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SEEKING WORK - Remote/Colorado

Heya, I'm Rocky. I'm an avid open source developer, mentor, and lead developer with over twelve years experience. I'm an FP-oriented JavaScript developer with direct influences from Scala, Haskell, and Clojure. My passions lay in the lower-end of the spectrum, with particular emphasis on machine learning, natural language processing, expert systems, and other forms of artificial intelligence. I'm also a data science practitioner with a heavy background in both frequentist and bayesian statistics.

Currently focusing on freelancing in:

- React/React-Native
- Flux/Reflux/Fluxible/Fluxxor
- Electron
- Unified web, iOS, and desktop solutions

I've helped several VC-backed startups successfully deliver React/Flux solutions (including isomorphic).

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https://github.com/rockymadden

https://dribbble.com/rockymadden

https://rockymadden.com/
I'm in my early 20s but I had major back pain for about 6 months. I thought it was caused by my limited flexibility and trying to lift too much weight at the gym without maintaining proper form. My lazy posture didn't help the healing process, of course.

These are easy actions that I think helped me:

-Using a standing desk is probably ideal, but sitting with good alignment is better than bad. I put reams of paper under my monitor to raise it up and I really like this chair (often on sale for under $100): http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/604924/WorkPro-1000-Se...
This chair is rated at 8+ hrs/day, and locks to support a range of spinal angles such as this "optimal slouch": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm

-Be careful with compound weightlifting like squats, kettlebells, deadlifts etc. Using bad form (curved back) will increase the force on the edges of your spinal disks by a factor of 2-3. Trying to lift too much weight compounds this. Both lead to injury.

-Make flexibility a priority over cardio or strength. Do back/hamstring stretches a few times a day until you reach a good level of mobility. I've had the "upward facing dog" yoga pose recommended among others. The therapist I saw also recommended doing "neural glide stretching" where you push for a few seconds, release slightly, then repeat.
Neither of these are true alternatives until they have a critical mass of users.

Unfortunately Twitter has a near complete monopoly in the microblogging market.
SEEKING WORK - remote (GMT +1)

Mathematician and a full stack dev with sysadmin experience. Worked in many languages and dozen of technologies, too many to count here. If you are looking for someone who can pick up things quickly and be useful from day one contact me.

For more details take a look at my resume: http://nikola.henezi.com/nikola_henezi.pdf

Gihub: https://github.com/nhenezi Email: nikola `at` henezi.com

Keywords: Javascript, react.js, angular.js, socket.io, python, scipy, django, sqlalchemy, php, linux, haskell, mathematics.
Silent Circle - Geneva - REMOTE the norm, INTERNs welcome

We do end-to-end secure communications and a secure mobile platform (Blackphone). The people who work here are highly interested in ensuring that privacy remains a possibility in the world.

We need great engineers who like working on Android (both at the application and the OS layer), iOS applications, back-end infrastructure (e.g. relational and distributed DBs, messaging layers, etc.), and in C, Erlang, Python, and Lua.

By working here you'll have the opportunity to work on hard problems with interesting people like PRZ. We've grown quickly but are still a startup. We hire great people to whom we can give autonomy to get the job done. As our main job is protecting our customers in hostile environments, we want people who are exceptionally good and exceptionally careful.

We're a distributed team, and we're perfectly happy to hire great people anywhere in the world.

Experience with cryptography, protocol implementation, telephony/VoIP, etc. is definitely interesting to us but not required for all positions. We mainly want people who are demonstrably great engineers in the UNIX mold. F/OSS work is a great sign to us. We are very interested in Android experience right now.

Please email frank, CC myself (my username), @silentcircle.com. If you could write a few paragraphs about yourself and what sort of work you like to do, that'd be appreciated. Links to GitHub and LinkedIn are also good.

I look forward to talking with you.

(Engineers only; no recruiters please.)
We do not have a successful prescription-drug model. There is a huge black market for those.
> There are no major organizations or groups of people advocating for the other situations you mentioned.

So you want to dismiss the ideas above because they belong to a minority and are not supported by the majority? Wow, you sound like a bigot.

Remember just a few years ago there were no major organizations or groups of people advocating for... same-sex marriage.
When you aren't doing work, stop thinking about work, stop talking about work. This may include time while you are physically at work. This is a hard lesson for many programmers. There is a time for thinking, but it's tempting to think all the time about some problem, or how great we did at Project X, or how badly we fucked up on Project Y. It is through our thoughts that we end up identifying with something, and if we are always consumed by our work then we identify 100% with our job. Our sense of self worth is then dependent upon something which is largely out of our control, is constantly changing, and inherently has its ups and downs.

