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SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

I am a Web developer (AngularJS, PHP, studying RoR) based in Manchester, UK. I am looking for contract work, alongside with my undergrad studies (graduating in July).

I have worked with local startups, remote agencies and with clients directly and I have worked with wide range of projects, from proof-of-concept prototypes as a solo developer to large (6+ months) projects from scratch with a team of developers.

I believe that software engineering is not only about writing code. I am always eager to become more productive, constantly improve the quality of the products by improving my non-technical skills, "Pragmatic Programmer" is one of my favourite books ever!

Recently I have been working a lot on Single-Page Applications, being responsible for both front end and underlying RESTful API.

In the last half a year, I have completed a business critical application for small business which is used daily to complete vital tasks and improve staff efficiency. I have also worked on a healthy restaurants recommendation app (HTML5 + AngularJs application compiled with PhoneGap), custom application to manage shop orders, and others.

Here is a list of some of the projects I have been working on in the last half a year: http://gedrap.me/projects.html

Drop me an email at gediminas.rap@gmail.com and we can talk how I could help you!
Adobe - Newton, MA

Help me and my team build up a rock solid infrastructure on top of AWS. We use Python daily and work on a wide variety of interesting problems.

https://adobe.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=e...

Email me at thoover at adobe dot com if you have any questions.
This is kind of sexist. It suggest anyone can become expert in a few years, yet women are clearly discriminated everywhere.
SEEKING FREELANCER: Finance-industry startup seeks data scientist for ongoing part-time lead role.

We’re looking for an engineer with a finance background (or a finance person with an engineering background!) to help out behind the scenes at Open Exchange Rates.

Open Exchange Rates[0] is the fastest-growing currency data API on the web, loved by the likes of Etsy, Shopify, Kickstarter and thousands more.

We have a super-exciting backend engineering project involving overhauling a large part of our platform, over which you'll have complete autonomy within the requirements.

Project scope, budget and timeframe are all negotiable for the right contractor, but likely to be 2-3 months, plus ongoing work available.

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REQUIRES:

* Python, client-side and server-side JavaScript (+PHP and PhantomJS a bonus); intermediate sysadmin skills

* Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases

* Understanding of foreign exchange markets

* Designing and implementing algorithms for financial data analysis

* Understanding of APIs, methods of online data collection, and authorisation mechanisms

* Ideally: Expert front-end development skills in HTML/CSS/JS (negotiable in project scope)

* Remote possible; UK preferred; London ideal.

* Chutzpah

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CONTACT:

Get in touch with josscrowcroft@gmail, with a little about yourself, your work, your story and what makes you come alive. Relevant experience also appreciated.

[0] https://openexchangerates.org
> Here's a popular thought for HN: why not a YC-style academic funding, where you fund people, not ideas?

So the charistmatic scientists with shitty ideas get the most funding?
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SEEKING WORK - Remote or near Brighton, UK.

I'm looking for back-end web work in PHP or Python with Django. I'm 18 and am looking to build my portfolio at the moment so I'm reasonably cheap for what I do too.
Shanee@ifnotequal.com
No. In the US, many (most?) think tanks are 501(c)(3) nonprofits -- NCPPR included -- and cannot make lobbying a primary activity [1]

More broadly, think tanks are groups of like-minded people expressing their opinions, typically about how governments should be run. The fact that they accept donations in order to be able to work full time on the cause and to extend the reach of their advocacy, and that many of those donations come from individuals or organizations who stand to benefit if some of the think tank's desired policies are implemented, does not make them "legalized corruption".

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Charities-%26-Non-Profits/Lobbying
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SEEKING WORK - Rails MVP and Testing Consulting | Philadelphia, PA | Remote

http://iamericsteele.com

hi@iamericstele.com

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MVP Ruby on Rails Consulting and Development

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I'm a product consultant who enjoys working one-on-one with entrepreneurs to take an idea, shape it into a product, and then build the MVP with Ruby on Rails. My projects are driven by regular communication and feedback from you.

* Consultation & Project Plan: $500

* Development: $2k/week, $500/day

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Rails Testing Consulting

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You don't write tests for your Rails apps, and it's starting to hurt. The time you dedicate to debugging mysterious errors could be better spent confidently adding new features. Unfortunately, you don't have the time to figure it out on your own.

I can review your Rails app and put together a re-testing plan, train you or a team on how to test, and work with you to re-test your app.

