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SEEKING FREELANCER
Elevate | iOS Engineer | REMOTE or Bay Area, part time or full time

Apple's App of the Year in 2014.
http://elevateapp.com

I work full-time on Elevate's iOS app. We make brain training games, so most of the company works on cross-platform games. I'm the one responsible for everything on iOS that isn't a game.

We ship improvements to the app and a new game every month. You would take your own tasks and help with code review for each release.

Objective C and some C++ experience is necessary, we also use Swift in some isolated places, and would like to use Swift wherever feasible.

The app is very animation heavy. CoreAnimation experience is useful. Understanding what causes performance issues and how to use Xcode's profiling tools is useful too. We have really talented designers who cry when you build ugly things.

It's a pretty chill gig. We probably need at least half of your time around a deadline, but usually you can spend as much time as you want working on stuff. The well of tasks never runs dry. We have an office, but Slack+Trello means you can work from anywhere.

Send at least your Github username to me: david+hn@elevateapp.com

Links to anything you've done that is on the App Store is way more interesting to me than a resume.
This is not completely accurate - most ad blockers include both request blocking as well as content blocking. For instance it might not be able to block a sponsored tweet since it is returned with all of the other tweets, but it can hide that div on the page.

Check any block list and you will see both rules.
I gave up the article at the "I never cook" line.
Opower | Arlington, VA and San Francisco, CA| ONSITE

Opower is looking for a variety of software engineers, managers, and test engineers. Details here:
http://opower.com/careers/
I enjoyed that post so much, I took a couple of minutes and made an Elixir version https://github.com/bryanjos/arithmetic.

The book is pretty expensive, but I want to get a copy.
He said his skill weren't up to date. That's the whole point. Companies would rather hire kids out of college with recent experience than someone with years of experience that's not the what's in fashion.
Rob is the creator of Soylent and I like his enthusiasm of simplifying our diets, but this takes it to a whole new level of crazy.
My first job out of college in 1999 (getting my CS degree) was a startup. The other devs there laughed at me and told me my CS degree was worthless. I went home and seriously contemplated whether I did indeed waste my time in college. Fast forward 5 years, a dotcom crash and several interviews later, and I can tell you with certainty that degree was worth it every step of the way.
This seems just like AOL before. Most people didn't know they were using the internet. Just AOL.
One thing AWS doesn't have, is a feature to let you forcibly terminate instances based on a billing limit or a time schedule. But, micro instances are so cheap (and even free for a time), that you can probably afford to set up a single micro instance, and put a watchdog process on there that will use the API to monitor your instances and terminate them if you forget and leave ones running or something.
Even though the founder does that, he has explained many times that he doesn't expect most people to replace their entire diet with Soylent.

They expect you to do just as you said -- replace one or two meals, specifically the ones where you're in a rush or in the middle of something (work, etc.) and you would've otherwise grabbed a reheatable lunch or some kind of unhealthy fast food.
Nope not at all.

And thanks for the link I appreciate it @witty_username
The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis) Full time, INTERN - http://climate.com/careers

Climate is using Clojure to build weather and agronomic models to help farmers maximize their profit while reducing their impact on the environment.

====== Why I love it ======

– Climate is making a huge impact in the agricultural industry.

– I am surrounded by super smart people who all share an attitude of openness and mentorship.

– I work with some of the top scientists in the fields of climatology, agronomy, data science, and remote sensing.

– I build large-scale systems that process and serve trillions of pixels of satellite imagery.

– I release open-source Clojure software as part of my job.

===== Who we’re looking for =====

Specifically, we are looking for senior level iOS engineers with published applications in their background. You'll work in a small tight knit team focused on a specific product.

This is a really impactful position because more of our customers access our products through their mobile devices. You will have a huge creative input into the product.

We are also starting our intern search for next spring and summer. The positions aren't up yet, so just email me directly.

