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Splunk, Seattle, San Francisco, Cupertino (H1B)

Splunk is hiring. You can see available positions here: http://www.splunk.com/view/careers/SP-CAAAAGG

We're generally hiring for everything, including core server engineers, dev platform engineers, dev marketing, product management, QA, performance, UI, etc. It's a big space with a lot of opportunity, and we're doing our best to capture it.

I work on the Dev Platform team in Seattle, and it's a blast. We're a small team (3 devs, including my manager, VP of Dev Platform), in a great space (across the street from Whole Foods in SLU), and everybody at Splunk is great. Feel free to reach out to me (my email is in my profile) with any questions.

We do H-1B, pre-IPO stock, benefits, etc.
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I was hoping to see some numbers from emusic in there. I've been paying my monthly subscription for years, and I've always been curious as to how the payout split goes.

Does anyone have a link / source / info on this?
If you are a Swedish company, and your file patents in Sweden, and then you sell a product in the US, a company can file a patent infringement suit in the US saying that your product infringes on their US patent. Your Swedish patents aren't relevant. The fact that you are selling your product in the US matters.

How this might apply to a SaaS company is an interesting question. If all the business is legally conducted in Sweden, perhaps there would be no US IP issues. But if any portion of the business in conducted in the US, that portion can be shut down if their is a patent issue in the US.
As I understand subsidized vs. unsubsidized, yes it is. I can buy the phone without entering into a contract. I can terminate service with VM after 30 days. I can sell the phone to someone else who can choose to buy service from VM or not.

True it isn't unlocked, but I'm not aware of anyone saying unsubsidized == unlocked.
It's "cheap" (aggressively priced) insofar as the value you are getting at that price point, not absolute price tag. The 'not what you'd expect' is that they are competing on price and quality
"...All the cynicism about bureaucrats wanting to look good might be true..."

No cynicism was intended. I'm simply trying to share my direct experiences, as indicated. My interests are in solving this problem, not throwing mud around and claiming it is impossible. When given a bucket of money, a vague and somewhat impossible task, people create systems of allocation and reporting that show progress, even though no actual progress is being made.

This has nothing to do with the government, government programs, or bureaucrats -- one of the big mistakes funded startups do is generate a lot of activity and paperwork without generating any results. There are a ton of startups generating mountains of paperwork -- reports, contracts, studies, research, white papers, market position statements, etc -- that will never have enough business to break even. Why? Because results are freaking hard, that's why. It's difficult to dynamically create a flow diagram full of ideas of various providence and adjust and tweak it as necessary. Much easier to construct some other, simpler measurement criteria that's more doable and simply measure against that. This is an attribute of groups of people put into stressful, complex, and difficult-to-tract situations that have to report to other groups. Organizational setting is not important. Apologies if somehow it read cynically. There is a great tolerance for dealing with uncertainty involved in the area of value creation that most people, frankly, find very uncomfortable.
Rockefeller Center NYC, onsite: #1 looking for #2

Bootstrapped prop ultra low latency trading firm (as opposed to a firm which originally had investors and later kicked them out), and I'm willing to cut significant equity. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835656 for some discussion of what I do.

I'm not a traditional finance guy, and I'm definitely not looking for a banking drone. Most of those tasks are handled by cron anyway. Sanctity of weekends are preserved.
the ideal candidate: mastery, to the level of obsession, with C/Python/coreutils; insatiable curiosity; inquisitive to a fault; chutzpah to challenge every assumption and assertion; calm under pressure; and desire to be involved in every aspect of the business.

Windonauts need not apply.

Excited? intransigence123@gmail.com
Mail servers are state machines. The SMTP protocol is all about state.

In a way any web app with a login is also a state machine - there's the logged in state, and the not logged in state.

erlang has a very effective state machine library(behavior). But the downside is that it's erlang. http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/fsm.html
I was thinking of doing the same thing. Would like to see the pic for inspiration/ideas, if possible.
Application-aware Firewalls: A Leap Forward or an Evolutionary Pit Stop?
Road trip: American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold
I would not consider this a business. In fact, the drive to monetize art is at the root of many problems with copyright expansion, culture privatization, and art quality.
"Your developers come in at 9:15 and leave before 6 and don't check work email at night: Hard"

Am I the only person who find this attitude obnoxious? I know -- and I'd like to include myself -- some good devs who don't sell 24x7 to our employers.

edit: in particular, I don't check work email at night. I don't do ops. People should write better code or hire a different engineer.
Most bands/artists work 40 hour weeks at real jobs. There are very few independent artists that do well enough to play music full time. If you can, it means you're touring constantly.
IDE and platform as a service offerings should make mobile development easier, not harder. If you're developing locally you need to somehow keep an open port via your NAT so that your mobile (web?) app and third party services can access it. With Akshell that URL is publicly available from the get go.
If I listen to only non-RIAA signed bands on Spotify (which I do), how exactly am I supporting major record labels?
I'm not sure. The Touchpad broke that way because it was a $600 device that was all of a sudden $99. People were anchored on "this is an expensive device" and all of a sudden it was supremely affordable.

A straight up $99 phone certainly wouldn't have quite the appeal. I do think you'd sell a bunch of them, but nothing like the touchpad.
Linux Kernel Site Hacked
The Inline Skates Hub has arrived
He is single handedly creating the product that is to be the source of their income from scratch. $65k is much less than half salary for this position.
Yeah, if your talking about eclipse, I'm a bit surprised myself also. The only big thing I can think of that it is lacking is type searching. Maybe quick hints too but thats not that big of a deal. Other than that it gives autocompletion, import management, inlining/extracting functions, etc. Is there something I'm missing?
Space Activity over Time Visualization
Fixed the link to point to the dropbox gallery for the standing desk. Sorry about that.
Android Cloud to Device Messaging Framework - Google Projects for Android
‘LiquidKeyBoard for iPad’ Aims To Bring Easier Typing To iPad
For those of you who don't know what a PDA (Push Down Automaton) is, it is basically a standard finite automaton but with a stack that you can push things to and pop things of -- you can then react differently if you get input a in state B versus getting input a in state Q.

Many parsers make use of PDAs when they parse source code.
Vimconf is currently running on www.kickofflabs.com (I am a co-founder). The link sharing is a recent feature addition.
On 10.6.8 and chrome, I had to delete the certs not disable them to get security warnings when visiting eg https://onlineaanvraag.diginotar.nl/Digiforms/StartPage.aspx...
Given that the subsidy provided by the carrier is funded by the monthly contract payment of the customer, it probably isn't worth splitting hairs here.
This is nice. Really useful. I didn't know about it. Thanks.
OpenUDID - Opensourced UDID replacement
"Ignorance and stupidity are different things though"

True, but at some point willful ignorance (ignoring presented information) is itself stupid/stupidity.

I like your points on the rapid iteration process - very true.
The implication seems to be that the major labels get some fixed percentage of Spotify's revenues. I have no idea if this is true or not.
Glassdoor's moderation policies also filter out a lot of negative reviews, so you never really see the full picture
"..., it costs us 35 EUR/year to keep an album on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon"

Why is that? How much do you have to pay Apple, Amazon or Spotify to sell/play your music?
Well, when I say "tends toward" what I mean is if I have an average team of programmers, when I look through the code a year after the project starts, is this what I'm going to find?

I realize expert programmers can write legible code in any language, in the same way Tiger Woods can best me over 18 holes using only a five iron. But there are some languages, like C++, that tempt mediocre programmers into writing illegible code. That's a big strike against, IMO.
Same. Love me some old 4:3 Thinkpads. Indestructible, throw them in your bag without a case. Awesome docks for easy transition between your desk and the coffee shop. Great screens, higher resolution than you can get today. Trackpoints, great keyboards. And cheap.
edit: I just realized that I got trolled. Sorry about the mess. You can safely page down past this tree without missing any valuable conversation.

Can you list the things that are part of Chrome and not a separate blob? As far as I know the closed stuff is separate from the executable. Unless you believe shipping an open source product with closed source blobs makes it closed source. Which would be weird.
It's the trendy thing to do these days. You can especially see it on HN there is a lot of bashing of programmers that don't code outside of work and/or only work 40 hours per week.
I've been using TileMill recently and their focus is mainly web/html. The static maps (PNGs) are pretty, but there is also some frustrating aspects. For example, PNG/PDF exports don't include legends and they don't have plans to implement that feature presently.
It'd be a far greater task intercepting all downloads for every browser out there and replace it with a malicious one. Besides, you'd not get to hijack people browsing with the IE that came installed on their PC, which likely outnumbers firefox users.
If I were already in debt from going to college, I wouldn't compound the problem by going to law school. Practicing law is not as lucrative as people think, every new attorney doesn't start off making a lot, and whatever they do make is blood money. Most law firms are sweatshops if you're an associate, and these days, partners don't have it so great either. Instead of piling on more debt, maybe that young woman from Dartmouth needs to stick with the paralegal job to pay the bills and start working in the arts on the side. At least then she'd be spending some of her time doing what she really wants to do. And who knows what could come of it?
Ask HN: What is the best remote desktop app for helping clue-less users?
I plan on installing software on my parents and grand parents computers for doing remote help whenever necessary.

What is the best tool for this? Preferably one that works with Mac and Windows. Commercial or free, doesn't matter.
I'm partial to Companion Devices, or Companions, if you're looking for a better word than smartphone.
Found an Opera team blog post on it:

http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/08/30/when-certi...
Awesome company, amazing people, and an inspiring vision. Very worth talking to; CEO Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, nearly every engineer is "the best out there" in their area of expertise, and the work environment is the best I've ever been in.
I agree. If he means developers who only spent time on programming related things during the 9-5 and not during their free time, maybe I can understand. Good developers should be passionate and will probably spend their free time learning and coding (not necessarily work related) but to say the only good developers are ones that are slaves to their job is ridiculous to me.
Very nice. I thought about shelf systems, but none of the standalone options seemed nice enough (I rent, and wanted to stay away from drilling into the walls).

Here are a few more pics of what I ended up with: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u...
Isobar Create 48 NFC Hackathon - Sept. 13-15, 2011
https://secure.logmein.com/ is popular with people I know and fits the bill.
Wow, is anyone else shocked by the prices? A couch for $900 a month? A one bedroom rental (in Sunnyvale that would normally go for $600 to $800 a month on CL) for $1200 and up?
Probably that string was used as a dork together with some more text to find vulnerabilities on web applications or so.
So it was reported as a honey

This does look like a string that could very much be generated by some poorly coded webbapp. An incorrect usage of a floating point number can easily generate such output. If it occurs on a critical part of an application it could very well been used as a dork. Just an hypothesis though.

Back in 2005 google tricks were at their peak. Many hackers experimented with search phrases in order to retrieve interesting/valuable/uncommon/dangerous?/sensitive info from the web. "index of/ .mp3" "apache server at port" being the absolute classic.

More and more people started to jump in the bandwagon, webmasters gradually became more aware of this, and google too. The natural reaction was google honeypot.

http://ghh.sourceforge.net/

But it wasn't too long until google started to remove such features. These days one can hardly search for symbols on google. They the old tricks, most of them will not work, google simply ignores the details and returns a list of results based on the actual words contained in the query. It's becoming a QA machine. That's one of the reasons I switched to duckduckgo.

For a proper reading on the subject check ou the vast website of the, now deceased, great hacker Fravia:
http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm
TrueCrypt 7.1 w/ [OS X 64-bit support]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
"what is the point of having a typesystem which is not sound?"

Because it gives plenty of benefits even when it's not "sound". What your suggesting is that there should never be any language between dynamic languages and haskell. Clearly there are many people who find type systems highly useful even if they don't go as far as haskell.
Exactly what I was going to point out also. Maybe the OP was throwing in some humor? The only reason I say this is that it seems like all other criteria are also not very concrete. For eg, following so and so on twitter, lunch-time discussions - as opposed to having a good understanding of type systems, functional programming etc.
http://wiredcraft.github.com/hnshanghai

All the technology addicts in the Shanghai area are welcome; meet us next Wednesday at Abbey Road for beer and geeky chatting. Personally, we're into things like node.js, GIS, Android or full text search engines (Sphinx, Elastic Search), but eager to chat about anything.

First round of beers on us.
This is how I got a burnout: http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/228173_101502...
Tech's next industry trend: Grilled cheese?
Works for me on OSX 10.6.6 - disable DigiNotar in Keychain Access then attempt to visit the DigiNotar site over SSL at https://service.diginotar.nl/ - either fails outright or generate a certificate warning.
Both of the upper corners are active, so you can also click on the... the other side. What's the name for the [-] widget on the left? The one you could double click to close the window?
Do you sponsor H1B?
Anatomy of Three Press Writeups
Don't forget the cost of making music is much less than 10 years ago. Virtual samplers, synths, mixers, etc. This means far more people making music.
I often say that as a starting point to establish my background but I follow it up with: in my teens I wrote shareware games for pocket money, I did comp-sci for 3 years at high school and after school did I a 3 year course in IT. And now I have been doing commercial software development for nearly 18 years.

The advantage of starting early of course was that I looked like a boy genius when I first started working in the industry but actually I just had, had more experience then my peers and I have always been able to stay ahead of the curve ssince then :-)

Scarily this all means that I have been coding almost daily for 30 years which is conservatively is more then 35000 hours...
Static type systems (particularly explicit rather than inferred ones) have multiple goals: as a form of documentation; as a way of specifying interfaces so pieces can be more reliably developed independently because the seam isn't just in documentation or peoples' heads or a bunch of unit tests; as a way of designing an app (when program = data + algorithms, some people like to start with the shape of the data); and finally as a way of proving more things about the code.

I'd submit that the historical actual use of types doesn't emphasize the proof nature of types nearly as much as academic CS does. Unsound type systems are common in practical languages. And I believe that isn't accidental: because, with all the other things types are used for, you need an expressive type system, and that in turn means it is either going to be complex and sound, or simple and unsound (i.e. with escape valves like typecasting and runtime type errors - I'm considering compile-time type analysis only).
How to make the Internet not suck (as much) - 0.0.0.0 version
Consultant interviews - Psychometric testing
Maybe There Really Will Only Be Five Computers...
Chances are they're using something like Tunecore where you sign up once, and they redistribute to various music services. You still retain whatever rights you have, but you collect your income from Tunecore after they aggregate it from Apple, Amazon, Spotify, et al. IIRC, Tunecore does not take a percentage of each sale, but has a yearly fee to keep your music listed using their services.
Looks like I'm ditching Spotify at the end of this month
Common Idioms in C
I imagine it's because there is a non-zero cost to hosting music, even if that music is never played by anyone. It also discourages people from spamming the store with junk.
But he's also been given a % equity stake as well. You can argue it's not enough, but he's got a % stake in this which is far beyond what most people have where they're working.
What me, worry – Android phone maker edition
I think the title is wrong, but I would agree with the problems with Banks over here. They really REALLY need to get broken up and sorted out. It also doesn't help all the ridiculous red-tape that New Labour put in force at the behest of the US and anti-terrorism etc, none of which occurs in the US ironically enough. I know I lived in both countries.
I'm a big believer in the 10,000 hours thing, but people always forget the 'deliberate practice' part. The reason I'm still a bad driver after easily putting in 10,000 hours is that I've never tried to get better.

I started programming much later in life but my skills improved quickly because I made (and still make) an effort to put in 1-3 hours a night of practice, doing exercises, trying something new, etc. Writing 10k hours of code does not make one an expert (otherwise there wouldn't be so many awful programmers out there).

The real advantage to those who start young is that later on in life they don't have the start up cost of lots of fumbling and learning just to get started. Additionally if they go the CS route a lot of the intro classes will be easier allowing them to get ahead faster if they so choose.

The same is true of musicians, if you think back to high school there's tons of kids that play guitar, but the group that goes home and practices scales all night rather than just playing their favorite songs tend to be the ones that go one to be serious musicians later on.
What is the criteria of these rankings? Heroku is # 8 but WorkFlowy is # 2
Poll: 25% would trade rights for security, down from 47%
Doc here. True. However, the societal health care burdens of obesity and chronic back pain are far higher than varicosities. Personally, I opt for the standing desk and a bar stool on standby if I want a break.

Occupational standing is probably the number one risk factor for varicosities, even ahead of gender

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21846281

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14531170

However, the role of prolonged sitting on varicosities (mechanistically plausible due to such factors as pelvic venous congestion and increased intraabdominal pressure) is simply unknown.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12934754
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We are Clojure/core (http://clojure.com).

Relevance has been voted as one of the Best Places to Work in the Triangle (Triangle Business Journal). We have a fantastic work environment that includes 20% Fridays (work on open source, giving back to the community, or internal projects), and a fantastic benefits package.

Relevance is increasingly a virtual company and have many remote full-time developers around the country. We're now opening up the project manager positions to being remote as well.

Come work with some of the best Ruby/Rails and Clojure developers on solving interesting, hard problems that make a difference.
where do I go from here? This question is unanswerable without a destination in mind. So where do you want to go? What kind of games do you want to make, AAA vs indie, puzzle, action, RPGs? If you want to go AAA pick one thing and do it really, really well. If you want to make indie games you will do a lot of everything learn it all. Web games pretty much require HTML, CSS, JS and something server side. Non web games not so much, unless you are making the game's website as well.

Probably the easiest place to get started would be desktop based 2d puzzle games.
I switched to a standing desk a year ago and love it. I didn't want to invest too much into it at first, since I didn't know if I'd like it, so I got the Fredrik desk from IKEA (~$149).

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60141484

I'm just over 6' tall and it work perfectly for me. The only detraction is that you cannot adjust the height after you build the desk (unless you take it apart again).
Facebook doesn't have a multitude of apps and services that people have been using for years, under whatever names, and isn't ambushing people by offering a brand new 'service' that has a hidden requirement designed to compel people to out themselves across all of their work, family, and other social connections -- or else lose access to those other tools already invested with tons of time, data, and distinct networks (for distinct reasons).

It's entirely different (and there are boatloads of folks with unreal names on FB, for heaven's sake). I don't know what FB requires if you sign up for a new account today, but I do know that my FB account contains =zero= accurate info about me (besides my name). Across the Google suite it is a very, very, very different case.
This is sweet! Can easily see this extending to many other languages and concepts.
Our own worst enemies