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Developer, London, UK

youDevise, a small financial-software firm in London, England committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software, is hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

No remote working, but we do help you move to London (including immigration), and we will be opening a US development office soon.
I love how controversial this post of mine seems (up-votes battling down-votes). No, flamebaiting was not my goal, but being controversial is a sign that I've hit an aching spot, I think. Thanks to everyone ^_^

EDIT: It would be nice if HN showed both up-votes and down-votes, instead of just their sum.
- a microwave with a single dial

Avanti MO7082MB http://www.google.com/search?q=Avanti+MO7082MB

- a cell phone that rings on your land line when you're home

Google Voice https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=grandce...

- a garage door opener with one button

Liftmaster 371LM 315MHz Garage Door Remote Transmitter http://www.amazon.com/Liftmaster-315MHz-Garage-Remote-Transm...

- a dishwasher with a status display

http://www.amazon.com/Cobble-Creek-Clean-Dishwasher-Magnet/d... (Granted, it is an add-on, but you didn't specify it had to be built in.)

- a car with an analog clock

Chrysler Town and Country http://www.chrysler.com/shared/2010/town_country/gallery/ima... (Note that the clock not only is analog, it only has one button to set it. No manuals needed.)

- a TV with an on/off switch and a channel dial

All the TVs I own have an on/off switch, albeit typically hidden where you cannot see it (behind or on the side of the screen bezel).

You got me on the dial, however. On the other hand, my TVs also have up/down channel switches which are a practical solution to having a dial than needs 200 detents.

P.S. I do agree with your summary, but I couldn't resist the challenge. :-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658232
>a dishwasher with a status display

Just get a magnet and put it on the dishwasher when the contents are clean.

Pretty simple, but of course it would be simpler if you simply didn't wash the dishes before you put it in the _dish_washer.
Near NJ and DE.
Network Forensic Analyst - Reading/Hertfordshire, UK

Reporting into the head of technical you will work initially in the Reading office then deployed on projects involving network forensics (using NetWitness, Wireshark etc.), reverse engineering and live host forensics.

http://www.mandalorian.com/ we're a small independent information security consultancy providing bleeding edge security testing and advanced incident response services. We have a good atmosphere, flexible environment and are based in central Reading.
Why does that make it unfair?
Looking for tech co-founder - Kyiv, Ukraine

Cloud-based web-charting with social functions. Contacts in the profile. Feel free to contact any time.

UPD: Remote cooperation is OK.
Yep, time to add google.com to the "long domain" list . (See http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/arc3.1/news.arc#L1556)
Here's "Sodbeans", the NetBeans module they're developing: http://sodbeans.sourceforge.net/
Started here three weeks ago, great people, great place! Highly recommended.
New Business Executive - Reading/Anywhere UK

I thought I'd do this as a separate one to the other as it's a different skill set and reporting line.

We're currently looking for a New Business Executive to generate new business sales for our security testing and incident response services as well as to start ramping up for a new managed service we're launching early next year. The new service has some incredible USPs, the company's a nice place to work with good people and uncapped commission. Contact details on my profile.
None. Instead he'll pull the ceiling down as they failed to screw it into the studs. ;-)
New release of the Top 20 business apps
It is sort of a catch 22 for her to say how silly it is to have a co-founder when you are young and unproven. If you are capable of doing it yourself, then yes, of course you should. However, many people who are capable of doing themselves may not be ready to handle all of the aspects, especially if it is their first time out.

There are a few lessons that I have taken from browsing HackerNews over the last year. Two of them come to mind.

The first is that it is not simple to do everything involved in creating a startup. Even if you know what you are doing.
There are factors to hinder great products and great people, from reaching the consumer.

The second is that there is no shortage of great ideas for startups. The real bottle neck seems to be the execution of great ideas.

If you are capable of doing it by yourself, but you take on a partner, you do lose out financially or you could create complications. But no one ever said it had to be your last startup. You can always take on of the great new ideas and branch out again.

