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Austin * Remote OK * Full Time or Contract

Stack: Rails (4 yrs, side projects), Python (1+ yr), Angular/Meteor/D3 (learning), Semiconductors (extensive), R (1 yr), Sublime Text, Ubuntu, Git/GitHub

Resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15480795/Brian_Piercy_20..., or see LinkedIn bio: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianpiercy

Bio: 3-time product manager + 3-time project manager. Operations-centric. (I'm the guy you call when the trains need to run on time.) SAAS or hardware - if I get to work with people who are wicked smart & fun, then everything else is gravy.
Location, Palo Alto, CA / Medford, MA | Summer intermship

Stack: Ruby, (Javascript, HTML, CSS), Python, PHP, C, Java, git

Resume: http://bernsteinbear.com/resume/

Contact: max [at] bernsteinbear [dot] com

I'm going to college next year, so I'm looking for an up and coming place to work this summer. It would be neat if I could continue part-time during the year (either remotely or from a Boston office or something) as well. I primarily do backend development, but am open to learning new things!
U.S.? If so, me too, and I think we have horribly insufficient driving instruction here. Maybe it varies by state, but yeah, we didn't go on the freeway, I didn't really learn how to parallel park, I didn't learn anything about highway ettiquette (i.e. keep right unless passing), etc.

I wish we were required to have many, many more training hours before being licensed, especially in the colder climates with icy conditions on the regular.
Colombia, Remote, Contract or Part Time

Stack: Scala/Java Play, AngularJS, Chrome apps/extensions, JavaFX

Resume: http://macondoventures.com , http://www.linkedin.com/in/alpeb

Contact: alejandro@macondoventures.com

Economist, self-taught programmer. Startup experience. Looking for a team passionate about their craft.
Probably because you are thinking of yourself and as a representative sample of the population that is interested in privacy. Hate to break it to you, but if you understand how you are tracked ata all, you are in the minority. HN is quite possible the least representative population of the global internet user population in terms of both amount of money that you have (and hence amount you'd be willing to spend) and most people on HN have a pretty good idea of what is being tracked whereas a member of the general population would not.
> Enough of them had a basis in fact to get a founder fired.

Which allegations were true? What did that founder actually do? Did she expose herself to liability through libelous statements?

On this, The Court of Public Opinion lacks the standing to rule. Your comment is a case-in-point as to why.
You can implement SQL on top of MapReduce.
Quad Cities, IL

Willing to work remotely or relocate almost anywhere in the Pacific Northwest or Midwest USA, but actually prefer relocation.

Looking for full time, contract, or part time

Stack: Ruby, Rails, Git, Ubuntu, Sublime Text 2, HTML/CSS, some JS

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thehopefulwebdev/

Contact: joseph [at] thehopefulwebdev [dot] com

I have been teaching myself to code for the past 5 months and trying to blog every day about it for the last 3. I believe I am going to start approaching a wall where guided direction rather than every day diligence is going to be more rewarding and instructive. I want to work for a company that wants a self-starting developer who will grow with their team.
NSA hacked
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Leipzig, Germany, Remote, Contract, Part Time

Stack: HTML, CSS, Python (Flask, Django, pandas), Java, Go, PHP, Javascript, SQL, SOLR, elasticsearch, Git, Linux

Resume: https://github.com/miku, http://stackoverflow.com/users/89391

Contact: pgdv9o@hazr.me

I enjoy building backend systems, git collaboration and tested software.
It wasn't a complete denial ('code' and 'patents' are not the only work products protected by IP laws and by employment contract terms).

That alone makes me believe this was not vetted by his lawyer unless they specifically wanted to misdirect the opposition. I don't think that's likely, and such misdirection would most likely fail anyway assuming the opposite side is halfway competent.

Making falsifiable claims in public simply does not help.

As for how Zenimax could use this against Carmack, let's not make their lives easier than we have to.
Toronto or Remote, Full Time, Contract, Part-Time

Technical and marketing communications writer

Stack: writing, editing, blogging, white papers, online help, Web site copy, HTML, Office, Acrobat.

Resume: http://www.hiretechnicalwritertoronto.com

Contact: jonathanacohen [at] gmail [dot] com
Impossible... Congress has no balls.

To make this more than mere snark, seriously, committees of the size of Congress are nearly entirely structurally incapable of taking serious stands of this nature. That's not sarcasm, it's a real structural problem with committees, and despite how we often refer to it in humor, it's a fully real thing, not a joke. This is why the US still needs an executive branch, which is structured in such a way that it can take a stand, potentially very quickly.
Oh, great. I'm very curious. I am honestly very interested to hear what you feel Snowden has done wrong?

I had always assumed that for everyone except those with something to lose (e.g. politicians, bureaucrats) that Snowden 's actions were seen in high regard.
"Flush with cash" isn't the way that russian civilians are feeling currently...
I did not successfully parallel park in my test and still passed. Thankfully I learned how on my own, but still.
Maybe you were downvoted for leaving a comment that had fuck-all to do with the topic? Maybe people just don't want to go in for yet another round of Java bashing?
I meant do NOT use keep-alive if you have a high bounce rate.

High traffic and high bounce rate, will leave a lot of TIME_WAIT hanging around
for precious seconds and soon enough your server won't be able to accept new connections.

Obviously this applies if you have both: high traffic and high bounce rate.
Any high traffic service over TCP where a client connects to the server for a very brief
moment and doesn't come back until hours or days later, or never.
a. Thanks.
b. The difference between this and Yahoo is people can define the page(s) where they want their content to go, though the API has not yet been exposed.
Ianal, but in a deposition he would be asked whether they were his tweets or not.

If he denied they were, he would be asked further questions and possibly caught in a lie. Such as "is this the only time that your account has been used by someone other than yourself?" or "So you are saying that this is the only tweet that you didn't make but the others before and after you did". And so on. My guess is that he would be advised to tell the truth to prevent getting further trapped as far as his credibility. There may also be other people that he discussed the tweets with that could be brought into the picture as well under oath in court I'm guessing. Bottom line: Denial is easier said than done.
I am sure a lot of people also think that the email in your profile is public. It is not obvious that it is hidden.
Location: Madrid, Remote, Contract

Stack: C/C++, Python (Django), HTML5/JS, Linux, SQL...

Resume: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/dmorenomontero

Contact: dmoreno [a] coralbits.com

Graduate Computer Engineer with 6+ years of professional experience as Lead Developer and CTO and a lifelong interest in computer science, programming languages, software development and programming. Passionate about new
technologies and startup culture. Participated in several startups as technical lead and project manager. 15+ years of GNU/Linux and FLOSS experience.
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One of the comments in this thread blew up the page layout: http://i.imgur.com/G3edwiY.png (in Chrome too). Not sure which one though. Any ideas?
I don't totally get it. On one hand he's selling this idea that making a dream site can be easy (and it is if it's a very simple site, I guess). He's got 2 decades of experience that say there's more to creating a site than the tool that you're using.

Then running the backend of usual cms systems is made to be hard. But if you know how to install node.js and you're talking about these other components and services like firebase, really that isn't any harder than running click and point software that installs all the backend for you for these other cms solutions. It's not a breakthrough leap in simplicity.
Ha! I love that one. Good pop culture reference!
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That would be an exceedingly dumb strategy because if such a link could be made then it would open up Carmack to yet another round of damages if the suit would be lost.

Blackmail is not a sound legal strategy if you have a lot to lose. If you're on your last dime and you don't own anything that can be seized you might try this route.
Related: Microsoft's decision to hide file extensions by default was arguably one of the worst UI mistakes of all time, leading to naive users launching coolpic.jpg.exe because all they saw was coolpic.jpg, among many other problems.
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Your criticism is misplaced. PPP is not the issue, its the nonconstant marginal utility of money. If the marginal utility of money were constant, one would expect the results to be identical for a dollar or a million dollars, and billionaires would be expected to behave the same as day laborers. That is ludicrous. Rather than cultural ideas of fairness, the game more likely could serve as a proxy for the participants initial ex ante wealth endowment.

That being said, many of these 'experiments' in behavioral economics are silly, in that they capture so little of a real world environment and introduce substantial effects of their own as to be meaningless in terms of real (model driven, hypothesis building, testable, repeatable) science.
I'm a .NET dev too...there's more of us on here than you think
Case classes as they currently stand cannot do without polymorphism. That said the Scala team doesn't show a lot of hesitancy in adding new features so I wouldn't be surprised if they implemented case value classes of some sort once the JVM supports them natively.
No need to be skeptical - that's logical, why use a foreign country as your main provider, especially a country you are not always in agreement with.

