV.

If you're interested, get in touch -> marc@boxfish.com
Why a computer buffer is called a 'buffer'
Wow, this is an interesting topic. I especially like the informative news link. I was also wondering if anyone here has heard of the Samsung Smart App Challenge because I was thinking of entering. I heard the best apps will win great promotional prizes and the latest Samsung devices. I also heard that Samsung devices are 4X faster than leading competitors devices because of their advanced technology. Does anyone else here have questions about Samsung's latest products and services because I heard they have great brochures and contests all the time and amazing fast technology in their devices that are affordable for all budgets.

Thank you and please visit our web site .... Oh wait, am supposed to paste this paragraph too? I better ask John do I paste the entire email body or just the first paragraph?

Hi John,

I pasted the email you sent as instructed. Is it $500 per paragraph per post? I have high HN karma so my rate is $500 per paragraph. Also I responded to several posts about child trafficking because it was a very interesting discussion, hope you don't mind.

Thanks. Still waiting FOR MY Check, John!
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This is a really bad way to do statistical inference. I don't want to go into the n number of ways this is wrong. But, Let me point out another factor that gets ignored in these pointless and wrong bean counting exercises: People are up in arms against terrorism not due to the perceived probability being higher. It is because deaths due to terrorism are wrongful deaths while most others are not.
How big part of the damage is caused by the terrorist attack and how big part is caused by (over?)reaction to it? If after each car crash the car traffic in the whole city had to be stopped and people were advised not to leave their homes until the 'hit and run' culprit was caught... how expensive would that be?
You can put your foot down with a bike because you are holding the handlebars, and your weight is on the seat.

How would you do that here? You are standing on it - if you took one foot off you'd fall. You'd have to hop off every time you stop.

If you are athletic with good balance you could probably stand on one foot, but I doubt most people could.
It's very compact. It's more compact than a folding bike. It also has a much faster transition time. I wonder how the cost benefit compares with a folding scooter? Hill climbing would be an advantage over a folding scooter. How much of a benefit would that be in a city?
If you won't stop committing an illegal act, yes, they will eventually use some form of force to stop you. Guns will not be necessary unless you are actually threatening them with violence.

That is my point. By indicating you expect guns to be used, you indicate that you expect to be violent. At that point, you have surrendered your right to not be subjected to violence.
UML is still good and used, by the way. It's probably not so popular on HN as most startups nowadays make a CRUD app offering a simple service for the masses. Ideas are sometimes very clever, but the implementation is not very complex in general.
I remember this from a book. Was it 22 immutable laws of marketing?
Kudos to Mr. Foriest for taking Toyota up on their offer. When someone comes along and says "Hey, we can show you how to do your job better", most people take it as a threat. Thats my guess as to why programs like this aren't more popular. No one wants to look incompetent (though I certainly wouldn't look at it that way).