skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was getting a long-ish walk in, of 45 minutes to an hour and a half duration. That did great things for my spine and my mood. I know it's not easy for everyone to find an hour and a safe and pleasant place to walk but if you can, I recommend it. I think the human body basically evolved for walking and if we don't do it while we can, we're not maintaining it correctly.
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You can always gamble as a game as long as it doesn't become an addiction but never gamble for anything else. Life's not a game.

Also I have so much bad luck that it spreads around me.
Tilt (YC W12) - Front End Engineer (Tilt/Open) - San Francisco

Tilt/Open builds powerful tools to drive the world’s largest pre-order and crowdfunding projects. We’ve powered some of the most successful and well-known launches, working with companies like Soylent, Lytro, Navdy, Eero, Plastc, and many more.

We are a small “startup within a startup” team which grew from an experimental side project at Tilt, and many of us have backgrounds as former founders. We’re able to move extremely quickly, while also enjoying the benefits and support of the larger engineering organization and Tilt technology and brand.

We’re looking for team members who pair strong technical skills with an innate desire to work closely with customers to drive the product forward. Beyond our own areas of expertise, we take great pride in being well-rounded, full-stack developers (which sometimes encompasses non-technical parts of the “stack”).

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I saw a lot of slowdowns (expected, and not major) while I tested out Cloudflare, but the worst part about the experience was the dropped requests that somehow got stuck between the users browser and my servers.

I tried to debug it, and gave a script to their engineers to reproduce, but we did not find a solution.
I don't have a lot of experience with those inverters. How many cycles do you drop when switching over?

My first idea was to create a system that watched the immediate price as well as the day ahead AND the weather forecast to try and predict the best time to stay off the grid, but that's a little too ambitious.

My current idea is to grab my 5-minute history over the last year or two and model it against a simple buy-low-sell-high threshold. It should at least tell me how much the system would save each month.

(BTW about your earlier post, even if supply is 1c/kWh, there's still the delivery charge and taxes. I think supply needs to drop to something like -3.5c/kWh before the juice is "free". It's happened only once or twice in my history with the system.).
Holy shit, I retract my statement. How has this not been addressed yet? I will write my congressman this weekend about this issue.
And by "low-level" I mean "close to the hardware" -- the comment has nothing to do with seniority :)
Hi Jerome,
DragonBox has been great for my kids, but honestly I just enjoy doing recreational math myself sometimes, and DragonBox provides a great interface for doing it. Any chance you can continue to release more levels?
Yes, I suppose for this system to work companies'd have to commit some non core patents, that would be the "price to pay" for the insurance the system provides.

I've never applied for a patent, mostly for ethical reasons since I don't believe in the system the way it's structured right now but it has always seemed to me that getting a few patents was not so difficult for someone with a bit of "innovation capacity".
Study your linux internals, seriously they drill you at the on-site.
SEEKING WORK - Philly or remote

Clojure, ClojureScript, or short term javascript/reactjs

Small isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, full stack web apps, ReactJS expert (using since released in 2013), built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops.

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz
Their paid service just removes ads, and adds some minor enhancements like allowing more skips.
One of my great epiphanies as an American expat is that Americans have a tendency to be extreme. They often have one thing that they use to define themselves. They are driven to be the best at their 'one thing'.

- People who go to church on Sunday feel the need to tell you about it on Monday.

- The guy at work who runs marathons, is running all the time. He never comes to lunch because he is doing a practice run.

- People who are fat. ...well, I am sorry, but if it was genetic then there would be 500lb people in Europe too.

- People who work, work and work and work. A lot of Americans fall under this category.

I think taking pride in your work is a good thing. Knowing when you could do better is a good thing. Building your sense of self around any one aspect of your personality is a bad thing.

Aim to be more well-rounded. Try to find lots of things you like doing. Moderate your activities. Live a less extreme life.

(I have obviously made some assumptions here. This post probably applies more to me than anyone else. :)
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Swiftype - San Francisco, CA (relocation assistance)

The product you would help build powers the search experience on hundreds of thousands of websites. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team.

Some recent Open Source releases from our team:

- https://swiftype.com/blog/introducing-meta-events.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/web-server-uid.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/objectid-columns.html

If that sounds interesting, email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.
Thanks for the input! I was considering using stronger types for the search parameters but wasn't familiar enough with Haskell's type system to make much progress. :)

I'll keep exploring options!
This is pretty cool, I was just going to complain that I couldn't afford the electronic version. Typically, it is more expensive here in the UK than in the US.
It's $489 in the US [1] and £465 ($705) in the UK [2]

[1]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022524/
[2]http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S69054632/#/S4906...
> I wouldn't want to work at a place where the other members of my team are determined by someone unqualified.

But it's a big firm, they've got to comply with both UK employment law and the German rules too.

They get 1000s of applications, so they need to filter them, it's time that's far to important to spend on a developer, I mean they are short of them too.

So I'll stick it on, probably in a format that makes it obvious to a technical person, I consider this an expansion of the bullet point technology.
NYC - DailyBurn

* Lead iOS/Mobile Engineer (http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/dailyburn/lead-ios-developer/d...)

* Fullstack Developer (http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/dailyburn/full-stack-web-devel...)

DailyBurn is a fitness and nutrition company based in Midtown Manhattan. We'd like you to come join our multi-discipline engineering team to build software on a wide array of platforms and technologies.

We really are a fitness company, we have our own well equipped gym in the office and offer a gym membership budget for all employees.

Everyday we get messages from users sharing the changes they've made in their lives not every company can say the same. If fitness is an area of interest for you this is a great place to get involved in changing peoples lives.

If it sounds interesting to you get in touch with me directly: paul@dailyburn.com
It's a big tech hub outside of silicon valley that's arguably more fun and undeniably less expensive
Yeah, I think this is all under the hood, so in future releases, Postgres should perform even better for you ;)
Location: Philly

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript

Small isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, Full stack web apps, ReactJS expert (using since release in 2013), built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops. However I am no longer interested in working in javascript except on a short-term contracting basis.

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz
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SEEKING WORK - Chicago, Il. or Remote (part-time only)

I'm a front-end UI web developer based in Chicago, Il.

Skills: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, JSON, Adobe CS, Ruby on Rails, Twitter Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, Stylus and AJAX, UI Prototyping

Experience: I have 5+ years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, digital agencies and tech startups. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to chat about your project (there is no pressure whatsoever to work with me!)

Availability: In approximately 1 week I'll be rapping up my current project.

Contact: sanjs255/at/gmail (Mention HN please)
In other time we called that class: Aristocracy.
And the mailing list announcement: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-Apri...
You're correct. Calling it a 'stretch' is misleading. It's more of a 'release'.

After many years of sitting, the hip muscles tighten, atrophy, and lose their ability to rotate the hip. The hip stays tight (flexed) and the thigh muscles (and others) end up taking over the role of keeping your body upright.

This works, but stresses these muscles, since they weren't designed for it. This stretch (or release) convinces the thigh to 'let go' of your hip, allowing it to rotate. This has positive effects all the way up your body, especially in the load-bearing joints: ankles, knees, hips, shoulders.

In severe cases, you might need to wait a very long time for this release. My right thigh takes about 40 minutes to release completely. I use the flexing thigh test he describes in the video to know when it's done.

I've been doing it every morning for a week now and can sit upright without pain for the whole day, something I've never been able to do before. I'm looking forward to continued progress!

Edit: More info here: http://www.oregonexercisetherapy.com/blog/egoscue-supine-gro...
Theists are worshippers of God.
Atheists are fighting God.
Agnostics haven't found God yet.
I think that was more about trolls rather than big company shenanigans. In any case there are some errors in that video that I pointed out in a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442161
I'm not aware of any consumer level ACs that draw that kind of juice. Given 10¢/kwhr (for easy math) that would still cost $1.20/hr or ~$8xx in electricity per month just for the AC.
Look into the Alexander Technique.
A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, implemented in Lua
Kelly Starrett, an expert on mobility, has great short pieces on how to optimally sit and walk to improve posture:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/sit-better-live-better-excer...

http://www.allthingsgym.com/kelly-starrett-on-posture/

I would highly recommend his book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" to all lifters and anyone generally interested in improving their posture.
Some tips because I have a herniated disk and severe back issues at the moment:

* Be careful of opinions and chiropractors, if you are in actual pain get a CT Scan or MRI.

* I stand all day at work, maybe I sit for 30 minutes here and there.

* One of the best things you can do for your back is walk. Walking helps align your posture.

* Get a good chair, not necessary an expensive one, you want a chair which supports your back and has your legs supporting some of your weight.

* Doing minimal yoga or stretching is key even if it's for 5 minutes, do not do yoga that stresses your back or twists anything! I do 5 minuets of exercise 3 times a day.

* Strengthen your core muscles and your glutes. You don't need a 6 pack but it certainly helps.

* Engage your abductors often, you can engage some of them any-time you think about them (sort of like holding back when you have to urinate).

* Try to feel your muscles (meditation can help here), you will often notice they are tense or perhaps you are just tense in general. Try and relax, breath and generally loosen up. Getting a massage can also help and thermotherapy is a godsend.
Gas fumes are very flammable, but the gasoline itself will flow down and out of my garage, and the fire would be very easy to contain with a simple garden hose.

A gas can also will not light on fire just because it gets hit with a car. It would take malicious use of a gas can -- splashing it on a wall and then lighting it on fire -- to match the default configuration of a Powerwall.
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Pullups as my compulsory exercise, if I do one exercise only, this is it.

The yoga mountain pose any time I am standing and remember about it. I'm not into yoga, but this one "pose" is worth learning/practicing.
Location: Currently in SE Asia (from Europe)

Remote: Sure, but working in an office is more fun. :)

Willing to relocate: Yes, not anywhere though!

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JS, Postgres, Docker, Ansible, to name a few.

Résumé/CV: Get in touch! I've got a lot of experience with ruby and rails. I'd prefer to stick with writing ruby and I enjoy some devops on the side. Capable on frontend but more experienced with backend.

Email: h@iseld.org (no recruiters please)
Senior Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010)

TL;DR: Full-time, local only. Contact hack@ownlocal.com. RoR, Go, ElasticSearch but we think you can learn these things on the job if you're competent. We treat employees like humans. $90k and up depending on experience.

We're a Ruby on Rails shop who has recently consolidated a bunch of backend tech into Go and ElasticSearch. We would love a few engineers who would be interested in working in all three and could lend expertise to the latter two.
We're generally interested in gathering information from print ads, so strategies around data entry applications or experience with computer vision is also really exciting for us.

Our request volume has been increasing by 10s to 100s of millions each month and we've had to learn a lot of new things to keep up. It's fun and exciting times but we're shorthanded to handle the load!

OwnLocal is dedicated to having a quality work environment for everyone. On our engineering team we value collaboration over competition, respect work-life balance and solve problems without blaming people. We have a "no assholes" policy. We have great health insurance. We're big enough to be stable but small enough to still be startupy. We pay market rate for Austin; the lowest salary for this position is around $90k/yr.

We believe that someone who is truly a senior software engineer can come from almost any background and pick up a new set of tech in a reasonable amount of time which is why we don't list much about our tech stack in our ads.
If you are interested, feel free to contact us at hack@ownlocal.com.
Is this an on-site role?
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Metail (Cambridge, UK) - Senior Graphics Engineer, Senior Frontend Web Engineers, Big Data Engineer - Full time, Contract - On-site only

Metail builds technology to allow people to try on clothes when shopping online. We are a well funded startup and growing to meet our ambition.

At the moment we have several full-time and contract jobs at Metail's engineering offices in the centre of Cambridge, UK:

- Senior Frontend Application Engineer (Frontend Javascript, CoffeeScript, Backbone, Single page web apps) - both permanent and contractors.

- Senior Graphics Software Engineer (3D Visualisation, Direct3D, OpenGL, C++, C#)

- Big Data Engineer (MapReduce, NoSQL, Clojure, Cascalog, AWS) - both permanent and contractors.

We also have an Operations Manger role available in our London office.

You would be joining a highly focussed technical team in a startup that is working with customers around the globe (Latin America, Europe, Far East). We enjoy the technical
challenges of our day job and often socialise together in the evening. Cambridge itself is a great place to live and has a large tech community.

Unfortunately we are not in a position to help with visas, so we mostly need great engineers who are already eligible to work in the UK.

If you are interested, you can get more details at http://metail.com/jobs/ or apply by email to jobs+hn15@metail.com.
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Hoppinger, a full service internet development company is looking for a number of people in Rotterdam. They're expanding.
Look here http://www.hoppinger.com/bureau/vacatures/frontend-javascrip... for more vacancies! Please name me (Marthyn) as your referral, as an employee i get a bonus for getting new people ;).

I work on ruby projects, but they do all sorts of development, also in Haskell for example so also apply if you're interested in that!

you can send me marthynolthof[at]hoppinger.com an email if you're interested!

NEEDED

Frontend Javascript dev
Visual (UX) designer
Drupal Dev

nice company lunch, beer on friday, location at the water, great company to work at.
It did, but that was a really low priority for Apple: they shipped two generations of Intel Macs before releasing Bootcamp and the firmware updates that added BIOS emulation. They would have switched to Intel regardless of whether it gained them any form of Windows compatibility, because they needed more efficient processors.
I was JUST thinking about this this week!

I have a simple apple reminder set twice daily to 'check your posture' -- it pops up on me at 11am and 3pm (times I'm most likely to have been sitting for a while) and reminds me to get up and walk around, adjust my sitting position, or switch to standing.

So far so good!
Sorry I only have one up vote for this.
Ask HN: What to do with DigitalOcean credits?
I'm sure that many here are affiliated with the referral program that DigitalOcean offers to its customers, you may also remember that during the inception of this program, DigitalOcean made monetary payouts for the earnings you had, but that changed roughly a year ago.

I'm just wondering whether anyone else is stuck with their credits and not quite sure what to do with them. For me, there are only so many websites that I can run at any given time, and I'm just wondering whether I should leave that money piling up, or do something with it.
I wrote a pretty detailed blog article about the motivations and some design aspects of the project. If you want to play with a new little toy, I'd love any (constructive!) feedback, bug reports, pull requests, etc.

http://blog.ionoclast.com/2015/05/firth-pre-alpha-1-a-forth-...
Q: What are you doing to look after your posture?

A: Absolutely nothing.
Deadlifts.

And as for your edit: In the UK I believe there is a duty on employers to "survey" your desk and workstation setup to ensure it is configured properly. This normally consists of a 10 minute online course telling you what height to have your monitors etc.
The Bush years made me so ill, I had to stop following the news in order to maintain my health. A generational low point for western society.
They could have been what Kleenex is to tissue paper.
Weirdly I fixed my posture when I improved my voice, because The Voice Book (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0571195253). I think he covers posture in the first or second chapter (posture hugely affects your voice). It's been a few years since I read it so don't remember the exact guidance - it involves lying on the floor, getting your head aligned with your body, and ensuring the small of your back is the right distance from the floor. That improves breathing and airflow and then voice. I significantly (noticeably) improved both my voice and my posture.
It's the most socially acceptable drug (in fact many social situations almost force you to drink), and there's no (known) risk of cancer from abuse.
I don't know if "For Dummies" is possible for building a GPS system from first principles.

If you want to really learn by building, I recommend
"Fundamentals of GPS Receivers: A Hardware Approach" by Dan Doberstein, and building the analog GPS system described in the first few chapters.

If you simply want to play with GPS, I'm sure there are many breakout modules from Adafruit et al.
You have to embrace the suck. I felt the same way for a long time, but as long as you are learning on every project you'll get better. I used to be very self-conscious about my code...I guess I still am a little. I stopped trying to do more projects and focused on one or two. Keep doing revisions until it starts to look good and you feel good about it.

A few years out of college, I was working at a startup building UAVs. It was pretty awesome. We had to move for me to take this job and my wife switched schools for the move. After 2 years she wasn't happy and wanted to move back to her original school to finish her degree. In order to make the move happen I had to take a programming job that was horrible. I was doing .NET web sites and babysitting a SharePoint server. Horrible, but I did it for my wife. I thought I would have to explain the blip on the radar in the future. While I was at this job, I met a guy who was a consultant for a silicon valley startup. He talked me into joining their company. That was 7 years ago. By taking the crap job, I found a dream job.

Just code, learn, and keep your eyes open.
The idea is to have alternatives to work around the flaws of the system.

The difference between using what the state provides and creating such a "patent fund" is that with the former you just accept the status quo. It's obviously an option to accept it and go for it alone, I'll not take that from you but perhaps for many small companies it would be better to not go at it on their own.
Some stuff you'll work with:

* PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

* Integrate with our in-house and third-party ad servers (SOAP, REST APIs)

What we expect:

* Self-starter - no micromanagement at BSA

* Excellent communication

* US only [but 100% remote from anywhere in the US]

+ everything else in the job description, just wanted to add some more info here.
> Elon can never overcome your landlords property rights. Not now, not in 100 years.

With sufficient lobbying juice he could. I mean, the government has intervened in property rights in favor of renters and against property owners when it comes to antennae for certain kinds of data, there's no fundamental reason they couldn't for residential backup power systems. [0]

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/guides/installing-consumer-owned-antenna...
Thanks for sharing vague thoughts about work other people should do. Without some discipline or structure in the listings, there's no easy way to determine if the post is saying the R-word is allowed or that it's not; there are a a huge number of variations in how the idea is expressed.
Standing desks aren't the end-all be-all solution!
I am using almost every day Lumo Lift, a wearable to correct posture:
http://www.lumobodytech.com/