Fedons

Privitar | Software engineers, UX designer | London (UK) | Onsite, Full-Time | https://www.privitar.com

Privitar is a rapidly growing VC-backed company based in London, building products to enable the safe and ethical use of valuable data for analytics and machine learning, using state of the art privacy enhancing technologies.

We work with large organisations worldwide in financial services, telecommunications, pharma and government, enabling them to get the most out of data without compromising on privacy and security.

We are currently hiring for various roles, including full stack, front end and back end engineers and UX designers.

We have recently been awarded a very exciting contract, in which our de-identification products are going to be used by the NHS (the British National Health Service) - more on this here: https://www.privitar.com/press-releases/privitar-nhsdigital

If interested please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/privitar and mention as part of your application that you have seen this role on "Hacker News (Fedons)"

BBC - London - Contract

The BBC OTG Platform team in London is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an in-depth experience in audio/video Internet delivery and streaming.

We are looking for someone with excellent software development skills and experience in writing scalable software for the web. For this specific project we are flexible in terms of programming language, but we expect a solid experience in OO static languages as well as in dynamic scripting languages.

Experience with HTTP based video streaming, with a focus on delivery networks, is essential. Experience using caching technologies such as Varnish would be a big plus.

Drop me an email if you would like to find out more.

I've just sent an email.

I'm not sure if it's a bug (I'm using Chrome 20 beta, on Lion), but as soon as I've visited the Airtime landing page, my browser behaved automatically, as if I pressed the "Launch Airtime button" and I've instantly received a "Welcome to Airtime" email, even if I didn't accept their request of permissions.

I didn't have a look to the code, but I really hope this is just a bug and not a malicious use of Facebook authentication...

Thanks :) I use the free version of Google Apps with this domain for my email.

The best thing is that I'm de facto using the gmail web app, but if in the future I would like to change provider it will be a smooth transition, since my email address will remain the same.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Europe (Italy)

I’ve just made the jump from corporate life to freelancing and I’m looking for my first clients to kick-start my new activity!

What can I do for you:

  * Android apps;

  * Image/video processing and computer vision;

  * Web front-end development (HTML/CSS/Javascript);

  * Qt Quick Interface development (QML);

  * Web back-end development (PHP/Mysql/Python/Ruby/Redis);

  * Machine learning;

I'm also interested in picking up technologies i'm less familiar with (e.g. iOS development, Windows 8 Metro development), obviously billing lower rates - not billing training hours. I assure that I deliver what I promise.

Email: federico<at>benedet.to

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fedons

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fedons

My surname is Benedetto and unfortunately "benedetto.com" is owned by a funeral services company. However I managed to register "benedet.to", which makes a great personal domain!

My only fear in owning an extremely personalized domain is that if for any reason I fail to renew the domain, some squatter could get it and do whatever he wants (it happened with my previous blog: someone picked up the domain and used it for a porn website. It took months to take down every link that still referred it as my personal blog).

If he doesn't explicitly state a licence, the default copyright is owned by the author. Open source licences exist for this reason, to change the "default behavior" of something that is publicly released.

For this reason Kwerty owns the rights of distributing and using his code even without a licence.

Steve Jobs would have said: "Android update will replace credit cards". And that's the difference between Google and Apple today.

I really like the design, and the service also is very useful. I would just make more evident which is the most used expression...the two results are too similar! I'm from Italy too, and I think I'll start using it (it was already useful for my comment ;) )

Some random comments:

1) I don't get the idea. Do you mean something like an automatic check-in based on your current location?

2) This is already partially covered by Twitter: just twit "Who wants to meet in 5 minutes in..."? I don't see the need of an added service. Sure, you could add all the features you can think of, like maps. But now twits can be geolocalized too.

3) I like this idea. The only problem is that a system like Aardvark could work mainly for big companies with a large customer support department. Such companies could be difficult to convince to try the new system for their support.

4) Last.fm already does that. Edit: I've seen only now your comment. Well, I prefer the Last.fm model...what is the logic behind an invite only service? If we have in common many favorite artists, it's probable that I will like also some other artists from its collection.

5) I don't own an iPad and I can't judge the usability of its keyboard...but I don't see many people programming on that thing. It's more a consumer, rather than producer type of product. However, I believe there will be hundreds of geeks ready to install it on their iPad, even if they won't use it much.

Thank you very much for your ideas! I'm currently looking for one and posts like yours are really useful for my brainstorming.

"After it lets you in, eat the evidence."

This is genius.

I don't really like approaches like this one. It's the technology that should be adapted to humans, not the contrary.

This is the post from the creator of the website: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514016

This software tries to solve a real life problem, that I feel everyday more important to me. Their intuition is right: the problem can be (partially) solved with good presentation of data. But why using only Firefox as a platform? They almost had me, but I'm using Chrome and I really don't want to install another browser just to use as a platform for another software.