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Philadelphia, PA

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization.

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We are seeking an experienced software development professional to join our small, highly focused, entrepreneurial R&D application development group within the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a member of our team, your technical expertise can have an immediate impact on patient care through our mission to accelerate pediatric research with novel applications and data solutions. Furthermore, your work here has the potential to impact the future of healthcare through our research into software solutions supporting genome-enabled personalized medicine. Our research mission fosters an environment where creativity and exploration of new technologies are promoted and encouraged.

Likely candidates should have solid experience and working knowledge in three or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, or Scala experience is highly desirable) and be comfortable with one or more relational database platforms.

Our dynamic academic research environment demands an individual with exceptional written and oral communication skills who can rapidly translate requirements from a variety of disciplines into intuitive, high quality software solutions that support our strategic vision.

Candidates with prior experience in the biomedical field, especially using highly complex genomic data and/or data from electronic health records are very desirable. Participation in one or more public open source projects is an added bonus.

Full details and application here: http://bit.ly/cbmijob1
Wow. You can always count on the internets to provide cheap philosophy.

You can predict a crime, just like you can't predict where a drop of rain will fall. But when the weatherman says "80% chance of rain in the north", I'll be sure to take an umbrella.
Interesting. I've also noticed that until about 5 years ago or so most people in India were using the Nokia models which had been phased out in US. My guess is that Nokia kept the factories running and sold the older models for a very low price to increase penetration, brand-awareness etc.

Perhaps this is a distribution model which would work. Sell high-end tablets to rich, status-conscious folks first (there are plenty of those in India now). Then as prices start coming down people of humbler means will want them and be able to afford them.
Grubwithus (YC W'11) - Venice, Los Angeles, CA - Full time (H1-B ok)

Grubwithus is built on Ruby on Rails and is looking for backend engineers to help us add new features and build a great experience for our users.

Challenges we face:

- making sure that we can provide a consistently good experience to our users

- building tools to reduce touch points between our operations team and restaurants so that we can scale using technology

- building a recommendation system to recommend meals / events to our users

- working on performance improvements to improve the speed of the web-app and reduce infrastructure costs

Requirements:

- strong experience with server-side programming (preferably in Ruby on Rails)

- example projects that demonstrate this ability

- strong background in Computer Science fundamentals

Additionally, experience with any or all of the following is a plus:

- jQuery / CSS

- building an API on a web-service

- integrating with APIs of existing social networks

- building recommendation systems

- building analytics tools to analyze data

If this sounds interesting to you, please apply here: http://grubwithus.theresumator.com/apply/7r1rjn/Developer-Ba...
Samsung appeals Galaxy Nexus ban and moves to stay the injunction
I think people (especially men) should be more worried about having broadcasting mobile phones stored on belts and in pockets near the genitals, especially during times of active reproduction.
Twitter's mobile site is a complete joke. It wasn't until last week that I could actually see a tweet somebody linked to.

What is more frustrating is I don't ever want the mobile site (there's an app for that). I just want to be able to see tweets people like to.
SEEKING WORK - 16 Year Old iOS Developer looking to get a start in the industry
I've had experience developing freelance iOS applications with a company called Treehouse Mobile. I've also developed applications in my own right, most recently a location sharing app called Rendezvous.
I'm not looking to make huge amounts of money doing this - the experience of the industry is what I'm after.
Let me know if there's anything I can do for you.

GitHub: https://github.com/baltoli
Email: bruce.collie@blueyonder.co.uk
Almost. The full quote has "act" capitalized[1], along with a better explanation of what he's on about.

[1]: http://blog.ryjones.org/2008/11/29/the-gandhi-quote/
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Great Information and build around so many analytics!
How much a job pays has a weak correlation with how much it 'matters'. Growing food matters a lot, growing food doesn't pay that well. HFT pays very well, HFT doesn't matter that much. How much something pays is determined by the whims of the markets. Free market capitalism provides a basic framework to roughly match supply with demand and incentivize people to work. But the 'demand' is determined by whoever has the money.

The problem is, the actors with money don't spend it with the intent to maximize the benefit to society as a whole. They spend it 'selfishly', to maximize their personal interests. There's nothing wrong with that, it's how capitalism works. But if everyone spent their money to benefit society as whole, then there would be an extremely strong correlation between how much a job pays and how much it 'matters'.

I feel that in the long run the markets work just fine and does act to benefit society since people are generally ethical. But it doesn't act to 'maximize' the benefit to society. I mean why did it take warfare for us to take space exploration seriously? And why did the internet start as a military network?

I think capitalism is a pretty decent system. But I wish we did a better job of pushing research and innovation for their own sake. Not as a reactive measure to beat the competition or get an upper-hand militarily. I think nearsightedness on what's best 'now' and 'for ourselves', leads to a lot of work that feels like it doesn't matter.
Indeed, when I click here, I was expecting a nice presentation of it. scribble is actually quite a nice little markup language.
As long as you have a centralized system, the entity that runs it has to make money sooner or later.

What we need is a decentralized protocol that does what the "API Twitter" could have done.
Can you think of examples of any open source standards that emerged from pasting on an open source strategy later? I ask because I can't think of any, but I may be wrong.

I'm contemplating a realtime data sharing system now, but it's hard for me to consider using a commercial platform from a startup.

If your API was already open source, with a real open source community that spans several organizations already in place, I'd be a lot more eager to use your service.

Basically, an open source api is only appealing to me if it seems impossible for it to be hijacked by one sponsor, no matter how well meaning. Who knows, you could get hit by a bus and wake up as your own evil twin.

Love to hear your thoughts
Do other services do that already? It sounds like something very useful and not very difficult to build...?
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Austin, TX (freelance)

I am still employed full time so I can commit only to 10 hours per week.

I am doing PHP and JS coding, LAMP administration, nginx, heartbeat, etc for living. Have minor experience building android native applications.

I love Perl, although I am not working on any commercial projects.

I am willing to learn new things and can work at reduced rate on these as long as this knowledge could be reused by me later (i.e. python, ruby, etc)

I am not doing anything Apple related, i.e. iPhone native apps, MacOS-anything. Simply do not have any hardware and not really interested in investing into it.

No matter what I am working on I am looking to do things work automagically (I am lazy), efficiently (I am smart) and maintainable (I wish best to any of my clients)

My linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavelkorovkin

My github - https://github.com/hippich

My email - pavelkaroukin@gmail.com
"most of the topsoil" is relative on this context. In Canada and Scandinavia there is nearly no topsoil left compared to regions which haven't gone through repeated glaciations. However what is there is sufficient to grow food. Yes, I am a geologist.
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Bravo!

When Twitter introduced annotations, I thought that was the beginning: soon, we would have Twitter classifieds, Twitter marketplace, Twitter as a data firehose for anything... All I was waiting for is annotations in the Search API. I'm positive that's all that was needed to provide the initial infrastructure for semantics -- the community would take care of the rest. Unfortunatelly, not only has it never happened, but Twitter took an entirely different course.

I can understand them, though. They had to start making money fast and took a less risky road. But I can't help thinking: bugger, this could've been so much more than celebrities and hashtags.
This method lets you isolate the changes to this level of the stack; everything up top can make the convenient, if slightly incorrect assumptions about time.
3 cheers for Flask. I like how simple yet powerful this framework is. So far, I am loving it. Pretty soon looking to bootstrap one of my ideas using this framework.
Mother Who Questions Vax at Hospital Has Newborn Taken Away
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I think you've missed the point though.

YOU may want to permanently wear one to assist with your job. But OTHERS won't let you. People just don't like having their actions permanently recorded as it opens up a tremendous number of legal and privacy issues.
This is great compilation of links. Thank you.
Principle-centered Invention: Bret Victor on tools, skills, crafts and causes
So, basically it's a web version of the pattern applied by Appsfire

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002241

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2012/05/21/manipulating...
My experience of Microsoft was that they're the most backward compatible source of technology around. Perhaps you could provide specific examples of breakage?

