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SEEKING WORK - Remote

- Front-end developer specialising in building scalable, modular and fast front-end architectures as well as revamping old codebases.

- Extensive experience in collaborating with designers and backend developers.

- 3 years full-time freelancing

- Freelance project roles range from front-end only, backend and front-end, and managing a team.

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> Since observant Jews are forbidden from using electricity

That is not true. They are forbidden from changing electricity. i.e. turning something on or off.

The Sadducees believed like you, that it was forbidden for the fire to be on, but the oral Torah is very clear that only starting (or extinguishing) a fire is prohibited.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/484251/jewish/...

And only Jewish humans are prohibited from turning on the fire, machines (timers, etc) are allowed to. So are non-Jews.
I'm sympathetic to this approach, though it's not necessarily the one I'd pick anymore. I think there's real value to understanding systems at this level, and I find that it informs my everyday work. I'm not sure, however, that it's necessarily the best way to get somebody engaged and interested. I'm sure there are personalities that dig this sort of thing (mine does) but loads of people I've worked with or taught seem to be most engaged by the fast iteration cycle of something like a REPL. Personally, that makes me lean towards teaching with Ruby or Python (probably Ruby, as I think it has more to teach). I guess it's horses-for-courses.
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Unless I'm looking at the 2.0 pricing chart incorrectly - wouldn't 1 meal a day be $87? $58 if you don't want to bother with it on the weekends..
I was thinking the same. In our current era of always-on info saturation, a blog may prove to be more adequate for science divulgation and peer-review than the older journal format.
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Full Stack Developer mainly focusing on JavaEE, Spring, JPA,
Android, Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS
Email: hakan@dilek.me
If you're under 30, go ahead. But study the crap out of algorithms.
Yes, just open a support ticket. It's tricky if you want to do it without any downtime though.
I could definitely see that. It can be really effective to sell something at a steep discount to get people hooked, then jack up the price. The problem is that people get upset when you jack up the price. By hiding the discount like this, you can avoid that. People taking advantage of it now will feel like they've just been caught doing something naughty and so will probably be less inclined to complain about it.
SEEKING WORK

Remote: yes

Location: anywhere (US). I am currently just outside of Sacramento, but for a modest cost-of-living adjustment I will move on-site for the duration.

For $5000/mo., up to 3 months, I can give your project or business a shot in the arm. I have 20 years of professional experience in multiple aspects of IT, including software development, systems administration, and lots of troubleshooting. I have been programming for almost 30 years now, in everything from COBOL on mainframes to 68k assembly to web development on the LAMP stack. I am currently strongest on PHP/Javascript/MySQL for software development, but I wouldn't mind switching gears for a while and it won't take me long to get up to speed on whatever your technology stack is.

I'm no good at mobile development, but I can do anything else. (Linux systems administration, bug closing or refactoring on big complicated software projects, reverse-engineering opaque database formats, building a windowed UI in Javascript from scratch ... I've done all that.)

I'm at my best when gluing together uncooperative systems or getting software to do things it wasn't intended to do. I've spent most of my years working in the back corners of places that were struggling with serious software issues, so I don't have an amazing portfolio or github profile (https://github.com/robsheldon). Bad news for me, good news for you: you can get a senior-level developer for cheap.

Contact me at rob@associatedtechs.com for more information. I'm pretty forthright about what I can and can't do, so tell me what's got your business or project stuck and I'll tell you if I can un-stuck it.
"Just because it's there, doesn't mean you must learn it and use it"

You're correct! Except that this is not the way things work in the professional world, and by refusing to learn or use a new technique or library you're stunting your personal development as a tech professional.

ppk's argument boils down to progress outpacing need. Businesses desire the bleeding edge in their online-facing products and if you want to be attractive as talent you need to keep up with the latest development trends. This can lead to frustration, barely getting the time to build stuff with your new skills before the next big framework comes along. The latest and greatest is hip but might not be entirely necessary. This is where we need to focus our attention and strike a balance.
Yes, if you center vertically with a flex-box, and you aren't doing anything weird with margins or overflow, and that's the only thing you do with it, you'll get non-centered results on IE8-9.

Not a problem.

But if you're only looking for that, then it seems very churlish not to use table layout, since that is the same amount of CSS and works in IE8+. There's no excuse for breaking layout in a browser if the alternative is just as simple and has no downsides.

