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Planetary Resources - Bellevue, WA - Full time

Planetary Resources, Inc (PRI), the asteroid mining company, is seeking a Flight Software and Ground Software Engineer (a combined role) for the development of innovative spaceflight products and support systems.

PRI’s vision is to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals through the rapid development of innovative and cost-effective exploration technologies. Resource extraction from asteroids will deliver multiple benefits to humanity and grow to be valued at tens of billions of dollars annually. The effort will tap into the high concentration of precious materials found on asteroids and will provide a foundation for further space exploration and a sustainable supply of raw materials to the ever-growing population on Earth.

As a software engineer, you will be responsible for creating the software products that enable PRI to deploy and operate state of the art robotic spacecraft. These software products cover the full spectrum of platforms and applications, from mission critical assembly-level code running on an embedded microprocessor to cloud-based high performance data processing.

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I'd wager that it's generally just wanting to share something funny. I don't know, it doesn't appeal to me personally. I just don't see why you'd get upset about being the target if you were being that loud in the first place.
Maybe you were quite careful when making your purchase, I wasn't. I only wanted a relatively cheap starter tablet which
I thought was what I was getting.

I didn't expect to receive a device primarily meant to serve me ads, sorry if this is a naive expectation.

As far as what should or not be posted to HN, I believe that is why there is an up/down voting system.

Your tone is unnecessarily condescending.
The master/slave analogy isn't comparable. The terms "master" and "slave" refer to the relationships between technical components of the system, not to people.

Every time inclusive language comes up, there are people who sound off about the absurdity of trying to avoid offending everyone. Yes, offending people on the Internet is fine, and probably unavoidable. That's not the issue.

Large parts of our society still routinely get excluded from many things, as a matter of course, for no reason except that it's been the status quo for a long time. Deliberately using inclusive language is a way to broadcast a conscious decision: "We are willing to make at least trivial efforts to break that trend in our group."

This is about not making people feel excluded for reasons that are completely beyond their control, particularly when they're routinely so excluded elsewhere in society.
Computer-driven cars will convulse the automotive industry
Pusher - http://pusher.com/jobs - London, United Kingdom

Pusher is a uniquely techy London company with a large and growing global user base and we are looking to hire a Lead Designer among other positions ( http://pusher.com/jobs ).

Our company's vision is to help stop developers reinventing the wheel when it comes to software, and help them focus their time and energy into valuable and meaningful work. We’re growing quickly and there’s much to be done.

We have currently a couple of open positions:

* Lead Designer: Join us as our first in house designer and you’ll have the opportunity to evolve our brand as well as the experience of the product itself. More info @ http://pusher.com/jobs/lead_designer

* Platform Engineer : The current Pusher platform is only the start of our plans. We're looking for engineers who can help us build out our platform and help shape the way software is produce. More info @ http://pusher.com/jobs/platform_engineer

* Mobile Support Engineer : Are you a kickass iOS & Android coder? Do you get a kick out of helping people build amazing things? We're looking for an outgoing, passionate engineer who will make sure our customers build awesome mobile applications with our platform. more info @ http://pusher.com/jobs/mobile_support_engineer

We are also always keen to on interns (paid) and we have other open positions. http://pusher.com/jobs
Oh, I'm not disputing Vermeer may have used photographic techniques to aid him. There is definitely a very photographic look to his work that is unlike that of most of his contemporaries. What I am disputing, however, is that they were merely used as a shortcut and that the use of these aids is the be all and end all of Vermeer's talent. Even without his alleged use of photographic techniques Vermeer was a masterful painter: his handling of paint is otherworldly and that is something no photographic aid can help you with.

It's also true that his work is much flatter than that of his contemporaries, but to my eyes there's still a lot of 3D construction lurking behind those dazzling light effects that is completely missing in paintings that we know for sure have been made as copies of photographs. Like I said, to me Vermeer is a much better painter than the grandparent gives him credit for.
If all you do are simple CRUD web pages or apps, then flow is fallacy. However not entire industry is like that.

(I hope) my product is pretty innovative, but it required long sessions of uninterrupted concentration. Sometimes I would be 'in the zone' for days, and my family complained I was like zombie.

I already gave up on 'dynamic companies' and now I work (almost) exclusively from home. There is always new excuse not to give software developers private office.
Of course if a majority agreed to a blacklist, redlist, whitelist or any other exclusionary mechanism, then some coins become less usable than others.

However I think you will find that really nobody wants to participate in such a scheme for a pretty simple reason.

Fungability is an important concept for money in order to work. A landmark case in scottland around 1750 (Crawfurd v. The Royal Bank) recognized that fungability is more important than the individual right in the money. The very same conclusion has been held up in virtually every juristiction imaginable since.

Miners, which very much depend on fungability to run their business, would be dammaging the very foundation on which they are running their business, if they would undermine fungability.

Since you would need the cooperation of the majority of miners, to do something that is not in their self-interest, a serious attack on fungability is not easy to pull off, although it gives credible threat to encourage debate.
Yaser is giving an edX course now: https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/caltechx-cs1156x-learnin...
"Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university"

Isn't it unfair to have a prejudice against someone who wasn't fortunate enough to study in a top university? I guess you have your hiring policies but shouldnt you at least consider a resume irrespective of where a guy studied from?
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The people that are complaining about pollution rather than global warming might be thinking about the particles that aren't pleasant and/or healthy to breath in. Global warming is a problem for everyone (though the effects of it may vary depending on where you are on the planet), while pollution is for some a more local problem. If, for example, all cars in a city were converted to electric cars there might be more net pollution (maybe - could be all hydroelectric for example), but the pollution itself would be concentrated around the power plants, not in the city itself. So then you won't have to deal with pollution if you live close to one of the main arteries of that city.
Almost all of our clients are based in the US, and we already have a lot of devs who are willing to do remote work.
Apparently, it is: https://github.com/elitheeli/stupid-machines (I haven't taken the time to check that, but take it that 'the internet' would have corrected this by now if it weren't true)
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Software development engineer: php, python, mysql, memcache, less, css3, html5

Email: hnu@gooval.com

About Us: We are working on developing "Quora for discussion". With 6 patents filed and seed funding, we have begun the journey to become the next big thing.

We are looking for interns who are passionate about coding and interested in building scalable systems.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote

Looking for a developer to work with me on my product, Planscope (https://planscope.io) - stack is Coffeescript/Backbone.js on the frontend and Rails on the backend.

Primarily looking for someone to assist with the frontend, since the majority of business logic and templating happens client-side. Bonus points if you have experience with optimizing JS/CSS.

Contact: brennan+hn@planscope.io
Key quote from the article:

"Unlike other awards, Hansmeier, Steele and Duffy are __personally liable__ for this award." (emphasis added)

So they can't simply close up the firm and walk away from the carcass. Their own personal funds will disappear, which is actually the proper punishment for this type of action on their part.
>September 18, 2013 8:47 AM

Lets all move along, this submission is just an attempt to stoke the fire to roast Ben Noordhuis on.
While there is a great deal of insight in the Austrian definition of money, that does not disprove that Bitcoin is, or will be used as, money.

After all, the market may price bitcoins high today but even if they drop tomorrow, as long as they stabilize, they can be used as money.

Although it is true that whatever is the most liquid asset in the system becomes money, often that asset is liquid because of local law enforcement. Which is the case with fiat currencies.

Most money today is credit money. Bitcoin is not credit-money. The "underlying value" of bitcoins is not what's relevant. What's relevant in decentralized situation is the value TO SOMEONE of an asset is what they can trade it for of genuine use to them. So the value of a bitcoin today may be limited to speculating with it. But as more merchants accept bitcoin and the market is saturated and brings diminishing returns, the value of the bitcoin will stabilize.

Similar things happened with rapidly growing social networks, like Skype or Facebook. Those are the economics at play here. Initially maybe Facebook was a way to just put up your profile, because not all of your friends were on it. But eventually it became the way to stay in touch and update your friends on what's happening, because enough of your friends used it that it became useful.

When enough people trust bitcoin to accept it as money, then it will become money. Until then, the jury is out. But the network effect only grows stronger with the number of users...
It's funny, because there are so many!
Likeable Local - Portland, Maine - Social Media Tools for Small Businesses

http://www.likeablelocal.com/

We at Likeable Local are looking to grow our team and seeking two talented and motivated software engineers. One immediate role would be perfect for someone who is great with numbers and analytics. The other role is better suited towards someone who loves working in the front-end and loves making things look and interact beautifully- with html, javascript, and css. In both cases the engineers should love building cool things, learning, and social media.

