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Location: New York, NY
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Front end, mobile dev, PHP, Python, JavaScript (& frameworks), graphic design
Resume: n/a
Email: jmcmahon443 (at) gmail.com
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Expert in web scraping and crawling. Consulting and SaaS available: https://screenslicer.com/

dan@machinepublishers.com
Togethera (http://togethera.com) - Back-end developer, London (Remote OK), Full-time

We’re building the easiest way for families and small groups to stay connected through private sharing of thoughts, photos and videos - on their smartphone, tablet or computer. We're a small team (http://togethera.com/about) and we're funded by a group of international investors, most of them entrepreneurs themselves.

Our product is driven by a RESTful API built in Python and Django, that serves our web (AngularJS) and mobile clients (iOS and Android). We launched our native iOS app two weeks ago and were featured by Apple on day one. We're hoping to achieve the same with our Android app very soon and replicate the increase in traction we saw for iOS.

The existing architecture has served us very well and will continue to do so for the next few months. However, we feel that now is the time to build a new system that will:

- make the most of the lessons from the last 12 months and optimise performance of existing clients

- help us deliver our roadmap

- handle scaling as we're starting to grow fast

To do this we're looking for an experienced software engineer that understands databases, has worked with systems that had to scale fast and is comfortable with our stack and managing servers (we use Ansible). The ideal person has worked as a back-end/full-stack developer for a fast growing mobile startup.

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What we offer:

Apart from the standard salary and options, we provide an environment where you will:

- have real impact on everything the company does

- produce your best work on something that you can use every day, which has the potential to reach millions of users across the world

- work on something that truly makes people happier (our users say that with their reviews - not us)

- work with https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko (author of Flask) and https://twitter.com/stavros who are advising and have helped us get to this stage

If you’d like to move to London, we’ll help you relocate here, but we’re also happy to work remotely.

To apply please email me at sokratis@togethera.com with a bit about yourself and products you’ve built.
Most people can tell the difference between a leaky pipe and one that is properly plumbed. However, most people cannot tell the difference between well-designed software and shit.

Also, they can take their time choosing a software architect. But if they take their time choosing a plumber, their house fills with shit.
Mail is a strange case.

If you are a tiny .com, mail deliverability is a big problem. I switched to gmail because I couldn't post to W3C mailing lists from my own .com. Mails from gmail are less likely to end up in the trash than from nobody.com and if you are trying to sell something you can't have stuff get trashed.

Fortune 500 companies have the resources to fight deliverability issues, also there are a lot of biz people who handle insane volumes of email who swear by Outlook.

As for other stuff, Google docs is a joke, it is so hard to maintain and add features to software that revolve around async communication. Whatever you think about Win 8, Office 365 kicks ass. (The async comm problem is so bad that it is easier to port Office to Android than Win 8)
Could a subscription model be better for games in the App Store?
I was talking to my dad about how I repaired a few of my toilets and that I find it hard to believe plumbers charge that much. He then enlightened me to the fact that most calls plumbers get are of the 'messy' kind... Something to think about.
> A clean record

*no unspent convictions?
> The US did not punish those responsible.

That's because no one person was directly responsible. Even for assholes like CAPT Rogers (who certainly did everything he could to get his ship into a bad situation [1]), no Navy commanding officer wakes up in the morning hoping to get to push the button on a civilian airliner. There was much more that went into Iran Air 655 than a rogue captain [2].

And while there's plenty of room for blame to go around (we could ask the same question of military officers in 1988 as we do of Russia today: Why did you have this advanced weapons system in the hands of people so seemingly untrained and aggressive?), simply lopping off heads because something horrible happened is no more just than mob rule. There's a reason we don't simply fire everyone involved with civil aviation crashes, for example.

The "decorations" you refer to were given as a standard element of completing a tour at a duty station. They are given to everybody who completes a tour at a duty station, with the type of decoration being dependent upon rank.

You're right that the actions of the U.S. remain unacceptable, but I think we would all be happier if we could get either the separatists and/or Russia's GRU to pay the families of the victims and pay Malaysian Airlines to replace the Boeing.

I mean, even the U.S. could be bothered to do that for a nation they had been literally fighting in the waters of the Persian Gulf! Last I checked Russia wasn't in armed conflict with the Netherlands or Malaysia.

[1] http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1993-08/vincennes-... (Don't be fooled by USNI here, this piece is damning of CAPT Rogers)
[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-4...
Rentify - London or North East - Full Time - Rentify.com

We're looking for full-stack Rails engineers to join our growing team. We are 40 people passionate about building a world where it's easy to rent out your property without the huge fees of letting agents.

Our engineering team moves quickly and with a great deal of autonomy in its work. We're looking for junior, midweight, and senior engineers.

We're looking for strong Ruby and/or Rails, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS.

Our investors include Balderton Capital and Karl Peterson.

Email our CTO David Tilleyshort on david@rentify.com and let's talk.
Software Engineer (Backend) @ Outbrain - NYC - [VISA]

Outbrain's Engage Editorial Suite is a unique platform that processes, analyzes, and learns web and social traffic for thousands of the biggest news sites around the world. Our clients rely on EES to provide analysis and suggest actions that maximize their reach and keep readers engaged for longer.

As part of our engineering team, you have the opportunity to take part in designing and building EES; the ultimate real time analytics platform for editors. With your application, please include a link to your portfolio.

Just shoot an email to jobs@outbrain.com.
Also checkout other openings here : http://outbrain.mytribehr.com/careers/index/

Cheers! :)

Requirements:

- Proficient in writing clean and efficient code in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Clojure, or Scala

- Good knowledge of NoSQL Data Stores like Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis

- Good understanding of web applications (JSON, REST API)

- Knowledge in unit testing frameworks and experience in writing unit and integration tests

- Desire to explore the latest trends in application design, improve coding skills, and learn new technologies and programming languages

- Comfortable working with both front and back end technologies

- Must possess interpersonal, communication, decision making, conflict resolution, and facilitation skills

Bonus points:

- Experience or working knowledge in Kafka, Storm, big data, real time analytics, and related technologies

- Experience with distributed computing platforms like Hadoop, Storm

- Experience with web development frameworks Pyramid or Flask

- Experience with distributed job systems Celery or Gearman
...not to mention things like the patent system, which also help the established.
Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. REMOTE and H1B welcome.

We're making there be more online commerce by making payments (and building an online business generally) way easier. This ranges from building APIs to helping launch new cryptocurrencies to real-time fraud detection.

See [1] for an overview of the challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. Apply by following the instructions on our jobs page [3] (you should indicate that you saw this post).

Also feel free to ping me at gdb@stripe.com if you're thinking about applying but have any questions!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...

[3] https://stripe.com/jobs
looks like a solid patent:

1. A method of monosyllabic communication over a communications network, comprising:

- a bespoke user interface selected from a colorway including purple, violet, orchid and lavender,

- sending at least one monosyllabic communication,

- wherein, in response to receiving a first message from at least one messaging subsystem, producing an audible vocalization of consisting of at least a "Yo",

- receiving agile tweetstorm heuristics, including but not limited to fullstack machine learning for map reduce.
Computer Engineer student looking for winter(December-March) internships abroad.

Location: Buenos Aires

Remote: preferably no

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
● Python (Django, GTK, Twisted),
● Javascript (jQuery, Ajax),
● C (Valgrind, Make),
● Java (JUnit, Ant, Eclipse),
● SmallTalk (SUnit, Pharo),
● Git and Bazaar,
● HTML/CSS,
● TCP and Web sockets management,
● Concurrent and Asynchronous programming,
● Hardware Design (Assembler, electronics, PCB design).

Resume: http://volteck.net/cv/Martin-Volpe-Resume.pdf

Email: martin.volpe@gmail.com
First, I don't know if this is really HN material, but that being said, plumbers get paid what they do because they deal with ridiculously nasty stuff, and they have to be on call 24/7 (or go out of business). They also need decent people skills. And insurance ($$$).

And they need to get really dirty sometimes, and the people who live with them have to be OK with that (a shower will only get you so far; there are mental barriers to having sex with someone who just had their arm elbow deep in a nice blend of rancid oil, mold, and shit).

If all that is OK with you, go for it.
Go for it. Be a plumber for a while but leave some time to keep your software skills sharp / take the "few clients" that pay >$100.

Report back in a few months!
When I was doing freelancing I was doing $75/hr-$100/hr and split my time sheet based on 15 minutes to make sure person do not get overcharged and I will do just hard part of the project and the rest could be done by less experienced developers.
Plumbing makes good money mostly because people don't want to deal with the sewage side of things and because it tends to ruin your body. Clean work (water lines and such) is easy enough and easy to check, especially with the new generation of water lines. Gas lines come with a lot more responsibilities (and in many places certification requirements), sewage is just simply dirty work. It's also very hard work, crawlspaces are not named aptly, you can't really crawl there. And after a day in a crawlsuit you'll just love sitting behind your desk. There is no such thing as easier money than IT money. Figure a decade or so as a plumber will teach you more about appreciating the ability to do IT work than anything else will ever do. Maybe a few months of doing it every day will suffice.

Also, get professional liability insurance and don't touch any gas lines until you (a) know what you're doing and (b) have the required papers (if that's applicable where you live).

That's not stuff to mess around with if you are not 100% sure how to do it right. (you'll need pressure test gear and such to do this properly)
Thanks for spelling that out.
im a plumber, not working right now due to a fami.ly illness but, i usually end my day by cleaning all the shit i had to roll around in all day, litterally feces, human excrement . im nothing but a turd herder . when i look at it that way with you in your nice clean office and my work is either on the roof of your building or its underneath or outside in areas you probably would not want to spend 8-10 hrs a day, i think i want to charge even more(i should have been an office worker)
Coinkite's Python Bitcoin Library
Would be nice if you could send at least generic "No Thanks" for applicants.
Meet the White House’s go-to security expert
Startup puts YouTubers at its center, and that changes everything
Location: Western Suburbs of Chicago (Naperville area)
This is not an officially endorsed posting by the company, I'm an engineer at the company looking for someone good to work with. So I can't give full details publicly. If interested, my email is my hn username at gmail.

Full time position, not remote. We use C#/ASP.NET to make webapps that support various financial services. We have a large application in the works and are moving towards a Rest architecture using an angular client and asp.net webapi backend. We're looking for junior to mid-level developers with experience in any client-side javascript technology (preferably angular, but not required) utilizing rest to provide direction/suggestions/input on various factors of the design and implementation. Knowledge of server-side factors of rest also desirable (ideally c#/asp.net/webapi but not required). Knowledge of the client-side is most important.

If interested, contact me via email and I can provide more details.
Front End Engineer - Crimson Hexagon - Boston

We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs, we face unique UI problems that you'll help solve with your keen sense of design and attention to detail. You'll be architecting new features and workflows that our customers will use to pull valuable insight out of hundreds of billions of social media posts.

There's no precedent for a lot of what we do. Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks is a plus, but not a requisite-- We value your ability to think laterally, collaborate, communicate, and execute above everything. We like people who have a background in freelancing. We also like people who come to programming via nontraditional means.

Top pay, top benefits, located in Boston's Seaport district. We're big enough not to be a monoculture, but small enough not to be a corporate cult.

Email me (alex at crimsonhexagon dot com) or check out our hiring page: http://goo.gl/oSIY3o
Here's a curated list of Haskell-related books from Rein Henrichs: http://reinh.com/notes/posts/2014-07-25-recommended-reading-...

I've seen "Conceptual Mathematics" recommended by several people for learning Category Theory.
Thank you for this.

Let's see, I think a million watts is a bit more than we need to 235 mL of water in 0.5 seconds.

A calorie (not a Calorie) is the amount of energy it takes to raise 1 ml of water 1 deg C. Suppose 15C water (pipes run through the ground which is cool).

https://www.google.com/search?q=(85+calories+*+235)+%2F+0.5+...

Is that right? While a megawater later is overkill for your cup of tea, it is NOT overkill for ten cups of tea (in half a second)?

For some reason, I always thought of a megawatt as BIGGER. Or, I guess I thought of boiling water as SMALLER.

In any case, there's still something I don't get here.

Obviously if you are trying to change the velocity of your spacecraft and all you have is a cup of water and a megawatt laser, you're not going to point the laser into space, you're going to point it at the cup. (Which happens to be roughly and conveniently conical.)

Picture this: point your megawatt laser at your friend's spacecraft and her cup of water... She'll get delta-V when her water boils, but that's AFTER you already got a little (very little) recoil from firing the laser.

I guess I don't understand the relationship between momentum and mass when mass is zero.
me thinks slate is grasping for cultural relevancy on par with new york times.
Charlotte, NC - FULLTIME, INTERN
We’re building mobile payment solutions for parking and transit! No more coins or cash! We’re a small team growing fast and ready to bring on a more developers to push things faster. We've found the best way to form a relationship is through our programming challenge. Just show us your skills. (dont care to much for resumes!) http://easypparking.com/www/PassportProgrammingTest/

Feel free to reach out if you have questions! If you need motivation to complete the challenge email me.

Cheers, Brad
brad@passportparking.com
Apollo 12 was struck by lightening shortly after launch. I wondered initially if this was the reason for the "extra long burn of the ullage motors".

But according to the Apollo 12 wikipedia page: "a small error in the state vector in the Saturn's guidance system caused the S-IVB to fly past the Moon at too high an altitude to achieve Earth escape velocity".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12
Location: Delhi

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Mobile(iOS, Android), jQuery, Bootstrap, Backbone, Angular, Docker, Chef, Ansible, AWS, Golang, Clojure

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

Github: http://github.com/sidmitra

Homepage: http://www.sidmitra.com

Email: sidmitra.del @@@@@@gmail.com
Did you read the first paragraph?

Thanks for keeping up the down votes for what I point out something that is clearly in the article BUT someone decides I am stretching something ~~~

"Now, I've never had a particular liking for either of these personalities, although I've had to recognize that they're very clever individuals. Both of them have been known for occasional demonstrations of arrogance."
Thought 1: I love hearing that good plumbers are getting paid well. There is such a need for reliable, professional just-solve-my-problem-with-service tradesmen in America. In a just economy, the makers and doers (like plumbers) are well paid and BS jobs (http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/) are hard to find.

Thought 2: You should start taking plumbing jobs, and after 6 months do a big writeup / post that tells the story ("How I raised my rates by leaving software development for plumbing"). I think a lot of people love to read about it. And possibly it could lead to more lucrative software work if that's what you are really looking for.
>Furthermore, my original comment's 'wish' was not an attempt to apply opinion-constraints upon others.

You say it like it's a bad thing.

Isn't trying to get people to agree to some objective/scientific fact an attempt to "apply opinion-constraints"?

As long as there is no violence or legal restrictions involved (e.g you don't force anyone by anything else than your arguments) then I'm all for applying opinion constaints on that nature.
> You mean Ukraine when it militarily destabilized and took over Krim?

How many people have died in Crimea?
SVP Engineering for Rails Application

Remote or South Florida

Hello Show is an automated appointment scheduling tool and messaging platform for real estate agents and their clients. Hello Show eliminates the need for expensive call centers, secretaries, and the endless game of phone tag between agents. Hello Show brings transparency and simplicity into the property showing and communication process. Our product automates routing and creates a paperless and efficient showing experience for all parties involved.

Agents participating in our closed beta have used the product with much success. Typical responses and feedback have ranged between “How do I download this product now?” to “This is absolutely amazing!” We have customers lined up for the launch, with one even saying “promise us that you will give this to us first, before anyone else."

Our team consists of 2 of the top 100 Ruby on Rails contributors, one of the top 10 realtors in South Florida, a market research expert, and an additional senior and one junior engineer. The team is great and entirely remote.

Compensation package will include salary and equity, as we want the individual to be driven by our long term success. Relocation is optional, but preferred.

The individual needs to be adept in managing and working with a remote team. We are having a lot of success with our remote team, and it will grow to be a real competitive advantage.

To apply, send us an email at team @ helloshow.com

Technical:

• Ruby on Rails expert

• Expert writing and interfacing with APIs

• Strong to expert with Javascript

• Knows a bit about everything

• Eager to learn new skills as needed

Role:

• Experienced with and excited about managing a remote team

• Skilled at creating and refining organizational processes and structure for development team

• Obsessed with the details

• Focused on writing maintainable code

• Knows when to build internally and knows when to outsource

• Love of building products that people love

• Loves learning about everything
I am talking about laying down new PVC pipes stuff. And no - I have to wait for plumber to come over to give me an estimate. I am not talking about ones who are on 24/7 calls and dealing with nasty stuff.
SEEKING WORK - Front-End Developer - Copenhagen, Denmark - Remote or local

I run my own agency, 51ˢᵗ, and am looking for work from the end of August. I've been working as a front-end developer since 2009 both as a freelancer and for 3 years as a employee of a successful danish startup.

I do responsive web design, client-side JavaScript applications (primarily in React and Backbone), scalable, modular (S)CSS, optimization of existing websites both decreasing page load times and on site performance improvements such as animations and scrolling. I also work with PHP and Python/Flask.

I'm happy to do both on-site or remote work, and both Europe and US time-zones are fine.
If you're interested feel free to contact me on cr@fiftyfir.st or check out http://fiftyfir.st.
It's a great community of people. It's still pretty small, but it's also very focused, which is nice. It could probably use just a tad more 'mass' to really become a going concern.

This is an alternative to Amy's 30x500: http://www.micropreneur.com/ by the same guys who put on MicroConf, which is a great event.