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San Francisco, CA - Pushpins

Help Us Kill the Paper Coupon!

Pushpins – an venture-backed startup founded by two Harvard graduates who have previously started companies focused on retail point of sale systems and commerce analytics.

Our goal is to create a massively scalable self-service digital coupon platform to shift the 400 billion paper grocery coupon business to mobile.

We have developed and integrated a cloud-based solution into thousands of grocery and drug stores across the country. Our iOS application was the #2 productivity application on iTunes and has been featured by Apple multiple times.

We are looking for strong strong object-oriented developers with experience with PHP/Java and MySQL

Want to join the team? http://www.pushpinsapp.com/jobs/
Are there any open source tools that you really like? Perhaps you can start by contributing some bug fixes (ask on the forums or IRC for some easy suggestions) to these projects? That will get your feet wet and build some confidence.
If you use SQL Server, then you absolutely needs to be using the RedGate SQL tools, which also includes SQL Source Control, which will make versioning your 500 SPs very very very easy.

Don't delay - www.redgate.com
Ferrari Theme For Windows 7 
Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street cars. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success.
Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity
I find this blog post utterly stupid. It's a pseudo-idealistic view of the world. Google created a programming language as their vision of how language should be. They did not create Google Wave for ads. That's how Google works, they experiment, and if it's accepted they work out a business model for it. I cannot speak for Twitter or Facebook, but Google, I am pretty sure, that's the case. Sorry Mr. Dave Copeland, I differ.
Nice. Planning on monetizing it with the DEA?
Depending on what they hire him for, it could also be the last time you see a jailbreak tool from anyone ;P.
PayPal: 12M monthly users are paying for Facebook games
It's somewhat hard to calculate where my time is spent as I don't really keep a good record of it. If I had to guess, I would say the breakdown is something like this:

40% - Coding

30% - Customer Service

10% - Marketing

10% - Sys. Admin

10% - Business
While product adoption may not be viral, perhaps product marketing is. One small blog picks up a story, which may in turn get picked up by a bigger blog, which then gets picked up by a major media outlet. The adoption profile still looks viral, even though the adopters are not communicating their preferences directly to each other through the social network.
The interesting thing about this is that pretty much every point in the article can be read as: the internet changes consumer markets to be more like the idealized markets in economics textbooks.

Just a random observation, but it might be something for serious economists to look into.
Even a very 18th-c conception of the federal government doesn't have it receiving no direct tax. In fact it was considered necessary that it have its own direct source of revenue, since its financial dependence on the states was one of the things crippling the Articles of Confederation government. Import tariffs were long the main tax. In that case, the Constitution does make sure that federal taxation means no state taxation, because states are prohibited from enacting tariffs. The other traditional main source of federal revenue was income from federal lands (mining, forestry, etc.).
That might be the best reason to hire him actually.
Absolutely.

Google's mission statement is: "Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Nothing in that statement necessarily presumes the use of ads to pay for it. If users said "we'd rather pay 1c per search than see ads" (and the math added up) Google would change to that instead.

I'm currently an intern at Google. Everyone knows where the money comes from, but day-to-day, engineers talk about what's best for the users, not about what's going to help connect ads. That's what the ads division is for, and that's only one of 7 product groups.

Everyone else is trying to make products to help people, and even ads feels like its helping too by finding you the products you want more quickly.
New York, NY - Broadway Technology

Profitable 40 person software company creating a successful trading platform for fixed income securities and others (we are not a hedge fund, we don't trade ourselves). Located right by The Bull on Broadway in Manhattan. Will sponsor TN-1, and some opportunity to work remote.

http://broadwaytechnology.com/careers
You're probably underselling yourself. Make that 50 quid/hr at least.
I'm actually flabbergasted that neither the Lucene project nor Oracle tested and found this bug long ago. Java 7 builds have been available for years. Makes me wonder how many developers tried an early Java 7 build, got this error and then didn't report it because they assumed someone else was going to find it and report / fix it.

Update: Earlier report of this bug on June 20th:
http://osdir.com/ml/solr-user.lucene.apache.org/2011-06/msg0...
Another report of AggressiveOpts crashing PorterStemFilter in Jan:
http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Java-6u23-an...
I'm interested in why you opted for a name tied to such a specific use case.

Surely there are lots of other document types where this kind of service could come in handy. Briefly and just off the top of my head: CVs/résumés, marketing mailshots, blog posts...

Was it an intentional choice to try and limit the scope of the application?
This is a great and honest article and has changed the way I think about Apple users/developers.

