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Ivory Clasp (www.ivoryclasp.com) is looking for Engineer #2 to join our team! Ivory Clasp is a technology driven retail company. As an engineer at Ivory Clasp you would be using data and technology to change the way women shop – from integrating data science into physical product design to developing reverse logistics software to support the next generation of retail. This is an opportunity to gain experience working with a highly cross-functional team on projects that directly impact key business metrics. This role is based in Downtown Los Angeles.

In this position, you will:

• Implement new features

• Fix bugs and improve upon existing infrastructure

• Brainstorm on technical and functional solutions

• Contribute on cross-functional projects

• Analyze data and gather requirements

• Write quality unit tests

• Pair program with the CTO

• Balance speed vs. depth of solution – be able to both hack and engineer, and know which approach to take when

Our Stack:

• Ruby 2.3

• Ruby on Rails 5.1

• Webpack 2

• MySQL

• Elastic Beanstalk

• React

• Redux

• Sidekiq (in the future)

• ElasticCache (in the future)

• various other Ruby on Rails tools such as Devise, Kaminari, Factory Girl etc.

Email me at joseph.e.combs at gee mail DOT com to find out more!
Yes, but what Dubai does is leading for all of the UAE, it's 1/3rd of the population and a very large part of the total wealth.

Abu Dhabi (Nominally the capital) is about 1 million inhabitants and Dubai about 3, only a small fraction of all UAE inhabitants are citizens.
I've only glanced at this, but I love the idea of making your API be SQL. I did this recently for a company whose customers have a lot of "power users" who are not professional programmers but use tools like R, Excel, Tableau, or even Python. The customers are very happy with it! We saved a ton of time not building a JSON API, which our customers wouldn't be able to use anyway.

Basically we create a customer-specific database whose contents are all derived from our real OLTP database, and give them read-only access to it. In our case they also have to be on a VPN, but we've talked about adding a web-based SQL console like I see here.

It's funny that at first this approach sounds crazy, but really it is what companies have been doing since the 90s: creating flattened read-only reporting databases. If you want to do this, you should read Ralph Kimball's _Data Warehouse Toolkit_ for some inspiration and guidance.

Of course you don't want to give customers access to your OLTP database. Besides the security and performance problems there, if your core database becomes a public API, it is frozen and you can never add another feature again. But a separate reporting database still gives you plenty of flexibility to grow.
Minodes (https://www.minodes.com/) | Berlin, Germany (ONSITE) | full-time & interns | Visa | Software/Data/Systems Engineers

Minodes is a startup in the retail analytics space. Based in the heart of Berlin, we provide (offline) retailers innovative solutions to understand their business better, enhance their customers' in-store shopping experience, and bridge the gap between online and offline using machine learning approaches.

From a technology perspective, we have thousands of our sensors installed in our customers' retail stores around the world and a server infrastructure to manage these sensors and to process the terabytes of data that they are producing. Our tech stack consists of Python (and Golang) for data processing and analysis, and Cassandra and Postgres for data storage. We work, learn and develop while having lots of fun on the way. The usual perks (drinks, breakfast, nice office, ...) are included. We're also happy to help with visa and relocation where necessary.

We are looking for a wide range of people to join our team, including:

DWH/Database Engineer: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/144746/dwh-database-engineer-...

Site Reliability Engineer: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/144751/site-reliability-engin...

Software Engineers (Frontend/JS/React/Redux, Backend/Python/Go):
https://minodes-jobs.personio.de/?language=en#category-1735

You can find even more jobs here: https://www.minodes.com/jobs

No recruiters please.
Why wouldn't they have more than 4 GB of RAM? Current Android flagships are shipping with 6 GB of RAM, and 8 GB phones have been announced.

I'm not sure about the laptop-class performance requirement, you mean for light browsing and office tasks, they should be there already (even with the emulation penalty).

Edit: 8 GB phone announcement: http://bgr.com/2017/01/05/asus-zenfone-ar-release-date/
And this is why the US has so much trouble with climate change as an issue- first it was sulfur dioxide, then lead, then CFCs, now it's CO2. The US has been doing this since the 70's. Now Europe and China want to pretend they care with words, and giving the US's money to the third world, yet every picture of a city in China looks like London in the 1890's and it turns out those oh so green Euro car makers were cheating their emissions tests, but that's not important, what's important is that we hold hands and make pleasant noises at each other.

I don't see how anyone who calls themselves an engineer can stomach when this feel good ignorance is put forward as a solution- this is rearranging deck chairs to the highest degree.
That site thinks that a source that could produce less than 25% of total foreseeable global demand is worthless. I find this to be a rather strange conclusion. Two sources, each producing 24% of foreseeable global demand, could cut emissions and fuel use by 48%, which would be huge.
I agree that technology is our only hope now, but only because we cannot stop conservative's occasional grip on power and their love of oil money. If technology doesn't save us eventually war, famine and the collapse of the world order will stop carbon emissions but by then it will be too late.
Your stance is completely true. In theory.