The larger question though is if that is beneficial for the market as a whole. The idea of NASA not doing stuff internally is to benefit from the cost efficiency of the market. If NASA uses mainly SpaceX, they run the risk of creating a Halliburton like symbiosis and in that case you wonder why they don't do stuff internally rather than giving a share of taxpayer money to private shareholder and destroying the whole market by over-favoring one company in particular.
I have to say that I never heard anything like that...
I was expecting some immersion but not at that level, definitely going to check more binaural stuff now
You missed the paragraph right before that:

> Did I show break-in exists? No. There are too many variables still. Was it simply movement? I don't know. If I did it again to another brand new pair would I get the same results? I don't know. If I did it to an already broken in pair would I get the same results? I don't know.

Testing one pair of headphones one time doesn't show anything.
Original author here. They do this already, the pseudo function 'correlate' operates in the frequency domain. It doesn't negate the fact that you still correlate the signals of different stations pairwise.
While I'm not sufficiently informed on the daily operations at GitHub, "basis in fact" has nothing to do with whether a C-level remains employed or not. Companies these days are hypersensitive about their reputations and you'll be considered a liability for a single misconstrued statement despite years of stellar (and most importantly, completely politically sanitary) work.

You may even get owned for politically incorrect behavior that occurs in private and completely external to your professional affiliation. Off the top of my head I can cite a handful of such ousters that have occurred in the last month, including but not limited to Brendan Eich and Donald Sterling.

We're in a really bad spot right now. The principles that undergird free society are not well regarded anymore. Make a single statement that stirs the ire of the reigning corporate thought police and you're done for, no matter how innocuous it may or may not be. People don't care about the facts, it's all about perception, and if you're perceived as a thought criminal in any of the many varied channels now considered taboo, you're "toxic" to the company. It's as simple as that.

Considering this status, perhaps aggression and even subtlety are justified if you're seeking to defend yourself against the types of accusations that would get a toxic label applied to your name.
Which is why it's awesome the EFF is doing this one. They can be trusted.
Large orgs developing apps for internal use are pretty much the only people doing non-game desktop apps these days. They're still happy with it as an inheritor of Visual Basic, and if you're happy to be Windows-only it works very well.

I agree that Microsoft abandoning XNA development was a very disappointing decision, it was a pretty good tool.
Can't edit the above post, but what I meant was: do NOT use keep-alive if you have a high bounce rate.

Apologies for the poor wording.
Isn't that basically OpenHatch?: http://openhatch.org/
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The only thing keeping US politics "in check" is US citizens. So far, I'd rather have a world "slightly dominated" by the US rather than by the Chinese or Russians...
I think you're dealing with an selling ice cream in winter problem here. There's a significant number of programmers who need this behaviour, but you don't hear from them because they have no interest in Java, because it doesn't even have rudimentary support for their use cases.
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I'm trying to find out if fashion is an important topic to the HN audience and if so, what would you find the most appealing way to get style recommendations?

For instance, who out there is using Thread or a similar service? What's good with it? What doesn't work? What would you prefer?

All feedback and discussion encouraged :)
And yet we get consulting projects to port stuff from MFC/C++ into WPF/C#.
It's like the terrorism shield all the politicians stand behind.

Don't agree with me? You're a terrorist.

Don't think Snowden is a hero? You're a sock puppet.
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Original author here. Thanks for the spacial data structures link, I'll look into it.

The correlations are done in the frequency domain. And, although I didn't look into it, I suspect they have pretty good algorithms to compute the correlations themselves. At least they have very smart people working on that.
I can't imagine how this could cause a seizure. Can you provide more information there?

Migraines I don't know as much about, but I feel like warning people your site has bright colors isn't very important.
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Topiary aka Jake Davis from Lulzsec had funnier and more tasteful writing than this. HN back in their defacement days always commented on the quality of the writing. This sounds a bit wannabe, which is a shame since 4chan tends to be obsessed with not rehashing tired content.
Middle of nowhere, RU, Remote / Relocation, Full/Part/Any time

Stack: Haskell, math, Unix system programming, web client-side

Resume: http://lelf.me/resume

Contact: a /at/ lelf.me

Preferably functional programming (Haskell/deptypes) in the areas I know (above, they are stretchy of course).
There's poor in every country. Russians are certainly better off than they have been historically, and better off than neighbours like Ukraine (certainly before their 'revolution', and especially after).

Regardless, this is about sending things into space which isn't the realm of ordinary citizens, but governments. The Russian government certainly is flush with cash.
I've never seen a Rails application that suffered from too much decoupling. If someone out there wrote one of those, call me because I have a job for you. 99% of all things written in Rails are monolithic messes of business logic encrusted with persistence and response handling. So ridiculously coupled that you don't talk to objects by themselves, but bring in a whole family of resources to models and controllers that violate almost every SOLID principle.

