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Muru | Mobile UX Designer | New York | Onsite | Contract or Fulltime

Design for Paramedics. Help Save Lives.

Make a real, measurable difference in the outcome of life and death moments creating an interface for paramedics.

When patients are at their most critical, paramedics must sift through a world of obfuscated information, costing time and lives. Founded by medics who experienced this problem for years, Muru was created to provide paramedics with a solution. We provide a mobile platform that gives them the answers they need rapidly, simply and all in one place.

Having already completed the MVP features and begun releasing the beta to users, the UX position will be responsible for designing the interface allowing paramedics to quickly and clearly comprehend complex material in life or death situations. Our beta test includes organizations in both civilian and military sectors and have full time, dedicated subject matter experts that work exclusively with the engineering and design teams.

If you are interested in being the first UX designer to have an impact in this mission critical field where your work will truly make a difference and a company where you can become part of it’s core team, this is the position for you!

Muru is seed stage funded, with offices in NYC.

Full job description: https://www.murumed.com/senior-user-experience-designer
Apply by email: engineeringhires@murumed.com
You would need more than that, since a significant cost is already built into the economies of scale of making non-leading-edge chips.

Exponential growth is a crazy thing.
> " Given WeWork’s opaque financials and its self-made metrics such as “community-adjusted Ebitda,” you can see why investors might be rethinking a company that has relied a lot on confidence, optimism and faith."

I understand why companies occasionally report results as GAAP and non-GAAP, but "community adjusted EBITDA" is absurd, even for a private company.
Uber does plan to own the cars though, since they're doing their own self-driving car work and have a deal in place with Volvo for up to 24,000 self-driving SUVs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/uber-signs-d...
I'm sure he's referring to the general cultural context of the world. Sure maybe there's a culture that values your ability to yodel as a status symbol, but obviously nobody is talking about that.

Every culture on the face of the earth pretty much values wealth and power as status symbols. Let's not attempt to be clever and actually end up making the world make less sense by trying to make everything apples and oranges when there is a universal standard of status.
To the downvoter: See, I was right.
I hope they make it through. I have a WeWork right in walking distance and would love to work there regularly if I ever get a remote job.
This is correct. I received Illinois relevant messaging on political podcasts towards the last US primary election, and it remained when in other states while traveling.
If you don't do things in the way that is reasonably popular outside of your organization, you have to train every new hire (should you find people willing to work using unpopular technology). You also risk losing talent because they don't want to get locked into your way of doing things with nothing useful on their resume should you fire them.
5 Things You Need to Know to Successfully Build Side Projects
Apple claims their FaceID system does, at least.
That list of word is incredibly misleading. Basically all those words come from "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows", which in turn is:

> a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig

Meaning, those are all made up words by "John Koenig". The project is cool, but I think don't think is right to treat those as "real" English words.
It supports the subscription business model.
What is your tech stack? Go, C#, Rust, Javascript?
I think if you truly obtain a MSc in statistics, you would no longer be a data scientist but a statistician.
What's an example of where the interviews are audited or inspected for "inclusion"? I've rarely heard about that. Usually if an org gets in trouble for alleged "inclusion" problems, it's because of who they actually do hire, not interview. Interview process auditing may be a side-effect of such claims, I suppose. And I would hope the inspectors study the actual job requirements and compare them to the job ad. Thus, putting bogus job requirements in the ad should be penalized. Job ads should match the actual job, not the person(s) one is trying to favor.
The role of trust in the evolution of AI
> Solving [business] problems is a viable career choice.

This is spot on, whether you are free-lancing or working as an employee in a big organization.

More generally, software development benefits from a large flow of money precisely because, whether directly or indirectly, it enables businesses to accomplish things in a {faster, more efficient, cheaper} way. When career planning, always remember where the money comes.

Interacting with an end-user is not a "solved problem" that has been commoditized. There are still a lot of human touch, optimizations, edge cases and performance issues that are actively being worked on and have not been formalized and standardized in ubiquitous ways for all industries. Sure framework XYZ may get you 80% there but then there are specific UX issues that you will have to delve in, and that's where the real fun begins.
Sears was my go-to place for tools for years. Then, at some stage, the quality noticeably changed and it started to feel like a cheap knock-off, like what happened to Stanley Tools ages ago.

But I did very much appreciate their return-tool policy. I used that a few times. It was a great customer loyalty tactic.
make solved dependency resolution for partial rebuilds over 30 years ago. There has been lots of improvement since. I don't doubt you have a real challenge, but the problem comes from some immature tool in your toolchain (that I'd be willing to speculate is because someone decided only Javascript tools are interesting after 2010, because reimplementing features classic tools is more fun than learning old reliable tools), not an aspect of the monorepo.
Is the preference to bulk submit a single issue for a list of 6-10 podcasts or make individual issues for each?
>> Just don't try and be the guy making 3 page info sites for your local gardener/bakery/whatever.

