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San Francisco, CA

SeatMe is hiring! We're a cozy 13 person startup in downtown San Francisco. We're revolutionizing the restaurant industry and we need your help! We're in search of:

* Web developers (we're a Django/jQuery/Backbone shop)

How often do you get a chance to work at a tech startup where eating out can be written off as a tax-refundable business expense? Well not here, because our CEO would go to jail (and he's never going back to the big house), but we do work in an awesome intersection of technology and fine dining.

We offer a very competitive salary, benefits, moving costs and equity options for all full-time employees.

Apply online - http://www.seatme.com/jobs/

Questions - jobs@seatme.com
Guilt Driven Development
Do you want to use Test Driven Development in your daily work but lack the necessary motivation? Do you have the nagging feeling that TDD could use more nagging to make you get things done?

If this describes you, then you should definitely consider Guilt Driven Development. GDD is a powerful new technique based on one of the strongest motivating forces known to man: guilt. It works by forcing you to create promises to it and then guilts you into keeping them.
How the #Googleredesign is F'ing up my day
http://www.bubble.ly/googleredesign
Actually, I've just bought my first mac but i remember when hypercard came out. The little i read about it, It just seemed awesome. Was it like the 2nd great app after visicalc?
Not to be harsh but the lack of automation kills it for me.

I don't want to consciously recall where my money goes. I want all of the benefits of that conscious recall--e.g. staying within my budget, being able to see if my spending has changed month to month, and being able to look up where I ate 3 weeks ago---without being forced to recall day-to-day what I've been doing.

Without automatic categorization, what you have is a prettier interface than excel but functionality that no one who can sling together a few excel macros will think is impressive.
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I'm sorry, you're under the impression people who think of helping this man are under obligation to do so.

Anything that makes more successful donations less likely is bad. Asking for invasive personal information without justifying it in such a way that people are comfortable giving it is BAD.

The fact the guy you're responding to points out something on a site with enough gravitas that is an impediment to the process isn't douchey, it's being helpful. He may be literally saving lives by getting people to improve the process to get more matches.

I'm sure getting everyone to walk to a hospital and pay their own way to take a sample would be a much more convenient way for the marrow matching service to work, however, I be far fewer people would do it.

Same principle with forms that ask for scary data. Not doing so, and doing things in user friendly ways may get one or two more people the marrow they desperately need.
It's just as easy to ignore a physical board. I've done it. There's no substitute for discipline.
Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT). Our tools include Python, Google Closure, Hadoop, and Hive. Looking for backend, front-end, systems, and web production developers.

We've got existing high-volume customers and challenging problems to solve.

Check out http://jobs.monetate.com/

Feel free to email pat at monetate com.
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Mountain View, CA - Kiwi Crate (http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs)

We're a well funded early stage kid-focused e-commerce startup.

We have open full time positions for a developer, a marketer, and an inventory specialist. We're also looking for interns to help with operations and marketing.
Excellent response.
I never understood the hate towards Dispatch - I had a lot of fun learning it with the help of http://www.flotsam.nl/dispatch-periodic-table.html

If you dont want the fun simply drop down to the Apache HTTP client and use its interfaces. Dispatch is just a thin wrapper around the Apache client anyway.
One of the things I really like about scrum is that it forces people to interact together. That builds team trust and solidarity. Those can be built in other ways, but it is much harder. If you want a great team, you need to build it somehow.
Beijing...
SaleSpread: A Business Lead Exchange
Rush hour in Japanese subways
Venture capital firms. The younger professionals at the top firms are smart, know a lot about technology business models, and are very well connected relative to their age. Plus, most of them got into VC not to become investors, but because they have aspirations of starting a company.
It seems like every other day one more of those "conspiracy theories" is confirmed and proven true.
How to Market Your Product or Service Online
Where is the "10x valgrind" bit claimed? I don't see how that's possible, given that valgrind is already about 20x slower than native and this is quite clearly going more than 2x work vs. a native load. Actually it seems to be doing pretty much the same stuff. What are the actual advantages?
San Francisco (preferred) / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote / H1B - AllTrails - http://www.alltrails.com

AllTrails is hiring! We're building Yelp for the outdoors - the best way to discover and share hiking trails and outdoor activities around you. We're helping people explore the outdoors and having lots of fun in the process. Camping benefits, anyone?

Our company was AngelPad incubated, is funded by 500Startups and consists of a strong team from Google / Microsoft / Facebook with previous startup experience. We also have the author of an O'Reilly Android book on the team.

We have the #1 outdoors app in the Apple store (do a search for 'Hiking') and recently launched our Android app. We reach over a million people a month and have been growing rapidly.

We're looking for Designers / Front-end Engineers, Back-end Rails Engineers, and Mobile Developers (Android and iOS). Cross-functional and full-stack developers are preferred.

If your idea of sunlight is more than just sitting in front of a really bright monitor all day, we'd love to hear from you!

http://www.alltrails.com/jobs or justin@alltrails.com
Hi Jordan, I sent you a message on LinkedIn regarding this :)
"Andrew: What you were doing was, you were buying ads online and running affiliate advertising against them. The profit was the revenue that you were making from the affiliate programs, what they were paying you every time they got a new order or lead, minus what you were paying for your ads, right."

For the hard-of-money-making, what does this mean, how does it work functionally (black box inputs and outputs), and why is it profitable?
FeeFighters

INTERN OR FULLTIME

Rails Developers or Intern (Chicago or Remote) and a Marketing Intern (Chicago only)

http://feefighters.com

Looking for a Rails developer. We’re a startup working like mad to disrupt a multi-billion dollar financial industry and cut out tens of thousands of inefficient middle-men. Customers include Fog Creek/Stack Exchange, Photojojo, Weebly, Kickstarter, Make a Wish Foundation, tons of awesome startups, and even some public companies! And... we're just getting started.

We recently launched a new product called Samurai into public beta. (http://samurai.feefighters.com) It's an all-in-one all-in-one solution for taking payments online. It has come out of the gate swinging - there is a ton of pent-up demand to fix this industry and we're excited at how many people have been interested in our new product. We have a few more tricks up our sleeve and need developers to help build them out!

We have passionate users, awesome investors and partners, and products that our customers love. We pay ourselves decent salaries, are generous with equity and we enjoy a very fun and stimulating work environment. Much of the Samurai dev team was early on in another payments startup that grew to be a $2Billion company (including the CIO of that company). Here are bios of some folks that you'll be working with: https://samurai.feefighters.com/about
We're still finishing up our job description - but here's a start. http://feefighters.com/jobs/rails-ninja-developer/

Email josh at feefighters with your interest.

Also looking for a marketing intern to help us with social media and PR. Lots of fun stuff! http://feefighters.com/jobs/kickass-marketing-intern/
Hiring JavaScript/CoffeeScript developers and SASS/CSS3 designers to help us build social software for conferences and events. We're based in Seattle but YOU can work from anywhere. Full benefits, great salary and equity.

Do you scoff at those who claim JavaScript is not a “real” language? Have you been hacking a side project just to experiment with Node? Does the idea of moving the entire web framework into the browser excite you? Do you take great pleasure in designing user interfaces that are both functionally elegant and beautiful to look at? Do you obsess over bringing your impeccable sense of aesthetics to how you write code? Do you enjoy discovering how to do things in CSS that most developers thought were only possible using JavaScript? Are you tired of working for short-lived start-ups that think “angel funding” is a business model and “VC Funding” is an exit? Then, my friend, we’ve got the job for you:

http://www.pathable.com/careers-at-pathable/
or contact us directly careers@pathable.com
I think it is fair to criticize Dispatch in the following sense: "is this a library you should use in production code?". I think the answer is no, because it has an API that, while terse, is difficult to read and maintain; and furthermore it pays very little attention to robustness performance concerns (like failure accrual and more sophisticated connection pooling) that quickly become important in production software.

Dispatch is a good example of a library that is more fun/pretty than practical for systems engineering -- which is not uncommon in the Scala community, as Coda rightly points out. It's not bad to be fun/pretty rather than practical, but it is right to criticize that (strongly) from an engineering perspective.

I'm biased, but: Finagle has a substantially more robust HTTP client and server library than Dispatch, and it has been stressed at far larger deployments than Dispatch. If you're writing a high-performance system that needs to make tens of thousands of HTTP requests per second, Finagle is a good choice and Dispatch is not.
My Macbook Pro used to do this, it was odd. The annoying part was that my hand hurt after using it for a few hours.
As are MIUI builds which are based on Cyanogenmod.
no, now.js is similar to dnode. an even better analog is that now.js is more like a commercial version of socket.io
I wholly agree that splattering chrome over a terminal isn't the best way forward. Emacs shell mode gets me all?most? of the way to the interface posed as the solution (text editor as interface to terminal). Being emacs, I am sure I could finish up the proposed solution with "a few lines of elisp".

And I don't think it's the solution. These issues are spawned deeper in the design. Multiple streams of information are being spawned, and must be handled sanely: pipe redirection starts breaking down here because it's a line - what's needed is a graph of management that's able to handle different cases and join back for the next approach.

One approach might simply be to develop a higher-powered programming language environment that calls directly into the system.
Palo Alto, CA

Suitable Technologies - http://suitabletech.com

Suitable Technologies is a startup working to create an innovative new product for something called "remote presence." (Another common term is "robotic telepresence.")

We have funding, competitive compensation, and a fun work environment, complete with our own chef, ping pong table, and of course, lots of robots!

Our first product, in development now, is similar to video chat on a computer you can drive around. Unlike videoconferencing, you’re not stuck to a wall or desk. It becomes your physical presence, anywhere in the world, with the freedom to move and interact with people as if you were there. Our technology has already been seen by millions of people, and we think the potential impact is substantial.

We're looking for great engineers, designers, testers, and more. We need help in C++, audio and video software and codecs, web frontend and backend, UI/UX design, electrical, and networking. We think this could be a unique opportunity for someone with experience in web or mobile to work on something a little different.

More information is available on our site:
http://suitabletech.com

Contact:
jobs@suitabletech.com
San Francisco, CA

Are you passionate about Open Source, Net Neutrality and Open Data? Do you want to do work that matters?
Join us at Common Crawl and you will work with big data and help ensure the web is truly open.

Common Crawl is non-profit that produces and maintains an open repository of web crawl data to give everyone access and we need your help! We're looking for a truly talented data-minded Hadoop/Java engineer to help improve our crawler, API and do data analytics!

Contact lisa@commoncrawl.org for more info
How about something like Archy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Features It was never polished but you can still play with an old (windows) build: http://users-www.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/home/SebastianDrax...

Edit: or for a gui, something like Enso (for the whole OS) http://humanized.com/enso or Ubiquity https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_... (for the browser) Both are abandoned open-source projects with a lot of the hard work already done (the internationalized parser in Ubiquity is very nice).
Baseball in Space
One test for business co-founders is test if they can make cold contacts. There are so many MBAs who are nothing but marketing/strategy types, with no real sales ability, and so are of little use to a startup. When I hear a business person say, "I know this market/industry", I pretty much write them off. If a business person says, "I have worked in this industry, and I know dozens of people that shouldn't live without this product", then my interest is peaked.
And this is unrelated to their upcoming big announcement on the 15th, there has been speculation that they will start accepting bitcoin.
Comprehend Systems (YC W11) hiring frontend and backend developers
It should be Latin America instead of South America, Mexico and Central America are not part of South America (South America is everything south of Panama)
Pivotal Tracker [1] was amazing for my team. My team was spread all over the world, and it was hard for us to even schedule a stand-up for everyone because of time differences and other conflicts, so having a site that we could all get to was crucial.

Even when it got to a point in the project where it was just me tracking my own tasks, Pivotal worked better for me than post-it notes could possibly have. Among other things, I ALWAYS had access to them where I needed them -- at my computer.

[1] http://www.pivotaltracker.com/
My first thought when I read the poll was, "What about everything between the US and South America?". I think the way these polls are written tells more about the person writing the poll than anything else. I can't imagine the usefulness of splitting the US into NYC/SF and everything else. Likewise with splitting the UK and the rest of Europe.
There should be a "Middle East" option.. Asia/Pacific is too wide to be really meaningful
3D printing meets robot design
I think this test is rigged to make Joel's company look good (no offense, I love his writing and style and it is probably his honest opinion that these are the best ways to approach software development).
Zynga Is Said to Plan to Market IPO to Investors Beginning Monday, Dec. 5
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Stockholm, Sweden

Mountain View, CA

Madrid, Spain

Hong Kong

At Accedo (http://www.accedo.tv/), we're hiring web developers, mainly client side, for work on connected tv platforms such as Samsung, Panasonic, LG, Roku, Boxee etc.

These are our current openings. Contact nik at accedo dot tv if you are interested or have any questions. Make sure to add "HN" to the subject line :)

Junior development engineers

Accedo is looking for talented and motivated junior engineering staff for our development centers in Stockholm, Hong Kong, Madrid and Mountain View, California. Experience from TV and Video technologies as well as knowledge about a wide range of programming languages are an extra bonus, but all talented applicants are also welcome. Since we have customers all over the world, language skills are also appreciated.

Senior development engineers and project managers

We are always looking for experienced staff to strengthen our development centers and provide leadership. A senior development engineer should have several years work experience and knowledge on a wide range of technologies and programming languages. They should also have experience and practice of creating high performing and manageable server side platforms. Interest and experience in developing applications for TV or Mobile device platforms is beneficial.

Business development manager

Accedo is looking for successful sales and business development managers. In this role, you are the face of Accedo to our customers and drive all sales efforts either directly or through partners. You should have at least 3 years sales experience. You should have a genuine interest in the latest trend in consumer electronics and new media as well as an overall understanding of software development projects.

Project or Thesis students

Are you a student looking for project or thesis work? Accedo has many exciting projects on next generation TV technology. We are actively looking for Masters and Undergraduate students to perform their thesis projects or internships at our Stockholm and Hong Kong development centers.
This post couldn't have come at a better time for me. While I'm not exactly working for a start-up--I'm working for a large publisher whose latest publication is almost two years old--a lot of this advice still applies. The biggest bullet point there for me is taking ownership, because it's true that things sometimes won't ever get done unless you do it yourself.
Madison, WI - Rails Developer - healthfinch.com

We're a Healthcare IT startup working on developing apps and tools that add-on to EMRs to improve patient safety, reduce administrative overhead on clinical staff, and save organizations time and money.

We've just finished raising our Series A, and we're looking to hire a couple developers with the right fit.

We'll hire an intern for the spring, but only if you're able to go full-time after your internship ends.

For developers, knowledge of Rails/Javascript/Coffeescript is a requirement; Interest in working with large amounts of data and analytics is a plus.

Nice to haves: Starcraft APM 50+; experience integrating with EMRs; working knowledge of HL7; experience designing and testing RESTful APIs.

You can email me and my co-founder directly: jobs at healthfinch.com

Please include "HN" in the subject line.
Reminds me of my frustration some months back with its caching of favicons -- amongst other things. Wasted a bit of time troubleshooting my configuration before figuring out that Chrome was simply refusing to flush the favicon from its cache.
The UI Design Interview: A Primer
Can anyone point us to a torrent for these files?

If not, why not? Every time the Wikileaks site(s) get taken offline for one reason or another, we lose access to valuable data.

The bottom of the page states "courage is contagious". I'd submit that torrents are even more contagious. Get this stuff on torrents, so it never leaves the Internet for pete's sake!
Are you looking for front-end developers or back-end developers?
Government monitoring might make me safer (if done right).

I would prefer to see a pitch from a government agency with the clear promise of delivery something tangible (lowering agency spending, lowering fraud, improving safety, lowering the rate of false arrests) in exchange for more surveillance.

Then evaluate the pitch and decide.

Then evaluate agency performance in new environment, and decide whether to keep surveillance power (if it was worth it) or take it back (if resulting abuse did not worth the positive outcome) or even dissolving the agency (if it was pure lie).

That can be done incrementally, until increasing surveillance stops producing worthwhile benefits.

No need to draw the line years ahead.
Technically, it's not bad.

Practically, you've got to groom relationships with banks, convince them of your risk management process, get a decent rate for transfers, and a whole host of other details.

It can be done, but I'm not sure it can be done profitably for $.25 a transaction to the general public, especially with the risk management and the potential for returns coming back after 6 months.
I think this is appropriate given how popular the other one is. But We should be using the thread started by "whoishiring" as that is the unofficial official thread of HN.
I'm actually feeling physically uncomfortable trying to decipher their website. It's making me nervous and frustrated. I just want to know what the user experience is for making a payment. Do they have to pull out a credit card? Create an account? ARGH.
Newark, De (Close to Philadelphia, Pa )

SevOne

We are a Network Performance monitoring company that focuses on speed at scale. It actually really interesting work solving problems involving huge distributed data sets in ways most people don't deal with

Back End Developer - Mainly C , but also a good deal of PHP

Front End Developer - Mainly Javascript with a good deal of PHP.

We are still what I call a small company but we have grown over 500% since I started. The atmosphere is very much what you would find in a small start up and we have worked hard to keep that atmosphere as we have grown. full job descriptions are on http://www.sevone.com/company/careers or E-mail me at dkozlowski at sevone dot com
Yep, http://gaug.es was built from the ground up as an API. That definitely made the API better in the long run.
This is why I stopped being the "nice guy". I'm still kind, but I take much less shit from other people. It also helps with getting raises.
Two things:

1. It's awfully presumptuous for you to assume that all these people are just raring to come to the US and the only thing holding them back is the lack of a startup visa. Perhaps people don't live in the US because they want to live where they are?

2. Sheer numbers don't mean shit. The Valley has the best concentration of engineering talent anywhere. Opening up the floodgates to anyone and everyone isn't necessarily a good idea.
For us it seems to be yes. It catches lots out. But there are other ways of hiding the field such as with CSS which is probably safer.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote - Scribie.com

The immediate thing we need done is developing a JavaScript based text editor which is tightly integrated with a HTML5 audio player. Contact for more details.
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Agile started to die in my division the moment we had to go to some buggy web page and fill out our progress.

Agile became just another vehicle for micromanagement. Our scrums became apologies against what we said we'd accomplish. Meetings were held by managers, outside the group, to discuss concerns about meeting our goals.

There were levels of permissions on the task list; the team couldn't edit tasks, and had to get permission to make changes. Pretty soon we weren't deciding what to do and how long it would take, all that was being done for us, by managers.

Scrum became another set of manacles, and something to be avoided at all cost.
Yes, but the creation of the other thread was somewhat appropriate given that the script to post this one broke.