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Nextgengolf | Boston | ONSITE

Nextgengolf is looking for a Junior Ruby Developer to join our small technology team. There is significant opportunity given the lack of technology solutions in the golf industry and Nextgen is an organization leading the charge.

As a member of a small team, you will have an impact throughout the organization. It is a perfect opportunity to become a well rounded developer since you will be working and learning from various teams across the company. The Millennial golf market has been a neglected space for a long time. You will join us in fixing that problem and get to build some pretty cool technology in an outdated technology landscape.

Technology Stack: Ruby on Rails, Angularjs, Postgres, Redis

You can find detailed job description here: https://nextgengolf.org/job/junior-developer/

If you have any questions, contact me directly at mahesh@nextgengolf.org
Lead-acid batteries can't be used effectively for energy storage, especially not vanilla car batteries that are optimized for cranking amps but will only last a few cycles of charging and discharging.

Generally, lead-acid batteries will sulfate at low levels of charge, which is a hard-to-reverse reaction.
Pivotal Labs | NYC and many other locations | Engineers, Designers, Product Manager

Pivotal Labs is a division of Pivotal Inc.

We help clients to become better at development. We are religiously lean and agile -- in practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside.

Our NYC office is growing fast to meet exploding demand for Labs and Cloud Foundry assistance. We are also hiring in all our offices, including new offices: SF, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, London, Dublin, Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney.

We provide visa and relocation assistance. In the NYC office we have about 15 people from overseas, including Australians like me.

At the office we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong is not mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east coast style is more fun to watch. The beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.

Frankly this is the best job I've ever had -- I've learnt more here than anywhere else.

You can apply through our website: http://pivotal.io/careers

But if you email me -- jchester@pivotal.io -- I can take advantage of our generous referral program and answer any private questions you might have.
Zappos Labs - San Francisco, CA - ONSITE

Zappos Labs is looking for a Full-Stack Developer!

What is the job?

We are a small team of smart people looking to solve tough problems and brainstorm new ideas. Our projects focus on the future of Zappos and customer experiences using a combination of new technologies and new approaches to old technologies. As the Zappos Labs team, we have freedom to incubate new ideas with the backing of a large yet passionate-about-culture organization.
Some of our recent projects include researching new lines of business for Zappos, exploring the physical pop-up space, and creating the tools to support self-organization.

What skills do you need?

We are looking for an experienced full stack developer with a focus on front end development. Some of the technologies we use are Ruby on Rails, Javascript frameworks, Node, Mysql, Postgres, and R. We also have a mobile project or two going on at any point in time. Our general approach is language agnostic, choosing the best language for the job.
Being able to design applications from top to bottom, troubleshooting and fixing tough problems, hitting quick deadlines, knowing when to push back on requirements, and mentoring other developers will all be very important parts of this role. Knowing a programming language or two like the back of your hand will also come in very handy.
We are ideally looking for a "T-shaped developer"—someone who has a broad interest and understanding of technology and the web, but also has deep interest in a specialized area. However, being a Labs developer isn’t a full-time programming job. We want someone who has their own big ideas, loves brainstorming sessions, and will participate in user research.

What kind of people do we want?

Our team is always in search of people that are self-starters, visionary thinkers, and people who don’t mind a little bit of ambiguity.
There are many open ended problems that there are no solutions for...yet. Can you brainstorm and come up with innovative solutions to new problems? Are you willing to work closely in a small team and push everyone to be the best that they can be? Do you love learning new things, expanding your knowledge, and iterating quickly? If so, the Zappos Labs team might be for you.

Zappos IP, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace

https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=ooKf1fw8&s=Ycombinator_MikeCar...
MTD Products, Inc. | Embedded Developer | (just south of) Cleveland, OH | ONSITE | Full Time

We are a small group of engineers in a large privately owned corporation building autonomous outdoor power equipment. This means small-embedded ARM systems for now, and big-embedded systems someday soon. If you like to solve problems and see the solutions come to life on real hardware on the ground every day, we want to talk to you!

Full Description and application here: http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...
>Recently a recruiters said all I needed was a little Java experience and I could be making a lot of money. But I have plenty of Java experience, why can't I find a job anywhere?

Maybe you have personality defects which make people unwilling to work with you, but you are blind to them. Therapy could help you to identify whether or not the case, and if it is, to get better.
hiQ Labs

Location: SF

hiQ Labs is pioneering the brand new sector of human capital analytics. We use real data science to provide insights into employee retention, hiring, and career enhancement for customers including Facebook, Box.com, Nestle, and The Gap.

