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San Francisco, CA │ ePantry │ Founding Engineer

We launched in August and were seeded behind a vision of making it easier for busy people to be responsible in how they buy household products. Highlights below:

* Customer Problem: People want to buy (and not run out of) “the right” household products, but busy people don’t want to put time into finding sustainable toilet paper

* What We Do: “Dollar Shave Club” for name-brand, “green” household consumables ($24+bn TAM), with an emphasis on flexibility and customer service

* Customer Value Proposition: 5 min registration = A) never run out of TP, B) never overpay, C) always get products good for people & the earth

* Customer Archetype: ~35 y/o female, kids, busy; “green,” but SUV; Whole Foods, but 365 (private label); iPhone, but not techy; Gilt often, but Gucci rarely

* Our Challenge: Create the most convenient platform in the world for a set of household products with unique purchasing patterns (not a shopping cart site…)

* Competition: Selling a niche product better than Amazon has a surprising track record. e.g. Alice, Dollar Shave Club, Manpacks, Quidsi, Zappos

* Traction: Initial revenue in November through an offline product version. Backlog for >$150,000 run rate bookings through offline version in first 45 days of availability (by mid-Jan).

* Full Time Team: Stu (Biz/PM): Advisor & raised >$2m @ 4 start-ups, >$100m invested in tech, employee #2 twice; Jordan (Mktg): Goodby, Doritos, TD Ameritrade

* Seeders : The entrepreneurs behind companies like Hotwire, CitySearch, Friendster, Cater2.me, Everfi, Vincraft, Augusta Columbia, and Toro IP

* Stage: Funded. Prototype of product being tested compulsively now to acquire alpha users. Lean startup methodology.

* Founding Engineer: A fully empowered co-founder with strong opinions, understanding of lean & MVP tradeoffs, full stack ownership, and a long term vision

* What You Get: Competitive cash, generous equity, full benefits, flexible/fun environment, passionate team, leave the world better than you found it

I would love to grab a coffee/beer and brainstorm about the challenges/opportunities ahead. sl@epantry.com
BERLIN/THE FACTORY, VARIOUS FULLTIME ENGINEERING & BIZDEV POSITIONS

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun.

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English. Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

=> http://urge.io/jobs
Octocat Attacks: Our entry for the GitHub Game Off
Understood.

But in context, this is a very small amount of the total set of government contractors, most of which are designers, analysts, aircraft/ship building and maintenance, software developers, among a host of other areas. Only a few have a big hand to play in questionable/Black Ops/mercenary roles.
totally agree on number 3: it seems like this is a very common mistake amongst smartphone reviewers, but only a few ever realize it.
Shouldn't the ternary operator be excluded as well if you're doing 'no ifs'?
>It is not a counterargument against seed-level funding for [thorium]..

Nor did i ever suggest it was! (NB: 'OTOH').

>a couple of million

..would be rather 'pissing in the ocean' though on this issue, don't you think? (and thus could be considered a waste of money)
In case my code doesn't make it abundantly clear: I'm not a very experienced developer!

This was a first crack at game development with my friend and I, and we are both relatively new to our respective roles. However, GitHub Game Off gave us a really great opportunity to make our dreams come to life, and it was more fun than anything else.

I'd love some feedback on our game too!
Thanks!

TouchDevelop is a research project, and as of now there are no plans of full-scale productization.

The webapp supports all programming language features of the WP7 app (and some more ;-). Not all library APIs are implemented though (some are obvious - it doesn't make phone calls - some are just still missing).

If something didn't work with the libraries for you, let us know!

It is possible to define record types (with fields but not methods). You can also define libraries operating on these. Libraries can be parametrized, much like functors in ML (but without the heavy type system). The interaction between records and libraries is not fully worked out yet, but we're working on it, time permitting.

Note that TD is not an object-oriented language - there is no inheritance or subtyping. I myself intend to keep it this way :) Still, we want to have something akin to C#'s extension methods as far as the syntax goes (i.e., method lib1->m(x:t,y:number) could be invoked as x->t(10)).
> GPUs may be ubiquitous, but how many programmers have actually written for them? Very few.

It wasn't a prediction about the state of tools for programmers. The multi-threaded hardware is ubiquitous, but it's still hard to program for.
The link 404s. Something temporary?
Part of preparation of this kind is merely getting comfortable with the idea of problem solving and coding in a high pressure environment, many otherwise excellent candidates eliminate themselves by choking at the whiteboard or collaborative editing tool. A day of serial technical interviews can be a brutal exercise that is very different from flow coding.
If you have a computer saved as "trusted", it doesn't require the dongle. I'm pretty sure people usually save their primary computer as trusted, so all this takes is an unlocked browser with potentially saved password for Google (not unreasonable, given how often people log into google services). There has to be some happy medium between 100% trusted computer (including admin pages) and untrusted computer (PIN every 30 days or every new Google service login...). I'd probably start by always requiring PIN for the admin page, particularly for features related to removing or changing the authenticator, even if the user is on a trusted computer.

What I want is a system where only momentary access to all login credentials normally used for a login (password (saved in browser?) and 2fa device) is enough to log in once, potentially lock out the authorized user, but not to have permanent access.

With a "real" token, at least in most enterprise systems, a normal user can't remove the token from his account. So you'd be able to log in once, maybe reset the password, but couldn't change the token or remove the need for a token.

I'd be fine with a system where removing 2fa was a big procedure, same as the lost password recovery should be (i.e. more than just one email). Maybe just requiring a 72h wait (after emailing you and a trusted designee?) where anyone could complain to stop it and escalate to humans?

There should be a "low trust path" way to lock someone out of an account (with minimal authentication), so if you lose your token it can be locked, which sucks, but being unable to check your email for 12-72h in the interim might be an acceptable compromise. All of this should be configured when you open the account, or as you rely more on the account, in advance of an actual breach.

I guess what I really want is an Internet login system which assigns different levels of trust and trust requirement to different actions, not the current basically binary system. Something more similar to credit (less checking for small amounts, repeated transactions, etc. than for a new mortgage).

Amazon sort of does this (they have at least 4 levels; un logged in, sort of logged in on a machine without 1-click, logged in enough to make purchases to existing addresses, logged in in last 5 minutes or so to edit details). However, Amazon is light years ahead of everyone on a lot of things related to ecommerce, and it's not trivial to figure out how this should work.
Ask HN: Who is hiring in London? (December 2012)
There's a lot of discussion about jobs in USA, but not that much about job offers in Europe. I'm sure there are loads of startups and hacker-friendly companies on the old continent, but are just not advertising loud enough.

So let me ask explicitly: Who is hiring in London, or more broadly in Europe?

"Ask HN: Who is hiring?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857714

"Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857717

"Ask HN: Who is meeting up?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item id=4857727
FiveStreet is a fast growing, funded startup in Washington, DC.

Looking for a well-rounded software engineer to work alongside our CTO. We need a resilient generalist who can solve problems. You should expect to wear many hats (both technical and non-technical) and have an interest in learning about the residential real estate industry.

We're heavily influenced by Hacker News & Lean Startup.

Candidates in the Washington, DC metro area preferred.

http://gist.io/4182514
Just plain html/css plus Mustache (the logic-less tempaltes).

Not much new things to learn, literally no limits and a lot of freedom.

And here is my toolset:

LIVEditor: Edit html and css and see the result instantly (http://liveditor.com, my own project, you can imagine LIVEditor = Web Browser + Code Editor + Html Inspector like the one in Firebug).

Mustache: Use this logic-less template system to represent reusable content in the html.

Python: Call pystache to stuff the {{mustache}} templates in the html files.
If he is so unhappy he should sell it on ebay, they go more than double the asking price at the moment.

I am absolutely happy with mine, simply blown away not just by the quality of the phone (its outstanding) but by how nice the stock android really is. No more bloatware and "enhanced" UI for me
San Francisco, CA - Addvocate

http://addvocate.com

"Employees should be your strongest Addvocates. We build tools that make it easy for teams and groups to tell large collaborative social media stories. Employee's matter. :)"

- Python/ MongoDB
- iOS & Android
- Javascript( HTML5, Firefox Addons, Chrome Ext.)

We are a friendly bunch, and we are looking for highly skilled and friendly people to work with. Many of us left the Midwest 4 years ago to make a great product and company here in SF, after diverging into various roles and companies we have gotten the gang back together, so to speak. Our CEO had one successful exit, and is an ex. Salesforce Director. Other members have worked/ written core libraries for Twitter & MySpace, and have worked for Kabam, inboxQ and Microsoft. We are still building the core team.

If you are looking to get in on the ground floor of a fast passed Enterprise Social Media team, this is the team to join. We have fun projects ranging from mobile, big data, analytic, machine learning and large Javascript Apps. We are trying to ship weekly, while maintaining the quality needed for an enterprise app. We want to bring the best of the consumer web to the Enterprise.

