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FULLTIME Front End Web Developer - Brighton, UK

About Us

We’re a group of designers, developers and general tech tinkerers who have come together to make future interfaces simpler and more helpful.

We're based by the sea down in Brighton, work with Tesco, Google, Disney, Intel, Swiftkey & others and we’ve been around for some 5 years now.

Oh, and we’ve just been voted one of the Top 50 Innovators in mobile by Mobile Entertainment, and nominated for Agency Of The Year 2011 by .Net mag.

Job Description

From the start you'll be writing code (JS/HTML/CSS) for our own ambitious products, or prototyping and building applications and frameworks on impressive client projects. You'll geek out on making your code and interfaces run smoothly across a wide range of devices with varying browsers, form factors, processors and input mechanisms.

You'll ensure your code is well-documented, tested and follows team code standards, priding yourself on its quality, robustness and readability.

Speaking of team, you'll be working with design-types, other web-devs and a few other heavy-duty geeks: planning, sketching, collaboration and code reviews form an important part of the role so flexibility and communication are paramount.

And you'll take part in normal Agile ceremonies including sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and daily standups.

Skills Range

We’re looking for someone with strong web-dev skills:

•	Handcode *real* Javascript
•	Build with popular frameworks (jQuery, zepto, Backbone...)
•	Have meaningful discussions about design patterns
•	Use 'cool-kid' technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Node, web workers...)
•	Show skills in a backend language or two (Ruby, Python...)
•	Automate your tests (Hudson, Jasmine, Selenium...)
•	Show experience developing across platforms

...and you’ll need some more general skills too! As with the other ribots, you’ll need a brain like a swiss army knife:

•	Play well with other developers
•	Have real conversations with designer types
•	Be agile, be responsive
•	A desire to constantly learn and experiment

How to apply

If you think you're the wondrous web-dev we're looking for, send a covering letter with a collection of links to your work to: jobs@ribot.co.uk

The closing date is Friday 17th February!

Good luck!
A solar storm anecdote
I know many people who recommend it
Show HN: Roveb, a simple mobile loyalty program for businesses
Hi guys,

We launched! Checkout our startup, Roveb, a simple mobile loyalty program for small-medium businesses.

Roveb will help businesses easily create a fast, simple and engaging mobile presence with built-in provision for deals, rewards and virality.

Businesses can inventivize mobile visitors who participate with social sharing/recommendations and personal visits; creating brand awareness and new customers for the business.

http://roveb.com (Invitation Code: SHOWHN)

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I'll really appreciate your feedback (both good and not so good). Your thoughts around these areas would be helpful too:

1. What is your initial impression of our landing page? What improvements would you suggest?

2. How can we improve the mobile loyalty program? Any features or ideas we should focus on more than other things?

3. What type of person or organization do you think would benefit most from Roveb?

4. Any marketing advice or suggestions are most welcome.

5. We'll be grateful if you could kindly spare a few minutes to browse through a Roveb-powered demo mobile site (please visit http://roveb.com) on your smartphone and share some brief feedback about its performance, looks and usability.

Cheers.
Yep, it's a well known german datacenter.
Enthought - www.enthought.com

tldr: Python development for scientific applications, financial applications and Python toolset development.

Enthought has offices in Austin, New York, Cambridge, Mumbai.

If you use Python and love numpy / scipy then Enthought would be a great place for you. Come work with numpy / scipy hackers on solving interesting scientific analysis and data visualization problems. Also we are building the next generation of Python development tools, so there is no shortage of interesting problems to work on. Send applications to jobs@enthought.com and mention that you saw this on the hacker news Feb 2012 thread. Looking forward to working with some of you.
Clickable - http://roveb.com (Invitation Code: SHOWHN)
Ok this example probably clarifies the rationale:

"A programming interface that is proprietary severely limits the options for firms that use them. Typically, a proprietary interface is contractually tied to the associated product. If the client decides to stop using the product, any references to the interface must be removed from the client’s applications. Further, the proprietary interface may not be copied and used for any other purpose, even if the firm remains a customer of that vendor for other uses. Together, these restrictions prevent the creation of adapters that could mitigate the costs and risks of migration"
This is mind reading only to some extent. They weren't capturing arbitrary thoughts, only the brain's interpretation of spoken words. That is a difference, although still quite a leap.
They've been around for a while, and are fairly well known.
They are one of the largest hosts in Europe (~50k dedicated servers if I remember correctly). Large doesn't always mean best, though. Similar to OVH, they provide good hardware, reliability and a decent enough network, but if anything goes wrong you best know how to fix it yourself. I also believe their network isn't /as/ good as somewhere like Rackspace however with CDN's etc. that's probably not as much of an issue.

TL;DR; Yes they're trustworthy, generally speaking
Lead Developer and/or Designer
FULLTIME, ON-LOCATION / REMOTE
Bungolow (www.bungolow.com)

Bungolow is hiring. We're the first mover in the Spanish Latin American market in our space and we're looking for developers and designers to help us be number 1.

Check out our latest job posting at www.bungolow.com/work-with-us and join a less stressful work environment! We’re fun, easy-going and we won’t refer to you as a programmer, ninja, hacker, or any other overused cliche buzzwords (unless you want us to). We’ve got the business side locked down, so sales, marketing, management, you don’t have to worry about that. You get to do what you do best and code.

Email careers@bungolow.com introducing yourself and include links to things you've built online.
Before this, even if you paid you still did not get api access. Or any documentation. They act as if it is still an analogue teletext service right down to the ghastly UI. The terms of service forbid you from storing the data. This seems to be some sort of tentative step out of the twentieth century.
Thanks for the pointer! I'll have to keep that in mind.
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It's where we host all of our staging servers for client apps now, pretty good value if you ask me.
Full Time Back/Front End, Quantitative Engineers - New York, NY (Midtown East)

https://www.novus.com/

Novus is looking for bright generalist engineers striving to make an impact in uniquely challenging roles. We're looking for engineers to help us build the next generation of real-time financial analytics sytems, used by some of the world's most prominent investors.

There's no shortage of ways to innovate and help grow the firm. We want the world's makers to come together with us & help turn inside out an old industry afflicted with the worst case of inertia ever.

If this is you, I'm dying to hear from you! max at novus dot com
I love Hetzner. I got the more cheaper one a week ago http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4
I've used them for the past year with zero issues, but I then I haven't done anything too hardcore. Network is excellent although I've noticed one site (oron.com) cannot be routed to - haven't bothered figuring out if maybe this is because it's Germany and there's a block, or if there's something else going on. I've also been impressed with their server management tools (web-based VKVM access, you can boot into a rescue system if required, etc.).
Also http://hackerne.ws/ doesn't redirect.
Facebook’s Revenue Growth Strategy: Ad Targeting By In-App Behavior
That was back when most games were developed for single platform though, namely Windows for most/all titles Loki was porting. Today, almost all AAA titles are multi-platform with a console being the lead platform; and lots of indie games are developed somewhat platform agnostic, as well, in order to support OS X or mobile operating systems.
I use Foundation and haven't had to use any <br/> with forms, nor have I even thought about it.
Traffic is limited ie. they cap you too 10mbit after you exceed 10TB, (you can buy more uncapped traffic ofc.)

And yes the "host" is a very big datacenter, I have one server with them for 3 years, with pretty good uptime. 2-3 outages on their end over last 3 years.
You need to remember that you need to buy additional packages for hardware raid or failover that will cost you about 20-30 EUR - if you need them, still it's one of best offers out there and def. best in Europe price wise.
Mt.Gox financials: Jan. 2012
While I think Bootstrap is fantastic and helpful, my only worry is overreliance and under customisation, thus a decrease in creativity.

I would be a little bit sad if every new web app I visited overused Bootstrap and stuck to that now increasingly popular design.
This reporter couldn't make the distinction between and open and free?
Full Time - Back End Web Developer - Grand Rapids, MI

This position is part of a full-service marketing firm with a nimble interactive group. The team works to create and develop effective, hard-working mobile apps, scalable web sites, and web-based applications. This is a fast-paced, creative and flexible environment -- your contributions (code, ideas and preferences) will immediately and directly affect the solutions we provide.

We're especially looking for someone who can supplement and advance our app development efforts, so an advanced understanding of Javascript is a must - and some Objective-C experience is a huge plus.

We're fairly flexible ... as long as you're on-site, and we're looking at full-time employment. We work hard and have fun. And we'd like an experienced developer who's ready for some new challenges to join the team. Your skills and availability will make a difference.

http://www.teamddm.com/contact/jobs/web-developer
How do CDN's solve bad connectivity of your app server?
Ask HN: Anyone with KnockoutJS experience available for a Code Review?
Working on a small side project, of no major importance, to increase my working knowledge with the more front-end-heavy approaches to web app development. I've got a small working example of something I want to develop into a more full featured app, but I was wondering if anyone here had a good amount of experience with Knockout, and would be willing to do a code review with me. There are some things i've pieced together that I'm unsure of are the correct way to go or not, and I'd like some advice from someone a bit more experienced.<p>Things I'll have questions about:
Observable Arrays, and making the items in the Array (and their properties) observable
Custom Bindings that are applied to said Observable-Array-Item-Properties
WebSockets as a way to update the ViewModel<p>Things that would be good if you were familiar with, as this is the stack I'm running on:
NodeJS
ExpressJS
SocketIO<p>Any guidance at all would be a major help, as I'd really like to continue down this road and use frameworks like Knockout in the future, but I just feel like a few minutes of guidance would help me from steering my car into a ditch on my first few outings.<p>My email can be found in my profile, but I'll respond directly to any replies here as well (I'm at work, so I might not reply right away)<p>Thanks in advance for any replies this may get
Is it just me that's getting a really slow generation time with this? Previous versions took around 1.2 seconds, while v2 is taking upwards of 4.5 seconds.
[EDIT: use http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537881 instead of this thread]

OT: Is there a reason not to wait for the whoishiring account to post this?
This might be true in NAm. In other parts of the earth, it might be different. There are different cultural barriers and different things which are considered "normal" for meeting new people.

Other parts of the earth? Ask your local gay friends about Grindr.
I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want?

Also, Microsoft Office is extremely expensive for people in third-world countries. Pointing people to free alternatives that aren't fully compatible and that have a different interface is not the answer. Microsoft's Office is required for most corporate documents and it is assumed when working computer knowledge is requested from employees.

You're also suggesting that TBP should violate the privacy of its users.
What do you think this would accomplish? And I'm sure the government would love having that list straight from the horse's mouth.
Unfortunately, they are filtering traffic to The Pirate Bay's IP adresses as well. This was part of the verdict, they have to filter the list of IP addresses (hosting TPB) that Brein provides.

Edit: I, as most other people here, are perfectly capable of setting up a tunnel. Most people outside these small confines aren't.
Interestingly, the 10TB only applies to outgoing traffic. For most people this probably isn't that important but for my current project it's great because the bulk of my bandwidth will be users uploading data and/or me fetching that data on their behalf.
"they will be caught"

That's debatable. Not that I'd want them to run, but getting caught is in no way a certain thing.
They have no issues with connectivity, they might have higher latency and lower bandwidth than some of the higher end providers. But since +90% of the data transfer on most sites is static assets, using a CDN to distribute those will reduce the bandwidth requirements on the server.

Of course, if you're working on a larger project with enough budget, services like Akamai provide methods of routing your static content via their network, further reducing the problem.
After the IcedCoffeeScript post the other day, I found Oni Labs' version -- which I don't remember seeing before -- Stratified CoffeeScript:

https://github.com/onilabs/coffee-script
What Facebook's IPO Means To The Market
Neil Young: Steve Jobs and I were working on new iPod
> unlike Java it will not complain that it has no idea how to "lower" 3.

AttributeError is a complaint, isn't it?
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THere are alot of restrictions on what you can do with financial data in general.

Typically it's tiered pricing model so it's:

- at one rate for viewing internally at your company,

- another rate if it's used for automated trading purposes

-another, open your wallet and dump it out price if you want to redistribute the data to external viewers, ie put it up on a website.
While I haven't used this in production, I can say that for zipping up stuff that was already generated client side it is usually quicker than sending the data to the server to be zipped, then getting it back. While this seems like a just-because-its-cool sort of hack, it actually has awesome implications. Zipped file creation from offline apps? Yes please.
afaik (please somebody correct me if i'm wrong) if you pay for a bloomberg workstation you can download API and use it on your system, but you're limited to using it on a licensed workstation (you cant interface another system in order to pull these data) and you cant pass it without elaborating them

so, as example:

NO you cant use a program on the licensed workstation that sucks data and push them to a database that is used to power a website that shows stock prices

NO you cant get the data from that workstation from other computers via API

YES you can create a custom C++ program that runs on your licensed bloomberg workstation that get data via API, elaborate them with your own algo and give you signals for buy/sell (or maybe create a report that you send to your customers)
https://www.ctunnel.com/
Knewton: New York (NYC) funded startup seeking software engineers interested in functional programming, machine learning, distributed systems, and "big data" problems. +ONSITE, +REMOTE, +FULLTIME, +INTERN.

Investors include Peter Thiel (Founder's Fund), Reid Hoffman, and Pearson, a leader in educational publishing. We were recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business.

We have about 80 employees right now. We pay full market salaries plus stock options, and you can take as much vacation as you need. Hours are typically 40-50 per week.

Our product is an adaptive learning platform, which means we use machine learning and "big data" techniques to deliver an individualized education to each student. Our eventual goal is to make a high-quality, adaptive education available to everyone in the world. The product is used by Arizona State University right now, and we recently signed a deal with Pearson to power many of their products.

Our code is a mix of Python, Java, and Scala. Most of our existing code is in Python, but we're working to scale up in a major way, which involves a migration to the JVM. Currently this involves a mix of Java and Scala, but our long-term goal is to move toward Scala. Consequently, we're really hot for Scala talent right now. Anyone who has experience taking Scala into production we would love to talk to right now.

You can reach me at knerd83 at gmail.com, and I'm a software engineer so I'll be able to answer any of your technical questions (e.g. why we're interested in Scala). Reach out if any of the following interest you:

* Using technology to democratize education.

* Machine learning and data mining, including approaches such as probablistic graphic models (PGMs), Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Monte Carlo Markov Chains.

* Functional programming (cf. Scala and Python).

* The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals and performance optimization.

* NoSQL databases (Cassandra and Redis).

* Thrift (the RPC protocol).

* Cloud computing (Amazon Web Services, Unix) and distributed systems.
Google cache is helpful http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Huge might be the wrong word, but I've definitely been frustrated that it's missing. Java has a standard library class that works well enough for whole-file advisory (or mandatory if you're on Windows, I suppose) locks on a local filesystem. It's eminently helpful for excluding a second process from starting with a lock that the OS will clean up for you if/when your process terminates for whatever reason.

smf(5) can get you part of the way there, but not if you're (say) writing some system bits that you need to deploy on platforms in addition to SunOS. Plus, if you can avoid depending on any not-just-pure-JS modules then you can deploy one tree onto all of your platforms without additional build steps, C++ compile/ABI issues, etc.
January 2012: three Cisco vulnerabilities
For Belgian people too...
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Sensor networks in SF and LA eliminate the search for parking spots
They could add a slider to control the percentage of your purchase prize which goes to the App Store owner. Except you can't adjust the slider, since it's fixed at 30%. Ouch. I'd much rather continue giving those 30% to the EFF.
For those not able to access the site due to ISP-blocking try setting your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and/or 4.4.4.4 (which is Google's DNS server) as they often just block the site in the DNS.
Yeah, figured that out by now...

Still, it just reinforces the insanity of the whole experience: I now have to rely on others for this information. My ability to evaluate that information has been compromised.
NO.

If a product supplier prices themselves out of the market that's exactly the time when people should be pointing to Libre Office.
They also filter traffic to TPB IP adresses. I am aware of the methods that can be used to circumvent such censorship. In fact, I could easily do it with my VPS.

But that is all besides the point, because the average citizen does not have the technical knowledge to circumvent blockades. They were shut off from a part of the web yesterday. And this is probably just the beginning.
Fog Creek!

http://www.fogcreek.com/Careers.html

Software Developer
Systems Engineer
Front-End Designer/Developer
Intern in software development (Summer 2012)
Never heard of it. Spent two minutes looking for it on the desktop (right-click I assume), and on the web interface. No dice.
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology.
Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on something that matters:
http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html

apply here:
https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83
.Net & JavaScript devs, Sys Admin - London UK

7Digital, electronic media company (music and books), our API powers Samsung Music, Blackberry, Ubuntu our own website and loads. Now also do ebooks powering services like Waterstones. Loads of interesting problems including scaling an API to serve 170,000+ requests per hour, processing and serving hundreds of TB's of data world wide while innovating. You get 10% of your time to innovate with, regular katas/dojo's. We are established, 7 years old, and profitable, 70+ people based in main old street office, ~45 of which are technical jobs. Fantastic work mentality, we always work the right way even if it takes a little longer, i.e. we don't cut corners on quality. Currently looking for dev's who are experienced with Test Driven development.
http://about.7digital.net/careers
I'm guessing that previously Bloomberg either charged or didn't allow 3rd party access to their APIs so that you could develop your own apps on top of the datafeed.

By making it open, it opens up the market for 3rd party tool developers to build apps that can access the Bloomberg feed data.

To those that are complaining, I have a developer subscription to IQFeed, which charges a fee of around $70/month for delayed data, and I pay $300/yr, so Bloomberg offering it for free is pretty good. Too bad their data feed costs ~$1000/month.
“Real-world requirements” don’t make code ugly. They just make the problem harder. Hard problems still have elegant solutions.
Simple multicast testing with nicnack