In practice the situation is very different, because noone knows (or has any way of knowing) what objective reality is, and whether one's beliefs are "false" or not.
Yes, we do have the scientific method and some ways of trying to figure things out, but ultimately it's a question of choice of right mindset. The right framework. An experiment might get some data within a framework. It cannot give you a framework.

With the belief "africans are humans" example, we might all agree on that.
However on the beliefs like "if it feels hard to learn this skill, it just means I'm not cut out for this" versus "I can learn anything, universe is friendly and will ultimately give me what I need, I'll keep trying to learn this" - something like that will give you hard time if you're doing solely by scientific method and if you think that you can even know whether the belief is truthful to some "objective reality" or not. Both of the stances can be shown to be "truth" or "false", and they they will yield so different results in the personal life of a human that chooses to acquire them.
Is believing one of them is self-deception? Maybe it's believing the other that is self-deception?

>> I'm very wary of interpretation motivated for pleasure as opposed to clarity and truth.

And it's very interesting how that has been working out for you? In most people that I've studied it does not lead to a particularly happy life. (Not just stable, but happy.)

I think the core issue here is that in the internal world of humans' souls, there is no such thing as "clarity and truth". It does not work that way. Something like pleasure (but concepts of love, compassion, greatfulness, and others can give even better results) are just better suited. Because in the areas where they are used (the happiness and enlightenment) those things are just easier to find. Concepts of "truths" on the other hand are notoriously elusive and in many ways simply non-existant. What is your life, a tragedy of stoicism? A pointless nihilistic movie? An enlightened miracle? Which one is the "truth"?
Cadence SKILL, which is heavily influenced by Scheme, is still actively used to extend functionality of the EDA tools. Other languages commonly seen used in TI is Perl, Tcl, C (obviously), assembly and Python.
> Joining a series B startup and waiting a couple years is the easiest, risk adjusted way to make a bunch of money.

Sorry, what?
SolarWinds (Librato) | Senior Customer Success Engineer | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE, http://solarwinds.jobs/cambridge-ma/senior-customer-success-...
The Wall Street Journal is a member of the group, and on page load it covered the article with an ad.
Yeah. Think about just what kind of workers we might be losing to UBI + laziness. Will we really miss them?
Ask HN: How do you find time for a side project while keeping your family happy?
Today my fiancée freaked out when I got home from work and told her I was going to a coffee shop to work on my side project/startup idea. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she had assumed that once we got married, I would come home every day and eat dinner with her and watch TV. She asked, "Am I ever going to see you? Are you going to be getting home at 9:00 PM every night?"

The issue is that I finished grad school a little while ago, and she was used to me working on research in coffee shops for long hours each day. But she thought once I finished my PhD, I would instead want to come home and just hang out around the house or go shopping with her. Somewhere along the way, there was a miscommunication, and it needs to be fixed now. (It also doesn't help that she just quit her rather time-consuming job, so now she doesn't have anything to do all day.)

The problem is that I can't focus on anything with just a few spare hours of time here and there. The granularity of productive work for me is 6 to 8 hour chunks (heck, it takes at least an hour and a half to even get into a project). But dinner at 7 PM would be right in the middle of the most productive time of the evening, so how do I work around this?

She seemed frazzled and on the verge of tears, so of course I'm going to do whatever I need to to make sure she is happy, but I'd rather not have to give up my side projects. I feel like those hours are the only "me" time I have anymore (time that is conducive to my mental health no less). Is anyone in a similar situation? How do you handle this?
Do you have evidence that a meal kit produces more "trash" than the packaging required to ship all of the included products to a store? Additionally, your argument is incomplete without addressing the efficiencies that meal kit companies gain by limiting food waste. The real question is what provides a more efficient food system, a grocery store or a meal kit?
Really good article. Interesting to see what the issues were with Scheme back then. Funny that they loved continuations, but still hadn't figured out how to do them "in the general case". It is the general case of continuations that makes Scheme inefficient, just like lazy evaluation is Haskell's Achilles heel.

The TI comments about lexical and dynamic scoping are also interesting; makes me appreciate how newLisp dealt with it. Although newLisp is officially "dynamically" scoped, I recently realized that Lutz snuck Lexical scoping in there; the dynamic scoping is actually limited by the lexical scope. And by Lexical scope, I'm not talking about the context/module system, although that is a part of it. I mean real lexical scope.

If not for continuations, I wonder if Scheme would have taken off more than it has. Also it was interesting seeing that T and NIL hadn't become #true and #false yet.
I suspect the lower number of job postings related to react has to do with the legal language in the repository concerning patents[1] and the uncertainty that generates for many businesses, especially those in the 'social' space. Legal concerns often have as much weight as technical merits when deciding which framework to use for a project within a company.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS
Ghost in the Shell FUI Design – HUDS+GUIS
> equality of air time for each candidate

Where "air time" means "time across all possible cable channels", right?

And presumably equality of "youtube time" too? How do you even measure this?

Seriously, we're way past there being 5 broadcast TV networks and nothing else where you could try enforcing some sort of mandate.

Keep in mind that Citizens United wasn't even "for" some particular candidate. It was against a particular candidate and wanted to show its movie at a point in time when it wasn't even clear who the candidate's opponents would be. Assuming you imposed the "equality of air time" doctrine in this situation, who's air time would the movie come out of, exactly?

It's easy to just claim the system is broken; figuring out how to fix it sanely is much harder.

(And for the record, I agree that the current campaign lengths and costs in the US are ridiculous. What I don't see is how to make them less so without imposing some pretty totalitarian speech controls, which would immediately get coopted by those in power to completely shut down anything resembling third party candidates.)
... a chrome only feature, pushed by Google, that isn't considered a standard?

This type of thinking and behavior is going to make Chrome today what Internet Explorer was in the 90's: a toxic, dangerous platform that ignores standards.
> Is it so difficult for you guys to just have a facebook account that you don't check in on?

Yes. Is that so difficult for you to accept? Tough shit.
The proof is in the pudding, here. This is a giant bat signal that the USA is unable to uphold its international obligations. Preen about the Constitution all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that people are going to take the USA's public commitments with a giant grain of salt now, and this will shift smaller countries' orientation to relatively trustworthy large countries, many of which are actively hostile to American interests.
Times have changed.
New York Times mocked India two years ago.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/new-york-times-mocks-in...
Homophobic?
I would like to think there would be more diplomacy and less war. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of recent history for case study. And it seems in the current male dominated environment, some women may overcompensate and try too hard to be tough so they aren't accused of being soft. Thatcher comes to mind.

And while it seems reasonable to assume testosterone is a factor in aggression, I don't think most wars are started as quickly and as passionately as a fist fight.

But I do think it is worth tracking. When you look at the criminal world and how the acts of violence are so heavily weighted towards men, it does make one wonder.
I don't think you're precisely correct in all of what you're saying, above. But that's precisely the point I was trying to get across: for the purpose of this discussion, such distinctions are basically persnickety. And in terms of relevance to the original article under discussion, basically neither here nor there.
God forbid we should help ordinary working people. That's totally against society's needs, society consisting of ordinary working people...
The reason why nature illustrations look a particular way is actually really interesting. I don't have a source to show, but we actually learned a bit about biological illustrations as part of my biology degree.

To make a long story short, illustrations tend to depict what you are trying to show. An unnatural position might be the best way to illustrate an organism if you are providing a guide for people to classify them with, especially if you can only provide a single photo.

The more natural depictions of birds, etc. can all basically be traced back to John James Audubon. Before then almost every illustration looked exceedingly staged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#Art_and_met...
Christopher Tolkien is also qualified to fill in the gaps. He was one of the original editors of LOTR and I've heard that he may have been the one typing parts of it. He's essentially a co-creator of Middle Earth, although definitely the lesser party.
I support the Paris Agreement, and I also somewhat agree with this point. I'm sad that the country can't seem to get its act together such that it could actually move this through regular order. Likewise with executive actions. We've gotten to a point where the legislature's navel gazing and strict partisanship makes it impossible to actually get anything done, either conservative or progressive.

As a country we need to be able to have responsible, sober debates and actually vote through policies instead of just working through whoever happens to be in the Oval Office. It's an unstable way to do things.

That said I would argue it's mostly unstable because the Republican party has been hijacked by its extreme right wing. It's astonishing to see that even with control of both houses they can't internally agree on policy enough to get things done. Much less find some sort of bipartisan compromise/consensus. Dems have their problems too, but I think the bulk of the responsibility lies on the very hard right impulses of the likes of the Freedom Caucus and the Ted Cruzes of this world.
> Right, but usually (except in a few corner cases) this is done with separate helping words (e.g. in English: "to cook up" v. "to cook")

No, there are a large number of languages around the world that mark aspect with affixes, apophony or root suppletism just like Russian. I can only assume your knowledge is limited to a small handful of probably mainly IE languages. I strongly recommend looking at an introduction to aspect whose examples are drawn from a wide range of linguistic typologies such as the Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect.
Can you explain how Europeans are drawn to China and India given their records on human rights? Are they not informed about the Chinese government? I fail to see how that's more alluring than dealing with America and Trump even with all his faults and arrogance.

