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Software Engineer – Ruby

Sonian is looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for designing and developing the Web components for our cloud-based application. The candidate for this position will come with a deep knowledge of HTTP and REST, a solid understanding of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and be strong with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Sonian Web applications front petabytes of data, so the ideal candidate will have experience with building scalable, secure, resilient, and highly distributed applications. Sonian praises well-written, maintainable code, so you must be well versed in object oriented design, design patterns, automated testing, concurrency, and systems architecture. You will be joining a fully remote team, so location is not important.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver features that meet the business needs of our customers while maintaining a state of the art user experience
Produce high quality software designs to support long term maintainability and extensibility of code
Deliver software that supports a highly available, fault tolerant SaaS applicaiton
Produce high quality and well-documented code
Deliver within an existing Agile methodology

Requirements

8+ years commercial software development experience, with at least 4+ years delivering user interfaces for web-based application
2+ years production Ruby and Ruby on Rails development
Distributed source control experience with Git
Strong organizational skills
Self-motivated and able to work independently
Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills
Good understanding of Software as a Service and “white-labeled” Rails apps
Solid knowledge and hands-on experience with Javascript, including jQuery and Ext JS
Proven track record building high-performance enterprise-grade systems that scale
Familiarity with cloud based offerings like Amazon’s EC2 & S3 or Rackspace Cloud
US-based, capable of working in remote team
Bonus: Familiarity with and knowledge of Clojure

To apply please send a cover letter and your resume to jobs@sonian.net. Please provide links to your github account or open source projects. Use subject line “Software Engineer, Ruby / Backend”.
The post starts out by explaining that malloc is a generic allocator and is thus less performant. Your comment seems premised on the idea that the author is suggesting a replacement for malloc in all its use cases, which he pointedly is not doing. Instead of him re-running his benchmarks, you should give the post a closer re-read.
Steve yegge's javaland nursery rhyme
We vote for whoever is put in front of us, and most of us don't vote in primaries. It's money and primaries that members are afraid of right now. No surprise.
Mojave Air & Space Port
Well, personally, if I'm using C, it's typically for a very narrowly defined, performance-sensitive problem. Both times I've done this in the last couple years, I found myself doing a couple big mallocs at the start and then running some tight loops over that memory with no further mallocs -- for use cases with more allocation, I'll just use whatever other language is more convenient, preferably one with a GC.

But if I were writing a bigger application entirely in C/C++, I could totally see lots of small allocations happening at different points (and getting into wackiness with custom pooled allocators and auto_ptr).
AllTrails and AllSnow

http://alltrails.com http://allsnow.com

FULLTIME Rails / iOS / Android Engineers / Designers
San Francisco (preferred) / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote / H1B

AllTrails is hiring! We're building Yelp for the outdoors - the best way to discover and share hiking trails and outdoor activities around you. We're helping people rediscover the outdoors and having lots of fun in the process. Camping and snowboarding benefits, anyone?

We just launched our brand new site in partnership with National Geographic (http://alltrails.com/partners/national_geographic) and have the #1 outdoors app in the Apple and Android stores (try searching for 'Hiking'). We also have the #1 Snow sports app on iPhone.

Our company was AngelPad incubated, is funded by 500Startups and consists of a strong team from Google / Microsoft / Facebook with previous startup experience. We also have the author of an O'Reilly Android book, and a core committer to Homebrew on the team. We're looking for exceptional full stack Rails and mobile developers (Android and iOS) and designers.

If your idea of sunlight is more than just sitting in front of a really bright monitor all day, we'd love to hear from you! http://alltrails.com/jobs or jobs@alltrails.com
Percolate (New York, NY, USA) http://percolate.com

We help brands create content at a social scale.

We are less than 3 years old.

There are about 60 of us.

We are growing fast.

We are well funded.

We code in Python and we're looking for Developers and Operations people.

