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Android, iPhone, and Ruby engineers - Originate Labs - Los Angeles and San Mateo, CA

We specialize in staff augmentation and startup building through a venture resourcing model. We're looking for folks to fill positions working with the aforementioned technologies but competent engineers do not necessarily need extensive experience in them to apply.

http://www.originatelabs.com/contact
Ruby on Rails Developers -- Mashable -- SF or NYC (remote considered)

http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7649

Other open positions: Project Manager, Frontend Dev, UI Designer (remote considered).
I'm lead to understand that in most cities you do need a permit to hold a demonstration.
SF, CA (no telecommute)

Quizlet is an education platform for high school and college students. We're one of the few web companies that's gotten lots of traction in education -- 2M uniques a month and growing.

We're looking for developers who are excited about making an impact in education. Small team, no BS.

andrew@quizlet.com

http://quizlet.com/jobs/

Also would love to have hacker interns for January and summer breaks!
What is more private than our private parts? What can the
general public be subjected to, en masse, that is more
personally invasive than a pat-down or nude photo?

I would find surveillance of my actions at all times without being seen naked a lot more invasive than just being seen naked or patted-down while clothed. What is more private than our private parts? Our private information; our secrets.
How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.
Web Application Developers, PHP, remote

deviantART: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply
Tip: 'vim -x filename.txt' asks for password and encrypts the file :-)
This guy's a light-weight :P Someone once told me "you don't own an idea until your write it down."

I've written down every creative idea I've had for the past 18 years. It's now a collection of RTF documents that fills over 4 gigabytes.

I don't think writing down literally every thought it particularly productive, I only keep the good ones :P
Right. Living in Thailand I recognize the kind of confused reasoning people are capable of here.

I used to collect them too but there was just too much to keep up with.
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Not so fast. The very first sentence is wrong:

the French government's decision to raise its pension retirement age from 60 to 62

That's the early retirement age they're raising, to the same 62 as the US has. The normal retirement age is being raised from 65 to 67, 1 year later than the US at 66. Oopsies.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/more-comm..., confirmed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement

Despite it all, I enjoy reading Friedman. Even though his job description is apparently "be professionally wrong about everything for the New York Times", there's something cozy and comfy about his writing. His tone communicates that the world makes sense and the moustache will explain it to you. What's interesting is how nice it makes one feel, even when one knows the probability of any sentence being bullshit approaches 1.

Edit: Friedman also has the merit of inspiring the greatest smackdown review of our time. There aren't nearly enough laughs of this calibre in this world:

http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html
I don't think the intent is to really be a reference for javascript methods, at least for now. Apple releases "Coding Guidelines" as more of a style guide and suggested patterns.
Putting a sell order in at a given price is an indicator that you would prefer to have the cash than the item you're selling. In my book that doesn't constitute fraud since there's no deception involved.

http://www.google.co.za/search?q=define%3Afraud
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Alexander Pope

I've come to believe that people who create startups must be, by definition, entirely unqualified for the job. If they were truly qualified they would have some idea of what they were getting themselves into and they would avoid it. Hence, only unqualified people embark on the adventure.

There is, however, an up-side to being unqualified:

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl S. Buck

The young and foolish change the world.
I agree that it is hellishly difficult to hire for that kind of GTD ability. However I put it to you that if you have 25,000 employees, you must have fluked some of these personality types even with just technical interviews. Ergo if these people are not being leveraged, it says that your culture does not value those skills, and that you have some very frustrated people.
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What I love about this story is that, he is not only persistent, he is also creative. Everyone knows, at least conceptually, how to be persistent, even if they don't always live up to it. But you can't just put your foot done and say "I am going to be creative this time."

It's like the difference between ordinary geniuses and magicians. Ordinary geniuses are like ordinary people, only many times better. Magicians (the orginal remark was referring to feynman) however were a mystery as to how they think.

Then again, there is probably a significant correlation between persistence and creativity, the latter being the result of the former carried to unusual length until one starts to try wacky ideas.
Ask HN: Who Is Seeking Interns? (November 2010 Edition)
Similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855569

Please lead with the positions' locations.
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I find it always somewhat odd when a person with only superficial knowledge about a topic (e.g. "Google", "Apple" etc) claims to be able to spot their "Real Problem" or their "Biggest Issue". While the article might be a well-reasoned guess, it is still just a guess, based on a very small number of facts.

I could have taken the article seriously if it had been written by a former employee, or by someone who actually interviewed people working at Google. But that way, the title seems to be just link bait. Nothing against link bait, but above all, the essential purpose of a title is to reflect the content, isn't it?

"My personal quick guess about a problem at Google: GTD" would have been a more honest title. It wouldn't be as sensational, but it would at least reflect the real substance of the article.
I hadn't talked to him in nearly 10 years and without facebook I likely never would have again.

What does this tell you about the real strength of this friendship? I don't mean to pick on you; I hear this argument a lot and I don't understand it. A really good friendship would have found a way to stay alive over 10 years with or without Facebook.
Does Prgmr have easy-to-handle web menus to for DNS, etc.? I am planning to get a Linode within a few months but Prgmr is a lot cheaper!

Bottomline, Linode has everything of what I am looking for (as I have seen most of the web interface from work). Easy to operate, fast, etc. Is Prgmr the same?

Since I don't like moving to different servers, I will probably be stuck with my choice for a few years. My mind would have been set to Linode if I wasn't reminded of Prgmr. :P
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Charge 1k per website. Make a website every month. Spend one week working your ass off finding someone that would pay 1k for the site. Spend the rest making it.
> Adjectival phrases describe nouns, adverbial phrases describe verbs. If you're fine with adjectives then why wouldn't you be fine with adverbs? Honest question.

Imho, it's that nouns sometimes require adjectives (or phrases) to characterize them, but if you find your verb requires an adverb/ial phrase to convey your intent, then you may have chosen that verb poorly, and either need to find a more suitably textured verb, or add/change the context. There's generally more flexibility to change a verb than to change a noun.
AdMob’s Omar Hamoui leaves Google for “personal reasons”
Would like to see how someone implements this type of blocking in a rails app.
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Heyzap.com, San Francisco (local F/T position)

We are building a platform for Social and Mobile games. Smart engineers of any experience are welcome to apply, Rails, iPhone and Android experience a bonus. http://www.heyzap.com/jobs
My take on it is this:

As someone else noted thoughtfully in this thread, Norvig once said "Go where the data is." [extreme paraphrase]

Google's data isn't largely proprietary. The web is accessible for any to crawl. Google Maps is based on essentially public data, or easily obtained data. A savvy and well funded enough competitor could enter these markets.

Facebook's data is proprietary and user-created. The users have built-in inertia for Facebook 'cause they sure as hell don't want to abandon the three years of content they've built on a whim.

Add to that Google's recent missteps like net neutrality, and their insane and technocratic hiring policies, and I don't think I know a single truly bright person who would want to go to Google right now.

Facebook, however, is looking pretty damn sexy... all that data that the users forked over... hmmm... Not to mention the fact that if you're a social person, Facebook is FUN.
Supporting evidence for the author's thesis:

"So we’re adding a new process to our existing review system, in which every engineering project leader will be required to maintain a privacy design document for each initiative they are working on. This document will record how user data is handled and will be reviewed regularly by managers, as well as by an independent internal audit team."

This sounds awfully like the dreaded reviews (security, perf, globalization, internationalization, accessibility, etc.) at MSFT that gobbled up the time of PMs + devs. That's not to say that Google shouldn't have privacy design docs, just that they're an unfortunate consequence of scale.

Quote from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-stronger-pri...
SF, CA (no telecommute)

Dropcam is hiring for 6 awesome engineering positions and 1 lead design role: http://www.dropcam.com/jobs

Great problems to work on in streaming, storage, video analysis, web, and mobile.
Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard

Seeking front-end web developer with a passion for design. Remote is not possible.

http://www.flipboard.com/jobs

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OK. Let me get this straight. When you use your brain to perform certain tasks, such as interacting with other people, you're brain gets tired faster than when your brain is not performing those tasks. Right?
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Those are great statistics for judging the likelihood of overdosing (although, I'm not sure it's the only factor to consider - the physically small amount of cocaine needed to OD probably mitigates its higher therapeutic index).

If you want to evaluate danger there are other factors that need to be considered -- i.e. people "safely" high on MDMA may dehydrate, and people "safely" high on LSD may jump off of a bridge.
A similar question was asked a few months ago and has some great ideas: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692995

Also, don't expect to hit your target in the first few months. If you absolutely need a steady $1000 a month right away, look for a local part time job and work on online ventures in your spare time.
Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'
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...do their names start with 'J'?

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In physics, energy is the ability to do work.

Wealth is the ability to do what you want to do.

I think wealth as money or futures contracts should be qualified as "potential wealth" (as in potential energy).

I don't go by definitions that rely on money or definitions that rely on the net worth of individuals. The power of money is not absolute. Net Worth is a false measure in our nonlinear world.

"What people want" is only wealth to you if those people have what you want.
Also: whitelisting anyone with "googlebot" in their user-agent. That's like letting anyone in at the White House just if they turn up with an Obama mask on.
Taunton, England (near Bristol)

Java developers wanting a great working environment, in Taunton. We've an expanding thick client app, we're already market leading in the UK for public sector and currently looking to expand into other markets and product areas.

http://www.covalentsoftware.com/company/careers.php
thanks for tip. i've just tried it and it seems to only lock it into Portrait mode, regardless of which mode you really want. So you can't lock into Landscape orientation, for example. Frustrating. Baby step progress, at least.
I don't touch your dns at all... it's a static IP, my assumption is that you have dns service through your registrar or something, and that they are doing it better than I could.

I do have a serial console/rebooter and you can boot in to a rescue image if you mess up your domain so you can fix things without my help... but it's only accessible via ssh, and authenticated via ssh public key. but yeah, overall, we're cheaper than Linode, but right now in most other areas they have me beat. I'm working on it, and I will catch up in features eventually, but right now it's a price vs features decision.

As for the actual metal we run, every CPU bench I've seen, linode wins (I usually do okay vs. slicehost, though.) this is unlikely to change, just 'cause I don't see CPU as a bottleneck. It's very rare I see high cpu utilization.

The biggest problem right now is that Linode has a system, I believe, for identifying, warning, and limiting heavy disk users. I have no such system. Because of this, I believe, they have a reputation for having better disk speeds than I do. I see this as a big problem for me, and I plan on implementing something similar shortly.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle:

The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel to describe an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one in which every last one of the possible deficiencies has been avoided.
The /compare slashtag is pretty cool, as in:
https://blekko.com/ws/news.ycombinator.com+/compare?c=slashd...
There are some interesting ideas to work around the problems with this method in the comments, such as hashing the ip with a secret string on the link to stop others making you ban all your users. And also sorts of other stuff - even putting a CAPTCHA on the ban page as an escape method. But in the end I think the method is flawed:

1) a singled infected computer on a network could take out a large number of users.
2) any thing doing prefetching will cause them to be banned.
3) there is a risk of taking out valid bots, and verifying them correctly is just too expensive for a large site.

My main issue with bots is their spam, so I just use tools like Akismet to keep that under control.
In how far does this affect the criticism?

Even if GTD was a real issue with Google, how will the author know that they don't have much bigger issues?
When you write a Facebook app that hooks into the Facebook API and a user allows/authorizes your app to access friends and post on their wall etc, there is nothing stopping your application from storing all that "retrieved" information into a database of your own.
You can do this because Facebook isn't hosting any of the files that make up your app. They all live on your own servers.
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This is a good opportunity to reinforce the #1 rule in website design:

You have three seconds.

As in, that's all the time the average person is going to spend on your site before hitting the back button or deciding to invest more time. If you can't get your message across in those 3 seconds, you lose.

Nearly half the sites on that list pass the test for me. I can tell that "this is a website that will help me invoice clients", and decide whether that's something I care about. The other half though, I have no idea what they do and likely never will.

If I had to pick a Rule #2, it might be: Make sure they remember your name. Half those sites (alas, a different half) I'll never find my way back to because the name is either not given prominently, not memorable, or easily misspelled.

I might remember that I saw something called Iceberg, but I certainly wouldn't know to spell it with two R's. Fortunately for me, typing in iceberg.com will get me to a nice looking web app with a blue background, a picture of an iceberg, and something to sell me. Unfortunately for Icebrrg, it's somebody else's business.
So paradoxically, the Singularity Institute can grow into a great enemy of AI research. Should we deem Ray Kurzweil the first Pope of this anti-science religion?
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A little tongue in cheek, but previously discussed here: Why Startups Should Only Hire Good Starcraft Players

http://www.helloko.com/2010/09/why-startups-should-only-hire...
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"IRC. Internet Relay Chat. It's how hackers talk when they don't want to be overheard."

And here was me thinking they used private IRC servers, PGP, and other, you know, private methods, when they don't want to be overheard.

"I'll set up an alarm to alert us if either name [chat handle] enters an IRC channel".

That's one hell of an alarm, that scans in real time all the IRC servers and channels out there.
Ok that explains it. As long as they can go down and do a test drive before finally committing to the purchase, then I think it works brilliantly.
Except that if it gets big enough, the record labels are going to put it out of business...
Instead of using a loose binder, I would recommend Circa:
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It's flexible like a binder, but easy-writable like a notebook. Comes in 2 sizes, 5.5x8, or 8.5x11, with leather feel cover (at least the rolla ones).
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As the New York Post so perfectly nailed it: "YouTube wants to be the boob tube." Social media giant Youtube passed one billion subscriptions, took over Google TV (not) and lost it's CEO - all in one week.

But nothing seems to be slowing Google down in it's quest for TV network-like status, and a share of the 60 billion dollars spent in the USA on TV advertising annually.

On average, 200 million channels been subscribed to each year since Youtube was founded in 2005. For those that don't know - Youtube's 'subscribe' button is a lot like the 'Like' button on Facebook or the 'Follow' button on Twitter and by subscribing to a certain channel or user, you get all their new videos on your own homepage.
Accel Partners: Bullish on Mobile, Bearish on Connected TV
So this is just to ban non-targeted crawlers? Any particular reason you'd want to ban crawlers from your site? Surely your server is up to the task of serving a few extra requests, enough so that it's not worth your time adding code (and slowing down good requests) to restrict them.

The kind of bot that I care about are the ones that spam up my content site. They only go to pages that real users visit (the "Post Stuff" page), so this trick wouldn't help against them. And they never post from the same IP twice, preferring to hop between infected machines on a botnet every time they make a post.

I'm curious what sort of traffic pattern this author is seeing that would motivate him to build this.
I can't see the Bear Li. I only see the Bull. Maybe it's early, and rightfully so - caution is a good thing. But this is not rocket science. The world of TV apps is not far from Mobile and Web - HTML, Flash, Android, CEhtml, etc. And the big screen in the living room can do more than just channel video and TV shows... and dreaded 30 second commercials... the players in this space are banking on innovation driven by developers to take it to the next level.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Work involves swimming and drowning at the software-hardware interface. Home of the smallest and fastest 32-bit multi-threaded embedded microprocessor core.

http://www.aeste.my/internships
Well I'm actually took the other side of this argument in a comment 4 hours ago, in what I thought was a pretty solid argument, however I'm getting reamed in voting, so maybe I'm wrong...

On the other hand, hackers (myself included) value raw utility highly and maybe on average we just prefer google search and google maps as tools due to the vapidity of Facebook. I certainly feel that way.

However, comparing the impact on the larger world, I really really think Facebook has made way more impact than we care to admit. They got the whole world on a single social network. They created the newsfeed, some thing which is ubiquitous across all sites now. The Facebook platform, though buggy and heinous was completely revolutionary when they launched it. They created a single sign on that is used by a staggering number of people across the web.

Personally, Facebook's innovation over MySpace is every bit as impressive as Google over Altavista or MapQuest. We may not value the ends, but 500,000,000 users with orders of magnitude more engagement than Google is undeniable impact.
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PBworks (San Mateo, CA) has 3 openings. We're an online collaboration tool for education and business, used by 4 million people a month. We're looking for:

* A talented Front-End Web Engineer who can lead the development of new features and refresh existing ones. PHP, JavaScript, usability and UI design skills are ideal. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-frontendwebengineer

* A Systems Engineer who can help architect, build, and test back-end systems that will help us scale from 4 million users to 40 million users. Deep knowledge of one interpreted language -- ideally PHP -- would be great. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-systemsengineer

* We're also looking for a Designer who can help us with the aesthetic and visual aspects of the product's user interface. We'd like a designer who wants to take charge usability testing and building products with excellent function, not just flash. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-designer

If you're interested in any of these, drop me an email -- my email address is in my HN profile.
I don't know how to say this without sounding self-promotional, but there are a few points here which agree with my post on why Diaspora won't kill facebook - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/09/why-diaspora-wont-beat-fa...

Specifically, we agree on the fact that many friends=problem. Dave doesn't really suggest a solution to that problem - I think it's something which can be solved technically. Dave also brings out a great argument as to why privacy matters to facebook, which I hadn't spotted before.