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SEEKING WORK, Remote and part-time only.

Currently, I am working fulltime and very happy with my job. However, I am available for part-time consulting and sub-contracting jobs.

I might be a good option when there is need to offload some work but not enough to pay someone for fulltime position. I am pretty good at working with incomplete or vague requirements, finding bugs in code or design, data analysis, optimizing slow running code or sqls.

A few negative working with me are:

1. I will not be available during the business hours (8AM-6PM US/Central). Not even by email. Also I cannot guarantee a fixed schedule.

2. I probably won't be a good fit for non-technical founders or managers.

Keywords: PHP, Mysql, Zend Framework, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Linux, Java.

If you are interested, please check following link for more info: http://amerkhalid.com/freelancing/
A couple of other rules of thumb I employ: use active voice, and avoid qualifiers.
Interviewstreet (http://www.interviewstreet.com) - Mountain View & Bangalore, part of YC S2011.

Interviewstreet's recruit product helps companies hire programmers using coding challenges. A ton of top technology companies like Facebook, Amazon, Adobe, Walmart-Labs, Evernote, Box, Quora and many more are our customers and it has proved to be insanely effective (saving ~50-60 hours for every developer hired)

We are a team of 28, well-funded by top-tier investors (YC, Khosla Ventures, Jawed Karim, SV Angel) and are growing really really fast. That statement of fast growth might sound cliched, but our revenue growth graph looks like this (http://linode.interviewstreet.com/rev.png) and we have a ton of enterprise deals in the pipeline! Some of our recent customers include Square, Adobe, Chegg, etc.

While we continue to signup every technology company, we launched a new product (hackerrank.com) to build a community of programmers in different domains of Computer Science - AI, ML, Image processing, security, etc. The is a place to engage every problem solver in the world with an attractive layer on the top - contests, jobs, prizes, office hours (Eg: hackerrank.com/quora) from companies who are our customers already.

How will the company look in 2 years?
We will be in a position to have 20-30k technology companies using our recruit product to make their interviewing effective and 100-150k active programmers/day on hackerrank making it effectively a hugely powerful platform to connect programmers with right opportunities (jobs or contests or cash prizes to solve real-world problems or learning a new domain or inventing a new technique to solve a problem and many more) in the fastest way. And when this happens, it will help ship products faster thus accelerating the pace of the world.

It's a tough mission ahead but something that's worth achieving - a mission which can seriously move the world fast. Everyone is so passionate and hardworking that sometimes from an external view, you might find it hard to differentiate a founder from an employee. We are hiring for all the roles - PM, hacker, sales, marketing (hackerrank.com/careers)

E-mail me: vivek [at] interviewstreet if you'd like to know more.
CW - We Train Developers

Senior Rails Mentor / Remote / Fluency in English

We need a few more Rails developers to mentor our programming students (4-weeks/student).

What you will do?

Reply all the student emails and rails questions for 4 weeks
Have an Hour-Long Skype conversation with the student(each week) to correct their projects and for higher-level explanations of concepts they don't understand.

You'll get a generous fee per student and you can take up to 5 students if you have the time.

You don't need to have used rails for 5 years to apply, but you need to be very comfortable with the framework and have enough experience and knowledge to be able to teach it.

send me an email: felix.oginni {at] outlook {.] com
> How can you tell I lack confidence?

A self-confident person would never have asked that question.

> Everytime I think I'm being stoic in my writing...

But a true stoic would say, "Women don't see my value. That's their loss, not mine."
US citizen, living in Switzerland. I don't want to give up my citizenship and I don't mind to pay some tax to the US. I did get a great education and attitude growing up there, but the risk of making a mistake could be ruinous to my family (French wife, two kids born here). It's fair that if you make a mistake, you pay a penalty, but with the current rules, it turns into a crime. Very scary because it's so complicated.
FooBox Version 2.0 Has Been Released | FooPlugins
Overseas Americans who eventually return to the US do receive one benefit from the ACA: the ban on excluding coverage of preexisting conditions.

That means the most for those whose coverage in their host country wouldn't have met the HIPAA requirements for creditable coverage, of course. However, even those whose coverage would have satisfied the HIPAA requirements do get to avoid at least one round of confusing paperwork.
Hall - Workplace Communication (Cross-platform, real-time messaging)

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OPEN ROLES:

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* iOS Sr/Lead Engineer

* Android Lead Engineer

* Backend Lead Engineer (Mongo, node.js, redis, chef)

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PERKS

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* Work on a product you'll be actively using every day.

* Be apart of a world-class team, love what you do and have a huge impact!

* Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 27" monitor

* Generous equity grants

* Weekly company-wide happy hours

* Medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available

* Dental coverage

* Vision coverage

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Location
You can find us on Castro Street in sunny downtown Mountain View, California.

