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Matasano.

Job title: Scary Story Told To Young Software Developers By Their Parents To Get Them To Go To Bed On Time.

We break software. To do it, in the past year, we've filled up Riak clusters with raw HTTP requests, built a large-scale source code cross referencer for 30 languages, wrote and rewrote a debugger core in Ruby, wrote another in Go, built software fuzzer farms with Redis, tested 3 different proprietary trading protocols, broke sandboxing schemes, built tools to attack chipsets, broke numerous cryptosystems, and gave several talks at Black Hat.

Our customers are excellent; they include Github, 37signals, and numerous YC companies.

Our team is even better. What are we looking for? Here's my first interview question: "what is your research project going to be for us?" Does this stuff interest you? We should talk. WE LOVE TALKING TO DEVELOPERS. You don't have to be a "rock star ninja shaolin grandmaster security pro", wear the right jeans, or listen to Animal Collective (please don't listen to Animal Collective). We just want you to be able to learn fast and not get scared when you're faced with wacky systems in languages you've never used and there's a clock ticking.

Downsides: Not building things people want. In fact, building things people fear and loathe. Also, not being able to wear silver, eat garlic, or enter houses without express invitation.

Perks: Infinite free tech books, medical, dental, vision, 401k.

If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all
day, and then go home while it is still light out. - HN:patio11

More than you ever wanted to know about our recruiting process:

http://www.matasano.com/careers
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Only if those legal "default" rules, are specified as "default"

A good example is rape. It does not make sex illegal, it just makes consent a requirement. There is no analogue for murder, so event consent would not allow murder.

Thats the extend of such liscences: they can ask consent for things that require consent. But most of them are filled with stuff that either does not require consent, or where consent is irrelevent.

But when i hear about the type of frivolent lawsuits, i do believe at least liability is defined very differently. Here companies are not liable for misuse by idiots. If an average person understands you can not microwave your cat, then there is no liability when an idiot does that. On the other hand, companies can not distance themselves from being liable for harm due to defects.

Either case, legal terms are not very relevant either way. Because they do not constitute a proper effort of informing. That last part is very relevant. Implicit terms can not define the context, only try to formalize it.
Even if Apple were to introduce 15 different display sizes, which isn't really likely, who says they have to show you every single one in the store. What sets an Apple television apart from the rest is the interface and the software. You need maybe one or two models in store to showcase that. People know how big a TV is, they have these things called tape measures that they use to find out how big something is.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. If this is true, I think it'll rally support among developers behind app.net in a way nothing else could.
Location: Berlin, Germany

patience - full stack engineer with focus on front end

At patience we are building an adaptive learning platform to bring a fully personalised learning experience to the 7 billion different minds out there. We believe that everybody should benefit from personal tuition that adapts to his or her own needs, abilities and pace of learning. But since for most of us a private tutor is not an option, patience is developing a system that models the abilities of a tutor, accessible to all.

More information about the job offer can be found here: http://patience.io/jobs

I would be very happy to hear from some of you in the hn crowd!
My favorite:

http://timeline.shoplocket.com/#19

ShopLocket showcase, powered by ShopLocket critics. Brilliant.
Two distinct interfaces in one OS is right? Why not simply a single interface that would adapt? Something like resposive web sites (google.com looks differently on mobile, tablet and desktop).
I think the key difference is FOV not resolution on this which will basically put you in there, albeit not as sharp as you'd like.

There was a good point on one of the boards that HD will be hard to achieve on regular hardware just because you'd need to render at a minimum 60fps for each eye, and at 1080p few recent games will render at a smooth 120fps which this implies :) Maybe using 2 graphics cards?
The rubbish like "If you really deeply care about something, you will do it" is quite representative of this armchair psychology type of thinking. I file this right next to "if you didn't want to be fat you would eat less, so you just want pig out and harm yourself", "if you did not want to be an alcoholic you would stop drinking alcohol, so you just want to live the life of an outcast", and "if you didn't want to be poor you would just be rich".

For a more rigorous exploration of the matter I suggest reading someone who spent decades studying the subject or procrastination, and not on his own person, but on the persons of thousands of people so afflicted - "The Now Habit" book by Neil Fiore. As it turns out telling someone "oh, you just don't want to do it, that's why you procrastinate" is more likely to hinder progress than result in change of behavior. However, there are plenty of other things that do change behavior for the better.
I don't get it, what does it do?
I've tried both public releases and I have to say that I really don't care for Windows 8. The user interface is so schizophrenic that it's not funny.

