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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work)

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Most of the who's hiring threads get mass submissions with a bunch of FT jobs out in California, jobs that I wouldn't be prepared to make the move for (few great startup jobs in the DC area where I am now, trying to build up more of a buffer before I head out on my own). I'm presently a PHP/MySQL/JS/jQuery/HTML/CSS/WordPress/Joomla developer looking for a fun project to become a part of outside of the 9-5 umbrella.

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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:

* Hardcore programmers who learn new technologies and APIs quickly.

* Experienced sysadmins, especially who have experience with AWS and EC2.

And also specialists:

* 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.

* Python/Django programmers

* Java 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.

There was a post on "who's hiring in October 2010" just recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748045

I went through all the items and there were some for part-time/remote guys.

I agree, good thread, but there was precisely one option there that fit my skill set (and I'd venture to say that my skillset is quite similar to many folks looking for part-time work), so I figured it'd be useful.

Didn't your very similar submission yesterday get closed? I have to express my concern about threads like this. I do not believe HN is your own personal job board, nor do I care to see many submissions of people's talents looking for work. Sorry for being harsh, but two submissions in two days...

CloudBees is a bunch of ex-JBoss/Red Hat and Sun folks building a Java PaaS. Our first product is Hudson as a Service. http://cloudbees.com

We are completely distributed across three continents, so remote is the only option. We are looking for several roles including:

- Rails/jquery developer

- Product manager/marketing http://bit.ly/b3fU1h

- Other smart java/scala devs

I'm doing part time Android work for my old employer although honestly I barely know what I'm doing. It's editing an existing Android client app that they inherited and are successfully selling. I don't know if they're open to hiring anyone else to do the changes (I am pretty cheap) but I really have no time for it anymore and have told them so on many occasions. If anyone is interested, I can make an introduction...send me an email (link in profile)

We are hiring a short-term, front-end designer for a javascript heavy application related to data analysis and statistical computing. We use coffeescript, knockoutjs, and socket.io. We're based in Cambridge, MA but are open to remote work. Email info@statsia.com.

We're looking for a remote part time developer with strong CodeIgniter/LAMP/JS/jQuery experience. Someone with 5+ years of experience. Cool project, contact me!

Email sent.

We're looking for a Rails guy for contract/freelance work. Location doesn't matter ;) Contact: hitme at netizensmedia dot com.

at http://getglue.com we are looking for sysadmins, backend devs (we are a Java shop), and possibly a mobile developer. all of these are full time- but we are certainly open to remote work for the right people.

The company I'm currently doing contract remote work for is looking for another developer: http://idea2.com/?page_id=1031

We are using Python, MongoDB, Redis, and Tornado. Super flexible people to work for -- feel free to contact me for more info.

MongoDB AND Redis, but no /dev/null ?

Same here, I have worked with RoR/Coldfusion/actionscript/Mysql/Oracle primarily in jobs and Co-ops and familiar with HTML/CSS/javascript. Before that I have worked with java/C#/c++ and a little PHP. I am looking for a remote flash job, particularly in games, I have previously worked for a company called Woogi World and have several of my creations online.

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