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HelloSign (YC W11) is hiring full-stack web developers
We're looking to expand our existing 4 person web development team with another full-stack developer. That means you need to be comfortable with the entire stack, from JavaScript/jQuery and HTML/CSS to PHP and MySQL. In addition to being highly skilled on the technical side, you should also be able to put yourself in the user's shoes and think critically about what you're building. Our developers have a lot of input into what gets built and how.

Requirements:

- A get-things-done attitude

- You live in the SF Bay Area or are willing to relocate to it.

- Previous full-stack web development experience

Bonus points for experience with:

- AWS (EC2, S3, etc.)

- PHP and the Symfony framework

- Asynchronous job queues (beanstalkd, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.)

- Image manipulation (ImageMagick, OpenCV, etc.)

- PDF creation and manipulation

- iOS or Android development

Some challenges you'll be helping us with:

- Develop our electronic signing API. We want third party developers to be able to easily integrate electronic signing into their own websites.

- Continue to scale our system to support more and more users.

- Integrate our signed documents (PDFs) more deeply with Adobe's electronic signature SDK.

- Formulate experiments, dig into analytics, and help us improve our key metrics.

About us:

- We're all experienced engineers with several years under our belts.

- Our traffic is growing and we have interesting scaling problems ahead.

- Variety is the spice of life. Projects we've worked on recently include improving our jQuery-based document editor, improving database performance, scaling workers across multiple servers, and iOS/Android enhancements.

Compensation and perks:

- Competitive salary, relocation package, health care, and stock options.

- Your choice of computer, chair, and monitors. Most of us have MacBook Pros and Thunderbolt monitors.

- Free snacks and drinks. Free lunch on Fridays.

Please send your resume/github/portfolio to jobs@hellosign.com
An engineering company with appreciation of Philsophy. That's a first. I'd apply but I don't know any Ruby and I'm not brilliant.
Hopping is great. I'm 20 and work as a contractor, so I just work on a per project basis. It's great being exposed to a different set of tech on nearly every project. Plus, as a contractor, you get paid a lot more.

I don't see any downsides. I think I'll hop until my mid 20's and then I'll either start my own gig or stay somewhere for an extended period of time.

Hop when you're young, get experience, build connections, meet people.

My current place is actually pretty mad I'm wanting to leave, but I don't want to dedicate the next 10 years of my life to just one company.

> I didn't shy away from their perception or try to convince them that this time it would be different.

Good point. Don't let managers/recruiters guilt you. No shame in job hopping.

It's less stressful working on a per-project basis. If the company wants you to stay, you'll get another contract for another project, nothing wrong with that.
If part of interview involves figuring out how to follow that link, I failed. I thought the you might be exaggerating, but I spent 2 minutes clicking it in every conceivable way. It's pretty clunky.

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Got it. There's another link in the popup (if it comes up.) Hey RG, why doesn't the popup/content load reliably? One of those hard computing problems?

I actually like the lyrics site, but this is a funny kind of ego stroking.
Good, but in some cases this won't work with latest versions (content will change), plus, you need to add instructions for installing shacat first, which defeats the point of having a single line install. It's always been convenience over security.
You are a loony. If I walk into a shop with a ton of money, then I can walk out with far more stuff and with much less effort than trying to steal from the shop or beg for free stuff from it.
Hasta la Vista, Humans: The Menace of “Killer Robots”
The Church of the Jedi
It will be interesting to see what Duedil and companies like CreditSafe do now... they'll have some competition on their hands.

swombat, Is any of the grant / tax credit data available in the public domain? It might be an interesting indicator to the growth of UK startups.
Looks nice. Where are you getting the destinations data from?
Hate the game, not the player. I am constantly frustrated with misdirected criticism of the companies locked into nash equilibrium.

Hiring is extremely competitive and if they dont maintain hype(if thats your preferred term) levels they will be overtaken by hundreds of other startups and consequently RapGenius may lose valuable talent.

So the company should lose their competitive advantage in a important business process to accomodate your arbitrary raging? Not going to happen unless everyone does so.

Want to change something for the better? Change incentives and punishments for players and steer them in the right direction. Using "shit" as an argument makes HN quality of discussions worse.
I think alot of people have unrealistic expectations of open-source in general. Open source has nothing to do with community, merit, etc... Open source has little to nothing to do with collaboration.

What open source IS, is a Darwinian paradigm for software. Software is made, released into the wild. It succeeds, or it doesn't. If you don't like it, you fork it, release back into the wild, and whichever version is better lives on. Linus, Mark Shuttleworth, RMS, etc... - they don't owe shit to anyone.

People used to rag on SUSE for their deal with Microsoft, and now they rag on Canonical. But guess what - SUSE survived and is still a billion dollar business (it was sold to Attachmate recently for 2.2 billion), and Canonical is making the most popular desktop distro, and the only desktop vendor with the balls to take on the mobile space.

BTW, I fully support Martin's decision to abandon Ubuntu if he wants to. Ubuntu is obviously going ahead with Mir and Unity, if it becomes difficult to support, switch to SUSE, or Debian, or fork Ubuntu...
So. Freaking. Lame.

This whole post, the whole idea, just oozes arrogance and immaturity. I have no interest in working for a company that is so proud of how impossible it is to get through their interview process. I respect companies that make the effort to try to understand the individual strengths and weaknesses of their prospective hires and work to slowly build up a diverse team of people that are smart and thoughtful. Rap Genius isn't doing anything that requires every single person working there to be "brilliant" and certainly not as measured by some BS interview process.
The US also has considerably more expensive defense requirements than any other country. We're required to defend at least half the world and with much more of a requirement to minimize friendly and civilian casualties. If anything our defense spending is inadequate to meet our obligations. So don't just say we can reduce defense spending without also outlining exactly which obligations you're willing to abandon alongside it, just as you wouldn't let a client insist on completing a software project any faster without reducing the scope.
openbsd.org is a different machine than www.openbsd.org. Why are you using openbsd.org? Who gave you a link to it? Tell them to stop.
I recall hearing someone mention "Those Dragon magazines will be worth a lot some day..."

If only...
This could be a new way to bootstrap -- have all your engineers interview at RG.
cygWindows. Because Photoshop.

but for normal development I use Gentoo linux which I've customised to look like NeXTSTEP because I liked NeXTSTEP.
Launch your Startup in two month. DAcourse
Go through the trouble of separating the rares and uncommons from the rest. I'm pretty sure you know they're already worth a ton of money.
RPX Corporation (RPXC-NASDAQ).
WANdisco - San Ramon, CA, US and Belfast, UK - Fulltime

WANdisco is solving challenging problems in distributed computing over the wide area network. Our custom implementation of paxos provides distributed coordination and high availability active/active solutions for SVN, Git and HDFS.

Our big data team works on our Non-Stop Hadoop product that eliminates the single point of failure in HDFS and allows HDFS to work over WAN.

The big data team is looking for software engineers. You may be a good fit if you have:

- Expertise in concurrency and distributed systems. Understanding of paxos a bonus.

- Significant experience or contributions to Hadoop/Hive/Spark/Hbase/Bigtop

- Proficiency in Java/Scala

You apply via our website http://careers.wandisco.com/ or you can reach me personally at cos@wandisco.com
There are so many people out there who are delusional...the truthers, the "Moon landing hoax" folks; even Nobel prize winners can be susceptible, just recall Pauling and Shockley. Also, Bobby Fischer. This guy could easily have fallen prey to the same kind of brain eater.
> Bridges. You'll burn them.

As a manager, this is definitely not always the case. If someone is leaving for the "right" reasons (namely, they have an awesome opportunity somewhere else), then that's great. While it may be an operational disruption, one of my goals as a manager is always to want the best for the people on my team - even if that means leaving.
KDE and Ubuntu are different projects, with different objectives and managed by different people. Besides they have a very specific relationship: KDE is upstream and Ubuntu is downstream. I can't really see why there's a problem with meritocracy here as we're talking about different communities.

