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Terminal 49 | Software Engineer (Founding team) (Full stack / front-end) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite/Remote

At Terminal 49, our mission is to make global trade efficient and less expensive for businesses. Today, Terminal 49 is a trucking service for port to warehouse transportation. We are bringing automation to the container business. We already have growing business with dozens of customers where we are helping companies import everything from wine and tiles to auto-parts.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to get in on the ground floor and take high level ideas and turn it into a well engineered products. If you like building tools and automating manual redundant tasks then you should come talk to us.

Tech Stack:
- Ruby (and Rails)
- Ember.js (ES6+)
- Postgres
- Redis

If any of this sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you! Check out some of our open positions at https://www.terminal49.com/jobs or email akshay@terminal49.com with some info about your background and we can setup a call.
In response to answer 2: how do you account for the risk of storage invalidating stem cells after 60 years, if you've only experienced useful 30 year-old cell lines? Put another way, why would I pay $7,000 if neither you nor I knew if my cells would still be useful to treat disease when I'm 80, assuming I stored them at 20? Do you have a method of propagation in intervals, ex. thaw, expand each set of cells every 10 years, and re-freeze? You mentioned in an above comment[0] that you'd need a clinical trial to have the legal ability, so perhaps not?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15386671
For myself personally, the service did ask specific questions and I don't think other people can answer them. But indeed services like , spokeo, linked and others can help us answer them !!
Evergreen State College Sanctions 80 Students, Debuts 'Free Speech Guide'
Video VCFeZH 2016 – By FabrikTV
Courex - www.storeviva.com | Multiple positions in Engineering | Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Vietnam | Full Time

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company, backed by the Keppel Logistics. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

- last mile delivery
- warehousing
- omnichannel integration

Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff

- We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
- We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
- We have autonomous robots and conveyor belts coming in early 2018 to sort parcels

Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry.

# What the job entails

We are expanding to South-east Asia. We have a few positions

- Node.js/Haskell/Scala engineers
- Front-end lead
- Data Scientist

# Contact

Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.
AI told Coca-Cola to make Cherry Sprite. So it did
I personally just hate/fear dogs after too many bad experiences growing up. Everybody looks at you as the burden or party pooper when you say you would prefer a dog free environment to work at.
Then you've chosen the wrong abstraction.
I'm going to assume that you can edit .bashrc for these as that's the premise from the original article.

You could adjust it so that it uses a central notes store on one ssh host pretty easily with something like:

notes() {
echo $1 | ssh user@remotehost "cat >> ~/notes.md"
}

then you probably need something like

read_notes() {
ssh user@remotehost "cat ~/notes.md" | more
}
Well, it's no closer to centralization than proof of work is. If one, or more than one party working together control >50% of the staked coins you are left with the same result as one party controlling 50% of the hashing power.
> people having time with family

In the US, this is code for day off for church. Chick-fail-a is a fast food restaurant that uses this same reasoning for closing Sunday. The company is widely known to have Christian values.

It was only a few years ago that my state, Georgia, allowed alcohol to be bought in stores on Sunday. They still only allow it after 12:30, church gets out at 12:15.
Arduino | Software Engineer| Turin (Italy)| onsite / full-time

We are looking for a Software Engineer to increase our HW and R&D team. This position will be based in Turin (Italy). This person will design and develop firmware and libraries for microcontrollers used in Arduino and occasionally higher level userspace programs for the Arduino ecosystem.

Where

Turin (Italy).

Responsibilities

Design, develop, code, test and debug embedded software
Maintain and improve the code.
Interface with hardware design team
Review code and hardware design.
Interface with open source community
Write tech documentation
Skills & Requirements

firmware (C, C++)
Linux, kernel e userspace
GO Language (bonus points - not required)
Arduino (ecosystem, community etc)
hardware debug
userspace cross-platform dev.
Knowledge of the Arduino ecosystem is definitely a plus;
Knowledge of Github is a plus;
How to apply

If you feel you meet this requirements, we would love to hear from you! Please send us an email at jobs@arduino.cc . Please specify in the email subject the position you are applying for.
An introduction letter would be also great for us to better understand your motivations and why you would like to work with us.
Sounds like a secure foundation for the global economy. /s
> "My best hope is that there will be some kind of OPEC cartel that agrees to limit production."

Those limits were baked into the design from the start. In the current design there are only 21 million Bitcoins that can be mined, and we're approximately 80% of the way to that target.

http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

Also, Bitcoin is designed to be harder to come by as time goes on. The number of new coins issued diminishes over time. See the Supply Growth section here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

"12.5 bitcoins per block (approximately every ten minutes) until mid 2020, and then afterwards 6.25 bitcoins per block for 4 years until next halving. This halving continues until 2110–40, when 21 million bitcoins will have been issued."

