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StudyCloud - Chicago, IL

StudyCloud is an online learning management system for University courses currently serving several thousand users across 6 major institutions in the US. We are trying to build the most seamless and elegant course management system that students and teachers will love to use.

As CTO and lead developer, I am currently looking to hire another full-time software developer to work alongside me. Our current tech stack includes Python/Tornado on the backend and Angular.js on the frontend.

Please reach out to me at andrew@mystudycloud.com if you are interested in this job. We currently work out of the 1871 co-working space in Merchandise Mart. Remote work may be possible depending on your qualifications.

andrew@mystudycloud.com

https://www.mystudycloud.com
Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)
How We Use AWS, Ansible, and Packer to Make Deployment Awesome
SEEKING WORK - Philly or remote

Full stack web apps, ReactJS expert, built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops.

Seeking long term ClojureScript work or short-medium term Javascript contract. (I am open to fixed price bids and project ownership, I have access to a small team who I have worked with before)

https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor
https://github.com/wingspan/wingspan-forms
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz
Nimia (https://app.nimia.com) -- Seattle, WA (REMOTE possible, VISA possible)

== About Us ==

Nimia is a place where independent filmmakers and agencies can license, share, and archive their 4k video. See our quick video intro: https://app.nimia.com/video/35785/demo

== Company Culture ==

We are small. We want you to help us decide what to build, what to improve on, and even how to market ourselves. We are in constant communication with our users. Sales, marketing, legal, and engineering meet up frequently to collaborate.

We use SCRUM to keep everyone on the same page and to constantly reevaluate how we're spending our time. HACK DAY is every other week on Friday, sometimes taking over the next sprint when something awesome comes up. Schedule is flexible, but we are always in touch. We deploy almost daily.

On evenings and weekends we often do (completely optional) creative side projects, such as helping with this film shoot: https://app.nimia.com/video/139992/base-aerial-footage-sneak...

== Positions ==

= Fullstack Developer =

Responsibilities:

You will get to spend your time in a myriad of places, depending on your interests and strengths:

* Features
* UI / UX
* Performance / DevOps
* Marketing / SEO

Who you are will help define the position and we want you to have a real interest in designing and engineering the product.

Qualifications:

* Experience with Django, Rails, or a server side javascript framework
* Experience with a client side javascript framework
* Plus: Experience with video encoding / codecs

= Intern Developer =

Responsibilities:

* Learn the stack
* Spend grueling hours on the most tedious bugs (just kidding, we all have to do that)
* Hop between programming and marketing tasks
* Keep us up to date on what all the hip startups are doing

Qualifications:

* You want to learn
* Demonstrate a real interest in programming
* You eventually want a fulltime position

== Our Stack ==

We use Python, Django, NodeJS / Javascript, Backbone, SCSS, Elasticsearch, Redis, Saltstack, AWS and some other bits and pieces. We aren't afraid to try new technologies, libraries, or 3rd party services as long as they perform well and do something great for our users.

== Some Cool Engineering Things We've Done ==

* First to implement client side multi-part upload directly S3 so that our users could upload their 10GB+ video files without touching our EC2 servers
* Within one hack day we added realtime updates for video status & chat using nodeJS + socketIO and deployed to production

Contact alec@nimia.com and please include:

* 3 references
* Github profile and/or personal website
* Resume
Cleaning a dataset with MySQL
If you're having a big party

tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over

you may be a half hour late.
LiveRamp | Multiple Engineering Positions Available | www.LiveRamp.com/careers | San Francisco, CA | H1B, INTERN

About us: LiveRamp’s leading data onboarding solution empowers marketers to activate their CRM data in their choice of online advertising platform for targeting, attribution, content optimization and more. We see relevancy as the world's largest optimization problem, and are excited to contribute to building a future where marketing is predominantly informative, engaging, and even appreciated for their usefulness to consumers through the use of data. Imagine that!

We're well funded, and steadily growing. Our employees enjoy weekly yoga,catered lunches, and unlimited PTO. But the best job perk is our awesome team - we’ve got a staff of amazing people who just happen to be great engineers as well.

About you:Type S(tartup) personality is a must: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working and proactive. You’re comfortable in multiple languages, frameworks, and environments. We are looking for full-time engineers and interns (summer or any time of year). If you think you’d be a good fit, consider joining our team!