* Rails Testing Audit and Plan: $500

* Rails Testing Training: $1000

* Rails Retesting: $2k/week

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I'd love to hear from you via email at hi@iamericsteele.com
Maybe he's very good? I have no idea who Colin is, but surely it's up to him what he charges. If it's too much then nobody will hire him. What's the problem?
I'm really glad to see that this issue is getting more coverage in the mainstream press. There was an article/editorial a while back (discussed on HN) from the guardian, but unfortunately, the writer used the incident (the collusion) to go on a rant about how valley leaders are hypocritical libertarians. That (reasonably enough) lead to a long debate about whether the leaders are libertarians even if they are mainly democrats, etc...

This article stuck to the point much better. I do think Mr Levy (quoted in this article) went a little far in suggesting that the engineers are a very well heeled class.

"Santa Clara County, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has the highest average wage in the country,” said Stephen Levy, senior economist at the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. “San Francisco and San Mateo are not far behind. It would be a mistake to think of these plaintiffs as an oppressed set of victims."

Agreed, programmers in the bay area aren't dust bowl refugees. However, we need to recognize that the relatively high salaries don't go far in high cost regions (where many of these companies are located), and aren't that high relative to the higher wages typical of these regions.

Application developers in SF earn, on average, a tiny bit less than RNs and a whisker more than dental hygienists (links at end). I'm 100% ok with good wages for nurses and dental hygienists, but keep in mind that these tech companies have been almost frantically lobbying congress to do something about a severe shortage of highly educated programmers and engineers.

Well, first and foremost, how about you stop colluding to suppress their wages? That might attract a few more people into the field.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-b...

http://blog.sfgate.com/gettowork/2013/12/17/what-the-most-co...
I think you might be underestimating the complexity of nethack
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Having never heard of Lynn Stout, her claim to fame on Wikipedia is that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens cited her work in Citizens United v Federal Exchange Commission... in the dissent.

I could believe that oxygen doesn't exist, and I could probably find somebody else to agree with that, perhaps even an author or something, but if there exists a body of law that is on the books and that will punish you for violating it, the idea of shareholder primacy is very much not a myth.

Dodge v. Ford 1953:
> The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily for the profit
> of the stockholders, as opposed to the community or its employees. The discretion
> of the directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and
> does not extend to the reduction of profits or the nondistribution of profits among
> stockholders in order to benefit the public, making the profits of the stockholders
> incidental thereto.

This all extends on precedent set way back in 1896 (though there may be earlier) in Steinway v Steinway & Sons, though in the case of Steinway, the philanthropic behavior was excused as having had pecuniary value. It's been cited since, and punishments are being levied in spite of the myth. While it may be true that there is no law codified to speak expressly on the duties of shareholder primacy, stare decisis specifically disagrees with that, and that's really all that matters.

In the real world, of course there is no duty to maximize value at all costs, and the board elects a CEO who will do a good job of balancing short-term value against long-term value, and while actions such as Cook's are likely debatable either way, if we took a more extreme example, and Cook were to give 80% of Apple's assets away to charity, he would very certainly be sued, and he would very certainly lose. If, as in Steinway, the charitable actions could be argued to lead to longer term profits, the case gets blurrier, but the idea that shareholder primacy is a myth that does not exist is simply too unqualified a statement, and too counter to the facts to be regarded with much weight.
http://notepad.cc

Been using it for some time now.
But it is worth pointing out that while humans are very good at absorbing language, few people have put anywhere near 10,000 hours into deliberative practice of their language.

If you're inclined to argue because people probably do reach that amount of schooling, I'd observe that deliberative practice requires an extremely high degree of personalization, which the current school system is entirely incapable of providing in many subjects. Indeed, this is a very significant part of why I have so little respect for the current system; such huge, huge blocks of time given to it, where students are lucky to be operating at 20% of their learning capacity as they progress through their bulk learning exercises.... 10,000 hours of schooling may be a few hundred hours of deliberative practice, and that basically by luckily happening to match a particular exercise to exactly what that student needed to be deliberative at that point.
0.18% annually is not a very low number.
Two years of Pi: Units sold and Raspberry startups
The practice stopped because of an agreement reached with the Justice Department[1]. I don't know which theoretical model leads you to believe that capitalism tends to correct itself, as historical evidence suggests otherwise: that the free market tends to converge towards feudalism (in the broad sense) – as happened in the US in the late 19th and early 20th century – or crisis; any corrections in course have always been due to public uproar which led to increased regulation.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/technology/18google.html
But is that really "practice?" If someone doesn't care or is passionate about a subject, they won't become an expert. With many of these 10,000 hour studies, practice and play are indistinguishable... it engrosses them and they love to learn and teach themselves.
Well funded stealth startup in the San Francisco Bay Area seeking to hire for two senior full time positions:

- OSX Objective-C Cocoa developer
- Web front-end developer

Exciting technology at the intersection of mobile, cloud, and crowdsourcing, solving a real-world need.

Conveniently located, great benefits, 5 weeks vacation.

Apply at engineering.jobs@elloco.com.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or London, UK

Fullstack Python/Javascript developer based in London looking for contract work.

Frontend: AngularJS, jQuery, SASS, coffeescript

Backend: django, golang

Github: https://github.com/Keats

Website: http://vincent.is/

Email: prouillet.vincent AT gmail.com
Republic Wireless - Raleigh/Durham, NC

About us

Republic Wireless, a division of Bandwidth.com, is the nation's first WiFi-based cell phone service. We launched Republic to unprecedented national attention for a new wireless provider.

Our development team has changed the wireless industry, introducing the first widely-deployed WiFi to cellular call handover. We want you to join us to solve hard problems.
We are actively hiring for the following positions:

Web Developer

Join our Web/Front-end Engineering team to help define and build out our modern Web application platform. Right away you’ll use your deep HTML, CSS, and JavaScript expertise to work on Angular and Backbone apps.

Android Developer

Join our Device/Front-end Engineering team to build out the apps that differentiate Republic from traditional carriers. We've got a lot of ideas to integrate stupid phone tricks directly on the phone. (Think as if your carrier were doing phone tricks like Google Voice).

UI Tester

Join our Test team to break stuff. Native app, hybrid mobile app, and Web app automation. We've got it all.

DevOps

Join our DevOps team and help us scale.

E-mail hackernews@bandwidth.com with your details and let's get talking.
The minute Google took open street map data hacker news would explode with submissions chastising google for taking without contributing back.
Missile silos aren't "in" military bases as we normally tend to think of them. The silos themselves are usually sited in remote locations, the surfaces are often unguarded and protected only by chain-link fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Active_LGM-30_Minuteman_S...

http://countrychickengirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/sunday-drive....
They can't, unless they're willing to free their own datasets as well:

"You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities."
ASL Vision - Lewes (Near Brighton), UK.

If you love machine vision and want to work on autonomous vehicles, you should come and work for us.

We are looking for C & C++ developers, embedded software engineers and algorithms engineers with machine vision experience.

We are a small team of friendly and talented engineers, so we have a lean & mean startup vibe, but big-company backing.

Our project and products are growing mile-long legs, and we could do with a hand scaling-out our team, our infrastructure, and our product.

You should come along for the ride: It's gonna be fun!
Etsy - Brooklyn, NY. Some positions are accepting remotes (check descriptions).

https://www.etsy.com/careers

We're looking for everyone! Web/mobile apps/tools/testing engineers; Designers; Ops; Marketing; We have a lot of open reqs for managers all over the world as well.

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Etsy is the world's largest handmade, vintage and craft supplies marketplace. We are a values based company that believes that we can make a profit without violating our core beliefs [1]. We practice continuous deployment [2], and we measure everything [3].

I've never worked with finer engineers, product managers, designers, or data analysts in my life. I recently switched teams to work in a completely different domain because I wanted to scratch a different itch, and it was no problem for my manager or his managers. Highly recommended.

[1] (http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2014/etsy-values-impact-annual...)

[2] (http://codeascraft.com/2010/05/20/quantum-of-deployment/)

[3] (http://codeascraft.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-e...)
The HOnest?

Tawdry easy elitist much?
Google Maps is generally terrible once you go off-road.
OpenStreetMap's ODbL license has a sharealike clause that would legally require Google to share the dataset they combine OSM with: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put together a good sentense.

Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.

I once wrote (coined? invented?) a law which says that one cannot point out errors of grammar or spelling in another's writing, without committing embarrassing errors of one's own.
Think tanks are better than lobbyists, because they let interests launder their money. X, who has an interest in Y, can make a donation to e.g. Heritage, which will then spit out PR in support of Y. But that usually comes across as "Heritage supports Y" and "X donates to Heritage," not a single fact that "X supports Y." And since Heritage flacks for hundreds of Ys, X has plausible deniability.

And if you want to see the amazing ROI available through corruption, take a look at Duke Cunningham's bribe menu.
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In less than a decade, phone memory cards have grown from 128MB to 128GB
Pascal Metrics, Washington DC (Georgetown)

We're a healthcare startup focused on improving patient safety in hospitals.

Our software platform enables clients to detect, track, and analyze patient safety issues across hospital systems.

Open positions:

* UI Engineer - Front-end developer with knowledge of CSS, HTML5, Javascript for our SaaS platform. Knowledge of MVC frameworks and CSS organization desired.

* QA Engineer - QA engineer with experience developing and executing rigorous test plans for web applications and a passion for seeking & destroying software defects.

