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Pathgather - NYC - Frontend Developer (pathgather.com)

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Hello HN! We’re Pathgather, a Techstars NYC 2014 startup looking for a front-end Javascript/CSS expert.

Our product is an enterprise learning platform that - unlike traditional learning systems - is one you’ll actually want to use. We’re solving a big problem felt by almost all large and fast-growing companies: how to continuously train and educate your workforce with modern content on a system built for today’s employee. More than 75% of all companies use a Learning Management System (LMS) in hopes to help with this problem, but their > 60% dissatisfaction rate show these systems just don’t work. We’re changing that.

We launched earlier this year and our web & mobile apps are already in use by thousands of employees at Fortune 500 companies like Qualcomm. We’re a small team, but we’ve got investment capital in the bank, real revenue coming in the door, and are now looking for the right person who is ready to take ownership of our frontend.

What we’re looking for:

* Javascript/Coffeescript expertise

* Strong experience with AngularJS

* Mastery of CSS & HTML

* UX focus

* Design skills a huge bonus

* Ruby/Rails/Elasticsearch/Redis/Postgres knowledge another bonus

If any of this sounds interesting or if you have some questions, please reach out to me at jamie@pathgather.com. We can offer a great salary, early-stage equity, the chance to solve real issues affecting the modern workforce, opportunities to contribute to the open-source community, and an awesome team to work with.
I don't know what a purchase permit is. In Washington, Oregon, and Idaho guns are cash and carry.
We've switched to owncloud not for Condoleezza Rice in particular but for general privacy concerns, the possibility to self host and pricing issues.

We really recommend the product, it may have some disadvantages to dropbox but it's very very usable, evolving and we're very happy about it.
Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.
Dropped it for a while after the appointment.
Got back to it because I was missing the cool integrations with Mailbox and iPhone camera.
Blow the Whistle on “Blackhat” Practices
When was this? What was the price for your undergrad?
Canopy Apps - New York, NY (http://canopyapps.com)

We're funded by the NIH to create tools to help clinicians provide better healthcare to underserved minorities. Right now we're looking for:

★ A backend developer. You will work on the system that powers our Canopy Medical Translator iOS and Android applications, extend our API to enable other health tech applications to access our content and features, and enhance our system of collecting, storing, and analyzing user data. We currently use Ruby (Rails), but you will have the opportunity to influence the technology we use.

More info: https://angel.co/canopy-apps/jobs/38107-backend-web-develope...

★ A sales associate: https://angel.co/canopy-apps/jobs/38110-sales-associate-heal...

★ A marketing and sales intern: https://www.internmatch.com/internships/canopy-apps/marketin...

★ A product development intern: https://www.internmatch.com/internships/canopy-apps/product-...

Email brian@canopyapps.com if you're interested!
I find the "American model" and the "European model" dichotomy very interesting.

American model: individually centered, "pay for what you want", development is driven by small companies and individual decisions (most of the time). "Works for me"

European model: centered on the community, social support, development by committee/government/consensus. Slow but directed improvements

Germany could not have produced Facebook. But they have a great train network. France puts satellites on orbit and does the TGV.

In the US you have millionaires came out of "nothing" (of course, from nice universities, nice contacts, etc), people jumping at opportunities, while in Europe this would take 2 meetings, 3 viability studies and 4 months.

So, while I'm more towards in favour of the European model someone has to ask themselves what are they missing. Yes, they have a very nice and educated workforce that will be ready to work and be very productive at a big company where they will work hard, sure, but will come out with the least amount of new ideas (that's not their job), and will do the things most likely to be accepted by the majority.
Leadership Principles to Move Up a Level from Smart
> How do we really know this? The Japanese were ready for a long drawn out decades conflict. The US forces were war-weary and war was draining the economy. This could have gone on with quite some time, or ended in a frozen conflict that would reignite periodically. Who knows, but a quick non-nuclear win was certainly not in the cards.

A quick non-nuclear win was very much on the cards. The soviet union had just entered the war. The navy knew that it couldn't protect the homeland and didn't have any planes. There was, at the very least, a substantial faction in the cabinet that wanted to surrender, and had the support of the emperor in this. Can we be sure the war would have ended quickly? No. Can we be sure that the human cost would have been less than the ~200,000 civilian deaths caused by the bombs? Definitely not - conventional firebombing could have inflicted those kind of casualties if the war had continued for as little as another week or two. But a decade-long conflict or frozen ceasefire is really implausible; the balance of conventional forces was really overwhelming at that point.

> Arguably, if the US used nukes on Chinese soldiers during the Korean conflict, as some generals advised, there would be no North Korea. We'd have a cowed China and built a single free and democratic Korea, essentially one large South Korea. Instead we have one of the worst regimes the world has ever seen as a client state of China, who uses China's political influence and muscle to threaten the West with nuclear war every day. So, progress?

You could equally argue that if the US had given up and pulled out of Korea entirely, instead of North and South Korea we'd have a country like Vietnam, which is doing pretty well. Or that if the Soviet Union had used nukes to conquer the world we'd have peace everywhere. Everyone thinks they're the "good guy"; any moral principle that would allow the US to use nukes would seem to allow other countries to do so too.
While I use it, I don't USE it. I have some apps that still use Dropbox for backup/syncing, but otherwise I don't store files in Dropbox.
Localytics - Boston - FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B

Localytics is hiring:

- Senior Backend Engineer (Scala, AWS)
- Infrastructure Automation/DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Big Data Architect
- Senior Android Engineer
- Front End Engineers
- Mobile Test Engineer
- Engineering Manager

Check out our engineering blog to get an idea of what its like to work with us: http://info.localytics.com/engineering-blog

About Localytics:

* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over a billion devices.

* We have hard problems to solve in big data, scaling, distributed systems, data visualization and mobile.

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.

* We are passionate about and have deep expertise in the technologies we work with including: Scala, iOS, Android, MapReduce, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, Column Store Databases, Rails, AngularJS, D3.js, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.

* We are located in downtown Boston with easy access to all subway lines.

We love candidates who:

* Prefer startup environments.

* Are passionate about technology.

* Enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies.

Successful candidates may help us with:

* Back end development - wrangling big data using Scala, AWS and several storage technologies.

* Front end development - We have ambitious data visualization projects on our roadmap.

* Mobile development on Android, iOS, HTML5 and Windows Phone

Candidates of all experience levels encouraged to apply: jobs@localytics.com
J-expressions (2012)
I was trying to work around this problem also and found this library: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOL, from the guys at Jooq. They did all the hard work to wrap all the FunctionalInterfaces in unchecked exceptions. Hope this helps.
St. Louis, MO
Answers.com
PHP Developer
Meaghan.Cale@Answers.com

nswers’ is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work with the core technologies powering our infrastructure. The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO office.

Responsibilities:
* Contribute architecture input to new system components, rewrites of legacy systems, etc.
* Write thorough, comprehensive technical and high-level documentation
* Engineer and implement new product features for web-based applications using LAMP
* Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements
* May require an on-call rotation to support production

Requirements:
* Experienced LAMP developer (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP)
* Proficient test planning for web applications
* Detailed knowledge of daemons, cron jobs, and system requirements for high traffic, fault tolerant, 24x7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
* Experience with MVCs
* Basic XML, TCP/IP, NFS, YML, mod_JAVA, and Apache application server knowledge

Required Personal Skills:
* Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
* Strong initiative - capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
* Self-management - capable of prioritizing and executing tasks
* Problem solving - ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues

Preferred:
* 4+ years experiences in design, development and operation on web applications or websites from the front end to the back end.
* Expertise in data structures and algorithm evaluation
* Experience with Test Driven Development
* Scrum/Agile development
* Experience with other languages/systems
* BS/MS degree

Job Benefits:
Develop the technology that power millions of daily unique visitors
Collaborate within a team of fervent business and technology enthusiasts
Work with the largest internet players, building software that significantly impacts vertical markets
Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded

Compensation:

Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)

More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan
400€ per year or per semester? Where?
I am at the Institute of Technology in Berlin and I payed 290.37€ this semester, which includes 179.40€ for public transport.
Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.)

