Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition) - <AUTHOR> There hasn't been a jobs thread in a little while. What are you looking for and where are you?<p>Edit: Only one entry so far from outside the US. Any others? <comment><USER2> Chicago, IL

New York, NY

Saratoga, CA

Can't decide which startup you'd like to go work for? How about all of them? Social rosary shopping may be in this week. Online klezmer lessons may be all the rage tomorrow. The Foursquare of fight clubs is sure to be around the corner. Don't try to predict fashion. Consider instead pestilence, which never goes out of style.

Matasano does software security for companies large and small. We get quality time with things ranging from the world's most high-impact Rails and Python apps to the firmware on storage cards, in areas ranging from the financial markets to online greeting cards.

You can be a human cowpox vaccine, parachuting in to make app developers slightly ill for a few weeks now to avoid uh dying later. It's a dirty job, but a fun one: everyone codes, all the time, in languages ranging from Ruby to Clojure to ARM assembly.

We're looking for people who can code, with a passionate interest in how technology works under the hood, the lower-level the better. C/C++ fluency gets our attention quickly, as does any real-world experience with application security, but if you can code, you really can't waste my time; we _love_ working with people from Hacker News.

My contact info is in my profile.

<comment><USER3> I did some work in Thomas' Chicago office with them this summer. If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I'm not hiring, but I figure that this a reasonable opportunity to plug my site.

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

The focus is on entry level jobs, but the content consists of company profiles, so it's useful to pretty much anyone looking for a job.

Here are all of the companies that we've featured with positions in Web Development: [http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/web- development...](http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/web-development/)

And in Software Development (lots of overlap): [http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/software- develo...](http://www.onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/software-development/)

Tons of non-technical stuff too.

<comment><USER5> Hey Willy, thanks for covering our internship posting last time. We're now looking for a full-time developer. College graduates are ok, we're willing to train for the right person.

<http://www.ad60.com/jobs/>

Link to our post in this thread: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558277>

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Airbnb.com in San Francisco (<http://www.airbnb.com/jobs>)

Specifically...

Backend Engineers <http://www.airbnb.com/jobs/show/4>

Frontend Engineers <http://www.airbnb.com/jobs/show/8>

UI designers <http://www.airbnb.com/jobs/show/2>

</comment><comment><USER7> Mountain View, CA

RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com/jobs)

Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company.

Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe.

</comment><comment><USER8> We're a 60-person financial-software firm in London, England committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're hiring developers 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. (I made an offer to such a person just today - he found us through Hacker News!)

</comment><comment><USER9> Mountain View, CA (walking distance from CalTrain)

Bump Technologies

We make phones a better tool for interacting with other people in the real world. The Bump app is one of the most popular mobile apps with >13M iPhone and >2M Android downloads, and our API is used by >100 iPhone apps including PayPal's. Our team (so far) is 14 people and we are backed by YC, Sequoia, and Ron Conway.

We are most looking for an Android lead, but are always interested in great iPhone and backend people as well. Full job descriptions and application instructions are at <http://bu.mp/jobs> (mention HN if submitting). Feel free to email me with questions: jake (at) bu (dot) mp.

</comment><comment><USER10> As always, please be sure to include your location and whether or not telecommuting is possible.

</comment><comment><USER11> Atlanta, GA

Neybor.com

We are bringing real estate into the future. Out platform includes a custom geospatial database, a crowd-sourced neighborhood boundary system, virtual tour platform, syndication engine, property search, and a mobile/location platform (like Foursquare) but specifically for real estate. We also power the online real estate section for small newspapers.

We are a small but great team always looking for engineers to join the team. Almost everything we do touches PHP, Ruby/Rails, Postgres/PostGIS, Mobile (HTML5 and Cocoa) and Javascript. We also need UX help. Of course there's much more, but that's the bulk of it.

If you love hacking, learning, and getting things done that real people use, and particularly if you think real estate needs a makeover, contact us!

We're also on the lookout for a strong marketing type to grow our pipeline.

<comment><USER12> +1 for Alan and his team. worked with them in the past.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> I'm a YCombinator/Google alum currently working at a quantitative hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. We do a lot of cool, challenging Python work and are looking to hire great Python programmers. We basically build all the infrastructure and tools for trading/research. The job is a nice blend of math+programming and you get to work side by side with researchers and portfolio managers. Email me at email@example.com if you're interested!

</comment><comment><USER14> Memphis, TN

Looking for scalability engineers for our google maps style mapping engine. Our company has been collecting polygon data representing wireless coverage patterns worldwide for twenty years. Lots of data. We're scaling out our map generation engine and improving our global geocoder to satiate growing demand industry wide for this kind of data.

At this point for a full time position relocation would be required but I'm looking for contractors I can lean on when needed as well. Experience with Hadoop, Pig, and all those key/value stores out there is desired but not required. Also helps if you can bust out some C from time to time.

<comment><USER15> This guy has a cool job and tells good stories!

(I work for a different company in Memphis)

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> We offer low pay, no health insurance and we won't pay for your visa (its bad enough we have to pay for mine). Our work environment is bozo free, the code- base is not some gigantic mess (woo!), and we won't make you conform to some "big company" set of software engineering practices (we don't have time).

We are an NYC-based startup building a curation and machine-learning based product discovery engine, focused on the long tail of ecommerce. Our product is in live beta. We've got an experienced core team (see <https://aprizi.com/static/about> or take a look at our CEOs blog: <http://giffconstable.com/>)

If you are an NYC hacker interested in part-time work with the possibility of a full-time position down the track, someone who wants to get in early... get in touch! Internships are also a possibility for the right people. For more info contact firstname.lastname@example.com

<comment><USER17> Your first sentence reminded me of the famous mythical "Help Wanted" ad for Shackleton's voyage.

 _"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."_

<http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm>

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Austin, TX

<http://www.texastribune.org>

Looking for interns and both entry-level and experienced engineers who love news and are comfortable at all levels of the web app stack. We use Django, but Django experience isn't a requirement, just a plus. You'd be joining a team that builds our main website and content management system, as well as nifty web apps that make government data more accessible to the public. The work is fulfilling for me, and hopefully it would be for you too.

Our team is tiny and the hacker/journalism field is still nascent, so the things you do are likely to get recognized within the field, and hopefully by the public as well. Since we're one of the bigger non-profit local/regional news organizations out there, people like to write about us, so that helps with getting recognition as well. If you do good work, it'll get noticed, which is nice.

firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER19> Google is hiring for a lot of different jobs. Telecommute is difficult but we have offices in lots of places. See <http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html> for a list.

<comment><USER17> To this day I find it funny that what is arguably the most successful web- centric company in history does not really like or support telecommuting. :)

<comment><USER20> Amusingly true!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> San Francisco, CA, offices in the Sunset, very close to Golden Gate Park.

Craigslist is hiring i18n/l10n engineers.

We are looking for people who can code Perl (or can learn it, I am aware it's not as popular as it used to be), who has experience with localization/translation/globalization and who ideally speaks one or two foreign human languages.

Above average salary and very good perks: free organic food/coffee, dental/medical/vacations and laptop/phone and a very unusual, definitely non corporate company structure.

Telecommute is not possible, although most people work from home one or several days per week and we support flexible hours. firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER22> Scribd is hiring for a few different positions. As you have probably seen around HN, we are doing some pretty exciting things, and there are more in the works.

We work in ruby, but there is plenty of java, python, and other variety mixed in when it makes sense.

The engineering team is comprised of lots of HN readers who genuinely enjoy what they do and are driven to solve challenging problems. If you are interested, you can check out our jobs page or email me directly with any questions.

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

</comment><comment><USER23> Bloomberg LP has a number of positions all over the world. We're hiring for our news, multimedia, and (most importantly) R&D departments. Good company to work for, great benefits: <http://www.bloomberg.com/about/careers/>

</comment><comment><USER24> 10gen develops and supports MongoDB - the open source, high performance, scalable, document-oriented database. 10gen delivers technical support, professional services, and training for commercial-grade deployments of MongoDB.

