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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by bravura »

MetaOptimize is hiring contractors for exciting project work building real-world NLP + machine learning systems. I have a lot of who cool project work for people who are good hackers, and can deliver fast and correct code and are self-starters.

This is for remote, short-term gigs. You can set your hours. The only requirement is that you kick ass and add value from day one.

Email your resume and/or github URL to joseph at metaoptimize dot com

We are looking for generalists and specialists:

* Hardcore programmers who learn new technologies and APIs quickly. * People with backgrounds in machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and/or search. Medium experience is fine, you don't have to have a PhD.

* Visualization programmers

Did I miss you? Send me an email anyway, and explain how you kick ass and are a self-starter.

Example things you might work on:

* Take this Python/Java program that operates in batch over textfiles, and convert it into a webservice (REST+JSON or XML-RPC or whatever) that operates real-time online (one document at a time).

* I have a NLP tool but the output is dirty. Build these simple text processing components to clean it up, e.g. by discarding low freq terms.

* Exploratory statistical analysis over data sets, to see if there are any interesting patterns. (More open ended)

* Take this code for a neural network, and write scripts that batch invoke the NN with different hyperparameters to do model selection.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by 3pt14159 »

jemfinch wrote: post #31
rarrrrrr wrote: post #2

Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with a zero-knowledge approach to customer privacy. We use Python, Django, web.py, WSGI, jQuery, PostgreSQL, nginx, and varnish, with some occasional heavy-lifting…

> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.

There is an "etc" there. I mean it isn't like he wants to cloud the message with "transgenderism" or stuff that doesn't impact a large portion of the application base.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

#45

Post by fletchowns »

alnayyir wrote: post #20
kemayo wrote: post #13

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the backburner that we'd like to get started on. We only hire people who can do everything. You have to be able to write backend PHP code, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL. We don't want to have…

My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.

File->Print->PDFCreator. Takes like two seconds. Maybe 20 seconds if you don't already have PDFCreator installed.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by alnayyir »

epoxyhockey wrote: post #38
alnayyir wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.

Honestly speaking, if you are getting hung up on a problem as simple as this and can't seem to find a creative solution, YC may not be the best place to look for jobs. I know this sounds harsh, but I really feel compelled to type it.

You've missed the point. I can generate a PDF/DOC in a minute. I can do it programmatically using a parser and a lib.

That's not what I'm getting at. The resumator thing is annoying.

People make note of far less serious UI mea culpas on here all the time. But when they want a job, they're suddenly willing to tolerate anything.

The hypocrisy here is astounding.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by WildUtah »

jemfinch wrote: post #31
rarrrrrr wrote: post #2

Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with a zero-knowledge approach to customer privacy. We use Python, Django, web.py, WSGI, jQuery, PostgreSQL, nginx, and varnish, with some occasional heavy-lifting…

> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.

Only some ages (40+) and genders (female, possibly male, but not trans or any minority orientations) are protected in all of the USA.

Even those categories are not protected in the vast majority of the world. Plus, we need some kind of flourish to express the idea that a business is committed to equal opportunity.

I like "equal opportunity employer" for that, but it's been watered down.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

#48

Post by reinhardt »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #35
alnayyir wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.

Just an idea, but you'll probably find your time better spent building and submitting a doc, than complaining to your potential future employer.

I've passed job ads and headhunter calls that require resumes in Word only or just ignore it and submit in pdf/html/text.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by reinhardt »

pudo wrote: post #32

Europe (remote): The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for Python Coders. OKFN ( http://okfn.org ) is a non-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. In particular we're working on an open source data catalogue, CKAN ( http://ckan.net ) which is used by various governments (including the UK's…

Are you looking for unpaid volunteers, or if not, what kind of salary range is included ?
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