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Many to Many, 28th May [London, UK]

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Show HN: Many to Many, a different kind of tech meetup (London, UK)

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Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England.

https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

12 lat temudiscuss

Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England.

https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

12 lat temudiscuss

Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England.

https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

12 lat temudiscuss

Not to sound too much like an Amazon product page, but if you like this, you'll probably quite like "Unix for Poets" - http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~padro/Unixforpoets.pdf . It's my favourite 'intro' to text/data mangling using unix utils.

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Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England. https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

12 lat temudiscuss

Thanks! Beat me to it :).

12 lat temudiscuss

Good question -- it's hard! It is partially up to the moderator, but their job is more on the side preventing people from hogging the conversation, i.e. giving the opportunity for everyone to say something. Naturally we encourage everyone to talk if they have something to contribute, but we can't force them to :).

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It is a problem indeed. We found the best solution to #2 is to avoid any massively niche topics. For example, "has anyone used <specific Python library>" isn't great for a group conversation: it instantly excludes people who haven't used that library, as well as people who don't know Python. Instead we try to stick to topics which everyone can relate to (even weakly), e.g. process-related topics are great for this.

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Clickable: http://www.manytomany.co.uk/

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Was not meaning my comment as a slight to you at all, it's a very cool app you've got here. Best of luck with it!

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Neat!

From their JS:

  readinglvl = getReadingLevel(paragraphs, sentences, words, chars);
  [..]
  function getReadingLevel (p, s, w, c) {
      var r = Math.round((4.75 * (c / w)) + (0.5 * (w / s)) - 21.43);
      return r;
  }

So it's a slightly modified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Readability_Index (uses 4.75 instead of 4.71 .

13 lat temudiscuss

For a site that's (apparently) hosting an article about a security vulnerability, they _really_ need to turn debug mode off.

For those wondering what I'm on about when the site starts functioning again, I got an error page akin to a Django page with `DEBUG = True`, listing useful information as the full path to the PHP script being run, the user it's being run as, , etc.

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Agree that lxml is certainly quite large and batteries-included, but I've always found I can do pretty much everything I want to just using a few select methods, namely etree and xpath.

E.g. for extracting URLs from a sitemap:

    from lxml import etree

    root = etree.XML(data)

    urls = root.xpath(
        './/sitemap:loc/text()',
        namespaces={
            'sitemap': 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9',
        }
    )

For RSS reading, here's a straightforward example. Obviously you can factor out the index access on each item, and calling `/text()` too.

    import urllib2

    from lxml import etree

    data = urllib2.urlopen('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss').read()

    root = etree.XML(data)

    for i, item in enumerate(root.xpath('.//item')):
        print i, item.xpath('title/text()')[0]
        print item.xpath('description/text()')[0]
        print item.xpath('link/text()')[0]
        print

All pretty simple, xpath selectors can get a bit gnarly at times though. The tradeoff being that you can be very expressive with them.

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Cool, although LXML (mature, fast, reliable, generally awesome) can do this (and more): http://lxml.de/FAQ.html#how-can-i-map-an-xml-tree-into-a-dic...

It also has the 'objectify' API, where you can access XML nodes via regular object access (i.e. `access.nodes[0].like.this`). http://lxml.de/objectify.html

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I actually was about to post this -- this guide is great. As an undergraduate, this was what was given to us to help demonstrate above-introductory command line tools/pipes.

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This isn't the best solution. Instead do as others have suggested and make a subdirectory of your project the webserver root.

This solutions just stops nginx (/whatever web server you're using) from displaying the file. If someone finds a remote-file inclusion vulnerability in your app, in all likelihood they can use said vulnerability to browse your .git directory -- because, hey, it's in your webserver directory, so the permissions are almost certainly set up so whatever user the webserver is running as (www-data probably/hopefully) can view it!

(Obviously if your webserver user can view important files such as these elsewhere on the system, you're still screwed -- but reducing attack surface, etc etc.)

13 lat temudiscuss

While I'm aware this isn't the actual topic, this is just a warning to not take this thread as a accurate representation of how useful "Who's Hiring" threads really are (e.g. as compared to a recruiters/job site/googling). I say this because that's pretty much what this thread may be miscontstrued as.

Reasoning: the majority of the posters will be people saying they got a job, effectively ignoring the swathes of people who were looking for a job and didn't find one they liked on HN. Since finding a job on HN is obviously much more notable than not finding a job on HN.

13 lat temudiscuss

It's not a keyfob, it's built into the card itself.

The security measures are pretty good actually:

- Can't pay for things costing more than £20 via contactless (have to use chip and pin, the 'normal'/old method)

- After a certain number of continuous contactless payments, it will ask you for your PIN to verify the cardholder is still in possession of the card. This 'counter' is reset to 0 every time you pay for using Chip and PIN. E.g. if you alternate between contactless and Chip and PIN, you'll never have to enter your PIN for the contactless payment.

- If your card does get skimmed, your bank will cover you for any losses.

Skimming is possible yes, but you really have to be pretty close (the article is the exception here, not the norm). Within a few cm of the card, which it's certainly possible to skim someone's card - the person would almost certainly notice.

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This is almost entirely FUD, and 'the card readers rarely function adequately if at all' is just plain untrue. What makes you say the readers don't work? Personal experience?

I've seen a broken screen on a contactless reader once, however I've also seen lots of broken Chip and Pin readers -- doesn't make the system faulty.

All contactless systems I've seen are either built-in to the same unit as the Chip and Pin device (which has a display) -- or a separate reader, which also has a display. Both clearly state when payment has been requested, and how much you are being charged. The problem of '[..] or even whether you are paying the bill of the correct till.' is rarely ever a problem at all. With the vast, vast, vast majority of readers, it's instantly obvious which reader you should use (because it's right in front of you!). Besides, if it's not immediately 100% obvious which reader you should use, the cashier will point it out to you, but again, this 'problem' is not a regression on chip and pin, which suffers from this.

Contactless payment is a hugely popular choice of payment in central London. Take a look at a Pret or Eat (or indeed, M&S) at lunchtime. Consumers aren't in the least bit scared about contactless, nor do they 'express fear'. Everyone I've spoken to about contactless has absolutely loved it. It's unbelievably convenient for consumers and a huge win for businesses too.

Agree with the interference though, that is annoying. That said, anyone with any sense doesn't keep their Oyster in their wallet :). Having to hold your wallet out in your hand and place it on the sensor is just asking for someone to grab your wallet (keep oyster in separate pocket during journey, replace during wallet upon arrival at destination).

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Lovely subtext in the last section.

Good on you guys for not rising to Jeff's stubborn/dismissive attitude.