skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IOStack Project
Octopus Energy | Software Engineer | Soho, London, UK | ONSITE, FULL TIME

We are a tech-focused energy supplier for the UK market and we're looking for diligent software engineers to join us.

Our small, multi-discipline engineering team builds and maintains a platform that processes over £100m annually for over 100k customers.

Server-side, we mainly use Python. Our public site is powered by Django and the Django-REST-framework - we also use Pandas, Numpy and Jupyter for analysis and forecasting, plus Celery for background tasks.

We use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline.

This is a rare opportunity to use technology to help fight climate change through helping the UK to use green technology and renewable energy sources.

Further details on the role and how to apply here:
https://octopus.energy/careers/back-end-developer/
For people who may not know of these obvious reasons: measuring latitude can be done by looking at the sun's elevation when it is the highest in the sky or by looking at the position of the northern star at night.

Longitude requires to compare the difference between the solar time and a reference time, kept with a clock. Good clocks that stay accurate even on a moving boat took a lot more time to be invented.
Personally I’m a fan of the Otterbox cases, especially Symmetry. They don’t suffer from the pure silicone case resistance to sliding into pockets but they do subtly improve grip and would seem to offer pretty solid protection.
Ask HN: The best formula for profit sharing in a small ISV?
Good morning HNers,

I'm creating a plan to implement profit sharing in my bespoke software business Atlas -
https://www.atlascode.com.

Each year I'd like to take 10% - 30% of the annual profit we make, and redistribute it amongst the entire team. This amount will be prorated according to salaries and percentage of the year that people worked, so every employee will receive a part of the profits amounting to an equal percentage of their salary.

However...

I fear that sooner or later, my team will conclude they have no real power to affect the size of their own bonus.

To avoid this I want to design a specific profit share programme for each department. For the sales and marketing department this is quite easy, I simply hook their profit share in to meeting inbound lead and target customer numbers. I'm struggling to find similar levers to pull on the following departments:

* Software development

* Testing and 2nd line support

* Customer service and support

For each of these departments I need to identify what it is that that they do which most contributes to Atlas' bottom line. Any ideas on how to motivate these particular departments is greatly appreciated.

Alternatively, if I can't I'll still implement the profit share but it's very much "just" another benefit of working for Atlas, like the private health care and pensions rather than a true motivator for people to help grow the business.
ROOMHERO | Backend Developer, Frontend Developer | Frankfurt, Germany | Full-Time | ONSITE

ROOMHERO is Europe's first Online Interior Designer and a digital One-Stop-Shop Solution for the Real Estate market. Since 2014, we help our clients by furnishing their apartments, houses or work spaces.

Our current technology stack is based on a Python backend (monolithic application that we are currently splitting into microservices) exposing a RESTful API and several React frontends. Every application is containered (Docker / Docker-Compose).
As we are going to split the backend we are open to new technologies to join the API gateway!

We are looking for expirienced backend and frontend developers to join our startup in Frankfurt (am Main), Germany! Backend developers with DevOps expirience are prefered.

Please apply on our recruiting websites:

* Backend Dev: http://smrtr.io/jQLhmQ

* Frontend Dev: http://smrtr.io/OdSyHg
$3.6B figure looks about right, but the growth was more like 20x. Don't forget the 2:1 stock split in 2014.
You might also want to look at GDPR chapter 3, article 12, point(?) 5:

"Information provided under Articles 13 and 14 and any communication and any actions taken under Articles 15 to 22 and 34 shall be provided free of charge. Where requests from a data subject are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, the controller may either:

charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested; or

refuse to act on the request.

The controller shall bear the burden of demonstrating the manifestly unfounded or excessive character of the request."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/
I don't trust the companies to be held accountable in court anyway. Open it up and let the market punish those who release buggy hardware with reputation loss!
It seems a little odd that the folk behind Matrix.org are all onsite, rather than remote. Any particular reason behind this or just the way things have turned out?
There's ApplePay, which provides a very nice experience (if your customer is using Safari :( )
Shouldn't it read "Boring Company's Musk"?
Admittedly, I haven't read the entire article. From what I gather it's debunking various sciences. The same could gave been said of medical science, but has progressed into many beneficial areas. So yes some of the named fields may be immature but give them time and a method for improvement.
If their offshore holdings are profits made offshore, then shouldn't those profits be taxed offshore?

Typically, the profits are held in tax havens, with low or zero tax. So effectively they are not being taxed already, due to loopholes in the tax code.
Researchers discovered several zeroday flaws in ManageEngine products
People will buy any thing if it is endorsed/sold by celebrities.
I think that line is aimed towards people new to all this stuff, hearing "functional reactive programming" being thrown around. The author does seem to know the 'roots', if you can call it that:

"Reactive programming is programming with asynchronous data streams.

In a way, this isn't anything new. Event buses or your typical click events are really an asynchronous event stream, on which you can observe and do some side effects. [..]"
Within the last month I had to do a full 2TB recovery using 50GB to 150GB recovery files.. truly a life saver!

I was able to completely start from scratch with a clean widnows install and a new HDD after one day my computer just straight up died (zero HDD activity at all).

So.. thanks!
Forced charity is an oxymoron. What you're talking about is socialism, which is not charity (at least, when practised at a scale above that of a family or voluntary commune).
I had to check, it's the 2 of February and not the 1st of April.
> I wish there was a fundamentally different way of handling payments

Seconded. At the risk of simply rephrasing everything you just said:

It's a pity the banks and credit card companies just refuse to innovate.

When I buy something from an online vendor, they should never get my full card details. PayPal ameliorates things (you can generally trust PayPal), but really there should be no need for PayPal. The banks/credit-card companies should provide a convenient way to authorise the payment, in a way that doesn't trust the vendor.

Here in the UK, we already have chip-and-pin, and card readers (the kind that show unique numbers - they're used for online banking), but we're still stuck with the trust-the-vendor-or-use-PayPal model for online payments.

Using card-readers for online payments would also help with credit-card theft.
App Annie | Utrecht, The Netherlands (close to Amsterdam) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Multiple positions

App Annie is a global app market data and insights platform that you might have worked with before. We provide analytics services and market intelligence so that app developers can focus on making apps, not reports. In our Utrecht office (in The Netherlands), we concentrate on the development of consumer apps to learn more about the app industry.

We are expanding our mobile engineering and product teams with the following positions:

- Senior iOS Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/appannie/jobs/953588#.WnBZu1Pwa...

- Senior Android Engineer - SDK development: https://boards.greenhouse.io/appannie/jobs/953607#.WnBZxlPwa...

- Mobile QA Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/appannie/jobs/893906#.WnBZz1Pwa...

- Product Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/appannie/jobs/990025#.WnBZsVPwa...

Do you want to work in a team of super talented people from different cultural backgrounds? We offer lots of responsibility in your role and room for you to grow with the company. Please email iperk-ext@appannie.com
There is payment systems being standardised in browsers at the moment.
Amazon Releases a Unified AWS Auto Scaling Service Across Cloud Applications
To the surprise of everyone involved, I'm sure.
How to paste GoogleAdmob using Swift – Preparation -
Hey folks, this is a small (couple weeks) project spun out of another chat product we're building.

The idea is that a lot of simpler "chat with us" use cases should not resort to intercom's complexity, and most other simple products really get it wrong by asking for name/email address first (rocket chat) or simply looking pretty ugly (olark). As a bonus, 99messages uses browser push notifications that work pretty decent in the non-iOS world.

Thanks for trying it out.

Let us know what you think, here or via chat at https://99ms.gs/99messages.

Edit: wording
This is so weird.
Elon Musk's Flamethrower Stunt Feels Like an ICO
I suspect it does? But that's spoofable by the ad aggregator in a way that the Referer header isn't. So much of ad design is (for better or occasionally for worse) defending against bad actors.
Ah, the good ol' Spaceballs Merchandising technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgRFQJCHcPw
> Intel's reputation is partially built on speed

Except the Spectre vulnerability isn't specific to Intel's chips.
This is probably a controversial opinion, but there's are similar forces at play here with Musk's flamethrowers and Trump's MAGA hats.
Musk!

He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth.

Beware of Musk!

His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world
And his employees' health.

He'll welcome you into his lair

Like the nobleman welcomes his guest

With free dental care and a stock plan that helps you invest!

But beware of his generous pensions

Plus three weeks paid vacation each year

And on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!

He loves German beer!
I am interested, I have been developing SaaS based products on top of AWS. Applying ....
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The slate pitch strikes again.
How do you keep sane in web-app development?

Rather what is the normal workflow for making UI in web-apps?

How do you keep the abstractions from leaking over?

It seems you need to keep all the CSS quirks in your head to be productive.

As a counterpoint in something like WPF, I do not need to know much or anything about XAML to produce a usable UI quickly that will not break in bizarre ways.

Same goes for PyQT, a few hours starting from scratch(ie not knowing anything about PyQT) and you can make something usable.

WxPython same thing, classes in a control such as wx.dataview look normal enough.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1293775392
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Name says the original name was POSTGRES, Postgres is commonly used, and it was considered to change the official name to Postgres. It does not mention "Postgre" being used at all.
One Indian actor threatened to quit twitter, because another actor has more followers than him.
Earnings earned where? Surely it's ok to keep earnings earned overseas, overseas?
Voting: Which programming language to learn in 2018?
And Kylie Jenner sold over $250 million worth of makeup last year. Celebrity sells, what’s new about this?
Many cfo actually have the biz dev unit under them. Google and my current company both have the biz dev unit under the CFO. I also worked for CFO at a mobile telecom and he was actually a key executive in charge of the 3g expansion. The role is actually much more than accounting.
It is much more regional as well. Nantucket reds might be acceptable casual attire in places on the East coast; here in California they come off as the clown pants that they really are.
Faber castell mechanical pencil, lechtturm 1917 A5 notebook, and my own bastardisation of bullet journalling which is functional and simple (like the original idea) without the washy tape and page wasting pictures.

Personal experience is you can't beat pencil and paper. No need to charge, login, sync etc. If it has to be on a computer plain text files for me, though I like me some markdown.
The Talk Show by John Gruber and Accidental Tech Podcast are probably two of the most popular Apple centric podcasts but in the grand scheme of things are both pretty niche.

They have rates between $5500-$6500 per read and do three ads per episode. I doubt they would make $21000 per episode on Spotify.

The CPMs for podcast are currently much higher than any other type of media besides video.

They were both charging those rates before the "podcast boom".
It does, perhaps, have the advantage of not needed a satellite fleet to work. So therefore isn’t at the whim of said fleet’s owner, or someone with anti-satellite missiles.

(Granted that the antenna size problem might be a killer)
Wow drug testing. Jesus.
That sounds suspiciously like autonomy, competence and relatedness from self-determination theory.
I think it sparks that reaction for two reasons; 1. it doesn't satisfy our deep-seated need to find a reason for things 2. It sounds like an off-hand dismissal with implied criticism of the sufferer.

Perhaps we need to find a way to remove the stigma from mass hysteria. Come up with with different name perhaps.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251407
I realise that this is a marketing stunt, but potentially this could have a serious impact on the Boring Company. A flamethrower is a weapon, even if it's a 'toy' like Elon's flamethrower. This means the Boring Company is probably in violation of any open source license that prohibits use in evil applications - for example, the JSON license (http://www.json.org/license.html). I'm pretty sure that there's a bunch of other OSS licenses that prohibit their use in military applications too.

I don't seriously imagine for a second that anything will actually happen as a result of this. It's just fun to think about.
To add to everyone else: got to start somewhere. Private browsing seems like a good place, and I've just taken advantage of the plumbing it introduces to set strict origin referer in non-private browsing too.

Hopefully, even though groovecoder doesn't mention the possibility, if this works well then we'll see it rolling into regular browsing too, or at least having some UI exposed, in the same way that tracking protection moved from being private browsing only to having an option to enable it in regular browsing.

Actually, now I think of it, I wonder if the two could sit behind the same preference in the end?
So it was still percentage based? I’m a bit confused from your phrasing. Sounds like the problem was that 5% of X could end up being millions, because it had a high ceiling? That doesn’t sound so bad.
I would think this claim is self-evident

> In the case of some large frameworks it'd be practically impossible to implement what they cover on your own. You simply can't learn the underlying principles and then implement them all in code yourself.

Not even DHH would claim to have been able to build the whole of Rails by himself.
A link to HowTo for buying with lightning?

My impression was that it was still not very user friendly(not saying much in crypto world) nor widespread.
Leo I am not sure how much help I can be as the difficult thing about biotech is the huge background knowledge required to understand the science. This is not a small undertaking even if it is very interesting.

One resource I really do recommend is Derek Lowe’s blog In The Pipeline [0]. I have spent hundreds of hours reading through all his posts (he is amazingly prolific) and the very informed (if cynical) comments. It really helped me understand the problems that come up translating a new scientific discovery into a licensed pharmaceutical.

Even if you don’t learn anything you will be entertained by his series on "things I won’t work with” [1].

0. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

1. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...
I wrote a little GNU Radio patch and flow graph to transmit TCP/IP over audio, not sure if it still works though as I haven't tested it on recent versions - https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/ultrasound-networking...
Further FTA:

> Greek historians and maritime archaeologists are wary, however. Several people contacted for this story say Liritzis’s claims are unfounded, and unlikely at best.
My thoughts exactly on the difference on underrated and underused. Lua is quite widespread in the industry in sneaky ways. It just doesn't get the love it deserves.
I thought of this as well. After the first lock, you can use inertial navigation.
I think it's more that we should be able to trust some of the best doctors in 2 countries (Canada too) to figure that out before slate does. We want to trust that medical doctors know more than the layman about such things.
This sentence from the beginning tripped all kinds of sensitivities in me:

Here at the end of the twentieth century, it seems mostly absurd to think that science has anything much to say about cooking, and we thus have a degree of distance on a particular manifestation of a group of connected twistednesses that still dominate the way we think about most things.

It seems to argue that cooking is somehow "exempt" from being analyzed by science? That's so absurd I didn't know what to think, but the rest of the piece (as far as I made it) didn't seem to be satire either.

A very strange essay, basically.
> This is largely the part of independent contractors and subcontractors. Contracts go to the companies good at winning contracts, not necessarily the best company to do the job. The contractor takes an obscene profit for providing no value and then subcontracts the project to various subcontractors who may or may not employ actually qualified and skilled engineers.

Frankly, I don't think that's really the case / honest here. There's been a movement to create "readable URLs" over the last few years, how many people considered that this could leak information through referers? I really can't say I remember seeing any discussion of that issue.
"Stem cells are the Gary Oldman of cell types."

Great analogy. I recall watching a film a few years ago with Gary Oldman in it, and not realising until the credits that it was him. Can't remember which one, unfortunately, probably because of my lack of stem cells.

EDIT: Might have been True Romance.
Location: A Chinese living in Singapore now (not PR/citizen, just working visa)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Singapore

Technologies: C, C++, Go, *nix system programming, Linux / FreeBSD kernel programming, Embedded system, System performance tuning

Résumé/CV: http://nanxiao.me/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Resume.pdf

Email: nan at chinadtrace.org
I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.
7 Reasons Why Progressive Web Apps Are the Future of Web Development
Text Emoji Maker with Node.js
And the smartphone market as a whole is shrinking too, and more than 1%. Context, in this cases, matters a lot. Id say sales of iPhone this Q have been really good, considering X was a very risky proposition (high price, casts shadows over 8)
Or which sites & forums were hotlinking your images, to decide who'd get horse porn.
How not to start a startup
SSD is not a great long-term archival medium as it's not passively stable in the way that magnetised media is, and it's still much more expensive.
Original URL was https://github.com/ericlagergren/decimal, but the doc page has more info.
Many prime members use Amazon without really comparing prices.
I don't assume they are. But equally I don't automatically assume they aren't, either.
Any other browser doing this? Safari?
Why is this being only implemented in private browsing mode and not in the normal mode? IMO, this should be the default.
> I think people find something deeply distasteful about the concept of mass hysteria

Possibly unease that their perception of reality and the state of their own body, can be rendered inaccurate?
Asynchronous PHP: Why?
You mean the one that could be tricked with a simple photo and a pen that you swipe over the eyes to fool the "blink detection"? The one that only worked in good lighting? I tried to use it at the time, it was awful.
I don't think reinventing the wheel is the right approach. I think careful analysis of bugs and design deficiencies the likes of which you experienced before jumping in and using the framework is the way to do it.

This is why I absolutely love seeing hate filled developer rants about technology with deep dive analyses and links to bug trackers. That's how I was saved from learning Ruby on Rails back in 2008 when most developers gushed about how awesome it after reacting to its slick marketing and building a tiny website in 5 minutes.
Android Notes for Professionals book
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A spinning disk dissipates about 6W on average, for 100 000 disks that's 600kw. With an average of 0.12 USD paid for a kwh times 24 hours, their energy bill is less than 2000 USD a day. Their HDD cost based on the "81.76 — The number of hard drives that were installed each day in 2017." and we know they mostly now do 8TB at roughly 0.02 USD per GB according to https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ which is 13000 USD a day. That means even if we had SSDs at zero watts, they would need to be (13+2/13) ~ 15% more expensive than HDDs in order to break even but if you look at https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ you will see it's still about 8 times as expensive. Obviously there's some savings due to floor space but the savings are going to be really low there. And this is just the economics side.