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Optimizely - San Francisco, CA - Fulltime, Permanant. Intern/H1-B okay as well.

Optimizely is a website optimization platform. We enable businesses to show the right thing to the right person at the right time.

Our first product makes A/B Testing easy. In 2 years we’ve grown to become #1 in the category with 4,000+ paying customers including Starbucks, Disney, and Marketo.
We're profitable and our revenue is growing 400% year-over-year.

Join us in our mission to empower businesses to make better data-driven decisions.

About the Job:

We have scale: 4,000+ customers (including 100 of the top websites in the world); 15 billion server requests/month
You’ll work on our amazing visual editor - a cutting edge tool that is the core of our product - and will enable it to do even more awesome things for our customers
Work in small teams, in a continuous integration environment; we’re fast and nimble: 1-2 deployments every day

About Us:

You’ll work on our amazing visual editor - a cutting edge tool that is the core of our product - and will enable it to do even more awesome things for our customers.

Requirements:

A track record of being able to ship product, independently and/or as part of a small team
A strong body of prior front end work, including significant projects written in JavaScript
Mastery of JavaScript; expertise in most of the following technologies, and proficiency in all of them: jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX, Google Closure tools
Deep understanding of closures, prototypal inheritance, DOM manipulation, HTTP, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges

Bonus Points:

Passionate about front end technologies, you have a curiosity that motivates you to experiment and keep on top of technical trends
Practitioner of progressive enhancement, and responsive UI design
Good at debugging using dev consoles, firebug, firecookie, or any of your favorite tools
Fearless - you’ll tackle a massive JavaScript codebase, and are willing to prototype crazy, awesome ideas
Perks:

Free city-wide Gym membership at any Crunch Fitness.
Free Clipper Card to pay for your commute from anywhere in the bay area.
Catered in-office lunch and dinner on weekdays.
Full medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available.
Full dental coverage including orthodontics.
Full vision coverage including contacts.
Dependents 100% covered for medical, dental, and vision.
Unlimited vacation policy.
401k benefit.
Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 30" monitor.
Working with a great team and having a huge impact!

If you're interested, please shoot me an email at Ryan.Jordan@optimizely.com!
1) Make it an online hot dog eating contest site where ppl post videos of # of hotdogs they can eat in 10 mins.

2) Watch as ppl upload their videos of them eating 100+ dogs in 10 mins.

3) Get lawsuits from people getting sick or dying after 1 month.

4) ????

5) Profit!
Halliburton's meta-patent to help patent trolls
Pricing is such a black art! Unfortunately it's not something you can easily A/B test.

My general advice on pricing is to try to make it a "no-brainer."

One way to do that is quantify how much value you add, and then charge a percentage. For example, if you make conversion optimization software, you can charge a percentage of "lift" (revenue from extra conversions). Say your customer's revenue is $10m/year, your product improved their conversions by 10%, and your pricing model is 10% of lift. Then your customer earned an extra $1m in revenue, and you only charged them $100k for it. So it's a complete "no-brainer" for them to buy your product, regardless of the actual increase in lift. They're always making way more from you than they're spending.

It's not always easy to quantify the extra revenue or savings you bring to the customer, but I think effective sales often boils down to showing the customer the ROI. So I'd try to figure out some way to quantify that -- in terms of time saved, extra revenue, direct cost savings, etc.

If you're not sure, the other thing you can try is having a freemium product with a generous free tier. That will ensure pricing isn't a barrier for 90% of your customers; the rest may be a small enough subset that you can make the ROI case directly. But that's playing with fire!
We had a little bit of fun with these:

Images + Discussion:
http://www.xerq.net/showthread.php?158334-XERQ-marketing-at-...

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*Some pictures may be NSFW
look at their boy of work, their specialty, their work history, and then sit down and talk with them they should be able to quickly start asking questions about relevant specifics
It would read like this:

A hacker charged with changing YOUR Internet Browser, potentially making the entire country less secure in the face of terrorists, has been found guilty of crimes against the state.
Show HN: Remotely control and monitor your 3D printer from the web
Don't say anything. At all. Nothing you say will help your circumstances, but it can hurt you.
AMD’s 8-Ball marketing campaign to emphasize APU price-performance advantage
Ultimately it looks like a case of GS being able to command the government to do things. Why that's possible I have no idea. Unless they have a lot of dirt on everyone in the world.
I use the following:

RescueTime + Beeminder: to track what I'm actually doing so I can't trick myself into thinking I'm more productive than I am. I have it set to 30 hours a week of productive work. People think I'm a god damned freak of nature and worth every penny they pay me if I average 30 productive hours.

I use the Pomodoro technique to stay focused. Once I get into the grove it's kind of silly, I'll find I've been programming for about two hours and haven't restarted the Pomodoro. But it IS a great way to cut short procrastination.

