skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just don't like doing that no matter how simple it is. A lot of our users are from all over the world (probably 50% from non English speaking countries) and it really makes it a lot harder for them to signup. Also anything that acts as a barrier no matter how weak WILL lose customers and signups!
Monroe, MI

MNX Solutions provides server management and consulting services to companies of all sizes.

We are looking to fill a few positions:

* Senior Linux System Administrator

* Senior SAP Basis Administrator (3 openings)

If you are in the Orlando FL area, we would be happy to consider this location as well.

For full details visit http://bit.ly/mnxdicejobs
If you're interested in dnode you should also check out hook.io https://github.com/hookio/hook.io

It uses dnode to essentially let you build an auto-discovering message bus. I recently started using it and so far its been an amazing way to build up small independent services. With almost zero configuration the services can boot up and start talking to each other. It even works in the browser.
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com

We're hiring software engineers, web user interface developers and interns to work in our office in the Mission District in San Francisco.

HotPads is a small, lively company building and running an extremely popular map-based housing search engine that's used by millions of people each month. See more here: http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

dpeters@hotpads.com
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These ones are going to be the types that will be able to provide value on the business development side since they have the industry connections. (Tough to call them hustlers since it's not very clear whether they are "scrappy.") If you're looking for someone who can deliver on the product side, VC firms aren't going to provide those kinds of individuals, especially the younger ones. For product folk, it's best to poach Product Managers from slightly larger companies who are dealing with the same domain. They may not be as competent on the fundraising side but they will have a good idea of product & marketing.
You should be careful about how you word things in your posts. You tend to state working observations and theories as conclusions and then the press and armchair security experts take it as fact.

That said, you've done very good work, and made a very valuable contribution to consumers.
StyleOwner (San Francisco).

We're trying to become the iTunes of fashion. www.styleowner.com

We have a great engineering team in SF and are looking to add one or two amazing engineers (we were too small this year to compete in the Github dodgeball tournament). email matt@styleowner.com for details.

Our stack is ruby/sinatra/datamapper and we also heavily use redis. Lots of cool scaling related development, as well as backend and frontend stuff. Developers do not need to know anything about fashion, but any design strengths are certainly a plus.

We're funded by Accel and have fantastic investors. I mention this b/c it matters a lot.

Email me and we can chat about the position, look at some of your code, etc. You can also meet our team, check out our office, etc. matt@styleowner.com
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I'm looking for a landing page service that can let me quickly put up a landing page together with analytics, email sign-up forms, etc. unbounce.com looks pretty good. Any other recommendations or general advice on successfully spreading the word about my start up?
Sorry about that, I did not see that! I'll take a look.
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I really liked using dnode, but I had serious scalability problems with it. I didn't have time to look too closely, but I found quite significant latency between sending/receiving messages to the extent that I just downgraded to using socket.io directly and was quite happy. Sorry to be vague, but it's been 8 months since I experienced the issue.

Definitely, give dnode a go. It's a lovely piece of software, but keep an eye out for performance issues.
That would take them out of my "take a look at these guys" column, and put them squarely in the trash-bin.

Why a payment company would spend time on a currency with built in deflation is beyond me. You might as well go do a payment-in-gold startup.
This is a variant of a radial menu, first seen in an application in 1969. A beautiful variant, but a variant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
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It could be that this is an attempt to consolidate that information and push it towards a mass audience. I haven't read any of the files, so I have no idea what they contain.
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Thanks a lot for your answer! The links are very useful, though sadly they point towards custom ToS and privacy policy.

I expected that, but it's an extra step to do for projects that might not always be worth it. That's why the MIT license is always nice on the code side…
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London, UK

Stoneburn - http://www.stoneburn.com/

Stoneburn are a Google Apps, Google Search and Amazon Web Services partner. We're looking for junior support staff - our ultimate hires would be a year or two out of university, with a system administrator/scripting background and a hacker mentality. Your primary work will be building our support department for Postini and Google Apps customers, but you'd be expected to be competent enough to help out with any Linux/Windows application we might engineer for our customers and host on AWS. (Knowing enough about e-mail to tell me what an MX record is would be beneficial, but full training is provided.)

As hiring manager I'll be looking out for a cover letter that shows both ambition and the great communication skills you would be expected to display to customers.

Depending on your preference for direction, possible career path is into the development or deployment teams.

Check the jobs page out at http://www.stoneburn.com/about-stoneburn/jobs. Instructions on how to apply are on that page, but please put 'HN' in the subject.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. INTERN positions.

We launched Skylines last may at Techcrunch Disrupt, our mission is to organize the world's real time photos.

We currently process over two million pictures a day, are ramping up quickly, and generate a lot of data in the process. We have some smart engineers working on our backend, on various technologies (from Riak, SQL, Redis and Map-Reduce to PHP, Ruby and Node.js) and are looking for interns who like both building apps on it, or run further analysis.

You will be working on real products that will be released, not a mock internship assignment. And you will get to experience how startup life (and Amsterdam) are! We're based in the center of beautiful Amsterdam (Netherlands) in an active startup community. Current alpha product at http://skylin.es.

Questions? Shoot me an email at martijn@skylin.es.
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Those companies don't exactly advertise to everyone nor do they want to. Even if some people were aware of this before I doubt that most were truly aware of the scale.

Even so, if all this does is raise awareness among the average (news watching) people this has already been worthwhile.
New York, NY

Novus - https://www.novus.com

We're building a real-time financial analytics platform that will help revolutionize how the financial services industry treats and understands its data.

Our team uses Scala, MongoDB, Akka, and Unfiltered, but most of all we're proud of our talent.

E-mail me for more information: max@novus.com
I think what you're asking is "how do affiliate programs work." Is that right?

Here's an overly basic explanation that could help: You send a user to a web site. The user buys or fills out a form. You get paid a commission.
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One of my favourite quotes. History is so easily ignored or forgotten.
For #2, I'm hoping their big "reboot" on Dec 15 addresses some of this.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what is "voluntary response data"? Is the author arguing that the only statistically valid way to do a study is to put a gun to peoples' heads and demand that they take a survey? I can't think of many ethically sound ways to conduct a study without responses being voluntary.
7Digital - London UK

.NET, JavaScript & Sys Admin

We provide digital download services to over 500 partners including Samsung, RIM (Blackberry), HP, Toshiba, Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony and have delivered millions of digital products in over 25 countries.

API serves around 160,000 requests per hour
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2 days of innovation a month, regular Katas/Dojo's. We work in a S.O.L.I.D manor at a sustanable pace.

http://about.7digital.net/Careers
The only thing correct in that article is that the guy is a "first-year analyst".

It's as if he's only read a book or gone through some terribad training and has no idea the size, time horizons and liquidity preferences over which different market participants operate.

He equates short term trading with investments for pensions and makes ad-hoc incorrect claims about market efficiency.

He has no idea about the current market. "2/20" for anything but the very best hedge funds is long gone. It is not even close to being the industry standard.

He completely fails to grasp that hedge funds, unlike most other market participants, have no recourse to systemic help or support. If they make mistakes, if they underperform or if investors just feel like it (flight to quality) and remove liquidity, then can fail. Since 2007, thousands of hedge funds have failed and closed. They represent one of very few places in the financial industry where classical capitalism (ability to fail) is allowed and still works!

The post is basically FUD trying to overwhelm the uninformed or naive with jargon.
Author needs to figure out a better way of doing screencapture. Using an image that might _actually_ induce seizures isn't a very good first impression.
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I can put you on the right path to identify how to dominate google rankings and then execute on that plan making your startup more visible for folks looking for the solution your startup provides.

Lastly, I'll keep my eyes open for micro-opportunities in your industry that will let you get quick marketing wins and bring attention to your startup.

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If you rename the username field with something nonstandard, then autocomplete tools have a hard time handling it (think of email fields).
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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. We're looking for people with interests that range from interactive UI design to large-scale distributed systems and machine learning. Find us at Waverley Gate, right next to the station.

http://amazondc.com/
Cool, good read!!
A great article from Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts, who formerly reported directly to Steve Jobs. Among other things, it nicely sums up why Jobs is the All Time Greatest CEO.
You join an affiliate program that pays you some commission per lead or sale, like Amazon's that pays you 4%+ (depending on volume) per item sold, or many of the things on places like Commission Junction, which include things like 1% of airfare sold. Then you buy ads which point to your affiliate link; if your affiliate payouts are greater than the cost of the ads, on average, you make the difference.

Some affiliate programs (like Amazon) don't allow this. Others are happy to allow it because it sort of outsources the work of figuring out how much to pay for ads. Instead of a company having to decide what to pay for e.g. Google AdWords, they just decide what percentage royalties they want to pay out for leads, and let third parties figure out how to bid on AdWords in a way that doesn't exceed that cost.
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The typical federal worker is paid 20% more than a private-sector worker in the same occupation.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N...
Durham NC (main office) - REMOTE full-time and contractors
Relevance, Inc.
www.thinkrelevance.com

Rails or Clojure Developers, Project Managers

http://thinkrelevance.com/jobs
We are Clojure/core (http://clojure.com).

Relevance has been voted as one of the Best Places to Work in the Triangle both 2010 and 2011 (Triangle Business Journal). We were also ranked #739 in this year's Inc 500|5000 list. We have a fantastic work environment that includes 20% Fridays (work on open source, giving back to the community, or internal projects) and a great 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.

email us: jobs [at] thinkrelevance [dot] com
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I love PT and it's amazing for task management and reporting on a day-to-day basis, however it's not good at managing the big picture where I think cards on the wall is really good for exactly the reasons Daniel mentions. For remote use I don't think there will be any good software solution until 20' high-res touch screens are readily available :) In the meantime I use Writeboard.
AngelHack, a new breed of hackathon.
INTERN or FULLTIME (REMOTE for some positions)

Offices in downtown San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Research Triangle Park

Cloudera offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. We enhance the storage and processing technologies originally developed by the world’s biggest Web companies, allowing our growing list of global customers to use Hadoop to solve problems and achieve their particular business goals.

We're hiring across a number of departments. A few that might be interesting to the HN crowd:

- Distributed Systems Engineer, Platform team: get paid to work on open source projects like Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, ZooKeeper, Avro, etc. The work is challenging and impacts hundreds or thousands of companies worldwide, plus you get to collaborate with folks at a number of other companies on a daily basis

- Distributed Systems Engineer, Enterprise team: work on monitoring and deployment software that scales to 1000+ nodes. This software needs to collect metrics, generate alerts, search logs, and manage deployment at very high scales.

- Senior UI Engineer: build rich web interfaces to simplify the user experience for operators trying to manage 1000-node clusters. JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and a bit of Java.

- Software Quality Engineer: help test, validate, and debug the products mentioned above. You will get to drive 100-1000 node test clusters to their breaking point and then dig into what broke.

- Customer Operations Engineer: help Cloudera customers solve daily issues they run into when using software in the Hadoop ecosystem. Learn these distributed systems inside and out. Be the Dr House of Hadoop.

Our company is currently around 135 people, but growing fast. Our investors are top notch: Accel, Greylock, Meritech, Ignition. Our most recent round was $40m about a month ago, so we are well funded and will compensate you with more than ramen noodles (though we do offer free lunch!).

The full list is available here: http://www.cloudera.com/company/careers/

Feel free to contact me at todd@the obvious domain.com if you have any questions. Otherwise apply above.
Mozilla needs to do more marketing - I seem more ads/posts for Chrome these days, compared to a few years ago when almost every site (that I visited) had a banner saying "Switch to Firefox for a better Web" or smth like that.

Both browsers are good, however I use Firefox since I have all the add-ons I need, and the awesome Awesome Bar, which lets me access my favorite sites or sites I visited recently with a few keystrokes or keywords (I remember a word or two in the URL/title and I can always go back).

I had no luck finding something like that for Chrome, and that's my biggest annoyance - every time I have to bookmark a site (which I always forget), or I have to search for it again through Google. I type a damn keyword and it searches instead of showing me the URL... I have a suspicion that is on purpose, since it leads me to Google.com :-)...
Basically it's just being better at advertising for ['amazon','okcupid','ebay','zappos','etc.'] than they are.

I know that for a while, netflix was paying something like $40 or $20 or something really high for their trial membership signups.

So what affiliates will do is buy space advertising for netflix or whoever, hoping that the people that see their ads will sign up for the product.

As long as their cost to get somebody to sign up for netflix is less than what the affiliate is paying out, they make money.

Say my overall cost to get somebody to click my ad and sign up for netflix is..$16. If netflix pays me $20 for that, I make $4 every time.

Repeat that enough times, and you're making enormous amounts of money.
Holy moly. That is super cool. I'm still a little unsure of NodeJS as a platform, but the level of innovation in the ecosystem is incredible, very modular and very composable. Impressive stuff.
Thanks, will make necessary changes.
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If you are a highly talented designer, 80/20 (http://www.8020.com) is hiring.
SEEKING WORK - Washington DC - Remote is great

I am a web developer (both frontend and backend). I am most proficient with Django, a Python-based web framework, although I also have worked in the past with a variety of other frameworks and languages (WordPress, PHP, Perl, C, etc.). I can do everything you need to get a web application up and running, from handwriting HTML and CSS, to configuring MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. I have spent more time with Facebook's Graph API that is probably healthy.

I know both Git and Mercurial, am proactive about communicating, and have no issues working with non-technical clients.

Contact me at http://www.marteydodoo.com/contact/
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Trulia adds high caliber senior management – ramping up for IPO?
long predicted (and awaited) the announcement of Trulia launching an initial public offering (IPO) and while they have yet to make any announcements, it appears that their two most recent hires are a clear indicator that the company is ramping up for an IPO filing, perhaps in 2012, although they have not and cannot confirm, but unlike various competitors, they have not made it a point to deny the possibility of going public
If possible, can you guys recommend some samples?
Amazing how global this community is - I always felt like an outsider, as I'm not from the US, apparently I was wrong.
San Jose, CA. Intern / Full-time. H1B ok.

RetailNEXT (http://bviretailnext.com)

We are google analytics for the real-world. We use a combination of machine vision (OpenCV + our own algorithms) on standard video cameras, and other inputs like RFID/WiFi data to build a complete picture of what's happening inside a physical retail store. No cookies or IPs to play with in the real-world, so a much harder (and hence much more interesting!) problem.

Each month we track nearly 2M people worldwide across our several retail customers (a few are listed on our website). We are fundamentally changing the way retail stores are designed and operated.

We use C/C++, Java, Python and Flex. Our product runs on Linux. We like super-smart generalist hackers who are into machine vision, data visualization, AI or data mining/big data analytics. Interested? Drop us a note at jobs@bvinetworks.com.
So it sounds like we have enough people to do a HN meetup @ SG? :)
XssScanner 1.1 & CSRFScanner 1.0 Released #tools
XssScanner 1.1

XssScanner is a tool designed to help penetration testers find cross site scripting vulnerabilities. It analyzes a webpage to determine which are the payloads that could be used according to the position of the parameter. Then, for each selected payload, XssScanner sends a request using the payload and checks the returned page to find the payload. The major feature of XssScanner is its ability to detect many encodings that do not change the behavior of the payload

CSRFScanner 1.0

CSRFSCanner is a tool designed to identify the forms potentially vulnerable to CSRF/XSRF on a website. This detection is made on forms that are only accessible by logged-in users (cookies are needed to find these forms). The methodology used to identify these forms is the 4-pass reverse diff analysis. Then, in order to determine if a form may be vulnerable, the tool analyzes hidden and password fields to find an anti-CSRF token.

http://www.vulnit.com
I'm sorry, I appreciate the information, but you're not actually giving evidence for your claims about TS being the highest.

Same thing for the ratio of people in the military (except for the Daily Mail citation, which is quite helpful). I mean, Army grunts are not required to have clearances [1], for example, so you can't just say "assume everyone in the military has a clearance..."

[1] This may be a misunderstanding on my part, but that's what I've been told. You don't want to clear (and probably can't clear) a ton of 18yo cannon fodder.
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Yes, it uses a modified clang binary with which you compile your program.

I don't really see the disadvantage of not being able to debug within in the runtime. The class of errors this analyzer is meant to adress is stuff like use after free, out of bounds access, and use after return. If your runtime is doing those then a) you have bigger problems, b) you wouldn't be able to fix it anyway without the source.
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Being from the (Rest of ) Europe it surprises me how many we are and how little we know about each other here. I know there are some startup valleys in Israel or Estonia etc, but I shouldn't be visiting a US-centric forum to figure it out. Do European entrepreneurs have a similar forum?

Plus I d like to see whats the distribution in the EMEAs
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You guys aren't presenting real evidence, just making up numbers. 1:10 is absolutely ridiculous. If there are 4.2 million now (according to the Daily Mail article cited elsewhere), that's 1.36 percent. You're never going to get that to 10 percent, expecially since (as the DM article says) the currently high number is due to recent expansion of the number of people who have clearances (so you can't argue about tons of retirees as easily). I realize that we're counting "people who have ever had a clearance," but I doubt there's going to be like 5 to 10 times the # of contractors who once had a contract, but don't currently have one (again, the increasing number of clearances argues against that).