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SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousands of users. I am also very comfortable working with large legacy code bases.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

glen@glenscott.co.uk
Marriage is recognized as a fundamental right in the United States.

Do you believe fundamental rights should be subjected to removal by majority vote?
I think i missed something. I just looked at the book "from concept to consumer" and they give an example of a real product that sold at retail for $50(went to retailer through a distributor) while the manufacturer got only $19 ,i.e. 38%.

If it was online only, it could go for half the price , while offering 24% margin($6) for online sale and logistics(excluding shipping), which i believe is pretty reasonable for that market.
Bugger. I've been flagging the AF submissions because I can't (yet) downvote. Didn't realise this might be a bad thing.
Filesystem translation has a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/...

This manifests itself by any "mkdir -p" which requires root in the `make install` phase failing.
On light reflection: probably if you do N tests, the modal result would be a good enough choice, or perhaps the median.

The issue is that (e.g.) the arithmetic mean would be very influenced by the stats that gave randomly bad results - the very results you are trying to exclude by doing the test multiple times and taking an average.
Has support for coroutines -- awesome!
Matt Cutts had the perfect saying on this one. https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/450741899146440704

"Hate April Fools? Consider taking a 24 hour offline holiday instead of telling everyone over and over how much you hate April Fools."

[I'm going to take his advice and get off HN for the rest of the day.]
Be the best
Stylitics

Fulltime in New York City (Manhattan) or REMOTE

We aggregate consumer data through our web and mobile apps, providing a self-service analytics dashboard to brands and retailers.

For consumers, Stylitics is the way to intelligently manage their wardrobe and style decisions. Our mobile apps (average 4.5 star reviews) give users a smart virtual closet, where they can access their closet, and plan and share outfits from anywhere.

For the fashion industry, Stylitics has built a highly needed product offering, helping brands and retailers answer questions like “What does my customer own?”, “What competitors do they shop at?”, “What do they pair my items with?”, and more. Clients and Partners include Tory Burch, Neiman Marcus, Rebecca Minkoff, and Urban Outfitters.
What we’re looking for: an experienced engineer who can move seamlessly between working with our client side application and helping us build our backend application and API services. If you have an interest in, and skills for, data analysis and visualization, even better!

Current technologies include:

Rails, Node, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Backbone with Marionette, Heroku, AWS, git, d3.js and lots more.
We value TDD and craftsmanship in our code, and good communicators who aren't afraid to bring strong opinions to the table with code to back it up.

We'd love to have you in our New York office, but we know how to have a great remote team & experience -- our lead developer on the consumer products side was remote for two years before coming to New York, our lead for the b2b analytics product is currently remote, and we've had full or part time team members from all over. For remote candidates, it would be preferable if you're time zone is less than 8 hours from Eastern (NYC) time.

We offer a competitive salary and good equity on simple and straightforward terms.

If you're interested, please introduce yourself: jobs@stylitics.com
Very cool. I like the "payment" options.
SEEKING WORK - New York City or Remote

HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, Underscore.js, JSON, AJAX, Backbone.js, D3.js, PHP, mySQL, Cordova/PhoneGap, Git, Photoshop

You can see my experience http://aakilfernandes.com
SEEKING WORK 4/1 REMOTE

I have 14+ Years of Website programming experience and can do it all. American developer living overseas.

Expert at:

- PHP - C++ - Javascript - jQuery - SQL - Zend / Laravel / CodeIgnitor, etc

My current stack looks like:

PHP + Laravel
OpenResty + Lua + NginX
Jade / Handlebars templates + Stylus
NodeJS + Express + Socket.io + Postgres (a little mongo)
Bower JS, YeoMan, jQuery, Bootstrap, FontAwesome
Go + QML

I also was a c++, perl, c# developer, and a few others for some time.

10 years of SQL Debugging, and 10 years of c++, I can fix any bug!

