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Open edX - http://openedx.org, http://edx.org - Cambridge MA

Open edX is the open-source platform that powers edX, the online education site founded by Harvard and MIT. We're hiring two positions for the open-source team here. All are full-time, in Cambridge.

The first is a manager for the entire team. The job description is here: Open Source Technical Community Manager: https://www.edx.org/job/open-source-technical-community-mana...

The second is a straight-up software engineer that we can use for projects that significantly benefit the Open edX world: Open Source Software Engineer: https://www.edx.org/job/software-engineer

The primary goal of all of these positions is to enable and encourage the broader open-source community using the Open edX platform. We're giving away education around the world, and you can help!

BTW: we're also hiring for plenty of other positions: http://www.edx.org/jobs

If you have any questions, get in touch: ned@edx.org
Mutually Human - Grand Rapids, Michigan

http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/

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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software. We're hiring for full time positions as software developers and software designers at our office in Grand Rapids.

A little bit about us:

- We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US.

- We aren't limited to any really specific set of technologies, which is a great
opportunity to learn. In the past year, I've worked with Objective-C (and Swift),
Backbone.js (inside PhoneGap), Angular.js, QT Node.js, and of course Ruby.

- We practice a sustainable pace. We recognize that we each have lives,
activities, and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are
rare by design.

- We're agile, but not dogmatic about it. Our process evolves to suit our needs.

- We offer competitive salaries, health/vision/dental insurance, quarterly profit
sharing, retirement + match, weekly catered lunches, and a top-floor office
with snacks, guitars, and your choice of standing or sitting desks.

- We run a makerspace in our building (http://grmakers.com), which gives us
access to lots of cool stuff like a laser cutter and 3D printers.

A little bit about Grand Rapids:

- 2.5 hours from Chicago and Detroit, less than an hour to the beach.

- Lots of great beer. Founders Brewery (a mile from our office) has 3 beers in
the Beer Advocate top 15. HopCat is a “World Class” bar on BA.
Just look here: http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/city/43

- Low cost of living. I bought a nice house with a mortgage payment
30% lower than the rent of my 1 bedroom apartment in Mountain View.

- A growing technology and startup community.

A little bit about you:

- You love making software, and you have a couple of years of experience doing it.

- You learn new stuff quickly. You’ve used a lot of technologies, but you’re not
afraid to use more. You have some experience with web or mobile technologies.

- You believe software is written for humans, not computers.

- You want to come into work every day and enjoy the people you work with.

I'm a software developer on this awesome team. If you're interested, get in touch with me:

ej@mutuallyhuman.com
It is illegal to sell high quality printers that print currency, or at least sufficient pressure has been applied to printer makers so that their printers refuse to print currency.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/
Brainspace Corporation, Dallas, Texas - (Full time, Local)

At Brainspace (http://www.brainspace.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) semantic platform. We're passionate about creating the best possible technology and user experiences.

Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems?  We work hard and play hard. We’re looking for the best, and offer competitive salary and benefits.

Senior Front-End Engineer

We're looking for an expert front-end engineer to join our team, bringing passion and pixel perfection as we build innovative experiences. Be a team leader on development tasks. You should be able to work independently, as well as mentor junior developers. You’ll assist in defining timelines and development tasks.

* Integrate with internal and external REST API's
* Strong command of HTML5, CSS, and Javascript
* Mastery of the DOM and jQuery
* Experience with multiple MVC JS frameworks like Knockout and Angular
* Experience implementing complex front ends across browsers

On top of that, it would be great if you also:

* Have experience in cloud environments like AWS
* Are familiar with LESS and SASS
* Have design skills

Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for a senior Software Engineer to join our team, bringing passion and perfection in helping us build innovative products. You will be working with really cool Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies, as well as using tools like Lucene/ElasticSearch, Jersey, and maybe some Scala or Clojure.

You need to have the following:

* Expertise in Java development
* Strong OO development skills
* Expertise in build RESTful API's
* SQL Skills
* Familiarity with agile processes

It would be great if you have:

* C# skills
* Experience with PostgreSQL, Tomcat, and Jersey
* Javascript or Ruby knowledge
* Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing skills
* Experience in the Legal/eDiscovery market

If either of these opportunities look interesting to you, please contact us at careers@brainspace.com
For what it's worth, most of the time I use ve nobody says anything. Probably they just think it's a typo, unless I use it multiple times. I'm okay with that. I've also used it in real life without comment.
Your post reminds me of when Chrome was first released, and how startup time (and speed in general) was one of their primary concerns. They had (and probably still have) a whole suite of performance tests that, amongst other things, measure startup time.

With that in mind, if they didn't have those optimizations, Atom would probably be an order of magnitude slower to start up than it is today. It's all a matter of non-functional requirements and priorities, I guess.

On the other hand: as the saying goes, "make it work, make it pretty, make it fast" - which can be interpreted in various ways, like "working software is more important than fast software" (aka avoid premature optimization), and "a well-designed application is easy to optimize".
SEEKING WORK: Toronto, Ontario, Canada or Remote

I am looking for either freelance / contract / consulting work. Even more so, my interest is to make contacts with people in the startup scene in Toronto.

A summary of myself:

- PhD in applied mathematics from one of the top US schools

- Knowledgeable in machine learning, statistics, optimization, graph theory, data analysis, data science, etc.

- Expertise in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, financial data analysis

- Fluent in a multitude of programming languages

- Experienced in developing web apps in Django, Javascript, etc.

Things I would be interested in working with:

- Functional languages: Scala, Haskell, Erlang, F#, etc.

- GPU or FPGA: Cuda, OpenCL

- Big Data: Hadoop, HBase, etc.

Contact me at randomwalk152 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
These days I'm no longer shocked at the number of times I hear "this should be easy" from someone who has absolutely no experience in programming whatsoever. At this point I just smile, nod my head, and attempt to drag the discussion back to reality.

It makes me the "negative" one in meetings.

Makes me wonder how often this phenomenon happens in other industries.

I can say from experience it does happen in the design world. Back in my design days I can say I heard variations of the thought from time-to-time but not as often as I do now being a developer.
There is 2 threads on the front page?
If Google Drive would release a native Linux client, I would as well. They've been promising one is coming soon for years now, though. I should probably just give up.
I dropped Dropbox because of too close relation to NSA. Switched to jottacloud. Not quite as good, but at least its in Norway.
I've always felt that the tuple oriented view of the world of database was closer to what we should be doing instead of objects (or more lately functions?), although fp definitely gets you closer.

My one comment is to please make eve keyboard oriented from the start. I really don't want to use a mouse. I should be able to navigate every entity logically with a keyboard. For example, I should be able to hit a key to select available link endpoints and another to connect them.

I like visual, but I love keyboard oriented a lot more. Dragging and scrolling are way too overused ui interactions.
Ok, point to you. If firefox were a GNU project, I think it would not have got EME.

Update:
Thanks for the link. Grr, now I am SURE that GNU would not have implemented it. Firefox is going to ship with a proprietary blob called the CDM, made by Adobe? wtf.
Rails dev needed to help build a community in the video game space

We’re an NYC based company building an online community for the video game industry, and are hiring a rails/full stack developer on contract to build v1 of the application. You’ll be working off of front end product designs, but will have technical flexibility to build out the back end. This will start out as a contract job, but has the potential for more if its the right fit. Pay will be based on experience.

This will be an exciting and new approach for the video game industry, and we’re looking for someone who shares in our passion for the space.

Who we’re looking for:
- You’re comfortable working with a very small team, and with building a web application from scratch
- Have a passion for video games
- You are an expert in Ruby and Rails
- Have a very solid understanding of databases
- Experienced in deploying to a test environment
- Expert in HTML, CSS and JS (and relevant frameworks)
- Ideally are local to New York City, but not a must

If you’re interested and a serious candidate, please include a sentence about grabbing coffee or getting on Skype in your reply. please contact me by email, ron@cartrdge.com
Hosted Graphite - Dublin, Ireland

We're looking for an ops and python automation engineer to help us work on scaling, reliability and automating ops tasks. We work with linux, python, riak, redis, serf, puppet, git and IRC.

We're a small team of 7 that is growing quickly and funded entirely by real customers who like us because we solve a real problem.

Full job description: https://hosted-graphite.clinch.io/jobs/ops-python-automation...
It takes some getting used to, but I think "they" is still a lot less awkward than using a completely new word.

My post was probably more condescending than necessary.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Toronto-based)

I am a full-stack web developer and have been freelancing for a couple years now -- previously I was the CTO/cofounder of an acquired startup, and I have more than a decade of professional development experience under my belt.

I am looking for contract/freelance work and currently have ~20 hours per week of availability. I frequently work with US and other international companies (with site visits if necessary). My preferred weapon of choice is Ruby on Rails and its associated stack -- I've been working with Rails for 8 years, so I know the entire stack and ecosystem backwards and forwards.

Other alphabet soup: Coffeescript, jQuery, Heroku, AWS, Ubuntu, Vagrant, Bootstrap, etc.

Contact: fredngo at gmail dot com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredngo
I was really excited until I saw all the guns. There are much cooler things you can make with a CNC. Now I'm creeped out.
What's the source for the Tereshkova thing? The first that came up for it is longtime space journalist James Oberg writing in 1981 that it's "a malicious rumor," then allowing that it might be true but it's a state secret. And then a bunch of recent articles that mention her vomiting but not the other stuff.
As an illustration of the above point about Home Depot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCP2Og__Go#t=94
These are called tax treaties - each individual treaty has some different rules regarding where incomes are earned and where taxes are owning. As an example, here is one between Thailand and Canada:

http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties-conventions/thailand_-eng.asp
I am more concerned with good seats going to students who will never complete their degree, or the degree is not needed in the market and you end up with hobby and not a job.

While the idea of removing costs sounds good there are just so many negatives. Means testing should still be done, raise the bar so that the truly well off are the only ones paying and not the lower income levels. The second "means" testing would be, is their object an effective degree. I see no reason to pay for someone's hobby, paying for a degree to benefit society is another.

which redirects my thinking too, its free if your going to be a teacher, public defender, or similar, provided you complete the course and server for a set number of years, no less than ten.
This test is bonkers for computers, because a "reasonable person" means an "ignorant person". Reasonable people who know how the web works, who have read RFC 2616, believe Weev's actions are clearly authorized. Other reasonable people who know nothing except how to access Facebook with an iPad often believe otherwise -- and it's the iPad users the court relies upon for "reasonable person".

"Reasonable" people regularly sit in judgment of other specialists' actions. Therefore I think this eventually devolves to a battle of expert witnesses. Which means security researchers should get something analogous to malpractice insurance, because the best witnesses are the most expensive. In the medical malpractice suit for which I was a juror, the difference between expert witnesses was comical.
University rankings are full of manure if you will pardon my French.

The model they use favors big general universities with a strong research department. Also how do you evaluate the learning environment? Number of flat screen tvs per student? Number of millions spent on sports facilities?

Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).
I switched to Tresorit, which claims to have client-side encryption.

That said, I'm currently installing my own file server at home over a VPN. Once I'm done with that, I shouldn't really need any other third-party solution.
Apple's livesteam outage was easily preventable
Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django)

London, England.

https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!
I can speak to the Canadian process. Public Health Agency of Canada is stationed at all major airports and screen passengers that trips originate in an affected country. We had a suspect patient that had arrived from Germany that begin in Nigeria. Due to the routing, they were screened here when they landed in Canada.

Theoretically someone could fly from an affected country to Europe. Spend a few days and book another trip to North America and not be screened. However triage process in hospitals is that patients with fever greater than 38.6C are asked if they have spent any time in an Ebola affected country within the past 21 days (high end of incubation period).
> I have hope for things like cgroups/jails and MAC/SELinux over virtualization.

The attack surface of a virtualization layer is much smaller than the attack surface of an operating system kernel.
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

60% of the ranking is strictly research related, which is meaningless to undergrads although very important to grad students and above, and 10% is admitted to be subjective fluff. Perhaps important fluff, perhaps not, but definitely subjective fluff. Only 30% of the ranking score relates to teaching.

So 60% to 70% of the score is irrelevant to undergrads, and the difference between 1st place and 55th place is a mere thirty percent or so. My engineering "sig figs" spidey sense is tingling that the "ranking" is meaningless.
I am a mechanical engineer by training, and I think you are missing the point of this experiment.

This is the mechanical equivalent of a series of quick hacks. I don't think anyone expects these machines to last long or work without frequent maintenance. As I read it, the goal is only to enable a small community to be self sufficient; the machines should last long enough for them to accomplish their purpose. When they inevitably break down, the tools and materials will exist to repair or replace them, and the community will have the knowledge to do so.

The kind of up-front planning and precise design that you reference works when you have a large organization with a large pile of capital that is willing and able to spend the time and money to do something right the first time. This is optimal when that environment is present, but impossible for a small community of semi-skilled workers and farmers. The whole point is that the approach described in the article should work in the absence of professional skills.
Try 24. $50 seems to be the new floor for AR15 lower receivers. I've seen some as low $38 + shipping to an FFL dealer.
Yeah, fully free would be something like selling GPL exceptions for the exact same product.

I really like selling exceptions. The product is available to everyone in its entirety without restriction, but the copyright holders are the only ones who can sell non-copyleft versions of it. Everyone else can still sell it under the terms of the GPL, like selling Debian CDs. It shifts the scarcity in a different direction, treats everyone fairly, and everyone who creates derivative works pays: either by giving back code or by paying for the privilege to not give back code.

Selling exceptions seems to me to be the right way to commercialise the actual product itself instead of support around that product. I know of FFTW and hg4j who do this now, and Qt used to do it. It's a good business model.
Yeah... it's not as if proper guns are hard to come by in the US. If it were possible, guns would be sold in vending machines.
Follow the Coffee Calendar
Real-time notifications, multiplayer games, status reports of some events happening continuosly without developing dedicated backend for it. These are the examples I could come up at the moment.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Paris, France - but can travel in Europe)

Customer success engineering.

You’re on the lookout for improving activation and retention rates for a web application. You want to make a better product that serves better what your customers want and make them come back for more.

I specialize in helping SaaS companies come up and deliver features that improve customer activation and retention.

My services range from consulting on how to best implement customer success practices, to implementing specific retention improvement features (such as feedback forms, surveys), and reaching better customer understanding (finding out your ideal customers, how to become more customer-centric) or implementing agile methods in your organization to make better software.

I have almost 10 years of development experience in everything from my own products to startups to big companies and can also help with general web development work (Python and Javascript, some PHP).

Contact me at Tommy (DOT) jarnac (AT) gmail. Website: http://saasfoundry.io

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tommy-jarnac/4/a7/775
I leave my old data in Dropbox since it's a pain to transfer gigabytes of cloud storage, and I don't have to look for it since I already know where it is. My new data is synced with various things like Owncloud, Cozy, Syncthing, or BitTorrent Sync depending on what the data actually is.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in SW Ontario, Canada

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan

Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told, _kohanz_ was one of the few that I would still continue working with. He is skillful, honest and up front, knows what he is doing and does his job very quickly and within the time frame promised at the beginning."

Experienced (10+ years) developer of software for medical devices and scientific applications, many with an imaging component. Have architected and led teams to deliver on software for systems in both diagnostic and interventional contexts. Comfortable working in an FDA-regulated & ISO 13485 compliant quality system.

I excel at iterating research or early-stage prototypes (e.g. MATLAB developed by researchers) into commercial-grade software ready to impress the right audience (clinicians, investors, etc.).
Developing scientific applications involves a high degree of uncertainty and requires an engineer that actively participates in all phases of the SDLC (e.g. requirements gathering, risk analysis, etc.). My ability to communicate has always led to my role as the technical point of contact for researchers, clinicians (surgeons, radiologists, etc.), and senior executives.

One of my current freelance projects is creating a software application to drive the receive/transmit of a novel ultrasound transducer and then scan-convert the signal into an image in real-time. Outside of the medical domain, my development projects have included an automated stock-trading engine (including backtesting suite) and various sports analytics software solutions.

Technical keywords: C++, C#, Java, Matlab, VTK, ITK, OpenCV, GPGPU, Rails, R, Python, and more.
ZipRecruiter - http://ziprecruiter.com - Santa Monica (LA area) - REMOTE for some positions

Our goal is to create the best online services for filling and finding jobs. We bootstrapped for the first four years, growing to 100+ employees. Recently, we raised $63M led by Institutional Venture Partners.

We have a number of open positions:

- Software Engineer (primarily Python) (Santa Monica)
- QA Automation Engineer (Selenium or similar) (Santa Monica)
- Data Scientist (Santa Monica)
- Front End Developer (Santa Monica)
- iOS Developer (Santa Monica)
- Software Engineer (primarily Perl) (Santa Monica or Remote)
- Systems Administrator (Santa Monica or Remote)

We're growing rapidly and have a large customer base (primarily small and medium sized businesses). We have interesting problems to solve in the areas of search, yield management, analytics, scalability and new product development. If you'd like to learn more, please visit https://www.ziprecruiter.com/hiring/technology or email us at techjobs@ziprecruiter.com