New York, NY: Openings for senior and junior C++ Database Engineers

Bay Area, CA: Looking for a Driver Development Engineer and Senior Support/QA Engineer

More info at <http://bit.ly/10genjobs>

</comment><comment><USER25> Chicago, IL (Downtown)

BrightTag, a growing venture backed start-up focused on the data management space, is hiring. We are looking for a talented sr. Java software engineer to help create a robust, highly available, high-volume web application. Our solution will be usable by millions of websites and we want someone who is comfortable dealing with massive scale.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to be part of a small collaborative, user-focused team and want to solve interesting problems in a highly-intelligent, entrepreneurial environment.

Our management team has a proven track record of building brand name businesses with many successful exits. We are backed by a solid funding foundation and well-known investors including: Chicago venture capitalists JB Pritzker, Matt McCall and Silicon Valley-based venture firm Tomorrow Ventures.

We're based in downtown Chicago. We offer a casual work environment, some opportunity to work remotely, a competitive salary with healthcare/benefits and the rare opportunity to earn equity upside.

Please contact me directly. Please NO third party recruiters. Sorry, relocation is NOT available.

lokeefe [at] thebrighttag.com

</comment><comment><USER26> Monetate is hiring - Conshohocken (Philly suburb). We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers.

We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast. We're hiring engineering talent - we work with Javascript, Python, Django, Google Closure, MySQL, and all sorts of AWS in EC2.

We're looking for sharp engineers who are comfortable working across our stack and really want to be in a startup: [http://www.ventureloop.com/firstroundcap/jobdetail.php?jobid...](http://www.ventureloop.com/firstroundcap/jobdetail.php?jobid=38828) \- we're only looking for local people for these roles at this point.

We're also hiring front-end engineers who want to help build and test experiments and are experienced in working with production-quality cross- browser HTML/CSS and Javascript without frameworks. We'll consider remote and telecommute for these positions.

We have fun problems at scale and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out.

Feel free to email me tjanofsky monetate com.

</comment><comment><USER27> BioWare Austin is still hiring web/PHP developers to help build the game/web integration for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. You need to be in Austin, TX, or willing to relocate yourself.

Imagine 1-2 million players feeding game events real-time into your web site from day one. There won't be any "grow slowly, scale gracefully" here. We need to be big out of the gate.

We've had something of a hard time finding people, so we're open to training up junior people, too. Never touched Drupal but are handy with PHP? Please do write.

The openings are here, under "Marketing:" <http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/jobs/austin_jobs/>

They're contract jobs, so no relocation expenses are provided for, but they're a year long, so you wouldn't have to look for something new right away. It'd be 40 hours a week with potentially a lot of overtime (paid at time-and-a- half).

If you apply, please also email me (vmiliano at that domain name) with your resume so I can it in the hiring manager's hands.

<comment><USER28> Wow, that would be an amazing job. If it were more solid than 1 year of contract work, I might even be willing to relocate for it. What are the chances a job like this turns into a permanent position, assuming I worked hard and did a great job?

<comment><USER27> 40-60+ hour weeks for a year isn't solid? Even if you weren't brought on full- time, all the Drupal shops in Austin can't fill their demand, so I don't think you'd have a hard time finding a job afterward. We're not just one of the biggest (and certainly the most dynamic) Drupal sites; we're a huge site, period. You'd have a lot of really valuable experience.

The work is ongoing (it's an MMO, after all), and plenty of features are scheduled for post-launch, but legally we can't even dangle a maybe-possible carrot.

That said, I was brought on from a year design contract, and we have four openings we're trying to fill.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> Akaza Research LLC in Waltham, MA. We make open source software for clinical research. Feel free to contact me with questions, but also be sure to apply through the email at the bottom of the link:

[http://www.akazaresearch.com/about_akaza/positions/java_deve...](http://www.akazaresearch.com/about_akaza/positions/java_developer_clinical_informatics.html)

</comment><comment><USER30> Amman, Jordan (Middle East)

Looking for .NET or C++ hackers, graphics designers, tech support, or web designers (css, html).

Contact me: email@example.com or +962796178096

</comment><comment><USER31> Redwood Shores, CA / San Francisco, CA

(relocation available)

EA2D is a new studio of EA created to bring big-title games to the web. Our first game is still months from launch, so much of the work is greenfield projects. We have ~25 people now, and are hiring aggressively.

We're an autonomous group, so we have free reign over our tools and processes. This means we can go nuts with EC2, GitHub, Google Apps, continuous deployment, whatever we want -- all the while enjoying big-company perks like an on-site gym, food, Caltrain shuttle, and, of course, free games.

We're looking for extremely sharp engineers (Java, Flash, test, and operations), artists, marketing, and more. Don't worry too much about the exact job descriptions - if you're a badass developer, we'll find a place for you.

Here's the full list: <http://www.ea2d.com/jobs/>

Contact me directly, firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER32> Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Europe.

We are searching at least 3 more developers in the fields of search & automatic content/site extraction, crawling, duplicate content, news/spam detection.

We do content fetching and aggregation (news,message boards, blogs, ...) for market research institutes, media analytics companies, etc...

We are still relative small (mostly Harvard, ETH Zurich, and TU Munich graduates), so you are still able to actively shape our company.

If you are from abroad, and want to experience a different culture for a few months/years (some even stayed here their entire life ;)) in a small french/german/english speaking country, why not join?

We can also offer internships for a few months (probably 6).

<http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs>

Just drop me (thibaut) a mail (or call) if you are interested or need more information!

</comment><comment><USER33> Manila, Philippines

3 engineers: client, web and mobile

<http://insync.theresumator.com>

<comment><USER34> Will you consider people willing to relocate to the Philippines?

<comment><USER33> Absolutely!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> Sunnyvale, CA

Palm, now a subsidiary of HP, is hiring about 70 positions in our engineering group to work on the next versions of webOS and our future hardware.

<http://www.palm.com/us/company/careers.html>

</comment><comment><USER36> New York, NY

bit.ly is hiring at all levels of the stack.

<http://bit.ly/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER37> Palo Alto, CA <https://www.kaching.com/company/jobs>

We're building a platform to connect individual investors to professional money managers (like a personalized mutual fund, without the massive fees). We're very focused on high quality code, tests, continuous deployment and more tests. We use JVM languages (Java, Scala, JRuby) and have a fantastic platform.

Right now we're specifically looking for someone with a strong engineering background to join the front end team. Check out our blog to get a feel for the company. <http://eng.kaching.com/>

</comment><comment><USER38> As a student, I wish we had more "Who's looking for Interns" :)

<comment><USER39> In my experience, if they're hiring full-times, they'll at least consider hiring an intern if the right one comes along. Startups especially.

</comment></comment><comment><USER40> Palo Alto, CA

Pinterest is a social catalog. <http://www.pinterest.com/home>

We are hiring a front-end engineer to join our 3 person team. We are founded by one ex-googler and one ex-vc.

ben (at) pinterest (dot) com

<comment><USER41> I love this site and if people want invites ping me at daniel (dot) mark (dot) levine (at) gmail (dot) com

</comment></comment><comment><USER42> Johannesburg, South Africa (Tele-commuting is fine if you're elsewhere in South Africa / neighbouring countries)

Rails developer wanted. I've been on the lookout for a while, but finding one around here is not the easiest. For that reason I'll also be happy to consider you if you have a proven track record in a different technology and are eager to get into Rails. Join me in bringing a fresh approach to a stale industry (payroll). As employee #1, you'll have the option of equity. E-mail is in profile. <http://www.simplepay.co.za>

</comment><comment><USER43> Check out Startups Hiring: <http://www.startupshiring.com/>

<comment><USER44> Thanks for posting a link. I just added a number of startups from this thread to my company list and will continue to expand coverage.

</comment></comment><comment><USER45> Sheffield, UK - in office.

Localphone Ltd. - <http://www.localphone.com/>

We're a VoIP and telephony start-up based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK.

Looking for a PHP developer and a mobile apps developer.

It really is a great place to work. Laid back and plenty of opportunities to learn new stuff. Experiencing strong growth and lots of plans for new products, hence expanding the development team.

<http://www.localphone.com/about/careers> for job descriptions, contact details.

</comment><comment><USER46> Boston, MA (Somerville specifically) - sorry, no telecommuters.

Velir Studios (<http://www.velir.com>) Mainly a .NET shop, but we also do a bit of Rails and PHP work.

We do lots of work for large non-profits — if you listen to NPR, you've heard our clients sponsoring your favorite shows.

Positions we are currently looking to fill include Project Managers, Systems Analysts, and Web Developers. Shoot an email to patrick at velir dot com or jobs at velir dot com with a cover letter and your resumé. Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER47> Splunk, UI engineering, Python/JS. SF, two blocks from the Embarcadero in SoMa. We're absolutely killing it. Profitable. Four kegs at work. No telecommuting.

dlanstein splunk com.

</comment><comment><USER48> BackType, San Francisco.

Small team, hard problems, massive opportunity.

<http://www.backtype.com/jobs> or email me mm at backtype dot com

</comment><comment><USER49> AllFacebook.com/SocialTimes.com - Looking for PHP&Python developers who can build on Linux (also understanding of JQuery and other front-end javascript packages). We have 3 or 4 active projects that are all being developed in house but we're low on internal resources and need to hire developers! We'd be especially happy with contract developers and have a pretty sizeable budget to start immediately. If you're interested, email nick (at) socialtimes (dot) com.

There is plenty of work to be done which includes scaling large scale data tools, building service directories, and new consumer product ideas that we're working on!

You can view the stats tools here: <http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications> and <http://statistics.allfacebook.com/pages>

There are many more tools that we want to build, are currently building, and existing ones we wish to expand. I'm based in SF but we also have offices in NYC. Also fine with remote workers, although occasional meetings are valuable!

</comment><comment><USER50> New York, NY

NEWCO is a super-early stage startup that needs UI direction. Think recommendation engine meets database with a focus on finding new "media products". You will drive the look, feel, and flow of the application from start to finish, working hand in hand with the Senior Product Manager and the CTO.

We expect you to build quickly, fail often, and take risks. Our team embraces lean startup methodology and data driven design. We also practice tons of customer development. Insert other startup buzzwords here.

We're looking for a UX Designer with demonstrable experience developing high- performance dynamic user interfaces for consumer-facing web sites.

Requirements: • Create low-fi mockups • Turn low-fi mockups into hi-fi sketches and prototypes very quickly • Design and slice efficient, sprite-able CSS (we support the IE Death March) • Understand AJAX, JQuery, and page flow • Usability test customers, test designs, and iterate based on a combination of both.

This project is awesome. Your friends will use it (we hope)!

Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER51> Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA

Centro LLC (<http://centro.net>) is looking for Ruby and JavaScript experts, product development folks and testers.

We are building a SproutCore-in-the-front/Ruby-in-the-back web application for streamlining digital media placement on both the agency and publisher side. To see a cheesy product demo with sexy voiceover, please visit <http://transis.com>.

We have a small team of developers working out of Chicago and we're looking to expand into the Bay Area as well. We are a very fun company to work for, and were listed by Crain's as one of the best places to work in Chicago.

We hire people with demonstrated zeal for writing excellent code. If you've got something awesome up on GitHub we'd love to have a look. Please check out our careers page at <http://www.centro.net/careers/were-hiring> and drop us a line.

</comment><comment><USER52> we're always hiring. lots of projects lots of impact. shipping code to a half billion people on your first week.

<http://www.facebook.com/careers/>

</comment><comment><USER53> WePay is hiring: PHP Engineers, Designers & Sales People

Palo Alto, CA

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

</comment><comment><USER54> Boston, MA

My company is always looking for talented devs. We work primarily on mobile heath (sms, android, j2me) apps and server backends (mostly python/django) in the developing world. Small startup environment, international travel opportunities.

<http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/>

</comment><comment><USER55> Seattle WA & San Francisco CA

Informed Biometry is a recently-formed, well-funded, stealth-mode consumer web startup, looking for developers and designers. Ground-floor opportunity for smart generalists!

Check out <http://jobs.infbio.com/> and email me (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you're interested.

</comment><comment><USER56> Blue Ash, OH <http://www.epsilon.com/>

Looking for several senior .Net developers for several large projects. So far we've had "senior" devs who can't code, or pass background checks. Don't apply if you don't know what a collection object is or have a criminal background.

</comment><comment><USER57> Causes - <http://exchange.causes.com/jobs/> \- San Francisco (on-site only)

Hiring generalist engineers to work with Ruby/Rails and build something that makes a tangible difference in the lives of the less fortunate.

</comment><comment><USER58> Groupon is hiring in our new Palo Alto offices.

Some listed below, but if you want to solve big problems (performance, scalability, personalization, etc), we have an abundance of great opportunities.

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

</comment><comment><USER59> San Francisco Bay Area

iTeleport (<http://www.iteleportmobile.com/about-us>)

We're building a remote access platform that will enable users to get access to all of the digital stuff they store on their personal computers (their desktop, music, photos, videos, files) from any device.

Check out <http://www.iteleportmobile.com/jobs> for some projects we've been working on lately.

We're currently profitable and growing. We offer a competitive salary, significant equity and full health benefits.

Send us an email at email@example.com with your resume and a few words on why you think you'd be a great fit here!

</comment><comment><USER60> New York and Stockholm

<http://f-i.com/fi/careers>

We're looking for interactive developers, UX people and producers. We do a mix of projects from portal sites like ea.com, atari.com, mobile and tablet apps and more.

</comment><comment><USER61> Santa Clara, CA

Kno, Inc. -- <http://kno.com/company-jobs.html>

We're a VC-funded startup working to change education as you know it, centralizing students' textbooks, notes, research, and any kind of course material you can imagine on a two-screen wifi-connected mobile device.

The jobs list on the website is somewhat incomplete since it's a bit fluid. If you know C or Javascript really well (or both), and like working on HTML5/JS applications or middle-layer technologies (WebKit, Gtk, X11, window managers, multi-touch gesture recognition, etc.), drop me an email with your resume at brian at kno dot com.

</comment><comment><USER62> I will be soon. Mountain View, CA. Plain old web development, python preferred.

</comment><comment><USER63> Dublin, Ireland (fulltime, onsite)

We're hiring Rails hackers to join our team. We're a startup team from the US that is working within Paddy Power, an Irish bookmaker. So, you get the pluses and fun of the startup life with the benefits of a 1.3B Euro (and really awesome) company - i.e. no eating ramen noodles unless you want to.

If you're a Rails developer and you're in Ireland, give me a shout to learn more. Email in my HN profile.

[http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=PAD...](http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=PADDYPOWER&cws=1&rid=4592)

</comment><comment><USER64> San Francisco, CA

My team at Millennial Media is looking to hire a few people over the next few months. We're looking for:

iPhone/Mobile Developer - Objective-C and/or Java (Android experience if you just know Java)

Web designer - HTML5, JS, CSS3, Photoshop

You can check us out at <http://millennialmedia.com> or read about us in yesterday's TC article <http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/28/millennial-media- ipo-2011/>.

If you're interested, you can send me an email at nolan [a t] millennialmedia.com.

</comment><comment> brown9-2 Santa Barbara, CA

San Francisco, CA

Hoboken, NJ

Outside the US: Dresden, Bangalore, Dublin and UK (sales)

Citrix Online has several engineering positions open: Java engineers (web, backend, messaging), C++, Oracle administrators, network operations, user experience designers, etc. From the intern-level up through director/management-level.

The company is growing like crazy and doing fantastic financially (just announced higher than expected earnings yesterday).

You can apply at <http://www.citrixonline.com/careers.tmpl> (or send me an email to be able to put me down as a referral)

</comment><comment><USER65> New York, NY

Quirky.com

Quirky is a social product development company. We harness the ideas of our community to create great consumer products.

For an example of one of our community created gadgets, check out the Pivot Power: [http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/community-developed- pivot...](http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/community-developed-pivot-power- strip-now-available-to-order/)

We are looking for a rails developer to join our small team. Want to work at a place where the business model is a little more solid than "code and hope"? Email us at techjobs at quirky dot com.

</comment><comment><USER66> CareerElement.com is hosting a Tech Startup Career Fair at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, on August 17th.

You are all invited!

In addition to the companies listed on our registration page, the following companies will also be attending: Ning, Scribd, PlayHaven, and many more!

