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jogleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

$7.25/hour, nice!!

jogleon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)

SEEKING FREELANCER -- NEW YORK CITY (remote not possible)

DURATION: At least 4 months, up to 12, potential hire if you're interested after the project is finished.

Need 2-3 people with the following attributes:

-2+ Years experience with PHP and PHP Framework(s), especially Yii Framework

-Advanced experience in MySQL database design, development, and query optimization

-Advanced experience with JavaScript and jQuery

Set yourself apart with the following skills:

-Ruby on Rails development experience

-Familiarity with server-side maintenance

I'm trying to put together a team to build a SaaS product that we've already specced out and begun working on quite a lot.

I need a team leader and 1 or 2 programmers to help the lead programmer with the project.

PAY RATES: Lead will get $75k/year paid weekly, other team members $60k/year paid weekly.

Send your resume or website to jobs@freshspinads.com if you're interested, please title your email with "yes" or "no" as to whether you've used Yii framework before.

jogleon Artsy Hacks: Awesome Caricatures by Patrick Strogulski

Yeh, to be clear I actually enjoy the art in some of the posts you've made, but I share the same wonder as the original commenter as to what "artsy hack" means, really.

Not a big deal, though, of course. :)

jogleon Artsy Hacks: Awesome Caricatures by Patrick Strogulski

He posts these things all the time for some reason, all to the same website. People have asked before how it has anything to do with "hackers" and to my knowledge there haven't been any responses from the OP.

jogleon AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway

I read something on msnbc a couple days ago but can't find the link. Here are some from more mainstream sources than TechCrunch, though:

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/09/24/the-daily-sta...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/09...

http://www.businessinsider.com/angelgate-is-overblown-2010-9

jogleon Scribd.com Comes to the Dark Side

Just last week I found a research paper I published while at Cornell on Scribd -- no attribution at all, no permissions, etc. It's a paper that in normal circulation costs $50 to purchase (and has been purchased a few thousand times -- whether $50 is reasonable or not is a discussion for another thread, of course).

I considered letting my editor know about it to see if she wanted me to request it be taken down, but then I figured I'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone.

jogleon Goodbye to all that

I really connected to this piece a lot: I'm in my 20s, in NYC for the first time, grew up in the South, and am completely infatuated with this place for some unable-to-be-explained reason.

  I suppose that a lot of us who have been very young in New
  York have the same scenes in our home screens. I remember 
  sitting in a lot of apartments with a slight headache about 
  five o’clock in the morning. I had a friend who could not 
  sleep...

It's so easy to fall in love with this city but so hard to describe the reason why. She did a great job.

jogleon Ask HN: Do super smart people avoid entrepreneurship?

This isn't directly related to your question, but thought you'd find this 5 minute video interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7Y6HiLXto

It's Art Williams (inspirational speaker guy) who mentions he doesn't think "smart" people are likely to "succeed" in business, because they try to figure things out too much. Instead, he preaches (almost literally) a "just do it" mentality.

Worth the few minutes if you haven't seen it.

jogleon Ask HN: How is the avg in my HN profile calculated?

total karma / # comments = average?

jogleon Ask HN: Company wants to aquire my website. Can you give me some advice?

You really need to provide much more detail about the type of site you're running, how/if it makes money, whether you're comfortable working as a contractor for the larger company, etc.

Also, know that traffic milestones are way too easily taken advantage of (inflation and deflation of numbers is very simple in practice) -- I would suggest coming up with another way of tracking your growth than by pageviews.

jogleon YCRFS 7: Applications of Facebook Instant Personalization

http://www.facebook.com/#!/settings/?tab=privacy&section...

Click "Edit your settings" down at the bottom left.

Click "Edit your settings" on the "Instant Personalization" setting.

Uncheck the box on the next page.

jogleon Google News gets gamed by a crappy content farm

I find that most often the "spam" that comes up on searches is on the user-submit-enabled sites -- vimeo, myplick, authorstream, slideshare, scribd, etc. -- and it's their lack of moderation that is the issue. (Do a search right now for "watch colts vs packers online" and see what I mean.)

Blacklisting those entire sites would seem to be a real disservice to the legitimate content that is uploaded, but then again, if the site administrators can't keep their content in order, why are they getting crawled by the G so often anyway?

The real deal is this, in many cases: the spam that's created on those sites during certain times is foreseeable and follows a particular pattern -- it's created based around news or events, such as sports, movies, sex tape outings, etc. -- so it would seem easy to get rid of the spam before it hits the search engines, right? One option is just to expect an influx during certain time periods and increase moderation during that time. Another option is to prevent new users from publishing content until they've submitted moderator-approved non-spam content first.

But that would mean those sites don't get the impressions... and impressions-->ads-->$$$... so where's their incentive?

jogleon Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders

Facebook already does ban on a domain basis, but of course that's not a fix at all. These things are "viral" by the nature of the Like button since it posts on the user's wall automatically, so it's very easy for the "spammer" to make a new domain and get going again very quickly.

The easiest fix to the spreading of this issue is FB not broadcasting every single time you like something... but they're not gonna do that, we already know. So, the spam will continue.