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Amsterdam, The Netherlands. H1B[1]

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there currently working on search and relocated over there about a year and a half ago, and have been very happy with it.

We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation and visa issues, most of the people working in IT are expats so we've got a lot of experience with bringing people in.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline (PCLN) group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.

We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it.

We're also very open to open sourcing code that doesn't contain any business logic, I've personally been involved in open sourcing a few of our internal tools, including https://github.com/git-deploy and a few CPAN modules.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers. Everything we do is aimed at solving problems for our customers, if it doesn't help our customers we're not interested in doing it.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before. The sort of people we'd like to hire are good technically, excellent at communication, and can acquire a good sense of how they fit into the big picture.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume, I've posted in a similar thread here a couple of times before and have already helped get one person hired, many others have had or are having interviews, and I've fielded a bunch of questions from would-be applicants. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

1. Well, not H1B, but we'll take care of the Dutch equivalent.
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>I'm forced to wonder from your comments throughout this thread whether you have much real-world development experience, versus having just ingested a bunch of theoretical information on best practices. The things you're dismissing out of hand happen all the time, and while sometimes they're useless, more often they're all the documentation you'll get, and you'll feel exceedingly lucky to get even them.

This is highly arrogant comment. There was no need to be rude. I've been developing and working with actual data for over a decade now. Yes, in the real world sometimes comments are transmitted over the line but I'm sure you can agree that isn't a good idea. Yes, many times you don't get good documentation but you make it sound like that's acceptable and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't have real-world experience.

In all honestly I would expect comments generated from some odd software packages but it's been an incredibly long time since I've seen data transmissions that contain comments. In environments dealing with petabytes of data you can't afford to send comments with every single file.

As for Puppet, I think you misunderstand my point. Yes, it is a root-level tool. That doesn't mean any user should have the same permissions as Puppet. Why wouldn't you simply place configuration files people shouldn't modify in places where they don't have permission but Puppet does? Honestly, I thought that was standard practice.
Would just like to add that Philly is a great place to live, and has a rapidly growing startup scene. This article is from a couple of days ago: http://www.fastcompany.com/1835775/philadelphia-sets-sights-...

Oh, and DDG is always looking for new people to get involved :) http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387
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SeatGeek is the web's largest search engine for live event tickets. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Our dev team is currently seven people. We're looking to add one or two more. We're specialization-agnostic. Most of our current guys are pretty full stack, so wherever in the web stack you like to spend your time, we can find a place for you.

We're using lots of Python these days. A bit of Ruby and PHP too. And always plenty of JS, supported by backbone. Mongo and MySQL for data.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
That's a pretty damn presumptuous thing to say... have you seen any studies or conducted one yourself where people admitted to leaning towards user-experience benefits about online photo sharing at the expense of privacy?

I agree with your point though that users have a responsibility to figure out the objective of the app in order to understand the context of its intended use.
I wish I had know of these sooner, with MySQL I was jumping through all kinds of hoops to organize hierarchical data in my DB without generating insane amounts of queries.
You can by definition not understand why they don't understand. If you understood why they don't understand then you'd likely not understand yourself. Likewise, if they understood why they don't understand then they'd probably have understood in first place.
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If you are serious about this go for perfect privacy, mulvad or bwprivacy.to. those are used by pros from the good and the dark side of teh internetz.
startup + custom analytics + fast response = good

big corp + generic big data + corporate management = ???

Established corporations may be too sluggish to incorporate the insights from the data they are sitting on. Smaller companies will be able to do magical things with machine learning techniques, and will have the agility to act on their insights.

Thus, it is not so much that big data doesn't have value, but that you need a whole management-fat-head-free organizational structure to take advantage of the value.
Thanks Mike - will do today! - emile
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Nahhh... No one disrupts a company this much unless something significant is coming.

Grab the popcorn folks, the fun is starting.
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Selama ini kita tahu bahwa kanker hanya bisa diobati dengan terapi kemo. Namun tampaknya persepsi ini harus dihapus dan dibuang sejauh-jauhnya. Kenapa? Karena sebenarnya ada obat alami untuk membunuh sel kanker yang kekuatannya SEPULUH RIBU KALI LIPAT lebih ampuh dibanding terapi kemo. Obat alami ini adalah buah yang familiar dengan orang Indonesia.
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> But then governments will replace VPNs

>> Then governments will be replaced

This is already becoming the true in Germany. ~10% vote Pirate Party in Berlin, more states have similar voting numbers. PPDE is now the third largest party in Germany by member count.
Of course there's a way: if there were specific instructions on oDesk, and they paid per vote.

Here is an example:
https://www.odesk.com/jobs/hours-facebook-votes_%7E%7Ef07c72...

