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Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by smokinn » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:09 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #106

smokinn wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of, I think I'm speaking at CUSEC this year I sure hope you're speaking given that they just today announced it on the website http://2010.cusec.net/11-20/thomas-ptacek-security-researche... =) All the advice I can give you is be honest and be yourself. CUSEC has always been very informal compared to most other conferences, more of a discussion between students and people they respect more than anything else…

I figured the room might be a bit too generalist to want to hear 40-50 minutes of crypto flaws, and so I was thinking about wrapping the crypto stuff up in a talk that made a technical case in favor of DRM. If people tell me real-world crypto is going to keep people in their seats, though, I'm totally down for that; it's a much easier talk.

The room will indeed be quite general. You'll have anything from some (though probably few) 1st year students all the way to some (few again) professionals and masters/phd students. Most will be in between, skewing heavily to last/before last year CS/SOEN majors.

I don't feel very comfortable giving advice about the direction of your talk; I can only speak for myself. If you have questions I highly recommend you ask the director of presentations. That said, personally I think the case in favor of DRM could be quite interesting since I've never heard a technical person argue in that direction. (At least not while doing more than simply assuming the token devil's advocate role.) If you make a good case you'll definitely get lots of questions/objections after!

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by cheriot » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:16 PM UTC

Green startup Opower has engineering openings: Senior Java Dev, QA, and Senior DB.

www.opower.com

My email is in my profile if you're interested and have any questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by neustar » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:18 PM UTC

neustar is hiring (better known brands are ultradns and webmetrics) - we have around 70 open positions, most of them technical (support, ops, dev etc.)

http://neustar.biz/careers/index.cfm

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by dschobel » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:19 PM UTC

gvb wrote: post #4

1) Should we do this as a periodic feature (say every quarter)? 2) I repeat the links below to make them clickable. I also noted the time since the "Who's hiring" postings were made. 360 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410 [Ask HN: Who's Hiring?] 99 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759452 [Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)] 99 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759756 [Ask HN: Wh…

I also wonder if there's any way to build some lightweight features on top of these job postings (sort by location, skills, etc) without it becoming YAJS (yet another job site).

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by dunk010 » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:20 PM UTC

http://www.last.fm/about/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by dschobel » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:21 PM UTC

maukdaddy wrote: post #95

With the exception of Mr. Ptacek, a noticeable lack of openings in Chicago. Worries me about our local high-tech market.

Go to the next HN meetup. Last time there were a few local startups looking for people.

Off the top of my head:

http://www.windycitizen.com/

http://www.craftedfun.com/

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by derwiki » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:24 PM UTC

ewingpatriarch wrote: post #26

Yelp is hiring: http://www.yelp.com/jobs

Lotsa Python stuff, and located in downtown SF

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by ciscoriordan » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:31 PM UTC

The company I interned for this summer, Panjiva, is hiring a web app developer in Cambridge, MA (http://panjiva.com/jobs). Their app uses Ruby on Rails, but experience with it isn't a necessity. It's a good place to work for if you like it when your development work immediately affects your company's revenue.

Right now the 3 person development team includes an MIT PhD candidate, an MIT grad who founded a startup with a successful exit to VMWare, and a CMU/Stanford alum who recently quit Powerset/Microsoft.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by khangtoh » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:34 PM UTC

We're hiring a Ruby/Rails engineer to build up an innovative and large scale mobile service focusing on the iPhone now. We're an Alphalab summer 09 company.

You will be employee #1. Preferably someone from the Pittsburgh area or East Coast. Will definitely consider telecommute if you're the right candidate.

Email's in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

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Post by ephermata » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:35 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #96

smokinn wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't plan on applying but I'm curious as to why you would hire a great developer without security experience over someone who knows app security. Is it because you offer a lot of training or simply because you figure he'll pick up what he needs fairly quickly and eventually surpass the app security expert? Or is there a different reason? I asked a similar question to Zed Shaw at CUSEC last year. Something along th…

( Speaking of, I think I'm speaking at CUSEC this year, and anyone who's got any advice for me, I would pretty much kill to get it. ) It's simple. The best security researchers are people who have (or at least could) ship software. There is a big swath of high-end work that you simply can't deliver if you can't code. That's where Matasano plays. I suppose you could be a very strong Payment Card Industry certification…

Plus, don't you have a product which may benefit from developers, even if they don't start working on that project?