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We're hiring for a number of our properties including: eHow, LIVESTRONG, Cracked, Tyra, and Demand Studios.

Demand is a great place to work with a fun atmosphere and a lot to offer: great benefits, high scale and high profile projects, fun diversions (on-site game room, parties), flexible schedules, smart, fun people, stocked kitchens, serious hardware, and awesome locations.

We're mainly looking for:

  * PHP Developers
  * C# Engineers
  * Python Engineers
  * UI Engineers (Front-end, JS/jQuery)

OpenSky is where passion, relationships and commerce meet. Building the next ecommerce platform is a lot of work. Join us and help us build something great. We have a number of different places where you can help. Whether you are front-end,back-end or somewhere in between.

You should:

   * Use (and contribute to) 
        * MongoDB 
        * Symfony 2
        * Doctrine 2
        * PHP 5.3
        * PHPUnit 3.5
        * jQuery
        * node.js
        * Git (with gitflow) 
        * a touch of Java and Python. 
   * Be comfortable in a start-up and all that goes with it.
   * Care deeply about 
        * the code you write
        * the product you build 
        * the team you join and work with.
   * Have 5+ years experience building fast growing, high traffic websites 
   * ecommerce and social networking experience.
   * Strong PHP (HTML & JS) skills with proficiency in at least 2 other languages.
   * Contribute to Open Source (we do).

Off & Away (http://www.offandaway.com) is a early stage start-up aiming to change the way people shop for travel. Using an innovative bid-to-win auction model, we’re able to give our customers access to the type of high-end travel experience they could normally only dream of attaining.

Our downtown Seattle-based company was founded by former Amazon.com and travel industry executives, and recently raised seed funding led by Madrona Venture Group, the venture firm behind Amazon.com, Farecast.com (now Bing Travel) and VacationSpot (now a part of Expedia). Since launching at TechCrunch Disrupt, our customer base has been growing rapidly and we’re looking to keep up by growing our small but talented team.

We are looking for a front-end developer with top-notch software design and coding skills to work across all layers of our service, with an emphasis on UI (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery) and application logic (Java, Servlets), yet also capable of into diving back-end logic and the database (MySQL). Prior experience in an early stage start-up a big plus.

Our core technology is a suite of computer vision algorithms (e.g., face recognition) for analyzing video that we have developed over the past few years. We use our vision platform to ingest and scan videos from sites like Youtube and Metacafe that are available for advertising and sell data about the video contents to advertisers who use it to build and optimize their online video campaigns.

We are working with the major ad agencies and with several top brands. The reception to our service has been very enthusiastic because online video advertising is exploding and yet there are few tools available for advertisers to target their campaigns or even know what sorts of videos they are running against. This is especially a pain point for major brands because they are generally very sensitive about what sorts of content show up next to their ad.

We are looking for an engineer to take leadership on the (primarily Python) platform built around our (primarily C++) vision code. The platform runs on Debian Linux and other open source software and is responsible for:

* Ingesting videos and metadata from publishers

* Interfacing with the vision code to process the videos and receive the results

* Storing results in MySQL (or other data stores as appropriate)

* Distributing and coordinating the above on Amazon EC2

* Maintaining our API used by clients to query for video data

* Interacting with APIs of third-party partners as needed

This platform is the backbone of our company, so we are hoping to find someone dedicated to building solid code who can make solid technical decisions.

If this sounds exciting to you, please email me at bobby@affinesystems.com

Piick is a new Social Recommendation startup. We're looking for a fourth member of our team. The site is written in Python and jQuery. Telecommuting is an option for the right hire. Our team previously grew a family-based social network startup to over 80 million users.

Pretty much; MVC, C#, SQL Server, jQuery, WCF, messing with couch, memcached and lots of other stuff.

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It's difficult to pin the blame on Craigslist since they are simply a medium of communication; prostitution is something that will happen regardless of the communication media available. Before Craigslist, it was newspaper classified ads or Yellow Pages. Before that, it was a certain neighborhood or brothel. Is underage prostitution more common now with digital communication channels available? I don't think so. Look to India or Thailand or the underage trafficking in other parts of the world. It has gone on since well-before anybody heard of Craigslist, the web, or the internet.

The difference is how easy it is to (a) communicate that you are a prostitute and (b) find prostitutes. In other words, as technology has improved, so have the means to quickly find information that you're looking for, whether that information happens to be what the weather is in Cupertino, or which prostitutes are available in your city.

All that being said, it seems that with Craigslist being the source of more and more of the "where are adult services in my neighborhood?" queries in the 21st century, they have responsibility to make sure that underage girls aren't being taken advantage of. How they do that? I'm not sure. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a good solution if your goal (as it seems Craiglist's is) is to facilitate consensual adult sexual connections. If that's your goal, you don't want to turn away prostitutes by actually verifying their age, because that would require ID-based verification of some kind, which I'm guessing most prostitutes wouldn't want to volunteer (fear of law enforcement, etc.) So short of that, what do you do? Image-verification to verify age? That's next to impossible with so much variation among people.

Prostitution is an ugly world. If I were suddenly given the reigns of control at Craigslist, I think I would turn off adult services, even knowing that within very-short-order another site or sites would pop up to fill the gap. I personally wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that even a few people were being exploited because of a communication medium that I created. I guess that's sort of a philosophical debate that needs to be had. Because if you take that to its logical conclusion you shouldn't be able to sleep at night if you created the foundations of the Internet, or the foundations of the Web, or even a communication medium like the telephone. Heck, even going back further, wouldn't that also mean that even creating something like a piece of real estate -- say, a hotel -- is bad because somebody might at some point be exploited at the place you created.