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Text Your Site Visitors with Free Live Chat Apps for iOS and Mac – Firehose Chat
Firehose Chat is a live chat service for your website, allowing you to engage visitors, address concerns, and receive live feedback about what others find confusing about your website. Feels just like texting.
New Matter - http://newmatter.com - Los Angeles (Pasadena), CA

3D printing should be as easy as how we create and communicate. That’s why New Matter is more than just a printer. It’s an end-to-end 3D printing system, including our breakthrough MOD-t 3D printer, complimentary software, and a store full of cool 3D-printable designs.

Check out the last few days of our crowdfunding campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-matter-mod-t-a-3d-pri...

* Senior Software Engineer - Back End *

We're looking for an engineer to lead the development of the back end of the 3D printing marketplace that’s tightly integrated with our 3D printer. We’re very early so you really get to own this piece of the product. You’ll work closely with product, front end engineers, mobile engineers, and firmware engineers to develop an API that talks to both our marketplace as well as our printers. Being self-driven is important since the team is small and we want to build an ambitious product quickly.

Preferably Ruby/Rails, but we are early enough that you can pretty much build it out the way you want. You should have strong experience developing large-scale web applications and experience designing and building REST APIs.

* Senior Software Engineer - Front End *

We are also looking for engineer to lead the development of the front end of the marketplace. We’re very early so you really get to own this piece of the product. You’ll work closely with product and design to implement the best possible user experience across both desktop and mobile.

An ideal candidate would be up to date on current best practices for developing complex user interfaces, including front end frameworks and communicating with REST APIs. Being self-driven is important since the team is small and we want to build an ambitious product quickly. You should have strong experience developing large-scale web applications (desktop and mobile web), experience with modern web frameworks (such as Backbone, Angular, Ember, etc), experience working with REST APIs, and, obviously, experience with and extensive knowledge of web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/Javascript). Major plus if you consider yourself a full-stack developer (ie, you know how to integrate the front end with the back end)

* Other positions *

We don't have formal job descriptions written yet, but if you are a desktop software or firmware engineer, please get in touch with us.

Email me (Sean Stevens) at sean@newmatter.com
If you are the type to have remorse when a new model is introduced just after you buy, you may want to wait a week or so. The MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade pretty much any day now:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro
Jello Labs - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs

=== Senior Engineer === (fulltime, onsite)

=== Lead iOS Engineer === (fulltime, onsite)

If you want to write Go full time, come join us!

We're a pre-launch, funded startup, about a year old. We already have an amazing team with engineers from Google, Foursquare, Ebay, Chartbeat, Medium etc.- http://jellolabs.com/team

We're moving and growing quickly and are looking to add smart, experienced engineers interested in e-commerce to our core team. We love GoLang, AngularJS, and ObjectiveC. We do code reviews and care deeply about moving fast while maintaing reliable systems. We use Asana, Hipchat, Google Apps and Trello. Every dev gets a Mac Book Pro, large monitors and Aeron chairs.

Our office is a hybrid of engineers and our brand team, which is made up of some of the best people in fashion and e-commerce. We're a tight knit bunch, just moved into an awesome office in SoHo.

We take our work and our culture seriously. Our goal is to create a happy, productive workplace! We keep a stocked fridge, bring in breakfast 3 times a week, lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We play boardgames, have a kickball team, enjoy a good karaoke outing from time to time. Our two puppies, Fred & Gizmo, keep us on our toes.

We offer full benefits, unlimited vacation time and a competitive salary. Plus our team is the best in New York!

If you're interested, email vivi@shopspring.com, and check us out:

http://twitter.com/springnyc

http://jellolabs.com/jobs
Review of GPS assisted quadcopter drone, with crash
Love this. Best free business app in the app store!
Show HN: On-demand feedback from curated designers
you should try affiliate marketing ... offer generous commission as you dont have to pay basic salary.
A single tap, zero character communication tool capable of triggering an action on a remote service. Is that just a button?
Just use the Prisoner Work-Experience model -- for every hour of work the company does pay them ¢19. So if they have 1000 employees, the company gets $19/h to split amongst itself. Its the same rate we would pay prisoners who are on work detail.
Been using it for awhile and its been great.
It depends on what I'm doing. There are times when calls are appropriate. I quite enjoy vc'ing with friends and loved ones. However, if all I want to do is discover which broadband speeds and caps are available for my location, and click "buy" on the appropriate one, there is no need for a phone call, at least until after I've hit buy.

As it is, the phone call convinced me not to use Vodafone. The first thing they did was ask me for my date of birth, as though it's somehow relevant to purchasing broadband. They then went on to ask how much I watched TV IMMEDIATELY after I said "Just to let you know, I understand you offer bundles but I am interested in broadband only - no TV, no phone". When they failed to understand that modem != router I was pretty clear I wouldn't be purchasing service from them.
"This also points to the urgent need for BTC adoption by both major crowdfunding organizations because PayPal is dangerous."

Yeah, because having exactly zero recourse when the crowdfunded thing turns out to be a scam is totally what people are looking for.

Paypal is can be quite a pain in the ass with fraud prevention etc, but pretending that switching to a system with NO dispute resolution is better is ridiculous.
I don't think Rube-Goldberg-Machine-As-A-Service is a big-enough market.
Wow.

What a steaming pile of useless crap Mr. Mateen is. Those texts are ruthless and unrelenting. I hope that she gets millions in compensation and this asshat gets fired immediately. Fucking prick.
We're all just lab rats in Facebook's laboratory
Dave Barry once commented that the holodeck would be mankind's last invention and that transporters would make everyone morbidly obese. ("Beam me some nachos with queso.")
Lovely, San Francisco: http://livelovely.com. Looking for smart, relatively senior devs and designers. No remote, but we'll pay relocation expenses if you're not local and we've sponsored two H1Bs so far.

We're the prettiest entrant in a traditionally un-pretty industry: real estate. This is an entrenched industry that is overdue for some innovation, and it's a great opportunity to work on improving the difficult experience of finding a home. Your rent payment is probably the biggest bill you pay every month.

It's a great time to join because we've recently hit an inflection point, especially in SF where it's hard to find an apartment. We're on Lifehacker regularly, featured in last month's WIRED magazine, and 7x7 named us one of the top startups changing the world.

We're just over 20 people right now but we're growing as fast as we can find people. We just signed a lease for our first office by ourselves, a gorgeous 6000sqft building.
I run engineering -- ex-YC, Django dev, been in the real estate space most of my life. I'd be happy to answer any of your questions: zain@livelovely.com.
Mike Gupta out as Twitter CFO, Replaced by Anthony Noto of Goldman
Yeah, because who could have guessed that a free dynamic dns service would be used by malware...I mean, that's why I didn't use a proper dns hosting service...Come on! Who's got the 20$ a year for making sure that something they actually care about doesn't do down?
> "the courts don't ruin another person's life based on allegations that turn out to be false, as in the case of Julian Assange"

I think your bias might be leaking but the case against Assange was never shown to be false. As far as I'm aware he's still in an embassy avoiding his trial.
I think it would, from Microsoft's technet article [1] -- the reason they went this route seems to be because they're having detecting these two worms (they're polymorphic) -- so they went for decapitation: kill the C&C.

Besides, knocking out no-ip still doesn't "fix" anything - there're a billion and one easy ways around it - C&C lists in alternate dyndns providers, 3rd party namespaces,Tor based C&C, pastebins, public/anonymous forums, hidden in bit-torrent blockchain etc etc etc

Heck, pushing an update to every Windows machine that simply resolved *.no-ip.org to 127.0.0.1 would be better than this. At least then folks that wanted to use it would have an easy recourse.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/02/11/msrt-febr...
Dolphin Progress Report: June 2014
pg could probably pay for it with the change in his couch cushions, so I doubt cost would be much of a issue.

Although, the YC staff might consider the influx of new users to be counterproductive, and also the current url does have 'ycombinator' in it.

But in any case, first come, first serve. Just ask Nissan Motors. Or whoever owns nissan.com
Virtual – Mobile Virtualization
Granted I don't have much experience with Stan, but from what little I've poked around RStan, the workflow left something to be desired. Setting up a C++ environment, and then embedding Stan code (which appears to be a C++ DSL of sorts) as strings inside your R code seems... unpleasant.

Perhaps if MCMC.jl matures, and if it can offer performance competitive with BUGS, JAGS, Stan, etc., I could see Julia's statistical fortunes rise along with Bayesian methods generally. I'm working on a PhD in a discipline that is just now beginning to dip its toes in Bayesian waters. I get the feeling that the adoption surge is yet to come.

Interesting that you're implementing your own MCMC methods mainly. As part of my coursework I did a little bit of that, but perpetually felt like I wasn't smart enough to anything sophisticated--either in terms of exotic sampling methods, or working with very complex posterior distributions. It may just be my frequentist R toolbox experience messing with me, but I know I feel more comfortable with the safety blanket of a framework.
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 2M+ 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)

Apply here: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&...