Here is the registration page for job seekers and startups: www.careerelement.com/jobfair

Also, for any startup company that registers by this Saturday we will waive the registration fee if you write in that you heard about us on Hacker News!

We are also going to be launching some very exciting things very soon... so keep an eye on us!!

</comment><comment><USER67> Seattle, WA

Amazon.com - Looking for Support/Systems engineers for our Merchants Platform.

For Support/Systems engineers, we are looking for self-starters who love taking things apart, figuring out how they work, and putting them back together with improvements. We are primarily interested in entry-level engineers that are comfortable in a Linux environment and can script in one or more languages (preferably shell or ruby scripting). For more details on the job, please contact me directly.

</comment><comment><USER68> CrowdFlower in San Francisco, CA (Mission district)

<http://crowdflower.com/about/jobs#backend_engineer>

</comment><comment><USER69> Mountain View, Auckland, Beijing, Copenhagen, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto

Mozilla is hiring!

<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 400+ million users, optimizing our JS engine, making Firefox mobile fast on phones).

</comment><comment><USER5> Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) - no telecommuting available

Technologists wanted. Web/Mobile engineers needed to help build out future properties. iPhone, Android knowledge is a big plus, as is optimization skills. (aka Page Speed nerds) Technologies include jQuery, HTML 5, CakePHP, Rails 3.

<http://www.ad60.com/jobs/>

Mid to senior level is ideal, but the right entry level person will be considered. There's always more to learn.

</comment><comment><USER70> Portland, OR. Senior Java Developer @Cedexis -- <http://www.cedexis.com/>

Skills: Substantial hands-on experience in Java/SQL web application development on Linux and a solid understanding of modern frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.) & Previous experience in internet infrastructure and high volume timeseries data processing is highly desirable

</comment><comment><USER71> San Francisco, CA

MyLikes (<http://mylikes.com/about/jobs>) Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

We are attempting to shake up online advertising by enabling small publishers market to their audiences in their own voice. We use technology heavily to solve problems which on the surface seems simple and have had a lot of success in the marketplace because of this.

</comment><comment><USER72> San Francisco, CA Square We're making it easy for anyone to accept card payments anywhere. We're backed by a pretty ridiculous group of angels (<http://twitter.com/Square/angels/members>) and Khosla Ventures. Check out <http://squareup.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER62> Also, Canvas Networks (moot from 4chan's startup) is hiring in NYC. <http://canv.as/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER73> Downtown San Francisco, CA

Credit Karma is a venture-backed startup in the financial services industry. We are committed to providing free credit scores and are very pro-consumer.

We're mostly looking for saavy operations, UX / Design, product development, and customer service folks, although there is occasional overlap between some roles.

Here's a full list of jobs: www.creditkarma.com/about/careers

firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER74> San Francisco, CA

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. We're profitable and growing.

We are a Rails shop (with some Java bits) and need front end and back end developers.

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

</comment><comment><USER75> Los Angeles, CA We are looking for a front-end developer. <http://organicstartup.theresumator.com/apply/q4Q0uQ/> Work with great people on an exciting and challenging product! Local applicants only as this will likely be a contract to perm position

</comment><comment><USER76> Zach Klein started a jobs list here: <http://jobs.zachklein.com/>

</comment><comment><USER77> Demdex is a fun, exciting venture-backed start-up in the Internet advertising industry, based in NYC. We're hiring for a number of roles, but most notably back-end Java engineers (preferably with some Hadoop experience).

<http://www.demdex.com/Demdex_careers.html>

</comment><comment><USER78> Manhattan, NY

Nature Publishing Group is hiring a junior/intermediate sysadmin to join a small team supporting nature.com. Must have experience with a public facing, revenue producing complex web site. Small friendly team, lots of latitude to play with new technologies and architect the future of NPG web infrastructure.

Contact me for details.

</comment><comment><USER79> Mixpanel (San Francisco, CA)

<http://mixpanel.com/jobs> (email us info at email@example.com)

Real-time Analytics (large scale data problem solving). Recently did over a billion actions a month from real people and angel backed.

If you're awesome at Python / Javascript / MySQL you should email us.

</comment><comment><USER80> New York City <http://www.zocdoc.com/careers>

We are like open table, but for doctors. Need to see a doctor in NY, SF, DC, or Chicago? Find your appointment on ZocDoc and save yourself a 3 week wait.

We're looking for super-smart engineers that can get stuff done.

<comment><USER76> Is there any way to get in touch with you?

</comment></comment><comment><USER81> If I could make one point to everyone related to hiring, make sure that all the jobs you talk about are on your company's website and are in a search- engine-friendly format.

I hear that whenever Eric Schmidt sees a job posting that's buried behind a login form or within a PDF/DOC, he kills a puppy...

</comment><comment><USER82> UK: Teamly is looking for a lead ruby developer to take our productivity and people management tool from beta to live commercial product. <http://blog.teamly.com/jobs-and-careers-at-teamly>

</comment><comment><USER83> Chief Architect Inc., Coeur d'Alene Idaho. Always looking for good C++ programmers to work on our 3D Home Design / CAD software. <http://www.chiefarchitect.com/company/employment.html>

</comment><comment><USER84> in NYC (with remote possibilities)

<http://getglue.com>

is looking for a java engineer (<http://bit.ly/ctyPA2>) as well as a sysadmin (<http://bit.ly/c5XJsC>)

</comment><comment><USER85> Rackspace is looking for developers(mostly Ruby, Python, and Java). We have several locations, but most of the development is in San Antonio, TX and Blacksburg, VA - <http://www.rackertalent.com/> .

<comment><USER86> Would you mind if I talk with you over e-mail? I've been applying to Rackspace (San Antonio) but I'm having trouble catching anyone's eye. How'd you do it?

I don't see an e-mail address in your profile, but if you don't mind talking with me, my e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.

Thanks,

David

</comment></comment><comment><USER87> Justin.tv, San Francisco.

<http://www.justin.tv/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER88> New York, NY

SpaFinder.com

We're hiring a software developer. We work mostly in Java. We're also looking for a QA Engineer.

</comment><comment><USER89> San Francisco, CA

Fluther.com is looking for an new designer and a server engineer.

We're in the mission, and we love darts.

firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER90> Cloudera is hiring AND they have a great post of how to get hired there, [http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-get-a-job-at- clo...](http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-get-a-job-at-cloudera/) .

</comment><comment><USER91> What a coincidence, earlier this month I compiled a list of companies in San Francisco that are hiring: <http://gregalbrecht.com/2010/07/16/soma-jobs/>

</comment><comment><USER92> Lolapps is hiring engineers! If you like or want to learn python or actionscript, we should talk. Check us out: <http://www.lolapps.com> .

We're based in SF and will happily help you relocate.

</comment><comment><USER93> Montreal, Canada:

iReel.com : social media marketer, web and facebook dev

recoset.com: developer for recommendation engines

webdweller: rails,jquery,facebook

stresslimit: UI specialist

MConcierge: .NET dev

more here <http://techentreprise.com/Montreal/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER94> Telecommute We are looking for an online marketer. Typical tasks will focus on writing web site content/landing page optimization, business proposals, blogging, and SEO/SEM work. My contact info is in my profile.

</comment><comment><USER95> Austin, TX

Involver <http://involver.com>

Based in San Francisco, but has a new Austin office. They want RoR devs. Im just a dev myself, but I want to help build an awesome work atmosphere.

</comment><comment><USER96> Pittsburgh, PA

What we do? Social Mobile Gaming

Profitable? Yes!

Looking for:

1) Web engineer - Ruby, Rails, NodeJS, jQuery

2) iPhone/Mobile Developer - Objective-C, OpenGL ES, Unity3D

Apply Where? <http://leftrightstudios.theresumator.com>

</comment><comment><USER97> doubleTwist is hirinig. <http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Jobs.dt>

It's not listed but we're looking for Mobile folks too. (Android experience is a plus)

SF or NYC

</comment><comment><USER98> New York

Xtify, Inc.

Java software developer

We provide a location-based (as well as regular) push messaging platform for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry. Check out <http://www.xtify.com/jobs>.

</comment><comment><USER99> New York, NY. Freelance gig; 20 hrs / week for one month. I need someone who has done something in HTML5. Working on a very cool media project.

(If you're a friend-of-a-friend in the NYYC scene, that's ideal.)

</comment><comment><USER100> San Jose, CA

Bunchball (game mechanics, gamification) is hiring a Deployment Engineer and a Program/Interaction Designer

<http://www.bunchball.com/careers/>

</comment><comment><USER101> Salt Lake City, Utah

Network Security startup with 31m of funding, just closed a 15m round this month.

Looking for linux geeks. Types of jobs open: System Developers Kernel Developers Web Interface Developers

Email me for more info.

<comment><USER102> I don't see an email link your profile. I'm in Utah myself, might be tempted for the right kind of gig.

</comment></comment><comment><USER103> Loopt is expanding in almost all areas. <http://about.loopt.com/jobs/>

Feel free to contact me directly if you want to discuss candidly.

<comment><USER104> Do you have an email address I could contact you at?

My is bradleyt (dot) marsh (at) gmail

Thanks,

Brad

<comment><USER103> It's in my profile if anyone else is curious, but I'll email you directly.

<comment><USER105> Just a heads up, if you don't put it in the about section of your profile, users won't be able to see your email.

The email field on your profile is only visible to you.

<comment><USER103> Wow thanks for the heads up, I think I've left a lot of "my contact email is in my profile" comments in the past o.O

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER106> Leads360

* looking for developers who know C# and SQL Server

* El Segundo, CA (one mile south of LAX airport)

<http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/7705>

</comment><comment><USER107> Socialtext needs sales people (am I the only one on HN?) in NYC and Palo Alto.

Need to be a hunter. Looking for great people that have a track record of crushing their numbers.

Contact info in profile.

</comment><comment><USER108> Palo Alto, CA

Think is hiring LAMP and JavaScript developers to work on FaceCash, a mobile payment system. <http://www.facecash.com>

</comment><comment><USER109> New York, NY

Track.com is looking for a Django dev, mostly front-end work but knowing a bit of everything is always valuable on a small team. Contact rich@ for details.

</comment><comment><USER110> Palo Alto, CA

AdsReloaded.com LLC

Looking for a non-technical employee (possibly co-founder) with experience in sales, marketing, social media, and promotions.

</comment><comment><USER111> Newton, MA

We're continuing to change the face of the (fabulously profitable) travel industry at TripAdvisor. My team's leading the charge.

<comment><USER112> Newton isn't Kendall Square, but TripAdvisor is an engineering oriented company. You might feel left out without a Kinesis keyboard.

</comment></comment><comment><USER113> Vancouver, BC

Looking for a Python/Django developer to come work at Rhino Accounting. Email email@example.com please mention HN.

</comment><comment><USER114> NetApp is hiring: <http://www.netapp.com/us/careers/>

</comment><comment><USER115> Austin, TX

ServiceMesh is hiring Java and Flex Developers

<http://www.servicemesh.com>

</comment><comment><USER116> Plancast - San Francisco, CA

<http://plancast.com/jobs>

</comment><comment><USER117> Technical Lead for Web 2.0 Start-up in Vancouver

Passionate about fast-paced web 2.0 technology?! Want to be a part of the founding team of a promising funded start-up? If you're a self-motivated, entrepreneurial web developer then keep reading!

We are the up and coming Web 2.0 startup in Vancouver, having raised funding from prominent angels a few months ago and now moving across North-America quickly. We are the winner of LaunchPartyHQ's LPV8 People's Choice Award and Top 3 Businesses of last year's Fusion Forum. Our team is expanding rapidly and we are looking for winners to join our team.

We are looking for a technical entrepreneurial-minded leader, with strong development (PHP Framework) skills, to help us optimize and grow our business. You should love to write code, and solve problems but if you also have an eye for user experience, SEO optimization and A/B testing - all the better. This is a hands on, collaborative role, and you will be a part of a winning team creating an exciting new application that will change the world - the wedding world at the very least!

You will join us in the exciting Yaletown new office. A laid-back, fun working environment with tons of learning opportunities. Recent graduates with a strong web 2.0 portfolio are encouraged to apply!

Your experience & skills:

• A degree or diploma in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of web application development experience with PHP Framework

• Solid SQL knowledge and experience building scalable database driven web sites

• Experience using open source software and services

• Knowledge of JavaScript and AJAX required

• Familiarity with SEO, landing page optimization, A/B Testing, web analytics required

Who you are:

• Passionate about web technologies, usability, and agile development

• Motivated self starter / entrepreneurial spirit / excellent communicator

• Business-sense / solutions-focused / loves learning

• Flexible and able to work in a start-up environment

• You will be working closely with the CEO and will be managing a development team until launch (Until July), so people skills are good ☺

What we need from you:

• Architect, implement (code), and maintain our online platform

• Provide overall technical guidance, ideas, and leadership

• Use your tech savviness to solve business problems and create cost-efficient business opportunities

• Troubleshoot user issues and improve user experience as quickly as possible

Why Join Us?

• Great opportunity to get in on the ground level of a promising company, lead technology development, and use your skills to make a mark!

We Want to Hear From You!

Please direct all inquiries and resumes to email@example.com. Please include links to previous projects.

<comment><USER118> Despite Angel copying and pasting her job description, I can vouch for her. Weddingful's a neat company, and has a lot of the right ingredients in place.

We share an office, and a great, active investor. If you're at all interested in working in Vancouver, British Columbia, and don't mind a startup with a bit of the leg work done, it's an interesting position.</comment></comment>


Calm Technology - <AUTHOR> https://calmtech.com/ <comment><USER3> Going to plug my project Fraidycat here. Feels like it satisfies many of these. [http://fraidyc.at/](http://fraidyc.at/)

It compiles RSS feeds and YouTube, Twitter, etc into a dashboard-like view rather than a crowded timeline. No notifications, no algorithm. Just a tool for a human. Easy to "move into the periphery". Very calm, even when I'm following 100s of people.

<comment><USER4> EST! EST!! EST!!!

The explanatory video alone is a gem, the fact that this extension is open source is a juicy bonus, the coziness factor is sky-high.

From a person that doesn't install any extension ever: great concept, amazing execution, installed right meow.

PS: How much money would you need to program a CLI version of this that I could host, and run forever and ever, on a tiny VPS?

<comment><USER5> What is "EST"? I know it's not the timezone. Given the frantic exclamation marks, probably it is "Everyone Stands Together" (had to look up: "EST + Urban Dictionary").

<comment><USER6> I assume this is the reference: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est!_Est!!_Est!!!_di_Montefias...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est!_Est!!_Est!!!_di_Montefiascone)

> The unusual name of the wine region dates back to a 12th-century tale of a > German bishop traveling to the Vatican for a meeting with the pope. The > bishop sent a prelate ahead of him to survey the villages along the route > for the best wines. The 'wine scout' had instructions to write 'Est' (Latin > for 'There is') on the door or on the wall of the inns he visited when he > was particularly impressed with the quality of the wine they served so the > bishop following on his trail would have known in advance where to make a > stop. At a Montefiascone inn, the prelate was reportedly so overwhelmed with > the local wine that he wrote Est! Est!! Est!!! on the door.

<comment><USER5> Ah, thank you for correcting (and also for quoting the relevant bit). That's one hell of an obscure reference. :-)

To complete the digression (from the same Wiki):

 _... the wine often receives mixed opinions with wine experts ... describing in The World Atlas of Wine 'Est! Est!! Est!!!' ... as "usually the dullest white wine with the strangest name in the world."_

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Few days back, I was thinking on similar lines about Instagram. It does not respect norms of our society. Consider this, our society deeply values competence but Instagram does not seem to take it into consideration at all. A user promoting his content or using proper hashtags or generating activity on platform will be promoted more than the user who just posts brilliant photographs.

Who I maintain relations with and who I don't is not other people's business similarly who I follow and who I don't follow should not be visible to anyone except me but that is not the case.

I can go on and on about similar things but the bottom line is everything on Instagram is designed in a way such that it generates more activity on platform and ultimately more revenue. This is true for almost all the social networks though. A social network that respects norms of our society and does not attempt at maximizing revenue at users expense will probably fill the void left by the existing ones.

