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JavaScript / Ruby Developers REMOTE WORKING ENCOURAGED

We're hiring JavaScript and Ruby developers 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. Our team includes core backbone.js committers and we're working on some fantastic open source projects in support of the same (come meet us at JsConf this year). We've been profitable for over a year and are growing quickly.

http://www.pathable.com/careers-at-pathable/

Apply here:

http://jobsco.re/ADjuWq
I tried it. Could not get authenticated by nickserv on Freenode, got no replies. If you enter a wrong server (i.e., freenode.net, instead of chat.freenode.net) it continuously tells me the server is wrong, there seems not to be a give up time.

Other than that, it looks good.
It takes time to support all the airlines in the world. Give it a few months...
Tanking Readability Paying Subscribers?
The nice thing about the CRM market is people expect to pay for this kind of software, so charging is definitely on our path. Just want to get things solid first. We'll always have a free tier, but ya, going out of business and disappearing is not part of the plan.
Sorry if this question was already asked elsewhere, but how much roughly will FourSquare save with OpenStreetMap? Obviously cost is a critical factor driving this decision, and it would be great to know how much the delta is exactly. Thanks!
Timeline for Pages: Why The Removal Of Default Landing Tabs Is a Good Thing
Convert Email to EMLX Format & Manipulate Tasks on Exchange Server
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 1.5.0. This release includes some great new features such as email conversion to EMLX format, extraction of tasks from PST file, listing any number of messages using the ImapClient class and much more. The most exciting feature from this release is to manipulate tasks on an Exchange Server. For this purpose we have added a new class called ExchangeTask and some new methods to the ExchangeWebServiceClient class that enables you to create, delete and update tasks on the Exchange Server.
This looks like a great app, will definitely check it out. Almost reminds me of what the original Color could have been.
Ask HN: Link in the fb jobs referral mail leads to unauthorized page
Hi all,
I was referred to facebook by a friend for an opening. I got a confirmation mail from facebook to click on a link to complete the application. The link took me to the facebook salesforce page which throws an unauthorized error.<p>I cant figure out what to do. Any one have any clue as to what should I do?
nice work dudes. keep up the good work.
Precog: Harness the power of big data to build smarter apps
>I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.

I'm just future-fantasizing here but ...
Wouldn't it be a ripe topic of neurochemical study to find out what happens in a brain that decides that ego stroking is more important than learning through constructive conversation?
I suspect that "deciding to learn" requires a significantly higher activation energy than simply choosing to prove "I'm right".
You don't need to know how it's implemented, you just need to know that you have to pass an object that can be closed. You can get that simply by reading the docs.

The exception that's thrown in your first example above certainly makes it blatantly obvious what you did wrong, which is nice. but you still have to know that the addition operator doesn't let you concatenate numbers and symbols in order to use it effectively, or your program will crash once you run it. That's on you.
London (UK) and Boston (US).

We're a 100-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development.

We use Java, Scala, and some Groovy; we always write tests first and pair on most coding tasks. Developers have Linux workstations with at least two monitors. We have weekly lightning talks that cover finance and technical topics. We have "real" 10% time for relevant projects prioritised by developers.

Some of you may know us from our sponsorship of Hacker News meetups in London. See http://devblog.timgroup.com and http://www.timgroup.com/careers for more about us.

Note we recently changed our name from youDevise to TIMGroup but we're still the same folks!
To clarify, by "suboptimal" I meant that the Javascript code generated by transpiling a Dart application will almost certainly be less optimal than writing that application in Javascript from the outset.

My point is that this is not really true. The Dart language itself is designed to compile to efficient Javascript.

This is one reason it's a better solution than GWT in my opinion, because Java does not always compile to efficient Javascript and you do have to skip features like longs, Java regexes, even the java.util collections classes are heavyweight. Dart being designed from the start to compile to Javascript avoids most of these problems.

Like CoffeeScript, I expect Dart performance to be very close to Javascript when compiled, sometimes even faster than what a programmer would normally write.
>Perl comes out best according to Tom Christiansen

It would be hard to find a more bias source.
Thirst Labs - San Francisco - Full Time & Intern
We are applying NLP & Machine Learning techniques to augment how you consume and read Twitter.

We are looking for Rails developers (familiarity with AWS is a plus), Mobile Developers (ideally iOS at the moment) and NLP Engineers/Researchers.

We are backed by influential VC's and Angels, and we are located on Market St., right off Montgomery Bart. If you are interested, email us at jobs at thirstlabs.com
Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles Area), also Austin, TX

TRUECar - Put simply, we bring transparency to auto pricing and so far we are getting a solid piece of a huge market. We just hired someone from an HN Who's Hiring post here last month and he's loving it so far.

* Java - Build our core framework. We're looking for architects who can solve hard scaling and big-data problems and developers who are smart and get things done.

* Python - Build our websites using Python with Django and Flask.

* Front-End engineers - HTML/CSS/JavaScrpt/jQuery.

* QA Engineers - Find the bugs I create.

* Database Developers - We store a lot of data on car sales, etc, and need people that can handle large scale date with a high volume of traffic.

* Non-Technical - We're also looking for account managers (in Santa Monica), area sales managers (in various cities). Contact me for details.

As I mentioned, we just hired an excellent front-end developer from the "Who's Hiring" thread last month. He's loving it here as am I. I found TrueCar at PyCon 2011 - come visit us at PyCon 2012!

The Python team in an open workspace that has a view of the ocean (http://picplz.com/user/dabent/pic/tpc4v/), and all the Santa Monica offices are blocks from the beach. They have great benefits, including company equity, 100% paid family medical, dental, vision, and a healthy 401k. They also offer gym membership reimbursement ($50 a month), 12 holidays, career training, 3 weeks PTO and have a kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and such.

If you're interested, send me your resume. My email is in my profile.
Speaking of numbers games, you use "median" when we all know that median exit is valueless without information about distribution. Mode is much more valuable. But that data is not available. However, if you pay attention to the publicized acquisitions which happen fairly often, the amounts are most often under $10m.

As for whether my number comparisons make good dialectic sense or not, it doesn't matter. This isn't dialectic, it's rhetoric. It's a tool for thinking about something. There's no point in pretending we're even attempting to approach Absolute Truth here.

As a tool for thinking about something, a contrast of M&As vs lightning strike injuries is quite valuable. Because we all "know" people who have been bought, but very few of us know people who have been injured by lightning. This shows us that we're in a bubble, a slice of unreality, where the availability heuristic skews our deeply felt understanding of likelihood.

Finally, yes. Dow Jones Venturesource tracks only venture-backed companies. Everyone on HN seems to agree that achieving venture funding is not only important for growth, but important for the connections the VC has to people who would buy the startup. Presumably that belief has some grounding in fact. This leads us to the conclusion that an acquisition is more likely when there is VC involved than not.
Palo Alto/Menlo Park, CA - Lead Designer - Full Time

Everyme is looking for a lead designer. We're building the true social network, backed by the address book. We do an incredible amount of intensive computations, but everyone we have showed the product to is surprised by how we've managed to keep the UI beautiful, simple and focused. We like to think we're a dream home for a designer, as every one of our 5 engineers all implement PSDs to the pixel. We're looking for someone who has designed iOS/Mac apps before, and has a keen eye for pixel perfection.

You'll be challenged on a daily basis to make our complex algorithms look simple to the end user. MG Siegler wrote a great post on us, which has a little more info about Everyme[1]. We've raised $1.5m from CrunchFund and others (Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, SV Angel).

To apply, please email oliver at everyme dot com with some of your previous work.

1. http://parislemon.com/post/11647475506/your-true-social-netw...
Please remove all those ==='s. They are causing the page width to expand and badly reformatting all the posts.
Enjoyed it, haven't finished it either.

As for your issues with the game - have you tried anger management classes? ;)
Install Faenza Icons In KDE 4.8
Hi slapshot. Check out this report by Schaller Consulting, who now works for NYC Department of Transportation. Fear does not motivate anyone: http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/safercabs.pdf
Apparently the youtube embed object takes a while to load on Safari, we're looking into it....
Oops. I'll fix this.
What if the company was going to give you a bonus anyway (it's part of your employment contact), then asks you to work overtime. Will they pay a bigger bonus?

If not, then you are working unpaid overtime.
You are right, Universities provide that "appeal" but going forward, that won't matter anymore. Things just will change as people start realizing that that is shallow and start placing importance on gaining knowledge itself. The appeal then would be, how much you know, your expertise rather than where you went to school at. It is evolving and will continue to accelerate and the state of the economy will act as a catalyst. IMO.
Really really cool.

Minor copy edit on your splash page - there's a 't' on the end of 'messages' in this section:

Streak Plays Nice
Streak never alters any data in your Gmail. No extra labels, and no moving around your messagest. Streak adds a layer of organization on top of your email and stores this separately and securely in our own cloud.
Lytro: Why it might succeed in spite of its lackluster camera
Know and Believe Your Elevator Pitch, Don't Just Memorize It
Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos
I don't get why all these MBAs are so set on starting a website business when they refuse to learn about websites. This is like MBAs wanting to start a restaurant and trying to find a chef. The whole idea is a little pointless. You might find one, but really your role is to ENABLE a good chef/coder and help them succeed. It's stupid to come up with a restaurant name and theme and then go find a chef - you can do that, but you're likely going to fail since you don't know anything. Instead, find a great chef/coder, find what they want to do, help them develop and package their idea and then do all the shit work that they don't want to deal with (get money, buy stuff, hire people, do powerpoint). THAT'S your role.
SEEKING WORK -- Remote, Community Management

I have a track record of promoting traffic on discussion lists and forums, increasing membership, and promoting diversity/inclusiveness.
How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
Suppose he had been camming with some guy living there.
Should he be liable to extradition (and possibly beheading) to such country?
Kroes (EU) calls Vodafone's bluff on roaming charges
Same here, with FF 10.0.2 on Snow Leopard, when I click on a video I just see an empty box.
April 2003 - Attempts to begin a cull of hedgehogs on North Uist in the Western Isles have got under way.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2920067.stm)

April 2005 - Animal rights activists are trying to rescue hedgehogs as an annual cull gets under way in the Outer Hebrides.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4406675.stm)

October 2005 - Protest over annual hedgehog cull

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4390054.stm)

April 2007 - The board of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has decided to suspend its cull of hedgehogs in the Western Isles.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/63...)

February 2010 - Hebridean hedgehogs: a prickly issue
The Uists cull has already cost more than £1m, but we should question the causal link between bird and hedgehog populations

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/25/hedgehog...)

February 2011 - £1.3m hedgehog cull to save islands' birds eggs 'fails'

(http://www.scotsman.com/news/163_1_3m_hedgehog_cull_to_save_...)
GWT is pretty painful to use compared to Dart in my experience. Where in GWT you have long compiles or a very slow Dev Mode, in Dart you have extremely fast compiles and Dartium which is even faster.

GWT's great when you like static typing, Java development tools, and Java libraries (which I do, so I use GWT), but Dart give you static typing if you want, especially with checked mode, and should support similarly awesome tools because of the typing. Libraries will hopefully come along, and quickly I predict because there won't need to be the equivalent of jQuery and all the classical inheritance implementations.

If you're coming from GWT, just think of Dart as GWT but fast, designed to compile to JS with a native option, and much lighter-weight syntax and language features than Java.
Sometimes it feels good to vent as an entrepreneur. Now back to work...
EU agencies say Google breaking law with privacy policy changes
Show HN: bookvoid.com, my attempt at a web based open textbook platform
> You do not need anything from Apple to write or sell apps for the Mac,

For now that remains true on OSX, but it's not true for iOS, which is what TFA is about, and as OSX imports more ideas from iOS I'm not entirely comfortable it will remain true.
Great stuff. I dont blog, but I want to. I recently came to the conclusion that I don't think about things enough, I dont form an opinion.

I read a lot of stuff and wonder how the author came up with what they wrote or how they managed to piece two points together that otherwise would have seemed unrelated. The answer is as simple as they gave it five minutes.
Given that Google might acquire your company, why would you want to provide it with 100% of your sales, support and bug tracking information?
Joel is using a tool called "exaggeration" in this piece to make it more poignant and funny. You might have heard of that ;-)

Seriously though: many of those software licenses are still below say $5000 per license/head/..., and they are very standardized run of the mill software. The article still holds: if you're running a dev shop on MS technology, you won't need manager approval and a sales process to buy Visual Studio or MS SQL, and the same goes for MS Office or Adobe products in a design company.
CLOS implementations have had to deal with the problem of extreme dynamism for a long time, so there has been quite a bit of optimization work associated with it. Polymorphic inline caches help a lot, for example.

That said, a good tracing JIT is probably better; but on the other hand, SBCL has profited from many years of optimization work on CMU CL. It would be interesting to see some real-world performance comparisons between SBCL and PyPy.
I'm confused - A large part of the discussion here is around the legality of deduping and "infringing" files. I was under the impression that files themselves don't violate copyright - people do. As a result, there will never be a way to accurately determine who can download a particular file. Or am I missing something?

If I own a copy of the DVD and want to download a dvdrip, am I commiting copyright infringement? Is the file, in and of itself, an illegal file? or is the act of downloading said file illegal?

(and to short circuit the 'you should rip your dvd yourself' discussion, it's quicker to download and the end result is the same)
Some dreams come true. Even when you are not hacking on them.
I helped write an in-house CRM for my current employer as a transition away from Dynamics. It does leads, ownership, billing, conversion, all that stuff and it's built as a part of our existing backend systems, which is great for providing extra customer detail and insight you wouldn't get otherwise.

It might become a maintenance hassle five or ten years down the track, or after most of the original developers move on, but for now it was simple to write, the best solution to our problems, perfectly customisable to our precise needs and everyone enjoys using it.

I used plain excel to maintain a "CRM" of about 200 entries for a university society. Works incredibly well, fast and easy - exactly what you would want in a startup - i suppose until you have multiple people needing to work on it, and come upon data permission and file locking issues. I know several large businesses rely disproportionately on excel in this way.
This is great timing! We just hired a customer support person this week, and we started using HelpScout.net, but we aren't finding that it's very polished.

We're going to give Streak a shot, and hopefully give you some good feedback.

P.S. You are missing a question mark on your home page: "Want to know where the customer is in the sales pipeline."
Landing Page Design: Visualizing the High Cost of Credit Card Debt
Well designed Interactive Infographic/ landing page that let's you visualize how much your credit card debt is costing you, then prompts you to do something about it.
Most NYC Yellow Cab drivers do not own the medallion. They lease it weekly, or yearly, or work for a garage who owns the medallions. Over the past few years a lot of these garages have been consolidated into larger corporations.

This is about motivating and celebrating the driver. Much like in professional sports the MVP is not the owner of the team.

We do not intend to further malice and negativity within the city. We are looking to create a positive and mutually beneficial relationship between the over 45,000 drivers and 470,000+ people who take cabs on a daily basis.
I don't see what's wrong with this. If I have something that can make you $100M, why shouldn't I sell it to you for more money than if it would make you $100k?
Hacker News Apps
> Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions.

Just make sure they're real, good-faith questions, not booby traps.
Awarelabs: Kick Start Your PR Campaign Before Budgeting An Agency
Saying that someone lacks understanding of a subject is not an ad-hominem attack. You are correct that I didn't justify my point of view, but then nor did the author of the article.

Let's examine his claims:

"The proponents of NoSQL aren't even aware of how they are repeating history by recreating the hierarchical databases of yore."

Says who? The author doesn't bother justifying this statement, he just throws it out there. It's completely baseless, and likely a straw-man argument (as I have a hard time believing that everyone at Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the other large cloud companies are completely clueless about database history).

"E.F. Codd was explicitly trying to rectify these mistakes when he formulated relational database theory 40 years ago"

This sounds a little more plausible, but which mistakes is he talking about? And when did Codd say this? Citation, please!

"and now we've come so far along that we've wrapped around and apparently must re-learn these mistakes a second time"

Which mistakes exactly? Don't make me guess!

"The morons promoting this technology have no clue"

Ad-hominem attack. Let's move on.

"they see themselves as the new sheriffs in town, putting their scalability law above all else."

Finally we learn his beef with NoSQL databases, but he fails to justify his argument any more than this.

There are strong reasons for putting scalability above other concerns. The scalability of S3 matters far more to me than whether updates are atomic, for instance.

Frankly, I'm confused why you think "his argument is strong". His argument consists of unjustified statements, straw men, and ad-hominem attacks. There's utterly no substance to it.
I absolutely do not agree here.
Fun fact, we've had a discussion of windows versions at work today and this is basically exactly what I said about good and bad windows versions (not his conclusions, though).
We're a 70 people software shop with highly mixed infrastructure, and we've had much, much, much fewer problems with XP and 7 than with Vista. (Of maybe 20 people not running Linux or OS X).
Agreed. The author of the article has no idea of what I'm doing so leaping to the conclusion I'm wrong (and so is everybody else who reads his article) comes across as arrogant and clueless.
What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have In Common?
I believe Microsoft (and eBay for that matter) vastly overpaid for Skype, but at the same time Skype does way more more than this does. Comparing the two things at all is disingenuous.
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Avenue100 Media Solutions- Woburn/Cambridge MA

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. Awesome place to work, laid back, flexible, extremely talented cast.

Our company is a leading analytics-based performance marketing company that helps institution acquire qualified customers. We are experts in the art and science of education digital marketing. Our sites are seen by nearly 30 million visitors annually.

Our engineers work with the research, sales, and traffic teams to build solutions to their toughest problems and rapidly deploy tools to keep our business ahead of the competition. Our small teams are solely responsible for their projects. This allows each engineer a high level of independence and flexibility, but also demands responsible project and resource management.

Built by data driven MIT scientists, our successful startup company has transformed into becoming one of the major players in the online education space. We need highly motivated, independent thinkers that want to make an impact on the business while not having to wait for a successful exit. Our compensation plans are highly competitive and we prefer short-term bonuses over any unclear or hazy equity package.'

Why us?
-Excellent pay/benefits/and bonus
-Laid back environment/flexible schedule
-Gym/cafeteria on-site
-Ping Pong table/video games
-Free snacks
-Company outings

If you are interested please send a resume to cdestefano@avenue100.com

Experience with atleast Ruby, Python, or Java is desired.
Last time I was in New York, the cab driver who gave me a lift from the airport mentioned to me the fee charged by the processing system they currently use. I don't remember the exact number he gave, but I remember it sounded very high to me. If Square charges cab drivers the same price they charge me, this could be a very good thing for NYC cabbies.