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Poshly / Scala Engineer / San Francisco, CA

http://poshly.com/about/gigs/

You know concurrency, how to reduce latency and how to build fault-tolerant scalable applications. Eager to try new technologies, languages, or build new tools, and learn for the sake of building great software. Because we're a small team, help choose the perks, create the culture, and guide the product and the technology used to build it. Comfortable in statistics and lots of data is a plus.

The heart of Poshly Engineering is working with data at scale. We build services that provide insights into the behaviors of beauty consumers, and provide dashboards and analytics to beauty brands and publishers to help them understand their consumers. Our data powers the largest beauty brands in the world and drives business decisions by providing real-time analytics. As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for pushing our business and technology forward! We're a lean team and as one of the earliest employees, you'll be designing and implementing solutions to challenging problems in this exciting $382 billion-dollar industry
SEEKING FREELANCERS - (SF or Remote)

We're Gustin, a premium crowdsourced menswear brand. Looking to bring on another full stack rails engineer for a consistent 10 hours/week of feature development on our platform.

Design / UX / analytics experience a plus. We'd prefer to pay more for an experienced engineer who will do things right the first time.

Email us at team@weargustin.com to chat.

http://www.weargustin.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Need a solid, secure app on multiple platforms, on a tight deadline? I'm your man.

One of the winners at SyScan Hardcode 2013 (http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.in/2013/05/the-results-... ) and two-time grand prize winner of Google Code-in

Platforms (in order of experience):

- Web Applications (Python, Node.js, Frontend/JS)

- Android apps

- Cross Platform Desktop Apps (Qt)

- I love experimenting. Currently learning Haskell; will gladly pick up whatever your team uses!

Accounts: https://github.com/aviraldg, http://stackoverflow.com/users/152873/aviraldg, http://in.linkedin.com/in/aviraldg/

Contact: me [at] aviraldg.com (prefix subject with 'work', please)

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Keyword Soup: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Qt, Django, Flask, Web2py, Android, HTML5
Am I the only one here who highlights, underlines, and writes furiously in the margins? I don't know how you can process a text or technical book without being able to touch it.
Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88
I once read a pretty impressive string of biographies where all of the guys did their serious thinking on long walks - Steve Jobs, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincol, I might be forgetting others.
Snapchat goes after messaging with a new design
> there are
many server plugins you can install
to prevent griefing or building.

I think what would suit their use is a plugin that rather than prevent building would make the world slowly regenerate towards a preset form (the map of Denmark).

Edit: Either that or create an incentive for players to restore and maintain key landmarks with premium items. ("Rebuild Copenhagen and get diamond armor! Help defend it for X redstone per day!" or something like that. What do successful freemium Minecraft servers offer their sponsors?) These sorts of quests will probably help keep the players interested for longer and produce viral stories as well, so more people will visit virtual Denmark.
Chrome's internal code editor may be good for editing client side code, but its no good for server-side code. Codio provides a full-stack server-side dev environment. So it's much more of an IDE than Chrome will ever be.
Someone forgot to renew the SSL certificate again.
SPINS LLC - http://www.spins.com

Chicago and Schaumburg, IL

Software Engineers, Designers, and QA Engineers wanted

SPINS is the leading provider of analytics, reporting, and insights for the natural, organic, and specialty products industry. We take in point-of-sale data and other information, and deliver analytics and insights to naturally-focused retailers and manufacturers.

We are looking for a variety of software engineers, designers, and QA engineers to fill out our engineering team, including staffing some new projects.

Technologies we're using include Java, Hadoop/Pig, DB2/MySQL/PostgreSQL, REST, and AngularJS. We use agile development, git, maven.

Reasons to like SPINS:

- We are sort of an established startup. About 100 people, so you have resources, a good team, and security. But friendly, casual, flexible on hours and which office you work from, free snacks, biweekly masseuse, that sort of thing.

- We are at the intersection of two huge growth industries: big data analysis and natural foods/products.

- We are spinning up some cool projects using cool tech: Hadoop big data processing, new webapps, and mobile later this year.

You can see some job postings at http://spins.atsondemand.com/ but a lot of them haven't gone up yet, so feel free to ping me at snoto@spins.com for the lowdown if you're interested in any engineering role.
I could not agree more. Our President decides to pick a political bone so our space industry suffers. (Oh ya, it's the same President that decimated the NASA budget! -- In the name of science!)
This is probably a dumb question, but why didn't he use mmap for writes?
If we're getting into numbers of deaths, neither pollution or asbestos actually figure into the conversation much. It's just scary to think that our safety can change without our behavior changing.
DoubleTheSnake moved to doublesnakegame.com
AisleA - Camarillo, CA (Los Angeles area)

We're looking for folks eager to work with big data. We serve billions of transactions per day with super low latency through our online advertising platform. We hack on C, Scala, Rails, Redis, Hadoop, HBase and Postgres. We don't expect you to be an expert in any of these technologies. More than anything we're looking for the right kind of can-do folks who thrive on building solid systems.

