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Star Trek was a professionally produced show. These examples do not 'keep alive' anything. Avoid them.
TL;DR: there are products that fulfill your, mine and everyone elses needs simultaneously quite well.

Products in a given category aren't usually trading off their features and price perfectly. There are some products that are significantly better than their competitors in all metrics at the same time; then most of the products in any given category are a mix of weird attempts at market segmentation and companies trying to simply scam you. Therefore it's not surprising one can often select a product that is objectively the best for vast majority of potential buyers.
I really hate to break it to you guys: It's always been like this. Maybe not quite THIS extreme, but a very small group of wealthy white men have run the United States since the beginning.
Well, according to this report, if you have two families both earning exactly the same (by contributing to the economy in the same manner), but one has $50,000 in the bank, while another has used that $50,000 to put a down payment on a house (perhaps by assuming a $200,000 mortgage), the wealth disparity between the two is enormous.

Debt (when used prudently) is a useful financial instrument and an enabler. In low-rate environment are we really that surprised it's being used extensively?
LiftForward | Midtown NYC NY, New York | ONSITE

LiftForward is a marketplace lending platform for small businesses.

We're looking for our 4th (and 5th) full-time engineers so this is a rare opportunity to join a well-funded early-stage company. Just raised $250M so things are really heating up.

* Fast growing and profitable early-stage fintech startup
* Small team, so you will have an opportunity for a high-impact role
* Developers have lots of autonomy
* Great pay and a low-stress, engineering-driven culture

We use lots of ruby and javascript (emberjs) so a few years of experience with those would be great. That said personality & hustle is way more important than what specific tech you may have worked with. We've all come from totally different backgrounds but ramped up quick and will help you do the same.

details here: http://liftforward.workable.com

or email me mike ~at- liftforward.com
I've been using IntelliJ IDEA since 2002. I used to get excited every time IntelliJ IDEA released a new version. But in recent years I find the improvements in a new version are marginal. I guess that is a sign of it being a rich and complete product. I no longer upgrade and find myself saying "wow, that's a great improvement" for a few weeks.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Vienna, Austria
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PHP, Python, JS, Dart

Currently working 60% of my time for blossom.co (remote) as Python/Dart engineer (+ Google App Engine, some Backbone.js), about 20% for another company (locally) as support for lone Junior PHP dev (code reviews, emergencies).

Looking to fill the remaining 20%.
My girlfriend and I have gone to a bunch of these in LA. They range from little strip mall places with a bunch of janky puzzles with poorly translated instructions to fully decorated and themed rooms with actors moving the action along. Check reviews on Yelp first.

If you want to jump in, one of my favorites is "Trapped in a room with a zombie". They were featured on Big Bang Theory (don't hold this against them, and the room is nothing like portrayed in the show) and it's really well done--our zombie was hilarious. They have rooms in Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, LA, NY, Philly, and Seattle: http://roomescapeadventures.com/

In LA specifically, the Race/LA rooms are great: http://escaperoomla.com/ (Race/LA also puts on scavenger hunts which are also worth a shot.)

(Not associated in any way with these rooms, just a huge fan of the concept.)
RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time ONSITE

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two years now, and our customers love us!

We have a number of open positions:

1) We're looking for qualified Software Engineers of all degrees of experience. We're primarily a Django / Python shop with a fair amount of javascript/HTML5/Backbone.js thrown in. We're building tools and for our customers, our drivers, our internal staff, and our vendors. It's a "target rich" environment with plenty of opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the business! We're solving problems as varied as demand forecasting, route optimization, QR tagging for inventory control, and a suite of mobile apps for our customers and staff.

2) We're also hiring a Customer Experience Director to scale and lead our (excellent!) customer service team. We pride ourselves in delighting our customers with surprising attention and thought, and would love to bring someone on board who knows how to scale and manage this important function, without compromising our values.

3) We are hiring evening Delivery Drivers. This is a great job for students looking to earn some extra cash while exploring the city. We offer mileage reimbursement, good hourly pay, and a W-2 pay stub.

Interested in the burgeoning delivery startup scene, but want to join one with a sustainable business model? Perhaps your family ran a dry cleaner or laundromat when you were growing up? Delighted with our service? Let's talk!

Email sam <at> rinse.com with questions, or contact jobs <at> rinse.com directly to apply.
I've always thought there needs to be more "for-profit" charities like TOMS[0]. The premise of TOMS was originally they sold shoes, and for every pair that was bought they'd donate a second pair to someone else.

In my opinion this would be a much better and more efficient way for charities to acquire money. Just needs businesses with the right model, and entrepereneurs with the desire to do this.