There will come a time when Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable. If the scaling problems with the transactions are solved in time, we may see more people trading in Satoshis (fractions of a Bitcoin). The scaling problems are pretty hard to solve though, it's probably going to take a hard fork to make Bitcoin a true alternative to traditional government-backed currencies.
Yeah, exactly. And gaming in particular definitely has a lot of the same demographic skewing that SV is trying to move past, so things like this don't help with those efforts.
>only a couple of days are dedicated to navigation and mariner skills.

couple of days :) ... couple of years during middle school that i spent going to "Young Sailor Club" (USSR version of sea-skill oriented Boy Scouts) half the time was my specialization - electronics, half the time - the generic maritime skills, navigation, sailing, classic communication (Morse, flags), firefighting, actually going out on a [small training non-armed] Navy ship, etc..
Could Bitcoin just halve the difficulty and half the reward for mining a block at the same time? Wouldn't that effectively double the throughput of the system? I'm guessing there's some negative consequences to this I don't understand.
Without trivializing the grief surrounding the victims here, it really is as simple as that.

Tragic, but apparently as American as apple pie. And honestly, that's the bigger (moral) tragedy here, which is depressing enough that I don't even want to think about it.
How on earth could flattr remain neutral? Who's to say they wouldn't give more weight to the New York Times if the NYT gave them a commission?
WeTransfer | Platform Engineer | Amsterdam | Full-time | On-site

We're a fast growing profitable scaleup based in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Our mission is to provide the effortless transfer of creative ideas, which results in transferring more than 1 billion files per month between our users. To keep up with that, we're expanding our platform team and are looking for an engineer with experience in AWS infrastructure-as-code and continuous deployment. Our stack:

- AWS (heavy users of EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, RedShift, SQS, ...)

- Terraform for infrastructure, Ansible for provisioning

- Datastores are MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch

- Applications are written in Ruby, Elixir, and Go

https://wetransfer.homerun.co/

Apply there or send me an email at vermaat@wetransfer.com

(We're also looking for Ruby wizards)
User Authentication Kata with Elixir and Phoenix
Bitcoin Cash's "emergency difficulty adjustment" has seen a variation on this (miner's hold production, let the difficulty drop to a highly profitable level, and then turn the miners back on). It requires a high level of centralization however.
The mistake is thinking that the energy used from mining is a direct result from the number of transactions being processed.

The reality is that the two are not coupled together. Larger block sizes are obviously possible as demonstrated by bitcoin cash (and by anyone with common sense who hasn't been taken in the censorship on /r/bitcoin). More transaction throughput doesn't affect how much hash power is needed, therefore the main limiting factor is mostly just how many transactions are actually being made.
The food desert theory has largely been dismissed as a cause for poor eating, and are rather the result of consumer choices.

http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2015/10/26/if-you-build-it-th...

> For low income and education households, the most publicized reason that people eat poorly is that they do not have access to healthier options. Media coverage of efforts to combat nutritional disparities has focused primarily on efforts by grocers like Whole Foods to open stores in underserved neighborhoods. However, according to the study by Schnell et al., policy initiatives focusing on increasing access to nutritious food will only solve a small portion of these nutritional differences. Controlling for income level, the study finds that differences in access only explain 10 percent of disparities in consumption across education groups.

> Furthermore, the study finds that households do not strongly respond to the entry of new stores into their geographic area, even though they are aware of the addition of new stores. When households change the mix of stores they visit once a new store is introduced, the researchers do not observe a lasting change in the nutritional value of their purchases.
It's actually much worse than that. At sea, those with operational responsibilities don't work a normal day or week. Not only are you working over 100 hours, but you destroy your circadian rhythm. While it shows 23 hours of sleep in every 72, that's under optimal conditions when things aren't breaking and operations / drills aren't interrupting everything. This is what my full 72 hour rotation looked like in 5 on / 10 off:

DAY 1:

0600: Wake up, shower/shave, breakfast, make rounds to Engineering and Combat to get situational updates, head to bridge for turnover.

0700-1200: Watch

1200-1300: Lunch, maybe some personal time

1300-1700: Work, maybe catch a nap for an hour (1)

1700-1800: Dinner, or skip it for a workout

1800-1900: Intel Brief

1900-2100: Work, personal time, or nap

2100-2200: Coffee, round for watch, get to bridge early to adjust eyes

2200-0200: Watch

DAY 2:

0200-0700: Sleep (5)

0700-0800: Breakfast

0800-1100: Work

1100-1200: Lunch and rounds

1200-1700: Watch

1700-1800: Dinner

1800-1900: Intel brief

1900-0100: Sleep (6)

DAY 3:

0100-0200: Coffee, rounds, more coffee, turnover

0200-0700: Watch

0700-0800: Breakfast

0800-1200: Work, maybe nap (3)

1200-1300: Lunch

1300-1600: Work

1600-1700: Dinner, turnover

1700-2200: Watch

2200-0600: Sleep (8)
Shake Shack is launching a cashless burger joint
At the same time there was an article here some time ago showing that bitcoin uses as much energy in a year as a coal mine uses in a day. Everything is relative.
Mining for gold has become orders of magnitude more efficient over time. Bit coin will become orders of magnitude less efficient by design...
A lot of the energy that powers Bitcoin would otherwise go unused though, e.g. energy from very remote hydroelectric dams in Siberia, China, and Canada.
Microsoft to Close Groove Music Pass and Move Users to Spotify
The loss of codec support in Quicktime was probably related to improving battery life by forcing use of H264, which is hardware accelerated.