The main problem with this is these days it's so easy to whip something together with Wordpress and a template, and many web hosting and domain purchasing sites even offer extremely simple ways to set these types of sites up.

Quite frankly, it was never that hard, but these days the value proposition is practically nil.
I must have expressed myself poorly:

When I try to pick up a new skill, I would start by asking "what are the higher-level rules?" or some variation. Generally speaking, I've had a very, VERY low success rate at getting answers. When I did get answers, they always relied on a context I didn't have, because I was brand new.

Some areas I pick up intuitively, others take work, and others I completely suck at, but in none of them have I been able to START at the higher level understanding. It all requires context, and pushing to get the higher level rules before I have the context has always failed and left me frustrated with either myself (I'm an idiot!) or others (Don't these idiots understand their own jobs?!).
Yes, Lambda School is 8 months long full-time, approaching 2,000 hours of work to graduate.
This is because they are the trendiest of trendy open office work spaces. Many many other tech companies are following this trend to be sure their new offices are featured in business mags and they can take pretty pictures of the office for promos.

Oh, and for greater 'collaboration'.
Agreed, or if you're not in the mood just fast forward a wee bit
But that was a very important choice. Do you understand why?
It still is!

It's a heavily leveraged company with high capital requirements. AWS makes all of the money.
The "test" in the US is already a joke. We absolutely don't need to be making it any simpler.

If you're unable to meet the current standard, you probably shouldn't be allowed to walk down the street unescorted.. let alone drive a car, regardless of the "cleverness" of that vehicle.
I can base this only on my father's anecdotes as a guitar player from that time, but he told me that the musical complexity and chord progressions used in the Beatles' songs were significantly different than the music he had heard from other bands of the time. I'm not sure if one would say "mindblowing", but they were the kind of musician that inspired other musicians, not merely audiences. [According to my father, at least]
Not disputing the CEO is a force of destruction, but ought not some businesses close?

What’s the place of Sears in the modern age?
That's pretty revisionist as to the actual reality. The vast majority where incredibly overvalued internet plays on traditional markets, exactly what the gp warns. You just picked one of the few that survived and thrived. Don't overestimate how inevitable it was that we ended up with the Amazon we see today.

The biggest difference I see this time is these unicorns have actual revenue. Heavily subsidized but revenue still. Last time we had monster companies that didn't even show that given 2 dollars they could make 1, so progress?
Who’s to say it’s a “glitch” and not a feature? What if this “glitch” provides greater resilience to climate change, and we edit out the very thing we need to keep eating despite our past mistakes? I would like to see a greater understanding of biology before stuff like this makes it out of the laboratory. Our species is a child playing with a box of matches.
The contest is about obfuscated C. Clearly written or not, I'm impressed.
You can view everyone's favorites in their profiles. [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=JunaidBhai
The only use of blockchain in this app is the username creation. And that is pretty much hidden from the user experience.
Uber has been financing driver car purchases for years. They might as well own the car.
You are talking about creating "oligorepos".
All of FANG seems like a counterexample. But in general it is probably true that the most profitable activities are very scalable, which is the opposite of concrete, hands-on interaction with the public.
I wonder what world you live in (career, culture, etc) that makes you feel that a post with title "coolest things I learned in 2018" should come with "academic substantiation."

Also, the whole point of the words for emotions thing is sorta that those are new (i.e. not pre-existing, which maybe means not "real" to you). The point is to think about what feelings we don't have words for, and what impact it might have to make words for them.
Yeah, I thought that was odd/funny. Like he just put it there for the picture or something.
> Honestly I find an adblock for podcasts a total dick move

If you expect payment for a service, give your "customers" an opportunity to support you directly. It can be a premium account, merchandise, or even a simple donation service. Don't force your "customers" to become the product.

I don't see why podcasts should get a pass.
It doesn't look that complicated compared to normal sed usage. It's just a series of find/replace for the most part. That said, regex is always pretty hard to read, and putting it together like this is impressive to say the least.
Sounds about right. Spent a couple years at a WeWork in Los Angeles. It's a luxury, a glorified co-working community. People enjoy the beer. One shake of the economy and everybody will cut WeWork and go back home or somewhere considerably more affordable.
Just an idea. How about creating a social media "Brand" presence? Show off the fashion with it being unavailable. Get feedback, gauge who your audience is and put it in peoples minds.
You can see how viable it is and gather feedback before committing to anything too big. Maybe offer social media models samples in exchange for advertising?
If Uber pulls off self-driving cars, I would argue:

1. It is not the same business model it currently has

2. It has an even stronger claim to not being a traditional cab company, and for being a "true" technology company

In that case they would have capital costs (perhaps even higher), but would eliminate labor costs.
It's ok, the quote didn't specify that affection needed to come from your own children, he's still on track to succeed
IBM Unveils World's First Integrated Quantum Computing System for Commercial Use
Going south of the border is not necessarily an easy option for any medical professional in Canada. Even though the standards in terms of education are the same, there are licensing and professional standards that needs to be hurdled by the individual.

The problem in Canada seems to stem from an inefficient manner with which health care is being administered. In hindsight, Canada's health care is following the US model, which have for a lot of reasons, failed spectacularly to provide what it was mandated to do - provide health care accessible for all.
> People would have found a way just as the reluctant found a way with Objective-C

But the people most likely to develop iOS apps at the start were likely already familiar with Objective-C, I think, due to it being the favoured app platform on OSX, no?
>So as long as AMZN was >= 20% of your basket...

and there's the rub, knowing, a priori, what the proper balance should be.
Coming from exactly the opposite side, could you weigh in on opportunities to pivot into bioinformatics for a regular software engineer? From what I've seen most biotech companies don't actually have a lot of software engineering in-house, and if they want anyone who can code it's usually R/Python data scientists with PhDs, and I feel like even a senior Python software dev is a poor fit for their requirements.

I find myself increasingly drawn to biology and medicine over the last few years, considering going back to university for a second degree in fact, but the ROI on that doesn't seem great.
The answers to all those questions are "it depends". There's a few thousand libraries, those obviously refer to each other.. Some have readme files and that's enough, some have full documentation "books", some have comments in the code and that's enough.

We don't mandate a company wide development process, so each team and groups can choose their own process and how they track their stuff.

We do have automation and tooling to keep track of things though.
I am far from full-flight yet (some of my side projects have made a few grand) but here are some things I've learned in addition to the advice already given:

* Only solve a problem you have experienced - this makes ideation and validation much easier (though its still essential to get unbiased opinions on your MVP)

* You'll need something to attract people initially to get feedback and validate - but don't dedicate more than 2-3 weeks of coding to your beta.

* Product Hunt allow you to post twice - once for beta and then for V1. Your initial PH post should give you more than enough test users to get good feedback. Don't bother with any other marketing or coding until you have a validated product.

* When it comes to feedback, schedule beta testers in for calls before giving them access to the product; always opt for calls over email

* Technology doesn't matter, as others have said your selling a solution, not code. Opt for whatever language or framework you will be fastest to build in.

* Once you have a validated product you're ready to sell, feel free to experiment with different marketing channels but quickly determine what the most effective for your product are (in terms of volume of leads and ROI); dump the rest and double down on these. The internet of awash with cool marketing tricks but the reality is that most companies get 80% of their leads from 1 or 2 refined, targeted actions.
Yes. It will be the pre-installed default browser on Vive devices.
It's the risk and uncertainty that changes everything. It's not just the mobility that changes. I have to take care of a sick family member and often times have to spend multiple days/nights in the ER/hospital. My current employer pays well, understand my situation and allows me to take days off pretty easily. Writing tax reporting software is probably the most boring thing I've ever had to do. However leaving that job and starting a company is a much much harder choice for me to make than a person with 0 responsibility to others. I will be competing with such persons too if I do decide to start company.
Arduino Simulator
It will be interesting how this all plays out.

WeWork’s model wasn’t new (Regis has been doing real estate subdivision arbitrage for years) they just made that model cooler and added some free beer and a few other perks but it’s still the same business. Someone from WeWork recently told me they are a digital experiences company and not a real estate company. Increasingly the market seems to be calling BS on that.

There’s very much a demand for WeWork type services and it meets a real need but it’s a low margin low multiple real estate arbitrage play not a high multiple tech play. WeWork has way too many people and far too much overhead relative to the business they are actually in despite pretending to be something else.

WeWork also seems to be getting very unfocused buying up lots of other businesses and getting way beyond their core real estate play. Given that, shifting market views and their extreme leverage with long term leases I wish them well but this could get real ugly real quick.
Please do it individually, thanks!
Love this collection.

> The reader donates his time and attention, which are supremely valuable commodities. In return, you the writer must give him something worthy of his gift to you

Great stuff! Always easy to forget this.

And that picture of GDP over time. Amazing to watch China come online despite the late start. A titan wakes.
100 Views of Tokyo
> Did you every see a video of an octopus capturing prey, the way they wrap themselves around it and smother it?

That is distinctly reminiscent of Matt Taibbi's take on Goldman Sachs:

> The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-grea...
Sorry to hijack someone other's question. I have a question of my own.

I co-founded a company with one of my family friend around last year and made the silly mistake of trusting blindly by not signing a partnership agreement. I completed the whole development of the project and there has been inflow of cash but since then there has been radio silence from their part.

So i have registered my own company and ready to deploy the same service of my own.

Since i know the product will sell, i know i can develop a better product than the existing but i lack knowledge of business side of things.

Any advice for me ?
Sure… monorepos provide solutions to certain problems, but aren’t the only way to solve those problems.
Sears had everything. Global supply chain, check. Top notch distribution operation, check. System and infrastructure to take orders and handling billing, check. Name recognition and established customer base, check.

They threw it all away, ending catalog operations in 1993 a year before Amazon.com opened in 1994. They owned part of Prodigy in 1984! Yet somehow thought it was a better move to expand into bigger box retail. Anyone remember The Great Indoors from 1997? It was going to have huge potential.

What a waste.
I'm interested in using Bazel at work and would appreciate any input:

1) Was it hard to change projects and workflow to use Bazel (assuming the company didn't use Bazel at first)?

2) Is the dev workflow too different than typical git branch/commit/PR?
The Miller Test – Limiting Free Speech
The original "Monorepos please don't" article really just convinced me how great monorepos are when you aren't at scale. So you know, put your shit in a monorepo, and then when it gets painful, break it out.
Sounds like my girlfriend. :P

Naw, but I guess that's technically two people.
Run some sea cables for high speed internet and I would consider it.
I find ads in general, and particularly audio ones, to be a super annoying cognitive burden. I have to interrupt my train of thought and consciously block the message they're trying to pipe into my brain.

I'm happy to pay for things if its low friction and reasonably priced, but will never accept being advertised to (in any form really, but especially audio and video ads).

An audio adblocker seems like a great thing, and I'm excited about this. If enough of us use it, hopefully we can force creators to abandon ads and find a model where they work for us, not the ad companies.

I wish there was a way to block billboards too. Back when google was making google glass, I thought it'd be possible to block out billboard advertisements someday.. to bad that didn't work. Or, just move to a state that bans them, I guess.
Global starvation is not Google's problem.
SoftBank did not decide against it. SoftBank's Vision Fund investors decided against it so SoftBank itself invested instead of the Vision Fund.
Deep Tech Group: independent technical group to defend people from total control
How sure are you of your result? Put a number on it
Thanks for the correction.

That's what happens when I spend most the time on JVM/.NET worlds. :)
Visualising Systems of Trust with Simulations of Vampire Bats
Sears is a macro-example of the phrase, "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." Seems like this company has been walking dead for years.

When the October news hit that Sears was going out of business, my wife and I used up all our Sears points (kind of like airline miles) to get tons of free food from Kmart. Then Sears kept just giving her points so we kept getting free stuff. How on earth did Sears stay in the game so long, and what game were they even playing? Sometimes I wonder if we inadvertently triggered some backdoor left by an employee to get as much free stuff as possible. Part of me assumes the bonanza will now intensify.
I agree that was an odd decision by the PR company responsible for posting that.
What Men Really Think About Sexual Harassment: The Sequel
Whether accurate or not, lots of opinion swirls around the effects that eating soy has on testosterone levels in men. Even if these plant based "meats" are indistinguishable in flavor and texture, they might end up losing to lab grown meat in the long run because of concerns like that.
Nah, I'm sure a ruthless mogul is very concerned about "making the world a better place" :^)
Samsung warns of profit drop as chip demand slows
No, I don't agree with that logic. Credit risk is not the same as the risk on owning the asset.

Your bank might lend you money to buy a house based on your excellent credit and your large downpayment. That does not mean they want to rent out your home, speculate on home prices etc.

They may end up doing some of this tangentially (they have to dispose of the house if you end up not paying) but that is not the same business.
Sounds like you've got it nailed! The only other thing I can think to suggest is to make sure they know you're not a typical first year student. They need to know your experience. That should definitely help in pulling you through.
Manual Testing: Walk in the Customer’s Shoes to Assure Quality
I can write 200 million tests for my library but that doesn't mean anything.
Maybe it would have closed even if Eddie had not bought them. But if you hit a swimmer with a 2X4 in the head, people might say that you drowned him...
Jet fighters are inherently unstable so you can pull off combat manuevers.

Regular planes are inherently stable so they can fly closer to a glider.