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http://shifthealth.ca : Full stack Rails developer

Howdy all, we're looking to bring on another developer to give me a hand. Feel free to reach out to me directly at roumen@shifthealth.ca

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We are a healthcare technology startup that is passionate about enabling the highest levels of patient care. Combining clinical expertise, cutting-edge technology, and design artistry we launched our product in January 2013 and have 6 major hospitals as clients.

Located downtown Toronto in the Fashion/Entertainment District our developers enjoy flexible work hours, cutting-edge technologies, creative freedom, extended health and dental benefits, an enjoyable work environment that consists of young, like-minded individuals and real startup upside potential.

Job description:

* Capture, document, and implement detailed customer requirements

* Work with the design team to design and build features that are a joy to use

* Refactor back- and front-ends

* Create appropriate automated tests

* Provide mentoring to junior developers

Must Have Skills / Qualifications:

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5+ years of web development

3+ years of Ruby/Rails development

Experience integrating with and building RESTful or SOAP-based APIs

Good knowledge of version control systems (Git preferred)

Good knowledge of web and information security

Rails 3.2, 4.0 (Full stack includes RVM, Capistrano, Unicorn, etc.)

Ruby

JavaScript

HTML, CSS/SASS

Databases, SQL

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Unix platform

Full time position
Must be willing to relocate to Toronto

Nice-to-Have

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MySQL

Hospital Information Systems

Healthcare Infomatics (EMR’s, HL7, etc.)
The subtitles feature is a huge win for me. My partner is Spanish speaking so every film we watch requires a hunt through various subtitles sites(not being able to use srt files with likes the of iTunes is also a major issue when paying for films). Of course I know how to do it but it's one of those things that has really made we wish there was a good quality commercial offering(I'd be very happy to pay something like $70/month for a spotify type service).
Not everyone lives in 'murrica.

In Switzerland (and Germany I think) downloading is perfectly legal. Uploading is not, as you are distributing instead of just consuming.

Similar to how drug laws work here, you won't get busted for smoking a joint, but you will get busted for selling stuff.
As existing solutions get more painful, people quickly adopt less painful (i.e. generally better) solutions. So it's tied just as much to how much the old ways suck as to how good the new ways are.
would not be surprised if people would start getting caught using this app.

I don't think the app really is useful when you weighs the risks.
It's completely irresponsible for them not to have do some kind of post-mortem analysis of whether and how it was succesful, and why not -- you can't just take everyone's money and excitement, and then abandon it.

It doesn't have to be an expensive research project, but at the very least the key movers and shakers involved need to do some thinking and report back.

Instead, Negroponte just abandons it? Totally irresponsible.
Your use of capitalization is completely unnecessary. I think a better convention might be to use single stars like completely or double stars like completely but the moment I see letters in all caps I just automatically disregard whatever it is that person is saying.

Edit: HN doesn't seem to know what to do with double stars.
They only created a tool. Tools can be used for many purposes. I can smash someone in the skull with a hammer or I can use it for construction. Similarly, should the Tor, PGP, Bitcoin, etc authors consider that their tools could be used for malice and stop because of it? Tools are tools, they are simply implementations of what is possible with technology. Tools are inherently grey, not some simple black and white. It's about what you do with them.
This sounds like a lot of fun, can you explain the process you went through to catch your own? How did you ensure you were catching something useable and not something you didn't want in your bread?
Bicycle Maintenance Tips – Part 1
It should also be mentioned that when people use Fortran, it is usually because they need the fastest numerical processing available. An interpreter would usually not meet that need. With JIT compilers embedded in interpreters, the difference is blurred, since the result is machine code, unlike traditional bytecode interpreters, that usually are an order of magnitude slower than compiled code.

That said, I'm also not aware of any Fortran interpreters, and it would surprise me if there is one.
They can just pay off the politicians to throw the developers in jail.
From what the writer have described it sounds pretty similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

The point about the mobile phones makes sense, though I'm sure if the plane flew over Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean or Japanese airspace their respective airforce or even ATCs would have picked the plane up from their radars.
TPB had servers to pay for.
While it's definitely exacting, AFAIK, they still use plain ol' gravity to draw the individual glass fibers.
At many large corporations, the contractor budget is a different line item than the employee budget. So, it's easier to allocate money temporarily for a contractor, than for an employee where it's considered a recurring expense.

Another issue is that it's embarrassing to pay a low-ranking programmer employee more than a manager in a non-technical division. That messes up the corporate hierarchy.
Not necessarily. It doesn't matter how much faster your download speed is as long as your upload speed is fast enough to "reverse stream". i.e. for a 700mb 1h40 movie your upload speed needs to be ~120kB/s, which most people have now (at least in the UK)
Way to completely ignore what I said. I explicitly said that I don't believe Googlers/ techies are at fault or are perpetrating some great wrong, but rather that this guy's argument of "rich taxpayers shouldn't have to be good caring members of their communities because they pay taxes" is a shitty one.
Because people's time is valuable. Most people will happily pay something for a painless user-experience that gives them what they want with no hassle.
Is in so many thinks, the Fake Steve Jobs (aka Dan Lyons) nailed it: http://www.fakesteve.net/2008/04/freetards-turn-on-negropont...

I'd recommend reading all of his OLPC articles.
Apparently it goes both ways.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/07/220273/senate-staffers...
> Almost nothing uses GLES, though. All engines have libgcm renderers.

Very true. The performance impact of both Direct3D and OpenGL is actually huge, so it is best to avoid it when you can using lower level interfaces that speak directly to the GPU.
Henry David Thoreau:

"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate…. As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly. We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."
Unfortunately, no. It hit 2089 Tues. morning PDT.
Oooh, now I can't decide if I like "backronym" or "retronym" better. Never heard that one before.
Yes, I realized just after posting this that he was talking about a specific use case (user registration) where the user is the one making the retry in case of failure..

So his example is OK in fact (a variation on the SYN-cookie), I was wrong.
Where's the best place to learn coding online?
Back To Basics: Generational Garbage Collection (2009)
Because my friend works here…
Flashback, 2008: Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site

http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/01/12/1424209/intel-employ...

The comments there are enlightening. It seems the website (the very website linked here) was established in order to spread mostly-negative news about the OLPC. The main author was in a partnership with Intel. Intel had (has?) a competing product aimed at education: The Classmate PC.

So it's no wonder this is the first site to report "OLPC is dead." Maybe it is, but it was a worthy humanitarian project and some paid shills were strafing it from this blind for its entire lifecycle.

Edit: Seems like about half the articles on the site are laughably negative. Pretty great wolf-in-sheep infowar here.
Honeypot, but that doesn't hold up since torrenting movies is so wide spread already.
Anyone got past the login?
Apart from the usual methodological checks, I would be interested to know if they controlled for the gender of the investors. Getting more investment if you are more attractive is hardly a surprise, what does surprise me is female attractiveness did not count.

So either we are seeing a genuine, global, cross-society level bias against women (possible), or we are seeing male investors wanting to invest in people they think are like themselves (attractive, successful men) or we are seeing a mislabelling of attractive (George Clooney is intelligent, articulate, methodical and good looking. Matt LeBlanc is just good looking (!)

So if they did what I suspect, got a bunch of male students to rate attractiveness of female entreprenuers and females to rate males, then what I guess is the boys picked the ones with big breasts and did not care if she was intelligent, the girls were more likely to pick "life partner", which includes good looking but also "able to provide".

Weirdly it might be useful to control females choosing "attractive" with their menstrual cycle.

WOw - complicated world I make up at times
With all these companies reporting, anyone have the cheat sheet on the rankings of the size of the owned clusters by company? I suspect NSA is tops but we'll never know (just like claims that Putin is the richest man in the world :-)
Why don’t we have streaming data from the missing B777?
Thanks for LETTING me KNOW?
See if you can find a way to try out other things. After working in IT for many years as a sysadmin, I too thought about baking. I have a friend who works at an established artisan bakery, so he let me come in and work for a bit (payment was in bread, which I had no problem with!) I quickly realized that it wasn't the right path for me and that I had things going quite well for me after all.

A few years passed and I began to become bored with being a sysadmin. So I started programming and took on some small side projects. I had a much better experience there, so I've been pursuing that path. I've also started taking some stats courses and realized that I love playing with and learning about data. It's something that satisfies my natural sense of curiosity.

So what it came down to was making the time to try these things out. It's cost me a bit in terms of my social life, but I think that it will pay off in long term happiness. :) It doesn't hurt to explore, and you could either discover that your job isn't so bad after all, or you could find something new.
I understand where you are coming from. But looking at it pragmatically- Citizens will always have right/protection <= to that of Congress. Congress being outraged and defending its rights is at least a step in the right direction that has a realistic chance of leading to the protection of everyones rights.
One bitcoin per child, now that would be something :)
Senate intel head: CIA searched panel's computers, violated constitution
It's referred to as a Solera, and it's more for making a product consistent over a timespan of years. Non-vintage champagne is also blended together for consistency. As is scotch (even the single malts are usually blends of multiple years). The Solera is slightly different in that the wine is commingled over the course of years, whereas in most champagne and whiskey production the blending is done just before bottling. Some beers that are aged are blended (rodenbach comes to mind), and even Budweiser gets blended together from different tanks to ensure the end result is consistently "Budweiser".
Why Bruce Schneier is wrong about passwords
Kintsugi: Japanese Art which Finds Beauty in Broken Things.
The Schemaverse (http://schemaverse.com)