People do all kinds of things like meditation to try to control their thinking, and these things are great and ultimately can be life-changing, but I don't think you have to go to great lengths to break the dysfunctional cycle you are in. Find a hobby. Talk about something else with your co-workers. Talk to other people at the company who don't program. Go to a meetup about something not related to programming, and talk about something other than your job for a while, or just watch and listen to other people. Go for a walk and look at the scenery. If thoughts about work come up, just notice them and come back to the present moment.
Distribution maybe not, but possession certainly. Criminalising addiction hasn't gone very well for us so far.

--edit-- now realise we're not arguing!

I'm not sure, with heroin for instance, where recreation ends and addiction begins. By having it freely available (with a side-order of counselling and you have to take it on-site) we could reduce harm from bad needles, impure drugs etc etc. We would also reduce crime as nobody then needs to rob people to get their next fix - they can get it. In what little I've read about where this is the prevalent method (Switzerland) addicts are often able to function normally and even reduce usage quite rapidly, when the stress of finding the money and the contacts for the next hit is taken out of the equation.

It seems like a good thing to do, to me.
PiinPoint (YC W14) - Waterloo, ON, Canada - Software Engineering & Marketing

We're a spatial analysis web software for retailers to place optimal new locations. We're currently hiring a Full Stack Developer and a Head of Marketing.

Full Stack Developer: https://piinpoint.com/index/careers#posting1

Head of Marketing: https://piinpoint.com/index/careers#posting3

We want to keep the team located here in Waterloo rather than having remote employees at this point. Technologies that we work with include PostGIS and Python for analysis with a focus on machine learning to predict sales, and React with the Flux design pattern for the frontend with Leaflet maps.
I understand all of that and I agree with you.

However, if people are going to make irrelevant points about "not having downtime with Linux" then I am going to fuck with them.
Are they flooded? Do you have to maintain them? I assume you keep them in a battery box that's ventilated?

Tesla's product requires none of that to be done.
SEEKING WORK - Waterloo, ON (Canada) or Remote

Just graduated University of Waterloo with a degree in Mathematical Physics.

I know: C++, python and OpenGL

I am currently working on a python library to analysis collaboration networks of scientists using IPython/Jupyter.

github: https://github.com/reidmcy
email: inquiries@reidmcy.com
He was wrong in seeing this as a hidden attack strategy by MS.

Just because an attack never happened doesn't mean there was no strategy. In part due to RMS's effort, there was basically nothing for MS to attack.

And even if there really was no strategy, there very clearly could have been. You can't fault RMS for not being a mindreader. That's why lawyers and contracts exist - if MS didn't want it to look like they were scheming, they very easily could have done that. Like Sun did with Java, as described at the top of the Java link you posted.

There are many projects that use javascript in Linux. Gnome has made javascript the default configuration language.

Please read the article you linked to and tell me what it has to do with GNOME using JavaScript (hint: nothing, it's about JS in the browser).

And from that last link:

In our opinion, nothing about Mono is different than other projects like Samba or Wine, that also substantially reproduce a Microsoft created technology or protocol.

RMS would be horrified if GNOME decided to write some core apps using Wine. But... they didn't. If they did, there would be an outcry even bigger than the one against Mono. RMS's problem isn't Mono (as described in your original link, he thinks it's good to have a free implementation of C#), it's relying on it for important applications.

I apologize if this comes off as a personal attack, but honestly, you seem to be more concerned with slinging mud at RMS than understanding the issues.
Please rephrase: "Full time - LOCAL"
Location: Belfast, UK

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Nim, HTML5, Haskell, Redis, HTTP, WinAPI, Posix, C#, GTK+, HTTP, IRC

Résumé/CV: Please email for a formal CV. See the following links for a portfolio: http://picheta.me/projects.html and/or https://github.com/dom96.

Email: dominikpicheta@gmail.com

I am one of the main developers of the Nim programming language having contributed to the core language by improving the compiler and the standard library. I have written all of the asynchronous IO, sockets and many other related modules in Nim's standard library, as such I am very skilled in the low-level details of Posix and Windows systems.

I have also developed a lot of software projects, most of which are open source and available on my Github. These include a package manager for the Nim programming language, a web framework inspired by Sinatra, the Nim forum (http://forum.nim-lang.org), IRC libraries in Haskell, Python and Nim, an IDE using the GTK+ framework and many more.

I am currently looking for both remote and UK opportunities for internships this summer. I am interested in working with new technologies so if you don't see something in my list above please contact me anyway!
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: C#, Java, ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms,ASP.NET WebApi, WCF, Windows Services, Sql Server, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, DurandalJS

Résumé/CV:http://careers.stackoverflow.com/korada

Email: venkata at korada dot in
> None of drugs are a blessing to mankind

Great for you that you never needed medication. Meanwhile, millions of people do, and drugs, from mood stabilizers to opiates to psychedelics, directly and dramatically increase the quality of life for many people.
Show HN: Tweelerts(Beta) Live stream of tweets around your location
Which is now free, and lets you save images at 4800x4800 pixels, if you adjust your window just right. Not much use for flat projections though
What Was the Venus de Milo Doing with Her Arms?
SEEKING WORK - London / Remote

We are a team of three experienced developers all with full stack experience. We usually work with Ruby, Rails, JS (Angular, Ember, Backbone), CSS (LESS, SASS), AWS and Chef. One of us is also a designer, so we can handle UX and design when necessary.

