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Superhuman | San Francisco | Polymath Engineer (Founding Team - Employee #2) | ONSITE

==Superhuman==

• We're rebuilding the email experience. A vim/sublime for email: lightning fast, beautiful, and highly programmable — with a collection of superpowers that make you brilliant at what you do.

• Why? 900M people spend 1/3 of their day reading and writing email; they deserve awesome, beautiful tools.

• We just raised $4M from all-star investors.

==Role==

Delight and empower millions of people.

==Team==

• My co-founder & CEO Rahul founded Rapportive (YC'10, acquired by LinkedIn)

• My co-founder Vivek founded Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired for $310M)

• I previously was VP Eng at Bugsnag, and built pry (used by 25% of ruby developers)

==Stack==

React, Webpack, HTML5, Golang, IndexedDB, ServiceWorkers, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, iOS/Android (nice to have)

==Contact==

• More info: http://superhuman.com

• Email me: conrad@superhuman.com

Conrad Irwin, Co-Founder & CTO
Love Trello. I'd like a locally installable version of that integrated with something like Gitlab (maybe this already exists, I haven't bothered to look).

It always seemed a bit slow to me as well. The dependencies issue may be fixed with modern usage of rvm-/rbenv-type things, but I haven't messed with Redmine for a couple years. It's funny you mention the pace of development too; the community actually forked at once point [1], I believe due to frustration with how the development community was being handled. That fork is dead now though.

[1] https://www.chiliproject.org/
Still only seeing a blank screen. I have checked with both ABP enabled and disabled. It must be one of my extensions. I will test later and inform you.
I love Apple products, but please stop. Please. Do not be blind to the fact that Apple has to remove apps from the app store often due to security issues. And most of what you hear about on the Android side is either blown up in the media or because people side load apps from ... questionable sources.
>I don't care about awkward .then() syntax. I don't mind automatic error propagation. I don't care having to call .done() on a promise chain. I don't care about losing the stack (which is inherent in any async work). I care that promises grab all errors, just like try/catch.

You should stop caring about that and start caring about the other stuff.

"Breakpoint on exception" still works, albeit slightly altered, and in any way it's a minor detail compared to the far better mental model for code execution that async and promises bring.

>I want to make stupid typo errors and have them appear as normal errors, not caught by promises.

For stupid typo errors use a linter and/or a transpiler like babel in the first place.

>It's cool, I just don't understand why everyone is so excited about a simple syntactic improvement.

Because better syntax brings code closer to how we think, and reduces errors.
Worked for me. Too bad they kept repeating themselves to the point where I wondered if the page was just infinite loop.
This. To be honest, I think the customer confusion they say is coming from the fact that chromecast was a Prime product and therefore had a Prime logo next to it while buying. That could confuse some buyers.

But the sane thing to do would be to remove these players from Prime shipping, not axe them altogether.
"A few thousand" customers paying on average 0.4 * 300 + 0.4 * 500 + 0.2 * 1000 = $520 / month. If there are 2,000, then that's $1.04M. $1.2M doesn't sound unreasonable assuming slightly more than 2,000 paying customers.
It doesn't even need to have 0 lag, just the _illusion_ of having 0 lag would be enough, like faking the stroke until the actual stroke is digitally rendered/saved, maybe with the help of a film that responds to pressure such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oikY3mKkAs
I would totally buy this if it came with a magnet on the back so that it can stick to my fridge door, and if I could nicely plug it so as to not have to reload the battery...

Think about it, the fridge door is the only place where you're going to remember to use this thing: Open the door, no more figs, write a reminder on your slate, and later when grocery shopping, access the slate from your device. Any other use case is gadgety and you're going to use it 5 minutes and give it up. That said, it's quite expensive for a fridge door post it replacement.

In fact, I think the guys who created this should partner with fridge companies to embed their product in fridge doors. That would be freaking awesome.

Just saying...
Was watching the video, and near the end it said "Buy now at noteslate.com", and I was like "wow I give these guys 1000 points for actually SHIPPING IT instead of being just another lame kickstarter scam". And then I read some more, and it says "Pre-order" at the bottom of the page. Why of course, just another vaporware :(
I like to hike in the National Parks, and it's nice to be able to put my phone in airplane mode and have it last a few days. That way I have the time, and alarms to wake me up and signal when I have to turn around to make it back before dark, and an HDR camera. My iPhone 1 would go a week on airplane mode. My 4S goes about 10 hours. Not an improvement.
@Curiousjorge.. Never, Never quit - Winston Churchill. And he also said when you are going through hell, you keep going.
That is not true . At least in my experience . All the rational people I've ever met in my whole life was liberal and big chunk of them were disappointed in political system (which makes them out of spectrum in left side ).
For example even Noam Chomsky (which is far left in today US definition) prefer Obama (despite he knows Obama is just another politician who work for wall street instead of people ,but at least he is not going to put country in danger) to some crazy person at the other hand.
I was fairly disappointed when I saw that comment down voted in HN .
And I am from other country , I can see (in compare to my country) how exactly Right wing using deceive people with its control over money/media.

About the monopoly maybe your left wing is Clinton ( which don't have any monopoly on rational people , because all know she is clown of wall street) , but true left wing (like Lessig Lawrence / Bernie Sanders / etc ) completely have monopoly on rational people in compare to right side , specially academic people in human science branches.
Drama.

Seriously, stop giving the media so much credit. You can trust the Play store as well as you can trust the App store.
Interesting. I'll have to play with it this weekend. Thanks for the information.
If he gets paid mostly in USD and he's Australian, he's laughing his way to the islands at the moment... 0.70 AUDUSD.
How many founders does it take to build a unicorn?
I think the fact that my useless inflammatory comment didn't get immediately downvoted to hell is proof that I'm right!
Reading another thread for the same website from a half decade ago, I can't help but doubt that they will actually ship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2180623
In that spirit, I find it hilarious that the entire industry proudly releases products weekly that do things like re-order laundry detergent at the press of a button or games that require the player to do nothing more than swipe their finger this way or that. On the other hand then there is this long raging religious war over the tools used to build these products where some claim the end all be all is this text only, esoteric, super high learning curve tool. Sure it's superpowerful once mastered, but as in so many other areas, the argument that you just made seems to carry the day: let the machine do the work.

Also, Minority Report.
That we are, that we are.
Sorry, you're right. I was trying to word that in a way to not say 10,000 rpm to 12,000 rpm, because all bikes rev differently.

Obviously you don't double the revs, but they for sure increase
Honestly, Amazon seems like they're in a bit of a panic to get into digital consumption. This is slightly reminiscent of Fire Phone.
Joseph Conrad: anticipating terrorism
Interesting. You're right. It halved in 2009 and dropped even further to about 40% of its previous high, although it appears to be growing again... [1]

I still think that it would be wise to structure the marketplace such that there is even less private lending. I think this ultimately gives the Federal government more policy levers that can be used to push back on tuition.

I do agree with the original piece that the peek-a-boo games that college's play with their financial aid packages are silly. The pricing should be clear and simple, discounts for low-income students should be stated up front. Today's "Let's make a deal" games are just dumb...

[1] http://trends.collegeboard.org/student-aid/figures-tables/to...
Acceptance testing fail!
When changing code, and especially code that has consequences, doing so without tests is a bad idea. Doing so to protocol code without conformance tests is doubly bad.
Thank you for the kind and inspiring words!
Do you have full control over your iPhone?
> In Photoshop you would do this by opening both images, and visually comparing them to see what's different, (...)

Yeah, good luck with that. With software like Photoshop, not every change is obvious or easily visible. Maybe the other guy tweaked blending parameters of a layer, or reconfigured some effects layers. Or modified the document metadata. Or did thousands other things that are not immediately visible, or for which it is hard to determine the sequence changes should be reapplied.

Maybe you can manually merge the two files to some reasonably good approximation of the intended result, but you can't never be sure you didn't miss something important.

Merging tools for text files show enough information for you to know when you've seen every change made. You can't have that with complex binary formats used by graphics programs, mostly because those formats were never explicitly designed to support merging.
What general purpose computers (even phones and tablets) do you see going this direction, other than Apple's iOS? My Mac will run anything I want, my Surface will do the same, and my Android tablet has both side-loading and an unlocked bootloader. Hell, even my router is unlocked, and it's from ASUS, not some small open-source oriented manufacturer.

You claim that if we even allow companies to put out products with locked firmware, it will lead to a dystopian future. So when is this slippery slope going to start? The iPhone was released in 2007, and pretty much nothing has become more restrictive since then (especially considering that pretty much all phones were already locked down). The threat of any computers being TPM locked by the manufacturer, let alone all of them died in its cradle. If anything, we're moving in the opposite direction, since Apple now allows sideloading on iOS devices[1].

And what about users who want a phone that is locked down for security purposes? Why shouldn't we be able to choose the phones we want, while those who want sideloading/flashing choose the many options that support that? If either laws or market collusion actually removes this as an option, I'll join the fight. But for right now, it looks like this war on general purpose computing isn't even brewing.

[1]: http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/xcode-7-allows-anyone-to-downl...
Probably exists now, and not before.

Writing this software would be very scary for me -- I'm confident in my work for the most part but I'm only human. To then let a "for-loop" go wild making thousands of trades per second on the entire market with real money against other high frequency traders no less.. man... you gotta be really really really really sure of your code!
Which plugins do people find valuable? EasyMotion was recently recommended to me:

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vim-essential-plugin-easy...
For anyone looking to diy something similar without bothering with the hassle of running a crawler, check out http://commoncrawl.org
Aiming to combat "you don't know what you don't know", here's a list of things to consider.
How comfortable are you with:

* find/replace/regexes

* registers and macros

* vim settings (spell, list, highlight, number, wrap)

* the plugin ecosystem

* editing multiple files simultaneously (splits, buffers, moving between them)

* folds

Anyone else want to chime in with stuff I've either forgotten or don't know I don't know?
Please read carefully , He/She didn't say "rational people dismiss other people's view" he said "liberalism has monopoly on rational people".
Don't change the meaning of what he said.
It's getting more and more possible. Instagram, 10-13 employees at time of acquisition. Were 5 for most of the growth. WhatsApp 30 people 19bn.
What's interesting to me is that you've made an absolute judgement call on me and my worth as a human, based solely on my questioning an income large enough to squirrel away 10-20% of my income, when you know nothing about me or what I do while walking in this world.

So basically, yes, my entire family would be homeless if I were to get fired tomorrow. This has caused unimaginable stress on me, being the sole breadwinner of my current predicament. Do I wish it were different? Sure. But for you to base whether or not I'm a "responsible human" on this, speaks volumes about how you walk around in this world.
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As we all know, the magnitude of mental health problems in the western world is enormously high. It is also a known fact that the existing (public or private) systems are unable to deal with the issue sufficiently on broad level.
Only interventions based on communal support and modern technology can be the answer. We in Heimo are on a bold mission to build world’s biggest peer support community.

Heimo is social media for peer support, where people can help each other, share stories and connect. It is basically a communication tool designed for holding group discussions online in the context of mental well-being. The fundamental idea in Heimo is that there are sensitive issues, such as mental health problems, that many of us comes across in our lives, but there is a certain stigma in it that prevents us to seek help and to talk about those issues. Heimo makes it easier for all of us. www.heimo.co
Unlock iPhone 6s / iPhone 6s Plus for free
The jailbreaks for recent versions of iOS only allow jailbreaking unlocked devices, at which point security is already compromised.

What? You must mean something else because unlocked devices aren't (necessarily) compromised.
>Screen is a bit dimmer

iPhones screens are always too bright anyway. 90% of iPhone use was with the brightness setting on 0. I jailbroke specifically because SBsettings allowed me to do it conveniently. That saved a lot of battery time, about 20%.

I moved on to Android by the time Apple came up with Control Center. I loved being able to read comfortably in the dark.
Indeed. The point is, you need instant feedback.

Very interesting video, I've never seen such sorcery before. Thanks!
15M T-Mobile customers affected by data breach at credit agency
I remember when there were woods and stables around the inner loop 160 freeway in central Houston 50 years ago. A few woods remain, and couple of stables remain, even around the loop.

City parks are wonderful, but they don't replace what I know
Houston for - the wilderness. It's still here but a little farther away.

Sure, it's sprawling and crowded, and crazy at rush hour. But any day of the year, if you want to go camping or go horse riding, well hell, if it's not raining go -- and if it is, put on a raincoat and go.

If you like camping, about an hour south, there's overnight camping at Brazos Bend state park. George Observatory is also there. http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/brazos-bend

Theses are the things I know Houston for.
Verisign iDefense Analysis of XcodeGhost
Read Project Data from MS Project DB and MSP 2016 File Format Support Using Java
That just means the AUD is no longer so crazy overvalued. Just look at the BigMac index.
lawyers will force this to be opt-in.
This is true. But there is no competitive advantage in going and broadcasting to all your competitors exactly how you achieved the advantage. So the development shops that succeed using this will keep it tight.
20mm AUD / year gross.
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Really? On this day, when people have died, senselessly, you want to link to an article that says, basically, "It's not a big deal. Even if it were a big deal, there's nothing we can do about it. Even if we try to do something, we'll probably just make it worse".

Mass shootings are a big deal, not just because of the direct cost, but because of the secondary cost - everyday fear for millions.

We can pass meaningful, sensible legislation, that could make a difference that cannot make things worse. For example, we could allow the government to actually study gun violence. That would at least allow us to postulate some answers, and it'd be cheap, with no negative side effects. There's a lot of other things we can do that wouldn't make things worse, too.

Sorry, defeatism and accusations of "magical thinking" are a ridiculous response to a mass shooting.
The best example would be cars, especially the bits that get wet and stay wet.

Also, don't forget what the clearcoat is.
Legal is meaningless. What they're doing is wrong.
Oops, my mistake.
The $1.2M revenue number looks completely made up by the article submitter. The article makes no mention of this or any other specific monthly revenue number.

I would expect a service like this to have very high churn as people export a list and leave, so the actual recurring revenue is likely much, much lower.
More and more examples of how the money is going to fewer and fewer hands and workers are less and less needed. This is why we need Socialism and a basic income. Kodak's 140k employees vs. Instagram's 30 odd. Snapchat $15B valuation for 330 employees. Now this guy has made (and runs) a $100 million business singlehandedly... What used to take 100s of employees to accomplish can be done with a handful, and it's only going to get worse as tools get more sophisticated and automation more widespread.

It's great for GDP overall, we just need the government to enforce that society's success can be shared among all people and not just a handful of lucky ones.
I like vim-surround[0] and vim-unimpaired[1].

[0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired
Hmmm. WSJ article with only good things to say about gigantic company shortly after public restructuring with special attention given to the independence that privacy-ignoring-behemoth is affording to a company that puts stuff inside your home, and all in 1000 words. Also, look at Mr. Page's amazing smile, he's not a robot. :)

Kinda not much substance here.
The real issue is that Hasbro and Mattel used to have a complete lock on board game sales in major stores.

The first wave of new board games (eg Settlers of Catan) came out of Germany and were sold in the US by specialty stores. That is hobby shops & comic book stores.

Even if you could self fund a production run, there was just no way to get your product on a significant number of US store shelves.
AdBlock Joins “Acceptable Ads” Program After Owner Sells Company
3D Printed Micro Needles Deliver Drugs
Do we know this is from the shooter or is it speculation?
What about the name? He could have potentially left out the most important mistake Spolsky ever made, which is to name a product Fog Buzz. He might as well have named it Rain Smelt, or Lamp Shade. It sounds terrific once you use and like the product, but it doesn't sound remnisent of any kind of successful brand ever. Even the use of 2 words is a departure from the norm. Most of the big brands have 1-word names, and this is not s coincidence. Even Facebook was changed from The Facebook. Brand matters, and names matter.

To play devil's advocate with my own argument, 37 Signals is a bit different as well and people (perhaps more so in the tech community) loved the brand, but the thing is, they used "Basecamp" as their product name.
Obama's Gun Law Plan (2013) [pdf]
> software patents are really just a mechanism to redistribute the wealth of engineers to lawyers

In some cases, probably true. But when big companies are duking it out, it's not the "wealth of engineers" that's getting fought over. It's wealth that would have been passed on to shareholders, directors, officers, etc.
Lots of big enterprises shops monitor http traffic (proxies, transparent and otherwise).. DNS is one of those left unmonitored usually..
> Vi(m) is a model, not an implementaion

No, vim is an editor, not a model (whatever that means) and definitely not an IDE. These are very different things.

I use vim to edit all sorts of text (including for instance this text box, using It'sAllText[1] ). Why would I use an IDE for that ? That'd be silly now, wouldn't it ? ...and at least for me, once I got used to using vim, I didn't see how the IDE could better '...aid you in the launguage ...' than vim itself.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
>basic income

yes.

>socialism

no.
I'm not sure knowing what users purchase makes the App Store any more secure. I'm pretty sure limiting what users can install on their devices is a different sort of tradeoff -- one of freedom for security.
What’s your point?

You might just as well say “Great you folks decided to use positional notation, but I’m happy with my Roman numerals”, or “Great you folks found bézier curves, but I’m happy with my straight-line-segment paths”, or “Great you discovered electric motors, but I’m happy with my windmills and draft animals”, or whatever.

Sure, there’s nothing ”wrong” with using shitty archaic tools. It’s just ineffective.
The fact that it has patent-savvy judges is absolutely a reason why many plaintiffs file there. Ignorant judges are unpredictable.
The claim that the NSA and the FBI are coming to an agreement that everyone should own their own data and backdoor-less encryption is cool sounds more naïve than I think Tim Cook can possibly be in real life.
My roommate got an Electric Imp from a meetup or something that the company sponsored. Oh, was it so disappointing.

* Funky, confusing little form factor? Check! :D

* Really cute way to get network credentials into the device? Check! :D

* Only programmable in some Javascript variant? Check! :/

* Application server that lets you remotely change the code running on any activated device? Check! :D

* Complete and utter absence of locally-hostable version of said application server? Check! :(

They won't even give you the option of paying more for the hardware to get a copy of the application server. :/
From my own personal experience, things weren't bad in the late 90s up to the point of the .com crash. Starting salaries in valley were $45k-$55k. There was a lot of competition for strong candidates, and working conditions were pretty decent. I do commend Spolsky for providing good working conditions in a market like NYC where the current trend seems to be to jam as many people in a space as possible.
try stormfront or breitbart next time.
It's a question of how much specificity you need when you're first starting the suit. Discovery is the process in a civil lawsuit that lets you figure out exactly what happened.
Oh, OK. Looks do matter, but looks are not set in stone.

(And since they are not, you don't need to feel too bad about judging somebody by something they have at least some influence over.)