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Web Developer [Full Time, Bloomington, IN or REMOTE]

We’re looking for talented and passionate developers to help improve and expand our web-based application, FormAssembly.com.

The ideal candidate can craft code that is robust and easy to maintain, switch between back-end and front-end development, and keep usability and user experience in mind at all times.

You’ll work on our LAMP stack, and occasionally on new projects with a clean slate, for which you’ll help pick the best technologies, architecture, and tools.

You’ll work autonomously or with the team depending on the project, and will get many opportunities to share, teach, and learn from your coworkers.

Your work will get in front of tens of thousands of users and help make data collection easier for a lot of people, from schools enrolling students to large corporations improving their business processes.

Position is full-time, in Bloomington, Indiana or remote.

Email jobs@veerwest.com to apply or visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs
CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK

More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like:

- working with great people who you can learn from
- to work on developer tools
- building a product that customers love, and pay for
- working with Clojure and ClojureScript
- flat, transparent cultures (we're inspired a lot by Valve and similar companies) [1]
- to work remotely, or to have your own private office in SF [2]

We're hiring lots of roles, esp in engineering, design, dev-success, and dev-evangelism.

[1] http://blog.circleci.com/kindness-is-underrated/

[2] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

Check out https://circleci.com/jobs for details
Similar thing happened in the south. We used to have reasonably good, popular and well used bus services in most of or cities. But then the civil rights movement happened and state and local governments cut funding and dismantled bus systems lest they have to desegregate.
I know several universities already run url shortening services in-house, only providing access for faculty/staff/etc. One of the drivers for this is guaranteed longevity - urls in research papers need to live for a long time, but they also need to be short as papers have page limits.

In fact, finding that the university which employs me has a url shortener was a happy day - the url looks official, but it took a whole 2 lines from a column in the paper I was writing. If you haven't had the "joy" of trying to fit your whole idea into a short page limit, you may not understand how much space that really is... Remember in high school when you would fudge margins and font and so on, and using big words unnecessarily to reach the minimum pages? Similar tricks are often done in reverse for research papers.

If you're going to sell that service to smaller universities that don't run their own, or bigger universities looking to outsource, here's a few things that really matter:

1. Being able to tie into the existing SSO/Federated ID system the university uses.

2. Being able to guarantee lifetimes of the shortened links - perhaps even providing for running the service after the company goes away (if this unfortunately happens). Alternately, providing a way to migrate data to a local machine w/in the university if all else fails.

3. The ability to attach a university affiliated domain name - this lets shortened urls look official rather than shady.

4. The ability to move the shortened url target. Long lifetimes conflict with changes in infrastructure in the customer organization.

5. The ability to notify any/all of: the original poster, the poster's department, and the university it department when target links stop working.

6. (maybe) a caching service in case a long term url goes down - oops the page seems down, but here's a cache of what it last looked like....
It's not completely accurate, however; this one was also thought to be a rocket from its spectrum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_RH120
And being drunk on alcohol you are far more likely to do stupid and dangerous things than someone who is stoned, and can't be bothered to move from the couch.
"Terrorism is not a very significant real risk..." ...I get what you're saying but tell that to anyone who was living in or near NYC in 2001. Or anyone in or near Copley square last year. (I qualify for both...) the "More people die from [insert ridiculous thing like bee stings]!" argument doesn't work for me because there's not much you can do about bees/lightning/the existence of bathtubs but there's plenty to be done about bombs/guns/jihadists/etc. Not advocating NSA-esque tactics just reacting to the oft-used "this isn't a significant risk so why bother" argument, which I think is BS.
It's probably better than being killed, but they're NOT happy, I don't have dogs in my house (really tiny by U.S. standards, normal by my standards) because it seems cruel to me (we did adopt two cats from shelters).

When I rented an apartment, a few floors down a couple had a German Shepherd, it was really unhappy and depressed all the time, it lived in a 50 square feet balcony.

It's really sad, but I can only adopt so many animals. Fortunately there are no kill shelters in my country, and shelters neuter nearly all the animals (my two cats are neutered).

I'm more worried about children in shelters (my GF works for the institution tries to find foster families for children that cannot be adopted, it's a really tough job):
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Not necessarily. The point here is that you reason about the complete state, not that you store it as-is.

See for example git itself which has grown quite an efficient storage system despite the design ideas being as described in the article.
I organize a bunch of trail running events, our registration page has both a stripe and paypal option; 85% use stripe, but the other 15% I don't want to give up on. Oh, and no IPN glitches here in the last 2 weeks (or ever actually - knock on wood).
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Sure, thanks! I've never used IRC and always wanted to learn it. Now it's the chance to learn ERC. In what IRC channel can I connect to you?
This is meaningless semantics a word can have more than one meaning eg "hacker" and one real word example Sinn Féin means Ourselves Alone so that means the IRA and PIRA are not Terrorist organisations?
Mobile Application Developer - Full time - Bloomington, IN or REMOTE.

We’re looking for an experienced mobile application developer to lead the development of a brand new mobile app for iOS and Android and help us improve data collection on mobile devices. To qualify, you’ll need to be a fluent developer in at least one of these areas: iOS, Android, PhoneGap / HTML5 / Javascript.

We run FormAssembly.com a SaaS form management solution that helps businesses and professionals create state-of-the-art web forms, and collect data without the need for technical skills, desktop software or servers.

Position is local or remote. Email jobs@veerwest.com to apply, or visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs
It's a general sort of problem.

A lot of the population of the US fought in WWII so there were a lot of people who wouldn't buy a "Jap" car no matter what so Detroit didn't need to compete on quality until the 1990s when finally the "greatest generation" aged enough to (1) not matter, (2) not care about the war, (3) got burned by enough bad American cars that detroit was in trouble.

When the 2008 crisis hit, even the last outposts of American car consumers such as police departments, were stuck on American cars. Our local sheriff bought a few hondas that they used as undercover cars and it was funny to see hondas behaving like police cars.

Now Detroit did start turning things around in terms of quality and even makes some good cars, but the damage was done.

I see the same thing with software.

There are some people who think Microsoft can do no wrong. There are other people who think all open source is better than closed source.

Both are wrong. The best Microsoft software is great, the worst is awful. Same with Linux. Being a fanboy means you are blind to this and you'll make some pretty bad decisions.
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People who don't want to get caught doing something change their communication behaviour all the time.
If anybody is interested in that kind of stuff I'd recommend watching the surprisingly good TV show "The Wire".

Even if the press would loudly be agreeing over the "fact" that "SNOWDEN PUT US ALL IN DANGER" it would be an instructive lesson in terms of freedom having value by it having a price.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

-- Litany against fear by the Bene Gesserit (Frank Herbert's Dune)
If that is your aim, why not just use random numbers for titles? Or make all titles identical? That would certainly bring down the number of users by decreasing the pleasure of using the site, and repel new users.

Mission accomplished?
This is a great example of the "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Wow - didn't expect the numbers to be so high in the high-tech sector. I'd love to see the data of the last two years. It feels like the majority of activity in tech is in startups but economically that's totally untrue.
This is really cool. If you (or someone) does this, there could be a revenue stream in displacing the old "walking tour" with a tape player. "pause the tape, walk to station 9 and start again..."
Libya hospitals face collapse if Indian staff flee
I've fixed some mistakes in sections before the "Concepts" section (which is the core of the manual). Hopefully it improves reading before getting the actual part.
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I wonder if this is the same sophisticated open source encryption recommended by NIST which was revealed the NSA influenced policy in?...
Completely correct on all points. When I was a programmer, I would sit and stew about the decisions management made. I was deluded into thinking "I would do this different". Moving into management and realizing that it is a totally different role of planning, organization and coordination - all of which isn't really in your control.

After having been a manager for a few years now, I realize my tech skills have degraded. So I do side projects programming things I want to do, the way I want to do it to keep my skills up to date.

The other thing I think I'm realizing is that being a manager is sort of generic role. Most career paths forward at this point look rather boring and mundane. Even if it is a new project - some sort of skunkworks effort - using some new tech and solving really cool problems - managing that isn't much different than managing a team maintaining a 10 year old system. Maybe morale is easier to manage.

Think about what your next position would be after taking a management role - your options become limited. Other companies may see you as "manager" and not as "developer" regardless of skills, perhaps thinking subconsciously that "if I hire this guy, he is going to want my job".
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I grew up in Northern Ireland in the 70,s and 80's. The distinction between the 2 depended on which street you lived on and which street they lived on. Usually they were no more than a stones throw from one another.
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote)

We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.

Our founders, former founding CEO and CTO of Hulu, Jason Kilar and Richard Tom, have assembled a unique and talented team, with strong experience building and innovating at places like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon.
As a team, we are unusually passionate about the intersection of media and technology; we see an opportunity to improve media, particularly next generation video

We're looking for strong developers who love to code in a variety of languages (Python, Node.js, React, Coffeescript to name a few) tackling every portion of the stack. If this sounds like you, learn more at http://www.vessel.com/careers or email careers@vessel.com
What is a task manager really and why does your team need it?
Hi! I wanted to personally recommend a sweet opening in my department at Loggly (a cloud-based log management provider - www.loggly.com) in San Francisco, CA. We’re looking to fill the missing piece of our marketing team: a SENIOR DEVOPS / PRODUCT EVANGELIST.

Before I get any further, I want to quickly tell you about my own experience as an employee working at Loggly: it’s great! I am consistently challenged and am gaining new experience daily. I genuinely respect and like my coworkers. I feel like the work I do is valuable and recognized, and shared in a collaborative environment. I am well taken care of and provided all the tools I need for success. You wouldn’t be disappointed to join a team like this!

That said, this role currently open in marketing would be a dream job you if you have both a strong understanding of the logic of IT / Ops as well as a desire to communicate and share that knowledge to contribute the developer community. Our audience is primarily devops, developers and engineers, and this role is chartered with making content (like web pages, videos, demos, blog posts, tweets, podcasts, white papers, webinars, etc.) that would interest and resonate with this audience in relation to application intelligence and monitoring.

You would have influence crafting our voice and our community - that is huge!

Main requirements for this position:

• Experience with IT operations software.

• SaaS experience preferred.

• Domain knowledge of application intelligence or application monitoring products like Splunk, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sumo Logic, Boundary, etc.

• Very familiar with typical web/Internet–facing technology stacks.

• Strongest affiliation with Linux

• 3+ years in a marketing, evangelism or business development role

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Interested in applying? Questions about the role or Loggly? Great! Please email me at KAREN@LOGGLY.COM. Include a résumé, cover letter and link to your most relevant social channel. Be prepared to provide writing samples if requested.

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PS - we also have some engineering positions open - if you’re interested, email me and I can forward your request on to the right person.

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Is it? Which part of Palestine? Gaza or the West Bank? I guess that maybe it is true, since Bin Laden is dead and Netanyahu is alive...you got me there...

Ukrainian kids terrorized by US/EU? Really? What are you talking about? Even in the rebel held areas, how has the US/EU EVER terrorized them?

To some Afghans, we could be seen that way, but most of the population in Afghanistan would rather not take their chances with the Taliban (A terrorist group).

Actions of Terrorism. What exactly are they? Admittedly, we have caused more collateral casualties than I'm comfortable with at times in our fight against terror. But innocent civilians are NEVER OUR TARGET. And that is the differentiating factor here. Terrorists aim to take down societies, not governments. Everyone in that society is considered the enemy. Look at Afghanistan... Taliban goes around beheading people of a different sect of their own faith, they behead non-believers as well as government officials. If you aren't for us, then you are against us mentality.

Bin Laden finds a way to fly 2 planes into the twin towers in NYC, killing thousands of innocent people. Not to mention all the previous attempts to blow up those buildings in years prior, lest you forget that.

So yes, there is a difference in what we are doing in the war on terror. Have we executed perfectly? No way. Have we overreached and done things that I disagree with? Yep. But one thing is damn certain, the motivations of our actions are not the same as the terrorists.
I don't think jquery mobile was ever a good idea for making hybrid apps. Aside from the name, it wasn't nearly as flexible as original jquery. There's also a distinction between what's needed for a mobile site vs a hyrbid app. If the .js files are baked into the app, bandwidth and latency are non-issues. What you need is to optimize performance only.
Well said - that me lolsnort.

(No, I know it will never catch on. But I like it. lolsnort.)
There is an official "Who is hiring / freelance post?" the fist day of the month. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

It's strange that the official post had not appeared yet. Probably it will appear soon, and it will shadow this post.
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The term terrorist get diluted when you count all military-age males in a strike zone as terrorists, as is/was the method used by the US military.
I used to work for a organisation that was considered "crown servants" and hence a target for the PIRA

I know maybe 7 or so people from NI and two of them are going through the truth and reconciliation process as they had close family members killed - that's a brutal%
It's not a presumption. It's not a prior that we're holding to regardless of evidence. The superiority of Haskell is, for all the Haskellers I know, a conclusion that they came to after extensive research and experimentation. It's not like we were somehow trained in some hidden refuge where imperative and object-oriented languages aren't spoken of. I cut my teeth on PHP, of all things. I know what's out there, I've made the comparisons, and I see no reason that I should keep doing so forever.
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This was really exciting news to me, until I read that they would never consider doing this for the higher tiers. We are currently active subscribers for both platforms that we paid for annually in March, which prevents us from switching to this model and being able to spread our costs. We would love to be able to upgrade to a higher tier using a monthly cost rather than a large payment each year, especially for Visual Studio integration.
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There is obviously a huge amount of waste going on, whether it's because of the judges or the paralegals. This report just got the source wrong.
> That may be true, but the YOLO app is also a bit of a joke. Explains Betty Xi, one of the team members who helped create YOLO, their app was built to “poke fun at Yo.”

Should have called it "Dumb Yo." http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/02/09/42085/dumb-starbucks-cof...
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Does anyone else find this so stupid its hilarious?

You can't claim an app to message people is your IP.
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Is 30x500 some sort of framework? As in 30 tiny projects, aiming to generate $500 each?

Your problem seems to be a recurring theme here on HN and elsewhere. People building amazing stuff (as in intellectually stimulating, fun to build, difficult to do, impressive etc.) with amazing technology (shiny new languages, stacks etc.), launch it and yet nobody seems to care. Nobody seems to be willing to throw money at an app, service and so on. Why is that? People often build things that solve non-issues. And I love all of this, 99.5% of the stuff I build is purely for fun, learning, play and prove something (to myself). But that's not where the money is most of the time, though the things I learn from play are useful for the 0.5%.

I'm sure you read everything there is to know about the entire lean thing (Business Model Generation got mentioned already). Are you familiar with the work of Dane Maxwell [1]? As jasonswett wrote, the money is in the boring stuff. Dane Maxwell developed a robust and proven framework to help bootstrapped businesses with hands-on advice and mentoring. I highly recommend to have a look at his work and look up some of the success stories. It's very inspiring and you can learn a thing or two. His advice is more in the tune of people like DHH (you're much more likely to succeed in building a small company that solves a specific problem than, say, the next Facebook). Does it seem achievable for you to build an app with 50 users who pay €150 each? Or with 100 users who pay $70 each? Would you be happy with something like this for a start?

Pick something that solves a real problem in an area where there's money. B2B that is. Pick something that bothers you when you interact with other businesses as a starting point. Why is there friction? Work from there. Talk to those businesses and ask them what their biggest pain points are. What they would be willing to pay for if somebody (you) would solve it. You will have to pick up the phone, write emails and talk to people in person. That's all scary stuff (at least for me). You will be surprised what businesses are struggling with. Which things eat up tons of their resources and could be solved with open source solutions that you simply glue together. Once you find something that you think you can solve, nail the business owners down on it. Demand commitment. Make them part of the process and work closely with them. They will become your evangelists later on. Make them pay for a year in advance. That will truly validate your business idea. Only then start to build.

[1] http://thefoundation.com
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athefoundation.com *

* The website is built in a way that it's hiding some of the content. You get it for a share on Facebook or an email sign up - that's why I've chosen this form.
Just because people don't like a particular person doesn't mean they are biased against them. Their dislike could be rooted strongly in the actions the person has committed.

By the way, its very difficult to prove bias against a single person as opposed to a group.

With a group, you can show bias easily by pointing out someones dislike for a member of the group who only shares superficial traits with the rest of the group (e.g. ethnicity/nationality/gender/etc.).

But for a person? Even if you're suspicious of every seemingly innocuous action of them, it can be justified by saying they have lost your trust due to actions in the past.
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We're looking for an excellent front-end developer (JavaScript, CoffeeScript, AngularJS,
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I think what followed this quote made quite a good job at explaining what exactly he meant with this statement: That people tend to have a limited view of math as calculus only.