Of course, any of these could easily be them; there are hundreds of anonymous posts paying for votes. It's so easy and common to scam online votes that it happens all the time.
The vast majority of writers have several people read what they write long before the 'option' and 'box office' comes into play. If you compare it to a software dev compiling = grammar / spelling in the word processor, self testing = reading what you just wrote, beta testers = beta readers, staging = people who don't know the author reading it, production = production, and maintenance = the sequel.
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There was a progress bar that shows that the progresses of the file upload. It was not secret.
Exactly. By stating that something is 4G compliant, when there is no real defined way of easily defining the term, then it's pretty misleading!
I tried out the Hulu Plus free trial, and I cancelled it within two days. Illegally downloading my tv shows onto a foreign seedbox, transfering them home, ripping out the audio and video from a matroska container, converting audio into xbox compatible format, repackaging into mp4 container, hosting a dhcp server, connecting my xbox to my laptop, then streaming video to it is actually far less stressful than trying to watch them on Hulu. However, if they're on Netflix, I would watch them on there.
Observational is not considered as evidence. At best, it gives you cues to conduct a next research (randomized, double-blind, controlled) in order to actually do Science.

There are tons of observational studies that tell sh*t like there are correlations between eating cabbage and having great long hair, but most of the time it's pure luck, sample bias, or just error range.

Observational studies are NEVER accepted as sufficient to claim anything with authorities. At the most you can exercise caution based on risks observed in Safety observational studies, but when it comes to proving efficacy ... you will raise major criticism.

And just putting "observational" and "randomized" does not mean he understands the terms. When you write "Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug" without substantial evidence in your article, without dissociating observational and randomized results, I have a hard time believing this is from a science-educated person.
Interesting. Is there any software that makes it really easy to integrate multi-variate testing instead of just A/B?

How many people are really doing A/B testing on conversion rates (meaning assigning a value to a user and giving different trial lengths randomly) vs changing the trial length for fixed intervals?
Ha! I use it all the time. Just the other day someone asked what this mixed windowing system was - I just explained and they say Doh!
Ask HN: Would you pay for a browser plugin?
Obviously this depends on the service, but would you be prepared to pay for an enhancement to a service you already use (ie webmail,twitter,fb etc) via a browser plugin.

Tools like buffer have built great businesses around browser plugins, I'm interested in the conversion rate of these businesses as opposed to a standalone service.
> and there is almost no barrier to becoming a competitor

except user acquisition costs on both ends of the transcation, which are ridiculous. i doubt there is a single small business in the USA that hasn't had contact with GroupOn, or a single discount shopper who hasn't heard of them through their marketing.
>It appears that he is referring to JSON within the limited context of web APIs.

I was referring to JSON as an interchange format, which is what it is.

Arguably Amazon should have chosen something different for templates but I think that's an issue beyond simple comments and outside the scope of the argument. Regardless, it's hard to image anyone thinking it's a good idea to send comments over the wire especially if the end point is some sort of service.
If you are using an SSL-VPN is there any way, apart from the destination address, of someone detecting that the SSL traffic is a VPN and not a secure website?
I've been using my Linode as a VPN lately since I do a lot of work in coffee shops and it works great. More recently I've been using it here in Bahrain to access sites that are blocked by the government (innocent ones that come up on HN, dunno why they're blocked), and US-only sites like Pandora.

However, Linode is kind of expensive for this purpose only (I also host my small website on it, though), and have been looking into maybe an AWS micro instance which I can spin up when I need it, or possibly others.

Anyone have good recommendations here for VPNs that are fast, relatively inexpensive, reliable, and other criteria that might be useful?
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Even better, if you're worried about privacy, you can pay for your VPN with Bitcoin:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Connectivity

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Dedicated.2FVirtual_Server_...
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I made no assumptions and there is no need to be rude with your incredibly vague question. There are obviously better ways of asking and I'm sure you knew that (otherwise you would have asked a specific question).
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Uh... this was downvoted because? Certainly not because it's wrong.
i.e. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
Good stuff! Need more simple practical things like that - it is really interesting.

Slight side topic: Bit of "biology" I've been experimenting with at home based on stuff I had lying around. Works really well...

Items: 2l coke/water bottle, 2l Cheap apple juice (preservative free), sachet instant bakers yeast, 100g sucrose sugar, sterlising tablets, balloon.

Steps: Empty coke/water down the drain or gob, sterlise bottle, put everything but the balloon in it, screw lid on and shake for a couple of mins, take lid off, prick hole in ballooon and stick on bottle neck so it inflates, leave in warm cupboard for a week, put a couple of teaspoons of sugar in it, screw normal lid on and shake, leave for 2 days, put in fridge for 4 hours, drink, fall over :)
Darn - commented in the wrong place - now I say Doh.
Well frankly I think my "they might read my chat in finch" is a stretch, but no, I don't think that assuming google's goal is to stretch their tentacular roots as deeply as possible into the fertile, loamy soil of my private information is "slippery slope conjecture with no basis in reality." To the contrary, as you probably know, gathering personal information on users is the primary purpose of all of google's unpaid products and the heart of their business model. Would you dispute this fact?

So they are a targeted-ad company whose value is to a great extent commensurate with the amount of information they have on users (another uncontroversial statement, I hope). More info = more value, and you think it's "conjecture" to speculate that they might push further and further into your experience on their platform?

This is the crux of it for me: I've been installing desktop applications and browser extensions for years, and I've never needed to tell an advertiser and the biggest tracker / data snooper on the 'net what my email address. Now all the sudden I do, and there's no (clear) method to opt out, and I'm OK with this because why? I'm willing to trade my data for services when the services are valuable (I use gmail & facebook), but this looks like "give us more info, just cuz" with no value prop. Sure you can sync but I don't want to and there's no reason you should be forced to sign in; that is 100% about data gathering (otherwise there'd be a "forgo sync" option).

IP address and browser fingerprint is not the same as "link everything explicitly to my google account," by the way.
I feel pretty double about VPN as a solution for masking my online activities. My reasons for using a VPN break down into these (related) categories:

1. Security. I don't trust this network at all, such as unsecured wifi in coffeeshop.

2. Access. This network has draconian restrictions I need to get around, such as corporate proxy servers or country firewalls.

3. Privacy. It's none of this network's business what I'm doing.

4. Legal. I don't want to get in trouble here. Especially when traveling where I don't know the laws, but increasingly in my own country. Hell, the courts in NL haven't figured out if TPB is legal, how should I know?

VPN can solve many of these problems most of the time... but always using a VPN means that I have a single point of failure for all four of these.
Correct, Ibuprofen is much stronger for anti-inflammation. Aspirin is a blood thinner and a painkiller, at least these are its main accepted functions so far.
'Packet-snooping attacks are also "extremely rare"'

I think they're pretty common, even for fun and recreation (http://codebutler.com/firesheep). I know I could start reading people's emails in Starbucks with what's on my laptop now and the knowledge in my head, but if I wanted to mount a MITM attack I would need to do some research.
Reinventing a Free Trial offer 
It's always nice when a company offers a free trial period - users love it, they can try company's services without a risk and earn experience that these services are really useful for them or their business.

It is good for companies too, because they can aquire clients which are doubting whether they need their services or should they choose this particular service provider. A part of trial users will convert to paying customers and company can communicate with trial users during the free trial period and after it to improve conversion rate.

But from my own customer experience I've spotted some things I want to share with you. I think my experience is not unique and the same customer journey have many of your potential customers.

Recently I've googled case studies about a/b- and multivariant testing. Via one of blog posts I've found an interesting service provider. Like many competing services he offers a 30 Day Free Trial.

After reading descriptions of features of this service on the company's website I've realized that I'd like (probably like many of you) to explore interfaces of all features in customer's area and try it in the feature for my startup.

But here comes the problem. My startup will launch only in July 2012, so before this date I will not able to try this product "in battle". But I wished to explore the interface of this service at the end of April to be sure whether it is as good as I imagine after reading descriptions of its features.

So, if I sign up for free trial right now, I will be able to explore interfaces of all features, but will not able to try service in battle. But if I will not sign up for free trial until my startup launch, it is a great possibility that in July I will not remember URL of this service (or will not remember that I've bookmarked it) and, as a result, will make a new search and choose another service provider. This company almost converted me from website visitor to free trial user, but may be lost me as potential paying customer forever because doesn't studied customer journey and doesn't understand that between customer's site's visit and customer's need of service can be relative large period of time.

Thus it can be smart to offer your customers a free trial period, but ask them whether they want to try your services right now or they want to look at your features right now but try its later (you can ask when, if you like). So you will not loose your potential clients, will have the possibility to communicate with them via e-mail and your clients will be able to try your services "in battle", see it is useful for them or their business and will more likely to convert to paying customers.

What do you think about it?
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looking for: Ruby on Rails or C#

Cetani provides indoor location tracking software for different industries, but mostly in healthcare. We use third-party hardware for Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) and have a software platform to manage and use RTLS information.

We're looking for C# (backend/driver) and Ruby on Rails developers. We're a small but growing company, and are established in the location tracking market.

We were founded in 2003 by two developers, so we care about development and technology. For more information, look online at: www.cetani.com/jobs, or contact me via email (address in profile).
I imagine they start uploading when you click the greet "tick" button.
Yup, that's because we connect to port 8080 directly (that's the port the server is running on internally, see http://fititgame.com:8080). But unfortunately, we can't fix this right now since nginx isn't able to forward websockets, yet (AFAIK, correct me if I'm wrong)
Industry Dive - Developer Intern & Editorial Intern

Washington, DC (just off Dupont Circle)

Industry Dive builds mobile apps and websites that help business executives excel at their jobs. We're a young company with experienced founders and a bit of seed money. We are hard at work building out our publishing platform and creating apps for each industry vertical. Pull up constructiondive.com or utilitydive.com on your phone to get a rough idea of where we're headed. (I'll let you in on a little secret: B2B isn't as sexy as working on the next Instagram of Spotify, but there's a lot of money there and the B2B publishing industry is ripe for disruption.)

We've got a variety of projects that would be a good fit for a developer intern interested in web design, mobile apps, and/or stable and scalable architecture. Our primary stack is Python/Django (with a little bit of PHP), but being smart and eager to learn is more important than any prior specific technical skills.

We're also looking for editorial interns interested in aggregating content and writing features & news summaries.

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If you are in the position to passively sniff the traffic, you're almost always also in the position to redirect and modify the traffic.

The only thing you're protected against with encryption sans authentication is passive sniffing. If that's all you care about, fine, do realize however how limited the protection is you gain.
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