To put it simple: Canonical proposed a patch for KWin and KWin didn't accept it. Now Canonical can maintain that patch or not. End of the story.

That's why forks happen and that's one of the beautiful things of open source (if KWin doesn't meet Ubuntu needs: customize it!).

I think this post is about communication between upstream and downstream. If you ask me, I wish there was more Jono and less Mark. Canonical is trying to influence some external projects and it doesn't look like things are working as smooth as they could. "Open Source Tea Party"?

That's not how you make upstream accept your changes.

At the end I think Canonical will maintain any patch that upstream can't or doesn't want to accept, say KWin, Intel, or whatever. Eventually, if MIR is the future of Linux desktop, upstream projects will include support for it.
I'm getting full-on errors:

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Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

Bad gateway

The web server reported a bad gateway error.

Ray ID: c6a435dd44307b5

Your IP address: *

Error reference number: 502

CloudFlare Location: Miami
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This. I have a 7k-ish collection in a storage unit near my family's homes. I worked in comics retail in the late 90s and had no expectation these would ever net me anything more than enjoyment. When my kids are a few years older I'll actually shell out the money to transport them to where I live now and hopefully the stories can be as magical for them as they were for me.
Experiencing problems as well - potentially gateway related
Cambridge, UK - Neurence (http://www.neurence.com) - Dev Ops

We are a startup, currently in stealth mode, developing a cutting edge and innovative technology with applications, initially with a mobile flavour. We’re backed by a leading technology investment company, allowing us to focus on developing these new and exciting products and to expand!

We’re looking to fill a devops role to lead the operation of our server side architecture. We'd love to hear from you if you've experience in and interest of large scale distributed HTTP based architectures; linux and open source web server (HAProxy, SQL, no SQL etc.) administration; automated deployment, monitoring and scaling; as well as problem solving and a desire to learn new technologies.

You'd be joining a small hardworking yet fun team based in Cambridge, UK. To find out more, contact us at hireme@neurence.com
Regardless of what the people involved say or write publicly, this conflict and others like it are really about power.

With several dozen million Ubuntu desktop users worldwide[1], Canonical has become the gravitational center of the FLOSS desktop and a promising platform for other form factors. No other FLOSS desktop comes even remotely close in terms of mass adoption.

As a consequence, many other FLOSS projects that historically have perceived themselves as more important "upstream projects" to the Ubuntu desktop have now become, effectively, contributing projects to Ubuntu. It is now they who depend on Canonical to reach and interact with the vast majority of FLOSS desktop users.

For the individuals who identify themselves with those other projects, this tectonic shift in power has not been enjoyable. More and more of them are gradually realizing that if they want to continue working with Canonical, it will have to be on Canonical's terms.

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[1] There were over 25 million Ubuntu users at last count: http://blog.canonical.com/2013/10/01/ubuntu-pre-installed-an...
High level -- what's it like writing for windows mobile vs iOS/android?
In my 20 years of hiring developers, how I feel about job hopping depends on which of two categories you fall into:

No problem: You're a top shelf engineer, you are going to hit the ground running. Your prep for the interview has almost made you a domain expert, you suggest technologies and point out issues I didn't know about. Your resume has short stints at startups, some who are now gone, and a mistaken attempt to work at IBM. I don't care if you leave in 6 months because I'll get 5 1/2 months of amazing stuff.

Problem: You are, supposedly, a solid journeyman programmer. I can tell it's going to take you at least 2 weeks to get a feel for the place and about 2 months before you're solid. If you leave in 6 months, I've invested 2 months of effort training for 4 months of return. The 2x recruitment fees are going to make it not worth hiring you, I should have gotten a contractor.
I raised that point with the comic. Frequently that's the case, in which case yes, not much different (though maybe it's less likely to do hardware damage, maybe...). It's not always the case.
Refresh - Mountain View, CA - Fulltime - http://www.refresh.io
email: jobs@refresh.io

Must be local or willing to relocate (paid)

A tagline of what we do is: Refresh helps connect people at a deeper level by providing realtime insights about them just as you're about to meet them.

