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Camden Town, London, UK

http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/jobs

Forward is a collection of innovative online brands based in Camden, London. Our success is driven by talented people who are given the freedom to experiment with technology in a low ceremony environment. Forward is reliant upon developers who actively engage in the business and go beyond a traditional role. Technology is at the core of how we solve problems, from testing new businesses in a day to discovering how the weather affects web traffic. This has made us one of the top ten fastest growing privately owned technology companies in the UK.
We're looking for people across and group and are interested in programmers who:
Have a polyglot coding background: Clojure, Ruby, Java, and any other languages you feel are convincing
Understand the Internet and what makes it work: HTTP and REST, HTML and semantic markup, and CSS
Contribute to, or have their own, open source projects
Like to experiment with technology to solve problems
Are pragmatic and focused on delivery
Have courage when expressing opinions regardless of how controversial
Post Agile ;-)

No remote
LOL at the DDG ad. Its logo always managed to bring a smile to my face.
Boston (Somerville, MA) - no remote

The Echo Nest. Music data platform. We're looking for python people, data people, music people

http://the.echonest.com/company/jobs
I think there is a real opportunity for Apple to identify when people have loaded in pirated music to iTunes and try and sell them the legal equivalent.
central London, UK

Lokku - http://www.lokku.com/jobs/

We're looking for full time devs, both experienced and intern types looking to learn. Great team, interesting problems, international focus. We look forward to hearing from you.
For every one of these websites, there are probably 10,000 that don't do any CSRF checking at all.
And then the World Bank will write-off that debt under their Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC): http://goo.gl/iaQfJ

The fact that the US has a lot of control over the World Bank seems reasonable given that they put up the lion's share of the capital. As far as dictating terms and conditions, regardless of their merit, there aren't many banks that will give million dollar loans to bad credit risks w/o strings attached. What's the alternative scenario? No bank? They just give out money?
hey..i would like to get in touch with you. I want to know how you do it and may be you can help me by giving me some advice.
Edinburgh, UK

We need more experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to join the FreeAgent team. We're a growing startup building an online accounting software (and believe me, it can still be fun).

The team is excellent and super friendly and it's just a pure joy to work for them.

Ideally we're looking for people to work full-time with the team in our Edinburgh office, but we would consider a remote working arrangement for exceptional candidates.

More info: http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs
Algorithm competitions aren't like playing Rachmaninov's second piano concerto.

It's more like playing a simpler piece that everyone knows, like Canon in D.
Except you learn to play it faster than anybody else.

You're giving advice on how to be a better programmer, which is significantly different from being a programmer who implements algorithms. In a programming competition, I don't go back and optimize my code. I test to see if it works, and go on to the next question.
New York, NY

Lot18 - http://www.lot18.com/careers

We're looking for backend developers, frontend developers, mobile developers, designers, customer service reps, account managers and a few other positions.

Lot18 is a membership by invitation website for wine and epicurean products. We're an agile, early stage, venture backed technology startup.
Our company is a great place for smart, hard working people who want to make a difference and help change the wine world.
Also, I would add that those job listings haven't much changed in months. They are possibly just collecting CVs.
Chicago, IL

Braintree

http://jobs.github.com/companies/Braintree
The Nook Color has been rooted
If you are looking for remote ANDROID developers: http://shareme.github.com
Things all startup founders should give more thought to
I was a former avid mania of Firefox. I once installed hundreds of extensions and kept waiting for their updating progress whenever I launched the browser. Even when Google released Chrome, I didn't consider the possibility of switch due to the "godsendy extensibility" of Firefox. However, Firefox got slower, slower, slower and its memory leak drove me almost crazy. I reduced the number of active extensions to my essential set under ten, but it always ended up consuming more than 1GB of memory in few hours. So, I switched to Chrome and became its maniac user. I'm not that sure, why I am writing this boring story, but I settled down to Conkeror and w3m now. I don't launch Chrome. When it comes to the choice of browser, it's more about ease of customization and user-interface, not about speed anymore to me.
Become an Internet Marketing Superstar
It's the best series in my estimation (after season 3).
I'll try.

At some point in the past, you predicted (possibly implicitly, given that we're dealing with "surprise") that JS wouldn't reach the performance it has today. But it evidently did. So you're not very good at predicting the development JavaScript's performance profile. Currently you believe it can't go much further. Hence, given the historical precedent that we have, it probably will.

There you go.
I really didn't want to like Chrome. I was like "Come on Google, do we really need another browser? You're just going all Microsoft and trying to dominate every market". But then they kept improving it. It's so darn fast compared to Firefox which had really became a bloat monster. I still use Firefox for testing/web developing because of it's huge library of extensions, but Chrome is the daily surfer just for the speed factor.
Why should other members be anonymous? Isn't that hypocritical since Wikileaks is all about transparency?
I see someone doesn't like pro Firefox comments and came and downvoted all pro Firefox entries....
That is a logical fallacy.
I think his point was that this isn't reddit and the general consensus is to avoid creating punful comment threads.

Might be wrong and misinterpreting.
San Mateo, CA

Scale Computing has a couple position open for C/C++ developers. Preference would be for working on site but we are open to people working remote (I work remote myself). More info at http://www.scalecomputing.com/careers/
Chrome doesn't (or didn't) quite work right on OSX. Whenever I copied an image off a page and pasted it into mail there was a broken image.
Seems like the only "people" posting 5 * reviews are the owner himself via different IDs .. does Yelp ban accounts for fraudulent reviews? this surely makes up such a case...
How YouPorn Tries To Hide That It's Spying On Your Browsing History
Cape Town, South Africa

SnapBill - http://www.snapbill.com

Looking for experienced PHP Developers to help work on a clean system (with clean code) for automated service billing.
As a recovering banker I can tell you that banks a weary of lending on these Taj Mahal type projects because in the case of a foreclosure all that extra work to make the building look nice doesn't easily translate into rents high enough to justify the cost. Also, keep in mind most bankers have no clue how technology companies operate. Another reason why this might be hard for you is because virtually every commercial bank is getting hosed on commercial real estate and many have exceeded the regulatory limit on real estate lending, so the underwriting is much tighter.
This is a pretty good description of what an agile tester is http://simpleprogrammer.com/2010/06/16/agile-testing-is-diff...
"To be an entrepreneur is to make something people want. Preferably lots of people. Preferably lots of rich people. And then to take their money, which they earned through the labour of their own hands and heads, to make them pay as much as you are able to extract for the value you add to their lives."

Never lose sight of that goal. Or else you are not an entrepreneur, just a hobbyist.
London, UK

Videojug.com
we're hiring for experience Ruby on Rails and C# developers. Fun team to work in - lots of interesting challenging work from video compressions right through to front end site and syndication delivery. Full time job in our Clerkenwell offices - competitive salaries. Full job specs here:

http://content5.videojug.com/corporate/jobspecs/ror.pdf
http://content5.videojug.com/corporate/jobspecs/csharp.pdf

also looking for a good iphone developer for odd updates to our apps, and a good android developer to build out a new app (1 month contract).
all positions available immediately.
What makes you think he was talking about Javascript's performance?
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It'd be interesting to observe their workflow, from editor choice to debugging methodology. Sure, choosing and developing a sensible algorithm is the "meaty" part. I, for one, am fairly impressed by the stuff these kids do.

But I'd be surprised if they didn't have some serious Vim-Fu going on as well.
1. at least in the urban areas, there are always just as many schools to choose form as grocery stores (so check)

2. easy, just select schools with good graduation, low crime etc. - just as people are selecting good schools now by relocating to a different(better) neighborhood. (check)

3. people switch schools all the time just as they switch jobs, granted you may have difficulties to do it in mid semester but this is not a serious obstacle. (check)

So, all the conditions are met, can we open the market to competition now?
A Roundup of Printable Wireframe Templates
Can you imagine if you used the gas pedal of your car as a moderator instead of to feed just enough fuel mix into the engine?

Take your foot of the gas today and the car stops.

Take your foot of the gas in Star Trek and the car explodes.

I think this is what he was getting at: The design seems to have instability as a feature.
It seems Google suck at efficient battery use. GTalk reconfigures the windows system timer for 1 ms granularity even when minimized.
I heard about them in September, unfortunately you can't just apply you need to know somebody in their network.
Driving theory test: Learn The Highway Code rules
The highway codes rules plays a very important role for learner drivers and for experienced drivers too. It alerts or makes the drivers conscious from the hazards in advance which reduce the risk of accident.
I agree with the general point you're making about friction, but you're underestimating how quickly and thoroughly free distribution sources have evolved.

A 'seasoned P2Per' already belongs to one or more invitation-only torrent sites where nearly everything you could ever want is available and well-seeded in multiple formats, including FLAC. (One's already been mentioned on this thread, but there are others.)

If I were the type of person to steal music, I would log into one of these communities, do a quick search on a pretty decent search engine, throw the .torrent into a Dropbox folder synced with my media server. The media server then would automatically do the downloading / adding to my music library / etc. I hear this is often faster than downloading from iTunes, and completely ad-free. Even better, it doesn't involve iTunes.

$0.99 is a hell of a deal if you've never pirated music and don't know where to start, but when faced with paying vs. a bit of hassle, the core P2P community has again and again decided to forego paying and focus their efforts on eliminating the hassle.
We're looking for a Rails and/or Android guy to help out. I'm the CTO of Zazu -- http://getzazu.com --, where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com

We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.
There's at least 2 things one should consider:

- it's tranched deal - they get 27% up front(!) and invest, in 4 tranches. Some think that's A Very Bad Thing for the founders: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/15/the-problem-with-tranched-vc-in... and http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/08/milestone-based-investing.ht...

- after Series A funding the founders are usually guaranteed to be minority stakeholders. Think about that twice.

But, at least they are open about that.
London (UK) and Boston (US) - youDevise, Ltd.

We're a 60-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're 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 successful candidates relocate to London or Boston. We relocated a HN reader from Denmark earlier this year for example. We sponsor London HN meetups and wouldn't mind doing so in Boston too.
Will verticalizing the Groupon model work?
Great idea and great code. Nice to see re-usable, light-weight PHP libraries not coupled to larger frameworks.
I don't think Hacker News readers are the target users; personally, I want it so I can have my parents use it.
I live in a backwater like Sweden. In fact, I actually live in Sweden. I've bought a great deal of tracks from the iTunes Store, but I have yet to encounter what you mention. Is this perhaps the type of "region staging" scheme we see in the film industry, game industry, gaming console industry etc.?
Accidentally hit the downvote arrow, while intending to do the opposite. Apologies.
Boston, MA

We're looking for a Rails (we use a lot of cool tech, like rails 3 and mongodb) and/or Android (wanna port our app over to scala?) guy to help us out. I'm the CTO of Zazu -- http://getzazu.com --, where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com

We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.
Context? Besides, my argument doesn't really depend on whether you put "performance" or "popularity." Also, I was joking.
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Google Gambit for Groupon Raises Concern
FCC commish taking another stab at net neutrality regulation
Interesting, but I think the submission title is misleading (particularly now the page is so full of bad reviews that it's not obvious which review the submitter was referring to).

This seems to be more an example of "How to destroy your business by being (at least perceived as) consistently fraudulent".
You can then turn to Spotify, which was actually founded in Sweden ;)

I don't use iTunes and thus can't compare their respective librairies, but I know first hand that even in more remote corners of the musical world (think obscure recording of a jazz reprise of Bach), Spotify almost always delivers.
Former WikiLeaks Activists to Launch New Whistleblowing Site
You don't need to know someone in the network, you need to get to know someone in the network if you don't.
I remember clearly that I already had understood this when I was 12 and corrected some of the teacher's assertions (such as people not having weight in the Moon because of lack of air). Classmates used to laud my soft and well-mannered way to tell the teacher he was wrong, without saying it explicitely, and leaving him a graceful retreat path.

So either I'm not a proper geek/nerd or the generalization is a bit overextending.

My impression is that most persons do understand that vocal negative critics are a fact of life (and specially online forums) so don't worry too much about them. They're just too visible, but the same happens with ads.

Once I've cleared the constructive comment stuff, I feel the urge to write some snarky comment on how the author's understanding of HTML tags made his cursive text appear without spaces around :-)
I agree completely. After iTunes dropped DRM, I've legally downloaded most of my music: Guaranteed quality, and no need anymore to search through tons of fakes, viruses, to get the songs I want, and then hope someone actually comes online to share them.

I 'pirated' because I don't feel like going to a store, spending hours to find music I liked, buying it, then ripping the CD. Or ordering the CD somewhere and impatiently waiting before it arrives... Not because of the cost savings.

Let's hope this is a lesson for the movies and software industry as well, if you make it easy for people to get your stuff, in the same or better quality than a pirated version (so, no DRM, annoying restrictions, or difficult download process), they will prefer to get it legally from you.
This might be true if you're looking on public sites, but there are very good private music trackers (What, Waffles) and if you have an account on one of those it's completely wrong. Things are well-seeded, download speeds are fast, the selection is huge, and there's almost always a FLAC (or at least a v0 or 320k mp3) version available. (And I don't listen to "vacuous pop music".)
"A 'seasoned P2Per' already belongs to one or more invitation-only torrent sites where nearly everything you could ever want is available and well-seeded in multiple formats, including FLAC. (One's already been mentioned on this thread, but there are others.)"

This is only true if you're into pop music from "the big five" labels, or at best looking for some generic "Ibiza X-treme Tribal Goa Trance Collection #392". Now, I know that arguing about taste is pointless, but I still feel like saying this: if you try to get your hands on something remotely sophisticated and with musical substance, you will have a hard time finding it via the scene releases; your best shot is to find it among like-minded people with an artistic mind, and you probably know that comes down to only about three places on the net: Karagarga, Cinema Obscura, and ~drumroll~ The Pirate Bay (the cultural cauldron of the Internet).

I'm actually a "scener" (both demo scene and "xvid scene"), and I frequent my share of private trackers, so I got an up-close relation with the available assortment.
New York, NY (no remote at this time)

EnergyScoreCards.com

Looking for great developers. Our stack is Groovy/Grails/Java, but languages matter less than being a great technologist. Looking for both UI and Backend developers.

We also have other positions, such as account management and support / qa.

We are an early stage startup in energy efficiency space. We have been spun out of a larger company . What we do is an intersection of software, statistics / data analytics and energy expertise. Seeing significant traction and have revenue (need to staff up - a few deals currently in the pipeline are about to close).

Please contact jean at energyscorecards.com
Including "perfect" FLAC rips, quality not available on iTunes. And no geographical restrictions (well... almost).
It it just me, or does the mob mentality of this scare anyone else just a little? With no real evidence and certainly no trial, a one-sided tale told on reddit led to the destruction of a small business.
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We're looking for someone interested in learning/helping out with Rails and/or mobile development at Zazu -- where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). My personal specialty is in Rails+Mongodb and Android, but we've got an iPhone app in the mix really soon.

We do a lot of NLP and big data number crunchey stuff, too, if you're looking to work with that.

We've had a few interns this year, and I love working with good people who are willing to learn and build great shit.

I'm the CTO of Zazu. Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com

We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.
Ok, probably this might be a bit beside the point, but I really liked the red-tinted logo. The new blue one looks boring. I'm guessing "blue signifies stability" or some reasoning for that, but still, the old logo looked much more distinctive.
You get to keep 70% equity. You give 3% to your advisors. We take 27%.

What do they actually offer?
Alien life form ‘is here on Earth’
I think this is the email the poster is referring to: http://www.yelp.com/biz/epic-data-recovery-labs-new-york#hri...

If you scroll down further, there's the same email in the comment that was posted on 12/8/2009
The main thing that turns me off of Chrome is that there is no way to zoom text only. If I want to zoom in, I have to resize the entire layout. That means that column of text I wanted to read that fit nicely in the browser window, but was simply too small, now requires a lot of horizontal scrolling to read.

Sure, sometimes text-only zoom breaks the layout, but usually only if you zoom in a very large amount, and often times, it is still preferable and easier to work with.

I surf the web with my text zoomed in 4-6x.
By the time technology gets to the point where a brain can be put into a vat I suspect all the neural connections could just be fully virtualized. Neural processing would become a whole lot faster at that point. Space travel could hypothetically take place inside a laser.

Even at that, the Milky Way alone is 100k light years in diameter.
I love this comment, because it is such a brilliant demonstration of the blog author's points -- let's focus on what I can do to show that I am smarter than you!
You might try to find an external source of motivation. In my case when someone can benefit from or is depending on my work it provides strong motivation to finish.

This could take the form of:

- a partner/cofounder

- a client (which means you'll get paid at least once, possibly more depending on how you structure the deal)

- presales

- a target user, real or imagined

- a public commitment, to friends or "HN December Launch Pad" (for example ;)
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If ever I am tempted to wonder why learning Klingon is a popular activity, I will remember this example.

It's just one linguistic in-joke after another.
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FCC proposes wireless use of broadcast airwaves
Ask HN: Why is the political story WikiLeaks so popular on HN?
Political stories do surface on the HN front page from time to time, but the wikileaks story has had many items hit the front page over the course of the last few days. Why is this story so popular in this community?
He claimed this, but as a SEO, there was no actual evidence that this was helping him rank - it was far more likely the anchor text on his 10,000 plus pages that accounted for it, among other things.