Once you need to use flexboxes for more than vertical centering, it can cause more problems. Using it in place of inline-blocks, for example (one of its useful applications), can leave your content very weirdly laid out on older IEs.
It's sad that I had to get to bullet point 9 before I could tell if this was satire...
I hear you. We also track security flaws in apps and users can see all of their apps' issues. We don't yet have a way to separate which issues you can see.

We're trying to figure out the right balance between allowing anybody to quickly look up an app but not becoming the hammer that end users take to bash developers. A few months ago, we found 25,000 iOS apps with an SSL flaw and allowed anybody to look up which ones. There were a lot of uninformed complaints to developers, even if the app only used the library to load images or some other non-sensitive use.

Suggestions welcome on how to balance this, and we'll keep trying to find the right one.
You pay an increase rate for simultaneous streams already. I don't think they'll crack down any more on it.
She’s 72, but technology entrepreneur Fran Craig just isn’t the retiring type
> My first thought whenever I see soylent is that we have
> studies proving that we can't replace breast milk with
> baby formula

I was under the impression that there are many women who - for various reasons - can't breast feed. Are there any credible studies showing their infants have worse health outcomes?
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Web Developers
Front-end Engineers
iOS Developers
Product Designers

https://www.justworks.com/careers/ or reach out to Leilani Lucero - leilani@justworks.com
ShareThis | Palo Alto, CA | On-Site | Full-Time

Most people know us for our social sharing widget which powers sharing for over 3MM sites and apps across the web - and generates a billion social events per day ( > 1.5TB of data). But what makes ShareThis a fun and challenging place to work is how we use that data to power a suite of real-time data and media products for our partners and advertisers.

We're hiring engineers who want to: - Hack on a tech stack that includes the latest in tech: Kafka, Google BigQuery, Meteor.js and Docker - Sift through TB's of social sharing data to provide real time insights and intelligence. - Work in a truly agile and lean startup environment.

Multiple open positions- Software Engineer (Big Data - Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Java) Software Engineer (Full Stack - Meteor.js, PHP, JavaScript, BigQuery) Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

We're backed by prominent VC firms like DFJ, Blue Chip, T-Venture - who've also funded companies like Tesla, Twitter, Skype and Box.

Learn more about the positions us at (www.sharethis.com/about/careers/). If you want to know more or apply to any position, email me directly at isaac@sharethis.com with Hacker News in the subject name
As an early programmer, I love Ruby. Not just in an emotional way, but rather a practical one.

I started out wanting to learn RoR and took a step back to learn the underlying language. What I found was something that read smoothly and just. Made. Sense.

Beyond that, community support and overall tutorial quality tends to be very high, which I largely attribute to my continued usage of it.
Backend Engineer - SF or REMOTE - SimplyCredit, a VC-backed Fintech Startup

At SimplyCredit, our mission is to redefine consumer lending as it is known today. We believe in doing right by the consumer: no fees, no penalty pricing, no gotchas, and no fine print. We want to bring sanity back to lending and ensure that consumers get the value and service they deserve. Using advanced technologies we are creating credit and lending innovations in line with these values, all delivered through seamless customer experience.

We are looking for a talented backend engineer eager for a defining role in building a company. As an early employee you will be responsible for architecting and building key aspects of our platform, work autonomously guiding the technologies we use and create, and help develop our company and engineering culture. You’ll work directly with the founders who have deep experience in consumer lending, data science and business development from their work at companies FICO and Kaggle.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Build RESTful APIs that will power the user-facing website and mobile apps
* Write secure code and ensure the privacy and safety of sensitive user information
* Interface with financial system APIs such as the credit bureaus and payment systems
* Architect the backend to allow for sophisticated deployment of machine learning algorithms and data science
* Design and build the data warehousing infrastructure
* Define key workflow infrastructure including automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployments
* Experience with PCI compliance, payment systems or other banking applications is a plus
* Language/stack experience is flexible but interested in Node.js, Scala/Java, and Haskell

If you’re itching to get in on the ground floor of building a new product and company, then we’d love to hear from you!

