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)"
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'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...
We would most certainly not do anything like that intentionally. The normal user flow is the standard facebook app authentication dialog that clearly lists all the permissions required for the site to work.
The same thing happened to me. Chrome 19 on Lion. Just visited the site and within seconds I had an email from you guys saying I had created an account, even though I didn't click anything. You should fix this ASAP.
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.
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).
I like the domain hack, good grab. Do you host your email on this domain? Are you launching the blog anytime soon?
I view a personal domain as an asset for life. On one hand some of my web projects may die and I'll subsequently let the domain drop, I view my personal domain in the opposite light.
I'm ready and willing to keep renewing year after year, the yearly cost is worth it, much like I need to renew my drivers license or pay property taxes, its just an annual expense that's a part of being me.
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.
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.
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 ;) )
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.
1) "Do you mean something like an automatic check-in based on your current location?" - gowall doesn't like this, see: , more of a reminder service maybe? It's open to interpretation what you'd do with the information once you could predict someones intent to check in.
2) Twitter leaves a lot to be desired for spontaneous event organization. What if all of your friends aren't on twitter, or you need a minimum number of people to confirm before, say making reservations? Twitter is still a tool that can get you part of the way there most of the time.
3) Thanks, maybe it'd start as targeting startups.
4) Clarification on this idea coming.
5) It's a huge interface challenge for sure, I hope someone figures it out.
Agree with Ben on #2 - Twitter is far from a being a satisfactory solution for spontaneous group organization. As it has evolved to be increasing about sharing news, tweets are quick to slip below the fold unless you've limited your following to only your closest friends (and they aren't heavy users). The feed simply isn't conducive to organizing events that are tied to a specific time and only involve a subset of your social network.
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)"