I have a great resume to back this up, and am an American Developer

Email me for resume or to chat! jg [undrscore] work [at] kify [dot] net
I can't believe that URL wasn't already taken.
You can never down-vote submissions. Or at least, I've not yet hit the karma threshold where it's possible to down-vote submissions, so I suspect it's not possible.

And yes, it might be a bad thing, but we have no idea what the thresholds are, and that's why I've asked the question.
"Basically all of the "rise" in deaths, which they are trying to pin on helmet law changes, is due to a large drop in car deaths, not actually anything to do with motorcycles or helmets..." This is simply not true. The last three graphs all show a large rise in absolute numbers of motorcycle fatalities, independent of any automobile numbers. I agree that the authors have a ways to go before they've proved causation, especially given a significant bump in helmeted motorcycle fatalities seen in the Florida data.
Yes, that's exactly like it was for me too! Thanks for the advice!
SEEKING FREELANCER

Full-time / Part-time Contract position for a
full-stack Rails developer

Responsibilities: Take over and complete a Rails web app that is about eighty percent complete, and then provide ongoing maintenance and support on a very part-time basis after the main project is complete. The code is in good shape with good test coverage.

Location: remote - U.S., Canada, Western Europe only

We're seeking an experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails developer, or very small team to complete a challenging project.

Must:
- Have at least 3 years solid Rails experience developing web apps.
- Be able to start within a few weeks.

Please include your CV, links to past projects you had a very significant part in developing that are live, and a link to your Linkedin profile if you have one.

[railswebappproject] a.t. g-m-a-i-l
group chat in place of email
I think the sad truth is that it makes you uneasy and more productive. But I know I hate it too.
Show HN: 2048-as-a-service, an API to build complex 2048 based apps
here's an almost comical excerpt from the Cornell study

http://iwsp.human.cornell.edu/file_uploads/offices1_12382569...

The data showed that younger workers liked these kinds of offices more than older
workers. The reason was instructive: they felt they could learn more from their
“officemates” in this kind of office. This makes sense, since in interviews a common
reason for wanting to join a company was the opportunity to work with “great” people.
Having great people around, whom you rarely see and even more rarely talk to, is not of
real value. Respondents talked about the much greater learning opportunities in a more
open environment. Older respondents, in contrast, found it harder to concentrate and
more disruptive. It also seemed the case that older respondents were simply comfortable
with how they had learned to do things over a number of years, and did well.

Hmm, that's one interpretation.

Here's a simpler interpretation.

Younger workers generally aren't going to know what they're doing and need to ask questions, so being able to ask questions is important to them. Older workers already know what they're doing and don't need to ask as many questions, so they don't really get anything out of it.

This BTW, squares exactly with my experience. All the benefit of open floor plans go to employees with the least expertise at the expense of the employees with the most expertise.

If you're the most talented, expert employee in an office, in general there's not going to be anyone in the office that can answer your questions, so an open office doesn't buy you anything.
Do you think cell phones are a viable tool in that context?
Tidal Labs -- NYC

Front End Developer

Tidal is a tool suite that helps publishers interact with their audience. We're looking for a talented front-end developer to help build new and exciting consumer-facing products built with beautiful design, UI, and UX. You'll be splitting your time working with both the dev and the design teams, building great interactive front-end JS tools and clean semantic HTML and CSS.

You'll be part of a growing thirteen-person team where every person still has a significant impact on what we do. We believe in balance and growth; you'll work on both cutting-edge technology and stable enterprise-grade tools alike.

You should be an absolute expert at HTML and CSS, and can code out prototypes in minutes. You're great at JavaScript and are very comfortable with more advanced JS techniques (we use Backbone.js specifically).

Email frontend@tid.al with a resume, portfolio, and a little about you.
I would absolutely love to be able to use Lua for web development, I wonder how this performs though...
So I assume this is an April Fools? Not sure, and I hate expanding efforts on filtering April Fools.

