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Multi-talented developer wanted for YC company
We define Luck as the magical point when opportunity meets preparedness. So if you are prepared then this is THAT opportunity.

We are small scrappy international YC company with our HQ in New York and our laser focused tech team in Sydney Australia (for now - opportunity to move to NY this Spring if you are awesome!).

We are a close team of entrepreneurial minded developers whose ideas are outpacing our time-capacity. So we are looking for a talented scrappy 'get shit done' developer to jump on board this rocket ship with us. Our goal is to deliver a simply amazing experience for our customers and to be the leader in the industry.
If you want to break every rule in the book and make history, this opportunity is for you! As YC taught us, we talk to users and write code & we love doing that! We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Benchmark, SV Angel and other top investors. We're disrupting a $20bn market and excited to meet you!

So to give the position a label we are looking for a web developer with front end and back end skills

The perfect candidate is...

- You live in Sydney, Australia
- You are hacker to your core. You love coding and love creating things
- You are hungry for big challenges in a fast paced adrenaline fuelled tech startup
- You are entrepreneurial minded. As a developer this means you get things done and you ship :)
- You have built significantly large web based systems under time pressure
- You have a strong grasp on the importance of User Experience
- You are awesome at the following skills:

Front end -
You know and love javascript not just jQuery. Solid css, html, page load times. Expert on chrome, firefox developer tools
(Knowing twitter bootstrap would be good too)

Mobile -
You have a good understanding of mobile interface challenges and maybe interested in iphone dev too.

Backend -
You are a strong Object Oriented programmer and comfortable with a mainstream OO language such as Java, Groovy, Python, Ruby
You have build web apps with full stack frameworks such as: Grails, RoR, Django.

General
You understand and practice test driven development
You build great interfaces
You are 'get things done" programmer.

Initially we are thinking of a rolling monthly contract for immediate start until spring at which point if things work out you would have the opportunity to move to NY with us.

If this sounds like you then send us anything about you:

Github references
Blogs
Resumes

to hackerinsydney@gmail.com
Perhaps every story is different in some way, but there will be common themes running through them all. I almost feel like your question is really "why might I want to settle down when I'm loving what I'm doing right now?"

Here's the thing though: you don't have to settle down and there's no reason why you should if you don't want to. If you feel better running your own show and make it work, continue doing that.

I'm completely unsold on working on someone else's ideas rather than my own, and I'm not really a fan of being a little worker bee in someone else's business either -- it feels deeply unsatisfying for me. Perhaps this is just how I'm wired up (and, without meaning to mangle Ben Franklin's words), I value freedom over job security. I just can't get excited about the idea of "settling down" with a company.

Try to do what makes you happy if at all possible. If you end up in a situation that's no longer making you happy, work to change it. Bonus points if you can choose the option that makes for the better story.
For a desktop and/or mobile app, on which the consumer is waiting and you are burning battery (laptop/phone) or just simply CPU cycles, 2x-4x slower is 'not fast'. You're simply wasting the end-users time and resources for what amounts to ideological reasoning.

We're always making a trade-off between performance and ease of programming, but when your competition is coming in at 2x faster than your optimal case, and 4x in the standard case, you're going to lose for all but the simplest apps.
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First you have to understand that not all of the content broadcast on the BBC is created by the BBC. They carry programs made by independent, limited, for-profit studios. They also regularly carry movies. All of which they put up on their iPlayer service.

As an example, you can currently watch Madagascar, in full, for free on BBC iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gd77z/Madagascar/).

While there is an argument that programs produced by the BBC should be DRM free, there is no way larger, and independent studios would allow their content uploaded DRM free.

Personally, I want the BBC (and other sites) to be able to use technology like HTML5 video, because I don't like flash, and it's unlikely the studios are going to suddenly decide their OK with DRM free video, I'm not necessarily /for/ DRM in HTML5, but I don't see any other way around it for now.

While you can argue all you want about how DRM is useless and easily broken, as yet no-one has managed to convince big TV and movie (and even game) studios of that. The BBC is just doing what it feels it needs to in order to be able to deliver video using the latest technology, while keeping it's partners happy.
I totally agree. But w3c should be standing up for the open web, not the profit motives of its sponsors. If they're going to start transparently considering whatever restrictive practices their sponsors demand, then they become nothing more than an industry interest group versus what they ostensibly are now, which is a group that's at least partially community-driven.
'Very acceptable' speed isn't what consumers are looking for when comparing battery life and wall-clock performance between competing platforms.
You are painting a very dark picture of a country which in practice works better and has less problems than the US.
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you are right. Assuming corruption is unnecessary here, as business interests fairly explain their behaviour.
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Because in a C-Corp, the earnings don't pass through to you personally. They belong to the corporation. So you pay tax on them at the corporate tax rate. Then when you personally want the money, you have to pay it to yourself as income. It gets taxed AGAIN. That's basically the only way for you to get the money. The idea is that with a C-Corp, if you want cash you earn in the corp to ever become your personal money, you have to take it out the year you earn it, otherwise those dollars will be taxed twice.
OT rant. The goddamn social sharing toolbar on the left covers up a paragraph's worth of first 2-3 characters on mobile Safari.
The other companies are not publicly funded organisations. The BBC is supposed to be acting in the public interests.

Besides, everybody already knows which side of the fence Google and Microsoft are on, both in terms of self-interest and semi-political ideology.
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Hm, that sitemap seems to be limited to 10K entries and it isn't clear how it links to the next level sitemap. I'll get to work on this.
I'm starting to think that apps and deployment will separate somehow. Developers will sell programs that users will deploy on shared hosting sites. Why would someone pay $5 for a blog when I an host anything I want on webfaction for $9.50 a month. The only problem is ease of deployment - which could easily be solved with a little elbow grease.

Users will have a local computer and a piece of a server up on the net that they pay for.
My argument, and I sent this too them when they were doing a consultation a while ago, is that they shouldn't be buying content that they can't use for public service purposes. We have many good sources of movies in the UK, and many of them are "free" at the point of use (ie advert funded). Let them show Madagascar, and while they do that the BBC can run some other program. They should remove themselves from the content purchasing market if the terms are too restrictive to allow them to meet their public remit. We don't /need/ these films on the BBC. They could run some of the content they're currently relegating the digital ghettos of BBC3 and BBC4 instead.
I run a startup that is hosted on Heroku. I write Ruby code but can't handle operations (I have and can set up servers but if shit hits the fan I wouldn't have a clue. Also I don't have the time). My startup is a one-man show. And you suggest I should grow up? By grow up you mean that I should watch my customers face days of downtime because I don't know how to fix the server, how to secure the server probably, how to scale or have money to hire someone who can?

Of the "ShitHNSays"-stuff I read here this surely takes the cake.
It's pretty easy to track a person without being detected, it's probably a little harder than deer hunting, but it's not impossible.
> iOS and Android are successful because they offer a great selection of powerful APIs, not because of the particular binary representation they use for applications.

They also provide great battery life and user-visible performance (iOS especially), have incredibly well integrated development tools (see Apple's Instruments and its power, CPU, syscall, et al profiling), and give software authors the escape hatches they need to maximize performance when absolutely necessary.

It's not just a question of nice APIs. Layering another level of JavaScript spit and bubblegum on top of the problem is t going to make any of the above easier.
So, how exactly BBC attacks the whole open web? Do they demand, that all web content should be DRMed?
How did it become so, that wanting some feature means you are attacking all those who don't want and don't need that feature?
Say HTML5 gets DRM. So what? What exactly forbids you not to use it? The web is open because there are people wanting to give away content for free, not because there is no DRM tech built-in in HTML. You cannot force openness for those unwilling.
If some company thinks it needs DRM, let it have it. If they think it is essential and web does not provide it they just won't use web tech and will have some proprietary plugins for that.
How exactly GNU/Linux is in danger there? They don't like it, they don't implement it. End of story.
Seriously, people, calm down. I am being sick from all that hysterics about attack on web (just because somebody chose to develop a native app, shock and horror), walled gardens, etc.
Playable version here : http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/WebQuake/Client/WebQuake.htm

Although the controls are really weird, right click goes forward, I can't aim with the mouse...
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How could they possibly prevent a custom no-DRM fork of a browser?

Seems like a waste of time to me; it'll be about as effective as having a 'no download' flag on images.
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What on earth are you talking about?

I'm not dissing this project; I think the c++ to javascript compiler is really neat.

I just don't think I've ever seen any real QT applications that would compile and run with it; they all talk to databases or system services, which isn't supported.
The family didn't help either by withholding evidence. They should have created a mirror of the external drive, then handed the original to the police (instead of offering to do it the other way around).