Email: jobs@simplycreditinc.com
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Naval Research Lab - Washington, DC

Roles: Java developer || GIS specialist || RF engineer

Our team at NRL is looking for a couple more talented software developers and RF / electrical engineers. Our work focuses on visualizing geospatial and scientific data, integrating it with various software, and scientific computing. We work primarily with Java. We are enthusiastic about using the new Java 8 features (lambdas, optionals, streams). Ruby, Python, and Matlab are sometimes used as well.

There are no stock options at NRL, but the retirement plan is great. Plus there are interesting problems, good co-workers, flexible hours, excellent continuing education opportunities, and stability. US citizenship and the ability to hold a security clearance are required. All work is on-site. A B.S. in a technical subject (preferably computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or physics) is required with GPA > 3.0. Internships for students working toward a technical degree are also available, though it's too late to apply for summer 2015 internships.
For more information about our group, please visit http://www.nrl.navy.mil/tewd/organization/5770/5774. Send resumes or questions to buildersupport at nrl dot navy dot mil.
Looking at the first flowchart, a few things stick out to me greatly:

* Transportation is wasting almost 80% of its input energy.
* Transportation rejected energy makes up 36% of rejected energy.

Electricity makes up a tiny fraction of the transportation input. How much will the rejected energy output decrease as we switch to electric cars, and even moreso electric buses and cargo trucks?

* Electricity generation makes up 43% of rejected energy.

I haven't heard anything about more efficient electricity generation. Maybe that should be a focus of the Green Energy movement?
SEEKING FREELANCER | LevelStory | Senior iOS/Android Contractor | Seattle, WA | REMOTE | 2 - 6 months | levelstory.com

We're an online project management service for general contractors focused on the remodel and renovation industry. We're currently building out our mobile experience for employees so they can track their tasks and log their hours while at the job site. We have an existing iPhone app and are looking for an experienced mobile developer to make improvements and help us develop an Android version.

Experience with both iOS (Objective-C) and Android is required. Having previously ported an iOS app to the Android platform would be excellent. Experience with working with REST APIs, AWS S3, and push notifications would be nice.

If you're interested, you can contact me directly at bill@levelstory.com for more information or to apply. If applying, please include your CV / Githb / links to projects / etc, as well as your availability and day rate.
Big Data Architect @GfK, Nuremberg, Germany; Full Time; permanent; ONSITE; German speaking; http://bit.ly/1MI77Ha
indeed and agreed. the Internet, or that subset of it which you frequent, will simply reflect the views and actions of those that built it. in the early days, the majority of the internet was built by folks who valued community, transparency, openness, diversity, etc. today, it is largely built by businesses with mandates to generate profit. but, there is also the Indie Web, et al.

personal opinion: big business is building a consumer/non-techie friendly web. builders of the Indie Web, we should compete not only on content and principals, but on this point too. example. i think many would switch away from gmail, and pay a nominal amount to do so, if there was a one click solution. why in the world is there no easy to use, secure, resilient, distributed competitor to skype. that technology is old as bones. please don't understand that to mean that i'd think it an easy task, it most certainly would not be easy. i mean, the competition is well funded, well staffed, well motivated. but, it'd be worth it.
I've hung out with him a few times. He's actually a really fun, down-to-earth guy (he loves cracking really, really stupid jokes). He's also a really passionate, ambitious person, and he's just not capable of dreaming small. When he decides to do something, he's in, 100%, and he values that same kind of ambition in other people. That doesn't mean you have to be a workaholic as a kid, it just means you were passionate enough about something to go out and do something about it (when I was a kid, I started a stupid video game magazine — because it was fun).
Location: NYC (now) / Copenhagen (soon)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Django, MongoDB, Redris, Neo4j, MySQL, AWS

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfsaxberg/

Email: jacob@saxberg.dk

I currently work for x.ai in New York, but family requires me to be in Denmark, so I'm moving there in September.
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author here. the reason we used michael arrington, ariana huffington and matt marshall is because they are the founders of the respective publications (not because of their current involvement).

for the featured in, you are right (it actually goes back to when we were expecting publicize to be featured in a tnw article as our design was being implemented and this was pushed back). because we've only been included & written guest articles, we will change this to as seen in.

update: we've fixed this to "as seen in".
perhaps for optical equipment to connection and switch existing dark and lit fiber. that makes much more sense.
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That battery has very poor deep cycle and recharging characteristics. Standard lead acid car batteries don't like being discharged below ~50% like others have pointed out. Because of this the battery is going to lose most of it's capacity quickly and need to be replaced long before practically any other choice, there are lead acid batteries called deep-cycle that are designed to be drained and recharged.

