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NODE.JS, ANDROID and PRODUCT MANAGEMENT positions in Berlin/Germany—all full-time and permanent

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun. In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension (when working as an employee).

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

All job offers => http://urge.io/jobs

Mail addresse => career <at> versus <dot> com
Perkville (Rockridge, CA) - REMOTE OK - http://perkville.com

Hi there! We’re Perkville, a startup that’s all about customer loyalty. Using Perkville, small and medium-sized businesses painlessly set up rewards programs. Customers earn points for interacting with a business, and can redeem those points for perks -- a free t-shirt or private lesson, for example. And we do this with a minimum of pain on the part of the customer and business.
We’ve been around since 2010, and are based out of Rockridge, CA. We have experience from eBay, LinkedIn, and Yahoo! Our solution is used by hundreds of thousands of users, and we’re growing fast.

We’re seeking a full stack engineer who’s fluent in the Django framework.

Requirements:
You have at least two years of experience developing web applications with Python/Django ●
You’re fluent in the front end technologies of the web -- HTML, CSS, Javascript ●
You’re experienced with front-end frameworks that make web development a bit easier -- e.g., LESS, jQuery, Bootstrap
You feel right at home with DVCS software such as git or mercurial ●
You’re experienced with application-oriented database management -- creating tables, optimizing queries, etc. ●
You have a track record of writing clean, wonderful, and maintainable code ●
You’re a learner, great communicator, and passionate about making awesome, fast, useful applications

In addition, experience with the following is a definite plus:
Test driven development ●
Linux ●
Jinja2 ●
uWSGI ●
Nginx ●
MySQL ●
Redis

Perks for You:
We’re pre-Series A, which means we’re still small, and that gives you an opportunity to have a huge impact. We can promise a nice salary, a great stock package, and a fantastic experience. More benefits are planned as we grow.

If interested, send an email to jobs@perkville.com with a 1 page résumé

We look forward to hearing from you!
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Late Meditations on XKCD 936
I disagree with this because I think that there's a lot of cases where a free or very cheap app makes sense, but maybe they could do something to better surface the IAP pricing. I think metrics like the average amount of money spent by users or the highest IAP amount displayed prominently next to the app in the store would make it so that apps that try to pull stuff like this are much easier to recognize before the user downloads the app and invests time into it.
I think Google/Apple are happy with the game developers figuring out the solution to maximize the profit. They take a 30% cut.
The question is "what would you consider your most significant achievement?". This is an opportunity for the interviewee to tell the story of the achievement; you don't want a one-liner answer from them, you want them to explain the significance. You're not ranking the achievements but the interviewee.

Answered well, and if you listen to the answer properly, this question will tell you how someone overcomes obstacles and handles adversity.
CourseHorse (New York, NY) | FULL TIME | https://coursehorse.com/hiring

Amazon for Education: We're the first marketplace that helps people discover, compare & enroll in trusted local classes (from casual classes like cooking, art & Spanish, to professional programs like finance, writing & programming).

We're seeking: SR ENGINEERS: Creative, indomitable. | DIRECT SALES: Driven, tenacious. | GROWTH HACKERS: Proven, quantitative. | CUSTOMER SERVICE: Friendly, passionate.

Let the beauty we love be what we do: https://coursehorse.com/hiring
> Most people won't pay full price, because most mobile games lack depth.

I think you might have this backwards: Mobile games lack depth because their developers know most people won't pay full price.

Mobile games can have great depth. Just like PC/console games can be extremely simple and trivial.

(Depth doesn't come from complex mechanics or controls, btw. In fact, those things are often used to mask how shallow a game really is.)
I am sorry. I know I might be heavily down-voted or banned but i just cannot resist. 'bro' is so friendly, egalitarian and non-discriminatory compared to:

unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, umount
18 Paintings You Won't Believe Aren't Photos
Yes, and the "progressive" movement in the US profligates similar ideas and yet can't recognize the parallels.
I would like to send my kids there if there is a school like that at any state!
Salt Lake City, UT -- Lucid Software (http://www.golucid.co)

Lucid Software is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Our first product, Lucidchart (http://www.lucidchart.com), is an online diagramming application with 1M+ users. We recently launched our second product, Lucidpress (http://www.lucidpress.com), which is an online layout and design application. Lucid is a startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress run with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucid your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable.