The whole "You're not gonna need it" argument works until you actually do need it. Which, unless you're not doing a good job, is going to happen. Then you have no discriminated interface to pry your application blocks away from each other and can't persist a model without dozens of unintended side effects.

There's no readability penalty to decoupling. The more you decouple the less you need to read to understand an application.
Monarch does not have those powers; in any case this is effectively a pay dispute.

The complexity issue is important and needs addressing properly. Jury trials for fraud have already been abandoned for this reason. However, I've no idea how you'd reform it; you need to have people who (a) know the law and (b) have read all the relevant documents, which is always going to take time and therefore cost money.
NASA code from years of projects
>a "delete all stored data on me and opt out" button

You mean like:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads/

That's all the information the advertising network (Doubliclick) has on you (atleast, based on the cookie on your current machine).
A more permanent opt-out:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin

If you use other google products (GMail, Youtube etc), they let you individually delete your accounts. Or you can go here and wipe all your data:
https://www.google.com/settings/datatools

Not that I'm a google apologist, but it sure helps if you do a cursory search (or click on the "Privacy" link on the homepage) before complaining about something they already give you.
I think the real problem is not corporate licenses, but all those bootleg XP copies running in China (and who can blame them, XP is still a perfectly fine OS). MS should offer a free and legal upgrade to Windows7 for home/gaming use to get this somewhat under control.
Wow, yes, I really did turn to see who was knocking on my desk.

Is it just me, or does the left channel id clip have quite a different equalisation/sound to the right one?

Also, regarding the centre/twisted test clips - these are encoded as mp3 (for playing - the downloads are wav). Mp3s often encode stereo by encoding the average of the two channels and the difference between the two channels, with a lower bit rate. If one channel is inverted, then the average of the two channels will be zero, so all the sound information is encoded in the lower bit rate difference, which would give it a lower quality. Something to be aware of when making test clips like this.
This thread is full of people nit-picking design concerns with this open source resource, however the actual content in this seems to be top-notch!
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It's almost impossible to overcome the public's prejudice. Is it better to remain silent and allow people to make their assumptions or put out new statements that will also likely be misconstrued and potentially make things worse?
I've been on this site for over 5 years and I'm getting pretty sick of the lack of very basic design.

Look at this image:

http://i.imgur.com/kR94sqv.jpg

Not only does it blow by the character limit, it goes right off the end of my screen. These problems are fixable. I'm not advocating a complete overhaul, but how many times have you mistapped / misclicked on a vote button and not been able to reverse it? How come there is still no way to collapse threads? Very basic things.
I guess JavaScript moves pretty slow these days.
There will always be curious people, and relatively inexpensive ways to get access to the inside of things, and large communities of people supporting each other in this endeavor. Yesterday's Commodore 64 game pirate is today's Minecraft modder or iOS jail breaker with Cydia.

We might have an engineering shortage in future ( we do already ), but it will be for many factors , not just lack of opportunities to tinker. If it isn't addressed, we will go long periods of time without nice things (think of the relative stagnation of the web from 2000 to 2008).
United States, Will relocate anywhere in the US or will work remotely

Stack: Javascript (AngularJS), Ruby, Rails

Résumé: http://andrew.huth.me, http://github.com/ahuth

Contact: andrew@huth.me

Looking for a company or startup with a strong culture and sense of purpose. I'd like to work in California or Colorado, but will move anywhere in the US for the right team. Also willing to work remotely.

Uses Rails and Angular, such as here: http://github.com/legion/vacation. Also excited to potentially learn new technologies and I'm a quick learner.
You've measured it with calibrated equipment? Or you just listened to them and believed they've changed after your brain adapted?
It would be cool to see how Hyperdex (http://hyperdex.org) holds up.
The blog post is pure speculation by what appears to be a layman. It has no more weight than any random comment on HN.

It's worth stating that because people are treating it as if a famed IP lawyer has made a pronouncement of fact, when in actuality it's just someone giving, like, an opinion, man.
Instead of informing security or the conference organizers? Are you sure that beating him up is the optimal course of action? Perhaps the guy has Aspergers, or a behavioural disorder. It's funny how inclusivity is suddenly being thrown out the window here.

It is never prudent to assume malicious intent on someone's part and physically assault them -- and then follow up with a piece about how this means that you are somehow the sufferer.
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