Tried the game, it's nice. Got 1 point on my first try, somehow managed 15 points on the second. I don't think a baby would get any points, so I'll go with April Fools.
Notice that Hamming takes it for granted that everyone has an office; the only question is "office with closed door, or office with open door?".

This is a very different question from "offices or open plan?".

(My own preference is one I've seen others express here: rooms for groups of roughly 4-10 people, private rooms for intense concentration and private meetings, and some communal space.)
that's why I lie on those tests and say no
Oh, definitely. I mean, the basic stuff we learned as kids is important, but I feel like I could learn anything I want to on my own, especially with Google available these days. The school system just feels a bit archaic to me. I hear all of these arguments that we need to try to be more like Japan, but I think we need to go in the opposite direction -- less focus on degrees, less focus on busywork, more focus on learning skills that are applicable to real life and lots more hands-on experience rather than lectures and tests.

I'd actually love to see more push for little entrepreneurs to be creative and businessy (whereas it seems like they try to squash that out!) as I, personally, feel that having more entrepreneurs and more businesses is a big part of the ticket to fixing the economy. I remember when I was little, I thought I'd try to monetize one of my skills by selling my drawings on the playground -- harmless, right? Well, I got in trouble and was told not to do it anymore because selling things at school wasn't allowed.
Do you think anonymity is necessary? If so, how would you ensure it?
New York (NYC) Thomson Reuters

Working on the team that makes Eikon and the underlying platform. You can learn about the group's work, mission, and leadership by jumping to 1:45:00 in this video https://www.media-server.com/m/p/moaghpeu

Jobs in product development, engineer in test, and dev ops.

We use:
- HTML5/JS/Angular
- Mobile (iOS/Android/hybrid)
- C++
- Hadoop/HBase
- DevOps: Java, puppet, Sensu, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch

Expertise in one of those sets is a big plus, but get in touch if you have interest and I'll see if we have a spot that interests you. Happy to grab coffee with anyone to have a casual chat about the possibilities.

Contact: Lou Franco lou.franco -at- thomsonreuters.com
Tea and cake at 3pm in the 'museum'.

That was the rule in the Physics department I spent a little time in. 'Tea' involved about 40 researchers in a large room on couches and armchairs arranged (and rearranged) in small groups. You were expected to share problems, findings, ideas, and listen. Room had no blackboards but plenty of paper napkins.

Broke up around 4pm most days but sometimes went on much longer.

Leaders used to hear a problem and say things like "talk to Robin. He's been working on conditionally convergent series", so you did, and it helped.
Tell me, if I were to send my liberal stormtroopers to begin denying some of your basic rights, would you defend that as me "peacefully exercising" my own rights?

Proposition 8 was not an expression of opinion; it was an organized campaign to remove and permanently deny to a subset of the population a right recognized as fundamental within the United States. There is no possible way to spin that as anything other than... well, that.
Can anybody comment on the usefulness of open plan space when there is a wide range of programmer ability? I can see if everybody on the team is a rock star that the benefits of open space could be smaller. But, what if you have a mix of senior engineers and junior developers (who presumably need more active mentoring)?

I ask because in my current role, I'm the product architect for a large web application. In addition to the usual design and development tasks, part of this role is bringing new development teams up to speed on technologies they have not used before. I find it much easier to be in a team room with those teams, they get immediate feedback, can ask questions, etc. If I was in an office or cube, I'd have a constant stream of emails from individuals to answer.
We're hiring engineers!
#10 on Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC. #47 on Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies.

We handle many billions of events per day, we're hooked up to all the big ad exchanges, and we've got a world-class data science team. But we're also still pretty small on the engineering team, and everyone gets their hands dirty and makes a real impact. You'll learn a lot.

We write mostly Java. Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, and Kafka are big parts of our stack, and we're always looking for new tech that helps us work at scale.