We are seeking a senior engineer to handle a variety of mission-critical tasks revolving around dev ops, build/test, and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has 5++ years of experience with UNIX (Linux, OSX), networking, security, Q/A, testing, continuous integration, and RE. Knowledge of these systems a big plus: Apache, Django, Jenkins, AWS, Github, Jira/Confluence, Python, MySQL, mongodb.

Please email your CV or resume to dev.jobs at hiqlabs.com

https://www.hiqlabs.com/jobs
But if you choose wrong sorry about your luck. I've been working on a mobile app using corona on my own. I also was involved in a giant $20 million dollar project that was in an obscure platform. so, haven't keep up on the latest .net technology. so, too bad for me.
Koala – SaaS Analytics for Stripe
Digital River — Vienna, Austria, (On-Site, VISA, Full-time)

We are creating a microtransaction platform primarily focused on providing payment solutions for video games. We're a small team of 15 people from all over the world (Austria, Brazil, Nigeria, India, Italy, Spain, Ukraine). We can assist in applying for a work VISA (as we already went through this whole process a couple of times).

We are currently looking for:

- Software Engineer (Java): http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...

Context: You will be working on our core platform and design / implement new features. One of our next big projects is migrating serveral components of our platform from Oracle to Cassandra.

Stack: Spring Framework, Java 8, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra

- DevOps Engineer: http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...

Context: You will be working on our deployment pipline and platform infrastructure which spans multiple datacenters.

Stack: Chef, Scientific Linux

- QA Automation Engineer: http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...

Context: You will be writing automated tests for our frontend UIs as well as load tests for our platform.

Stack: SOAP UI, CasperJS, Selenium, Apache JMeter

- Web Developer: http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...

Context: You will be implementing UIs for our stores which are accessible via game clients / web browsers.

Stack: Javascript, CSS, HTML5

About our interview process:

In the first round we will contact you via phone for an quick chat and give you more details on what we do and what we have to offer, this is usually a one to one conversation. Before the second round we might ask you to do a simple code exercise, which you can solve at your own pace or you can show us a project you have worked on, where you can provide us the source code. The code / project you have provided will be discussed with at least one engineer from our team as part of the second interview round and we will try to answer all the questions you might have regarding our company / team / product / etc. In the third round you will meet more people of our team, the questions asked are usually not as technical as in the second round.

If you have any further questions, my email address is in my profile (I'm a software engineer).
Pretty disappointing that their big selling point is moot when it a) can't be sold outside US/Canada and b) aggressively tries to up-sell a subscription which actual people in poverty will have no interest in being tied to

The whole thing smacks of feel-good marketing for investors, while truthfully marketing to white-collar office workers.
Thanks for taking a look at my product! I made this to give businesses access to their metrics quickly and easily without having to spend a fortune or hours on a spreadsheet. We started building this for a different SaaS business but it quickly became clear that others could use it. The system is going to be centralised around forecasting the future of your company and allowing you to quickly act on changes.

I would love to get some feedback from people about the software and anything that would make it better!
Has that been a common problem for AWS users? I'm not asking to be snide, I honestly don't know. I just haven't heard a lot about that happening.

Something else to keep in mind... Amazon have a reputation for being pretty good about issuing refunds in situations where people rack up large bills due to various kinds of accidents. There are a number of such stories in old HN posts, and my own experience was very favorable: I setup a couple of big instances for a demo at a conference, and then a week or two later had a heart attack, and didn't get around to shutting down the instances until about 3 months later. I wound up getting billed several thousand dollars, but Amazon had no problem issuing me a refund. YMMV, of course.
I mostly agree with you.

From an engineering standpoint I think that Hyperion is an amazing renderer and I'd love to dig into its source code. From an academic standpoint however I think that their paper on it wasn't very interesting. I don't mind reading about the details of a production renderer, as there is a whole lot of info on writing production renderers. But I don't think that it should have been published at EGSR. There were no real new ideas in that paper that were worth publishing. The paper could have had some merit if they provided a good comparison between their architecture and other architectures, but sadly they decided to compare their renderer with other off the shelf renderers. Very little is known about the architectures of those renderers and as they all have their own implementations of acceleration structures, texturing and other shared components, they aren't comparable at all. It would have been much nicer if they implemented their algorithm in a framework such as Mitsuba, so that it could be compared with other algorithms.

