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LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Almond (askalmond.com) - New York, NY United States

Almond (askalmond.com) is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of a groundbreaking online nutrition consultation marketplace. This lead engineer will have ownership of frontend and backend design and implementation for a telehealth/video-conferencing and ecommerce application. This is an exciting opportunity to join a young, passionate, and dynamic team committed to revolutionizing the consumer health experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Design and implement web app backend/frontend according to core specifications, including HIPAA compliance, and lay the groundwork for iOS/Android integration

- Drive a robust, data-driven test-and-learn methodology of software development (including A/B/n testing and continual customer input)

- Serve as the software head of Almond, collaborating continuously with a diverse top-tier team

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

- 3+ years of experience with a high level of aptitude in PHP, MySQL, Javascript/HTML/CSS, frontend and backend MVC fraeworks, with experience in AWS preferred

- Examples of 1-2 production-level projects utilizing the above (able to provide links/code on request)

- Outstanding communication sills, self-starter with infectious enthusiasm, energy and problem-solving abilities

- Driven and motivated to grow with a top-tier team

- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

As part of the Brainchild family (brainchildco.com), we focus on building an incredible, proﬁt-generating product without the hassle of fundraising that typically burdens young companies. Please submit your resume and project examples to careers@askalmond.com with the subject line “Lead Software Engineer".
"log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity." -- Dan Shanks
Try opus. I was amazed how good that sounds at ridiculously low bitrates. I'd be surprised if you can tell the difference between 80kpbs opus and FLAC (i.e. raw) files outside certainly very rare corner cases. And unlike mp3, those corner cases don't sound terrible, though that's subjective. Even at 64kbps the difference wasn't obvious without careful listening - to me, YMMV :-).

If you do try it, make sure to use the 1.1 encoder (which deals with difficult samples by detecting that and upping the bitrate more aggressively than previous versions), and you might as well increase the maximum framesize the maximum (60ms) since you're not interested in low-latency applications.
Or they can cut you a check that doesn't include everything owed to you, but ask you to sign a long agreement, buried within which is an assertion that the company has paid everything it owes you.

Since you need this check, you wouldn't get your vacation days.

Anyway, while I agree with the red flag concern, I don't necessarily agree that companies have unlimited vacation in order to cause you to take less. Esp in the startup world, esp at early stage, I don't expect to see this sort of intentional subterfuge - esp because of how it could backfire. I do think a minimum vacation policy makes more sense and allows, esp in places like CA where vacation is earned wage, and unused vacation is paid out at the end of the year, to manage the way vacation is counted.

I also think a company with mandatory vacation should consider allowing people to take at least some vacation in the form of a bonus. Maybe they have a spouse who doesn't have as flexible of a schedule or just really enjoy their work. I don't think this should be an option for founders, however, and I think it should accompany a discussion, because it doesn't work for most people.
The original ROS turtle bot used the first Create. When Willow Garage refreshed it a couple years ago and a korean company redesigned the Create. http://kobuki.yujinrobot.com/home-en/about/specifications/

I wonder how this second gen Create compares to the Kobuki base.
Yes, it's relatively abundant, but for the ore to be rich enough to be worth processing, you have to go where the veins are.
You may be thinking of CPUs doing out-of-order execution, which is indeed unobservable. Compilers, however, also reorder operations which is very much observable.
Bobler: instagram for audio
Cool. Thanks for the clarification. Whatever it is, it sure is "special". (in a good way)
aaaaaaand no one cares.
> What's the difference between that and multiple returns?

It's a more general concept than multiple returns. Why special-case something, needlessly?
Five Traits of Well-Managed JavaScript
If my memory serves me correctly so is it only the client part of grub that is open source. Without the server part on cannot use it to setup one’s own crawl.
This is a fantastic idea and I'm really glad to see experimentation in this area. It's already great to look at how things like Webkit's dev tools are implemented in HTML and see how that idea might be extended.

At it's core, a browser is an HTML/JS rendering engine with some chrome to allow users to manage what pages they're looking at – and in most cases, that chrome is actually pretty minimal. It seems like a natural evolution to play with the idea of implementing that chrome in the natural UI language of the browser engine too. Yeah, the tools aren't there yet – but experiments like this will give us some scope to play around with what might be possible and identify the pain points that must be overcome to make it a reality.

Great stuff.
No, I think you're placing way too much emphasis on the "ecosystem." Again looking at Silicon Valley, there are exponentially more failures than successes even though it has the ecosystem that is the envy of the world.
I was looking at http://mathoverflow.net/a/66219

But, yeah, apparently that's not a comprehensive list by any means.
“At the time, getting a seed round done for a consumer Internet startup in Boston was a lot harder than getting a round done here,” she said.

I think this is still a big factor. Things have gotten a lot better - there is more of an ecosystem now, better availability of seed funding, and there is a growing pool of talent.

That said, beyond small seed checks investors in Boston are more conservative, valuations are lower, there is less appetite for risky consumer plays ("why don't you go after this known b2b market?".)
You apparently really don't like the Stranger, but that article is incredibly well researched and reasoned. Lots of valid points that are vindicated in retrospect. The only other notable papers in Seattle (Times + Weekly) do a piss poor job of covering government accountability.
I realise it wasn't your main point, but can we stop with this trope of remote work being like a holiday or somehow worth less than in-office work.
FAA looking into picture taken by drone above Space Needle
I didn't realize the standing theory is that Earth's water was delivered by lots of meteor strikes.

Has there ever been an estimate made of the number of strikes needed to deliver the volume of water currently on Earth? I have to think it's enormous.
This is great. My experience with XML for UI went something like this.

1. build an XML language for abstracting C++ UI MCF or gtk

2. realizing the need for HTML content - embed mozilla/xulrunner

3. realzing xulrunner /mozilla already provide a cross platform toolkit use XUL to build the user interface with xpcomm wrappers

4. realize that HTML is better for user interface, and only write HTML/javascript with xpcomm wrappers.

5. switch to web development completely and avoid desktop apps all together :)

6. from time to time check in on the state of desktop/app development and see if they've finally figured out html is better for interfaces than any interface builder
Right. We don't have a very large sample size currently, so it's a bit premature for definitive statements such as "earthly water not from comets".

All we know is that this comet shows a different fraction of deuterium, compared to Earth, and some other comets we've checked are all different. So the jury is still out. We need more data, lots more.
You can't self-employ in Germany without actually working for more than one company. (It was abused too much to get around employee protections.)
...I was wrong. Completely wrong. I thought IDEA was proprietary, because it used to be, but IDEA is free software now. Furthermore, if I had investigated that question for only a couple of minutes before posting, I would have known that. Thank you for taking the time to correct me.

I'm happy that the truth is much brighter than what I thought.
> There's really no reason to otherwise, unless you like to gamble.

That's really not true. There's a ton of fantastic restaurants/coffee places that don't exist in the suburbs (Mudgie's, Slowe's, Great Lakes Coffee, etc), the Detroit Art Institute in Midtown (including famous works like Van Gogh's self portrait), a music scene ranging from the big pop stars at Fox Theater to the up and coming indie bands at the Magic Stick, there's all the sporting events, there's ice skating at Campus Martius during the winter and free music at Grand Circus during the summer, there's the Opera House, there's touring Broadway shows at the Fox, there's smaller but still professional theater at the Hillberry, and there's a few regular tech meetups that take place downtown (Detroit Google Developer's Group, Lambda Lounge, Detroit Craftsman's Guild). There's almost always something going on in the Downtown/Midtown area.
Yep, looks like a minimum delay. Interesting!

Agreed in general. No one-size-fits-all answers, and schematizing your data well is going to require case-by-case attention and experimentation for the foreseeable future.
As a guy who works with primarily back end server code. I hate UI stuff primarily because even creating small input UI windows requires jumping though hoops of fire it feels like with strange API calls, and documentation that says, "Just follow the example it'll all be fine in a couple minutes." But I'm 8 inheritance levels deep trying to figure out why my text box isn't rendering.

I've often wondered why OS's just don't host browser render engines internally and draw their UI with that.

Well I don't for long, I know HTML is much younger then X. Also browser engines are massive resource hogs. But with the advent of 8-16+ GB of ram in consumer computers can we really say 2-3GB for windows rendering is heavy?

Especially if it offers that much empowerment to developers.
She later designed the search engine of Cuil. While Cuil failed, it only cost them about $30 million to do most of what Google does.

It's surprising to me that there aren't search engines from Comcast, AT&T, and Apple. If you have customers, why give up all that ad revenue to Google? Google is paying some big players a lot of money not to do that. They were paying Apple $1 billion a year to be the default on Apple products. Apple switched from Google to Bing anyway.
How public-key encryption works. Infographic via fsf
Chicago too, though for sanitation reasons much more than flooding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
I just checked that Flickr graph, and the ceiling is 70 million photos per month. I just checked, and Instagram boasts 70 million photos per day.[1] So while Flickr may be growing in, say, photos per month, its share overall, year-over-year is ... not good.

[1] http://instagram.com/press/
This is a cool feature.

Unfortunately, when I looked into this for our codebase, I found that it doesn't have full support in Rails 3. You can make the index, via a migration, but rails won't include it properly in your `schema.rb` file. So restoring via schema (as opposed to running through all your migrations from scratch) or just trying to understand your database by looking at schema.rb won't give you a full picture.