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

Apply here: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qqQ9Vfw4&...
> the libraries for the GUI layer are still very immature.

This is absolutely true, but that's a different concern than "It would seem that neither Rust nor Go serve this area and probably do not intend to do it either," which is what I'm curious about.

One of the open questions with GUI toolkit stuff is that Rust does not have named parameters, but Qt, for example, uses them heavily.
This has everything to do with Tinder when the CEO is aware of harassment and abuse, yet does nothing.
Torture under 18 USC Sec. 2340A: "(a) Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life."

Terrorism offenses involving homicide or attempted homicide under 18 USC Sec. 2332:

"(a) Homicide.--Whoever kills a national of the United States, while such national is outside the United States, shall [...]"

"(b)Attempt or Conspiracy With Respect to Homicide.--Whoever outside the United States attempts to kill, or engages in a conspiracy to kill, a national of the United States shall [...]"

"(c) Other Conduct.--Whoever outside the United States engages in physical violence (1) with intent to cause serious bodily injury to a national of the United States; or (2) with the result that serious bodily injury is caused to a national of the United States [...]"
You can't look at EC2 as just a place to go for a VM. It's not worth using EC2 unless you either:

A) Already have a lot of other infrastructure on EC2.

B) Want to use the other services offered by AWS.

AWS is a collection of services and APIs that you can compose to build big, complex, scalable things. If you just need a VM host, AWS should be the last place you look.

On the flipside, if you have an application that could benefit from outsourcing some of your infrastructure, AWS could save you time and money. For example, we have AWS managing our DB server (RDS), Load Balancing (ELB), Redis/Memcache servers (ElastiCache), static media storage (S3), DNS (Route53), and some of our CDN capacity (CloudFront). We can manage all of these through the same API client (boto), and the inter-service latency is typically low.
That's idiotic. It's not fucking Stalinism...you sir, you are a pant-shitter.
Why does the article cut off unexpectly? Is it not finished, or is it a chrome bug?
Casting Call Actresses Wanted
Evon Latrail is looking for actress/actors for her 1st book that's now a movie.
"When Mommy Went to Heaven"
For me, this is not about “cardio”. This is simply about not sitting. That’s it. That’s all.

In which case, wouldn't the author be better off with a lectern with a stool. Then they could stand or sit depending on mood.

It seems to me that some combination of sitting and standing are likely to have the greatest health benefits. There's evidence that standing all the time is itself not good for you.
Exactly - the branding is to ycombinator, not just news to hackers.
8 Rare Gems from Heidi Roizen on Building a Fulfilling Life and Career
There are different degrees of failure. Expecting someone to work for free for you(you as in all the big and small companies making a ton of money) while not inspecting the code for bugs is one of them. Blaming the resource constrained developers accomplishes nothing.
The Sales, Lead Generation, & Appointment Setters you'll find on Elance vary greatly in terms of expertise and abilities. Generally speaking, the good ones will command higher fees. Difficult to prove strong ROI on a bootstrappers budget.

Recruiting a sales-savvy co-founder is a smart play, and well worth the extra time and effort required. Build this vital project into your calender. Think when the Beatles went looking a for Ringo.

One last tip-- Dropbox enjoyed success scaling up with their referral program> https://www.dropbox.com/help/200/en
It's an easy model to replicate.
Someone can also break into your servers and manipulate your transactions. It's our business to run a secure and reliable service. Bitcoin infrastructure is fairly complex and so the probably that you'll miss something are pretty high. Isn't it better to focus on your own business rather that spend all your time and money building and maintaining the backend piece?
Computer programmers have a fixation on treadmills other sedentary hobbyists don't have.

I have a treadmill behind the main TV couch in my house, and I sometimes use it while the TV is on. I don't watch much TV with the result that I don't walk on the treadmill very much, but it does sometimes happen.

The main treadmill problem I can see is they're not really compatible with little kids or small animals WRT obvious hazard, so for a variety of reasons its only recently that I can safely use mine without any worry. This focus does fit in with the stereotype that startups are really good at solving 25 year old kid problems, not so good at the other 90% of the population. What doesn't fit in is a stereotypical startup kid would live in a tiny apartment and the "whiiiiiir" would drive the other inmates crazy pretty quickly, to say nothing of the horrible open office fad, if my treadmill takes up 3ft x 6ft or so area and a fad style open office only allocates a 2ft x 2ft space per person this is a problem.

I have no complaint with this implementation and anytime I see someone do carpentry I like it. I'm just commenting on the general fascination with treadmills and desks seen on HN, its kinda funny.
Choosing the Right Tool for Remote User Testing
All those things wrong about 'sitting' are wrong about standing also. It's the fact that your spine is supporting your weight that causes back pain and issues. If you are sitting, it's best to use the chair back to support your back so you can recline in a 135 degrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting#Posture
I'm using DO to hack together some web pages to help me verify data for my mobile app. I'm thinking about building out the pages. However, at the moment I'm using a simple shell script to start.

#!/bin/sh

export PORT=8080
go run go/spanishdb.go go/Html.go

Any good blogs on using Go in a production ready server? Should I run behind Apache?
It's pretty safe to assume "which government" is the government in which the PayPal account was opened. This is an employee of a financial business trying to determine if an organization they're underwriting is doing anything illegal in their jurisdiction, as that would be a prohibited use of the service. He/she is a normal human being, who isn't an expert in every possible line of business, trying to suss out the information he/she needs to approve this account -- put yourself in their shoes for a moment.
REDI Technologies (http://www.redi.com)

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Locations :: New York, NY and Dallas (Frisco), Texas

Background :: Our mission is to “make trading better”. REDI is a startup (10 months old) dedicated to taking an already successful trading platform to the next level. As a tech company that operates in the financial trading industry, we have a very different perspective and approach. Our next-generation platform is focused on building a community for the buy-side, sell-side, and technology providers, bridging the Wall Street and the FinTech startup spaces. We take a highly open and collaborative approach to building our technology (everything from C++, Java, .NET, Ruby, Angular, NodeJS, Chef, PostgreSQL, etc). We need individuals with a passion for technology, and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class software across the desktop, web, and mobile contexts. Financial knowledge is not required, but a strong engineering mindset and razor-sharp problem solving skills are a must.

Roles (FULL-TIME, H1B, VISA supported) ::
- Software Engineers

- DevOps Engineers

- Test Engineers

- Product Managers

We'd love to hear from you. Send any inquiries or resumes to: jobs@redi.com

- Josh (CTO)
PipelineDB (YC W14)

We are on a mission to build a new type of database for a modern world in which information is constantly moving, and moving fast. PipelineDB runs SQL queries continuously on large volumes of streaming data, giving companies the capability to easily develop scalable, realtime applications and services using only a familiar SQL interface. No application code is required.

This inherently involves solving a lot of big problems, many of which are novel. We’re looking for creative engineers who appreciate the value and freedom of choosing their own projects, approaches, and working with other top talent in a low distraction, streamlined work environment in our new SOMA office.

We are well funded by top investors including SV Angel, Susa Ventures, Data Collective, Paul Buchheit, and more.

If you’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this, please send your resume and a quick blurb about yourself to jobs@pipelinedb.com. We're hiring for two positions:

1) Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA

Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

* You've worked with large C/C++ systems in a Linux environment

* Strong system-level debugging skills

* Strong understanding of how performant storage systems work

Bonus points:

* Experience with/contributions to PostgreSQL, Storm, Kafka, Samza, Kinesis, or Esper

* Experience with database internals

* Experience building distributed systems

* Experience building realtime systems

Compensation:

$90k - $120k + 2% - 4% equity

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2) Frontend Engineer - San Francisco, CA

Requirements:

* Strong design sense (please send us a link to your portfolio/work if possible)

* Experience with a framework such as Django or Rails

* Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills

* Ability to implement your vision effectively

Bonus points:

* Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

* Experience with databases

* Experience with monitoring/operations/admin software

Compensation:

$80k - $110k + 1% - 3% equity

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jobs@pipelinedb.com
They didn't shut down their account, they froze it, huge distinction.
I imagine Paypal freezes quite a few accounts every day. I respect them more for treating it as business as usual, and not necessarily caving to internet pressure. They are a company dealing with financial transactions, and them screwing up is not just a matter of someone not getting funding, it can be a matter of many people being the victims of fraud. As long as they have reasons for their actions, and they are in line with their published policies, and they attempt to rectify problems quickly when they occur (apparently within a single day in this case), I see no reason they should be putting out a PR response to everyone who cries foul.
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==================== Notion – San Francisco ====================

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us"

The goal is to democratize software. Quite a shame that 30 years into personal computing, an average person's interaction still caps at word-processing. We'd like to change that.

A beautiful loft/artist office in the Mission. Best investors out there.

You will be part of the founding team. You need to be able to make things and think conceptually.

ivan@makenotion.com