"I'll read HN after this 25 minute stretch..."

Depending on what I'm doing I have to have Twit.tv or music playing in the background or I get bored and my mind starts wandering.

Make sure you dev environment is fast. Cognitive drift is your enemy.
There is a long article from GQ which gives a clearer picture of what happened:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201308/thomas-qui...
Thanks for the links :)
If you grew up without deodorant being available, you probably would not have a gag reflex to strong body odor. Now there are always exceptions, some people have excessive body odor, and probably anyone who hasnt bathed in a couple weeks would be smelly... but pretty sure if you were used to it then the smell of the average human who took a bath within the last 24 hours but has natural body odor probably would NOT (edit) cause gagging...
Thank heavens this feature has finally arrived.

People are sometimes surprised when I tell them this is _the_ number one most important feature to me. I sometimes need to give my little siblings a ride from/to their workplace -- it's a great thing to be able to use iPhone's 'Find my Friends' to see where they are so I know where to pick them up. Or to see where my significant other is if she's coming from a different city (and when she asks for directions, I can actually be of help because I know where she actually is).

Now, if only iOS and Android had better interoperability... so that I could use my iPhone's 'Find my Friends' app to easily locate my little brother's Android phone.
I got a java job out of college and would have (and still probably) would fail your test. I can't remember the last time I used an exception in Java
Oh, I don't doubt there are. The reputation of affiliate marketing has definitely been sullied by those crooks, though.
They can easily get talent for much much less.. just by posting an ad in the "Who's Hiring?" thread. There are many talented people who want to join Yahoo, but feel HR/gatekeepers are too much of an obstacle to even apply.
You're joking, but would that surprise you at this point?
I've done very similar things at various times to identify performance problems. Except I would track the start time so I could calculate the elapsed time for each section and record a label for it. Then I grep the logs and see which sections were slow and compare different runs with each other.
This is pretty cool. Simple but extremely useful.

I've written a quick and dirty port to Python, for anyone who'd like to take a look:

https://github.com/bclune/rubber_bullets
At least we have a rich body of theoretical work about how to defend against dragnet snooping, and getting it implemented and adopted is really just a social problem (hint: any 'web service' you create is ultimately part of the surveillance system).

Is there even literature that formalizes the possible types of CPU backdoors and attempts to layout means of defense? Let's assume there's some high level rootkit above any virtualization/signed code/etc. It seems like there's probably a continuum of how much effort is required to utilize this rootkit:

1. Sandboxed user code can control rootkit (through sequence of instructions or whatnot)

2. Raw network packets can control rootkit (what looked like a weirdly-fragmented http request contained extra data that instructed the rootkit)

3. Nondeterministic crypto primitives are actually deterministic (anything encrypted with them looks scrambled, but is easy to decrypt.)

4. Anything that appears to be a crypto instruction sequence is side-channeled into tiny correlated delays on network DMA.

In addition it seems like there's bounds on the complexity of this rootkit (surviving audits), and bounds on what/when detectable changes it can actually make (corrupting deterministic crypto functions on every CPU would be a non-starter).

I'm rambling on this because I think that even assuming widespread microprocessor backdoors, it seems that it should be possible to work our way to creating things that are actually trustable in certain situations. For example, much slower auditable processors handle all network communication and check results from the faster possibly-backdoored microprocessor computing only deterministic functions.
Good question; how well's that working out on the iPhone?
I think the two things you described are one and the same. To me, it is anyway.
The Case for Extrasolar Intelligent Plants
Obviously a larger return (10x-100x) is more of a win but to discount a modest exit that an investor and founder(s) agree on as not a win is a bit harsh. Each one of these startups has a different story and had their own definition of what was considered success and a good investor's reputation is also based on ensuring that startups can achieve that.
I think the VC's funding decision is definitely based on growth potential, and less on need for money, but both New Enterprise and Old Enterprise startups tend to require a lot of money to scale and there are VCs that invest in either.

What I found is that individual VCs are very polarized -- some only invest in Old Enterprise, some only invest in New Enterprise, and a few invest in both models. It's quite confusing since the feedback you get is very bimodal, and generally, while you can convince a VC that your startup is a good fit for one model or the other, you can't convince them to do the New Enterprise model if they invest in Old Enterprise, or vice versa. But once you understand the distinction, then it's pretty easy to figure out who to pitch -- look at their portfolio companies.
This is pretty useless for month over month change since it only goes back one or two months in a several year story. If mattermark had stats from 2009 onward on this company, it would be really really interesting now.
RIght. But this would never been termed a win by any VC. Perhaps the earliest founders.
what the heck is/was Work For Pie? I can't figure it out from the blog. Or is that what it was, just a blog?
Creator of One Month Rails here, happy to answer any questions.
Could Wikipedia serve pages with a random number of dummy bytes inserted (like within a comment) to prevent this?
Moral of the story doesn't have anything to do with passive income. The moral is to save some freaking money instead of spending every dime you have, and this is true whether you are making tons of money or just a little. (passively or not)

