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papers.ssrn.com 1y ago

The Effect of TMI on the Electric Grid Or: How We Didn't Learn to Love Nuclear

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www.nationalgeographic.com 3y ago

Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are starting to ask why

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future.a16z.com 4y ago

A Framework for Navigating Down Markets

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www.theatlantic.com 4y ago

Why So Many Americans Don’t Talk About Money

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future.a16z.com 4y ago

A Framework for Navigating Down Markets

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

21-Year-Old Woman Just Became the Youngest Person to Travel to Every Country

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www.fastcodesign.com 8y ago

NASA’s Wild Plan to Build McMansions on Mars–Out of Fungus

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Fiber Is Good for You. Now Scientists May Know Why

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www.reuters.com 8y ago

DoorDash opens Silicon Valley home for 'virtual' restaurants

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www.philosophicaleconomics.com 10y ago

In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator

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blog.superpat.com 14y ago

Running Your Own Node.js Version on Heroku

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html2haml.heroku.com 15y ago

Html2Haml - Convert Html Snippets to Haml Snippets

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www.guardian.co.uk 15y ago

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs

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seattletimes.nwsource.com 15y ago

Meet Edward Zuckerberg, the high-tech dentist (and Mark's father)

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www.justinidea.com 15y ago

Proposed Modification to Rake's Discovery of Gem Tasks

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 15y ago

Watson vs. Humans: Score One for Congress

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seattletimes.nwsource.com 15y ago

UW Lamborghini lab in top gear, Aventador next

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

For Federal Programs, a Taste of Market Discipline with Social Impact Bonds

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www.yourmorals.org 15y ago

YourMorals.org a morality research project

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ecoupled.com 15y ago

From the Store Shelf to Home (and Beyond)

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blog.nwautos.com 15y ago

Electric cars may be a new trend, but the concept is decades old

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en.wikipedia.org 15y ago

Wardenclyffe Tower a.k.a. the Tesla Tower

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks

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mla.stanford.edu 15y ago

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

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www.huffingtonpost.com 15y ago

Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks On House Floor

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Subjects of Leaks Condemn Release - but often not the American diplomatic corps

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www.universetoday.com 15y ago

The Fall and Rise of ‘X’ - The Air Force's Space Plane Prorgam

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ireport.cnn.com 15y ago

The New American Electric Supercar - Li-Ion Inizio

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www.knowledgevision.com 15y ago

KnowledgeVision Demo - synced video, PowerPoint, footnotes, handouts, and images

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seattletimes.nwsource.com 15y ago

'Old fogies' obsession: Turning waves into power

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The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA (INTERN yes, REMOTE no, H1B transfer maybe)

https://www.honest.com

About us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.

We're growing fast with over 250 employees and have raised $122 million to date, while being less than 3 years-old.

Some recent press:

-- Jessica Alba’s The Honest Co. Raises $70M, Preps for IPO - http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/26/jessica-albas...

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun:

-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid. Sr.)

-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, Sr.)

-- Front-End Engineers (Sr.)

-- QA Automation Engineers

-- Devops Engineers

Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team (tech_hiring@honest.com)

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- RabbitMQ is our main queueing system

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA

https://www.honest.com

About Us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed. We're growing really fast, recently having hired our 250th employee, and have raised $52 million to date, while being only 2.5 years old.

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun

-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)

-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)

-- Sr. Front-End Engineers

-- QA Automation Engineers

Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- RabbitMQ is our main queueing system

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA

https://www.honest.com

About Us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed. We're growing really fast, recently hiring our 200th employee, and have raised $52 million to date.

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun

-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)

-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)

-- Sr. Front-End Engineers

-- QA Automation Engineers

Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA

https://www.honest.com

About us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.

We're growing really fast with over 170 employees as of our 2nd birthday in January (http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/) and have raised $52 million to date.

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun - http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Full-Stack Engineers

-- Back-End Engineers

-- Front-End Engineers

-- QA Automation Engineers

-- We are also looking for interns for the above positions

Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

The Honest Technology Team - tech_hiring@honest.com

The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA (INTERN yes, REMOTE no, H1B transfer maybe)

https://www.honest.com

About us

The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes.The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.

We're growing really fast with over 170 employees as of our 2nd birthday two weeks ago (http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/) and have raised $52 million to date.

Our awesome office:

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...

-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28

We like to have fun - http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/

======================

Positions Available

We are continuing to expand our engineering team and hiring for the following positions:

-- Full-Stack Engineers

-- Front-End Engineers

-- Back-End Engineers

-- QA Automation Engineers

Send resume to: Justin Ricaurte (justin@honest.com)

======================

Our stack:

-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)

-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end

-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server

-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable

-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby

======================

What will we look for in you?

We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.

If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:

Justin Ricaurte (justin@honest.com)

If you are a business or other non-technical person, a friend and I are building a product to help you get your software idea built and launched, so that you can start making money off of it. My email is in my profile if you're interested.

"On Tuesday at a car show in Geneva, Lamborghini is taking the wraps off the first production car to come fully through the lab, through its entire gestation process.

Called the Aventador, it's a $370,000 Batmobile that goes from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds.

The Aventador's bare body -- before the V-12 motor and other parts are added -- weighs just 504.9 pounds."

I've had this problem as well while developing with Rails. I've been doing some lisp development using the teepeedee2 webserver and I've found a way to make a test server that will most of the time render test pages in less than a second, because asdf smartly only recompiles those pages that have been altered. The times it takes longer are when I modify the code for teepeedee2.

One problem I did have was that certain portions of my code would no longer work after reloading the system - for example I would store function references in variables and if those pages recompiled I would lose those variables that I set. A way I found around it was that each time a page was sent to the webserver and after it reloaded the system, I would have it reload those specific variables. Now if something like that could work in rails, where you always reload specific pieces of code that would no longer work if their underlying code was modified, then you might be able to make it work.

This sounds like something that could lead to an interesting YCombinator application. :)

The nice thing about this type of technology is that you have enough paranoid people in the US to market to initially (assuming you're in the US or that the US is easy for you to sell to, and no, I'm not trying to be condescending of people that are paranoid). Another interesting bit could be to donate one piece of the technology to opposition movements in countries run by dictators, when somebody buys your devices. How you'd smuggle it is one question, but I'm sure there are NGOs that would gladly help you.

Fred Wilson might be interested in it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158529

I remember seeing a previous article on HN talking about how you should have 3 products to sell instead of 1, because it helps to anchor the customer when they make a decision. That makes a lot of sense when you consider the study shown in the article about how people valued two books in isolation and then relative to each other.

One thing to possibly take away is that if you have a more "featureful" product (like the 20,000 entries v 10,000 entries) that's not as nice, people will be willing to pay more for it, if it is next to a nicer "less featureful" product. Obviously, this might only work in limited domains, like the dictionary example, but food for thought if you're selling your own product or one on eBay. And whether people would actually end up buying the 20,000 word dictionary instead of the 10,000 word dictionary is another question entirely.

Face.com seems to be essentially going down that path. Now whether they store all of the faceprints or not, I don't know. They also have a developer API that is in alpha right now.

"But in interviews, people familiar with the case said the department appeared to be attracted to the possibility of prosecuting Mr. Assange as a co-conspirator to the leaking because it is under intense pressure to make an example of him as a deterrent to further mass leaking of electronic documents over the Internet." - Emphasis mine

I thought laws were supposed to be enforced for justice, not to intimidate the people.

If a 2 year-old is mature enough to be capable of illegally overstaying a visa on their own free will and understand the consequences, then 3 year-olds should be able to vote and 4 year-olds should be able to go to jail for a lifetime. He was 2. He shouldn't pay for a crime his parents committed.

This is an interesting comparison, but it is most likely just a high overlap between their userbases - people that use github also use stackoverflow, and vice versa. This also doesn't include the number of people programming with a language in a corporate environment whose work is not public nor on external servers.

Megan Squire posted in a comment this link to a collection of multiple source code repository websites datasets, although it is only open source projects: http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list

One of my favorite passages:

"We were sitting around saying we can't understand why America isn't doing better in renewable energy," says Fred Lightfoot, 82, an allegedly retired electrical engineer from Bremerton. "And then we thought: 'Hey, we're engineers. Instead of complaining, as we usually do, why don't we come up with something?' "

It would be interesting if they combined these types of studies with brain scans to see if there are any patterns within the human brain during positives and negatives. This would help to find if there is a neurological basis for precognition, or if it is all really just random chance.

Foot traffic would be great for places like suburban malls or the weekends, but is less relevant for things like burglaries and car thefts (unless its burglaries at businesses). For city centers, worker population density would work just as well during the week, since workers are going to be the most likely to be in an area from 8am-6pm.

It would be even more informative if the map could be adjusted for population density.

Compare two neighborhoods: Neighborhood A has a population of 100 and crime rate of 1 per month. Neighborhood B has a population of 10000 and crime rate of 1 per week.

Assuming the crimes are equal, in neighborhood B you are ~4% as likely to be a victim of a crime as you would in the smaller neighborhood A. But in the current map, neighborhood B would look like it has a bigger crime problem.

This is amazing! I took a Shakespeare class in college, and it would have been awesome to have given my instructor some source code for assignments. :)

It would be cool if they developed nano-scale thermocouples to combine with this, so that we could use our body heat to recharge the wearable batteries. I could see getting a very nice recharge while at dance clubs.

California actually paid out $289 billion and received $242 billion for a net outflow of $47B.

[EDIT] Colorado was the state the paid out $35.9 billion and received $31.2 billion.

If California wasn't subsidizing the South, then they wouldn't have the fiscal problems they currently have. In 2005 alone, Californians paid $47 billion more to the Federal Government than they received in spending.

Considering California's annual budget is $100 billion, Californians could lower their taxes by almost [Edit] 40% and avoid their budget problems if they stopped subsidizing the red states.

- http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5_S...

[Edit] A link to CA's budget: http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/SummaryC...

Then it is the public and corporate pension funds, endowments, fund-of-funds, etc., that should face scrutiny, not the venture capital firms. Figuring out their expected return from their venture capital investments shouldn't be very difficult because of how long the industry has been around, not to mention that venture capital investments on average are only 1-3% of their portfolios (due to venture capital's lack of liquidity), so the amount of money at risk is insignificant compared to the size of the portfolio. If losing 1-3% will collapse an investors fund, then they were over-leveraged to begin with, just like Lehman Brothers.

If the Treasury Department is worried about how much people are putting into venture capital, then they should make a ceiling of 1-3% of the fund's portfolio being able to be invested in venture capital. No regulations are needed on venture capital firms.