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Software Engineers - On-Site, Cardiff, South Wales, UK - Sorenson Media

We're looking to hire great Software Engineers regardless of specific technology background, who are happy to work on the full stack.
Teams at Sorenson Media are empowered to autonomously make their own decisions about technology and "how" to do things, our Product Owner is also very open to listening to suggestions on "what" to do.
Unit tests, integration tests, build servers and continuous integration are the backbone of our development practices.
Developers get the chance to work on all parts of the product and you could find yourself working on backend code talking to the database as part of the same story where you also work on front-end Javascript and SCSS.
We work in an Agile fashion with 2 week sprints and a real focus on using the fortnightly retrospectives to come up with ideas to try out in future sprints to see if they help us make our customers happier.
As a team we have chosen to use Node.js for our server side components, backed by a MongoDB database. We encourage developers to help write integration tests and those are written in Ruby.
Most of the people we've hired have little or no previous experience in these technologies and we train people up with a combination of time set aside for self-study and pair programming.

We're looking for multiple engineers from mid to senior levels so I can't specify specific salaries but I think they tend to be higher than most other Cardiff companies.

We're hiring developers for our Spark Engage product: http://www.sorensonmedia.com/spark/engage/

If any of this sounds interesting then feel free to contact me at mgrover@sorensonmedia.com with any questions, CVs, github profiles etc.

Thanks - Matt, Scrum Master at Sorenson Media
I don't get all the hate towards Python packaging. For any package that isn't ancient (or extremely complex like NumPy or SciPy) it just works to "pip install". And nowadays pip will even cache builds locally as a wheel so installing something a second time takes next to no time.

Also, learn to use:

pip install --user <package_name>

Disclaimer: I use Python every day, mostly on OS X and RHEL.
a worrying need to create a clan that does not exist
Consumer grade disk speeds have gone up a ton since 7200rpm disks with the introduction of SSD which makes a huge difference.

Furthermore, while people aren't really after bigger screens, getting to a point where a laptop or desktop has similar DPI to a smartphone would require vastly higher resolutions for which there isn't the technology yet.
At a startup this is a good rule of thumb, but the more established a company is, the closer to cash equity becomes. At a publicly traded company, equity can be a periodic (albeit variable) cash bonus if you want it to be.
These are the news that makes me believe there can be a better world:)
YouTube's video player just got a little easier to look at
This Is What an Engineer Looks Like…
Back story https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/you-may-have-seen-my-fa...
I'm late to the thread, but for what it's worth: Hacker News is too damn slow.
Apply at www.robinhood.com/jobs
So they are not perfect demi gods?

Burn them!
Hard or sym links exist for a reason. One doesn't need sort everything into only one suitable category. It's not like I have too much to brag about though, my home directory is a mess too. However sorting everything by date in the filename? Files already have date metadata, I use "ls --sort=time | head" a lot.
This picture is accurate, just someone should realize this shit on the top is not needed and not adding any value.
The subpixels on my screen aren't rgb (vbgr on this one) ordered, so the images with AA don't quite work right for me. Annoyingly, quite a few sites/applications make the assumption that everything is rgb, which causes crappy looking text on my portrait screens, and even worse on my monitor at home which is bgr ordered.

Also putting in a plug for my personal favorite font, Tamsyn ( http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ ) Although firefox recently dropped support for bitmap fonts on linux, and my ttf version of it only looks good at one size, so I've been trying to find something to replace it in the browser.
I interpreted the comment as quantum ballistic conduction, similar to what has been observed in carbon nanotubes and some other systems. There's resistance, but it's effectively quantised (ie, there's an integer number of quantum 'channels'). It's independent of the length of the material, so it's non-Ohmic. Which in this case effectively means other than an initial resistance of basically getting current into the quantum channel, there's no further conductive loss.

FYI - Ballistic conduction is _not_ super conductivity, as the electrons haven't paired up to form Cooper pairs via a phonon lattice distortion, the current carriers are not bosons, and doesn't display most of the other characteristics of superconductivity (eg Meissner effect).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_conduction
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductance_quantum
I love Kaspersky, but their Safe Money extension is absolutely rubbish. It's quite common to have the payment gateway embedded in an iFrame, which gets caught by the filter, and then the "open in a protected browser" breaks it.
Lol

You obviously have no idea of the food business
Nic Cage Office Prank
According to BLS statistics wage growth has actually been quite good for "supervisory" employees, it's "non supervisory and production employees" (82% of the labor force) who have seen pitiful wage growth.
An other idea: use GNU stow to put your dotfiles in the right places instead of having .git in your $HOME.
LuxyViews – A Luxury Travel Review Blog
I went to a chicken breeder a while back to get some new pedigree hens and they had a couple of these. They are indeed very striking. Beautiful birds.
I know where you are coming from, and I myself would prefer something of this sort rather than the ad-choked pages _or_ the paywalls of today.

That said, paying _anything_ at all - even a fraction of a cent, is a problem for a very large portion of humanity.

* Poverty is one part of it. In India, the ARPU - Average Revenue Per User - of mobile providers is less than 2 USD/month. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who do have some sort of data access on their cheap android phones but cannot afford to spend even 10s of cents over and above their data charges. Its taking all our effort to get information services to them as cheaply as possible.

* Payment method - billions of people around the world do not have a method of making a payment online. No credit cards, no (usable) bank accounts. India is trying to get every adult a basic bank account, theres been some success there, but these are people who do not even have the equivalent of 2 USD to deposit in their govt provided free bank accounts.

* Regulatory hurdles - for the longest time, making a dollar payment from India involved running to the "foreign exchange branch" of your bank in the closest large city, filling out forms in triplicate, explaining why you needed the dollars, getting approvals, and then being issued a cashiers cheque for the exact amount already made out in the name of the recipient. This is no longer the case, but currency controls are part of most economies even today, and become tighter during economic crises. Any kind of mandatory payment would function way better than the Great Firewall in keeping people out. Such payments would also result in a massive privacy violation, because payment processors will want to keep a log of each transaction (sender, receiver, amount) pretty much forever, instantly killing any privacy benefits of TOR, VPNs, etc.

Yes, its possible to offer both, in theory. What would happen is either the micropayments would work or they won't. If they do, a very large number of sites will prefer going pay-only (like the WSJ) rather than deal with the nastiness of ads. If they don't, we are anyway back to where we started.

For some sites, it works I suppose - I know some forums offer a "subscriber mode" with benefits including ad-free versions. That is reasonable to an extent. But for a very large proportion of sites its not reasonable to go that way.
What's an equivalent? That a culture can be unchanged for 500K years? A sociologist who proposes that will be dismissed as being un-biological and a-historical.
The Sync.me app is turning your contacts into a giant reverse lookup
It made sense because it was the only thing holding Kickstarters accountable to the people funding them. With an investment, you're taking a risk but have some control over how the company's run. With a pre-order, you have no control but they have to deliver the product or refund you. Kickstarter now is the worst of both worlds: projects don't have to deliver anything and you can't even make sure they give it a decent try. Someone could promise the Earth, use the money to pay all their friends living costs for years while they tool around and fail to make a working product, then say "sorry, the money's all gone" and that's fine now according to Kickstarter.
Do you guys know Vinai Kopp?
Please review the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This submission is about as far as you can get from "gratifying intellectual curiosity".
This stream-of-consciousness manages to get surprisingly far before the utterly irrelevant personal definition of "left" comes out, revealing this particular poster's koolaid of choice. The fake left doctrines? Really? Still, at least it doesn't have a go at "liberals".
Moody's says Puerto Rico has defaulted
Google Feud (It's Like Family Feud)
32% outdated of the Alexa top 42.500 websites
> Pretend the equity is worth zero or close to zero (which it almost always is)

In a startup or private company yet to IPO sure.

In an established, large, public company, RSUs, ESPP and whatever else you get is definitely going to deliver cash. Sure as the market moves around it'll change in value but you might look at it as +- 20% of the expected value. It's certainly not worth 0.
Are You Really at Risk from Organized Cybercrime and Espionage?
I put my dotfiles on github and have a vagrant file that download the dotfile to my new vagrant box instance.

Everytime I start a new instance of vagrant it just download the dot file from github.

It's a pretty neat combo.
Wow, an Italian film on Echelon starring Michael Parks and I didn't know the first thing about it... Thanks for the tip!
OS X flaw leaves Macs vulnerable to attacks, no password required
In Deloitte there are now "orange profiles" which are only technical and are earning more than functional figures. It is true though that at the best of my knowledge no "orange profile" has made it yet to a Board.
regarding remote, any chance for east of Poland?
Google Translate vs. “La Bamba”
The point I'm making is that the supply that most affects house prices is not the supply of houses, so to say it's "supply and demand" and stop there is to imply heavily that the supply in question is the supply of houses. Which is wrong.

commodity

Houses AREN'T commodities. Commodities are, by definition, fungible. Houses are not fungible. If you are thinking of houses as a commodity, and trying to apply the rules of commodity economics, that is a large part of your misunderstanding.

There is nothing special about houses other than the fact that you can live in them.

That's also not true. Something funny happens inside people's heads with houses. They will go to stupid lengths and put themselves into ridiculous situations in order to get one. People who would drop any other investment with the same characteristics like a hot potato somehow can't see it when it's a house. They're not like "any commodity or potential investment vehicle" (not least because they are NOT a commodity, as explained above), and to say that they are is wrong.

As it is, I'm presenting a lot of argument and you're going "nu uh, nu uh, you're wrong". Do you have anything other than just saying "nu uh", or is that the limit of your argument? If this is a fundamental axiom for you that simply cannot be argued, just say so.
There is also new book in progress: https://github.com/funcool/clojurescript-unraveled
I can't really take an antivirus software (or the whole company) seriously if they can't even host their "trial version" download behind https. It's not like they host PGP signatures, at least they could do this. I don't know how they host the payed version, but it's really not a good sign.
Wetware, surely.
Drupal 8 Came Close to Being Irrelevant
> we as an industry

Step 0: There is no "we". There are millions of individuals in thousands of companies across dozens of industries with wildly divergent goals, priorities and philosophies.
What about if you're using an ORM, wouldn't that fix the issues mentioned?
Ask HN: I want to start something but I have no team and idea. What should I do?
I just graduated with a computing degree in Southeast Asia (won't mention where) and I'm deciding if I should go for a job hunt. However, after being in the local startup scene for some time, I itch on the idea of starting something up but I have no idea what to do despite having a list of potential ideas nor do I have a team. Previously my interest in startup has landed me a internship in a VC firm and I have learnt more about startup than just being a technical guy. Long story short, I'd like to ask what is the best way to figure out my situation and move forward.

p.s. I do have a education loan to take care of and that's mostly the bulk of my financial stress other than needing money for food and transport. Rent is a non-issue as I'm staying with my parents.
The concern is real and apparently I thought some proposed solutions were ncie. But then I read like "by default only GET request are possible which only allow reading a website", and I think why.. why?
Please comment civilly and substantively when posting to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How to update an already stored data object in Back endless?
Nowadays I simply rsync my dotfiles to wherever I need them. I have multiple trees in a repository, one for secure boxes, one for client boxes, one for boxes with an xserver, etc. This gives me the most flexibility, and I can install everything I need if I simply have ssh access. If I don't, I can create a zip file of the trees I want.
P3P was a train wreck because no-one actually set their own policies and the UI to do so was hidden and ridiculously complex, so the only reason anyone ever used it was by accident due to using IE, and it broke stuff like single-sign-on with the default policies unless sites actively worked around it.
Discussion going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000428
I want to address several of the comments. I used to work for continuum, but I no longer do. I didn't work on the conda team, but as a part of the other teams at continuum, and at my new gig I'm a heavy conda user

1. linux package management is sufficient - this isn't the case. linux package management couples your library versions with your distro verison. Meaning if I want to do something like try out my code with the latest pandas, or run 2 jobs with different versions of numpy I'm out of luck

2. conda went ahead and forked everything without regard for the community - this is completely untrue. We sat down with guido for the very first pydata at google offices in 2012 to discuss many issues, packaging being one of them. Guido acknowledged that the python packaging ecosystem isn't sufficient for the scientific community, and we should go out and solve the problem ourselves - so we did. Honestly on this point, you should just read travis' words about the issue

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.sg/2013/12/why-i-promote-...

Scientific users need to be able to package non-python libs along with python libs (think zmq, or libhdf5, or R) we need a pkg mgmt solution that sits OUTSIDE of python for this reason. You can think of conda as a little in between place between virtualenv and docker
IBM Australia Development Laboratory - Open Source Developers, Full Time - OzLabs, Canberra

https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/faces/job_summary?job_id=SYS-...

IBM is seeking enthusiastic Open Source Developers to join its Australia Development Laboratory in Canberra to work on the PowerPC architecture to support the requirements for its next Generation POWER and OpenPower based Systems, collaborating with the CPU, IO and hardware teams.

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate experience and excellence in a number of the following technical areas:

- C Programming skills
- Experience working with the Open Source Community (preferably with existing patch contributions)
- MySQL and MariaDB development (internals and performance)
- Experience developing interpreters such as PHP, Python, Ruby, R and Perl
- Experience developing JITs such as v8
- Compilers and Toolchain (preferably gcc and llvm)
- Knowledge of Scripting Languages (Python, Bash, Shell)
- Linux Kernel development
- Firmware Development
- Virtualization development (KVM)

If you are interested in a rewarding career in an exciting, positive team environment, please apply today!

(This particular role is for experienced professionals, but there will be hiring for interns and graduates shortly.)
That's exactly what I wonder about Adobe Acrobat so often.
I have no idea if this is true, but just postulating a reason…

If you consider management to be a distinct skill,Someone with 10 years of experience engineering and also 10 years in management is (potentially) very skilled in two distinct fields. Imagine you have a lawyer with a PHD in geology and they work on ground water disputes or oil well stuff.

Being an expert in two fields is valuable.
Sure, that's one set of data, but there are other organisations of various sizes and various degrees of socialism. To tar them all with the brush of the former USSR hardly seems fair.
TrendTrader REVIEW BINARY NEED TO KNow *THE TRUTH*
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/NROL49_pa...

The text translates to: "Better the devil that you know".
Awesome. Any idea what sort of timeline we're looking at with this? If weeks, I'll wait. If we're thinking months, I'll look at patching that in myself.
> Are you on coke? Have you read Huxley? Seriously, you sound like a well-scripted quote out of the most totalitarian bullshit I have ever come across. If that's original, no matter how dumb you are for saying it...salute.

Whoa. No matter how bad the comment you're replying to was, you've been on HN long enough to know that this is not ok here.
> today "intelligence" has grown to encompass criminal investigations

That's a function of changed political objectives. "The enemy" became a liquid definition, purely for political reasons: "Arab terrorism" can easily be redefined as OLP or Taliban or Iran or AQ or IS or or or, keeping the public "at war" indefinitely and impeding scrutiny of reigning confusion in foreign policy. Until that stops, it's politically very difficult to fight calls for "more intelligence to stop our planes blowing up".

Unfortunately, the US (and EU allies, especially France and Britain) have now managed to screw up an entire continent so much, that a clear statement of interest to "reset" this state of things is almost impossible. In comparison, Vietnam and Cambodia were a walk in the park.
Man, how cool would it be if Apple talked to the devs of this and officially released it as a nostalgia treat or something?
Remote, is it as option?
Not in Mississippi, but just as mayors sometimes run for re-election from state and federal prisons..

It sounds like the SEC should investigate this stock price manipulation scheme and look at the transactions of everyone involved for signs of insider trades before his official actions hit the public register.
Instagram just turn into a huge advertising business
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3 / SASS / SCSS, Javascript / jQuery, Gulp, Wordpress, PHP, Ruby, Styleguides.

Resume: http://metamn.io

Email: bartus.csongor@gmail.com

I'm a designer and developer creating user interfaces and experiences for the web. I do design, front-end and Wordpress work for clients around the world.

I specialize in responsive web design and world class front-end code accompanied by a living styleguide. My current stack includes:

BEM, Flexbox, KSS, Gulp, JSON, Picturefill, Javascript.
Yes or you can use an IP address of course.
My impression is that some people fighting for real social justice are in the process of owning this. I get that GamerGaters and MRAs mean it as an insult, but it sounds like using "good person" as an insult. It literally means "someone who fights for social justice". In what way is that possibly a negative thing? Using it as an insult sounds like you're unapologetically against justice, and basically admit to being a bad person.

(I'm aware that there are people who claim to be fighting for social justice but are in reality weaponizing other people's struggles as ammo in their own private feuds. This is unfortunately a thing, but the right way to handle that is to recognize that they are not really SJWs, not to accept SJW as a bad thing.)
SOMEONE will end up managing the team that adds value to the company. I think the point is to play the politics & turf battles so that YOU are that someone.
It has been found that most cholesterol in food just passes straight through you, most of the cholesterol outside your digestive tract is produced (by your liver IIRC) as a product of working on other things like large fat molecules.

People used to think that cholesterol directly in food was the big bad here because the sorts of foods with high cholesterol also tend to be high in the stuff the body uses to make its own meaning there was a significant correlation.

Silly high cholesterol in your diet is probably still bad, but very low is likely fine (as long as you have the right balance of everything else, of course).

This does mean that I have trouble trusting something like Soylent though: as we are still finding surprises like this because we don't fully understand how our bodies process nutrients, we can't be sure that a food replacement product like this is as healthy as intended and not potentially causing new problems. It is an interesting experiment to watch as an outsider though. I wonder if any independent researchers are yet doing well run long term comparative analysis on people using this stuff compared to other replacements and more "normal" diets? People are willingly taking it, so you don't have the ethics comity problem of convincing people to let you feed the stuff to humans as they are already feeing it to themselves and you are just watching the results.
As a member of the publishing world, I'm naturally sad to see book stores like this go. But I also know that most of our own sales are direct or via Amazon.

As a customer, while I frequent book stores regularly I almost always find myself thinking "I can probably save a few pennies on Amazon".