Like most things you can slap together something that works on the surface much cheaper in initial costs than the commercial equivalent.
TechEmpower - Los Angeles area, California (El Segundo, near LAX) - ONSITE

You may recognize us from the Web Framework Benchmarks that have been discussed on HN periodically: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

We hire people, not skill sets. If you're a smart, motivated developer who likes our company culture, let's talk.

Over the past 17 years we've cultivated a great group of people to work with. Our developers are smart, thoughtful, respectful to each other, opinionated, dedicated, and fun. We don't hire often, and when we do, we value these qualities as much as technical abilities.

Challenging and varied projects
Informal, comfortable environment
Intelligent, engaged people
Lively, respectful technology discussions
Frequent mentoring
Easy camaraderie
General culture of helpfulness and friendliness

Teams at TechEmpower are typically between 2 and 6 people. Because of the small size of our teams, we need developers able to work on all aspects of an application ("full stack" developers). We rely on individual developers to do much of the software design, with guidance and discussion, and actively work to improve each other's technical capabilities.

On average, a typical developer will get exposure to 3 or 4 different projects over the course of a year. Since each project has a different technology stack, developers gain varied experience over time and never stop learning.

We pride ourselves on doing the best work we can for our clients. This means working with them to really understand what they need built, carefully planning how to do it, and delivering what we promise while maintaining a sensible work/life balance. We build quality applications and have fun doing it.

The technologies we use vary over time with our mix of projects. Here is a snapshot of the technologies we use at the moment:

Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, C#, Ruby, PHP
Tools: Git, Docker, Jenkins (Continuous Integration), Sonar (static code analysis), IntelliJ, Eclipse, Ant, Maven
Web: Jersey, .NET MVC 5, Django, Node.js, Go, Rails, Handlebars, Backbone, Ember, Angular, Knockout, Servlets, jQuery, etc.
Mobile: iOS, Android, PhoneGap
Hosting: AWS (EC2, RDS, etc.), Rackspace Cloud, Linux deployments
Data Persistence: ORM (Hibernate, etc.), MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, NoSQL (Redis, Riak, etc.)

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Ah, thanks for all the replies.
London, UK - Pusher - https://pusher.com/ - Full time - On Site Only

The current Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.

Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who will thrive in a challenging environment, working on interesting problems. Our team is small but growing, and we value people who can contribute not only individually, but in the context of the team. Our engineering team is also heavily involved in operations, so you need to know how to deploy, monitor and maintain a large production system. We wrote our code in Ruby (Main legacy language) and Haskell.

Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Haskell, nodeJS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Go.

We are currently looking for:

* Platform Engineers to continue improving and scaling our core real-time infrastructure. More info on this position at https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/52789.

* Product Engineer (Full Stack) to work on our new customers facing features and improve our libraries https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/87044

We are also looking to hire more Dev Rel people. We don't have any job spec just yet but you can get in touch with me at sylvain@pusher.com
Beam Technologies | Columbus, OH | On-Site, Full-Time

We're a venture backed company shaking up the dental insurance market, and dental care in general.

More info: https://beam.dental/careers
You can email me directly at patrick@beam.dental

Currently available:

* Lead Mobile Engineer
* Senior Full-Stack Rails Engineer
* Senior iOS Engineer
> Of course it is.

Not necessarily!

It may be, it may not be. It depends on the time and place and whatnot. Pumped hydro today might be mostly "white washing" today in Scotland. It might not be "white washing" tomorrow in Germany. It depends on a lot of factors.

If the electrical rates do occasionally go negative in mainland Europe (from wind) and there are pumped hydro stations there then it's entirely possible that the wind electrons are the ones pushing the water uphill rather than the fossil fuel electrons, and then when that water eventually does generate electricity again, it's technically still renewable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...

It sounds like the plant that you visited in Scotland was white washing, at least when you visited. But that doesn't mean that all pumped hydro everywhere in the world definitely, for sure, guaranteed, is also doing the same.