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Education Advisory Board (www.eab.com) / Python Engineers / Washington, DC / Onsite

The Education Advisory Board is seeking Python engineers to join our growing engineering team at our DC headquarters. We are open to strong and collaborative engineers anywhere from mid to Senior/Principal level.

As a software engineer at EAB, you will be building technology to help students graduate college. We are a fast growing team tackling the trickiest problems in higher education. We are looking for talented engineers who are excited about solving problems like:

-How do we help a small group of academic advisors provide high quality support to thousands of students?

-How do we filter out all the distractions of college life to only show students what is immediately relevant to them?

-How do we create a highly customized app while keeping configurations simple?

-How do we scale our app to serve millions of students?

Python is a must, Django a plus, experience creating/consuming RESTful APIs and being able to do front-end work in HTML5 is very helpful as well.

For more info or to apply directly, go to http://bit.ly/EABPythonEng - or if you'd like me to save you a few minutes, shoot me a note with your resume at gregoryw (at) advisory (dot) com.
Education Advisory Board (www.eab.com) / Python Engineers / Washington, DC / Onsite

The Education Advisory Board is seeking Python engineers to join our growing engineering team at our DC headquarters. We are open to strong and collaborative engineers anywhere from mid to Senior/Principal level.

As a software engineer at EAB, you will be building technology to help students graduate college. We are a fast growing team tackling the trickiest problems in higher education. We are looking for talented engineers who are excited about solving problems like:
• How do we help a small group of academic advisors provide high quality support to thousands of students?
• How do we filter out all the distractions of college life to only show students what is immediately relevant to them?
• How do we create a highly customized app while keeping configurations simple?
• How do we scale our app to serve millions of students?

Python is a must, Django a plus, experience creating/consuming RESTful APIs and being able to do front-end work in HTML5 is very helpful as well.

For more info or to apply directly, go to http://bit.ly/EABPythonEng - or if you'd like me to save you a few minutes, shoot me a note with your resume at gregoryw (at) advisory (dot) com.
I'd say that's depressingly true of any software that's in continuous development. The only difference is the relative proportion of the parasites that do the damage (users, product managers, and developers) to each other. Apache, I feel, is a counterexample, software with continuous development that hasn't turned to shit yet despite being around for quite some time. Some videogame series are also often quite strong over time. Most everything else is subject to this 'rule', sadly.
I'd probably subscribe if they had a single purchase option. It would be nice to try some of the recipes that use ingredients that I've never tried before. Or as training wheels for my partner on days that I get home too late to cook.
Funny how Americans are all for fighting for freedom, except when it comes to Palestinians. In that case, it's all "you lost the land, get over it".
On-call on vacation? Expected to review pull requests? What the hell man? Get out of that hell hole.
https://www.amazon.com/22A-Disgrace-Profession-22-Steyn-edit...
Tried it once, and wanted to like it, but it felt like it was stuck in the middle of things:

- Cheaper than eating out for a "nice" meal, but much more expensive per meal than my usual grocery shopping, or even other decent, low-cost eating out options.

- Nice to have stuff show up, but still need to go to the grocery store, anyway-- didn't feel like I was saving a trip.

- Food wasn't hard to prepare, but it was much more cumbersome than most of the things I make in a hurry, like they wanted you to prove to yourself that you could cook something "fancy". It actually added stress (may not be true for many folks).

- Food was reasonably healthy, but not as healthy (or at least as suited to me) as my own groceries.

- Most importantly, the food didn't taste bad, but it didn't taste great, either. (You can always add your own sriracha, garlic, etc, but it kind of defeats the point if you have to make your own sauce.)

Seems like a great fit for folks who want to start cooking and haven't got in the routine yet, but it seems hard to imagine lots of people staying on the plan long term.
I agree! I also use this.

I tweet and have all tweets go to facebook automatically. So people will engage sometimes with those posts. Other than that, I only use facebook for certian facebook groups.
> What third party app is this you speak of?