To learn more, check our website. To apply, check this jobvite
http://jobvite.com/m?3hNA5gwu
It wasn't intended to be aggressive. It was meant as more of a lighthearted sarcastic jab (hence the emoticon). I guess this didn't translate well.
Nice post, I'll release the rails4-based source code before the end of the week. Hopefully with a blog post explaining the underlying ranking algorithm.
LaterPay in Munich, Germany is hiring in Europe or elsewhere (Remote work is possible and daily routine)

We are building an innovative micropayment system. After recently closing our series A round we are now increasing our team size. Our focus is living best practices like continuous integration, devops and great automation. We build our software in Python, using Django and Tornado.
As a distributed company with employees all over the world we require you to speak English fluently and we would like you to have the legal right to work in the EU. That can be worked around, but it makes things easier.

We are looking for:
Build Engineers: Automate our Jenkins CI platform, solve Python deployment and packaging, help with build optimization and create the best Selenium test suites and

Front-End Engineers: You have experience with HTML(5), CSS (purecss.io and/or Twitter Bootstrap), Django templating and JavaScript (YUI and/or jQuery) and strong opinions about user experience and great code.

Python developers: You know about Django, Tornado, Python packaging, Redis, Cassandra, SQL, Git, Git Flow and love to write and share code.

Operations Engineers: LaterPay deploys servers using Puppet. We run on CentOS, PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Redis. We love to build scalable, automated, beautiful systems. (Students welcome)

Please write to jobs@laterpay.net.
1. Attenuating non relevant differences absolutely makes sense. Attenuating is used in the context of controls to eliminate confounding variables.

2. I'm unsure how this scientific research shows bias. Small sample size, perhaps, but not much in the way of bias. You on the other hand are taking a scientific study as a personal assault on your lifestyle. The article doesn't even claim that the changes in white matter have adverse health effects.

here is an excerpt: It's also not clear whether the structural changes have any implications for people's health.

3. Yes, I did mean to type owls there.
I assume the old way choked very badly once you ran out of real RAM.
Keep in touch, we'll likely be hiring then too :)
Yes. That is the point of the article.
Kites (Hong Kong) http://kites.hk

Kites is a POI data company focused on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. We aggregate data from individual merchants, scrapers, human sources, etc. and syndicate to many publishers.

We've been around for ~1.5 years and have 7 amazing people.

We're looking for a senior dev / architect. You want to deeply understand the customer and business model and drive the technology roadmap. You should be whip-smart technically and ideally have a solid theoretical CS background. Experience leading a technical team a big plus.

This position will especially appeal to hackers interested in gaining foreign experience. :) We'll help you relocate. Email in profile.
The Hobbit sequel official trailer.
Most of the French DON'T work for the government and unions have almost no power whatsoever. That's why they make a lot of noise.
It's important because we shouldn't be suckered into giving free publicity to a person.

Regardless of what you think of the immigration process in the US, many people misuse tourist visas to overstay/work.

The CBP often turn away people if they are suspicious that they might over stay their visa or commit other kinds of immigration fraud.

I just don't know if this person was turned away like many other people and is raising a stink because they have some star power (and think they should be treated specially).

Again, this is independent of how open you think borders should be, because then it comes under a different headline.
I'm glad you liked it, I believe d3.js can feel foreign since the separation between accessors and objects is really not obvious.

Everything looks functional until you dig in the source and realize that you are actually manipulating objects.
Tabs are not bookmarks. Use bookmarks.
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Software Engineer, Clojure / Cloud

Sonian is looking looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for designing and developing the software infrastructure for a complex and highly distributed cloud-based application. The position requires a deep knowledge of distributed computing, multi-threading, concurrency, and functional programming.
Sonian’s engineering team is geographically distributed, so location is not essential.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver a highly scalable, available, and supportable fault-tolerant SaaS application
Produce well-documented, high quality software that supports long term maintainability and extensibility
Deliver within an existing Agile methodology
Comfortably develop in Mac and Linux environments

Requirements

5+ years commercial software development experience
Experience designing, scaling, and tuning a web-scale SaaS application
Experience with Clojure or functional programming strongly desired
Experience in delivering distributed applications a plus
Familiarity with cloud based offerings like Amazon EC2 & S3 and Rackspace Cloud
Distributed source control experience with Git
Strong organizational skills
Self-motivated and able to work independently
Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
US-based, capable of working in remote team

To apply, please send a cover letter and your resume to jobs@sonian.net. Please provide links to your github account or open source projects. Use subject line “Software Engineer, Clojure / Cloud”.
A framework to save travel memories- in need of feedback
Hey Guys,

We've built something that we call a framework to save travel memories. In essence it's a suite of tools that allows travelers to quickly and thoroughly document and share their travels. We've used some unconventional animations on the site and we would love to hear what you think about the functionality.

You can access it here http://beta.travelworldpassport.com/ and request an account here http://share.travel/

Thanks Everyone!
The adoption of Linux is just consistent with the fact that we're getting poor.
Cellphone Blacklist db in Canada
I'm sorry but I don't understand your point at all. Are you saying TFA makes up its claims?
SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam or remote

Java, Groovy, Ruby, Javascript. Backend and frontend, but preferably the interaction between those two (AJAX, JSON).

Backend: Spring MVC, Grails, Wicket, Rails, Sinatra
Frontend: Javascript, JQuery, HTML5, looking to expand my experience with Angular, Backbone, Bootstrap.

I enjoy working with complexity, business logic, architecture, and coming up with creative solutions where standard solutions fail.

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/martijn-vos/0/99/727
Email is in my profile
Plus, if you're an insurance company in a hurricane zone, you carry a "megacat" (a catastrophic event insurance which is rather larger than most consumer grade policies, to put it mildly) policy underwritten by, most of the time, Berkshire Hathaway. If you sustain $1 billion in claims then you call up Warren Buffet and say "Sorry Warren, we just won our bet and will be needing those premiums back, and quite a bit more." and he'll say "Ah, shucks, guess I don't crush the market quite so thoroughly this year. Oh well, I still get to keep all of my winnings from investing the float in good years."
Way to add to the discussion.
Charlotte, NC - PassportParking
We are bringing parking into the 21st century. Always building and inventing and have a product that has an actual revenue model. Small team where everyone is highly driven.

We've got a programming challenge out there to weed out people that won't put in the effort to join an amazing opportunity.
http://passportparking.info/PassportProgrammingTest

Shoot me an email if you want to chat.

brad.powers@passportparking.com
http://passportparking.com
I compile it with Rhino on Java. And I can also compile it "live" in the browser (though it's a bit slow).
Would C++ completely replace C, EVER? On top of that extensions like Unified Parallel C and Cello come up!
How I Created BirchBox for E-Cigs in 10 hours.
Silly. Article doesn't seem to understand staging, which makes any analysis of launch vehicle failure pretty questionable.

If anything exploded, it would have to be second stage after payload deployment-and that wasn't shown in broadcast.

It is vaguely possible that "fail to relight" was used to say "explode", but that is very evasive even for SpaceX. Also, explosion is not a common failure mode for liquid rockets (until they crash).

Anyway, rather unlikely. If those radar sigs are real they are probably fuel or cube sat launch bits or something.
Ugh, yeah, it is kinda hidden, sorry about that!
Touchpoint Restaurant Innovations http://www.touchpoint.io (Palo Alto, remote OK)

We're repeat entrepreneurs (enterprise / networking / e-commmerce, mobile) with 9-figure exits.

We believe the systems architecture for chain restaurant technology is 30 years out of date so we're fixing that. Enterprise-class big data, loyalty, mobile, POS, etc.

This isn't another "tablet POS" but a serious solution that meets the complex needs of large chains.

Definitely looking for

* iOS / Android

* web development / frontend

to help with client-facing components.

* Network developers always welcome

* Machine Learning? We want you too.

FULL DISCLOSURE: This isn't a "lifestyle" company with game rooms, relaxing pods or scooters. But if you want to change the way the world eats, we're a pretty good bet.

israel@touchpoint.io
San Francisco, CA- Life360 (life360.com)

We've got an awesome opportunity to work with a small team on scaling a really large solution! At Life360 we are dealing with over 350 million new location points every day (that number is growing quickly) from our over 45 million users. We are looking for somebody to help us build out our platform and solve some challenging problems at scale. Life360 offers the chance to wear many hats and to have a major impact on the organization.
We're looking for experienced (4+ years) backend engineers knowledgeable in scripting languages (PHP/Python) and who are passionate about scaling the "family network."

Summary: backend engineers looking to help build out our platform on a huge scale.

reply to jobs AT life360.com with the title "Platform Engineer"
Colorado Geology: A Simple GeoDjango Tutorial
Hi, I am OP and nope, I am not the author of the bookmark thing nor am I related to him in anyway.

I am, however, someone who unintentionally empathized with the author of the bookmark thing and posted my anguish. I am now learning a lot from this discussion.

I thanks you for your detailed comment and I particularly liked two statements you made:

1. To the author of the Bookmark, I didn't exist, or in a way more relevant to a developer, the disgruntled user whose opinion is valuable in improving the product never reached the developer.

2. A criticism is better than negligence. Almost always.

I'll keep these in mind forever when evaluating something for someone else from now on. No matter how small, a single line of feedback can lead to some powerful changes, sometimes. Personally, I'll ensure that I'll always craft this constructively but if I'm on the receiving end I won't take it personally if someone chooses not to. :)

As for the original author of the bookmark thing, he is a far better man than I. He has responded very calmly and respectfully to all the jeering/criticism and I continue to remain in awe of him.

I still have a lot to learn, I guess.
Indicative (New York, NY) http://www.indicative.com/

We are seeking an experienced Front-End Developer to join our highly motivated team solving complex problems using cutting edge technology.

We use AngularJS, SASS, and Karma. Interested in those with a background in Angular or similar SPA frameworks, HTML5, and CSS3 along with a good eye for details.

We'd feel lucky if you have experience in SVG/Canvas/D3.js, SASS or LESS, Grunt and Bower, Karma or any front-end unit testing frameworks, and/or REST based services.

We're a fun team looking for additional hands in our small 9-person company. See more about this posting at http://www.indicative.com/jobs/
London, UK - Wigwamm, apps to make Real Estate simple

CO-FOUNDER WANTED

Tech team and funding in place. We have great domain expertise, but I am personally missing the influence of a strong co-founder.

If you're interested, just say hi at +44 77 952 73 552 or rayhan@wigwamm.com

There is plenty of effort toward making the Real Estate searching experience better.

But the underlying data sucks. So our first product is a Listing App that helps answer the questions people genuinely ask when looking for a new home: http://wigwamm.com

Real Estate is the only thing you cannot confidently research and transact online. We want to change that, by innovating in the gaps (like property data and price discovery).

Some of our prototypes:

Listing App- http://wigwamm.co.uk

Property descriptions- http://Proppycock.com

New property browsing UI- http://map.wigwamm.com

An auction for rental property- http://old.wigwamm.com

Mobile amalgamation of the new UI and auction- http://dev2.wigwamm.com
"A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names"
Getting things done ? You must have missed the Louvois scandale.
You know, thousands of soldiers no being paid for almost a year and stuff...
Not really a challenge to Apple. Apple doesn't care about books. Any garden you buy an ebook in can be read on an iOS device via ereader apps, including Scribd's app. Apple is happy to let app publishers innovate on software products since they are almost all optimized and catered to iOS users.
Snowden shortlisted for Sakharov Prize
Exactly. :-)
Fixed your title: "Programming [JavaScript] is a Terrible Job [for me]"
Symantec takes on one of largest botnets in history
Laplace the Bayesianista, and the Mass of Saturn
I freelanced in the UK for 2 years, currently in Canada since the past year. Freelancing is tough here, it doesn't seem like it is the norm. It's tough in the UK too, but if you are good at what you do and/or you work in a niche field (like me) then then you have no trouble finding freelance work.

