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[24]7 Inc. (http://www.247-inc.com/company/careers/software-engineering) - Campbell or Alameda (Silicon Valley), CA, US (Full time).

Various Senior/Junior Software Engineering positions.

Key technical areas are - Big Data, Prediction Platform, Machine Learning, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, QA.

Who we are?

[24]7 (http://www.247-inc.com) is a pre-IPO Software Company backed by Sequoia Capital. At [24]7, we're building the next-generation predictive analytics platform to deliver an intuitive consumer experiences. We design and develop new product ideas and features from ground up. Our work involves building high-performance and reliable platform products, and deploying them in distributed environments to offer services to world's large enterprise clients.

What you'll do?

In Software Engineering team, you will work on building a highly-scalable big data platform, building machine learning based predictive models, various consumer facing web applications or mobile applications, etc. You’ll find the work environment inspiring and rewarding. We offer a fast-paced, collaborative workplace, where individuals are empowered to make decisions and build upon the company's success.

How to apply?

You can apply directly using JobVite from the link at the bottom of each job description.

Or you can also send me an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to aditya DOT kothadiya AT 247-inc.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).
This definitely requires more explanation before I pay $20 bucks for it.

Personally, the most useful canvas I've found while working on StartHQ has been the Lean Canvas from Ash: https://starthq.com/apps/lean-canvas
Graduation from a BSc? I didn't realise Bloomberg made offers this high to graduates. I thought the square mile standard was still the 25-30 range.
Seems you are the one with the straw man, since he didn't say anyone forced them to do something.
Hrm, that's what I feared. I was a proud owner of a [0] before this one, but even the Core i520M slowly gets…slow, especially one of the newer graphics chips would be wonderful sometimes.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUkbix0
I really wish the folks publishing these apps would have a demo page or some information on their front page, rather than just immediately trying to get an OAuth token from me.
Eliminating more trivial inconveniences
and I'm going to attempt to use my iPad 4 as my portable computer. Made sure to get QuickOffice HD, image editing apps, Dropbox, Prompt, etc.
Measuring without measuring
Contract wages are considerably higher, especially in London. In some cases, twice as high. If you have a little fire in your belly, and don't mind living with some uncertainty and a lot of change in your life, contracting in London can be great -- financially and otherwise.

Ex: City (finance) contract rates of £500-£700 per day are far from uncommon, if you have finance experience. Non finance, £400+ per day is not hard to find.
I would like to say i'm surprised, but I'm not. PHP makes this easier by not even supporting parameter binding in the older, original mysql binding, so it's more prevalent.

That said, I'm sure a slight tweak to the search would find a lot in other languages as well.
I've been living here for a few years, and the main killer has always been rent. I've been able to get this down by sharing with others, learning about nice but cheaper neighbourhoods (I live in Putney now), and being prepared to commute 30-45 minutes in to central London.

Aside from travel (~£120/month), other costs are similar to elsewhere in the UK. There are decent, well priced (<£10-15 per head) places to eat, drink etc.

A salary in the £20-30k range would require careful money management, but you can live comfortably on £30k+.
This seems especially true now that the speed at which products are rolled out has never been higher/start up culture doesn't really have that 'training' aspect built into it. VC's want ROI quickly.
26k before taxes.

I can live without be thinking about money. I pay £700 for my flat and £170 for transport (zone 4) and I can save about £250.
sent you an email. cheers
there are some reviews and writeups under the gallery, but yes I wished it too sometimes
GitList 0.4.0 released
Any chance for a [partially] remote employment?
Absolutely - fair point and taken. The optimal solution for time & date is probably way beyond SUT: One could discuss months (12, why so), weeks (7, wtf?), days per month (28-31), ... I believe there are many ways to improve our current life. SUT is a humble and very practical proposal, as soon as you accept that standing up is at a different time in Japan than in Berlin.

