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Rearden Commerce in Foster City, CA

Two mid-career to senior level software engineering positions open in internal applications. We work in Python and whatever other technologies we choose, and take on projects involving deployment automation, test automation and devops-y stuff.

Please view my straight to the point job descriptions here: http://www.heyimhiring.com/.

Feel free to contact with any questions: ptrk@reardencommerce.com.
QLabs

FULLTIME NYC

Executive In Residence

QLabs is a recently formed incubator in New York City with funding from the VC arm of a publicly traded company. Our charter is to rapidly build innovative and revenue-generating businesses. Essentially, we prototype startups by building and launching an MVP every 6-8 weeks.

We are currently looking for an Executive In Residence. Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to) creating and executing on: marketing, PR, BD and social media strategies. You'll be an equal member of the team, informing product-level discussions throughout project
ideation and development (especially as pertains to market fit and revenue potential).

Major bonus points if you have hands-on experience at a startup, and know how to grow users and revenue from the ground up.

email rw@rwinslow.com to get in touch!
All of the talk about giving Firefox a try again... please, someone set up a sane package (PPA?) for Firefox that includes the proper Ubuntu font packages, that will allow me to test the dev releases on my machine. I love Chrome because I get dev builds every other day from their PPA and it just works. I've never had a similar experience when trying to use anything except the distro provided copies of Firefox.
RCelery: Ruby port of Celery (Python)
Accompaniment tracks
A couple of ways I've handled the spam situation in the past:

1. Base64-encode your form field names and decode them server-side prior to processing, or...

2. Create one-time use field names using md5 hashes of random numbers, map them to their true fields and store them in a session. Then process against those on the server side post-submit and clear the slate. (I used this method more often than not.)

3. Control the visibility of the honeypot field with CSS rather than "type=hidden".

Using #1 OR #2 in addition to #3 I've never had to use CAPTCHA nor human tests. A few paid spammers have come around from time to time, but since automated software isn't sophisticated enough to pick apart which field's which it either doesn't even try or it throws whatever it can at the fields, getting locked up in server-side validation.
The Red Queen's Race
The Wall Street Journal's Surveillance Catalog, which includes some of the same companies, has a much nicer interface although a lot less information: http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/
We'd love some feedback and, who knows, maybe some pull requests! We do have this running in production with no major problems to report. It is, however, under pretty light load. Thanks!

Edit: Check the README for a working example.
What's the quickest way to load funds to a Dwolla account?

If you already have bitcoins, then you simply trade them for USDs on an exchange such as Intersango.com or MtGox. Then withdraw those USDs to your Dwolla account and the funds are available for spending right away. From bitcoins to Dwolla USD, in a matter of minutes -- even including the time it takes to sign up for Dwolla!

If you don't already have bitcoins, you can probably find someone willing to trade their Dwolla funds for your PayPal funds. The #bitcoin-otc marketplace has traders who have Dwolla USDs but for whatever reason need to move those funds to PayPal. Oftentimes they will accept a 1:1 trade (e.g., your $50 PayPal buys $50 Dwolla USD.)
http://bitcoin-otc.com
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-otc-foyer
A note to patio11: I had already closed the page when I saw this comment. Went back and happily read the whole transcript (I never listen to podcasts.)

You might want to make it more obvious that there is text on this page.
Los gringos normalmente consideran Sudamérica a todo lo que esta por debajo de EE.UU. inluso México como en este caso.
The Idiotic Tweet Solution: Self-Destructing Tweets
Boston, MA Smarterer (http://smarterer.com)
Smarterer is measuring the world's skills.

FULL-TIME
Hiring web developers, both front end and full stack devs. We're interested in (but not limited to) python devs.

Lots of interesting scaling, algorithm, and product challenges. You will be a part of the core technical team and have a big impact on the product, technology and culture of the company.

We're True Ventures and Google Ventures backed.

Details: http://smarterer.com/blog/jobs/web-programmer-developer/

Email mikepk at smarterer with your interest.
This is due to the latest iteration of Blogger. Newer and/or updated templates apparently (I haven't looked into the details) require Javascript.

Ironically, I first encountered this on an official Google (i.e. Google news/PR -- I forget which one) blog hosted on Blogger. At that time, the Blogger updates were just launching, and no one had included a "click for a non-dynamic version of this page" notification/alternative. So, you clicked on the link to the blog entry, and you got a white, "empty" view portal.

I viewed source and used that to hack around to the final destination address of the blog entry (which displayed fine, despite the supposed Javascript dependency). I even bitched about it on here -- the blog link, whatever it was, was posted on HN. Who knows, maybe someone from Google saw that and got a clue. (Yeah, a bit of sarcasm, there -- meant to be humorous; I'm not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed, myself.)
Agreed. On the other hand, popularity of Chrome helps Mozilla not to relax and to push forward.
Ahh - good 'ol AllAdvantage. My university room mates and I all signed up under each other, and all ran about 10 clients on our computers each night with a script to make the mouse move and click random things.

People thought we were nuts until the money started rolling in.
Wat te doen bij.nl - body language trailers
this is more about thin-thread than it is about echelon. echelon and 'echelon II' haven't been used since before 9.11.2001.
You don't seem able to see the forest for the trees... Taking quotes out of context and dismissing them is not sufficient to dismiss the entire article.

Also, I'm British.
That's not the point - the point is that apps on Android are sandboxed so that Angry Birds can't read call premium phone lines or extract your calling history.

Google approved builds which included a rootkit that could do all these things
"agile management" is pretty much always going to mean "less management," so it's understandable that management is kind of schizophrenic about the DevOps movement
Email is store and forward, not real-time.

And all the mainstream messaging services to date have been centralised, at least in the sense that they involve interacting with a third party server.

When each friend can be both a client and/or a server, no third party servers are necessary. In theory (and practice), this is something you can achieve on a small network consisting only of your friends.

What if all your friends want to be online at the same time?

What if they want to share photos and video while online at the same time?

What if they want to play games with each other while online at the same time?

You can currently do these things with the mainstream web-based services like Facebook. But they are recording everything you say and do _and_ selling that information for profit. You don't receive any portion of that profit.

Is everyone OK with this?

It's an open question, I guess.
Look at this file:

http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/files/0/110_CELLEBRITE-UFED.pd...

Was it intended that a typical shady lawyer/congressman secret deal appears on the left?
American Efficient
San Mateo, CA

American Efficient is a well-funded startup in the clean energy sector. We're working on changing the way consumers and business owners buy products by incentivizing energy efficient choices.

We're currently looking for both front and back end engineers:

http://www.americanefficient.com/ae/jobs/?c=frontend

http://www.americanefficient.com/ae/jobs/?c=backend

If you’re really smart, love to build stuff, and want to work on something that will, in a very real, non-cliche kind of way, make the world a better place, you should apply!
I find that in a discussion it's best to avoid the trench warfare of "you vs me" and instead try to understand as many perspectives as possible.

Intelligence: understanding a given perspective.

Knowledge: knowing of many different perspectives.

Wisdom: choosing the perspective that is most right under the circumstances.
Why HTML5 Media is not Enough
Emacs (and Vim as well IIRC) can run shell commands against selections of text so just read the files
in there.

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2011/10/19/executing-...
Most unixy programs actually do have them divided. stdin, stdout (and a third for stderr). It would be very easy to separate the streams to different places.

ETA at the last place I worked, we actually had the touchscreen on one desk and the program running in a window on another computer. It was pretty nice to type something and make it show up across the room.
Google will test same-day-delivery service in SF in 2012
I like Firefox for extreme customizability. Nothing matches that and Chrome is nowhere close to it.
troll much?
You can purchase fanless Atom and Brazos boards now. They just have huge heatsinks.
Let me ask, why is not a possible response option?
San Francisco, CA

AppDirect in downtown SF is hiring a Front End/UI Engineer, an Integration Engineer, QA Engineer and DevOps. We're making a huge impact on the SaaS industry for SMBs and Developers alike.

Check us out: http://www.appdirect.com/company-careers
Chrome and Firefox take up almost exactly the same amount of vertical space on my system. Except for some minor differences, their UI is almost identical.
Reading the introduction, I was really excited. I fully agree with the premise, but the proposed solution seems inadequate. Putting shell in an editor, adding hidden metadata, and making the output hyperlinked just don't feel radical enough.

Also, some parts of the proposal are very vague (description of MVC), while others are extremely specific (whole paragraph about an obscure Unicode delimiter), which makes it hard to get the big picture. That said, improving the terminal is a really challenging and important problem, so I'm glad there are people thinking about it.
First, Understand Your Screen - mobile web fragmentation madness
Mac OS X. Interesting.
PHPUnit_Selenium 1.1.1 has been released [PHP][Unit Tests]
Sell Your Old Palm Pre 2 CDMA at SimplySellular
I've been looking at a lot of spam lately as I'm developing services based on text classification as a web service at classifyr.com, and spam is kind of the obvious test. Initially, the site was getting 8200 spam attempts a day with a captcha that was 99.9% effective. The classifier is 99.99% effective and has cut down the number of spam attempts to almost nothing.

The ones that still get through on rare occasions copy legitimate content and usually link to sites that aren't inherently spammy (like grey-market pharmacies) for SEO purposes. I suspect these are actually posted by humans; a post can classify as suspect rather than spam or ham and these always do when they get through. When that happens, the user is asked a trivia question related to the site's subject matter. I think it extremely unlikely a spam bot would be able to answer correctly.
On the forum I work on (custom software; forked from JForum) we used to get 10s of thousands of spam a day. That stopped almost immediately with the requirement of a verified email address.

We had tried CAPTCHA and honeypots but the spammers broke through it (we were being actively targeted). Once we used email verification, it forced the business owners of the email (Gmail, Yahoo) to implement better verification on their side and stop so many fake accounts from being created.

Spam is now a rounding error in my system (about 60 for every 56,000 daily posts).

I should also add that I subscribe to the broken window theory, so we also implemented Akismet to check all incoming posts for spamminess. We hide all posts that Akismet marks as spam, and it cleans up the place enough to (hopefully) ruin any spammer's SEO tactics. Once it becomes a futile effort to post spam that's just going to get hidden, they seem to stop aggressively targeting us.
Yeast Infection And Pregnancy
gateProtect, Hamburg, Germany
FULLTIME, working permit required, only on-site

http://gateprotect.com/en-GB/company/jobs.html

gateProtect is a company providing security solutions focused on unified threat management (all-in-one firewalls).

Backend Software Engineer:
Help us write the control application of a network security device using Clojure. You are an excellent software developer and know many different paradigms from object oriented to functional and used your knowledge to create complex systems in many different languages like C++, Haskell or a Lisp dialect. Prior knowledge of Clojure is not required if you know another Lisp dialect. You also know the details of low lewel systems programming under Linux.

Backend Software Test Engineer:
Write automated tests that check if the production code is working using Python. A strong understanding of network protocols, related tools and Linux is more important than excellent programming skills.

Please contact job@gateprotect.de for more details and mention Hacker News.
An e-buddy of mine that would probably be interested in meeting you: http://www.richardspindler.com/ (he runs his own hackerspace)
I was a huge fan of your earlier stuff, and wish you'd had a podcast like this long ago! I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but you've definitely got my attention for this one and the next one even if I don't like this one.

I hope you can remember what it took to get success in the first place and share some of that with listeners much in the way Andrew does on mixergy by asking entrepreneurs about the early days. Clearly there are some strategies that are highly effective for those who have already amassed great skills or made a name for themselves but not so effective for those who haven't.

Finally, I've noticed an ever increasing amount of your writing aimed at trying to push engineers to focus on less engineering and more business. This is understandable considering that it's the direction you took, but please remember that some of us have non-engineering business backgrounds and would love to learn how to improve on the tech side. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who do a good job at sales and marketing of very low-tech things but struggle in internet/app driven businesses!
maybe you should have tagged it more like "Official response to Canonical dropping CouchDB" ;-)
Nice work! It definitely looks very similar, but if you compare the animations closely I don't think you can say it's been recreated. (And I'd bet perfecting the animation is one place some Path engineer and/or designer spent a lot of time.)

Specifically I'm looking at the path (small 'p') each icon takes out of and back into the +/x button. When they're close to the button these seem to stack on top of each other more than those in Path, which instead almost follow each other around. Also, something about the "bounce" at the end of the open animation looks a bit different (easiest to see looking at the bottom-most icon).

A nice start though. And I'm sure it looks even better in person than in that demo animated gif.
This sort of reminded me of TermKit, which I think is still on Github... but sort of stagnant the last time I looked.
Love this. Hopefully this gains more discussion.

My opinion is email is a terrible group communication platform, think of the endless reply-all emails you get every day. This is one of the reasons I'm excited about my startup GroupTweet which leverages Twitter as a group communication platform. Think Yammer for non-enterprise users.

The beauty and brevity of 140 characters along with building a searchable knowledge base is priceless. Whereas email is generally 99% push, Twitter and other social media solutions can be configured in a number of ways, both push and pull.
(RED) and ONE Use Klout to Get Influential People to Fight AIDS
Your comment would have been an excellent alternative to the article; I'm not sure why you're taking exception.
Spot on with AOL guys doing Angel/VC. There is also a sizable cohort of ex-advertising.com guys doing angel investing nowadays.
On #3, you want to ensure that the CSS is externalized and the class name non-obvious.

The amount of additional processing power it'd take to surmount this (and the other methods) from a spammer's end at scale would be incredibly prohibitive, and that's kind of the point.
Not sure it will work, since I've seen at least 3 other mentions of Israel, /before/ I posted mine.
In Memory of Reasonably Priced Software
EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees
Your point being? From your own post:

“We develop our product and technical direction as part of an open process unrelated to the search relationship with Google. We talk to Google about the parts of the product that offer Google services (i.e., the Firefox Start Page) and the services they provide, like anti-phishing. Otherwise Google does not have any special relationship to Mozilla project activities.”
"but thinking Mozilla values privacy because it is a non profit is not a great reason."

Mozilla's entire business model isn't based around getting to know you or you habits better. Google has an inherent and fundamental financial interest in being able to follow what you do browsing day to day.
All quotes save for one-liners are out of context. The points you make stand on their own.

I don't dismiss the entire article; I appreciate thought and innovation in the space of the terminal, but I disagree with your ideas. Thanks for putting them out there to begin with.
I've been using acts_as_api [1], since (aside from the other features) it makes it really easy to version and "subclass" your APIs, and it keeps the presenters for each model separated (really useful for nested responses). I've found that it's really important to version your APIs from the get-go, especially if they are public-facing.

[1] https://github.com/fabrik42/acts_as_api
Interesting thanks! We don't want users to have to verify email addresses as we see this again as a barrier of entry that will put people off. However I do see the necessity of it in your case as this doesn't always scale very well.
Send Text Messages to Mobile Phone Numbers via Email
Positive Photo-Quotes
My two questions are:

1) As a consumer, if I see a Dwolla payment option and a Paypal payment option, why would I pick Dwolla?

2) As a seller, if I only have a Dwolla payment option, how many sales would I lose?
Kind of off topic, but this article just reminded me, I was thinking how nice it would be for a linux distro to be made for programmers. Bundled with every bit of programming language (from c to hakell and back), the standard editors with their syntax highlighting (the .vimrc already set up a little), cool special tools that maybe only serve a special purpose (stuff like gnu radio..) I was just thinking it'd be nice to have one big package, a here ya go, have at it, kinda linux. Maybe even with some alternative (but vetted) how-to documentation. For some reason I just can't get used to the flow and syntax of Man pages... And it can leave out lots of the fancy gui sidebars and stuff (not sayin get rid of the gui, just dumb it down, I'm here for the terminal, and maybe some IDEs.. maybe).
Arduino 1.0 is Out: Here’s What You Need To Know
Wouldn't an obscurely named username field hurt accessibility? People using screen readers probably wouldn't be able to register.
This is freakin awesome! Keep it up! How big is your company?
No downvote, but I believe its worth thinking about ways to advance power-user use beyond the emulation of teletype machines (first deployed in 1910). It may be that they are the optimal power-user text interface, but it may also be that they simply occupy a local optima and we need to keep searching.
Well, you have to keep in mind that compartments, from the way I understand them, are topical, or centered around the specific field they pertain to. Thus, the DOE and the DOD won't have the same compartments, and even the Army and the Navy won't have the same compartments.

This is, I believe, one of the reasons that intelligence sharing between agencies and the armed forces is so difficult. Some intel is compartmentalized in places that are inaccessible to another branch or agency, and changing the classification level or compartment of information is an extraordinarily inconvenient process.

The upside of this, however, is that we really do have a secure system for information
San Francisco, CA. Full time.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. We believe that faster sharing of research will lead to an acceleration in research innovation: faster innovation in medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and other fields. Faster sharing in biology and medicine, for example, could lead to cancer being solved 12 months before it otherwise would have been, which would lead to millions of lives being saved.

Academia.edu has over 800,000 registered users, and over 3 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics have tripled this year. Over 2,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.

We need talented engineers to come and help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that there is a chance to make a big impact.

We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We have a strong engineering culture. We're a 6 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.

The kinds of things you would be working on include:

★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)

★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)

★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site

What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering

All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture. There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring.

H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu