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Software Developer/Web Developer/Product Manager | NewsNow.co.uk | London, UK | Full-time, permanent

Passionate about any area of news, sport, or fairness in news reporting? Relish crafting elegant solutions to hard technical and business problems, using whatever is the best tool for the job? Thrive in an open, collaborative environment, where the best ideas can come from anyone? Confident and articulate about what you know, and humble and articulate about what you don't? Fancy the idea of competing with Google, by being clever rather than colossal?

Then why not consider joining NewsNow.co.uk, the UK's largest independent news aggregator. Established 1998 and profitable ever since, our ethos and business models have stood the test of time. Ours is a developer-led company: our Founder and CEO heads up our development team.

We currently have three opportunities:
- As a /software developer/, you’d be working on projects including our unique in-house article classification engine, generating live digests of our most compelling content, or mining live streams of data about events from all over the world.
- As a /web developer/, you’d work on projects like letting users view images from the news, and rate articles.
- As a /product manager/, you’d help us to ‘get it right’ through your zest for software development and the user experience, your passion and excitement for our business and your ability to inspire this in the rest of the team.

We run Debian Linux on our co-located raw metal and on AWS EC2/VPC, with MySQL, Apache, and in-house code written in a variety of languages. We do our web development in HTML5, CSS3, advanced JavaScript, jQuery. We use OO patterns in coding.

If you like the sound of us, we’d love to hear about you. Please get in touch!

http://www.NewsNow.co.uk/careers/
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032202
I'm interested in taking a closer look at one of Sonic Pi, Supercollider, WavePot, Chuck, CSound etc.

Can anyone suggest how to choose which one to invest some time in?
UX – Doing it the Right Way
How is the performance on Atom these day? When I tried it a few months back it took a while to start up, and to load large files.
When you download a usenet message from the High Beyond[1], be sure send it through a proxy in the Slow Zone before you read it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Setting
I just purchased a license moments after in support of this. Hurrah!
The only problem I have with Atom and siblings like VSCode is that they are way slower than native software (like Emacs or Sublime). So I'm waiting for editors like 4coder to come to life
I'm also running Mesos and Docker as a containerizer, and experienced the same problems (i.e. API change on the Docker volumes leads to broken volume driver implementations).

Even within the Mesos environment, there are so many nuts and bolts which have to fit together that sometimes I'm just fed up with the complexity. Furthermore, releases of Mesos and Marathon are not necessarily synched... Stateful apps? No go... Persistent volumes in Marathon? Maybe in v0.16... Graceful shutdown of Docker containers? No go...
Richard P. Gabriel wrote about this in connection with the idea of design patterns, e.g. in Patterns of Software. Here's a nice quote from the beginning of a chapter:

> "The room fills with cold, conditioned air; outside the heat hazes, filtered through greened glass windows: a new building hardly first populated. The speaker is wild-eyed, explaining new ideas like a Bible thumper. His hair is a flat-top; his mouth frowns in near grimace. He strides to my seat, looks down and says in a Texas drawl, 'and the key is simply this: Abstractions. New and better abstractions. With them we can solve all our programming problems.'"
I hope someone's already working on the successor to Atom. A piece of software like text-editor only has a shelf-life of a few short years before you need to start from scratch and write a new one.

EDIT: Do I really need to say /s ?
I think it's more than just being trendy; there's a range of security needs to be considered.

I'd be happy to go with something that has more crypto than Dropbox but stop short of full tinfoil hat. Consider FileVault on Mac OS. You flip the switch and you're done. If someone steals your laptop they are unlikely to be able to access your files. Win. Will it stop a dedicated hacker or NSA (or even a court order compelling you to decrypt your computer)? Nope.
Lol, yet another example of selective moderation. Keep up the good work of harassing the pov you disagree with.
> I wish they would focus on releasing more documents instead of navel gazing...