Give it a try in thinking, you may enjoy the light feeling in your stomach afterwards.
I think something is seriously wrong with this work-life balance index (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/work-life-balance) when the US ranks only slightly higher than Chile.

There is no way a country such as Chile, where the legal work-week is 45 hrs and the average commute takes at least 1hr can be ranked so high.
Seeing that US patients pay 20x for Lipitor as New Zealand is a pretty troubling stat. Even though it's clearly optimized for shock value, paying $124/unit can mean a patient is choosing between solvency and health. Pretty sad.
> It's very definitely a pay issue.

How do you know this? From my own experience trying to hire in this economy, and from talking to other people hiring, the problem is finding good engineers that are hirable at all [edit: local or remote, for any amount of money]. When I've lost a candidate due to him taking another offer, the reasons have always been unrelated to money. Things like "The other company's problems are more interesting to me" or "I'd prefer to work locally in my current city, rather than move to SF or work remotely".
You bring up an important point.

Making $200k/year is one thing. How many hours you end up effectively working for it is entirely another.

There's cases where making that much means 6 days a week and 12 hours a day. 3700 hours a year of work instead of the 1900 that's full time... you make 200k/year, but it can work out to a little over $50/hr.

On the flip side, if you're able to keep your income effectively tied to the value you generate (a portion of your salary based on money you make or save the company), the multiplier effect is a truer way to effectively boost the average hourly rate you have.
What would figures for another European city tell us about London? Rates for programmers in Dublin are about 20% higher than London, but that says nothing about the London figures quoted here.
My girlfriend is vacationing in Turkey and in Istanbul currently. I spoke with her last night and asked what was going on, she said a small amount of people were protesting trees being removed from a park. She said she believed it was a little more than that but nothing very extreme. It was interesting to hear her view after seeing it and then read the reddit/hn talk of government overthrow, rampant police brutality, and revolutions. I suppose it will be interesting to see what happens. And then uninteresting to see how few of these comments are relevant.
ShopPad (http://www.theshoppad.com) - Oakland, CA

In the past six months our platform has helped thousands of eCommerce sites deliver tablet shopping experiences that delight their customers. Now we are ready to grow the team.

We're looking for a developer with a strong background in PHP and JavaScript (front-end + Node). The right candidate is looking for more than just a job - they want to be an integral part of building a fast-growing company.

We are two successful serial-entrepreneurs, and are well-funded with an incredible team of seasoned advisors and investors. Our office is in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland (minutes from BART, ferry & 880 freeway). We offer unlimited vacation, remote work options, meaningful equity, competitive salary and benefits.

Sound cool? aaronw@theshoppad.com
Maybe HN readers get paid less because they waste coding time reading HN instead of working.
Full-time, Allahabad(India), Khitchdee

Khitchdee is designing a custom PC from scratch. We're designing an FPGA based circuit that runs the things we value most from our PC. We call this PC the Switch and it's going to replace the Wintel PC and MacBook Air we currently use as our primary PC. We produce music, design gadgets and also like to teach gadget design.

We don't like to Google our way out of our information needs. Instead, we like to practice origional engineering where we derive our own answers from first principles. In this sense we are old-fashioned. We are also stubborn in sticking to our long term goals for years on end. We're looking for a self-starter who can meaningfully contribute to our project over the long run. Send us an email at rohit@khitchdee.com.

Our website: http://www.khitchdee.com
mysql_query is deprecated... use MySQLi or PDO
This is probably skewed by finance and a small number of extremely well paid bankers, hedge fund traders etc.
You don't need to box up anything or tick any boxes.

Call your local charity. They will come and pick up the stuff from your house. Of course, it's nice if you do box up the items but seriously, with many charities, you do not need to do anything more than make a phone call. They will schedule a time to come to your house with a truck and people to load it up.

Please help a non-profit cause you care about.
I'm pretty sure anyone can write a github bot. I remember there used to be several (some of which would submit pull requests!)
I'm seeing now that profile emails may be turned off. sean(at)fourmojo.com if you're interested in selling.
If these ships traverse the ocean, how will a land-based alternative address the same concerns?
I've had similar experiences. On some occasions, it's even the same recruiter, obviously just spamming her/his list.
When did work-life balance get so awful? Probably right around the time agriculture was invented.
Is there an estimated time of arrival for 4.8.2 yet?
Jason Trigg actually sounds like a good guy and I applaud him for his choice. My disagreeing is with the idea of ethical-corporate-whorism being a viable way to do good in the world---the "new trend" the article purports to have discovered.

Let's assume for the moment that donating 50k/y led to some tangible benefits for humanity. Were there any human costs as well? Were people actively harmed for him to obtain the 100k/y salary?

The chain of implications between actual harm being done on the ground (say in a 3rd world country) and Jason's day to day job is very long and whitewashed by buzzwords, but it is still there:

Company X1 deals with gov. of country Y to rob people of a water resource (buzzword: privatization)
Company X2 owns X1 stock (buzzword: market)
Company X3 trades in X2 stock
Company X4 makes high-freq deals for X3 (buzzword: fluidity)

So the people have no water, but nobody is responsible!

Meanwhile a new charity forms: let's give money so that the people of Y can have drinking water.
They forgot Glassnost.me - http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/glassnost-is-a-google-glass...
>and not being able to find next gig for a couple of month

In London? Sure, you could be laid off anytime, but if you can't land a new contract in two weeks then there's something wrong with you. Contract market in London is buzzing.
Wonder if he'd have heard the sirens...
Glad someone pointed that out. That distinction seem to be constantly forgotten in this debate. Top companies recruit H1Bs using the same process they use to recruit Americans.
I guess it depends on your requirements. If you're young and without dependants it's much cheaper.

I live in a flatshare, 40 minute door-to-door commute (via overground, luckily, not the tube) and the rent is about 4k a year.
It might be easier to think of $200k as -only- $100 an hour. That is not a very high rate for a contractor. Anyone here who has been through a contracting company has probably been billed at that rate.

The most successful that I've seen has always been one of three things. All of these can be traced back to people I know making over $200k in the software industry.

#1) Knowing a niche technology and/or industry, finding a company that needs to staff and going in as a self-employed contractor instead of an employee.

I had friends making $200 an hour in 1999 because of this. I'd like to say they were working in Lotus at the time, but I don't really remember.

Find a company and say "I live right down the street, you need X and it is hard to find, you can either have me show up every day or have someone a few thousand miles work on it" - for some companies it is easily worth the extra $40-$60k to have someone local.

#2) Working on a well known technology but having something important on your resume - and still going in as a self-employed contractor.

Being able to say that you are a major Spring contributor will open doors. Being able to point to your name on the list of authors of Hibernate opens more doors. It doesn't even matter if all you did was help update the docs. It's just a selling point, and it works.

Most enterprise shops will think about it like this; "Either we hire Bob who did some spring work for x-corp, or we pay an additional 40k and we get Lisa who helped write Spring. If you ask me it's worth it to get Lisa".

#3) Biting the Enterprise Application Architecture Bullet - and going in as a self-employed contractor

Can you confidently whiteboard the entire Oracle Enterprise Suite? Can you talk about JMS queues, BI managers, the E-Business Suite and all that, ahem, stuff? There's plenty of companies who have built very complex solutions to simple problems and they need someone that knows how the wiring is supposed to work.

...that's the extent of how I've seen it work. All three share the same trait; find a company in need and pitch yourself as a contractor.

So I missed the whole advice thing. Here's what I'd say:

If all you want to do is make money then get yourself in as a contractor for a specific industry. Let's say that is shipping, or distribution, or something along those lines. The more time you spend doing X work for X industry the more valuable you become. If you can walk into X-Shipping-Corp and you can name-drop things like "Parcel Size Distribution" you'll probably be fast-tracked into compensation discussions.

