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SEEKING WORK - Chicago area or remote
Full-stack web developer and freelancer with 10 years of experience and a math background looking for work in the Chicago area. So far I’ve specialized on digital startups, and have worked with clients out of Chicago’s 1871. Throughout my work I’ve also been involved in helping startups build the back end of their application, design and optimize their websites and develop their business. Interested in short and long term projects. While working with me you'll also get access to a copywriter and an artist/designer.

Primary Specialties:

- MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, Node.js)

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), including Wordpress

- Server set up on: CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu, and Debian

- Data analysis in R and SAS

All of my development is responsive. In the past, I’ve worked on e-commerce sites, social networks, mobile versions of websites, and other projects. Here are some publicly available examples:

http://loadcost.com - Node.js (JavaScript), data analysis model written in R

http://yolobe.com - Node.js (JavaScript)

http://foundintown.com - PHP

References from past clients available. If you are interested, email me at: robert.haidari@gmail.com
amazeballs!
London, UK - Permanent, full time, on-site. Lumi - https://lumi.do

Lumi helps people to discover new content based on their browsing history. 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

We are also looking for a

* Product Lead

* Design Lead

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.

Reasons to be interested in Lumi

* Founders with recognised pedigree

* A small but extremely strong engineering team

* With funding imminent, about to grow rapidly - a great time to join

* A really cool product that /could/ go onto take over the world :-)

* Genuinely hard and interesting machine learning/data retrieval problems requiring original research.

Either launch a CV at jobs@lumi.do, or get in touch personally if you'd like to chat first.

https://lumi.do/about/jobs
Just as a clerical point, it would be better not to put a modified quote inside quotation marks. Currently, it looks like you're quoting the cited article when you're not.
MS to provide IE bugfix for XP for free
Interestingly, a soft page fault can be caused not only by a real page fault event, but also by NUMA autobalancing. Which actually could be a major source of kernel interference to purely user space processes. I sometimes see these NUMA-originated soft page faults very high up in a (CPU/cache) profiler for sensitive real-time processes that should avoid contexts switches and L1/L2 cache pollution at all costs.

As a side note NUMA autobalancing can be disabled by running:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel /numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_size_mb
echo 1000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms

Or booting the box with the kernel command line that includes:

numa_balancing=disable
Itanium too.

Coming up with a better architecture is easy compared to the challenge of getting people to actually use it.
> The cause of the current economic malaise is a factual issue, not a matter of public opinion.

It also has to do with the popular feeling that the rich got rich at the expense of their labor and sweat (and hey, it's the truth - it's this way thanks to modern day rentier capitalism). I have this theory that if equality in wealth and income got slightly more even across the board - even if there was no marked improvement in quality of life, people would feel better -- they wouldn't feel powerless, they wouldn't feel they lost the game because it was rigged.
Lawrence and crew just responded to my tweet on this. They use Stripe, which is encrypted. The SSL certs for the page that is unencrypted will be up later today.

https://twitter.com/Boyko4TX/status/461902353105317891

EDIT: forgot to link the tweet.
Yes, the paradox is that daydreaming and apparent purposelessness are, in the long run, about the most important things that get done. Or at least the beginning of the most important things: things which eventually become more active and purposeful.

e.g. Peter Higgs was walking in Scotland when he thought of first thought of his boson.

I do feel that the article is somewhat strident (ho ho). The only rule about wandering (and wondering) is that there are no rules or proscriptions. In contravention of the third bullet point I often listen to audio on walks, turning it on and off at whim.
Dark Wallet Launches, Keeps Bitcoin Transactions on the Hush
Good question! I grew up in an upper middle class area of California: Thousand Oaks. I only went to school in public schools. From about 4th grade on there are great concern about students and conformity. Schools, principals, and even teachers were graded on how well students did in standardized testing, how well the students did in sports, and how many "state level" awards the students received. So, basically, if our goals were not in line with that, we were reprimanded by being told we would not "make it in this society". I remember very clearly being told by a teacher that I was destined to drive a street sweeper. This, of course, made me rebel more.

That being said, I can say many of the people in my peer group did conform to these standards and did become very successful. I can point at handfuls of my friends and acquaintances who went to school at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and many other highly rated schools on full ride scholarships. A number of them have successful careers in medicine, law, politics and even professional sports. So, I guess the proof is in the pudding, it does work.

No one ever spoke up at a PTA meeting because parents wanted their kids to succeed, and the thought process goes that if they followed the program, they would succeed.