It's funny that this should come up in a thread about PowerShell, a replacement shell Microsoft released 6 years ago which still hasn't supplanted cmd.exe (which itself is based on syntax from the late 70s).
Toronto, ON - Rails Developer, Full time

CommunityLend

Job Description

•	Be the 3rd member of our development team
•	Make an impact as we build a 21st century loan management system
•	Help us develop our brand new POS system and take on the credit card giants with a responsible alternative
•	Exposure to all aspects of the business
•	Sane working hours
•	Great compensation

Skills and Requirements

•	Interested in Ruby on Rails and other cutting edge technologies
•	Very good at what you do
•	Not afraid to think

About CommunityLend

•	Located in downtown Toronto
•	In the 16 months since it launched, our product FinanceIt.ca has processed over 100MM in loans
•	We don’t think like a traditional lender – and have utilized the latest trends in technology to build a simple platform which our customers love
•	Our success has gotten us funded recently – we are stable and growing
•	We like to have fun – and hope you will too

To Apply: Please send your resume along with links to your previous work to devjobs [at] communitylend.com
Yea I communicate with my friends through facebook. That's one way to do it. My communications with friends aren't important compared to something like email which I use with investors or for business. However facebook drops messages often enough that I wouldn't use it for important stuff even if I wanted to.
The "marketing screws companies up" meme is old and tired. Yes, bad marketing sucks. So does bad engineering. The reality of creating a business is you need to market it. It's one company in a thousand that can survive with no marketing, and that happens purely by luck.

Marketing is actually really hard. The internet has also drastically altered how marketing happens, since the conversation now needs to be two-way (not just blasting out advertisements). The companies who do this the best don't get credit for great marketing because it just appear natural.

What is worse about this meme is it becomes poisonous inside companies. Instead of everybody working together to build the company, you can have people trying to satisfy agendas. Engineers focus on technology instead of products; marketing tells lies in an effort to force engineering down the path they want.

The only thing about this meme that has any value is that, at its core, the meme talks about providing real value instead of talking about value. But it is the height of arrogance to believe only engineers can create something of value.
True. My point was that just because something has economic value in today's system, doesn't mean it has value objectively, if there is such a thing.
> I can't see how this could take someone more than a couple hours to fix.

This is what kills me about the icon consistency thing. All it would take is a single Googler with Photoshop a single day to fix.
> Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them.

Yep.

The client-side environment is far too unstable to build a "native app". There's a reason why monumental frameworks like ExtJS barely work in IE 9.
Arrifana surf
If only we could get the new versions "every couple months." Many Android users will never see this updated UI on their device.
We only launched Simperium a few weeks ago. While it's production-ready (powering Simplenote), it still has a beta label for the simple reason that we haven't announced pricing or our open source strategy. I agree, "pasting on" an open source strategy in a reactionary way doesn't have a great history of success, but similarly, I think it's also hard to build very ambitious open source solutions that are entirely open from the moment of conception. Not impossible, but in any case the path we chose was to build a first version behind closed doors according to a strong vision based on experience and talking to fellow app developers.

Having done that, we're excited to start opening it up and we don't view this as pasting on a strategy. We've been proactively considering the implications for our technology and business from the beginning. I think a great, open circulating system for the internet can be as significant as an operating system like Linux.
Thanks for the comment. I just threw this together about a week and a half ago, and I haven't been documenting my progress. But I can tell you that neither of us have missed a day of exercising since we started using it.

I bet there are a lot of similar productivity apps out there. But I had something pretty specific in mind, so I just coded it up for myself.

The Pomodoro Technique sounds interesting and could definitely be implemented in conjunction with this app. I guess if someone wanted to do that, they could modify my code to add a 25-minute timer or something.
> The Innovators Dilemma

Good book, but ... can't you pretty much sum it up in a page or two at most?
This is why I never upload my pictures or videos on facebook and I have my home town and current city are set to Valhalla and Atlantis.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/facebook-lie-terms-of-servi...
"Mr. Schnitt suggests that users are free to lie about their hometown or take down their profile picture to protect their privacy..."

The clarification from Barry Schnitt (Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications and Public Policy) was even worse:

"I think WSJ is paraphrasing. What I said is profile picture and current city are optional. You don’t have to include a profile picture or you can include a picture of your dog or anything you like. Similarly, you don’t have to indicate your current city or you can indicate that your current city is “Atlantis”, “Valhalla” or, again, anything you like. We hope people will use accurate information if they are comfortable doing so because that information helps them to be found by their friends, which is part of the point of joining the site."
Lets say scooter, not pedal bike because bicycles are awesome!
check guys how much twitter is paying to its employees http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/twitter-inc-...
When I invite somebody to collaborate, it would be really nice to be able to include my own message. I don't want to have to send somebody a message to let them know that another message will be coming.
Google Glass circa 2006 (EyeTap)
Fantastic framework but they really need to demonstrate the ability to theme the UI in much more dramatic ways that I've seen to date.