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Email me personally at brett at hall-inc.com
Taxing is mainly to pay for the facilities that the Government is providing you currently. That is the reason why vast majority of the countries (99% ?) are taxing based on physical presence. So if you are out of the country for most of the time during the last year, then you don't pay tax.
SEEKING WORK - Mexico / Remote 3+ years of experience in web development.

What I can create/work with:

- Wordpress themes and plugins

- Drupal 7

- Responsive websites

- CSS3 / HTML5 compliance

- Offline web applications

- Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Underscore)

What I'm working with right now:

- Angular.js

Success stories:

I've worked with brands such as Bimbo, Marinela (http://www.marinelausa.com), Procter & Gamble, Johnsons Baby and Campbell's.

Email: aurelio at bernalr.com
I would give different answers depending on what you're trying to do.

Do you have some data you want to visualize in an interactive way? Maybe try D3.js

Do you want to make 3d models or video games? THREE.js

Do you want to do custom 2D drawings that aren't suited to the previous two? Maybe raw canvas is for you.
Non-full stack companies come and go. That's part of the strength. Most people are not fussed if they buy an HP, Sony, Compaq, ASUS, Acer, MSI or whatever for a PC. Android buyers can happily switch between a dozen manufacturers as well.

The point is for general purpose computing full stack was common but is now exceptional. If it was a great advantage surely there would be more full stack companies around.
Here is a quick youtube issue summarizing the citizenship based taxation issue the USA has. Supposedly it came out of the civil war:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DKFE...
NIP Tip: Find NIST Publications During Government Shutdown
Your quite unique. Just making a script for some people is extremely difficult.
> What you're not getting is that these people have to pay full taxes in the place they're actually living.

In that case, they can claim a "Foreign Earned Income Exclusion" [1] which reduces or eliminates their American tax liability for up to $97,600 of income that they are "paying full taxes" on.

> A place you're not living has no business collecting further taxes from you.

As other comments have noted, just because you are not living in the United States does not mean that you are not materially benefiting from citizenship. Despite living abroad, you can still vote, travel to and from the United States, and take advantage of US diplomatic representation in case of arrest.

[1]: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
One of these days I'm going to translate Michael Herf's friction function to JS: http://stereopsis.com/stopping/
from personal experience.

if you want to pick up girls, go work behind a bar, preferably a cocktail bar. You will learn a lifetime of how to flirt and get girls. If you already have a job, just do it saturday night. don't worry how much you get paid, just do a good job and smile a lot, you will meet huge numbers of girls and some will flirt back.
"With TouchID you always unlock your phone with your finger"

With glove, dirty or too much sweat, I believe it does not work. So, it's not 'always'.
XMir postponed in Ubuntu
Heh. So you think...

I've already done that service for another, using some auto-unlocking tools. Takes all but 5 seconds, including USB negotiation. And it even gets past sim-locks.
I'm reading some slash dot comment sections and although the jokes remind me of the good old days (hot grits, n*...) the quality stinks. That site is better left a 15 year old memory.
I'm turning Japanese.
> And if they fail to enter my code 10 times, the phone is wiped.

You must not have kids, because that statement scares the shit out of me.
http://gmvault.org/

For those who can't code or don't have the time.
Be honest: it's not really about your perception of arrogance in a tax policy. It's really about the money. You think you are entitled to the privileges of US citizenship but somehow exempt from its legal obligations.
Map Reduce programming in java
Top MSFT investors want Bill Gates to step down as chairman
yep but you still need to know a few things as well as:
https://github.com/abjennings/gmail-backup or http://www.fetchmail.info/ and https://github.com/Flushot/gmail-backup
Apple was trying and failing for many years. Now they have found a bigger niche in little electronic devices. Good for them! But let's not pretend the earlier failures were all intended as some kind of grand strategy. Apple is not a perfect unicorn. It's just another company, selling products.
this looks very shady to me.
Here's the thing folks- this is not an alternative to having a 16 digit passcode. this is an alternative to not having a passcode at all.
I personally guarantee that's not the case
at my work we use custom javascript/php to render our graphs with d3.js. It works quite well - we have things like a live(ish) piechart oh the status codes of web requests in the last (hour/timeperiod).

the upside is we have a dashboard that is tailored for our use case, the downside is it took a couple of days to get right.
I’ve seen this said several times—the right way to say it is that the U.S. and Eritrea are the only countries that tax non-resident citizens’ income regardless of the source of that income. There are often tax treaties in place with Western countries that reduce that value to zero based on taxes paid to the country of residence.

Canada will tax non-resident citizens if they have certain ties to Canada (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/cmmn/rsdncy-eng.html), but only on income generated in Canada.
If I need to backup my emails, why wouldn't I use some dedicated solution I have control over? Example. http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx
Nah, the old Windows phones were just fine. Did many of the things we now pretend that Apple invented. But they were for nerds. And huge phones sell reasonably well today.

