skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London, UK ( fulltime )

iwi.com ( http://iwi.com ) a division of Gamesys Ltd (http://gamesyscorporate.com/).

We're building a social games company within one of the most successful gaming companies in the UK, located centrally at Piccadilly Circus.

We're currently hiring:

1 x C# .NET Developers to work on our gaming Platform Team. Experience with Amazon AWS preferred, but not essential. Our platform runs exclusively on AWS utilising nearly every service available: EC2, SimpleDB, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SES and more...

2 x Objective-C / C++ Developers to work on our mobile team, developing awesome games for iOS. OpenGL experience a plus.

1 x Actionscript 3 Games developer to join our team of 5 AS3 developers. Get in touch with us if you're looking for a challenge and love to build games.

Get in touch to apply:
http://www.iwi.com/join-us/ put HackerNews in the subject, or holler @ http://twitter.com/tomnewton on Twitter.
Ask HN: What are common advisor equity/terms these days?
Hey guys

Interested to see what is common in this community for advisor equity. Does this analysis from venture hacks still hold true: http://venturehacks.com/articles/advisors-part-2#pay

Looking specifically for equity and grants vs options.

Thanks!
The Strangest Secret in the World
The lessons from 58 years ago that still stand true today. BEFORE you click to watch the video, do yourself a favor. BOOKMARK the site, and when you have 5 minutes to listen to every word, come back to it and listen to this intently.

Turn off Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News, Email, and every distraction. Grab a pen, paper, and press play and LISTEN. Then... TAKE ACTION.

This secret will change your life.
Surly declaring your BC income on a tax return would take care of that?
POINTSTER Inc. is hiring. We are a Houston Based internet start up focused on revolutionizing person to person interactions via a web based platform. We are building a team of talented programmers and web developers that are enthusiastic and can think outside the box. This is a perfect opportunity for ambitious individuals that want to build their portfolio and gain valuable experience. Our ideal candidate has a CS / Graphic design background, but we are most interested in your skills and personality.

All interested applicants please send resume and links to your work to Pointster.Info@gmail.com.
Is your cell phone cooking your brain?
I guess I don't get it. If somebody shows me information I can't read with my own eyeballs, I have to really care to take the time to read it with a device. When the novelty has worn off, I'm not going to keep beeping my phone at every code in sight. Especially if they mainly turn out to be URLs I could have read in plain English and/or advertisements.

Is this actually useful, beyond the fad's lifespan?
New York, NY (PHP developers but we are mostly tech agnostic)

Jetsetter is looking for entrepreneurial engineers. We are a small group of technology-focused engineers and product creators that are excited by travel and expanding the online experience beyond a simple search form.

We value hackers and creative thinkers who use technology to solve real problems. We like doing things the right way. Here are some recent examples of things we’ve built:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/jetsetter-ipad-app/

http://on.msnbc.com/kcEHR2

For immediate consideration, or if you just want to talk/ask questions about what it is like here, send me a note... bgormsen@jetsetter.com
Very interesting. I guess though that there is little data that the rest of the world _doesn't_ have right?

Btw, The wikipedia link should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race
London, UK (full time)

Top10.co is the Top 10 of Everything, Created by Everyone.

We're building a powerful social recommendation platform where you can recommend the stuff you love in a fun and easy way, and share those recommendations with friends. We curate everyone’s ideas and opinions into real-time, filterable Top 10 Lists for every topic under the sun.

We are an ambitious team of experts building the Next Big Thing. I'm Harry, co-founder. Drop me a line to harry@top10.co or @harryjones

http://top10.co/about/jobs
Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA

Gobbler is funded startup in Hollywood, CA focusing on backup and collaboration for pro audio. We have multiple open positions and are interested in talking to anyone with mid-to-senior level experience in:

* Rails Engineer: Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, NodeJS, Redis
* Desktop (OSX) Application Engineer: Desktop UI/UX, Objective-C, C++
* DevOps: AWS, Chef, Vagrant

Please email dan@gobbler.com if you are interested in hearing any more about these positions.

More details at: http://www.getgobbler.com/about/jobs
Pinterest (Palo Alto, CA) is hiring both engineers and product designers. (http://pinterest.com/about/jobs)

We are a 6-person team from Google and Facebook building a visual platform for discovering things you love. We are well funded. Even in private beta, we are growing extremely quickly.

(http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=500&h=420&o=f&...).
Atlanta, GA

Endgame Systems is hiring! If you are an exceptionally gifted engineer we want to speak to you.

We're hiring for a web developer position, ideally with this kind of experience:

* Python

* Django

* MySQL, Cassandra

* JavaScript, especially JQuery

* CSS and grid-based layouts

* Linux, shell scripting, git, sys admin chops

We're lean, have a well funded and managed operation, and we're leaders in the space. Join us.

Please get in touch with us at careers @ endgamesystems.com.
Dustin -

Any interest on you guys' part in remote or freelance work? I just had a kid and can't move or give up the insurance that comes with a defense job, but I've got plenty of expertise in what you say you need and I'd be interested in seeing what I can do for you guys.
Thoughts: Are you too agile for TDD/BDD?
Two recent blog posts seem to indicate that there are software development environments where core agile development practices like TDD and especially BDD do not fit. Those "high-ceremony" practices are even considered as waste ...
Yeah, that was my first thought as well. Comcast (at least in my area) is primarily a provider of internet service to homes, not a server hosting company, so if Comcast was able to shut SearchYC down then that means it must have been hosted from a home internet connection.
I think he means making it clearer in the UI. It would be weird for Github to depend on HN to inform users.
Why are servers in the US nearly 10x the price of identical servers in Europe?
Oakland sounds like a more permissive place that attracts scum. In NYC, they kick you out of the projects when you misbehave and scumbags end up migrating to smaller cities.
Related article with more epidemiological detail:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/the_bride_of_the_s...
Oklahoma City | Tulsa | Stillwater, OK

InterWorks Inc.is hiring:
Web developers with experience in PHP, JavaScript, XHTML/CSS.

.NET Developers with experience in C#, Entity Framework/NHibernate, ASP.NET (WebForms and MVC)

We pride ourselves on a friendly down to earth culture where employees love their job!

Check us out -> www.interworks.com
Submit resumes to careers@interworks.com
OK, am I the only person not buying into this whole QR code hype??!

Seriously, I just don't get how this has even become so popular? It's a glorified barcode?
San Francisco, CA (REMOTE available for the right candidate)

Elation EMR ( http://www.elationemr.com )

We're working on incredibly smart and usable web based tools for physicians.

We're angel funded and have an incredible list of investors.

We're building with Python, Django, javascript, jQuery, Redis, MySQL, Java, and some other stuff.

We're looking add one or two more people to our incredible team. Interested?

More details here: http://elationemr.com
You can add a date range filter to your searches and limit the results to, say, the past year.
Amazon didn't just try to patent one-click purchasing. They actually hold said patent. They don't enforce it, largely because O'Reilly found prior art that could destroy it if Amazon ever oversteps, but they do hold the patent.

That's the central travesty here. Possibly if you're a patent attorney, you really do think purchasing with one click is a detailed and arcane technology the development of which is expensive enough to require a 20-year monopoly, but all that tells me is that patent attorneys are somewhat dim people who wouldn't understand productive work if it bit them in the face.

Not that I have strong feelings or anything.
I wish there was a sample newsletter to view. How is content curated? Also missing a privacy policy and T&C even though the MailChimp reference helps somewhat.
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Walter lotte anche con regolazione ad una vita normale a cura di Pietro dopo aver vissuto diversi anni in un istituto mentale with the romance to come through, when he sold an engagement ring is a happy couple.
feel free to email.
LA,SF,Seattle,KC,DC,NYC [REMOTE]

Zaarly (http://zaarly.com) is hiring a JS client developer, experience in backbone.js would be amazing. Great eye for design, be able to craft web clients running off our API.

If you're in LA, SF, Seattle, KC, DC or NYC we've got an office for you to work from, otherwise work from home. Live anywhere and fly in to our week hackathons at these satellite offices.

Send email to jobs AT zaarly DOT com.
Does anybody have any data, or other opinions, on how well understood are QR codes among the general public? Talking to an unrepresentative sample of business owners (ie, my target clients) over the past few years, and very few (~3 in 50) knew what they were.

Actually quite a timely post, as I was just playing with the QR code for signing up to my newsletter.
"Manoeuvre warfare is fantastically effective when the circumstances allow for it, but the available conditions, technology and personnel can sometimes make it ineffective. For instance, the German Blitzkrieg was extraordinarily effective against the static French defences in 1940, but the same forces and tactics came unstuck in 1941 when faced with a vicious winter and the Russian scorched earth style of defence."

Nah, the reason it came unstuck is because the Germans ran out of fuel and because overrunning Stalingrad became a point of pride with Hitler and the Wermacht...there were not tactical/strategic reasons to occupy the city when they could have encircled and passed.

Encirclement and passage was one of the lessons the American military learned (sort of) from Stalingard that they later executed in the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific. Rather than invading every island, they just bypassed those without strategic value, cut the shipping lanes, and let the occupying forces starve.
I agree completely, I just don't understand the hype??

I have not seen a situation where I have thought this idea really fits

Someone started putting a QR code on the bottom of their email, I scanned it and it turned out to be a link to their vcard? Why not just put on a link to the vcard?

Pointless to me that!
Anything in/near vegas?
Looks like The Battle of Jutland actually had 78 torpedo boats on the German side - didn't they get the maneuver memo?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland
OCZ Z-Drive R4 Server Breaks 1.5 Million IOPS
The same is happening right now with the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual misconduct allegations.

In the USA these kinds of allegations are made public whereas in France both parties (alleged victim and alleged per(p|v)) are treated the same private way until a court deliberates.
Redwood City, CA (Remote is possible)

Mertado is hiring Software Engineers to build an eCommerce stack with MongoDB, LAMP & Python. http://www.mertado.com/?spact=cms&cmpg=jobs&maid=2
I think there are 2 main problems here.

1) Patenting obvious stuff / stuff with prior art. "X, but on the internet"

2) Patenting stuff with no intention of releasing a product.

I see a lot of talk about the former and not enough about the latter. My question is this, could we put a time limit on releasing a product once a patent is awarded? Is it normal in other industries to patent something as soon as possible or do they wait until a product is ready to be released? What would be an acceptable time limit? In this case, the patent was issued in May 2007, 4 years ago. Is it reasonable for the inventor to not have a product using this on the market yet?
Method 7 is available for 32-bit systems, and actually pretty reliable. But going from 64-bit to 16-bit just to reboot is more pain than anyone really wanted to go through.
Interior design ideas
Home decoration is the art of decorating interior design ideaa room so that it looks good, is easy to use and function wells with the existing architecture, The goal of home decoration is to provide a certain “feel” for the room, it encompasses applying wall paper, painting walls and other surfaces, choosing furniture and fittings and providing other decorations like artefacts and sculptures.
I don't know, I've seen my share of QR codes used as design elements and never did I see one that didn't stick out as a sort thumb. Trying to massage them into designs simply ruins latter. It's like green text on red background - fun once, but inherently butt ugly.
Hackers goad Sony, claim theft of internal data
It appears that the Sony’s numerous hacker problems are far from over. According to @LulzSec, the Twitter feed of the Lulz Boat (just go with it, haxxors do this kind of thing), Sony’s servers are being hacked as we speak, with the hackers having announced the ongoing attack via their Twitter feed yesterday. The Tweet reads: “Hey @Sony, you know we’re making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven’t even noticed? Slow and steady, guys.”
Chicago, IL

StatHat is hiring a Lead Designer:

http://www.stathat.com/jobs/chicago/lead_designer
LinkedIn Now Below Break Price
Wow, that takes me back. Nicely done.
How to create videos that get you more sales - Mixergy Class
Review my App: The top Indian news stories shared on Facebook
MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THE RIGHT WORK

I live in Italy, and do Rails work, mostly, these days, although I've done Erlang, C, Tcl, Java (mostly related to mobile) and other things in the past.
Business & Professions Code § 17529

Pre-empts it. www.DanHatesSpam.com
Karachi, Pakistan (full time)

Small software shop looking to build a team of smart engineers. We design and implement our own products - i.e we're not an outsourcing company. We work on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and use a range of tools to get things done (C,C++,ObjC,Java,C#,Python). If you're from Karachi and reading this page, we'd love to talk: jobs@jumpdesktop.com
In those cases presumably there's some sort of rental/lease agreement though, right?

They can go to the Sherrif and say "This person signed a legal document stating I gave them X equipment with Y serial number. They have not returned/paid for it in the allotted time...come with me to their property; if we find it and they don't have another legal document signed by me stating otherwise, obviously they don't have the right to posses it".

Isn't it a little different here? Here it's disputable who the property belongs to, and in what context this person has the property. Wouldn't a criminal charges of some kind have to be made instead of the process say, a car dealership goes through to repossess a car?

Either charge the thief and recover it from them, or investigate the person for possessing stolen property and if it turns out to be stolen, then returning it to the rightful owner?

Aren't repossession agents bound by some constraints as well? Is rent-a-center allowed to surreptitiously record it's customers in case they don't return stuff (without notifying them and/or getting a signed waiver?).

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm just curious how all this stuff works legally.
How would you value it though? If you accepted the coins at a $5 per bitcoin rate for a product valued at $5, but the rate at the time of the tax return is $15 per bitcoin, do you pay tax on the $15 or the $5?
Rather than being an edge case, I think that what DrJokepu described is the intended case. But the system has been gamed.
Managing Yourself: The Paradox of Excellence
Don't editorialise titles this way. The title is "Tipping Point".

If you have an opinion, write a comment.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Islamabad, Pakistan.

I mostly do Python, Django and jQuery based projects.

Blog: http://asadjb.com
I agree 100%. K&R is the standard all authors should strive for. The length of these books is also our fault. Bigger books sell better. I hope there is a backlash brewing. K&R, Little Schemer, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, were all great small books.
I think the complicated decision here is how to classify Bitcoins:

If you treat Bitcoins as currency you would need to state the value of your Bitcoin income on your tax statement. However, when doing so you would need to convert the Bitcoin value to your government's local currency, so that taxes can be calculated. The problem here is that the Bitcoin market is still relatively small and that you have no guarantee that you can sell a given amount of Bitcoins at a given price. E.g., you may have earned 100.000 BTC in a given year. However, when you try to sell all of them on the Bitcoin exchange markets at the same time, it may be possible that you crash the market. So you would need to pay taxes in your governments currency for something that you cannot sell at the estimated price.

On the other side, you could only declare income resulting from selling Bitcoins for a "real" currency. However, I'm not sure if your government will allow this, as this would allow for "creative" tax statements. E.g., as a freelancer you could charge your clients in Bitcoins, but then only convert Bitcoins to a "real" currency if you need to buy something that cannot be bought for Bitcoins. So if you would have charged your client in USD, you would have had to pay a large amount of taxes in a given year. However, by using Bitcoins, you can delay the payment of those taxes.
Barcelona, Spain

Xing AG (http://www.xing.com) is hiring. If you are a ruby developer, frontend developer or scrumm master we are looking for you to join out team here in Barcelona. We are 16 people from all over Europe in Barcelona and are adding another 5 people to our team. Want to work on a 10+ million user platform under blue skies with lots of beaches and outdoor opportunities message me for the details.

Only caveat is that for the positions in Barcelona you'll have to have a EU citizenship. But we are also hiring in Hamburg where it's possible to get working visas for non-eu citizens.
I think they are combined into one. This post is asking for the keyword REMOTE, search that to find remote positions.
The state of speed and the quirks of mobile optimization
Lviv : a functional/stack hybrid programming language
Jersey City, NJ - High Frequency Trading Firm - No remote:
We have a position at a high frequency trading firm looking for a strong perl applications developer. Less web side, more client-server type applications. No prior finance background needed. Firm will pay for relocation, has top pay (much higher than in the Valley) and great benefits. While its technically a finance firm, they pride themselves on working like a software firm. Email me at trent.krupp@constitutionllp.com for details.
4500-year-old ‘graffiti’ found inside Great Pyramid tunnel
Wow - that's very interesting. So, what do most operating systems (aside from Apple presumably) normally do to get a consistent reboot?

Are they probing the hardware at install time? Do they just have a "table of things to try" the first time you reboot and then use the "successful thing" from then on?
No, unsolicited email is never legal, CAN-SPAM only allows you to send email to people you have a prior business relationship with e.g. they signed up for your service/mailing list. Someone who posted a property to Craigslist hardly fits the profile.
That's a fair point, the pointless focus on Stalingrad was folly and a big contributor to the defeat. But the lack of preparedness for the Russian winter (and the impact it would have on the speed of movement) and the inability to capture supplies as they captured terrain both played big roles as well.
Some airlines are using QR codes now and it's kinda nice... I did a pre-checkin online, had them text me my boarding pass, got a text seconds later with a QR code and was ready to go. The only thing that sucks is if your phone dies waiting to board your flight.
Ask HN: How to Motivate Unpaid Interns?
one of the best luxuries we have as a startup in athens, ga is our access to UGA's 30k student body. we bring in 5-10 interns every semester at http://GoRankem.com (we have plenty more to choose from...), and best of all for a bootstrapped startup, the going rate around here is...nothing.

they're always super-excited when they come in, and despite telling them up front that i need self-motivated individuals that don't want to be micro-managed, the production tends to trail off unless i'm hands on and telling them what they need to do.

the best motivation i can point to is a former intern of ours busted his ass and we rewarded him with an equity stake moving forward.

what kind of motivation tactics of you used to increase productivity and get your interns/employees to try to best each other? any great ways to recognize great work that don't come off too cheesy?

-adam
Ask HN:  App clearinghouse/graveyard?
I have a client who wants to quickly put an (iOS) app together but doesn't have the resources to build one. So they'd like to take an app that didn't quite make it and re-brand it. Most likely a game that they could replace with graphics, etc.

Ignoring the business-sense of this approach, is there a place where apps go to die? I'd imagine just going through the app store, finding free apps and then contacting the developers, but is there a "stock photo" place for applications?
many thanks!
Not a concern. Hackers encrypt their high balance wallet.dat then store it on dropbox/whatever. Spending money is kept in a bitcoin bank (say < 100 usd) which can be easily used and transfered.

Once your bank wallet is too big or too small you just decrypt one of your wallet.dat files and transfer a portion of the money back to your bank wallet. Recrypt the now changed wallet.dat and you are good to go.

Once/if normal people start using bitcoin I highly doubt that they would even bother with the client ("Encrypt my what? Wallet.dat? I could lose everything?"). They would probably just use a highly reputable bitcoin bank. It could stay anonymous because there could be "cash for bitcoin" like sites around cities and a transfer could be made into the bitcoin bank without anyone ever knowing.

As for a virus in the bitcoin client itself, that has been tried a couple times. Each time someone tries a pull request with malicious code the forums/irc light on fire. Also, people are highly wary of new people submitting pull requests.
"in their heyday of displacement speed vessels, [battleships] were the fastest things on the high seas"

Cruisers and destroyers were always faster than battleships (they had to be), displacement hull and all. It gives no confidence when you start the article with a glaring factual error.

"The idea of battleships duking it out in the high seas is pretty ridiculous when you stop to think about it. It never really happened unless you count the Battle of Jutland."

If you write such an article, you should do a bit of research and be at least dimly aware of the battles of Tsushima, Heligoland Bight, Moon Sound etc. etc. etc. Battleships were indeed a bit slower, but when they showed up they instantly dominated the field with their range and firepower. Even in WW2, when the carrier greatly reduced their importance, battleships fought a few very important engagements, e.g. Denmark Strait and second battle of Guadalcanal.

It's easy to deride things you don't understand as "tumescent penii". But the historical fact is, for about half a century after 1890, battleships were indeed the most effective (and also expensive) naval weapons system in existence.