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SF - Rails/JS - HALF OR FULL-TIME

I've mentioned before that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480

We're looking to hire a couple more engineers who are interested in being part of a team but would prefer to work 24-40 hours per week instead of the usual 50+. If it sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

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About us:

The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

About 225 colleges and universities use our applications to acquire low-cost inventory and price textbooks competitively. Then millions of students visit our white-labeled sites to transparently compare the bookstore's offers against online competitors, and around 80% of students choose to buy from their local bookstore.

We're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems on the technical side, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck, and we're always looking for ways to provide more control to our support team so they can provide top-notch customer service.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us. :)
"Son, be careful not to drop your ice cream cone"

"Sir,calm down.Calm down,sir".The loudspeaker is screaming.
I disagree, I much prefer the flavored soy patties eg BocaBurger brand to real hamburgers. They're also easier to prepare (just microwave) and with good mustard, delicious. The problem is that they cost substantially more than ground hamburger, not less (must be the vegan/"organic" lifestyle premium).
Wow, that's a willful misinterpretation of his comment. The original comment asked about "other countries" as well. The reply replied to the "other countries" part. Relax.
Frisco, TX: DevOps

20% Ops 80% Dev. .NET shop, but also have potential to work on SIP platform, C, C++. Come join a great engineering team and a fantastic team overall.

Perks: Flexible work hours (no full time remote, sorry). Full benefits, team lunches twice a week, development freedom.

http://www.call-em-all.com/About
As you noted duly, there will be a Youtube app for iOS.

You also noted the move might bring ads and other unwanted noise. It will certainly. Someone has to pay for the service.

Now, what will be interested to see is how many people switch to Android because of it. My guess, close to 0.

Of all the videos I watch online from major sources, I have to give it to Google, their ads are the least annoying (possibility to minimize them or quit the video ads after 5 seconds).
I haven't a clue what percentage of products that claim they are humanely raised actually are raised that way, but I've seen several documentaries (I don't remember their names) where they interview farmers that raise animals humanely and show how the animals on their farm are treated and in at at least one of these documentaries they showed the slaughter of some chickens and it didn't seem nearly as cruel and inhumane as the slaughtering of chickens in factory farming. With that in mind, I don't know how profitable it was relative to factory farming, but I assume that this farmer was making enough to earn a comfortable living.

Demand for animal food products isn't going away and I can't even imagine the changes that would have to take place in society to change that. With that in mind, it seems like you could literally combine a campaign to create farming jobs and treat animals decently during their lives before being slaughtered and served, based on the simple fact that it will require more labor to meet the national demand for meat.

I would love to see an economic study that measures the differences in labor and total cost of production per pound of meat between a factory farm and a humane farm. I expect the costs to be marginally higher, but that the benefits in terms of jobs and humane animal treatment to far outweigh the negatives. If any political candidate wants to base their platform on producing and protecting agrarian jobs I would expect this to be the platform on which to base it. Plant-based agriculture products are never going to return from factory farming, but animal products could.
Los Gatos, SSE, Netflix: My team is looking for a stellar engineer to help us take the Cloud Platform to the next level. Details at bit.ly/PGo4mw"
Microsoft also got Cut the Rope ported to HTML5 for IE9: http://cuttherope.ie/ (yes, they used Ireland's TLD since it's IE...)
Interesting. I'm going to have to check out the product packaging next time I'm in the supermarket.
Unfortunately this is one of the risks when you develop for the iOS platform (although I find it hard to see why this is objectionable. I could understand the military objecting but it seems he is just curating publicly available information.).

It doesn't sound like it was a very complex app so hopefully he can port it to Android or the Web easily and make it available. It sounds useful.
Show HN: A poetry generator written in Python named poemy
Chartboost - http://chartboost.com/jobs
San Francisco, CA

Looking for a little of everything. Awesome engineers especially.

Email travis[at]chartboost[dot]com for more information. I am an engineer at Chartboost, not a recruiter by the way.
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too.

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

We believe that science is dysfunctional, and we are working on fixing it. Almost every innovation in medicine and technology in the world has its roots in a science paper. If we want to speed up the world, we need to speed up science. There are many inefficiencies in science:

* it's too slow (there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal and it being published)

* all the world's research ends up behind extraordinarily expensive paywalls, even though it was authored and peer-reviewed for free by the scientific community

* it hasn't moved out of PDF-land yet (scientists haven't been provided with the incentives to share things like data-sets, code, videos, and other kinds of rich media).

