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Company: Emakina.NL

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abt:
With offices, amongst others, in Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva and Paris, Emakina is one of the leading full service digital agencies in Europe. We are proud of our work for clients such as De Bijenkorf, Unilever Global, HEMA, Rituals, WE Fashion and Floris van Bommel. We build complex e-commerce platforms, innovative applications and ground-breaking activation campaigns. Although we are part of an international group, Emakina.NL is – with nearly 100 co-workers – an organization with a very open, non-hierarchical and informal atmosphere.
Roles;

Sr. Webdeveloper (lead)

Sys admin

And more
c#, sql-server, episerver, demandware, javascript, git, teamcity, html5, css3, sass, gruntjs, scrum, solid-principles, azure, amazon-web-services, jira, confluence, stash, etc.

Remote: no

Relocation: yes
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In a strict Scrum implementation there is none. But there are team activities which are not governed by Scrum even in its best implementation - like vacations, business trips, performance evaluations, time and status reports for PMs or any other higher-ups etc. These things often end up as responsibility of one single person and then he is most often called a Team Lead.
You recall correctly - the Shenfield part has been switched on for Oyster/contactless
Crossrail is at 100 million working hours so far, with 10,000 people working across over 40 construction sites, according to http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers (which also describes it as "Europe's largest construction project").
Kickstarter supporter here. Sad to see...

The offer to return the money is nice, but I don't think needs to be done. KS backers need to expect that many of their backed projects will fail.
Have you a sexual harassment policy? Did they agree to it when they took the job?

Fire that person immediately, it's a clear breach. You need to show your employees that you will support them when something like this happens.

This may not be the first time this has happened, might only be the first time that you have heard about it. You need to be proactive in creating a safe work environment and as the founder that is your responsibility.
Meh. You have editorial control, and you know what type of voice you want. You enforce the voice. There's no point in trying to satisfy everyone because you can't. For example, Wikipedia was seen as a den of communist atheist propaganda and so Conservapedia was created.

Sure you could publicize your approved list of sites, but then you're just going to attract a bunch of people with an agenda to trying to promote their agenda by claiming some sort of slight by not being included. In the end though, the only honest response to this criticism is, "Screw you. Make your own site."

Topics aren't blacklisted except when they duplicate something else. Most topics simply aren't approved for trending. If you want to know what's not approved, look at Twitter trends, it's full of junk. Honestly, that's the best public example of what the trending topics algorithm detects.

You really need to read Tom Stocky's post about this, because that's exactly how it's run. But you don't really have to, because it's exactly what I told you.

Finally, if you actually click on any of the trends, pretty much everything on that page is algorithmic. Find a trend that mentions, Obama, I'm sure you're going to find a racist post on that list, because there's always scummy people.

PS. For the record, I always feel dirty if I visit HuffPo. Gawker on the other hand, I'll own up to reading that tabloid.
I was surprised to see no mention of Edward Bernays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFz_FgGvJI
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No, it still works. Someone else has caused John to assault the fruit. "The guard dog was set upon an intruder, while John was set upon a date."
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Easy there or we might discover that FOSS numbers are better than enterprise ones.

There's a very low bar to pass, and FOSS is going back into the UNIX's small software philosophy[1]. Scratching an itch may likely go far enough.

[1] Yes, sometimes too small. Maybe we need new kinds of consolidation projects.
Look again, the top bracket was 91% from 1946 until it was lowered to 77% in 1964, after WWII.

I'm not declaring what the best top tax bracket should be, I'm countering the dismissal of much higher tax brackets as fantasy with facts that they have existed.

Today, many countries in Europe have a top income tax bracket at or above 50% plus a VAT of 20-25%.
In addition to patio11's excellent advice it's time to get some training on this. Possibly the lawyer you're going to hire can do this. Possibly they can refer you to someone appropriate.

There are very well established procedures for how to deal with this sort of thing. You need to know them. Depending on the size of your company your managers might need to know them too. Hacker News is not the best place to learn them as most people here aren't experts in the field. There are experts that will teach you for a very reasonable fee.
Am I alone in being scared of the tone of this thread?

So many people are saying "yep, installed it and all works ok"

Were you expecting it to NOT work? This is a LTS release, I'd hope the Ubuntu team tested it enough to ensure there isn't major issue.

Not to get off topic but maybe because I've solely run *BSDs for the last few years I take for granted releases "just working".
for a second i thought i was reading a reddit thread
What did you click on?

