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Great news. Seek is the #1 app I recommend parents for their children if they’re going to be using a smart phone. A tool that helps us engage with and appreciate our natural environment with nice gamification. Helped me identify some of my favorite sages and other aromatic plants.

Some recent favorites:

- Children of Time (Tchaikovsky)

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Chambers)

- Project Hail Mary (Weir)

- The Culture Series (Banks)

- The Expanse Series (Corey)

- The Red Rising Series (Brown)

It was doing its best on automatic but the wipers were sporadic at best. This was a major winter storm and visibility was awful …the model 3 had no idea where the lane lines were and apparently no idea how bad the precipitation was.

Wonderful. I recently rented a model 3 and found it incredibly frustrating that it required multiple touches to adjust settings that would be a single button press on a more traditional car. Don’t even get me started on the windshield wipers - a total nightmare in winter storms and located on the left stalk? These are safety concerns. As long as humans are operating these dangerous vehicles, I vote for fewer driver distractions.

How timely. I was almost hit by a Tesla while on a run yesterday in San Francisco. The driver was not paying attention at all, slowly rolling through a stop sign. While this is one data point and could happen with any type of automobile, this type of behavior in "autonomous" cars worries me a lot - the carelessness other posters have noted in which these drivers put down their guard and think the car is going to do everything for them. They put their full faith in this nascent technology and therefore put others' safety at risk. Sure, I am very excited for this technology to mature, but in the meantime, let's not fool ourselves.

Very cool, thanks! Just some quick feedback - I am colorblind (protan) and cannot distinguish among many of the graph lines or tell which part of the legend each corresponds with. This excellent article has some palette suggestions: https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/

100% agree with the article - cars, even in this petite form factor, are not the future of urban transportation. Cycling, electric cycling, scooting, walking and better mass transit will make our cities quieter, safer and more livable. Sure, there is a niche for these cute cars for those unable to use these other forms.

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting. Looking to do something like this soon on our static site

This looks cool, thanks for sharing! Will investigate for FE development

Thanks for sharing - if anyone is interested in a great remote Alaska read (novel) - would recommend The Great Alone: https://kristinhannah.com/books/the-great-alone/

This is great, thanks! The first two links are truncated and broken, however. Please update!

Also on Kaiser... they make you jump through hoops to get consistent mental health (regular weekly therapy). If you're persistent enough (call and be very direct about the kind of care you want) they'll hook you up with Magellan Health, the company they outsource to for mental health. Through Magellan, I was given a huge array of therapists to choose from in the Bay Area. If you shop around you can find someone you click with.

Thanks for your thoughts! It appears some states are already legally recognizing smart contracts. Contract legality is determined at a state level because there is no federal contract law: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610718/states-that-are-pa...

Good further reading to understand smart contracts from a US legal perspective: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/05/26/an-introduction-t...

Also Ricardian contracts if anyone is interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_contract

Reminds me of the stone/water brains of the Quatzoli people in Ken Liu’s short story, "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species".

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-bookmaking-hab...

This. Makes all those delicious-looking icons (mimicking fruits?) less appealing. P.S. only iPhone X with OLED will save battery with grayscale. iPhone 8 or less without OLED can use MORE battery afaik but I still do it. You can set up triple tap on the home button to toggle.

I think access to water resources has always been part, if not the bulk, of modern China's Tibet play. And now they're starting to tap into those resources. I wonder what the effects will be once they start pumping / rain-making at an even more massive scale.

More on water resources in Tibet: http://www.tibetnature.net/en/introduction-water-resources/

We’re on our way there too in the US:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

Scoot | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Full-time

I'm a software engineer at Scoot - we've got a great team that works on a vast array of projects, from vehicle communications to mobile UI. We're also scaling a ton. Want to interact with real-world hardware? Here's the place.

We do a phone screen and then 5 in-person interviews, all in-house. Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/scoot/65eeaf96-88c7-4485-afee-cff43c79...

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As Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Scoot, you will be a hands-on contributor to the codebase. You will learn new technologies, influence the product roadmap, build features, push code, and make Scoot more awesome.

Core requirements:

* Mastery of Javascript, HTML, and CSS especially on iOS and Android

* Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails

* Experience with native code development on iOS and Android

* Examples of elegant user interfaces you have implemented

* BS in CS, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or equivalent training and work experience

* 5+ years experience writing software in a demanding professional environment

* Solid experience with unit and integration testing in front and back end software

* Comfort with Agile development process, Git, and Github

Bonus points:

* Experience with React, Redux, React Native

* Familiarity with cloud service tools such as Heroku and AWS

Scoot | San Francisco, CA | full-time | full-stack and vp of engineering

As as an engineer at Scoot, your work could involve adding user-facing features to our mobile app, hacking firmware in C to run our scooters’ security, optimizing Postgres or building data visualizations on our RoR backend. Your code will enable thousands of people to travel wherever they want to go in the city: fast, fun and efficient. You will be one of only 6 software engineers at Scoot, including the CTO. Because we have more tech disciplines than team members, we need everybody to build expertise in multiple areas, influence the product roadmap, build features and apps, push code, and improve our process.

We are filling multiple positions on the engineering team, from junior to management roles. Responsibilities and compensation will scale accordingly.

> Unlimited scooting (obviously)

> Competitive comp and substantial equity

> Company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance

> Access to a workshop with soldering stations, a welder, air compressors and a 3D printer

> An amazing culture, team, and mission of which you will be an essential part

> The most fun chance you will ever get to change the world

full-stack: https://jobs.lever.co/scoot/f2a20874-3290-4f57-964f-aa96d292...

vp engineering: https://jobs.lever.co/scoot/6da5603e-615e-446e-ad43-6d8e321c...

Moringa School | Nairobi, Kenya | Onsite, full-time

Curriculum/Tech Lead (Python and Android)

Moringa School is a four-month program that transforms ambitious amateurs to coding professionals. 99% of our graduates are now working as software engineers. Moringa School's mission is twofold: to empower people and to transform education through rapid-iteration teaching. Students train 11 hours a day, 5 days a week, over 16 weeks in a curriculum focused on computer science fundamentals, Python and Android.

Employees enjoy a fun, collegial startup environment genuinely committed to employee health and wellness, and filled with talented, hard-working and fun people. You will be surrounded by friendly, brilliant, and mission-driven professionals who work hard to provide the best student experience of its kind in the world.

We are looking for a talented, organized, systems-oriented thinker to provide management, leadership, and accountability to a high performance team in support of the mission and core values of the company. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience keeping instruction teams running effectively, even in a chaotic environment. The provost role provides the management and supervision necessary to ensure that instruction team has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively provide an incredible educational experience to students while maintaining operating efficiency.

http://www.moringaschool.com

Curriculum/Tech Lead: http://bit.ly/1NQpM3G