I think this move was bad and miscalculated at several levels, but I don't think it's going to have the impact you suggest.
...which has actually been tried successfully.

The usual story is that the incorporated municipality dissolves its police department and then contracts with the county sheriff for less money. Then reported crime goes down. This is in large part because there was not a crime problem in the first place, and the local police were simply issuing citations all day, to collect the fines that paid for the police to issue citations. A more minor component is that smaller crimes may go unreported because it is less convenient to report them.

It only makes sense to cut the budget of the tax enforcement agency if it costs more than one unit to collect an additional one unit of taxes, which is currently not the case for the IRS.
Fyre Was Bad. For the Concert Industry, This One Could Be Worse
Part of Perl 6's current problem is that it doesn't have a real CPAN equivalent yet. Hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
In California we will be paying 77 cents per gallon just from taxes. So the price at the pumps would be 77cents lower. From every renewable energy we get tax credits. Yes we pay for subsidies of random things like cattle, corn, and oil, but the subsidies like the PTC and the solar energy credit are much more in comparison. This doesn't mean I don't agree with it. The subsidies have dropped the price of wind and solar considerably and we will see a huge economic boom from relatively little tax benefits. The greatest subsidies we could have right now can actually be accomplished through bipartisan support. Funding for transmission lines can be lumped into the infrastructure bill. $7 billion of transmission lines in Texas sponsored by the current trump cabinet pick Rick Perry brought Texas Wind energy production from nowhere to number one in the country and larger than three states below it in just 6 years. Texas is planning to add more win this year then the total amount by the second highest state has in total. He didn't force utilities to build wind farms. Instead he built the infrastructure to make building wind farms extremely cost competitive. There are a dozen possible transmission lines that would create thousands of jobs and connect wind and solar heavy areas to high density cities. If we can get those transmission lines up, we won't have to worry about government for renewable energy because it will be politically and economically in our benefit to use renewables
>Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work.

That's like saying impact inflicts enormous amounts of suffering for people who are falling through the air. The market reforms were painful because there was no other option after the mess that communism made.
Spain went through the Inquisition under Queen Isabella.

Russia was led into many wars by Catherine the Great.

Queen Victoria's reign witnessed most of the British Empire's colonial expansion.

...

So, no.
The Paris Agreement is either a treaty all on its own or it's a significant change to an existing treaty. Either way, the US Constitution requires ratification by the Senate.

Other countries such as Brazil had the treaty ratified by their senate.

Arguing that we now have a treaty that allows us to make other treaties without following the Constitutional process ... well.
> From what I recall when we had it, it was a lot less trash than going to the store and getting everything packaged individually.

But all the stuff Blue Apron sends you is individually packaged (down to stuff like a single green onion in a bag)...
You can ship the boxes, gel packs, and foil bag back to them for recycling. They give you a free shipping label.

https://support.blueapron.com/hc/en-us/articles/202510818-Ho...
I haven't deactivated my Facebook but I've used it much less over the past few years. Same for Instagram. I've actually moved back to MMS, WhatsApp, and email to communicate with people I care about the most. I end up using Google Photos to host and quickly share individual and groups of photos. It's not perfect but does the trick for the most part.
I got the same reaction from the pictures on the article, but after some reflection, that's probably a consequence of how people frame the drawing.

You can't just mentally replace the dead butterfly with a living one on the same image. You have to keep in mind that the artist would create a completely different image for the living butterfly... And I really don't know how that would look like.
> The thing that always concerns me about UBI is that the government controls your salary

UBI is not salary, and doesn't prevent you (or punish you) from earning a salary alongside it.

That said, I'd prefer a universal income to be fundamentally (e.g., Constitutionally) tied to a dedicated funding stream, equally divided, and not subject to regular legislative control.
Hi shoenick. I just applied for a Software Engineer position through Nike's website, but your profile says you're an engineering manager. Mind messaging me with your email and I can pass along to my resume directly to you? Thanks!
That is incorrect. What you describe is a dipolar oscillation. The simplest gravitational waves woudl have a quadrupole moment: stretch in one direction while contracting in the direction perpendicular to it. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave where there is an animation illustrating the simplest case.
Try https://bubblehunt.com - it's search platform, where you can upload your bookmarks and get own search system with indexing, directories (if you need it and other cool things like privacy and so on)
From Googling around, lots of plastic bags:

https://www.jennettefulda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ing...
Irrelevant. I don't care why your country is not trustworthy.
But why is this?

And is there a way to crack them open?