Even if it is a disaster, you will discover that you can do it alone.

Or the other scenario, you discover that you work well together. Now, you have have too much brain power, time, energy and money. These resources are incredibly useful at expanding your startup, starting a second, or just making life easier.

I like her cynicism about everything she reads. That is just a normal part of rationality. Even if it is aimed against the mighty Paul Graham. However, I have to disagree with her assertions. I believe teams are greater than the sum of their parts, even if team member can do all work alone.
People complain about sex-trafficking and prostitution on Craigslist. But CL didn't invent or newly-enable any of it. It all just concentrated from local newspaper classifieds. And I guarantee that CL is doing more to vet ads than any newspaper ever did.

Clearly, CL is going above and beyond their legal requirement to vet these ads. Any article of substance on the topic will lay that out plain as day.

So why do you feel it necessary to imply that you can't "trust" them, or that CL is willingly profiting from prostitution or human trafficking?
C/C++/Java/Erlang/Haskell/Python Devs - Chicago, USA

We're looking for smart people to help at an established high frequency trading shop. We have a few positions open, from latency critical stuff that must be done in C/C++/Haskell, to 'offline' data crunching which is more Java/Python/Erlang/etc. Plus a bunch of other stuff in everything in between.

Frankly, our code is probably faster and deals with 'bigger' data than anything else you've ever seen (and this was true for me, after having Top Secret clearance working on satellite defence and having interned at several 'big data' places in college).

If you're bored of working on the same 'solved' problems in webapp development as everyone else, you should check us out! We're organized into very small teams, that each have quite a bit of autonomy. It's very entrepreneurial, and you'll have a real dollars and cents impact on our bottom line very quickly.

We were Sequoia funded too, for whatever it's worth.

Shoot me an email/resume at {my_username}@allstontrading.com to learn more!
Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam
EverydayHealth.com is hiring - Senior Level Backend .NET Engineers - SoHo, NYC..

Pretty much; MVC, C#, SQL Server, jQuery, WCF, messing with couch, memcached and lots of other stuff.

My email address is in my profile...
Goes here http://tweetagewasteland.com/2010/08/ive-seen-your-future-an... Other posts on this site have been linked from HN before, with lots of upvotes. Doesn't look too spammy to me.
I don't there is a reason to loose enthusiasm. I've talked with the bespin team and they know they have along way to go. Just because it's not feature complete doesn't mean it sucks.

It seems like they have built a strong base. Some cool projects have adopted it. And it seems like in a year or two it might even have a really strong feature set. So I'm excited even if I don't use it much currently.
It does go somewhere if you turn on "show dead" in your profile.
This works best in (mostly) isolating languages like English. If your grammar forces you to modify words, you need some workarounds. Say, define certain tags as synonyms of each other.
Flex and / or Java Programmers - Any where in the USA - Telecommuting is required

I run a small independent consulting group and have multiple contracts I am looking to fill. The positions are with both small start-ups and large fortune 500.

Please email me for more details - hackernews at anvilflex.com
I think the author makes a valid point, but it's important not to confuse feature-rich and complex. A customer's purchase decision may be driven by the abundance of features, but the review they post later that week will be driven by the experience using your product.

Highlight features to sell, but keep those features well-organized and intuitive to create a positive experience after the sale.
This was the URI in question:

http://tweetagewasteland.com/2010/08/ive-seen-your-future-an...

There's nothing obviously wrong with the content and the host isn't in the (outdated) list of banend sites ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910 ).
Singh is a very talented science writer. The Code Book still ranks as one of the most engaging nonfiction books I've read. He managed to make a history of encryption into something of a gripping page-turner.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know,
I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
Lawyer Ranking Site Avvo Sued by Another Upset Lawyer
Thanks for the feedback!

- You're right, I think a lot of people expect to be able to check their code first. When I was planning this, I figured if I were the candidate, I'd use my local IDE to compile and test the code first. So this was a bad assumption which I need to fix.