We are in Portland, Maine which is atypical for Hacker News, but is a great place to live! We aren't looking for remote workers at this time.

We are a tech-startup-spinoff of the award-winning (NYC-based) agency Likeable Media, and we are looking for people that are willing to jump right in and be on our small team (currently 3 other full-time developers) creating features that will be visible and impactful and used immediately.

We are hard-working and smart, and we love to solve challenging problems. We use a lot of node.js, javascript, python, and django.

You love being a substantial contributor and are interested in the “full stack” of technologies from details of server configuration, back-end, front-end, and mobile platforms. You are self-disciplined, self-directed, but also detail-oriented in your communication about what choices you make and what you are doing.

Likeable Local offers an integrated software solution that allows small businesses to create, enhance and manage their social media presence. Likeable Local was founded in 2012 and has a deployed product that integrates with Facebook and Twitter. The software is sold on a subscription basis, allowing for attractive recurring revenue economics, and is in use by dentists, dry cleaners, florists, and jewelers and we continue to expand.

Interested? Email me at hugh@likeable.com and lets connect!
Well we also have litecoin, peercoin, and a variety of ideas for future currencies. So we might end up with a pretty nice system of competing currencies, rather than one giant deflationary one.
Any idea as to how much does it take to build such a chamber (with decibels in minus)?
Looks like people are using the address to publicize messages now too.

"Public Note: Here's the money you asked for honey; please don't spend it all on strippers and blow like you did the last time. Love Mommy."
The efficiency of a large closed-loop stationary turbine such as is used in power generation is massively better than that of a small internal combustion engine and the oil needs far less messy processing to use as a fuel, so even if all of the power generation was oil based, switching the cars to electric would still reduce CO2 emissions and other pollutive effects.
Of course, it can be embarrassing, but sometimes you are too emotional to not carry it out instantly. This display of humanity should not be frowned upon, but sympathetically ignored. If a real mental breakdown occurs, we should even get involved and help each other instead of posting it on twitter. Your victim blaming doesn't make it right, it just shows a lack of empathy.
Bitcoin is a fiat currency.
VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA - MySQL Database Performance Management

Positions for both summer interns and fulltime available.

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Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

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We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm in the UTC+8 (Beijing) time zone.

I'm comfortable with mobile development, sysadmin, front end, and back end work in a variety of languages.

Prefer to work with small to medium companies on contract or part-time projects.

Links and contact in profile.
> In this case the progressives had no compunction in sacrificing one of their own.

Of course not. What is a mere person, compared to the progressive ideal?
Ask HN: Which useful symbols are missing from Unicode?
I was looking for the electrical "standby" symbol - AKA IEC5009 / IEEE1621. You know, the circle with the line through it. The one that's on every single bloody piece of electronic equipment produced since the mid-1970s.

It's not in the Unicode standard.

I can, if I want, have a snowman ☃ or a reversed rotated floral bullet ☙.

What other useful and/or important symbols are missing from Unicode?
Those examples are a joke. What about the volatility of big cap vs small cap stocks. Isn't that more relevant than suitors and relationships?
Delphi Automotive is looking for software architects. We work on cutting edge automobile electronics and software. Many automakers are moving toward smarter center displays and display clusters. Much of the work is embedded C and C++.
Lisp support in vim
Electrical Engineer & Obstetrician
There would still be less net pollution in your example though as the total pollution from using petrol to power the cars would still exceed the amount of pollution from an oil burning power station producing electricity to power the cars.
Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything
It's down! I think this hit Imgur's API limit.

It was my first ever app. This was more fun than I thought! Thanks HN!
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Full stack software engineer with 4+ years experience with Python, Django, JS/Jquery. I also have experience working with the following data analysis related technologies: Pandas, scikit-learn, R, sql.

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I only wanted a relatively cheap starter tablet which I thought was what I was getting.

That is, in fact, exactly what you got. I have the same device, albeit not ad supported. In other words it's exactly the same as yours except there are no ads on the lockscreen.

(sidenote: I'm really not a Kindle fanboy of any kind, but responding to your extreme post is making me sound like one!)

I didn't expect to receive a device primarily meant to serve me ads, sorry if this is a naive expectation.

Come on, you have to know you're wildly exaggerating when you say it's primarily meant to serve you ads.

As far as what should or not be posted to HN, I believe that is why there is an up/down voting system.

We're in total agreement here, that's why I flagged it.

Your tone is unnecessarily condescending.

I wrote it that way because you either went to the trouble of writing an alarmist, link-baity post like this without even doing the most cursory research (i.e. reading the product page) or you knew the post was intellectually dishonest and you said, "the hell with it" and tried to score some traffic for your blog with it anyway.

I see this type of thing get submitted more and more here, but usually I bite my tongue in the interest of civility. Today, I didn't. Sorry you were the unlucky author I called out; you're far from the only person to do this.
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We do, but I guarantee you that some idiot reporter is writing up a story right now about how Bitcoin has been "hacked".
This is how lazy Haskell programmers solve every problem.
What a mess this whole thing is. I'm looking forward to a level-headed explanation of all of this in a few days. It's a pity the witch-hunt happened before there's been meaningful dialogue to find out exactly what the situation is (name-calling and posturing doesn't count as meaningful dialogue).
The chance of solving 4 litecoin blocks is the same as solving 1 bitcoin block, sure.

But look at it this way. If bitcoin blocks were once a day, then if you had a few percent of the network power you would get 1 day = 1 confirmation ahead of your opponent all the time. But with bitcoin blocks every few minutes, you have an infinitessimal chance of getting 1 day = hundreds of confirmations ahead.

The distribution of timings is much wilder when you're only taking a couple samples. The longest confirmations in the world won't make 2-confirmation transactions completely safe, but 20 confirmations is pretty secure with any length.
When you're told to do something you can hardly go, 'Well, I'll get back to you in two weeks once I've done the preliminary public impact analysis.'

Codes of ethics for engineering are relatively simple to apply because the consequences are relatively simple to foresee, (not to say that engineering is simple, but that it remains largely an engineering problem,) build it shoddily and you broke them. And they're emotive because the consequences are both simple to foresee and catastrophic. Most people don't want to see someone killed.

But most people don't set out to write buggy code, or to cause bad things to happen in the software world - it's just that the degree of insight required to avoid such things is enormous. Especially so when working with highly restricted degrees of freedom under management that doesn't give you all the facts.

The ethics for software engineers need to be more than collections of principles pattern-matched off the ethics of other professions. They need to be different to the ethics for mechanical engineers. As the ethics for lawyers are different to those of mechanical engineers. For all that we both deal with complex systems they are very different professions, presenting their own particular types of problems with actualising ethical feelings into consistent sets of principles and actions.
The majority contents of lots of cultures is bigotry and hatefulness towards those not in the culture.

I am fine with losing it.
Exactly, I don't see how it would be practical to work in the software field in any existing society, consistent with ACM's Principle 1. The most salient example is that, to make a living in their occupation in a capitalist country, most software engineers (and developers, architects, managers, related categories) must work for commercial companies whose business models rely on lock-in tactics, licensing that forces users to submit to data-mining in order to use the products, undermining functionality for users to benefit third parties, and other arguable abuses.

Even using a licence more restrictive than GPL seems to me unethical and against public interest, but would exclude the majority of employment prospects.

Of course not everyone agrees on the preceding point - many believe commercialization of software is perfectly ethical. Similarly there is disagreement over whether working for, say, the NSA would be ethical. And such differences in turn point up the hazard of any one organization's vision of ethical conduct being pushed on an industry.

The ultimate hazard is codes of conduct becoming defacto enforced in hard or soft state policies. The ACM does not appear to be advocating that at the moment (nor is the parent poster I'm replying to), but that is where this sort of thing leads.
I'm glad you're happy about your education, but to be clear: you don't actually speak representatively for all PhD students.

Although I enjoyed many parts of my PhD experience, and the subsequent Postdoc, I rarely harboured (after my first year of grad school when I saw how competitive faculty positions are) the belief that my PhD (from a competitive school in a hot area) would allow me to work on anything I wanted for a reasonable salary.

I will say this: PhDs go a long way to maximizing freedom, but they are not a panacea. Positions for research are typically quite limited, and it's more likely, you'll end up a terminal "Research Associate" (little pay or autonomy) or working in an Industrial Lab (which has its own plusses and minuses).

Real freedom comes from being the top 1%.
What about global reach, permanence and "newspapers" picking up the stories for cheap entertainment?
I propose a vacuum chamber as a better candidate for the title of the quietest place on earth.
I remember similar stories when someone made a "Windows 7 activation cracker" around the same principle.