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Layer - San Francisco, CA

Layer is building an open communications layer for the Internet: a globally-distributed communications network that enables app developers to quickly and easily build secure, scalable messaging, voice and video features into any app.

Design

Web Designer

Engineering

Android Developer Internship
Android Engineer
Backend Engineer
iOS Developer Internship
iOS Engineer
Systems Engineer
Web Engineer

About us:

Since our September 2013 launch, we’ve attracted thousands of developer users who immediately recognized the need for a service like Layer. And we've hired a stellar team. Individually we've built Google Voice, invented the ubiquitous communications protocol, XMPP, and architected and deployed the OpenDNS network. Collectively we're the best team in the world to do what we're doing.

With the backing of some of technology's most respected venture capital investors and accomplished advisors, we're on a mission to make communications better through all of the services people love and use daily.

Apply here: https://layer.com/jobs
I think he's saying, if in the future you want to route web traffic through a CDN, using a CNAME, instead of directly at a specific server, using an A record, you're going to struggle if you're using the root name, as you can't have root CNAMEs.

Damn good reason too! I can't think of a good way round it. Do people like CloudFlare configure using CNAMEs? If they do, this strongly weights my decision, (along with the 'non expert users like www.' argument - though I think as long as you use a .com you're probably okay there).
The comments on HN are not parsed as markdown.

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I believe the only formatting options are these:

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four leading spaces for <pre> / monospaced
great for code, quotes, etc.
I’m not sure my understanding of this is correct. It seems to be crying about the problems this will cause. Ostensibly, it’s saying that there’s a problem with the identifier for ads being requested in apps that don’t have ads (i.e. being used as a surrogate identifier).

But, more nefariously (again, if my understanding is correct) it’s saying that many ad networks rely on this info being passed to advertisers (despite the policy being that it shouldn’t), and how problematic it’s going to be if Apple enforces this policy.

If this is the case, my sympathy is close to zero. Not because “advertising = bad”, but because this was a known no-no. Don’t cry foul when you can’t do what you were told you couldn’t.
Why I love the Microsoft BizSpark Programme
There's also redline smalltak for the jvm, but I'm not entirely sure of it's status:

http://www.redline.st

[edit: on the subject of performance, and interesting Smalltalks, I'd also recommend checking out Gemstone GLASS:

http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/

They also made "maglev" ruby:

http://maglev.github.io/
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Bitovi - Remote (N. America preferred) - http://bitovi.com

We are simplifying JavaScript development. We build amazing web apps, the right way. After years of solving complex front-end engineering problems, we know what works and what doesn’t. We’ve baked that experience into our tools, consulting, and training.

We’re a team of 20 developers (and designers) located around the US, Canada, and Croatia. This is a remote position, but due to travel requirements, we have a strong preference for North American-based developers.

YOU

We’re looking for passionate JavaScript developers who who enjoys identifying the hard parts of application development and simplifying them, talking about software architecture, and teaching others. We also want someone who can lead others and be an integral part of a team, but can also hang out with the dev team after the workday.

The following attributes are major positives, but not all hard requirements:

- Some experience contributing to or at least using open source

- Doesn’t mind a bit of travel, averaging one week per month

- Has strong opinions about the right way to develop

- Has a lot of JavaScript experience

- Has some full stack experience (backend and DB)

THE JOB

As soon as you begin, we’ll train you to become an expert in JavaScript application design, frontend architecture, and our JavaScriptMVC stack of tools. You’ll work with clients creating applications, designing and discussing architectures, reviewing code, and researching new front-end technologies.

In addition to client work, you’ll have the opportunity to shape a small and growing company by applying your talent and passion towards an area of interest. Bitovi developers:

- Speak at conferences

- Give trainings

- Run meetups

- Maintain open source projects

- Write articles

BENEFITS

- Competitive salary and yearly bonuses

- Bi-annual company retreats (previously in Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Amelia Island)

- 401(k) plan with matching

- 4 weeks paid vacation

- Health and dental insurance

- Gym membership reimbursement

- Maternity/paternity leave

- Work from home

To apply, send your resume and an introduction that shows us that you are the kind of person we cannot live without to jobs@bitovi.com
We had one of those in Atlanta for a couple of years, but it appears to have changed owners and become a regular preschool a year ago. I don't see a post-mortem on the web.