Candy Crush Saga
I switched to Observer Only mode on Facebook after Trump got elected because I did not want to be stopped and e-frisked at airports. It turned out that that was the best way to use Facebook: stay on top of happenings with your friends and relatives but let them reach out to you on other communication channels if they miss you or wish to communicate some news. All the sudden, I'm having more meaningful, coherent dialog over email and text as opposed to stupid Facebook comments and likes.
It doesn't matter what percentage of a "seed company" I put, if it has a "low exit" (<$25M) I get $0... How is that possible?
Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord
What was wrong with "for profit couchsurfing clone"? That's still a good chunk of airbnb's listings today, and it was a big part of the site in the early years when it was gaining traction.

I used to do couchsurfing and I've used airbnb a lot, and there's a lot of overlap in the experience when renting a room.

(The whole apartment rentals are different of course, which are a unique hybrid, not even really like a hotel. More like short term furnished apartment rentals, of the kind that formerly worked on a monthly basis for corporate travelers)
It assumes that the total amount of money raised over all rounds will be $41 million, rather than that the seed round valuation is $40 million. All the investors, whether they came in before or after the employee joined, will still get their money back before the employee starts to profit.
Thanks for your input. But there are a few important things which I really like about ScrapBook:

It's simple to organize. A sidebar with folders, supporting drag and drop.

It stores the source 'as is' with html, css, images and optionally js. This simplifies tooling and scraping locally. Afaik, MHT is not yet fully supported on all browsers.

I can go offline and look at stored pages. This is very important for me because I have a long commute by train each day.

Since OneNote I avoid cloud storage and syncing when possible. After GB's of Data, syncing starts to be a nightmare. But, I could start syncing with dropbox, rsync or something else. And I'm free to choose. Fortunately I don't need collaboration features.

In my opinion a simple, local solution beats everything else. Actually, a feature like this should be built into the browser natively. And it's not far off from the current state: It is simply a bookmark sidebar which also supports save-page. It's kinda sad that, after so many years, browser still make it hard to store and watch content offline. The current save-page functions just don't cut it.
> It's great for all the obvious reasons (less timesuck, less compulsion to endlessly scroll your life away, no notification interruptions).

You're not able to exercise self control? I have Facebook, but I never use it apart from the events and Messenger for chatting with certain friends.
Elon Musk Leaves President Trump’s Advisory Council After Paris Agreement Exit
Total guess: maybe there's a greater chance of exit for very early stage (easy acquisition target) or very late stage (IPO). A lot of the failures that make the news are companies that hit the Series B or C phase and realized they had no path to IPO or acquisition.
It depends less on your interpretation of the Planck length and more on how quantum gravity actually works. We have some guesses and semi-supported theories (like Hawking radiation) but the jury is still out as to how micro black holes work, if they do in fact exist.
> When did American exceptionalism turn into "It's too hard so I'm going to do nothing"?

That's been a painfully common refrain in the current generation of political discourse (though the generational line is difficult to pinpoint; there seem to be as many young people talking about it as 60 year old lifetime senators).

Climate change? Hard to deal with, we should do nothing.

Gun control? They will take all our guns, or take none, and the second amendment said I could have guns. There is no middle ground.

But the root cause is polarization; rather than middle grounds, shades of gray, or compromises, everything in the current political climate seems to boil down to black or white, right or wrong, with no space between.

It's... Hard to watch, some days.
> If you bought a nice meal, I fail to see the point in showing it off, unless you are specifically saying "wow, this place has great food!".

I don't understand your comment at all. What else would you be saying when you show a picture of nice food other than "this food is great"? I'm not in the habit of posting food photos but I've never understood the hysteria around it on places like HN.
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That's interesting, but it sounds too simple. Surely any of the competitors could also IPO, and at that point, Blue Apron still needs to justify why the market is better off investing in their company. By contrast, prior to its acquisition by Google in October 2006, Youtube was one among many social video sites, and neither it nor any of its competitors IPO'd, ever (source: I searched for news relating to "video sharing IPO" and found nothing prior to 2010 -- I could still be wrong about this claim, though). However, the operating costs of such a massive site (65k new videos with 100MM views per day, a mere 1 year after launch[0]) are substantial. If an IPO is just a way to defeat the competition using sheer survival tactics, I would have expected Youtube (or one of its competitors) to IPO or start fielding an IPO early-on. Maybe Google just bought them too quickly, as they were acquired in October 2006?