===== How to apply =====

Our other positions are listed here: http://www.climate-careers.com/

If you apply through this link you should get priority: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&...

I am really excited about the work I've been doing, I am happy to talk about it in length. If you are interested, please email me directly at skhalsa@climate.com.
Mid Air Plane Repair (1924)
This is from the founder of Soylent[0], so likely not.

While some ideas are delusional, it is refreshing to see someone taking nothing for granted.

I also suspect the timing of the post is there only to generate discussion at the time of Soylent 2.0 release. So it is basically a link bait trying to push people hot buttons. It works superbly.

Moreover, beyond Soylent, Rob's next startup is probably somewhere in there.

[0] https://www.soylent.com/
Ask HN: Do companies fund master/Phd grads?
As the title suggest, in the general case. And, do they fund, if the grad student conducts research (dissertation/thesis) on line with the company needs?

How do you go about finding such companies that would fund grad students?
> if they are (1) successful with internet.org

no self-respecting third-world intellectual is going to be satisfied by a catered whitelist of websites they can access. to me this seems like an attempt to repeat what we did with confusing "the web" with "the internet" by having third world people confuse "facebook" with "the web"
Go contracting and your "employment" is safe. Always wonder how few questions I am asked as a contractor, earning thrice the money of my employed colleagues who have to go through painful hiring processes. Of course they can fire me any day, but that never happened to me and can happen to an employee as well.
I didn't get that experience at all, and I moved from College Station.
How lazy of you :)
Excellent. If you're interested in the history of hydro electric in Scotland I can thoroughly recommend "The Dam Builders: Power from the Glens":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1841582255

Also this chap has a fairly good bunch of images and maps of various scheme throughout Scotland, apparently blagging his way into some facilities to take photographs:

http://www.corestore.org/hydro.htm

It's a bit "Web 1.0" but there's some interesting stuff to look at if you like that sort of thing (which I do :) )
Um, whatever key you used instead of 'u' in 'fucked' made almost your entire message italicized.
You can now get DirecTV on your AT&T smartphone with this new plan
> Haskell

seriously? I had a semi difficult time understanding FP a year and a half into my CS degree
The Itanium processor, part 6: Calculating conditionals
Great marketing. Now how do I get it? Where is the big shiny buy/try or download link? I thought maybe the marketplace? Nope. Then I tried going to autodesk.com and I scrolled to the footer and went to the store. I did a search: http://www.autodesk.com/store/search?q=stingray

The upper funnel is serious broken here.
Tape backup software recommendation?
Hi folks.

Where I work, until a couple of months ago we used ntbackup.exe under Windows 2003 server to backup our data to LTO2 tapes.

We updated the machine to Windows Server 2008 and the ntbackup included in that version of the operating system does not have the option to use tapes.

Now we are looking for a software to generate our tapes. Our needs are modest: a monthly copy of no more than 4 LTO2 tapes (less than 1TB of data).

Based on your experience, which software would you recommend us to get?

Thanks in advance!
SpotHero | Chicago, IL | http://spothero.com
SpotHero is changing parking, and our tools will redefine the transportation industry. With over a million cars parked, fast growth, and solid funding (https://angel.co/spothero), SpotHero offers countless ways to make an impact on the company and your career.

★ Senior DevOps Engineer - http://spothero.com/careers/senior
We love Ansible, single command deployments, and amazing infrastructure. There is a lot of blue sky work ahead, with a big opportunity to make a huge impact. We're scaling from 12 cities and half a million customers, to more than double that. And we need someone to lead the devops/infrastructure effort to get there.

★ Data Engineer - http://spothero.com/careers/data-engineer
We have a ton of data sources, and a crap ton of data. Want to build our first real data warehouse? Love redshift, cassandra, luigi and airflow? We do too...

