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Lexical Labs | Full time
Lexical Labs read, review and automatically mark-up contracts so that lawyers can review them quickly. There is a lot of tech going on to support this - NLP, ML and lots of UIs.
We are looking for a junior full stack Node.js/React dev as our first full-time developer hire in London, UK.
If you'd like to work at a small startup with big dreams to change how law works email will@lexicallabs.com and let's have a chat!
Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.
Is it? I would have thought it is the commonwealth looking after the people that make it! Surely for countries with large sovereign wealth funds (especially those derived from the country's natural wealth), it makes sense to care for the people for which it is meant to provide!
The whole redistribution lens is a very specific way of looking at things.
In my experience there are a couple kinds of product management. There is very user focused product management, and technical product management.
User-focused PMing is making tools that work for people - working with marketing, UX and client teams, to make sure you have a good Product/Market fit.
Technical PMing is more about making sure that you are building things the right way - making sure that the underlying models that your tools utilise are close to reality and understanding the roadmap that you will need to hit so that your releases will always be useful. It different from an architects role who is fed the information about the domain, the technical PM needs to synthesise this for the tech team to build, but there is a lot of overlap.
For engineers, it makes a lot of sense to become a technical PM, via being a team lead/architect, managing your devs more and coding less, and understanding more about why you are building what you are building that how what you are building it, and working with other PMs. From there, you do become more and more part of the design process, going up the food chain as it were, closer to the source of your user stories.
It's not the quick way of doing it, but PMs who understand the entire ecosystem are obviously more well rounded and may well be more effective than ones who have fallen into it from client management or marketing!
and would gladly pay the same amount again.
Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...
There are a few new features over the last 5 years...
* Merge checks
* Build status (finally...)
* Audit logs
* Inline editing
Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity.
/not a bitbucket shill
//just don't like inaccurate comments.
... which is kind of annoying if you sleep on top of one. Endless tocking away on a hot summer night where you can't sleep is kind of like water drip torture.
What I don't get is, if it is such a simple aircraft - pretty much an airliner with the passenger section being a bomb bay - and we're pretty good at making airliners these days - why don't they as a short term stop gap just turn an airliner airframe into a bomber?
With modern materials, avionics and engines you could have a aircraft that flies faster and more efficiently, thus able to fly further and for less ongoing maintenance cost. I also imagine training would be simpler, if it meant they didn't have to train pilots with slide rules...
It would be nicer if this wasn't tied in to a server implementation, so it could be a standard react component that specifies a couple of handlers as PropTypes. Would make it much more easier for people to reuse it!
Just throwing this in here - we already do this at my work with a thing called office vibe [1]. Everyone seems to like it .
Started doing start body weight training this year inspired by these progressions [1].
The problem I found with having to do weights or going for runs is that you need to leave the house and can't just do it right away every single day with a minimum of friction. This reduces motivation and makes it less likely to keep going.
I just get up 30 minutes earlier and go through half of this every day, alternating pushes and pulls. It's really simple for me and don't have any excuse to stop doing it, unless I'm a little delicate from the night before - but I find that even that gets blasted out of the system fairly quickly.
Haven't changed my diet or lost any weight, but I'm sure my muscle to fat ratio is a lot better. Definitely feel stronger and more energised than I was before.
[1] http://www.startbodyweight.com/2014/01/basic-routine-infogra...
Qubit - London - Full Time
Qubit enables people to personalise their websites by connecting a data-store of visitor state to a framework for UI components that make it really easy for marketers to make use of their data.
Having recently got Series B funding, we are really ramping up our development team and are looking in particular for:
* UX designers and
* full stack Javascript engineers.
Our product is based around making technical problems easy for non-developers so we really like having UX experts working closely along side our engineers as we release new iterations of our product.
Our tech stack is constantly growing with new tools that help us work better: at the moment we are excited by Flux, React.js, SuitCSS and finding smart ways to deploy our SOA backend, based around Node.js.
We help each other grow with 1:1 mentoring, coding dojos and pairing. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.
If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at careers+HN@qubitproducts.com, telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after.
Qubit - London, New York, Lahore - Full Time
We just announced our Series B funding this week by Accel, Balderton & Salesforce and we're using that to grow, so we are looking for all types to come on board! Software engineers, DevOps, Data Scientists, Web Developers, Technical Product Managers and a whole heap of non-tech jobs as well: http://qubitproducts.com/content/qubit-jobs
Qubit is all about having a central hub of data to improve your website - a good summary is here: https://medium.com/venture-capital-growth-hacking/point-solu.... We work with some of the biggest companies in the UK and are rapidly expanding into the US and EU.
We use the latest technologies to power this (Storm, HBase in various JVM flavours, AWS, Backbone & React.js). We ship several times a day. We help each other grow with dojos and pairing. We deal with cutting edge statistics. Our systems that handle process billions of data points per day. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.
If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at careers+HN@qubitproducts.com, telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after!
I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
That's where I've got all my initial seed data from already!
That's really cool! The problem seems to be that for all these things the data isn't stored anywhere in an easily digestible format. It would be great if you could query something and procedurally generate any of these graphs.
I've got a project that is trying to do just this sort of thing, check out https://retred.org
You can go to a time and place and see exactly what kind of events were happening at that point of time. I haven't opened it up to things yet, but am planning to pretty soon!
There are ads and then there are ads. One of the things that the company I work for, Qubit, does is to validate that the tracking tags that vendors put on people's websites drive an uplift. We talk about one of our clients doing it here [1]
While blindly targeting people using search engine "promoted searches" may not work for every impression, this does not take into account the ads that you see on other 3rd party sites - which is probably what people think of when they talk about "ads". Google's version of this is AdSense (as opposed to AdWords).
This is something that is quite easy to test, and we have seen that some really do work and some not so much.
But driving someone back to a website with an offer on something that they have added to their basket but not purchased, is one way to be sure that you are getting people buying after seeing your content. The problem then is to make sure you aren't cutting into your margins too much...
[1] http://www.qubitproducts.com/content/video/arcadia-video-cas...
Try using git blame. It tells you what change caused a line to happen. I often use it to find out exactly what issue caused a seemingly crazy bit of code to happen. As the code goes away, so does the commit message - not necessarily so with a comment.
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs)
Do you have an eye for beauty? Do you know when you should be using SQL vs no-SQL? Do you want your code to effect 6,000,000 people a day?
Qubit is personalising the web, and we need more engineers to work on filling the demand. From collecting our data, to developing cutting-edge visualisation tools to finding compelling means for other developers to consume your work, the life of a engineer is varied and full of joy!
We're well looked after here in our Soho office, with a fully stocked kitchen (that you barely need to use, since we are on top of the foodie Berwick St market), a dedicated Chief Lifestyle Officer and a culture of getting shit done. The best brands in the world use our products and we want the best engineers to be creating them!
If you breathe Javascript, live on the command line and can create a quadrocopter from scratch, then you'll fit in here and we want to hear from you.
Drop us a line at careers+HN@qubitproducts.com, telling us a bit about yourself!
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs)
Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into new markers!
There's a bunch of jobs listed here: http://www.qubitproducts.com/jobs, but to summarise, we are hiring on the front-end from UX architects to both new and experienced full-stacky-JS engineers and in our infrastructure teams for DevOps folk.
It's a really fun environment - not just because of the perks of working in the middle of Soho with our own newly remodelled (and fully stocked) kitchen - but we've put together an inspirational team across the board that is building building a personalisation platform which is really resonating with some of the biggest brands in the world and we have huge plans about where we are going to take it!
It's a really exciting time, and I hope some of you will join us! There's tonnes of big technical and "soft" problems that we're tackling, so drop us a line at careers+hackernews@qubitproducts.com, tell us a bit about yourself and we'd love to have a chat about how you can help us solve them.
Thanks - as you say, if you search for a thing you will see the events with lines between them showing the progression of events in chronological order.
You can use the time bar on the top to alter the date range, and there are "favourite" era's selectable at the drop down down the bottom.
https://retred.org is a repository of (right now historical) events. There wasn't a good place where you can view and (soon will be able to add/edit) historical facts, not to mention cutting it up in various ways to see how things relate.
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs)
Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into new markers!
There's a bunch of jobs listed here: http://www.qubitproducts.com/jobs, but to summarise, we are hiring on the front-end from UX architects to both new and experienced full-stacky-JS engineers and in our infrastructure teams for DevOps folk. Also, if you find http://xkcd.com/1132 funny, we want you as well!
It's a really fun environment - not just because of the perks of working in the middle of Soho with our own newly remodelled (and fully stocked) kitchen - but we've put together an inspirational team across the board, and we're building a personalisation platform that is really resonating with some of the biggest brands in the world. Not only that, but we have huge plans about where we are going to take it!
It's a really exciting time, and I hope some of you will join us! There's tonnes of big technical and "soft" problems that we're tackling, so drop us a line at careers+hackernews@qubitproducts.com, tell us a bit about yourself and we'd love to have a chat about how you can help us solve them.
And what's interesting is they seem to be hiring a whole lot more [1]. If they are hiring a "growth hacker" they must be close to having something that's out in people's hands.
[1] http://workinstartups.com/job-board/jobs-at/deepmind-technol...
Airplanes are almost automated and pilots seem to be just there as a safety backup: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/oukoe-uk-britain-pi...
Just reloading the db at the moment... You'll see some data again in 30 minutes (fingers crossed)
I've been playing around with a wikipedia layer on Google Maps - http://retred.org - code here: https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander. It's just a couple weekends play at the moment, but the cool thing about it is the date slider at the top - you can see what was going on in a certain area at a certain time.
It's a bit shit at the moment (and only has 10% of dbpedia's births, deaths, city foundations and battles at the moment - things with both a time and a place) , but have a play and try not to break my AWS micro instance!
Yes - default settings of 3rd party cookies is an obvious start.
It's not a contract to which I've agreed though. If they want me to get content in exchange for something, then they should make sure I do, otherwise, they are putting things on an open server that I can easily read from. What I tell my browser to take from it is up to me,
Would you have a problem with me reading the site in lynx?
You could enforce a contract by having a paid for membership, as he alludes to, which gives you rights to see articles early or have post rights on a forum or gives you some physical thing.
Qubit - London
QuBit is Series A backed, and has the first platform that combines analytics, personalization and automation.
We use a cutting edge technology stack - Java, Scala, Hadoop, Storm, Kafka and Hive backed by Cassandra, Redis and MySQL DBs, all set up via Puppet. Our infrastructure handles 2 billion pageviews per month and we're always growing!
We are heavily invested in JavaScript as well - from our measurement tools, to our visualisation and serving tools - we use node, ruby and quite a custom Backbone stack.
We also have a team of Web Developers. If you’re a recent grad and good with JavaScript, if you’re bored with JQuery and want to learn in a fast-paced startup environment then you should apply. Our Web Developers work on the nitty-gritty of integrating our platform and tools with our customers' sites. They create A/B and multivariate tests for our blue chip clients.
QuBit is hiring at our London offices!
Back End Developers JavaScript Engineers Web Developers
Check out our website: http://www.qubitproducts.com
If you think you've got what it takes send your CV to careers@qubitgroup.com
We're looking forward to working with you!