- Screeners do have access to the code a candidate submits. It goes in a mail to them along with the pass/fail rating and is also accessible in their accounts.

- Pass/fail is definitely on the crude side, but I was going for an 80% solution first.
The four dimensions of the techonomy
Shameless plug - http://www.startupshiring.com/

Hope to have a whole bunch of new features out in the next week or two that will make the site even more useful!
A Merger Made In High Heaven: US Cannabis To Buy WeedMaps
Symantec Snoop Dogg contest rickrolled (via XSS)
I was hired by Tom after emailing him through a previous HN Who's Hiring thread. We had a couple of email exchanges followed by a phone and lunch interview. Working here has been fun and challenging.

I would certainly encourage anyone in the Philadelphia area to apply.
Forth versus C
Honestly, I'd like to know, can ANYONE explain that?

The only thing I can think of is that reviewing or purchasing through ITMS requires more active engagement, instead of the more passive scrobbling. Of course this engagement requires more effort, but they want people to purchase through iTunes and review things in ITMS anyway, perhaps they like to provide an extra incentive to do so, and at the same time make you more loyal to ITMS instead of other competitive music stores online?

I'm not sure I would've made the same decision (realizing that people are lazy by nature and want their music profile to be built automatically), but these are the only arguments I can think of.
Wow. Every microwave I've used in years has had a "add 30 seconds" button that works regardless of whether it's adding to an existing countdown or starting for 30 seconds from zero.

However, it also doesn't take long for me to learn the microwave settings for my preferred popcorn brand/type for a new microwave: the one built-in at my apartment requires 2:40, and the new one at my work 2:30. I usually put those in directly rather than hitting "add 30 seconds" five times.

I also use the microwave for thawing beef, at significantly less than full power. I use it to heat frozen pot pies, since they come out at least as well as in the oven, and it's 13:30 instead of 45 minutes in the oven. But 7:30 of that is at half power.

I want to go back to my room and watch my show until the microwave beeps to let me know it's done. It's never occurred to me that I might want to mute or quiet it.

I guess microwave manufacturers make devices for me, and not you. :/
Ruby dev - Amsterdam, NL

Postgres dev - Amsterdam, NL

C# dev (Outlook plugins) - Amsterdam, NL

Company: http://www.soocial.com

Soocial is a new way to manage your address book(s). Our offices are in a nice old 'grachtenpand' in the city center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We're a small team of young (<30), crazy and fanatical engineers and designers redefining the address book.

(Telecommuting is possible but we prefer having you on location)
Web Engineer -- New York, NY

http://seatgeek.com/main/lamp_developer/

We're looking for a generalist web engineer who is super-hungry and sees building web apps as more than just a job. We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #PHP #MySQL #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a team that has a lot of fun together.

Only looking for folks in NYC. Drop us a line at jobs@seatgeek.com if you'd like to chat.
Web Engineer - Salt Lake City, UT

Piick is a new Social Recommendation startup. We're looking for a fourth member of our team. The site is written in Python and jQuery. Telecommuting is an option for the right hire. Our team previously grew a family-based social network startup to over 80 million users.

Send a resume, link to your github account or tech blog to me at allanca gmail com.
(Can’t you just look at the stuff in the dishwasher and actually see whether it’s clean or dirty?)
Wow, that has to be the most unconvincing debunking of an urban legend I've ever seen.
Augh. A colleague had a Civic type-R (2008 model). Man, this dashboard was unfathomable. I risked my life driving this and trying to switch radio station! Not only this dashboard has more buttons than a spaceship console, but most buttons carry different modal functions at different times! Atrocious and unusable.
Why the condescension? The user's name is clickable and his profile shows he hasn't used the site since March. Instead of being rude, perhaps consider why his experience wasn't sticky.
Space is really, really, really big.
I just took the survey, I hope I got all the answers correct!
Amsterdam, NL also possible? If so ping me on twitter (http://twitter.com/spif).
Yes, I do buy other things.

