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LUCID Software | Software Engineer | REMOTE or ONSITE | New Orleans, LA | Full-time

Lucid is the world's largest platform for sourcing and understanding real, deterministic data about human behavior at scale. The company has built the largest and most powerful programmatic survey exchange, and has enabled brands, agencies and partners to ask and answer more than 8 billion questions worldwide.

Lucid is experiencing rapid growth and is looking for software engineers to join our Platform Operations team. Our clients use our flagship products and services to manage and execute complex online research projects. This person would be responsible for ideation and rapid prototyping of new software products and features through our research and development group as well as building software solutions for our integrating partners.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline preferred)
- Minimum of 3 years work experience
- SQL, API, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and OOP application programming experience required
- Python, Go, and Node.js experience preferred

To apply for this position please visit https://jobs.lever.co/lucid/e2cb9849-f63c-4fdd-b884-78f05414...

Website: https://luc.id
Other career opportunities: https://luc.id/careers
Don't bother trying, this is an american site, your view will sadly not be popular.
Found on GitHub: Bomb calendar widget for Android apps
OpenBazaar[0] already is this idea.

I just checked the github post and one of the committers to openbazaar-go has left a nice lengthy comment explaining why/how[1].

Hopefully the people interested in Nile just put their support behind OpenBazaar instead.

[0]: https://openbazaar.org/

[1] https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issue...
Stores are already doing that on craigslist and facebook, this would just be hooking up a delivery service to it and you have it. Still seems like a pretty weak idea.
simpler: they hate white people.
The best laws will help guide the economy to find solutions so we get everyone rowing in the same direction. Carbon taxes are an obvious solution though currently hard to pass in many places.

BTW I would not assume that just because such laws are hard to pass now that they will be in a few years. Climate changes are reaching a point where an increasing number of people are experiencing the costs directly.
3 Line RSA in perl
> I'm an insurance broker. Why this man didn't sign up for Medicare and Medigap ($300 a month for complete coverage of everything) is beyond me.

People screw up. People forget. Errors occur, constantly.

It should be an auto-sign up with an opt-out form.
There may be a market for an anti-malware that targets content like Inforwars and classifies it as malware.

I'd love to see that.
The list of additions, changes and fixes look impressive! But I’m still worried about Thunderbird’s future and the planned rewrite. It’s a tough position to be in, (as if) attached at the hip to Firefox and to deal with the obsolescence of XUL extensions and other things that come part and parcel of using a good amount of code from Firefox.

I still believe it was a poor decision by Mozilla to cut off Thunderbird and float it as a community supported project. It now seems partially blessed by Mozilla, but isn’t how it was before that separation (AFAIK). The main thing I’ve felt as a huge missed opportunity with Thunderbird has been the lack of native Exchange calendar integration (no, none of the extensions, past and present, are close to even the experience of using Outlook web access for this purpose).

I’ll continue using Thunderbird for at least a few more years and will support the project financially, but I feel Outlook web access is slowly chipping away the need to use a desktop client in enterprise environments that are tied to Exchange or Office/Outlook 365.
That is opposite my experience, we use Enzyme to assert behavior of our components and actively avoid checking the JSX. Jest snapshots sounds closer to what you are describing
3/20. It was all wild guess as I didn't recognize any of them.
Ask HN: Why doesn't a PE firm acquire HMNY (MoviePass)?
With a market cap of <$200k I would think they'd be an attractive acquisition opportunity, if only for users/data alone. Is it because of the debt load? What am I missing here?
What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
IMO phasing out automobiles as the primary form of transit is a herculean battle the environmental groups probably don't feel like they have a prayer of winning. I bike & bus to work, but speaking on a grand scale cars prey on our weakness for comfort & convenience, and the cities we live in are designed to accommodate cars, not bicycles.

I do get frustrated with some enviro groups though, currently the ones who want to replace nuclear plants with natural gas plants.
The war? It's not about war, but symbiosis.
Often these algorithms involve information passing back and forth between the two parties, so Bob wouldn't be able to re-run the computation without Alice's help.
Classic tragedy of the commons. No one wants to do their part because others aren't trying hard enough to fix the problem.
Related discussion from yesterday's match: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17693169
This is the future! Reward devs for integrating, reward users for their time, everybody wins. Good luck to all the devs submitting applications. And remember if, if you’re not selected, don’t get discouraged. It will STILL be super easy for you to integrate kin into your apps and you/your users will still reap the rewards from the KRE. Happy developing, everyone!
Rendering scales fairly linearly with hardware. If I'm rendering with Arnold for example, it can saturate all my cores pretty well and gives back an almost linear rendering time reduction.

Same with GPU systems like redshift, alternatively I can dedicate half the machine to rendering and the other half to continued work.
EPYC chips nibble bits off Xeon's x86 revenue share
Touche lol. It was super early in the morning when I wrote that line. I actually did know that in the back of my mind.
> The person I was responding to was equating the legality of Apple's speech suppression with it's acceptability. We weren't discussing the legality of Infowars' speech.

Well, then, to clarify on my part, I believe it's perfectly acceptable for Apple to say they want no part in some form of speech. It's perfectly legal since the American 1st amendment only binds the government. Apple really only has the power that it has convinced consumers and shareholders to willingly given it (begrudgingly or not), aside from whatever power is granted by incorporation.

I don't have to agree with their decision (in this case, I do). If they were to drop some musical artist I really like (say, Peter Gabriel) I would probably feel differently, but that wouldn't make me any more right, just mad.
That's why I'm going to get trees planted. I grew up in the South West of the UK, when I was a kid I played in the woods and wildlife there. Now it's gone, replaced by houses.

So I figure it's worth paying extra to offset my carbon usage by double whilst rebuilding a little of what was destroyed in my birth country.
Firefox hasn't been ported to wayland, yet. So I wouldn't hold my breath for thunderbird
In that case may I recommend mutt or claws mail? Basic, unlikely to change significantly, and still getting security patches.
I recall Jet.com (now owned by Walmart) tried to meet to meet or beat Amazon prices without the efficiencies of Amazon. So it was burning through VC capital losing money on most sales. I dont know if the model have changed under Walmart.
I dunno, painting oil execs as subversive national security threats and investing military-level economic resources into fighting a "war" on climate change just might work...
Some context on how this works: your system (usually OS) ships with a bunch of root certificates that are allowed to sign any certificate (de facto). New CAs need to get in that store to be trusted, but they don't get to be in that store until they convince a vendor (here, "root program") to include them.

But LE has been around for a while and its certs mostly work fine everywhere! That's partially because it was already in a ton of root programs, and partially because of cross-signed roots. A cross-signed root is effectively the root CA except signed by a different CA. A client that doesn't trust the new root yet trusts it via the cros-signed root.

Most sites need 2 certificates in the chain to be validated: the leaf certificate certifying the site itself and the intermediate online CA that signs leaf certs. The intermediate is signed by the root, which is in your trust store so you don't need to send it. Lots of sites send it anyway. This is a misconfiguration and just serves to make TLS connections slower: you're sending an extra certificate along that by definition nobody uses. This is because it's self-signed: you either already trusted it anyway (and then didn't need it) or you don't trust it and then the self-signed certificate is unconvincing.

New CAs also need their cross signed root sent along to be widely supported, so they basically get that worse performance all the time. Unfortunately, you don't know in advance which roots a TLS client will trust, so until you're in every major trust store, you have to. Now that LE is in every major trust store, it's a real first-class CA and everyone gets to look forward to doing away with the cross-signed root crutch. (You can't do it immediately because old, unpatched machines.)

LE is great and has done wonders to make all the other CAs up their game.

You can read more about LE's trust chain here: https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
Wow, that is actually gold
Hydropower dams: What's behind the global boom?
That page is very hard to read on a mobile device.
The loss is because we invent half-solutions that only delay the inevitable(reducing/storing/filtering emissions instead of removing sources), but are more profitable for the industry/economy in the short term vs renewables.
Even if he buys "carbon credits" -- that carbon he's generating is still being generated.

The point of carbon credits is offsetting. For example, suppose I plant a bunch of trees to earn carbon credits. I then sell Al Gore my carbon credits. Thus, Al Gore is able to fly about in his jet, I am able to make money planting trees, and in the end no net carbon has been added to the atmosphere.
One anecdotal example: My dad is over 65 and is staying on his employer's health insurance because he's on an experimental drug which is not covered by Medicare.
I think a more precise statement is that politicians reflect the people who got them in office.

In theory that means the voters. In practice in the US, because election spending is so huge and effective, it means the wealthy.
Moviepass has changed the terms of the original agreement when signing up with the service. Just because they can do so and legally doesn't make it any less of a screwing. Just a legal one.
Careful. Old versions of internet-facing applications like email clients are dangerous and put you at risk. They often have widely known security issues which can allow malware to access your PC.

I'd advise upgrading Thunderbird and ignoring the features you don't use, or switching to an actively-maintained mail client which is designed to be simpler than Thunderbird.
Adobe made a really gutsy move IMO. Some of their products had very memorable icons, which they chose to ditch in favor of the fully unified look. Ultimately I think it was a good one - Amazon’s current struggle to properly iconify their dozens of abstract services illustrates this perfectly.

