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Edinburgh, UK - FULL-TIME, INTERN positions available

Amazon Development Centre Scotland are looking for candidates for full-time, intern and student summer positions.

http://amazondc.com/

We're settling into our shiny new office in the city centre (Waverley Gate, right next to the station) and just added a Dreamcast with House of the Dead to our game room, alongside the Wii, Xbox and SNES. Last month we held TechMeetup Edinburgh here, which was really fun :)

http://www.techmeetup.co.uk/
Indeed. That css-clone looks like what SLD styling should have been.
flagged because it is a dupe and because submitter is editorializing with his choice of title: the OP makes no mention of the possibility of the loss being a publicity stunt.
I wonder if the Startup Genome guys would be interested in tackling that? They seem more focused on "what makes a startup successful," but they seem to work by doing surveys like what you're talking about.
It would be really interesting to see PGP files that were time-sensitive, and used passwords that only worked within X time. Does anyone know if something like that has been done?

I'm not a cryptographer, but it seems to me like something of this nature is impossible without maintaining control of the decryption process. You could add a timestamp to the file, but the workaround would be to change your computer's clock or rewrite the decryption software. You would have to include a cryptographically-signed timestamp from a trusted time server in the en/decryption process. Once that signed timestamp is obtained, though, it could be distributed along with the password and a modified application that uses the stored timestamp instead of a live one from the server.

My knowledge comes from reading about failed DRM schemes and the comments of tptacek and cpercival, so I can only point out things that wouldn't work, not what will.
Onswipe - NYC

Come work with myself, @markbao, and some of the best engineers in the world working on touch, JS, nodejs, and HTML5.

Openings here: http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs

Short list of what we're looking for:

- Front end JS devs (hiring 2)
- Back end node, php, and mongo knowledge (hiring 1)
Startups: Live longer, don't burnout
In this case DigiNotar is being removed from browsers because nobody that lives in Mountain View happens to visit sites signed by DigiNotar. And aside from being Dutch, they're also unusually small (they only made 100k in revenue from certificate sales this year).

This is not the common case. There was a very similar incident with Comodo in March, and they weren't removed. This is because Comodo certifies some non-negligible portion of the internet (between 1/4 and 1/5th of certificates), and so removing them would break a lot of things.

The same is true for VeriSign, Thawte, Comodo RAs, Geotrust, Equifax, etc...

I don't trust any of these parties, and yet I kept them in my trust DB for years, because without them the internet was unusable.

What Convergence aims to do is make trust agility even easier than it was for DigiNotar, which itself was unusually simple for the CA model. It also aims to invert the trust relationship, and put trust decisions fully in the hands of the client.
MobileWorks (YCS11) is looking for idealist, enthusiastic and capable engineers and engineering interns in San Francisco. http://www.mobileworks.com/jobs.html
$65k for a 22 year old is not "half normal salary". In many places in the US, that is full salary. And you are way overvaluing the contribution. Sure, building the whole system is a big part of the company but lots of people could do it. You are also undervaluing sales which for many companies is harder and more valuable than the technology.
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Whither Groupon?
You are not alone. This is such a common characteristic of productive programmers that (as a geek herder) I build "downtime" into my timelines.
His first premise is entirely invalidated by the "No empirical evidence" section on the wikipedia page :/

Begrudgingly setting that aside, I know quite a few developers who do a pretty good job reading design and UX articles. I genuinely try to better understand clean, thoughtful, and elegant user interfaces. It certainly helps architecting an app, and I think it helps organize my code. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect designers to do the same. I'd never expect a designer to fill the shoes of a full-time developer, but at the very least he/she ought to have a basic understanding of the medium for which he/she is designing, which I think involves learning some basic code.

My favorite web designers? Front-end folks who made the leap to UI/UX.
As others have stated, it happens to all of us. I think one has to learn how to take breaks often. The world is not gonna fall apart if you take a week off every once in a couple of months to let go of your computer and snooze on a beach somewhere. Also as one other person posted, sometimes what you perceive as burnout may be clinical depression...but from the way the poster was talking about it sounded more like job dissatisfaction than depression.

Also, it depends on where you work. You have to enjoy the team you're working with and you have to enjoy the work you're doing. Sounds like a big part of it for the submitter had to do with the language in which they were programming. That's a big deal to a lot of programmers. Programming is an art! If an employer or project requirements forces tools upon you that do not jive with how your thoughts flow, not surprising you're burnt out. Do what you love, tons of companies that use Haskell...even ones that use embedded computers. Also sounded like the submitter was enjoying their academic career as a Masters student. Perhaps going down the academic route is a better option. In summary, do what you love!
Munch On Me (YC S11) is a deals site that makes merchants drool
That doesn't scare me much. They were trying to reverse-engineer a MS file format. If I'm doing things like trying to reverse engineer Silverlight DRM or get around PatchGuard, or find a way to circumvent some limitation in a Windows SKU (like installing Media Center on Starter Edition) sure I'd be worried. But if I'm just building product that infringes a patent they have, I'm not worried.
There are only a few thousand dial-up users left on AOL. I know it's hard to imagine, but there are a lot of people with high-speed broadband connections who download the AOL software for the email and web browser. shudder
That, or they might proxy a remote JS file through a script on their servers. I've seen that done a number of times.
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 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. We are moving more and more of our applications and services to AWS technologies and we are looking for someone to help lead this initiative.

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

The Amazon Marketplace 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

-Worked with AWS EC2 or RDS
I already had a business account with Lloyds so next I needed to apply for a Merchant Account [...] After jumping through some hoops they came to me with an offer that I could use their service if I give a deposit. [...] they asked me to put a deposit of £50,000 ($81,000.)

I nearly choked right there; 50.000 pounds? What the hell? This is not right by any definition. No wonder the US steams ahead in the startup game.

What would really drive this post home though, would be the second half the author fast-forwards through. Understanding the technicalities and nitty-gritty details of setting up a startup as a European would be very interesting. Especially tax handling. Perhaps a Part II!
I don't think you truly understand the concept presented. This is not about answering poll questions (although that is one example). This is about making ads more rewarding to the audience. Now, ads are obtrusive, obnoxious, and act as roadblocks to the things you really want. (Want to watch this TV show? You must pay 7 ads worth of your time.)

By making the ads engaging, the audience actually enjoys the interaction. The ad is no longer an obstacle, it's a reward (or at least, the path to one). The ads don't have to be about answering poll questions. What if you could play the McDonald's monopoly game from Facebook? I love the monopoly game.
Fancy Hands - NYC

Hiring

- 2 Python based engineers for Google App Engine.
- 1 Front End (JS, etc)
- 1 Marketing

Definitely willing to work with engineers remotely, but would prefer you to be in NYC.

Email me for more info, etc: tedroden @ fancyhands
We are right in the middle of a round. Sorry, can't say much.
Register a business (Ltd, LLC, etc), Open a Business Bank Account, Open a Business Merchant Account, Sign Up For A Payment Gateway...

Why do you need any of that to get started? You can trade as a sole trader, and use PayPal to take payments in the interim. Not ideal... but it does the job.

For merchant accounts, there are plenty of third parties that will do the job as well. Again, it's not ideal... but at least you get started.

* You just simply don’t see the level of entrepreneurs in the UK as you do the US in my experience and I feel that is not helped with the bureaucracies.*

And with only a £3100 ($5000) deposit.

I highlight these quotes to illustrate the fact that there's still a problem: what if you don't have a $5,000 deposit? At that point, whether it's $50,000 or $5,000, it doesn't matter: you still have to use some ingenuity to succeed. The same ingenuity to doing things in a less than ideal manner at first - but that can be "fixed" soon enough if you start to succeed.
Guide: How to Pass an IT Audit
THE TRUTH ABOUT GROUPON: Yes, It Can Make Money—No, It Won't Be Easy
I don't suppose they'd be willing to make one with a keyboard?
I think that's the dumb part though. If you get one user per hour for 12 hours a day, you're still overflowing the "6.5 hour limit" (unless I'm misunderstanding everything).

I'd love to use GAE for the reproduceability of dev environment, but lock in, 10x+ price increases and a VERY obtuse (not honest) explanations of how pricing is measured and billed makes EC2 look much better. I'll need EC2 anyway since you can't run arbitrary binaries (ie: PDF conversion) on GAE.
That is a perfectly fine deal for you. $65k plus 1.5-3% equity is generous compensation for a 22 year old at a pre-funded company. Don't get too hung up on the fact that you are "developing the product from the ground up". The going rate for that is perhaps $10k-100k.
Phoenix, AZ, Full Time - Some Telecommuting if you're the best.

Job Title: Front End Developer

Local Motors (www.local-motors.com) is a auto industry game changer. Using our website, anyone can participate in co-creating amazing new vehicle designs. After building the Rally Fighter (www.rallyfighter.com) and the XC2V for DARPA (http://www.local-motors.com/lmBuild.php?c=11185), now Local Motors is producing a new web site which will leverage co-creation and gaming to bring America the next generation of automobiles.

Are you positive, supportive and inspiring to others?

Do you get things done? Are you independent, and yet take direction well?

Are you passionate enough to work in a start-up?

Do you get excited about cool new interfaces and ways of interacting with the web?

Do you want to be a part of changing our world in a meaningful way?

You may be a recent graduate with relevant school projects or endless hours of relevant tinkering behind you. You may have a couple of years experience under your belt developing slick user interfaces. Either way, you are both talented and organized.

Our playground:

LAMP, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, SVN,

Responsibilities:

Implement public facing pages
Help make UI and UX decisions
Build reusable CSS/JS frameworks to simplify development
Participation in general internet engineering needs of the company

Requirements:

Smart
Gets things Done
Exceptional proficiency using HTML5/CSS/Javascript/jQuery/AJAX in a production environment
In depth knowledge of browser compatibility
Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming
Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, HCI or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
Personal projects that show and aptitude for front-end engineering and product design sense
Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly
Knowledge of SVN

Desirable:

Excellent Knowledge in SEO and Internet Marketing
Experience using object oriented PHP
Experience with PHPMyAdmin

Experience using MySQL in a production environment

Benefits

Competitive salaries
Vacation days & time off
Medical coverage
70 Degree winter days in Phoenix, AZ
An active working environment with brilliant designers, engineers and technology experts
Much more...
Interesting that your figure seems to be similar to the number another commenter came up with (assuming this guy is as good as the founders).

What do you think of his reasoning? [edit: from 7th para at
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949795]

"What he should do if he actually wants to work on the startup: First, he needs to value his contribution to the company over the next 4 years appropriately and put a number on his "sweat equity". Let's say his market salary is $100,000 and he's being paid $50,000. Now add to his base salary: benefits (15% for health insurance, 401k matching), job-loss risk (25%, since typical severance offers are 1/4 tenure at current salary), career risk and opportunity cost (15%), and overage hours (30%, assuming a 50-55 hour work week). That's $185,000 per year. Take that, less the $50,000 he's making, and his sweat equity is $135,000 per year. Over 4 years, that's $540,000. The company's valuation is $2.5 million, "pre" to his contributions. He should be getting about 16% of the company, assuming he remains for 4 years. This number seems high, but if he's there after 4 years he will have been there almost as long as the founders, so it's about right."
Was just about to download and start using this. No Windows version though. Maybe the start of a weekend project for me.
Live My Journey connects travellers with locals through social trip planner
Flip it around: he's unlikely accredited and couldn't invest even if he wanted to. So how valuable is the opportunity to invest?
My mom got an LG Optimus cause she wanted a smartphone with wifi without having to shell out the cash for an iPhone or Android phone.

It has a terrible screen, is hardly responsive, and is only useful as a phone. And barely, considering how difficult it was to place a call using that awful screen.
I like to name my apps like classical pieces:

App No. 1 in Erlang

App No. 2 in Haskell

Variations on a theme by Hasbro
Just to make sure there isn't a cultural misunderstanding here... when you say "tank", you mean the war vehicle that travels on treads, and has a big gun turret on top?
Wow, we had EXACTLY the same experience.

A lengthy process (about 3 months) to get signed up with Sage Pay only to be declined the merchant account (yet to give us a reason although they said they would tell us, that was 2 months ago).

We ended up settling on PayPal just to get started, not ideal for taking recurring payments, but quick, easy and better than nothing.
Just curious... why would you want to do that even if you're stuck? This is more of a quick brainstorm method, I don't think he's even looked to see if the domain name is available at this point.

Also, I'd rather have something like "getflint.com" or "flintapp.com" than "flnnt.com" or something. When you start getting into cutesy abstractions like that it becomes hard to remember.
Microsoft's five biggest weaknesses
Microsoft is still a giant no matter how you measure it, but its position as the world's dominant provider of software to consumers is at risk. The primary factors (cough, Apple and Google, cough) can be debated, but this article argues that Microsoft's five biggest weaknesses are in search, Web browsers, Web servers, mobile devices, and Windows itself. Microsoft was provided the list in advance of publication, but for the most part declined to provide specific responses.
Could Twitter Have Saved Gaddafi?
A correlation to this is "I've been doing this for 20 (or 25, or 30, whatever) years..." whenever someone is trying to establish themselves as a position of authority,

My standard response is a knee-jerk: "You can be bad at something for 20 years, it's not something you should point out, though."

It's fine if you are having a discussion and some context is helpful, such as, "I've been selling residential real estate in the area for about 20 years" as opposed to "Why would I need to protect against SQL injection? I've been working with databases for 20 years and it's never been a problem."
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The UK is easy, honestly. If you want to form a LTD company, pay someone twenty pounds and it'll be ready within a few hours. Have a 20 minute meeting for you business account (I admit this might have changed - it was about five years ago and with Barclays), get everything set up within the following couple of weeks.

In the meantime, trade as a sole trader. Register with the taxman, phone up their very helpful advice line for what numbers to fill in where. Job done.

Now Poland, on the other hand...
Ignoring the completely unnecessary headline, I still think that this highlights the naivety prevalent among geeks in business.

Despite how your bank may appears in their own adverts (and this applies to all banks in the UK, as far as I can tell), they’re still not run as service providers. They’re not friendly by default, nor do they take a neutral point of view on you as a customer. Your relationship with your bank is just that, a relationship. You need to build it and work on it, on at least a monthly basis. You need to know your bank manager by name, the football team he supports, and the names of his children (side note: if your bank says they don’t have bank managers, bullshit. Ask to speak to someone in their local business team. They still exist, under a different name).

You need to take him out for dinner, send him a card at Christmas, and above all make him believe in you as a business person and entrepreneur. I’m lucky to have a very trusting relationship, and mutual respect for the head of the business team at my local branch, and he’s opened countless doors for me, expedited paperwork, and, yes, setup merchant accounts for me.

If you want to make money, you’re not only a programmer, you’re a business person. And successful business people network.
to add:
Of course, there is also print, music and movies [1] that are confiscated and websites that are censored in search engines like 'google.de'. And not all due to violence or pornography but also for more political reasons, mostly holocaust denial.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Ha...
How To Create A Tech Partnership
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote or Philly

Looking for a Django dev with front end experience and a good intuition for UX. You should be comfortable with Django, jQuery, CSS, HTML and all that good stuff.

We are a marketing service for businesses utilizing QR codes and smartphones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6c1GuZqNHs

Ideally we'd like a passionate individual who is genuinely interested in our project. The possibility for full-time employment exists, but if that's not your thing, no worries, we won't pressure you into it. We really want a consistant/reliable/enthusiastic person that we can continuously throw work at.

Contact me at mel [at] coupedout [dot] com.

Please include sample work, github username, a resume, and your usual rate.
How many people owns a phone in the United States?
Lots of companies are hiring in Toronto.
The Mantella companies are all pretty good: http://mantellavp.com/category/jobs/

And of course FreshBooks never stops hiring. I've heard they are also OK with contractors too:
http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/

I've heard the Jet Cooper is hiring a front end dev (though they don't normally post jobs):
http://www.jetcooper.com/

Then there is The Working Group:
http://www.theworkinggroup.ca/

Nulayer is an awesome (funded) product company with hardcore ruby devs:
http://nulayer.com/

Unspace is looking for more devs (that's where ragenwald works):
http://unspace.ca/

Mozilla is hiring for their new, better-in-all-ways office, though you basically need to know someone that works there.
For 100$ Android phones, there's the Samsung Gio (800mhz). Aside from it's small screen, I don't have any complaints. It comes with Android 2.3.

But obviously, for the specs listed, no phone competes at that price. It makes me wonder what margins they're expecting per phone.
SEEKING WORK, remote or Baltimore, MD area

I've got 10+ years working in webapp development. Experience in Scala, Groovy and Java, some Python and PHP as well as HTML, CSS, JS. I love web work but am open to anything interesting. Email address is in my profile.
A $99 unlocked phone would be both, IMO. Just like the TouchPad went ionospheric at that price, the sub $100 phone with that kind of power would likely do the same.

The issue isn't just carrier subsidy in this case, having an uber-cheap Android phone will open up huge markets that are currently underserved by smart phones (Africa, anyone?). There are projects afoot that would greatly benefit from seriously cheap, capable hardware right now--my friend is working on a water finder project for rural areas in poor countries (think Botswana in the sticks) to help track well quality and production. This is a huge issue for these areas and having something that is as powerful as Android with GPS and network capabilities is a game changer.

At $310, that's a harder sell. At $99, it's a no brainer.
A lengthy process (about 3 months) to get signed up with Sage Pay only to be declined the merchant account

Did you give any other options a try, e.g. http://www.paypoint.net/ ? Genuine curiosity :)
Use cygwin. ;-)
Thats how you stand behind your product
New York, NY (full-time)

CB Insights / Chubbybrain (cbinsights.com | chubbybrain.com)

We're National Science Foundation backed and looking for 3 positions.

1. Front-end web developer - must love data visualizations

2. Machine learning expert - find signals on private company health in a variety of unstructured, semi-structured and structure info sources

3. Data journalist - If you have a way with words and a way with data..

Ping me (Anand) directly at asanwal@cbinsights.com
Does anyone know?