You should feel free to ping me for more info,

taejin -at- dstillery -dot- com
Who is she? Lol
I've been hoping someone makes a decent server-side WebRTC peer, meaning that we can use UDP in the browser and really push HTML5 gaming forward. It seems to go completely under the radar with all this talk of audio/video P2P streaming.
Seizure warning! Pressing A/Z will cause your screen to flicker. Be warned.
I don't have strong opinions on whether open floor plans are good and bad but I strongly disagree with "The primary task of a programmer is writing code, which involves sitting at a desk and thinking and typing."

The primary role of a programmer is to solve the technical problems an organization is facing. This often involves writing code. It also involves understanding problems and planning solutions that scale across an organization.
Kort – an OpenStreetMap Game
I've been working on an autominer, but there appears to be one in the thread.

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It seems that those against this CEO consider gay marriage a civil right's issue. But much of the USA doesn't agree, neither culturally nor legally.

It is a civil rights issue; it's not really possible to disagree with that, without redefining the concept of a civil right. Whether or not you support that right is a separate issue.

Should all high-ranking employees in the USA be vetted for appropriate (leftwing?) political views before being hired?

That's a disingenuous position which is not being advocated by anybody. Mozilla are free to hire him; in turn, the community is free to object loudly about his views.
Guix is switching to ECMAscript
It's this kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism with a no-holds-barred approach to getting the facts completely right that keeps me coming back to CNN for all of my news.
There is no ability to down-vote submissions.
Yes, it is kind of tiring.

Even if the app asks only to fetch basic information, I think that I shouldn't go through them (Facebook, Google, Twitter) to assert my identity, since I don't pay any of these companies for this service, I can't trust them to keep my best interests in mind.

I feel that there should be a way for me to be my own identity provider, and email has been the closest I've got to it.
Having the ability to retreat to a quiet area is critical. Many people don't have the option of going to a 'quiet room'. It's just one big, chaotic workspace.

Personally I have discussed this with coworkers/managers, but the environment is not going to change. Wherever I go next, I'll be on the lookout for quiet&privacy.
some more information:

We play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, we have a company band, we work sane hours, we don't track vacation (and not in the 'so nobody ever takes any' sense), and we Get Stuff Done. You'll learn a lot from working here, regardless of your current level of experience. You'll work directly with a world-class data science team (winners of multiple KDD Best Paper and other awards) that keeps us on the cutting edge of learning at scale, allowing us to build customer-specific models from billions of events per day. We're hooked up to all the big ad exchanges, and have direct working relationships with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more. But we're also still pretty small on the engineering team, and everyone gets their hands dirty and makes a real impact. We write mostly Java. Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, and Kafka are big parts of our stack, and we're always looking for new tech that helps us work at scale. Experience with these is a big plus, but if you've never used them before that's fine too, if you're eager to learn. If you write clean, working code, think through problems, and deliver on time, we want to talk to you. Contact me for more info, taejin@dstillery.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Namur (Belgium)

I am a capable Haskell and Python developer. To get a feel of what I can do:

My side project is Reesd, a redundant storage service for developers. It is made of:

- Several Docker containers (tentatively linked through Open vSwitch),
- Web frontend,
- SCP reimplementation with account permissions,
bucket plan limits, and on-the-fly SHA1 check,
- Redundant backend store,
- Background jobs to check files SHA1 to detect early corruption,
- Payment done through Stripe (almost done),
- HAProxy,
- Email through mandrill,
- PostgreSQL synchronous replication.

To read more about it: http://hypered.io/blog/2014-02-17-building-reesd

Vo Minh Thu

Reesd: https://reesd.com

Email: noteed at gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/noteed

Twitter: https://twitter.com/noteed

LinkedIn: http://be.linkedin.com/in/vominhthu
LinkedIn’s Transparency Report for Second Half of 2013
Somebody has to own and manage the 'namespace'. If it's not you, it is always going to be someone else.

I think this was one of the motivations for pobox.com. By being primarily a mail forwarding service, you can switch e-mail provider by simply forwarding to another address. The same is true for domains, since most registrars have pretty simple interfaces to set up e-mail forwarding.