Our focus is on quality, building well tested applications with fast, responsive UI. We specialise in redeveloping applications for companies looking to make the step from MVP to something solid, scalable and maintainable. We're not the cheapest, but we are amongst the best.

luke@sketchconsulting.com http://sketchconsulting.com/
Your comments on his reasons are clearly counter-factual:

Load shifting on a consumer scale has been happening for decades in various places around the world (e.g. cheap nuclear energy at night powering storage heaters)

Self-consumption: in a grid increasingly fed by solar power all those peaks hit at the same time and there's been multiple recent news stories about power prices going negative at those peaks.

Backup - no-one said anything about "true" natural disasters. Backup from short power outages is already an established market in many outlying areas and a fringe benefit for almost anyone. And no-one said that you had to buy it and use it for this single purpose.

This whole area has been predicted as a growing market for years, there's others in this thread complaining that it's nothing new compared with less famous competitors, so complaints that it's a product dreamt up to soak up subsidies is a bit odd.

Having said that, if I was in charge of a government, I'd be subsidising these kinds of decentralised grid backup right now as they are already useful when viewed at a national scale. It seems likely that in a few short years they'll make economic sense for more and more people without any subsidy though.
I'll second what everyone's saying about yoga, standing desks, etc. but the thing you can change right now without any cost or change in your office is simply not staying in one position as long, particularly if you make a point to get a little more range of motion in your life.

Actually get up to use a whiteboard rather than staying at your desk, drink smaller freshly-made cups of tea/coffee, get up and talk with coworkers in person rather than having a team meeting over IM, etc. – none of that's a replacement for the more serious measures but it's surprisingly better than doing nothing and you can roll it into your life now.

Your employer absolutely should support this. Depending on where you live there are various levels of legal requirement but even without that many places will provide surprising amounts of support. It's a cheap investment for them – even a top-of-the-line chair, standing desk, etc. will cost far less than lost work, medical care, or just the cost of hiring a recruiter if you jump ship for a place which takes better care of staff.
> I guess everybody seen some people get aggressive on alcohol

I'm French and when I moved to Australia, I was surprised that people were violent under alcohol. The very broad generalization for me was that for some reason, anglosaxon people were violent under the effect of alcohol: Was it because boys were told that alcohol made them violent? According to the linked study, there is indeed a large difference of alcohol-related patterns per country. Hence, violence is partly cultural.

Findings from survey research further suggest that alcohol’s contributing role
may be at least partly attributable to the perpetrator’s drinking pattern and
expectations about the effects of alcohol.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170096/
Secret did NOT get $35M in a Kickstarter campaign, it was venture capital. Or was that a joke I didn't get?
Not a whole lot. When walking around the office, I try to avoid staring at my phone or the floor; I look around or up. I've tried to set up my desk ergonomically (right angle knees/elbos, eye-level at the top third of the monitor, etc).

I should probably do more.
>That code you output? It's meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Cherish what makes you human, not what makes you a good worker. //

Isn't that just soul crushingly depressive. Surely everything you do is part of your character, how you work, what you work on, that's all part of who you are. You are not your work but I feel you've gone too far.

>Work is there for one reason and one reason only. To get you money to do the things you like and to give you the means to cherish the people you love. //

I disagree. Yes, you need to earn your keep, no that doesn't mean that work should be solely about the money (unless you're unfortunate enough to be unable to change your circumstances, eg through poverty).
This is a pretty sick example of institutions being corrupted by the power of the government.

Where are the prosecutions of the APA? Where are the disbarments? Where are the war crimes trials for the Bush regime?

This stuff is done in our names without our consent, and we have an ethical obligation to act out and speak out.
> Please define "equal marriage".

Equal marriage is when the government doesn't discriminate by sex in who people are permitted to marry.
$299 Premium Standing Desk on Kickstarter
I think that anybody renting things out can reasonably expect error and ignorance, but I think they can and should be surprised and outraged by the extraordinary levels of calculated malice displayed here. (As another data point, my parents have rented out a vacation apartment for a decade and they've never had anything stolen or trashed.)

I agree money changes things some, but less and less. And the theory of much of the modern "sharing economy" stuff is that the era of disconnected, faceless capitalism is on the wane. That's certainly been my experience on both sides of AirBnB.
Thumbtack - San Francisco - Software engineer and data science

Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the right service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help.

We are backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. Great offices in SoMa with daily home-cooked food and a friendly, ambitious team of 30 engineers. We're looking for expertise in Python, Go, AWS, the full web stack, Android, iOS, machine learning, and data science.

Current projects:

* New data pipeline (Hadoop/Spark) to support customer and business needs

* Advancements to the matching algorithm so both sides of the marketplace are better served

* Migration of all backend systems to AWS

* Shipping an Android app to make our customer experience faster and more efficient

For more information:

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

Also, feel free to email me (chris at) with any questions!
We <3 you Akshay!

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Smartphone app from ACLU of California aims to preserve videos of police
Tell that to the person that conflated the two when they said:

> There is wisdom to be had in learning first hand why a bad thing is bad, rather than just being told it is forbidden.

"a bad thing" is a variable. It's generic enough that it allows for both "playing video games all day" (which is a bad thing) and racist drug laws (which are also in the same category of bad things).

That's why I said people that say that usually don't believe it, as you've just shown. When it comes time to test that hypothesis by filling in the "a bad thing" blank, then you want to change the rules and say "well not EVERY bad thing, racist laws aren't bad in the same way playing games all day is".

If that's the case, then just don't say silly generalizations like "there is wisdom in learning why bad is bad"; instead, think before you say something, so we can have constructive conversations, and not conversations where your side is always backtracking and changing the meaning of basic things such as "a bad thing".

Because when you say "there is wisdom in learning why bad is bad" you make it sound like there is an underlying principle you believe in, but when I come in and test if you really have that belief, then it becomes clear you just wanted to make it sound like you had a principle behind it, but really you just winged it and pretended there was a principle, and when confronted about it, instead of admitting and saying "I shouldn't have phrased it as if I thought it's a principle", you want to argue with me how there really are two different categories called "a bad thing" where "playing games all day" and "racist drug laws" can't co-exist because you said so, without providing a reason.
Won't treating self-signed certificates as not-errors make 1 (prevent MITM attacks) worse though? You could then MITM an https site, serve up a self-signed cert, and anyone but the most observant users won't notice that something that used to be secure https now isn't.

It isn't about refusing to do anything but both at once, it's that doing only one of them makes the other worse.
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> He is clearly talking about same-sex marriage.

How do we know that? When did the word equality mean only heterosexual or homosexual couples?

It's a marketing myth that "gay marriage" is the same thing as "marriage equality". They are not the same, they are two very different things.
Showing no warning for self-signed certs would make it much easier to MitM https. For example: Let's say Bob has an https site with a valid (CA-signed) cert. Alice tries to connect to Bob. Mallory intercepts the connection, connects to Bob, and responds to Alice with a self-signed cert. Alice sees no warning, but her communications are being intercepted and possibly tampered.
SEEKING WORK - Ottawa, Canada / Remote

I’m a UI designer and developer for the web. I want to offer potential clients a new service: improving their CSS architecture.

Why? Because I’ve seen too many startups plough slowly through improving their product due to front-end technical debt that has grown too large to handle. Many would like to think that writing CSS is child’s play. It is, until you get to that eventual point where you need to maintain an actual product (and it happens sooner than you think). This is where many methodologies - or lack-thereof - break down and the cost of adding a new feature or improving an existing one becomes more than it should. Not a good thing for a fresh and growing business.

I use existing methodologies that I’ve found work for iterative web products. If you need help in this area, feel free to contact me. My past clients include 42, Benbria, Localytics and Travelabulous.

philip@eswat.ca - http://eswat.ca - ESWAT is Philip Karpiak
You're not going to like this answer.

We can strike. If we organize enough people in the tech sector or the general public and withhold work until conditions improve, this country will be brought to its knees nearly instantly and we can get some real change to happen.

You think the people who run the country are going to tolerate reduced profits over some political mishaps committed by the last president? It'll be much cheaper to bribe their politicians to do some legal mumbo jumbo to put the proper people into hot water than to sustain a huge revenue loss.
>...I'd say Google ordered a hit piece after all the love Microsoft has been getting the past couple of days!

Considering that EEF have been hitting that same note for quite a while, I would find that unlikely

>These companies can more easily crush competition by buying them up rather than suing them.

The fear that is being currently generated is that small companies will start choosing to not deal with the problems of running a tech business by themselves since the risk and cost of dealing with litigations is so high. That scenario would ensure that the small companies can never grow to be become the future large corporations.

> I would bet none of the large tech companies would risk the PR fallout.

There is not a single week that Microsoft does no do that. The reason that they are able to get away with it without a massive media backslash is that no data about what actual patents that are being infringed is released to the public.

>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=

Your last paper links to nothing.

Also please avoid overusing slangs as it makes your posts hard to read.