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London: Python and Erlang Engineers

Smarkets (https://smarkets.com)

Smarkets is a real-time online trading platform with an Erlang backend and Python frontend. Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange product with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We have traded over £150 million of bets since launching in February 2010.

The part of our stack which runs behind the website is one of the few that uses Erlang as a primary language, and is supported by other well-known Erlang projects such as RabbitMQ and CouchDB.

The non-Erlang pieces of our stack are mostly written in Python, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques and REST. We use the following technologies: VirtualBox, Vagrant, Flask, gunicorn, PostgreSQL, Ganglia, Icinga, Graphite, Cacti, Jenkins, Trac, Git and many other open source packages.

We are well-funded and growing quickly so are looking for Python and Erlang engineers to join our team.

If you are looking for a flexible, agile team to work with; want to work somewhere free of big corporate politics; would like a cool project to work on; we’d love to hear from you!

More details about the role and what we're looking for can be found on our blog:
http://blog.smarkets.com/2012/07/31/smarkets-seeking-python-...
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Your implementation breaks after 1 zoom increase. The OPs implement breaks after 4.

Google Spreadsheet is the only implementation to get it right, as far as I can tell.
Slow for me in NYC as well, just FYI. Also, 4.5 MB is quite large to show the first page. Amazon is 1.9 MB, and Pinterest actually comes in at under a MB by comparison.
Google's Fiber "Proof of Concept" Is Anything But
I am a damn good programmer. I have these problems.

I am sorry you encountered gender-policing behavior at your last job: that is exactly what I, as a feminist, am trying to fight against for both men and women. Saying that because patriarchy hurts everyone it isn't a problem to be solved, though, is unhelpful. It is a matter of "yes, and": it hurts men and it hurts women measurably more (https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/258/1/Sc...) and in neither case is it acceptable.

It's not just at work: conferences, meet ups and most of all online I encounter attitudes every day that either demand I act like a man, just as you did. The difference between us is that they aren't asking you to do something that is biologically impossible, and reminding you in the process that you will never, ever be able to simply fit in to your chosen profession.
That article is mainly about the strawman argument that if Dvorak is better, then free markets are bad, because they lead to the kind of network effects that gave us QWERTY. (As a happy Dvorak user, I find this argument silly.) The author is very motivated to prove the premises false, for political reasons. I don't think it's very insightful.
My favourite picture is also the one of Dan.
getcloudapp.com?
I've been using it since the very start, never experienced any problems. Native Mac app, alternatives for Windows and as well free apps for all iOS deviced. Couldn't ask for more, really.
They develop on laptops? Ouch.
You realize, many countries, most importantly the U.S., have laws regarding making web sites accessible? Section 508 requires that they work with Javascript off. This applies mostly to government sites, but was also used in a case against Target, in which Target lost and was forced to make their website more accessible.
It made you "scared"? Isn't that a little dramatic?
The spammers and the clowns paid to spam digg for SEO lost all their work. That's quite possibly the best part of the new digg, especially if they can be kept out.
> It can't be modeled well as a for-profit company

I'm not an MBA, but why the hell not? They entice people to become regular users with all the free stuff, building a network, allowing them to make an enormous profit off of the few products they do sell.

If they started charging for other things besides job ads (and the other 1 or 2 things they charge for), they could very well start losing money because of people refusing to pay and going elsewhere.
Would it not have been possible to "cement" those pages into static HTML and throw them up on a CDN? The only thing "digg" about Digg now is the domain name. Why they bought that and then threw out the baby with the bathwater is beyond me.
All of the examples given are discoverable, even with a mouse and keyboard IMHO - particularly given that all of the keyboard shortcuts (such as the Windows key for the start screen and Alt + F4 for closing an app) all still work.

The thing most desktop-oriented criticisms of Win8 overlook is that the overwhelming majority of computers that are going to ship with Win8 installed WILL HAVE TOUCH. Comparing the experience on an existing PC and extrapolating that to how the experience will feel on devices that are sold starting in October is Apples to Oranges.
Haha, me too.

And if there were less effort going into suggesting that functional programming is somehow antagonistic to the rest of the programming industry, or that there's this insurmountable valley between functional or procedural programming, I think that could happen.

Originally several of the courses at my alma mater were being taught in Scheme. (I'd personally have picked ML, but that's a different argument.) Several years back they dropped it, leaving Java as the department's one official language.

The rationale was that Java's the marketable language, and that Scheme didn't have anything to offer in that department. Now the first is self-evidently true. The second is patently false. . . but it's a falsehood that I think is perpetuated most vigorously (if unwittingly) by functional programming advocates. Because they perpetuate the myth that everything one might learn from working in a functional language is the exclusive territory of functional programming. Speaking as someone who used to be in the habit of chalkboarding procedures in LISP-like pseudocode before implementing them in C, I can say that isn't even true when the imperative language has virtually no language-level support for functional constructs.

And I think taking Scheme out of the intro classes in particular also harmed the students' object-oriented programming skills. Because it meant they had to be introduced to objects almost immediately. Object-oriented programming isn't really a fundamental programming technique; it's a more advanced, architectural software engineering technique. Introducing it to students before they've even got the basics down leaves too much opportunity for them to be confused about what object-oriented features are actually for, and how they should be used. Better to learn how to write organized code first before learning new and exciting ways to disorganize it with contrived inheritance hierarchies and the same routines copy-pasted into a gajillion different classes and suchlike.

So we've got an entire generation of programmers being taught in a cocked-up way. And I think if something like SML were to get traction as a good introductory language then FP could help fix that. Procedural programming certainly can't because the only good non-OO procedural language nowadays is C, and pointers and manual memory management are also complications that are best saved for later. (And it - not C++, too high-level - does need to come later. Don't get me started on kids these days not understanding how memory management really works.) But FP isn't well-positioned to step in, because a bunch of people who don't really know or appreciate what's good in FP think that knowing about FP isn't useful if you can't find a day job working in Haskell, and rather trying to disabuse them of that notion the FP community's party-line response is to say, "Yes that's right!"
The front page of Reddit that is seen by the 90% of lurkers is content from the top 20 subreddits by activity. They come to see the content that 20 individual communities curate.

All content on Reddit -- all of it, comes from these individualized communities.

Also the 90% number -- that's true of almost any site, it's the "1% Rule"[1] (or a rule by a number of other names). Instead of focusing on the 90% lurkers, realize that it's the 1% of creators and 9% of contributors that create/submit and curate the content that brings the 90% to the front page.

So how do you attract the best 10%, the best curators, the best original creators?

In my opinion: individual communities dedicated to any topic they choose. Decentralized power that makes the 90%'s front page nothing more than the best-of-the-biggest subreddits. Sure, many subreddits will not be worthy of the 90%'s front page -- but then again, many communities don't want on the front page (and the massive influx of 'eternal september' users that it brings!)

Some subreddits, like /r/askscience, have over half a million users and maintain a rigid, empirical comment section that actively prevents layman speculation. Think about that, 600,000 users and they run a community with very little to no layman speculation.

Other subreddits, like /r/f7u13 (or /r/circlejerk) run very anarchistic comment sections where ridiculousness is supported and mods abusing power is par the course.

The beauty of Reddit is the freedom the subreddits have and the wonderful communities that create and curate the content that makes the 90%'s front page as good as it is.

I do not understand how you can emulate the result of a strong, engaged community by preventing communities from forming at all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
The Sony device Samsung claims inspired Apple’s iPhone
Yeah well I'm starting the 12kclub.com. We don't even have a site. Respond to this comment and I'll consider letting you know when we have a site to sign up on.
This is not cutting edge, nor is it remotely original with me, nor is it controversial; go look in an introductory textbook. It's been years since I was in classes about this, all I have done is point out that the idea was not just fabricated on the spot by someone on HN.

It's appalling that textbook evolutionary biology gets downvotes as if it were some sort of angry screed or political controversy
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How To Do It Right - Increasing Email Open Rate
Taiwan university sues Apple over speech recognition patents
Guildford, UK

MyDrive Solutions

Who are we?

MyDrive provides data analysis services for insurance telematics. We collect GPS data from black boxes installed in cars, and from smartphone apps, and we analyse it to work out how well you are driving, so insurers can provide a fair price for insurance. This means that good drivers can get cheaper car insurance. We work with RoSPA in the UK for driver behavioural research into what constitutes good driving. We have customers and commercial pilots across Europe and South Africa with a range of global insurance companies, brokers and aggregators.

Our processing engine is predominantly Ruby 1.9, with a Rails (3.2, rspec, cucumber etc) API frontend backed by Postgres. Redis and Resque power the processing queue, and we occasionally drop down to C++ for some number crunching (normally libs wrapped up in FFI Ruby bindings). We've got Cassandra for large scale querying and storage, and we manage all of this on AWS using Chef. We use Github, Campfire, Hubot, and Janky for code, collaboration and CI.

Who are we looking for?

We've potentially got a few vacancies over the next few months as more customers launch, but right now we're looking for a systems lead who can help keep our infrastructure running 24/7 as we grow, and also help our customers integrate with us. Ideally someone with experience of running large web services on AWS using Chef.

If you'd like to know more, email me: gavin dot heavyside at mydrivesolutions dot com
I think it's more likely that Carmack is not going to shell out $250k to build these things if nobody is going to buy them. It makes sense this way, they collect preorders and fulfill them. I would certainly like one, but I'm not going to put down the money if there's going to be no support for it due to lack of interest. Kickstarter is a way to show the developers that there is interest in this, and to fund the project. Perhaps Carmack wanted an ownership stake in the company for his investment, and the founders weren't willing to give that up.
You don't suppose that SFWeekly is annoyed at the SEO they lost, are they?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pmMowDa...
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I didn't mean to say they are stifing innovation because they won't let some UI hipsters gain access to their data - but because they aren't willing to cooperate at all, AND don't do anything to make internet classifieds anything other than what it already is... from 12 years ago.
Further proving that no matter what you do, someone on the internet will write an article complaining about it.
Verizon: No free tethering for unlimited data plan customers
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

While Windows 8 desktop is pretty much identical to Windows 7 desktop, the rest of Windows 8 offers quite a lot. Metro works really well as a consumption interface - I was using it the other day to look at sports (looking for Olympic news), and I wished that there was an Olympics metro app. Trying to view olympic news through a browser on nbc.com feels so awkward compared to the sports metro app.
Node.js driver & webui for USB missile launcher
I wasn't saying anything about business. I was saying something about biology. It's up to you to find what evidence there is for the claim in business. If you want to know about biology, read a biology textbook instead of downvoting people for things you don't like to hear.
Every once in a while, I read post like this that reminds me of what's important but how will I find them, if I am not addicted to productivity porn, is out of comprehension.
Your attitude is derailing: this isn't a zero-sum game. I do talk about other under-represented segments, including the intersections. We aren't talking about them right now, and we don't need to stop talking about this in order to talk about that. In fact, much of the research done here has proven useful when considering racial stereotype threat, so talking about this furthers the research in the area of your concern.

I recommend finding or writing some articles about the problem and posting them. I look forward to discussing them.
No. Speaking for me personally, times of procrastinating because of Facebook are long gone. After some time, you realise there are clearly no benefits. Hell, I'll say it, I think Facebook has reached its peak already (maybe not in number of users) but definitely in other areas. There are healthier alternatives to almost every service at Facebook.

And as somebody else mentioned, if Google wanted to charge $1/yr for all their services, I'd be glad to pay it. Same goes for iCloud and other Apple related services.
Wanna beat craigslist? Create a similar service, combine it with padmapper, remove the smut - which was the primary reason why craigslist got "popular" (or notorious, I should say), make it simple enough to use for the average user, and promote the hell out of it. People will come. Last thing we need is more rapists and murderers coming in through craigslist.....
You can if you drag the top of the full screen app to takea portion on the side. At least you can have two together like this.
Sort of as others said, the nice thing about switching to zsh is that you get a lot of benefit _just_ by switching, and it is very similar in basic functioning to bash. It isn't like vim or emacs where you can't do basic tasks until you learn a bunch of specific keys.
This is an MVP. The team is (apparently, from what I've read), doing quick iteration, fast cycles, and this is an MVP.

In fact, I think these nitpicks are an excellent sign for digg. They discarded anything which was useless for their launch. Very well done - an excellent MVP.
Can you Print HTML with absolute positions?
I am not CodeAcademy, but I think my videos are still pretty helpful. :) Rather than showing small features in .net, I decided to build mini projects.
A lot of people here are talking about how $250,000 is 'chump change' to companies like Valve, Epic etc. The fact is, it's not. It's a quarter of a million dollars: rent for a satellite office for half a year, two junior dev's salaries and benefits, the art budget for a bit of DLC. Yes, it's small in the context of these companies' overall revenues, but it's a significant piece of cash.

Then there's the structure of the deal with a Kickstarter. A Kickstarter campaign is emphatically not a crowd-sourced angel investment: it's a busker's hat, with basically the same responsibilities and obligations that a street musician has to her audience of sidewalk quarter-droppers. Palmer Luckey clearly wants this money with the minimum of fuss. Why would iD effectively donate 250k to a tiny hardware company? Short answer: they wouldn't. Companies spend their money only in the expectation of a return. There is absolutely no possibility of a return for any one of these companies, because the money is given in exchange for nothing. There is no equity stake, there's no debt, there's no guarantee of future exclusive rights to the headsets. It's just a gift.

So let's say these firms consider investing 250,000 with Palmer to build his headset. That kind of decision is not made lightly nor is it made by any one person. All of these industry figureheads are responsible to their board of directors and their (private) shareholders. They don't have complete freedom of access to their companies' bank accounts. Such an investment would come with equity stakes and strings attached: strings which would likely not benefit Palmer, since competitors are usually unwilling to co-operate, even on something as cool as this. Then, Palmer himself may not want to sell of pieces of his fledgling company until he's in a stronger position.

They (Carmack etc.) might well be tempted to make a personal angel investment with Oculus and indeed they may even have done so. Those deals will be highly secret, not least to protect Palmer's interests.

All in all, the Kickstarter is a perfect way for Palmer Luckey to gain both a pile of risk-free, no-strings-attached cash and a great deal of exposure, without any of the dilution, influence or responsibilities of external investment.
ok thanks, we'll look into this, in the meantime, it should line up pretty nicely, and its easy to mod with css
I'm in the same boat. I'm not sure it's the best choice for a technical blog, especially when many people visit them at work.
Great implementation solving a big problem.
Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole
I'm sorry to be a downer, but this is mostly gossip. For me, the most inspiring bit is the number of events they've pitched to. That sure helps with awareness, networking, recruiting, meeting advisors.
Last I heard, you could only register a .xxx name if you were in the porn industry or wanted to reserve the name (but not put up any webpage). I wonder how he got the domain.
The AR-15's 5.56mm NATO ammunition [1] is designed to be light and portable, and to injure rather than kill. Compare that to, say, the AK-47 and it's 7.62x39 ammunition [2]. The energy of the AR-15 ammo is about 1300J, while that of the AK's is 1500J or more.

7.62x39 is not a NATO round only because it's Russian in origin. It's generally the same is the 5.56 (basically a .223) in that it's a non-expanding bullet typically due to the FMJ (full metal jacket). The light and portable part is mostly due to history - the arms race of more shots equaling more kills, and mobile infantries. Compare that with say the .30-06 or 7.62x54 which are big rounds shot from big, heavy rifles (M1 Garand and Mosin-Nagant, respectively), a holdover from trench warfare.

You can purchase non-NATO 5.56/.223 ammo for hunting, and are typically required to use it when hunting game. The opposite of warfare, it's considered more humane to kill an animal than to injure it.
I'm more interested in seeing that the new plans don't raise my costs for capped plan that provides the amount of bandwidth I need. If I use 2.5gb a month on my unlimited for 29.99 plan. if my wife uses 1.5gb, then the new shared everything plan raises my bill by ~20 dollars without adding any real value. I don't need unlimited talk and text.
All break, even google's and mine. Point is there should be ONE easy way using just a single table and not a miriad of hacks with floating divs all over and resize/repaint triggers everytime something moves.

That's exactly my complain.

* View-source: mine is just one table and nothing else, no hacks. Take a look at google's implementation and try to make sense of it. That's my point, just one table should be enough to make it work.
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Makes me consider that ObamaCare compels everyone to give the government their medical records. Yeah, I'd consider those secrets subject to 4th Amendment protection.
I read it as a critique of Craig's business decisions, not a personal attack.
> It's an incredibly basic service that is astounding because of its network effect.

> ...

> If PadMapper's approach really is so much better than why do they need to bootstrap themselves with Craigslist-affiliated data?

You already said it. Because of the network effect.
The frustrating thing about so many usernames being taken on Twitter is that while new accounts are having to add numbers and underscores, most of the time the name they want is just a ghost account from 2008 with 0 tweets.

Twitter should really have some kind of policy for releasing the names of completely unused accounts.
When I wrote a post that contained nothing but science it got flagged off HN with one up vote and no comments.

I feel like there is a huge double-bind, where anything science-y is boring and dry and long and qualified with caveats and error bounds, so no one reads it. On the other hand, anything short, rhetorical and designed to communicate the human cost of the problem gets dismissed for being nothing but the writer's opinion.

I don't really know what the answer is; I would love to hear any suggestions people have.
What are some English phrases and terms commonly heard in India?
It's the RTM date; the code is "off to the presses". In this day and age of continuous updates and Go Live licenses, RTM doesn't mean much anymore for the end-user. So, yes, I guess you could say that it's confusing, but it's a big milestone for the teams involved.