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Seeking Work - Remote(part time)

I am a full stack web application developer looking to make some additional income. Ideally <= 16 hours per week

My stack:
- C# ASP.NET web forms
- Java( a small project in Play 1x)
- Python( I do my personal projects in python)
- PHP(I've done some small projects in PHP, I am not an expert in it though)
- JavaScript( I use JavaScript extensively, mostly plain js but some frameworks like knockout as well)
- CSS( have used bootstrap and other frameworks, I haven't used pre-processors like less/sass)
- HTML

linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/jdnetzky/
email jdnetzky at gmail dot com
Seeking Freelancer - Designer / Front End Developer

Quill is a web app that provides interactive writing lessons. Quill is a free site, and we're an open source, nonprofit organization. Quill launched eight months ago, and we now have 10,000 students using the site, with 2,000 students using the site daily. We were recently awarded a grant from the Gates Foundation, and we'd now like to commit to a visual update of the site. We're looking for a designer/front end developer who can update our aesthetic and implement those changes.

Contact me at peter@quill.org
How cool will be having a bbq over there?
Piketty’s ‘errors’ aren’t mistakes: They’re questions, and he answered them
If you read the amendment process, the states can get together and amend the constitution if pushed too hard by the Feds. It hasn't been done, but it is a valid avenue.
I think the intention is to appeal to traditional sysadmins with limited development experience, who don't know ruby, and more importantly don't want to know ruby.

I haven't worked with Chef so I can't comment, but I work extensively on the puppet-openstack project and my experience is that this aversion to actual languages is part of a pipe dream. The only people who are able to work with the modules in any meaningful way are the ones that understand the Puppet DSL and runtime in its entirety, and it's not much simpler than the Ruby language it's based on.

Honestly I don't know what the solution is: part of the DevOps movement is introducing development practices to the management of systems, but that brings with it an inherent requirement that the operators actually embrace the development practices. A quick example of where this can easily fall down is if you maintain a puppet environment of any complexity, you'll end up keeping both the data inputs and the modules in git repos, but if your sysadmins aren't comfortable with git, the adoption simply won't happen.
With raid 5 if you get a parity block mismatch, you don't know which drive was wrong. You could compare parity bit by bit, to find which bits (it could be anywhere from 1 bit up to the stripe size) was wrong, but you won't be able to figure out how to fix those bit(s) on the stripe without additional information, either a hash or FEC data.

Checksumming filesystems let you find the faulty drive by reconstructing data from each n-choose-(n-1) drive set and finding the set with the correct hash.

Filesystems using FEC instead of raid (5/z1, 6/z2 ...) can also correct data errors, but I'm not aware of any consumer-level filesystems that implement it. I'm not sure why. Doesn't Amazon use it for S3? Data block and FEC data layout on a disk array has to be a solved problem.
No it isn't you just need to do proactive maintenance on your array... and/or backup your data.

If you use RAID5 on any size array with out making backups you will lose data. Does he really think that with the invention of 1TB+ drives that it's the first time two drives have failed at once?
so..a person that murders an innocent person is now a victim?

some people are past the point of rehabilitation and should be in prison.
Google Reportedly Plans To Spend $1B On Internet Satellites
> You'd prefer to allow composability in the middle and bottom layers (the modules) but have a different language on top?

Absolutely. IMO, the top layer should be a summary of what the configuration manager will be doing and should have the project-specific data in it. The rest should be reusable modules. When you let a full program language into the top layer, you inevitably get people trying to put smaller routines in the top level itself mixed in with reusable modules, which results in bloated spaghetti.
Is the FCC purposely making their comments section unavailable?
> The difference in the way he was treated by police and the justice system (and how different it is than what we've come to expect in America) is what struck me the most about this story.

The fact that they were setting a trap for him was also relatively shocking. Don't they have to follow due process?
Ok, so you've been dreaming of a world changing startup at age 17, and you're 24 now. What have you started? It's been seven years, it sounds like you spend a lot of time learning, but you need to start launching products.

The common saying, 'finished is better than perfect', comes to mind here. You talk about the UI problems with HN and Twitter, but guess what, they have a functioning service. They're both successful in their own way, and they can continue to grow and resolve these problems in the years to come.

Expect to fail often, that's just the startup life. If you waste all your time perfecting your world changing startup, and it never sees the light of day, or it launches and goes nowhere, you wasted unnecessary time. You want to launch something in the shortest time possible, and check for traction. If it doesn't exist, you go in another direction, or drop it entirely, and move on.

It's like searching for gold. You visit a new location, and quickly scratch at the surface and sample the land. What happens when you find nothing? You relocate and try again. You don't spend a decade digging deeper and deeper.

Take your favorite idea, figure out how you can take the core concept and launch it within a week. Forget about all the extra features, forget about the perfect UI, just make it happen.
Interesting story, terrible article. Valve has always followed the "when its ready" release model. The article makes it sound like there was a huge conspiracy to keep valve's ineptness a secret, else Gabe would have no alternative than to commit ritual suicide.
Getting Started With Glass Development Using Ruby,  the Mirror API and Heroku
Getting downvoted... Interesting to see that HN readers think their views is more more important than the rule of law. I'm not saying the verdict is correct. But debunking it as complete nonsense and "that's never going to happen" is a clear misconception how the world and the legal system works.
So elegant and obvious in retrospect. More stuff like this, please!
I imagine it'd be fairly hot actually.
You witness what happens when there is only one ISP with no competition (PNCC provides palaunet). A little example at a different scale of what could happen if comcast and time warner were to merge :)

>I just wish they would give high-speeds at the last mile and ship in multi-TB drives for local access, while rate-limiting international (satellite uplink) access based on how much one pays.

This idea has been around so long but no one has tried to actually tried to do something like this. Moreover, there isn't a lot of "local access" that I know since there arent't many websites on the island to begin with. Something like a local email service would make sense; palaunet's email service is so bad that people rather use services here in the US like gmail.

The funny thing is that PNCC and the Palau government had a chance to tap into AAG[1] when it was laid in the 2000s but Palau opted out of it because they thought it wasn't worth the investment. What a mistake...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAG_%28cable_system%29
Scrubing all the machines for new backdoors isn't something that needed to be done beforehand.
Coal mine fire burning since 1962 in Pennsylvania:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
Similar but different - naturally occurring fires of Chimaera:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanarta%C5%9F

Believed to be the origin of the stories of Mount Chimaera.

Short hike out from Cirali in Turkey on the south coast. You can extinguish a flame temporarily but it will soon re-ignite. Picture of the area here:

http://www.fazturkey.com/Files/User/Product/Orjinal/430_cira...
Thanks! I have edited and corrected the problem.
I'm also going to ask publishers for donations of older copies of technical books to send them.

Not allowed to send books for UK prisoners as it contravenes their new "incentives and earned privileges scheme". Books are a luxury to be earned, apparently. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/24/ban-books-pri...
Is Some Tech Too Addictive?
The clearest give away was insisting on wearing Google Glass ^_^
You should do some more posts about the Lisp and Many Core cpus you wrote.
>They are not oppressed and deserve what they got.

Depends what you mean by that. In this guy's case, had he boarded the plane he would have gotten two decades in an American jail, versus two years of probation in Germany. I think he should be held accountable, but somehow, given the nature of the crime and the surrounding context, I think Germany got it right.
Are there NO alternatives to what Lavabit provided? Even if it required software installation on the client?

I have to assume Snowden understood the architecture of a "secure" webmail provider but still went with it. Better than Gmail I'm sure but far from something to rely on.
Serious question:

Why isn't a power plant built over this?
I'm not sure that discounting draws is the right thing to do either. For example, Petrosian was not the strongest attacking player but was very, very tough to beat.

This also calls into the question the notion of "strongest chess player." Who is strongest, the flashy attacking player that wins half the time and loses the other half, or the stonewall that poses little threat but that you can never beat?
Would a large fuel-air detonation above it suck enough air to put it out?
The burning creates about half the CO2 as coal does. Unfortunately unburned methane is a worse GHG in the short term (when it matters). That said, old coal plants are much worse than the best new coal plants, so the regulations are important.
Article mentions clustered file systems.

Is there any reason why one might choose that for a small office / home office setup instead of ZFS? Would it make setup/expansion easier.

Taking it in another direction.

I've been following this LeoFS project which basically replicates Amazon's S3 storage (so any S3 clients can work with it).

http://leo-project.net/leofs/

Its claim is one can add nodes to the cluster to expand its storage capability. Given enough physical space it might be cheaper to find 3-4 machines (towers) with 4 drive bays than building one new server with 12+ bays. Then use linux's fuse client to access it.
Game Of Codes
Using contracts and threatening action upon bad faith payment delays are great ideas and very useful.

But blogging about non-payers is a terrible idea. It will do nothing to help you. And if the case does go to arbitration or court, it will actually work against you, potentially even opening the door for damages done to the other party.
Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
Another fire that's been burning for over 5 decades: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
A question. Wouldn't this line of reasoning still work? It is entirely a constructive proof, as opposed to the GP's proof by contradiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion#The_proo...
Is there any other OS?
Chef's DSL is particularly egregious, since if you step out of their slightly bizarre subset your code runs on the machine running knife. Newbies tend to get really confused.
As another example, Leiningen is largely declarative, but since Clojure code is also data, it is possible to insert code alongside. See line 211 in the sample project.clj.

