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NoviCap is a barcelona-based Techstars company that provides early payments for outstanding invoices to small and medium sized businesses in Spain.

We are having a lot of fun building an international team and we currently have 2 colombians, 3 italians, 2 belgians, a romanian and 5 spaniards in our team and we are expanding from 15 to 27 people the coming months.

It is an exciting time to join the team as we are still small enough for smart people to make a huge impact but growing fast enough that there is lot of room for personal growth.
There is an option to get equity for top performers.

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I haven't take a look at their last quarter report but I don't think their situation changed from:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-debt-rated-as-junk-14159...

to a healthy one in less than a year.

Can you please provide a link to the balance sheet you saw?
I launched wfh.ninja last week. This could help you, especially the last bit with the summary - https://medium.com/@christinang89/numbers-to-aim-for-on-a-pr...
:)
I see your point, and point taken!

I should rephrase my original sentence. When I said what I said I didn't mean that fringedgentian could guarantee he/she would never be unemployed - but that these steps would minimize his/her risk from finding themselves back in unemployment.

To continue your analogy, you cannot guarantee that someone will never have an accident, but you can recommend precautions to minimize their risk. It is these precautions that I was trying to hint at in my prior post.
The hardest thing about algal fuels is keeping your bioreactor working at peak efficiency. This is quite difficult, consider the following:

Problem: Outside organisms keep contaminating your pools of algae.

Solution: cover them up.

Problem: your reactor surface keeps fouling

Solution: open it up and wash it

Problem: Now you gotta clean the whole thing to make sure you don't have contamination

Problem: some parts of the pool are far denser in algae than others leading to inefficiency

Solution: pump/stir it!

Problem: now you have to move huge volumes of water. Plus your equipment could foul/breakdown

Partial solution: solar powered pumps. Fouling still an issue though

Problem: Organisms raised in water take a lot of water with them for the ride even when you spin/filter them out for harvesting

Partial solution: Dry it out with energy, maybe more sun? Now you need more space.

After all this you have to wonder whether the cost and additional energy invested leaves you with enough left over to make sense. It's not impossible, and I believe it's the only real way to a sustainable future, but it's really, really, really hard to scale these things up.
The dokku app on Digital Ocean is really good for this.
500Startups' fund "500Luchadores" would be the closest one in Mexico, their fund for new ventures was recently 'completed' (read: depleted) so this is a good time if you want to invest on seed stage. Series A and beyond, hard to tell.
I go to the local bonsai meetup, but it's out in a suburb and not really oriented toward younger folks in the city. I'd still encourage you to go (they have great speakers and material at affordable auctions). But it'd be cool to talk to geeks about geek things like bluetooth soil sensors and watering automation. Or how real trees are like B-trees :)
Twitter’s stock hits record low as takeover rumors heat up
>France's attempt to censor Google is an act of aggression against Google and all of its users.

Just to be clear, the argument here is that censoring Google is an act of aggression against Google and all of its users regardless of what is being censored. So forcing Google to censor illegal material would be beholden to this argument as well?
Very cool!

For those who don't know the previous version (8088 Domination):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdG413nNkI
Whatever happened to the idea of tugging broken off icebergs as source of freshwater. It could lessen the impact on rising seas, to some extent. Desalting of course would lessen it too. perhaps neither would be enough to counteract the overall melting. But both can address droughts.
So they point out what is wrong with your example, and you make even vaguer arguments in favor of it?

Here, your argument is even weaker because it is essentially "we give america power, and they use it".

The dollar's dominance is not america's fault, it's literally everyone else's :)

America has not militarily imposed it's will on france or any other european nation that i'm aware of in the recent past so i'm not sure you can really claim america forcing y'all to their point of view on that one.

If you think for a second that any country that has power will not use it against other countries in trade negotiations, that just seems ultra-naive to me.

"Recall that it is not obvious that revenue earned in a country that is not America should be taxed by America."

Hey, remember that time when france tried to tax all the Google revenue not earned in france by claiming google ireland has a permanent establishment in france (and then claims google owes it a billion in tax when the max google possibly earned was a total of 237 million in google france?)?

No worries though, i'm sure, unlike every other country, france wouldn't try to use it's power to force any other country or multi-national corporation to do anything.
They'll only do the right thing.
He's suggesting jchrisa cross-pollinate his life with people other than "tech people".
What happens when we move to ipv6 then and have privacy extensions?

Block a new ip address every 3-8 hours depending on what os is backing things?
Location: SF

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Unity3D, Django/Python, js/css/html

Résumé/CV: charlievannorman.com / mathbreakers.com

Email: charlie@mathbreakers.com

I have done contracting in the biotech/medical industry before, and I'm looking to do more. My specialty is creating 3-D environments and simulations for biological interactions. My last gig was for 3Scan where I made a mouse-brain flying game for Oculus Rift using Unity.