We’re looking for smart and talented engineers for the following positions:

Get Off Your Back End Software Engineer
Glass-Half-Full-Stack Engineer
Very Special DevOps Engineer
Statistically Significant Data Engineer

And for new grads and interns:

Four Star Generalist Software Engineer
public static final intern softwareEngineer = fall/winter/spring/summer;

To apply: Visit http://www.liveramp.com/careers or send your resume to recruiting@liveramp.com. Tell us in three sentences why you'd like to join our team and what makes you a great fit, and show us what you’ve got. We’d love to see links to sites you have worked on or screenshots of your work.
I think with the shiny new purse of $50M reddit needs to hire an amazing PR person. Releasing this news now seems like it will kill all the good will from yesterday's announcements. Also have been a lot of weird media moments in the recent past like the CEO saying they wouldn't shut down the 'fappening' right as it was shut down. IMHO reddit is just one more big pedophilia controversy or other major legal issue away from total PR disaster.
"In 1905 Albert Einstein published a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect as being the result of light energy being carried in discrete quantized packets. This discovery led to the quantum revolution."

So, he basically described photons as a particle for the first time. That's also ridiculously huge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect Considering they had been generally thought of as a wave before that. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations) Setting the stage for a lot of wave / particle duality aka QM theory.
Firstly the people running this are already incredibly wealthy by themselves. They more than likely funded the startup costs themselves, or through wealthy benefactors.

They pay operational expenses from a percentage of the money they raise.

Just because they pay operational expenses doesn't make them a scam - that's how any non-profit operates.

The best non-profits contribute the greatest percentage of their revenue to helping people. I believe this is the case here.

Do you want the best person running a company like this? Or would you prefer the cheapest person running a company like this?
In 1999 I named my consulting company "Electric Speed" (http://electricspeed.com) after reading McLuhan's book...

At no period in human culture have men understood the
psychic mechanisms involved in invention and technology.
Today it is the instant speed of electric information
that, for the first time, permits easy recognition of the
patterns and the formal contours of change and
development. The entire world, past and present, now
reveals itself to us like a growing plant in an enormously
accelerated movie. Electric speed is synonymous with light
and with the understanding of causes.

— Marshal McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Ask HN: What happened to the “Drop Dropbox” thread?
The page is still availiable here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394331

The post does not show up on the homepage. It appears to have been subject to some sort of moderation. Can anyone explain what happened to it? I was quite interested in the results and subsequent discussion.
it differs in that it's not an obvious scam
Would you mind elaborating on the "dual motor" aspect? That would be down from 4 motors?
A quick hack that improved our purchase value 2x times
Did anyone observed there were no bullet points in these presentations?
I feel your pain. Most of my monitors are 100-dpi. Most new computers screens sold are approx. 100-dpi. I guess these UX developers use the latest macs with retina displays, and create eye-sores for the rest of us.
https://www.robinhood.com/
You don't think getting paid 3 months salary to not work is generous? I wouldn't expect anything more than two weeks.
Sorry, it's not the lack of remote work, it's the way that Reddit's current employees are being treated. First, given 2 weeks to up and move to SF with an effective pay cut, and only bending that when there was an uproar. It's pretty shitty behavior, and pretty clear that this was part of the VC deal. I'm pretty disgusted.

EDIT: I see below that sama says he didn't require it, and I believe him. My apologies to sama for jumping to conclusions. At the same time, I still think it's a shitty move by yishan, particularly the 2-week thing.
Off-topic: you should start an AMA to give more background to your industry and how it relates to startups / people who move in HN circles.
The way in which you were using "force" implied there was a good option and a bad option. My point was that the implied "bad option" you are implying is relatively good -- 4 months of time to decide + 3 months of severance. Obviously not having to make the choice in the first place would have been the best, but it could have been a lot worse.
3 months is definitely not super generous. Reasonable, sure, but not "super generous". Twice I've gotten 6+ months severance from layoffs, I guess those companies were super duper generous.
I was mostly using Google Scholar to look for peer reviewed work with the keywords 'corexit toxicity' There are a about a dozen papers on the first page, of the ones I could read without jumping various firewalls the conclusions tended toward 'less toxic' than 'more toxic'. Would love to see a meta analysis too but didn't dig one up.
Is that loading icon supposed to be a game of 2048?
I agree with your sentiment about email, and wanted to add that the major reason for this is still a fear of lack of Internet. There has never been a meeting I've attended in ~20 years where we didn't have a backup plan if we had no Internet. This still looks like a solutions that needs the Internet to work. MS would do well to make these formats offline and open-able with the next version of PPT. Take that to the bank!
The 60x cheaper benchmark is based on hardware costs, comparing 6 EC2 nodes (they say ~$20k worth of servers) vs a > $million Oracle server.
Windows had the basic *nix utils (more BSD than GNU) with the SFU/SUA stuff which they killed with Windows 8.
Show HN: ProductPlan – Prioritize and communicate your product roadmap
Comcast Security Chief Named Secret Service Director
Could be like the dual-engine Tiburon.
Haha, nice example! If you want to do this you'd better use our full platform Wit.ai [1], that will arbitrate competition between the datetime entity (`tomorrow at three`) and the number_of_person entity!

[1] https://wit.ai
Even "hard" topics like chemistry and medicine give very limited opportunities to Italian graduates today (since the chemical industry has basically disappeared, and there is an overabundance of medical personnel in a context of shrinking public funds). More industry-oriented ones like CS and EE do provide jobs but not necessarily careers like they used to, since the entire workforce is now expected to have a degree.

I'm not saying degrees are "devalued" (European opportunities abound, after all, and most Italian graduates are actually very smart), but it illustrates that making education (almost) free will always result in growing numbers of graduates from all backgrounds. This is a good thing overall IMHO, but should be expected and planned for.
"On Sunday, after studying the extent of the problem, and looking at logs of attacks stopped by our WAF, we decided to roll out protection for our Free plan customers as well."

I am glad they made that call. Thanks Cloudflare.
Interesting that "orange" is one of the smells tested: there are at least 3 smells to an orange – the oil in the peel, the juice, and the rind or pith (the white stuff). Not to speak of the varieties of fish (or do they mean rotting fish??).
Two reasons, I think.

First, it was overcomplicated. IKE is widely regarded as one of the most complex crypto protocols ever to come out of the IETF. It's a nightmare to implement and not much easier to deploy.

Second, the policy layer is underspecified. IPSEC works for point-to-point VPN links (though it's not the simplest or best way to get that). It could work opportunistically (but was never deployed that way). But what other service model is there? How do I use IPSEC to talk to Google? How does my stack know who Google is? There are solutions for these problems, but not in mainstream IPSEC implementations.

So, IPSEC became a VPN protocol instead.
That's an interesting idea. For what it's worth, I would cite the publication which prompted the idea behind my approach, so I don't think this is the answer to your question.

That being said, I think you're onto something. I was recently involved in a project leading to a paper for a conference, and while I don't know whether it'll get accepted (meaning I don't know if it's even representative of the kinds of papers conferences want to see), I notice in hindsight that we had only a few citations that really informed a totally novel methodological approach we used. By contrast, we cited a ton of research in the domain area we studied.

So my takeaway is that it's hard to bring in dozens of papers to inform one's methods necessarily because methods (like a protocol) require one somewhat coherent narrative. Integrating the collective body of knowledge about a topic (like, oh let's say.. online labor markets) is a lot easier, making "rapid-fire" citations in that context more likely.

I'd like to see a seasoned researcher (or at least someone with the experience of a few publications) weigh in on this though.
Drone captures scale of Hong Kong protest [video]
What's up with the random plug for "VoltDB" apropos of nothing?
I can't help but conclude that someone who is so obsessed with creating "Happiness" is actually not that happy. Otherwise why would he be chasing it with such desperation? One profile of Tony Hsieh said that he has literally read hundreds of books about how to create happiness, and of course he wrote one too.

A person who is happy is not reading hundreds of books about happiness. And that person will also not become happy through doing that. Happiness is not something you can create externally. (Yes, if you're starving and homeless then having some money and material possessions would definitely make you happy. But we are talking about multimillionaires and billionaires here who are not in that situation.)

I think the entire downtown project has much less to do with creating some sort of startup utopia than it has to do with something personal that Tony is seeking for himself. But he won't find it outside of himself.
Blogging and publishing platform.
Location: Washington, DC/Nova

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++ (boost), python, linux, AMQP

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3xTtjze6ftUZTdiU1ZQMjViUDQ...

Github: https://www.github.com/sfpiano

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sfiorell

Email: sfpiano (google mail)

Over five years of experience with a 1.5MM LOC code base. Interested in backend/app/tools development.
Dual motor would make it AWD. The current Model S is a single motor RWD.
Okta(https://www.okta.com/) -- SF (VISA possible)

About Us: Okta is an Enterprise Grade Security and Identity Management Platform and a Single Sign On solution. We have thousands of customers including LinkedIn, Box, Cloudera, Jive, Splunk and Groupon. We are backed by awesome investors like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures.