Whether this is wise is a different question.

But no you're right, there is a definite pattern of feature loss going back to iMovie HD 5.
I'm still using Pages '09 because it does what I want and feels snappier.
Does a Bitcoin PoS terminal require less energy or are they about the same?
Isn't that what really backs that currency ? The more you spend value to make it, the more valuable it becomes. Just look at the relative values of BTC and other altcoins that require less energy to mine. IMO there's nothing to worry about it, it's just the natural order of things, you cannot find gold in every house backyard.
I think the assumption is that the more Ethereum you hold, the more incentive you have to keep Ethereum valuable and thus not attack the currency or its transactions.
Well if they were not neutral, they would basically lose their business in the long run.

It's like we trust Google not to sell our data to third parties directly (only indirectly).
Right at the end is a key thing: reward failure better.

Publish negative results.

I'm kinda embarrassed by my negative results, such as they are, but I'm clear in this latest case that I wanted the method reviewed most, since others then may be able to use it.

(Warning: not a real scientist, but being validated by real scientists in the case in question.)
Wouldn't rendering 3D movies fall under that category?
Anyone else have a good super beginner online tutorial for bash and the Linux command line? I'm always looking for other solutions for my students.
I don't know if you've ever looked at it, but CouchDB has had an EventSource endpoint for a long time now (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/api/database/changes.html?h...). CouchDB is extremely easy to install, use and maintain, and there's a number of public providers out there if you don't want to host everything yourself.

As a more generic solution, there's also pushpin (http://pushpin.org/), which is the backend of fanout (https://fanout.io/), so that may also be a nice addition to your stack if you want a more direct redis->clients link
You might need to retrieve your document content from a database. The CDN can phone home every so often to check its caches are still valid. This is basically how we served The Guardian.
I'm surprised that this article doesn't mention Hotelling's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law), which is a well known economic principle that explains exactly this phenomenon.
Pyramid schemes are expensive, no shit.
> 2. Why aren't all research publications required to be accompanied by a second abstract written in plain low jargon language that can be understood at some level by someone with high school science?

Because the target audience of research publications is other researchers in the same field; while outreach to nonscientists is fine, it's simply not the goal of a research paper.

Besides, for many papers this is impossible and/or pointless. My research results are incremental results in a specialized subfield of mathematics. I don't know how to explain them in anything but the vaguest terms to anyone without a reasonable background in that subfield, and I also don't know why such a person would care about them.
It appears that Apple are following the Gnome philosophy, which is ironic because the Gnome philosophy was trying to emulate what they believed was the Apple philosophy.
If any of you want to stop a blood tide start with the cars.

Or maybe join the NRA as a safety instructor. Argue for gun safes and mandatory training for young gun owners.

That way you can actually reduce suffering since there is a possibility that someone will listen instead of write you off as a gungrabber.

That way you can save even more lives.
Couldn't these discussions benefit from an inclusion of actual empirical evidence? Here's a list of some such studies: http://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
Arduino /Software Engineer / Turin, Italy / full time , onsite

We are looking for a Software Engineer to increase our HW and R&D team. This position will be based in Turin. This person will design and develop firmware and libraries for microcontrollers used in Arduino and occasionally higher level userspace programs for the Arduino ecosystem.

Where

Turin (Italy).

Responsibilities

Design, develop, code, test and debug embedded software
Maintain and improve the code.
Interface with hardware design team
Review code and hardware design.
Interface with open source community
Write tech documentation
Skills & Requirements

firmware (C, C++)
Linux, kernel e userspace
GO Language (bonus points - not required)
Arduino (ecosystem, community etc)
hardware debug
userspace cross-platform dev.
Knowledge of the Arduino ecosystem is definitely a plus;
Knowledge of Github is a plus;
How to apply

If you feel you meet this requirements, we would love to hear from you! Please send us an email at jobs@arduino.cc . Please specify in the email subject the position you are applying for.
An introduction letter would be also great for us to better understand your motivations and why you would like to work with us.
GoFundMe?

Patreon?

Those who could find people to buy what they are producing, are already doing it on social funding platforms.

The models that are struggling are those who are not able to sell what they have to sell... a product that not only sold ad-space but infoticles, just like infomartials on TV or product placement in movies, there was paid bias in articles. In the days of Internet, no body wants to watch ads, not in the sidebar clearly labeled as an ad, or in the center of the page in terms of a info(ar)ticle.

I would rather pay to hear the bias of the person speaking, than letting a corporation tell that person what he or she can or can't write. There is banding together of like minded people to pool resources together to keep making progress on a cause, much better model than a corporation. Much efficient use of funds, time, energy. The only one to loose is the investor or influence seeker, who would have to do much more digging than just walking into an top floor office with a check in hands.
Can somebody test if disk encrypted Truecrypt (I use NTFS) are not working anymore on High Sierra? Or is this only affecting Disk Utility??
I don't really the lumping of C in with Python and Ruby here. The C compiler picks up on that, too. All over this comment section people are calling C weakly typed, I don't get it. Is it because void* exists? Every language has something like that.
They didn't 'hold production' they mined the other chain.
I feel this list greatly depends on the culture and employee composition.
Hence the "well-behaved, well-groomed" constraint.

If you're in an office where dogs are peeing and barking (and no one knows what to do about it) - then clearly you have a people problem, not a dog problem.
Then we’d get blocks twice as quickly, but the transaction capacity of each block is not related to the difficulty or reward, it’s an artificial constraint. You could, say, have blocks 8x as large and increase capcity 8x without affecting the difficulty directly. (Some argue there are other ramifications to this, of course.)
I wasn't commenting on hydro plants in general but rather on the OP's commentary on environmentalism vs. economic development. Hydro is great.. if the consequences are reasonable, and that's totally project-dependent.
What happens to our stem cells if we die? Can we donate them to family that might match or others if we don't have any? ARe they re-usable by others or just us only?
> In my first attempt at an editor, written in an amazingly ugly (Borland) C/C++ mix, I assumed text was always delimited with some form of newline. I loaded the initial file into memory completely, and then constructed a "line" array structs, which contained a pointer to the start of the line, a length and a pointer to the 'previous' version. If this was NULL, it was the initially loaded buffer.

Something like this is how various vi implementations, and even some older (pre-GNU) versions of Emacs, work.

So 16-year-old you was not far off the mark.
Their soul, however, goes straight to hell :-)
The filesystem is cached in RAM so it’s too simplistic to talk about applications like that.
One of Bitcoin's biggest obstacles to widespread adoption is the utility problem -- how can Bitcoin transition to being a transactional currency.

The problem is a dual one; on the one hand, if you can denominate your supply chain in Bitcoin, then that removes much volatility, because you no longer care about the cost of Bitcoin. But that requires that all of the components of your supply chain are also denominated in Bitcoin. And on the other hand, what is the "appropriate" value for Bitcoin? Is it too expensive right now, or alarmingly cheap? This relates to volatility as well; the uncertainty in how to price the asset is real.

The power/Bitcoin correspondence is a way to take a crack at both of these problems. The price of Bitcoin and the price of energy are fundamentally related, once capital costs of Bitcoin mining equipment is removed from the equation. An energy provider can safely denominate their provided energy in Bitcoin because they know that they can use any unpurchased capacity to mine Bitcoin directly.

Once we start to see Bitcoin appearing on commodity exchanges, which should be soonish, I think it's likely that power companies (which are already notoriously active in the securities market) will find that they can hedge against price fluctuations with Bitcoin futures; basically leveraging that correspondence. We might be a long way off from them directly billing in Bitcoin, but it would not surprise me to see correlations between energy futures and Bitcoin futures once there's a more liquid market for the latter.
It can't handle the tiniest fraction of Visa's transaction volume natively.

Not actually true. See the Lightning proposal.
You have a revolution if you win. You're just a terrorist if you lose.

That's how I understood it anyway.
Even excluding mining cost, Bitcoin does a lot of work per transaction. Every full node gets an update for every transaction.
We can tackle problems in parallel. Cultural issues are not a blocking problem.
I share your frustrations with Notmuch as an Emacs client. But I still find it better than Gnus and Mu4e. And I have tested all 3 extensively aside from using Mutt for a decade.

I think making the Notmuch interface "pure" is a great design decision. By pure I mean that it just operates on tags, but never deletes or moves files and it doesn't even know about folders.

This gives it great flexibility. You can implement virtually any logic in a Maildir backend by remapping tags to actual files. Any arbitrarily complicated workflow, silencing, automated scoring like what Gnus offers, etc. is possible while the UI will be the same. Just tagging.

The problem is that Notmuch developers do not bundle any tools for implementing such a backend with notmuch, and third party stuff like afew [1] is lacking. It reminds me a bit about the situation with address completion. For a long time, mu offered this, while notmuch relied on hacky third party scripts.

[1] https://github.com/afewmail/afew