skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco, fulltime systems/ops and engineering, Causes - http://www.causes.com/joinus

At Causes, use your programming powers to help nonprofits effect change on the world! Ruby on Rails + jQuery stack, 12-ish person engineering team, the usual startup perks (catering, snacks, soda, etc), gym membership reimbursement, etc. Ways we're trying to make ourselves better engineers:

- deliberate practice with our tools. If you are a vim user, we have the programmer who wrote Command-T on staff and he's a great person to learn from - every changeset gets pushed to Gerrit where it waits to get a +1 from our build suite (that runs in 3 minutes) and a +1 from a human reviewer

- last month I said we were hoping to finish our Rails 3.0.11 upgrade soon. I'm happy to announce that not only have we landed on 3.2.3, but we needed some upstream patches to get our site working -- so we're on bleeding edge Rails. We're the largest site I know of on Rails 3.2. Come get your SASS on!

- everyone is encouraged to take one hour from their day to learn about something they wouldn't otherwise

- every story is scoped so that it can be completed in less than a day. We don't branch, we just work on top of master. We've found that the closer we stay to master, the less needless work we create for ourselves

Causes is a great place to better yourself and better the world. We're particularly looking for a systems/ops/network engineer to help wrangle our colo. Apply through the site or adam@causes.com if interested!
Spurfly - Palo Alto, CA or Arlington, VA - Python/Coffeescript Developer - LOCAL or REMOTE (full-time preferred)

• Full-stack Developer, and

• Front-end (UI/UX) Developer for desktop web and/or mobile web

Help us scale and meet demand for real-time location-aware planning. Our focus is on groups and events ("spur of the moment, on the fly"). We think we have something unique to offer the world and are launching a native iOS app in a few weeks and expanding to web and mobile web next.

The founders are straight shooters who value clear communication and getting stuff done. We're obssessed with creating a product that fills what we see as a major hole in social networking software -- helping people more efficiently connect in real-life with close networks so they can spend more of their time building and enriching real relationships.

Technologies:

• frontend: coffeescript, jQuery, backbone.js, socket.io, compass

• backend: python, django, gevent, gunicorn, nginx, postgres

We need some knowledge/experience optimizing and scaling some or all of the above technologies to handle growth, and building real-time single-page architecture sites or mobile web.

Immediate front-end needs include design and development of our desktop web and mobile web versions and giving thoughtful consideration to iPhone workflows as we get feedback from users.

Full-stack devs are needed to help optimize and expand our API, re-assess our real-time web architecture, add background processing for actions triggered by the API calls, optimize queries, and support what's going to potentially be a wild ride as we do launch events over the next few months.

gmail - davidmarble (main tech guy on the founding team)
The Pleasure in a Good Name
Unless you live in germany, then youtube has nothing :(
SPDY : An Application Layer protocol by Google
I'm unsure why Github needs to be simplified and I certainly don't want to see it simplified at the expense of functionality, as is shown in this article. I can't stand this constant drive to simplify everything, which is more and more plaguing software.
San Francisco, CA - Minted

Frontend & backend developers needed!

Minted is a social commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from around the world. Behind the scenes, we're running Python and PHP, on MySQL running in EC2 and Rackspace environments.

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a brightly lit office environment that's 5 minutes walking distance from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. We're backed by Benchmark Capital & IDG Ventures, among others.

See http://www.minted.com/jobs for more, or send me an email at eric@minted.com
> VPN is 3 letters and so is IRA, ETA and RAF so thats a link

You forgot ATF, FBI, and CIA. So, it's okay the good guys only have three letters as well. o.O
The Android version saves all the photos I've taken with Instagram locally. Of course I don't know whether there are copies of these images on their servers, not published to my public stream, as the app doesn't show anything like that.
Why is this showing up in the Hacker News feed?
Just imagine the media circus that would happen if they did that. And occupy would just move to another TLD. It is not as if the movement is primarily known by their domain name...
Ask HN: What did you build or launch in April?
We've had a lot of fun in the past showing off your current projects. Folks get some publicity, some feedback, and some ideas for their own projects. So, if you built or launched something in April, here's your chance to show it off with a description and maybe a link. I want to read about what you've done this last month!
Simple Google App engine tutorial using webapp2, jinja2 in python 2.7
Break CAPTCHA in browser
"One day the idea that you don't have internet access will be just as silly as saying you don't have electricity."

Much of the world lives with unreliable or intermittent electrical power, and likewise unreliable or intermittent internet service.

Also with mobile devices you're talking wireless bandwidth which is shared by everyone in a given area. The combination of crowds and streaming media is not trivial to engineer for. There are some promising technologies (MIMO, etc) but I don't believe any of them remove this fundamental scaling.

Local cache will continue to be important. What will be lost is the requirement to manage which device your shit is on.
That is dumb. List one activist site that has been seized.
Late to the game, but....

Next Big Sound, NYC

Next Big Sound is hiring engineering talent as well as a Director of Client Services and Music Data Journalist. Check out the jobs page here: http://nextbigsound.com/jobs

NBS builds analytics tools for the music industry by marrying social media data with traditional music industry data such as record sales, radio play, and digital sales. Raised a Series A in the beginning of the year and are looking for talented people to build out our team.
Chambéry, France and Lausanne, Switzerland - Python and Javascript devs - geospatial and business

All open source.

Geospatial development is primarily Javascript (OpenLayers, Ext.js) and Python (Pylons, SQLAlchemy, etc.).

Business development is Python (OpenERP).

Full list of positions: http://www.camptocamp.com/en/careers
Portland, OR/San Francisco - http://newrelic.com/about/jobs

New Relic is growing and has several technical (and non-technical) positions. If you've got skills in Ruby, Java, C, or iOS, and want to work at one of the coolest companies around, give us a shout.

We are passionate, possibly even crazy, about application performance management (APM). Our mission is to make web applications run better, to make the internet more productive, and to make life easier for developers and devops. We are turning the APM marketplace upside down by providing SaaS products that deliver high-value functionality previously only available through enterprise software. We are well above 17,000 customers. And with your help we’ll get to 10x that number.

[H1B] is fine. Usually no [REMOTE] but we have made exceptions. We're losing our [INTERN] to college so that's also a possibility.
Just so we're all on the same page here, Fog Creek is not currently using Mono in any part of Kiln or FogBugz On Demand. We use Mono to allow FogBugz to run on Unix systems for on-site installation, and we're looking at using Mono in Kiln for similar reasons. At the moment, though, Kiln and FogBugz On Demand are 100% WISC deployments.
SEEKING FREELANCER (full-time preferred)

Spurfly - based in Palo Alto, CA and Arlington, VA

• Full-stack Developer, or

• Front-end (UI/UX) Developer for desktop web and/or mobile web

Help us scale and meet demand for real-time location-aware planning. Our focus is on groups and events ("spur of the moment, on the fly"). We think we have something unique to offer the world and are launching a native iOS app in a few weeks and expanding to web and mobile web next.

The founders are straight shooters who value clear communication and getting stuff done. We're obssessed with creating a product that fills what we see as a major hole in social networking software -- helping people more efficiently connect in real-life with close networks so they can spend more of their time building and enriching real relationships.

Technologies:

• frontend: coffeescript, jQuery, backbone.js, socket.io, compass

• backend: python, django, gevent, gunicorn, nginx, postgres

We need some knowledge/experience optimizing and scaling some or all of the above technologies to handle growth, and building real-time single-page architecture sites or mobile web.

Immediate front-end needs include design and development of our desktop web and mobile web versions and giving thoughtful consideration to iPhone workflows as we get feedback from users.

Full-stack devs are needed to help optimize and expand our API, re-assess our real-time web architecture, add background processing for actions triggered by the API calls, optimize queries, and support what's going to potentially be a wild ride as we do launch events over the next few months.

gmail - davidmarble (main tech guy on the founding team)
SEEKING FREELANCER (and Teacher)- San Francisco Bay Area
Ruby/Rails/Javascript

Looking for someone interested in coaching/teaching me to implement features on an existing production code base. I've been learning for about a year and can do most basic things, but need help with others.

Would like to meet once a week for an hour or two to review problems, discuss options/pros/cons, and then focus on implementation.

Site is: http://www.thentic.com
Contact: david@thentic.com
No it wouldn't. You could run the filter on the client, then finally run it on the server when their choice is made.
A New Look for CodePlex
Firefox "security" add-on exposes users' Web browsing history
That's perfectly valid - I don't immediately disagree with that approach; especially because there are many things software can't fix.

But I also think it's much easier to address problems in software than in hardware...
Deliberate excellence: Why Intel leads the world in semiconductor manufacturing
Looks like the redesign promised for CodePlex has finally landed: http://www.codeplex.com/

Shiny!
Educreations (http://www.educreations.com) - Full Time or Intern in Palo Alto, CA

Educreations is the easiest way for teachers to teach online. We're growing fast, and have a crazy awesome iPad app that hit the #1 spot after 4 days in the app store. We're unabashidly inspired by the Khan Academy but want to enable all teachers to teach like Sal Khan. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are looking to grow the team rapidly.

We are looking to make our first hires. If you want to change the world and are a strong Python hacker, have experience with Objective C or are an awesome designer, we want to talk to you.