★ Senior Software Engineer in Test - http://spothero.com/careers#job-senior-qa-automation-enginee...
QA is a part of every engineer's process here at SpotHero. However, we need someone dedicated to bringing automated test best practices to the team, and someone that can figure out how to test the really hard things. We have a love/hate relationship with Selenium. And if you don't know why, then you're probably not ready for this role. Come help us tame the beast...

★ Software Engineering Intern - http://spothero.com/careers/engineering-intern
Interns are as important as Lead Engineers at SpotHero. They are the future of our team, and the future of our industry. You'll be paired with a Senior Engineer from day 1, and solving real problems that make it to production your first week. Buckle up and hold on tight, you're about to learn a crap ton here!!

★ Lead Software Engineer, iOS/Android
No, we don't expect you to build both iOS and Android apps by yourself. BUT, you should know how to!! This role is half managing the iOS & Android apps, and half architecting & developing. You'll have both iOS and Android developers (1 for each platform) on your team, and you should be able to jump back and forth, as needed. If you're a first time manager, no worries; we'll coach you on those skills. Just be sure you're a master of both platforms.

★ Software Engineer, Android - http://spothero.com/careers/software-engineer-android
SpotHero is a mobile product. If you love building Android apps, you'll love what we've got in store. We have an amazing Android app, that we' looking to do a full ground up redesign on. So there is a lot of bluesky work in the very near future.

★ Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps - http://spothero.com/careers#job-senior-product-manager-mobil...

★ Senior UX Designer - http://spothero.com/careers#job-senior-ux-designer

★ Associate Product Manager - http://spothero.com/careers#job-associate-product-manager

To apply, please email your resume to jobs@spothero.com. Include any github account, linkedin profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on.
Allahabad, Khitchdee

I am designing an app on a MacBook Air that will help me run Khitchdee. Khitchdee is a computing gadget maker. We build custom gadgets for small (1 to 10000) classes of users.
I am looking for a pair of programmers who will come in and design their own app to run on their own MacBook Air to work with mine in such a way that we can together design custom gadgets for our customers. Initially, we'll design custom apps for the MacBook Air, then go to FPGA, and then full custom ASIC.

info@khitchdee.com
A quick googling produced:

The impact of coal-burning power plants and gasoline can be quantified. The EPA estimates that the average passenger vehicle emits 5.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year. Coal-burning power plants, on the other hand, produce more than 4 million metric tons per power plant, per year. The overall carbon dioxide output of coal-fired electric power plants exceeded gasoline by more than 30 percent in 2010.
We don't, but it's not like it's something I couldn't ask for if there was enough value there, so that's good to know. (Although I don't think Safari works with any e-ink readers, certainly not my Kindle.)
> I'm having a hard time seeing the market for this. Most indies aren't using Maya or 3DStudio Max because the price is too high

Then it's not aimed at indies, obviously; Unity and in recent days the Unreal engine offer fairer prices for them. The bigger game companies probably won't have an issue with using this product though - if it manages to impress them, that is, compared to the established game engines which have years, sometimes decades of development behind them already.
Permutive (YC S14) — London, UK — http://permutive.com — ONSITE

We're focused on understanding and recommending content at scale. We use ML/NLP techniques to algorithmically understand the meaning behind content and make sense of people's wide and nuanced interests based on their behavior. Engaging content is the future of online monetization, and we're building the intelligent infrastructure for deploying revenue-generating content.

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve. We're constantly ingesting vast numbers of documents to learn from, tracking millions of interactions with content, computing the interests of millions of users, and making personalized real-time recommendations. This scale impacts every engineering decision we make, and we're looking to build a company with people excited by the challenges it poses.

You'll want to have interests or experience in some of the following:

* Working extensively in functional languages (we mostly use Scala, with Akka, Spray, Scalaz; some Haskell).

* Building large-scale distributed systems (we run a microservices architecture on AWS)

* Designing and implementing proprietary machine learning models and real-time personalized recommendation systems

* Rapidly iterating and scaling a front-end product (designing UX and UI, HTML/CSS & React, etc.)