<comment><USER8> The app is not a _tool_ to serve _you_ , instead the app turns _you_ into the tool to serve _itself_.

<comment><USER9> You hit the nail on the head. This is the actual, real, definition of "free" (as in "free to use"). Every instance of that term should be surrounded by red blinking scare quotes.

<comment><USER8> Or regulation that curbs our outlaws this cancerous business model. If you can't profit without wasting people's time and/or stalking them then you shouldn't be in business.

We have regulation that somewhat works (there are exceptions of course and corruption is a thing, but at least there's an attempt) for other negative impacts on society (environmental damage, etc) but absolutely nothing for tech despite these new apps & services turning people into addicted zombies.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Calm Tech is one of those ideas that's been in floating around for decades but has never quite gotten the attention it deserves (... sort of a funny paradox, "pay attention to making tools you don't have to pay attention to").

This article doesn't mention some of the old standard examples:

Live Wire was a sculpture at Xerox Parc that twitched every time some number of network packets went through the office's router - you could get an intuitive feel for how much load was on the system.

There's an X Windows applet called "LavaPS" which shows all your unix processes as colored blobs in a lavalamp, sized by memory footprint, floating to the top by age. It gives you a quick impression of what your computer is doing - is one webserver process eating your whole core? Or are you getting forkbombed by thousands of little ones? Those look really different.

The definitive works on Calm Computing are a paper written by Mark Weiser (RIP) in 1996, "Designing Calm Technology" (which has unfortunately fallen off the internet) and an O'Reilly book called "Calm Technology" by Amber Case (the Cyborg Anthropologist)

Ideally we'd go calmer than a "status light" or "status tone" \- those are still pretty active! What can you convey with the color of a Phillips Hue bulb that changes slowly?

<comment><USER11> _> a paper written by Mark Weiser (RIP) in 1996, "Designing Calm Technology" (which has unfortunately fallen off the internet)_

[https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf](https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf) ?

<comment><USER12> And html version :)

[https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm- technolo...](https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm-technology/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> The vast majority of technology doesn't need to notify you or somehow artificially announce its status. It seems strange, then, that a site on calm technology primarily concerns technology that does, devoting a good portion of the page to promoting "calm communication" through buzzing, beeping and blinking.

We should instead question whether we need the information that is being communicated in the first place, because even a colored LED or a soft haptic buzz can be stressful when we know what they mean. Maybe we should minimize the use of such technology instead.

In my view, calm technology only functions when you use it. It answers your questions or solves your problems only when prompted to do so. Maybe a robot vacuum cleaner that beeps on faults and vacuums on its own initiative is helpful technology, but with alternatives that won't have any reasons to steal your attention I can't say that it's calm technology. IM with a soft haptic buzz to notify you of the receipt of a message may again be immensely helpful, but an email account that I check myself when I feel like reading messages is more calm.

If your life seems calmer when you know exactly when you've received a message regardless of what you are doing at the time or the nature of its content, you should perhaps think of how to lead a calm life before worrying about whether a pleasant beep or a soft buzz is the best way to direct your attention to it.

<comment><USER14> > _We should instead question whether we need the information that is being > communicated in the first place, because even a colored LED or a soft haptic > buzz can be stressful when we know what they mean. Maybe we should minimize > the use of such technology instead._

This is why I love Apple for pretty much eliminating blinking lights in their devices, while other manufactures of laptops etc. still don't seem to get it.

The only lights remaining in my room at bedtime are the power strip and external hard disks, and even they can be annoying.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Car dashboard lights meet most of these criteria and yet they are routinely bad. My partner had trouble figuring out the "flat tire" icon and they are a fairly intelligent, well-educated person. The icon was basically a circle with an exclamation point inside. The fact that it had a slightly flat edge actually made it harder to recognize as a wheel since we normally associate wheels as being perfectly round. It almost looked more like a steering wheel. There was no status code to look up, only an icon which they had to match visually against every other possible icon. And this is one of the most common warning lights to appear in a car, so imagine how much harder the more obscure ones are.

Roombas, which the article mentions don't use voice, actually did start using voice in the last couple of generations. And it's great. It tells you that it's stuck rather than just beeping sadly at you.

I'm not necessarily saying the car dashboard should speak warnings, as it may startle people on the highway, but I also think there's a lot to improve on.

<comment><USER16> Here's one explanation: I work as an HMI designer for an Automotive OEM. Since we have a fully digital driver display, I designed a feature to address your problem; it displayed a large graphic with a text explanation of what was happening.

Unfortunately, it was killed by our Customer Care team, who were, paradoxically, more concerned about giving the driver/customer negative information that might lead to complaints, buybacks, etc. Needless to say, there are many stories like this, and it shows that even though UX/UI design is the most apparent aspect of a product, it is only as good as the decisions made underneath it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Notifications should be renamed to Interruptions IMO

</comment><comment><USER18> I am currently building a personal journal app will become what I calling a _" quiet social network"_ [0]. The idea seems similar of this calm tech, although they are talking more about hardware.

I am on the fence about notifications though. They can be very useful for the user. I am planning to add notifications, but probably all off by default, and the user decides very granularly what they want on. Does it seem the right approach? I would appreciate any opinion

[0] [https://www.quidsentio.com](https://www.quidsentio.com)

<comment><USER19> What about a notification digest, where the user gets a list of updates every (day|week|<configured duration>)? Perhaps after explicitly requesting to receive updates about so-and-so. This allows the user to decide, "At 20:00 each night, I'll get a list of new stuff from my friends, and I'll take some time and peruse it," rather than getting blasted at odd times.

<comment><USER20> I wish this was an OS level feature on my phone and computer. I will often disable notifications from, for example, Slack on the weekends, and every time I do I silently wish there were a way to automatically control notifications per app based on time and day.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> I switched to the Android Headspace app recently and the juxtaposition of what they're trying to achieve (meditation / mindfulness and being in the moment) with the onslaught of unasked-for notifications, sometimes when I was already asleep, was jarring. They should be a poster boy for Calm Technology, but Tech just can't seem to help itself.

<comment><USER22> That was my experience as well. I've switched to Insight Timer.

<comment><USER23> Can you disable the cloud features on that now? I stopped using it when they forced that on everyone. I had even paid for it previously.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Tech products starts this way but eventually they need to make profit and then ads take over the product. The only way this works is for paid products.

<comment><USER8> Even paid products or services are not immune.

I order a pizza, I have no choice but to provide details since they need them for delivery. Guess what happens next? Yeah, e-mail and SMS spam.

I pay hundreds of bucks for a complete Tado system (thermostat, radiator valves, etc). Guess what I get? E-mail spam about discounts for their "new" app which actually has _less_ features than the current one.

I buy a PS4 and try to set it up. Even for a few hundred bucks for a new console, there is _still_ bullshit telemetry and other crap I need to opt-out of, not to mention some half-assed attempt at a social network where I have to spend 15 minutes setting everything to "No one can see this" so I can regain some privacy because I have no desire to use the social features.

Heck, even some US government agencies (DMV I think) sell your data to scum and you can't even opt out.

I can go on and on. We need some actual ethics, and regulation as a fail-safe for cases where the former doesn't work.

<comment><USER4> > I can go on and on. We need some actual ethics, and regulation as a fail- > safe for cases where the former doesn't work.

Or become an EU resident and use their brilliant data-handling privacy laws

<comment><USER8> I am in Europe and the GDPR is a joke. You are supposed to _first_ complain to the company itself, give them a month to reply with a satisfactory response, and if not, then escalate to the country's privacy regulator which seems to do absolutely nothing according to my experience.

Can you imagine doing all these things every time your privacy is violated (every non-compliant cookie banner, tracker, newsletter, etc)? That would be a full-time job. It's almost like "justice" in the US, in theory you can win, in practice you have no chance unless you have billions to pay lawyers to fight decade-long legal battles on your behalf.

<comment><USER4> Much like my sibling comment, things have always been pretty fast and reliable in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK, and the Netherlands.

I literally do these things everytime my privacy, just like I'd do with any other right, is violated. And no it's not a full-time job, that's precisely why I delegate.

Not using real data, unless the interactions are legally binding, helps a lot. Give it a spin maybe?

<comment><USER8> I am in the UK and my experience has been the opposite - they are helpful when it comes to questions but seem completely useless at actually getting things resolved. I file complaints regarding privacy and never hear anything again and the company continues with the bad behaviour.

> that's precisely why I delegate.

You mean you pay someone else to deal with the bullshit? It's a good strategy and I've considered it but it shouldn't be up to us to pay (with time and/or money) to investigate these issues, especially considering the regulation doesn't give you any way to recover those expenses even if the offender is indeed in breach of those regulations. There's also the problem of the people who would be the most affected by the privacy breaches are the ones that are less likely to have the disposable income necessary to pay someone else to deal with this on their behalf.

> Not using real data

Two problems with this:

1) It's hard to defend against data being collected in the background, and privacy plugins can be a double-edged sword by making you stand out more (the _lack_ of data is data by itself). IP tracking is very hard to defend unless you have access to a huge pool of IPs and configure your computer to pick random ones for each host it's connecting to.

2) In some cases it's impossible - ordering goods, food or transport online. Some require identifiers like phone numbers you can't easily get in volume.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> A technical issue on the website:

      html {
        overflow-y: scroll;
      }

      body {
        overflow-x: hidden;
      }

This makes both the <html> and <body> elements scrolling areas, so that you see two scrollbars (the outermost one disabled), and keyboard scrolling doesn't work until you click within the body.

Simplest fix is to shift the overflow-x: hidden to the html element, or remove it altogether.

</comment><comment><USER26> The Android app for 100 Million Books is meant to abide by these principles...to the point I thought it made sense to call it an "anti-app"!

I see Calm's purpose seems to extend far beyond smartphone apps and consumer technology, but I was hoping more people would create "anti-apps" when I created mine, and it it seems like Calm is doing a better job than me of pushing for such things.

[https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/android-app-err- anti-a...](https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/android-app-err-anti-app- announcement/)

</comment><comment><USER27> Great idea to point attention to this.

The number one rule I learned for interfaces is "Don't interrupt the proceedings" , which means which means the tools should be optimized for the task and don't burden the user with unwarranted windows, buttons, lights or beeps. Optimize for flow. Recognize the posture of the application.

</comment><comment><USER28> Can't help but think of one of Homer Simpson's inventions. The "Everything's okay alarm" \- a piercing squawk will sound every three seconds unless something isn't okay. [https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticle...](https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/17874/Top-10-Engineering- Moments-of-The-Simpsons.aspx)

<comment><USER13> That reminds me of the local bus/train commuting service. When you searched for a trip in their app, they'd put red warning triangles on delayed departures. Delayed departures are so common here that they eventually started using green warning triangles, to signal that the bus would (probably) be on time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> The opposite of calm tech could be called something like hustle tech, where the interfaces create user stress by opening cognitive loops. Nagging indicators, garden path personal information extraction, leveraging users time investment, Nir Eyal's "hooked model" designs, automated sales pipelining (or spam), dark patterns, etc.

Funny that some startups by middle class people thought "hustle," meant energetic teamwork like on a kids sports team, whereas if you had any street smarts at all, hustle means getting leverage over someone by pre-empting their ability to reason accurately, often by bullying, nagging, feigning offence, and exploiting their agreeableness by making them think they "owe," you.

Preying on human goodness like reciprocity, empathy, fairness, and agreeableness is basically what a hustler and hustle tech does.

<comment><USER30> One thing that I've done that's made my iPhone much less distracting, is to run the display in black and white.

This makes my notification badges scream for my attention much less. The whole phone feels calmer and less distracting. I have actually been doing this for over a year, and it's been life-changing.

Another benefit is that due to the increased contrast of black and white, I can run my brightness way lower; this is excellent for battery life. Screenshots still show up in color.

I have an Accessibility Shortcut mapped to my side button to turn this on and off. If I want to look at a photo or something, I toggle it by triple-clicking my side button. It's seamless and it stays out of my way.

For anyone who wants to try this: Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Color Filters. Flip the switch to enable and select "Grayscale".

Then, go back up to Settings -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut and select "Color Filters".

<comment><USER31> Thank you for these detailed instructions! I've been a longtime fan of grayscale screen, but often end up lapsing after a few days when I want to look at a photograph. Now I don't have that failure mode anymore!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> I can't help but finally thinking "You've got mail!" was a wrong turn for humanity somehow.

<comment><USER33> I am becoming more and more convinced that keeping my data and programs on other peoples computers is not a good idea. They can not seem to resist the idea of 'harvesting' information from me to 'monetize' me for a small monthly fee. The PC revolution is over. The smartphone killed it.

<comment><USER34> > I am becoming more and more convinced that keeping my data and programs on > other peoples computers is not a good idea. They can not seem to resist the > idea of 'harvesting' information from me to 'monetize' me for a small > monthly fee.

This has more to do with "free" services than hosting your data elsewhere.

<comment><USER35> If that were the case paid services wouldn't be doing it too. The reason they do is that there is no large enough incentive/consequence to make a convincing argument to leave that revenue on the table. It is neither hosting it elsewhere nor the "free" services which tend to be the worst examples of it, but rather the lack of any financially valid reason not to.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> Wish my Sony headphones had this for when switching modes or battery low indications. Currently it will mute all sound and speak in a voice regarding what is going on with limited info, instead of some clear beeps. Get to the point tech!

</comment><comment><USER37> I particularly appreciate this ->

"Technology should make use of the periphery... A calm technology will move easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back."

And this ->

"Machines shouldn't act like humans. Humans shouldn't act like machines. Amplify the best part of each."

</comment><comment><USER38> _> Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention _

The challenge — and I believe this is one of the fundamental challenges of the Information Age — is that the business model of most companies making tech today is that _user attention funds the development of the technology._

Every ad-driven business rests on this trade: We give you software X and in return you give Y% fraction of your attention. We sell that attention to company Z which pays us in cash.

Tech from these companies cannot reduce the amount of attention the software consumes without directly affecting their bottom line _and_ their ability to deliver tech to users in the first place.

<comment><USER39> I would like to think we're heading toward a future where people will want to pay for products and services to reclaim their attention - as opposed to using free ones that deliberately track and optimize for your engagement.

The past 15 years of social media has been a terrible experiment in attention- driven business models.

I'd like to think I'm helping buck this trend with my current project - <USER2> subscription based social network called Thread - [https://get.thread- app.com](https://get.thread-app.com)

<comment><USER40> I'd like to think that too, but most people don't have the money or inclination for calm tech. We want distractions from the uncomfortable truths, and Facebook is happy to provide distraction with comfortable "truths."

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER41> It boils down to incentives. When entire business models are built around hijacking your attention and keeping you "hooked" for as long as possible, you can't expect _calm technology_.

Vote with your wallet.

<comment><USER8> Voting with your wallet isn't always an option when the advertising cancer has already infected _everything_. See my earlier comment for some expensive examples: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802985](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802985)

<comment><USER41> The more generalizable version of "vote with your wallet" is to stop using those services, if possible. Eventually, those companies will either stop engaging in this behaviour or die.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER42> This seems to be a continuation of " _Designing Calm Technology_ " by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown in 1995: [https://calmtech.com/papers/designing- calm-technology.html](https://calmtech.com/papers/designing-calm- technology.html)

</comment><comment><USER43> I love this philosophy. Ideals to strive for. It is self-evident to me that once we get past these salad days, this spasm of raw capitalism, "content", and absurd business models, internet tech will approach a new equilibrium where it is something that is in the background, always present, but never seen, like a utility.

Maybe 10 years, maybe 100, but the sooner the better: a world filled with pinging "push notifications" and advertisements is not one I would want to gift to future generations.

<comment><USER8> Check out Hyper Reality: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs)

</comment></comment><comment><USER44> I realize I'm well late to this discussion, but Huginn seems to be a good tool for this: [https://github.com/huginn/huginn](https://github.com/huginn/huginn)

</comment><comment><USER45> How about Calm businesses and Calm codebases. "Code should need the least possible amount of knowledge and attention"

</comment><comment><USER46> I love this and I will try to make our product, yazz Pilot abide by these principles

</comment><comment><USER47> This is nice. Thanks for sharing it.

</comment><comment><USER48> Adheres to Tethics.

</comment><comment><USER49> > Sleep Cycle is a mobile application that monitors your sleep and allows you > to track times of deep sleep...

oh come on. the examples were good so far...

why would i need an app to monitor my sleep if i don't have any sleep disorder or similar? i am putting such app in the "need for attention" category.

<comment><USER50> You are not the target audience for this if you don't see its utility.

Ironically, in your own dismissive response you give a good reason for the app's existence.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Anyway to protect yourself without getting lawyers involved? - <AUTHOR>

I've read the horror stories of people partnering up on an idea and then one party getting screwed over.<p>I was wondering if there were ways to protect yourself without hiring a lawyer. I remember seeing several sites posted here were you could set up a "virtual" contract. Could someone link me to those? do they provide enough protection if things go south? <comment><USER2> The best in my opinion to protect yourself is to have a great relationship with the partner. Meet with them regularly, listen to their concerns, share your concerns, yada, yada. There is really no protection against a bad partner that doesn't involve legal bills either upfront writing up a completely protective contract (which will spook other side anyways) or when disputing with them and needing to bring in the lawyers once things go south. The best prevention is to choose partners wisely and bring any concerns up quickly. You aren't going to have great partners 100% of the time, but if you can get to 80% of the time that saves a ton of stress, hassle and money</comment>


Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements - <AUTHOR> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-canonical-to-fund-upstream-linux-usability-improvements.html

<comment><USER3> The actual blog post at <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162> is much, much more interesting than this one.

</comment><comment><USER4> Call me cynical, but I bet even if the Ubuntu desktop becomes measurably more "usable" than OS X or Windows, people will still use OS X or Windows because they have already learned how to work around the unusability of those OSes. At some point, people don't know what's usable, they just know which buttons to press to get what they want.

However, if we make Ubuntu easy for new users to pick up, and we make sure new users (read: kids) have Ubuntu, then we'd be on to something.

(BTW, I call it "the Ubuntu desktop" instead of "the Linux desktop" because the latter term is meaningless. My definition of the Linux desktop is xmonad, emacs, urxvt, firefox, and amarok. I doubt many other people have the same taste, although I advocate it to anyone that will listen.)

<comment><USER3> I think as time goes on computer manufacturers will make slow movements towards it to avoid paying the 'Microsoft tax' particularly on low-end computers where Linux thrives. If computer manufacturers want to use it hardware vendors will be forced to support it. Once there's a sufficient market-share and the environment is better set-up to support it commercial software development will start inching towards it.

This has been a big struggle so far as there's long been a catch-22 that not many people use Linux and it's difficult to use Linux because no-one supports it as not many people use it. The cycle is slowly but surely changing - <USER2> already has happened to a degree with ultraportables - but expect it to take 5 to 10 years for it to get a decent amount of market-share as it continues to improve. I'm not saying it will ever 'take over' Windows, but it only needs 5-10% market share to be taken seriously - much like Mac OS X - and it's already got a highly dedicated user-base that's more likely to grow over time especially as there's as thanks to ultraportables there is now product that can be used to expose people to it.

What didn't help was the highly fractured community, something which has significantly improved as of late largely thanks to Ubuntu; over-idealistic "free software" evangelists who didn't like seeing the bigger picture; poor user experience, something which has changed significantly with text files being the exception rather than the rule; traditionally poor software support that's slowly but surely changing thanks to web-based apps, a wider selection of native applications, improvements to Wine and Microsoft's move towards .NET, and hopefully in the long-run greater, better and easier commercial applications; the lack of support by OEMs but this has largely changed with Dell, the biggest computer manufacturer in the world, slowly but surely moving towards Ubuntu; and the "Linux is hard" meme that perpetuated thanks to overenthusiastic highly technical users a decade ago which made Linux a dirty word.

It's very easy to forget that many of the variables that made alternative OSes getting a reasonable market-share impossible even 10 years ago have changed beyond recognition.

<comment><USER5> I contend that Linux's big market share opportunity will come not from conventional PCs no longer being sold with Windows, but from the erosion of the conventional PC markets. Nobody wants a big box of wires in their office, and I contend that even laptops are too big. I believe that the future involves smartphone class devices and accessories to make them more useful for present-day laptop type duties.

Lots of professionals are already issued BlackBerries and their ilk, and current/near future phones are shipping with 1G of system RAM, and 16-32G of flash. Give me better productivity software and remote desktop over bluetooth, and I'd kiss my ThinkPad goodbye.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> This is interesting - For me what will be the fascinating to see is how they tackle this from technical, community and business perspectives.

At the very least will give some insights into the challenges on increasing usability in Linux (I find it hard to find two people who agree on how "usable" Linux is, let alone on the challenges) - and at the best introduce some significant improvements.</comment>


Ask HN: Any open source project which you have used to make some passive income - <AUTHOR> <comment><USER2> Wordpress via blogging... but probably not what you're thinking of and ymmv... Never made quit-my-job money though and it was fleeting..

I'm hoping more people chime in though, would love to see some case studies on this.

<comment><USER3> Ad revenue, I presume?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> [https://github.com/TomTasche/OpenDocument.droid/](https://github.com/TomTasche/OpenDocument.droid/)</comment>


Ask HN:  Just my eyes or did Amazon.com change their look? looks great to me - <AUTHOR>

<comment><USER2> It's same here! (in India) but, it's visible only when I visit amazon from iPad.

</comment><comment><USER3> a big change is coming according to TechCrunch, but it looks the same in Canada. Maybe you got an a/b test.

why not link to amazon as your title?

</comment><comment><USER4> I always hated amazon page design. They have this disease where they try to put as much shit on the page as possible. Their home page is completely unreadable. I'm sure they A/B tested it to the stratosphere, but it doesn't work for me at all.

I've seen this happen on a very popular site, design-by-committee was responsible. It looks like amazon has the same problem. They ask designers to design something nice, but the requirements are insane - you have to shove 20 different blocks on a given page. Then they go through rounds of discussions in rooms full of project managers, product managers, designers, project leads, and often some executives (who for sure think they know better). They argue over and over, of what features should be on the page, while stabbing their political opponents' suggestions. It ends up in a clusterfuck like that.

EDIT: That's what it looks like to me:

Above the fold: <http://i.imgur.com/X0xde.jpg>

Below the fold: <http://i.imgur.com/ldzIj.jpg>

<comment><USER5> If a single web site will be responsible for the backlash against a/b testing it will be Amazon. The amount of cruft is mind-boggling, so much in fact that I used a custom CSS to make it usable again.

Here's how the page for a single book looks like when comparing Amazon's with my own CSS: <http://imgur.com/a/lhWr5>

Yes, it's the same page.</comment></comment>


Find out which A/B / multivariate tests are winning? - <AUTHOR> http://whichtestwon.com/

<comment><USER2> I've been to this site before and its a great place to just play around and test your intuition on design and learn how to develop an eye for good design and what makes it good.</comment>


Mozilla Firefox Challenge Event (charity) - <AUTHOR> http://www.crowdrise.com/celebrity-fundraisers/special/firefoxchallengeevent?utm_source=mozilla&utm_medium=snippet&utm_campaign=b

<comment><USER2> TeamJS for Feeding America has already raised more than the celebrity charities that started with $5,000 each. Good chance they'll be the top cause and receive an extra $25,000.</comment>


Ask HN: Non-compete in freelancing contract? - <AUTHOR> A potential customer offered a freelancing contract which would prevent me from working with any of their customers until 2 years after working for them.
I'm not 100% sure whether or not this is acceptable to me. I don't intend to get their clients but in reality this sometimes happens as I become part of their network.
What's your experience and opinion on this kind of arrangements?
Thanks for any advice! <comment><USER2> \- two years sounds reasonable.

\- prohibiting only to not to work with their customers instead of prohibiting to work in the same field like them sounds reasonable.

If this is acceptable depends on the amount of customers they have and what share of your potential market they present.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks you tobitobs!</comment></comment>