Check us out at http://www.pascalmetrics.com

Full job listing: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/PascalMetricsInc

If you're interested in getting involved with healthcare, improving work culture, and tackling hard technical challenges, please feel free to reach out to me directly to chat in detail.

theo at pascalmetrics.com
It's pretty unlikely that the NCPPR would be willing to help Apple with a pro-environmental PR stunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Poli...
> All because you can't be bothered by seeing an advertisement .

Let's step back a little and think of how me looking at advertisements is supposed to be fueling the economy.

When I look at ads, I'm supposed to be given an incentive to buy something. I look at an ad in order to create a need in me that didn't exist before I viewed that ad. By creating that need, I'm supposed to go out and buy something I didn't want in the first place. What I wanted in the first place was to view something on some website, not to go out and give someone else money.

So, let's cut the middleman advertiser. I don't want to be given artificial needs and give someone else money. I want to give the original person money.

All because I can't be bothered to see an ad.
MedTech Exchange - Atlanta, GA

We are a new company who is looking to eliminate the inefficiencies in implant surgeries. Help us make medicine better.

We are looking for a talented front-end developer with experience in:

* Bootstrap

* jQuery

* Less/CSS

* HTML5

* Responsive design

* UX design

We are also looking for a back-end or full-stack developer with experience in:

* Play Framework

* MySQL

* REST

Join us and have the opportunity to design and implement the look and feel of software than can disrupt the medical industry.

Interested? hiring@medtechexchange.com
Right, everything was possible until some goon made a t-shirt and wore it on the street. That was what killed our chances of recovering from this thing. What a piece of shit.
Introducing the dotDNS metaTLD
AdRoll - San Francisco, CA. H1B welcome.

http://tech.adroll.com

This week named one of the fastest growing technologies online by BuiltWith (https://blog.builtwith.com/), we help over 10,000 companies collect, analyze and act on their customer data. Everyone from New Relic to Rackspace to Twilio uses AdRoll.

With worldwide scale and over 20B events to process a day, ad tech has some of the most interesting problems you'll find anywhere. AdRoll's engineers, data scientists and product people are conquering problems in big data (HBase), machine learning, real-time processing (Erlang/Storm/Kafka) and UX (Backbone).

Email us at jobs.engineers@adroll.com or see our tech blog http://tech.adroll.com
TV signal powered gesture detection on all devices
I would like to see a graphical terminal emulator. When I mean by this is that the terminal emulator works the same as usual- it should display normal output, support ANSI escape sequences and have scroll-back. But it also should be able to display graphics. If your UNIX command line program happens to output a graph, it shows up on the terminal. The graph is embedded inline with the text and you can scroll back to it.

Interactive programs should also possible- think of a schematic editor or a figure editor running right on your terminal emulator.

The point of all this is to retain the context of whatever you're doing without having to switch windows. That and to advance the state of the art of console tools- certainly they have not changed in decades.
Voz.io - Barcelona, Spain ( Onsite & Offsite )

Hi , we are looking for experienced marketing and sales people who can help us grow our sales .

Voz.io - Trying to simplify the phone support system for SMEs. Voz.io is a browser based call center softwar, where a company can launch a phone support system without any need of expensive infrastructure .

We are looking to recruit New Business Sales and Marekting guys to help continue our phenomenal growth, you will be responsible for acquiring new corporate clients, aiming at businesses in the top 500 in the UK or their equivalent size worldwide. We are looking for "Hunters", not "Farmers" and only the best.

If interested send a mail to info@voz.io why you fit for this job profile .
SEEKING WORK: Programming Tutoring :: New York, New York

I have over 15 years of design and web|desktop|mobile development experience. Topics can be almost anything, my knowledge is vast and includes:

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<Infrastructure> Nginx, Apache, Postfix, Amazon Web Services & EC2, Wordpress and more

<Tools> Git/Github, Photoshop, Sublime Text

<Frameworks> - Rails, Django, Express / Node.JS, Backbone.JS, Angular and more

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Programming - Learn how to build a website or app. Harness the power of programming for your business, hobby, or ease of life!

Mathematica - Creating art using Math or crunch data and graph it for financial analysis

OpenCL - computing using beefy graphics cards

Tesseract - Optical Character Recognition

Scraping - Scrape the web or make bots that interact with the web

Reverse Engineering - the dark side of programming - Using Ollydbg, Softice, OTool, IDA Pro - see how viruses and trojan horses tick, reverse engineer your favorite software to tweak its functionality and add features, lots of possibilities!

Penetration Testing | Exploitation - Learn about SQL injection and how to search a website or server for vulnerabilities. Become an expert in XSS, Remote Code/Command Execution, Buffer Overflows, and the art of exploitation.

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I charge $125 for one hour of tutoring. A discount can be negotiated for > 1 hour sessions.

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