I'm not interested in full-time work.
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/10/5785928/the-democratization-of-...

I specifically mentioned AirBnB is not one of the companies screwing their employees in the name of profits, but Uber/TaskRabbit/etc most certainly are.

As far as "well, it's better than what existed" w/r/t Uber, It's still illegal.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-employee-lawsui...
I've always wondered why desalination is so hard. From a thermodynamics perspective, dissolving salt into water isn't particularly enthalpic (the water doesn't get warmer when you do it), so it's never been clear what the fundamental challenges to reversing that dissolution are.

It's surprising there isn't some chemical reaction to precipitate out the sodium and chloride atoms bonded to something else, or whatever.
In the not very distant future cars will drive themselves to a charging center and parking needs will be greatly reduced.
> Classes are pretty nice. It's a syntax sugar which is nicer and easier to understand than using functions and prototypes.

I actually think that this syntax sugar is the opposite of a solution. It has always been tricky getting developers coming in from other languages (mainly C-like, and Java-like) to understand that JS is NOT an object-oriented language, but in fact is a prototypal language.

By adding the class keyword, I think this only confuses those users further.
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Moat is a growing measurement & analytics startup with products in two core areas:

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Moat Analytics analyzes content and advertisements for many of the most trafficked websites on the Internet. We gather ~30+ terabytes of data per day and provide customers metrics like ad viewability, attention and user engagement. This product has helped change the way people spend money on ads.

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We index the Internet for online ads. This allows us to give advertisers, publishers and adtech companies an overview of the entire online ad ecosystem. This is hugely valuable information - our customers can see their competitors' ad campaigns, find prospects by seeing the clients of similar sites or see trends in the industry before anyone else. We have a free product, moat.com and a premium product, Moat Pro.
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As I said the last time this came up:

It makes no sense at all to pay $2k an acre-foot for desalinated water in a state where millions of acre-feet are being used to grow alfalfa that sells for less than $400 per acre-foot of water consumed.

This isn't a lack of water problem, it is an poor governance problem.
If you're really interested in this stuff and looking for an opportunity, we're looking for talented LLVM developers for our Austin location.

http://www.bitfusion.io/jobs.php

Mazhar Memon, Bitfusion.io
I'm doing text (both word and character) models based on Karpathy's char-rnn using Amazon's gpu instances. It's not very expensive, but I would like to do hyperparameter optimization which takes a lot more computing power. Specifically I'm trying to see if it can be useful for auto-completion or sentence rephrasing.
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Per country, but the way the laws work (from my non-lawyer understanding) would mean that any company with an office in one country would have to censor those results for other countries as well. If Google was hosting/indexing/etc. certain illegal material in a country where it was illegal, it could still be in major trouble in the US and many countries in Europe.
I'm aware what they are arguing, the fact of the matter is they are wrong. Decisions like this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-employee-lawsui...

But as for your analogy, what's the big difference? Uber controls too much of the process to really classify them as "connecting individual sellers and buyers". They are the seller.
I read that some cities are converting their streetlights into charging posts. It seems like a very clever solution to this problem to me.
We run the largest independent app store in Canada and are fiercely committed to being indie. We store all of our images, icons and Android OBB files on Amazon S3 and sometimes our bills get totally unmanageable.

Having a least a portion of this credit would give us room to maneuver so we can polish up our Android and Blackberry 10 apps and with the money we save it would allow us to scale, rather than just get by.

you can check out our app store http://apps.goodereader.com
Unfortunately we can't hire remotely.

We're not looking for database internals experience at all. We're looking for knowledge of C/C++, algorithms, etc. People tend to learn all things database on the job really fast.
Last time I tested PTVS, running any simple script was 100x slower than running it within Wing IDE (professional) which I was I used 99% of the time. This pretty much killed the idea of using Python in VS, unfortunately (for me anyways).
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'end-run' but there are massive opportunities in biotech for reading the letter of the law and understanding what you can do that other people don't realize.

For instance my company (Glowing Plant, YC S14) is entirely predicated on such an understanding. We read the rules and realized that if we engineered a plant with a gene gun instead of agrobacterium it would not be regulated in the United States. This saves us millions of dollars in getting a product to market and means we can pursue an agile product development strategy. Game changer.

I'm aware of another 4-5 such opportunities for syn bio products where you can get to market for low or zero regulatory permission.
"Most of us don’t even need all the computing power in our pocket. We’ve gotten to a place of sufficiency, when just about any computer or smartphone is good enough for what we want them to do."