The best description however is found by simply installing the app (Iphone only at the moment - we're in the app store, Android soon - see job description below!) and trying it yourself.

We're super proud of the team we've built and we plan to keep the caliber high.

We have exactly one requirement for hiring an engineer - it's someone we'd like to work with. That's a simple statement, but if you dig deeper, there's a lot to it. It says that we think they're smart. And that we could learn from them. And that they could learn from us. And that we get along, and they fit our culture. And they're passionate about our product like we are. And of course - that they also want to work with us.

Our interviews are fun - at least we think so. They're largely modeled after largely after Google interviews (there's a lot of Google interviewing experience in our team). Questions are either real problems we've had to solve (probably recently) or some abstractification of a bigger problem to see how you attack problems in general (with the "getting the right answer" not being the interesting part of the interview).

Specifically - We're looking for:

Backend Developers:

You're a crackshot in your backend language of choice. As I said, we're building a system that does an incredible amount of work all while the user is waiting for it to complete - so needless to say, we're looking for people who care about performance. A lot.

Our backend is a highly concurrent system written in Java using MongoDB. You might know Java or you might not, but either way you're willing to learn. If you don't know it - you can impress us in your language of choice. You understand algorithms matter. You also understand sloppy database access could make that ugly n^2 algorithm look absolutely blazing fast.

You love to code. You love to show off your results now and then to other engineers (as they're probably the only folks around who might get the intracacies of what you're excited about)

We're looking for both Senior and Junior backend engineers. If you're a Senior Engineer - you've worked in server-side code for a few years. You've scaled to thousands or millions of users. You can talk to other Senior engineers with very few words because you both know the special cases, assumptions, and pitfalls cold.

If you're a Junior engineer, you love to code and you're good at it. But most importantly - Be smart. Be passionate. Be excited. (New grads please apply!)

Android and IOS engineers:

You have apps in the store you can show us. You care about the user experience. You have a few years under your belt in either Objective-C or Android-Java.
I do not believe that Wayland would provide this functionality, rather that it would provide separation to enable this functionality. This functionality would be implemented in a compositor for Wayland. There is something similar for X, called Xpra. They list porting to Wayland as one of their "project ideas."

http://xpra.org/
I think I'm getting a little glimpse of the community here
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles or Remote

Ruby on Rails Developer + Hardware Hacker (I especially love projects that involve both!)

Bread & Butter Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Heroku, with ZURB Foundation on the front-end. I also do A/B testing work. (Visual Website Optimizer)

Mention you're from HN for a free 45 minute Skype/G+ Hangout consultation where we can discuss your project and the best way to reach/exceed your goals :)
BBC: Can drones appeal to the masses?
SEEKING WORK - Remote or anywhere in Switzerland

I'm a Magento developer. Worked on all kinds of projects, from big multichannel shops to small local outlets.

Check out some of my projects on http://mobweb.ch/portfolio/. Also have a look at my open sourced extensions on GitHub: https://github.com/mobweb.

Contact: info@mobweb.ch
Statwing - San Francisco (Mission District)

We love analyzing data. We love the feeling of getting an idea, exploring some hypotheses, and finding a surprising story in the data. And we love enabling others to have that feeling. So we’re creating the modern data analysis tool, so anyone can get as much value out of their data as a trained expert, and experts can get their insight much faster.

Most statistical analyses are conceptually simple, but existing software requires an unnecessarily large amount of statistical knowledge to ask simple questions. And even experts find these tools time-consuming and painful to use. So most people fall back to the much less powerful Excel (and its PivotTables), spending their time shuffling data around an interface that’s barely changed in 15 years. Statwing democratizes data analysis by making statistics easier to use and interpret than even Excel.

Our investors include Y Combinator, Jeff Hammerbacher (cofounded Cloudera, coined the term "Data Science", built the Facebook data team) and Jason Seats (cofounded Slicehost, runs TechStars Cloud).

