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New York, NY - Lot18 (http://www.lot18.com)

Hiring Python and PHP engineers. (http://www.lot18.com/careers#software_2)

We believe building a strong engineering culture is the key to building a great company and product. Part of that vision is working with the best tools, many of which are open source. Here's a taste: Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Tornado, Chef, git, Vagrant, MySQL, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, jQuery and more! Every piece of code that gets released to production is reviewed first to ensure high code quality, coding standards and continued learning. Our engineering team is 10+ and growing.
Look at someone like Garry Tan of Posterous, he can design and code, and for that he is significantly more desirable than a large portion of designers. I would not call it bullshit.
What happens when AOL finally decides to go private?
The same thing that happens to a salesperson that doesn't sell enough to justify their (usually small) salary.
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Memoization-by-Google.
Creating software that is a Strange Loop
I don't think this contest depends on a serious problem with the C language. The 2008 winner (http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=17) could have been written in any language.
This is a stupid statement. Pretty much every code depends on a state (i.e. the content of the heap memory) and is thus a state machine (by its most generic definition).

I think he is referring mostly to a finite state machine, though. But even then, you have that quite often somehow in your code (think of global boolean variables).
It's worse now than it was for generation X. The 90s were still cheap.
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A typical 22 year old developer is not capable of creating a foundational product. Sounds like he's getting what he's worth. Doesn't matter what the developer they should have hired would be worth.

People always want to skimp on developers. Would you hire a new college grad to design a $100 million building? No? Then why hire one to build the foundation for a $100 million company? It's certainly not simpler.
>they think it's just such a privilege to work on their golden idea that they don't need to compensate properly

I think the time you check out a company's viability is early on. You know if you're being overcompensated then it becomes obvious the person in control doesn't know how to manage money. If you're under-compensated, then this could be the fact that money is tight but you'll get rewarded later on, or it could mean that you've pulled a freak.

At the end of the day, if your code is GPL then you're way ahead so it's wise to push for that. This frees up your ability to use the code later on if the business people become dicks. From a business perspective, GPL means more eyes on the project and their business sensibilities will need to leverage their knowledge of marketing and triggering purchase responses for fair value.

Whenever I ask the GPL question I keep my mouth shut. If the person gets offended by it, then I know there is a good chance they will be out to screw me later on. If they are open but uncommitted then they probably want to also screw the coders out of ROI.

The only accepted no to GPL is the legal documented, "you can release this open source in three years after our first release" in which case then I know they aren't probably going to try and screw me over. Their model is based on revenues generated from a certain product during a certain window, not being overly controlling and secretive. That's good business sense to make money while the sun shines, without raining on someone's parade!
Geometric algebra: http://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Algebra-Computer-Science-Rev...

It is to linear algebra what Lisp is to assembly.
Interesting, but 2 problems for me:

1) No prices listed. I don't like getting into something and then finding out the prices aren't acceptable.

2) No Coffeescript. Okay, technically anything that runs Javascript is good for Coffeescript, but it would be nice if the integrated editor would deal with it, too.
https://gist.github.com/

Easy to share, easy to use, decent looking.
Broadway Technology, New York, NY (right by The Bull! Also right by Fog Creek).

We're a small, profitable ~40 company revolutionizing fixed income and foreign exchange trading by creating a very fast trading platform (don't worry though - we don't trade ourselves, we're very much a software company). We're hoping to grow a lot! Positions are available for developers as well as consultants! Some opportunity to work remote, also, profit sharing for the win. See http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers, and mention Hacker News if you decide to apply!
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SEEKING FREELANCER (remote Infographic designer for http://feefighters.com

Here's what we've done. We hate some of these (hired the wrong guy) http://feefighters.com/blog/infographics/

Job description: http://feefighters.com/jobs/infographic-designer/

email me with what you've done
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Ruby on Rails, frontend (HTML5/CSS3/JQuery), Mobile, Design.
Boston-based.
Remote: OK.
Sample: http://www.bostonflip.com site/iPhone/Android soup to nuts.
Your argument is like saying that we shouldn't discuss guns since any criminal could just realize that guns kill people and start killing people.
Grooming your code base
The founders are playing a dangerous game in this story. If key engineers don't have much reason to stick around other than it being exciting, they are likely to leave as soon as they get bored or tired. And yes, you can get bored while working 80 hour weeks.

I was once in this exact position. I was the first employee and over the next few years a bunch of senior managers came in and each got 5-10x the stock I'd gotten.

When the whole thing got old, I looked around and saw that I didn't have much upside potential (especially since there had been dilution), my salary was below market, and I left.

What was incredible looking back is that something similar happened with a truly key engineer... someone who was recruited out of a university because he had more or less built the text mining library the company was using by himself. A product line rested on his shoulders, so he had a ton of responsibility, but when things got rough he didn't have enough reason to stick around.

Added: The point is, there are good times and bad times in startups. In the good times you should look around and decide who you really need to stick around in the bad times and give out stock accordingly.
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The dichotomy of 'design vs code' feels artificial to me.

The activities of designing and of coding overlap extensively. Both require a clarity of communication, a deep consideration of the purpose of the thing to be designed/built, and a sense of taste.

If in the habit of extracting general principles from concrete examples, coders can become better coders by learning aspects of design and vice versa.

Many of the concepts in a 'coder' book like 'How to design programs,' for example, are readily applicable to UX design, e.g: refactoring, wishful thinking, generalisation of purpose, and the control of complexity by use of 'black boxes.'

Likewise, a 'designer' book like 'The design of everyday things' is full of stuff that applies usefully to the activity of coding, e.g: the importance of meaningful feedback, and of ensuring a clear mapping between expected actions and their outcomes.

These correlations aren't everywhere to be found, though. But I've always found interdisciplinary people to have the freshest approaches.
Given the last comment here, I think they would accept it: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
"A pro­gram­mer who does not design and illus­trate is not pro­gram­ming for humans, but prac­tic­ing at mathematics."

And it is -AWESOME-.

I've always envied people who can draw and design. It simply isn't one of my talents and I quit apologizing for it a while back. Instead, ask me to program your back end... It'll be amazing. Or even ask me to work with your designer. We'll all be happy.

But don't expect me to also do design for the same price as specializing in programming. The people who can do that are 'rock stars' and get paid as such.

If you think otherwise, what you've been hiring are designers who can do some coding... Just enough coding to get by. It's not visible to you because you're not looking at the code.
This position is the bullshit.

This argument is made by those that are completely satisfied with their design. A little engineering knowledge on their part could never make the design even better. no, never!
> For someone with this level of responsibility and involvement, $500,000 would be a more reasonable salary.

This is delusional. $500k isn't the going rate for senior software architects even at major companies. It's certainly not the going rate for a junior engineer building a product that may not even have a market.
"But it's too late for all this, you've signed a contract, so you should follow through, be happy with it, and do a good job."

No. Per your contract, you are an at-will employee. You are free to quit at any time, and if you're a valuable employee that gives you a constant source of bargaining leverage.
It's hard to state anything more meaningful than "It's different" when you've invested less than 0.5 hours of evaluating the software, and are also running a beta/alpha version of Ubuntu.
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Burbank, CA (Los Angeles) - Disney

Hiring backend an frontend engineers. We're doing ruby on rails (jruby), and we're pushing the envelope on the client side (css3, html5, etc). We have an amazing office, amazing benefits, and a small team that isn't corporate in any way. Oh, and we have a pension :)

Contact Me: jay.donnell@digisynd.com
I could see programmers running a dual boot with Windows and *nix.
I agree it isn't for everyone. I have 2 kids and a mortgage and I left a high paying contracting job to take less money at a startup.

I took the chance and I went from dreading work, to really enjoying it. It proves that money doesn't always buy you happiness.
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Chicago, IL - Braintree (http://www.braintreepayments.com)

We mostly work with Ruby/Rails. Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, scaling, security), and our devs have 10% time to work on whatever they want. Developers use and love our product. Although we mostly work with Ruby, we also work with Python, Node, Java, .NET, PHP, and Perl. Braintree is profitable, you'll have standard benefits (health/dental/vision), 401k match, ample vacation, an above market salary, and stock options.

More about our people, practices, and software: http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/how-we-bui...

Apply at http://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-careers or email me (address in profile).
If the history is tampered during a rebase how would you notice?

Suppose a tree well known for rebasing frequently is rebased on kernel.org, and the dev doing it works from the k.org servers (might be possible, since they give shell access).

Then downstream would just see it as yet another rebase, no?
The Guardian isn't saying PGP passwords are temporary. They're saying they had assumed the PGP-encrypted file they were provided was single-use, intended only for them and removed after they copied it.

That's a reasonable assumption. Why wasn't it single-use? Aren't people's lives presumably at stake here? How many lives do you need to risk before it becomes worth it to re-encrypt a data set? Why, after disclosing the encryption key to a journalist, did Assange retain the (now tainted) file?
We use hierarchical state machines (i.e. statecharts) quite a bit in our games.
Are you kidding? The guy who set himself on fire did so because his fruit cart was taken. He wasn't some high minded HN/Reddit addict who dropped his monocle when he read about some corruption issue. Tunisians dont need wikileaks to tell them their government is corrupt.

Its sad that the netizen class is going to give wikileaks credit for everything good that happens from now on. What self-congratulatory armchair revolutionary nonsense.
Being a programmer myself, I totally agree. I wanted to point out its not a linear comparison based on a money:equity parameter.
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SEEKING WORK
Location: Belgium
Remote: Sure

Skills: Java, C++, js/jQuery, html[5]/css, PHP (no framework experience)
Bonus: experience with open source GIS (maps!)
Looking for projects that can be done outside office hours
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Thanks, I'll think of how i can put the order process into a video.
Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We have fun problems at scale - real-time decision making plus web scale data. We have hired people from HN before and are always looking to meet new people.

We sell SAAS to internet retailers allowing them to test site content, target to visitor segments, and personalize web experiences.

Currently hiring for positions here: http://monetate.com/about/jobs/ - primarily product engineers, front-end developers.

We work primarily in Python and Javascript but are looking for talented engineers of any background who like solving new problems.

We are backed by First Round Capital and are growing quickly.

Please feel free to email: tjanofsky at monetate.
If you are going to work as an employee in a startup primarily for the money, you are doing it wrong already.
San Francisco, CA - Flickr

We recently had our 6 billionth photo uploaded and we (the engineers) just built and rolled-out the new geofences feature. Engineers really get to make a difference at Flickr on a daily basis. http://code.flickr.com/blog/2011/08/30/in-the-privacy-of-our... (That's my kitchen.)

We're hiring backend engineers, designers, and operations. Drop me a line at caudill -at- yahoo-inc.com if you're interested. I'd love to talk to you.
Exactly. And I'd bet that the employee pool is conditional on staying with HP for 1-4 years, whereas Lynch will get most or all of his payout immediately.
You're hired. Though we are mostly a Python shop, I'm sure you'll adapt. Sorry, no relocation package though. :)
<epiphany>
A small non-technical founding team looking to hire the best technical person they can is effectively looking for a co-founder, not an employee.

So you're right, the coder who would be willing to consider such early involvement in a project is probably fairly entrepreneurial and will lose out if he is taken on as anything other than an equal co-founder.
</epiphany>

This has been my feeling previously, but this post and the comments helped make it concrete.
INTERN - looking for a PR/Marketing intern at http://feefighters.com

We're in Chicago, you don't have to be, though it would be preferred. We've had great luck hiring programming interns from HN and have already hired a social media/marketing intern. We could use a Public Relations intern too.

Here's the job description for the marketing intern that we already filled... We haven't written a PR intern description yet but it would be similar, but with more Public Relationsy stuff.
http://feefighters.com/jobs/kickass-marketing-intern/

Press is a big part of what we do, for driving traffic to the site and SEO purposes. We have been able to get great press on our own (http://feefighters.com/press) and fired 2 different PR firms we were working with. Another aspect of PR is figuring out where we should be on the internet - responding in forums etc. Drop me a line if you're interested- email is in my profile.
Eugene, Oregon, internship possible, noremote, H1B applicants welcome.

On Time Systems is a small company that develops scheduling, routing, and other AI applications. We're currently looking for software engineers to work on Green Driver (a smartphone app that uses real-time data from traffic signals to help drivers find the fastest route (http://imagreendriver.com)) and ACFP, the flight planning system used by the US Air Force for routing non-combat flights. We're looking especially for engineers with a strong algorithmic background.

We have some really nice benefits, including (in addition to the usual ones) sabbaticals, massages, your own office with a window, and 100% tuition reimbursement (including flight school if you work on our flight planning software). We used to be a research lab at the University of Oregon, and the atmosphere maintains some of the academic feel.

See http://www.otsys.com/newpages/employment.php for more details. Send your resume to jobs+hackernews@otsys.com
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I don't see how this is different (even after reading the blog above), other than reducing the initial input list of CAs. Today, if a CA gets hacked, I pull them out of my trust-chain. Either way, I have to pay attention. Help me understand how it solves this, because I do think SSL is currently quite broken and would like to see a solution.
Here's the HN submission from last year:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261786

Not sure how much the product has changed since then. Straight off it doesn't use node.js (In the older thread he mentions it's because it's asynchronous thus not simplistic enough), which strikes me as an odd choice (Maybe it made more sense when node.js was younger).

I would absolutely use this as often as possible if it used node.js, it would make an awesome jsfiddle for server side code.
This may come off as insensitive, but this story really reads like an episode of CSI.
The biggest reason I like t-mobile is the wifi hotspot; no matter how spotty their coverage is in an area, if you have wifi coverage, you have t-mobile coverage. At my parents' place in the mountains near aspen, or my girlfriend's mom's place in the desert outside sedona, there is no cell phone coverage by any provider, but as long as I have wifi, I can make calls. It goes a long way towards making up for their smaller network.
The problem is that in a startup environment, needing to constantly explain how web application design works can waste significant time and energy, decreasing morale and impacting momentum. It's a drag, and an unnecessary one.

Web applications don't need to have heavily designed UI elements. The kind of designer that's useful for a web application is one who has a deep understanding of the unique constraints and conventions of web application design, not someone who is a whiz is Illustrator or screen printing.
Right, but the event system in question could be built up nicely in a couple of hours most likely, and the level of "translation" would be minimal compared to OR mapping - no columns/rows/joins/tables/anything else like that.

With such an application I'd probably still be writing the events themselves to a relational database for archiving and potentially sending out report-oriented data as well. I'm not sure how all of that would work out re: ultimately the whole app needs to be stored in an RDBMS anyway for various reasons but it seems interesting to try.
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I think the comparison is supposed to be with high / secondary school textbooks, which are cheaper than university ones. Raspberry Pi is a charity "to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level" and the device is aimed, in part at least, for use in teaching programming to children.[1]

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2
That number is pretty meaningless without a comparison to what the number used to be.
WikiLeaks releases mystery file
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Helsinki, Finland - Blaast (http://blaast.com)

Rocking mobile -- making it fun and accessible for millions of users and thousands of new developers.

Looking for various positions, from platform/backend, to operations, frontend and developer tools. We work with Scala, Java and Javascript. We are lean and fast. We deploy multiple times per day.

http://blaast.com/jobs
What are the other interesting parts of AOL that could get sold off as pieces?
San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

RG Labs is hiring: http://www.rglabsinc.com/jobs

We operate under the premise that the most important decisions we make are decisions about people (e.g., who to start a company with, who to hire, who to date/marry...)
We also feel like the Web is in its infancy in terms of helping us to make better decisions based on data and that this space could explode in coming years.

We're planning to be part of that explosion. :)

To hear more drop me a line directly at jonbischke at gmail or send us via our contact form. We'd love to tell you more.
Looking at Broadcom's part numbers, it's not a "current" product but it seems to fit in the same series of numbers as their 3G baseband processors and mobile multimedia processors.

I get the feeling it's a new mobile multimedia processor (judging by the HDMI+ARM+3d graphics supprot) which is being conveniently repurposed.

I reckon it'll be on the market soon enough but don't expect to be able to get anything out of Broadcom unless you want volume. Even Farnell don't carry their parts.
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Along the same line (and not defunct) the Backdoor Hiding & Finding Contest https://backdoorhiding.appspot.com/
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If Domscheit-Berg wasn't meant to have access to the data, why did he have access to the data? The way both parties relate the story, Domscheit-Berg's exposure to the data appears to have been "accidental": Assange left the unredacted data set on a Wikileaks-owned server that Domscheit-Berg managed, trusting a obscured directory name to protect them.

By Der Spiegel's recounting, it hardly matters what Domscheit-Berg's intentions were, because the files were unknowingly swept up in Wikileaks BitTorrent disaster recovery process. At that point, it became simply a matter of time before the contents of the data set became public, with or without Domscheit-Berg's promotion.

The personality conflicts here between Domscheit-Berg and Assange and Rusbridger and Leigh are probably a red herring. The evidence we have now strongly suggests that Wikileaks was not a careful steward of the data they had; that Wikileaks own convenience trumped tradecraft and security.

That's fine and human and normal for most types of data. But most of the time, we're not dealing with the names of informants and whistleblowers in the world's most repressive countries.