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Groningen, the Netherlands

Peperzaken, leading Dutch mobile software development company, is looking for (multiple) mobile software engineers.

See http://peperzaken.nl/werken-bij (in Dutch).

Questions: martijn@peperzaken.nl.
Ask HN: What are some good financial transaction platforms?
It has been nearly a decade since I built a system that accepted credit cards but I have a project which now demands it. I have looked at PaySimple and Authorize.net but figured I would ask around...

Also - ACH transactions are a must...
Speciﬁcation and Veriﬁcation: The Spec# Experience
New Study Aims To Crack Silicon Valley's Innovation Code
San Francisco, CA -- Senior Ruby on Rails engineer - iOffer; full time employment desired, willing to work on contract basis also: http://ioffer.jobscore.com/jobs/ioffer/senior-rails-applicat...
hashbang discussion rearing its head again..... this post is long but it has some insights / questions into why the debate erupts about this and what it means when we say they 'break the web'. Hashbangs are caught in the middle of this transition of our old thinking of web docs into an application platform.
New York City -- Full Time Software Developer

Fog Creek Software is hiring full time developers, sales positions, and we're open to looking at intern resume's for summer 2012.
http://www.fogcreek.com/careers.html
The relevant part (to us hackers) is the use of maneuver warfare vs "phalanx" fighting.

Think of Msft, Oracle, IBM, Apple as the phalanx fighters. They lock shields and charge, spending millions (billions) of dollars (instead of soldiers).

The problem is their tactics are clumsy. Imagine all the Microsoft VP's circling the wagons around really bad _implementations_ (the ideas aren't bad) - I'm sure you can thing of some.

If you are lean agile Mongol (hacker) you can easily run around them and attack them from the back.

Your OODA loop is much tighter. You can maneuver and decide much better than a big hierarchical organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

See:
The Smartphone Wars: Tightening the OODA Loop
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2975
www.vokle.com is hiring 2 positions. We're a live video town hall platform. We let anyone create an interactive show where they can mix, live, video from their viewers' and cohosts' webcams into a live event. We're growing fast and have a fun codebase to work on, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing. Our offices are in the heart of LA's startup community in Santa Monica.

REMOTE FULLTIME flash/flex developer with a strong knowledge of at least one other language (when I say strong, I mean you probably started elsewhere and transition to flash/flex). You'll get a chance to work with large, highly interactive events, and help us build out our infrastructure as well.

See http://www.vokle.com/jobs for more info

INTERN know some rails, flash, or flex? Want to grow as an engineer by working on a real production codebase? Send me an email!

Contact me at andrew@vokle.com about either position.
ADHD increases likelihood of smoking, substance abuse [study]
Heisting the App Store: 500,000 Paid Downloads in 1 Week
Reality is that in areas of poor standardisation, vendors will test against Windows and ship it if it works. You could argue for a cross-vendor compliance testing suite, but if the behaviour of Windows varied from that then people would still need to match the Windows behaviour because that's where the market is.

So for all practical purposes, the behaviour is standardised. It's just embodied in the behaviour of Windows rather than anywhere useful.
Atlanta, Ga

ecoScorecard is a small, quickly growing startup focused on making green building easier. We're looking for an excellent Rails developer with an interest in sustainability.

email stuart at ecoscorecard dot com
Mountain View, CA

GOOGLE IS HIRING ALL YOUR PROGRAMMERS GIVE THEM TO US FOR THE OVERMIND
The point of a patent is to ensure that ideas are made public, so that all can benefit from them. In exchange, the inventor gets their time-limited monopoly on the idea.

Unfortunately software patents are useless for this purpose: they don't fulfil the function of making ideas public. Who, in this day and age, refers to a patent for the details of an algorithm?

I would argue that open-source software, in many ways, succeeds where software patents fail.
Put a donation link on the page to help pay for servers. Show how much has been donated and/or how close you are to your monthly payment.
New York, NY

GameChanger is Hiring iOS, Android, Python developers.

http://gc.io/jobs
http://gc.io/press

INTERNs also welcome. Join a fast-growing, revenue-producing, world-changing, code-valuing startup in NYC. Bonus fun if you like sports, MongoDB, stats.

Non-technical jobs too: assistant/intern/do-it-all, and Head of Marketing.

jobs@gc.io
I don't really see much blame in that post. Comcast shut down searchyc. That's the simplest true explanation for what happened.

It's sad.

That's the extent to which they dwell on the issue.
How, When, And Why Script Loaders Are Appropriate
Philadelphia, PA -- Wingspan

small software shop, work with smart people, enterprise business apps, interns OK

Java web service built on Documentum
Java middle tier talking to Oracle and Documentum
Ext JS web client supporting IE7+ and Firefox

dgetz@wingspan.com to challenge our coding test
I don't understand why someone who invents a better combustion engine should deserve a patent while someone who invents a better computer algorithm should not.

That doesn't imply that I think that every bit of programming deserves the protection of a patent. But if someone invents a new algorithm, then why doesn't that deserve a patent?
Rob beat me to it. Spiceworks is growing and we have a fantastic team and work environment!
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Well-rounded computer programmer based in South Africa.

I enjoy solving difficult problems using one or more of: javascript/node.js, Haskell, Python or C.

At this time I am only able to consider short term (< 4 weeks) commitments.

Homepage: http://is.gd/toe34p

Github: http://is.gd/CvpTLU
Aircraft carriers are somewhere in between. The aircraft they carry are part of maneuver warfare.
Within ten years of such a guild's creation, it would be in support of patent law and probably lobbying for it to be strengthened. By creating such a guild, you create guild leadership, and leadership of guilds(/unions) tend to prefer stability and larger organizations over a rich array of smaller companies that make it much harder to exert control.
Mountain View, CA: Bump Technologies really wants to hire YOU, but we're having too much late night fun at our hackathon to tell you more! Drop us a line, and we'll call you when we take a break.

http://bu.mp/jobs
The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society had an article on the subject in 2004. An inventor/agent who'd read the article promptly submitted several applications.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/movie_plotline_paten...
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20051103183218... (this article's link to the published application is no longer accurate)

the ... proponent's website has its own legal reasoning:
http://www.plotpatents.com/about_us.htm

USPTO publication numbers for a few of their applications
20050272013
20050282140
20050255437
20050244804

You can find those on google's patent search or the USPTO's Public Pair service: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair

And beyond just being... questionable as a type of invention, the applications seem eager to see just how broad such claims might be:

1. A process of relaying a story having a timeline and a unique plot involving characters, comprising: indicating that a first character experiences dj vu to mask an actual event.
Boston, MA: https://www.streetaccount.com/careers.aspx

StreetAccount provides real-time news and data to institutional investors. We're a small but feisty company that has seen great success. We're most urgently looking for some good people with SQL Server experience. You can email me at kzaragoza@streetaccount.com if you have any questions.
Having a large battleship collection does allow you to line them up nicely for review:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Fleet
this

Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience or money.
"The cabin crew will point out your nearest exit now…"
there's a who's hiring thread going on right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607052
Come work at Onswipe. We're hiring 6 awesome engineering positions: http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs. Email: founders@onswipe.com . It goes directly to Mark Bao, myself, and Andres Barreto.

Not convinced? Read this: http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs/9-reasons-why-you-need-to-work-...
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London or San Francisco (full-time)

WebMynd is hiring Javascript and iPhone developers as #8 and #9 in the company.

We make it 10x easier to get our customers' apps onto multiple platforms. We've started with browser add-ons: write it once for Chrome and, with our framework, it'll work on Firefox, Safari and IE. Android and iPhone are next.

Every day we're working to make developer's lives easier, letting them focus on features for their users rather the cross-platform plumbing.
One Reclined Seat Leads To Jet Turning Around, Fighters Being Scrambled
"Just as Western Civilization staggered and faded after the fall of Rome, Western Civilization has never really recovered from the shock of the Great War. Cultures which endured and developed over a thousand years were wiped out, never to return again. Western culture, abstract thought and artistic development: nothing important has developed since 1919; we’re still reeling from the shock."

What a load of bollocks. The author hasnt heard of the situationism, dada-ism, Zerzan or Sartre but for sure the western civilization has.

Further on "The Mongols never had the societal organization the West did, so they could never take advantage of their successes, and their various empires only served to make the Russians and Chinese paranoid, and Eastern European women more exotic looking.".

This is also bollocks, the mongols successfully ruled a vast area from China to Europe, the silk road was again revived, you could travel from Poland to Peking and not get robbed. The mongols collected all the taxes from such a vast region, even after Djenghis Khan died, thats some hell of organization right there.

On manuvre warfare, Alexander The Graeat (or as persions like to call him Alexander the Gay) certanly knew about this.
BeyondCompare does this and it's amazing.
That's not exactly true. I'm not new here. Just because there's a bunch of teens and young 20s doing "Show HN" stuff doesn't mean that "Build first, find market second" is the best thing in all situations, does it? Lots of "Show HN" stuff is of the "Hey, I'm learning {new language} and built this to help learn it. What do you think?" variety which doesn't apply here.

The way I see it the guy asked a question hoping to help the community and you are flippantly telling him his question is worthless; that you won't give him "actionable feedback" until he spends 20-30 hours on it. Pshaw.
Dallas, TX, Fulltime
We're an enterprise SaaS software business, hiring another Sr. Software Engineer to join our team of 6, working with Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Mongo, Postgresql, and every Amazon Web Service tool. Interested? Send a note to doug@netinlet.com
That was an amazing launch, no doubt about it.

All the theatre of an Apple product launch. Well done.
Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2
SEEKING WORK
In India,
I've worked on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, C#, JQuery and other web related stuff with MS stack

Availability up to 20 hr/week

Reference - http://in.linkedin.com/in/maheshsingh
It's an interesting position, but there is no contact information.

Also, in case some people get put off by the PDF, I created a page for it on Job4dev: http://job4dev.com/jobs/15737/radialpoint-python-django-deve...
I'll second the request for a blog post or write-up.

I'd love to read more about setting up nginx, ec2, s3 and cf.
DIY breakout dock looks to get professional sound out of iPad 2
Cartoonist recommends increasing taxes on the poor
This is not exactly convincing. Battleships, far from being a ridiculous idea, were a logical and necessary step for any navy wishing to project power at sea. They were so heavily armoured and gunned that for a long time, from the late 19th Century to just before WWII, the only realistic defence against a battleship was another battleship.

While the Battle of Jutland may seem silly, the alternative would have been a bunch of smaller ships duking it out (probably for a similar result) or only one side possessing battleships and annihilating the other side.

Manoeuvre warfare with a lighter fleet was not an option, as smaller vessels had smaller guns that frequently could not even penetrate a battleship's armour. So a battleship would've been able to pick off opponents at ease while they struggled to cause any damage. It's no good getting inside your opponent's OODA loop if you can't cause any damage.

And the technology that would have permitted another nation to bypass the idea of a battleship altogether and attack it from a different angle just did not exist at the time. It was only decades after Jutland that naval aircraft and aircraft carriers became fast and advanced enough to make the aerial bombing and torpedoing of enemy vessels a real possibility. These days missiles are the great equalisers.

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.

With reference to the hacker context, the lesson is that simply moving quickly isn't enough. You also need to understand what a competitor's real weaknesses are as well as understand which parts of their strengths you're incapable of attacking. If your enemy has battleships and all you have are frigates, then maybe you shouldn't be fighting them at sea.
Houston, TX - C/C++ and PHP Engineers

We are looking for talented individuals with or without a formal education or experience. You must be local or willing to relocation to apply.

About Us:
"MediaFire was founded in August 2006 by a group of website enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from the San Francisco Bay Area who were frustrated by the troublesome process of sharing large files over e-mail and FTP. They created MediaFire to provide the world with the simplest file hosting service for sharing files and images over the internet and launched the first version in October of 2006. MediaFire is one of the largest websites in the world reaching 115+ million people per month. "

Apply at: http://www.mediafire.com/jobs.php
We're much more concerned about the very real problem that people (e.g. competitors) will use our research and work.

How is that plausible? Aren't these trade secrets? Is your research/work publicly visible?
Philadelphia, PA

We're hiring developers and DBAs to help work on the next phase of search and discovery. You can check out the position on LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1637027&...
Chat rooms wouldn't be interesting to me. Finding a way to get away from what HN has become and get back to where it was 1-2 years ago would be interesting.
The Difference Between A Brand And Just A Website
New York, NY (full-time, onsite)

bitly - http://bitly.com/jobs (or just e-mail jobs@bitly.com)

We're adding Systems Administrators, Frontend Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, and a UX Designer

We can handle H1Bs if necessary
Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps
We were discussing Uni as useful to make connections (which it really isn't better than networking), so I don't at all want the research function to go away - the NSF/NIH should be subsidized with the money from the government education funding that used to indirectly fund them.

I also would contend, as studies show, that most Uni students come out without an appreciable increase in skills - compared with mentor/protege I think this underperforms society.
This is not news, but a replication of a frequent finding of studies of ADD/ADHD individuals. It's likely that some ADD patients use nicotine as "self-medication" of their attention disorder, for which nicotine has a partial, haphazard therapeutic effect (along with lots of side effects from smoking as a drug delivery system).
In Canada the system is slightly different. We usually don't have as many internships as we have coops. The main differences between the two are the following:

* Coop is usually paid
* It's usually technical.
* Some universities have programs to support coops.

The biggest coop program is from the University of Waterloo. All engineering students are required to take part in the program which combines work and school by alternating between a school semester and work semester. The university has it's own job posting website, and it actively foes looking to find more employers to offer jobs. It also makes sure that the student gets to do real work, not make coffee all day. If a student feels like he's getting the short end of a stick with a job, he can complain to the university which will look into it and clear things up.

Disclaimer: I am a student at uWaterloo.
I like the idea of losing patents if you don't have a product in the market within a year or so.
"I started optimizing my workflow with various scripts and tools"

The stats are nice but i 'd like to read about the optimizations and changes to the workflow that lead to performance boost.
Bride of the son of the revenge of cell phones and cancer rises from the grave
I used it extensively when porting a Clipper application to Dataflex - being able to capture the screens into an editor was an incredible timesaver.
Method 6: return to 16-bit mode, call interrupt 0x19 (not if you're on efi).

Method 7: return to 16-bit mode, set cs to 0xf000 and jump to 0xfff0.

Linux used to use method 6, but it wasn't reliable either. Something tells me returning to 16-bit mode might not be possible for some hardware / driver combinations.
There will be around 120 start-ups looking to hire at the Silicon Alley Talent Fair on June 16th. You can view the list of hiring Start-ups along with the positions they are looking to fill: bit.ly/SATFtalent
As a paying customer of github, I'd like to know, too. If there is a link, I am deeply disappointed and believe this is exceedingly unprofessional.
Big warships could accomodate bigger cannons. Bigger cannons could deliver bigger shells further, enabling your warships to hit the enemy while keeping out of their range.

These capital ships aren't being built today because missiles and fighter planes suddenly negated their advantage, not because they weren't a good idea to begin with.

IMHO it's an overwhelming act of condescension pretending to be smarter than thousands of admirals and military advisors, many of them with lots of real world experience fighting wars and stuff.
SEEKING WORK

Currently in the Philippines. New Zealand guys, I have a pending Skilled Immigrant Visa for New Zealand (application submitted last April 2011).

PHP, MySQL, jQuery (Javascript), Apache, Zend Framework, Wordpress, Joomla, etc.

PM me if you want more details.
I was not meeting his expectations of how engineers are supposed to behave

Everyone, male or female, is expected to meet or exceed the expectations of their boss, male or female. It's called "employment".
It's actually all Engineering departments. The Science, Arts and Math faculties also have either optional or compulsory coop degrees for their students.
is it possible to stay "above board" with bitcoins? i.e., pay capital gains tax when you cash out, or in someway pay taxes on your bitcoin income?
Pixfizz is hiring a Ruby and Javascript developer. It includes RESTful rails, Node.js and a rich client-side web-app.

Based in London, UK, considering from the EU and US.
Details: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/11806/ruby-and-javascr...
San Mateo, CA (could be remote)

Scale Computing is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with file systems experience

About Scale: We are a well funded storage startup seeking an experienced software engineer to aid in the development of our clustered storage product.

Apply Here: http://scalecomputing.myexacthire.com/ViewJob-29077.html
You've actually got a really good idea. The author touches on it VERY briefly when he says "If the nations of the world had the equivalent cost invested in submarines or destroyers, maybe the same thing would have happened.", but I get the feeling that that is more lip service than him providing (what he thinks is) a legitimate counterpoint.

Good insight!
I think it's hard to predict what abolishing patents would do to innovation. For example, there are no patents in fashion, which actually ends up putting pressure on creators to be superinnovative to stay ahead of the copycats. Ref: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang///id/866
Nonsense. It's a good idea to not do stupid things like breathing narcotic mixes at significant depths.
Excelerate Labs raises $1.2M from Lightbank, OCA and others to fund incubator
It's a doofus rant that misstates federal (and state) tax policy and confuses what the right to vote is for. The general economic theory is that all taxes have "tax incidence" on consumers in general, although the details of which tax has the most incidence on which category of consumers can be a matter of scholarly controversy.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/encyclopedia/Incide...

http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/ccarroll/Courses/365/Topics/5...

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ301/qiao/taxinciden...

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/25402.html

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/11/tax-inciden...

P.S. I appreciate the headline of the submission here on HN, which correctly marked how seriously to take this proposal--not very seriously at all.
I've observed a principle that militaries build to win the last total war they fought. This is why guys like Billy Mitchell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell) were ignored about the importance of air power leading up to WWII. The status quo was to gear up for another WWI, complete with entrenched and barely mobile front lines.

But of course the German Blitzkreig, a brilliant archetype of maneuver warfare, overran these emplacements, the fixed system of defense built by the French being the best example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line).

The US military has been developed for the last 60 years to re-win World War II; even the Cold War was really just the US and Russia building to re-win WWII until Russia ran out of cash.

As one can see given the issues that the US military has had in Iraq and Afghanistan the WWII methods of battle, which have devolved back to phalanx warfare, are struggling (again) to defeat maneuver warfare.
With the government in the hole to the tune of 14T and counting, I think its time for everybody to pay more taxes.
Looking for a community manager for a fast growing app on the Facebook platform (and hopefully beyond). Email in profile.
Yes it is very expensive. There are about 40,000 policemen in NYC. Then again, there were lots of cops in old days too -- but they weren't managed very well.

Back in the 80's, it was crazy. I grew up in a good neighborhood in Queens. The NYPD hid the drunks and incompetents in precients that served safer neighborhoods in those days. One day, a car almost hit my friends playing stickball in the street, then proceeded to go down the block and empty an Uzi into a guy at a bus stop. (Life Lesson: Don't piss off Columbian drug dealers.)

So my dad calls the cops. He dials 911, and the cop asks "Are they still shooting?" and hangs up when my dad says "Uh, no". He ended up pulling the fire department call box out on the street, and the firemen called for cops over the radio.