We are working on fixing this. We dream of a world where research is shared instantly, as soon as it's finished; where scientists share their full scientific output (data-sets, code, videos, and comments on all this media), and not just papers; and where a villager in India has as much access to the world's scientific output as a professor at Harvard.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accomplish this mission. We have made a good start: 1.8 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 3,500 join each day. But there is much more to do.

We're a 10 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. We are looking to hire a range of positions:

* full stack engineers

* growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels)

* iOS engineer

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://tcrn.ch/T42VWC (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://tcrn.ch/R6Pgrr (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. Remote work is fine. We will handle re-location, including visas, if you would like to re-locate, but re-location is not necessary.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu
What if you wanted to conduct medical research but the government wasn't interested in funding you?
The first way you deal with pressure is to know your shit. Risk is OK. This is really an importanct point, in addition to all of the very good other points made here (experience, etc).

Uncertainty = don't know what the f^ck is going on. Risk = these are the things that are going wrong, this is how it could get worse, this is how it could get better.

This makes it then a problem of managing information inbound/outbound, maintaining situational awareness (ie, your eyes and ears) and methodically making the best at what you've got to work with.

Very little bandwidth will be left over for "fear" or getting "nervous". On the Apollo mission, there is a story about 1202 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Garman), if you read this you will see how they handled it.

TL;DR The computer broke, and a split decision was needed to avoid a catastrophic failure.

Bales later recalled, "Quite frankly, Jack, who had these things memorized said, 'that's okay', before I could even remember which group it was in". His quick reactions and in depth knowledge led others on his team to give him the nickname "Gar-Flash".
I don't think anyone would mind if someone created another monthly job post for another region. Putting everything in one message would make it difficult to peruse.
I'm looking for someone who wants to build out an awesome backend system using ocaml. Telecommuting OK. Please let me know how to reach you. Sorry for the vague posting.
I'm not conflating the two at all. The point is that having rights over your own work implies other people have rights over theirs, too.
Israel - list of startups hiring: http://mappedinisrael.com
Hopefully there can be more public transport. The problem at the moment with most public transport is that it requires a human driver. That makes it relatively expensive for the transport of one or two people, or even 8 people. Some places have a partial solution (with driver) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi

The main reason for owning transport is because it guarantees availability when you need it, especially where you are and where you want to go. You pay quite a bit extra for that, and it does get inconvenient (having to park away from where you want to be, dealing with traffic, insurance, maintenance etc).

Mobile infrastructure is very good in places like you mention (good coverage, low price) so this is solvable.
In general I agree with the argument to continue to work on "an idea" (as opposed to a "bad idea") because specifically it keeps you in the game, active, meeting people, thinking, learning and practicing and targeted. [1]

The only issue I have is the thought of working on a "bad" idea (if that can even be defined) since time is a precious commodity. The time you spend occupied with your bad idea is time preventing you from doing the same with possibly a greater chance of succeeding with a better idea.

Let's take as an example of this thinking, dating.

I've always said that it's much better to go out of your home on a Saturday night, even alone, even to an unlikely place, because you have a greater chance of meeting someone than if you are sitting in your house. A potential date is not going to knock on your door or fall through the roof.

But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to maximize where you are to meet someone. A Barnes and Noble might be better for some people than a bar or vice versa depending on the person.

So at a certain point you need to make a decision as far as how you are spending your time to give you the best chance of gaining from the experience of the experience.

[1] Focus also gives you fun and enjoyment which puts you in a better state of mind to have success. Although I don't do it anymore I used to love to spend hours at the B&N looking for the perfect programming book to help with a particular thing that I wanted to learn. I really liked and looked forward to doing that and it had all sorts of positive effects prior to, before, and after the actual browsing.
Even though I'm a fan of what you get "for free" with Sencha Touch, it's obvious they desire to charge up the wazoo. Their framework is a complete pain when you want to step outside of their box. Support for non-paying customers is abysmal... and they expect you to understand what they were thinking when they designed the product. If they would bring Jack Slocum back, they might have a fighting chance.

