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Instawork (YC S15) is hiring Backend/Fullstack/Mobile devs for local marketplace
Instawork is the fastest growing marketplace for local jobs. We've changed the way traditional job search works for small businesses (e.g a sign on the window) by turning the process into an automated matching problem. We do this by analyzing a variety of offline data signals.

We are located in SF and are funded by an amazing set of investors: SV Angel, YC, Crunchfund, Steve Chen (co-founder of YouTube), and many more: www.instawork.com/about.

Email cofounder: saureen@instawork.com

Backend Engineer

* 5+ years of work experience

* Expertise in a web server stack (we are Python/Django)

* Strong expertise in databases (Mysql or others)

* You’ve worked with software in C/C++ at some point

* AWS & Devops & Distributed Task Queues

* Open source contributions with a Github link is a plus

* Familiar with single-page app front-end frameworks and MVC patterns

Fullstack Engineer

* 4+ years of work experience

* Expertise in a web server stack (we are Python/Django)

* You have FE framework experience: ReactJs or Angular/Ember (we are ReactJs)

* You have an interest in Design and UX

* You’ve heard of server-side rendering

* Open source contributions with a Github link is a plus

* React Native experience is a major plus

Mobile Engineer

* 4+ years of work experience

* You’re experienced, tinkered, learning React Native (we’re React Native)

* You’ve shipped a native iOS or Android app

* You’ve worked on mobile UX / UI and are familiar with patterns, style-guides.

Email cofounder: saureen@instawork.com. Attach LinkedIn, Resume, Github links if available.

We’re a small team and rapidly growing and would love to talk to you!
Paper: "The Peaks of Eternal Light: a Near-term Property Issue on the Moon" http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01989
I'm married to a psychologist specializing in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for treating anxiety and insomnia. There are ways to deal with these problems without medication. And these methods are backed up by peer reviewed studies to prove they work. If you do end up needing help in the future I'd recommend reading up on CBT.
Is it? I'm not so sure. Certainly the presence of LittleKernel, a lightweight real-time kernel suggests it's an RTOS but that kernel is wrapped by something called 'Magenta' which says "Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation." [1]

[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/m...
1.Psychiatrists go to medical school, just like other "doctors."
2. There is a huge evidence base for the practice of psychiatry, though it would be nice if it were adhered to more rigorously.
3. Incomplete understandings of the mechanisms of action of drugs is rife throughout medicine. For example, why does the hypertension drug HCTZ work at sub-diuretic doses?
4. If they were doing great, they probably wouldn't need to see a psychiatrist. Also, there are very likely people that you have met who are doing great that you have no idea are seeing a psychiatrist.
I saw the D&D template earlier. That was hysterical.

I had not seen the markdown Beamer proof-of-concept. Very cool. Overleaf is the single best thing that has ever happened to my collaborative authorship skills, partly because Google Docs doesn't have a decent equation editor ;-)
Using the reversal test:
I imagine living in an overcrowded world whose population was out of control with nothing to cull its growth. With resources running out, and we had the opportunity to slowly and 'naturally' phase out individuals to reduce the population (read: dying of natural causes as people do now), then yes, I would prefer that.
They have a related name service for friendly names, IPNS, however it's difficult to find more information about this service.
Freedoms 1-3 exist with BSD, too, they just aren't protected.

There are few cases where freedom 0 exists without the other 3, but one case where that's true is with some of the Microsoft tooling around the CLR. In such cases, I, as someone who doesn't know low-level Windows programming, can't realistically change the software myself, but I could pay someone else to do it. But since I don't have freedoms 1-3, my only option is to pay MS if I want that modification. There is a very small group of people in the world who can afford to pay Microsoft for customizations. So even as someone who would never make modifications to the software, I care (and my boss who wasn't even a developer would care) because we had to work around limitations of our tools rather than paying someone to fix them.
Is there any specific reason why YC left out China? China has a hug community and great success in startups.
Here you go (something I have posted previously on this forum)-

1. Timezone issues - this is, imo, the biggest one. Especially after working with people in China, India, Europe or even eastern USA (with me in SF bay area). People all over the world usually start working around 9-10, and stop working around 6-7. Meetings, code/design discussions are very difficult on those schedules, especially when you want a decision on smaller issues where a quick back n forth would settle the matter in 30 min if everyone was in the same room. And there are plenty of such issues, where unavailability of your coworkers seriously affects the productivity.

2. Impromptu discussions: These are triggered by spontaneous ideas, and ideas do not come according to a fixed schedule of meetings. By not having remote workers in these discussions, both sides lose (by not having more brains, as well as by missing out).
I'm sorry this has been your experience, but please don't throw my entire profession under the bus because of it.
In the interview, you said that you had 10 paying customers before you even started coding or had a company. My question is:

How did you get those people paying you, and how much they paid? Since you have a monthly service, surely they haven't been paying your usual monthly fee for all that time while you were coding?
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That statistic is out of date; Redfin has built dozens of pages on React-Server by this point.

(Also, just to be clear, we treat all home details pages as a single logical page.)
I'm not so sure about the cool down, but i think you're exactly right about the baby boomers. Nobody wants to die. I don't think many baby boomers are connecting the anti-aging dots directly. But that large, wealthy, aging group of people are certainly spurring a ton of research.

Take this pill to not die is the ultimate killer app.

I don't think it's going to work out. I think a lot of money will go to snake oil, but hopefully something good will come of it.
And you've missed my point entirely. You can have a game that simply _isn't fun, until the point of it actually being polished._
I think there's little or no evidence that "you can recover most of the M:N ergonomics over time via async/await style syntax", despite a decade or so of attempts. I think there's an underlying semantic concern that seems unsugarable.

Munificent's http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y... expresses the problem eloquently.

None of that means you're wrong about async making "a lot more sense for the language", though.
Halo co-creator turns Renegade with first-person shooter for iOS
You mentioned potentially lower cancer risk, is there any other reason you fast 6pm - noon next day?

I've done intermittent fasting before, which is basically the same as what you said you do every day, but not sure if you call it that. Like, do you feel better during the day? I did it just to help lose weight, but would be interested in doing it again if there are other possible benefits.
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Ubiquity gear around the 1Gbps rate isn't anywhere close to $18-20k.

And for very short links, there are projects like http://koruza.net/ which use standard (cheap) 1Gbps or 10Gbps media converters for free space optical links.

I'd love to know about affordable microwave 10Gbps equipment, I'm not sure we've gotten there yet.
Put it this way:

Cost of a branch misprediction is 10s of cpu cycles. (1) Measured in gigahertz (10^9 cycles per second).

Time to turn around a web request is, if you're very lucky and have done the work, mainly about getting a value from an in-memory cache at multiple milliseconds (2). That's 1 / (10^3) seconds.

If you're not lucky, 10s or 100s of milliseconds to generate the response.

It seems that the second duration is best case around 10^6 times longer. I would not sweat the first one.

1) http://stackoverflow.com/a/289860/5599
2) http://synsem.com/MCD_Redis_EMS/
Btw - Front End role was moved to https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=...
> How would you treat a person who was immortal because they spent $1 million on a treatment that you couldn't afford?

I'm thinking of a great Prachett-esque scene where the newly ageless billionaire walks out of the clinic and then slips on a banana (or a soylent puddle) and dies from head trauma.
Same here; this decentralized and distributed internet stuff is exciting. I agree the ipfs addresses are a bit long and kinda illegible...I once thought that maybe there could be future self-hosted (quick-n-easy-to-roll-out) url shorteners, but then figured these would be ephemeral at best, which might sort of undo the content-address-ability of the ipfs content...and then my brain began to hurt, so finished my beer, and went back to chilling. ;-)
I don't doubt that there are great Psychiatrist out there (you're probably one of them, and I'm sorry to have offended you). However, due to my past experiences I'm reluctant to find out where or who they are or recommend this form of treatment to others.
I've only just entered the market for a house in Boston. I didn't try especially hard to put together a down payment, and definitely could have done it sooner (especially if I hadn't gotten a part-time master's degree for four years), but, if I had moved to SF, I probably would have still been renting.
a physicist is openly willing to compromise their principles and stretch the truth for the sake of press, while a mathematician sticks to the truth and as a result nobody cares.

I think it goes deeper than this. I was in the same undergraduate mathematics and physics classes as Nima Arkani-Hamed[1]. In calculus class, we learned very formal, epsilon-delta calculus (from Spivak's textbook). In physics, we learned from Feynman's Lectures on Physics.

Years later I went to lunch with him, and he mentioned that he spent much of his time fighting the formalist instincts from our Calculus class, and thinking more intuitively about mathematics. I do think physicists play more fast-and-loose with mathematics, e.g. using approximations like a few terms from a Taylor series, or other assumptions. When talking to the public, I can see how that would turn into playing fast-and-loose with the facts in order to "project" their knowledge into the space spanned by laypeople's knowledge, even if that projection loses important aspects of the work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed
VCF West XI(2016): my[CuriousMarc] vintage computing festival highlights [video]
C++ programmer here; re 3: the C++ coroutine proposals (there are multiple) are completely orthogonal to futures.

The closest things in the standard to these rust futures, is of course std::future, which currently is very limited as it even lacks chaining and composition. The Concurrency TR (which eventually will be added to the standard, but sadly not for C++17) does provide these features (and more); multiple implementations have been are available for some time (boost, HPX, Folly, and some compiler vendors).

The issues with std::future is that is far from zero cost, as it requires allocation (the control block is dynamically allocated), type erasure (the callback type is not part of the future) and synchronisation (as the promise can be fulfilled from another thread). Efficient implementations of std::future are possible but will never be as fast as what is shown in this rust library.

On the other hand the SeaStar C++ library (I'm in no way involved, just a fan) already provides pretty much the same zero cost futures with a very similar implementation as it doesn't try to follow the standard design.
While true demagogues exist

Pretty much all political discourse has sunk to this level.
remember that you pay significantly for handsets; client are carved off from wired cost in the minds of consumers. Also, no one, god included is making another bit of capacity for wireless networks (in the shannon limit sense) any time ever. In cities (where the money is) they are contended and they are contended at just the times and places you don't want.
Valley is getting so expensive that even lawyers can’t afford to live there
It's the opposite of my point because I'm asking in point of argument why someone would be true.

"If X is true and Y is X, why is Y false."
And how would that help? How do you know that the code they published is the same as the code installed on those machines? You need voting machines that leave a paper trail (which the voter can verify while voting), that way the machines can provide quick results while the final results can be counted by hand.
I have to agree here. There's nobody better to explain how something really works than the person who wrote it. The rest of us are just fumbling around guessing.

As a dev and a creative person, I understand the desire to get something out there. But documentation and tutorials aren't just something that's nice to have. They are your marketing tool, your adoption driver, and the way to create educated advocates for your project. They are as valuable to your project's success as a splashy "getting started" web site is.
I honestly don't know, what's the actual requests/second for that?

I don't have a good feel for what HN traffic is like. From one post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658), it seems like a few thousand hits/hour over a fraction of a day, but (1) there's a lot of variation, (2) it doesn't tell you the peak rate
I was confused... thinking Rackable bought SGI... until Wikipedia article showed me that Rackable took on the SGI name in process. Now HP wants to buy them. NOOOOO!!!!!

That's my first reaction. I doubt they'll turn down the money but HP has a habit of destroying things with good potential. They had a good RISC CPU that they and Intel turned into the Itanic. They acquired OpenVMS but threw it away instead of spinning it off. They're now about to acquire the source of some of the greatest workstations and NUMA machines ever made. And probably trash it somehow.

I don't know. Maybe I'm paranoid. SGI was just one of my favorites and their NUMA tech is still awesome. Hate to see it get death-by-acquisition.
Also you often don't have to dig; mole, duct, blow - there are options.
No, it's appalling that something like this is not already done. That it requires bunch of rich people to become seriously discussed at all, instead of being a continued major focus of medical research for decades now. People are funny this way. They'll bury their dead and mourn their loss, consider their own mortality and preach about life everlasting, or write stories about elixirs of youth. But to actually move a finger and support the war against death? No, that's insane.
Yes, but what are those notes? That's my point. You can't prototype a voxel game and expect it to basically be Minecraft.
The fascinating thing about the transition of aging research from mere investigation to the possibility of intervention is that many researchers don't even want to talk about extending life, but only a small expansion of healthspan. This lack of ambition, and refusal to engage with the large body of evidence that suggests we can do far better, is why we need organizations like the SENS Research Foundation and Methuselah Foundation, working to make the better option happen. It is possible and plausible to extend healthy life and overall lifespan indefinitely by implementing the approach of repairing the cell and tissue damage that causes aging. Yet all too much of the rhetoric and effort in the scientific community still goes towards tinkering with the operation of metabolism to slightly slow the pace at which damage accumulates - a clearly far inferior approach, that can at best produce only marginal outcomes.

All of the technologies and approaches mentioned in this article are marginal, ways to only modestly slow the damage of aging from accumulation. They are very limited in what they can achieve - adding five to ten years to life would be an enormous, unlikely success for any one of these. Calorie restriction we know doesn't add more than that to human life spans, since we have plenty of examples to look at. Metformin data is all over the map in animal studies, just as contradictory and half-refuted as sirtuins. The transfer of young plasma to old individuals doesn't extend life in animal studies; it is pretty unlikely to have the desired effect in humans - that isn't the same thing as parabiosis. Human Longevity Inc is a personalized medicine company in fancy clothing, doing nothing that will greatly extend life, but rather looking for incremental gains in ordinary medicine. And so on.

Sadly journalists typically don't distinguish between the potential value and outcome of different approaches to aging - it is all the same to them, just a flat list. So they pull five or ten items from the larger list to populate their articles, and mark them all equivalent. That's something of a problem when the differences are in fact enormously important and the expected outcomes are night and day when comparing approaches that repair damage versus approaches that do not repair damage. If there is to be significant progress towards healthy life extension in our lifetimes, the better strategies, those involving damage repair, must gain far greater support. This means the SENS list: senescent cell clearance, mitochondrial DNA damage, clearing metabolic waste like amyloid, lipofuscin, and cross-links, and so on.
I just came to say, FUCK YELP. They are a piece of shit extortion company.
Show me a guy on psych meds who is doing great and I'll believe you.
I'm tremendously amused by the kangaroo theory!
Hi all, founder of HR Partner (http://hrpartner.io) as featured on Indie Hackers here. Happy to answer any questions that anyone has. As we are 'pre revenue', I would also appreciate tips and hints with respect to marketing and B2B sales from anyone who has been there, done that. :)
Is Pluto a planet? No. Although various people have strong feelings about implications in education and elsewhere--in both directions.

Languages and dialects can with respect to policies like bilingual education. If it's just a dialect, then you may argue there's no need to treat native-speakers differently. If there's a genuinely different language then you may or may not decide that bilingual education is necessary but it tends to be a different discussion than in the first case.
Can you give an example? (I don't mean to be snarky but I'm actually curious)
The free will conversations drive me insane. People can't shut up about how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle proves random phenomena (which isn't exactly true) but worse, they insist it indicates that we have free will.

But a) what it really indicates is that it would be unmeasurable whether we have free will, and b) it also doesn't really prove that, because while electron positions are unpredictable, molecular reactions, the sort that happen in the human brain are pretty predictable.

Basically, my response to this is "That would be relevant if we had black holes or large hadron colliders in our heads, but we don't, so...". But people really really want to believe in free will and will use any sliver of half-truth to believe they've proved it.

EDIT: To be clear, I do not believe free will has been proven OR disproven.

EDIT 2: More sophisticated wrong people argue from Bell's Inequalities rather than the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but that also results from a misunderstanding of the theory and also neither proves nor disproves determinism.
Hilarious. Thank you for that.

See also: flying car, battery that lasts for years, and fusion power.
The basic lie that psychiatry is based upon, is that there is a sickness where there is suffering.
Not neural phenotype, that yes can suffer, but have been useful for various enterprises and endeavor of humans kind. Manic-Depressive where our "suicidal" explorers, alcoholics stopped us from being nomadic, gays pressured into churches formed the first institutions and created contract security. The list continues near endless.
If psychiatry would be a honest science, it would look upon cause and effect, asking what did this or that creatures side effect accomplish do to pay the ferry-woman. And can we optimize that- can we create creature constellations which produce new ideas like a machine.
But it does not want to know, it wants to heal, which it can not heal as long as it cant resequence DNA in a living human. It doesn't even want to know the possible consequences if it could cure.

Do not interpret this statement as a general dismissive of proper treatment. Treatment of some neuronal constitutions allows some humans to live in this society. But i want to know what society trades personal meh-ness for.
It's not solving any problem[1], and Canada is an extreme example as a country and can't be used as a model for (mostly) monocultural countries.

1: First people argue there's no problem with low birth rate, and then people tell that they're solving the problem. Pick one.
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I will keep that in mind. Thank you.
There is a special hell for people that send blank text parts for email.
Death makes space for new life, and new strategies. It's a key part of the evolutionary process, and thus of life itself. Yet another sign of the desperate egocentrism of a generation alienated from what it means to live.
Contrary to popular belief, not all C++ programs (or rust FWIW) are web servers serving HTTP requests over the Internet.
"which would fundamentally alter what it means to be human in a profound and everlasting way"

This has periodically happened over the long course of our species existence. A hundred years ago the average lifespan was half what it was today. Simply because medicine improved. Treating death as a disease instead of a natural thing seems perfectly rational to me.
I suppose that we'd be talking about "exahops" today.
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At the moment the majority of the developed world is suffering from underpopulation and an aging population.

Immortality would change that but I expect by the time we figure actual immortality out we'll have either gotten off the planet or figured out brain uploads (this is what I imagine applying the reversal test to). In both those cases overpopulation is not a significant problem.

In the mid-term we're much more likely to see life extension and staving off dementia, and that would be helpful to countries struggling to sustain a workforce.
If you remove all of the sounds from Minecraft, all of the textures, all of the composite models and replace them with wireframe hitboxes, I doubt you'd have something as fun as the hit title.

Prototypes are not good indicators that something could be fun.
I'm still addicted to AWS, but Google hit 1M rps with only a seven minute scale time according to their blog way back in 2013.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2013/11/compute-engine-...

My biggest issue with ELB is how long it takes for the initial instances to get added to a new ELB.. it takes f-o-r-v-e-r... I've seen it take as long as fifteen minutes, even with no load. I'm hoping ALB fixes that.
WOW, very difficult. Anyone have a link?

They talked a little about it in this video [1], but that's all I could find.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI