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Willing (YC S15) Needs a Full Stack Ruby Engineer in Miami, FL
WHY WE EXIST
Making just a few decisions during our lives can have a big impact on our family’s future. Decisions like choosing guardians for our kids, and making sure the things we care about are left to the people and institutions we love.

Today, making these decisions is so expensive and complicated that most of us unknowingly leave an expensive mess behind for our families at the worst possible time.

We want to solve this - for everyone and forever.

WHAT WE DO
Willing makes quality estate planning easy and affordable.

We do this by designing and building a service that is simple, powerful and inspiring; and by being a place where amazingly talented people are excited to make each other even better.

We've been featured on Wired, Business Insider, were named the fastest growing startup of the summer by Mattermark, and were one of TechCrunch's top demo day picks. Our growth and conversion rates are likely among the best you have every seen and early results from our freemium revenue tests are very exciting.

We are well-funded by some of the best technology investors in the world, including Y Combinator, Atlas Venture, Ashton Kutcher and 500 Startups.

WHO YOU ARE
You are an engineer that is passionate about designing, building, testing, shipping and improving great code. Your colleagues or classmates recognize you as among the best they’ve ever worked with.

You are a fast learner with a “get things done” mentality. You communicate clearly and efficiently. You are not afraid of hard work.

You enjoy learning and teaching. You are the kind of person people trust and want to be around. People smile when they see you.

Minimum requirements:
3+ years of work experience building and scaling web applications or Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or similar technical field (e.g., Math, Physics)
Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery
Proficiency in Postgres or other RDBMS, and database architecture and scaling
Experience with iOS or Android development is a plus, but not required

WHAT YOU WILL DO
You will work directly with our CTO as our first engineering hire. You will be expected to contribute across all areas of the business and have the potential to grow at the pace of a world class startup.

Key responsibilities:
Analyze and solve difficult problems across the stack with autonomy, confidence, and creativity
Ensure the stability and security of our environment, including testing and monitoring
Build and ship new functionality based on our product roadmap
Identify issues and refactor existing code to enhance and scale our service
Build something millions love

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH
Email us at careers@willing.com with a link to your previous work and LinkedIn profile.

I'll be around in SF all day on November 10 if you'd like to get together in person.

Good luck!
Agreed. I don't understand why some blogs embrace that kind of styling.

I use a 'zap stylesheets' bookmarklet to make sites like that readable again:

javascript:(function(){var i,x;for(i=0;x=document.styleSheets[i];++i)x.disabled=true;})();
Yeah. Sadly, plain text email seems to be endangered species. But perhaps there is still hope, markdown and pals have made some inroads as all around useful document formats.
> Does anyone have an alternative banking solution? We aren't eligible for USAA.

USAA is a big credit union with national visibility but restrictive membership, but they aren't the only credit union, and credit unions generally are customer-friendlier (since their customers are also their owners); you may want to research local credit unions, most of which now have more open membership than USAA.
Should You or Should You Not Save in Your 20s?
Thanks, yeah, I went crazy and implemented it via go channels, which isn't a fair comparison. I updated with a slightly tweaked version of what you provided.
What would you pick? Genuine question.
I have been a Prime member since 2012. Since having a kid, my free time has decreased, so I value being able to order something late at night and having it show up one or two days later. Time is money. I also like their return system. Its one system that works for everything I buy on Amazon. I don't have to learn a whole new return system for 10 different sites or call someone up on the phone and spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how to return something.
Friendships are formed through shared experiences. College dorms by definition have college-aged people, at the same early stage of life, enrolled at the same college, living in the same closed-world social environment. A lot of them will take the same classes, go to the same parties, know the same people. Even if you happen to have a dominantly one-dimensional self-identity (like "gamer" or "single parent") in the adult world, it seems nearly impossible to come close that.
U.S. Student Loans Surpass GDP of Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland Combined
Jagged Little Pill: An Essay
Fidelity Marks Down Value of Snapchat Stake by 25%
If it takes buying new hardware and the risk is minimal (how much personal information is stored on the device?) then it doesn't matter too much.
Those startups at least claim to be paying market-rate salaries, because the H1B visa category can't be used to hire employees at below-market salaries.
Everything I have read either concludes "no measurable benefit" or "statistically significant, but not clinically significant benefit; need more research". That latter is hard to distinguish from noise. What have you found that concludes otherwise?
A parachute doesn't really make it safe. There is still a large "dead zone" where it would be too high for the pilot to survive a crash but too low for the parachute to work. Unlike a helicopter, the propulsion system doesn't have enough inertia to perform a power-off autorotation.

Some designs for larger powered lift vehicles have somewhat solved that problem by using multiple engines with cross-linked drive shafts. But that increases size, weight, and cost.

These jet pack devices may find a very limited niche market. But they don't have much of a real use case beyond looking cool on video. Most potential buyers will still prefer small helicopters, or drones.
> While the plain-text emails we created had some formatting capabilities (hyperlinks, tracking pixels, etc.), they were as close to plain-text as we could while maintaining the ability to track opens and clicks for testing purposes.

That sounds like "HTML email with minimal cruft" rather than "plain text" to me.
You still can access a list of tweets you have liked, so this workflow hasn't really changed. It is just a long overdue change to the semantics.
> So, guitars are on some axis more expressive than Pd, and less expensive; while analog synths are, in my view, less expressive than Pd, and more expensive.

Your arguments are quite aggressive in my humble opinion. Clearly those of us who are arguing from the point-of-view of experience are all entirely incorrect, and we should dump our synths because we can't possibly be expressive with them?

We all find our own preferred route to music composition - nobody is right or wrong, music is such an emotional pursuit that once you find something that works for you, do it. I also play the guitar (and I own three of them), but I much prefer the direct nature of being able to generate new sounds on my synths and interact with them live.

And although there are many very impressive software based music applications, they all work from the premise of approximating infinite sound-waves. There will always be artificats, no matter the resolution. Then there's the 'real world' effects on sound in analogue machines: heat, resistance, interference, impurities... these give the lauded analogue machines their 'character', and that is what the human ear likes.

There are myriad attempts at digital emulation of that character; some are very close, some close enough that you couldn't tell in a blind test, a lot are miles apart, especially when it comes to synth emulation (rather than outboard effects and mixing desks). I use a DSP from Universal Audio [1] that emulates a lot of outboard effects units and class channel-strips, and mostly they're very good, some are exact.

I think most people using analogue hardware knows that digital is improving at a very fast rate. However the improvements are primarily from trying to attempt to emulate classic analogue gear.

> Your digital keyboard will probably sound a lot better than your upright piano if you get a good set of samples for it and reasonable speakers and headphones.

How can any emulation sound better than the real thing? Surely the real thing sounds as close to itself as it can be?

[1] http://www.uaudio.com/store.html
As in Spanish:

Day-troit .
I think there is definitely some of this at play. That being said, it is a totally sensible update to the semantics of twitter and I think still worthwhile.
> My viewpoint is that things like Bitcoin are little more than cryptographically engineered Monopoly Money.

Exactly like USD and all other first world currencies. Bitcoin is simply the next step in money.
>Those pixels are always drawn anyway.

In terms of LCD being "on" vs "off", yes, they are always "on". However, the pixels for extra GUI effects must still be "computed". For example, Apple recommends that the "parallax" feature can be turned off to help conserve battery power. Parallax requires cpu computation to "draw" even though those pixels are always "on".

It's the same concept of disabling screensavers on the thousands of servers in datacenters. Even those those pixels are always on, computing the drawings in screensavers consume cpu. Multiply the waste that by thousands of servers and the company is paying extra electricity bills for no reason.
that is interesting, not sure if it is any easier than compiling some of the examples I provide, but it does open Linux platforms to those that know wiring, thanks.
Global average sea level is rising at a rate of 3.24 mm per year
It's great they brought this back, but this is far from a new feature, just one that was gone for a few years. Previous to the redesign of the google maps app this feature did fully exist with navigation and all as I used it myself when visiting Canada. Anyway glad to see it back but how quick the Internet forgets.. this isn't new, they just fixed the broken feature, heh.
I completely agree. I am totally unsympathetic about it being difficult to send consistent looking advertisements and emails that resemble web pages. If anyone from the gmail team happens to be reading, please let my comment be a contrary data point to this TC article and keep doing what you're doing!
I live on the Mississippi coast. It was definitely a big deal when it happened since fishing/seafood is one of the major industries here.

I heard lots of reports of folks who were doing the cleanup who were affected by the dispersants. I haven't heard of anyone getting sick from going out on the water or eating coast seafood, and I feel perfectly safe myself eating them. (I certainly don't like the idea of eating oil and dispersants, but I don't weight it as a very high-risk activity.)

From time to time you still see oil or tar in the bayous or on the beach, but it's become increasingly uncommon. Fishermen have vociferously complained that it affected seafood harvests.

Unfortunately a lot of the "cleanup" money is being wasted on things like gigabit Internet (which I would love, but come on) and damming up the biggest continental US river to create two recreational lakes in the middle of nowhere. (Coincidentally a county supervisor owns a lot of land that will have to be bought up by the county.)
I'm not qualified to say recommend you do this when hiring or being hired, but, I tend to look at someone's hobbies when judging their analytical skills.

People with hobbies that they have invested lots of time in often understand their hobbies' domain space in a very specific way, and can demonstrate their analytical ability when presented with a problem related to their hobby. An example might be to present a photographer with a challenge one how to get a given picture, or a collector with the challenge of spotting a fake, or a rock climber with a particular problem/route.

I don't think this really provides a foolproof methodology, but when people have strong extra-curricular domain knowledge, I find that they are often able to answer higher level questions about those areas. This is a good proxy for general analytical ability, and helps get past the problem of testing them on something they may know nothing about, which doesn't really highlight analytical ability at all.

The downside to this is that you have to know about their hobby to ask a good question, and you have to put in some effort to ask a good one. This is good, since even casual effort on your part can give a boost to the level of your "test".

Source: I am an Analyst, with lots of hobbies. I have found my own hobbies have prepared me very well for being an analyst that deals with multiple subject matters at a time.

Note: I am referring to analytical abilities as reasoning, judgement, intuition, etc. Not to be confused with skills in Analytics which refer to math/statistics/data science.
These are interesting links, but they have to do with treating individual ornamental ash trees that are infested with a particular insect. Fruit can only be grafted onto the same species (or a very closely related one) so this has no particular relevance. Information about standard treatments for ornamental plums or crabapples would be relevant, though.
Part of the motivation behind Alphabet, perhaps?
I'm British so my natural pronunciation would be very close to the third example.

However I've watched enough 30 Rock to know that the correct pronunciation is a slow "deeeTROIT".
It's not just about being harsh. Sometimes you need to be harsh (at least internally). Reflecting, and understanding the reality of the situation is one step. The next is deciding what the team needs to hear. What's the best action to move them forward?
> Gmail and its plethora of rendering quirks is a big reason why developers avoid working on email. Developers like well-defined and documented environments, and email is anything but. Although many email clients suffer from rendering issues, getting an email to display nicely in the various Gmail desktop and mobile clients gives developers the most angst.

THANK FUCK. Seriously, just send me plain text.
>If that is the case, it may be because many users are like me, and they tend to not want fancy-looking marketing emails, and just want basic rich-text features.

Of course it wouldn't be that Google is the world's largest advertising company and they are in direct competition with those advertisements that they break.
> "Also, being an educational model iMac with an old C2D, Chrome runs noticeably faster than Firefox."

I'm surprised by that. Have you tried Firefox on that machine recently (last 6 months, let's say)?
I welcome these kind of bold predictions, and unfortunately we see this less and less nowadays. Perhaps it's because it's easier to get called out than before with all the claims you make online nowadays being pretty much be set in stone.

Anyways, I would enjoy reading bold predictions about the future that's falsifiable rather than wishy-washy useless articles titled "7 reasons why Uber is winning." or "Why less users are joining Twitter."
I've been wondering about this and after reading that link, I think I'm going to switch from the Gmail iOS app to using the included Mail app. We'll see how it goes, but I do want my email as the developer intended.
They dispersed the oil into the food chain. How is that not high-impact?

Just because it's out of sight doesn't mean it's not affecting us or the environment.
Closing the case on the Boston Garden monkey mystery
Forgot to mention, you can experiment with modular ethos using the Korg synth kit from Little Bits:

http://littlebits.cc/kits/synth-kit
It's odd, they've written that they were influenced by Pascal, which is where the operator " := " comes from. But it doesn't work quite right in golang...

In Pascal you would use := every time you wanted to assign a variable, and a single equals when testing, such as "if (x = 5) then...". It is slightly more like math than most languages, which I appreciated. But, golang only allows it on the first assignment, the reasoning perhaps that it is a declaration?

I don't feel that this third way of doing it with no advantage was a benefit, choosing one C of Pascal rules would have been better and less to think about.
On most desktop Linuces I've dealt with, the "stub resolver" is dnsmasq, which is quite full-featured and DNSSEC-capable... except that distributions don't enable the feature or distribute a trust anchor. But there aren't any deep structural problems preventing them from flipping the switch [1] - not like, say, the deep coupling between layer 3 and layer 4 that killed SCTP and other TCP/UDP alternatives in practice.

[1] For example, this configuration change is all that's required to enable DNSSEC on Gentoo, and would probably also work on Ubuntu and Fedora: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dnsmasq#DNSSEC
HERE Maps - Has all of the Offline capabilities and is available Multi-Platform.
In addition it has Speed limits and warnings, all for free on Android.

The one reason to use the Google Maps app is the updated Traffic info and slightly nicer turn-by-turn (mentions specific lanes, etc) and slightly more updated maps.
The article claims that Schema has not caught on, but in fact you have to be approved [1] to be able to have Gmail pick them up in emails you send and it's not really an open standard like it should be.

Moz has a great article which covers it pretty well. Basically you have to send 100 emails per day for some length of time.

Since you can't just add them to your email and expect them to work, I think that is why it hasn't caught on. I'd really love if it did though.

1: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/registering-with-...

2: https://moz.com/blog/markup-for-emails
Only way I know how to do that is all flash storage...
"JavaScript Tooling Settles to Merely Chaotic" - haha, well put
Then just run the non-updating version of Chrome?
NASA Memo: Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question (1963)
Because 1 death is a more realistic scenario than a slippery slope to armageddon.
You can DIY it. There is an ecosystem of tools that can handle map tiles shoved into a sqlite database:

http://mobac.sourceforge.net/

So you just need to pick some of them and mess around getting it working. In the US, you can get reasonable imagery from the USGS:

http://raster.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Orthoimag...
If it were just the web browser I would have probably moved him to some incarnation of Ubuntu. Unfortunately, when it comes to applications like Photo Booth that are easily approachable by a 6 year old the situation becomes more complicated.
So I'm a man, and I'm married, and I'm committed to my marriage. I'm not just worried about my reputation; my marriage is a more important issue. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean I'm immune to temptation. So if I'm having to work closely with you, and you're interested in me, and I also find you attractive, I'm going to take steps to distance myself from you. That may take the form of not working late with you. It may even take the form of asking to be assigned to a different team than you. (Note well: It's not OK for me to try to get you fired, or damage your career. It's not even OK for me to ask that you get reassigned.)

If you want to blame me for that, saying that it's my weakness that is the problem, I can agree with you. But I'm not trying to discriminate against you, or put a glass ceiling on your career, or anything like that. I just know that I can be tempted, and if I give in, it will really mess up my life.

Unfortunately, that can still leave you blocked from your professional goals. I don't know how to fix this.
Its funny how butt hurt Android users get at the mention of Apple.
That's the point - a Reddit post can be much more substantial than a tweet usually is, so saving makes more sense for the former than the latter.
An experiment they're doing to give "the best stories" a good chance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10537417
Meanwhile, Honda[1] and SRI [2] are catching up. Boston Dynamics' Atlas is too much like Big Dog; it weighs 700 pounds and uses hydraulics. Schaft is all-electric; they use liquid cooling so they can run the motors really hard if they have to. (That's how Tesla does it, too.) Boston Dynamics is working on better hydraulics, but electric motors are going to win this one for anything smaller than a pony.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/honda-...
[2] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/durus-...
When you build your own castle and set up toll stations on roads and rivers, there is rulership going on. You're it!

The wikipedia article suggests that the robber barons weren't difficult to stamp out, because they lived openly in giant castles. They existed because there wasn't a government above them to squash them. Filling a power vacuum doesn't make you a bandit, it makes you a warlord.
I have another "simple" idea: modify the lottery to distribute the visas more evenly.

Step 1: Randomize the list of employers with applicants.

Step 2: Give one visa to each employer in a round-robin fashion until they are exhausted or they have no more applicants. The company then decides which of its applicants gets the visa.

Assuming that there are fewer than 65k employers petitioning each year, each employer could count on at least 1 petition succeeding.
The service is a side project. It's something half baked (maybe not always half baked, but often) you did because you thought it was fun to do. If someone is depending on my side project, I'm not gonna take responsibility for you making a bad decision to depend on a service that people make as a side project.

Of course, if we're talking "real" projects/services, it's different. But now we're talking about side projects. Something you do on the side.

I'm not against letting your users know that you're shutting down with a good amount of time before. What I'm against is that someone saying (the linked blogpost for example) that I HAVE TO maintain my side project because someone decided to depend on it.
Telcom has always been deeply entwined with state security. It was just easier to ignore this for the past "web 2.0" decade.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Let God be God in your life
I think many people still undervalue the importance and impact of online social networks.
That's fair and I agree. I should have said "and" rather than "despite".
No, not within the past 6 months. Has there been an improvement in that area for the OS X port?
You use the French pronunciation, [detʁwɑ], obviously.
Although when it was founded they might have pronounced [detʀwe].

Edit: but note that in English I would use an English pronunciation.
He was right about at least once major thing: tele-presence is largely a failure. It's 2015 and most of the Internet industry is concentrated within the Bay Area because people need to be near one another to interact richly. This is a direct demonstration of the failure of the Internet to permit truly rich long range human communication; the very people who build it can't use it to escape their local rent bubble despite strong economic incentive to do so.
In social situations, they are the same thing.
I deliberately said cryptocurrency not Bitcoin, since I view Bitcoin as an alpha version of distributed digital money.
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For a use like this EEC RAM is worth the money.
Interactive Exposure Tool
This is what the end of net neutrality looks like.