To give you a real world example, I did lots of travel software work years ago, just being able to walk in and say "I worked with Sabre Worldspan and Galileo" was enough to get me to an offer. Hell, I didn't even need to explain what I knew about them (which wasn't much!).

That's really if you just want to make money. It isn't glamorous work, and it pushes you into a very specific bucket, but you will most-likely be well compensated.
> No one is claiming there is a shortage of programmers.

Since no one else is challenging you on that assertion, look at the graph on page 3 in the paper published by Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/download/presskits/citiz...

The lead sentence is:

"The United States faces a growing economic challenge — a substantial and increasing shortage of individuals with the skills needed to fill the jobs the private sector is creating."
I'm residing in this city, but I'm a Pythonista ;-)
At home: self-built Linux box

On the go: 13" MacBook Pro (mid 2009). It's been a great machine, but is finally starting to show some age. I'm looking into upgrading to something new soon.
Coca-Cola Small World Machines - Bringing India & Pakistan Together
Seems like the two modes are 110k and over 300k!

Maybe the first are junior programmers... but seriously, over 300k?? Is that mostly in cash or dubious valuation of incentive stock options?
Document Classifier Based on Bayes Algorithm
Heys guys, it's my first post here.

I would like to hear some comments and opinions in my code. Contributions always welcomed.

Greetings
Streaming now on KUOW

http://shoutcast.kuow.org:8002/
Well I woke up to a nice surprise!

Since people seem really interested in this, mburman and I are going to spend the day fixing up this project.

This was a final project for 15-418 in Spring of 2012 (that was a great class). We need to update it for the newer versions of CUDA, and we'll probably clean up some of our code since we're both better programmers now.

Pull-requests always welcome!
These ships burn the most horrible fuel known to mankind: bunker fuel. This stuff pollutes like nothing else. The pollution created by these ships nearly dwarfs that produced by all automobiles in the world combined.

If you source this statistic [1], you find it's contrived to compare one pollutant (sulfur) which auto fuels in particular contain extremely little of. Coal power emits two orders of magnitude more sulfur than gasoline/diesel [2], and is the largest SO2 source worldwide (not bunker fuel). It's very polluting, but far from the worst.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/

[2] http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/data-and-maps/indicators...

It is a horribly inefficient mode of transport screaming for a land-based solution.

It's by far the most efficient method of transport. In what sense do you think it's not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp...
Yea, the vacation time sinks the week long conference idea real quick.

Open source is definitely a good way to start, and you are in the middle of the states so you are in a good place to be able to get places. Not sure what kinda of drive it is to Kansas City or Oklahoma City or even St Louis, but you could do weekend trips there and find a meetup to go do. Find a hackathon in one of those cities and meet some people that way. See if you can find a startup in St Louis or KC and go see them, talk to them, we all work over weekends at least some. Usually I find people pretty cool with letting someone stop by for a short time and learn something. Hell, all they can do is say no, just keep asking around till you get a yes.
There is a huge increase in how much unpaid labor a household can perform if only one member is doing paid labor.
Can we stop the annual salary posts?
<rant>
With ever increasing frequency, there seems to be more and more of these "What's your annual salary?" posts.

Hacker News used to be the place for startup news / startup info sharing/ tips & tricks, etc. If you are joining a startup, you should expect to lose the salary game every time. You shouldn't be in it for the salary but the thrill of exploring the unknown, paving your own path, building something amazing, etc.

These salary posts emphasize the Silicon Valley mindset that salary largely defines your identity in this community. Facebook, Google, and Twitter continue to push engineer salaries to astronomic levels and that is fine - however those aren't startups.

I'm a Founder / CEO of a venture backed startup, https://www.tindie.com, and I have the lowest salary on our team of 5 engineers. My salary is probably a joke to most of you - and thats how it should be.

We're in it for the long run. We want to build somethings great. Shake things up. No where in that equation does annual salary have a bit of importance to me.

So can we all agree these salary posts are just blowing smoke and get back to work?
</rant>
> Compared to the GPL, it's quite a hard license to comply with.

Really? I don't see it.

Compliance should be easy for any site where the source code already resides on the server (e.g. every Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Python-based site). All you do is you provide an option to download the code that's running on the server. As long as you store secrets outside your source tree (e.g. put HMAC keys into /etc), this should be easy.
Way more interested in what it will do for notebooks. I've let myself wait until this generation to do a refresh.
It's true based on what data, exactly?
they're in pounds - multiply by 1.5
I saw that Path are on there and, given their recent debauchery involving people's privacy, my heart sank.
Anyone know if there are any Windows builds available for GCC 4.8.x ? I normally use TDM/MinGW but they are lagging on 4.7.2.

Also slightly off topic how is clang on Windows these days?
Macbook Air 13" (2011). All the power I need and small enough to carry everywhere.
Technically unemployment is time spent looking for work. People not looking for work are excluded.

Naturally, such a distinction is difficult to do accurately.
If you have some experience you can point to, say contributions to open source projects, your own personal website (that isn't just a generic blog site) or maybe some volunteering for a non-profit or something like that, you can get around it. Well, I guess it depends geographically where you are as well as what sort of position you're applying for.

Maybe also consider getting your foot in the door via QA?
The one thing I've learnt is that it's hardest to learn to be content. With the rampant consumer culture and rat race, it's quite hard actually to step out of the 'box' and ask yourself "What the hell am I doing this for, at the end of the day?".

To give another analogy, if there are various achievements and rewards for getting good times and scores on super meat boy, it'd be quite hard to stop trying to beat your friends and the top scores list to ask yourself why you're playing SMB in the first place when instead you could just sit down and relax without the worries and tension of the game.
Thanks for the feedback. I will get some more details up soon, and have a free option too (if you tweet). Price has been lowered to $10 :)
300 millionish * 20 = 6 bil. Pretty close.
However the web is a great way to start/test user response to a product. For start-ups with minimal resources and wanting to build the way they know how (using web technologies), there are now great integrations with 'native' mobile features, like the camera and music controls.

For a great example, check out the web version of the article's featured app http://player.FM
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Zurich, Switzerland - Magento and/or TYPO3 and/or Drupal Developer (PHP)

For other European locations and jobs see below.

Unic wants you

We are looking for technological gurus, outstanding organisers, customer mindreaders, all-round multi-talents and creative, inquisitive minds. We need people who question ideas and seek new answers. Innovation is not a matter of chance.

At Unic, you will help national and international customers to realise sophisticated e-business projects. And you will work with 220 experts, professionals and top specialists from across all the Unic sites: these people are the reason why Unic is the leading independent provider of e-business solutions.

Job offers in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Poland:
http://www.unic.com/ch/en/about/career/jobs.html

Offers are written in German language.

We're also looking for Project Managers; Java, SharePoint Developers and Analysts.

Unic at a glance

- Leading provider of high value e-business solutions for communications, sales and collaboration
- 220 employees in offices in Bern, Karlsruhe, Munich, Vienna and Zurich
- Owner-managed group with HQ in Zurich (Switzerland)

References: http://www.unic.com/ch/en/referenzen.html

Please refer to Hacker News if you apply.
In London, it's incredibly popular to live in roommate situations and have just a single room in a house with shared kitchen/bathroom for this reason. I know a lot of people still live with their parents into their late 20s and pay little or no rent, too.
My company - https://www.tindie.com
> Of course, if you love nature, the bay area has its perks :) but be ready to spend a lot of time in a car

I going to have to contest this point. I live and work in San Francisco, and I do not even own a car. I bike to and from the startup I work for every day. Many people in SF do this.

Not counting buses, taxis, or lyft, I haven't even been in a car for about 5 months.