We are disrupting the multi-billion dollar Identity space and Gartner has named us leaders into that magic quadrant.

The work environment is amazing and there are great perks of working at Okta.
The list of open positions: https://www.okta.com/company/careers.html#okta-positions

Interested hackers can e-mail me: vimarshkarbhari@gmail.com
model d???

who wants the d?
Hang in there . . . sorry to hear about your parents divorce . . . that's always a tough spot . . . just remember you're going to be heading off to college soon . . . but I'm sure family stuff will be awkward for a while . . .

You should be able to make pretty good money freelancing on some projects . . . better money than working typical teenager jobs . . . as far as freelancing I'd try to connect with someone on here who needs help . . . avoid eLance if you can.

While freelancing just give yourself plenty of time to complete projects with your limited schedule with school, maybe an hour or two a night and more time on the weekends. You don't have to volunteer that you're still in highschool. You should get an EIN number online from the IRS so your don't have to put your SSN on your W-9 forms that you'll need to give employers so they can send 1099 forms. Present work for incremental review and payment . . . don't undersell yourself . . . if you know what you're doing quote them a rate that's reasonable . . .

If you like development I would think about getting a CS degree as that might fit better with your current skill set . . . but college is a great time to explore other areas of interest. But being young you can become a killer rails developer during college and land a high salary right out of school . . . or get a degree in something you like and continue to develop your developer skill set as well so you'd have two options . . .

There is also the option to complete college and start your own business . . . start listening to StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com.

As far as languages I'd focus on learning Rails (Ruby) and Laravel (PHP) and Angular. But learning any popular languages/frameworks is a plus.

Good luck . . . Youth is King.
The New York Times' public editor Dan Okrent addressed this a decade ago; the question has been asked and answered and may not be really worth debating again, I suspect.

Some excerpts from that self-critique:

"Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is. ... These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-...

"if you're examining the paper's coverage of these subjects from a perspective that is neither urban nor Northeastern nor culturally seen-it-all; if you are among the groups The Times treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans); if your value system wouldn't wear well on a composite New York Times journalist, then a walk through this paper can make you feel you're traveling in a strange and forbidding world...

"On a topic that has produced one of the defining debates of our time, Times editors have failed to provide the three-dimensional perspective balanced journalism requires. This has not occurred because of management fiat, but because getting outside one's own value system takes a great deal of self-questioning...

The NYT is a remarkable institution capable of arguably the best news reporting on the planet when it collectively sets its mind to a task. It will cover the difficult local topics like NYC homelessness and public school failures that are a poorer fit for the Post or WSJ. I have friends who work there; my editor before I left to found recent.io is now a NYT editor. But the above critique was true when written in 2004 and is even more true today.
This sounds like it could work well but unless there was desk sharing, companies would end up paying for floorspace lying idle half the time.
And what guestimates would those be? I doubt they are serving 10TB in static files per month.

If adding a CDN to your architecture is too much complication then I would definitely not want to use your product for my business. It's literally a question of pointing CloudFront to your server, and substituting the CloudFront assigned domain in for static assets.

Also, from what I can tell, they aren't handling the traffic. I have tried numerous times to use the "Open Live Instance" link and it does not work.
That was not a mean-spirited comment, especially if you imagine someone with a bit more experience seeing the same thing recur needlessly. Grouchy with a touch of get-off-my-lawn, yes. Mean-spirited, no.

Over-exuberance sometimes requires admonishment, especially when there is such a colossal waste of energy and effort like in the JavaScript "community" (OP's word, but still...). If JavaScript programmers spent more time listening and reading and less time posting "so I wrote my own" blogs we might have had things like Reactive libraries for JavaScript years ago.

Throwing a word like "hate" around tells me you're likely too young to really understand what that means.

Also, you picked on his tone and let the Go comment slide? Really?

In short, get seasoned, dude.
Social media's troubled adolescence
That doesn't always work. Working remotely is worth far more to me than free food, massages, free flu shots, laundry, etc.

I worked remotely for a small company that was acquired by Google & I had to relocate with my family to the SF Bay area against my will, similar to the Reddit folks. I had 10x the loyalty to the small company that I will ever have to Google, mostly because of the forced relocation. I can't wait for the retention bonuses to run out & to move back home.
It's not the specific terminology that I take issue with. It's the fact that the poster asserts some rights over the territory.
Completely agree that it's dependent on the people. Some handle it great - some terribly.
It's obviously a psychological pricing mechanism