As for what you could do personally, unless you're up for changing your whole life and starting a company there are a few other options. You could maybe organise some way to give a local refugee home internet access (loaned laptops from somewhere with supervised use? wifi?). Refugee Families are often split up, and having a way to contact their family to let them know they are safe would mean the world to a lot of people.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toms_Shoes
Since the new series is being exec-produced by Alex Kurtzman, who was a producer and co-writer on both the 2009 Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, it seems pretty safe to assume the series will be set in the new timeline/continuity those movies established. I'd read "not related to Star Trek Beyond" more as them saying it won't be tied in any specific way to the plot/characters of that film than that it'll be completely outside the rebooted continuity.
Rackspace | San Antonio, TX | Full-time Ruby/Go (Golang) Developer

I'm a dev on one of the automation teams at Rackspace, and we're looking for a Ruby/Go developer to add to our team.

Our team owns a suite of monolithic Rails apps, and we're replacing some of them with Golang services. We primarily work on backend logic, though we, in conjunction with a sister team, maintain the GUIs in the Rails apps. All the Golang work is backend logic only.

The open position is posted in a couple of places:

1. Racker Talent: https://uscareers-rackspace.icims.com/jobs/15798/software-de...

2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/81849144?trk=vsrp_jobs_r...
Amazon | Seattle | Software Development Engineer | Full-Time

We're a small team in Amazon Marketplace's New Initiatives group, and we're looking for developers for a new project. You'll be joining the team early and help define the team's direction and technical architecture.

We don't require knowledge of any specific language, but do want people can quickly learn new technologies and languages. Internally, we're flexible about how things are built. Our current tech stack is a mix of Java, Ruby, JS, and Lua. We have roles for multiple levels of experience.

If you're interested, please email newinitiative-hn@amazon.com
WayUp (formerly Campus Job - YCW15) - https://www.wayup.com/joinus/ (ONSITE)

WayUp is the largest marketplace for college students to find part-time jobs, internships, and full-time entry level jobs for graduating students. Everyone remembers their first job. And now, we’re helping everyone get their first job. We democratize hiring by enabling all companies, no matter how big a recruiting team you have (or don't), to easily reach amazing students all over the country.

We are one of the quickest-growing companies from our batch, and we're growing out our engineering team and looking for great hackers who love getting features in the hands of users. We're absolutely obsessed with our users and making the experience of finding a job better, and you should be too. We're looking for all types of roles, including a senior engineering hire to help us scale:

- Senior Engineering Lead (Python, previous leadership experience - help us scale our team and develop great engineering processes)

- Back-end developer (Python/Django, excited to work with tools like Elasticsearch, Aloglia, Redis, etc.)

- Jr iOS developer

- Designer (UX/Graphic/HTML/CSS)

- Don't see what you're looking for? Reach out anyway!

We're based in New York City and we're tons of fun--we work with college students all day long :)

Come join us! https://www.wayup.com/joinus/
Location: Canada, NL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Javascript, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, PHP, WordPress, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB.

Resume: please email for resume.
email: cmorgan8506 at gmail.com
Use a PaaS for your SaaS. Near-to-zero downtime on deployments.
MaidSafe Safecoin RFC
Here's yet another way:

sudo bash -c 'curl https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/blob/master/README > /etc/motd'
On Mythbusters, in their zombie myths episode, the elder duo put their crowd-crush volunteers in torso-length segments of large-diameter drainage tile, and had everyone hold their arms up above their heads while attempting to crowd-crush through a barn door.

It looked like the zombies had all gone broke in the 1920s and were wearing barrels for clothing.

But no one was apparently injured. So I guess shoppers and concertgoers could all wear crush-resistant chest armor?
Almost any exponential growth will exhaust our resources far before the sun burns out.
Technically, that's always been the case for encyclopedias for any college serious about academics. You should cite the source, not the editorialized version of it.
There are many feature-level differences, but the biggest differences are in the approach, goals and philosophy[1].

When it comes to philosophy, Kotlin is a modern Java -- i.e. a "blue-collar" language[2], aiming to adopt only tried-and-true ideas and not to break new grounds. Scala is most certainly not blue-collar, serving as a basis for a few PhDs, and incorporates many ideas that haven't been tried in the industry. Scala is adventurous; Kotlin tries hard not to be.

When it comes to goals, Kotlin aims to solve Java's pain points (nulls, properties, beans) while keeping the same libraries. Kotlin doesn't even have much of a runtime library to speak of. A Java library is an idiomatic Kotlin library, and is almost indistinguishable from Kotlin libraries when used from Kotlin (i.e., no limited functionality, no wrappers needed). Kotlin's design is built around this core idea. While Scala interoperates with Java, it has its own runtime library, and many types (e.g. collections) need to be wrapped when passed across languages.

When it comes to approach, Kotlin is developed hand-in-hand with its tools (IDE, build, multi-lang compilation), and made to be gradually adopted into Java codebases. You can easily mix Kotlin and Java classes in the same package (the IDE will even convert any given Java class to a Kotlin class, and seamlessly handle mixed-language codebases). Scala and its tools are developed separately, and it's built to be independent of Java (although it interoperates with it). Another difference in approach (although it's still theoretical so not quite fair) is that the Koltin dev promise that the language will be source and binary backwards-compatible starting with the imminent version 1.0 (though this promise hasn't been put to the test), while Scala allows for occasional breaking changes.

[1]: Java and C have very similar syntax, yet the two are completely different (although Kotlin and Scala are probably more similar to one another than Java and C).

[2]: http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java....
SEEKING WORK - Senior (10+ years) Data scientist

Location: Canada and REMOTE (world)

Skills: Rapid prototyping, machine learning, Full
stack algorithm development, and teamwork.

Technologies: Mathematica, Python (Ipython/jupyter), C/C++, Embedded PostgreSQL/SQL, Devops, Hadoop.

I've previously worked on high volume, hard-realtime timing systems, military sensor systems, finance (equities and receivables), and maritime piracy.

I am primarily a data scientist with backend developer skills. I've worked on financial and sensor projects, know how to work as a part of remote team, integrate work into production environments, and I'm startup friendly.

Get in touch, and let's talk! Email in profile.
Given they have the head writer from the last two movies, I can't see them sticking with the old, tired canon.

It could be that they need to be clear that they aren't associated with the next film. Different characters, etc.
Webflow | San Francisco | React & node.js | YC S13

We're hiring serious javascript ninjas interested in working in React. Our web publishing platform is composed of many modular components, where we leverage a Redux inspired implementation. Work on a tool that makes onerous coding obsolete.

Check out our website, https://webflow.com and our About page for job listings: https://webflow.com/about

We're also hiring node.js engineers to power our next generation CMS: https://webflow.com/cms

The interview process is really straightforward, which consists of a Skype/coffee meeting, then a take home project where you will collaborate with team members and contribute to a live codebase. Reach out directly at jobs@webflow.com if you want to learn more!
I'm a huge fan and hope it's an alternate timeline that can still stick to some of the original stories.
Maybe with refresh ship designs :)
I'm guilty too. To be clear: this startup tried to recruit me as CTO; I insisted on remaining in my partnership. They wanted very much to keep me invested in their idea, and warrants etc were a way of doing that. So not the usual kettle of fish.

Further I too would never consider stock instead of pay for any consulting activity. That's a loser move.
> available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access

> will also be distributed concurrently for television

So, is it on TV or not?
UTM-Mangler Chrome Extension
SEEKING Work - Remote/NL, Canada

I'm a full-stack developer based out of Canada. I have over six years experience and am comfortable with the following technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Javascript, Bootstrap, Html, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, PHP, WordPress, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB.

Hourly Rate: $60 USD.

Linked In: https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/colin-morgan/34/a44/374
Github: http://github.com/eastisland-tech
Email: cmorgan8506 at gmail.com
Blackfynn | http://www.blackfynn.com | Full Time | Senior Software Engineer & Senior UI Engineer | Onsite - Philadelphia, PA

Blackfynn is an early-stage startup looking to change how scientific researchers manage their data, starting in neuroscience. We’re looking for 2 engineers to join our early-stage team (currently 4 of us full-time). We’re looking to add someone who’s comfortable working across the stack and someone specifically focused on web UI development.

Use your software skills make a real difference in scientific medical research.

For more info, drop me a note: tom@blackfynn.com
There's no order to see it in or order to avoid seeing it in. The writing is strong for each series (though which one is best is debatable). Also every series's episodes largely work as standalone, though Deep Space 9 and Voyager have some overall stories (a war and getting home respectively). My advice is start with Next Generation, it's the best, and most any episode works on it's own. Voyager is my soft spot. Never saw the original, seeing it isn't necessary to enjoy the later ones.

Dive in, have fun, my personal suggestion is any episode that deals with time travel or the mischievous life form called Q. You can't go wrong there.
Most people aren't looking for the best. Most are looking for good enough at a decent price. Trying to find the best everything (and mix that in with the best price sometimes) is a tiring experience that isn't worth it to most people. Asking an impartial third party to narrow it down for you is a huge asset. A small minority of people want to spend a significant time researching every product they buy.

The key is impartial though.
Kinda worried that this will be a "web-only" series, Star Trek needs quite a good production to work well, The budget for a TNG episode was 2M$ which was pretty unheard off back then and is even considered expensive these days (GOT which is currently the most expensive running show has about 6M per episode and when you count the fact that TNG had 24-25 episodes per season the overall season budget was almost the same).

I'm really hoping that the web production will be more akin to Netflix or Amazon Studios quality and budget rather than the usual network webseries tie in.

Also anyone has any ideas about the cast? there was a very long standing rumor / pre-production "Captain Worf" show that was supposed to happen but never did, I really hope that this won't be in the rebooted universe because it was well kinda meh.

Enterprise wasn't great (4th season was amazing tho), if this will be of the same quality as TNG/DS9 or even "mom we got stuck in the holodeck again" Voyager this would truly blow my mind, but as of now I am pessimistic beyond hope until I can see the cast, writers, and canonical premise.
DS9 needs to watched in sequential order, TOS doesn't, TNG to a certain extent should be watched in order, but doesn't have to be. Some major arch's rely on character points or what has happened with say the borg.

Voyager and Enterprise aren't as sequential as DS9 but should be watched in order. There are a significant number of episodes in each you can drop from your watching order, but I couldn't tell you which ones. They both have very low points in my opinion.

As for the movies I'm sure there's a watching order. Some of the movies are very meh. If you look online you might find a good order, but if you get really into just watch them in order.
Abstract

High intelligence (general cognitive ability) is fundamental to the human capital that drives societies in the information age. Understanding the origins of this intellectual capital is important for government policy, for neuroscience, and for genetics. For genetics, a key question is whether the genetic causes of high intelligence are qualitatively or quantitatively different from the normal distribution of intelligence. We report results from a sibling and twin study of high intelligence and its links with the normal distribution. We identified 360,000 sibling pairs and 9000 twin pairs from 3 million 18-year-old males with cognitive assessments administered as part of conscription to military service in Sweden between 1968 and 2010. We found that high intelligence is familial, heritable, and caused by the same genetic and environmental factors responsible for the normal distribution of intelligence. High intelligence is a good candidate for “positive genetics” — going beyond the negative effects of DNA sequence variation on disease and disorders to consider the positive end of the distribution of genetic effects.
uShip | Austin, TX | ONSITE | http://www.uship.com/jobs

uShip is the world’s first and largest shipping marketplace. Consumers and businesses can compare and book bids from hundreds of thousands of customer-reviewed transportation service providers, ranging from independent owner-operators to the largest freight carriers and brokers. Customers save money and service providers use their empty cargo space – everyone wins! We’re an Internet company focused on solving a real-world problem and having loads (pun intended) of fun along the way. Our service providers are even featured in A&E’s real-life drama, ‘Shipping Wars.’

We have multiple openings for front-end, back-end, dba, and DevOps.

Technologies include C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, Webforms, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Solr.

Perks include: - Competetive Salary - 100% paid health & dental insurance - Pre-IPO Stock Options - $500 Annual uShip Shipping Allowance - Free lunch, snacks, and drinks - Dog friendly - Casual dress code

https://about.uship.com/culture/

Reach out to ameier@uship.com if you're interested. Mention this HN posting.
That is because release builds of Firefox does not support unicode-range, it just downloads all the fonts. But for unicode-range to be really supported, it must only download the fonts for ranges used in the page, as this feature is usually used to split huge fonts (like CJK ones) and let the browser only downloads what is really needed.
Segment | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE | Apply here: https://segment.com/jobs/

Segment is an analytics API that helps businesses integrate their entire analytics stack. Once customers send us data, we can send it to 180+ other integrations and databases like Redshift.

We write code in Go and Node, process tens of billions of events a month, and contribute heavily to open source:

https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare, https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith, https://github.com/segmentio/myth, and many more at https://github.com/segmentio

We're looking for infrastructure, front-end, and security engineers as well as data analysts and designers. Apply here: https://segment.com/jobs/
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Back office architecture requires downtime.
There may also be security announcements, IP changes etc
"not related" could just mean that the stories do not cross over, it could still be part of that cannon.

I would sort of be surprised if they decide to heft all the baggage from TNG et al.
They'd better just blow out the stops, go like 4000 years in the future and start imagining some out there stuff. I don't need people in makeup and masks fondling iPads and acting all utopian cause Roddenberry said so.
Sustainable Development Goals: The Unspoken Job for College Students
Sadly, no, I could never earn like this as an employee.
Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases [pdf]