Does it mean that Youtube competitors like Vimeo must be profitable private companies in order to stay in the market? Youtube's pockets are, at this point, effectively infinite, so my sense is that Youtube competitors are not directly competing with what Youtube offers, but similar niches peripheral to Youtube.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history
But bear in mind: They're largely responsible for setting the standards by which these ads will be treated. Therefore, the standards will obviously be set in a manner that all their own ads will comply, and other businesses must change their business to suit Google's expectations or be blocked.

Bear in mind, ads are like over 95% of Google's business, they would not be doing this if they thought it would impact their own ads at all.

And since, by design, the standards will never go after Google ads, as a site owner, your best bet to not have your ads blocked will be to 'just' go with Google as your ad provider.
The Political Economy of the Sharing Economy
> I don't see how you avoid some company reading your email and still have automatically indexed, infinitely scalable email in-boxes.

It's possible to with encrypted search.
Agreed 100% on these points. My traditional behavior now is to stop all shipments, if there is a new type of meal/technique in one of the weeks then I order there. Typically get about 1 shipment every 4-5 weeks instead of weekly.
Ask HN: Should we build apps with React Native now?
Does it matter what his argument was, or whether it differed from mine or Overtonwindow's? If you're willing to assume we have reasonably sensible positions on the matter - I note you haven't inquired into these, in any case - then why not assume that he does, too?
This could could make my diabetes much easier to manage. Though injecting sugar balls into my bloodstream does not sound like the first thing I will try. Testing it on mice with their short life span is bound to miss effects that take a while to accumulate. And diabetes is all about accumulating damage. I will wait for the fallout from long-term trials. (Haha, I have to anyway, it's regulated for these reasons.)

But hey, wouldn't doping your blood with sugar be of interest with athletes?
Are we giving censorship a new name now?

First the search results, now the ads. When the users?
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I have quite rightly been asked for sources. Do you have any that state on the contrary? Janes perhaps?

http://www.janes.com/article/69728/bundeswehr-plans-reorient...

Yes they are now but the shift is towards a European army without NATO. Is Der Speigel not also German? And what has that got to do with it?
FWIW, I've used Facebook for I think 11 years now and I've never once seen anyone refer to or even remotely care about friend count.
Your background knowledge is impressive, but this is way off topic.

Recall I was simply attempting to explain why Russian verbs are sometimes confusing to foreign speakers. My quantification of the distinctiveness of the Russian system may not have been quite correct -- but it was completely ancillary to the broader point I was making.
I'd argue that they add a ton of value over grocery delivery. They're handling meal planning and portioning. That's a lot less wasted food and a lot less stress for anyone that isn't content to recycle the same few recipes week in week out.

I do agree that differentiating between competitors is tough though. On the surface all of these companies look about the same. They try to cater to different segments - health conscious, upscale, etc, but I'm not sure how effective this is.

For a while we ordered mostly takeout which was both expensive and unhealthy. We were able to start cooking for ourselves for a bit on our own, but eventually the weekly meal planning and shopping run got to be too much of a burden. That's where we found Blue Apron which had us eating healthy for another ~6 months. During this time we tried Plated too, but that week was guest recipes from some magazine and they were poorly timed and included practically inedible ingredients. After 6 months work situations changed and we just didn't have time for an hour of cooking 3 times a week. Since then we've been using Munchery which we're very happy with.
I'd say certain countries have gotten together behind the scenes to take turns playing bad cop. Now it's America's turn, a few years ago it was Australia who refused to sign.
Injections of young blood may protect against Alzheimer's
I think it does. A ponzi has one issuer, and it's worthless. Bitcoin is speculation and it's a brand, and a plattform whitch is usefull.
The Long, Slow, Rotten March of Progress
Oh nifty. I never actually knew about that. That's way easier than pinging me. Thanks!
Don't think so.
Here, Cadence refers to "Cadence Design Systems".
"Cadence Research Systems" seems less clear.
In any case, Chez Scheme was the long-term project of Kent Dybvig.
Descriptive metadata - please, please stop misusing a term thats existed since the 1970's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0vOg18ncWE

Conflating the term "metadata" with "descriptive metadata" and "metadata retention" makes it harder for data archives to get people to provide "structural metadata" (aka. the real metadata), that effectively describes the schemas and data structures of academic and open government data.

