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ff Venture Capital - New York, NY - Web Engineer

Do you like to work with a wide range of technology? Are you interested in the inner workings of venture capital and startups? If so, you'll appreciate the opportunity to work side by side with our Director of Engineering on a slew of projects.

Who We Are

We are an early-stage venture capital fund based in Midtown Manhattan. Since 1999, we have made over 160 investments in more than 50 companies. We provide extensive resources dedicated to portfolio acceleration, including engineering, strategy, recruiting, accounting and public relations.

Who You Are

You should have a degree in computer science, something similar or equivalent experience. Strong JavaScript skills are required. Experience with Node.js gets you to the front of the line. It's easy to make things these days, so show us at least one live project.

What You'll Do

Currently, we have our hands in Python, Rails, Node and Docker, amongst other things. You will work on new and existing systems, both open source and proprietary, working up and down the full stack including UI and UX.

Contact jason@ffvc.com if you're interested.

Two questions:

1. How do you get 40 million cards in a day from scraping RAM? Wouldn't it be limited to live transactions? 40m seems like a huge number of transactions for one day. An average ticket of $50 would make it a 2 billion dollar day.

2. Why does the card data need to be decrypted on the POS system? Why can't it be sent to a central service and decrypted there and an authorization code is sent back?

The two reasons I've heard are preventing accidental variable assignment and preventing null references. Personally, I don't think either of those things outweigh the readability issue.

Especially interesting considering the author of that article works at Microsoft

SecondMarket also offers an accreditation service:

https://www.secondmarket.com/education/avp

It's part of their General Solicitation Solution:

https://www.secondmarket.com/education/landing/general-solic...

Congrats from ff, Tim! We're all looking forward to helping CardFlight grow.

New York - Intern - ff Venture Capital

We are an early-stage venture capital fund based in midtown Manhattan and are seeking CS interns. We have projects in Django, Rails and Node.

+ You will have ownership of your own projects and manage them from start to finish

+ Interact and learn from venture capitalists and entrepreneurs

+ Get to know the New York startup community

+ Work directly underneath our Director of Engineering

http://ffventure.theresumator.com/apply/gD5JAH/Venture-Capit...

Just tried to buy one and got an out of inventory message :(

UPDATE: Tried again and you can no longer add it to the shopping cart. Just says coming soon.

UPDATE 2: I'm a glutton for punishment so I tried again and it worked!

Correlation != causation

or your head :(

New York, NY - Rallyverse

FULL-TIME - UX and Interaction Design

* Strong portfolio of professional work

* Ability to rapidly generate, visualize and iterate design solutions in a startup environment

* Visual design talent (icons, color theory, typography, composition, motion, etc)

* Bonus - Familiarity with modern web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)

FULL-TIME or INTERN - Front-End Development

* Portfolio of professional work for full-time, side-projects for intern

* Strong knowledge of JavaScript, with or without libraries

* HTML and CSS skills

* Bonus 1 - UX and visual design skills

* Bonus 2 - Backend coding experience (Python, Ruby, C#, Java, etc)

A few projects in the short-term pipeline

* Browser extensions

* Mobile and tablet apps

* Engagement platform

Shoot an email to jason@rallyverse.com if you're interested.

Rallyverse, New York, NY - Web dev and/or designer

We're a funded team of ten in the Nomad area of NYC working on making social media easier for brands and marketers. We're looking for full-time help on the front-end. Some combination of code (HTML, CSS, JS) and visual design is necessary, but the exact ratio is open. Basically, we're looking to hire the most talented person, wherever you may fall on the dev/design spectrum. Back-end chops are a plus but not required.

We found our last hire on HN. Let's keep the ball rolling!

Email Jason at jason@rallyverse.com.

Hey Luke. Always good to see another Mainer here. What town are you from?

Yeah, on number three now. Currently at Rallyverse in New York working on second generation social marketing tools. I'll hit you up on LinkedIn so we can stay in touch.

Hey William, I saw the name "From Holden" and knew right away this must be someone from Holden, Maine. I'm from Brewer and just wanted to say congrats on getting the ball rolling on your new venture. There aren't many people coming out of Central Maine doing this type of thing. Hats off.

The iphone 7 prototype looks like a good start but they can take it much, much farther. A quick calculation: my arm is roughly 34 inches long and an icon row is about 1/2 inch. Factoring in for hardware chrome they could squeeze in maybe 64 rows for a whopping 256 apps on the home screen! There is TONS of room to grow here.

Here is a solid book about mobile first development:

http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first

It's a good (and quick) read, even if you don't agree with it, as are all of the A Book Apart publications.

I'm working on an app that incorporates outgoing social media messages. If there is a link in the message I hit it on the backend and send a json list of image urls to the user. The user can then flip through them and decide which image to add to their message.

This is a great reminder that it is important to run experiments to test your hypothesis. It's easy to fall into the simple, simple, simple mindset when designing but sometimes that doesn't drive the most sales. If a more complex design makes more money then that is the "right" design. After all, at the end of the day HubSpot is a business.

Is that new? Back then it was two devs and two traders in a room. See a problem? Press the big red button. Deploy change. Press the big green button. Cowboy style. I STRONGLY recommend against doing it this way. I was young and stupid and I'm pretty sure it took years off my life.

My first job out of college was at a small HFT firm. The night before rolling out my first changes is forever imprinted in my memory. Lots of tossing and turning and images of exactly this kind of disaster.

I read it as a critique of Craig's business decisions, not a personal attack.

New York, New York - Full-time and Intern

We are hiring at Rallyverse. We are always looking for smart folks to join us. Here is a list of our current needs:

  * Backend developer
  * Front-end development intern
  * Account executive
  * Client services rep
  * Social media strategist

And a brief company description:

In social media, your content is your ad. Rallyverse (www.rallyverse.com) shows brands what to say and when to say it on Facebook, in Twitter, and in their social ads. Rallyverse creates ready-to-publish status updates, tweets, and ads from a brand's content, and ranks them based on their relevance to real-time conversations in social media -- essentially, a cheat sheet for social-media marketers.

Hit me up anytime: jason at rallyverse dot com

This thread makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a toothpick. The nitpicking is outrageous. Think about your last project with a tight deadline. OMG a bad meta tag made in! Should we delay the release? If you are running a business not a personal site the answer should ALWAYS be no. This is a website not shrink wrapped software. It can be updated a hundred times a day. Meta tags can be changed. It's ok to roll out a site that isn't 100% where you want it to be. I, for one, welcome the new Digg and look forward to them improving their meta tags.

My favorite part of the support forum is the suggestion to submit a ticket and it will "usually" be addressed in 1-3 days.

The idea of doing a little work up front to save yourself trouble later on is good in theory, but the reality of the early stage startup world is if you don't move fast enough you won't be around to experience that trouble later on. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. The trick is to find a happy medium that works for your situation.

Totally agree on that last part. The pain rapidly diminishes as you come up with simpler ways to do things in a reusable way. Also, the tools to do it are getting better and better as more and more people are feeling the same pain.

I often hail livery (aka radio) cars in NYC. It's technically illegal for them to pick up passengers that they weren't dispatched to pick up. I'm sure that is a law put in place to protect medallion owners.

As an aside, there are different schools of thought for how to pay radio cars since they don't have meters. A friend always waits until getting dropped off to negotiate price. He figures he holds the power at that point since he is already at his destination. I always ask how much before getting in. My girlfriend just hands them money when she gets out, whatever she thinks is fair, and has never had anyone give her a hard time.

EDIT: I should add that all three of us find the cost of the radio cars to be about the same as yellow cabs. Our different negotiating techniques don't really make a difference.

User acquisition is a necessary but not sufficient part of success. So no, user acquisition isn't the key to success. And yes, you do need to engage your users and make your site/app sticky. But you can have the stickiest app known to man and it's completely useless if you don't have users. You need to do both and the only thing they have in common is being difficult.

New York, NY - Local, full-time and intern

Rallyverse is hiring a full-time back-end dev and a front-end intern. We are a team of six and growing and signing paying customers.

http://rallyverse.com/jobs

As others have stated, the signup form doesn't work. I see a 500 response. Looks like there isn't an action set on the form. Hope that helps.