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Transcriptic is hiring
Transcriptic (YC W15) | Backend, Full-stack engineers, Designers | Menlo Park, CA | https://transcriptic.com | FULL TIME; ONSITE

Transcriptic is turning life science into an information technology by creating a fully automated cloud wet lab. Scientists anywhere can define and (reproducibly!) run experiments over the internet on-demand and without investing up-front in a lab facility.

The Transcriptic Common Lab Environment (TCLE) takes Autoprotocol (http://autoprotocol.org/), a high-level JSON description of a biological protocol, and executes it on our custom-built robotic workcells. The protocols we handle routinely involve solving constraint programming models with thousands of variables and constraints in order to find the best plan that fulfills the scientist's biological intent.

Scientists manage their experiments through our web application or via our API. We provide a single platform that controls scientific devices from many vendors in a unified way, and an interface to control our automated labs.

Backend engineer (scheduling): https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1092746
Full-stack engineer (web): https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1236117
Front end engineer (web): https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/?gh_jid=1535939

Tech stack includes: Linux, Scala, RabbitMQ, Rails, Typescript, React, Ansible, Postgres

Benefits include: full medical/dental/vision insurance; catered lunch and dinner, and a fully stocked kitchen; flexible vacation policy; 401(k) with matching; gym and commuter reimbursement; and education reimbursement up to $3,000/year.
I think it's more like 'complete'. What do you miss from Stylus? I prefer it from SCSS when it doesn't require you to type colons, semicolons and brackets for quite less typing and everything you'd expect as a CSS preprocessor is just there. It's TJ's work after all.
> It's total lack of empathy at that point...

> There are some other experiments I'd like to run... to see if we can't bubble up some empathy.

I don't know dude, it doesn't sound like you're the authority on empathy if you think you can "bubble up some empathy."

As far as making fun of the preposterous egotism of the Google interviewing process is concerned, that line could definitely make it to Silicon Valley in the parody.

I mean, I don't really know. If you aspire to be better at recruiting--of being a people person of some kind--you gotta not say stuff that sounds utterly, hilariously disconnected from what normal human beings say.
Super Bowl LIII Sets New Streaming Record with 2.6M Average Viewers
Exactly. It's called Physical Education most often, but there's very little eduction involved. There could be, and that would have made it more accessible for me--I'm thinking weight lifting and mobility paired with kinesiology and anatomy--what a fantastic class that would be. Instead it was half-assed team sports, punctuated with the occasional fitness test, which we were never prepped for. Oh, you want to test how many pull-ups I can do now? Because this is the first time I'm doing pull-ups this year ...
> calculus does not depend on your current hormonal situation

What if your testosterone wants you to run, jump and play with your friends instead of sitting and reading calculus books?
It shouldn't matter where they live if they're still making their money here. And if they're not making any money then they're not paying taxes under this scheme anyway.
For what it's worth, the official statement from the company: https://blog.familytreedna.com/press-release-connecting-fami...
You don't even need to randomly select a question to do something like this.

In the past I was hired on the back of simply sitting down with the team lead, and us pair programming to implement what he happened to be working on at the time.

That gave a good idea of how quickly I could start contributing, how easy I was to communicate with, whether I was going to be a snob about the existing code, whether I have relevant pre-existing knowledge about the technologies being used and whether I had any interesting insights to offer. There was also a more standard interview process accompanying this (which I doubt I excelled at) but the pair programming excercise gave a real world insight into exactly what I had to offer and what I was like to work with.
What makes you think that you (or anyone else for that matter) are capable of preventing the abuse of FR by walking away and declaring an easily created technology simply taboo? It is going to be developed, like it or not. May as well have intimate knowledge of it, help to educate others, and actually know how to defeat it. Walking away you're just blind.
Wise Eyes, Fresh Eyes
> run through muddy grass when it's raining

Will the horrors never end?
Amazon went from nothing to 500k employees and $200B+ in only 25yrs. Even more impressive
I dont really agree with ego = 1/knowledge; I believe that my knowledge over time has been increasing and my ego has been fluctuating in a non correlate way.
Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata a semi-automated, user-assisted editing tool
Isn’t that what containers and Kubernetes are for?
The hard part about learning math is not finding course material. Three or four textbooks can cover the entirety of undergraduate mathematics. The real challenge is in the discipline, focus, practice, and repetition of doing problems over and over and over again. It can be almost impossible to force yourself through this, and it's really easy to start glossing over things you think you understand. The only real way to learn math (short of possessing genius level autodidacism) is in a classroom setting, with a teacher and peers, receiving constant feedback and assessment. I would strongly suggest you check out the local university or community college if you have a serious desire to learn.
This seems really cool; I think it would be even better if they adopted head and tail models similar to how style2paints does it for colorizing manga.

Style2Paints: https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints

It does increase memory consumption by a lot but idk, the improvement to performance is a little nuts
And most likely they didn't even teach you the rules.

We played football, not to an insane degree, but I always found it weird that they assumed everyone knew the rules.

Personally I don't think gym and music should exist at part of the school day, at least not in larger cities. Instead it should be required that everyone takes lessons in at least one instrument, and practice at least one organised sport after school. Then children are free to pick something they care about. Any fees should be paid by the city or government.
Yeah, absolutely, if your engineers decide to adopt serverless due to hype or just to improve their own curriculum, you are going to spend a lot more on infrastructure than you would by provisioning VMs or running containers. By being selective about which workloads are eligible to become FaaS and doing a little of optimization, however, you can cut some costs and avoiding overprovisioning, with automatic and efficient scalability.

I believe that, in most cases, it is better to control the exit costs of your architectural decisions than to avoid lock-in at all costs.
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Fuck you goldman. Period - and if you are Defending them... then you deserve same treatment...

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Haha- lemme profile you, young douche-bag-in-the-making...

yOu recently graduated and are either looking to get your position in GS, or at least on WS - and you think of yourself as a techie who is smart because you come from money and can get into schools and have literally ZERO experience in the last FOUR FUCKING DECADES of the shenanigans of GS - regardless of their
They don't care about what the government does, subject to the bounds of "don't touch my money".

The ones who do care more than that tend to be absolutely awful.
The cloud bet better pay off or they’re in big trouble. Especially since they’re the number 3 player and not the market dominant player like Ads. Will be interesting to see how they play out
We had roughly the funding situation we have now under the much more corrupt party boss system but projects came in on time (and cheaper than now...still often overbudget).

As bad as grift and corruption are, it did ensure that everyone had skin in the game and that money flowed in two directions. Mostly everyone had to make good on their promises. At the extremes there are bad examples of corruption where nothing got done, sure, but nothing getting done is the norm now with very little corruption.

Basic game theory predicts how these systems will play out. I really wonder why people are surprised with the results we get today.

The biggest cost overruns today are from delays.
As an interviewer I'm going to give this method a try. I will also add a step to our hiring process where we solicit opinions from the team about how well they felt the interviewee did at communicating during the exercise, as this is a major part of any real world work.
Note that this will allow someone to push a history where you have a deeply nested merge mess of some sort all based off the current upstream master.

That's not very likely, but in the interest of sanity and avoiding history complexity (which is the whole point) perhaps it's better to check:

1. That what's being pushed has either zero or one merge commit. Use "git rev-list --min-parents=2". If it's zero you don't need to check anything else (I'm assuming you're checking non-fast-forwards already).

2. If that one merge commit is there, unpack its parents and check that one side of it is strictly ahead of the current master. You can do this with "git merge-base --is-ancestor A B".

3. For consistency, validate that the LHS or RHS of the merge is the existing master, depending on your taste. Usually you'd want it to be the LHS.

Only this way will you guarantee that you have a history without nesting in "git log --oneline --graph", if that's what you're after, which I suspect people who'd like a hook like this actually want, not what you've outlined.
Hah, glad you enjoy it! Never thought that something I created 13 years ago would still be so widely in use :)
I agree, it's not about the race to consume, but "Free Rider Problem"

The problem in this case is how to get people to pay for the creation of the good in the first place, because people know that even if they do not pay for the creation of the good, they can still enjoy the benefits.

https://market.subwiki.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
I'm surprised this wasn't known already, it seems like a no-brainer for the FBI to pool forensics data from other entities.

There probably needs to be some sort of international standard on handling genetically identifiable data.
I learned how to handle being belittled and insulted both by my school peers and by adults in authority roles, and learned that I should avoid situations involving exercising and sports unless I wanted to be subjected to that. It's taken many years, and my need to deal with resulting health problems, for me to try to un-learn these "athletic abilities."

Just because "gym" could provide valuable life skills, does not mean it does in the form it currently takes in many schools.
> Modern P.E. (and many sports) goes back to at least antiquity where the need for militarization in society was greater.

Honestly, even without the need, it would probably be better if modern PE was structured with the intent of preparing students as much as individually practical for participation in the universal militia, even if we know to a relative high degree of certaintt that those who don't volunteer are unlikely to be called to serve, with a curriculum cooperatively designed by experts in child physical development, child intellectual and social development, and modern military operations and civil emergency operations.

As it is, it seems to be an unfocussed and poorly directed afterthought that remains around because eliminating it would offend people, but without a strong purpose or any concern from policy makers except firefighting reacting to problems that emerge as the unmaintained structure clashes with evolving social values.
AWS supports everything...forever.

For instance, putting your EC2 instances in a VPC has been the preferred way of operating since 2009. But, if you have an account old enough, you can still create an EC2 instance outside of a VPC.

You can still use the same SQS API from 2006 as far as I know.
Its popularity as a shorthand arose from the use of the “web safe” colour palette back in the late 90s/early 2000s which exclusively used 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
It has been a few very good years for raising cash from private investors, but that is now slowly reversing. Best to IPO now while the stock market is still mostly bullish.
Sometimes not so obvious tools get posted like that, you'll see.

I think it's good to see fresh discussions on random tools from time to time.
No you just see that with Google...a company not exactly known for its customer relations.
That was written in July 27 2017. I doubt its still in Beta.
A very expensive reminder that the "bus factor" is a real threat. Most startups I've worked at had (at least at one point) only a single person with passwords to things like the AWS root account, and other similarly important things. What happens if that person disappears? Scary stuff for anybody on the hook for business continuity.
EDIT:

As many have pointed out I misused the term "Tragedy of commons" , when in fact it is "The Free Rider Problem"[1]

However the main point stands. Others will not invest in FOSS in hopes that someone else will first and they they can just consume for free.

[1]:" https://market.subwiki.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
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"The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

This submission has comments and vote arrows so you probably want to contact the HN moderators (link in footer).
That's funny, I recently had the same revelation (that it's hard to discover these things) with engineering students in mind. I wrote an e-book called Digital Superpowers, covering many of the same topics you did. I added some general interest things on art and publishing too. I think I like your approach better.

Anyway, my list of topics is as follows, maybe you want to consider adding a few of them to your list?

Password Managers • 2-factor authentication • Virtual machines • Package managers • Command line • Routers • QR codes • Port forwarding • Python • Pandas • Onion routing • Ad-blocking • PDF reordering • Flow charts • Regular Expressions • Time-lapses • Encryption • Column edit • Digital photo editing in RAW • Audio noise reduction • Vector graphics • Making websites • DJing • LaTeX publishing • Reference management • pandoc • git version control • Programming • Web apps • Self-hosting • Home automation • Monte Carlo • VPNs, • ImageMagick • Linear regression • ffmpeg • Sphinx • Robotics
I have mixed feelings about this and I don't have enough experience to label on method better than the other.

Lambdas basically require zero maintenance. SQS requires zero maintenance. EC2 load balancer is zero maintenance. And the setup is trivial too and there's no migration time down the line.If you start off with native cloud for everything you can keep your maintenance and setup costs down drastically.

However, a lot can be done with the old school unsexy tech.

So I'm mixed.
When rewriting Synapse in Python 3, did you use new language level features and optimizations? And what was your experience in doing so?

I've heard a lot on both sides of the fence as far as adopting python 3 exclusive language features for optimizations as well as using Cython everywhere but I'm not really sure where consensus lands. Kudos to you however, this is one of my favorite projects and will continue to be!
Calculus isn't a required course and as such has less of a pressure to "pass everyone". You don't get an A in pre-algebra either just for trying, but since everyone has to take it if you're trying then you're unlikely to get held back on that class even if most of your answers are wrong.

I'm fine with coaches grading on performance. It's a proxy for effort + talent like a lot of things, and as non-geniuses know effort extends outside the classroom proportional to your talent. If you can't even get a 20 minute mile, you're going to have to put in more effort outside the classroom, which might involve refusing to eat 100% of mom's delicious huge dinner or doing "exercise studies" (i.e. working out outside of class).

Whether gym class should be required is another discussion. I don't think it should be (and that easily filters out most people complaining about being graded for performance anyway) and it's a pretty poor attempt at managing rising obesity rates.
Ive been a huge advocate of this for a long time now, and I love that people have started considering it.

Here’s the deal - it’s not a rights thing. It’s the fact that smoking cigarettes, no matter what, is a group act. You bring everyone within eyesight of you into your bad habit. There are plenty of other ways to get your nicotine fix, and we can still tax the shit out of it.

Nice going, Hawaii. I hope it actually happens.

Btw, Hawaii is one of the boldest states to consider this. I have a condo on the water there and I have to ask people to not smoke cigarettes under my deck on a daily basis. I wouldnt be surprised if there were a huge backlash to this suggestion.
> It's just plain noisy and you don't know what someone is objecting to.

Then why does it rate limit the poster who might have spurred a discussion and wants to find out? They can't even post anymore until hours after the discussion died down even though little can be gleaned from the reason anyone downvoted them? There is some conflicting logic going around
Good Tesla, bad Tesla: duality vexes hot-selling brand
My school district required gym for everyone from jr high through high school. Did I enjoy it? No. Has it been useful for the rest of my life? Absolutely. If it weren’t for those PE classes, I wouldn’t feel comfortable at the gym with free weights, and wouldn’t know how fast I can be at running. It changed my life despite being my least favorite class. I’d recommend daily gym be required for my children.
Are you seriously condemning segregation while propping up a women-only group?

Also, Mississippi Burning? Do you not realize the extent of hyperbole in that comparison?
A 6502 assembly language monad in Haskell
The key takeaway here is herion and meth dont travel further than the person doing the dugs. Smoking anything brings everyone around you into it, and for those who dont smoke it really sucks.

But yeah, people will get something if they really want it.
Are all of these publicly funded?

There are companies (including Siemens, for example) which build traffic lights and sell the control software and algorithms for eg car and pedestrian detection. See https://www.speedcamerasuk.com/speed-camera-types.htm

In a lot of places, the government decides that a service is required and companies bid for the construction rights. Just because public money was used to buy a service doesn't make the IP the property of the public.

And in response to a sibling comment, no, the government does not always pay for code development. The company decides they have some niche IP (eg car detection) and start selling speed cameras. They then bid for government contracts.

You could argue that there is an onus on government to use open hardware and software where possible. It often costs them less money, for a start. I suspect its easier to run an open source focused company and aim to be a major government contractor than it is to persuade the government to buy open source.
Discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057643
> Facebook allows users to easily export their data as a compressed archive.

> Why not have the third party app access exported archives and not Facebook servers?

For the most part, those archives only contain data that the user has personally uploaded. They contain little to no data about their friends or their friends activity. A third party app that only works with a user's archive will not be able to function as an adequate Facebook alternative.
FamilyTreeDNA Admits to Sharing Genetic Data with F.B.I
BS. After a few years, somehow the money moves by being "hacked". $190mn is enough to exit scam by the rest of the people.
I'll start off with a bit of philosophy then hopefully give you some useful tactics.

When I was young, lots of people I knew were 'writing' table top role playing games. Yet, almost to a tee, when I would accept the invitation to 'play test', I would show up to a description like:

"Yeah, we have dice and the coolest magic system you have ever seen, but it's not done, but I photocopied character sheets from AD&D."

It got to a point that by the time I was 18, whenever I was asked to play test a new game, my stock response was, "I'll help out when it's ready to be released." I wasn't exactly Mr. Popularity at that point in my life so I don't have a large sample, but my friends all had very similar reactions.

Roughly 25 years later and I know lots of people who are working on board games. Is there any chance that 'the project isn't finished' scares early adopters the way 'I'm writing a game' scared me?

I wonder if changing your pitch would help. Maybe instead of saying 'the project isn't finished', you could say that you're play testing and balancing? Sometimes in early stages, selling is about telling the truth in a more palatable way.

All that said, this is actually a pretty good marketing campaign. At this point, your biggest goal is one fan. You could spend a lot of money on marketing, but that's not worth as much as one person saying they played your game and loved every moment of it.

In my experience with board games, social proof is very important. You could spend millions of dollars on marketing and I won't play your game. But, if one of the people I trust suggests it, I'll be there.

So, at this point, think of ways that you can get people to play your game and talk about it. The talking about it is just as important as the playing.
I was giving calculus just as an example, I was referring to a general subject in school where you have to study and do your homework in order to get good grades. I am pretty sure most of those who got low grades in gym classes did not bother to do any "homework" to make themselves prepared to the next class (e.g. practice catching the ball, do pull ups etc). It's the same with kids who had bad grades at subjects that required thinking, they did not bother to do their homework and were not really interested in reading, studying etc...You should look at the issue from both perspectives
> The only downside seems to be that I get caught in recaptchas constantly now.

That's probably a natural side-effect. I don't notice because, personally, when I'm presented with a captcha I usually just move on and make a mental note to not use that site anymore.
Ses ms reasonable, after all, precision isn't the same thing as accuracy but you can't get accuracy without precision.
I wonder if it’s okay for an interviewee to ask something like “What’s the worst thing about this company?”
And you really believe they have lost $190mn or they pretend it's locked up until everyone forgets about the news?
> Anyone who knows code can see exactly how we collect data and what data we collect.

What about people who don't know code?
New documents challenge Instacart’s claim that workers get 100% of tips
It certainly is a race to the bottom. A marketplace provides more opportunities at the cost of greater competition.

You're also taxed 20% of your income by Upwork. Some find that egregious but I'd say that's the cost of the network.

If the network gets stronger, it makes sense for them to charge a larger amount.