I actually would be curious now to see how a company like Apple might approach the problem. Apple’s well-known icons are largely focused on popular apps, which have very distinct and concrete functions. I wonder if there really is a clear and unambiguous icon for something esoteric like a NoSQL database store - I suspect that there isn’t, largely because (unlike apps) it just isn’t something that is in the public eye.
Fake Science: Face behind biggest of all – ‘40 countries, million articles’
I mean what politicians are behind this?
Do you think that some party has to gain by this?
Or is just anti american and big European companies enjoy preferential treatment?
Just one example of how excessive use of chemicals harms the body and the environment. In India antibiotics, even broad spectrum antibiotics are easily prescribed by doctors and unqualified fake practitioners alike. This is leading to a slow build-up of antibiotic resistance. In the case of hand sanitizers too overuse is common. In offices people sanitize their hands every time they go out of the door or come back in. Although this might be effective in keeping some of the bacteria in check, the habit causes indiscriminate use of chemicals and may have the same adverse effect as overconsumption of antibiotics. and I'm sure an unhealthy dose of these chemicals gets ingested too because a lot of people prefer to sanitize hands over washing them before eating.
And Cinestar shows you a solid 25 minutes of ads before each film, in addition to the aggressive snack marketing including an intermission during long films.

Seriously the only time I watch movies is as a two-week binge during the Berlinale; the experience in Germany is completely unbearable otherwise.
One of the main goals of the Ariane rocket system is also provide jobs,not efficient Lunch system. If they create a reusable lunch system what the workforce will do then?
Great Gatsby curve
I once had a huge performance problem for a simple self-join that I expected would run quickly.

I talked to our resident SQL expert (retired from IBM, now doing a job as the lab administrative assistant). She suggested sorting the data before inserting it.

That sped up the query.

it still bother me that data order matters so much. But, I can't reproduce the problem in MySQL any more anyway.
Well, I for one, think the icons ARE AWESOME.

Admittedly, I can't use them to identify any specific services, but they're cool looking.
I’ve never seen a less mobile-friendly layout. Fixed decorative elements on the page forcefully covering content.
It is quite a lot easier to reduce when you are using > 2.5 times as much as the ones you are comparing to (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...)
>What surprised me is that I can cover double my two-car-owning European family's carbon footprint via planting trees in the UK at an annual cost of around $400. It'll cost half that to do the same in a developing country.

Then what happens when the trees are fully grown? Processing them for industry would just reintroduce the carbon back into the environment. Letting them stay in the forest is nice, but you would quickly run out of room. There needs to be some sort of way to bury the biomass in order to put that carbon out of the atmosphere for good.
Was a good tutorial and pretty easy to work though. But it seems LibreSSL really hasn't taken hold on Linux and so supporting infrastructure isn't in place. Being able to use this simple API is really enticing, but I'm not sure it's quite worth swimming against the prevailing currents.

As an aside, while searching around I found this recent in depth talk "State of LibreSSL and OpenSSL in FreeBSD":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0qxHckVA9Y
Well, it not always in that direction, sure we got some patriotic chest-thumping but also some abhorence of past achievements/periods/characters.
Wow ok, that’s just egregious. Using two different icons for the same product/service?
**CUTE KID BRUCE MAKES ICE CREAM WITH DRY ICE**
It's disappointing to me that planting trees is the best we can come up with. One would hope that we could work on a 10x, technological solution.
Thank you. Their numbers match the EPA numbers.
In a world of perfect competition you'd be correct. The airline business is close enough to that ideal, that little profits are made. But the reality of the Cinema business in the US is they make healthy profits.
This reminds me of gitguardian.
Right. That was my understanding too. But they’d have to remove that NSL section if they receive an NSL (assuming their honesty or desire to be so is not in question here) — as Lazare explained in another comment here. That’s almost the same as the canary, without the signing.
"Natural Gas" is primarily methane. In terms of Greenhouse effects, we would do vastly better to "burn off" any leaks than let them leak.
> but it's not part of journalistic practice to allow a subject to dictate what goes into the article itself.

It should be when such information can have serious repercussions for the subject of the article, and these facts are mentioned and agreed upon before the interview takes place. It's ridiculous to hide behind journalistic standards to justify unethical behavior.
I never understood that; PoW seems like not merely an elegant solution, but a simple one. What am I missing?
As the productivity gap increases, unproductive people will become more and more obsessed with petty ideological judgements. Life will become more like high school where clique membership matters more than getting results.
Oh, that is very kind of you! Thank you!! :)
Unfortunately for us, Trump doesn't think climate change exists, so he would never do this.
How my friend build his MVP, got his first customer and now makes $400 / MMR
Agree! I like how it's fully customizable with this Sketch file.
Too late. If you start planning nuclear plants now, they'll take 10 years to build.

Also, I'm not sure that the an to build nuclear reactors across Africa, South America, and the middle east will be popular; the proliferation risk hasn't gone away.
Since there seems to be a lot of negative sentiment here about the icons, I'd like to offer a different perspective.

While using AWS services and leading huge migration projects, I've never thought to myself: "These icons are terrible and slowing down my progress". As in to say, sure the UX icons are a little wonky, but at the end of the day, do are they really impacting people from getting the value out of the services and using them quickly? Maybe Amazon is partaking in what is often sentiment around here: not optimizing things too soon.

Summary: while icons might be confusing and not great, I find zero impact in me architecting systems and communicating designs.
Amorphous computing has always seemed interesting to me. Computing with emergent phenomenon amongst scatterings of large numbers of unreliable simple processors - like the sort of thing you could mix into paint. It's very young, with lots of fundamentals to be worked out, but that's what makes it interesting!
What's the moral argument against?
The war is unwinnable. Global warming can only be reversed if we stop all Co2 and methane emissions, and then start net carbon capture to reduce current co2 levels.

Its just not going to happen. No one ever says that out loud. There is noise about reducing carbon emissions - in reality this is a lot of argument about reducing carbon emissions in wealthy countries. We can't even do that. Meanwhile even my greeny-lefty friends enjoy their central heating, imported food, masses of electronics and vacations in foreign countries. There is little hope in getting the world's peoples to reduce their quality of life. Generally everyone is happy to just blame Americans/China/Big Business/Coal/etc and keep on living as they please.

Realistically not much is going to change. It might be possible to slow down the warming a little. But its going to get much more uncomfortable, its probably worth moving to somewhere cooler.
SpaceX is trying to develop a new kind of rocket, with insane upfront R&D costs.

MoviePass is trying to sell movie tickets for less than they paid for them.

I don't think those are similar at all.
Fizzing up the new TLS security protocol
> Jones actively uses his platform to bully individuals

Do you have an example of what you mean?
Not sure why Microsoft is writing about PowerPC 600 now, other than some technical insights, anything else interesting? I feel PowerPC is gone, along with UltraSPARC, HP, SGI, etc chips.
I agree that the behavior is unethical, as I described at greater length here [1]. I'm just trying to bring some analytical clarity about what the fault was.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697128
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659983

The last one highlighting the last blocker for any serious adoption.
Still awaiting for the official Windows client.........
Thank you very much for the publicity, I greatly appreciate it!

Prolog is rather unique in that it admits a meta-interpreter in roughly 3 lines of code.
Contrast this with other languages, where writing an evaluator typically takes much more code, even for quite high-level languages.

This brevity is possible mainly because Prolog - like Lisp and assembly language - is a homoiconic language, and in addition to that, Prolog has powerful built-in mechanisms that can be used in interpreters, and in addition to that, Prolog variables on the object-level (the program to be interpreted) are also variables on the meta-level (the interpreter). As a consequence, Prolog's implicit mechanisms can be absorbed in interpreters: They need not be encoded explicitly.

Enjoy!
Looks nice! gonna give it a go. Was looking for a place to drop some thoughts, and wasn't willing to pay a big buck for something like svbtle. I really love their kudos thingy though.
SSL on the register page would be nice/necessary, on all subdomains... easy nowadays with letsencrypt.
Thanks for the tip -- that sounds like a great way forward. I can't find any documentation on it however after checking the community page (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-production-envir...)... Do you have a pointer to the documentation on this feature?

Thinking about it again I'm not sure that I fully understand what you were suggesting -- are you suggesting adding a CNAME for x.example.com that redirects to yyyy.different-provider.com, and letting let's encrypt follow and work it out?

I also wanted to know how everyone was trusting with their DNS requirements/how people were making the decision (cost, trust, privacy, country of origin, whatever else).
Very interesting. It is amazing how far the Polynesians were able to travel.
"What's the plan for an Uber driver when they get old?"

Soylent Green
Our (not so smooth) journey productising a serverless app on AWS
The Great NRC Mess
Workplace organizing. It's a lot easier to get people to fight for something when they know they'll benefit from it directly (via higher wages, better working conditions, etc). A unified working class is the most effective tool we have for fighting countering the power of bug business, who would rather let the world burn than stop building pipelines.

Most people don't like what's happening to the world -- they just feel powerless to stop it. So let's change that.
The EU is reducing its carbon footprint if you zoom out from that one year[0]. China also has half of the carbon footprint per person[0]. The US appears the have the highest carbon footprint per capita of the major nations, beaten only by small countries[1].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-bi...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...
I really wish more people understood this. Over-engineering is the plague of modern software.
Thanks, but the problem is: these days most users don't know what a disk looks like anymore.
But it's not just planting the tree, right? It's taking land that currently has no tree, reserving it for the tree, and guaranteeing that the land & tree will remain intact for a nominal period of time, possibly indefinitely?

Trees are cheap. Fertile tree-growing land not currently used for trees: not so much.
Agreed.

And you should try hanging out with a bunch of Facebook, Google, or Apple employees on the weekend! Prepare for an exciting and novel conversation.