Of course, we won't talk about the suicide rate at my high school...
I think you can definitely debate whether the Congress has done a good job addressing economic inequality and malaise. But Lessig's point is about more than that. It's that because Congress has become so dependent on campaign funds from a tiny portion they have become very unresponsive and unrepresentative to the interests they should be. In the video he mentions infrastructure, education, health care, climate change, the tax system. If they're spending half their time on the phone dialing for dollars, that is going to skew their interest and their votes.

I pledged.
Well, yes, that's a bad way to measure performance. But when I compile something, it's because I want feedback from the compiler and static analyzer about the program I just wrote. I have a half-dozen parts of the program in short-term memory which I want to consider when seeing the output or the program behavior. If it takes five minutes to compile code, then my short-term memory will be filled with something else by then, like the weather, chores I'm putting off at home, or whatever.

So if you measure how long it takes for engineers/developers to get feedback, you're really measuring how good their tools are, which is a half-decent proxy for engineer performance.
SEEKING WORK - remote, based in Austria

I'm a JavaScript & Frontend Developer with a strong interest in data-visualization, product management, and mathematics. I'm currently looking for the next interesting client project. Throughout my 6+ years of industry experience I created a couple of popular open source software projects ( heatmap.js [0], nude.js [1] ), launched several web products, and consulted companies with their web strategies (don't hesitate to ask me about my portfolio)

I love to work on anything web-related with interesting challenges and aspects that haven't been done.

say hello at hn-contact@w-labs.at

[0] https://github.com/pa7/heatmap.js [1] https://github.com/pa7/nude.js
This man completely corrupted my childhood. Thanks! I am a better man for it.
Preliminary report on missing MH370
Why shouldn't foreign nationals be able to make statements about U.S. political candidates?
You still have to read Effective C++ to avoid shooting yourself in the foot, but after that C++ isn't much more difficult than Java or C#. The compile times remain annoying, though.
but by the sounds of it you'll still be able to do exactly that with 4sq.

It doesn't look like any functionality is being lost from the standalone 4sq app as it is now, just separated because people aren't using them together anyway.
$Y is very low - usually a certain number of signatures.
'I don't know any evidence, that teaching the "mechanistics" of math should lower the chance of understanding it.' I think that's a bit of a straw man.

The challenge is that simply getting the right answer, especially in terms of arithmetic (one small piece of math), can mask how well a student understands the underlying concepts and whether s/he can flexibly apply the concepts.

Here's a great video on that topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ofQ_WnQiZ4

And here's a great video that shows what a participatory classroom with a great teacher can achieve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8
ControlShift Labs:
http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ (NYC or remote)

We're a strong technical team building software products to help non-profits engage their members participate in their missions in meaningful ways on and offline. Our first product is an online organizing platform that is used by many of the world's most effective advocacy orgs including Greenpeace, 350.org, and CREDO. We're profitable.

We're about to launch a second product that we think will help large non-profits raise significantly more money than they do now.

We've got customers all over the world and a distributed remote team that we'd like you to be a part of. We're looking for people who care about our customer's causes and writing excellent software.

We build tools with rails, postgres, redis, rspec, etc.

Send a note to talk@controlshiftlabs.com with your Github profile and why you'd like to work with us.
We're very happy to have Round 9 completed. The 10-gigabit 40-HT core hardware has been quite amusing to work with. In most respects, these servers utterly humble our in-house workstations that we've been using for previous rounds.

If anyone has any questions about this round or thoughts for future rounds, please let me know!
Switch to PowerPC and get 64k pages by default in most distros!
County of San Juan, Friday Harbor, WA. Workflow Systems Analyst/Programmer

City life not cutting it anymore? Come live and work in the beautiful San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington. The person we are seeking will plan and collaborate with multiple departments, agencies, businesses and organizations to establish workflows to pass information easily and efficiently. Knowledge of Sharepoint, database and system administration and web development will be helpful.

Find the job description and job application at: http://sanjuanco.com/administration/employment.aspx

About the San Juan Islands:
The San Juan Islands are accessible only by ferry or small plane. Only about 16,000 people live in the county. The San Juan Islands are a popular summer tourist destination for vacationers. Whale watching, kayaking, bicycling and hiking are popular activities.

Count on temperatures around 70° in the summer and 40° in the winter. A happy confluence of weather systems also accounts for the high level of air quality you’ll appreciate across the San Juans.
Kamcord (YC S12), The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M
Disable WebRTC
Can I bother you with some accessibility questions? (Sorry HN but no contact info in profile) I am currently converting a giant (2800+ pages) government pdf[1] to markdown so that it can be converted to html/epub/latex/etc. I am casually aware of the DAISY file format but have not found any free software tools for creating DAISY files. Is there anything I can do that would be better for you than DRM free epub/mobi files and/or plain markdown text files?