Because right now it looks like something that belongs on Windows 95.
Agreed. This makes me essential bounce as soon as I land. Although the service itself is self-explanatory, the experience is not.
That could deanonymize you. Lots of public places have cameras. On the other hand, have you ever tried creating a Google/YouTube or Facebook accout over Tor? They want SMS verification. So you have to buy a prepaid phone somewhere and that store will likely have cameras too. It's more difficult than you think.
A man criticizes a technology. You spend your time not only criticizing a man, but self-promoting in search of thumbs-ups. Way to go, Craig... You're a muppet.
I predict that the criminals will develop similar statistical models to work out where they will not likely be caught.

Most of the data they use is probably available to the public already under various open data schemes, so it's only a case of wiring it up.

It'll turn into a game of cat and mouse like SEO is for example.
Is Facebook Connect Mark Zuckerberg’s Ace in the Hole?
Exactly - users are getting used to this pattern from seeing it on their phones.
You can do the following in PHP:

some_function($param='hello', $somthingelse=3);

It's not quite as good as the method in this post, as you still have to specify params in the correct order, but it means at a glance it's easier to remember what each parameter is. In fach I do this a lot for that very reason.
What would a "geographically ambiguous location" be?
An airport or a train station, like in the Scotland Yard game maybe?[1]

[1] A team of players tryies to track down a solo player on a map with taxi, bus and subway lines. The solo player is invisible and has to give his location every five moves. The best place to be for this is on a subway station, because it means one can get away in many directions quickly.
London, England

Android Developer at Luluvise

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Luluvise is an innovative and fast growing social and communications platform dedicated to women. Our vision is to become the social destination for women around the world. Launched in December 2011, Luluvise is strongly supported by some of the most respected investors and tech advisers in Europe & the US. We have received considerable global press from Wired, Tech Crunch, The Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Venture Beat, Glamour and Cosmopolitan, to name a few. We have an enthusiastic, open-minded and international team. We are looking for extraordinary individuals who are passionate about their work and who can join us in building this exciting new company. We want to push boundaries and build something that will be used by millions of women. We are just at the beginning of this journey!

Job Description
We are looking for a super talented Android developer who can lead the development of a world-class Android app for Luluvise.

Responsibilities

•	Architect, build and maintain the Luluvise Android app
•	Work closely with our product and design teams to customize the Luluvise experience for the Android platform

Skills

•	2+ years experience building Android applications in Java
•	Experience in understanding large and complex code bases, including API design techniques to help keep them clean and maintainable
•	B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science
•	Proficient in the following technologies: Java language and related frameworks Multi-Threading and memory management specific to mobile devices Understanding of caching mechanisms
•	Strong understanding of Object Oriented programming and data structures
•	Experience writing code for multitasking operating systems
•	Solid understanding of end-to-end SW development tool chains and environments for the different Mobile Application Development environments
•	Deep knowledge of the Android OS and applications architecture, system services, sensors, activities, services and fragments lifecycle, layout design and optimization, async tasks and loaders.
•	Experience with the Android store (submission/process etc..)
•	Experience using Git for source control
Bonus points

•	Excellent communication and organizational skills
•	Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
•	Experience with disciplined software release build/deploy processes
•	Ability to work on multiple overlapping projects
•	Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

The role will be based in London’s buzzing tech scene, a truly fantastic place to work and live. This is a great opportunity for international applicants to relocate to London and join this thriving community.

Apply by sending us your CV to careers@luluvise.com
Do you have an opinion on the measures used to create the index? Are they leaving something significant out? Or is the data gathering process flawed perhaps?

I'd hardly say Japan is not corrupt--obviously, it is--but saying it must be more corrupt than the US isn't exactly a justified statement when all you're working off is a feeling.
I may not have made this as clear but with most product development, continually evolving/iterating design may in fact be key to your startup's success (though it may not in your case). Careful evolutions to product education may give you better insight as to what changes to the interface matter to your user.

Early stage startups tend to constantly "redesign" everything where in fact evolving your design to the desired spot is a more educated approach.
Let's talk about it...
well..can't always stop people from doing dumbshit