I DID like the demo videos showing what you could build in a quick 20 minutes. Reality is, they're just not there for the rest of your project yet.

I'm currently thinking native widgets, native panels and all of that are the way to go. jQuery Mobile is ok for phones, and hideous on tablets. But it's boring. That's the issue. We need something that provides beautiful buttons and widgets that isn't trying to emulate an iPhone. We need something that understands JSON APIs and how mobile apps really work.
Austin, TX

Looking for a engineer and/or designer to join us as a co-founder to help make local news not suck. It's a large industry with mediocre products, and it's ripe for disruption. Your inner idealist will be glad to know that we're going to make people more informed about their cities and their votes while we make money.

niran@niran.org
Granicus - SF, Reno, Chicago

We are a passionate group of civic minded people looking to change the way government works for the better. There are about a hundred of us. We are a profitable. http://www.granicus.com

Looking for Rails/JS/UX/C#/C++ - polyglots preferred. Good head for engineering practices (testing, separation of concerns, etc) a must. Must be passionate about your craft, and making our government awesome.

Feel free to reach out to me. javier at granicus dot com for more information.
the/worst/php/travesti/is/namespaces
Why and How Amazon Could Offer Free Kindles
Nice. Needs a volume control.
i can tell you first hand, it is indeed a freaking awesome job
I did some Googling and was not satisfied with any of the solutions (pushd/popd, aliases, CDPATH etc.). That's why I wrote this. Works fine for me :)

PS: The whole story on my blog https://chanux.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/no-more-cd-dot-dot-s...
Site will be moved to new engine as soon as we will got possibilities to make it done.
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I am on app.net mainly to see how it evolves. My startup (http://tomorrowish.com) relies heavily on twitter and facebook. The network effect that made those networks chock full of pop culture and marketing hasn't happened yet with app.net, and if it does, I want to see how that happens.

For instance there was social media heavy marketing conference this week called Inbound(http://inboundconference.com) that was eating up my twitter feed, but not a single tApp was posted.
With driverless cars, the largest expense of taxis - the driver - disappears.

The driver of a taxi needs to make enough in a day to cover the periods when there are no fares, or travel from a low fare-density area back to the high fare-density areas (and in some regions with ridiculously constrained supply of taxis via "badges" or other such anti-competitive pro-monopoly legislation, to pay the ridiculous fee to just operate a cab).

With the drivers removed, you now have a fleet of taxis that can run 24 hours a day (minus maintenance etc.), cost zero to just sit and wait for a fare, and can be managed and coordinated easily to migrate across the changing fare-density regions throughout the day.

If the price and convenience goes down enough, various groups of people stop needing cars. They just use the "get me a cab" app on their smartphone (or just use the regular telephone) to get a cab when they need it. If this creates a positive feedback loop of cheaper & more convenient -> more people using it -> more taxis deploted -> cheaper & more convenient etc., then in some high-population areas, owning a car will become an unnecessary extravagance.

Operated automatically gives scope for further savings; heading from point A to point C via B, and someone in B is also going to C? You'll get offered a "share this ride for this discount" option.

All this leads, hopefully, to fewer cars needed to provide the same number of journeys, at lower cost. So, how do I go about shorting the car manufacturers? :p
Could you elaborate a little bit about what kind of stuff he's run into? I've been considering doing some arial chase scene footage of BMX events but wondering about the legalities of it? If you want, email works as well (In profile).
Evil C
"We found that your app contains content that many audiences would find objectionable, which is not in compliance with the App Store guidelines"

Incredible. They'd better ban all newspapers as well.
Thanks. I'm with parent and very curious about what this is about. Does this console give root access to the server via a web interface?
By what percentage did you increase your initial investment? I'm just curious about trading options in general. Would be interesting to learn how holding onto your postition for that time period paid off.
what about interns?
How would it kill marines if there's no pilot?
Just a further reminder for people looking at FB (disclosure - mild short position):

Stock unlock schedule:
August 16th, 2012: 268 million shares, 10% of shares outstanding.
October 14th, 2012: 249 million shares, 9% of shares outstanding.
November 13th, 2012: 1.332 billion shares, 49% of shares outstanding.
December 13th, 2012: 124 million shares, 5% of shares outstanding.
May 17th, 2013: 47 million shares, 2% of shares outstanding.
It sounds to me like spending time getting 1st world healthcare and staying put in one location for a while might be a blessing in disguise.
The Vast Liberal Conspiracy On Your Screen
> I wish PHP could start changing in a "let's redesign it" way.

I think that's foolish. Redesigning a language is making a new language -- and there are lots of other new languages to choose from. What features of PHP would you want to keep that aren't possible in other languages?

Radically changing the language also leads to heavily splitting the community like with PHP4/PHP5 or Perl5/Perl6 or Python2/Python3 and nobody wants that. Backwards compatibility doesn't have to be fully maintained but it does have to be respected.

The biggest issue right now with PHP is that there isn't a clear direction on where to go. Nobody wants to "fix" some of the old problems because the gains don't seem to outweigh the costs.
The title says to "continue working on your bad idea" but the article is really about pivoting. Pivoting is not the same as continuing to work on your bad idea. Pivoting is about YOU continuing to work, and leaving the bad parts of your bad idea by the side of the road and moving forward.

Obviously, if an idea is bad, continuing to work on it is stupid. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk

But if you can take some good parts of your bad idea and move forward, that is smart. And that's not news; that's a concept from lean startup, and Eric Ries didn't invent it. It goes back to the Romans.

IMHO, the title is misleading and the article is trite.
November 13th is going to be an interesting day...
Backslash.

And honestly, it's really not bad.
The banks who helped boost the price around the IPO are reclaiming their capital gradually, letting stories like this happen, and letting Facebook plan out the next phase of its capital generation strategy. Giving early investors a strong exit was part of the plan.

The biggest irony is that spectators view the downward trend in share price as evidence that the early price was hype driven. In reality, both upward and downward trends are equally impacted by hype.

I plan to invest when the price gets to $15. The only alarming sign so far is the massive number of ads for Target that appear daily on the mobile version. Clearly a few large companies made big ad purchases, and Facebook now regurgitates the news that a friend liked Target again and again at every opportunity. It's supremely annoying and might actually make me stop using Facebook.
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Even though it may not amount to anything, working on a bad idea can still be useful. You might learn a new programming language or API. You might face some technical challenges which you face again on a future 'good idea' and can work through more quickly the second time. If you realize your idea is bad and you have a better one waiting, move to the better one. But if you know it's a bad idea and don't have anything to move on to there may be advantages to continuing.
Rambut Anda Sering Rontok? Ini Penyebabnya
Rambut yang kerap rontok dapat jadi masalah untuk tampilan dan keyakinan diri seseorang. bila beragam perihal telah dikerjakan namun rambut terus rontok, mungkin saja keadaan ini disebabkan kekurangan zat besi.
They (and other collaborators of course) delivered a lot of working code. Was there something in particular you wanted that didn't get implemented?
I found the "myspace" trend interesting: https://www.google.com/trends/?q=myspace

Perhaps the facebook trend so far is a repeat of the myspace trend through mid-2007.
Project: 10 Ideas A Day, For 6 Months
That's true, but they were not the only ones who fell prey to that either. My point about why TAL stands out is that they were the ones to confront him on it. Not that they were unique in having asserted that his story was true.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / Remote

- Web app development: Python, Ruby, PHP, Java (backend) and HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS (frontend)

- Mobile development: iOS and Android

- Server/infrastructure: Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, open source (no Microsoft)

- Well-versed in every framework under the sun: Django, Rails, WordPress, 3rd Party APIs, et cetera

We're a team of three that work together with the coherence of one. Latest projects include writing BART's parking system [1], co-founding a mobile transaction and data security company [2], helping jumpstart a web malware and anti-virus plugin [3], and working on a web-based property manager [4].

Let's work together!

http://www.bitmatica.com/

http://www.bitmatica.com/BitmaticaResume.pdf

[1] www.select-a-spot.com/bart/ -- BART's online parking reservation system (we wrote it from scratch in Django)

[2] www.claveo.com -- Mobile and transaction and data security with a scalable web service and strong cryptographic mobile clients (we were co-founders)

[3] www.getcocoon.com -- In-browser malware and anti-virus protection (we built part of the web interface, server back end, and front-end clients)

[4] www.appfolio.com -- Web-based extremely intuitive property management (front-end interface, back-end, and server deployment and continuous integration management console)