Both are useful. In this case, it is providing an explicit, human narrative for the harm that surveillance can inflict. Many people respond more strongly to emotional anecdoes than to hard data (pretty much the reason why low-probability terrorist attacks are disproportionately feared over more common ways to die), so having a more emotional, anecdotal account of the actual effect of surveillance on people is also important.
This fills me with all sorts of romantic nostalgia.
Same for me, dropped it on spot because of those issues. It was very very slow, 6 months ago.
Funny, Obama certainly didn't lack the power to wage mass genocide on brown skinned people.
The mobile market is going to continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Getting in on the ground floor and "breaking-even" whilst getting a foothold in the market and building customer loyalty doesn't seem like a bad idea.
The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online
I like this article a lot. But there is one thing that it gets a bit wrong.

The article is discussing the standard textbook Z-test. The article then talks a lot about Optimizely. However, Optimizely doesn't actually use the Z-test - they have a sequential testing method instead, and the details are a bit different.

The article also suggests "start by serving variant B to only 10% of the users to ensure there are no implementation problems". This is a good idea, but once you've ensured there are no integration problems you need to throw away the data and restart. Since conversion rates change during the week (i.e., sat != tues), keeping the data during the ramp-up period is a great way to get wrong results due to Simpson's Paradox.
I disagree.
Vim and emacs are still here and powerful
CPU usage when using Inbox by Gmail
OK, thanks for your polite answers.
Like nobody would pay someone money to put a tapping device into your pocket. ;)
Isn't Webflow based on bootstrap?
Hey guys, the portfolio of templates looks nice, but translation needs some work. Most every sentence I could read (including the HN title here) is very awkward sounding to a native English speaker. Makes me hesitant to sign up for anything for fear that I just won't know what I'm getting in to.
It should be noted that the density of Delhi is almost twice that of Tokyo (according to Wikipedia, 11.3k / km^2 vs. 6.2k / km^2)
They ran out of TextMate features to clone. :P
'Horrific embarrassment' Is a new euphemism.

Torture? Why, how embarrassing, how horrifically embarrassing!

My comment will get moddes but here we have a classic example of a shill white washing torture. Good job HN.
Plane in Kastrup, Denmark, Should Transport Edward Snowden to US (translated)
Wordpress is a glorious example of a wrong product gaining popularity for all the right reasons. I mean, it's bad. It's extremely, extremely, extremely bad. You look at the code and you see an army of monkeys happily shitting line after line of spaghetti; you open up database only to see hundreds of tables painfully obviously created by people who might have heard phrase "database normalization", but never looked it up; you try to make it do other stuff except blogging (e.g. add another language), you end up in horrible pains. But you open up admin and suddenly you understand why it's popular. It's design is sleek. The end user will never know the horror that lurks underneath it. It has myriads of plugins written by worse hacks than WP core team, but the user will never know that for he has no knowledge. It has seas of free templates (some of which contain dubious php code), but hey, they are free and they look good. And damn it's popular and that many people just can't be wrong. After all, if you say it's bad and should be nuked from orbit just to be sure, it's you who's wrong - because you haven't done any better and that is sufficient grounds for calling you incompetent...
TL;DR: exploits in wordpress? I would have told you so years ago.
Another Capetonian checking in, you should go to all the events they mention in the article. I've been to a few and they're great. Make some prototypes, make some games and hopefully the rest will follow!
Iframe is not the only option. You can also create your own HTML form with PAN, expiration date and CVV and tell stripe to get information from that form. Then stripe reads data from your form, encrypts it and sends cryptogram to stripe.com. Nothing stops you (or hacker) from reading that data too.

https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms
/s grandparent, methinks.
How long has this post been in the draft? Samsung's position is no more as great as it suggests.
مشاهدة فيلم Mojin the Lost Legend 2015
Any invites left?
I use Tarsnap and really enjoy it!
62% of the People Donald Trump RTed Follow Multiple White Supremacist Accounts
When atom first came out and i tried I said no thank you as it genuinely was painfully slow.

I have been using atom now full time for 3 weeks and gave it another chance as I love a lot of the plugins it has and the community and I am very impressed.

Regarding its slowness it has improved a lot. The only complaint I have with its speed compared to a native app like sublime is that it is slow in starting. This doesn't affect me much as when I am working on a project I leave it open all the time anyway :-)

Give it a try and get some of the useful plugins and you will never look back.
Vk.com RCE
i would also like an invite please. [myusername] @ gmail.com
Visual Code is much faster than Atom but Sublime is still way faster. I have not seen great speed improvement last year in Atom :-(
Undefined behavior. Hell is closer than you may think
For more on the live coding scene, check http://toplap.org
I tried to move to Atom. But on large projects it is very slow. Even when I'm typing characters I see lag :-(
How would you sum up the message to be both 'accurate' and consumable?
There isn't much interest because for the most part, intelligent people don't devote themselves to things that can easily be proven false such as religion.
Yeah, it happened maybe a month ago?
Thank you for sharing! My impressions are (along with reading user comments about it) is that VSCode currently is just as good (or even a bit better) as Atom is for asp.net core 1 development.
Just a FYI, Chrome is giving me a warning on the HTTPS certificate (vulnerable SHA1 certificate), try to get one from LetsEncrypt or make an update to your StartSSL one.
I am surprised to not see Lagos [0] in the list.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"Can I post a job ad?

Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. (But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Last year wasn't that quiet when you consider the different features that arrived such as the new syntax system.
Yeah I tried it again recently, still seemed very 'javascripty' - try opening some large SQL etc... in it and it really doesn't compare to ST.
https://news.vice.com/article/no-one-in-venezuela-is-talking...

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Vice has a ton of stuff on the global drug problem, and Venezuela is the epicenter of trafficking right now because Caracas is the safest port in the world for traffickers. There's actually a good 30 minute video on Vice that explains the whole supply chain and its links to Boko Haram, ISIS and Islamist extremists in North Africa.
It's good hey! I ran a small POC project using discourse and really enjoyed it, there were a few UX / workflow related things that needed fixing but over all the community really enjoyed using it.
I have to be honest - I didn't even notice there was a new syntax system?
I thought you were serious, and now I'm sad that it doesn't actually exist
Imagine someone who travels around the world with a suitcase of SSDs to deliver data... possibly for criminals, big corporations, or governments. Johnny Mnemonic meets Transporter except plausible.
What other sort of scarves are there?
I think there's a difference between the files layout on a disc/install folder and a repository.
The layout on the disk can be optimized for loading (even duplicating the assets sometimes).
OP is asking for a repository hierarchy I think, since he's talking about sources files too.
Looks like a very useful product, I've tried and want to use these kinds of tools.

So far I tried Pinegrow and Bootply, I'm certainly going to give this one a try.

http://pinegrow.com/

http://www.bootply.com/
What's the terminology for a site like this, that poses a question and then requires registration to vote to answer it?

It's not really click bait or phishing but certainly not a great user experience.
You might want to read the parent comment again, because it was neither white washing or espousing a positive view of torture.

Calling people shills is actually directly laid out in the "what not to do on HN", and the calling the parent one is an egregious misuse of this term.

Shame would probably be a better choice of words, but if you want to castigate people over torture, how about you choose to do it to the ones who made those horrific choices and the ones who supported them.
I would really like an invite. I have been waiting for about a year for one, if you still have one. Thanks.
(Disclaimer: I am a _huge_ Sublime fan. I picked up their net award in 2014 on behalf of Sublime HQ Pty, plus I've developed a fair few plugins for it.)

I've been using Atom for a couple of weeks now, mainly for a few Laravel applications. I use the git-hide package to remove the ".git", "node_modules" and "vendor" directories from the tree view which does seem to have a nice effect on speed.

That said, here are the issues I face:

- I frequently find that I type too quickly for the editor to pick up the keys and I end up missing off the beginning of some lines.

- I still use Sublime text daily for quickly opening a file, rather than waiting for a new Atom instance to open.