This is a fairly timeless sentiment. Even more ubiquitous is looking back and laughing at just how primitive formerly-sufficient technology was. You'd think we'd know by now to just not have this thought anymore!
... And yet CAFE has had an enormous positive effect on fleet milage in the US.
If you're relatively competent and current in .Net (C#) or Java, you should be employable in the southwest (Dallas, Houston, Phoenix etc)... There's a lot of business programming in those cities (I'm in Phoenix)... it isn't exciting, or front end centered for the most part, but tends to be consistent (except the year following 9/11 was pretty harsh).

I don't know your background, but would suggest going with a modern Java framework, or ASP.Net MVC and build something... go through the latest Apress or O'Reily book on the subject in question... At the same time start going to user group meetings locally. This will tend to get you at least in the door as far as interviews go... from there you're on your own.

Yes, some places you won't get past H.R. without a degree, but I've been at this for a couple decades now, and as long as you get current or keep up, you should be employable.
More than a million minutes of historical video added to YouTube
San Fran Residents Pay $1,000 a Month to Live in Shipping Containers
Electrolysis is a rather energy-intensive desalinization method.
CapLinked | https://www.caplinked.com | Rails Developer | Full Time | Manhattan/Redondo Beach, CA

We integrate secure workflows and file management for enterprise sharing. We use Ruby, Rails, Redis, Elastic Search, and Chef. We’re looking for engineers to help us improve the ability to design custom workflows and scale our system to support massive amounts of files.

Job description: https://angel.co/caplinked/jobs/324-rails-developer

If you are interested shoot me an email drew@caplinked.com
Frontend dev @ Codeable (https://codeable.io) - remote, full time

We're in a need of a frontend developer with strong JavaScript skills (about to start building a React-based single page application). React, Angular, Gulp, TDD, Git, SASS. The more, the better.

Agile work methodology, small and flexible team.

Apply: tomaz@codeable.io
I work on deep learning methods to analyze electronic medical records. Institution I work for (high ranking university in the US) has some outdated GPUs I can use to crunch some numbers, but I cannot use really use them to experiment to learn new things or use them for my own projects. $50-100 credit would help me a lot to rent a GPU instance for many hours and learn a few new tricks. I could start with applying Convolutional Neural Nets to play with this: https://www.kaggle.com/c/grasp-and-lift-eeg-detection .
I don't completely understand this quote -- is money to the university grant money? Like, for a tenure-track professor? Paying with federal grants? Rent is not usually the motivator in that instance...

Or is it simply due to paying rent costs?

Lab-space-for-hire is not a new concept, if anyone was wondering, though it often exists only in life science hub areas (e.g., LabCentral: http://labcentral.org/).
I didn't downvote you but I really don't think it's hard to measure and account for the externalities in fossil fuels.

1. Calculate the dollar amount per pound of CO2 released that pays for enough tree planting or subsidizes enough renewables to offset the emissions.

2. Apply it as a tax to all fossil fuels and imports from countries without a comparable tax scheme.
GPU Infrastructure Engineer | Clarifai | Deep Learning Technology

Clarifai was founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler to bring the world’s best image recognition technology to market. Our expertise in deep neural networks helped us achieve the world’s best published image labeling results [ImageNet 2013]. Since then Clarifai’s deep learning systems have improved orders of magnitude in speed, vocabulary size, memory footprint and have expanded beyond images to extract knowledge from all forms of data.

Our technology and position in the field of machine learning has already seen extraordinary success and recognition with significant impact on the advancement of technology as a whole and amongst the developer community with our Developer API. See the press and try the demo.

Clarifai is backed by Google ventures, USV, NVDIA, Qualcomm, Osage, Lux Capital, LDV Capital & Corazon Capital.

We are located in NYC.

About the position

GPUs have had a massive impact on how much information we can process and understand. We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who can make them scream across many different architectures, operating systems and devices.

Responsibilities

Optimize our gpu kernels across a wide variety of architectures.
Interface low-level kernels with high level languages to make it simple and intuitive to leverage performance gains.
Interface the GPU routines for communication across multiple devices to support parallel operation of our machine learning systems.
Skills

Excellent programming skills and knowledge of C++.
Knowledge of GPU architecture and corresponding parallel programming platforms such as OpenCL, OpenGL, or CUDA.
Experience optimizing GPU kernels and conducting performance analysis.
Developed solutions which leverage intra- and inter-node GPU communication using device-to-device, device-to-host or other communication patterns.

Contact: claudia@clarifai.com
Bachelor’s degree or higher level degree.
Not sure I understand the problem - what is the issue with APIs?