Sometimes I wonder if MS would have been better served offering two version: one with the new metro UI and one without.
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As feedback I wish I could say to them this: "Everything looked great until I saw yourselves calling each other Ninjas. Chief Executive Ninja!? Bye."

At this point I might just be a bit jaded but the term ninja is about as flattering to me as peewee. It's not that I haven't worked with "ninjas" before and from that experience I've grown a very clear aversion to "ninja" anything. Add to that recruiters have picked up on the term and now everyone has to be a "ninja" to get the job. Really? Ugh.

Get rid of "ninja." Then I'll actually be able to point my boss to your website.
I was shocked for a second, I thought it said "Windows 8 hits RTFM status"!
Do All Transhumanists Really Want to Live Forever? No? Why Not?
Totally : > I won't say yes until i've seen and tested it though
My predictions are that the Surface with Windows RT will still be buggy, and will have very little software support at launch, leading to poor reviews and sales. Surface Pro will have good reviews when that comes out three months later, and that will truly showcase the design of Windows 8. Unfortunately, the bad press from the Surface and relatively high price compared to an entry-level iPad will hurt sales. For many potential desktop and laptop customers, however, Windows 8 will be frustrating, plagued with poor reviews, and there will be a huge market for computers preloaded with Windows 7 for many years to come.

Here's a review of the touch aspects of Windows 8, btw:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/does-w...
That's actually the size of the panel. The resolution for each eye is half that, so 640x800 per eye. From the pictures I've seen to try and emulate it by printing a game render on paper and holding it a few cm away it looks pretty good :)
Khan Academy - Mountain View - (full-time and intern, designers and devs)

Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly.

Our students answer over 2 million math problems per day (over 600M total so far), all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises), and our videos (now from a variety of authors including Sal) have been viewed over 145MM times. We're tracking all that data and using it to customize each student's experience. We could use your help.

Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine and we've been called by Wired one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157078.

We're hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

http://www.khanacademy.org/careers
Here's a direct link to the docs https://zapier.com/developer/ as well as the announcement blog post https://zapier.com/blog/2012/08/01/announcing-zapier-develop...
This seems awesome, but I'm not sure why they would need a kickstarter project. With the people interviewed in this video, it seems like they would have no problem getting the funding that they needed. The reason in the video is that so they could "get it to developers as fast as possible", but I'm not sure how kickstarter would help speed the development process to get it an SDK released any sooner than if it was funded a more traditional way.
I asked on superuser. Hopefully someone responds. http://superuser.com/questions/456349/how-to-alias-a-domain-...
Las Vegas, NV - Full Time Mobile Software Engineer

Come play with robots and hack on weird electronics at Romotive. Romotive is a robotics startup based in LV that focuses on robotic platforms that uses smart phones as their brains. Because the robots are based on the smart phone, they learn new behaviors through new apps. We're looking for an awesome software engineer to build iOS apps for Romo (romotive.com). We're backed by Tony Hsieh, David Cohen, David Tisch, Lerer Ventures, and a many other awesome investors.

We'd love it if you have:
3+ years of experience developing for iOS or Mac

Addl Perks:
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Really good food, all the time
- Housing and relocation
- Equity
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Shoot us an email at founders@romotive.com
Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS
Kickstart Startup Mixer :Series of Events for your Startup Community
Dragon32 for the win!

Well, that's what got me started, anyway, and the MS Basic it shipped with gave me a head start when I did my final year project at University in VB 1.0.
Maybe we don't need more women in software.

Maybe people shouldn't be persuaded to pick careers based on what "society wants" or what demographic ratios "should" be.

Maybe we need more women, no, more people to pick the most advantageous careers for them personally.
Cyber-Attacks in the News and Data Regulatory Compliance
That's great and grand that you've decided that's what they mean. That's not what the forced license grant actually says.
Dropbox: Please Reset Everyones Password
NBC’s Tape-Delay Strategy Boosting Ratings, Revenue
By that measure carsharing and decent transit is revolutionizing urban life today.
This is an ongoing made up fake crisis

... because ...

I've yet to see

Your personal experience does not form reality. Well, your own reality perhaps, but the rest of us live in a world where the sum of others' experiences prove what is made up or not.

I'm not saying there is a crisis, but you're saying that there isn't just because you haven't heard about it personally. Which is kind of like saying there is no such thing as three-toed sloths because you've never had someone talk to you about seeing one in person.
Ask HN: When should a startup do a patent search?
With some (postgraduate) classmates we're starting a new project aimed at solving some problems for the elderly.

During our initial search, I came up with some similar projects, some are under development and others are already on the market - but we think we can add value to customers anyway :)

Should we do a patent search around our initial concept, or wait for a possible pivot? If we find similar patents, should we abandon the project and focus on something else? Has someone licensed patents as a proto-startup? Do you do a patent search when starting a project or startup?
I do think which you've spent more time with has a big influence, but I'm not sure it's purely an issue of where you started in programming. Procedural programming, especially for beginners, benefits from fairly widespread familiarity with procedures in a more general sense: recipes, flow charts, mechanical devices, job protocols, assembly lines. So procedural programming can seem natural as just the computer version of these existing ideas, whereas functional programming tends to attach itself more to a mathematical rather than mechanical description of the world.
Two things:

First - how is this any different from the fact that any data that flows through a pipe in the US is probably being monitored by the NSA? Presumably that's what we get for being overreliant on a nation.

Second - how many people are going to notice a covert BIOS flash? I'd miss the boot splash, and my overclocks, but what would the average user notice?
Good points, thanks
Diablo Mining Company, the $1m Bitcoin startup, financial report for July 2012
Freedom from having big investors owning the IP or having to sign exclusive rights with one major developer?
Ah. Great info thanks.
Probably a good idea...
I often find myself wondering whether I should take the time to automate some little part of my daily work routine when it would be many times quicker (but less fun) to do it manually.

If I do go ahead I often end up saying something like this to my coworkers:

http://xkcd.com/974/
Bertrand Russell has treated this subject in his inimitable fashion in his essay titled "Boredom and Excitement", Chapter 4 of his book "The Conquest of Happiness". The chapter starts off with "Boredom as a factor in human behaviour has received, in my opinion, far less attention than it deserves." and is well worth reading (at least) a few times.
San Francisco, CA (full-time, intern, H1B welcome)

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We build wonderful educational games in San Francisco. If you are nice
and want to help us make splendid products, we'd love to hear from
you.

Over 4 million people have downloaded our apps and Apple voted us
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Backend engineer - http://mindsnacks.theresumator.com/apply/zmC1GW/Backend-Engi...

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It's completely unrealistic to give an OS drop to an OEM and expect them to start shipping hardware tomorrow. "RTM" was always more of an industry thing than something consumers care about, because it meant the final build of the OS that would ship en masse has been delivered to hardware vendors.
Software Developers in Cologne, Germany.

Although we have been bought we still feel and work like a startup. We are looking for great developers with a web background. We believe in modern engineering practices, agile environment, the right tools for the right job and fun at work. If you want to work with lots of data in a self organizing way give me a call.

More information at http://adkla.us
The first time my cofounder tried Zapier, she turned around and said: "Did you see these guys? They are going to be huge!"

Good luck guys! Good job so far.
Something is hardly a "gender-specific challenge" when both men and women report running into it, yes?
VEVO music videos on Ouya
Building a community takes work, but so does building a better UI. Both should be rewarded in the market, but because of network effects, the former is rewarded disproportionately.
thredUP - San Francisco (Downtown)

thredUP.com is the world's largest online consignment store.

We're really in need of a senior Ruby/Rails developer, but we're open to entry and junior Ruby/Rails developers as well.

More information here: http://labs.thredup.com/dear-experienced-ruby-dev-come-join-...

E-mail dan@thredup.com and we'll get some coffee and chat!
How will CL know that an identical ad on CL and another site wasn't scraped, but just double posted by the author? Do you really think CL is just going to politely ask?
There may very well be one interface to rule them all, but it's not going to be the windows desktop that we all know and love. Removing that completely is going to be difficult to matter how great the alternative is, so if they want to have a touch interface it'll have to be as a distinct UI.
Seeking an iOS/obj-c developer for a relatively simple app. To give you a brief idea: it's in the dating space.

We're looking for someone to lend a hand with the development of the app. Hourly or project-based, really depends on you and how you might plan it out. We're cool/flexible young dudes who are very motivated and just need some extra help.

We've got capital!

