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Powered Now - REMOTE (possibly) - UK - Marketing Engagement Specialist, aka Growth Hacker, aka Digital Marketing Expert

Where: UK South Coast, working from home (office to open within 12 months)
Salary: Great salary DOE with bonus linked to MRR targets
Benefits: Share options (subject to shareholder approval)

Well funded startup run by experienced entrepreneurs with a brilliant technical team seeks someone special to lead the digital marketing side of our business. The right person will be a digital marketing expert with a background in online products and services, there are extra points if you’ve worked in mobile.

Your immediate goal is to find a repeatable process to capture early adopters. Therefore, we need someone who can experiment with various strategies to find one that works.

The short-term objectives for this role are to:

- Draw up a plan of ideas (brain-stormed with the founders) to test, building on what has already been achieved.
- Test those ideas, measure their success and report back.

At the end of this period:

- You should have a clear understanding of what strategies work and where you should focus efforts to grow the user base
- Demonstrable growth in the subscriber base, for this we will reward you with a bonus linked to MRR.

In the long-term you will be immersed in our customer lifecycle, from acquisition to retention, so that you can serve as a subject matter expert and implement initiatives to reduce friction. This means you will be working with teams across the company on initiatives that deliver value to our users early and often.

You’ll like this job if you are (aka essential skills):

- Analytically focused.
- Methodical, consistent and diligent at recording all experiments. You won’t get bored and stop recording the results!
- Smart enough to spot trends.
- Into digital marketing and advertising.
- Like working with smart people in a fast paced environment.
- Happy to work remotely (although we are planning opening an office in the coming months) and capable at managing your own workload.
- You can work within a budget.
- Know how to use Google Analytics.
- Like occasional travel to exotic European destinations.

Extra points awarded for:

- SaaS or Mobile products background.
- Knowing additional analytical products like Mixpanel, Kissmetrics
- Living on the South Coast of England, although if you are the right person we can be flexible.
- Creative, comfortable when writing website copy and designing landing pages for campaigns (we use Wordpress).
- Any qualifications to do with SEO or PPC (Google adword certification would be exceptional).
- Startup mentality, we all have to ‘muck in’ from time to time.
This has been available for roughly a decade. They work well, and they can certainly produce a lot better results than Google Site Search.
Trello? Asana?
I'd tend towards a more flexible tool, and create your own simple workflow that works.
Actually, Pi day is next year on March 14th, 2015. It may also work today if you take into account only the first 2 digits after the decimal point, but it kind of defeats the purpose.
What do you expect from a native desktop app as opposed to web app? I think most of it could be done via extension(s) over existing web reader. Notifications, offline mode, what else is there?
Dissecting The Opening Lines Of 25 Famous Novels
"sidestep threading issues"

I think displacing them is more apt.

complex Callbacks just as nasty as complex threads.
Eh.. "The pilots landed the airliner on a narrow grass levee at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans, bringing the airplane to a safe stop.[3]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110

And note, after replacing the engines, two test pilots flew the plane off the levee. While not recommended or safe, a 737 can land and take off from a rough field.
Russia no block Hacker News yet?
For my experience (7 years now), this is effectively so, you do not need a CRM at all. Your inbox with a folder for each customer/contact/project is your best CRM feature.

The only thing I have at a "large number" level is a very stupid web application storing just 2 things: an email address and a corresponding full address like you print on the envelope. Then every year, I can send 125+ new year cards. I take the time to include a nice design for the card, people enjoy them and this is a nice way to keep in contact with a large number of people.
>It controls that you are authorized to launch the game

Steam provides an infrastructure and API to perform this check, but the developers decide whether to use it. There are many games on Steam which don't use this DRM, and can be launched directly from their install directories even if Steam isn't running.
I think the idea of automated language detection is pretty cool, but why doesn't github just give you the option of correcting it, or labelling it with the language you prefer?

For example, I've got a javascript modules in repositories. For each module, I make a demo version to show what the module does, and that demo includes a bunch of css. Apparently, there is more css than their is Javascript, so GitHub labels the module as css, but the important part isn't css, the important part is the javascript. In order to resolve this, I've had to move the css into a different repository, and ignore it in the javascript repository. Seems like a long way around, when all I want to do is correct them and say that the module is actually a javascript module.
Only if the developer uses the Steamworks API. If you purchase a game on Steam that does not use any Steamworks, once it's downloaded, you can run it from your computer without Steam running. Many old games you can buy on steam are just the original game with a DosBox launcher that just sits in your SteamApps folder unprotected.
yeah they are growing, we noticed: my "ids" sensors grab malicious traffic originating from their ranges more frequently, compared to those originating from aws (which are plenty as well).
We are building a tool that really scratches our own itch. We needed a tool that:

1. Manages projects - Like Jira but simpler

2. Allows us to create documents and share them with clients - Like email but with commets

3. Track time - Like the notepad that lives on my desk

4. Keep everyone on the project informed

Its called http://matterhorn.io and its coming along we've been using it for months. We are a small agency (6 of us) and its designed mainly for teams from 1 - 20 who work directly with clients.