AFAIK, the update from 14.04 to 16.04 is not yet offered to end-users (including grandmas). It will take 16.04.1 in order for them to be able to update.
My (6 year old) macbook pro got bricked and I was daring enough to get the new Macbook Pro retina (MacBookPro11,4).

Before installing Arch (assuming I needed the latest kernel for anything to work) I tried installing Xubuntu 16.04, and it amazes me how well it works! After installing refind everything just seemed to work out of the box.

The only things that aren't working is the webcam and suspend / hibernate, but I don't really care about those and suspend even seems fixable.

For anyone interested, I got the intel graphics drivers installer to run by changing DISTRIB_CODENAME to "wily" in /etc/lsb-release and changing it back to "xenial" after installation (make a backup: sudo cp /etc/lsb-release.backup /etc/lsb-release)
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Has anyone considered the possibility that the statues were in the pool? [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUZvxjKMGs#t=1m18s
One thing to remember if you keep him on and he continues this behavior you might not find out about it for a while. People won't always speak out and tell you. What happens when he starts harassing your new hires? If he is new to the company and already this bold what happens in a year or two?
Thanks. I'd like to at minimum provide the option. The majority of people seem to understand, but two options are always better than zero options. :) Some people gave me a lot of money (for having never met them face to face) - over $1000. I can understand if they would like this back. Or really I could understand if anyone would want any amount back.
I'm always amused by how people find the "quibble about GB vs. GiB". The difference between a GB and a GiB is 7.3%, and it gets worse for the ever more common larger prefixes (12.6% already for a pebibyte). Might be my background in physics, though.
Thanks for the feedback, it's very much appreciated
Although I am mostly a Windows guy nowadays, I started using GNU/Linux distributions back in the day with Slackware 2.0.

Tried dozens of distributions and spent endless hours trying out desktop themes and other desktop customizations.

Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid.
Those spikes are curious, so let's add a couple of other languages:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-rails-q-ruby-q-javascript-...

Seems like this is likely to reflect something other than changes in language popularity. Frankly the data doesn't seem very interesting without correcting for other factors such as total volume of jobs.

Overall, Ruby looks pretty much as popular today as 3 years ago to me from that data, though perhaps with Rails in a downwards trend (awesome - I love Ruby, but finding Ruby work that doesn't imply Rails is harder, and I don't like Rails).

But it's besides the point anyway. I simply explained why someone mentioned Rack, I don't particularly care either way (probably because I don't really care about Convox Rack - I'd never use a single vendor solution like this, and haven't exactly hidden how overpriced I find AWS in past comments).
And the source is closed, only the binaries are available :/
Wait, I'm stupid. Does the graphic mean that the atoms begin "vibrating" before they get the "kick"?
As a Google voice user, I do probably 5 voice searches per day. Perhaps not typical.
Great answer, thank you. I find MRI related posts one of the most exciting - there is so much potential in the technology, especially as medicine moves from treatment of symptoms to prevention more and more. If there would only be more people working on this instead of social media apps...

I find it interesting to see that the trend in this space seems to move towards small MRI units. Do you know of similarly innovative companies that work on full-body MRI machines?

For me, the perfect business case (esp. in a country with a public health system) is having regular, accurate full-body scans that are checked by software for tissue changes. Early detection of some of the most deadly diseases would save insurances a tremendous amount of money and human beings from unquantifiable suffering. Are there any publications / blogs that you would recommend to stay up to date with MRI technology?
No.

I have had good experiences developing JVM apps and then using them. Age of technology has nothing to do prima facie with quality.

If you're interested in shipping a reliable desktop application, you'll take the time to handle the runtime and the associated dependency chain. Similarly to the web, you have to understand your system to do the job well. Unlike the web, you don't immediately confront distributed system operation and maintenance problems.

And, finally, I'd actually suggest Clojure/seesaw for the mode of desktop GUI development, not Java/Swing. And, of course, the customer doesn't care whether you hand-crafted it with magnetic tweezers or used Node 9 Ember Rock Stars. They just want it to work, and work reliably.
I'm not familiar with US customs, so little confused here: is asking your co-worker out is considered a sexual harassment? Or is it the "milf" part?
Seems very similar to a project a friend of mine did (Also based on Lob's API): https://www.snailr.co/

His prices are a bit cheaper $2 + $0.15 for each page but with fewer options it appears.
Worse than that:
"The only things that aren't working is the webcam and suspend / hibernate, but I don't really care about those and suspend even seems fixable."

SRSLY?
As far as I know, this and KDB have very different use cases. KDB is a single box timeseries database - the closest open source analogue would probably be using Pandas + a big folder of CSV files. (KDB performs a lot better than this, however.)

The use case is storing tick data + economic data for all the symbols. I.e., one timeseries per publicly traded company. The primary use case is loading a significant chunk of that data and running some statistical analysis on it.

Also KDB pricing starts at $100k or something like that.

In contrast, Riak's timeseries product is distributed. It could store millions of timeseries if you throw enough boxes at it. You probably won't be loading all the data for analysis, probably you'll be processing some of the data one series at a time, and the rest is just for reference.

The main use case here is sensor networks (aka "internet of things") more than financial data. I.e., one timeseries per rotor on a drone, or per sensor on your phone, sometihng like that.
at least it has a nice power-law distribution. otherwise pretty useless...
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Last year I learnt Ford Fukkerson [0] and Dijkstra [1] Algorithm. Algorithns for graphs are really interesting and have a lot of applications. Fun fact, I learnt these in a transport engineering course, not in a computer science one, and I still use them sometimes in computer science courses.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%E2%80%93Fulkerson_algor...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
1. Talk to your attorney, yes.

2. Probably: fire this guy. This isnt someone you want at your company. When you fire him, you wont announce to the rest of the company why. And you can have a conversation with the victim employee to let them know why you did it: you don't want abusive people on the team, and that you value every employee and also have to look out for everyone and the entire business. The employee will respect you more for taking action, trust me.
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And he's both dead and alive in there!
Right after slide 1 appearing, this redirects to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050 for me in Firefox.
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This is why I'll never be in any significant management position. I have no interest in babysitting grown up children. My reaction would be to just fire both.
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Talk to your lawyer. And fire him anyway, there is no reason to keep a person like this in your team, it will get worst. Then send a short and non-inflammatory message to the rest of the company so everybody will know you won't tolerate this kind of behavior and act swiftly on it.
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Not sure about asking a co-worker out, but calling someone a MILF (Mom I'd Like to Fuck) sounds like sexual harrassment to me.
Feels like their old cultural values offers a glimpse into why they've had problems:
- Ready, Aim, Fire.
- Everyone's shit stinks.
- Do it yourself.

Anyone able to elaborate more on what each of these mean?
Article doesn't mention how it targets scientists, engineers, and academics. Maybe it looks for CAD programs installed, matlab, or files that would be generated by those types of programs.

Article says 70% of infections are in south korea and japan so it is definitely geo targeting. 6% of infections are in the US. I wonder if those are by accident.
Not a lawyer. When the female employee says she doesn't want to cause trouble, it just means that, if you are going to do something about this situation, then you better own it. Make this a problem between you and the employee who acted inappropriately. i.e. if/when he demonstrates understandable reasons for acting the way he did, you don't turn this around on her.
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...bo2k, netbus, sub7! ahh nostalgia :)
I question the method. They mostly measure search results, job offerings and tweets about the DB. And that could just as well mean a "MySQL is shit" tweet, an opening for a DBA that can migrate away from MySQL, and so on.
I go to great lengths to be able to run Linux, cannot live without a properly functioning tiling window manager. I don't mind that the webcam support is coming in a (couple of) year(s). As the laptop (re)boots in a couple of seconds, I don't mind the shutdown when I go to bed (eco friendly even ;))
Get him out, this will not change. Ask your layer how to make it but you as a founder has the right to select who to work with.
>My reaction would be to just fire both.

What did the existing employee do to deserve such treatment?
That seems deeply unfair - what did the existing employee do wrong?
What's this guy going to say to one of your business partners/customers? Not that your employees don't matter but if he can't control himself around other employees he can't do it anywhere.
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Is this a worthy HN topic?
What kinds of open data would developers pay to access via an API?
What kinds of open data would developers pay to access via an API? A lot of open data is either hard to access, hard to find or in an unusual format. Let's say it was cleaned up, aggregated over a whole country or region, and exposed on a RESTful API with beautiful documentation. What kind of open data do you wish had this treatment?
Fire him. This doesn't have to cause team problems or violate any trust.
Why both? What did the female employee do wrong?
Seriously? That's the best video you could do?
Desktop and web both have their plusses and minuses. Some solutions are a better fit for desktop. The key thing is to do a good job of solving the customer's problem. If you do, they won't care whether it is desktop or web. In fact, plenty of my non-techie customers don't even know the difference.
Depends on what your body is accustomed to.
The victim? Why on earth?
Even if the harrased employee has no problem with it, it is clear you personally do and what will you do when you end up expanding or replacing existing members of the team and he continues his harrasment?

If nothing else, that guy is a liabillity (and a dick).
I really don't understand the environment around sex and relationships in the work place. It's messed up. Someone should be able to express interest and the other person should be able to refuse it. Simple as that. But instead there is a whole drawn out ritual around these things. It's not really grown up thing that adults do, instead any male is looked at as an aggressive offender looking to rape someone, unless the female is interested and the male is supposed to know how at this moment the female is feeling. And the female is apparently always fearing rape unless she is interested. I am sort of creating hyperbole, but it seems as if the undertone is like that. On the surface I guess it's that well I am uncomfortable with how the other person is acting, but that should be resolved with some training or something, as when someone is rude to someone else and they don't appreciate it. But so it goes.
Women breasts are also small in old statues.

Maybe we can infer that sculptors didn't want erogenous zones to become too relevant and overshadow the statue as a whole.
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I wasn't suggesting java's age is why it produces terrible desktop apps, I was referring to its former "glory days" of common usage - these days it's much less common for desktop apps in my experience.
It's generally uncouth to ask out a coworker, especially at a small company. Incredibly unprofessional to do it within the first few days of joining. The milf part is the icing on the cake.
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At least he is owning up to not want to deal with adult babysitting, which is what this is.
> Regardless of what definition of "art" you follow, I feel like trolling as described by labster can certainly be used for good.

Or at least for effect.
I completely agree as far as expressing interest goes. Calling someone a MILF however is out of line (IMO).
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With 113 points in an hour, I would say yes.
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There is no US customs to this kind of thing. Every where I've ever worked the rules and thoughts on it have varied. It's a huge minefield of problems that very few handle well. The general idea is don't be rude and/or crude to anyone. In some cases asking out a coworker is fine, in others it's a violation; could depend on how you ask them. The milf part is clearly a problem.
ChromeOS. http://www.neverware.com/ make a PC installable version.

You do end up having to use web based apps for everything, but for basic jobs (with a tethered net connection) that's fine. And it's so nice having something where everything works, everything either obvious or simply not present [ * ], and which has a UI which doesn't try to be different just for the sake of being different.

[ * ] Keyboard layout settings notwithstanding. They really need cleaning up.
I assume this is correct?

On the other hand, the message here is: You better never, ever try to date anyone at work. Even if you're not so clumsy as that guy. Sad.

Edit: OK, Milf is beyond "clumsy".
I've got no idea of the state of BSDs running on laptops, but as a long time ubuntu user the primary things I used to have trouble with are dual gfx (i.e. nvidia+intel) and shitty wifi cards - even on LTS releases. That's something that can be avoided by investigating linux compatibility of the laptop hardware before buying it.
Not really? Considering deviations from the average grotesque/unaesthetic and idealizing averages (see also, Norma sculpture) fits together rather well.
How does one get a job offer of this sort? Did his doctor off-handedly mention it after a physical?
Many of them also look nothing like breasts.
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I think what makes it even more mildly amusing is how to deal with it. I remember shaking magazines out and pulling the cards out before reading. If you didn't, then the pages would get flipped by the siffer subscription card's paper stock and you'd be unable to read some article. (Literally, the page would just start flipping over - it was so goddam infuriating sometimes when the card couldn't easily be removed because it was perforated and left a little tab behind that prevented the magazine from ever laying flat on the table!)
I'm a bit confused by this idea, maybe someone can clarify. AFAIK, genetic programming/algorithms themselves require some degree of tuning in order to be useful in a reasonable amount of time and for avoiding local minima each generation, via mutation rates, population size, randomized simulated catastrophe, etc. That being said, how does something like TPOT actually ease the pains of tuning the parameters of a different model, if it requires it's own tuning?
Any ideas why your employee brought it up to you (management) but does not want you (management) to do anything about it?
Definitely talk to a lawyer if you don't already have clear HR processes to handle this. It doesn't seem to me like a particularly egregious case, but mishandling it could be trouble down the line in a number of ways, and you need not only to handle it, but to be more prepared to handle -- and if possible prevent -- the next one.
I haven't seen this (my) theory mentioned but it's worth thinking about- sculptors of fine art were keen to differentiate themselves from poor cheap carvings that you can still get to this day in cheap markets in rural towns on the european continent. Go through stalls in Spanish seaside towns and you'll immediately find lewd phalic sculptures. They are made to shock the person receiving the gift. Proper artists wanted to go in the other direction, reducing the size of the genitalia so it's not a focus of the work.
Maybe the OP hasn't shared all information but if asking someone out and/or complimenting someone's appearance (albeit crudely) is now the equivalent of sexual harassment then be prepared for a rapid decline in population since no one will want to be the first one to make a move.