However, looking at `add_index` in rails 4, it seems to support it!

edit: one thing I did try out was you can change your schema file from `schema.rb` to `schema.sql`, which supposedly fixes it, but I had some issues with that which I don't remember at the moment.
Well, of course I'm generalising here. It's just that, to me, dataflow and FRP look very similar. At least once you go past syntax and superficial things.

(I just realised you meant to say that FRP is a subset of dataflow. I agree!)
You are wrong. When we started Firefox (before "Phoenix") one of the primary goals was to prove that XUL on Windows could be fast enough and look native enough that no one would care. We succeeded.
> A prominent cancer scientist, unhappy with the attention his research papers have received on PubPeer, is suing some of our anonymous commenters for defamation

On the other hand, should anonymous commenters have the balance of power: in other words, say whatever they want with impunity, even if it actually is defamatory?

(Not saying that is the case in this situation, but in general).

The problem is that defamation is a legal concept, which can only be tried legally. So for instance, whereas a site can rigorously enforce rules which say that all comments are directed at the research material, and not at persons, and have a factual basis in that material, those measures cannot take away the right of someone, who feels they have been defamed, to take the matter to court (where they will almost certainly lose, which is neither here nor there).

You can't just create a site and declare it above the law, so to speak.

The only way to protect the identities of the anonymous is for the site to take responsibility for the statements it publishes: to assert that the anonymous statements are subject to rigorous standards of review, and when published, they in fact reflect the views of PubPeer, and PubPeer alone, and not of any anonymous persons (who do not publish any statements, but act only as sources of information).

Then if someone feels they have been the target of defamation, the defendant shall be PubPeer.
> "We are claiming ignorance on that one. Enjoy the photo! Didn’t know it was so risky"

Best of luck with that approach.
> Located well within the Arctic Circle, the bleak, almost unpopulated region around Kiruna

That sentence makes me think of some of the s__t-hole mining cities and towns in and around the Arctic around here in Alaska / Yukon and NWT.

The photos in the article show that by North American standards, it's an extremely beautiful city.
I'm surprised that scientists believe water was delivered. Why wouldn't water be one of the by products of the big-bang and during Earth's creation?
Do you agree that that's a "command and control" approach to the market for research labor? In other words, it sounds like you want to have the government set the number of researchers in the field rather than simply pay for the amount of research it wants, in the same way some governments (the USSR is the classical example) in the past have decided on the number of manufacturers in a certain industry, not just how much they want to pay for a certain widget.

All things being equal, such approaches are generally discouraged by economists. So presumably you think that the market for research labor is unusual, e.g. has some market failure. Could you describe what you think that is?

Basically, my angle is that, once you've answered this question, it's almost always better to try to fix the market failure directly rather than go full command and control. For instance, if you think that prospective PhD students aren't well informed about the long odds against getting a tenured position, then it would be better to educate those students rather than instituting a cap on the number of PhDs that are funded.
Really? I feel js gives way more freedom and is much more forgiving to writing in your own particular style. I've had the exact opposite experience with Java.
I write JavaScript all the time for work and hobby and it's always rewarding.

Also, I'm in college for computer science and the school will only teach Java courses. It's dreadful and maddening. Classical inheritance is complete shit. Compiler error messages suck. The language itself is just too bloated for me to want use. Whatever I can write in Java I can do in a fraction of the time with js with much more modular and maintainable code.

I think java interfaces are a clear sign of stockholm syndrome, as every time I asked the professor why they are necessary I never got an answer other than "to hide part of your code from the outside world", "to use as a blueprint for your classes", or my personal favorite "Because in Java you write interfaces." I tried shifting my question to "Why don't I have to write an interface in js?" That one never got answered. Maybe someone here who is crafty with Java could explain and justify for me the reason for writing what feels like more code for no obvious benefit.

Also, sorry if Java is your thing and I sound like I'm bashing it. It's just been really frustrating for me compared to literally every other language I've used, especially since my degree depends solely on the language.
got an application error when trying to connect my friend
I don't think it's a broader cultural thing, or anything. And personally, I'm fine with the term. It's just there was something about the way the OP was using the word "coder" that didn't quite sit well with me. Reading back at his post, I can't quite put a finger on what it was that actually bothered me about it.
Yes, but if you pay a hitman to kill someone, you don't blame the phone company for which you used to contact the hitman.
Nice!

Do you have the code for this per chance?
"You say that ironing was the shackles of youth ah ha."

Deciphering Michael Stipe's voice was a huge part of my first forays online. I can't imagine what I would have done with a site like Genius.
The thing is, it doesn't really matter. You can't program your interface for quad-core processors and 16GB of RAM because if 50% of the userbase is using 1GB on an ARM processor then you either have to design two interfaces or cater to the lowest denominator.
Maybe they're busy working on the company, or going to pilot events :-) I think there's a balance to be struck there: you see some places that are crawling with startup "scene" events and happenings and networking and you wonder how any work gets done. But if everyone stays holed up all the time, that's probably not healthy long term either, in terms of pulling new people in.
Also note that their to PDF compilation is not free: http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-b...
I like the Stranger fine as an alt-weekly, but I give them basically no credence on matters like this.

It isn't especially challenging to come up with ways that big projects might fail. The point is, they'll whistle past the graveyard (Monorail!) or dwell on every conceivable negative outcome (Tunnel!) depending on which approach serves their purpose.
The metastability at STP is particularly intriguing. I wonder what quantum chemistry calculations have been performed on this material. I need to look this up, and maybe perform a few of my own!

Supposing that we can actually generate enough pressure to generate metallic hydrogen at some point, I wonder what the downsides of the material would be.
I wonder if this has something to do with differential support from different DBs. I don't think MySQL has an equivalent feature, though I think SQLite does.
I agree, which is why I'm avoiding posting any details it's just not worth it.
I really like the look of the patterns of enterprise application architecture book also by Martin fowler but is there really nothing more recent covering the same subject. Surely a new edition is overdue?
Everyone reacts different to medications, that's why there are so many of them, and why it's sometimes a problem for people with chronic problems to find the right one. I'm on my third anti-anxiety med, and I think I've finally found the right one, after the prior one made my depression worse and sapped what little motivation I had. There's no magic bullet in pharmaceuticals, that's one of the reasons there is constant research into the subject. More availability means a greater chance to find the drug that works.
Interesting philosophy, I'll keep that in mind while I have by head down writing code :)
> Ah yes, nothing is better than waiting 5 minutes for the native
> Facebook iPhone app to boot up. But seriously, I've mostly
> switched from facebook to ello just because ello as a web app is
> faster than facebook as a mobile app.

Then you should check out `about:blank`, a social network similar to ello but even faster.
I don't think that opinion says what you think it says.

What is really being discussed there is if the government could compel Yahoo to unmask an anonymous user. It says nothing about actual anonymity guarantees among private parties. If Yahoo decided to hand over the account details, the court would not have intervened at all. So when you have an account with some service, any expectations on how the company will handle the data come from the TOS.

In a similar fashion, a company is free to delete any content you submit to their website. The government can't curtail your speech, barring a few exceptions, but a company certainly can, as long as the government is not involved.
I'm from from Riverview.
Most of the iron in the crust is bound in silicate or carbonate minerals, and energetically expensive to extract.

FWIW, the Kiruna orebody is the biggest known continuous body of iron ore in the world, 4 km wide, 80 meters thick on average, and of unknown length. See https://www.lkab.com/en/Future/Urban-Transformations/Why/Wha... .

Or quoting from http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/kiruna/ :

> Since mining began at the site over 100 years ago, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) has produced over 950Mt of ore, yet only one third of the original ore body has been extracted.
Comparing SQL vs. MongoDB: Day 14 – Queries
DynASM looks cool but its preprocessing step and fancy C integration definitely place it outside the description "Just an instruction encoder with a moderately pretty syntax."

I guess it's not fair to say that XED and DynASM are "much more complicated than the problems they're trying to solve." They are much more complicated than the problem I'm trying to solve. But I am surprised that there is no minimal X86 encoder with nice C++ syntax out there.
The one thing that absolutely annoys me about the current Firefox is the location of the refresh button, which is a tiny icon stuck in the far right of the location bar. Worse of all you can't customize it natively. You have to download extensions to change the UI and still you won't get it to look 100% how you want it. Being able to modify a HTML based UI would be awesome.
Terminals Shouldn't Be Scary – basics and a list of things to remember
Bypass Proxy – Bypass websites filter with proxy
No. This is a package from one of the core scikit-learn developers focused on prediction in cases where the output data isn't just a scalar (regression) or a category (classification), but the output has a structure.
PassHarbor – an open source password manager for Apple devices
I looked into it a bit and it states the following:

> At this time, we are able to ship within the United States and Canada only.

Might be the reason for the redirect?
I didn't realize there was a market for small TBMs (or horizontal drills as they seem to be called) but the Robbins company [1] has some awesome data on that. You can get 250mm - 5000mm ones off Alibaba for $120,000 - $600,000. Amazing less than the price of a house :-).

[1] http://www.therobbinscompany.com/en/our-products/
Off topic, but I would be interested to hear more about how and why you ended up temporarily moving to Kiruna. Seems pretty random. But, as someone currently participating in Startup Chile, the idea of picking up and moving around the world with your business is pretty interesting.
suprised not to see a mention of a bloom filter in url dedupe. Another tough problem now is the portion of the web in walled gardens or that is expensive to crawl (needs a js context).
Gtk works on all those plattforms. But your application will have an Gtk look and feel. If java is acceptabel i would look into JavaFX.