As for time savings and convenience, even having used the iPad for a few minutes one day, I don't think it would save me any time at all compared to using my laptop. iPad is less convenient for carrying around than my Android phone, and its software keyboard makes it less convenient for programming than my MacBook Pro. Yes I know I could add an external keyboard, but then I would have to haul around two pieces instead of one, and I'd still be stuck programming on a 9.7" display.
I used to do something similar when I was a student and getting my haircut! I'd ask for my student discount, then tip and make up the difference and give it straight to the girl who cut my hair. I got some good haircuts back then.
Not sure I'm sold. 3G on my iPad, iPhone in Charlotte is pretty awfully slow. I would be scrambling for my wallet if it was 4G/3G.
Ben Goldacre is another good scientific crusader. It's worth reading his book Bad Science for his rants against the ridiculous poop-inspecting TV nutritionist "Dr" Gillian McKeith, and the more serious issue of quack medicine and its propaganda war against HIV/AIDS medication in South Africa.

Here's a taster, from his Guardian column: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/03/badscience.ukn...
You don't get it. Ping is only there to drive up music sales. This is why every single page has Buy buttons. And why the focus is mostly on music from the store and not for example your ripped music is scrobbled.

This is not about music fans. This is a controlled environment to sell more music.
There is indeed a lot of farmland in the US, but there's also more suburban wasteland than the entire land mass of Denmark (made up figure).

Denmark manages to have a higher population density than us while still being like 90% farmland. That's efficiency.
This might just be the very first time I saw you downvoted.

I sincerely disagree. The only valid question is whether the time is right - that's something you can argue about.
"Well, if thing was so great, somebody would probably have created it for me by now."

If you play this game in the Perl or Python or Java communities, you get a very different average than Lisp. Not saying that that's a good or bad thing, mind, but it is true.
Literally true. Consider what awesome things could have been built with the trillion spent on Iraq. A space elevator, a mars mission, a moon base. Not or... and!
I've met the Nasuni guys, and they have a product that I'm really excited about. If they can get something that is for consumers (rather than businesses), I will be a customer. They have exactly what I am looking for: a local cache of cloud storage that can be accessed at local net speeds and has the scale of the backing cloud storage.
Ha- account created right before this comment.

You'll learn quickly that these kind of inane comments don't fly here. Keep 'em to yourself and try to add some value to the discussion.
I meant the personal computer in general, not just IBM's model.
By the way, I didn't say cofounders are silly, just that I choose not to have one right now. It's a choice often met with disdain from a certain group of people: "you will definitely fail". Others have already proven that single founder can work, the test now is whether I can.
While trying to avoid the cliche "Apple sux" explanation, I'm actually genuinely surprised they botched this as badly as they seem to have.

Maybe it's releasing a product without a comprehensive music database being in place. Maybe it's the inability to link to, you know, their OWN PRODUCT a la last.fm and, well, anything.

But really, whoever was in charge of this obviously wasn't being watched closely enough - this is a software foul-up of pretty large proportions.

Plus I like the implication that they don't trust any other form of avatar/username site (Gravatar, etc) and instead you have to take your picture with your cute widdle iCameraAsApprovedByApple and then wait for it to be "approved."

Which makes me feel immensely sorry for anyone whose job encompasses looking to see if pictures violate a ToS agreement, even if it is 10 minutes a day, and even if it is "pre-filtered" by some type of algorithm (surely, please for the love of all things surely).

Overall, depressing.
iOS[objc]/Android[java/scala]/Python Programmers - New York, USA

GameChanger (http://gamechanger.io) builds mobile apps for scorekeeping at youth & amateur live sports events, aggregates that data and turns it into a stream of hyper-local media. We're under 2 years old, have a growing base of thousands of teams, great bizdev deals coming together, and have gotten some crazy press so far (http://gamechanger.io/press).

We've won awards for our apps, and are building out a real-time delivery platform and attacking a huge market. We're MongoDB + Tornado + Django + raw Python & 0MQ/ZMQ on the back end, Obj-C and Java on the mobile side.

Send github link / code sample & resume to jobs@gamechanger.io. Oh, and at least like sports a little.
Making it international might help.

I'm not sure if you have international positions, the zip code search means I can't even be sure that just entering London would work (I get 404's when I try with values that I think should work if it were international).
Singh has, I think, won the first battle in two very long wars.

The first is, of course, the science one. The other being our idiotic libel laws.

From this it's clear he's very switched on too (well, that was probably not in doubt but still). This, in particular, is an important point we face:

''Scientists aren’t necessarily good communicators, because they aren’t trained to be good communicators. A researcher could be doing really important work on global warming, and then somebody writes a column in a national newspaper that completely undermines what they’re saying.''
This is a good idea. It needs more features and polish, but I see no good reason why someone would NOT use this for hiring. I think the especially important points will be:

1. Support for all reasonable languages.

2. LOTS of different tests--the more unique, the less likely the solutions can be copied and pasted from either someplace online, or a friend who applied and took the same test.

It would also be awesome if you told the candidate "program in this window because the employer will be able to watch you code". Then show the employer a fast-forward view of the programming process. Does this person guess and check their way to a solution? Do they plan out the whole algorithm first? What kind of mistakes did they make?

If you had all that stuff, I think this would do a reasonable job of at least filtering for raw programming ability.
Well you can't use it as a function. You can however combine the parsing of the "print" keyword, and the "(" and ")" taking precedence around the string to form KEYWORD STRING that looks a hell of a lot like a function call though.
Are you sure that there is no misunderstanding - critical stuff in Haskell and other stuff in Erlang? Not a reverse pair? ^_^
Ruby dev - New York, NY

Hyperlocal news. Check out the description here: http://outside.in/jobs/ruby_software_engineer

Email me if you'd like to chat about it (or apply): chris@outside.in
We've been doing this in Manticore since 2008 or so. We couldn't really get speedups past 12 cores without it (we have a "typical" parallel GC implemented as well to test against). Hopefully we'll get the paper on the GC and associated language trickery - we don't allow pointers between young generations - in somewhere soon :)
JAwStats Multi-User Tutorial w/ Patch + Script
As an abstaining domainer let me sum up what I learned:

The shorter the name the better.

Don't use hyphens nor digits.

Dot com is the king for any international project.

In many countries their CCTLD is better than a .com (eg .de in Germany).

Do three tests:

- Radio/phone test. Say the domain name over a phone. There should be no problem spots you should repeat.

- Writing test. Look out for any easy typos: repeating letters and language-specific grammar problems.

- Association test. Ask your friends for their first impression and what occurs to them immediately after they hear the name.

Made up names are ok.

A good rule of thumb is: Make sure there is only one thing the users have to remember.

Eg unusual TLD + a made up name = 2 things to remember. Reduce to just one.

IMO the domain name doesn't really affect success, there are far more important things like founders' skill and passion.

However not observing the above-mentioned rules can make the success harder to reach.
I am always surprised that "nutriceuticals" get so little skepticism about their claims in comparison to drugs from "Big Pharma."

Both are big-money businesses, but nutriceuticals don't appear to have any clear accountability for their claims.
I'm with Rider, if you view it as a "classic" physics class problem, ie weightless ropes and pulleys (and hence no angular inertia for the pulleys, and no inertia due to the ropes), and no friction, weight A would rise even without pulling the rope, weight B would remain static, and weight C would drop at the same rate that weight A would go up. If you pulled on the rope you could never make weight C go up faster than weight A until it hit the top and stopped moving. So the pulling bit is a red herring, as weight A would always hit the top before the other two, either pulling or holding it still. Assuming the weights are in kilograms you would have to let the rope go at a rate of 3.13 m/s (11.27 kph, 7 mph) to prevent weight A from rising.