[1]: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-20... -- http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/content-detail.h...
Swarm does both of those things, and more for the use case of keeping up and meeting with people.

The two apps will also work seamlessly with each other, for the moments when you are making a plan for dinner with friends in Swarm app, you can click an icon which takes you to Foursquare app for search. And many more such interfaces.
ROI is taxed at about the same rate as labor, if you count corporate income taxes and capital gains or dividend taxes (depending on the investment). Labor is only taxed once, as it is a corporate expense.
Your money and info are absolutely not safe if they travel over http instead of https. No matter what they do with the data upon receipt.
Ask HN: Am I going to get hellbanned?
At the time, I thought it was a good idea...

However, not many others liked the fact that I tried using the monthly "Who is Hiring" to promote my own idea. Thus, I incurred a number of thumbs down on this relatively new account that has put me into "-" karma.

Will this account be hellbanned/ghosted now?

I now know that my marketing ploy was a bad idea, but live and learn (so let's not discuss that part of it).
Much of Colombia is mountainous, and (in my experience) most towns in the mountains are situated by high-volume rivers and streams.

I'm told that 50 years ago or so it was quite common for small towns to have hydro-power, but then the government strung up wires from far away coal-powered electricity plants, and that was the end of that.

Perhaps such towns could be incentivized to install/reinstall hydro power, and achieve some degree of energy self-sufficiency. I have no idea whether the incentive could reasonably be price-based, as coal seems cheap.

Additionally, the sun is almost always shining in the Colombian Andes, and I've never seen a solar panel.
In the late 1980's the Commodore 64 in the home was probably not being replaced by a Mac, but because of price by some version of the Apple II. This was the GOTO product for home and education into the early 1990's.

In the late 1980's Apple was selling Mac SE's at close to $3000 list price and Mac II's at $5500 list. These were targeted at business customers with prices comparable to the bottom end 8088 IBM PS/2 and top 80286 PS/2 respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Apple_II_Family

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1987-06/1987_06_BYT...
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 23
Well, the location bar has always been one of Google's biggest competitors, which was pretty much won by Google after they integrated search. This is the next step...
Cheapest Days to Fly and Best Time to Buy Airline Tickets(2011)
I'm using Java for the first time because of Android. I had played with Java when it first came out but have stayed with C/C++/C# for almost everything.

I have to say that my Java experience isn't as unpleasant as I thought it would be. I always thought C# is what Java should have been but after learning a little idiomatic Java the reality is quite okay, really.
The Healbe GoBe calorie-counting wristband is real, and we've seen it in action
We spent some time with Healbe checking out the controversial new GoBe wristband, which claims to be able to automatically count the calories in the food you eat.
But since the page s served over HTTP, your browser has no way to know if it got the original page (which is probably safe) or if someone modified it in-transit to include malicious code.
Lovely, San Francisco: http://livelovely.com. Looking for a senior developer, a software engineer in test, an iOS developer, a product manager, and a product designer.

We're the prettiest entrant in a traditionally un-pretty industry: real estate. This is an entrenched industry that is overdue for some innovation, and a great opportunity to work on improving the difficult experience of finding a home.

It's a great time to join, because we've recently hit an inflection point, especially in SF where it's hard to find an apartment. We're on Lifehacker today, featured in this month's WIRED magazine, and last week, 7x7 named us one of the top startups changing the world.

I run engineering -- ex-YC, Django dev, been in the real estate space most of my life. I'd be happy to answer any of your questions: zain@livelovely.com.
What is crossfeed?
campaign money is such a narrow factor in elections. While I think these efforts are well intentioned, they will not be effective.

Billionaires buy media companies that lose money (Jeff Bezos is just the latest one). why? because they want to influence culture/elections/policy. The media has way more influence in elections than crappy ads. But I don't people running around talking about the 0.1% controlling the media in America or doing anything to address that.

Here is the problem: Most voters are dumb / don't care. Rich people can spend money to influence dumb, apathetic people.

Solve that problem and you can get money out of US politics. Focusing on campaign money / lobbyist jobs is just a microcosm of the problem, and will only result in the money being moved to other ways of influencing elections/policy (whack-a-mole).

Show me a solution that prevents rich people from creating the stage for Bill O'Reilly and Rachel Madow.
Infant mortality is definitely one. There's a team from Stanford who developed a baby warmer for areas where electricity is an issue http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/09/fellows_friday_4/ http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves...
Even if you go for a different problem, it's an interesting case to look into method-wise - I read somewhere else about how they iterated based on feedback from local community but I can't find it...
One issue with that is that it gives government incentives to keep people in their vices. As an imperfect example, police departments that plan on funding a significant part of their budget from speed tickets aren't encouraged to educate people against speeding or fix unreasonable speed limits.