Requirements: - Talent - BS degree

Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Scala or Java - MySQL or other relational database - NoSQL
databases - Cloud computing (AWS)

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress are powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements: - Talent - BS degree

Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Javascript - Google Closure compiler/library - CSS/HTML/DOM
manipulation - jQuery - Native app development on Android and/or iOS

All applicants email resumes (and links to recent projects) to jobs@lucidchart.com.
Hacker News, Who's Hiring

FreeAgent, Edinburgh or REMOTE (UK)

http://www.freeagent.com

jobs@freeagent.com

## TL;DR
We're looking for Software Engineers of all levels to come and work on leading Ruby/Rails app for successful UK SaaS startup FreeAgent.

We're also looking for interns to come and join us in Summer 2014.

## Details
We’re looking for people to come and contribute towards our mission of democratising accounting for small businesses across the world!

We’re the leading UK online accounting platform with over 35,000 delighted customers and continued high growth. We have a brilliant team of engineers and designers who are developing with cutting-edge tech at scale. We have a wealth of technical challenges for you to solve and we can provide a friendly, creative and collaborative environment in which to solve them.

More details on the website:

http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/software-engineer

http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/engineering-summer-int...
Two Sigma – New York City – Full time

Two Sigma [1], an investment manager with the heart and soul of a tech company, has openings in many areas of technology. We have engineers working on everything from file systems to trading platforms to interactive visualizations.

My team, Collaboration and Usability Engineering, is specifically looking for a frontend engineer with an eye for design [2], a full stack engineer for our internal collaboration tools [3], and an HR tools engineer [4]. We also have a couple product management positions open, but they haven’t made it online yet. Filling out the general PM application [5] should get you to the right place.

[1] http://www.twosigma.com/

[2] http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/705.html

[3] http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/686.html

[4] http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/848.html

[5] http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/728.html
If software refunds existed as a matter of course then up front prices should make a comeback. Otherwise the customer must trust marketing and we know how trustworthy that is.
Chicago - Modest, Inc - http://modest.com

We are building a platform to power the future of commerce.

Currently, we are hiring for:

* Mobile engineers types
* Design types
* Generalist hacker types
* Data/Modeling types

We are a very small team and are building a great company. Located in Chicago, IL - we are open to remote workers.

Email me harper@modest.com or jobs@modest.com.
Paper. just a single piece of 8.5x11 paper. Anything more complex means I'm trying to do more work than I can handle.
Toronto (Canada) - GroupBy Inc - http://groupbyinc.com
We are building a ecommerce platform built on top of the Google Search Appliance to deliver the best search experience possible on retail websites.

We are a one-year old startup, self-funded, have 15 employees across Toronto and NYC and already have many clients. We are an amazing group of very smart and talented developers and are looking for a Software Developer and a Senior Customer Support Engineer in Toronto to help us grow even more.

Software developer job description:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/592280/GroupBy%20Job%20D...

Support Engineer Job description:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/592280/GroupBy%20Job%20D...

Apply here:
http://www.groupbyinc.com/careers.html
How This Ed-Tech Startup Reached 7M Students Without Charging Schools A Dime
Ask HN: How does your homescreen look?
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, whatever.

Show me yours, I'll show you mine.
I don't think the successful casinos today are as profitable as they could be. I believe they can be MUCH more profitable than they are now.
It's not entirely clear to me how bind is different than apply.
"It’s much easier to meet interesting new people when we can simply look at someone, see their Facebook, review their LinkedIn page, or maybe even see their dating-site profile."

How sad.
Reading Fonts for Children
Valdez Avalanche has closed the Richardson Highway for a week (video)
Guys, before you jump on this bandwagon, do your research. Common carrier is bad for everyone, including the consumer.

It means that a floor will be set on the price of peering as well as a ceiling, so ISPs that currently peer at no cost will be forced to charge each other and then pass that on to consumers.

I'm a huge fan of Net Neutrality, but common carrier status is not the solution.
We still listen to and perform the music of 300 years ago (Bach), read and perform literature of 400 years ago (Shakespeare), and the look at the paintings of 500 years ago (Leonardo, Botticelli, etc.).

Sure, a bunch of the games produced today are semi-glorified slot machines, but most movies of 60 years ago were crap. Most Baroque music was crap. Most Elizabethan drama was crap. Most Renaissance Art was crap.

Quality lasts, and if quality managed to survive a time when conveying information across the world took decades and when literacy rates were basically nil, then given modern literacy, and storage and communication technology, it's crazy to say the quality media of the present day isn't going to last.

