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ff Venture Capital - New York, NY - Web Engineer

Do you like to work with a wide range of technology? Are you interested in the inner workings of venture capital and startups? If so, you'll appreciate the opportunity to work side by side with our Director of Engineering on a slew of projects.

Who We Are

We are an early-stage venture capital fund based in Midtown Manhattan. Since 1999, we have made over 160 investments in more than 50 companies. We provide extensive resources dedicated to portfolio acceleration, including engineering, strategy, recruiting, accounting and public relations.

Who You Are

You should have a degree in computer science, something similar or equivalent experience. Strong JavaScript skills are required. Experience with Node.js gets you to the front of the line. It's easy to make things these days, so show us at least one live project.

What You'll Do

Currently, we have our hands in Python, Rails, Node and Docker, amongst other things. You will work on new and existing systems, both open source and proprietary, working up and down the full stack including UI and UX.

Contact jason@ffvc.com if you're interested.
How can you be bad at walking without a destination in mind? You just put one foot in front of another and every time you have to choose a new direction, pick whichever way looks more interesting (by whatever measure you classify interesting at that moment).

Not meant to be hostile, genuinely curious.
Of course, that way google can build up more of a profile on them.

"Don't be evil" gave way to "Invading privacy for fun and profit" long ago.
Most people who use O_DIRECT writes stop quickly, thinking it's "slow". What's actually happening is you're seeing what the system is actually capable of in terms of write bandwidth, without any of the 'clever' optimizations like write caching.
This is not news anymore, right.
Sure. I feel like writing some tests. Python Unit Testing. :)
How do you get around the lack of bookmarks in the 1password browser for ios?
Here is a pretty complete list of significant Ember applications:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZWYq3gwkPTzUiyqr4x_asSj8...
> Assuming all I/O failures are EINTR is really, really odd, as if to say disks never fill up or fail and sockets never disconnect.

The point is to retry on EINTR and to abort completely in case of other IO failures.

assert(errno == EINTR);
continue;

is equivalent to

if (errno == EINTR)
continue;
abort();

> But somebody somewhere is reading this and thinking this is a "semantically correct pattern" (as it is introduced) and may just copy-paste it into their program.

Even if they do, it likely will not actually do any harm, it'll just kill the program instead of gracefully handle error.
The details are OS-specific, but the user is prompted to choose which app to open the link with on iOS.
...and In this case 2/3 of the experts called were/are competing for the government's business.

Edit: Strike that ... 1/3 of the experts is asking to compete for the government's business. 1/3 already have a monopoly for this work.

I'd say that's pretty "head to head".
I don't know if it's just me but I've found that when I just use regular javascript or jQuery or specific javascript libraries that I only need, I am able to produce something faster and with far less frustration of having to learn MVC on the client side which I feel is enough for server side but not the client side.

I used backbone.js for days where as something I could've done within hours in jQuery and ajax with Python flask running in the background.

Not only that you need build automation, dependency manager, phantomjs static html renderer...it's really more than I can deal with and feel that this extra overhead doesn't really bring much to the table more like work for work itself is created to boost the credibility of such work.
Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9
I weep for the memory sectors that got re-written continuously for an entire night.
> targeted by US and EU for the activities of Russia in the Ukraine

Ah, I didn't know exactly what those sanctions were. So, does it mean that, as a government official, he's threatening sanctions for a country, because of sanctions that were applied to him personally?
SEEKING WORK - remote, short to medium term projects - zak.wilson@gmail.com

I make software - mostly full-stack web development and HTTP APIs, but I'm adaptable. I have some interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. I have minimal experience making Android apps. I can do stuff that's harder than basic CRUD apps.

Stuff I know well: Clojure, Ruby (with or without Rails), Python, Django, Javascript, Lua, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SASS, responsive CSS.

Other stuff I've used for something non-trivial at least once: Common Lisp, Scheme, Java, SASS, C, PHP, Haskell, Bash, Perl, MongoDB, Mirah.

Yes, I can probably pick up that language or tool you're using that nobody has ever heard of.

Github (perhaps a bit dusty): https://github.com/zakwilson
Now if purposeless lifestyle journalism would race it to the grave...

The whole question of purpose is a bit confused. I bet that a lot of people in my neighborhood do most of their walking leash in hand. Does the dog make it purposeful? If I stop by the drugstore or the post office on my usual noon walk, does that change it from purposeless to purposeful?
I simply hate editing Wikipedia articles. Too many restrictions, too many rules, too much bureaucracy to go around if someone doesn't like your edits.

I detest doing substantive contributions. Too much control and too much conservatism as to what gets to be and gets to be included in it.