Before that, I considered Apple users to be a group of gay douchebags, but today I have learned that there is at least a sane person on the other riverside.

(I have neither developed for any smartphone nor do I possess one, so no need for "Stupid FANDROID!1!")
Blizzard, strangely enough, is probably in the perfect position to start a successful virtual currency.

In fact, they might just do it by accident.
Was Steve Yegge Right?
Using Eclipse gets better as you get more comfortable with its peculiarities. I think the author did a good job of summing up the Eclipse experience--there's a lot to hate, and a lot to like. After using Eclipse for several years, it still has that "designed by committee" feel, but I do find myself missing some of its features when I'm using other environments.
Antarctic ice and future sea level rise: big questions
oracle is free for dev.
http://OmniQRCode.com was the result of a 2-man, 5-hour HACKBLITZ - http://i.imgur.com/uYgoO.jpg - plus about a week and a half of one to two hour fix/finish/polish sessions.
Android takes almost 50% share of worldwide smartphone market
Keymando: A Full-featured Input Mapping and Automation Tool for OSX
What do you use the bottom statusbar for?
I don't know who renowned iOS developer Mike Lee is, but I think this is fantastic. The only way small timers can effect this legal change is to band together like a union. And we've seen how powerful a union can be.

Trolls are going down, man.
I'm not a practicing Buddhist but one of the principles of the Noble Eightfold path is the idea of 'right livelihood'. Which essentially means that you should avoid making a living doing something which does harm to other living things. One of the listed livelihoods to avoid is being in the business of making weapons. This really struck home when I was working for a company doing a lot of DARPA work. I had previously worked in Universities and in a small community organization. I have to say going home at the end of the day at the previous positions made me feel good about myself in a way that cannot be replaced with increased income. It was disheartening to know that if I worked my hardest at the DARPA company, all I did was essentially help the US military kill people better. I eventually left that position to go work for a state university.

So I do strongly think that no matter how interesting the problems, and no matter how good the pay one should avoid working in areas that do cause harm to others.

Unfortunately the world we live in is a bit more complicated that than one the Buddha lived in, so answering the question "Does what I do cause harm to others?" is a bit trickier to answer. I personally don't know if selling ads meets that qualification, I certainly don't think that merely making a profit does, and I don't know enough about the field to know about HFT and the like. But I do think the important thing to do is ask yourself that question, and if you aren't happy with your answer then it may be time to look elsewhere.
Fulfilling psychological and social needs are a huge part of the consumer economy. bigger houses , branded cars and brands in general , going to pubs and restaurants and vacations , everything that has to do with design.And entertainment. all those are there to fulfill psychological and social needs.

The web offers a cheap alternative , that's rapidly improving(google+ hangouts for example), for fulfilling psychological and social needs.
rvschuilenburg, that's true, it's a convenience tradeoff.

On my end, I intend to grow this service at a slower, manageable pace, which which makes it easier to focus on availability for a smaller, more valued user base.
Amazon.com - Seattle WA - No remote, but willing to relocate based on experience. H1B is possible, again, depending on experience.

I am looking for a strong Systems Support Engineer for our growing team. We like to describe our organization as a Startup within Amazon, as our part of the business is still growing rapidly and our engineers can have a lot of influence on where the product goes. For this role in particular, I am looking for someone with a strong infrastructure/hardware bias to help us make the changes we need to scale our business over the next ten years without having to lift a finger.

Job description below. Contact me at ${hn_username}@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Amazon Seller Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running and our customers happy. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and solve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during business hours oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience
What does it look like with a bunch of tabs open?
His name also shows up in a few of his GitHub repositories, so it's not like they used illegitimate tactics to uncover his real identity that was already somewhat public.

Forbes shouldn't be chastised over releasing his name, and anyone who thinks that blackmail or anything of the sort played a role is just being silly.
Glad they finally copied Chromium.

Would be great if they copied it too with regards to startup speed and JS execution speed.
Eve is hemorrhaging accounts and the player outrage from the aftermath of their attempts to directly monetize the playerbase beyond PLEX accounts make them a VERY bad example to follow.

http://beefjack.com/news/eve-online-revolts-could-cost-ccp-1...

$1mm is a big deal for a small, niche company like CCP.
SEEDING WORK. Austin, TX.

Highly skilled native iPhone, iPad, iOS ObjC development. Previous clients include Fortune 500s and the US DoD.

"Off the menu" we also do Python/Google AppEngine, PHP, and Mac development. There are 3 of us.

PLEASE NO profit sharing, unfunded ventures, etc.

Please contact through http://drewcrawfordapps.com.
Good feedback, thanks!

The shortcuts TAB and SHIFT+TAB make total sense (Why didn't I think of this?). Will push an update tomorrow with those features added.
>>At some point one applies Occam's razor, but you're never going to convince everyone, especially those who don't _want_ to believe (See the 9-11 truthers.)

I would argue that those who you say "don't want to believe" are as idignant as you are. From your comment, it seems that you accept the official story. What would it take for you to believe anything different about these matters? You are actively ignoring evidence that might not support what you already take to be true. This is bad science. The public is dogmatic in their Most of the US is happy with this position though. It's easier to just accept the official story and not to question any of it, even when the evidence contradicting these events begins to pile up (liquid metal at the WTC, WTC7, the assasination of Bhutto after she claims Osama bin Laden is dead, etc. there are many, many more suspicious facts that seem to contradict the official story).

And then to invoke Occam's razor? What is simpler: to accept what is being fed to you from one source? Or the notion that there is much more going on in all of these events, and that the government is trying to prevent the public from realizing certain details for whatever reason? Does that really seem too crazy to be true?
Those types of licenses are generally free for developers.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.ht...
Where's the mockup for Windows? There are way more people running Firefox on Windows than OS X.
San Diego, CA - StockTwits

Ruby Developer: http://stocktwits.jobscore.com/jobs/stocktwits/ruby-develope...
Yeah, maybe I should have clarified that when I said "always" I meant "circa 2003" :P
In order to vary the discount without making customers angry you have to change the product , not only the price. For many products , that's pretty difficult to do.
It's towards the bottom. Just scroll down.
SOJs?
http://suplify.me Helps your company organize communication with your customers over email, Facebook and Twitter. Launched to public beta :)
Possibly a naive question but: did you use a css template or something to make that design? I have a hell of a time making sites look that great in 48 hrs...
You misunderstand my criticism. The problem isn't that they're proposing an imperfect algorithm to a problem that's too computationally expensive to solve perfectly. The problem is that what they're proposing is strictly worse than NHST (which is the current status quo).

Look at it this way. If you're testing N different pieces of your site, trying Ni changes for each, and some of the variables are dependent on each other (which is almost certainly the case), then doing local improvements to each part is as likely to make the result worse as it is to make it better. NHST does not have that problem because you switch to a new layout only when you have enough evidence that it increases convergence. So the proposed algorithm is strictly worse than NHST. Not all imperfect algorithms are created equal.
For someone like you very familiar with the jailbreak community I find the lack of trust very disturbing :)
SEEKING WORK: Fulltime or freelance. Seattle, WA or remote.

Worked with Java and Perl for a while, now trying to focus on "the other side." Marketing, market research, business development, optimizing business practices (the ability to write the occasional script really helps with a lot of this).

Also pretty experienced with building Wordpress and hacking and customizing themes.

email: zaccohn@gmail.com
For #5 you usually have some database setup/teardown stage, where you create (or destroy) new testing database and setup all the stuff you need. This is pretty hard to do with pl/sql.
You're definitely right -- the concept can be used in lots of other places. We talked about this a bunch, and decided that we'd stick with proposals.

If we tried to make the user interface general enough to support any kind of document it would get more complicated. Off the top of my head, we'd need:

* Arbitrary keywords, not just "client names".
* More help text to explain how things work, give examples, etc.
* Probably some more options for the layout of the result, like "show date".

We decided to go with the "do one thing well" approach partly to avoid this extra UI complexity, partly because we only had 48 hours to make it, and partly because "Proposalmatic" is a much cooler/stronger name than "Document-maker".

The site could be easily forked, reskinned and set up for another type of document though. It really fits perfectly with the resume idea -- I hadn't thought of that particular case before. Maybe we should make a "Resume-o-matic" sister site.
In fact, by locating distribution centers much further from population centers, they require even more government services.
I am also very familiar with comex ;P.
As far as I know Sawyer did it all from scratch. I'll see if I can get him to answer here.
Top Extreme Body Modifications: Weird or cool?
Yes, I think it's a huge commercial opportunity. I could use such a product too, and I sincerely wish you luck. However, the bandit approach is almost certainly not the right way to do it, and most of the value will come from the tools and integration, not a magical statistical model.

I do believe Bayesian network construction will work, though I don't know how much better it would do than NHST.
Chrome, is that you?
Yeah, I think you should start a "Who is looking for work?" thread instead, and keep Who Is Hiring for folks that are hiring.
I wonder if it occurs to anyone how renting your place out impacts your neighbors. I'm not sure everyone is happy about transients coming and going in a particular building that someone might rent out and the safety of that to others in the building. Some condo buildings for example don't even allow a lease of less than 1 year because it changes the nature of the building.
Personal opinions - first impressions ...

I hate video - I far prefer a single, elegant diagram with a small amount of text:

+---------+
| Twitter | ------.
+---------+ \
\ Something here
+----------+ \ to show that
| Facebook | -------------> Suplify Timeline you can easily
+----------+ / search or index
/ in the timeline
+-------+ /
| Email | --------'
+-------+

I don't care why you did it - I really, really only care about the pain you will take away. Is this an aspirin? Or is it a vitamin? Will you take away pain? Or will you help me work stronger and faster?

Try not to say "Both" - try to be more focussed.

I've not watched the video, and you may answer this there, but how can I find things quickly and easily? Do I search with a text box?

These are my instant reactions, those were my immediate questions, and from your landing page I can't see how to get them answered. I can watch the video, but I have no idea if that will answer my questions. I'd like to see from the page a link or graphic that makes it clear that clicking there really will answer my question(s).

Hope that helps.
What's your beef with the chrome search box?
Teagueduino Early Access Workshop in Seattle (it’s free)
Be faster than Chrom(ium) with regards to start up speed and JS execution.

I abandoned FF after having used it since it was "Phoenix 0.1", because it had become slow and bloated, like NN had been before. Would love to switch back, but not if I can open 5 Chromium instances in the same time it takes to open one FF window.
I used to have the same problem, but it turns out that you can tell compiz to hide the title bar. Takes a tiny bit of getting used to (Alt is your friend), but it's pretty nice otherwise.

http://jaket.is-a-geek.com/blog/linux/remove-titlebar-on-max...
Oh, I see. They have 1 mockup for Windows and the rest are for OS X. Brilliant.
Nobody's going to help you, and that's awesome
You've misconstrued "improving someone's life" to being "meaningful work". Maybe a banker thinks his career is meaningful, but bankers do not improve people's lives. The people who built the house you're buying are the ones who improve your life. The banker is an unnecessary middleman. Middlemen in almost every scenario are redundant and merely add drag to our society. If we could eliminate the bankers job, automate it somehow, maybe we can get them to pick cherries or something useful.
If "more about" means "non-zero", sure. I don't work in ads now, but I appreciate the extremely tricky and fractal problem they are trying to solve, in the same way I appreciate the work people do in security, design, features, reliability, etc.

The OP has a point: most advertising is a waste of time for both the advertiser and the recipient. There are many perverse incentives that skew outcomes, even leaving aside spam and scams. It's totally fine to hate bad ads.

But condemning advertising per se because most ads don't work is like condemning programming because most strings of characters don't compile.
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I have no clue how there is even a question about the legality of using your own hardware for whatever you want. I could "crash cell phone towers" with my car, but that doesn't give Ford the right to weld my hood shut. Seriously, how is this acceptable to anyone?
Hah, not sure marriage proposals are something I'd want to automate...

And yeah, the copy wasn't number one on the todo list. We'll clean it up and flesh it out once the sites are unfrozen from the judging process.
I don't have a beef. I greatly prefer it.
I could be an edge case, but I really dislike branded chrome skins that become a part of the window (like the Harry Potter example). Just feels tacky to me.
They haven't dropped it yet.

Personally, I don't like this at all, because you never know what information is getting leaked to the search engine...
Having a dedicated search box is my big beef with every other browser.
Thanks for digging that up, I hadn't seen it the first time it came around. It seems obvious now but I really hadn't given any thought to how fairness in voting systems would ultimately come down to math. I'm not going to dig into it now but I've bookmarked it for reading on a rainy day. Cheers :)
San Francisco, CA

Justin.tv / TwitchTV hiring programmers to build the future of competitive gaming.

By leveraging our existing video infrastructure, which includes an international CDN and the world’s highest quality live video, Justin.tv has become the world's largest site for live competitive gaming. We now need developers to join us in building out TwitchTV - our new website dedicated to competitive gaming. Our goal is to connect people around the games they love.

We are looking for talented engineers who are excited about the future of gaming. We are still small, but growing extremely quickly.

Interested in learning more? Email me directly: justin@justin.tv.

Justin