Yes, descriptive metadata retention is a huge problem, but say that instead of abbreviating terms in a way that obfuscates the issue use the full term.
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Pretty soon we're going to need an "Anti-Facebook Evangelism Strike Force" or an "Open Web Evangelism Strike Force." Judging by the way people throw the word "evil" around here, you'd think Facebook was murdering kittens and using human batteries to power Free Basics, as Zuckerberg sat on a throne of acquired-company logos laughing to himself.

How dare Facebook provide limited internet to the developing world instead of nothing at all...
It does, as I understand it. I personally use Safari on my Mac, as I prefer the interface (with ghostery, and whatever uBlock is on that platform these days) but... I honestly LIKE paying for things I use. I feel more comfortable with paying for a product as opposed to keeping my fingers crossed that something free will 1) continue to exist/remain free and 2) retain the features I like. I pay for email, I pay for a VPN, I pay for everything I can pay for.
With a cryptic title, no byline or abstract, and a supremely generic introduction, how is anyone supposed to determine whether it's worth reading this article?
One thing to be aware of is that titles given by small and medium-sized companies are viewed differently than titles at large and well-respected, well-known companies.

For example, someone who is a VP at a startup might equate to a typical Manager at a larger company. Someone who is a CTO or Chief Architect at a startup might be a Senior Engineer at a larger company.

Large companies have an approximate scale in mind for their titles, where a Manager, Director, VP, etc. are responsible for (on average) a certain number of people reporting to them, and a certain amount of budget. "Director" level at a large company may entail responsibility for hundreds of employees and significant budget. That director has far more actual responsibility and scope than a startup "VP of Engineering" with a 10-person team.

To put it in different terms:

Anyone can pay $50 to incorporate online and they'll be a CEO. The actual prestige of the person and their CEO title significantly depends on the prestige and scope of the company. From a career perspective, what others will care about and evaluate are a person's actual scope, responsibilities, and accomplishments.

So be careful about viewing a title as a reward; a better reward is an actual increase in scope, responsibilities, and compensation.
Giving more political power to rural areas is not necessarily a bad thing. One can argue that it is beneficial in that it compensates for the sparseness of those areas and lets them participate in the game on the national stage.

I think the problem with rural areas is not their overly great political influence but rather the fact that they have been abandoned by mainstream politicians.
This and this. Precisely the right questions.

I haven't checked the landscape in a minute, but I wonder if there are any new projects out there.
Basically, so far women didn't go to war. It was in their best interest to send men to war, to perform some "natural" selection, and be left with the better stallions.

Of course, the 20th century saw some changes, in the effectiveness and collaterality of weapons, and in the fact that some women do go to war. But basically, the later represents only a handicap to the armies allowing it. But as long as the war cannot degenerate into a wide scale (ie. involve the USA), or a nuclear war (ie. involve two countries with nuclear weapons), it's green light, and the same benefits can be expected.

Even about nuclear war, since we've developed small scale nuclear weapons (and since we can also see that the mid-to-long terms effect of nuclear bombs are rather benign, cf. Japan or Tchernobyl)), I would say that the probability to see a local and limited nuclear war is close to 1.
If you click "Careers" and then "Products" on your site the text for products fades out rather than in.
Lots of investors have "Preference" which means they get a guaranteed minimum return on their investment. A rough example is like a 2x preference means when they put in $10M, the first $20M of the sale price goes to just those investors first . So if it sold for $20M, then everyone else gets $0.
Thanks! I never thought of it this way before, but I suppose there's no "set it and forget it" to selling on the app store if selling on the app store is your primary source of income, since you have to keep working to ensure the product remains relevant, gains new customers, etc. (Selling on the app store is decidedly not SaaS, after all.)
The Catastrophic Risks of Climate Change: U.S. Turns Its Back on the World
I think the point is, "The number is probably not as big as you're thinking... oh and by the way, also even smaller because of taxes"