The various autonomous wikis are usually better in these aspects but because of the issues above, they cannot contribute much upstream.
I think it would be better still to give a one-sentence description of what the product does first:

interview starts: “So you’re building some automation for Github?” asked Paul

response: Sort of. Our product spins up new development environments in the browser really fast, about 10 seconds right now. (optional second sentence: our MVP is for projects hosted on GitHub, but it doesn't have to be and we'll probably want to let companies host their own code in the future.)

Then go into the pain points: "One reason why we're working on this is that sometimes you need a dev environment in a minute, not a day like it usually takes, like if you're interviewing somebody..."

You can probably make it more concise by switching the pain points from hypothetical to actual examples: "We're using the project for..." or "we'd like to use this project at work because..." or even better "We've talked to Parse, Firebase, Mongo, Stripe and Mixpanel about this, and they want to use it for..."

The interview sounds a lot like first-stage interviews for academic jobs (in econ, at least), and it's usually not that helpful to approach those interviews as sales pitches or boxing matches. They work like 10 minute presentations that can be derailed by the audience at any time, even midsentence. Even in the middle of the first sentence. So it might help to prepare for the interview by preparing to give an extemporaneous 10 minute presentation without any visual aids.

The logic (in academic interviews and probably for YC interviews too) is that you believe you have an exceptional product. You don't have to "sell" it and you don't have to convince anyone of anything that's not true. You only have to explain what you have so that the interviewers understand it and then they'll see how awesome it is. (I'm not saying that everyone's product is awesome, but you'd better believe that yours is.)

Incidentally, I don't think that the right answer is "Github/Docker/Digital Ocean is not a potential competitor." I prefer, "maybe they could take our business, but they won't because our approach relies on x/y/z that we are uniquely able to provide." x/y/z can be technical skills, domain knowledge, a specialized proprietary encryption algorithm, ruthless and bloodthirsty work ethic, etc. Again, not every founder can provide some unique value to their product, but you'd better provide one to yours.

* "You" in this comment refers to the reader, not patio11.

edit: formatting
ENOSPC ?
Better on the whole than the strychnine they used to give distance runners, I suppose.
You are reading correctly. Lots here:

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

In short, one thing that happens is that they exchange small fragments of DNA (called plasmids). Those fragments can contain the information necessary for the resistance.
Rinse - www.rinse.com - San Francisco

Rinse is a fast-growing Technology-Enabled Dry Cleaning and Laundry Delivery Service based in the design district in San Francisco. This is a chance to join a 'rocket ship' startup pre-venture capital. We're currently hiring people of all types:

* We'd like to hire Software Developers of all stripes to join our small team and build mobile apps for our customers and drivers, sophisticated internal processing tools, and a robust and polished customer-facing web presence to further burnish our brand. Our stack is built on Django, with a healthy amount of HTML5 and Backbone.js, but we're more interested in hiring someone with mature development practices, mentorship experience, and strong analytical capability. Knowledge of any new tools will come easily to the right person. A job description is at https://rinse-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/docs/Rinse%20-%20D...

* As this is an operationally-focused business, we're also looking for a 'Swiss-Army Knife' generalist to join our high-caliber team and own whatever parts of our operations, marketing, or social media need attention on a given day. This is a chance for a smart person to join a tech startup in a critical role, even if that person isn't a software developer.

* We're also looking to hire a Director of Marketing to help us accelerate growth as we optimize our operations. With a great domain, solid product, tech-savvy customer base, and growing ad presence, this is a great opportunity for a consumer-focused marketing professional. A job description is at https://rinse-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/docs/Rinse%20-%20D...

* Last but definitely not least, we're hiring individuals with a clean driving record for part-time evening work delivering and picking-up laundry and dry cleaning as a Rinse Valet. This is a great way for students and the under-employed to pick up some extra cash a couple of nights a week. Apply via this web link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kWZYu1kg1r8kxdDC9ObKdgQP_1N...

Interested? Email jobs@rinse.com for more information.
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SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional
experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

Android Engineer — Our Android app is at a nascent stage, with just one fulltime engineer working on it. Our iOS app is used by millions; we want our Android app to get there too. We're looking for someone to help make that happen: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer
Ask HN: Best source for awesome (above average) talent?
Where are you finding the best talent these days? Networking referrals? Linkedin? TalentBin? Headhunters?
Neither of those are animals.
New Fellow Travelers Join the Cloud Foundry Foundation Mission
What's being discussed wrt promises?

(I don't like promises and would like to see it go away. Sadly too many specs have adopted it already)
Web Framework Benchmarks round 9
Gurock (http://www.gurock.com/) - Berlin, Germany

Hiring: Technical Support Engineer (English, full time) + others (DevOps, Product Evangelist, Software Developer)

We are a small & successful bootstrapped software company from Germany and build popular web-based applications for software teams. We have been in business since 2004 and many thousands of teams, both small and large, use our products.

We are hiring for different positions, but our main focus right now is on hiring a technical support engineer to help us support our TestRail customers. This is not a typical support role though, as our products and customers are very technical (they are software dev/testing teams), so it's an interesting and challenging position.

As most of our customers are from the US, Canada or other non-German speaking countries, excellent English writing and communication skills are critical for this role (German not required). You can learn more about the Support Engineer role here:

http://www.gurock.com/about/jobs/support-engineer/

We have recently opened a nice office in Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg, near Mitte) and offer great benefits. We use a modern web development stack with PHP, an advanced custom MVC framework (like Rails), Vagrant etc. We provide a very productive and flexible working environment.

If you are in Berlin (or plan to move to Berlin soon) and one of our open positions sounds like a good fit, let me know.
Human API, (Palo Alto, CA), Full Stack Software Engineers

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Human API is building the universal health data API, data infrastructure & developer platform to make it really easy to integrate health data.

We are looking to add core full stack / data engineers to our fast growing team. We are well funded (Max Levchin, Andreessen Horrowitz, Eric Schmidt, among others) and based in downtown Palo Alto in sunny California.

More details: http://humanapi.co/aboutus

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Contact andrei@humanapi.co if you're interested.
I'm always suspicious of moves like this because it makes me suspect that they're going to kill off one side.

That said, Swarm looks really smart - in fact, it's something I'm amazed FourSquare haven't done before now. I want to be able to post a status saying "Lunch?" tagged with my location and let my friends who are nearby with no lunch plans reply.
Bob Hoffman – The Golden Age of Bullshit
I came across this site years ago (http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/) and it serves the same group. Easy recipes, as low cost as possible to feed familes.
Do you know what would be amazing?

The ability to change all vulnerable passwords, automatically as a group.

I know it's very challenging because password change/reset procedures vary widely, but that part of the process is still manual. 1Password already automates logins almost entirely successfully. Perhaps password changing can be automated as well?

If it were robustly automated, you cold easily rotate your passwords once a month, with very little fuss, for example.

This is really something that authentication schemes could benefit from supporting an automated API for.

Good work on the service. I suspect that heartbleed was the current use case, but this service will be very helpful for future breeches and issues. For example they could alert you that XYZ Service had a data breech, it's fixed, and you should rotate your password.

Great work.
Unless this is some obscure joke I don't get, the thread you want is this-a-way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678178
For years, before Instapaper and Readability, I used a little script that copied the text out of the current page and pasted it in plaintext, then printed it from TextMate monospaced and 4-up. I'd shove the pages in a pocket or the backseat and read them in my free time.

It's a great way to take notes, circle interesting bits, and compare them later. I haven't been able to replicate that system digitally.
And Russia, of course; American astronauts have been going up on Soyuz since the end of the Shuttle program.

If you're suggesting that the US could go to China for replacement transportation services: not likely. NASA is currently barred by Congress from any cooperation with the Chinese at all on space exploration. At least one of the US commercial crew competitors are likely to have working hardware long before that attitude changes.
London: Farringdon. On-site only.

Timetric (https://timetric.com) is looking for python/django/javascript/devops engineers to help us build the best data visualization platform available anywhere.

We're a small, motivated team. We use git, code reviews and a one-click deploy/rollback system so that we can rapidly iterate and ship code without constantly breaking everything.

We're backed by a solid sales team who know how to get users for our products (and pay the bills!)

We want smart, interesting people with a passion for making usable systems.

-------------------------

We are recruiting for two specific roles:

1. Data Visualization Engineer: JavaScript

We want you to help us make our data visualization tools better, faster, and bring them to a wider audience.

You need to have:

JavaScript experience. With or without jQuery.
Knowledge of MVC / MVVM frameworks (e.g. Backbone).
Understanding of HTML/CSS (especially recent standards development).
Used to working with git (or mercurial).

And it would be really great if you also had some of:

Python/Django experience.
Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
Numerical/scientific/mathematical background.

and if you've published or contributed to any open-source software, then tell us about it!

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2. Python/Django developer

We’re looking for Python developers to build our data visualization and publication platform. We develop in Python/Django and JavaScript, so any JS experience is a huge plus.

You’ll work across the whole stack. We don’t expect you to know everything you need to do before you start, but you'll learn fast.

You need to have:

Python experience.
Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
Used to working with git (or mercurial).

