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iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA)

Do you think robots are cool? So do we!

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but no robotics background is required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.

Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:

* Android developer

* Embedded software engineers: We're hiring for "big embedded" (C++, Linux, and big cpus) and "small embedded" (C, bare-metal, small cpus). If you have good OO skills (C++, Java, etc.) but no "embedded" background that's okay too - shoot me an email and we'll chat.

* Software engineers for vision, navigation, and mapping

* Test engineers

* Mechanical engineer

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com
San Francisco (relocation possible) - HouseCanary -http://housecanary.com

Looking for UX/UI designer and Frontend Developer

Over the past year we brought together real estate experts, economists, and Statistics PhD’s to build a big data platform to accurately forecast real estate values up to 36 months into the future for all 381 US counties (MSA's) and 25,000 major zip codes. We forecast at this level as real estate truly is local, and we’ve found there are huge differences in how markets move between zip codes in a county. Our forecasts have over 90% accuracy forecasting housing prices up to 3 years out for most US real estate markets. We have back-tested these models for accuracy over the past 40 years, so that we can have confidence in calling the major market turns, and also understand where we are in the cycle and the likely future returns.

We are currently working with sophisticated institutions such as homebuilders, land investors, mortgage banks, etc. to use these forecasts.

We will be building housecanary.com into a full consumer oriented website in early 2014. We want to provide property owners in the US with a simple and accurate forecast for what is likely to happen to their home's value over the next few years (at a zip code level), given that a home represents most people's single largest investment in life. There are many people who want to better understand and plan for future price swings, similar to how they manage the rest of their financial assets, however currently, there is insufficient information available to consumers. We can now provide 80M US households with powerful data/forecasts only the largest banks and hedge funds had access to historically.

Positions available:

UI/UX Designer - Our ideal designer will be able to build beautiful and simple web sites, help out with product design and implement the designs in HTML and CSS. However being able to code is not required, just a huge plus. We’re building very data driven products, so experience working on analytic heavy sites is also a plus.

Frontend developer - Our frontend is compiled statically (hosted on s3 and cloudfront) and all data is pulled via angular from our API. Our graphs are built using d3.js, we use SASS as our css preprocessor and grunt for our builds and deployment. Our ideal frontend developer will have prior experience with angular and prior experience building out analytic driven sites

We’re a small but growing team, so your work will have large impact of the future success of the company. And as one of our first hires you will rewarded with meaningful equity in the company.

We have an office in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We cover health, dental and vision for all of our employees. Please note, we’re currently only looking to hire people who are located in the US or have US work authorization.

If interested please email joey@housecanary.com
Ginkgo Bioworks - http://www.ginkgobioworks.com/ - Boston, MA

Ginkgo BioWorks is a young company out of MIT with the mission of making biology easier to engineer. We engineer organisms to address fundamental challenges the world is facing today. We aren't trying to study biology, we are trying to build it - constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house pipeline of synthetic biology technologies to design and build new organisms.

You will be working closely with our biological engineers to design and implement our computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) platform. Work includes programming robots to build metabolic pathways and new genomes, automate measurement processes, and implementing gene and pathway design algorithms. You don't need previous biology experience; Ginkgo is a great environment for amazing programmers to learn to hack biology.

Ginkgo's programming languages of choice are Ruby, Python, and DNA, but you must be someone who loves writing elegant code in any language. Most importantly, you should be passionate about making biology the next engineering discipline, and learning new things.

Interested? Please email jobs@ginkgobioworks.com. We have both full time positions and 1-year internships.
Because it's infinitely more complicated. One context menu can end up bigger than your screen [1] and that doesn't count the number of different debug windows hanging off the debug menu [2], there's a bunch of menus for testing, editing etc most of which are not right in front of me.

I'm pretty handy with VS but given its sheer size I don't need any extra impediments. RANDOM ALL CAPS MAKES THIS SENTENCE DISTRACTING. I HAVE TO LOOK AT MENUS A LOT.

Contrast with the Outlook ribbon's "Home" tab which puts 95% of what I need to do right there always visible by default. I don't have to hunt around at the top of my SCREEN WHICH IS IN DISTRACTING ALL CAPS nearly as much.

The first thing I do after installing VS2012/VS2013 is to edit the registry to return the correct casing to the top level menus.

The icon scheme for SSDT in VS2012 was the worst. No colour, just symbols. Want to add a primary key? Look for the key icon. Sounds good in practice but there's lots of monochromatic key symbols overlaid onto other monochromatic symbols (primary key on table, symmetric key, foreign key). At least with the colour I can more easily distinguish the primary key is gold and the blue square it's in front of is a table.

FWIW I don't think I was significantly less productive in VS2012 than 2010 but it's a moot point now since VS2013 put colour back in.

[1] Best I could do: http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC653694.png

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
The doctors are doing a risk/benefit analysis: the risk is to the patient and the benefit is to their wallets. It's a no brainer.

Everyone likes to shit on lawyers, but US doctors routinely take on, and fail to disclose, conflicts of interest that would get a lawyer disbarred in a heartbeat.
The Kansas City Police helicopters are also equipped with 3 of our Augmented Reality mapping Systems:

http://www.churchillnavigation.com/media/videos/40-san-juan-...
Popcap is owned by EA, who is well known for being heavy handed with their studios. EA happens to really like the IAP model.
Actually, I don't know if you've caught the news, but they're in the process of implementing a "automatic level 90" token as an IAP, which will probably hit their store before their next expansion comes out.

I don't personally have an issue with it, but their IAP is encroaching subtly on the gameplay, and it might not stop there.
To clarify an important point: this is including rest mass as part of the energy budget, as E=mc^2. In most discussions the conclusion is the opposite: you get vastly higher moment/energy for massive particles, ordinary molecules like hydrogen, because engineers aren't counting the energy required to create hydrogen from nothing -- only the energy to accelerate it! The moment/energy of light is actually terribly low for practical purposes.
Since bind() creates a new function just before it's added as a listener, you'll have to save that function somewhere and use that as the listener you want to remove.
doesn't really matter, just be consistent
Well, good thing it's so easy to pirate. Older versions only required blocking Adobe servers in your hosts file. The newer ones just need replacement of a single lib. Why do I know this? because I tried to purchase their software and was DENIED "We're sorry but we can't approve your application to purchase Adobe CC.
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BindHQ

BindHQ is building a CRM for the financial services sector that leverages machine learning, public api's and the latest open source tech. We're a bi-coastal company with a startup culture backed by Scottish American Capital, Peterson Venture's and HV Capital.

Full Stack Engineer

BindHQ is looking for an engineering lead with experience building large scale web applications. We're looking for people who care deeply about quality of execution and can set their own direction.

Stack: PHP/Symfony2, Clojure, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)

Email: Cristian [at] scottishamerican [dot] com
The EEP (Erlang Enhancement Proposal) about maps is really neat and a superb documentation.

http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0043.html
The name at the top of his comment was actually "Scott Valentine".
So is it .bind() itself that is slow, or the function that it returns? Assuming the bind operation itself is done during initialization, its slowness is pretty irrelevant.
Easily one of my favorites. Comments about it are painfully predictable and get split into two basic camps. People try and read all types of bullshit about current Apple into it, and those who make the very simplistic underdogs/countercultrualists-turned-authoritarians observation.

However, for those who simply take it for what it is, it's genuinely creepy which is so unusual for advertising. Strange creepy you get every so often, but scary/dark creepy is pretty rare in advertising. With the obvious exception of scared straight PSAs and political ads. Rarely does a business trying to simply sell you a product take such a freaky approach.

Sorry, I'll let you return to your glib observations and poorly thought out conclusions about Apple users, "Apple culture" and whatnot.
But people can still vote and I'm sure that voting and democracy will help them elect honest leaders who have their best interest in mind, right? I mean, it worked in 2008 with Obama, right? Right?
As a technical person, I can recognize a URL when I see it and prefer the non-www version for brevity's sake.

But many non-technical people cannot understand if something is a website URL without the WWW in front of it. It's probably best to add WWW if your target audience is normal humans.
100 extra cases of cancer out of how many already...? Yes, it's negligible either way.
Least bytes?

var a=process.argv,i=a.length,x=0;while(i>2)x-=-a[--i];console.log(x)
Making the Case for the F-word in Advertising — Yeah Davy, THAT F-word.
The templating of the key descriptors is neat, but not original. NewtonScript did this in the early 90s (mostly in response to the severe memory pressure on the Apple Newton). I believe that Self did it, too (but those guys were on Sun workstations, and just showing off as far as I'm concerned :-) )
The false positive rate seems high enough to make this effectively useless. I wonder if they have a strategy for reducing it?
r/conspiracy is a joke full of hyperbole. That's a pretty large jump from Snowden's NSA leaks to the government using threats regularly to control people to full on civil war with all journalists dead or in jail.
Imgur Is Growing Up By Offering Users Data On Where Viral Pics Take Off
In my experience, Google is only mostly magic. This is probably the fault of the Linux community. Too often the process for how to fix something in Linux is listed on a website as a few cryptic commands, then "and you've got it from there, right?" when you're completely not done yet and there are still several steps to go that they done explain. Its infuriating.
In my experience standing up to bullies was always completely useless. I mean, it might work, but wit and physical ability are necessary to make that happen in practice and many who are bullied have neither (I certainly didn’t).

Bullies do know very well how to react to someone standing up to them. All my bullies did. It was worthless. I was always unable to do or say the right things to stop them.

This always seemed like a useless platitude to me that doesn’t work one bit outside of very specific circumstances.
The slug in the url is how_we_found_600000_grammar_errors. Did they not get enough attention at first? How many style and grammar errors did they really find?

> So we manually looked at 200 of the errors, finding that 29 of the 200 errors were real errors. Projected to the whole Wikipedia (currently at 4.3 million articles), that's about 1.1 million real errors

Projections are fine, but maybe the title should be something like "How we found (probably) a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia".
And this is why bind mounts are evil -- standard tooling completely hasn't caught up with them.
leo'c Law of Medicine: You can get away with Absolutely Anything Whatsoever if you characterise it as a medical treatment.
Many people who do things professionally for many years have terrible blind spots endemic to their profession. It's obvious to those who pay attention that you are not like that, but it doesn't surprise me that many miss it.
The new laptops have touch because Microsoft decreed that it should be so. Macs don't have it. ChromeOS devices don't have it. If any manufacturer wants to claim that they take full "advantage" of Windows 8, they have to have touch screens, and having watched people use them, they look like an ergonomic nightmare. Granted, people are actually using them, but my suspicion is that it's because the trackpads on Windows laptops are horrifically bad, and they forgot to bring their mouse to the meeting.

I am extremely skeptical of your "impossible to maintain" argument against separate OSes. Again, Apple seems to do it just fine. I realize I must sound like a total Apple fanboy, but while I'll concede that their innovation has worn thin, the overall usability and design of their core products has remained inoffensive at the very least. The same could not be said for Microsoft's current offerings.
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I agree. It is just useful to have the ideas and paradigms used in one's toolbox. Concurrent isolated units working together by sending messages. That is interesting and can be implemented in other systems. Like say using a message broker like RabbitMQ or 0mq and isolated processes. Or the idea of supervision. Have a supervisors OS process watch and restart its workers and so on. Those can be implemented and applied without even touching Erlang itself.
Russian Federation Anti-Gay Laws: An Analysis and Deconstruction [pdf]
How does this work? Seems like "+ 5" should be a block, but there's no square brackets.
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So you're saying that the net positive migration from countries like Sweden to countries like the US is due to the fact that generally only relatively successful people have the ability to immigrate? And that if all classes of society were able to move freely that the net migration would be in the other direction?

I'm willing to admit that this is possible, but at this point that sounds like a hypothesis than anything approaching a definitive statement about how reality actually works.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
There's no way to load PSD files other than paying obscene amounts of money. Both pricing models screw the person who has to occasionally open and view PSDs - the monthly fee screws you unless you're opening and editing lots of files; the one-time fee screws you unless you manage to open a bunch of files before the new version comes out and you're not compatible with what artists/designers are sending you anymore.

At least with formats like DOC, there are free reader apps available and free converters, because the format has public specifications and is used for interchange. In comparison, working with artists and designers is just plain expensive, because they all use Photoshop and the only way to consume their work is to buy Photoshop.

You can call the OP names if you want, but I think the larger evil here is what Adobe's done.
It's interesting that you bring up sports and the military as examples. I suspect that neither of those emphasize team interviews to determine cultural fit to anywhere near the extent that the tech industry does.
SEEKING FREELANCER -
I created this meetup group earlier this year for iOS and Android freelancers: http://www.meetup.com/ios-android-freelancers/
It runs on Erlang's VM. So there are chances if you pick one up or another you'll be able to at some level inter-operate.

It is up to you, try one and another one. Some people have big issue with Erlang's syntax. I actually kind of like it, so I prefer Erlang.

Others find Elixir more approachable, it reminds them of Ruby for example. Elixir has macros so you can do some nifty things with them. Those kind of blow my mind when I read them so I am afraid I would get too "clever" with them.

You can call Erlang from Elixir fairly easily so you can take advantage of libraries you find for Erlang.

So kind of up to you. Whatever you like or whatever gets you more productive and interested.
Interestingly Stewart Brand was out this year arguing http://edge.org/response-detail/25392 against of the the Linear No-Threshold model of radiation risk:

"The "Linear" part of the LNT is true and well documented. Based on long-term studies of survivors of the atomic bombs in Japan and of nuclear industry workers, the incidence of eventual cancer increases with increasing exposure to radiation at levels above 100 millisieverts/year. The effect is linear. Below 100 millisieverts/year, however, no increased cancer incidence has been detected, either because it doesn't exist or because the numbers are so low that any signal gets lost in the epidemiological noise."

IDK if his case if convincing or not. In any case, even if say 10, 50 or 100 millisieverts a year is something the human body can shrug off with no increase in risk, I imagine that might not apply to 10-30 millisieverts delivered in a very short interval of time.
DigitalH2O - Chicago, IL, Full Time Senior Software Developer

Looking for a senior software developer with a strong background in ruby (not necessarily in the context of rails). We do a lot of work with various data sources and an API written in ruby using the grape framework ties it all together. You would be a very early hire with significant opportunities to make a huge impact!

About Us:
Digital H2O, Inc. (“DH2O”) is an early stage Big Data startup focused on creating an online water management analytics and marketplace platform to disruptively change how energy companies manage scarce water resources. Our software as a service (SaaS) platform will enable oil and gas companies in North America to more cost effectively, and sustainably, manage oilfield water. Water management is a growing issue for unconventional oil and gas plays both from an economic, regulatory, and public perception perspective. Digital H2O believes passionately in the “win-win”; world-class data analysis, combined with software and marketplace mechanisms, can help our society solve challenging natural resource and environmental problems.

If you are interested or would like to know more, send me a message at wcleveland ( at ) digitalh2o.com
You can use phrases which link into the service name:

Face book

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Twitter

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> When something does not work in Linuxland the answer is still "open the terminal, enter a bunch of cryptic commands" and/or manually edit text-based config files.

That's true in OSX too, though. After upgrading to 10.9 ("Mavericks") I had a 'systemstats' process taking up 100% CPU and >3GB of RAM at random points. Did some googling and reading through forum threads, and the solution was to muck with some BerkeleyDB files in a terminal. Is OSX an acceptable modern desktop OS?

Windows in my experience has been even worse, in that for OSX there at least usually exists some arcane way of fixing your problem, while in Windows it's just "wipe and reinstall", because the problems are totally opaque. (I don't have great memories of the registry editor, either.)
...and the developer lives on about $35K/year, which is far less than what he could be generating with that franchise.
Which is one reason why Ruby Motion is such a nice environment for iOS development. You can query and send messages to live objects in the running system. You cannot change method definitions without recompiling, unfortunately.
Happened in Ukraine though. Pretty much out of the blue sky. People thought they were rather safe, judging by the experience of the past years and then suddenly this violence. Why? Because when government feels threatened it doesn't care about constitution or anything it ever promised. The question for the government is "what is the most effective way I can deal with this". If violence is more effective and government has more to lose not using it, violence will be used.
OP here -- happy to answer anything that's not clear in the post!
Oh cool! Did not know about this.
since the media is now exposing this secret there must have already been a decline in CT scans, otherwise the media would never say a word about it. The media never exposes a mainstream money making scam until the money has gone out of it.
Ask any developer if they've ever had the experience of hiring someone who blew them away in an interview and turned out to be either completely ineffective or, worse, slapdash and incompetent on the job. Then, ask how long that poor-fit developer managed to remain on the job before being shown the door.

Or, ask an engineer how many times over the course of their career they've worked with "worthless" teammates, or people who should never have been hired. I've worked across a decent slice of the industry these past 19 years, and from what I can tell, this story is universal.

Another strong piece of evidence on my side is software quality, or the pervasive lack thereof.

Another piece of evidence is fizzbuzz.

Another piece of evidence is the (harmful) trend of demanding that candidates work on a contract-to-permanent basis as part of the recruiting process; what is this other than an attempt at work-sample testing that also happens to exploit candidates and repel the best of them?

I agree with you that close to 100% of working engineers are hired this way. But that doesn't prove anything; it's just as likely, perhaps more likely given the evidence, that what it shows is that development teams can ship marketable software despite terrible inefficiencies.

If you think that conventional hiring does a good job of selecting effective and competent programmers to the median ISV (and note here I'm stipulating ISVs, the best-case scenario for your argument, not line-of-business software teams at F500s), fine. I don't feel like I know a lot of smart engineering managers who are comfortable with the predictive power of their interview systems.
Some interesting related pieces:

* http://www.refinery29.com/2014/01/60361/nametag

* http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/01/09/stalker-friendly-...

Personally, I think this is very scary, especially since they're planning to make it opt-out, so you're in the results, unless you sign up and opt-out. I'm guessing some legislation is necessary to prevent all out abuse of this sort of technology. There's obviously benefits to this sort of technology, but in my opinion, should be tightly controlled.
Just map both to the same site.

Problem solved.