Tell us what you have worked on and what you would love to work on. Many of us go to conferences and hackathons to prototype new ideas. Some are related to our core business and sometimes they are just created for fun.

If you are a smart, ambitious developer, who likes to ship code, we would like to meet you.

Cheers,

Here's to many great hacking sessions to come.

Justin http://twitter.com/@jdavid
Sorry if this seems unhelpful, but it depends entirely on your workload. And things get even more complicated when you get into "turbo" mode, which only applies if you use < x% of the cores, and then AMD's new architecture with two decode and integer units for each floating-point unit... It's really hard to predict in advance how all that will interact with a particular workload. Sometimes just tweaking the scheduler can give 10-20% boost in throughput.
ZeroCater - San Francisco, CA - is hiring for most positions, including Lead Developer, VP of Sales, Account Managers.

Whether or not you're on the job market, you're invited to join us for lunch at our North Beach office. Just email me to mention you're dropping by. My email is a at zerocater.

http://www.zerocater.com/jobs/
Beintoo needs a few skilled (full time) hands in Milano, Italy.

We're currently looking for on experienced JS developer and a full stack java web developer.

More info:

- http://goo.gl/5Kpnx

- http://goo.gl/bJkdY

Keep in touch info+hn@beintoo.com
I think think there's an inherent conflict in expecting those who price-shop for pennies between internet retail juggernauts like Amazon and Wal Mart and expecting these same people to pay.

As a consumer, price aggregation sites like Google Shopping and Pricewatch seem to be adequate for most things.
Is there a HackerSchool alumni discount? :D
His G+ says he lives in London so it's pretty unlikely he's using AT&T! Other than some slight differences in coverage, all of O2, Vodafone and EE (aka Orange + T-Mobile) should be roughly equivalent when it comes to not needing any tweaking to get your phone working properly.
MongoHQ (SF Bay, remote doable)

We do database operations and hosting, and just closed our A-round. We're hiring to solve a lot of different problems, but especially looking for help with:

Backend engineering - If your ideal work day involves building software to run across hundreds of systems and care about databases, you are someone we want to talk to. We have everything from server level monitoring/control agents to protocol proxies to backend metrics systems that need love.

Operations/devops - If you have used chef/puppet or similar, get irritated about "snowflakes" (one off servers), and have a sometimes irrational desire to automate everything, you are someone we want to talk to. We are one of the companies where operations is the product, so work on the backend systems will often make its way in front of users.

[Whatever you do well] - If you have some combination of skills that you think we need, let us know why we should be thinking about them.

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Our tech "stack" is largely node.js/Ruby/Mongo/Redis and we've experimented with Go/Erlang/(other databases). We generally believe in using the right tool for a give job. If you want to tackle a particular problem with OCaml, for instance, you probably won't face much friction.

We have an office right next to the Caltrain in San Mateo (15 mi south of SF) and are willing to let people work remotely if they desire. We will also cover relocation for good people. Our priority is "people who get things done, sometimes in anger" and almost everything else is negotiable.

If you're interested, email hello@mongohq.com and ask us some questions (or tell us a story). If you want to talk to me directly, mrkurt@gmail.com
There's Rails Mentors - http://www.railsmentors.org/

I've been a mentor on there for ages and I've "mentored" several people - probably around 7 or 8. The reason I put quotation marks around "mentored" is because of all the people who have applied to be mentored with me, only one has actually applied themselves to the task at hand and consistently requested feedback and guidance.

As a result, that was really the only rewarding mentorship interaction I've had via that site, which is a bit disappointing. One of my colleagues signed up too, years ago when that site launched, and I think he's had better luck; he has a postcard on the wall near his desk from someone he successfully mentored in China.

The reason I bring this up is because I think anyone who wants to be mentored must realize that the relationship goes both ways: you want a good mentor, but your mentor in turn wants a good student - and anything less than that is disrespectful.
How about contributing to a nice little opensource project?
"I had weekly coaching sessions" - Pick/Create 1 Issue/Task every week :P
"I would love to have guidance...." - Discuss your plans with the project maintainer/other contributors.
"I am looking for is something more in depth......" - Heh you ll be writing code... don't you think that's enough depth :P
"regular, specific feedback" - Every merge request you send..... you get a nice code review, and specific feedback... and a ton of suggestions for improvement.

Since "coding" itself is a huge field, just be sure you pick a project that interests you and has a lot of scope instead of $random_famous_opensource_project.

Good Luck :)
Why do manufacturers (vs. carriers) customize Android? I know carriers get paid to put crappy bloatware on handsets (often a lot of money), but I don't think manufacturers do.
No. I love mine.
I don't know about other countries, but at least in Finland nuclear power companies pay the nation annually a deposit, which is used to take care of the spent fuel and to decommission the power plants. For now there is more than 1.5 billion euros in the fund.[0] Despite this the nuclear power plants there have been an excellent investment.

As money is not a problem for seeking solutions for the final disposal of the waste, Finland is advancing in finding the solution. By now they are planning to begin burying the waste in 2020. More information can be found at: http://www.posiva.fi/en

[0] http://www.posiva.fi/en/final_disposal/total_costs_and_fundi...
I really enjoy Pelican. It's simple.

For other devs: if you're familiar with Jinja, then you're 80% of the way there.
The market rates varies a lot. Can you specify how much it is? and also if you are looking for English->French translators.
His old Nexus completely failed after 1 year, (as do so many Nexus phones) but his complaint is that the new one is shoddy?

He thought his old camera was good?

Seems like he forgot what his old phone did, and he is wishfully comparing Nexus to iPhone.

Previously, Nexus was oversaturated to make UI more bright, but ruining photo colors. Glad they finally stopped faking it. Tebold way was again to using loudness hyper boosting on a CD at expense of dynamic rangem
ClassDojo

FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by over 4mm teachers and students to manage behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup with $1.6mm in funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. Paul Graham invested in us, but we didn't do YC.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/

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Or email jobs@classdojo.com. You can read about the work and environment here: http://www.classdojo.com/jobs
We are looking for:

* Full Stack Engineer

* Front-end Engineer

If you think you're a good developer but don't fit into those buckets, get in touch anyway.
This post is the epitome of first world problems. Think about it. It's a phone that runs Android 4.2, one of the most advanced mobile operating systems out there. It's got access to the Google Play store where you can get apps that can do almost anything and it offers the kind of computing prowess people were used to in high end desktops 10 years ago, if not sooner.

I'm not saying that OP is wrong to highlight his problems with the Nexus 4, but I think a little perspective may be in order. Heck, the fact that a phone exists that doesn't suck like nearly every smart/feature phone from 2000-2005 is proof enough for me that we're genuinely living in the future, flying cars be damned!
SEEKING FREELANCER, UK (Remote possible)

We are based in St. Albans and Newcastle. We are looking for a Python dev to join a team of existing developers working on web-based apps to integrate with our telecoms applications. We are also looking for skills with crawlers and data mining.

Please send an email the jobs email address in our profile with your skills and what you are passionate about
Your parent isn't complaining about the incident rates of military aircraft. He's complaining about putting something with the that high of an incident rate in the same airspace with civilian traffic (not to mention housing). It drastically increases the risk of the civilian aircraft being involved in one of those much-more-numerous incidents, and, when an aircraft has an "incident", the passengers and crew (and people standing under said incident) tend to not come out of it well.

Convenient for the military aircraft causing the incidents in this hypothetical situation, they have no passengers or crew to worry about. And I absolutely believe that will increase the number of risks they (the Air Force or its shoddy contractors) will be willing to take, further increasing the risk to civilians around.
Syrian Internet access appears reestablished starting 1432 UTC
The activity of those filters is so low, that burying it a couple of meters into the ground works well.
Not sure how to link to his comment in the post, so I'll copy below. Turns out he's not just any old 'blogger'.

"Note that my standards for camera phones are high. I'm a co-owner and co-founder of Imatest (http://www.imatest.com/), which is the standard software used by the industry to quantify the quality of digital imaging. I'm not actively involved in the company anymore, however, so haven't had the test to put the GNex and the N4 through rigorous side-by-side testing. I've developed a good eye for these things over the years, however, and can say with considerable assurance that the latter is subtly but definitively worse."
You are impressed by the marketing and specs, but OP has a least put the phone to real world use.
Create? Simulate I guess. And even then, not the details, just a mathematical model of behavior. Sort of Skinnerish.

I can simulate my boss: "Blah Blah Blah Work Smarter Blah". Does that mean I've created a functioning brain?
> the ability to pull the battery for a quick reboot has been invaluable to me

Devices without an user-removable battery always have a hard reset key combination that will reboot the thing no matter how frozen it is.
Impossible. He doesn't drink coffee.
This project does sound kind of nifty, but I'm confused about the company. What is The Ladders. Do you have a core product?
Kicksend (S1!, Mountain View, CA)

Hiring:

- Android Lead

- Mac Desktop Lead

Email me at pradeep@kicksend if you're passionate about shipping beautifully crafted product to massive international markets.