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/stable/sample....
AT&T Is Offering $50K To Engineers To Make New York City Safer For Pedestrians
Interesting. Any idea why they picked the 2005 date to be the reference?
Things that take serious logic and state should be re-written as modules (or ActionModules, which are awesome & underdocumented). I feel like people are far too scared of writing their own modules- it's not very hard.
Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Casual Feedback
Same. They let him grab something to eat and even smoke a cigarette before they brought him in. Then he gets two years of probation. It all feels very reasonable to me. Compare that to the $1 million fine, 35 years in prison (followed by 3 years of supervised release) Aaron Swartz was facing by downloading documents anyone can access just by virtue of connecting to the campus Wifi. There is definitely something really off here.
If it were built, it would probably have very low efficiency and Turkmenistan cant afford to build low efficiency power plants. In other words, I think the reason is purely bureaucratic.
Reading his blog, it appears he went though a similar immunotherapy trial at NIH that I underwent almost two years ago (mine for melanoma). I'm saddened to hear that it was not successful for him.

Immunotherapy treatments continue to improve, making them a viable treatment path for various types of cancer. The adoptive cell therapy approach, which Jay underwent, uses one's own immune system to fight one's cancer cells is an approach to personalized cancer treatment, compared the blunt clubs that most chemotherapies are. These treatments are moving from science fiction to science fact.

P.S. Please support the continued funding of NIH and NCI cancer research by the Federal government. These agencies represent some of the best stuff that is being done by the government.
Do Women Feel Isolated in Tech? – itechnote
{Brace} yourself before (and after) reading this.
Cost Per Calorie from a Vending Machine
Lego Gears Tutorial
> Do not use raidz1 for disks 1TB or greater in size.

Oops, I'm doing that on my home NAS. Does anyone know why this is bad?
Less generically, I've played the game, using the rules straight from Hofstader's book.
Strand

LA / San Fran (preferably local)

We are a startup looking for an entrepreneurial web developer (preferably full stack) to build a contained beta version of (what will start off as) a social media and content storage site.

We are offering compensation to "freelance" the initial contract with an eye towards continuing on with the company. At the conclusion of the initial contract, both parties will re-assess and make a determination on the potential of going full-time. Essentially a "test run" for both sides.

The ideal candidate will have experience as a full-stack web developer, have a real passion for what they do and be open to continuing the business relationship with us should we be successful and both sides enjoy the experience.

We want to create a great product and enjoy doing it and are looking for a partner as much as a we are a developer. If you’re talented, passionate, and interested in helping us build something that could be amazing, we’d love to hear from you!

Please send portfolio / website / resume and any other applicable materials.

dave [at] thestrand [dot] co
I was specifically trying to avoid making a judgement on particular nations' systems because I didn't particularly want to bring that in to it. You are right however and that's touched on in the article, where the German federal police say that he was lucky they got to him before their US equivalents did. The US system is far more punitive than many European equivalents.
Graphing the distribution of English letters
> some people are past the point of rehabilitation and should be in prison.

If we made a serious effort of rehabilitation in the US penal system, then this might be fair. We don't. Prisoners, especially those who commit the crimes in their youth, are screwed under our current system. The younger criminals, like their non-criminal youth counterparts, just don't know or don't appreciate the options available to them regarding education and learning trade skills. We put them into an environment with other people we've given up on and somehow expect that when they get out a year or a decade later they'll be ready to reintegrate into society. They didn't have the skill set going in, and they won't have it coming out. Many of them will continue to live on the fringes of our society, perhaps making a meager living as unskilled laborers. Others will fall into a crowd that keeps them involved in crime or other "antisocial", or however you want to describe it, behavior.
Eh? Music industry sales have dropped off a cliff starting around the year 2000. It's been a bloodbath, they're now at something like a third of what they once were:

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4d5ea3314bd7c8600a0...

Do you think people listen to a third of the music they listened to ten years ago? No way!
Nod Labs - http://hellonod.com - Mountain View CA - Full Time, no remote work.

We believe our technology will fundamentally change how we interact with computers and our environment. We have built the first and only pixel accurate gestural control device, and we are just getting started.

Yourself: Self starter and mostly importantly a finisher - pick something up and deliver without supervision. You will be a manager with a team size of one - you. You will need to pick the next problem on the way to achieve our goals and solve it. You could be working on our custom OS twiddling GPIOs or you could be hacking on the backend or polishing off our iOS app. You will need to hold a lot of complexity in your head and have solid CS fundamentals. For what we do, Google may not have all the answers to your questions, github may not have any such sample code and Stackoverflow may have a vaguely related question with no replies, but you will be responsible for solving the problem.

Team: ex-(Apple, Facebook, Google, Jawbone, Lab126, NASA, Samsung). Approximately 1/3rd of the team are PhDs (or PhDs on “pause”) in various fields (Math, Physics, CS) from MIT, Stanford, CMU etc.

Along with incredibly smart engineers we are also looking for a world class Product Manager who can work with the incredibly smart engineers while also being laser sharp focused on execution.

Drop us an email at stdin@nod-labs.com
True, the top 0.01% is not going to work, but Los Angeles has a public school program that explicitly focuses on the top 0.1% (although recently they have rounded out their admissions with those in the top 0.5%):

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

I attended this program in elementary school and it seems to have spoiled me socially, since the students in the program were so much more interesting to me than other kids.

I suspect the reason the school district chose to create the program is because of the notoriety of the Mirman School, a lauded K-8 private school which also has top-0.1% admissions requirements.

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

So at least in some areas, education tailored to the 99.9th percentile has a long track record. But sadly, I have no idea if the practices and knowledge of that experience are available to inform highly-gifted education in other parts of the world.
The GPL is not preventing content restrictions, it's adding quite complicated restrictions on what can be done with the code. The justification is to try and make more software GPLd in future but the means is additional restriction. And guess what? The justification for copyright is to ensure more content is created in future, and the means is restrictions on the created content. Just like the GPL. Trying to claim they're somehow different is a very weak sort of argument.
Kiva: San Francisco, CA

https://kiva-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fusea...

Who We Are: Called the "hottest non-profit on the planet" by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first personal micro-lending marketplace with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. In just 8 years, Kiva has raised over $500 million for more than 1 million borrowers in 73 countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on alleviating poverty and serving the borrower-to-lender connection. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level - targeting $1 billion in loans by 2017 and continued expansion into new areas (e.g. student loans, water, mobile, etc.). Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 100+ employees and 500+ volunteers worldwide.

The job:

Kiva Technical Operations is part of Kiva's Engineering team and is dedicated to ensuring that Kiva's software and hardware infrastructure is kept up to date, up to speed, and up and running so that Kiva volunteers, partners, and lenders all enjoy the best possible experience using our sites, and so that Kiva staff is efficiently and effectively using the technology that keeps the organization functioning at the best possible level.

The Systems Engineer will help keep Kiva’s infrastructure secure, reliable, performant, compliant and elegant. We are looking for a rockstar software and systems professional who’s well-versed in security best practices, attentive to detail, has great communication skills, and is passionate about Kiva’s mission. This position will report directly to the Director of Technical Operations. This is a high-impact role that requires a superstar. Only highly talented, experienced and motivated applicants need apply!
June 2 is the most important day of Obama's second term
PagerDuty is hiring in full time in San Francisco and Toronto

It's a great company working on a great product, solving real problems for real customers (and getting paid in real money). We’re growing quickly and hiring across many disciplines: http://pduty.me/jobshnjune

Some postings that I think are interesting to the HN crowd:

* We’ll be announcing our new office space in Toronto soon, so if you’re Canadian and want to get a piece of the SF/SV startup scene we’re hiring software developers: http://jobsco.re/1gQGhhK
* Of course our San Francisco office on 2nd and Bryant could always use more great developers: http://jobsco.re/1gQIN7O
* If you read HN, you might be especially interested in our Evangelist position: http://jobsco.re/1u1C5ON (we’d be extra excited about someone with DevOps chops)
* And out of non-technical roles, I’d like to highlight the chance to pro-actively help our customers use the product better: http://jobsco.re/SlZhtk
Beacon (YC W14) is looking for writers
We're a journalism start-up focused on finding alternatives to the ad-supported model. Since launch, we've paid $100K+ to writers working with us - we have 100+ writers covering everything from the conflict in Yemen to the difficulties of hitchhiking to Africa from California.

Starting in July, we're focusing on a few areas intensely: these include the environment, tech in the developing world, education and net neutrality. We'll have matching funds available for writers interested in crowdfunding around these topics. We want Beacon to provide a level of support equivalent to a salary at traditional publication.

Readers on Beacon choose a writer to support. That writer takes home the vast majority of the proceeds. The readers gets access to their stories, and every story by every writer on Beacon.

To get a sense of what we do, here's an example project:

http://beaconreader.com/projects/climate-confidential

The ideal writer:

- Is a journalist, blogger or photographer with an established following.

- Hates ads, or at least wants to experiment with alternatives to an ad-supported model.

- Wants to have real interacts and engagement with their audience - this is critical.

- Knows their stuff.

If you're a writer who meets those criteria and is excited about writing about one of those topics (or even something else entirely), e-mail dan@beaconreader.com.