Ask HN: Who's hiring? - <AUTHOR> There have been a few "who's hiring?" threads in the past and I'm curious if those hiring would be interested in adding to another. I think the last one was up almost a month and a half ago, so I'm sure the job landscape has changed over that time.<p>On a completely self-plugging note, as of this past Monday, my company downsized so if anyone is need of a good web developer, drop me a line! <comment><USER4> I'd just like to post a friendly reminder before this thread fills up with a lot of posts. Please post your location, or if the job(s) in question can be done remotely, specify so - it makes things much easier.

<comment><USER5> Where is the app around this post? I've always thought it would be interesting to have some social network way to know about jobs via friends and previous co-workers. LinkedIn has never really done much for me and it seems you have to be more proactive there.

<comment><USER6> Check out CareerElement.com; we will be bringing all kinds of new innovation to the job space. We will be launching in April.

We are an angel funded Stanford/Google startup.

And we are hiring: <http://www.careerelement.com/index/software>

Location: Palo Alto, CA

<comment><USER5> Can you tell us more about your startup? How does it work? I've always thought it would be interesting to move the word of mouth job knowledge to a software tool. I know all the jobs we have open at my company and my friends know their open jobs. Why not share these openly either anonymously or via your friend network. Show who's moving where and what they're doing now in some easy to digest format.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Know C pretty well, be great at one high- level language (Python, PHP, whatever), be a quick learner (and we mean quick), and then come and be a propellerhead at our awesome, small company.

www.ssimicro.com/jobs

We're a little company based in Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories. We deliver broadband satellite internet to 61 of the most remote communities on earth, and now that our network's up and running (although we're investing heavily in upgrading it), we're busy building great software for our customers, optimized specifically for our unique network.

Yellowknife's not as cold as you think, and the 24-hours-of-daylight summers are not to be missed.

If you're interested and game, we'll make an offer really easy to accept: We'll get and pay for your apartment, a car if you need it, and pay you atop that. We'll do all that for up to three months while you evaluate us and the north, so that it's risk- and hassle-free for you to come to a really great, unique company in an awesome little city.

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

<comment><USER8> What kind of internet service do you have in Yellowknife itself?

<comment><USER7> Great question. Thankfully, we have a terrestrial link from down south all the way up to the Knife, so we have decent access. I say "decent" and not "amazing" because our bandwidth isn't anything like it is in some bigger markets down south, but it's totally reasonable for most stuff I find. (There's no buffering for Youtube or most streaming video websites, Divx movies need some time to buffer, usual throughput at home is around 300 kb/s down 100 kb/s up, at the office it's a couple megabits, enough to never have to wait for anything.)

I guess this means we don't do too much dogfooding, but our lives would be a lot more difficult if we did.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> RethinkDB in Mountain View, CA: looking for system and performance engineers. Interns also welcome. More details here: <http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs>

Here's a quick blurb from our jobs page:

 _Working at RethinkDB truly involves disruptive technology and solving interesting, challenging problems. Building caching algorithms, advanced data structures, and lock-free concurrency primitives from scratch is just business as usual here.

While everyone at RethinkDB has the determination to move heaven and earth to succeed, we prefer to get stuff done quickly and go home to our families, instead of living our lives in the office. As an additional perk to our employees, we work very hard to hire only self-motivated people smarter than ourselves._

<comment><USER10> That's kind of nice that you post your salary ranges online, but do you really think you'll get quality engineers for those salaries?

Position Salary Stock Options Intern 50K - 60K, prorated N/A Engineer I 65K - 75K 0.25% - 0.75% Engineer II 80K - 90K 1.0% - 1.5% Engineer III 95K - <USER2> 1.75% - 2.25%

For interns, that's a great salary, but your senior engineers will probably expect 1.5 times that.

<comment><USER11> If stock options are part of the deal, my understanding is that generally the more senior your position, higher the ratio of options to salary and the bigger pay cut you are expected to take.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I'd like to see this kind of post every month, how about the first monday of every month?

A lot of hackers are looking for jobs and a lot of entrepreneurs are also hiring.

Perfect match!

<comment><USER12> \- Jobs HN: We are hiring

\- Jobs HN: We are available

One for entrepreneurs to post their openings.

One for hackers to post their availability and skills.

I know we already have HN jobs, but this may be an informal way for HN readers and contributors, and who knows, it may grow to be part of our community.

<comment><USER13> ...and HN jobs seems to be limited to Ycomb founded startups.

<comment><USER14> I guess he's talking about post title prefixes.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Mozilla is hiring! Hard core C++, webdev, IT, QA, marketing, internships, you name it.

<http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa>

HQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, but we have offices in Toronto, New Zealand, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. Great benefits, extremely challenging projects (scaling web services to 350+ million users, optimizing our JS engine, making Firefox mobile fast on phones).

We're even getting telepresence robots: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/seannyelite/4458404134/in/photo...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/seannyelite/4458404134/in/photostream/)

<comment><USER16> My wife bought me a Firefox laptop bag a few years ago. I've had some people mistake me for a Firefox developer and thank me for my work, so I have to correct their mistake and explain it's just my way of supporting their favorite browser too. After all that it's always been a dream of mine to work on Firefox, but I've always felt too busy and intimidated by the size of the project to contribute on my own.

Perhaps this is my chance to finally earn the ability to say, "thank you," to those people on the train.

<comment><USER15> Please don't be intimidated! You can help a little or a lot.

Check out <http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/> . You can write code (websites, Firefox, and more), find bugs, offer support, localize, etc.

Hop on irc.mozilla.org and join a channel that you're interested in if you want to talk to someone.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> We are. Based in Clerkenwell, London; no remote working, I'm afraid.

We're Timetric, and we're looking for Unix hackers into Python and statistics - <http://timetric.com/biz/jobs/> \- and we closed our seed round today ([http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/timetric-closes-seed- fun...](http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/timetric-closes-seed-funding-for- statistics-on-speed-platform/)).

Our officemates are hiring too. Picklive (<http://football.picklive.com/>) do real-time fantasy football, _also_ closed a round of funding today ([http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/real-time-social- sports-...](http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/real-time-social-sports- gaming-startup-picklive-closes-seed-funding/)) and they're after Rails ninjas - <http://football.picklive.com/jobs>

We're both based in an awesome space just north of the Square Mile in London - photos at [http://www.flickr.com/photos/picklive/sets/72157623553354863...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/picklive/sets/72157623553354863/) \- and both companies have some investors in common, including Stefan Glaenzer, the former exec chairman of last.fm.

</comment><comment><USER18> Bump is hiring iPhone developers, Android developers (exp in Android or consumer Java apps), and Data/Algorithm Eng (either exp mining data to improve QoS or background in Stats/Phys/Exp Sci/EE). More: <http://bu.mp/jobs>. We are also hiring interns. Feel free to email me if you have questions: jake(at)bu.mp.

About us: Bump is changing the way people interact with each other. Our technology makes it quick and easy to connect two phones, simply bump them into each other. We created the Bump app on iPhone and Android which nearly 11M people have downloaded to share contact information, photos, and compare mutual friends (seen here in an Apple commercial: <http://bit.ly/8FbXGi>). We have also released an API/SDK that lets anyone add bumping to their app in ~9 lines of code (<http://bu.mp/api>) and is used by PayPal to bump money (<http://nyti.ms/bSnztr>). And there is a lot more on its way. Bump is backed by Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, and Y Combinator.

Located in Mountain View, CA near the Caltrain. Competitive salary/options/benefits.

</comment><comment><USER19> Dark Horse Comics is hiring UI and Python/Django backend web developers:

<http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/eng/1651760592.html>

<http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/eng/1651753399.html>

We're launching 2-3 new substantial web projects this year, and need some great hackers to help us.

We're based in Milwaukie, OR -- just a couple of minutes south of Portland. On-site strongly preferred, but c'mon, you know you've been wanting to move to Portland anyway...

</comment><comment><USER20> We're adding to our team at <http://www.covermymeds.com>. This product is about a year old and has significant revenue. Our major effort is building our API and a real-time processing system. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas. Mostly Python, working with a talented team.

Parent company: <http://www.innova-partners.com/main/developers>. We have virtually no turnover and treat people with respect.

Contact mscantland at covermymeds dot com.

Edit: Columbus, Ohio

<comment><USER8> I know a good Python hacker in Raleigh, NC. Healthcare is big here. What about remote?

<comment><USER20> Sorry, locals or willing to move only for these positions. We do have a remote employee, but I wouldn't want to do it unless the dev started off local

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Gilt Groupe in New York City is hiring. Remote working is a possibility.

We host daily sales of heavily discounted designer fashion and luxury goods, which presents a unique set of technical challenges: hundreds of thousands of customers competing for a very limited selection of inventory at the same time.

We have specific openings for interns, UI/UX designers, sysadmins, DBAs, senior QA, and platform engineers listed at gilt.com/company/careers, but we're always interested in hearing from great people regardless of the position.

We have scaled a base of Rails + Postgres using heavy caching and a services layer written in Java. A major focus in upcoming months will be individual personalization. The team is fun, dedicated, and capable.

Feel free to email me with questions: email@example.com

Sign up to check out the site at <http://www.gilt.com/amanfredi>

</comment><comment><USER21> LinkedIn is hiring: <http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs_open>. I was actually hired as a result of the last Who's hiring? thread and have really enjoyed it so far. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about working here.

<comment><USER22> I'll just add that we (LinkedIn) are a JVM shop. Amongst our weaponry are: java, scala, other intriguing languages, hadoop, voldemort, OS X dev boxes (with scads of memory), lots of perks and fun projects.

We also have many open source projects to work on: <http://sna-projects.com>

We are located in Mountain View, nestled in amongst the sprawling Google surroundings.

<comment><USER23> LinkedIn is a great place for web developers (front-end) as well. In 7 years our team has only lost one due to chrun, the rest all still work here. Feel free to reach out if you are interested. <http://www.linkedin.com/in/scott>

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Need some hardcore data people at Sunlight Labs in DC. If you're a data scientist, we need you. If you want to free the world from Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann, drop me a line.

