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Oakland, CA - Director of Engineering at Geospatial Startup

Vehicle Data Science Corporation is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead design and implementation of software that processes and analyzes big spatial data sets. The company is an early-stage startup located in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood with initial funding from a National Science Foundation grant and a major automobile client. We use location data from vehicles to derive driving behaviors which we capture in a proprietary database. This database feeds applications in the areas of driver safety, fuel economy and autonomous vehicles.

We are looking for a smart, adaptable individual with plenty of skills and breadth in computing to build products from our data streams. By joining us today, you get a unique chance to engineer new technology from the ground up. Working in tandem with the company’s CTO, you will tackle both back end infrastructure and a web front end. Initially, the position will primarily involve hands-on coding and systems administration, but it can evolve toward more supervision and/or architectural work as we grow, based on your inclinations.

Our current systems are built 100% in Python, with a PostGIS database in the back end. Our roadmap includes two key tasks that the Director of Engineering must be equipped to lead:
* Take the back end to the next level by splitting it into multiple databases that each fulfill a specific purpose, and shard our primary data warehouse so it can handle tens of terabytes. The choice of technologies is still to be determined, so a broad range of experience with distributed systems and nosql databases is desirable;
* Build an interactive web front end that dynamically displays geospatial data, in the form of both maps and charts. We are looking for a track record delivering interactive web applications, experience with web maps, and good programming skills both server-side and client-side.

Individuals who are creative, honest, open-minded, enterprising, kind and attentionate to details will fit our team the best. The project is incredibly fun and innovative, addresses major societal challenges in the areas of public health and sustainable development, and eyes a huge market opportunity. Come help us grow the company you want to be a part of!

To reach us, e-mail: contact@VDS-corp.com
Yeah, me neither, I don't understand why the huge gap. Would be interesting to see some technical background on this, though.
Watertown, MA (Boston, MA) -- Full Time -- Full Stack Engineer

<http://skimbox.co/>** Skimbox is an intelligent mail app that puts important messages first. Skimbox marries the security enterprises need with the usability you deserve.

Our team is looking for a Full Stack Engineer. Is scaling huge systems your game? How about working directly on our systems and applications while you’re at it? We’re looking for DevOps folks who know how to run distributed systems, scale them, and write a little code too. Is all this in your bag of tricks? Let us know! hr@skimbox.co

More about our team, here: <http://skimbox.co/team/> But in short, we welcome all manner of ideas, beliefs, hobbies, diets, and toaster oven preferences. Most of us work from around 10-6, some of us work from 9-5 or 8-4. We like Agile, though we've been to Niagara. Some of us have our own offices, some of us share offices, some of us work in the open office. There are no hammocks, but there is a nap room. Attending conferences and taking classes is encouraged. Amassing new skills is encouraged. Voicing your opinion is encouraged. Write to us for more hr@skimbox.co
'x more users needed to unlock this area: invite users'

that is goddamn brilliant.
Android has really been a source of innovation over the past few years. I would hate to see things take a step back. I recall a couple years ago, when Google had to remove the integrated search feature from Android -- that searched both local and online -- due to some IP infringement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
No, anyone in Toronto would come work out of the NYC office. (As John mentions in the thread there is a also a set of devs working on the government/law product down in D.C.)
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Does anybody watch explainer videos? I never do and if I you can't explain yourself w text you can find yourself another prospect.
I'm sure the phones feelings were taken into consideration though.
Remove the living organisms component, and it's almost exactly what people are talking about when they refer to a software ecosystem.

I don't see your problem.
I made the perhaps incorrect assumption that your original reply to me way up there was somehow intended to actually reply to me, and therefore that your nonsense rhetoric about "shut down an opposing viewpoint" was something you thought actually applied to me.

If it didn't, then why did you reply to my comment in the first place?
Wedding Party - http://www.weddingpartyapp.com/jobs - Palo Alto, CA, REMOTE OK

Help us make weddings awesome for the hundreds of millions of people who attend weddings every year. We are a small team of engineers and designers that has made waves in the last year with our mobile apps for couples and guests. We’ve grown fast and Wedding Party is now used at hundreds of thousands of weddings a year. We’ve been featured on the AppStore for the two months. There are fun design, product, and scaling challenges ahead.

We are looking for:
-Rails developer
-Android developer
-iOS developer

Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of one of our major product platforms
- Be able to iterate quickly over UX interactions and designs
- Be obsessive over details and be ready to ship great code

Requirements:
-Experience working on interesting projects
-Be prepared to learn and teach
-Experience building products with millions of users a plus
email: jobs@weddingpartyapp.com
Definitions change.
Maybe I'm being overly pedantic here, but if you're going to call out a project like systemd that is headed in the direction of being the de facto standard in all the other serious Linux distributions, you probably should have looked at the project closely enough to have seen the big deal they make of the correct spelling on their homepage (i.e. systemd vs SystemD). Actually, I'm definitely being overly pedantic here, but his completely dismissive attitude towards systemd makes this KWin post make a bit more sense. Certainly sways me in the direction of agreeing.
What, oh kinda like Stephen Elop? I'd say go for it since, you know, #yolo.
It was enough to seal my intentions to never buy an apple product again. And FTR I have a mac book air, and 2 ipods (touch, music) ... Never again.
Portland, OR Developer. FULL-TIME, REMOTE

BatchGeo is hiring front end developers with heavy experience in developing interactive user experiences. We have full-time and contract positions available, remote working OK.

Our company is small, profitable, and growing quickly.

More info here:

http://blog.batchgeo.com/web-developer-jobs-at-batchgeo/

jobs@batchgeo.com
There's a fairly stark divide I've seen while using this and other game trading sites between users who want to see a dollar equivalent and users who want to see a micro economy like this function independently of real currency. The direction that the major sites seem to be moving is more closely aligning with actual dollars, so VGFive explicitly stating 100 credits == $1, for example. Its initial model tried to act more independently, following what was more or less an economic collapse in the competitor site that first used that model, but after VGFive was bought, its internal economy also suffered massive inflation. Mathgeek obviously has more internal knowledge of how the economy reacted to the various changes that were introduced, but from a user's perspective it seems likely that trying to create something like this with an "independent" economy is more or less unsustainable (much to my dismay because I actually don't like the credit/dollar equivalence and much preferred the queue & supply/demand system).
I have the same feeling. Have you checked Rust? It is a different approach where ownership and mutability are strictly controlled via the type system.
Boston - Lose It!

Software Developers, Data Scientist
(Full Time, Boston based preferred)

We've been helping people lose weight since 2008, and since then Lose It! has reached more than 16 million people (maybe even a few here on HN). We're still a very small company, just 8 people, located in the Seaport District in Boston. We're product focused and believe that small teams can make a huge impact when they are focused and motivated. We're venture backed by General Catalyst and United Healthcare.

If you'd like to help us change people's lives and build the next generation of technology to help people manage their weight, we're looking for developers as well as a data scientist. Learn more at http://www.loseit.com/jobs or drop me a line directly at charles at loseit.com.
My first app: OkCupid for networking
My best friend and I hated our jobs and wanted a non-awkward way to reach out to people whose work interested us. We finally quit our jobs, moved into bunkbeds (http://instagram.com/p/WOPgf-rcFB/), and learned to code in order to build a community of people open to meeting strangers whose work interests them, over coffee. We're now talking to companies who will be featuring their employees as "ambassadors" offering coffee meetings ("treatings") to individuals interested in working at their company.

We think job sites suck and that networking/job seeking should work like online dating. Would love peoples' feedback, and an upvote!
Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty: the UCB1 Algorithm
This building is energy neutral because all the lights are off and there's no power.
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I don't know the specifics, but most of the backlash against Mir is political (and rightly deserved). Canonical had originally stated they were going to support wayland, like most other distros, but were suddenly overcome with a huge case of NIH and decided to make their own. While in the early stages of development Canonical released some "technical information" which basically blatantly lied about wayland and it's capabilities.

Mostly Mir exists because Canonical had a huge case of NIH.

Sorry for not having any technical information.
After reading this thread I feel very few commenters have actually driven across the USA. It is easy to go 100+ mph for a few hours and see maybe a dozen cars (esp in Texas and New Mexico or any stretch of I-10 for that matter). I actually feel it is more dangerous for people on SF's 101 that go 60mph instead of 90mph.
What scares Google?
I think you missed my point. We weren't inspired enough to continue once we reached the moon. We did not continue on to Mars, and we didn't want to increase NASA's budget. Most people here weren't even born when we went to the moon.

Consider that we need to import engineers in the US because many Americans don't want to do the job.
Sounds like a great way to conceal an espionage/reconnaissance operation.

Or maybe it's a self-driving ship.
From the article:

> I cannot remember that I have ever been insulted in public, in fact I'm not used to getting insulted at all. And if people normally are able to say sorry. I and many others asked Mark to withdraw his comment and post an apology instead.

Ok, see here's the problem. The developer community, and especially the FOSS portion of the developer community, love to tout the fact that the community is a "meritocracy". But what does that mean? Certainly, insulting individuals (as opposed to their work product) is not in the spirit of a meritocracy.

...but neither is asking for an apology.

Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth have made a technical decision. If the FOSS community is a meritocracy, the fate of their products will be determined by the merit of those decisions. That they also spilled so many vitriolic words in the direction of the "competition" should matter not at all.

If the FOSS community is a meritocracy, then the appropriate reaction would be to continue making the best decisions possible, producing the best products possible, and ignoring anything anyone says that does not speak to the merits of those decisions or products.

...if this is a meritocracy.

Perhaps it's high time we drop the charade of "meritocracy" and admit that software projects, FOSS or otherwise, are run by humans with human emotions and human reactions, and that for better or worse, the majority of the developer community makes decisions based more on emotion than on a dispassionate evaluation of a project's merits.
I hear you.

I think I'm discussing the celebrity culture around these frameworks more than the frameworks themselves. I don't have a problem with them technically, they're a bit beyond what I could make. But I don't want to see classical notions of program design phased out in favor of "just use X." The ideas of what makes software malleable, pleasant to maintain, and grow are quite old.
> What seems extraordinary to you might not be to someone else. Go be a pretentious pseudo-intellectual somewhere else.

It is not extra-ordinary to you that computer viruses travel through sound waves using computer speakers and microphones, yet when this supposed "expert" tries to uncover and provide samples of it, the evidence magically disappears.

> First of all, his credentials are irrelevant (see: appeal to authority fallacy). Secondly, they are listed in the article itself, which you obviously didn't even bother reading.

Oh I see you are an expert on fallacies. As an exercise try finding a few fallacies in your comment.
It's a bit ridiculous to accuse Kool Aid drinking when you haven't provided any evidence that the White House directly ordered NPS to close parks and monuments. It certainly is possible, but where is the proof? Even an off-the-record statement from a WH official would suffice.

There are plenty of reasons to not take Obama's word at face value, and there are plenty of real things to criticize him over without making up stuff.
Interestingly, the UK government has today made all company accounts free to access, which should help lots of other small businesses to understand how their business is performing versus their competitors

http://www.cosights.com/blog/uk-government-makes-company-acc...
First off, it's not baseless, it really would take an hour or two for someone who is familiar with Meteor, since it's built for helping you create exactly this type of applications.
I was not discounting the work that was done but pointing out that a better platform for this application corner case would be something actually built to support real-time web applications from the ground up with less context switching, such as a full JavaScript solution. It would simply take less time and resources to build it all in JavaScript from the beginning if you're familiar with it, whether the framework was Meteor or other frameworks.
There's nothing trendy about this value judgement. Which specific part do you disagree with?
I'm not saying that Meteor is killing RoR, now you're bringing your own bias and baggage from other stories that you disagree with into this discussion. My point was for this specific application case, not broadly for all applications and implementations.
Someone needs to get started on breaking JQ down into it's component pieces. So much in there that I never use.
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Portland, OR - Remote Ok

BatchGeo is seeking front end developers with heavy experience in developing interactive user experiences. We have full-time and contract positions available, remote working OK.

Our company is small, profitable, and growing quickly.

More info here:

http://blog.batchgeo.com/web-developer-jobs-at-batchgeo/

jobs@batchgeo.com
Hired, Inc - Talent Marketplace, Full Cycle Recruitment Solution - San Francisco - No Remote or Telecommute

We have a variety of technical and non-technical roles. On the non-technical side, you can check out our careers page: http://hired.com/careers. We are looking for candidate centered recruiters and product managers that can manage our marketplace transactions.

On the tech side, we hire exclusively from our marketplace (https://hired.com/signup?btn=HomeHeader) and have 3 open engineering positions as well as a junior designer. We're a Rails shop with an Angular front-end, and while we like Rails and Angular folks, we'll also look at other excellent individual contributors (the last guy we hired had a Clojure / Java background).
As the article states the newer stuff does not have the scarecity that the Golden Age and thus and not worth as much.
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I thought that was so childish and crass of him. I really dislike the term "Open Source Tea Party". It's just so infuriating on so many levels.

First of all, it's a lazy insult - it's just applying a label (also known as name calling) to put people down without any context. It implies that these people are irrational, inflexible and idealistic, but with a bad connotation. He could have argued that those things are true in a more diplomatic way, and more importantly, by using evidence other than just claiming that mir is "important" or "a huge leap forward for gaming performance...". Instead, he just labels the people who happen to disagree with him as the tea party. Great.

Secondly, I think it's fair to be concerned about what's going on with mir. Maybe he's telling the truth that they just want the best solution... I think everyone, whether you want Wayland or not, would like to move away from X. So maybe mir is the right way to go. However, they failed to make the case for this in a typical open source way. Why not improve Wayland instead of going off and doing your own thing? If the direction of Wayland is awful or wrong, why not point that out? And instead of just claiming that's the case, why not try to use evidence to prove that it's the case? I have been following this closely, but have no idea what the advantages of the two proposed systems is better... but it certainly seems that almost everyone other than Canonical is rooting for and working on Wayland, which isn't really a good sign...

It's very easy to be skeptical because of all the good will they sacrificed by sticking Amazon adds in my god-damned desktop. Honestly, that seems like such a shameless land-grab for clueless users' personal data which really damages their privacy. It wouldn't even have been an issue if it was simply opt in. So, because they made that poor decision, people are skeptical, critical, maybe even a bit irrational. But that shouldn't be surprising. And even if you're being personally attacked yourself, it doesn't make it right to attack other people - many of whom aren't trying to make their contributions a business and are doing their work with pure intentions - unlike Canonical and Mark who clearly have a business angle in all this (which, in and of itself, is totally fine).

Sorry for the rant, guys. I mean, do people really think "open source tea party" is at all fair?
Looking for freelance work as a fullstack developer presently located in Russia but can travel worldwide without needing Visa.

- Ruby / Rails 4.0 / RSpec, Cucumber etc.

- JavaScript(Ember, jQuery)

- DevOps, admin

- Able to be in limited designer capacity

If your project is cool I can probably coax some local developers to join in on the project.

http://livetorchrelay.com - most recent live project - about 4 days worth of work.
True. It does take some getting used to. I think it's better now that it's a simpler $1/100 translation.

Among users who complete at least one trade, the raw average is 15 trades/user (that just a trades/users calculation). Right now, 91% of users who complete at least one trade come back to trade again.
>>> ord('@')
64
Now that was an incredibly useful answer to my question. Thank you so very much.
It's not pure capitalism, of course. But America is undeniably more capitalistic than the majority of OECD countries and even goes so far as to consider capitalism an ideal, and capitalistic policies to be more virtuous. And the US is very much a low-tax country, in aggregate. See this graph: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2011/12/taxasgdp2...

From source: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2011/12/08/australian-e...
Except it often does. I've been in multiple situations where people who knew less then me were more senior, simply because they had been around longer.
Is Zwarte Piet racism?
Philadelphia, PA -- RJMetrics -- http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring analysts, account managers, developers, and dev ops.

RJMetrics works with some of the most exciting ecommerce and SaaS businesses in the world. We help them combine data from many sources and make it actionable and understandable.

We're solving problems around big data, data visualization, optimizing online marketing and merchandising, and building great UI's.
If 6% is a huge percentage, I literally do not have the words to describe what kind of percentage 94% must be.
Rinse ( http://www.rinse.com ) - San Francisco, CA
Rinse is a very early-stage startup (we are only 3 people currently) looking to bring technology to the dry-cleaning industry. The industry is ripe for innovation! We're building mobile apps, tackling scheduling and dispatch problems, and scaling a service at over 10% week-on-week growth for months now.

I know 'app for laundry' is a tech cliché right now, but we're definitely encountering real demand. The problem is real, and we're solving it.

The team is very strong, with an HBS grad who grew up in a dry-cleaning family heading operations, and a Stanford GSB grad with direct consumer startup experience heading customer acquisition. I'm Stanford CS/EE, have built a few teams at various startups, and am just starting to build the technology and team to support this (very viable) business.
The tech stack is Heroku / Python / Django / Celery / Phonegap / JQuery / Backbone / Twilio currently, but obviously there is plenty of opportunity to influence technology decisions early on, and plenty of opportunity to learn new technologies as well. We expect the next couple of hires to own entire new efforts, and have their hands in wide-ranging parts of our entire business.

We're looking for a Web Developer or Front-end Developer to develop interfaces for our customers, tools for our personnel, and visualizations for our managements. Ideally, this person would also have an active role in the design process as well, either leading design or working with our contract designer.

We're also looking for a Director of Marketing. Rinse is a quintessential B2C business, with plenty of opportunities for online advertising, offline collateral, partnerships, and 'growth hacking.' We're building a scalable business model and the technology to support it, now help us scale the business. Please see a job description at http://bit.ly/1dLJigo - The sky's the limit!

Finally, if anyone in San Francisco is looking to make a few extra dollars part-time, Rinse is hiring part-time Associates to help us deliver clothes. We pay $25 per hour for a handful of hours per week. Perhaps it would be a way for some of you bootstrapping startups to earn a little extra cash? To apply to the Driver / Associate position, fill out this web form: https://docs.google.com/a/rinse.com/forms/d/1kWZYu1kg1r8kxdD...

Hacker News has definitely been our most successful recruiting channel. Thank you! Feel free to contact me at sam@rinse.com with questions, comments, or applications.
Drones can be anyplace in the world within a matter of hours too, if you keep a bunch of them on station all over the place. And while that sounds expensive, drones are so cheap (relatively) to build and operate that it's still going to be far more cost effective than a mach 6 anything.