- PHP support is awful. Auto complete for class names in any used packages is something that I sorely miss from the Sublime plugin I use.

- Start-up time still takes a few seconds which means I only use it for projects.

- Listing of installed and discovery of packages is _so_ slow. Sometimes I just don't bother installing a package anymore because it takes at least 10 seconds to show me what I have installed or search for one.

Regardless of me using Atom, I'm still loving the updates to Sublime and continue to moderate the forums, knowing that Jon will deliver :)
Looks good from the screenshot, but for me, votes and comments is way more important than who submitted it. And: What happens to titles which are too long?
It is with much regret that I have to inform you that it does indeed exist and its being played out as we speak :(
I wonder how long it will take before we'll see more studies on dairy and IGF-1 and how they affect cancer. I seriously doubt that it's a coincidence that the Nordic countries have some of the highest cancer rates in the world, since they also drink the most milk. Or that the people with the Laron syndrome are resistant to cancer, since (if I remember correctly) they have some sort of defect in their IGF-1 receptors.

T. Colin Campbell talks a bit about this in his books (China Study etc.). I think he's correct that there is some sort of taboo against questioning dairy and protein.

Edit: I should probably mention that IGF-1 is a growth hormone. Cow's milk contains a lot of IGF-1. You know, those calves are pretty small when they are born, but are supposed to grow into full-size cows. Both humans and cows have receptors for the very same IGF-1.
Yeah, ".sublime-syntax" rather than using the ".tmTheme" files. It offers a lot more flexibility from what I've seen.
Biotech lobby’s push for new GMOs to escape regulation
I was never managed to debug python code :( Maybe i'm doing something wrong. Never mind, I didn't want to offend python, it's only language I like besides jvm languages.

On other hand on JVM you don't even need such line, all works out of box, w/o code modification, never had any problem. At least with java and groovy
Start-up and creating a new window can still take a good 3 seconds on my machine. Visual Studio (the huge IDE, not VS Code) is actually faster to start most of the time.
The only way that would work is if your bell rang in other people's cars.

A big part of those gamification systems is a competitive/social aspect, so you can win against your friends and boast about your e-points.

So, add a scoreboard for the best drivers on that mile of road, add some points, do a "best of the day", there are tons of options there.
Good, it outgrew its usefulness (making Git popular). Now that there are better priced / open-source alternatives GitHub is on a course to irrelevancy.
Note that Atom and VSCode are "siblings" only in a very loose sense: they use the same app packaging technology [1]. This is enough for your point w.r.t. native software, but VSCode being a fork from Atom is a common misconception.

[1]: https://github.com/atom/electron
Julian Assange news conference [Live Stream]
Pandemic Decimating Bees Worldwide Is Man-Made and Driven by European Honeybees
I can eliminate the symptoms of schizophrenia and end middle-eastern wars. ama
A monetization idea: let people create folders that others need to pay to access and take some % of the payment (useful for companies distributing movies, games, etc.)
Which volume driver? Wasn't aware mesos was providing one.
Nice. Would be even cooler if you could view and add comments using the terminal.
Ok, can someone please explain to me how I connect an hdmi monitor to my phone? Because they sort of glossed over that part where no phone I've ever seen has an hdmi connector.
Hmm. If you're wanting to browse websites from the terminal, why not just use something like Lynx?
The first thing that came to mind: It's almost not possible to buy a computer without Windows, despite many times not needing it or being able to reuse the one shipped with the last computer. Microsoft managed to get in a position where almost everybody pays a tax.

So sometimes there is no real choice.
Yes, you need a vocabulary, so this is a great idea, but the the vocabulary here is not as generic as the author would like to think. For example: type, variable, value will trigger discussions when people have a different background.

(Also there are some mistakes/typos, fe parenthesis iso parentheses )
This is incredibly beautiful.
JavaScript Design Patterns – How to Make Sense of Chaos Pt2
Memory1 – 4TBs of memory in a two-socket server
Dead Men Write No Code
No one in the UK pledges allegiance to anyone or anything, certainly not on a regular basis. What is this Canadian oath? I don't think a Brit would have to be a republican to find pledging allegiance to the monarch a rather odd thing to do. And as for pledging allegiance to the flag, well which one? Union flag, the Saltire, the Red Dragon? I might give a little respect to Saint Piran's banner but I'm not about to swear allegiance to it even though half my ancestors are Cornish. Or should I choose the Wessex Wyvern because that is the region where I was born and lived for the first 25 years of my life?

Sorry for drifting off topic, got carried away. :-)
Development Disappointment Disorder
Crowley Celebrates Over Seven Million Man Hours Without a
Does this only effect you if you're collecting income from EU or would it be a problem to even accept payments from people living in EU?
Correct, historical evidence isn't enough. "Recorded history" has seen many revisions and is abundant with confounding factors.
Goguesstimate: Go package for generating Guesstimate models
Are you smart enough to be a spy?
Agree with the idea of getting a foot in the door, but I don't think Android phone owners are very loyal.
TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie is investing millions in tech for good
DesignMyNight is planning your perfect Friday night
‘Colive’ in compact luxury across the globe from £1,000 a month
If you still have an invite, I would love one.
2. stacktraces != debug. I don't actually see any difference with java stacktrace (only that it contains groovy classes, but it's still exactly same format). I mean tools for debug, like debug in IDE (look at Intellij IDEA, very powerful in debug), or JMX, take a look at VisualVM and profiling tools. There're many different tools. It's not just stacktrace.

5. Agree, not so popular that plain Spring maybe. But still, we're talking about features, right? not amount of projects on prod. Grails is pretty comparable to Rails/Django, in terms of features. Also, version 3 is too new, it requires to rewrite a lot of stuff to migrate. It takes time.
Show HN: Solarversia – Publishing Experiment
Because of the limited range of drone delivery vehicles, of course.
How to connect multiple SMTP nodes with a cluster
Is there anything like it for iOS?
Just going to throw one of my favorite editors out there.

http://www.jedit.org/

Very customizable, very nice font rendering, healthy plugin ecosystem and tons of themes, lots of shortcuts and features, GPL v2 license.

I use this at work and home. I love vim, but I haven't mastered it more than I have jEdit.

I am taking a shot in the dark but I'm guessing the lack of popularity is due to it being dependent on the jvm. It's a non-issue for me.
It very much depends what your end goal is. Are you just looking to experiment and make some sounds? Would you like to embed one of these as a sound engine in another application that you are developing? Certain devices you are targeting?
Same with me, I basically do 3 things on my computer: develop code, edit pictures and write stuffs. Almost all my files are in the cloud available through the browser, and the fullfledged terminal with lots of convenience tools just feels great.
World Cultural Festival
More discussion here: https://techpinions.com/a-netbook-an-ipad-pro-and-the-surfac...
He was obviously bragging about what he did. Normally I wouldn't mind. But trying to segue from a topic on how to avoid getting wet when going a short distance through rain to how he trekked the entire Appalachian Trail is just fucking ridiculous!
jsrjenkins (@) gmail.com

Many thanks!
Can You Validate Multiple Products at the Same Time?
Stock Android is likely to be better than anything oems will modify it to be.
Assange: 'arbitrarily detained' in London, United Nations rules
Or _Independence Day_.
Well, when I look at younger people (18-24) I often see a pattern of users that don't own a PC and most of the time don't even own a laptop.

They use smartphones and sometimes tablets for most tasks.

That might change once they get older, but maybe it wont. So I think it's a good idea for any company that was/is in the PC/laptop business to try and capture as much mobile computing marketshare as possible.
I certainly wouldn't buy a license considering both Atom and Visual Studio Code are freely available on major platforms.

I just wish Node-based editors were as nimble as ST.
Samsung's position isn't great; but it's definitely better than LG, HTC or Motorola. Samsung's mobile division is at least profitable; which can't be said for anyone else.