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Toronto - Uken Games
Software Engineer (full time)

Uken is looking for talented software engineers to become members of our core development team.

You'd be working on meaningful things like:

- creating performant, cross-platform games;

- building game features that are deployed weekly to our millions of players;

- writing beautiful, maintainable code with extensive test coverage.

Your background should include:

- proven software engineering skills;

- excellent understanding of web architecture;

- the ability to communicate clearly;

- an appetite to learn, grow, and take on increasingly more responsibility;

- a strong desire to build something that people really want.

It'd be a big plus if you have:

- experience developing games;

- experience building applications for mobile platforms;

- contributed to an open source project (include your github profile);

- experience with the technologies we use: ruby on rails, objective-c, javascript, nginx, mysql, linux.

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

- you'll be equipped with a MacBook Pro/Air, 27" monitors, iOS/Android device;

- stock options and competitive salaries;

- full health, dental, vision coverage;

- snacked-filled kitchen and booster juice breaks;

- catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner;

- convenient location downtown Toronto

About Us

Uken is one of the only true cross platform gaming companies around. We build fun social and mobile games that make people stare, smile, jump, and feel awesome inside. We have a quirky nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries and we’ve done exactly that with HTML5. We work on products that are used by millions of people everywhere and we’re just getting started.
This looks interesting and I'd love to give it a spin, but there doesn't seem to be a way to download Sandman CE, and my attempts to contact sales get a connection error .. so, as much as I'd like to try it, the lack of a big fat download button thwarts the effort...
Paper_ziggurat, I get your concerns about children. When I say "Verbal abuse" I am referring to it in the context of matured adults, which sometimes can be hard to find due to the idiosyncratic nature how all of human are raised. We are often matured in one area like professional life or career, and significantly immature in another like sex and personal/relationship.

Sometimes truth said to us in those "armatured" area of our may occurs as Verbl abuse.

I think any one who has had a good acting course will know this.

The simple point may be best explain by this proverb:

"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

Oh and I don't read reddit.
Putting any personal feelings about smarminess aside, I assume people are using the word brilliant to describe this because:

1. He complied with the order

2. ..while gaining an enormous amount of press

3. ... and generating more revenue

If enormous corporations are going to lawyer after tiny business, it's awesome for said businesses to use PR-judo to leverage the attention into something positive.

[Edit: My more detailed thoughts on why this is completely acceptable in a top-level comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995479 ]
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sure, agreed. Sex exist on a continuum,

then also include, Transsexuals. Before/after operation.

It would be good to have sex to be a slider meter, or between scale of 1 to 10. M ---> F.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - PART-TIME
Knoxville, TN

I work on both front-end and back-end, using PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (jQuery). I've worked extensively with the Laravel and CodeIgniter frameworks.

Freelancing is my side job (and I LOVE it), and I can provide VERY competitive pricing. I'm open to all payment methods, including Bitcoin.

contactme at blanshey dot com
You are right on sensitive corporations and strategic technologies.
For small startups, IMO it is too much processes that "unfocus" you on building your product and listen to your users...
The article linked suggesting that Moore's law will become redundant this year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014#cite_note-2) was published in 2009. Is this still thought to be true?
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading strategies and infrastructure. We are a very small team (I am the only employee) looking to add one or two engineers who will focus on strategy and/or on infrastructure. No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

An example of an infrastructure project is designing and building a system for logging to non-volatile memory. We generate large logs that cover everything from prices to transaction data. NVDIMMs are a form of RAM that survives power loss, and such hardware has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters. Writes to NVDIMMs will be nearly instantaneous and immediately durable. This project will be to develop an NVDIMM-based system that simultaneously functions as a log, an IPC mechanism, and a searchable database for analysis. Making this work will involve a number of pieces: kernel drivers, CPU cache control, lock-free synchronization, a daemon to write everything back to long-term (i.e. less expensive) storage, and more. If this works well, we plan to open-source all the pieces.

Learn more at http://amacapital.net/careers.html, and contact us at careers@amacapital.net.
MaxSquare - New York City

MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "the local marketplace API". We believe there is a huge opportunity in developing a better way for local businesses to interact with their potential customers and vice versa.

We are well capitalized through angel investors and positioned to leverage several key strategic partnerships once the initial product offering has completed development.

WHAT WE NEED

We are looking for our #2 and #3 hires so we need candidates that thrive in an environment where they would be involved in building the company from the ground up. We are looking for engineers that can understand the whole stack but more specifically: One talented front-end developer comfortable working with multiple platforms with a great eye for UI/UX, and one talented back-end developer that can work on the API.

Right now we have been working with the web2py framework in the application tier, with a MySQL database. We've started development on the front-end using RAD using Sencha Touch to develop an MVP that will eventually be wrapped in PhoneGap. We need someone that can work with the contracted developers to finish the MVP in Sencha Touch, and can work in native iOS, Android, and desktop web frameworks later on.

One of these hires will be assuming the CTO role while the former CTO will be assuming the COO role, so you will be responsible for taking the lead of development teams. The other position is for the senior developer role, and will need to be comfortable churning out code as well as reviewing code from contracted developers.

We are also looking to rapidly evolve so you will need to be comfortable with prototyping and iterating frequently.

WHAT WE OFFER

Compensation in the range of 100-200k for the CTO role, 50-100k for the senior developer role.

A meaningful equity stake and founder title.

Health, dental and vision benefits.

An awesome, huge workspace in a brownstone building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Free lunches, snacks, seamless in the office.

Flexible work hours, no counting vacation or sick days.

Choice of MacBook Pro or 2xCinema Displays

No forced work environment: All we care about is building the product and nurturing a very hacker-friendly culture.

A business that puts solving the problems of our customers first, and money second. We care about creating technology that keeps small local businesses in their neighborhoods. Because who wants to live in a world where every other building is a bank, megabrand or franchise?

Contact me if you are interested:
michael@max2.com
My concern is that one of these days there will be a silly misunderstanding of greater proportions and PG will say "fuck it" and stop writing publicly and giving interviews.
It's not terrible, it's certainly impressive that they achieved that level of isolation with holes in it. Windows designed for high sound isolation will have STC ratings in the 40-48ish range. An STC increase of 10 equates to half as much sound passing through (as a human perceives it anyway).

As for the air passage, I'm curious about the real world flow numbers.

Just an off the cuff guess: it seems like the core principle is based on resonant cavities which I think would result in higher air pressure in the cavity than inside or outside the window. In a setup like that with calm ambient conditions I wouldn't think much air would actually pass through the panels, the higher pressure in the cavity would act as a bit of a wall. In windy conditions I would imagine much more air would pass through, but I bet there would be a corresponding decrease in sound isolation as air blasting through the cavity wouldn't be able to dissipate as much energy.
What others said, using KeePass. The guy above linked to the appropriate extension.
London UK, DEVOPS Consultant, Freelance / Contractor, On site only!

We're a new consultancy who have a number of contract positions for DevOps people coming up in the new year. We're looking for Puppet, Chef, VMWare, Python skills.

Please ping me at bswootton@gmail.com for further information!
The Space Monkey Upgrade Scam
It has a cohesive philosophy, but the philosophy says nothing about interesting matters like tradeoffs, but rather just licensing. Yawn.
There were no family or college connections at work here, they just put themselves out there and serendipity. The former is necessary but not sufficient for the latter (need hard work and a product people want too).
What Snowden _really_ revealed is that the goal of the terrorists has been achieved. The 2996 souls who lost the lives on 9/11 were unfortunate collateral damage.

The hysteria since and "hollowing out of our democracy" is the goal of a terrorist.

This is not to say things weren't peachy before the attack, but the US has lost so much moral standing, respect & power since due to our government's actions.

We should have kept calm and carried on, we did the complete opposite.
If one bothers to post on hacker news, it should be for the benefit of the community. It was a lazy action and you can spare me the snide remark.
SEEKING WORK - San Antonio, TX or REMOTE - keyston [at] conceptual-ideas.com

Full-stack software engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in backend development as well as Android Development.

Languages: Python,PHP, JavaScript, Java,Scala,HTML5,Less,Sass,ActionScript 3/Flex

Frontend : JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Backbone.js, Handlebars,Node.js),HTML5,Less,Sass,Bootstrap

Backend : Play!,Django,Kohana,Codeigniter,Node.js,Php,Akka,Spray.io

Environments: LAMP stack, NginX, Linux,Wowza,AWS

http://ihaveinternet.com/portfolio/

http://github.com/kclay

Pet project - a Scala driver for RethinkDB - https://github.com/kclay/rethink-scala

Hourly and Contract(short/mid/long term) Jobs welcomed
The Wikimedia Foundation :)

We make sure the tech behind Wikipedia and sister projects is up and running smoothly. A rather high number-of-users/supporting-staff ratio. All the work we do is public and open source (https://git.wikimedia.org/). You get to work with other paid staff from all around the world, as well as wonderful volunteers. We are about 200 people now, and have an office in San Francisco (although more than half the staff is remote).

Various positions listed at https://jobs.wikimedia.org :)

Both remote workers and people seeking H1B are welcome (Do check the particular job posting to confirm)
same as 4 years ago: http://lazyant.com/post/424318610/predictions-for-the-new-ye...
I doubt so. Programmers are more likely to adopt relatively new programming languages which are easier to learn and provide and produce software that is relatively fast, while not being as optimized as a C/C++ program.
Java probably still has a long life ahead.
I think if they don't want the word associated with Alcoholic beverages I am pretty sure they are right to ask this guy to cease and desist.

The guy also stated in the article that they were completely correct to issue a cease and desist, even if he sarcastic in his response.
Please have a read and then help me out by giving me some advice, because I’m completely sick of thinking about this:

* Who owns the device?

* Is the offer reasonable?

* Should I be upset about this?

* Should I just send it back and ask for a refund?

* What should I do???﻿
> I think it's a shame that google never implemented more of the core ideas from etherpad, such as playback and contributor text highlighting

> Etherpad deserved all the attention that google wave was receiving at the time

I find your post confusing because I thought that Google Wave did have playback and contributor text highlighting.

I suspect that the reason Docs never gained these features was that Wave was supposed to replace it, but AFAICT Wave never saw the kind of user adoption it needed (probably due to its sluggish performance) and was killed off.
The most interesting part of this for me was "China is our second largest market, Brazil is our third", yet they only have one datacentre in CN (in HK), and none in the whole of South America.

Great to see they are addressing this, along with the poorly connected African markets where a locally deployed CDN can greatly benefit the speed of a website.
SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

⇒ Android Developer -- Looking for someone eager to build the Andorid app to accompany an already-successful iOS app. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

⇒ Web Engineer -- We're looking for someone who loves building web apps. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for debate. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
Burn the Fucking System to the Ground
> Okay, so Apple and Microsoft and Google probably could bankroll a modern Apollo program.

You're assuming the entire cost needs to be bankrolled by a single entity or company. No such assumption needs to be made.

> There is no such monetization story for the moon.

North America was less interesting to European monarchies of the 16th and 17th centuries than South America, because they didn't think they'd find any gold there. Never mind the millions of acres of fertile land, or the opportunity to build a platform that would allow millions of people to create new wealth with the right incentives. Confusing the concepts of wealth and money, they turned down the opportunity of acquiring wealth because it didn't look like money. I think you are making a similar mistake. It's not a personal criticism per se: just like it would have been perfectly normal to assume kings and queens were right not to be interested in North America at the time, it's perfectly normal to assume big corporations would be right not to be interested in the moon today.
Its hardly "comparable" when it's 2x the size, has no thunderbolt, no ECC ram and doesn't even officially support a 12 core cpu.

So, their "create a comparable DIY" is basically just a basement nerd circle jerk to confirm their pre-existing bias that people who buy apple equipment are idiots and any neckbeard with a screw driver can build something better, whereby better just happens to leave out items that are too hard or too expensive for a DIY build.
Send a badass wishes card for 2014 with a funny GIF from your mobile
How the media are lying about radiation Fukushima affecting the west coast
http://techendo.co/ --

also, if you want more traffic you can sign up and add your company to find and post jobs there.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, Remote, or Travel

- Project Planning

- UX Design

- UI Design

- HTML/CSS (and most templating languages and SASS)

- Javascript

- Branding

- Web and Mobile

I am a freelance designer who has experience working with companies of all sizes ranging from new startups to enterprise companies. I do everything from planning and user experience to pixel perfect designs and front-end development.

I also have a partner who does back-end development and we regularly get hired in a pair to work on projects.

You can check out my dribbble here: http://dribbble.com/joshmlewis and Github here: https://github.com/joshmlewis

Say hi@josh.ml
Why I studied Law – but don’t want to be a lawyer.
Perhaps you misread my intended meaning, or I didn't state my position well. I don't have a Unicode problem. There is one (suppose HN forum software were written in Python2, for example). Python3's approach to solving an important problem that I don't have makes solving problems that I do have awkward. So I stick with Python2. I have to believe that there are people with both problems.
I spent the holidays building a four screen admin UI with lots of fast moving tables and lists, and React was able to work with me from who-cares spaghetti all the way to clean enough to hand-off to a team, all without missing a beat or imposing much up-front cost. I'm a fan now.
Common regex made simple
So you want to start an EDA business?
I agree with this post except for this part:

> The video cards in the last generation of MacPro's could only be upgraded to the cards offered directly from Apple or the handful Mac-specific parts offered by third parties. With it's unusual form factors, the new MacPro will probably offer even fewer options.

Since OSX 10.7-ish a lot of cards have "just worked". Before then using a PC card was a bit of a crap shoot, but not impossible, usually OK if the card was the same as the reference design.

If you'd like to know more, check here: http://netkas.org
these questions are good too to ask job applicants, esp. in management roles
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Enthusiastic developer who loves to code in Python, Go, Javascript and C#.

Github: https://github.com/johnwilson
Sounds like a bad idea to negotiate equity after the project "takes off". Someone is going to be pissed off in that scenario.
SEEKING WORK - Based in London, UK. Happy to work either on-site or remotely.

I'm a full-stack developer with a sweet spot for back-end work and distributed systems. Available for contract work from the 8 Jan. Happy to meet for a face-to-face chat if you're in London. Email in profile.

My strongest technical expertise currently lies with the .NET / Windows stack (C# 5, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, TPL, async / await, SQL Server 2012, PowerShell, RabbitMQ) and the iOS / Cocoa stack (Objective-C, UIKit, Core Data, Core Animation, AFNetworking).

I have also worked with a range of other languages and technology stacks, including Python, Java and C++ on Windows, OS X and Linux, have strong fundamental knowledge of software engineering principles and am able to get up-to-speed very quickly on other stacks.

A bit more about me:

In the 10 years since I graduated with an MSc in software engineering from one of France’s leading engineering college, I’ve been held positions in several industries, including as a researcher in an academic research center, a senior software developer in one of the world’s largest investment bank and a technical co-founder in a tech startup that attracted investment from several of Europe’s top-tier angel investors.

I’ve worked both independently and as part of a team, including distributed teams. I’ve also hired and managed contractors.

I’ve designed and implemented several large-scale distributed software systems. In all the positions I’ve held, I’ve been involved in the full life-cycle of the project, from requirement gathering, initial design and implementation through to deployment and production support.

In my most recent role as technical co-founder of a funded tech startup, I’ve been in charge of the entire technology stack of the business, including system architecture, software development, sysadmin / DevOps, production issue troubleshooting and customer support. I’ve also been involved in all other aspects of the business, including business planing, product management and fund raising.

This experience has provided me with a breadth of knowledge and expertise, both on the technical and on the business side, rarely seen in a software engineer. It also allowed me to realise that I much prefer working on crafting great software than on writing business plans or networking with potential investors. Not that I believed otherwise before I started.

I’m now looking to take on a role where I can focus on the technical side. While my area of predilection lies in back-end work, as a full-stack software engineer I can jump in at any level of the software stack and take ownership of an entire project or feature, from back-end to front-end.
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974494
This is interesting. where is this information taken from?
Single founder seeking employee number 1 with potential co-founder status. I've gotten startup to revenue generating stage and ready to start ramping up. im technical myself but plan to move away from development as I scale.

Currently bootstrapping and self funded by I am an EIR at a vc firm so can raise money if/when needed. Right now im generating revenue through both product and services.

Remote or Utah based.

Tech stack is PHP, MongoDB, Backbone.js

Email me: dan at my hn username .com
Why Do People Still Come to Silicon Valley?
>It's not just the money, but the entire ecosystem to support the industry.

Exactly. You could think of a project on the moon as building a platform, much in the way that the formation of the US was building a platform: creating something that allows other people to generate new wealth on top of it. The benefit to the originator companies of ownership over something like that would be enormous, without them having to do all the work.
I'm really curious about TimeforZen (based on your titles for the various tracks) but none of the them load for me (Chromium/Firefox on Debian testing).
I guess what I mean is, does the government have the right to demand that I log into internet accounts, and let them browse the info, if I'm within 100 miles from the border? Or do they only have the right to access information that's physically located on the physical devices on my person?
I interned with these guys last summer (found it on Hacker News) and enjoyed myself greatly.

Hi Geoff!
Java 3.326788s, C++ 8.46879s on my machine. This is interesting. Code seems analogous.
>I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

I don't know about that. Their dismissal was (at least framed as) "well that's a lot of data, so it's not going to happen!"

Actual excerpt from their blog, on the 27th: "Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way."

This is kind of a joke.
And the new owner of Winamp is: Radionomy
Safari pop-up hell
Couchbase - I need a couple of hackers for a new science project, also we are hiring lots of more traditional mobile and database engineering positions. http://www.couchbase.com/careers

jchris@couchbase.com