Play a space battle MMO, but using SQL. The game is also completely open source so if you want to find out how to write an entire application layer in PostgreSQL, it is a pretty good example of that.
Understanding Code Will Make You A Better Digital Designer
Noooooooooo (An analytics junkie)
i both agree and disagree. you can create rather huge complex incomprehensible systems in bash too.

also, it's not always better to use existing systems. sometimes rolling something new is indeed better.

but i had to work in a place where everyone was a ruby fetishist. don't get me wrong ruby paid my rent for the last couple of years, but i too thought that using it for basic system administration tasks made absolutely no sense. at least what they used it for.

it's used in chef/puppet for one reason only. because it's easy to make a dsl in ruby, and it's good for that purpose actually. although i find chef terribly overengineered
You could argue that the legislative branch has every right to do this, regardless of if the CIA knew or approved.

After all, even if the CIA declared legislators broke the law (which they probably didn't due to their constitutional oversight role in the government trumping any normal laws), legislators are in fact the only people in government who could retroactively make their actions legal-
Let me know when the perps are put on trial. The rest is noise.
I'm curious, Senator: Would this also be called "protecting America"? Or is it somehow different when it happens to you?
Getting Started with Secure Email Using PGP Encryption
No it isn't, 100% of the heavy lifting is via gstreamer, which is all written in C. Python is a wonderful language, especially with gtk, for writing user interfaces. The real magic of pitivi is in gnonlin[1], the horribly named project which is a library for building video editors (essentially).

Disclaimer: www.pitivi.org + their wiki runs on my linux server and I help the project from time to time.

[1] http://gnonlin.sourceforge.net/
I won't mourn it. I participated in the original G1G1 (Get One, Give One) program and have an OLPC XO-1. I developed some software for it, and a hardware temperature sensor that worked through the microphone socket (http://blog.jgc.org/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-for-o...)

It was truly a horrible machine, and the software was worse.
In fact OpenBSD will use Chacha20 in the next version for its arc4random implementation: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138065251627052
And I think FreeBSD might follow and switch its implementation too.
Well the "noise" from the non-US accent isn't random either.
Right, but we're talking about 3D hardware APIs, which didn't really exist in a large scale until the late 90's/early 2000's.
With my tin-foil hat on, this is just a ruse to improve her credibility.
+1 "seeing movie I brought without warnings and ads"
Perhaps that's how much he values his free time.
It's most likely due to the new CEO.
"and anything multiple by zero (or something very small) is still zero (or very small)."

Those are people you are so callously and casually equating with zero, and a person's economic status has nothing to do with their value.

I can't help but think of this earlier hacker news story:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-tampon-king...

A person, living in poverty, solved major problem. In this case, he did his work by hand and by phone. Absolutely something where a communications tool like an internet-enabled laptop would have helped.
FWIW, this is pretty much exactly what we do @ http://elationemr.com

I understand the cynicism in a lot of the comments here about it being impossible to compete against existing juggernaut systems, ridiculous 500k servers for small group practices, and even the bits about nobody caring enough to fix it.

I've been in Health IT for something like a dozen years, and it's true that it can be a serious pain in the ass. At Elation I think we're doing the right things to turn the tide. We're selling a really amazing clinically focused EMR system to physicians (not to their C-level hospital administrators), and so far they love it.

There's a ton to do and we're a tiny team. If this problem resonates with you please do get in touch. It's easy to find folks that want to work on dropbox or the next YC Airbnb-for-X but not as trivial to find folks thrlled (or crazy enough?) to tackle the mission we're on. My contact information is in my profile.

Apologies for the plug, seemed appropriate enough to be warranted.
People who are not tech savvy want to watch movies on a television or a tablet, not a PC.
The Story Behind The THX Deep Note
I know how you feel. A off-the-cuff post [1] about why I chose a few different web-related libraries hit front page of Hacker News a while back. I spent maybe 30 minutes on it, and laughed when I noticed it had been received so well (someone else submitted it).

In comparison, a post[2] I was really excited about, that demonstrates how to improve (Korma) SQL abstraction in Clojure with Macros (I created a demo app) didn't seem to get anyone excited. I probably spent 4x as long trying to put it together. Oh well.

Anecdotally, it feels like programming-related posts with a few high level pieces of code resonate better than deeper dive posts. Possibly because they're easier to skim across while having your morning coffee.

[1] https://hackworth.be/2014/02/05/an-expanded-comment/

[2] https://hackworth.be/2014/02/18/spicing-up-korma-with-macros...
I hate One Laptop per Child. Which is to say, I'm so passionate about the idea that watching other people make choices that I disagreed with pained me greatly. I desperately wanted them to succeed, but I thought they were unintentionally poisoning the well for all future ideas in the same space.

It's a nice enough idea, to make a computing device that is rugged enough, powered by humans, and mesh networked. That's a nice idea.

But the vastly more important idea was to TEACH with computers. And I feel OLPC completely under-served that need. Putting all of their eggs in the Constructionism basket enraged me.

I'd much rather see a team take existing hardware, existing operating system, and develop an app for it that acts as much as possible like the "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age."

It's not the total solution, but I think it would have been far better to take Khan Academy, and cram it in a computer. A little bit like "Khan Academy on a Stick." http://mujica.org/khan/ (Translated to each language, and culturally adapted where necessary.)

I love the idea of a laptop being the cheapest possible way to give a kid a ton of books. ...but then they didn't cram a ton of books in each OLPC! Hand out enough books, and you'll get more Srinivasa Ramanujan's.

And for full disclosure, I have a Masters degree in Computer Science, but no background in education, so my opinion is just my opinion. But as a CompSci geek, the OLPC always felt to me like "Computer Nerds Save the World." Rather than "Educators cram what they know about teaching into a computer, so every child can have their own, personal, education box."
CBS chief says network could go all-Internet if Aereo wins
In its place, is the reality that technology is a force in education, and we all need to be vigilant about when, where, and how it's used.

Is there any empirical proof that (computer) technology actually improves learning? That kids who used laptops/tablets achieve higher levels of proficiency in maths, reading, writing... than pupils who went to school with blackboard, pen and paper? Or show bigger improvement? By any measure.
This is a gross misrepresentation of the project's goals and methods.
There are minor differences between this and threes
That example is a straw man. First, all reasonably strong type systems support polymorphism well enough to handle that case trivially. Second, type inference is a thing, so a lot of code in strongly-typed languages even looks the same as your second code example.

I'm not saying you can't come up with a fair example to support your argument. I will say, though, that it's going to be a lot harder to do so, and that such examples only rarely come up in practice. The argument for flexibility at the cost of guarantees of correctness used to be a good one, but it has weakened significantly with time, and before long will cease to be valid at all.
Hollywood studios (should) make their money in cinemas, before the DVD/BlueRay release. CAMRips are not really competitors.
I think your gosu skill will be transferrable :) , and Guidewire looks like a great product (I wanted the insurance company I work for to choose it, and they chose to go down like the Titanic on their own custom-made software) so you're probably safe. Insurance is a pretty big niche.
Slightly offtopic, what is considered the best RPI distro for xmbc?
Yes, evan_ is correct.
Public domain movies. Ya.. Be careful and all that when they're not, you're not just consuming copyrighted works you are distributing them.
Senator Feinstein is shocked, SHOCKED, that the dogs she said should be trained to bite other people's hands have bitten hers. Never saw this one coming.
Use Proj.4:

http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/man_proj

or, just take a raster image (PNG) and warp it:

http://www.gdal.org/gdalwarp.html
Just after the OS boots, Dropbox needs to index 120 GB of files. Any other program that wants to access the disk takes forever. For Dropbox to finish, for my mail and IDEs to open takes about 10 minutes. Any other program that needs the disk is uselessly slow.
Robotiky: Make coding into child's play
This isn't an official site. It's a site that was largely critical of the project all along.
Or maybe it will push content providers to make movies and shows available for streaming from day one. So far piracy has only done good things for consumers, in the sense that it has forced Big Content to do what consumers wanted all along, ever since Napster came out.
Wow, so much hostility in this thread. Why is there so much negativity about OLPC and XO?

It's been hard to find out from outside what's going on at the various OLPC orgs and companies in recent year, but they are doing quite a bit. The Vivitar devices sold quite well and have some of the same potential in the rich world that XO-1 + have had and continue to have in the world at large.

There are millions of laptops in children's hands. They are learning to use computers and networks and how to hack, not to mention to read , write, and cipher. How is that failure?
http://one.laptop.org/stories

Sugar is certainly alive. Sugar on a Stick 10 is quite slick and ships with dozens of educational activities. As noted below their development targets are set by the demands of the their users, educators and technologists who are using the system:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/10

Even if all they'd managed was to design and produce a few thousand XO laptops: open architecture, open hardware , ruggedised laptops running Linux (oh so many years ago), that would be an amazing accomplishment.

Since we're arguing: what have you, or your code, done to make the world a better place? I'm proud of my tiny forgettable contributions to OLPC and wish I could do more.
Websockets to google.com can be opened by iframes in your browsing to report your internet usage for google advertisements.

Naturally this will also block you using google.

Its more of drastic stop tracking me measurement.
Thanks for the link. I thought this was an official source until I read that. It's just a blogger giving up on the project.
FMOD Studio audio tools now completely free for indies
"Even the police began to sit up and take notice."