We're hiring. More details: https://www.statwing.com/jobs
Those could actually be worth something, although most cards' value is a function of metagame more than age, so "older" does not always mean "worth more". If you actually want to try to monetize them, watch prices and sell some cards when you think those cards are particularly valuable.
You can signup as an agency.
Stackdriver post-mortem on recent outage involving Cassandra failure
Woah. This is a pretty cool reactive article. It's the first one that I've personally encountered which reacts like it's supposed to, engaging me as I read.

Congratulations to whoever put this together, it was very well done.
Ooh is this where Burning Man Decom is next year? ;-)
somebody gave these clowns $15m. That makes me sad.
Windows 8 drops to 7.53% market share, first drop as Windows 8.1 takes 1.72%
Feelings don't preclude a meritocracy, but the snippet I quoted implies that Martin's decision to disavow Ubuntu is (at least in part) a reaction to the lack of an apology. That is, he has made a decision based not on the merits of any technology or decision, but rather based on emotion. Hence, not a meritocracy...
I want to say fuck fuck fuck Unity! just let gnome-classic back, it's so perfect, so easy to use & do customization.
Ubuntu should keep simple & easy to use, that's why ubuntu is popular.
You ubuntu people waste time to develop unity for years, the result is that you fucked the users up, and now you continue want to do that endlessly, ubuntu is come less & less popular.

You know what, I installed ubuntu12.04 while it come out, but I am very disappointed, I wasted a whole day try to make it easy to use, but I give up finally, and re-installed the ubuntu10.04 instead.
When ubuntu 13.04 come out, I did this again, and changed back to ubuntu 10.04 again.
Now ubuntu 13.10 come out, I just want to say, fuck off, I will never install it.
You know what, you have been waste time for years to do negative work to make ubuntu worse.

What's wrong with you people, I just don't get it ...

I still like ubuntu, but I am already start to try other linux distribution out, like Mint,
I want to say that, if ubuntu keep in this direction, I probably will say good by to Ubuntu which I have used for 7 years, since ubuntu 7.10 when I was still in collage.

Maybe you think I am a little impolite, I do loved ubuntu, I am just expressing my disappointment about what you ubuntu people have done to this lovely os for recent years!
Analogy as the Core of Cognition - Douglas Hofstadter lecture at Stanford
Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal
Hey Matt G, I appreciate the suggestion but I already read quite a bit of BHW.

P.S. I enjoyed reading about that Twitter stuff from 2-3 years ago.
I don't have an app in the App Store (partly for these reasons) and I have actually cancelled my Facebook account in protest. I can afford to do that.

But what I'm saying is that depending on your field of work, you may not have much of a choice other than to support the dominant players in the industry. No one should feel under any moral obligation to forego 50% of their income every time NastBigCorp X does something nasty.

It's useful to protest and still keep doing what you do. Maybe down the road there's an opportunity to hurt them without hurting yourself even more. Protesting shows there is a desire for something different.
Which is just a re-packaged, slightly buggier Ubuntu...
Yes it does. Is it causal, no, but it certainly correlates.
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Once some category of goods whose value depends solely on rarity are widely perceived as collectibles, people rush out to buy them, and prices initially increase. After a while, demand drops to near zero, supply is huge, and their value goes in the toilet.

Once people think something is a collectible, it's no longer wise to collect it.
Tuition is $12000 now? I graduated from Mac in comp eng in 1996 and I think it was getting to around $3000 then. Definitely worth it, but if you told me at the time I would have thought $12000 was crazy. I graduated with no debt though.
MXWL.
>Atmospheric? Sure. Hypersonic? Why?

From the fine article: at Mach 3, the target can still be notified, at Mach 6 it's unavoidable.

Don't know if that's true, but it does answer the question.
Non ex transverso sed deorsum
No worries at all. It was a pretty big network of spam domains, even though each individual domain wasn't really having any impact.
The vocals on the release song are lovely http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song54.mp3 - http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#54