And it would be really great if you also had some of:

Django experience.
Understanding of HTML/CSS (especially recent standards development).
JavaScript experience.
Numerical/scientific/mathematical background.
Understanding of AI/ML techniques.

and if you've published or contributed to any open-source software, then tell us about it!

There are job descriptions at http://timetric.com/about/jobs/ - or just email us at jobs@timetric.com
except where chrome (or safari) mistakes a url for a for search terms. OT, I know, but since the advent of the "unified search" boxes, I have returned to the late nineties and type "http://" with all my urls because chrome and safari get it wrong so often.
Great!

A few things that are rather addressing the Harmony proposal:

- `this` in arrow functions: Now this is breaking the standard behavior AND strict mode. I understand that we're running out of reserved words for this, but maybe it shouldn't have been `this` with different semantics. (I would expect all (near-)future extensions to be compliant with strict mode.)

- explicit `set()` and `get()` methods of Maps and WeakMaps: Why make them explicit and not implicit getters and setters (by subscript) like with associative arrays? Why another approach for the same thing?

These parts of the proposal are prone to cause some irritations, since they are adding duplicate behavior or syntax to existing approaches ...

Edit: I do understand that using subscripts in assignments to Maps and WeakMaps would produce some inconsistency on the other hand, since these subscripts would not translate to names (or rather to some hash-signature), so there's always a trade-off.
All the layout features used in publishing are obvious requirements for a document layout technology, especially when folks from Adobe, et al, are on the relevant committees. All the layout features used in applications are obvious requirements for web applications. It's perfectly reasonable to leave out a lot of stuff from early versions of a product or standard, but we're a long, long way past that.

Okay, but CSS was a document layout spec for web documents, and has become to be used as a layout spec for interfaces. There are differences there - in other words, CSS is pretty unique in terms of the kinds of areas it has been trying to tackle. Say columnar text - I don't at all think that many people would have considered that it would be required back in the early days of the web. It turned out people did need it, and now we mostly have it.

So no, I don't think many of the things you talk about were obvious, and in any case we've mostly sorted the situation - it's taking a long time, but CSS is also special in that there are lots of implementations of it, and many of them are legacy. So don't expect overnight change.

HTML is involved with it, it's just badly involved. Either don't provide presentation controls or do it properly.

HTML was historically involved, because we didn't realise how important separation of structure and presentation would actually turn out to be. Now we're got a big legacy to deal with.

To be honest, I'd have preferred XHTML2 won, but I don't really think it's a massive deal either way - you're arguing for perfection, which exists in literally no software platform.

Your opinion doesn't matter because there are facts on the ground.

I'll leave you to think about the irony of that statement, and just point out that facts are open to interpretation.
It's not "basically allowing public access." MIT was actively and repeatedly kicking him off their network, and it got to the point where Aaron gave up and resorted to physically trespassing to regain access.

Facing criminal charges is indeed difficult. You don't need to make up stuff to make the problem sound worse than it is.
He probably didn't do enough walking before writing the post.

Wrong thread.
SEEKING WORK - remote or on-site, London based.

Full stack developer, C#, javascript, node.js, plus many frameworks and libraries

More detailed C.V can be view here.. http://dvemac.github.io/Curriculum-Vitae/
It's not my test, but m.endComputation() - which is in the loop - does call m.redraw() internally.

With that being said, if there's something there that is wrong that I'm not seeing, I'd be happy to hear it, as I am skeptical about the number as well.
I watched this a few weeks ago when the lawsuit was first publicised. Senator Shelby from Alabama is so infuriatingly transparent. I mean it's so obvious he has no real interest in lowering spending. ULA is effectively a jobs programme for his constituents and the rest of the nation pays dearly for it.
This is one of the best threads I have seen anywhere.

I wrote a book on Struts MVC, and I agree that MVC in DOM is counter productive.

Also 'my' answer is event buss similar to E/S: https://github.com/puppetMaster3/ModuleBU
"Not sure what Rogozin thought about them apples, but this sure isn't boring!"

Probably nothing.

The Soyuz rockets they use are so old they are literally still named after the Soviet Union. This might seem like a bad thing but in rocketry old means reliable and new means "Your payload will probably explode in one of the first 5 missions. Hope it wasn't important!"

In short, it won't be sometime before 2018 before the Dragon Mk 2 rockets become safe enough for Astronauts to use regularly to get to the space station.
I took Google Glass on a trip across the world, and this is what I saw
Huffington Post article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sophia-dominguez/the-world-through-google-_b_5243468.html

For blogs in every city check out my blog: sophiathroughglass.com
If I see the 2038 problem in a newspaper headline I think I'm going to take the closer fire exit.