[ http://john.do/bean-work-play-cafe/ ]
I think part of the reason is that the US phone system is set up so these areas are connected to the system as domestic numbers, but they are charged as international numbers. If I see a truly international number (starting with + or 011 in the US) I wouldn't call it. But a number that looks like a domestic number shouldn't be an international number.
Oh cool, Alt Soc?
It's the exact same question whether it's ethical to take that amount of money from the whales in casinos. Because that's where the term whale comes from, synonymous with high rollers. It's the exact same scenario, except that in casinos, whales have a chance to make it back. But even in casinos, the rich people who can afford to be whales know that they're just throwing away their money. They're not like the poor stupid ones who go bankrupt with gambling debt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_roller
As long as YOU think yours is better, keep doing it! Don't tolerate crap :)
Hah, in the second paragraph the author forgot, called it "associative array", and then remembered "hash" for the latter half of the sentence.
Watching that Olympics from Sarajevo, and then following the news of the war and atrocities just a few years later, was definitely a... "strange" experience.

And that was with the... "luxury" of being at significant remove from the actual circumstances.

I agree. One can't count on inertia. Or, perhaps it might be said, inertia can be a two-edged sword. Once the direction begins changing, it can be very difficult to stop.
DNA repair is happening all the time -- this is a major benefit of having double-stranded DNA.

Wikipedia offers DNA damage rates of 1e3 - 1e6 DNA damage events per cell, per day ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair ). Almost all of these get repaired.
Common-sense statistical distinction:

It's not even necessary to posit a 'radiation-associated cancer' category to account for differential cancer increases, as long as there are some cancers somewhere that pop up in response to things other than radiation. Existence proof: Cervical cancer, associated with a virus. We would not expect cervical cancer rates to jump to the same degree as $generic-cancer, because the radiation-caused rate of cervical cancer is only a small chunk of all cervical cancers: double it and you affect the overall rate little.

With that said, airplanes are doused in some other questionable chemicals as well - I've seen concerns expressed specifically about the breakdown of fire retardants.
CloudFlare actually hosts the DNS of the domains using them, except for people who pay for the premium accounts. Then they rely on CNAMEs.

You hit what I was saying spot on. It's not just a matter of CDNs either, there are a lot of services where using CNAMEs become important.
Where and when the brain recognizes, categorizes an object
Astonishing Artificial Limbs Created By Scott Summit
The numbers are American. North American. From the NANP :P
Hang on, you think Apple are worried about the privacy of end users? I call shenanigans! There are likely many reasons they're doing this, that is firmly at the bottom of the list three rooms over entitled "things Apple don't care about".
As I understand it, "whales" tend to be less "poor gullible fools maxing out their credit cards" and more "extraordinarily wealthy people that enjoy wasting amounts that seem ridiculous to us but are truly nothing but a drop in the bucket to them." The term "oil prince" is trotted out sometimes, and people like that really do exist: I don't remember his name, but there is a very real "oil prince" who likes to go on twitch.tv and shower random (mostly female) streamers with thousands of dollars. It is an utterly bizarre experience seeing screenshots of these events, where, say, a teenaged girl is playing a game in her parent's kitchen with a webcam trained on her, the caption is something like, "wow, $person just donated $20,000 to me! thanks!", and the entire family is in the background with their mouths agape in shock.

I hate these glorified slot machines, I hate the companies that make them, and I do think it's unethical to prey upon children and regular people with bad judgment, but my guess is that the average "whale" is far too wealthy to deserve your sympathy. As a different example of the same idea, do you feel bad for the celebrities that spend hundreds of dollars for a drink at an exclusive club?
> makes Win8 search seem broken by comparison

FWIW Windows 8.1 fixed that
This is a good question. I had to think about it a bit -- at the risk of not posting a reply in time for you to see it.

I think it's because building great products isn't just a matter of execution. It's also, to some extent, an art.

I have trouble imagining someone being effective and competent with absolutely no passion. I will grant, though, that there are competent people who are more passionate, and those who are less so. I think a successful organization could have a blend of people across the passion scale, but I don't think one could build a successful product business without at least a few people who are passionate about what they're doing. Maybe in other kinds of businesses you could; I don't know.
Children learning using the Internet do just as well as those private schooling
Edward Snowden interview for German ARD network [video]
This version of Windows is so bad, that it will drive the consumer away from the PC, eventually the large PC studios will see PC users decline in number and funding for PC games will slow and stop. Only the indie low budget games will be left.

By destroying the platform entirely, the long term result will be no development for that platform.

All users of the PC are running as fast as they can. Windows 8 has destroyed it for everyone, all of my friends and family have become so frustrated with the PC. Microsoft is really going to destroy the entire platform, they have no idea what they are doing.
No, Apple is rejecting apps for pulling the advertising unique identifier and not using it for ads, but instead to spy.

Stop it.
By going back they are just going to hurt themselves even more! HAHAHAHA! This is the end of Windows. Buh Bye.
Maybe that was the joke.
I'd have no problem getting bought by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. if it meant my technology/product could get much broader reach and success than it would on its own; skipping 5-10 years of growth and risk would be worth putting up with some corporate BS.
Army Ignores FOIA Request for Sgt. Star AI
No beer delivery drones, FAA? This is why we can’t have nice things
The problem here is that the super poster is criticizing the experience under Linux when you install any of the OSes on non-vetted hardware, whereas 99% of Windows computers come preinstalled with all the drivers properly configured.

If your Windows system breaks, and that means anything beyond "oh I'm missing a driver", you have no recourse, you have to reformat. You end up googling and doing the exact same procedures you would under Linux, except because the OS internals are obscured and proprietary, you don't have whole stack detailed analysis on whatever problem you have, you have a black box and you have to hope the tools MS gives you are good enough.

It doesn't change that for 99% of users, regardless of OS, when you encounter a problem you don't try to fix it yourself. Most people aren't going to even try, they are either going to take the system to an expert who would use a terminal no problem or just get another one.
Nicely done.

Any thoughts on doing a browser-level extension to bypass the email step?

I do love the data retention of this though.

This is why programming is fun - you can make things that are quite literally worth money for your own self.
All consensual and non-coercive transactions are ethical.

It is simply not your place to decide for others how they should get their dopamine, or how much they should be paying for it.
People leaving Windows is potentially an existential threat for Steam if the platforms that they go to don't support Steam well. Consoles and iOS are flat out due to non-negotiable platform policies. Android is possible, but tough. Mac OS X is doable, though word is that Apple has historically been tepid to game developers on the platform. I believe that these are the forces that lead Valve to choose instead to invest into linux, and build an OS of their own on top of it.
No matter what you have to support both www and the straight domain, because different users will try different methods to get to your site and you don't want to lose traffic. Because you have to set up both no matter what, I don't see any reason why supporting WWW as the canonical domain for webpages is going to add any complications, and as I explained above it solves a ton.

In addition, the SSL stuff is irrelevant. You can use "www" under a wildcard cert just as easily as you can "app" or "dashboard", and if you're doing it right you're going to need to setup SSL on both anyways. Why does choosing WWW make it more complicated, and how will a "www" certificate get in the way?
Note to people applying: I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. in 2013, Academia.edu came to my school and agreed to an on campus interview, and never actually contacted me for the time of the interview (cancelled my classes all day too :/). I also emailed Ben, who posted at a previous "Who is Hiring" thread with no response.
Affiliate links seem pretty interesting but I'm not sure they're actually positive for the consumer. In some cases it's a way to support legitimate content but I've seen too many "reviews" that were actually advertisements.

Like ideally you want to use ads to make good content free and inform people about products they actually want. I'm working on something kind of related to affiliate links (users make money) but the affiliate's motivation is centered around getting their own content seen, so hopefully we're aligning goals of visitors and posters (make something great, get paid).

EDIT: Planning to post something more substantial to HN but here's a preview for people in this thread https://surfer.io/
This https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loktar.gra...
If you can, in your hiring process, get a decent prediction of effectiveness and competence, and stipulating that passion does not connote effectiveness and competence, is it smart to screen for passion?
This happened to me with FF4: After Years in the Wii. It was advertised as a full game and then I learned that most chapters had to be paid separately (and they weren't cheap). That made me really angry, but now I know better: research absolutely any game I purchase (digital or physical) so that it never happens again.
There's a whole new breed of ca. 19 year olds with macbook airs who use javascript and mongo and don't know what syscalls are, and they outnumber us five to one. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Allowing the use of the IDFA by publishers and not by advertisers renders it useless, since it can no longer be used for attribution. I don't think conversion tracking - measuring the performance of ads you bought to promote your app - counts as spying.
By presenting it as a tutorial? Absolutely.
To summarize it: the snow globes were a limited supply promotional item with vaguely-stated mechanics and an unstated expiration date.

They encouraged people to do certain things to generate snow globes, and made it possible for some people to stockpile them in advance. Then with about 24 hours notice, they announced that all snow globes were going to be permanently removed from users' inventories, which drove the steam marketplace price of snowglobes up dramatically as people went about trading them to try and complete sets of snowglobes. When they finally got killed some of them were trading for as much as $5 USD each.

All this for cards that literally don't do anything: The only use was to collect a set of 12, which would give you a chance at a random item from a list of utterly worthless decorative goodies (the list had a FEW good, valuable items on it, but only a few), mostly from games nobody plays.
Wait -- there are two questions here. One is whether developers need passion, and the other is whether an interview process is a good way to tell whether they have it (and the other qualities required -- I haven't seen anyone say that passion is sufficient). I think most of us are speaking to the former -- I certainly have been.

I agree that work sample tests can be quite valuable.
AFAIK, Kingdom Rush is not IAP-free. Levels are easily beatable by buying power-ups. Without them, I found that after a level or two, it got very difficult, and I couldn't pass. I got the distinct feeling I was supposed to start buying power-ups (cheats, really) to win. Too bad, as it looked very solid otherwise.

I'd also add that Osmos is a fantastic game. Very soothing and fun. Frozen Synapse is a terrific game (turn-based, simultaneous tactical shooter (drop-down)), and I wish there were more like it.
Game theory? It's all a moot point unless you actually know most of the answers which it seems he does. Game theory is just a tactic to give him that extra edge.
This is a natural outcrop of the everything is free/cheap zeitgeist. The demands from users for game quality far outstrips what they expect to pay for them, so if you charge high they will just not buy it or find a loss leader and play their game - they are all almost perfect replacements for the average user after all. If a small amount of people want to pony up $100+ per title then it might work, but there is something to be said for high volume low cost.

At the risk of being crass, the online porn industry has gone to this model as well. They give a significant amount of free teaser video leading up to what would be the climax of the scene, only to cut away to an ad or just outright end.

I would assume it is working the same as with freemium games.
Italian fascism was corporatist. What you describe is pretty much fascist corporatism.
They're not American in the same way that Canadian numbers are international and not American.
Even better if there was a short menu prompt telling you the price if you want to connect, to give you the option to decline.
Not disputing the problem you discuss exists - it certainly does - but be careful of assuming it's the majority of the community. It often happens that the bulk of the visible noise is made by a minority of obnoxious wankers.
So apparently he criticized Israel -- which you can do in Israel, but not in the US. It's not worth the drama to discuss any of that.
I think Apple has a big part of the blame to take. Somehow - I don't know how - they engineered a situation where the original apps were priced dirt cheap for the iPhone. 99c was the initial expectation, and companies were so keen to get in on the early app store action that they didn't care. Starting from there the industry has struggled to ever raise prices for apps to a reasonable level. No matter how much content there is in a game, no matter what the quality, the perception in the consumer mind is that a good app costs $1 - $2 and an exceptional app might charge $5, but nobody ever in their right mind would pay $20 for an app. We're now at the point where mobile games contain graphics at the same level of consoles from a year or two ago, and yet prices aren't moving. Entire office suites that might have been $50 - $100 struggle to fetch $10. It's not sustainable, has never been sustainable. The only question is how we're going to get out of the mess, and it looks like we're having to go through an IAP hell before consumers will start to be prepared to pay a premimium price to get an IAP-free experience.
This question is like a Django model definition where you have a database query as default (or limit_choices_to) value. It makes it impossible to perform the 'syncdb' command (create a database from scratch, for tests etc). In other words, IT CREATES A CHICKEN&EGG problem.

There are people with good potential, who will never be able to answer this question, because they were never given a chance. I was unemployed for 3 years, and I used to work in a completely different industry. The job was much like assembly line, and I couldn't even change my computer's time&date without admin's approval. Opportunities for achievements were extremely limited.

So, maaaybe this is a good question, for the _employer_. But considering the fact employers are complaining about lack of qualified workforce at the same time as LOTS of people are unemployed, I think not! Today, if you ask this question, you're limiting yourself more than you think. It's similar to HR managers who ask for X years of experience in Y. Spending 4 years in your 3rd grade is not an achievement, and I seriously doubt the interviewer would be able to tell the difference.
Previous discussion about bizspark and free azure access: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293098
Hey, I'm an iOS developer based in Seattle. How do we reach out to you?
Fight Over Effective Teachers Shifts to Courtroom
Close. You only need two or more leading spaces. Here's the list of formatting options: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc