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Corista | Full-time Senior Full Stack Engineer | Boston, MA | On-site or Remote

## Company ##

Corista is a small, versatile software development company focusing on solutions for Pathologists, Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies. We produce a scalable, secure platform, accessible from any web-enabled device, implementing the only image agnostic digital pathology solution.

## My misc .02 ##

We've doubled our swdev team in the last year (now 10 people) and are continuing to grow. Our team consists of both on-site and remote devs. Our HQ is in Concord, MA and a small satellite office in Davis Sq (Somerville, MA). We put a very high value on team fit as it's very important to our culture.

We are now running our platform on AWS and it's exciting to be moving our workload to "the cloud" and to add DevOps to our arsenal of skills.

## What we're looking for ##

* An expert (Senior meaning 5+ years) in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript and has UI experience and likes to do things right the first time.

* Wants to be a major contributor on a small, tightly-knit team of senior developers and scientists.

* Is an active “doer” and can lead by example.

* Easy to work with and interact with, seeks out the problem areas and wants to find solutions to them.

## More about us ##

Go here --> http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/corista

recruiting@corista.com
True. But in modern agriculture, the soil is irrelevant. Corn in Iowa grows because of Anhydrous Ammonia applications. That's it. Eroded clay hillsides produce as well as (or even better than) black loam. So no worries there.
Building a Cognitive App with IBM Watson Concept Insights
Developers Ship Dropbox and Gmail Logins in Unsecure Motorola CCTV Cameras
Using Neurotechnologies to Develop Virtues: A Buddhist Approach
Anecdotal Experience follows:
The combination of coffee and exercise was leaving me truly exhausted. I was drinking water but still had signs of dehydration(foggy, listless etc).

Started using rehydration packets EMERGEN-C ELECTRO MIX and instantly(15 min) felt distinctly better than after a liter of straight water. Given the rest of my diet, magnesium was the main probable culprit. I switched to SLOW-MAG and it reduced earlier symptoms. (in theory this was controlling for other electrolytes). My recommendation is to try the Packets first as they effect is within 15 min, although it might take two if you're really dehydrated.
“Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics” [pdf]
It's not literally a war over food where the winner gets to eat. It's riots because food in North Africa triples in price because it has to be transported from Russia or Europe instead of grown locally and people are angry but the local government has no capacity to fix it.
I've been using Alternote (alternoteapp.com) for awhile and really like it. It syncs via the Evernote API so I don't have to import anything and can access my notes on my phone with Evernote. I think they're making a mobile app to eliminate the need to use any Evernote app at all.
I second the Angie's List recommendation. If you go with only people who have an A rating and many reviews, I've never gotten poor service. Also, when you think about the hundreds or thousands you could lose with a bad contractor, the annual fee for access is a drop in the bucket.
What's new in Elasticsearch 3.0?
Yes that makes sense. Thanks.
The reason why many find/found it ugly is that it's cheap. There's a long history of expensive things defining whats beautiful in architecture.

The typical red of Swedish houses is imitating brick houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red

Timber framing houses were often directly built with a stone facade. Only nowadays we have learned to love timber framing houses.
Activist Engineering
A small, self-governing island may hand over its roads to self-driving cars
If I open the GitHub page on my iPhone I can see the graph animating. It's just an animated gif, so it should not really be a problem of Javascript at all (there is none involved). On the other hand, if you are trying to use the Jupyter notebook, I've no idea if it works on iPhone.

If you have a specific issue, can I please ask you to report it on GitHub Issues?

Thanks!
Gfk was the leading hype driver over here in Germany.
Why loser[dot]com
Please stop reposting this story to Hacker News.
I still use vimwiki. It has a few warts, but since I'm comfortable with it (as in when you learn some of the leader commands, it becomes more powerful) and files are saved to Dropbox, it makes work and home note taking convenient.

It's particularly nice in that if you are already in vim; <leader>ww will open the wiki index.

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

I've also been doing some note taking with :set filetype=journal in use with junegunn's nice syntax.

https://github.com/junegunn/vim-journal
Evaluating gambles using dynamics
I'm flattered (and blushing) :-)
See the prior discussion dang linked to, with their stock hardware it's impossible to get from where they launch to the shuttle's orbit.
Storing oil shares is free though.
The web community is flooded in negativity because it was swamped by kids with overly idealistic, unrealistic, and heroic ideas about what the web was going to be post-Facebook.

Those people then realized that the web is, like all things, both real and imperfect. So now they're upset. This is all part of growing up.

People who have been involved with the web for a while are not in any way more jaded then before. They already witnessed PHP, PERL, Java Applets, Flash, the browser wars, and so on.
Using PostgreSQL in R: A quick how-to
On Windows Visual Studio is still very much the default in the context of Windows only developers.

Some people/projects prefer to use MinGW-W64 builds with an IDE such as Code::Blocks, CodeLite, QtCreator, etc.

With VS Community coming out last year it has given more people/projects access to a full Visual Studio environment which is very nice IMHO. I have not seen many FOSS projects switch to using Visual Studio and MSVC (the short name for the Visual C++ Compiler) over MinGW-W64 though. I suspect this is just down to "if it ain't broke" though more than anything.
I've taken a bit of my lunchtime to comment on this post in various places but one that kept coming up is "is there code for this, somewhere?"

I have a camera setup on my RPi for this purpose, but never got around to tying in OpenCV (though it's something that's been on my list for some time). At the time I couldn't find/didn't look hard enough for a good open source implementation.

It looks like this can be done relatively easily using an RPi and Python: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=813535#p8...

The Github repo for the code is here: https://github.com/pageauc/motion-track/tree/master/speed-tr...

Video with a code walk-through and demo is here: https://youtu.be/eRi50BbJUro

I know what I'll be doing tonight. :o)
Cool, I'm totally new to d3, but it seems very very interesting. It's nice to know that a good layout plugin is available. Thanks for the info!
Porsches will never drive themselves, says Porsche CEO (yes they will)
This is my second IDE after Dev-C++ [1] when I was taking basic programming course in my university. I prefer Code Blocks to Dev-C++ because it have good features, like code completion and syntax highlighter. The source code is easier to view in Code Blocks.

[1]: http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
At what point does that behavior become escapism, especially given that these actions took place on a forum for a game where you're very explicitly allowed to be trollish?
> They gave away a free version of windows on it...

Not true. It was a low cost version of XP, for which OEMs paid $11 to $15.

> ... with heavy restrictions.

That's certainly true (as defined by Microsoft and Intel). However, it was arguably better for users to have machines with 2GB or 4GB of RAM and without letterbox screens, and there was no restriction on making those.

Today there are dozens of "netbooks" with 10in screens that outperform the old netbooks, run full Windows 10, have touch screens, and cost a lot less than the old netbooks.
> If he can be completely booked up with solid clients just on word of mouth alone, why even bother with an internet presence?

If he can be, don't, but is that realistic for most businesses?

If you legitimately don't need business leads then don't do a website, but also don't do the Yellow Pages, or the local paper. But being in such a position is rare and a privilege.
What a joke!
I have the same story - bought Sketch 2 in France for 50 euros, moved to US as they updated to version 3. Can't get the old version back (it just doesn't appear in itunes at all - tried to get this resolved with no luck) and my only option is to re-purchase the product.
How can you know this isn't the placebo effect?
Show HN: Training as a service for TensorFlow deep learning models
The thing about food riots is, they are over quickly because, starvation. So a very temporary condition.

And in this modern age of transportation there's really no need for anybody to go hungry. We can feed everybody. If somebody in North Africa is hungry, its their politics at fault.
Why Handwriting Makes You Smarter Than Typing
Back when I was working at a MegaCorp who kept trying to turn me into a tech lead/manager? Miserable.

Now at a small company where I just code all day long and nothing else? Extremely happy.

Where you work and who you work with matters.
All the mentioned Google services are being paid for by Google Search, a luxury that Yahoo never had.
Could even consider implementing this inside a coreboot payload to load a "hidden" OS that on the BIOS flash chip.

https://www.coreboot.org/Linux
A Reimplementation of NetBSD Using a Microkernel
Who is using it?

Why?

How?

What do they like?

What don't they like?

What do they wish it had?

The Field of Dreams line is not "if you build it, they will come." It's "he will come." If you're lucky, there is one customer who loves your product. Go have a catch with that one. Eventually, there might be a full nine.

...also, this might make a good "Show HN".

Good luck.
Hello! I'm one of the creators of Fomoro and this is something we've been building over the last couple of weeks. I have a Macbook Pro with no GPU so I frequently use AWS to train models. While AWS doesn't have the best GPUs for deep learning they're still faster than without and as an added benefit I could train as many as I want simultaneously.

Right now, Fomoro simplifies training on spot instances, it's a little rough around the edges but try it out and let me know what you think. Thanks!
That homogeneous and mostly pleasant culture is killing itself, apparently. We may get to witness a nation commit suicide, which ought to be interesting from the outside.

I hope the insularity ends up being worth it for them, but history is not on their side.
Add Ethernet Functionality to Raspberry Pi Zero with PiJack
Finally a post on Concept Insights :)

I work on this project, feel free to ask anything.
Nigeria's rural microfinance community gets connected using Stellar and Oradian
Assuming the NFS server isn't mounted on the image once it boots, it's no storage. I would hope that's the case, and that the NFS server is configured read-only, but they don't explicitly state it in the article.
This is a lot of butthurt for getting smacked down for a stupid joke. Let it go. Save your jokes for reddit.

Edit: slur? WTF?
I seem to remember there's some good stuff from Pixar on contouring which might be helpful.

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Contours/paper.pdf
Symmetric Key Function Preserving Encryption Schemes
Some people are simply better at raising money than shipping product.

Gotta be real and stick to your strength ;)
Sure, but Eris lied about anything and everything. Pretending to be depressed and suicidal is probably the easiest way to get sympathy, which is cruel not only because you're an asshole for lying about being depressed, but also because it casts doubt on people who are actually suffering from depression as well.

I wonder how much of what Eris told the author was verified. Is he actually going to church? Does he actually have a Pennsylvania girlfriend?
But that obviously doesn't solve the actual problem.
Be careful, though, because when oil reaches its end game, the price will fall and never come back up. Are we there yet? Or is this just temporary drop? There's no way to know, now.
I don't think that's true at all -- I think they have the same lifecycle as a PC. I still use an iPad 2 pretty regularly... probably will buy a replacement next year, but I'm a cheapskate.

Professionally, I have several hundred line of business users with iPad 3's. They are just starting to complain about battery life, etc. So you're looking at a 39-48 month lifespan, similar to a PC.
The only thing I can say for certain is the obsession toward quality has faltered. All their software has been to show atrophy in the past year or two. There are still hardware innovations, but no "wow"s for some time.
Hackaday got the story from here and linked to this which may have generated interest.

http://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/flip-your-desktop-over-to-boo...
Show HN: 4usxus – Accountability is awesome
Ask HN: Is your Slack-based product profitable?
Looking at the last few days on ProductHunt, I’m seeing about 8+ products for Slack. Some of them are a sub-product of the main one with either their own pricing or used to promote the main product. Some are a full-fledged startup, some even only seem to work in a Slack environment. Pricing vary between Free to ~$50/months.

I’m guessing the Slack ecosystem is pretty healthy but is it profitable? I’m particularly interested in products with a dedicated pricing.
Here is a diverging opinion, stating that the studies that "proved" this were conducted incorrectly, and the one that had sufficient validity found no difference between chelate, citrate and oxide: http://www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/index.php?id=29065

Its in german but Google translate should work well.
The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format.

Here's Quiver's: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format

It's . . . really good. Like, _really_ good.

I particularly like that they keep the metadata and the content of the note separate. This is the same thing Camlistore does, and it's nice for version control because making changes to the metadata (adding new tags or whatever) doesn't show up as a content change.

Speaking of version control, Quiver's thoughts on this are interesting:

"Since Quiver stores all the data in plain JSON files, it’s easy to put the whole library (or a specific notebook) under version control. This is another way to collaborate with your team."

Leaving version control up to the user isn't the worst, but it does mean that it won't be straightforward to put an "undo" in the GUI (if the GUI already has undo somehow I'd like to hear how they do it).

I'm also not sure whether it would be better to version the whole notebook or individual qvnotes. I have more thoughts on this (starting from a slightly different angle of how it relates to wikis) here: http://housejeffries.com/page/4.

EDIT: Something just occurred to me. If HappenApps wanted to make a machine readable schema for qvnotebook and qvnote they could use JSON Schema for the JSON part. What would they use for the directory part? Is there such a thing as a schema for directories? (e.g. this directory must contain a `content.json` file, a `meta.json` file, etc.)
And if it goes badly, just as well for me! I'd love to take a cheap vacation to Japan.
Technically, it's not a study. They present a few case histories, which is basically, "we found a few patients whose depression went away after taking magnesium, maybe we should look into it".

That being said, it would be pretty easy to investigate.
Even if there's not enough data, the risk of supplements is very low , especially compared to the risk of pharmaceuticals.So why not try ?

And the reason they don't have as much high-quality proof as pharmaceutical(clinical trials), is just because of monetary incentives, nothing more.
$1600 is roughly an 8 night stay in Miami, at a decent hotel. I think this is a great deal for me as I can stay anywhere they are available when I want. I already pay over $2000 for a single bedroom apartment in downtown Fort Lauderdale - and I am stuck here in a lease for a year.
Well, the provided command takes 2.5 min to for pari to test the given "prime" on my computer. There are 16*256 numbers with a single hex digit mutation from the number given.

Anyone got a cluster laying around?
>in the "developed" countries, this makes literally everything else cheaper

LOL. In Canada, the drop of oil prices dropped the loonie, and now grocery prices are through the freaking roof. It's harder to eat healthy when a cauliflower is $13.
That's why they call it a mégaoctet.
I've been using OS X on my macbooks for like 2 years now, until now I had no idea it even existed anymore.
Do you work at Amazon? The meaning of share price, and the odds of recovery
Thank you, @fogleman! We really love you work - including other projects!
It bums me out that HN readers just read and respond to the headline without analyzing the actual content.

My immediate reaction to medical headlines is always to wonder "why should I believe this"? In this particular case the paper tests four people, one of whom is described as only "moderately depressed" and who lost his "craving for smoking, dipping, cocaine and alcohol" with the treatment. I am very skeptical of this magical cure.

(From there, I might also add that the publishing info itself is pretty sketchy (author appears to be some random dude self-publishing, paper cites his own website a lot), but it's a bit ad hominem to rely on this. It's also entirely possible that this hypothesis is correct but I don't think this paper is a good first step on proving that.)
What is the recommended procedure to be tested for vitamin/mineral/whatever (vitamin D = steroid?) deficiencies... is it best to head to a random doctor to get blood drawn?

It seems like a good idea to get levels checked regularly - like an annual physical! If there's reliable, low-cost way of getting everything or at least everything important checked I would love to hear about it.
There are tons of tasks that are easy for a human to perform, but challenging for a computer to perform. Deepdream certainly seems to impress the layman.
400ms Response Time
[Navel Gazing Startup Post]
Yes, and this will likely show up in shipment volume declines at some point if they don't find a way to mitigate it.

I wonder if their financing plan is seeing strong uptake in the US? If it does, they may be able to boost margins a bit.
Nothing. It's just a more trustworthy language for building a kernel or other systems software. I was just rambling about cool shit happening in the OS development space.
As a VJ, that's what I love about VLC too. Even now, I cringe when I go to professional film screenings, and between each film the screen reverts to a Mac desktop wallpaper and some person in the projection booth is frantically twiddling with their mouse to click the play button in QuickTime.
That's... the joke...
Yeah, I use markdown files in Dropbox with vim and some snazzy plugins. It's very effective for me.
How many people will go out of their way and search Twitter for clarifications? I read the quote, and rolled my eyes. The journalist should be ashamed to take such a quote out of context.
Question: at the bottom of
https://github.com/fogleman/ln/blob/master/ln/matrix.go

Did you type that in manually?

I wonder if there's a way to do that in Go that doesn't have as much duplication, but has the same performance?
Fasteroute Rail Delay Explorer
>You want a huge portion of the world, most of whom not knowing how, to override your stylesheet because you can't be bothered to take five seconds to ease up on contrast (or even consider it)?

No, but given the way that the web and browsers are designed, along with the way that my site is designed the option is there for people that want to take it. Again, should I have to provide a link to a spoken version of my website in case somebody who is blind doesn't have a screen reader installed?

ADA is about making things accessible. So long as somebody can, with reasonable accommodation, access my website (for example, my design being simple and trivially overridable with user styles) then I'm accessible. If someone with dyslexia cannot handle the contrast levels of my site because a small minority of dyslexic users have their dyslexia triggered by that amount of contract then that is precisely what user style sheets are for, and I don't think it's unreasonable to ask somebody who is a minority of a minority to use the tools that are provided implicitly for them to configure things in a way that is easier for them.
Following Tragedy, Friends Create ReKall to Help Loved Ones in Times of Crisis
NSA TAO Chief on Disrupting Nation State Hackers at USENIX Enigma 2016
yep, I use org-mode for my programmers note last 15 years.
Because the result is always better?
Great! Hughes Hoppe's work is amazing!
Wow that's ugly. The original regex is a valid POSIX BRE; it also works in GNU sed and FreeBSD sed with default options. But maybe your translation will be useful to others who only grok PCRE.
As is their right, certainly.
hexo is supported,too.This plugin dose not generate site itself.
I have been unable to find an advantage that vimwiki or vim outliner have over just using vim with markdown in a Dropbox directory. Folding, numbering, etc work really well for me for that. What do you like about it in particular over what I could do with markdown?
How to control your smart lights from your smartwatch
I question why this was posted. AS its been around for years now, and I personally feel like this is a marketing attempt.
Totally agree. Jupyter/IPython is an impressive tool.

I started to play with it recently and I am very happy with what it can do.

It's, also, very easy to install in a docker container: https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks
(I haven't managed to make work the persistence part when stopping the container yet, but this is due to my inexperience with docker).
For those interesed, I was among the not-confused-but-curious (I'm old enough to even have inserted cassette tapes on a computer) and found out this [0] explanation :) Nice story, thanks ksherlock.

[0]: http://www.geek.com/games/karateka-apple-ii-floppy-disk-had-...
Very interesting. Can you recommend a specific brand?

By the way, I have noticed that flaxseed oil (1-2 tablespoons/day on some bread) also helps ease anxiety in my case. I have no clue about the mechanism behind it, but I just wanted to mention it.
That article is so arrogant sounding. Of course most of the funding is coming out of SV. Because most VC won't fund anything that isn't in SV or maybe NY. If your from SV they'll fund dog butt social flipper app but sorry I get that your company has revenue and makes a profit it just doesn't meet our funding criteria. I suppose the rest of the IT departments and universities around the world are run by a bunch of nose picking hill-billies. With out the sophisticat-un of them there city folk.
I think MPW (the original Mac IDE from Apple) in 1985 can claim prior art on the notebook UI
The full stack employee
Zoom out to include 1995 (the limits of Japanese data for your source). Japan is mid-tier for growth in household disposable income 2010-2014, but consistently among the very slowest growing countries from 1995-2009. This is a difference of 1% average growth vs. 3% average growth across 15 years. That is a huge difference (16% vs. 56% cumulative growth), and very consistent with my claims about the stark disparity between the US and Japan in per capita GDP today.
OK. Settle down now, princess.