WebAssembly will have the same API access as asm.js, both can call into JS (and JS can then access any web API).
"Yet the mechanism to "erase history" (in terms of referencing) is in place and Google controls it.
"

Because the EU and france forced google to control it. They didn't want to control it at all. They tried desperately not to. They wanted the source of these stories to be responsible for what they publish, and be forced to update or remove the stories.

Which seems much saner to me.
> In theory, you might be correct. But practice is much different.

I'm quite familiar with real union IT positions that exist now (and are even more bureaucratically limited than the minimum for union positions, because they are also public sector positions), and they don't require this "everyone in a given title in a department must have the same wage".

> My Uncle wanted to get a raise. He couldn't just ask for one. He had to go to the Union board who then had to talk to company management to not only give him a raise, but everyone else in his department that had the same position. This is what I'm talking about.

Sure, there may be some union contracts, for some type of jobs, which require everyone in a firm with the same classification to be paid exactly the same.

And, yes, union contracts as a rule prohibit individually-negotiated compensation, even where (as they usually do) they permit individual variations in compensation (usually, with defined criteria and processes.) That's kind of the whole point of collective bargaining.
Thanks, I'd like to integrate with .net though, maybe with WPF. That's why I'd like to use IronPython.

Any MS / Python people?
Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News (2010)
I once listed to a talk about a "new" JS (don't know witch one. I guess it never was adopted)

It started with explaing all the ugly part of the DOM: Variables that are constant, variable that are more like setters, variables that don't show up in a for(x in y) loop.

I was very exited. Are they goning to fix all this ugliness? Tidy up that crap?

NO! They said: "We want to be able to implement the DOM in JS. That's why we are going to add all this crap into JS". I have no idea from what perspective this makes sense. It's not just that I think it's a bad idea, I have no clue how anybody else could come to the conclusion it was a good idea. This was a way worse than C++. But I think in the end it didn't happen.
>>>> How do you preserve the mystery while avoiding the bomb-every-block tedium?

You don't, it's part of the fun.
If only there were businesses that specialized in letting you use a car for a predefined period of time if you agree to pay a daily fee for the privilege...
Pirates of the Caribbean by 4,5 year old
You can encourage demand as much as you want, but if manufacturers are keen on selling the more profitable gas powered cars that demand will just go unfulfilled. By mandating that auto makers have to sell a quota of electric cars they have no choice but to fulfil the demand (and to create more demand if there isn't enough).
I rest my case. You're basically saying "we're strong so we'll do what we want, thanks, and you'd do the same". Fair enough, and you are right, that is the way of history. But it is also the way that empires fall. ":)"
Pretty much have everything I can do right now I can do while rich beyond saving for money for eventual retirement. There's enough to learn that's practically free and cheap at this point. A laptop is maybe a grand. Living independently is pretty obtainable in a good enough, growing, city with low COL , and finding inexpensive hobbies are easy... actually maybe moving into a fancy 1 bedroom condo in Berkeley lol.
I recently read about a project in the Hudson Valley, where United Water would use desalination to draw water from the Hudson river.

Most of the negatives / cons I have heard before (impact on wildlife, where to discharge brine, energy, etc) ... but one thing stood out:

"Haverstraw Bay is polluted with contaminated sediments, sewage and urban runoff, and the plant’s intakes would be approximately 3.5-miles from Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant, which releases radionuclides to the Hudson."

I guess many people are concerned that (1) the technology to remove these pollutants either does not exist, or is very expensive and (2) being a privatized water company, it may put profits over water quality.

My question then, is what kinds of things are in sea water that should ideally be removed beside salt? What is more contaminated source.. sea water, or water from land based sources?
He would be your co-worker.
Sadly this sort of mandate leads to a very inefficient application of money to reducing pollution. After that $14,000 "subsidy" the 500e still a $32,500 car, which will appeal primarily to people who are likely replacing an already efficient late model vehicle for a tiny net carbon savings. That same $14,000 applied to the base model 500 Pop would make the price about $3,000(!) and you'd have buyers replacing old clunkers with something that gets 40 mpg and a huge net savings.
I can see it now, an open plan office, 100 developers with noise cancelling headphones on, yelling at their computers because they can't tell how loud they are.
That's a really interesting analogy. I struggle with the idea of working so hard on things that feel pointless and ephemeral, and that's a nice way to think about it.

I'm not sure that's the point of a mandala, but it's definitely an interesting idea to ponder.
> it is an poor governance problem

No, it's a poor pricing problem.

The price of water should be directly related to the cost of delivery and supply. Unfortunately, virtually everywhere, you are merely charged for the cost of delivery. If we tie the price of water to something like rainfall, we'll all be much better off. Inefficient use of water will disappear very quickly.