If you're interested drop me a line I'd love to get your thoughts on it. josh[at]seriousfox.co.uk
I'm pretty sure there's no one with an encyclopaedic knowledge of programming languages. The industry is enormous, and just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean that it's irrelevant. "Niche" is not the same as "irrelevant".

And even if it WAS irrelevant and only important to a very small number of people, that doesn't mean it can be ignored.
If you want the what ifs in detail, see the Airliners.net forum. 4000+ posts so far from pilots and other aviation professionals that are far more knowledgeable than HN readers. Every technical aspect of this disaster that you could want to know.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
oh yeah, now i don't even have to leave my terminal! Thanks a lot!
Google's AutoValue optimized for Android
Moving from rails to almost anything could be faster.

Especially under load. Especially if you had time to fix all those old nasty bugs.
Yep, although the 737's a much, much smaller plane than the 777 (under half the seating capacity, wingspan or range, 25% of the weight)
I looked at that (Open, didn't know about the Open C, thanks!) before and while that looks like a reasonable (price) entry, I wonder multiple things:

- how well these devices are supported? Are these FF OS devices really future proof for a while (think 'supported' upstream, kinda like Nexus devices or fully supported CyanogenMod builds)? Can I follow FF OS without waiting for e.g. ZTE?

- Those are low spec devices. I understand that FF OS wants to target the lower end of the market and is supposed to work well in that environment. But is that the case? Will I be able to give these a spin as my primary device for a time?

The second issue is lower in priority. Even if these things don't allow me to replace my main Android phone, I'd still love to peek at FF OS and play with the development environment, but a 'daily driver' would be quite interesting as well.. Only thing I found so far is the Geeksphone Revolution, but without testing it first/getting a decent idea of what that can do I don't like to spend 250-300 EUR (and that doesn't seem to be a high-end device either).
How is the whale making others suffer? If an investment fund is forced to sell because of its terms, then it's making itself suffer. It's just that now HFT traders get to serve as the useless middle man.
I don't know what "much worse" is, but there's gotta be a line somewhere. That line is currently somewhere between gambling and credit cards.
My current gig has ups and downs. I like getting to code things from scratch in the technology of my choice, but too
often we are using the quickest crappiest solution to get things done (uploading database data using excel - supposed to be a temporary solution, but has been going on for two and a half years).

Apparently most labs have a shortage of bioinformaticians (at least that's what I hear here in Europe).

Yes, having a PhD will be helpful if you are looking towards a more research oriented side of things. If not you are more likely to be more of a technician, and your work will be a bit more production like.

My advice would just be to look at institutes that you would be interested in working at - their job pages. I am sure you could start with more production style things and move into a more research oriented role.

Here is the jobs page for science park I work in in Barcelona (pay doesn't sound much compared to the US). Not much up there just now, but I know we are hiring more people soon.

http://www.pcb.ub.edu/homePCB/live/en/p2466.asp
hmmm, I had never heard of QupZilla, I am going to check it out.
> Isn't Navalni widely considered/painted as a paid US shill in Russia?

Considered -- no, painted -- yes, of course. You can't be an opposition leader, and don't be the target of smear campaign by Kremlin.
My comment was mostly in jest but I was indeed comparing two different interpretations 3/14 to mean 3.14 and 22/7 to mean the fraction. If anything the fraction interpretation seems more natural to me because of the forward slash.

I'm curious how we could get closer than 22/7. With two numbers and a single operation (the slash) what would you do to get closer? 22/7 seems hard to beat.
If my calculations are correct (done by paint.net, so...) the income/expenses for that period are about 185/139. So the peak managed to cover all expenses and more.
I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.
Unix Wars [Eric S. Raymond]
To apply, just drop me an email ben (at) powerednow.com
So 2048 is too easy?
Javascript is extremely popular ? Since when ? Oh, wait, since node.js. (Even if node is not the only cause of the JS popularity)
First, our attitude toward speed in the U.S. is self-contradictory and bizarre. It's far worse to drive 35 mph on a city street in Manhattan than 90 mph (assuming no or low traffic) on the highway. The first is "only 5 over" (the NYC speed limit is 30, which is way too high) and might get you a small fine; the second can put you in jail, in some states.

The issue with cars is that the vehicle that is best for highways (capable of speeds up to at least 80 mph) is not great for city driving. Automatic transmissions make it even worse, because there are now idiots who have no idea how fast they're driving (yeah, I'm a stick snob).

Second, the car did a great job of something in the 1950s. It was a rent/house-price control mechanism that actually worked-- without causing a shortage. It scaled back the power of landlords by allowing development of low-value land. Suburbia turned into something ugly-- racist, detached, gluttonous, environmentally harmful, and ultimately (paradoxically?) expensive-- for a variety of reasons, including increased specialization in the economy (more driving, more scaling problems with traffic) and a Parkinson's Law effect of consumer capitalism. Isolated people turned out to be more needy, confused, and liable to overspend, making a market for gigantic houses, ridiculous cars, and tons of low-quality consumer dreck (bought on credit) that no one really needed. Slowly, the tyranny of the landlords crept back in, and things people actually needed (healthcare, education, and finally housing) became again expensive, then extortionate. That's where we are now.

The car is actually a huge money-hole for most working families, and auto loans a "gateway drug" to yet more unnecessary consumer debt. The car was supposed to liberate them from landlords. Now, it's a white elephant they can only afford because they have no choice: the jobs are all 10-50 miles away, public transportation is expensive and emasculated in most places-- even Amtrak is unaffordable for most; and the roads are unsafe to bike or walk (highways and ghettos, both products of suburbanization). So people drop hundreds of dollars per month on car payments, fuel, insurance, parking, tolls, and repairs (plus the involuntary payment through taxes, but that could be argued to be a win for most; if you eat, you use the roads). For people out of cities, the car has become the new landlord.

In the 1930s to '50s, however, no one saw all these unintended consequences. Now, it's an open question whether the benefits of widespread automobile usage merit the risk to public safety and the slashing of public spaces. I'd say "no". On the other hand, if you were a working-class person in the 1940s and this new invention had the promise of liberating you from the landlord so you could send your kids to school and actually retire, you might think differently. They didn't have the foresight to see all the negative unintended consequences or car-reliance.
I don't think the point was to complain about Limbo being missing. I think the point was to show that saying "Objective-C is the only language which can ever use .m as its primary extension" affects more than just the two languages listed earlier in the PR. The PR itself is about Mercury, after all.

Are people even reading the context of the rest of the PR?
It's one thing for cities to subsidize infrastructure with tax dollars. Another for a private company to do it as a tie-in to its online services/advertising business. Still another for that company to berate ISPs while doing it, for not building infrastructure they themselves probably wouldn't without the cross-subsidy or synergy from their other businesses.
99k for a three year commitment. Check out GroupByInc.com, too. It's a merchandising layer over the GSA. Very bad ass.
As a smart and insecure person now i feel more insecure about trying hard
I would love to see Github come out with some decent postgres versioning
I would expect that to make it easier, although there may be a parity effect of a 4x4. It just seemed arbitrary to stop at 2048 (and I'll increase it if anyone beats it until it becomes impossible). Proofs of impossibility welcome. :-)
Should Lean Startups Outsource Nearly Everything?
> I was under the impression it's a consumer-only service.

You're correct:

> We are currently focused on our Fiber-to-the-home network, which is for residential consumers. We hope to be able to offer Fiber to small businesses at some point in the future. To stay updated on any new developments, please follow our blog http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/

but that mostly means there's little uptime guarantee, a small business/startup could use GF either eating potential downtime or with a backup stabler line in case fiber goes down.
Fulfilling Part-Time Entrepreneurship
Streak is a dead simple way for managing "things with workflows/pipelines". It lives in gmail so the overhead pretty low.

http://www.streak.com/
Why? Just because Google are going cheap? I'm personally not interested because it's Google. This may surprise many of you, but there are quite a lot of people who simply don trust Google.
I actually much prefer BitBucket's way of doing things, for exactly this reason. It doesn't even try to detect - it just asks me. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
It was fiendish, but when I reached it there seemed no reason (apart from the game ending) that 4096 couldn't be reached.
It's a bit of a hassle to set it up correctly though (I'm not complaining or anything. It just is, compared to other hosted options. I love the fact that it's open source)
This. Thank you. More people should know of these giants and that propaganda's origins (in theorycraft and implementation) are much closer to home than many Anglos realize.

Edward Bernays - his Wikipedia article is enlightening in and of itself. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
I think it's more along the lines of 'this phone is designed for a certain type of use case' and the user is trying to use the smartphone as their primary PC and media device, which it's designed to complement, not replace.
Just provide a similar post using CERN as case study. :)
The Office Of The 21st Century Will Be Your Self-Driving Car
Rinspeed, a Swiss automobile manufacturer that has specialized in designing exotic concept cars since 1991, created a mobile office and conference center concept for the Geneva Motor Show
> but I think many will avoid using those features until they are commonly available client side too

Why would you do that? If you have a few more advanced features on the server side that doesn't run on the client why wouldn't a team take advantage of them just for server-side code. Maybe the fear is server-side code ends up getting run on the client, but I feel like the separation would be pretty obvious that should be easy to avoid. Node.js allows you use the same language on the frontend and backend but it's not like people are justing moving code around between the two without regard for what context it's running in.
We use swiftype. Can't compare with GSS because never actually used GSS, but swiftype seems to have better APIs, responsive support staff and good looking UI out of the box for end users. And we are quite happy with it.
I highly doubt that Google will ever abandon Google Drive since its part of Google Apps for Business:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/

Google Reader was a _free_ application and like all _free_ applications, once they start losing money they are discontinued.
You don't drive, and yet you make a lot of claims about how driving should be.
Whenever a new technology/language/framework comes up I often hear the word "fun" all the time. My question is: does that fun translates into reliable infrastructure and decent optimized code?
AngularChat
Chat app written in AngularJS and socket.io (running on node.js)

Writeup: http://tamas.io/angularchat/

Demo: http://goo.gl/gQQzFx
IE, Firefox, Flash Fall at Pwn2Own, but Exploit Unicorn Still Lives
This is an area I have experimented with in large enterprise environments, usually with Oracle databases.

In one job I created a process where we used Rails style migrations with some Ruby code I put together. As well as schema migrations, I had it handle applying stored procedures to the database too.

Since then I created a little application called dbgeni (database generic installer) and have been using it successfully to create Dev and Test environments in another job. It changes the schema with migrations and applies changed stored procedures too.

One difference with dbgeni and other tools, is that dbgeni uses plain SQL files and applies them using the database CLI - ie sqlplus for Oracle, the mysql command for MySql and isql for Sybase. This means that if you take the tool away, the SQL scripts are still useful - that allows me to use the tool for applying changes to dev and test environments, but since the production DBAs don't want to use it, I can just bundle up the same scripts and pass them over.

The project is on github https://github.com/sodonnel/dbgeni and it installs as a Ruby gem. I have supporting website http://dbgeni.appsintheopen.com with more details.
This is awesome and yet another way to kill my productivity!

I noticed something that I think is incorrect behavior based on my playing of the original. If I have a row that has 2 - 2 - 4, when I press right, it goes straight to 8, rather than the behavior that I think is supposed to happen - press right once and get 4 - 4, press it again and get 8. A minor difference but does actually change the gameplay a bit.
>You'll need a ~1500m long piece of hard and flat-ish ground, a good road will do

We're not exactly talking about developed countries here, a 45m wide strip is a German Autobahn - and thus bound to be having at least one driver a hour, so I don't see a viable way of putting down a plane in these relatively poor countries fully unnoticed.
ArcGIS has quite a good OpenStreetMap support / extension.

The thing is: Open Data is liked by proprietary software. Open Source software is liked by proprietary data.
No, since browsers.
At this point I can barely imagine working with a relational database without using liquibase. It does take some getting used to, and there's a few ways you can get yourself a little bit stuck during development, like when you realize a change you've just applied is wrong, and you dive into the changelog or source files to fix it BEFORE you've asked liquibase to roll back the bad change. Then, when you finally remember to roll back the bad change, liquibase refuses because you've edited the change's definition, and it no longer corresponds to what was actually applied to the database. It's not a very big deal, and if you have more presence of mind than me you might learn not to trip yourself up in that particular way in the first place.

In my job I really struggle with getting meaningful test data, and so having the ability to clone the live database and let liquibase roll forward with new changes from a dev branch, try things out, roll back, tweak things and roll forward again is very handy.

Also if you're maintaining a large number of stored procedures, it's very handy to keep each of them in a separate file and reference them from your changelog something like: <sqlFile path="..." runOnChange="true"/> - the runOnChange property means that whenever the contents of the file is changed liquibase will automatically reload the procedure. (Though for example, postgres will complain if the change alters the type signature of a function.)

I'd recommend using the XML config format (though JSON and YAML are also supported), and use an editor that understands XML schemas. Probably any of the free Jetbrains ones will, certainly PyCharm does. Load the XML schema definitions into the project settings, and you'll get syntax autocompletion and validation for your liquibase changelog files.
I don't understand. Does the way your argument work rely on people not having read the other comments on this thread? Because neither of those two articles back up the claim made about NSA and Microsoft, and both appear to describe a publicly-known documented program run by Microsoft. And, both of those points have already been made on the thread.
He/she didn't mention GPS at all...
Google Spreadsheets

Why?
- Free
- Collaborative
- Supported by Google. Aka. will not close down in 6 months.
- Customisable
I think using a CRM is massive overkill for being an independent developer. My own company is going through a CRM migration, and given how much of a pain that's been, you're being needlessly complex. Of course, this being HN, people want to show off their own companies/personal projects, but that's needlessly complicated. Keep it simple.
https://www.google.com/about/company/history/#2002

2002 - "The first Google product for enterprises is released: the Google Search Appliance is a yellow box that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents."