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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:36AM (#28045755)
This is a more friendly presentation of the same data, though note there’s a lag in the ONS data as it’s from ongoing sampling rather than self reported tests. At time of writing this is up to 30 July (next update 6 August):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021) on Saturday May 08, 2021 @08:39AM (#27086611)
iSDA | Head of Business Development | REMOTE / Africa | https://isda-africa.com

iSDA is a mission-driven company bringing advanced technologies to the small farm sector in Africa. We harness the market in order to reach millions of farmers, and use the best science to maximize profitability for our clients and their farmers. Our current focus is to prove our business models through delivery of fertilizer advisory for low-income farmers, intermediated by local agents and based on technologies we have tested in Kenya and Ghana: handheld spectral soil scanners, and iSDAsoil, the first farm-level soil map of Africa.

We are looking for someone with diverse experience and a track record in the African private sector, a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and a history of building new business opportunities to deliver on our mission to improve the profitability of small-scale farmers.

We're a remote-first team, the position is Africa-based and will involve extensive travel.

If you're interested please take a look at a more detailed job description at https://www.isda-africa.com/head-of-business-development/ or reach out with any questions.

Re:Avoiding the Global Lobotomy on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:20AM (#23438133)
I can only assume this is a #MeToo reference as he was the male lead in Lolita - c.f. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/16/times-finally-u...

Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?

Background: technical founder wondering what reading to recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset. I've thought perhaps Mythical Man Month and How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond essay) but not sure they're quite right.Any suggestions?(In case it helps an analogue in the mathematical world might be A Mathematician's Apology or Gödel, Escher, Bach.)

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Re:Bullshit.js on Sunday October 13, 2019 @01:37AM (#21238570)
This may help :-)

  (flycheck-define-checker proselint
      "A linter for prose."
      :command ("proselint" source-inplace)
      :error-patterns
      ((warning line-start (file-name) ":" line ":" column ": "
                (id (one-or-more (not (any " "))))
                (message (one-or-more not-newline)
                         (zero-or-more "\n" (any " ") (one-or-more not-newline)))
              line-end))
      :modes (text-mode markdown-mode gfm-mode org-mode))
(More details in my config at https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-chec...)
Re:Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf] on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:14AM (#19746066)
From the intro it's a reference to a song lyric (which I wasn't familiar with):

  While some were meant for sea, in tug-boats ’Round the shore’s knee,
  (Milling with the sand,
  and always coming back to land),
  For others, up above
  Is all they care to think of,
  Up there with the birds and clouds, and Words don’t follow.
  —Tiny Ruins, from “Priest with Balloons”
Re:Guided meditation for beginners on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:13AM (#13529259)
I was just looking too, and it appears there's a separate listing for the kindle version:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integra...

Re:Leaving Mozilla on Thursday March 03, 2016 @12:49AM (#11215257)
Interesting! Tried to subscribe but got an error: {"code":-5000}

Ask HN: Validating an ad supported business?

I'm considering an idea for a content business which would be ad supported. There's an awful lot of advice out there on avoiding this kind of business in favour of something where people pay you directly, but let's say I want to consider an ad supported website as a business - how would I model / validate it?My thinking so far is that it's a bit like the marketplace problem. On one side of the...

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Re:Would You Give A Freezing Boy Your Coat? on Thursday March 06, 2014 @06:59AM (#7353161)
This was a pretty successful viral fundraising campaign in Norway - raised over 150k euro in the first 24 hours with 1.3 million youtube views. It's now over 13 million views so I expect has raised quite a bit more.

Source: not the OP, but I work for the UK arm of the same charity (SOS Children's Villages)

OP here - came across the site while looking for good cardsort software. Really like ConceptCodify, and it's free at the moment.

If anyone wants a demo (and to help with our cardsort!) try here:

http://conceptcodify.com/studies/e7xoz2be/via/6zebmkmt/

Re:Show HN: Funded.io rapid prototype on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @05:09PM (#7060140)
Out of curiosity, what would be the major changes required?

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