<comment><USER25> Do you have any contact info or email?

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> We're Hiring Developers (we are very open to remote work, as we are all working 'remotely'):

Project: Something disruptive that will change the way software is developed.

Tech: We are developing with Python & Google App Engine.

Team background: Founding investor, Napster; pioneer in social networking (from 2001); previously raised almost $4MM for past startup

Project status: already in private beta

Reqs: Python/GAE experience not necessary if you learn quickly and can show past projects. Especially interested in folks with 1 or more of the following:

\- Excellent math/algorithmic abilities

\- Excellent sense for consumer Internet usability

\- Solid productive programming chops

\- Orientation towards A/B (/multivariate) testing

\- Customer Development Process experience

\- Experience in social media development

We are looking to add team members who can rapidly become seriously productive and want to create applications for use by tens and hundreds of millions of users.

We currently have team members in North American and Indian timezones.

We will be raising funding from our personal network of successful tech entrepreneurs soon.

</comment><comment><USER27> Hiring a contract PHP dev who knows Facebook and Twitter really, really well. (Chicago, Illinois)

Here's us: <http://www.windycitizen.com> \- A bootstrapped, local, social network recently named one of Chicago's "New Essentials" by TimeOut Chicago Magazine. We're going places. Looking for someone to come in and help crack the Twitter/FB nut. How do we best integrate with these two services?

e-mail's in my profile page.

</comment><comment><USER28> Hey guys, we're looking for a PHP developer.

Work from anywhere: Yes (Provided you're willing and able to connect with the rest of the team during daylight hours (we're sprinkled all over the place in Canada and the USA.

To apply, send me an email at aaronwondermill.com (you put in the @, my name is Aaron) or solve the puzzle at <http://www.wondermill.com/developer.html> ;)

</comment><comment><USER29> kaChing is hiring in Palo Alto, CA (on-site only). Looking for backend, frontend, and interns. We're extremely engineering-driven and have a 5-minute commit-to-production cycle. Our CEO says it well:

"[We're disrupting] the mutual fund market, a $10-Trillion industry that has seen no innovation in the past 25 years. The only way to disrupt an industry is to break with conventional wisdom, so we specifically are not looking for people with financial backgrounds. That's why we're the first company to apply an open-source philosophy to improve the process of choosing an investment manager."

By open-source philosophy he means radical transparency and pay-for- convenience; think about if any investments you have come anywhere close to this.

<comment><USER30> Are you looking for business/marketing types are just engineers?

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Fluther (<http://fluther.com/>) is hiring an operations engineer: <http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/>

We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try that…). We're a Python/Django shop, we're in San Francisco and this isn't a remote job.

Fluther is funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Dave McClure, and we're advised by Biz Stone (Twitter) and Leonard Speiser (Bix).

</comment><comment><USER32> Blurb is hiring!

Want to work in a great environment with great people making a great product? We're a print-on-demand publisher with an emphasis on high-quality products and great user experiences.

Almost any time I'm in a group I'll tell people I work here, and _someone_ will get excited and tell me about their book they made with us. It's really great to see how passionate our users get, and that's a nice change from other development jobs I've had. :)

We're in SF. The development jobs are Ruby on Rails, but we have lots of other non-dev job openings also.

<http://www.blurb.com/join_us>

</comment><comment><USER33> [Easthampton, MA] Atalasoft has an opening for a .NET developer. We're considering developers from 2-3 years experience or much more. The more senior, the more of a match we'd want with the following technologies:

\- Web Development generally (HTML/CSS/JavaScript + deep understanding of how the web works)

\- Ajax (any framework, but we use ExtJs and our own)

\- .NET (especially ASP.NET)

\- Sharepoint

\- Document Imaging (scanning, processing, etc)

How to apply: Send me your resume and a cover letter highlighting your qualifications [lou <dot> franco <at> atalasoft <dot> com]

Learn more about us at: <http://atalasoft.com>

</comment><comment><USER34> <http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2> (Portland, Oregon)

Good timing. ENTP (Lighthouse bug tracker + Tender support) posted some Ruby on Rails job listings last night. We're a small team of 10 employees, located in downtown Portland.

</comment><comment><USER35> Twilio, the cloud communications company, is hiring!

We're a venture-backed startup located in downtown San Francisco, and all roles are for in our SF office, except for our developer evangelist. This is great timing, because we just launched our jobs page: <http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs>

We're a quirky group, but if working on mission critical communications technology delivered in self-service pay-as-you-go style sounds good to you, please drop us a note or just drop by the office to say hi.

<comment><USER36> What about internships for the upcoming summer?

</comment></comment><comment><USER37> WOTI in Washingon DC is hiring. No Remote.

Over 20 open positions.

Active Top Secret security clearance preferred.

Qualified to obtain a security clearance required.

BS in Computer Science or similar required.

\- 5 weeks vacation after one year.

\- relocation assistance.

Submit resume to woti.com/jobs.cfm

Benefits: woti.com/benefits.cfm

</comment><comment><USER38> Academia.edu is hiring: <http://www.academia.edu/jobs>

We're currently hacking a lot of cutting-edge technology like Node.js and Redis to scale the site up, and we're looking for some really talented engineers to help us out.

Based in San Francisco.

</comment><comment><USER39> IPTEGO, in Berlin (Germany), is looking for python, javascript and C developers to work on a VoIP monitoring product. Experience in those languages is not strictly needed as long as you are willing to learn. We can support you with the relocation, and Berlin is a very nice city :-). <http://www.iptego.com/jobs/> (but don't worry about the list of acronyms from there)

<comment><USER40> please let me know if the position is still open at my email address email@example.com. I have extensive experience in python, and C/C++ and I'm going to relocate soon to Berlin because of my girl-friend.

Thank you

David

</comment></comment><comment><USER41> Craigslist is hiring frontend/backend hackers in San Francisco with the following background:

machine learning (spam detection)

i18n/l10n

mysql, redis

UI / javascript

perl / some C

my mail : pablo @ "company name" . org

</comment><comment><USER42> TripAdvisor is hiring in Newton (near Boston). We have interviews that make people either sad (because they're hard) or very, very happy (because it is fun to be challenged).

My team is working on making money using social apps in a real, sustainable way. It's way, way cool. And you get to walk around saying things like "a _billion_ pins" and "Why don't you just _tell_ me the name of the movie you want to see?"

ps. no remote, sorry.

<comment><USER43> Peter Norvig said that he was excited about Google because that's where the biggest data is. TripAdvisor's got a billion points of data about where people travel, and it's growing crazy fast, and it's really exciting to work with.

</comment></comment><comment><USER44> Knowmore in New York City is hiring! <http://knowmore.com/>

We are a 20 person startup with full funding in the social news space.

We have several positions open. In particular, I'm looking for awesome R&D hackers to work on fun problems.

Ping me for details: email@example.com

<http://knowmore.com/static/jobs>

(on-site only for now)

</comment><comment><USER45> 1) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab 2) MIT Lincoln Lab (If you have/will have an advanced degree in signal processing, or applied math in general)

</comment><comment><USER46> Snaptic is hiring (<https://snaptic.com>), we hack on iPhone / Android / Web / API.

2 million+ active installs on Android. We speak scala, Obj-C, JS, and python.

Tools we are hacking with these days: avro, MongoDB, Google Closure

Please shoot me an email at email@example.com

We are based in South Park, SF

</comment><comment><USER47> Dolby in Santa Clara needs an erlanger/javascripter/mongodb type who's also not afraid of perl either:

<http://careers.dolby.com/detail.asp?jobid=dolby1610>

For fastest service, DM me @f00biebletch or email email@example.com.

</comment><comment><USER48> Yell Labs in London, UK are hiring.

We're going to be based on Grays Inn Road just up from Chancery Lane (Central Line). Future-tense as we get the building on April 16th. No remote working initially, not closed to it permanently though.

It's a R&D lab and we are looking for quite a few people. JVM is dominant and whilst Java and Spring are likely to form the basis of any web service platform we're open to clojure, groovy and other stuff elsewhere and of course various devices mean that there will be other stuff around (for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, TV widgets, etc).

We are really looking for talented people with a lot of potential and passion for what they do... but then I guess everyone is.

Ping a gmail to david.kitchen and I'll put you in touch with the hiring people.

<comment><USER17> Cool, really close to us! Silicon Roundabout is crawling westwards.

<comment><USER48> It's firmly on the hipster highway already. I suspect the Golden Mile is defined from Condor Cycles to Hoxton Square... so we're both at one end, and people like Songkick are at the other end.

We should all set up a permanent residence at the end of the week somewhere like the Slaughtered Lamb (neutral ground, half way betwix everyone). Would be good to really feed off each other in that way.

<comment><USER17> Sounds like a plan. Who's around here? Songkick, Timetric, Smarkets, Picklive, rjdj, Rummble, Technovated, you guys at Yell Labs, BERG, RIG/Newspaper Club, Trampoline Systems, Resolver Systems... sure there are loads I'm forgetting too.

<comment><USER49> Last.fm and Moo are right on teh roundabout, though you're probably just referring to startups.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Chapel Hill, NC: These guys are hiring. Not a bad place to work. Their product has a lot of potential to be applied in markets which it is not currently.

<http://www.integrify.com/about/Careers.aspx>

</comment><comment><USER50> Bluekai (<http://www.bluekai.com>) is hiring distributed systems, UI and general web dev - C++ and java, hadoop, cassandra. We're in the south bay next to apple, no remote. ping me - dk at bluekai

</comment><comment><USER51> Bizo (<http://bizo.com>) is hiring a Web/UI/UX Designer in downtown San Francisco. Essentially, we need someone to own design and usability for everything we do. Full description here: <http://bit.ly/adbvhQ>

Bizo is a year and a half old and already profitable. In December, we closed a $6 million round from Bessemer Venture Partners and placed second in the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge. We have ~17 people (7 engineers) across the country, and we'll be moving our SF headquarters into a new space (Commercial & Sansome) next week.

If interested, drop me a line: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER52> LShift in London is always looking for talents! (and interns)

<http://www.lshift.net/recruitment.html> <http://www.lshift.net/blog>

_What we value above everything else is the right combination of skill, enthusiasm and imagination. Generally speaking, programming is something you either enjoy or you don't. There are people who program because they find it stimulating and intellectually challenging, and then there are those who program only because they have worked out that it pays well. The former are the ones we want to hire._

Location: Europe/London/Hoxton

Remote: no

</comment><comment><USER53> <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings>

<comment><USER53> About the above jobs:

San Francisco, CA strongly preferred but remote candidates considered. We use LAMP (PHP) + Javascript + various other tools.

Wikimedia Foundation is the organization behind Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The above job(s) are related to our fundraising efforts. Do you like money? We should hang out.

In general, we're always looking for people who like: free knowledge, free software, web standards, large scale deployments, usability, smart generalists, saving the world, the A-team, and working at the only top 10 website whose entire paid technical staff can fit around a couple of tables in a Chinese restaurant.

</comment></comment><comment><USER54> We're looking for two entry-level developers who know their stuff but need to get some professional experience on their resume. While continuing to add features to our CRM, we're also going through a big push to refactor a lot of older code in to clean, readable code.

We're located in King of Prussia, PA which isn't too far outside of Philadelphia.

For more info, check out <http://remindermedia.com/careers/index.php?state=PA> or email me directly at jcampbell at remindermedia dot com

</comment><comment><USER55> Mixpanel (YCS09) is hiring developers and enterprise sales/biz dev. We're based in Mountain View, CA.

Further info: <http://mixpanel.com/jobs>, email@example.com

<comment><USER30> Is there anymore info on the sales/biz development positions?

<comment><USER55> We don't have a listing for it up on the jobs page yet, but please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER56> NYC - <USER3>

We are a pre-launch mobile payments startup with a unique twist on how we think payments should work.

iPhone/Android developers - looking for people with experience shipping products on these platforms. Familiarity with crypto/networking/sqlite would be awesome.

Systems Architects/App Developers - building high availability backend applications, integrations with financial institutions, messaging backends, etc.

We are very early stage, if you want to have a significant impact in the place where you work and you think banking/payment is broken, please get in touch.

Email: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER14> Citrix is hiring in Cambrige, UK. Drop me a line at email@example.com, if you want know more.

We are at the forefront of virtualization, and almost all our products are open source (GPL). We use a variety of languages (including Ocaml, C and Python; Haskell coming soon). And you can come to work at 10 AM (or later).

You might also want to have a look at [http://www.citrix.com/English/aboutCitrix/employment/feature...](http://www.citrix.com/English/aboutCitrix/employment/features.asp?contentID=1319006)

</comment><comment><USER57> In Atlanta, we're looking for a developer with Java, Spring MVC, and jQuery to join our team for a new product launch. Drop me a line if you're interested or know of someone who might be.

</comment><comment><USER58> You can take over my current position in Minneapolis working on ASP.NET MVC for a startup project within the company: <http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6506>

Or you can come work with me at my new job at Twilio in Downtown San Fran, which has some amazing things coming out soon: <http://twilio.jobscore.com/list> (not listed yet is a Product/Project Manager position)

<comment><USER8> Just from that brief bit of information, I'll venture to say congratulation are in order!

<comment><USER58> Thanks! Can't wait to start.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER59> [New York | on-site]

I'm a partner at Arc90 (<http://arc90.com>) in New York. We design and build compelling web applications for customers and clients. You may be familiar with some of our lab tools such as Readability or TBuzz.

We're a small firm which has a dual business model of consulting with long- term client/partners and building and selling our own products, such as Kindling (<http://kindlingapp.com>).

We're a bunch of people who love the web, love creating exceptional user experiences, and love learning and using new techniques and technologies. The company was founded to create a fun place to do interesting work, which remains a core value to this day.

Everyone at Arc90 is encouraged to contribute to our blog and our labs and to contribute to Open Source projects when possible.

We're looking for designers, developers, and sysadmins with a passion for excellence and a yearning to collaboratively build and ship compelling user experiences.

Some technologies we're working with now or may be working with soon:

* jQuery * PHP * Java * Flex * Scala * JSON * Groovy * XML * MySQL * C# * REST * Restlet * Zend Framework * Memcached * Spring * CouchDB/Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/HBase/Voldemort (TBD) * OCR * Lucene/Sphinx/? (TBD)

If you're a designer, developer, or sysadmin interested in working at Arc90, please send a short note to email@example.com — I look forward to hearing from you!

</comment><comment><USER60> Me: <http://www.causata.com/careers>

</comment><comment><USER61> Kickstarter's looking for a talented Rails developer in NYC (or willing to move). More about the job: [http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/466172121/kickstarter-is- hi...](http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/466172121/kickstarter-is-hiring)

We're a crowdfunding startup that's changing how people fund creative projects. <http://kickstarter.com/>

HN members can email me directly, andy at kickstarter.com.

</comment><comment><USER62> [Cambridge, MA] Demiurge Studios is where I work. We're a 40-man game development shop working on some well-known titles as well as some new ones. We have some really good people, and lots of C++ work to be done. (We're also hiring designers and artists)

No remote, I don't think, but commute by public transport (Boston T) is easy.

<http://www.demiurgestudios.com/?jobs> Ping me if you apply.

</comment><comment><USER63> Google is hiring all over.

<comment><AUTHOR> When applying to Google, can you apply to specific teams, or do you get placed where they think you would be the best fit?

<comment><USER64> I've just been hired, and haven't yet been placed with a team. I believe that's typical.

<comment><AUTHOR> Congratulations on your new position. Could you give any insight on the interview process?

<comment><USER64> It was long. The entire thing took almost two months, and about three weeks passed after my final on-site interview before I heard anything definitive, though there were a number of intermediate steps in between.

My recruiter was really helpful. He kept in touch with me throughout the process, and let me know each time I passed a milestone. I've spent the last four years in a C# shop, and most of the interviewers he found for me had some background in C#. It ended up not really mattering, since most of the whiteboard problems only required pseudocode, but I definitely appreciated the effort.

The questions were pretty much all data structure and algorithms. I wrote a lot of code on the whiteboard (or in Google Docs for my phone interview), and was asked to justify my choice of data structure, and explain what sort of dataset would make it a poor choice. Upon finishing my solution, which was usually for a very contrived problem, I was sometimes asked to figure out a real-life situation where it would be useful.

I'm happy to have made it through, and am looking forward to starting my new job, but I do wonder a little bit about the interview process. I spent the last four years shipping a number of fairly substantial desktop applications, and have also been reasonably active in the Clojure community, and neither of these came up once after my initial conversation with my recruiter.

It's possible that my resume said everything that was necessary on that subject, but it also seems possible that neither of those things mattered very much compared to my grasp of CS theory. I don't mind much one way or another, but it's a kind of funny that I can come out the other side of the process, and still not have much insight into their hiring criteria.

Anyways, hope that helps. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask, though I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer.

<comment><AUTHOR> This is great. Thanks for spending the time to type this up! It does sound like a very involved process.

<comment> X-Istence I got an email from Google's Recruiters, and went through a similar process, unfortunately I did not make it to the in person interview at the Google campus.

I did have 5 different phone interviews for three different positions. With questions ranging from software engineering, to system administrator.

I was really nervous, especially since I am just out of college and that may have led to my downfall. On my second phone interview the interviewer was hard to understand, lot of line noise, and he seemed to not understand me. I got all the different programming languages I know mixed up together into a bad psuedo code. This was my first over the phone programming questions.

My second phone interview that contained programming went really well, the interviewer had done some reading on what I was into and helped me calm down and feel at ease. I got my programming right, got what I needed down on paper (Google Docs), and thought I did pretty well.

Emailed both interviewers afterwards to thank them for their time, the guy from the second phone interview, which also happened to be my last, got back to me hoping that I would get to work together with him.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER65> <http://phonebooth.com> is hiring in Raleigh/Durham, NC:

      * User Interface Designer/Developer
        * Heavy jQuery. Some PHP/Kohana. A little Erlang.
        * Lots of XMPP. Lots of REST.
        * OpenID. OAuth.

      * Other openings, too.

<http://bandwidth.com/about/join/careers.html>

<comment><AUTHOR> How important are the UI design skills? I can build about anything you could imagine, but, probably like most engineers, my design skills leave something to be desired.

</comment></comment><comment><USER66> We're definitely hiring! isocket is just south of San Francisco and literally right next to the Burlingame Caltrain station.

<http://isocket.com/jobs/>

We need a web developer and a platform engineer. We're small (6 people), working on something cool, have a small and growing set of initial customers (Techcrunch was our first) and a nice long invite list of people knocking to get in.

<comment><USER67> Don't forget the perks: Booze & cookies. =)

<comment><USER66> And fried chicken and dirty earbuds!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER68> We have an opening for a junior or intermediate Ops engineer at CBS Interactive in San Francisco (on-site).

You'd be supporting the Gamespot, Gamefaqs, and Metacritic production, dev, staging, and load testing environments (as well as some Business Intelligence sites related to the video gaming industry).

Linux/NetApp/scripting/Redis/MySQL/Varnish/Memcached/Gearman/LAMP/mod_rewrite/CDN/Jira... that sort of thing.

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER69> Vimeo is hiring backend and frontend devs, a DBA, and a designer. You have to be in NYC.

<http://vimeo.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER70> Twitter is hiring all kinds of engineers at all levels, <http://twitter.com/jobs> and @jointheflock has info. Located downtown San Francisco, we're about 150 people now and growing pretty fast. Looking for everything from front-end engineers to infrastructure, performance, storage engineers and more.

</comment><comment><USER71> Flurry's hiring Java developers in San Francisco or New York City. Mobile application development experience a plus (especially iPhone or Android), Hadoop experience a big plus. We could also use a great ops guy.

<http://flurry.com> or just e-mail me - greg at the domain you'd expect it to be at.

</comment><comment><USER72> HiiDef, Inc is based on the US East Coast. All work is done remotely. Our listings are available at - <http://jobs.hiidef.com/>

We recently launched a product - <http://flavors.me/> \- and we're looking for talented Python developers.

HiiDef is a consumer web incubator - this means we work on several products simultaneously. We're a distributed team of ten who value independence and communication. It's my job to make sure everyone has the tools and resources they need, but otherwise how and when they choose to work is up to them. We put a strong emphasis on balance and believe an environment based on trust and mutual respect is the best way to build a company.

Flavors.me is profitable on a day-to-day operating basis, and the company has an initial round of funding.

You can email me at email@example.com if you'd like to hear more.

</comment><comment><USER73> Palantir Technologies (<http://www.palantir.com>) is hiring for various technical positions in Palo Alto and for business development positions in NYC. On-site only. Contact me if you're interested: <http://bit.ly/aJiAWP>

</comment><comment><USER74> The Democratic National Committee / Organizing for America is looking for paid summer Innovation Lab Fellows to work on software for political organizing and realizing President Obama's vision for change.

<http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/devjobapp>

Summer positions are in Washington, DC

</comment><comment><USER75> Klicknation Inc, for which I am a product manager, is hiring.

Our flagship product is Superhero City, a Facebook game. You may wonder if a Facebook game can support a whole (small) company, and my answer would be a resounding 'yes'.

So if you love games and you're willing to work in Sacramento, CA, you should send us a resume.

Our next game, another Facebook RPG, will feature some really cool stuff that nobody has ever done before on Facebook.

We don't officially have any openings right now, but if your resume is good I will personally bother our CEO until you at least get an interview.

<http://apps.facebook.com/superherocity/>

<http://www.klicknation.com/site/jobs.html>

Email resumes to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will forward them to the appropriate people. Make sure to mention Hacker News so I know the resume is not completely unsolicited.

-Aaron

</comment><comment><USER76> Need a RoR developer in South Africa, preferably Johannesburg. Remote work may be possible if you're elsewhere in the country. E-mail is in my profile.

You'd be working on <http://www.simplepay.co.za> \- South African online payroll system. Equity possibilities depend on salary.

</comment><comment><USER77> Metaweb (San Francisco) is hiring

<http://www.metaweb.com/jobs>

systems programming, C, ml, python

</comment><comment><USER78> TinyPrints is hiring in Mountain View (onsite). We're looking for LAMP experts (P stands for PHP). We have exciting projects in the social network areas, distributed system development and platform areas (MongoDB/Cassandra), CMS and many others. Apply at firstname.lastname@example.com

<comment><USER79> Say hi to Tanya for me!

</comment></comment><comment><USER80> San Mateo, CA -- Caring.com is hiring a full-time, on site, Senior Software Developer

We are a really fun team to work with, just acquired our series B round of funding, Agile development/product team, Work with Ruby and Rails, looks for people who really strive to produce great consumer experiences (front-end skills a massive plus)

You should: have 3+ years of rails experience (less if you have more experience in a different language, like python or java), 4+ years of HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience (knowledge of or willingness to learn HAML/SASS a huge plus), should know your way around UNIX systems, etc etc.

read the job description here and apply! <http://www.caring.com/about/senior- developer.html>

</comment><comment><USER81> In NYC (or anywhere, remotely) - looking for with experience in PHP/CodeIgniter, jQuery, Compass/SASS, MongoDB - and have a good UI sense - flexible/freelance OK - email me - lee at <http://sawhorsemedia.com/>

</comment><comment><USER82> Mandalorian is looking for Penetration Testers and Reverse Engineers (<http://www.mandalorian.com/>) in the UK. The office is based in Reading, but remote working is an option for the right people.

</comment><comment><USER83> Kansas City:

River City Studio is looking for a LAMP developer. We were a design studio, are currently a web studio, are now evolving into a web app studio.

<http://www.rivercitystudio.com/who/jobs.php>

</comment><comment><USER84> Milwaukee, WI: <http://www.harqen.com> is looking for a Java dev. Ping email@example.com if interested.

Must as good with Java as Indiana Jones (Raiders version) or Jason Bourne are at being awesome.

</comment><comment><USER85> SideReel is looking for an experienced Agile Java guru (beard optional) to join our team as a web software engineer.

Check out our full posting here: <http://www.sidereel.com/_us/jobs>

SideReel is a great place to work. We are a small well-established start-up located on the top floor of an old brick office building south of Market Street in San Francisco. We offer competitive salaries, great vacation time, significant equity and paid benefits. Come join a fast-growing web site with millions of users that aims to be the center of the online TV world!

</comment><comment><USER86> Fuel Industries, we're a game dev / advergaming shop focused mostly on social games at the moment.

We're looking for web developers that like big jobs and small ones. My team handles everything from portal sites through full real time MMO server development, and we're always looking for talent.

<http://fuelindustries.com/>

Our dev shop is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We have sales offices in LA and Seattle.

No remote opportunities right now, but we offer competitive salaries and relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Contact me for more info or shoot me a resume: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER87> GEICO is hiring a Senior .NET developer. We're looking for someone with experience with WCF and XSLT.

This is an on-site position in one of our Virginia/DC area locations.

<http://bit.ly/amL04L>

</comment><comment><USER88> American Roamer is hiring. We make interactive maps like Google Maps and have a large cloud infrastructure to maintain. We mostly use Ruby, Javascript, SQL, and C. We have also started moving into Hadoop based data processing. Looking for smart people with good problem solving skills and experience with any of these technologies.

We will find the best fit in our organization for you. We need developers to handle data analysis, web programming, algorithm research, and cloud infrastructure development.

Based in Memphis, TN.

<http://www.cellmaps.com/>

</comment><comment><USER89> Yelp is still hiring. We're in downtown San Francisco. Frontend, backend, iPhone, Android, you name it. Lots of python. <http://www.yelp.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER90> LeftRight is hiring and be part of the team building our mobile platform service. We're part of AlphaLab Summer 2009 and we already have revenue and paying customers for our soon to be launched mobile platform! We're based out of Pittsburgh, PA. Telecommute friendly!

Needed: Server side developer. Most of the backend is developed using Rails/Ruby, RESTful type API/web service. So Rails/Ruby is essential. If you like to experiment with cool cool stuff, like cassandra, ec2, cloud hosting, that's even better.

Drop me an email at my HN username @ leftrightstudios.net

</comment><comment><USER91> Think is hiring iPhone, Android, LAMP and JavaScript developers in Palo Alto.

<http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html>

<comment><USER92> I find it strange to be hiring a 5-year LAMP veteran as an intern. hmmm.

<comment><USER91> Fixed.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER93> youDevise, a small financial-software firm in London, England committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software, is hiring developers, QA staff, operations team members, and other smart folks of many kinds. See <http://www.youdevise.com/careers> and <https://dev.youdevise.com>.

No remote working, but we do help the right people move to London (having a master's degree helps those outside the European Union).

</comment><comment><USER94> SurveyMonkey is hiring. We're just starting some very exciting things and are looking to fill a wide variety of different roles - <http://www.surveymonkey.com/jobs/Home_Jobs.htm>

We have offices both in Portland, OR and Menlo Park, CA (right next to Caltrain). We're looking mainly to hire in the Bay Area. We've got a really great benefits package, competitive salary, and most importantly a really awesome team.

Any questions, or to reach out to me: timc at surveymonkey.

<comment><AUTHOR> Does "looking mainly to hire in the Bay Area" mean you are only considering current Bay Area residents? I'm willing to move away from my current location, so I was just curious.

<comment><USER94> I relocated from Boston to the Bay Area when I joined SurveyMonkey. I just meant our preference is to expand our Menlo Park office.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for clarifying!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER95> Invite Media is hiring in Philadelphia and NYC (<http://www.invitemedia.com/careers/open_positions.shtml>)

</comment><comment><USER96> Wolters Kluwer Health in NYC is embarking on several new projects on the SharePoint 2010 platform. This is a new platform for most of us and we'll be spending a lot of time getting training, so we'd like to fill an open Sr Software Developer position with someone who's already got relevant experience.

[http://www.wolterskluwer.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fu...](http://www.wolterskluwer.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=4567&CurrentPage=1)

</comment><comment><USER97> Hotlist (<http://www.thehotlist.com/>) in New York City is hiring a server side developers. The person has to be able to write PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl without difficulty. Experiences with MySQL or can learn Database programming on the fly. Please check out our startuply ad [http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Talented_LAMP_developer_backen...](http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Talented_LAMP_developer_backend__1827_5.aspx)

</comment><comment><USER98> Viximo in Boston is hiring RoR engineers (or solid web devs that learn fast.) <http://viximo.com/job/server_eng>

</comment><comment><USER99> Boston, MA: Zazu (<http://getzazu.com>) -- in the middle of rebranding. We're looking for a few full time developers and dev interns.

We do mobile stuff (we're working on an android app now, but we've got iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, etc in the pipes), really cool NLP stuff with RSS feeds, and fantastically awesome database stuff.

Job can be done remotely, though we'd prefer that you're in the area.

Give me a ping if you're interested (marc at ^the domain up there^).

</comment><comment><USER100> If you're in Texas, we're hiring another software developer here at MileMeter. See <http://milemeter.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER101> Track.com is looking for a few people, both summer interns and full time (and possibly part time, depending on the person). Django experience is a big plus.

Track.com is a financial research platform that gives experienced market commentators a place to publish their ideas, and the general public access to the high quality research typically available only to high net worth individuals. Our offices are in midtown Manhattan. Contact rich@

</comment><comment><USER102> To anyone on here who is hiring: I just launched a job board that specifically targets the HN niche. You can use the coupon code "HN" (in caps) for a free full time job posting. That coupon is good for the first 100 posts (I don't think that will be an issue). The site is Genius Pool: <http://geniuspool.com/?s=hn> (I'd love any feedback but that's a separate thread).

</comment><comment><USER103> CollegeHumor is hiring developers - <http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs#job_18>

</comment><comment><USER104> Looking for experience in any of the following: Python, C, or LabVIEW Analog and Digital Electronics Design Control Theory and Systems

email@example.com

<comment><USER105> Looks like this is in Texas (erdosmiller.com), but you might want to also mention whether or not this is a remote work job.

</comment></comment><comment><USER106> We're looking for a few great .NET developers in NYC - we're the US division of a large (but privately owned) international media company (<http://www.haymarket.com>). Located right in Chelsea, lots of exciting projects and technologies. Email firstname.lastname@example.com if interested! Thanks, Christian.

</comment><comment><USER107> Looking for security engineers interested in consulting, penetration testing, development, and research. Experience with C, C++, Java, .NET a plus.

Positions open in both London and NYC offices (candidates must be willing to relocate if not local)

See <http://www.gdssecurity.com/g/ca.php> for more information.

</comment><comment><USER108> Posterous! <http://posterous.theresumator.com/apply/>

</comment><comment><USER109> If you're in the Los Angeles/Pasadena/SGV area, my company (Green Dot) has about 11 I.T. openings right now:

[http://tbe.taleo.net/NA7/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp;jsess...](http://tbe.taleo.net/NA7/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp;jsessionid=7956465725BECCB7C4F11CBCD7965AA0.NA7_primary_jvm?org=GREENDOT&cws=1)

</comment><comment><USER110> If you're hiring or looking for a co-founder, list your startup on <http://www.startuplinkup.com>. It's a simple, semantic wiki - a more permanent home for your search. Or you can find a startup to work for. (shameless promotion of my site)

</comment><comment><USER111> MX Telecom are looking for devs in London. Mobile messaging and applications for folk like 118118/KGB_ BBC and Twitter

We like great software, Frisbee and the colour blue

<http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/careers/roles/softdev>

<comment><USER111> No remote working, sorry.

</comment></comment><comment><USER112> mncaudill,

If you're wanting someone to drop you a line, perhaps putting some contact information up would help?

<comment><USER112> Not sure why this is getting downvoted, it seems to be a perfectly reasonable request. I, for one, wanted to get in touch.

<comment><AUTHOR> I just realized that my email address wasn't public and only my personal website was.

My email address is nolan at nolancaudill.com. Sorry about that and please email away!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER113> DBL Systems is looking for a freelance Designer/UI person and a freelance Rails developer. Please visit <http://www.dblsystems.com/contact> \- Location: NJ/Jersey Shore but work can be remote.

</comment><comment><USER114> We're running a "speed interviewing" event on 4/27 in NYC to connect software people and companies. Check out who's coming on hirelite.com

If you're impatient or want to get in touch with a previous company that's come, let me know and I'll put you in contact with them.

</comment><comment><USER115> Genlighten is looking for a Front-end UI/UX Designer / Rails Developer. Details are at <http://bit.ly/dshmNY>. Preferred location would be Chicago or Logan, Utah, but remote may also work. Thanks!

</comment><comment> cool-RR Is there a Ranorex developer here who takes freelance work? I'd be interested, contact me.

</comment><comment><USER49> At Last.fm we're looking for an experienced web developer in London:

<http://www.last.fm/about/jobs#job_PHP+Web+Developer>

There are also a few other jobs on the page there, all based in London.

</comment><comment><USER116> StreamFocus is hiring: Part-time Sr. Front end Javascript guru at exciting start-up (San Francisco) - <http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/1656317518.html>

</comment><comment> brown9-2 Citrix Online is hiring Java engineers (primarily) in Santa Barbara, CA and San Francisco.

See <http://www.citrixonline.com/careers.tmpl> or drop me an email at msb264 at gmail

</comment><comment><USER117> Posterous is hiring Rails engineers in San Francisco. We're a super small team (6 full time engineers) and have big challenges to be tackled ahead. Also, we're about to get new offices in the Mission right at 16th and Mission!

<comment><USER118> You guys are doing everything right. Keep it up.

(If I had more rails experience (working on it!) and lived in San Francisco (My dream!) I'd totally look this up.)

</comment></comment><comment><USER119> If you have RoR experience and a head for design - drop me an email. (In NYC)

</comment><comment><USER120> BitTorrent Inc. is hiring. You can send your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER121> [Boston, MA] Delsys, Inc is hiring Win32 desktop application developers. <http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6580>

</comment><comment><USER122> New York, NY: NewsCore is hiring: Java, Linux, Python

[http://crunchboard.personforce.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid...](http://crunchboard.personforce.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=7709)

</comment><comment><USER123> StreetEasy.com is hiring Rubyists in NYC! We're looking for smart people who want to work with Ruby/Rails so drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com with your resume if you are interested.

</comment><comment><USER124> Nasuni - Natick, MA (boston area) is hiring a business development person, as well as sales.

<http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/>

</comment><comment><USER125> Listia (YC S09) is hiring a talented Rails developer! <http://www.listia.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER126> My company is hiring, in SF: <http://younoodle.com/static/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER127> My co is hiring soon. C/C++ in Richardson, TX

</comment><comment><USER128> We're hiring in Waterloo, Ontario <http://www.tophatmonocle.com>

</comment><comment><USER129> C/Assembler/Linux kernel expert on hardcore low-level concurrent stuff? I would be interested to talk. We work remotely.

<comment><USER130> Need contact info, or is that part of the prescreening? ;-)

<comment><USER129> Sorry I thought my email showed up - please email me on email@example.com. We're a small team building a hypervisor for the linux kernel. I am looking to find the people in advance to be ready as demand may arise quickly.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER131> www.clickbooth.com is hiring in Sarasota, FL. Advertising network. Contextual ad placement. Multi Variate. Tracking Platforms that scale to 30bn impressions a month. Free snacks and beverages, free health insurance, flexible work hours. Email me at email@example.com (no dashes)

</comment><comment><USER132> Anyone know of anything in Canada?

<comment><USER15> Mozilla Toronto! We have an office with about 20-30 people there. Great place to work and you'll visit HQ in Mountain View, CA once or twice a year.

<http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa>

</comment></comment><comment><USER133> Anybody in Chicago? I only see a few on here - there's gotta be more! :-)

</comment><comment><USER134> Any jobs in Applied Math or Computational Science (masters (me) or PhD)?

<comment><USER18> We are looking for someone with a strong math/science background to work on our matching algorithm and pull insights out of our logged data. Email me if you want to learn more: jake(at)bu.mp.

</comment></comment><comment><USER135> Anybody hiring in India? Or willing to take in an Indian developer?

</comment><comment><USER136> Nothing in Seattle or vicinity?

<comment><USER137> We're looking for a Flex plus some reasonable combination of: PHP, MySQL, jQuery, CouchDB. Seattle based.

Contract to perm, pending closing our Series A (hopefully in the next few weeks).

Some remote is a possibility.

<http://myprofitsee.com> peterj at myprofitsee.com

</comment></comment><comment><USER138> Something in France ?

</comment><comment><USER139> ExtraHop Networks is hiring. We're a startup in Seattle with a high-end network analysis product that already demolishes our competition in many ways. Ideally we're looking for superb C programmers but if you're a great programmer and are looking to work on challenging problems then please send me an email: ben at extrahop dot com.

We have venture backing from Madrona and Andreessen Horowitz.</comment>


Ask HN: Selling my first commercial software and would like some feedback - <AUTHOR>

Hi HNer's,
My goal since I started developing software 11 years ago was to some day release my first piece of commercial software. My goal for 2011 was to do it this year. Well, in the second week of 2011, I've done it.
Today I launched Kwolla, a piece of social networking software so you can build your own social network.
You can browse to http://kwolla.com to check it out.
I'm rather proud that I finally have a piece of software I can market, sell, and hopefully make money off of.
Right now it sells for $149, but if you use the coupon code HACKERS20, you'll get another 20% off. There is an easter egg in the site and if you find it, you get a coupon code for 30% off.
I want your opinions on how I can improve my chances of selling my software and making it enticing to buyers. It's perfect for a wide array of uses: setting up a social network for your office, or fraternity/sorority, a book club, a Linux Users Group, and so on.
In addition to Kwolla, I wrote the software behind the site which powers the PayPal integration and digital downs. I plan on releasing that soon so other developers, musicians, authors, or otherwise digital content creators could easily set up a site to handle sales of their products.
If there's any glaring omissions I've made or you have any and all input, I'd love to hear it.
Thank you for your time.
http://kwolla.com <comment> clark-kent $150 seems expensive. It would be better if you create a service based on kwolla that allows users to easily setup their own social network. You host the social network for them, and charge a monthly fee like $9.00 starter and premium $39 etc. The thing is that most average users don't like to setup and config servers, thats why email services and blogging services are so popular.

Hackers are usually the early adopters and they are the ones that will recommend your product to mainstream users, but the thing is that hackers don't like paying for software. Hackers don't like licenses. I think its a good idea to make kwolla open source, so that users can host it themselves for free or pay you to host it for them and provide support.

Making it open source also helps you develop a community around the product. You get users contributing code, fixing bugs, writing documentation, beta testing new features etc. With open source you also get viral distribution, lots of goodwill and free marketing. This is similar to Automattic's business model with Wordpress and Wordpress.com.

<comment><AUTHOR> Because Kwolla existed as an actual site before (<http://www.prospectvista.com>) that didn't go anywhere, we had discussed open sourcing it. One of my main goals for 2011 was to have a commercial product, and this (and the shopping cart running the kwolla.com site) is it.

I'm considering making it a SaaS type product, that might work out very well.

Everyone is telling me $150 is too steep, so I'll lower the price too.

Thanks for your input.

</comment></comment><comment><USER2> There is way too much stuff on the Tour and Features page. Features is especially bad.

I think it is great to have that kind of indepth information, but probably on a deeper page. A prominent link from the homepage should give a higher level view. There also looks like there is a bunch of stuff the average person (your customer) wouldn't understand.

Here is just a short list of things: MVC, entire open source bit, under templates I'd remove everything except the talk of 19 languages and email templates. Vanity URLs, search indexer, drm, etc.

Keep that info available, but put it on a deeper page.

I'd figure up like 5-10 big features, figure out what benefits they offer and sell on those benefits.

Frequent use of the word module. Instead of telling me you have a built in message board, you're telling me a forum module is available.

Over all, it is way way too jargon heavy.

Let me browse the kwolla code online rather than having to download it.

Kwolla logo on the purchase page doesn't link back to the index page (though this may be by design)

Make the Live Demo link more prominent... And when I go to it make me already logged in so I can get started, rather than telling me what username and password to use.

<comment><AUTHOR> Wow, thanks for all of the feedback!

Yes, the logo on the payment page intentionally doesn't link back. It's an anti-pattern, and I'm playing around with if it actually will work or not.

I'll be working on the copy extensively this weekend, again, thank you for the feedback.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> $150 seems expensive, any selling points over <http://lovdbyless.com> ?

<comment><AUTHOR> It's not a huge selling point, but Kwolla also gives users some basic statistics and analytics on their profile. It also handles conversion of video itself without having to first upload it to Youtube.

Elgg would be the PHP version, it's free and open source. The code is very poor and it's hard to author on. Kwolla is very clearly written and easy to write modules for.

The two biggest paid competitors are Ning and SocialEngine. Both have more features, but are more expensive. Ning is hosted and not as customizable (since you don't have the source) and SocialEngine is more expensive (but it's an impressive product nonetheless).

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> If anyone is still following this thread, I changed the layout of the site, made an overview page, and lowered the price to $79.

If you're interested in a free copy of the software, email me firstname.lastname@example.com.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> And a clickable link: <http://kwolla.com></comment>


Why We Hire .NET Programmers (and all other kinds of programmers) - <AUTHOR> http://codedoc.zocdoc.com/why-we-hire-net-programmers-and-all-other-kinds-of-programmers/294

<comment><USER2> My problem with .NET is not as much that it is "high-level" as it is completely closed and Microsoft driven. The framework has some serious short comings, but unfortunately the only solution is to pray that Microsoft will eventually decide that it is worth changing, and until then you have to do with ugly hacks.

Just last night I had to basically reimplement the entire email class MailMessage simply because Microsoft didn't bother making it Serializable from the beginning. That's 500 lines of code that I could've used on making our product better instead.

More specifically on this post, point #3 just seems childish to me; "If we can't use X then you can't use Y either !!" Guess what, I hate Java too. I do however imagine Java, and especially Rails being more open in it's development. I honestly don't know much about either stack, but again I imagine you'd at least be able to hack all the low-level parts of Rails if you wanted - and that is a _huge_ difference.

Finally, for a startup that does "language-agnostic" interviews, why not choose a more platform-agnostic environment to begin with?</comment>


Pakistan blocks sites which contains word 'Shoes' in the URL - <AUTHOR> http://waqasali.me/2012/01/11/pakistan-blocks-sites-which-contains-word-shoes-in-the-url/

<comment><USER2> I think all National Firewalls of Purity should block sites which contain the word "Shoes" in the URL. How else would they protect their country's precious bodily essence?</comment>


Cloud control - <AUTHOR> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9e3bf12-1973-11de-9d34-0000779fd2ac.html <comment><USER2> This is the first article that I've read on 'cloud computing' that seemed to be based on fact and not on fancy. Great link! Thanks.</comment>


Compile-time version strings in CMake - <AUTHOR> http://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2018-01-06-versioning/ <comment><USER2> A useful post. A pity that CMake's scripting language is so atrocious, but it's good to see it's capable of this kind of thing.

Personally I tend to go the route wmu mentions in their comment: add a file named MyProject.h.in, to expose CMake variables in a generated header file. I use the C preprocessor's stringification [0] to transform version numbers into strings. My approach (really just CMake basics) doesn't expose any git specifics though - it's more basic than what the blog describes.

The MyProject.h.in file looks like:

        #define MyProject_VERSION_MAJOR @MyProject_VERSION_MAJOR@
        #define MyProject_VERSION_MINOR @MyProject_VERSION_MINOR@

        #define EXPAND_AND_STRINGIFY(s) STRINGIFY(s)
        #define STRINGIFY(s) #s

        #define MyProject_VERSION_MAJOR_STR EXPAND_AND_STRINGIFY(MyProject_VERSION_MAJOR)
        #define MyProject_VERSION_MINOR_STR EXPAND_AND_STRINGIFY(MyProject_VERSION_MINOR)

        #define MyProject_VERSION_STR MyProject_VERSION_MAJOR_STR "." MyProject_VERSION_MINOR_STR

Getting CMake to process this file is simple enough: we just add _configure_file(MyProjectConfig.h.in MyProjectConfig.h)_ to the CMakeLists.txt file.

[0] [https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.5/cpp/Stringification...](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.5/cpp/Stringification.html)

</comment><comment><USER3> Instead of creating C code inside cmake scripts it's better to use command configure_file ([https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/configure_file.h...](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/configure_file.html)). The command creates a source file based on a template file.

<comment><USER4> That doesn't run at compile time though.

<comment><USER2> I'm not sure what you mean here. It should use CMake's usual change- detection/dependency-tracking mechanism. [0]

The generation of the .h file from the .h.in file _does_ happen at compile- time. (Well, at _build_ time, right before the compiler is invoked.)

[0] [https://stackoverflow.com/a/24246566/](https://stackoverflow.com/a/24246566/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Modifying the source files in the build may break distributed builds(distcc) and cache(ccache). Maybe pass git version as defines add_compile_definitions/add_definitions aka (-DGITVER=yourvar) ?

</comment><comment><USER6> I do not understand the "dummy output" technique. Since nothing depends on _version.cpp, why does its existence force the command to be re-run?

The usual technique is to have some script check the git version, then output two files: the version.cpp file, and a "witness" file which changes every run. The script should be careful to not perturb the mod date of version.cpp unless it has changed.

This is coupled with Ninja's "restat" option. Without that option, Ninja will observe that version.cpp will be recreated and schedule all of its dependents (such as linking). With that option, Ninja will behave more like Make, check if the file was actually modified.

See CMake's (weirdly-placed) docs on this: [https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/policy/CMP0058.html](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/policy/CMP0058.html)

Here's fish shell's version gen script: [https://github.com/fish-shell/fish- shell/blob/master/build_t...](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish- shell/blob/master/build_tools/git_version_gen.sh)

</comment><comment> awinter-py versioning has always felt like something that should be first-class in programming languages, but isn't because language + buildsystem + VCS aren't tightly coupled

package managers, for example, should know the git sha

</comment><comment><USER7> Once upon a time, we had version control systems that provided keyword expansion for something like %G% (SCCS, BitKeeper) or $Id$ (RCS, CVS come to mind). With git, this has fallen out of fashion, however, but I'm not sure why.

<comment><USER8> Is that somehow fundamentally different from "git describe --tags --always"?

<comment><USER9> Yes. When you checked a file into VSS it would expand the string $Id$ before actually writing the file into the repo, so it would be in the file you checked out. So if you had a copy of that file, you could know instantly what revision it was from. If you had blah.c on your disk and you had a Git repo it's far harder to say "what commit did this copy of the file actually come from"?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> This is better than the canonical approach of using CMake's configure_file as that runs at compile time while this runs at configure time. The problem with generating your version file at compile time is that it is always newer than an existing output, therefore every make causes a relink/re-ar.

</comment><comment><USER11> If you're executing the script with add_custom_command, what's the benefit of writing the script itself in CMake's scripting language rather than (e.g.) bash or Python? The CMakeLists.txt file is treating the script as a black box anyway.</comment>


Active inference and artificial curiosity (2017) [video] - <AUTHOR> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1egnoCWgUg <comment><USER2> > Professor Karl Friston (University College London) speaks at the University > of Edinburgh, 31st March 2017.

> Abstract: This talk offers a formal account of insight and learning in terms > of active (Bayesian) inference. It deals with the dual problem of inferring > states of the world and learning its statistical structure. In contrast to > current trends in machine learning (e.g., deep learning), we focus on how > agents learn from a small number of ambiguous outcomes to form insight.

> Karl will present simulations of abstract rule-learning and approximate > Bayesian inference to show that minimising (expected) free energy leads to > active sampling of novel contingencies. This epistemic, curiosity-directed > behaviour closes 'explanatory gaps' in knowledge about the causal structure > of the world; thereby reducing ignorance, in addition to resolving > uncertainty about states of the known world.

> We then move from inference to model selection or structure learning to show > how abductive processes emerge when agents test plausible hypotheses about > symmetries in their generative models of the world. The ensuing Bayesian > model reduction evokes mechanisms associated with sleep and has all the > hallmarks of 'aha moments'.

</comment><comment><USER3> I've been exploring into this space. Some more links for people who are interested:

\- A tutorial on active inference [https://medium.com/@solopchuk/tutorial-on- active-inference-3...](https://medium.com/@solopchuk/tutorial-on-active- inference-30edcf50f5dc)

\- Deep Active Inference [https://kaiu.me/2017/07/11/introducing-the-deep- active-infer...](https://kaiu.me/2017/07/11/introducing-the-deep-active- inference-agent/)

\- A minimal active inference agent [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273640094_A_Minimal...](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273640094_A_Minimal_Active_Inference_Agent)

\- The book Surfing Uncertainty is the longest exposition of this idea that I've come across. It's review [http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book- review-surfing-unc...](http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review- surfing-uncertainty/)

\- SlateStarCodex on 'God Help Us, Let's Try to Understand Friston' [http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try- to...](http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to- understand-friston-on-free-energy/)

If anyone is interested in exploring the area, we can form a little study group. Contact me paras1987 <at> gmail <dot> com. My near-term goal is to implement an agent that does active inference in Python or PyTorch.

</comment><comment><USER4> This is some of the most important work I've encountered in machine learning, to-date.</comment>


Laziness, greed, and stupidity - <AUTHOR> http://www.ideasonideas.com/2010/08/dark-forces-are-gathering/

<comment><USER2> This seems to read like [http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing- Ourse...](http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to- Death.html) and its source- is there anything new here?

(That is, other than the suggestion that the best way to combat large-scale industrial waste is through personal actions not unlike turning off the lights at home?)

<comment><AUTHOR> I did read Postman's book a few years back, so there certainly may be themes from there that I've inadvertently referenced. I feel that Postman was talking more about the challenges associated with media, while I was looking at our ideas surrounding consumption.

For the record, though, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was quite a good read. :-)

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> > The American government bails out giants of industry, while a substantial > part of the populace still protests universal health care. Isn't that a sort > of strange thing?

I think the people protesting government-run healthcare are also protesting GM and bank bailouts even louder. But regardless, this submission seems pretty conducive to an unproductive politics mudsling, so going to just flag and move on.

<comment><AUTHOR> Do you really think the post boiled down to just "an unproductive politics mudsling"?

Although you're free to hold that opinion, I have to say that it does perplex me. Either it means that you didn't give it a thorough read, or I simply failed in writing it.

In my mind, the political component was a rather small part of the overall argument--which I'd hope would be worthy of more discussion.

Perhaps I'm a little on the hyperbolic side at times, but I keep thinking that we're doing very little to address a problem that's going to have enormous impacts on all of us.

As for the GM/Healthcare discussion, you'll have to forgive me. Being on the northern side of the border, it's hard to understand why so many in America seem so angry about it.

<comment><USER3> > Do you really think the post boiled down to just "an unproductive politics > mudsling"?

No, but I think the discussion on HN is likely to devolve into that. There's a reason politics articles are more or less banned here. I know it's your own site you're promoting so it makes sense to just submit wherever, but you're talking about politics, economics, egalatarianism, regulation, socialism, healthcare, bailouts, environmental atrocities - this is all crammed into one post.

No one who sees your post is going to get convinced one way or another - people who were sympathetic are going to remain sympathetic, people who were hostile are going to remain hostile. That's we try to stay away from politics here.

<comment><USER4> Why do you think that is? Why is it so hard to discuss these things in a meaningful way. We all like to think we are reasonable people, that we are open to having our minds changed, and yet it does seem to be impossible to talk about big ideas in any setting other than a dialogue between friends.

<comment><AUTHOR> I don't really know. To me, it's always seemed that the best, and most interesting, discussions are the ones with some "meat" to them.

My wife's uncle was a very loud man. He was also well read and intelligent. I didn't agree with him on everything, but greatly enjoyed our discussions (particularly the ones accompanied by good scotch).

His sons later recounted a phrase he had used commonly. I paraphrase, but it was something akin to: "Argue with the person across the table as though you love them." I'm butchering the phrasing here, but I believe the sentiment holds.

To Terry, a heated debate was a positive thing, and never an attack--no matter how fierce the discussion became. I've always liked that thinking, and believe it's the way we actually learn new things and strengthen our resolve on what we believe.

<comment> loup-vaillant > "Argue with the person across the table as though you love them."

Excellent. Probably one of the best way to be willing to actually change your mind. [http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/How_To_Actually_Change_Your_M...](http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/How_To_Actually_Change_Your_Mind)</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Android apps can now use Subscription Billing - <AUTHOR> http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_subscriptions.html

<comment><USER2> The title is misleading. You could already use subscription billing using the old (v2) inapp billing API[0] for quite a while. They added that feature to the new API as well.

[0]: [http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/v2/billing_...](http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/v2/billing_subscriptions.html)

<comment><AUTHOR> Apologies for this being old. I didn't know subscriptions were also in v2 of the billing API. The page sounded a bit as though it might have been a soft launch.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I personally would rather just roll out my own (simple) subscription system using Paypal or something, because the 30% cut that Google takes on Play Store purchases is a bit too much.

<comment><USER4> Generally, you are not allowed to use other payment methods except it is physical goods/services or the digital goods can be consumed outside of the app.

[http://play.google.com/intl/en/about/developer-content- polic...](http://play.google.com/intl/en/about/developer-content-policy.html)

<comment><USER5> You can do what you want if not using Play's IAP or subscriptions. Google's trying to avoid "click OK to subscribe for $10/month or subscribe on our website for $8/month"

<comment><USER6> Yes, but then you have to work a lot harder for your customers.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Are developers still limited to a minimum subscription of $1/increment? So its ether $12/year or $1/year... I don't understand this.

<comment><USER8> American credit card billing practices necessitate this.

It's a per-purchase fee.

<comment><USER7> Even the increments? Why wouldnt it be possible to do quarterly subscriptions?

<comment><USER8> They may remove it because many people do yearly who'd do quarterly, but that's just speculation</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Darpa shows off 1.8-gigapixel drone, can spot a person from 20K feet - <AUTHOR> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1-8-gigapixel-surveillance-drone-can-spot-a-terrorist-from-20000-feet?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darpa-shows-off-1-8-gigapixel-surveillance-drone-can-spot-a-terrorist-from-20000-feet <comment><USER2> Some context: ARGUS was critical in winning the war in Iraq. It was the critical centerpiece of Task Force ODIN, and they set it up in hotspots to monitor 24/7.

Once a roadside IED bomb was detected, they rewound the video, tracked the person who setup the bomb, then tracked that person back to the supplier for the IED/Financials. ODIN killed about ~3000 in Iraq and at least ~1000 in Afghanistan See: [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1142211...](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114221171)

Argus is now obsolete, they had a replacement RFP back in 2009. [http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/new-army-camera- prom...](http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/new-army-camera-promises- total-surveillance/)

Also a quick note, the aircraft had a 274 mbit/s uplink for streaming the live feeds.

Edit: Fixed 27/7

<comment><USER3> Impressive. Can't wait until it's put into day to day life for tracking UPS / DHL deliveries.

<comment><USER4> Or marihuana smokers and dealers. But not alcohol or tobacco sellers.

<comment><USER5> Yeah, that guy who dealt marihuana on rollerblades in NYC could get tracked in a sting operation which would also _catch most of his customers_. All they'd have to do is to "tail" him with such a device over a month.

Right now, it would be way too expensive to devote such a system to catch one dealer, but the scary thing is that systems like this could surveil and process entire regions/neighborhoods as a batch, and the expense of doing so is driven by the cost of communications and processing power. However, we know those costs are going to go down. From this, we should be able to estimate the time when large metropolitan police departments will be able to afford such capabilities.

That gives a concrete deadline for interested parties who wish to act.

EDIT: To clarify -- that would be a deadline for _when it will be too late_ not a deadline for _when to safely act by_!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> There are a LOT of very useful things that drones can do. A short list:

      * delivering food
      * scouting location based markets
      * observing weather patterns
      * optimizing traffic flow/stop lights
      * crowd management
      * emergency relief

Entire startups could be built around the gathering and analysis of visual data from drones. A lot of businesses can a benefit from a little bit of being in the right place at the right time, and some business are only possible with reliable real time information. Imagine the applications to all kinds of businesses if they could put a 24 hour, 10,000 foot tail on their rivals. It won't be long before these drones have the ability to read a piece of paper from thousands of feet away.

From a machine learning perspective, I see drones as flying data factories. So much can be learned and predicted based on the movements of people, animals and low pressure systems. The level of "eyes on" analysis provided by drones can really improve a lot of key technologies. Privacy will be an issue of course, along with the logistics of many flying machines in the same air space. Smart cities of the future will operate their own drones and charge a subscription to the data feed for businesses.

I think it's definitely work watching the PBS Nova episode about drones [1]. I walked away thinking about the implications of 10 years of advancement in this field.

[1] [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the- drones.htm...](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html)

<comment><USER7> Drones should never be privatized, combining that much surveillance data with your Facebook data, it can basically predict your next move. That would be too much power in the hands of big corporations or malicious hackers.

<comment><USER8> Luckily we'll keep drone use safe and restricted to governments, immune to the ill intents of big corporations and malicious hackers.

<comment><USER9> Wall Street already uses satellite data to determine sales for WalMart by seeing how full the car parks are:

[http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872/New_Big_Brother_MarketMoving...](http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872/New_Big_Brother_MarketMoving_Satellite_Images)

The next logical step is for a private drone company with the ability to collect, and analyse this data in near real time and sell it to Wall Street. Maybe even sell the data to WalMart so they can monitor staffing levels, and have the right amount of staff on the tills at all times for maximum throughput.

You could also monitor shipping at ports, rail yard delivery volume, trucks at warehouses and so on.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> I couldn't sleep at night knowing I used my engineering degree to enable global spying and summary executions of 'militant safehouses' full of kids, or enabling western friendly dictatorships like Yemen and Bahrain by helping them crush dissidents.

It's like when I hear about Physicists who no doubt got into the field to explore the universe and everything in it then ended up making audio weapons for the military for the sole reason of dispersing protests.

<comment><USER11> It's great that you wouldn't. But it's really very arrogant to assume that there exists no reasonable moral system that would allow an engineer to participate in drone development or audio weapons.

<comment><USER12> That reasonable moral system is the colour green and comes with dead presidents on it

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> > _can spot a terrorist from 20k feet_

What's the altitude for detecting unarmed non-combatants?

<comment><USER14> One of the definitions of "armed combatant" is "person killed in a drone strike", so don't worry.

<comment><USER15> According to this article[0] it means 'all military-age males in a strike zone', unless there is evidence posthumously that indicates a combatant is innocent.

So the definition is narrower.

[0] <http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/>

<comment><USER16> Seems to be wider than you are claiming: "unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent" is the quote. What burden of proof are they using?

<comment><USER13> When the rocket hit 'em, they exploded, therefore they must have had explosives on them, therefore they're a combatant.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> So it can resolve 6 inches at 20k feet. About 1 pixel of resolution for the "terrorist's" face. At least they have a roughly 4x12 pixel image to make a sound determination as to which person to target.

<comment><USER18> What does the face have to do with it? Do terrorists have different faces?

I imagine context is important. Camping in a tree with something that looks like a RPG, overlooking a supply route? Certainly suspect, no matter what your face looks like.

All that said, the article has very little to say about terrorists. At least as far as the article itself goes, it looks like the terrorist bit in the headline was just an attention grabber.

<comment><USER17> I'm sure you're aware how regularly drones are used for targeted assassination. Identification and tracking seems important.

<comment><USER19> Don't assume what's actually happening is all that close to what's being described in an article like this. The goal is mostly just passive surveillance, a crappy video of something interesting is far better than a really high resolution video of an empty street.

PS: Don't forget your not limited to having one drone at a time.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> This must be a really valuable information asset. Think about when a IED goes off, they can reply the events leading up to this attack, trace the vehicles/people involved back to houses/buildings. What about when a murder or bank robbery happens. You can just watch when/where/who is doing what! This is some jack bauer stuff!

<comment><USER21> My thoughts exactly. It would be almost trivial to find out where someone has driven their car after committing a crime. I'm curious to see what might happen if they deploy these in US cities.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> This is a clip from PBS's "Rise of the Drones" [1]

[1] [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the- drones.htm...](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html)

<comment><USER22> A little more context from that episode - this 1.8 GP camera thing was in part because operators would get tunnel vision when running the mega-zoom camera on the Predator drone for too long. They'd be tracking a van and miss the larger context that the van is full of school children. Nova painted this camera as a way to never lose the bigger picture. Of course now you've got a massive bandwidth problem.

No mention was made of the obvious solution: add a second low-zoom camera. A basic usability feature would be to click on a spot in the low-zoom area and have the high-zoom camera immediately track over to that spot, making it very easy to flip between several locations with the high-zoom lens.

edit: Other bit of bad design mentioned in that show. Apparently if you bank too sharply the satellite connection will break. I do not understand how this is possible. Gimbel the antenna and slave the servo to the artificial horizon gyroscope. This was a solved problem decades ago.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> I find the technology and engineering behind this extremely interesting, but on the other hand the potential end use of this very scary (if used inappropriately by the wrong people).

The fact that today we can already buy a UAV for under $1,000 and a 4k camera for $500 (<http://www.lehmannaviation.com/la/la100.php>) just gives you a sense of how easy and fast this type of surveillance is evolving.

</comment><comment><USER24> I thought I would chime in on my own experience with related imagery. It's not uncommon to use a drone similiar to ARGUS that is capable of NIIRS 5-7 (see <http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm>) resolution for surveying. The guys at the ground station will find some region of interest and then use another bird/sensor--whether that is SAR, IR, multispectral, etc--with NIIRS 8-9 resolution and have it give a better look at the finer details of the area.

In terms of detecting objects: anybody with any sort of computer vision background will probably be scoffing at drawing rectangles around objects that are moving within a stable image. However, at a broader scope, change detection and broad area detection are heavily research fields and are always of interest to whatever 3-letter agency that deals with the imagery.

So, not only does ARGUS solve problems, it also provides data for creating new problems. Cool little piece of hardware.

</comment><comment><USER25> Bottom-up lighting on the face. Ominous, Hans-Zimmer-ish, military-industrial complex musical score. Dark lighting in the lab. Statements like: "It's important for people to know the truth." Even the title of the program: Rise of the Drones.

Result: Drones, engineers, and government projects are scary.

Not saying I agree or disagree with the sentiment, just that the bias is a bit over the top.

</comment><comment><USER26> All I can think about here is some kind of big brother eye in the sky watching every subject go about their daily lives as soon as they leave their house.

/just going to be over here with my tin-foil hat...

</comment><comment><USER27> They claimed they can stream 1.8 gigapixel video live or near real-time in the PBS video. Does anyone have an idea of how they can get that much bandwidth wirelessly ?

<comment><USER28> I doubt they're sending the entire stream. 1.8Gp isn't useful to look at "zoomed all of the way out".

The video is [probably] cropped onboard the drone down to whatever resolution is usable, and then that is streamed.

<comment><USER29> It's not absurd though for the military to have the capacity to bounce 600 gigabits/s around the globe. There are commercial sattelites with capacities beyond 110 gigabits/s

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> I personally can't wait for them to use ARGUS and persistence stare in North St. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and all the other cities with extreme violent crime problems. That's one of the biggest reasons for why so many have moved out to the suburbs far far away from the cities. Look at your cities crime-map data and notice how crime completely destroys entire neighborhoods and surrounding areas. This new technology, if put to use to combat crime could revitalize downtowns and cities for hundreds of millions of people. Reversing suburban sprawl, "white-flight", and forest destruction.

People DO want to move inward, especially America's younger generations that grew up isolated in the suburbs where everything important and all their friends were miles apart. Young people in America are leading the urban renewal philosophy, and it's sad to see their efforts, and their businesses affected by crime.

I don't like the Privacy violation, but... With everything comes good and bad. Look at cars, consumerism, religion, etc... Things that were set up with good intentions, had some bad outcomes, and in the end were accepted when people saw both the good and bad as general progress.

</comment><comment><USER31> About 6km, for non-americans.

</comment><comment><USER32> «Panopticism is taken literally by at least one Air Force commander in Kandahar. 'He knows we're there,' Colonel Theodore Osowski told a reporter, referring to the Taliban, 'and when we're not there, he thinks we might be there': Brian Mockenhaupt, 'We've seen the future and it's unmanned', Esquire, 14 October 2009.»

in: Dis/Ordering the Orient: scopic regimes and modern war by Derek Gregory

[http://geographicalimaginations.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/...](http://geographicalimaginations.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gregory- disordering-the-orient-book-version.pdf) [pdf]

downloadable along other well researched resources on the topic here: <http://geographicalimaginations.com/downloads/>

</comment><comment><USER33> Can spot a "target" from 20k feet would be a more accurate headline. Also, if it can be that accurate for this, why can't they turn rocket drones into sniper drones by now? Or do they actually prefer the capability of killing the target and everyone around him at once?

<comment><USER11> > why can't they turn rocket drones into sniper drones

Because it's really really hard to hit someone with a ballistic projectile from a distance of 20k feet in 100 mph winds (or however fast a drone flies).

<comment><USER34> That's what the frickin' lasers are for.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> While handy for use in civil areas, or low intensity conflicts, this will be useless in what we consider a "traditional" high intensity war. The airspace in such a war is non-permissive. Any loitering drones will be easily shot down, or jammed so that they have to return to base. GPS will be jammed, and any AD system worth its salt will be able to down these with ease. And if the enemy has fighter aircraft, it'll be a turkey shoot.

</comment><comment><USER36> Imagine the attack possibilities locally.

I'm running for office, and I have a database of the political registrations of houses. So I can build up and track the red or blue houses, and see which places people are going to vote.

I now have the data I need to perform a DOS attack on the most threatening poll places based upon raw, real time data.

<comment><USER37> Each and every single one of those blue/red houses are already farmed into a single well-known polling precinct in every state I'm aware of.

</comment></comment><comment><USER38> i feel much safer now, take more of my tax dollars!

</comment><comment><USER39> They are not going to use this for finding toddlers or birds, are they?

</comment><comment><USER40> Next up, "Google maps live". Hi Mom, can you see me waving?

</comment><comment><USER41> The picture is dated Nov, 2009. Seems valid, for it to be de-classified now. I wonder what is the latest gadget they have (drool)

<comment><USER42> "A boot stamping on a human face — forever."

<comment><USER34> Brilliant! I don't know whether to laugh or cry....

<comment><USER41> lol, I really can't get away from the HN police :P

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER43> How much does this cost? Are there restrictions on US civilians owning or using similar technology?

</comment><comment><USER44> What are "20K feet" in meters?

<comment><USER45> 6096 meters, or 6.096 kilometers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER46> I couldn't stop thinking about armed drones during the recent gun-control furor. I was wondering how it would change the debate if people were really thinking about it - about the near inevitability that they will be used domestically by government and non-governmental actors. The issue doesn't win clean points on either side, but it does seem to make a lot of today's fears about guns seem trivial.

<comment><USER47> Without major advances in artificial intelligence technology, drones have a key weakness: the wireless link. Miniaturization may win the drones arms race, which makes drones accessible to non-governmental actors, but when it comes to controlling the spectrum, bigger is better. So governmental actors are always going to have an advantage because they can build the biggest antennas attached to the biggest power sources.

<comment><USER14> Not a problem if you know where the target's going to be.

Imagine a swarm of explosive-carrying drones hitting the President's podium at inaguration from a dozen different directions. Known time, known position, open-air approaches. Must be something that keeps the Secret Service up at night.

<comment><USER48> Consider the possibility that you just levelled up in a couple of database tables.

<comment><USER49> You're not serious, right? If joke: funny. If serious: worrying.

<comment><USER48> Definitely a joke, if you're serious that's even more worrying ;)

Still, people have been lifted from their beds for tweets about such things.

[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/obama-twitter-death- thre...](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/obama-twitter-death- threats-486712)

Granted that was slightly more specific threat, but this being hacker news that ggp already has a strike against ;)</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Trail layout for D3 - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/bmschmidt/D3-trail <comment><USER2> Neat.

Is there any place to find a comprehensive list of third party D3 layouts?</comment>