What I loved: you get to work on pure software. None of the BS with internal company politics, requirements gathering, user analysis etc. You are focused on a specific set of tasks. You are paid much more than as a perm (but not for vacation, sick days etc)

The last part is important to me at this moment in time. It effectively meant I could work for 6-7 months and make as much money as a perm salary. (This is a short term view to take though). This difference should cover down time, when you are looking for new contracts or you just want to take a little time off to upskill. Depending on the availability of jobs, you can be very selective on the contracts you choose. I've known people leave within a few weeks and move onto something else since it was "not as advertised". Because you shift job fairly frequently (3-6 months usually) you get to meet a lot of different people, learn different techniques and different skills.

The bad part: No vacation pay, no sick pay, you work a day you get paid for a day. You are usually hired for a particular skill, so there is no training. If you don't like a job, there's no point in complaining since they will hire someone else - in a decent company, they will try to accommodate your growth, longer term at least. You can be let go on a very short notice and there is no job security (obviously). It can also make it tougher to get loans and mortgages since the criteria is much stricter.

It's not for everyone, and depends very much on what you do, but I have plenty of friends who freelance and would not go back to permanent positions.
I know I'm mad for irrational reasons. I think you are right that I'm mad at SaaS as well.

Yes, services shut down. That's just the way it is, or at least how I figure.

The thing about Google Reader was that it was one of the reasons that got me interested in Google other than the search engine; then I discovered gmail, and etc. I've felt that Google was one of the 'good guys', and lately, I just don't feel the same way. I guess I'm quoting the Google Reader shutdown as what symbolizes the change.

Having said that, I doubt I will try many things from Google, not because of the fear of them shutting down, but because it won't do much for me.
You bet, I will! And thanks to this post, I'll be better equipped to handle all kinds of comments/criticism/jeering as well! :D
"doesn't this just feel like your treading water?"

I've spent a fair amount of my programming career automating humans out of inhumane jobs, so if anything it feels like work to me, rather than treading water or grinding. Human beings shouldn't have to read a weekly email announcing Casual Jeans Day Is Friday every single week or whatever.

There is some grind game aspect to it. Some people grind their virtual farm production, I grind the minimization of my real email inbox. Some days I login and see I have no real emails at all. Cool!
Concrete Data (www.concretedata.com) - Durham, NC - Local only please

We're a small company (2 partners, 2-3 employees) looking to hire an experienced .NET developer for systems integration and ground-up development projects. Our clients come from heavy industry -- civil engineering, construction, shipping, manufacturing, etc. -- where information technology stagnated a decade ago. This is our opportunity. We've built a business around providing modern, user-centric web and mobile applications to replace their aging and clunky desktop programs. Enterprise doesn't have to suck.

Being a small company, you'll be given a lot of autonomy and chances to learn. At a large firm, you may spend a decade contributing your small piece to a vast legacy sourcebase. We start 6 new projects a year. Iterate rapidly and improve your skills.

Inquiries can be sent to me -- adam@concretedata.com
Show HN: a framework to save travel memories
Hi Guys,

We've put together something we call a framework to save travel memories. In essence it's a suite of tools that allows travelers to easily describe their journey and share it with others. We've used some unconvetional animations on the site that chrome doesn't really love, would love to know what you think. We're in dire need of feedback so please visit us at http://beta.travelworldpassport.com/ or if you want an account you can register at http://share.travel/

Thank You!
This looks like it is just crawling HN, and using Algolia to provide a search over that data. What exactly are you hacking?