Maybe you've been wanting to learn Scala. Maybe you've tinkered with Hadoop on a few EC2 instances but never had a chance to work with a ton of data. We want you. You'll be joining a sharp team with a strong appetite for progress and a minimal amount of formal process.

I'm one of the engineers, and I'd be happy to chat about our team even if you don't have a resume or consider yourself actively looking for a new gig. Email dlarsen@aislea.com.
Try it and see ;)
This just shows how ignorant the public market really is. SaaS is far more valuable than companies apps that don't charge any money yet only boast huge userbase (even if half are not as active, logs in only once, demographics without credit cards, countries without an economy) with future monetization that often meets disappointment.

profitable SaaS I think will only grow in valuation multiples once the public understands that the average monthly revenue is not going to go poof, like a company that doesn't make any money now and hopefully will in 10 or 20 years and still unable to pull it off well.
Hmm .... He neglected classification of states and asymptotic behavior. His "statistical probabilities" is not good. He omitted the role of conditional independence.

Instead read, say, Cinlar, 'Introduction to Stochastic Processes'.
The question of what the trees were used for and how the statues were moved, while interesting in general, isn't relevant here. When deciding whether Easter Island represents a collapse due to resource exhaustion, the relevant questions are whether the trees were cut down at all (seems to be no dispute there), whether this represents general ecological destruction (in dispute, it seems), whether the population declined precipitously (no dispute here either), and finally whether that decline was caused by the ecological destruction.

Researching the question a bit (and not using Diamond as a reference, at least not directly or intentionally) I can't see any support for the idea that the island was doing fine until outsiders bought war, disease, and slavery. As far as I can see, the war, disease, and slavery period followed European contact, but the initial population decline from a peak of around 15,000 down to 2-3,000 happened before European contact.

In the absence of external pressures, that seems to leave only resource depletion as the possible cause.

Even if it was external, though, why is "land which isn't being overrun by invaders" different from any other resource?

As for other examples, Cahokia and the Anasazi are two possible examples in North America. The Norse settlement in Greenland is a more likely but smaller example. The collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization is another possible example. Malden and Pitcairn are two more potential Pacific island examples, both supporting human settlement for centuries, but eventually containing no people by the time of European discovery. Finally, there's good evidence for a sharp genetic bottleneck in the human population deep in pre-history, in which the world population was reduced to 10,000 or less. The cause isn't too clear, but whether it was a volcano, gradual climate change, or something else, it seems that some sort of resource limitation has to be at work.

None of these are completely clear-cut, but we can't really expect them to be. A collapsed civilization isn't necessarily going to leave a lot of records. Even if some of these were due to something else, it doesn't seem likely that they all were.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / UK

Hi, I am a freelancer based in UK and have a few years experience doing web scraping. I use Perl and Python and databases MongoDB and MySQL, and cloud services for web crawling such as Amazon EC2.

Email: dmn001 [at] gmail [dot] com
There will be 32-bit systems still running in embedded systems. It is amazing how long stuff runs when hidden in walls.
So in what meaningful sense does this support Pascal? It seems like the IDE's (not necessarily the box) support for Pascal is on only a slightly higher level than Notepad. There's very basic syntax highlighting, and non-syntax-aware autocompletion based on the current file. You even have to manually handle indentation, and to drop back a level, you have to delete the right number of spaces, one at a time.

You can't be an IDE until you're at least a usable editor.
How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired SEVEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!
We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)
* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app, with a tiny mobile team)
* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!
* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.
We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!).

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions.

We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

We recently launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it.

Read more here: http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at gabriel at scribd.com.
As a foursquare user, I like this move. When you're in new neighborhoods browsing for food, the fact that friends have been to a place and left tips is a much bigger signal than yelp reviews by strangers. But even when I'm in places where I don't know the network, I find check-ins is a better signal than stars.
Box Might Put Its IPO Back In The Box
Pretty sure all the teams have been accepted/rejected at this point.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto, Canada.

TECHNICAL/MARKETING WRITER

Experience writing online help, white papers, FAQs, newsletters, blog posts, direct mail pieces, and Web site copy.

Seasoned, efficient, drama-free, and easy to work with. Focused on improving your bottom line.

Contact: jonathanacohen [at] gmail.com
Or "it" refers to the middle ground, and you're standing on this article.
Location: San Francisco or Palo Alto, INTERN or full time

BrightRoll (http://www.brightroll.com) is looking for all kinds of engineers, especially server side hackers to work on composing internal services into public, REST APIs (we take the Fielding dissertation seriously). We value functional programming, distributed systems, fault tolerance and high availability, backed by all kinds of languages and persistence schemes. We are serious about scala, erlang/elixir, ruby, node, and store stuff in SQL, nosql, and sometimes in plain old files.

Our culture is one of uncompromising transparency and GSD (the good kind of GSD, where anything that blocks us from getting stuff done is prioritized). We value risk taking, learning from failure, provide superb compensation and benefits, as well as having a laid back office culture (I personally practice Hammock Driven Development fairly regularly).
Feel free to apply via the web site, and let us know hacker news sent you, or contact me directly (phamilton at brightroll dot com). Thanks!

See http://www.brightroll.com/careers/greenhouse.php?gh_jid=6250
Js1k post-mortem: Minecraft in 1,000 lines of JavaScript
You are comparing a quick blog post to a monograph.
Anecdotally, I find this to be true. Also for note-taking. During projects where I used pen and paper for jotting down thoughts and ideas, the information tends to be stickier. There seems to be a direct connection between tactile senses and the thoughts and memories in the brain (and from what I recall from psychology, there's some truth to this.)
look at all those teens without credit cards liking the tumblr post.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (California, U.S.)

I'm an experienced Android Developer, developing Android mobile apps for phones and tablets using: Android Native Development, Object Oriented Development, Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, Java, SQLite, XML and Linux.

I have Android app project experience, including: concept development, project planning, research, algorithm development, programming, testing, debugging, publishing apps to the Google Play store and product maintenance.

If you have a project you would like to discuss and for my full resume please email me at: ken dot compxpress at gmail dot com
I'm setting up Eclipse Orion[0] and Docker on my personal server at the moment, so I can code from my Chromebook. I played around with it a bit on OrionHub, and found it worked very well; an IDE for the browser and the web, rather than a desktop IDE shoehorned into HTML5.

Together with some form of automatic deployment system into my server, this should work fairly well for development, hopefully.

[0] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/
Hacking tinyMUD and bots for tinyMUDs is how I really learned C programming.
Olark live chat -- REMOTE

We're a bootstrapped and profitable team of 27 people working to make customer service more amazing through live chat and more. We have several awesome positions open here:

* Senior UX Engineer (in San Francisco)
* Senior iOS/Mobile Engineer
* Web Designer
* Partner Marketing Manager

You can read more and apply from here https://www.olark.com/jobs
Not really. Catastrophes have happened before and they will happen again.
If anything, I think it's easier in the city. I don't really have to worry about walking back to my original location - wherever I end up, I can probably hop on public transportation and get back home.
this is an interesting application - most likely you'd want it to let yourself in without a key. However, i'd argue that images from the porch of your house can be very challenging - harsh illumination changes, pose, scale, facial deformations (emotion, make-up, etc), occlusions, and even weather (rain on the lense, fog, wind throwing your hair over your face, etc). You can really get a full gambit of difficulties we try to emulate in datasets - however there is a distinct advantage - the lack of imposters. You're not going to get more than a few hundred people entering through your front door every year (including yourself). This is actually very interesting. You can design an algorithm that fails with large data and still be very successful. I honestly cannot recall any papers that address this type of problem, particularly because every paper discusses the government and security uses.

A method that robustly meets the needs of the average household, but is not under the same pressure to scale....interesting. I think reviewers would kill it though.
If you're a marketing or business development professional interested in B2B cloud software, The Small Business Web has just put together its first job board.

http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com/jobs/
There are a lot of programming languages to support, so please bear with us. But we're making good progress. What other languages do you use?
Facebook's Interapp Links Proposal
SEEKING FREELANCER (Remote): R, RUBY, STATISTICS

We're looking for someone to help out with a small R-to-Ruby translation for 2 scripts (< 100 lines each).

Full details, sample dataset and results, and the R scripts are located here:

http://goo.gl/9Gi37o
A 15-man team hardly strikes me as a freelancer seeking work
Whistle — http://whistle.com — Mission, San Francisco, CA

Whistle is the world’s first technology company dedicated to helping pets live longer and healthier lives. Through intuitive devices and a comparative database of pet health information, Whistle is creating a new standard for preventative care and fueling groundbreaking insights to transform veterinary medical research.

We are a company filled with people who love their pets and are passionate about building great products. Between the pack we have collective experience across the Fortune 500 in technology and consumer products, including: Amazon, AOL, Apple, Bain, BCG, Genentech, Google, HP, Microsoft, Philips, Sierra, and TI.

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Android Engineer

Whistle currently seeks a Senior Mobile Developer with a strong background building top-notch mobile experiences on Android. You’ll work with our hybrid mobile team on both our iOS and Android apps building fun and intuitive interfaces for our pet-loving customers.

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Ruby on Rails Engineer

Whistle currently seeks a full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer with a strong background building reliable API platforms and top-notch web interfaces. You’ll work with our engineering staff on a variety of projects, including our mobile API, customer and internal facing web experiences, and scaling our platform as our number of customers grows.

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Electrical Engineer

Whistle is looking for a talented electrical engineer to assist in development of cutting-edge, small form-factor wireless products.

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Visit http://www.whistle.com/company/#careers to apply.
Douglas Crockford: The Better Parts (from CraftConf)
I mostly agree. There is one use case I've seen and that's taking fast photos when you can't fumble with a phone.

When I'm driving around, I always notice things that I would love to report to the city or code enforcement like a streetlight that is out or a dumped mattress or an abandoned house with grass 2 feet high.

I forget by the time I get home and I don't want to pull over to make a note. Google Glass would be perfect to just press a button and take a picture with the coordinates encoded in the image. Maybe also a voice memo attached.
All teams who applied by the application deadline have been, but YC's homepage states they'll review late applications that are submitted on a rolling basis until June, before S14 actually starts.
You could do that, but if you use Codio, all you need is your browser. Nothing else! It provides the server and code editor.
How do two people, neither of which is a senator on the relevant committee, go head-to-head in a Senate hearing?
to do that, wouldn't you have to look at every byte just to detect the runs of 0s, that would mean that you have to pull the whole file through the memory hierarchy of your system (rather than just passing chunks from syscall to syscall) wouldn't that alone slow you down significantly?
BSD Now did an interview with him that is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahBZ4lSZHQ or http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_09-doing_it_de_raadt_w...
imho, the best companion for a coder in home office is a dog.

Try to explain your problem to your dog, if you are stuck. And if this does not help, walk the dog to free your mind, and relax. Most often the solution is obvious once I'm back home.
I'm so glad to live in a country where "movie theater shootings" aren't a reason not to disable mobile phones in an single room.
Companies are not looking for "expat" developers in the sense that they want an expat. There are companies looking for the best talent out there and if that means an expat, so be it.

So yes, there are companies outside the US who hire expats. I say this with personal experience being an expat in HongKong for a while.

The question to ask is:

1. How do I find jobs outside the US which are relevant to my experience and knowledge ?

2. For those jobs, how do I find out if they will consider expats depending on the urgency,importance and budget (very important) of the requirement.
> Netbeans works perfectly

That's an interesting point. As impressed as I am with codio's technology, I'm wondering what the use-case is. People who need to do lots of dev, but on a different laptop every day? Maybe developers who aren't allowed to go through a US border check with a company laptop? (although such developers would be unlikely to trust a cloud IDE, at that point...)

Weird.
I've pitched 30+ VCs and angels (occasionally successfully!) as well as YC partners.

The YC interview is different. Extreme time pressure, absence of many social norms and a room of brutally smart people.
Some of the mirrors take an extra day.
This is mixing up multiple things: the injunction concerns engines for launches of American defense satellites (GPS, spy sats, communications satellites), etc., which don't go to the space station and don't have much to do with it. (ISS is a NASA program, not military.)
That's not necessarily true. I can't speak for the jsperf test since it's not mine, but for the Mithril site tests, I exclude "optional-but-not-really" things like Marionette and ngRoute/ngResource/friends from the tests (whereas I include the entirety of Mithril - templating engine, router, etc) to try and tilt the tests in other frameworks' favor.

Sure one could argue that Angular has filters or whatever, but hey with Mithril you can express templating things that you can't with Angular (e.g. tables with nested loops, or w/ for-else constructs), so it's not really a apples to apple trucks comparison. With an order of magnitude more code, one has to wonder how much of that extra code is more functionality and how much is just bloat.
$10-$20 seems like the average range for indie games of this size lately, so it doesn't feel too high to me, at least.
Apple’s new EarPods will have sensors in them, for heart rate
> the lack of imposters.

How about large photographs?