Email jobs@educreations.com

We are looking for:

Lead Software Engineer (Python)
Lead Mobile Engineer (Objective C/Cocoa)
Lead UX/UI Designer
If you use node, I'd stick with browserify. RequireJS is nice if you want to load scripts asynchronously, but in reality your code is usually packed to one or two files so there is no need for the asynchronous part. Plus I dislike the RequireJS syntax, but that's personal taste.
Relevant and quite useful: http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
"Hacking" a site
EXTRACT all data from site: server, header, keywords,image, javascript, html, css, all already beautified, no brain solution,
SEEKING WORK - Helena, MT / Remote / Freelance or Full-time

Currently employed full-time on-site. Working to transition to remote. Happy to travel to client/office occasionally.

Ruby and Rails (on the JVM or otherwise), Heroku, Javascript, and (if you have an incredibly interesting project) C#. I prefer MooTools but am comfortable with JQuery or raw Javascript. Just looking for an excuse to try Coffeescript.

I'm deeply involved in my local programming community and am watching it flourish right now. It's very exciting and I'm proud to be a part of it.

code: https://github.com/gaustin
email: gaustin@gmail.com
Mac botnet generated $10,000 a day for Flashback gang
Toronto, Canada (King St. W.) - Django Developer - http://shopcastr.com

Shopcastr is a social marketplace for independent retailers and local shoppers. We’re backed by Mantella Venture Partners and are seeing great early traction. We have a solid team so far and need someone to help make up the foundation of the company as we grow.

We’re looking for a developer with some Python and Django chops who isn’t afraid to pick up new skills when needed (we use CoffeeScript and SASS, for example). We’re looking for someone self-taught, though we won’t hold it against you if you’ve also been to school.

Email us at jobs@shopcastr.com with whatever you think we need to see before following up with you.
Same here. Is this a WebGL thing or something? Three people have sent this to me today so far, and the site simply doesn't seem to work at all.
What about their TOS is bad?
By having a DoD certification we can be sure that all the app developers all over the world will work together in harmony and wear matching ties.

Ties? (puts gun to head, pulls trigger).
That's actually a very good point, hadn't thought of it that way. Can you guess I'm new to A-B testing? :)
"We have detected that your operating system does not meet the optimal webcast specifications for listening to and/or viewing webcasts. We recommend the following operating systems:
Windows 7 or Windows XP SP2, and Mac OS X 10.4.
Please note that users with older versions of Windows (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 95), Mac, Linux, and Unix operating systems may or may not experience difficulties listening to and/or viewing webcasts. Please contact your network administrator regarding any operating system upgrades."

Is this just a relict from the past or is this a showstopper for me? (I use an Debian-based system)
This is an awesome idea overall, but I think it goes without saying that you need to be very careful not to run afoul of an EULA. At what point does playing "with" the player become giving the player ingame items for real money? If you share quest rewards equally, you're probably OK, but what if the companion gives all of the gold rewards to the paying player? What if the companion runs them through a dungeon and gives them all the drops? At that point I think you're essentially selling the items for real money, which violates the EULAs. Tread carefully.
Actually I was thinking that should be the content industry's next business model. People subscribe to torrent/content services. The services buy licenses for content. People download content.

It's almost the same thing as radio, the difference being that you have a copy.
London, UK - http://www.trialreach.com

The Role: We're looking for for front and back-end developers, but ideally you will be comfortable working on our whole stack (Linux/Python/Django through to HTML/JS/CSS with jQuery) even if you're stronger on one end than the other.

Compensation includes base salary + bonus + stock options

About TrialReach: We're an early stage VC-backed startup that helps patients find and access new treatments before these are available to the general public. We've signed up a bunch of major pharmaceutical companies as customers and we're trying to solve one of the biggest problems in the industry.

We've got a great riverside location and you'll get to work alongside some very smart and experienced people on something that can transform the lives of patients worldwide.

Bonus points if you:

- Speak any European languages

- Are familiar with building systems to manage and display multilingual content

- Have experience with recommendation/search algorithms

Interested? Pop me an email: zeshan at trialreach.com
Knoxville, TN

CellularSales is a fast growing retailer of Verizon Wireless Cellular Service, and we're looking for a few good devs.

Our stack is .NET and we're looking for people who love getting stuff done, and are good enough to teach the rest of us something new.

If you're in the area and are interested, shoot me an email (address is in my profile).
Love the idea. How will you market it?
Down the sinkhole: inside the Kelihos.B takedown
I think it all comes down to personal preferences and no you never HAVE TO make stuff work for older, broken browsers. It is perfectly legitimate to ask users to use a different browsers if they are on an old browser.

The best way to decide wether to spend time debugging or just screw it would to be ask yourself a couple of questions.

How much of the user base will be using old browsers? Think if your user base is mostly geeks / people at home or non-technichal / people using school or work computers (with locked-down policies for downloading software)

Can you spend less time on older browsers and make it gracefully degrade without losing functionality? If your website looks less beatiful on an older browser but the functionality still works, you can put a warning stating that the website will look better if the user changes browser, but that no functionality is changed.

Can you postpone this debugging to later? Maybe you should focus on launching your product first and once you're mostly satisfied with what you have, your spend time debugging old browsers. This way, you can release quickly for the majority of people that would use your service.
New York, NY - Full Time
- J.Crew - Java Web Application Developer / Front End Engineers

Are you looking to work on something new? Want to be part of an exciting project that is currently underway? Than the opportunity at J.Crew might be the one for you. Please feel free to reach out to me at Jason.Chen@jcrew.com if you are interested..

Front End Engineer - http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/result/10118702/3663/DiceId...

Java Web Application Developer - http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/result/10118702/617414/Dice...
If that's the case, it's been true since 1am this morning. I wonder if it's on the site's side. I have a feeling it is.
Everything can be simplified to the point of absurdity.
Seriously, why is this on hacker news? This is ridiculous. I'd downvote this if we were on reddit. :)
Totally, totally agreed. We explicitly disallow any use of QuestCompanions as a way of buying/selling virtual items or currency. We plan to police the site very heavily, and we will be reporting users to the game maintainers when necessary. The goal of the service is to be helpful to the users; allowing jobs like that will harm everyone involved.
My favorite part of this article was the first half of the summary:

"If you want happiness and fulfillment from a small company, strive for B"

$10,000/mo revenue with only 10 customers to keep happy vs. 1000 customers to service? Yes, please.

Company B could have just as much potential for growth as company A. Sure A has the potential to have more brand evangelists bringing in new customers but B has more time to devote to totally babying their 10 customers and making sure they will be likely to recommend the product/service to others in their industry. Company B only needs 1 referral to make another $1,000 per month whereas company A would need 100 referrals.

Also think about upselling down the road, if a company can afford $1,000/mo for your base product they will probably be willing and able to pay for upgrades that will make their work easier or more efficient.

I'm not arguing that B is better than A, but I think that B could have just as much growth with less stress.
I've talked with Noah Sussman several times about selling indie electronics/hardware projects* on Etsy. He says: "Yes, game on!" (I'm paraphrasing.) He's a cool guy to know, regardless. http://twitter.com/noahsussman

And if you want to go straight to the source, you should ask for a beer/coffee with Chad: http://twitter.com/chaddickerson

* I'm potentially searching for a place to sell my "Robot that plays Angry Birds" (http://bitbeam.org/bitbeam-robots-invade-pycon). I go back and forth on whether I should roll my own store, or use a site like Tindie/Etsy/Kickstarter/Inventables, or all of the above. :-)
I am not sure what is enterprisey about .Net. I am working on Live Post http://livepost.in using ASP.Net MVC/jQuery/jQuery Mobile/MySQL/MongoDB/Dapper(ORM). Just replace ASP.Net MVC/Dapper with django and it will become a common stack used by alot of startups these days. Also from cost point of view the difference is very minimal - I am running it on a 1GB VPS which at my host costs just 2.95$ extra per month compared to a linux VPS with similar specs. I use Visual Web Developer 2010 express edition IDE for development which is pretty good in terms of features and is free. So its just a matter of perception nothing else.
Thanks! This is great.
Regarding "3. Privacy", it's not just the network you're on, you're protecting your privacy from, it's every single service your device regularly polls or connects to. If you find yourself hopping on and off wifi at home and work and else where, every service your device polls is building up a log of your movements.

This is mainly why I have a VPN on my phone. Apps that make internet connections from my phone always appear to be coming from the same IP address as far as the end service is concerned. It doesn't matter if I'm on wifi at home, on wifi at work, or on 3G. All of the connections are routed over an encrypted channel to a box I control before hitting the Internet.
So that post just got several down posts. Why? I can get someone having a different utility function, but why do you care what my utility function is? Is it the fear of seeming foolish? It's like someone getting angry that I don't care about gold, yea it's shinny and yellow, but that's about it. Does that harm you?

Note: I am suggesting that the law needs to change or anything, just that I don't understand why people think in that fashion.
Show HN: My "free updates" model for selling my eBook
Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
In many countries, I agree. But there are some places, like the UK, where I could easily see this kind of thing happening. Free speech and privacy don't seem to be very fundamental in some systems of government.
Right. I like the quote in the article "Oh, then I guess you don't want it that bad." Well, maybe you shouldn't want it that bad!
We had great success running Facebook ads to get Companions into the private beta list back when we were still in early development. Now we need to focus on getting paying customers. To that end, we plan to run Google ads for keywords related to buying/selling gold and powerleveling services; while we have no intention of doing these things (in fact, they're very much against our ToS), we feel that customers looking for such services will have a nicer, safer, and more rewarding experience with our site. We also plan to go to the standard gaming bloggers/press when we feel we're at the right point, hopefully within the next month or two.
I'm really surprised by the number of commenters who didn't figure this out already?