The hard parts are dealing with SPF/DKIM (since they don't work well with forwarding) and e-mail migration.
Love the culture!! Hope you soon have a requirement for a data scientist/engineer !!
In the Cornell study cited, it specifically discusses that open plans should be fit for purpose. "There's no silver bullet."

I would love to be able to sit around my coworkers while I answer emails, catch up on the projects going on around me, bounce ideas off of people, etc. and then have a designated, quieter space to do "heads-down" work.

Why can't you have both?
I complained about having too many meeting and other distractions to get any coding done recently. Result was a meeting about it (no joke). We discussed it asked people not to interrupt, but two weeks later is is back to the same.
Code Climate launches Automated Refactoring of Ruby and JavaScript
Sigh. Happy "Turn off the Internet" Day everyone!
Vimeo - NY, NY & LA, CA

https://vimeo.com/jobs

2013: The Year We Did More Cool Stuff - https://vimeo.com/82576921

TECHNICAL:

-Engineer, Full-Stack (LAMP, JS, HTML/CSS)

-Engineer, iOS

-Director, Mobile Engineering

-VP, Front-End Engineering

-Lead Engineer, iOS (Cameo)

-Lead Designer, Mobile (Cameo)

-Designer, Mobile (LA)

-Designer, Mobile Web

-Designer, Viewership

NON-TECH:

-VP, Audience Development

-Director, Product Management

-Director, Biz Dev

-Director, Content Acquisition

-Executive Assistant

Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.

Feel free to reach out: tyler at vimeo dot com.
sorry, yeah, this game is really not for anyone with epilepsy.
London, UK - Permanent, full time, on-site. Lumi - https://lumi.do

Lumi uses your browsing history to create a personal selection of what’s happening online. Brought to you by the people who started Last.fm.
We're looking for developers to work on

* Our Django app

* Backend services and middleware

* Android/iOS apps

* Our Recommendation Engine

Our stack is mostly Python backed by Cassandra, Elastic Search and Postgres. We'd like you to know a bit of everything and a lot of something.

You'd be joining an East London based ten-person team, with plans to expand rapidly in the near future.

Either launch a CV at hello@lumi.do, or drop me a line personally if you'd like to chat first.

https://lumi.do/about/jobs
Are you being treated for that depression? Do you kick puppies and holler at children too? Does it really cost you anything, anything at all to ignore a lame joke?
Thank you for your reply! I also was considering starting something on my own and dedicating all of my time to it, it's just that I'm worried since there isn't much of a "safety net" whilst you're doing such things. Thank you!
But there is no one clear-cut, set in stone definition of marriage, is there? The whole argument is over that definition: what else. The concept of marriage can vary from culture to culture. It's a social construct, after all. Eg. polygamous marriages or marriages with minors are not legally recognized (in the US) either, even though they are in some parts of the world. The fundamental question then is: "what culture is ours?". If the answer was unambiguous, there'd be no dispute to start with.
To the anonymous down voter without a sense of humor...

I was trying to illustrate anecdotal evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
SEEKING WORK - UK or remote.

Web scraping in Perl and Python.

Email: dmn001 {at} gmail [dot] com
Hey! :D Timisoara, UVT
SEEKING WORK, New York, remote work / freelance

I work with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS on the frontend; compiled from Hogan/Handlebars, CoffeeScript and LESS/SASS with Backbone as the logic handler. For the backend I primarily use Node.js again either built with JavaScript or CoffeeScript. I have also worked with PHP and Django. Components are installed with Npm and Bower, then compiled and minified via Grunt.

I have web experience in many areas dating back to 1996. I also maintain some web applications: Gignal (http://www.gignal.com) with Parse as backend; Konfect (http://www.konfect.com) with Neo4j as database;
I have used MySQL since 1998, but primarily uses MongoDB and Redis now.

For more info, please check: http://github.com/webjay | http://twitter.com/webjay | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfsaxberg

Contact me via jacob@webcom.dk