The functionality was really already there. The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use.

And in the end, it's a phone, not a cultural revolution.
What benefit from paying income taxes, exactly? You're not living there, so you don't benefit from any of the social services that income tax funds.

Just about every other country I can think of does not tax citizens abroad who do not earn money on their native soil. What makes you think the US system is right and all the others are wrong?
It is a matter of building data structures and algorithms to teach a computer the meaning of words, and then use logic of how those words fit together along with parts of speech. Then make ones for logic, reason, critical thinking, and then a conscience to screen out any bad 'thoughts' (Yes you have to make a data structure for thoughts and algorithms for them as well and then a conscience function to determine if they are good or evil, like 'slice loaf of bread' is good 'slice finger off person' is evil.)

All I've been able to do is use a Thesaurus to paraphrase words at random. This Artificial genuine Intelligence will need a Thesaurus database to keep track of words and words that are like them for fuzzy logic comparisons. https://github.com/orionblastar/blastarparaphrase

My PHP/MYSQL code is just an alpha test proof of concept and I need help with it as it just does random replacements.

Someone I know has made some AI chatbots with Ruby and Python etc over here:
http://subbot.org/

They too need work, but the source code is open and you can look at it and contact the developer.
> there is not really a concept of "citizenship" for individual US states

Yes there is. The Fourteenth Amendment clearly states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
> Apple is not the 'clear winner' in the PC market, they are a small segment of it.

Yet Apple has the most profitable segment of the PC market, they make more profit on PCs than any if their competitors; it turns out Mac-free corp/gov zones are not very profitable.

Apple will keep dominating the high end of even developing markets, their profits will keep rising and they will continue not to be disrupted by Android, who seem to have trouble making money (sans Samsung). I would worry more about HTC going under than Apple.
I just don't remember seeing the hate on slashdot or kuro5hin that we see on reddit today. Then again, I remember being squicked about the way gamers would use the word "raped" to mean "soundly defeated" back in Quake 2. So i guess i cant really pretend the problem is recent.
Firstly... thanks! I love firefox, and appreciate any memory savings.

Did you do any tests for animation performance, and test that preloaders are not affected? Are these issues addressed?

Hardware accelerated decoding(like IE, and image viewers use) would help. Much modern hardware can do the whole decode-resize step in dedicated hardware.

For software only, an improvement is resizing in jpeg-space to the exact size required. It is much faster than decoding the entire jpeg (eg 5 megapixels 2MB jpeg, into 20MB of uncompressed image data) then only displaying it at 320x200 pixels(1MB at the 16bit needed for this YUV data). You can resize the smaller jpeg-space data, then not have to allocate that 20MB of data (perhaps never going back to the OS).

As well, some images compress very nicely with hardware texture compression (but many look awful). There are heuristics that can be used to decide the best type of texture to use based on the image data.

Why turn 6bit-16bit per pixel jpeg data into 32 bit per pixel data? It only takes more memory and is slower to draw. Surely jpeg usage is common enough to special case its handling?

Good luck!
> you regardless can't get a loan unless you are currently able to maintain a mortgage of 5 percentage points higher interest rate than the current variable rate

Clever! Doubtless this prevents issues like what the US faced in the sub-prime mortgage fiasco.
Is there any historical examples of a representative democratic country simplifying its tax code? How was it done?

The United States have been around for centuries, and each elected governments and congresses have their own idea about how the tax code should look like. Probably that's why now we have very complicated system, because it's the aggregation of centuries' worth of ideas.

The logical step is to simplify it, but I don't think it's really possible with the current US political system. Each part of the complexity benefits some group, and every group will influence the lawmakers to keep their benefit/loophole.
I went to a liberal arts college (Swarthmore) and I have to say: there is no way my friends are representative of the average American. grins Only one in four adult Americans has a college degree. Average income: 30K. Building search that appeals just to my friends is not my, or Bing's, mission.

(Note: I work for Bing.)
I agree, this doesn't really fill me with great confidence. There is no information about where the data is stored.. is it encrypted? Is it a company? And I am simply registered to pay $10 to be put into a waiting list?
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I suspect that it often boils down to marketing. A company selling you something somewhat better wants you to be thrilled and think it is revolutionizing everything, not "hmm this is somewhat better, I might prefer this if it doesn't cost too much more." Which may be the reality of many things which get called "disruptive".
Are you within the US? Unfortunately, Bing It On is only available in the US and China at the moment.

(Note: I work for Bing.)
If you're into hip college towns, I agree. You won't find a big tech scene there though. If it ends up being a good job, that's great; if it doesn't, you won't likely have many other options.
Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online?
I have a large csv file (data table) I would like to share online in a nice sortable/filterable/searchable table. Are there any tools that do this - preferably would like a solution with less technical experience as I know friends that have a similar goal.
This is fantastic!
I simply created 3 graphs based on email client data featuring a dendogram, circular dendogram, and circular packing. It charts the relationship of OS, device type, email client type, and client name. http://minus.com/m5VsIg2QvP2R3
The importance of talking with your children during early development was also covered on an episode[1] of Lexicon Valley (referencing the same research data as this article) for those interested.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0...
Text Analyser Reveals Emotional Temperature of Novels and Fairy Tales
SEEKING WORK - Silicon Valley or Remote

Prgmr.com is a small company that primarily rents virtual private servers[1] We owe our customers upgrades, thus... we really need quite a lot of ram. Around five terabytes of reg. ecc ddr3, to be exact. And some servers and hard drives, too, of course.

I think the quickest way to obtain the aformentioned capital goods is to rent myself out as a sysadmin.

I'm valuing myself at no less than $100/hr, but I'm okay with flat-rate jobs, too. Hell, for a monthly retainer, I'll put your site on my pager. For a larger monthly retainer, I'll make a live copy of your site and host it on my hardware.

Me? I have more than a decade of systems administration experience. I wrote a book about xen[2] Most of my experience is with Linux, but I also have many years of FreeBSD. (now, a lot of that was FreeBSD 4, 5, and 6, but hey, I was using VIMAGE/Jails back in the freebsd 4 days; a lot of this stuff is still relevant.)

I'm an especially good choice if you want to own your own hardware; I've got lots of experience dealing with a lot of physical servers. I have seen... about every problem with pxe that can occur. My networking skills are also pretty okay; I can handle most reasonable BGP configurations.

Prgmr.com has 3 full-time employees, counting myself, and a handful of contractors. Most of them are remote. If you need their skillsets, we can talk about that, too, but I'm primarily looking to rent myself out.

In a perfect world, work would slowly ramp-up over a month or so, and I'd have a good 30 hours a week starting next month, for the next half year or so, But, I'm flexible. I just need my ram.

[1]http://prgmr.com/xen

[2]http://nostarch.com/xen.htm
Well noted! I actually wrote about this very psych effect on the Bing blog; if Google doesn't give you a good result, its your fault. If Bing doesn't, its Bing's fault. This is common in situations where we go in with a bias.

(Note: I work for Bing.)
That sounds even shadier...
I don't understand this. Is this something that you just blindly send your email to and then they save it for you? There's no indication of how you get access to it, or what is sent when you submit your email. Or really why you would use this over any of the commonly available email backup solutions.
and yet you do not want to give up your citizenship, so clearly you feel you are benefiting from some of the social benefits that your income tax funds.
I am a poor startup founder as well, but I do have a car and I'm driving in from Walnut Creek. Ping me if I should pick up people on the way.
grazie. I was looking for this one.
Gates has for sure been propping up Ballmer for far too long. That has kept the status quo going long past effectiveness. The whole industry pulled one over on Microsoft cause Gates and Ballmer defended their monopoly from the DOJ long past when it became irrelevant... Which was exactly when The iPhone was released. The whole industry ceded "desktops" and invented new cheese Microsoft entirely failed to chase.
Optimizely - San Francisco, CA / Amsterdam, NL - Fulltime, Permanant. Intern/H1-B Transfer okay as well.

Intern - http://jobsco.re/1g27Jp8
Growth Engineer - http://jobsco.re/18r6N9L
Software Engineer - http://jobsco.re/1g287Ea
iOS Developer - http://jobsco.re/1hjBfoa

Optimizely is a website optimization platform. We enable businesses to show the right thing to the right person at the right time.
Our first product makes A/B Testing easy. In 2 years we’ve grown to become #1 in the category with 4,000+ paying customers including Starbucks, Disney, and Marketo. We're profitable and our revenue is growing 400% year-over-year.
Join us in our mission to empower businesses to make better data-driven decisions.

About the Job:
We have scale: 4,000+ customers (including 100 of the top websites in the world); 15 billion server requests/month You’ll work on our amazing visual editor - a cutting edge tool that is the core of our product - and will enable it to do even more awesome things for our customers Work in small teams, in a continuous integration environment; we’re fast and nimble: 1-2 deployments every day

Free city-wide Gym membership at any Crunch Fitness. Free Clipper Card to pay for your commute from anywhere in the bay area. Catered in-office lunch and dinner on weekdays. Full medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available. Full dental coverage including orthodontics. Full vision coverage including contacts. Dependents 100% covered for medical, dental, and vision. Unlimited vacation policy. 401k benefit. Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 30" monitor. Working with a great team and having a huge impact!