It's going to require some work, but if the media matters to people, people will do what it takes to make it last.
Seeking Work - Remote/Willing to Travel

Front-end (HTML5/JavaScript)

Back-end (PHP/WordPress)

$80/hour. Email on my profile.
For those interested in the technical details, here are some changes we made to better-handle the traffic spike:

* Remove some of the MySQL-specific query syntax to make faceted search at openhatch.org/search/ work nicely. A goal of the current implementation is that if you search for "C" you won't find "C++". We implement this by a crazy hack of MySQL REGEX queries, which are (iirc) always unindexed, which is bad news under load. We should probably switch this to client-side faceted search, as here in 2014, it's safe to assume people have Javascript.

* Stop using synchronous requests.get() to fill the cache of blog posts that . The problem here is that if the cache is empty, every web worker will try to fill it. This leads to massive queuing of inbound requests, which is always bad news.

- Use CloudFlare in front of us, so at least people get reasonable error messages, and so static resources don't bother our server.

It's still not the speediest site in the world, but it's mostly handling the traffic, from what I can tell.

I filed these as bugs:

* https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue927

* https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue928

If you're interested in helping out, by all means join us. We love new contributors. Over 26 people contributed to the codebase in 2013, and per http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/i... we've tested the dev environment setup process on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and it should take 10 or fewer minutes.
The comments are much more useful and valid.
The election system determines the party system.

In winner takes all elections, a two party system will form. Because aspirants want to form the smallest winning coalition (ideally 50% + 1 vote).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law

Just peeked at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Argentina

The executive is elected thru runoffs, requiring +45% of the vote to win. That's better than "winner takes all", but still a pretty high bar for new parties.

The legislative is elected thru a (mostly) proportional representation, by their provinces of origin. That's pretty good. The barriers to entry for new parties are comparatively lower (e.g. vs the USA).

I'm not a polysci prof, so I can't say if a separate executive & legislative or a parliamentary system is better. I've seen it argued between stability and adaptability.

And I know nothing about Argentina's campaign and election laws, so can't comment on its fairness, or barriers to entry for new parties.
No, asking questions in a face-to-face interview is not the best way to figure out if a person is going to do what you want them to. It is not a very effective way of doing that at all. To be meaningful at all, it requires an interviewer with many of the same skills as a psychologist, and a candidate who can represent themselves effectively in an extraordinarily hostile situation. Even if you have both, you're still not even in the vicinity of the power of a work-sample test.

Job interviews suck, and I feel like people who have been hiring in this industry for a long time recognize at some level that they're essentially random functions, made workable only by dev teams willingness to put up with employee churn and extreme inefficiency.
< Iceland_jack> xQuasar: We are cooperating with you, you're just not aware that your goal is learning Haskell
Hilarious with 1984 undertones. I love it!
What about the text chat messages?
Ready to help you on c# , asp.net mvc part. arjuns(dot)sapkota(at)gmail.com
This is poor communication. Saying its 'wrong' and makes it 'harder' are your personal generalizations. Thats an empty statement. How does it do either of those?

This pattern encourages naming of anonymous functions that are used in callbacks. Which creates simpler stack traces. The new piece here about passing additional params to bind is also helpful, in that it will allow you to carry params across a callback stack. For me this will make carrying an express apps request and response objects across a callback chain much easier.
Ask HN: Who is Not hiring? (February 2014)
What companies are 1)not hiring at the moment and 2)are growing but simply don't need more man/woman power at the moment?
head just prints the contents of the file, it doesn't execute anything.
I have had events like that from all kind of companies, nothing unique about this, and it's certainly not about boosting their numbers. It's about getting students to learn their technologies and then use them later.

Blackberry recently paid developers to port apps to their platform. Is that "artificially boosting their numbers", or just smart marketing? I don't see any problems with this.
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote

My partner and I are working on an interesting VPN company. I am a Yale senior, CS major. My partner is ten years out of Wharton. We are applying to YC for summer batch.

Please email me if you are talented in any of the following areas:

- Python, especially Flask

- Backbone, angular, or ember

- Apiary

- API design

We are following an API centric development process. Over the next couple weeks, this will involve us completing the following tasks:

- Write an API blueprint in form of www.apiary.io

- Use apiary.io to provide API mock server

- Frontend and backend developers work in parallel

- Backend developer responsible for implementing API according to blueprint

- Frontend developer responsible for client side of website

- Client side of website interacts with API, can test with apiary mock server

We want to get started as soon as possible. Please reach out. As I am a CS major and engineer, I will make this a very smooth process for all involved.

Thanks.

EMAIL: miles@5280holdings.com
Yes, it's called evolution the kid that can't figure out he is doing something very dangerous does't end up having children of his own.

I know this sounds very harsh but it's not like there is another way to teach this to children. They need to figure it out on their own.

All parents wish they could wrap their children in cotton but the reality is they can't do that forever it's best children lern about risk early.
Menlo Park, CA - Synack https://www.synack.com

Come work with me on building crowd security intelligence software. We are backed by some of the best investors (Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, others...) and offer great perks and benefits (free lunch, 401k, medical, flex time).
Currently we are looking for JavaScript Developers (Backbone.js experience would be ideal), RoR Guys and a Sr. Designer.

If you have questions or would like to apply, shoot me an email bjoern@synack.com
Contrarily, if you introduce pay for performance in to a competitive online game, it completely fucks the competitiveness.

We can accept sports where players and teams spends millions of dollars of on training, equipment, etc. What if instead the team just paid the money to buy additional points from the referee?

Yeah, that is not a game.

The appropriate way to do this is to make premium/paid items cosmetic only with zero influence on game play. If your game blows, this model doesn't work.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or periodical onsite. Based in Georgia, Europe.

Experienced C++ engineer with a diverse background, including systems programming and rich cross-platform software development.

E-mail: zura.jobs 'at gmail.com
I've used bind to do partial function application for quite a while, and it really is a convenient pattern to use. It does have the downside that it's a bit harder to quickly understand what's going on, though, since the arguments being passed into a function can come from different places.

My common use case is when I'm setting up event handlers and I want the event handler to know about a companion object I have to the element in the DOM. For example:

MyObject.prototype.buildDom_ = function() {
for (var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
var button = new MyButton(...);
this.myButtons_.push(button);
var element = document.createElement('div');
element.addEventListener('click', this.handleClick_.bind(this, button));
this.rootElement_.appendChild(element);
}
};

MyObject.prototype.handleClick_ = function(button, clickEvent) {
// I have access to the MyButton instance passed in.
};

In this case, I use the partial application to pass in the MyButton instance so that when I'm in the handler for a button click, I have access to the original JavaScript object that was created when the event handler was set up.
Is hex editing your savegame files to get more coins, stars etc then piracy? After all I am licensed to use software and the savegame is my creation and its IP belongs to me.
SEEKING WORK - Remote | Tehran, Iran

C/C++ on GNU/Linux with relevant tools and technologies.

Resume: http://tehlug.org/~ashkan/files/resume.pdf ||
http://tehlug.org/~ashkan/files/resume.tex

email: ghassemi AT ftml DOT net
Ashkan Ghassemi
The key difference is that bind returns a function with the updated this/argument bindings, while apply actually runs the function.
That's such an oversimplification, both in how it treats the "government" has a single undivided entity, and on how it implies that illegal acts are the only thing that people have to fear, that I don't have the will to counter argue.

But regardless of that, privacy is a right onto itself, it shouldn't need justification. It's violations of thereof that should need to be justified.
It's not obvious to me that multi-member district schemes and coalition governments have produced anything significantly different than what we have. I mean, if you think we (the US) have a severely polarized party alignment, I'm just not sure you're paying attention.

Within the same party you can have representatives who are both for and against nearly every important issue! In the UK they need to form a coalition (sometimes) to run the government, but when they have that coalition, pretty much the only things which get voted on are those which are guaranteed to pass. Or if you want real crazy, go look at 2003~2007 Israel, where coalitions would need to be formed from several radically different parties.

I don't see any evidence that requisite inclusion of diverse stakeholders lead to better outcomes for the public.
Bind creates a function, apply calls a function.
Jeopardy's Controversial New Champion Is Using Game Theory To Win Big
Kids have been getting paralyzed from jumping into pools and lakes since forever, and the "going down a slide with a rope," strangulation thing sounds a little rare to even think twice about.
If you really feel like you must swear allegiance to something, swear it to an ideal, not to a person or group. But if you feel like the armed forces need to swear allegiance to a person or group, why can't that be "the people" of the country they belong to? It's pretty much symbolic anyway.