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We're the single source of truth in logistics data -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too.
We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time.
The problem -> To try to decrease costs, carries have been increasing the size of container ships. The only problem there is that as container ships get larger, the variability in the global supply chain goes up (e.g. a large ship being late causes a headache to more people than a small one).
How we fix it -> We track every ship on the water and run a bunch of analysis on our data sets so that we can help our customers smooth out the rough edges. (One company we're working with spends 6.5 mil every month on “late fees” because of these rough edges).

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Data stack -> clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit/hadoop/EMR (we’re a SOA shop)

Web -> Ruby on Rails, Postgres, PostGIS, Angular, coffeescript

Mobile -> iOS, android in the near term

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

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We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)!
Looking for help on frontend and data science sides! (also looking for experimentalists for fun hedge fund stuff)
If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at mike@weft.io!
Awesome! Congratulations on the funding, looking forward to see it soon.
Wordpress requires MySQL which is an added cost of $0.05 a day
Not really.

14 place ETHZ (Switzerland)
https://www.ethz.ch/en/studies/financial/tuition-fees.html
$600 at semester = $1,200 (1 school year)

15 place John Hopkins(USA)
http://www.collegecalc.org/colleges/maryland/johns-hopkins-u...
$45,470 (1 school year)

Obviously it's US against Switzerland, it's completely different and very hard to compare. But bigger fees doesn't really means better university.
Derek Jeter's startup
What is Oakland's Rough cost per semester? I live in the area and attend their security conferences from the outside looking in it seems like a decent school.

I already work as an software developer but a degree doesn't hurt my career options.
What about people dropping them for their odd pricing (free for 2GB or $10/month for 2000GB? Huh?)
Suggestion: if you want this to succeed, constrain your scope. Say No to touch-screen & voice! (IMO they are crippled interfaces compared to the keyboard)

Just say 'NO'. & best luck :)
What you really want is "I dropped Dropbox for an unrelated reason". The poll is trying to determine whether the call to boycott dropbox due to Condi Rice's appointment actually got anywhere. The OP's suggested answers would make it easier to answer the original question. Your answer, as I see it, would just add noise.
I don't see BitTorrent Sync in your list of alternatives. I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. I just wonder if it's secure at all, given the open nature of BitTorrent itself.
I can only provide anecdotal evidence. I come from a poor family and studied in India in a government university by paying $20/year. The cost of providing that education was estimated at $1000/year and private universities used to charge as much. If the government had not provided that subsidy, I would not have taken a loan to the tune of $1000/year because that would have been too risky. I would have opted for the less risky option of herding cows.

Fast forward 15 years, I worked in a research lab and in 2009 I paid more than $12000 in income tax alone. I also created more employment by spending the money I earned. The government got a great return on its investment and it can now fund the education of more people -- a virtuous cycle.

Almost half my class was in a similar situation and most of them are doing good.
Forum can be an overkill, this is focused domain request/proposal/upvote system. I'm @mightyalex on twitter, drop me a message anytime.
Exactly, I dropped Dropbox for Spideroak after the NSA fiasco and have since moved to Owncloud on my own servers. It works perfectly. I honestly think Owncloud has the nicest desktop client around.
I think you are right. Sweden is more or less has the same model as German when it comes to higher education. There are no particular "elite" universities & most of the universities are more or less on the same level when it comes to funding, research output, teaching etc.

Even as an International student back in 2008, I paid 0$ in tuition fees & used to pay 30$ as student union fee per study term/semester and have best study experience I can imagine.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (from Calgary, Canada)

Languages: Ruby, Elixir/Erlang, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

Frameworks/Libraries: Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, Backbone.js, React.js

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis

I can help in all parts of the stack on any Web project and any back-end development for mobile applications. My specialties are scaling, performance and writing maintainable code. In the past I've taught teams object-oriented design and Test-driven Development.

I live in Canada but I am a US Citizen, in case that matters to you.

Email is: richard@<my username>.com
I dropped Dropbox because of better pricing elsewhere for a commodity service.
As far as I know, there is only 1 person in the Ruby world who is succeeding with this model, and this is Mike Perham.

While I admire his work and find his business model amazing, I think his advice is actually very, very shallow and is based on him being lucky, not on a proven business idea.

I'd love getting me proven wrong, though.
I dropped Dropbox when I found Bittorrent Sync.
I personally started using rsync with my Digital Ocean box, but that's just my alternative.
Industry Dive - Jr. Python/Django Developer - Washington, DC - Full Time

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We are a rapidly expanding mobile-focused B2B media startup. We have a staff of writers and editors who cover breaking news, curate interesting content and write original analysis for executives in industries like Education, Marketing, Energy, and Retail. See http://www.retaildive.com for an example and http://www.industrydive.com/ for more about us.

We use a variety of mostly open-source technology to create our products, but the core infrastructure is written in Django. You will be responsible for working with other developers to add features and fix bugs on our websites, especially adding features to the CMS that writers & editors rely on. Prior experience with Django/Python is desirable but not required.

The ideal candidate:

+ Has 1-2 years of relevant experience *OR* otherwise
demonstrates an aptitude for software development.

+ Thrives in a fast-paced environment. Is good at multitasking.
Has great communication skills.

+ Is self-motivated and entrepreneurial.

CSS/HTML/JS web design experience is a plus. An interest in mobile (iOS/Android) app development is a plus.

Why working at Industry Dive is great:

+ Short development cycle - When we have a good idea, we like to
move quickly and then iterate once it's live.

+ Not the same thing every day - We're still a small company and
you'll have the opportunity to work on many projects outside
your core job description.

+ Great team - Work with a diverse team of people who are very
good at what they do.

+ We work hard, but we also have a lot of fun. And we definitely
believe in healthy work/life balance. If you're looking for
lots of crazy all-nighters, this is the wrong place.

+ It's a very exciting time for the company. At 2.5 years old,
we're exceeding all our targets and reinvesting everything back
into the company.

If interested, send a resume along with a brief note about why you think you'd be a good fit to eli-at-industrydive.com. If you have any question, feel free to ask.

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OTHER OPENINGS: We are seeking a Data Mining Intern as well as full-time and freelance writers and reporters. See http://www.industrydive.com/jobs/

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This machine is likely to have a very low machining speed due to weak motors and other motion components. You are unlikely to be able to out-compete a professional machine shop making small parts. So while this is nice for hobbyists, it is unlikely to pay for itself in a professional situation. If you want a machine to pay for itself and be more generally useful, you would be better off spending the money on a Chinese manual milling machine.
This is a better announcement than Rackspace's: no spin, direct, to the point.
It's a GNU extension that lets you define ranges in switch statements' cases: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html
色郎lv22 hooray. I didn't notice the timer until the end.
I agree with your sentiment. However, it wasn't her political views. It was her involvement with a fraudulent war.
And at the very least "I dropped DropBox for some other reason".
A playbook for cutting the corporate purse strings
I agree the article is alarmist drivel, but you greatly overestimate the difficulty of assembling a lower. Furthermore, there is pretty much no way to misassemble one in a way that would cause an explosion.
Database as a Service offerings becoming popular
I continue to use Dropbox stuff I need to share professionally, but I'm migrating private stuff to alternatives for various reasons, Condi being just one of them.

But thanks for reminding me I need to check if I can downgrade to a free account now.
St. Louis, MO
QA Engineer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@answers.com

The primary duties of this position will include manually testing web applications, Answers.com in particular. This will entail using MySQL to verify data and Linux to deploy and verify code. This is an entry-level position at Answers with room for vertical growth. This is a great way to get your foot in the door of a fast growing and evolving web technology company headquartered in Saint Louis.

Summary of essential job functions:
Quality Assurance Engineers will test daily releases, write regression test plans for new products, and work closely with developers to ensure quality on the Answers.com website.

Minimum requirements:
A Bachelors / Associates degree in CS/IS/CE. This requirement can be supplemented with experience.
Ability to compose SQL queries for testing and debugging.
Comfortable working in the Linux / Unix command line.
Can understand the big picture for end-to-end data flow and regression testing.
Hunger to learn and grow as a QA Engineer in a fast paced tech startup atmosphere.

Preferred:
The ability to accurately review PHP / JavaScript code and understand the algorithms behind the change. Limited web development experience is a plus.
Experience working in a LAMP stack environment.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Job Benefits:
* Develop technology that reaches millions
* Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded

Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)

More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan