skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITV plc / Platform Engineer(s) / London, UK / Onsite (+wfh)

ITV are building a new platform to host all of our applications - internal and external. Whether it’s the system that sells the adverts for Corrie, pays Ant & Dec, schedules Emmerdale for broadcast or gets TOWIE on to the ITV Player, it’ll live here and you can help build it.

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be a part of the team responsible for a product end-to-end. Working closely with the developers, testers, product owners and scrum masters you’ll make sure the environments are ticking over nicely, polish the build pipeline and make sure everything’s looking good in production.

You’ll be jointly responsible for the quality of everything the team produces - if you build it, you run it. One day you might be helping design a new microservice, the next watching your system handle millions of requests during the X Factor final. The coffee’s pretty good too.

Our ethos is simple: Automate, automate, automate. We believe in using the right tool for the job - right now we’re using things like AWS, docker, jenkins, sensu, redis, terraform, centos, rabbitmq, nginx, varnish, haproxy, trello, github, slack and openstack - but we’re always keeping an eye on the future and experimenting with new tech.

We want our team to be two things: ‘smart’ and ‘kind’. If that’s you and this sounds like fun then please get in touch - email + linkedin in my profile.

Tom

What we offer:

* Great salary

* Five weeks holiday (plus national holidays)

* Annual bonus

* Training + conferences

* SAYE scheme (discounted shares)

* Life cover (4x salary)

* Generous pension (matches your contribution + 3%)

* ‘Relish’ scheme: gym, extra holiday, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, private healthcare

* Volunteer days

* Further education sponsorship

* Discounts at highstreet + online retailers

* Tickets to shows
On Windows/DOS, it is common to have command line options passed with '/'. PowerShell itself has /? option (shows a help message).
Please feel free to mail me directly with questions like that. I've also written quite a bit about Oracle on several of my blogs, especially at http://www.dbms2.com/category/products-and-vendors/oracle/ and http://www.softwarememories.com/category/companies/oracle/
If I were in the states I would pay you to let me to this kind of work :-)
> It is an enjoyable experience, but when we pushed aggressively to monetize we received a cease and desist from the SEC.
London, United Kingdom - Arachnys - http://arachnys.com - REMOTE and VISA

Arachnys is a search engine for the rest of the world - you can search for news, corporate ownership, court documents, and much more in 160 countries and over 50 languages. We unlock hard-to-access public records data in the far reaches of the global internet, with results automatically translated for you.

We are currently a close-knit team of 25, with an engineering team of 10. Our approach is nimble and responsive, with close integration between sales and tech. Challenges for our developers include managing terabytes of data, crawling obscure corners of the web, teaching machines to analyse and index all this data, and helping users to make sense of it with great workflow and design. We are particularly interested at the moment in developers with some team leadership experience (doesn't have to be very much).

Turn up early, leave early, work from home - far more flexible than a corporate job. As long as you get your work done we don’t care where you do it from. Our offices are located five minutes’ walk from the Angel tube station. It’s a bright, airy space equipped with free food, showers and fresh towels, aeron chairs, and great people.

We are able to offer to sponsor visas and pay relocation expenses for some candidates. Remote working is certainly possible, but we have a strong preference for people who can spend at least part of their time each week in London - ask for details.

Please include GitHub profile or similar with your inquiry.
Step 1: have a life that doesn't require much. Step 2: have enough money to rent what you want, and buy food when you want.

Otherwise, here's no snowboarding or woodworking hobby with a 26 liter backpack. There's no amateur astronomy. There's no antique sparkplug collection. There's no home-made Bundt cake or fondue dinners. There's no stocking up bulk foods to save money. There's no place to store the boar meat from your hunting trip, or your hunting rifles.

For instance, in the summers I go on multi-week cycle camping trips. With a 26 liter backpack, I would have to rent the bike (long-distance cycles are not easy to rent), the sleeping bag and tent (or bivvy bag), and similar gear. My current lifestyle is not compatible with a 26 liter backpack.

That said, I once lived out of a suitcase for a year. I carried more then 12kg because my lifestyle then included having enough clothes to go out salsa or tango dancing every night, without having people wonder why I was wearing the same clothes all the time.

And that's okay. There are plenty of people for whom steps 1) and 2) are entirely reasonable and appropriate. But it all boils down to 1) and 2).

My favorite example is Nellie Bly. She went around the world in 72 days, in the late 1880s, with "the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (£200 in English bank notes and gold in total as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck." As she wrote:

> "After-experience showed me that I had taken too much rather than too little baggage. ... It will be seen that if one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling and not for the purpose of impressing one's fellow passengers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one. On one occasion–in Hong Kong, where I was asked to an official dinner–I regretted not having an evening dress with me, but the loss of that dinner was a very small matter when compared with the responsibilities and worries I escaped by not having a lot of trunks and boxes to look after. "

On the other hand, if you have a lot of money, then you can still be a 'professional traveler' with no backpack - there are people who will do your shopping for you - or with a lot of trunks and boxes, that other people take care of for you.
Ask HN: A question to web service providers
I'm a PhD student at the Univ. of Colorado and I'm doing research on cloud computing and services. I am trying to understand some operational aspects of running a web service. My question to web service providers (if you are not a service provider and have some feedback, feel free to share them). To some degree, I understand the clear malicious attacks and protections against them. My question is:

what are some non-malicious activities coming from your users (who are using your service) that you have experienced that are annoying or even affected your service (e.g., a user sending malformed requests)?

Did you have to do something about it (even pre-emptively), and if so what (blocking user? sending warning to users? etc)

Thanks a lot,
Nokia used to make a big deal about their background in paper mills, rubber boots etc.

http://company.nokia.com/en/about-us/our-company/our-story
I do agree Amazon is just another retailer in the end. As to being a cutting edge technology company, I don't put Amazon in the same league as any of Musk's companies, but what do I know? I know I'm tired of UPS trucks delivering one package. I don't feel shopping on Amazon is good for the environment. Maybe one day--when the drones deliver all the stuff we really don't need? Sorry, I don't like these huge stores. In Amazons defense, they do allow little guys to sell through their store. Is Amazon as evil as Wallmart--no!
How to Analyze User Engagement: Sand Hill Exchange Case Study
No, it's more an exercise in "Don't trust anyone else, trust this proven, well-known (in the tech world) encryption" which is markedly different than "Don't trust others, trust me". PGP doesn't give you confidence in the source, nor should it. It just gives you confidence on the transmission.

Now if we could get the public more aware of it, then that'd be great. :)

In any case, this isn't security theater. There's nothing theatrical about this. This is a real security benefit that has newly been added. Lots of things can be said about PGP in general, sure, but the ability to encrypt the messages from Facebook so that only you can read them is an actual security benefit. The entire concept of "security theater" is something that looks like it increases security but does nothing. By sheer fact that encrypting communications increases security, it can't be security theater.
> I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development resources) towards very lower power products which are also less profitable.

Isn't that what they're already doing? What about things like the Quarks used in the Galileo and the Edison?
Yes, they are good fats in Soylent. Fat is also a great at helping you feel satiated and doesn't mess with your blood sugar as much... I like that.

My authoritative source is The Arnold Blueprint (http://goo.gl/sM3Gg0) :)
You've made the link unclickable by putting that hyphen right after it, might want to add a space.

Cheers.
That's a smart angle it could fall under FOIAble data, anyone have credit at https://www.muckrock.com/?
"apps really end up needing the flexibility of shared memory"

Why? Just performance or is there a design reason also?
I don't understand: "Sand Hill Exchange" accepted items of real value (USD and BC) that could be used to "purchase" (or bet on) things named after real securities that trade (or are expected to trade) on public markets for a profit.

I would be surprised if a regulatory body didn't come after this setup. There is a very bright regulatory line around gambling and investing in most countries that a typical person should have known about. What am I missing? Why should I sympathize with Sand Hill Exchange?
Alation (http://alation.com), Redwood City, CA

Looking for UI and data Software Engineers, DevOps, Demand Marketing, and Sales Development Representatives. VISAs welcome, though we can't relocate international candidates right now.

Alation is democratizing access to data by tackling one of the most universal challenges in analysis – the challenge of context. We analyze petabyte-scale data warehouses at companies ranging from eCommerce to online radio to improve the way data is accessed. Alation has brought together an incredible team of engineers, designers, and executives from Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM, one-man startups and top schools. Just announced: a $9m Series A, and our customers include eBay, Square, and Hipmunk.

We've got a great product in a huge market with the right people for the job, and we have a hell of a lot of fun. Come join us!

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I don't know the answer to that, but this is the same problem any new fintech company suffers. Regulations often benefit incumbents and don't scale to new services testing the market. See eg anything related to bitcoin.

How much do you think it cost them to go after Sand Hill?
More difficult if the startup can't yet support itself and just needs to get over a hump and get to a good growth point, because everybody wants a big exit. It should have bootstrapped before it got to that point, but can't get that money now when it needs it, or it's going to grow to be not-super-huge.

That being said, most wouldn't flame out if not for the crazy pressure of using it for explosive growth. There needs to be more "medium size / medium growth business investment" type VCs. I've never met any, but they might exist. $10M doesn't make you flame out, but how fast the VCs want you to spend it can, they only give you money for a year or two so they can get a larger percentage stake later, and that you are moving for an exit versus profitability.
THE VOID – Utah company showcases enhanced VR Theme Parks
> Sand Hill Exchange never tried to make any money off the site. We did let people put their own money on the line.

You should probably correct your own announcement, then, since you say "when we pushed aggressively to monetize we received a cease and desist from the SEC".

Allowing people to use their own money without trying to keep any of it isn't "monetizing" as that term is usually used of a service.
Good point -_-
Unless someone compromises your intranet as a whole.
iCracked (YC W12) San Francisco or Redwood City, CA

Our company is just under 100 strong with offices in the Bay Area, London, and Berlin and the iCracked engineering team is currently 12 individuals. We are looking to grow that to ~25 in the next 12 months. Our system currently consists of our website, 3 sets of custom built business admin tools and 3 iOS apps (1 consumer and 2 enterprise).

Revenues have gone from $1.7M in 2012, to $>17M in 2014 with massive growth estimated for 2015. We are a graduate of YCombinator (W12) and one of Forbes Top 20 Most Promising Companies. Backed by the preeminent Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley and growing like crazy. We are poised to dominate a massive global market with backend technology that can be applied to a variety of different markets in the future.

Back End Engineers- https://www.icracked.com/careers/job?gh_jid=36814

Front End Engineers- https://www.icracked.com/careers/job?gh_jid=6133

iOS Developer- https://www.icracked.com/careers/job?gh_jid=6130

Additional Benefits:

Competitive Compensation
Meaningful stock plans
401(K) plan
Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
Catered lunches and dinner
Fully stocked kitchen
Team retreats
New workstation, hardware and software
Health Membership
Two offices to work from; our headquarters in Redwood City, and office in San Francisco
Flexible Vacation Policy
Anyperk Membership
Financial institutions do not necessarily do things this way. Some parts might, but I don't have any experience with them. The parts I do have experience with it is utterly a miracle that anything works.
> at what point does it suddenly become OK to chase after a financial security law violation?

The reality is that there is a point at which it is no longer OK to chase after a securities law violation. This is why the SEC doesn't go after PE firms that aggressively use carried interest (e.g. a partner puts his salary into the fund and later _only_ pays long term capital gains on his redemptions). There's _too_ much at stake in those cases so the SEC backs off.
ReaCall: A New API Client SDK Architecture Based on React.js+Swagger
The mission systems avionics on a F/A-18F costs around $1-2m per aircraft. This includes Displays, PowerPC based AMC boards, power supplies etc. Hardware in the Loop testing quite practical and was ran as an engineering flight simulator. Missions were flown in the simulator, and problems located without costing $20k/hr per aircraft for an actual flight test.

SpaceX do HIL tests with the Falcon 9 & Dragon spacecraft.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/120424date/
There is a facebook page called My Stealthy Freedom that is for Iranian women to send in pictures of themselves without the mandatory hijab. Please go there and read some of the women's stories. https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/
Geoffrey Bilder and the fight to preserve Wikipedia citations for the future
I think in the "normal" software industry we have a skewed picture of quality, simply because it's not the primary focus. For everyday software, it's fine if it works to 95%. Even bugs you have identified must be weighed against new features, and features often win. For the customer it's better to have a piece of software that has all the features they need, but calculates a bad result every 1/1000 times, or crashes a couple of times per day, than a program that doesn't have all the features. It's also the "release early release often" thing where the cheapest testers are your end users. That is far from the "release once patch never" of rockets. So feature bloat and suffering quality isn't really due to bad practices, it's an active choice.
Say Media - Full Stack Engineers, Senior Front End Engineer (San Francisco, Portland OR), DevOps (San Francisco, Portland, REMOTE), Engineering Manager (San Francisco)

Say Media is building a platform for digital magazines. This year we're scaling from 50 million page views to 500 million. Come help us do this.

Say is well funded and a fun place to work at, with great work/life balance. We're looking for good engineers who enjoy learning new technologies. Our platform is Python based with an Angular front end, but it's okay if you don't have experience with these yet.

I'm not a recruiter, just a programmer who enjoys working at Say. You can see our jobs at http://www.saymedia.com/jobs, or email your resume to me and I'll pass it to the right person (email in profile).

* Note: due to the wait for H1B visas we're not currently considering international candidates, except for remote devops.
3 Winks shares a song, photo and text about you
I like domain hints so I know the site isn't behind a paywall etc. Also some sites will catch my interest more such as krebsonsecurity.com
>a 94% increase in Omega-6

touting this as a benefit has made me lose all trust in these guys. Omega-6 should be thought of as a negative in modern diets. We want the highest omega3:omeag6 ratio possible.

This underscores, painfully, the point that they're not nutritionists.
There exist in the trading space entities that look essentially like what the OP is suggesting. They are called prop trading firms, or quantitative trading firms, etc.

There are even entities that act like incubators for those entities.
Git-up(1) – fetch and rebase all locally-tracked remote branches
Signpost - Onsite Fulltime (NYC & Denver)

A very exciting update this month!!! We’re excited to announce the close of our Series C round ($20.5MM). It will continue to spread online, but here are some highlights of the initial coverage -

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Forbes - http://goo.gl/qJ02BD
TechCrunch - http://goo.gl/4VXI2v

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Here's a story. I interviewed for Amazon a while back, online whiteboard (laptop + phone interview). They asked me to code up some esoteric binary tree algorithm that I definitely didn't remember. In "real life" I would do the responsible thing and google/wikipedia this algorithm, re-teach myself how it works, etc.

But nope, gotta do it on the spot. Alright sure - open up a new tab (while on the phone), google it, and proceed to rewrite someone's StackOverflow answer, explaining it along the way. Now that I believe takes skill, especially since you gotta fake out the interviewer and make your discovery process seem "realistic".

Suffice to say, I decided not to follow up with them for the next interview. If this is what they look for in their workforce, go hire kids who waste their time memorizing "Cracking the Coding Interview".

I'd rather write useful software with my time, thank you very much.
To elaborate, the security precautions you take are entirely dependent on the threat you face (or believe you face). If you're Dread Pirate Roberts, creating a detailed diary of you criminal activities is a terrible idea [1]. If you're a 13 yr old girl, creating a detailed day by day diary is probably not a life threatening decision.

You should take the precautions appropriate for your threat model and risk appetite. I suggest deleting correspondence after a set period of time. I know people that do a yearly purge of all their sensitive mail for the previous year in January.

If you are encrypting for the sake of encrypting, as some people do (see: cover traffic), then you can keep archives of your mail because you face no negative outcome if your archive is compromised. There is no downside, so go for it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
Any hints how to find that `are smart people who are willing to learn a new language` Erlang job? (i.e. not requiring Erlang experience).
Of course it's a preference thing, but I love the ability to click wherever my fingers may be - I also have never had my fingers accidentally move when clicking. I also really like having all the space to use for gestures without the discreet buttons.

I'm really happy the rest of the world is finally catching up with Apple's trackpads. No more unresponsive synaptic driver nonsense.
ClickTime - San Francisco, CA (Onsite, full time)

We're a small (27 person) company that helps people become more productive every day. Our time and expense tracking solutions are used by thousands of companies worldwide.

We're currently hiring software developers:

Front End (Javascript-rich, utilizing AngularJS on top of Bootstrap): http://www.clicktime.com/company/jobs#op-50992-front-end-dev...

Back End (Clustered SQL database and REDIS, web services in C# on .NET):http://www.clicktime.com/company/jobs#op-50994-back-end-deve...

Questions? Feel free to email me at sdabby@clicktime.com.
Messing with MessageChannel
iPGmail works, but it's a somewhat cumbersome solution.

The lack of a decent iOS mail client with GPG support is somewhat of a show stopper for me.
Yes, that's another good solution.

You can't really compare O(P + R) and O(P log P).

Of course, you could argue that P could grow a lot faster than R, so O(P + R) would be better. That's probably true in a "real world" sense, but not in a mathematical sense.
I wouldn't be so assured.
Energy is still limited. At our long-term growth rate of energy use, we have fewer than 300 years before we start observing warming from thermodynamic limits on energy dissipation[1]. This is completely independent of the method of energy production, and simply a function of how quickly the Earth is capable of radiating thermal energy out into space.

[1]: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
Well, depends on who "you" refers to. That revolution wasn't entirely for the own good of the Iranian people [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat...
Solar Impulse: Zero-fuel plane makes forced Japan landing
Chicago, IL - Digital H2O - http://www.digitalh2o.com/ - Full Time - No Remote

- Senior Front-End Engineer | Seeking an engineer with strong experience in building single page applications in a modern framework - such as Ember.js, AngularJS or Backbone.js

- Senior Data Platform Engineer | Seeking an engineer with strong experience in Python and a love of gaining new insight from data.

Contact jobs+hn@digitalh2o.com or visit http://www.digitalh2o.com/careers for more info!
Thanks for catching that. This is completely absurd.
diff -q is often used in scripts to determine whether two files are identical.
Why not? I'm interested to know because in my opinion I don't see it any less safe than languages that don't have automatic memory management and/or languages like Rust.