We're a VC and Y Combinator-backed startup at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first engineers you'll play a central role in defining our tech culture and direction. There's a huge opportunity to effect change at scale through real responsibility and ownership of product. And because at this early stage there's so much to do, there's so much to learn and room to grow!

To apply, please head over to https://permutive.workable.com/jobs/72041
Sweet Feedback – programmable personal candy reward system
I always thought normal rejection rates varied between around 75% (in a strong job market) to 95% in down markets, say 2007-2009. When I was looking for a job, a 40-50% rejection rate would have been utterly amazing.
He didn't give up AC, unless he has a magical perpetual-computing-motion EC2 node. This is feel good for a local minima.
If it's something you are really looking for I am not sure you would bounce so quickly. What if it's the answer to a bug you are trying to solve? Or a video on how to fix a problem with your car? Plenty of content is valuable and rare enough that people would disable their ad blocker for it - the frivolous stuff not so much though.
Clean-energy debate pitted ambition against legal worries
FREE Supercharge Your Photography Webinar
It appears that the OP is in Germany, which is probably a more significant issue when trying to get work with US companies and/or with US-centric sites than not having a degree.
If anyone cared to look, the troubles with Enron's accounting were right there in their SEC filings - long before the shit hit the fan.

In fact the reporter who broke the story did it by simply analyzing the SEC filings, as opposed to getting some insider information, or talking to a whistleblower.
B2bsphere.com Changing the current state of B2b trade
> I have not done laundry in years. I get my clothing custom made in China for prices you would not believe and have new ones regularly shipped to me. Shipping is a problem. I wish container ships had nuclear engines but it’s still much more efficient and convenient than retail. Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them

I'd like someone to run some more numbers on that. He already addresses the shipping costs, but what about manufacturing as well? I'm not entirely sure I buy that the entire manufacturing process takes less water than laundry, unless he's wearing the same clothes for a very long time before donating them.
Lessons from this post:

1. If you're going to swear, don't use an asterisk to try and make it look good. We can take it, honest.

2. Something in between two asterisks on HN gets shown in italics.
Agreed. In fact, the description of the big company environment "barely any work to be done, it mostly involved sitting at a desk and writing some emails all day" is a stereotype often applied to the day to day life of boring large-company developers.

In cases where this is true, a developer who has spent the past 10 years primarily writing emails and doing minimal coding is unlikely to be a strong developer candidate - the blade is dull from lack of use.

My recommendation to OP is to find ways to demonstrate your motivation and skills in order to counteract the stereotype, perhaps through open source contributions.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Tootter - Full Stack Web - NYC (Remote)

★Web Application/Social Network★

Tootter is a next generation social platform (networking & email client)

We believe social network as a tool for empowerment, so we’re really looking for a technical co-founder that wants to be a part of this profound vision.

Our stack includes Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Amazon EC2, Foundation (Changing to Bootstrap), Github.

Let’s chat :-)

team@tootter.com or just text the CEO 646.389.1234
At this point peerj will be fine. Peer reviewed is what matters at this point. Also find a Prof whose work you like and are interested in. See if you can use some of their published work to do something neat.
Looking for Sys Admin / Windows Architect gig

Location: Denver, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Microsoft Operating Systems, Systems Center Configuration Manager, Active Directory, Check Point Encryption, Citrix, Epic EMR, Soapware EMR, Amazing Charts EMR, Healthcare solutions, some programming C# and PHP.

Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dudekrafal

Email: rafaldudek[at]usa[dot]net
Why President Obama and Congress turned their backs on food safety
Yes, the general opinion has changed once it had been realized that women's bouts are not going to lose them million pounds a night.

The UFC earns money from pay-per-view, and if nobody's watching, then nobody's paying, and they either put on a much cheaper production, diluting the brand, or they lose massive amounts of money.

There are plenty of women's sports, and even quite a few women's MMA leagues and productions, so it's not like there had been no opportunities. The UFC were the first ones to be able to sell unstaged women's fights to the general public, and they should be commended for it.
> How do you know that 40-50% of places are rejecting you because of your lack of degree? Do they say this outright in their rejection emails? What's your overall rejection rate?

1) I received several requests for an updated resume with a degree.
2) I was pulled aside in one interview and told I couldn't get what I was asking without a degree.

So, out of the people that I got a rejection reason for, basically.

Last Job Search:

61 applications -> 14 phone interviews -> 5 in person interviews

Before phone interviews:

2 requests from [one of the big 5] to interview that were unsolicited from their recruiters that I refused outright.

I received 9 emails related to the degree. 3 asked why I wasted their time without a degree. 4 asked for updated resumes with a degree. 2 stated their rejection was due to a lack of degree.

Additionally, the "failures" to reach the phone interview were heavily weighted towards places that mentioned a degree in their job ad. [e.g. I saw 150% of the failure rate for job ads with the degree than for job ads that just listed experience requirements ]

After interviews:

6 were too much money [ I was literally pulled aside at the in-office bar, told by the hiring manager that if I asked for $10k less he would give me the job ]

3 were due to other reasons that I didn't think were noteworthy.

I rejected 4 places on the basis of my interactions with them.
His article was kind of skirting around where you're going now.

> The internet is super powerful and a lot of global leaders realize that it is probably the most concrete challenge to their authority, anything that has the power to stir up the masses is something to be properly feared when you're some insecure dictator.

It's not just when you're "some insecure dictator".

The free exchange of ideas and information is a threat to any ruler anywhere, because the longer and more widely it goes on, the more likely a random person gets exposed to ideas like: "heyyy if we had a choice, we probably wouldn't fund wars or fight in them! -what's in it for us?!" or "how is taxation different from extortion, besides that we're threatened with imprisonment instead of violence?".

That's why they're stamping down on free speech everywhere, and that's why they monitor everything they possibly can. They want to establish a modern, lasting, technology-based police state before it's too late because too many people have woken up and become authority-atheists.

Think it can't happen where ever you live? Think again: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150705/18174231556/spain...

( I wonder if I'm shadow-banned already )
is there a direct way to get in touch? I haven't had much luck with smartrecruiters
Show HN: The Data Drive – A Printed/collaged Reproduction of Facebook
NeoSensory |Houston, TX | Full Time, ONSITE | Software Developer, Machine Learning/Algorithms Scientist

http://neosensory.com

NeoSensory develops "high-throughput" sensory substitution/addition ("augmentation") wearables. An overview of our technology can be seen in co-founder Dr. David Eagleman's TED talk from this past year:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_se...

We're hiring two full time positions in Houston, TX. If you like delicious food, amazing local beer, and have a passion for neuroscience and cyberpunk, this company is for you!

Position 1: Software Developer

We're looking for a developer to help with creating public-facing Android/iOS APIs for 3rd party developers, internal APIs for our engineers, and cleaning our codebase/developing the style guide that we'll be using for years to come. You should be able to write clean, well-documented, and tested code agnostic of language.

Position 2: Machine Learning/Algorithms Scientist

We're also looking for someone with a strong background in DSP/Statistics/Machine Learning to optimize (both in efficiency and performance) our current algorithms. You should be the kind of person who enjoys perusing the latest papers and can understand them well enough to implement/try things out.

If interested or have questions, drop us a line! novich@neosensory.com
KBRA - Full Time / On-Site - Horsham, Pennsylvania (Outside Philadelphia)

We're looking for a lead web developer to join our team to run point on a number of greenfield projects in the financial sector. This position is focused on development with an expectation that you'll mentor other developers on your project team.

Our current systems run on PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, and MySQL.

You can reach out to me directly at jcampbell@kbra.com or check out https://www.krollbondratings.com/job/76 for more information.