I do think you should give them more credit on the engineering side though. Using large amounts of geometry has been done before, but renderers such as RenderMan and Arnold require that all geometry fits in the memory at once. Tracing large batches of rays at the same time allows you to load in or subdivide geometry on demand, which makes the size of the harddrive and the size of the individual meshes the limit, instead of the memory being the limit. Their scheme also allows for creating good ray packets, which clearly is needed if we want to reap the benefits of Moore's law, as those extra transistors mostly translate to wider SIMD vectors instead of higher clockspeeds and simply increasing the amount of children of a BVH node won't scale well. Reordering the rays allows you to create coherent packets out of incoherent rays and it allows you to efficiently handle motion blur, as all rays in a packet need to be in the same time interval, which allows you to efficiently make use of those wider SIMD vectors.

I'm certain they could have produced Big Hero 6 without Hyperion, but Hyperion gave their artists a lot of freedom by removing some of the technical limitations.
In the interest of building an experience-diverse workforce employers need entry level, mid level, and experienced developers with skills in their core stack, which in many cases is Java or .NET.

My theory is that technology trends are leading the entry level developers to learn Python, Ruby, and JavaScript rather than .NET or Java, thereby reducing the supply and putting these candidates in high demand.
Nice find! How did you catch that?
The Stream is modeled after The Inbox, which, despite long-standing calls to kill email, is a component of the most powerful and effective communication tool The Internet has given rise to.

The underlying philosophical tenants of this article are spot on. And all in all, it's an excellent story.

There seems to be, on HN especially, a lament for the web of yore. I imagine this has more to do with us first (and 2nd?) generation web builders getting old. Anyone who spends time with geezers knows it's par for the course to lament the way things have changed, to long for the good old days.

I'd encourage people to trust in the next-generation. Just as they would have wished their parents (and the establishment) to trust in them when they were just starting out in the world.
To be clear, all this data sharing is on by default, but all the settings to turn this data sharing off do exist, they're just buried in settings (as they should be). Indeed, cutting ties with google is quite possible (just don't sign in with a google account when setting your phone up).

There is another more involved approach that removes the connection altogether, instead of simply closing a valve between your data and Google.

Indeed, what may be alluring would be getting an easy-to-wipe phone (like a Nexus 5) and install a ROM (aftermarket OS) sans Google Play Services (the suite of apps on Android that hooks into Google's Cloud). If you were to do this, you would obtain many of the smartphone's advantages, but still be able to clearly control where your data goes.
Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, ONSITE, VISA)

Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, but if your strengths lie in just frontend or backend work, that's okay too.

We're a small team (15 people) using PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and memcached. We have a customer-facing site, a JSON API, logistics software, and an internal admin site, all of which we build and maintain internally.

Hitmeister.de is one of the largest online shopping portals in Germany, with over 2 million customers to date. We have a warehouse from which we sell items directly, but we also have a marketplace with over 2,000 sellers running their own shops. We're seeing solid growth and we're looking for more programming talent to grow and improve the site.

Speaking German is helpful, but by no means required. I'm from the US and we have 3 other non-German developers. If you aren't an EU citizen, we are glad to help with visa issues as long as you qualify for an EU Blue Card. If you have a CS degree or at least 5 years of full-time experience, then you probably qualify. We only allow on-site work, but we'll help you relocate.

Here's the job description in German:

http://company.hitmeister.de/jobs/webentwickler-frontend-bac...

If you have any questions, feel free to get in contact with me (info in my profile), or you can apply directly at jobs@hitmeister.de.
eShares (esharesinc.com) | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | VISA

eShares is bringing technology to a financial market that's been stuck in the dark ages. Private companies used to track ownership with rusty legal documents and paper stock certificates. We're replacing that with technology and bringing needed transparency to the process for companies, founders, lawyers, investors, and employees. Many of the companies you see on this page use eShares.

We're looking for SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEERS / FULL STACK GENERALISTS / QA ENGINEERS / DEV-OPS ENGINEERS. Desirable skills include:

- Python / Django

- JavaScript

- General web development

Why eShares?

- Great benefits

- $7mm Series A in January from Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital

- Very rapid growth

- Great team environment

ALSO LOOKING FOR:

- QA Engineers

- Release/dev ops engineers

- Account managers interested in learning private equity

CONTACT: eric.hurkman+august@esharesinc.com
> "Hello world" is simpler now than it has ever been.