Please send a bit about yourself (some projects you've worked on, resume, your github, anything goes) to michael [at] whalesalad [dot] com.
Re: 'Get rid of "ninja"'
Done. Please consider pointing your boss to our website ;-) Thanks for the feedback, phusion.nl definitely needs a facelift and we're working on that, too :)
Google.com isn't responsive. Those are separate "apps" that they serve to you based on your UA string.
I love this company. Similar to Stripe it's one of those things that when you see it, you're just like "finally someone took away this pain and makes something that makes sense!"
To me, the word community connotes a separate entity that you interact with in some way, usually due to proximity. You might define the Craigslist Community as only people visiting craiglist.com but to me it would imply sites such as Padmapper that extend and improve Craigslist data. They are symbiotic and support the same community of users, Padmapper is not "repackaging" Craigslist like some sort of parasite like you imply.

Anecdotally, whenever I've used Padmapper to find a new apartment I would end up on craiglist.com anyway as Padmapper would often not contain the real estate agent's contact information.
I've noticed that parts of ads(text) have been trickling through lately with Adblock, maybe I just need an update.
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Our top-ranked app transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and hundreds of
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We're looking for some rock stars to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are looking to grow the team.

If you want to make a dent in the universe and are a strong Python hacker, have experience with Objective C or are an awesome designer, we want to talk to you.

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We are looking for:

Full-stack Engineer (Python)
Lead Mobile Engineer (Objective C/Cocoa)
Lead Visual Designer
Technical Interns
Yeah, absolutely, huge credit to Google if they do put a self-driving car on the customer market. I was just responding to parent's question about the last truly exciting thing that was being tested in the real marketplace, which I felt trivialized existing technology and somewhat implied only Google is working on new automobile technology these days.
There are good reasons to oppose CISPA. You shouldn't appreciate people trying to manipulate you into opposing it.

This is something that really annoys me. It's incredibly frustrating to see people argue "on my side", but using reasons that are based almost entirely on FUD and hyperbole. It undermines that entire side of the argument, because people who aren't already on your side assume that if you had valid reasons, you wouldn't be resorting to manipulative exaggerations for shock value. Unfortunately, when the internet outrage machine is whipped up into a frenzy, people don't seem to care and will happily upvote and share anything that supports their side, even if it's completely full of shit.
You do a patent search when a potential investor asks you to, and not sooner.

http://paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html

Scroll to the bottom.
> Well, god gave us Bayes' rule for a reason.

She did. But She did not give us P(topic) and P(school) for this dataset.
Yeah, manually killing the flash process is useful. If I see my CPU is being hogged for no reason, killing flash generally fixes it (and Firefox keeps running).
Wow. I've never seen a more impressive set of testimonials in a commercial in my life: John Carmack, CliffyB, Michael Abrash, Gabe Newell.
The whole point is to have devices in the near future which act as a tablet and then can convert into a laptop or even desktop if it gets docked to a large monitor and keyboard.

Metro mainly for touch, desktop mainly for mouse/keyboard. One device, 3 scenarios.

Does that not excite you at all?
It could be an experiment to gauge market demand.

Compare a focus group or poll where the results are based on whatever some random person says, in comparison with a Kickstarter where the participants have to actually make a financial commitment.

On a side note, I think Kickstarter is going to be as important as Google & Wikipedia in terms of the radical long term influence it has on human action. This completely reshapes the dynamic and monopoly that capital performs in the consumer marketplace. I continue to be blown away by how much money micro-niche, but legitimate, projects manage to raise in short time frames.
Phusion Passenger Enterprise released
The Zombies Run project I donated to has a finished product and it's a blast!
And what's worse is, this could have been a valid (if cheap and manipulative) exercise if they were just explicit about their position being "oppose all cyber-security legislation".

But that's not what they're saying. They're saying oppose CISPA. You come pretty close to needing to oppose all cyber-security legislation if you strongly oppose CISPA.
This is going to be a marmite OS for sure.

Microsoft has weathered that storm with Windows 95, though, so they should really tart up the marketing with licensed songs and sitcom actresses. Just really hammer home that this is what the future of the PC is going to be, and hey, Penny from The Big Bang Theory is a PC and loves her some Windows 8. Then once we've all gotten into the groove with Surfaces and touch screen media centers from HP, the criticisms will quiet down some.
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Location: West Central Scotland or remote

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Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=jamesjguthri...

I build apps on Android and iOS; and web services with expertise in WAMP/LAMP.

I run my own start-up here in Scotland where I build products to enhance productivity in automotive and motorsport engineering applications; and I also do client work.

You can use the contact form on my website to reach me.
General availability date is same as the hardware release date. RTM is for OEMs and other manufacturers not consumers.
Not everyone who works with electronic signatures reads HN or TechCrunch, though.
While I doubt cash rewards would be possible, simply removing the data cap would be an impressive victory.