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Madrid, Spain

Back End Developer / Full time

Currently we can only accept applicants with EU work permit

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Guildda is an angel funded startup that wants to empower companies and individuals to transact in a new way, by disrupting an archaic industry.

==Attributes of successful candidates will include==

- You are a full-stack developer
- Expert knowledge of server-side languages Python, Ruby, Java or C/C++
- Knowledge of corresponding web frameworks a big plus
- Excellent knowledge of RDBMS systems; ideally MySQL
- Security obsessed
- Love your version control (Git)
- Likes getting hands dirty with 3rd party APIs
- Enjoys prototyping and iterating stuff
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field Back End Engineer
- Accountability, honesty, responsibility, flexibility… and a sense of fun and playfulness

==Responsibilities of the position will include==

- Build from scratch the entire technology architecture / Be efficient writing code: less is more
- Design and implement Guildda’s core service / Build a fault tolerant platform
- Work with frontend engineers to plan and implement new ideas and features / Find and fix performance and reliability issues

==What we offer==

- Pick your own gear (Mac/PC, OS, editor, etc.)
- Flat organisational structure and no bs
- Competitive salary + bonus

==Want to apply?==

To apply, please send an email with your resume (all in PDF, no LinkedIn URLs please) to the following address jobs@guildda.com with the job’s title as the subject line. Bonus points if you included a link to your Github repository and/or web applications.
Cash As A Call Option
Largest CTF in the World: NYU-Poly CSAW CTF
Distimo: app translation can pay off, especially in Asia
London, UK - looking for a senior (PHP) engineer.

We are reQQi, a two man startup based in the Zoo Project in Victoria. We're funded and we have a great set of investors and advisors. We're early stage, we have a decent MVP and a great idea so it's a great time if you're looking to shape a product from the start.

reQQi makes the world more relevant through recommendation. We tell you what the people you trust think, but just as importantly, you can share and save the stuff that you love with those that trust you and get great deals and offers! Discover new things and make better choices, wherever you are.

For more info and to apply go to: http://reqqi.com/jobs
Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion
Designing Better Web Type With Typecast
DEFCON CTF teams with points: 303 (http://ddtek.biz/qualsDC20scoreboard.html)

CSAW CTF teams with points: 639

STRIPE CTF competitors: ~7,000

CSAW CTF competitors: ~9,100

Writeups are being posted in reddit.com/r/netsec:

http://raidersec.blogspot.com/2012/09/csaw-ctf-quals-2012-re...

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/31-csaw-ctf-2012-exploitat...
Cable? Power line? (Dedicated) fiber? Wireless WAN? The neighbor's wifi router?
Nice try, agent. I won't put it back
We have problem A, which is alleviated by crutch B. Therefore, do not remove the crutch.

No. If there is a problem with the FDA approval system, let's fix that. Unless it's even more hopeless than reforming (or abolishing) the patent system?

> the whole patent system was invented for a reason.

Yes, but it doesn't matter in the slightest. What matters is what the patent system actually does, and the consequences of removing it. Speaking of which:

> abolish it there and drug development will only happen through government programs.

Probably. However, it may not be so bad if we fix problem A, namely the FDA. Also see "Against Intellectual Monopoly"[1], which talks about the pharmaceutical industry in its 9th chapter.

[1] http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...
4 years ago, Larry had this to say about Cloud computing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
Well, for once, you need to give something back if you need to take something, that's basic negotiation tactics :) That's an approach largely defended by economists who are not especially on the left, like Wyplosz (see here if you can read French: http://econo.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...).

Of course, given the current climate (austerity, etc...), that's not gonna happen any time soon.
Can you give details and/or a citation for the complaints and the banning? I use the shootout a lot to give me a rough idea of a specific language's properties, so if there are valid criticisms then I'd like to hear them, but your post doesn't really stand on its own to someone who doesn't know the backstory.
I haven't actually used it but that's the advice I always hear.

I guess check it out and then do some math on the pricing. The benefits are that it won't crash under heavy load, and it can be cheaper.
Yeah, I didn't put in quite enough time into the definitions. But, there is a fundamental difference that I was trying to describe.

Micro/mini computers were computers at a different price/size points. I agree. But, the reason for buying a minicomputer was not that you didn't have room for a mainframe. It was because of price & power. They were the same category of thing just at different prices & power. Once power on all of them became enough to power everything most users needed, the lower priced form factor (microcomputers) became the only form factor that mattered.

By making that analogy Jeff is implying that smartphones, tablets & PCs are the same category of thing and that the thing at the lower end of the price/power chart will eventually become the thing of the future.

What I am arguing is that he's got it wrong: the form factor is there for the its own reasons. It's not there to facilitate power and its not there to facilitate price. Laptops have keyboards and mouses. Smartphones fit in your pocket. There is overlap in what they do, but phones won't get awesome enough to replace laptops.

This is unless they become laptops. Maybe eventually everyone will have a keyboard that snaps onto their tablet when they need it and a screen at home/office that plugs into it too. That's cheating. It doesn't count.
This is equivalent of 360 for Russia? ( 360 is a browser in China derived from Chromium as well )
Pune, India - Fulltime.

Co-Founder of Styloot.com here.

Styloot.com, is a visual search engine for fashion. We are looking to hire Python and Javascript developers. You will be working directly with the product and will be making decisions that directly influence the site.

You must love coding - everything else we can work around. You must have a github repo that you are proud of.

Email us if interested - info at styloot.com
This is a feasible model, but that's not the way the market is going. Nobody is either making the devices or the docking stations, or even really trying. What we are seeing is a move towards real thin-client. I carry around a screen, with a battery to power it. This screen essentially gets everything done for it on some remote server, very little computing happens locally.

The problem for power users is having a remote service connected to the screen that's as open and hackable as a desktop system, and having a way to input data to the screen as easily as with a keyboard and mouse.
GoCardless (YC s2012) - London, UK.

We're looking for a variety of roles including Ruby/Rails Developers, Javascript Engineers, DevOps, Biz-Dev and Customer Support.

https://gocardless.com/jobs
Scala is neat. Lift is a bit weird, but Play Framework supports Scala without venturing too far off the easily understandable MVC pattern. It's a cool language that certainly makes the JVM a better platform.
Depends on a lot of things, but here's a particularly good day of sustained traffic in the top 10. https://img.skitch.com/20121001-earf66yyjrpj7b11tjek89i9ii.j...

The source of that spike was 300+ concurrent uniques high turnover for a good part of the day.
Except this excellent pay makes things worse because people are more "addicted" to stay despite how frustrated or downright disgusted they are - and then start taking their own frustrations out on others like the rest is doing.

To a degree, I can see it happening to myself - you simply cannot understand it while you are still in college or university and think all positive and idealistic and it is hard to grasp even when you are working a regular paying job... but once you get the bigger pay it is very very hard to go lower and it requires a LOT of very neutral, objective and conscious decision making that most people are probably not capable of because it is hard switching off your own feelings and gut reactions.

I can say that in the last three years I have gotten a front-row seat to seeing why a lot of people are so miserable and I don't even have it THAT bad; plus I have definitely become changed in ways I would never have thought possible 3-4 years ago when I was still working in startup-paradise.
Right, and adding more programmers to a software project will always make it finish earlier (try it yourself by writing a small app with a friend), and flying is always more dangerous than driving (try losing your engines in an airplane and in a car).
Fuduntu 2012.4 Announced
HoneyMap Offers Real-Time Glimpse of Cyber Attacks as They Happen
anyone spotted the language settings
> Having 2 pieces (tablet + keyboard) is worse than having a single notebook

It is lighter and takes up less space in my bag, and the tablet attaches to the carrying case, so no, it is not "more expensive" on that measure either.

> And yes you can leave the keyboard at home, but if you know you'll need a keyboard, carrying your notebook instead is more efficient.

Even if I agreed with this - and I don't - having to keep data in sync across multiple devices is a major pain, and reason enough for me to avoid this.

I do have a laptop, but it is just that: A computer I use on my lap in my living room. It is too big for me to want to drag around, because it is a replacement for a desktop - which I haven't owned for 10 years or so - rather than something I see as a mobile computer.

But I increasingly treat my laptop as a dumb terminal. More of my personal data has my phone as its primary source than my laptop, and I do the vast majority of my work on servers, and so most of the local storage I use on my laptop is stuff that is synced to it from my phone and tablets for convenient local access when I do use it. I'd rather see a situation where my phone or tablet is my primary computing device and the rest just provide convenient screens and input devices as needed.

> And by my argument Androids are indeed PCs, at least for now, because excluding the availability of third-party sources, all other distinctions will get blurred within the next 2-3 years.

When you start picking your own definitions instead of relying on those the article are based on, the discussion becomes meaningless.
The 'additional security features' seems unworkable. The premise is that pure .UK have UK point of presence checks, etc, but consumers will not easily be educated that .UK is 'more secure' than .co.uk
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I work remotely from Serbia and I can help you with Ruby and Javascript projects, including frameworks like Rails and Backbone.