Yes, it is simpler for ordinary people. For developers, however, the web is getting more and more convoluted.
The keyword for the problem you're talking about is the "long tailpipe theory." [1] I was just reading Wait But Why's article [2], which concluded that the overall greenhouse impact will still be lessened by using electric cars over internal combustion.

I didn't dig into the sources enough to conclude that it's truly a better option, but those articles are a good place to start.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe

[2] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...
A lot of the impetus behind investment banks' interest in these types of products stems from the need to be able to demonstrate to regulators that they are doing something about past failings. Software is attractive because if you have a "system" to manage these risks, it means you don't have to hire (expensive) staff.

The problem I'm seeing is that the industry is so complex that software companies often don't fully understand the problems that financial services companies need to solve, so the solutions they're producing come up short. I reckon it's going to be a couple more years before these solutions evolve/develop to the point where they start delivering on their promise.
You are likely right, it probably isn't clear cut. But if there is a response to his discussion of physics, it should be around physics, not the fact that he is a "doubter". The world would be in an awful place without any "doubters".
RJMetrics - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Must be onsite in Philadelphia - open to conversation regarding relocation assistance.

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce, software-as-a-service, and mobile businesses like Threadless, Chubbies, Food52, Tradesy and Wanderable use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.

Our current openings:

- Senior Web Applications Engineer
- Data Warehouse Analyst
- Account Development Representative (Sales)
- Account Manager (Retention focused)

Email sglasberg@rjmetrics.com for questions or find more information at RJMetrics.com/Jobs
Thanks, here is their website: http://mymana.eu/

I couldn't buy Soylent (I'm in France), so I made one myself based on what I learned in the DIY Soylent community: https://diy.soylent.com
It's been a big problem when I've been recruiting for developers. 10 years experience or 10 of the same year, normally it's the latter.

Personally if I feel I'm no longer learning then I raise it with my manager. If after a few months nothing has changed then I start interviewing.
Well, let's say you've got millions of classes that all perform the same operation. Now you refactor those millions of classes to rely on a handful of classes to perform those common operations. Now you've just made it easier to eventually refactor those few remaining classes into something nicer, cleaner, more efficient.

Sure, you're just shifting the source of pollution in the interim, but once cars are no longer polluting, changing the source they charge from is the last roadblock to removing those emissions from the system.
Honey | Javascript Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | https://honey.is

Honey is building the most intuitive and beautiful tools for internal company communication and collaboration. We're sort of like Reddit for corporate intranets.

Details and application: http://hny.is/gtqj5
Comparing Cloud Provider APIs
But the question is, as always, why could they never find enough good developers? It's not necessarily an under-supply.

1. Are they offering enough in salary to attract the good developers?

2. Is their knowledge/skills expectation of a "good developer" too high?

3. Is there something about their hiring process that is filtering out the good developers you see?

4. Is there something about their reputation (grueling interview process, salary reputation, ethical misbehavior, etc.) that is causing the good developers to not even apply?

HN loves to just jump to the mythical "shortage of developers" conclusion, but it may be more complicated.
It's just a tree of lists inside lists :) I tried to make it look clean and made sure it was responsive though.
You have to sell yourself with confidence.
Employers often want people who have enthusiasm (not just skill).

Unfortunately, people who had a really tough career like the author often tend to lack enthusiasm (which is understandable) - It's one of life's vicious cycles and it's almost impossible to get out of.

You just have to hustle. Try a lot of different things and make yourself known to as many people as possible - It's all about odds. If you find a way to spam out your resume to thousands of potential employers, you're bound to get some responses.
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Foxpass (YC S15) | Full-stack Engineer & Back-End Engineer | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE (U.S.-only) considered | www.foxpass.com

Foxpass is a Y Combinator Summer 2015 startup building security products for small-to-medium sized tech companies and schools. We want to make it easy for everyone to have good security practices.

Our first product is LDAP, RADIUS, and SSH key management in the cloud. We need back-end engineers to continue to add features to our service, plus help us maintain our excellent uptime record. We also need a full-stack engineer who can help us put a nice UI on all of the features we provide, plus wire up new features. We’re built on Python and Django now, but who knows what the future holds.

This is a great chance to join a young company early; you will be one of the first non-founding engineers and will get a meaningful equity stake.

To apply, please email me at aren@foxpass.com.