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REMOTE; FULLTIME; H1B, E3, etc. are all possible!

SSC Group LLC is hiring a Rails developer.

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We run adult entertainment websites. Our company is profitable and growing.

Some things we use every day and love: Linux, Git, GitHub, Vim, nginx, Varnish, Unicorn, Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Javascript, and probably others.

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* We allow full time telecommuting.

* We work normal hours.

* We pay for coworking/office space if you want it.

* We have offices in Los Angeles if you want to work on-site.

* We allow our developers to contribute to open source.

* We get to pick our tools and technologies. I used Node.js and CoffeeScript for a small project the other day.

* We take you to RailsConf if you want to go.

* We pay competitively.

* Our company owners are technical and understand how development works (refreshing!)

* We have a Hubot in our Campfire.

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You should be fluent with Rails and know your way around a Linux server. You should also be comfortable working with adult material.

If you're interested, we want to hear from you!

Drop us a line and show us one of your projects, or a GitHub/StackOverflow profile, or anything else you're proud of.

jobs@sscgroupllc.com

Experience with high-traffic web sites, TDD/BDD, statistics or data analysis are all pluses.
Can you crack it? Yes, I can. Here's the end page.
San Francisco, CA - Fulltime

ClickTime (www.clicktime.com) is an industry leader in hosted time and expense tracking. From our first customer back in 1997, ClickTime has grown to serve thousands of companies, including Google, GE, and Visa.

With only a few engineers, we've managed to create one of the most beautiful, durable, time tracking interfaces out there, and we've done it in a way that we're proud of.

Come join us. We're looking for a generalist who can work all across the board and a back-end engineer:

http://www.clicktime.com/company/jobs-available/Web-Applicat...

http://www.clicktime.com/company/jobs-available/Web-Applicat...
Nothing pisses me off more than when a recruiter calls my work line to pitch their openings, which they seem to be doing more and more lately. For that reason I vote #3.
He's suing for little money. At RIAA rates, that would be 250 billion dollars for 10 millions illegal downloads at 25k$ each.
The Hustling MBA
I know this is a contrarian viewpoint around Silicon Valley, but I think certain types of MBA's are very valuable to startups. MBA's who aren't risk averse and work hard. Ones who hustle to get new clients, call everyone in their rolodex and are a super connector. They don't need to know a lick of code...they just need to be able to bust their ass building relationships and selling the crap out of a startup. I'm looking for a hustling MBA...not a humble MBA. I know they exist in Silicon Valley? Where does one go to find them?
A while ago people were accusing them of not being journalists, and therefore shouldn´t be protected under whatever law journalists are protected.

Now they´re being more about journalism, but that doesn´t imply that the facts and the cables with the actual information don´t get through.

I´m ok with them editorializing and providing a point of view on the material released. It´s still 100x better than public newspapers, where you get the editorializing, without the material.
One approach I use is to say that although the 'idea' is good/interesting/brilliant I am not passionate enough about the project to be able to give it my all.

On a related note, I think of the worthiness of ideas based on whether they are interesting enough to get me to work on them in my spare time even if it were for free.
Printing Bones in 3-D
Why I Will Miss Steve Jobs
ical on the whiteboard. Will add others suggestions.
Why do you think this challenge has anything to do with xor'ing with a key? It's not that kind of code.

Actually, I'd say that mob is after assembly language programmers at the moment, not people who know "basic cryptography and boolean algebra".

Moreover, they don't really care if the solution gets plastered all over the net, because from their perspective the point is not the code, but the message (that they have jobs available to British citizens with those skills). And I know that because, according to the press, they said so.
I do completely agree with you that we ought to transition toward structural code editors (and therefore, I suppose, structural terminals), but as you say, that's a very hard problem -- I have yet to see one which isn't terribly clumsy to use.
I like a beer to relax with coworkers after most of the workday is over. If I have one every day, that's 260 beers a year. Let's say it's good beer and we are buying in bulk, so each bottle costs $2. That's $520 a year for just one person. On a 10-person team where everyone has a couple beers each night, you'd be spending $10,400 on beer, which is a benefit worth mentioning.

You're not going to be drunk from two beers, either, so if you drink at work instead of going to a bar, a little more work has the opportunity to be done. All in all, a nice benefit for everyone.

If you don't drink alcohol, I'm sure they'll buy you an unlimited amount of Perrier or energy drinks or whatever else you want.
I also get about 5 per day, and more than that if I've tweaked my profile on LinkedIn or similar sites recently.

Dear recruiters: adding "Urgent requirement!!!" to the subject line, or a "X-MSMail-Priority: High" header really does not make the offering more interesting to me.
Yes BlackBerry, show your quailty.
"Creating jobs" is just the post-2008 buzzword that is applied to just about every political argument. Just because a company makes more money doesn't mean they'll hire more people. There are clearly enough people employed by record companies because the records are getting produced.

If the company is able to accomplish their goal (create content and make $$$ off of it) with the number of employees they have now, why would they hire more just because they have more money? (Assuming, of course, that they will actually make more money by "stopping piracy")
Good point. We caught that UI issue, but somehow that crept back in.
I think he agrees, except for the textual display.

From the article:

Data structure. Windows PowerShell had a chance to
redesign the terminal from scratch, but defaulted to
the same old grid of ASCII. One innovative thing they did
do was add structure to their data, piping .NET objects
instead of raw text, allowing the user to select fields by
name instead of writing elaborate AWK scripts. The shell
for the research OS Famke does a similar thing for
higher-order functions
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I get a lot. The problem is that almost all of them are not offering realistic opportunities. They are all start-ups that are offering not enough money, expect you to work more than 40 hours a week, and forget vacation days and benefits.

Don't call me unless you are offering a huge pile of cash and/or 30+ vacation days.
Has anyone actually found evidence of Carrier IQ software ACTUALLY STORING personal data such as key-presses on Android or iOS? All I have seen is log events being generated from adb logcat, which is not the same thing, by any means.
The Economist: Prize for emerging technology to increase government transparency
I get the occasional recruiter email, and mostly I don't mind it, except for the one doofus recruiter at Meru. I specifically call him a doofus because:

- I told him politely exactly what he was doing wrong and why I wasn't interested (including that he was recruiting me to the wrong team with the wrong programming language experience)

- He sent me the exact same pitch a few months later

- I replied again, mocking him and his company openly, telling him "feel free to contact me like this again in the future; I'll tell all my buddies in engineering about it and we'll all laugh at you (and recruiters in general)."

- In response he said "We should grab a coffee and talk more in detail about your advice."

Uh-huh.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Los Angeles

Most of my experience revolves around game engineering. I have worked on MMO's as well as Facebook games. In regards to specific technologies, I am comfortable working with Actionscript, PHP, Python, javascript/coffeescript, and HTML/css.

Projects I have worked on:

http://www.pixiehollow.com
http://www.facebook.com/serfwars

My Github and LinkedIn:

http://github.com/pvwoods
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=120678969
Are Americans eligible to apply?
Hrm. I was trying to make a point about confusing Github with FOSS which greatly predates it. These days it seem to be becoming a more common mistake to make. I guess I didn't do that very well.
Once they tell you their idea quote them a price to build it. They may try and convince you that they'll cut you in or take care of you when it's a big success, tell them you aren't in a position right now to be able to do that. Finding out they don't get free labor should end the conversation pretty quick and you don't have to burst their bubble.
I'm a little bit confused with this "trend":

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57324275-93/work-with-the-c...

Look at the design of the site and the buttons and the "weird" offers:

http://jobs.scopely.com/

http://jobs.usehipster.com/

http://jobs.amicushq.com/

Is this produced by a new web service that creates a cool job advertisement?
Solving Email Overload With A Company-Wide Ban 
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/solving-email-overload-with-a-company-wide-ban/
I don't mind so much but it is because I am looking for a job right now.
Lets see if they continue to spam me after I get a job
Let’s summarize the Terms&Conditions of all websites
Ah, yes, the moving goalposts. I remember those.

"If only they would release documentation!"

"If only they would release really good documentation!"

"If only they would release some code examples!"

... And so it would go, with neither party ever happy.
The First Banned Books Video Calendar is Now Online
I wish we could clone Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren a few dozen times.

Just think of how the DMCA tries to block this kind of discovery though.
yeah! let's all hang out on the web!

you go do that, i'll grab a beer with my non-imaginary friends.
So I have been playing with Hook.io for a while too. It is pretty cool, but it should also be pointed out that it is still in early stage development.

Reading the mailing list you can see that hook.io still has some issues to work through:
http://groups.google.com/group/hookio
My guess would be that they want to see if a candidate is cleanly shaved, neatly dressed and can communicate in person?
Vote for your best favourite XFCE distro
You should probably change the gear ratio. I use 42/16, which doesn't hurt my knees but is still around 18mph at 100rpm. Incidentally, my average cadence while commuting is only about 60rpm, so this is probably too high a gear for my actual needs. 42/19 would save my knees and probably be just as good.
I deleted my linkedin account thanks to the glut of recruiters trying to grab me.
I'm still in school and only do internships/co-ops but I still get bombarded with calls and emails for fulltime. I have a canned response for the emails now.

I wish recruiters would spend a little more time looking at my resume to see that all my past jobs have intern in the title and that I don't graduate for a while. The 'Senior Hadoop Engineer' position doesn't really fit me...
All traffic is proxied through Amazon's servers. This means that hypothetically they can read you unencrypted HTTP session. Hence the toggle.
I started a Tumblr a couple months ago called Awkward Recruiter. Haven't added much to it yet though... http://awkwardrecruiter.tumblr.com/

Feel free to submit stuff.
I just got an email today from a recruiter advertising a contracting position... at the company I already work for (full-time).
Why are recruiters so convinced that my inevitable destiny is to move to the Bay Area?
That's the practical reason. The real reason, though, is street cred. ;)
Turn it into a game and get it solved in 10 minutes by 14 year old
Why is fear not a sensible response?

Demonstrators are being assaulted, I don't want to be assaulted, therefore I should not demonstrate.

Fear seems like a productive emotion to me. Fear is what keeps you safe.
"I like to form a personal relationship with all my potential clients"

And dishonest as well. You're not the client; you're the product.
Writing tests for Pyramid and SQLAlchemy
After the last project I worked on where we tested against SQLite and dropped and created our tables on every test I have been searching for a better and more efficient way to run my tests.

I feel like I found a good way to do this but would love your guys opinion.
Usually I find them rather annoying, but I do like the smug sense of "I'm so in demand!" Then, they inevitably say something suggesting that I'm like, the 1000th person they have contacted today.
I read your Hacker News post and was very impressed by your skills. I would like to talk to you about a career opportunity that I'm sure you would find very interesting. Please contact me if you are interested.
CPU Wars Is the Geekiest Card Game Ever
Can anyone here point me in the direction of what I should be reading in order to attack a problem like this.

I literally have little to no idea how to start.

Give me a reading list, or outline the first few steps!
So sad to see this as the top comment. This has been dealth with at length - it's just not the way the modern (media) world works anymore.

Honestly, no one would even care if there were the greatest intel of all time, the most incriminating information, published on a free-for-all wiki without any editorializing. This is the model Wikileaks had at the beginning - and no one cared and things didn't change.

Many reasons, just the most important one: No media organization is going to cover your whistleblowing (and researching and verifying and spending hundreds of manhours before publishing it) if they cannot be sure they have an exclusive. If there is a slight chance they'll get beat to it, they won't touch it (with serious effort).

So: Either you editorialize and embargo stuff and work together with media organizations. Or you don't - and no whistleblower will ever give you stuff anymore, because it's just not going to change anything.

Actually, IMHO, Wikileaks has an obligation to whisteblowers to get the most bang for the buck and that's just not going to happen in the old ways.

There's a reason no one in the real world knows what cryptome even is.
Even funnier are seemingly personalized emails I get from Valley M&A firms for a start-up of mine that died two years ago. They are all very interested in its M&A potential. Ha.
The Pleasure Revolution (talk) and Self-Determination Theory
I get a lot. And I've seen both sides of it, both as someone who was referred to a job by a good recruiter and as someone who has interviewed a lot of people referred by various recruiters.

I don't mind the ones that know the tech industry and actually make effort pairing people with positions that fit them. There aren't many of those out there, but they tend to produce higher quality candidates and consequently, get their people hired.

I do mind the ones that are spammers or more predatory. Just wastes my time, both as a job seeker and as someone with a hand in the hiring process.
i think, the better the seeker's skills, the less helpful a recruiter is. recruiters want to fill positions quickly, the employers that use recruiters want to fill positions quickly. as such they are more worried about getting someone at "market salary" than a rockstar. "market salary" can mean a lot of things, but in the contexts I usually see it, it means something between "our business requires competent, experienced non-experts" and "warm bodies please, we bill by the hour". disclaimer: I make a market salary.
CarrierIQ itself isn't the problem, it's a diagnostic device with legitimate functionality for mobile devices(we want our service to get better, this requires certain aspects of reporting.)
The problem stems from CarrierIQ being implemented poorly, and reporting information which is not reasonable for diagnostic uses or privacy reasons.

As such I feel like this is being blown out of proportion, Apple's use of carrier IQ has never been anything to worry about. A user can optionally choose to participate. (I.e it's not an opt-out scenario) and the information it sends is benign and not personally identifiable.

The issue has been that some vendors have been adding full-capability CarrierIQ to android handsets which then have been shown to be reporting more than what can be considered reasonable, including allegations of key logging. This is obviously wrong and should be corrected. (Or simply removed.)
Blazing fast node.js: 10 performance tips from LinkedIn Mobile
This sounds like a business opportunity all by itself: "virtual domicile hosting" for offshore companies to get access to US services providers.
"If you made a list of the top ten groups that give money to Congressmen these guys would definitely be in it."

Not sure that's true, esp. in reference to organized labor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States#L...
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s
It's a nice problem to have people contacting you with positions; my print designer partner would love to be in a similar spot. :(

Having said that, though, I receive a lot of phone calls from recruiters who've found my LinkedIn profile... But not the big notice that says I'm not looking for any PHP-related positions. I feel like every profile I have needs to have a "No PHP, no contracting, no moving to Canberra" notice stuck at the top.

There are some great recruiters (http://stevegilles.com/ is one such guy in Sydney), but it's unfortunate that there are just so many dropkicks that don't even do the bare minimum before contacting you.
I know someone who was contacted for a job he had recently quit.

I've also had multiple recruiters contact me for the same job after telling them I wasn't interested.
At my office, we have a couple of old BMX bikes that were picked up at garage sales, including one spray-painted blue and white with a small Star of David awkwardly inscribed on the front with a Sharpie and the words "East Side" scratched out on the tube.

We ride the bikes around the office because it's like 8 guys in a 3000+ square-foot warehouse (and because we've camped out in the good offices, but those aren't quite near the restroom).

I didn't get a cow when I started. Instead we got an office convection oven. I bake bread in it from time to time, though it's actually proved more popular for lunchtime frozen pizzas. There's also a panini press. Today our CEO brought in turkey soup leftovers and some ribs.

(We're hiring, but mostly looking for a really good computer vision guy at the moment: http://www.nearbuysystems.com/company/vision )
Nice work on getting to the true meaning.
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So now what happens?
Macro systems and chicken (2008)
The Lowdown on Carrier IQ
Causes for premature ejaculation
http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp
> Storing code as pure structure

s-expressions, then. High-end Lisp editors can do a good bit of structural editing based on the fact s-expressions are pure structure.

> The gap between the goal-completion logic a user comes up with and how they turn those mental instructions into plaintext is an unnecessary jump--an encoding--that produces no end of trivial but infuriating miscommunications.

I think this is the wrong idea. Coming up with the logic in the first place is the hard part; encoding it is trivial once the encoding is learned. The fact is, thinking logically long enough to come up with a nontrivial piece of logic for a computer to execute is hard for humans, as is turning that logic, in whatever form it's stored, into an intuitive mental structure.
Ask HN: Is there a concept behind the name "Dwolla" that I'm not getting?
In my opinion, it's an awful sounding name. I'm wondering what the idea behind it is...I'm guessing D is for dollar, W is for wallet, nah....What do you think?
Well, and Sony got their deserved payback when they pulled that feature for no valid reason whatsoever.
I am still wondering why I was down voted into oblivion for suggesting carrier IQ is not supposed to be the main party to be angry with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298924

Can someone please explain why the rage is not directed at phone manufacturers who asked for, and put this software in the phones they sold to customers?
We do indeed, jrockway. If you'd like honest tea instead, you can have it.
YouTube has a new look
> have been shown to be reporting more than what can be considered reasonable

Funny how you first lament that the issue is being blown out of proportion wrt Apple and then blow it out of proportion yourself. Nobody has shown what data is being reported or indeed, evidence that any data is being reported at all.

They primary issue at this point seems to be that the temporary local logging of the data represents a security risk on these devices even if it is never reported.
I think Plan 9 does something similar. You send signals to a process by writing to a file in the process's /proc directory.
The press release seems pretty clear to me, what's with the headline?
You can build light fixed-gear bikes, but most fixed-gear bikes you buy at a store are going to be heavier than a racing bike from the same store. Of course, the price difference is going to be $3000, so perhaps that doesn't matter much. I have a steel single/fixed bike for commuting and a carbon-fiber racing bike, and the racing bike is about 7 pounds lighter than the fixed-gear bike. (I do have some bells and whistles on the commuting bike that add weight, like a chainguard, fenders, and a rack; but those only add about a pound or so.)

I'm going to try to build a sub-15-pound fixed-gear bike in the near future, so we'll see how that goes. The reason you see so many 15-pound derailer bikes is because 14.99 pounds is the lower limit for UCI races, and the people that spend money on light bikes are doing that to ride them in UCI races.

As for wasted power; I picked a gear that matches my fixed gear bike's gear and rode both for a mile at a 95rpm cadence. Same heart rate both times, which means my body is working equally hard to propel both the same distance and speed. Pushing your sail-like body through the air is where your energy goes when riding a bike. Everything else is a rounding error.

(It would be nice if someone with power-measuring pedals and a power-measuring hub could try both scenarios, though. Then you would know exactly how many watts are being lost in the drivetrain.)
Loss of dispersibility on islands
Ask HN: Who is looking for a partner/co-founder? (December 2011)
Thought I'd start this thread for hackers who aren't looking for a job or freelance work, but rather for a partner/co-founder to work with on their own projects. (I know there's a google doc for this, but I suspect it's outdated, and I know it's cumbersome to use).

In terms of formatting, maybe something like:

- Location

- Your role (developer, designer, business dude, etc.) and who you're looking to collaborate with

- Skills and expertise (frameworks, languages, styles, experience, etc.)

- Whether you're looking to work on your idea or someone else's.

- Brief description of your project, or types of projects you'd be interested in working on.

- How much time you can commit to, and whether or not you're willing to collaborate remotely.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted - you're correct.

I've seen one or two SEO experiments (one on Seomoz IIRC) that show Google at least includes nofollow links in its rankings, even if it doesn't value them highly.
For me at least, it's harder to pick apart what someone says out loud, but if you write it down and hand it to me, I can re-read it at leisure and tell you in minute detail all the idiocies.

Spoken word coding would kill me.