If this sounds similar to what you're working on I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line(me@miloshadzic.com) or check out my site http://miloshadzic.com .
I wonder, though. How much is the increased news consumption a reflection of who owns tablets vs. the effects of tablets themselves?

Even without my iPad, I'd still read lots of news (though probably less from Twitter late at night), and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I would just guess that many of the factors correlated with owning a tablet (wealthy, tech-user, etc.) would also predict high news consumption.

As tablets become more mainstream, will tablet users continue to consume more news than average, because of the convenience of using a tablet, or will usage begin to look more like the general population?
How adding 1 inch to your chest in 1 week can help your business grow
"Asking for a little solidarity" is in my opinion not the point. You know, entrepreneurs are a resourceful bunch. Every society needs people that are willing to take risks. Hollande is acting like he's on an island. I can tell you right now his actions are causing reactions. Startups that won't happen in France/ Paris but in Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, London... All are just a few hours away.

By the way, you make it sound as if being selfish is a bad thing ;-)
New York -- PART-TIME CONSULTANT, INTERN, REMOTE WELCOME

Project Grasshopper, created by a former media executive and Google product director, is looking for game designers and developers to build games for a novel interactive tabletop platform based on Unity 3D, among other opportunities.

The goal of the project is to use games and innovative digital and physical media to foster meaningful social interaction and genuine local community in cities everywhere.

We're looking for:

1. Game developers, especially with experience in multitouch interfaces and Unity 3D;

2. Game designers, especially with an interest in face-to-face (as opposed to online multiplayer) play;

3. Microelectronics hardware engineers, to work with world-class architects (i.e. the kind who design interiors and build physical spaces) on embedded systems for enhancing social face-to-face play in a physical setting;

4. A multitouch engineer, to work with a leading MIT Media Lab researcher, on multitouch platforms, including a round interactive table that comfortable seats 4-6 people based on computer vision technology;

5. An event project manager (New York only), to help organize and run an ongoing series of successful game-night-like test events at various locations in New York City.

Intrigued? Get in touch with your CV or a bit about you and why you are interested and I'll send you more about the project, including specifics about the games development/design projects and videos about the the project overall and the interactive tabletop platform we've built.

Email: ien@alum.mit.edu
China's Venture Capital Slowdown
Sorry, as mgkimsal said I should have added some punctuation, "Maily, a 'my first email' app for kids" would have been better.
Ask HN: What books are you reading right now?
I'm reading two small books in parallel.

1. The old man and the Sea , by Hemmingway
2. The Last lecture by Randy
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Croatia

I'm a full-stack (php, *nix) developer looking for interesting projects and interesting people to work for.
Only open for part-time endeavors.

Feel free to say hi and we'll take it from there: milan@notum.net
http://notum.net
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437(chrome) vs 402(yandex) PS yandex detected as chrome 19
SEEKING WORK - Remote. Canadian developer currently based in Hong Kong.

I'm a full stack web engineer and have been developing web applications for over 8 years. I am mostly interested in backend Ruby on Rails & Node.js work although I am also comfortable with PHP and front-end development. http://www.syskall.com
Security Intelligence Starts With Detecting The Weird
YAWB doesn't mean you won't have hours of debugging to shift a few pixels anyway.
The article does say that any additional earnings derived would be passed onto an independent trust to invest in improving internet access and security. Nominet itself is not-for-profit. And there's at least some support for this URL-shortening change in this thread.

It doesn't seem like a revenue grab to me.
A private savings account can't become underfunded. It may no be enough to comfortably retire on, but that's a different kettle of fish.

Regarding the underfunding number, I believe these are private defined benefit schemes - I'm talking about regular savings-schemes. Also, see my response to mercurial.
15 years ago if you'd told me that the best way to run a program remotely was to interact with it through web pages I'd've laughed. Today I just cry.
the security we offer is top notch.

That's what you would say... if you were a trans-dimensional lizard from space.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Interns OK, no remote work.

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for a DevOps engineer, and front-end and full-stack engineers.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The team is still small (~11 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs and located in the city center of Amsterdam.

More on http://jobs.silkapp.com/
The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands has dropped 80% since the 1972 high of 3000+/year. It is now at 640/year.

The main reason being given is seat belts for drivers and helmets for moped users. Info in Dutch from the official statistics bureau: http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/gezondheid-welzijn/publi...
Is iCloud giving away 20GB storage plans?
It seems the new Cook on the Apple kitchen is giving away 20GB on iCloud storage or at least running out until 2050?

Is this somekind of analgesic for the maps troubles?

Or was this planned all along?
Well I've just downloaded it now and it seems like a stripped down version of Chrome to me, nothing to exciting and doesn't seem very customisable.
"People often won't know what to do" - do you have any data on that?

It is generally assumed in interaction design for web that the most instinctive action is scrolling. The concept of there even being a fold is also somewhat misguided, it like turning a page does not apply to a screen.
Entirely Predictable Failures (video)
I finally made the facebook app for Speak through Images
Now you can write your messages on friend's wall directly from the app
http://speakthroughimages.herokuapp.com/
sed -i s/chromium/yandex browser/g
Take a look at these:

http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale/wholesale-android.html?g...
LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise.
Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/jobs/lead-developer-for-various...

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.
OK. Not being fluent in French, and not knowing the vocabulary used in France, I can't evaluate these and find other sources. But, for one thing, however, the pie chart doesn't seem to include debt payments. Also, a proper comparison would include the regions.
I'm trying to expand my horizons a bit, so I'm reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Amazing!
Ask HN: is anyone solving pg's #4 (Outsource IT) for laptops? 
Everyone likes FreeBSD on the server. I also like it for my laptop. I thought for a while I was the only one.

My laptop just dies on startx now...

As a student, there used to be no opportunity cost to re-configuring my workstation. It was kind of the job. Then the opportunity cost slowly crept up over the years, until, well, I cannot take two billable days to play and rebuild. It really will be cheaper to buy an new laptop.

Now, I could do what everyone else seems to be doing, and buy a Macbook Air.

But then I would not be running FreeBSD anymore. At least not the FreeBSD I know and love.

So, I thought of two comments from pg

1. if you are going to build the next google,
you want to build the search engine that the
top 10,000 hackers use.

2. Solve idea #4 - outsource IT

You can take practically anything users still
depend on IT departments for and base a startup
on it, and you will have the enormous force of
their present dissatisfaction pushing you
forward.

What I am asking is - is there anyone building
(or just certifying) laptops for the top 10,000 hackers, such that buying a laptop from them is almost a guarantee that I will suffer no more hardware issues than I would with a mac.

I will pay a premium not to sit in front of a black screen with client deadlines approaching. Really a big premium.

Can I outsource my hardware support to them? If they succeed I can see them being well placed to build the development machines for the next 100,000 (and me somewhere below that). And then build the next iPad.

I am not claiming to be a top 10,000 hacker, nor any use to the BSD community, but if these people exist and are certifying laptops / fixing up the drivers they find are spotty, please let me know.

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
SEEKING WORK: Cincinnati/Dayton/Columbus or Remote

I'm an iOS/PHP developer in the Midwest that specializes in apps that integrate into web services and their backends. This last month I built a small but neat one that plugged into Facebook, and neat ear training app for musicians like my sister and father, and a web app for storing, accessing and summarizing financial documents for a Midwest VC firm.

Email me at jon@z-prototype.com and we can go over your idea for free, no strings attached. Unlike others I don't charge for or set a time limit on meetings - meetings are always free, because I want to build you the product you want. You pay only for time I spend coding.
To most of the world "American" means you are from the United States of America. If somebody wants to say Canadian, they do.
DataSift is recruiting for a number of roles in both San Francisco, and Reading, UK

http://datasift.com/whoweare/jobs/jobopenings
SEEKING WORK -- England ( London | Hampshire | Surrey ) or remote.

Software engineer. Over 5 years experience creating, maintaining and most importantly delivering software products.

I've been freelancing for just over four months and have excellent testimonials from clients I've worked with so far. http://alanhollis.com/testimonials/.

RECENT WORK

A financial customer service relationship management software involving big data sets. I personally wrote three of the most complex aspects of the site, including a real time event log using node.js. A highly customised version of a DataTables.net data table, and several bespoke map reduce queries extracting complex statistics quickly from multiple MongoDB collections, and displaying them using Google Interactive Charts.

A bespoke on-line content management system to generate a playable/customisable quiz for a high profile government backed website. The application was written using the Yii PHP framework which allowed me to get the basic CRUD/User Login management feature complete in just five days. The application also tracks users answers and information and displays statistics in the content management system.

MORE ABOUT ME

More about me can be found via http://alanhollis.com.

My github profile is available on http://github.com/alan01252.

My strongest languages are PHP, JavaScript and Java.
I've also got a whole heap of experience debugging and maintaining code written in other languages such as C#, Perl and Python.

CONTACT ME

Feel free to contact me via any of these methods:

Email: me@alanhollis.com

Website: http://alanhollis.com/contact/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/alan01252

Skype: alan01276

P.S.

This is my first time posting on HackerNews Freelancer seeking freelancer. I would love to receive feedback on my pitch / my website or my github profile.

Thanks

Alan
Difference Engine: The PC All Over Again?