Also, why has "Passive Income" become such an evil thing around here? It doesn't have to be a scam or BS or something. It could just be someone did a ton of work on the front end and then gets paid for it over time "passively". I make money off of software that I spent lots of time on that creates value for people. The fact that people keep buying it now that it's done makes the income somewhat "passive" (still have to update things over time, but minimal relative to initial investment of time).

There is nothing wrong with passive income. There is something wrong with doing scammy fraudulent things with affiliate marketing. These 2 things don't overlap entirely so stop acting like they do. Frankly, both of these stories sound like they mostly didn't do anything scammy. They just made a lot of money and then spent a lot of money. Lots of people do that all the time with non-passive 9-5 jobs, but they don't get on the front page of HN.
Simply because C# is the best modern C-derived language. And Visual Studio is the best modern IDE.
Garbage in New York is well contained in plastic backs and doesn't cause disease. The most offensive part of it is the smell, and it is comparable.
Show HN: web app for Lollapalooza-Current shows map
Ask HN: Good coding music?
I don't know why, but recently I've been unable to listen to music whilst doing work for extended periods (45 mins or more). It seems to distract me or get in the way.

Would anyone care to tip me off with some good (preferably non-mainstream, as I like discovering new artists) music to work/code productively to? I was thinking anything along the lines of Minimalism/House/Electro, although I like to dip into Classical from time to time.

... Or just share anything (music) that makes you work productively :)
Why not? One makes no effort to identify each individual unless probable cause presents itself, and the other is when probable cause already exists and a warrant is granted.

It's watching a place vs. watching a person. How is that not "different"?
Apple Files Brief Calling Department of Justice Remedy 'Draconian'
Just get the marketing guys to make up something about the stinging letting you know that it's working. ;)
Yeah I'm kind of worried that in reality, though there isn't a 'structure' it will devolve into something worse than high school girls trying to get dates for prom

And the scale they're doing it on is also alarming, but I'm relatively new to the startup scene, so maybe I'm wrong

ALSO - They should look at the problems that Valve has had in the past with a "flat" structure
Actually, according to the supreme court, you have to verbally invoke your right to remain silent. If you dont, and they harass you for 16 hours and you say anything, its fair game. If you do, and they opt to keep harassing you, its not.
Your typical motherboard's BIOS code is not signed. Your video card's BIOS is not signed. Your network's card firmware is not signed. Your optical disc drive's firmware is not signed. Etc. This threat vector exists with each of these devices.

As always security is a trade-off. The threat vector of flashing a backdoored BIOS/firmware is irrelevant for 99% of the market: most people will never be targets of such highly-technical attacks.

PS: I tip my hat off to Sprite_TM; fascinating research! I love to disassemble firmware myself :) I liked how you were able to reverse-engineer the data structures in RAM.
Yahoo needs talent to succeed. Yahoo, in general, cannot compete with Google, Facebook or smaller startups for talent. They're better off now than they were prior to Marissa but they're still a definite second best. So they are buying talent to stock the shelves with first rate devs and leaders - mostly in mobile. At some point - say in 6 - 18 more months - talent may come to work for them to work with some of these smart people they're acquiring reducing their need to acquire companies at such a frantic pace. It's a smart strategy.
> The fact that people get used to it ... doesn't mean it isn't a real problem.

Isn't that kind of the definition of "not a real problem"?
(This comment is going to have a lot of HR and Marketing bullshit terms-- I'd like to apologize for these in advance.)

It's rarely a good thing to read about a company closing its doors, and I hope that you guys have more luck in your next venture, whatever it may be.

I suspect that you had a really, really tough time getting companies to pay you for placement (that is where you make your revenue, right? I don't see any other way). You've created some strange hybrid of, essentially, a gamified resume', and while the little graph is a neat trick, you probably figured out pretty quickly that companies with the money to throw at recruiting services simply do not care one whit about how many internet points a potential new hire has on some random site.

As a hiring manager, I can tell you what I'm interested in when seeing a potential new hire: a well-written, concise resume, links to code samples (whether on Github or elsewhere), and how well they're going to work with the rest of the team. Work for Pie appears to take the long route around coming up with an executive summary (of sorts) for just one of these three attributes. It seems highly impersonal and I'm surprised that you got any developers to sign up for it even with the promise of free internet points.