It's also not that stable of a form of government revenue. Vices tend to be inelastic, but luxury spending will often drop precipitously in a downturn.
Quite the opposite actually.. we wanted to do many things for the two use cases, but were holding back, trying not cram features in a bundled app. Now with two apps, we can go full steam ahead with all the ideas for each of the two use cases.
Yes... mostly. I worked with a guy who, for every comment, asked "how can I eliminate the need for this comment?" Usually the answer is to name something better.

But sometimes you really need a comment, not because something is named badly, but because, even with the right name, there's something not obvious about it.
IMO Gradle has made huge improvements the past couple years (when I first started using it a few years ago it was incredibly unstable) but if you are a semi-power user of Maven I think you're going to find yourself frustrated using gradle still for a couple reasons (I've looked into this for my work recently, moving away from Ivy). Note I haven't extensively used Gradle, this is just from research:

- Intellij has incredible Maven support, and by this point almost all the bugs have been worked out. Gradle support is improving, but our company has dozens of modules, a mix of Java / Clojure source code, and depends heavily on Intellij automatic source linking working correctly, dependency propagation working 100% successfully, etc, and it's really easy for small bugs to become blockers. Last I checked there were still a number of pretty frustrating bugs related to this

- The Jenkins maven plugin is great, and the Gradle one is mediocre. For example, it does not even handle automatic triggering of downstream builds (this is absolutely critical for us https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-19941)

- Gradle pretty decent plugin support by now, but is not yet as exhaustive as what you'll find with Maven (there's a maven plugin for basically everything now)

- This may have been resolved, but I had issues configuring getting Gradle to update snapshot dependencies, which was really important to us.

In the end I decided to migrate to Maven to avoid these headaches. I think I will try to use Gradle for personal projects, but I don't feel comfortable migrating our company stack there yet.
Marvel Entertainment - New York, NY (http://marvel.com)

We're hiring a web interface engineer. The position is primarily front-end engineer focusing on responsive web sites, but we generally look for T-shaped developers and you can really dive in at different parts of our stack.

At Marvel we have the opportunity to build stuff with some of the most recognized characters in the world, the most amazing storylines in entertainment history, and some really cool and innovative technology:

* We launched our developer site in January - one of the few entertainment companies to do so (http://developer.marvel.com)

* We use graph theory to model our characters and comics (http://new.livestream.com/hugeinc/events/2474611)

* We've pushed the boundaries of responsive web design for our flagship sites

If you want to be part of a really talented, motivated and diverse engineering team, apply here: https://sjobs.brassring.com/tgwebhost/jobdetails.aspx?partne... and feel free to ping me at @dethtron5000 on twitter if you have more questions.
Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY

We're working on a lot of interesting stuff. Personally, I think Project Harmony is really cool: https://www.dropboxatwork.com/2014/04/get-closer-look-projec...

Here is the Glassdoor page for Dropbox: http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Dropbox-EI_IE41...

https://www.dropbox.com/jobs

If you would like to apply, send me an email at ronald@dropbox.com. Please include your resume and what position you are applying for.
Not unprecedented though. Carmack did once advise Ken Silverman on using sectors with his 3D engine. Which later became the Build Engine.
I didn't say anything about technology, or progress, or the quality of labor.
I think a little CEO is real mad that

1) He refused John Carmack's pitch for a new project. Stupid.

2) That got his best employee to quit the company and start a new one. Double stupid.

3) That new company he has no rights to was worth $2 billion a year and a half later. Management-level stupid. (note I don't care what it's "value" is, someone paid 2 billion for it, that makes it worth 2 billion)

And now of course, the lawyer wants some money. It isn't fair that something I could have had but didn't want was sold for $2 billion ! Obviously they owe me for the idea !

I have a 2 year old daughter that has this sort of behaviour too. I also have a 5 year old daughter, who has grown out of it (that wasn't easy, let me tell you). I'd expect the CEO of a legal company to ...

Dammit I almost got through that last sentence without laughing ... and crying.
Perhaps partly because doing so or not doing so will make national news. That's quite a motivating factor.
Fog Creek Software, NYC (and remote)
http://www.fogcreek.com/careers/

Current Openings:

- Software Developer - http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/Dev

- Trello Front End Developer - http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/TrelloFrontEndDev

- Product Marketing Manager, FogBugz and Kiln - http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/ProductMarketingManager

- Support Engineer - http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/SupportEngineer

- IT Engineer - http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/ITEngineer