This is ridiculous. The Todds lost their son. The police did a desultory job of investigating his death, and the family have the drive only because of how poorly the police secured the scene. On what planet do the Todds owe the police anything?
I hate DRM too, and yet I love watching Netflix streaming. The fact is, if it's trivial to clone data to the point that regular users can do it (Napster, etc), the business model for online rental vanishes. The fact that DRM is always defeatable through hacks and analog loopholes doesn't matter: it just has to be good enough to deter the vast majority of users.

I believe we need comprehensive IP reform across the board, including strong consumer protections and freedoms for "owned" content. But if the vendors are using DRM anyway (and they are), I'd rather they do so in a standards-based, interoperable way.
I want to learn Ember, but the official docs are confusing, and the tutorials are outdate, are there any YouTube videos or any other of tutorial on Ember?
Definitely. This is possible with e.g. puppet already - where I work I've setup puppet modules for provisioning everything automatically for developers, they just need to enter the customer name and whether they need dev, stage and/or live for that customer - the rest is automated. We use http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... for hosting - let me just say that I can buy an entire rack with 64 GB ram in each server, for the same cost as one amazon instance :D
"and don't kill the server please?" if only ppl were that nice. Quaddicted will be quaked soon!
In theory, you are right. The question we ask the patent office is eminently philosophical and unsolvable.

In practice, however, that's not important. What important is the economical function the patent office has. Which is, to use granted monopolies on order to incentivice inventions. It's fine if they give us a faulty answer the the philosophical conundrum we've charged them with, as long as the faulty answer furthers this purpose. That's a more measurable stick we can use. And I think by that stick, they are currently doing a much worse job than they could.
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The W3C has always alas been sponsor led, and is a poor organisation, and not what the web should have.
It's hard to understand, isn't it?

However, I feel the same about where I live... Fiji. We're run by a dictator at present, but you wouldn't know it unless you got involved in anti-government "activities".
I think deciding on this will be hard and frankly subjective. My suggestion is that you try both for a small project and decide for yourself what makes you feel at home. It should not take more than a couple of days to assess it yourself.

As for me, I decided to go with Ember.js. To be frank the final decision was between Ember and Angular (over all other frameworks) and I felt that getting past the learning curve of Ember, it made me comfortable. Most importantly both are close/past the 1.0 release.

If you do choose Ember, I would recommend the following:

- Watch the peepcode's emberjs cast https://peepcode.com/products/emberjs (and code it up)

- Go through the Emberjs documentation on the site, though very likely you will not know how to build a big app. It is still necessary to hone your fundamentals.

- The 1.0 RC1 that was released yesterday has dependency injection, if that matters to you. My opinion is to just code as little as possible and prefer to stick with the framework's conventions (i.e not use DI).

- Use a sound build tool. I don't have Ruby/RoR background and so preferred to use Brunch.io (http://brunch.io/) - Nodejs pipline. They have a Emberjs skeleton available to get started quickly - https://github.com/icholy/ember-brunch. I believe there is a rake pipeline tool for Ruby/RoR folks as well.

- Ryan Florence recently released a scaffolding/build tool Emberjs - https://github.com/rpflorence/ember-tools. I use this to develop my skeletons and use it with my Brunch.IO setup. It is a good place to start and get past the learning curve. The tool will probably become the go to place for building Emberjs apps sometime later.

I am sure you will find similar tools for Angular.js but I think you just have to try something simple in both and find out for yourself what makes you comfortable with these opinionated frameworks :).
In practice just one. The two others are too busy making money developing iOS-apps.
I think the theory is that murder is an easier/safer/cheaper option in nations where the police are easily bribed.
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I don't get it, why not just play around with examples, look at the source, destruct it and understand how it works? This is efficient.

You're exactly like most of my friends who want video2brain alike materials to teach them stuff they don't want to study on their own. No offense :)
We're also looking into Cloud Foundry - basically Open Source Heroku - with support for buildpacks. If the installations gets easy enough, this could be the new thing.
If google is behind this as the article states, it just shows their hypocrasy behind their mantra of "supporting the open web". Given that companies with w3c leverage are behind this proposal does anyone think it will get through? Personally, I can't imagine anything worse for the future of the web than DRM. It would be like forcibly going to back to a dark ages that never existed for the web medium.
These are IIRC the original controls. You could enable mouselook by using the console, but it is not implemented in this port.
Newest data straight from pg in this thread: 200k / 2M.

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> Moreover, you have to right-click and then click "Run this plugin" from the native Chrome menu. I doubt you can create any overlay over native browser's menu

It must be different on Windows. I have it enabled on my Mac and it requires a single click to enable a plug-in.
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HTML itself is a fundamentally open standard on which the entire op web is built.

Adding DRM to that ends that. Period. No hysterics.

The attempt to add DRM to HTML is a full frontal attack on the open web. This is not subject to interpretation or nuance, that is equivalent to being "a little bit pregnant".
In my current project, we are using Symfony2 ( PHP ) + MySQL, Redis, Neo4j in the backend and recently started to use Angular.js in the frontend.
frondend mvc is taking a lot of our time.
Definitley worth the money but for my taste a bit too basic
This was a direct response to a local paper that cited military sources claiming that it was shot down.
Angular worked far better for me
Wow, audio is a bit slow for me in Safari but great tech demo. I still love that game!
Your distro probably has a mailing list for announcing updates.

For debian, you should subscribe to http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ - and you'll get an email as soon as updates are published. These are also published at http://www.debian.org/security/

You can also follow security bugs closely on the security tracker. For example, this vulnerability is classified here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0871
and the full list of bugs affecting the stable kernel is here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/l...
How exactly would DRM for HTML5 work? Couldn't I just fork Chronimum or Firefox and make the browser save the video content in a file rather than showing it?
Garry, thanks for doing this new project. We need services that are sustainable long-term. We need a solid ad-free place that people can post their thoughts and have a decent chance of having them stick around as long as the web exists.

Also suggest that you think about a pre-paid plan, for say $1000, to purchase lifetime hosting, assuming you can find a way to invest the money that pays a return that sustains the service.

Also consider partnering with some long-lived institutions, like universities, that might play a role in guaranteeing the "forever" part of the proposition.

Another possibility -- sell stock to your users. There's no reason you can't make a fortune doing this. But if you go with VC money that's going to put you on a path that isn't sustainable. If you sell stock to the public with the clear up-front understanding that this is to be a sustainable business, that might strengthen the company, not weaken it.
IMHO the problem is that the technology DRM is being conflated withe the politics and legalities of DRM circumvention.

I have no problem with companies selling DRM protected content. They can sell their property on whatever terms they like. It's theirs to sell, after all, and my right and responsibility to choose whether to buy it or not.

I do have a problem with the criminalisation of DRM circumvention, which reaches perhaps it's ultimate banality in the criminalisation of unlocking your own phone (which requires the cracking of DRM protected firmware). That's ridiculous and wrong.

So I understand the BBC needs DRM to meet it's contractual and legal obligations, while being against the DRM lobby that is behind the most egregious DRM maximalist policies. some might call it a fine line, but I think it's there.
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>I haven't heard anyone killed by meteorites, so I wouldn't consider them very threatening. If it's not threatening then why not go out and enjoy the show?

The only reason you haven't heard of anyone killed by meteorites is chance, not some inherent impossibility of it happening.

If the fall was a few miles to the side, you would have heard of tens of thousands of people being killed by meteorite, seeing that a few cities were nearby.

In any case, I don't think it's wise to just "enjoy the show". How do you know at that point that it's not a cluster of meteorites, with more to fall soon nearby?
I'm pretty sure that the nation in which Disneyland is located still has a death penalty.

I really appreciate arbus's comment. You're right that it doesn't hang together in a completely rational way, but it is a rare accurate illustration of how Singaporeans really feel. For an empathetic person, it isn't hard to imagine feeling this way, if you grew up there.

People in other countries also have idiosyncratic ways of tolerating the limitations of their systems. Singapore is perhaps an extreme case.

(I lived in Singapore for a couple of years, a long time ago.)
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It's "Aw, snap!"'ing my chrome 24 on osx 10.8 :(
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“The United States has offered FBI assistance to the Government of Singapore on the Shane Todd case" (but Singaporean authorities have not accepted the assistance) - what is the jurisdiction for the FBI to pursue this investigation without Singaporean consent? Doing that sounds like an appropriate measure at this stage (a little surprised that it hasn't already happened).
Definitely plausible. They know that he crosses the road at certain times. So they park a car nearby. As he's approaching the road, the car driver is notified and tries to hit him.

Or - they can simply kill him in other way and report that he was hit by car.
It doesn't exist yet, so no. But the crux of the issue is making that not possible...somehow.
The port intentionally does not support mouse control because that is full of vendor-prefixes. See the bottom of the page.
It's possible the hitmen could have cloned the drive, bought a replica, mirrored the contents and deleted any incriminating evidence, the parents are probably not advanced enough to know the difference between a file and a browser.

I'd look for evidence that the hard drive shows evidence of usage by the victim here.
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