Also, I'm sure you found out the hard way about how intensely competitive the whole third-party-recruiting game is. It is not a market for the weak of stomach; I cannot tell you the number of phone calls I get as soon as I post an opening, and nearly all of these calls are extremely, extremely aggressive. Here's the average phone call: "Hi Mr. M242, I'm Recruiter from ColdCallCorp, and I saw you had an opening for a developer, I have a person coming out of JustShutteredStartup and she did X, Y, and Z, which I noticed on your listing, she has N years of experience and is extremely excited about coming to work for you, when can I tell her you're free to interview?" (This is without me saying any words past "Hello".)
Thanks for the comment. I might not understand though yet. Tracer bullets does track the elapsed time in between each section. Are you saying it's more useful sometimes to track a cumulative total of the elapsed time for each of these lines?
I love the name! Thanks!
For PC's and smartphones, which can have higher level security structures, the community is violently against secure boot. For firmware based embedded components, most people aren't so strongly opposed to it.
I have reverse engineered >100 mobile ad networks and have historical mobile ad data going back more than 12 months across the majority of Android and iOS apps. Contact me.
Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse at North Korean Tech
I'd buy my own company and split the proceeds among us, naturally!
How can something "smell bad" before it is culturally declared as such? Maybe some smells like rotting food and corpses are hardwired to be unpleasant, but probably not the smell of sweating bodies.
> A reasonable person would not expect privacy in a public library, because it is, by definition, public.

A library is public not because there is a lack of privacy, but because it owned by the state. Do you not have privacy in a public restroom? The same arguments here about the physical expectations of privacy apply to private libraries in private universities.

Yes, when I go to the library, I notice from time to time the covers of books or magazines that other people are reading. However, in retrospect I cannot remember a single instance of who read what book, not their names if I know them nor their faces. I'm a pretty observant person with a good memory, so I have the same reciprocal expectations of others. If I were to walk up to somebody and straight up ask them what book they were reading, or to start reading over their shoulder, that would be considered an invasion of privacy.

Of course I don't have any way to prove this, but I would be astonished if a stranger in the city that's only ever seen me in the library could tell you what I've taken off the shelf.

Facebook is kind of like posting things on bulletin boards. Email is like sending postcards. Google is the aforementioned card catalog.
Why not to use regular text browser like links or elinks?

$links https://news.ycombinator.com/
The knee jerk reaction is not to secure boot but to who has the ability to set the keys. The technical community likes to be in control of that.
"Regarding schools: the "Free Schools" are quite unusual..."

In the UK, the right-wing Education Minister, Michael Gove, is a particularly enthusiastic proponent of "free schoools" and has been strongly influenced by the Swedish free school model. In fact, the 2010 Conservative election manifesto even included a page praising the Swedish free school policy.
This is cool, is the idea to allow people to ask the creators of products questions before buying?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks
I'm not sure I agree with the implication that the 'positive' campaign of Febreeze was somehow more ethical or polite than the 'negative' one for deodorant --

-- both of them convinced masses of people that they needed a consumer product that nobody previously thought they had any need for.

There are ethics-of-marketting implications there worth discussing, but the OP doesn't really get into them, and they don't differ depending on whether you 'go negative or positive', these were really both essentially the same 'path to success'.
Try this out, it's Keith Jarrett live at Köln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7xoYZZE4s
Probably, but she's an iPhone user and as such has no understanding that there might be a manual for a mobile phone. It either 'just works' or it doesn't.
Even then, they can leave Yahoo at any time if they change their minds. They'll just lose out on their big payday.
If you are happy to rely on a guilty plea, then the whole thing is ripe for abuse by those with money to just pay/threaten someone to do time for them knowing that the chance of investigation is then minimal. Which happens.
uclinux can run on mmu-less systems, so I do suspect you can run Linux on this hard drive.
Assuming you mean RFC 4627, you're quoting the restrictions on what character streams can be called "JSON". The "should" means that if your names are not unique you can still call it "JSON", but you should think twice about it.

The parsing behavior for JSON is not defined at all in RFC 4627, actually. Browsers (and Node, since it's using a browser js engine) use the parsing specification in ECMA-262 edition 5 section 15.12.2.

Note that ES5 section 15.12 in general is much stricter than RFC 4627, as it explicitly points out if you read it.
Shoot me an email if you're up to it.
older thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146446
Any armchair surgeons willing to shed some light/legitimacy on this? (I'm worried this guy is just some quack)
Thanks. There are the enterprise companies who will only pay for the plan in the hundreds, and there are the enterprise companies that will pay for the plan in the thousands. This might be a more general sales question, but what re some ways you went about to find the higher demographics? I'm assuming it's all networking and intros.
PsiAmp on Reddit [1] linked to a YouTube playlist which does that.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jj4y0/john_car...