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Akvo - http://akvo.org - EU, half to full time, a few positions

Akvo creates and runs open source Internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development aid work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.

* Java developer - Amsterdam, EU.

We are hiring a Java developer to join the team for one of our core software products, Akvo FLOW. FLOW is an open source platform to collect, manage, analyse and display geographically-referenced monitoring and evaluation data.

We have some fun and hard problems to solve - how can we maintain and extend a complex tool with a lot of moving parts (a mobile app, a web platform, map displays) while keeping it simple and enjoyable for people to use? Double down when they need to be able to use it in areas of the world with low or scarce web and mobile connectivity.

You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office You need experience with developing web applications with Java, and experience with JS frameworks like Ember is a plus. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.

For this position, please contact ivan@akvo.org
You must have a work permit already to work in Amsterdam.

* Python / Django developer - Amsterdam, Stockholm; EU.

We are looking for an experienced web developer to work on our project visualisation and reporting system Akvo RSR. More than 1000 organisations use the around the world, everything from UN agencies, governments to small local NGOs.

You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office or our Stockholm hub. You need experience with developing web applications with Python, and preferably Django. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.

For this position, please contact adrian@akvo.org
You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

* UI designer / developer - Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam; EU.

If you are a UI designer / developer with startup experience wanting to contribute to make the world better, please read on!

We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, pro-active and energetic UI developer / designer. Reporting to the lead designer, your primary responsibility will be to create and ensure a consistent and beautiful UI throughout our software platform, which includes web applications, desktop applications and mobile / tablet applications.

You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products.

We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki, Stockholm or Amsterdam. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org
time to learn rails.
Burnett v Silicon Valley 'We Should Go Up There With Pitchforks and Torches'
Still doesn't count. You're perceived entirely differently being that young (younger than a typical college grad new recruit). You also don't have the same life goals to deal with, like raising a family which is much more expensive and requires more stability than a young single guy in an apartment who can move at a moment's notice.
By crossing his fingers, I'd imagine.
Nitpick: lien.

But yes, if I'm a neighbor there and I find out this is going on, I get angry.
It sounds like travelers to Vegas, the hotel capitol of the US, are savvy enough to check airbnb. And VRBO it seems as well. This is a big pain for searchers. Hipmunk shows each of these, but not very well as they only have a handful of the 1000s of listings from Airbnb. We've tried to help with this at http://AllTheRooms.com by aggregating everything we can find.
Bigshot: The Camera for Education
This has to be illegal, right? I can understand renting out your vacation home or apartment when you're not using it, but buying a home/apartment to run essentially a mini hotel has to run afoul of zoning/licensing/regulations in most places
she's probably getting ripped off in this deal.
It's nice to see the `order` stuff reverted. It would be a boon to scopes though, so I like the idea, but backwards compatibility here is key.
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired SIX full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including two this past summer ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS / Android

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize!

* Back-end infrastructure: scalability, web crawling, big data, data warehousing, analytics

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire. We are always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

We just launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it. Read more here:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/scribd_book_subscripti...

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
Windows Phone doubles in market share
KWin doesn't support Windows
Illegal hotels aka slums. There is a reason hotels are fairly highly regulated. My first (and only) stay at an Airbnb rental resulted in me getting bedbugs.
Seems to be an issue with Chrome only, which is unsurprising.
Probably because it makes it harder for residents to find an apartment.
What NY is mainly worried about (and has the strongest public support for them worrying about) is AirBnB being used as a way of de facto running unlicensed hotels. People don't like discovering that the room down the hall from where they live has essentially been converted into a hotel room, with customers coming and going regularly, no hotel tax paid, and none of the usual health/safety regulations applied (industrial-strength fabric cleaning, etc.). By comparison, someone renting out a spare room now and then is not as likely to produce social or health problems, and most of the public probably views it as benign, even if also technically a violation of your lease.

I don't like this kind of thing as a customer, either. When I look for a place on AirBnB, I expect it to be someone's actual house/apt, which they treat as their own, because they also live there. If that's not the case, it should be made really clear up front.
The King had a very rational reason for wanting those taxes. It went quite a bit deeper on the colonial side since they had no say in the matter and expected all the rights of a British citizen.

The implementation of those taxes by using troops and "general warrants" was a problem. Sadly, the formation of thought on that is once again back with us and not imposed by a ruler across the ocean.

As to the modern Tea Party, I guess it depends who you talk to on if they think its an insult.
I figure I should stay a year because usually the hiring bonus has to be returned if I don't.
I agree with this. I went to a strong American school, and if I look at the co-ops/interns/fresh grads I see from my Alma mater and those that have come from Waterloo, on a lot of areas they're pretty much on par (Comp Sci fundamentals,, etc). But the Waterloo Grads just know how to work within a team better. It makes a great first impression to everyone else, and gets things off on the right foot.

There really is something special about the way the school gets them ready.
Seriously? All I am saying is that it's possible. I think pretty much everyone here will agree to that. Probable? Maybe not, but still possible.
you'll see what you were missing on when you give a notice to your manager :)
I think PF in openbsd is still single core[1].
FreeBSD 10.x apparently has an SMP version of PF[2].

My feeling is still that if high performance is desired, FreeBSD is still preferred. For "normal" workloads though, I think OpenBSD would be a fine choice. I do like how "clean" an OpenBSD system feels.

[1]: http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/Performance-limits-with-Op...

[2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-June/0066...
Pelican Pi “in the wild” at Creative Commons Uganda
Military planning doesn't really think in terms of threats as much as capabilities. Despite the last 60 years, friends often turn into competitors/enemies when you least expect it.
I thought I answered that, while also providing additional information. I apologize if that seemed rude in any way.
Why did you choose to do this remotely?
I had an old manager about 10 years ago that told me his advice is, rule of thumb, everyone should move after 2-2.5 years. 1 year is not enough, he would say, to really know the business/tech of a place to make a real big difference. After 2 years, if the work isn't interesting anymore and/or if you've already made an impact, it will take a while to make a big impact again.

Looking back (I've had stints of 4 yrs, 2 yrs, 6.5 yrs, .5 yrs, and 1yr) I have to say he was pretty much on the money.
I am working on a scheduled reminder (email/SMS service) to send notifications. I've been looking for a scheduling/Cron service for node. There are few I am evaluating. I will consider yours.
If I reboot the machine or node server, will it automatically queue up the jobs?
With a hostile owner of Java, it seems strategic to begin porting to a new runtime. I'm a little surprised its written in C++ and not go. Every step away from the JVM instruction set and disk formats is a harder case to make for patent/copyright infringement.
I'm not intimately familiar with the legal landscape, but in short I think its because a) the myriad laws governing personal property are much different than those governing commercial property b) significant part of AirBNB's model ignores consumer protection laws.
<<I find the phenomenon of Quora posts becoming "real" articles quite fascinating.>>

I'm assuming that before they become real, they exist in an indeterminate quantum state?
I wonder what the monthly rent is there. It might just be a better idea to skip abnb and rent out the place over a 12 month lease.
The video player is Video.js with light styling (or controls disabled entirely). Other than that it's all CSS and some JS to trigger events (such as play/pause in the player at scroll points).
Videos not auto-playing but can be started OK. The fibre optic graphic not working. Other content apparently accessible.

gNewSense 3.0 / Iceweasel 3.5.16

Text can be captured using

w3m http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded > nsa.txt

for those having problems with readability
SEEKING WORK - Toronto and Bangkok / Remote

Full stack web developer:

Technologies of choice: Git/Hub, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, jQuery, Backbone, Bootstrap.

Can also work with: SVN, CodeIgniter, Photoshop, UX Design, Linux

* http://duchnik.com
* http://websanova.com
* http://LinkedIn.com/in/robertduchnik
* http://github.com/websanova

I'm big on efficiency and DRY methodology both in coding and in processes. I enjoy thinking about solutions on how to make a team work better as much as I enjoy thinking about how to create an elegant solution.

I have lots of experience designing simple interfaces for complicated websites. I also believe in launching code often and breaking a problem down into small parts that can be delivered in days rather than months. There really is no reason why there can't at least be some soft internal or private launch that can get users playing with something.

I would like to work with a company or someone that has interesting problems to solve. I'm at my best when I'm working with people that enjoy discussing and trying to figure out elegant solutions and are self motivated to produce great results.

For any questions or if you would like to chat you can contact me at rob@duchnik.com
comments like this are probably why it's kept secret. I mean I'm sure you know what it takes to change society as fundamentally as Google glass does/would, and you don't need to wine and dine and woo anyone. Good luck with your approach.
Condo associations usually allow only a certain percentage of apartments to be rented. If too many units are rented, a buyer won't be able to get a mortgage. And most prohibit short term leasing.
There are a number of reasons. Most states have laws regarding how temporary rental properties (otherwise known as hotels) are zoned. You can't suddenly turn a building zoned for residential use into a hotel without getting it re-zoned.

Also, NY specifically worries that it will change the local housing market. If investors buy up enough local properties and turn them into mini hotels, locals may be priced out of these neighbourhoods and those neighbourhoods will in turn suffer.

Plus there are the complaints from the locals. Having a neighbour rent out their place to tourists a couple of times a year is not a big deal, but if it happens every single week it gets annoying. You never know who is coming and going and they aren't always all that worried about noise, garbage, etc.

And just to clarify, I think the state is right to be concerned about these issues. But at the same time I would hate to lose the ability for someone to put their primary residence on a site like Airbnb a couple of times a year. This helps visitors and the residents without significantly hurting anything else in the equation. Things only start to turn sour when enough people create dedicated Airbnb properties as investments.
In general, tenant / landlord relationships are heavily regulated - legal objections to AirBnB style rentals (pretty reasonably, in my opinion) claim that anyone who has a unit that is primarily a rental for tenants is a landlord, and should be subjected to all the regulations typically defined in that relationship - a different situation than someone who is going to be away for a few weeks renting out their own personal residence during that temporary time.
You're talking in terms of pounds, $100k is approximately £63k. I'm inclined to agree with the parent here, good luck finding a place in a decent area in Manchester for less than £100k.
Perhaps Marissa will do a pivot so they can make some money
Eventually the data will be sold by <someone> (more likely a bunch of <someones> to support, say, addictions, etc., if we don't stop it. That will severely (and unpredictably) impact everyone's bottom line.
Thanks for pointing this out, we've fixed the bug and you should be able to find Arkansas plans now.
My understanding is that no other Canadian schools have a co-op program that is as established and has the same scale and reputation. With those attributes come top quality employers, more responsibilities on the job, etc. (generalizing, of course).

From the Waterloo co-op website [1]:
17,300 co-op students enrolled over three semesters in more than 120 programs.
4,500 employers hire Waterloo co-op students.

[1] https://uwaterloo.ca/co-operative-education/about-co-operati...
Actually, if this is really the purpose, the whole point would be to be able to relocate it without disassembly/reassembly.
NY wants to protect the classic hotel business. Hotels and building owners need to take care of all kind of legal and administrative procedures, including security considerations for their users. Airbnb apartment owners are now competing for free with those business.

Not saying i agree, but that's the main motivation behind of Airbnb regulations, in NY and other places.
Just a few weeks ago California was a governor's signature away from banning semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines. In other words, nearly every modern rifle in existence.
The subtitle writer obviously never heard of Codecademy.
Hotel stays in Vegas are also very cheap. I'm rather surprised he gets a price that lets this work.
Business Week isn't real journalism. No surprise here.
Because many of those who are renting out apartments in this manner are doing so without a "hotel license", charging the appropriate hotel taxes or otherwise abiding by laws put in place to preserve the rights of neighbors.

You could probably argue that they are most peeved about not getting the hotel taxes.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weargustin/gustin-redefi...
RAID over IP via broadcast? From a security standpoint, it would seem there are many hurdles to jump. Not too long ago, I talked to Dickinson about what you guys do. I never considered the amount of harddrives necessary to facilitate Swiftstack's goals. Of course the software challenges are interesting, but the amount of hardware and maintaining risk/DR/costs/etc. Oh man. Hats off to you guys.
Asking for a raise also puts you on management radar. some people like that, some people don't. they consider you a "flight risk" at that point. good companies will try to figure out ways (other than money) to keep you around. Sometimes though, personal dynamics change and those people just leave a few months later anyway, even if they do get a bump in the short term.
Happy 25th anniversary of the Morris Worm
I wasn't trying to show my weiner size. I was frustrated at your point being a pile of disingenuous garbage. People are upset the government is stealing their data. Your brain somehow mashed this together into "lol you idiots have no problem with voluntarily giving your info to a company but DO have a problem with it being stolen?" Is this just a desperate hope to improve your self esteem? Because it certainly has no connection to reality. The idea that you've followed it up with snark as if you think you're remotely close to being right is just really disappointing for our species honestly.
I've always done that and I just checked the comments to see if someone else complained about that horrible flaw.

How on earth did they think that text selection as an event to open a popup is a good idea?!
I can't wait for someone else to invest effort in making this a stable and secure runtime!
He is quite likely violating the COA of the condo development in which he purchased the room. He's also probably violating the building code for short term rental units, which could mean very heft fines. Depending on where the property is located in Vegas, he could also be violating local zoning and use restrictions.
Next: VC Du has cracked the code for the stock market :) - How do these articles get written while so many struggling startups are dying to get media attention?
Actually true story, my future mother-in-law called me because she could not reach her daughter on the phone (no cell phones then) and knew we "somehow" knew what each other was up to.

So I'm holding the phone to my ear and I can see she is logged in to the system and I say "Oh I see her, I'll just finger her to see if she is awake."

I am pretty sure the next sound I heard on the telephone resulted from it being dropped from standing height and having the handset bounce on the floor. It was my first experience with the less than desirable consequences of re-using English words to describe network interactions.
Lately, I've begun to realize that a sure mark of a fool is someone who interprets what he reads not by what is there, but by what he wants to be there.
It sounds pretty bad; anything where the bug appears randomly sucks. But, for me, the worst bugs are random+multithreaded+statistical. E.g., a random bug in a distributed machine learning system=bug of death
We're building a service called Airenvy (airenvy.com) that caters to short term renting on services like airbnb. We could have been tremendously helpful to the author had we been in the Vegas area. We are growing rapidly in SF and our property owners love all the money we're making them! On average we increase income by 30%!
So, can CA do it? Doesn't Silicon Valley have enough clout to throw behind a candidate who will stand for privacy, rights, innovation, etc.?
If I read your comment correct (why is it bad for NY to be against airbnb scenarios like this) then no, it's not a bad trend.
To elaborate, many places (not just the US, and not just New York) has rent-control laws. By and large not everywhere, and not all parts of the cities/counties who has. But for those that do, this is in clear violation of at least that, but also - possibly - sublet laws. That is a far fetched example though.

But the more worrying part is that it drives up prices as more and more do this (not talking 1-2 appartments in a neighbourhood, talking increasing).

Another issue is the housing situation. In many larger cities it's a real issue that there aren't enough places to live as needed.

For hotels it is bad, as it's driving business away.

So, from both sides of the spectrum this is bad.
For people looking to get some extra cash (not saying it's bad - as the post also mentions, it's an active investment), and for people looking for a place to rent while on vacation, it is good.
Is there a reason for keeping these hidden?

I've also wondered about downvoting... I never see a button for that, but it seems like some people are still able to. Is it just the 'flag'?
Let's say you were a founder at a company that is "always hiring" the kind of person you might find on HN? How much would be enough?
The solution is simple, get an apartment above the 3rd floor and no one will be able to throw a brick high enough.
He probably should have said "quantization error".
I live in constant fear of getting a bad review.

I wonder when is someone going to come up with an idea how to fix this. As far as I can tell there's not a lot a supplier on airbnb/ebay/etc can do about them. It's all too consumer centric... My subjective opinion is that most bad reviews are unwarranted, left by customers that have unrealistic demands.
In this day and age, does it really matter if China or US makes the hardware. I think it's been definitively proven that one is not better than the other, when it comes to privacy and hacking.
What you Really Need is Product-Market-TEAM Fit
Product market fit isn't enough.
If nothing else, wouldn't you be open to shareholder lawsuits if you didn't engage in an action which was obviously legal and obviously profitable?
>If you look around the world today, in practice billionaires and big government do seem to go hand in hand.

Of course. The bigger and more powerful the government, the more likely powerful people will seek to control it to their own ends.
I honestly didn't think that anyone was seriously saying that the BIOS code was doing all that, just that the BIOS was infected so that it boots the malware instead of an OS.
A small, but vocal minority.
I hope you don't have neighbors that share your walls.
When Adobe buys them up, will funders get shares of Adobe stock?
I'm Using A* Graph Search to Steal Think-Juice From The World's Best Programmers
Guess I'll be adding a frequency emitter in this range near my air gapped machine.
From the sound of some AirBnB horror stories, its by refunding their money, and eating the loss.
Go is still very young. Doesn't make sense to write such a critical piece of software with it quite yet.
Yeah, a stat I wish the author had included was what this works out for her hourly wages; seems like it must be quite low.
Designers, what is M∀CAW still missing? (serious answers please)