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Human API - Redwood City, CA & Vancouver, BC http://humanapi.co/

== What you will build ==

Human API is the easiest way to integrate health data from anywhere. Users can now securely share their health data with any application or system, regardless of how that data was recorded, processed or stored. As an engineer on our team, you'll tackle the challenges that arise as we build a large-scale system for data processing and distribution.

== About us ===

We're a small, product-centric team focused on opening the world of health data. For us, life is all about moving fast, crushing hard problems, and enjoying the journey. Our investors include a16z, Eric Schmidt, Blue Run Ventures, Max Levchin, Scott Banister, and Alex Payne.

== Open roles ==

You can read more about the Dev Ops, Full Stack, Front-End, Sales, and Marketing roles here: http://humanapi.co/company/join We'd love to hear from you even if you don't "fit" one of the job specs -- we hire for people not roles. andrei@humanapi.co
Don't lie, respond with this: "I cannot disclose my current salary, but my desired salary is X." They just need a number. If they will not accept desired salary in place of current salary, you do not want to work there.
I felt a bit guilty about the possibility of leaving the project in the lurch

You shouldn't and you did well. Whenever you have a position of strength and the business can afford it, you should exercise it. Simple. This is business.
> People don't know very much aren't impressed by what the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment, and Bayesian inference has taught us about the world

I believe there are many who don't know very much who are easily impressed. I consider myself pretty well informed about science.

All you can say is that compared to humans of the past (and to other species that we know of) we know a lot and that our acquisition of knowledge is accelerating. To me, this is expected rather than awe inspiring. It's mainly impressive to us because our own minds are working at capacity and we were fairly recently huddling in caves in fear for our lives. Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for team human, but we are very arrogant.
huh? what distinction? who says you have to tell them the truth? obviously if you make 40k you're not going to be competent enough to jump to 200k, but if you were making 150k and ask for 200k, just tell them you were making 190 before. who cares?

when it comes to this kind of topic on HN, sometimes i feel like i'm taking crazy pills.
if you have a PhD, great send it... if you don't have one that's perfectly fine - we'd love to hear from you either way. We value honest scientific contributions, not pieces of paper.
This is a problem the airlines have created for themselves with their chaotic non-transparent ticket pricing. Now they are upset someone has figured out how to extract the lowest pricing values from that chaotic system and is telling others about them.

Fix the pricing system with something that approaches sanity and this problem will be gone.
Isn't this why the artificial "my wage is my secret business" thing is around?
My home uses about 1000 kWh per month, so shifting 8kWh per day of my in-house demand is feasible. However, there's really no correlation with my usage, since I can just push and pull that power from the grid, as if I had a solar or wind generator.

Lithium batteries are fairly tolerant of deep discharge, but yes, I would expect that the pack would be worn out after max 7-10 years if used like this.

Yes, using the pack like this would make it much less useful for battery back-up, but where I live (SF Bay Area), I haven't had an outage that lasted longer than 2 hours since we moved into our house, and this would cover the basics (probably everything but A/C) for that time. You could always split the difference, for example using 4 kWh per day -- this would pay still give you 6kWh+ of backup power and let you get the battery at half off or better.
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I agree with your sentiment. I'm just not a fan of censorship. Perhaps this company should be punished but blocking the link from HN would mean we couldn't have this discussion.
Used That Viral Age-Guesser This Week? You Gave Microsoft Free Photos to Use
To write fish in chinese you write a pictogram. That pictogram is an image of a fish, except the image has evolved over the millennia to be unrecognisable.

The English word "fish" on the other hand, is not a pictogram, and its evolution has not been primarily visual. Instead it has undergone evolution in pronunciation, which has indirectly affected how the written word "looks".
Robert Putnam's research has also shown some of the complications that come with diversity:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007....

He does not support the conservative interpretation of his work that "diversity is bad":

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-putnam-says-his...
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Part of the problem is that people see differently.
https://kickass.to/automate-the-boring-stuff-with-python-pra...
Many times asking for your salary isn't a nefarious negotiating tactic - it's just to make sure both parties are in the same ballpark. If you're already at $110K and the opening tops out at $80K, there's no reason to waste either party's time.
I'm always happy to read this kind of articles. I have a history with C. ulcerosa myself (now under control) and since it begun my gut just hasn't been the same. I am pretty sure my microbiota was left in a very bad shape after some hard periods, and since then I have tried to bring it back to balance... but it seems a hard task. I haven't tried probiotic supplements, like described in the article, but just tried to include probiotic-rich food in my diet, like yogurt and sauerkraut, and also prebiotics like bananas and honey.
So it would be just great to get exactly the combination of probiotics-supplements that one needs, based on this kind of uBiome test, and then just wait until you have a balanced microbiota again. But for what the article describes, we would have to wait a bit until the real effects of each particular probiotics-combination are understood.
That's interesting. Haven't seen that before. I've already solved my own problem though.
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Stanford historian uncovers how modern humanitarianism arose from colonialism
Cool - join us for lunch sometime (just let me know in advance, my email is stef at edgestreamlp .and.a.dot.com) - we're fed M,T,T,F... and please keep us in mind if you know of any talented software developers!

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> I am wondering what are the technical reasons though

This is based on fairly limited experience, but I believe it's simply a better toolset. LLDB was easier to work with for me. The error messages make things quicker to diagnose. I prefer the added verbosity for things like flags.
You generally need to bring an applicable skill to the table immediately on hire. With the exception of a few stable mid-sized companies that really love generalists and cultivating long-term employees, and fresh-grad hiring, most places can't take the time to ramp you up on a new skill AND their codebase before getting value back out of you.

But it also depends on the distance between skills (frameworks < platforms < languages), whether you know the industry or applicable business logic already, the breadth of your resume as a whole (a proven generalist vs a transitioning specialist).

But most importantly -- you can't really know from the outside -- don't be afraid to burden them with your resume. Worst case, they'll throw it out immediately and forget they ever saw it. Best case, they'll be in a pinch or spot a detail in your resume that you didn't even know they were looking for.
Can you name a browser that can natively block Flash objects and HTML5 videos? FF can't as far as I know.

I'm talking desktop, mobile is irrelevant for me.

Edit: Oh, I didn't notice that "the only browser you should be using this day and age". That's enough to know about you to not be interested in anything you have to say. Have a nice day!
interesting point. It was not conceived as headstart, but it is sold as headstart. I want it as a real game, and i want it as an efficient learning tool. I want it for discovery and shared learning moment, and i want it for avoiding math challenges later. I want it for pleasure and i want it to teach very difficult stuff quickly. Seems like many contradictions here. arghh u revealed that i m human i guess : ), with incompatible goals and complex realities. At the same time, this complexity and contradiction makes it a very interesting challenge : )
Agree this is good advice a lot of the time. But just to offer an alternative possibility, there are other things that can affect the equation too. For instance, if you end up at the right startup you might learn a lot more than you would in the same amount of time at the alternative company. If you gave up $20k over 2 years by making, say, $100 instead of $110k at the startup, but then are able to jump to a job making $200k (which would have taken you much longer to work up to at the alternative company), you're a lot better off.

It still comes with some risk obviously, the startup could end up not going anywhere and you not learning much. But it's not nearly the risk of rolling the dice on equity.
There's always going to be discontent no matter what. If someone thinks they're worth more, you can either agree and pay them more or disagree and they can leave. That's how a market works. Your employees almost certainly already know more or less what they're all getting anyway, and most of them are probably unhappy about it. They keep showing up and doing the work because it beats the alternative for them.
Good point. It's unclear to me though. In some places (Hawaii, California, Germany) where there's huge acceptance of renewables and much shorter payback periods I believe a PV system would add value to a sale. Here in Michigan it's much less clear - plenty of my neighbors think it's ugly and an eyesore, or are somehow opposed to the whole concept. So I am pretty sure in the end it's a net zero here (no pun intended!)
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That's a great museum. See the museum's actual site.[1] Better than the article.

[1] http://www.arts-et-metiers.net
I'm a University of Virginia student and entrepreneur and the value of Spencer cannot be placed into words. Hackcville is an integral part of making UVA the bustling entrepreneurial hub that it will soon be.
I recommend General Biotics: http://www.generalbiotics.com

David frequents HN (which is how I found it) and he even took the time to personally answer questions for me via email.

There is no probiotic on the market like it and it is based on real science.
Microsoft would be stupid to not offer to port Cocoa apps.

How else are they supposed to convince developers such as myself to even consider buying a PC? With Apple dropping the ball with Yosemite, the opportunity is ripe for Microsoft to compete for quality devs and quality apps.
It is still a negotiating tactic as you describe it -- they are trying to avoid disclosing information.
Honestly its best to ask a pro, backs are complicated and what works for me might not work for someone else, even with a similar injury.

What I do is pigeon pose, cat pose, bird dog, press-up back extensions, and several on my back where I cross my knee over my chest. I do not do any planking or twisting.
> Check yourself into a hospital and get things started that way. The doctors, nurses and case workers will help you get everything setup for you...

I've had two different close family members admitted to a hospital for suicidal intentions. In both cases the treatment at the hospital made matters worse, not better. One was 5150'd (in the state of California a patient can be taken by force to a mental health facility and held there against their will for an unspecified period of time if they are determined to be a threat to themselves or others), the other was nearly 5150'd. They were heavily sedated and given a bed at one facility or the other, medicated further, and then released without follow-up.

In both cases the takeaway for the people involved was that they never wanted to go through that again -- so next time (and there was a next time, and a time after...) they would hide it from other family members or threaten themselves or others if anyone contacted law enforcement or tried to take them to a hospital.

"Go get help" is extraordinarily difficult to actually do. The help available is almost always more concerned about short-term liability instead of long-term health.
Rice also has a very successful Honor Code, though I'm not sure how it differs from that of Caltech. At Rice, it means that many (most?) exams are not even in-class. Students are trusted not to cheat and are allowed to take exams home. If the professor says that it is a one hour closed-book exam, you are expected to adhere to that. Of course, there are in-class exams as well; it's all up to the discretion of the professor, but my experience was that many teachers embraced the Honor Code.

Violations are punished very harshly. Most violations are reported by other students. And students serve on the Honor Council for deciding how violations of the Honor Code should be handled (and if a violation had in fact occurred).
Yes, many of us have been fortunate in that we've actually had managers or clients encourage us to raise our rates to what they knew were market standard. Unfortunately, not everyone experiences those lucky moments.
I have wanted to visit this museum ever since reading Umberto Eco's description of it in Foucault's Pendulum.
Apache Ignite vs. Apache Spark
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Technologies: front end tech so JS, CSS, HTML, jade, CoffeeScript, gulp, grunt, node, stylus, sass, less, angular, backbone, marionette, MEAN stack, TDD, HTML5 Canvas etc.

Resume: available on request.

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Nice theory, but this isn't a new phenomenon. I had a friend of a friend get dismissed in a similar manner back in 2001. The official reason is the therapist decided college would put undue stress on an already fragile mind. The unofficial reason is they didn't want the liability. If somebody harms themselves or others on campus, the college is liable.
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Resume: available on request.

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Geostellar | Martinsburg, WV | Full-Stack Software Engineer | REMOTE(US) Full-time

Are you tired of the world's reliance on fossil fuels? Do you want to have a positive effect on the environment for future generations to come? Join the team at Geostellar as we bring the joy of solar power to every rooftop in America and make the world a better place in doing so.

The world is ready for the solar power revolution, help us bring it to them!

Funding:

- Raised over $17M+ to date

- Cash-flow positive

We offer:

- Stable-hours 7am-4pm PST

- Competitive Compensation (Salary + Equity)

- Flexible Time-off

- Hands-on Experience with all parts of the Web Application stack

- Paired-Programming

- Completely Remote minus quarterly meet-ups

Current Technology Stack
- Ruby-on-Rails 4, PostgreSQL, HTML/HAML, Javascript/Coffe-script, BackboneJS

We are looking for individuals with experience building scalable applications with Ruby-on-Rails 4 and PostgreSQL and have a strong understanding of Object-Oriented Software Design Principles.

https://geostellar.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/geostellar

Send your resume to jobs [ at ] geostellar [ dot ] com with "HN Software Engineer" in the subject
Zenefits - http://www.zenefits.com/ - HQ in San Francisco, CA, Zenefits is being called one of the fastest growing SaaS businesses ever. We provide free cloud HR software to any business below a thousand customers, and make most of our money selling health insurance.

• San Francisco, CA - Software Engineer, full stack (Full Time) - Python, Django, JavaScript, and CSS. 2+ yrs exp.

• San Francisco, CA - UI Engineer (Full Time) - JavaScript, Ember.js, CSS, and MVC with Django.

• San Francisco, CA - Lead Application Security Engineer (Full Time) - 5+ yrs exp.

• Vancouver, BC - Senior Software Engineer (Full Time) - Python, Java, C++, OOP, XML/JSON, REST API, Agile, Git. 5+ yrs exp.

More info on these openings: http://www.zenefits.com/jobs
Managed by Q (https://managedbyq.com/) - NY, NY

Q was founded a year ago. We’re creating smart solutions for office management, and we’re growing at an insane pace. We’re a small team so there’s huge impact. And we’re making a difference in the lives of our field operators (cleaners and handymen) and the communities we serve.

Our stack includes Django, React, MySQL, Node, iOS, Android. We’re hiring frontend engineers, backend engineers, mobile engineers, product designers, product managers / leads, and a CTO / SVP Engineering.

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http://bv.ms/1GDZC1K

Reach out to tyler @ managedbyq.com with any interest.
A Primer on High Performance HTML
BackNine Insurance and Financial Services - Los Angeles - http://back9ins.com

BackNine simplifies the selling of insurance by allowing insurance brokers to quote, apply, plan, and summarize their insurance.

We are looking for a smart and creative front end or full stack engineer. Full time and in house.

Please email reid@back9ins.com
Did you even read what I posted? Here is a copy-paste for you:

Thus, there is little reasoned support for the widely held no- tion that noncitizens are entitled to substantially less constitu- tional protection than citizens. While not identically situated in all respects, foreign nationals should enjoy the same constitu- tional protections for fundamental rights and liberties as United States citizens. The areas of permissible differentiation - admis- sion, expUlsion, voting, and running for federal elective office - are much narrower than the areas of presumptive equality - due process, freedom of expression, association, and religion, privacy, and the rights of the criminally accused.
When we balance liberty and security, in other words, we should respect the equal dignity and basic human rights of all persons. In the wake of September 11, we have failed to follow that mandate. When we spy on foreign nationals without proba- ble cause but not citizens, selectively target foreign nationals for registration, detention, and deportation based on their ethnic and religious identities, and lock up foreign nationals in secret or without any hearings at all, we have chosen the easy way out: sacrificing their rights for our purported security. In the end, the true test of justice in a democratic society is not how it treats those with political power, but how it treats those who have no voice in the democratic process. How we treat foreign nationals, the paradigmatic other in this time of crisis, ultimately tests our own humanity.
Huh, that sounds intriguing.

What 'kind' of engineer are you looking for? Any specific platforms, languages or fields of interest? I went through the site and the portfolio consists of multiple (and very different) projects, so I'm just wondering how it works. :)
Perhaps "don't hate the player, repair the game"? (I almost wrote "fix the game", but that sounded wrong!)
Thanks, and I do love apples. Any good literature that you have read on the topic? I'm interested in changing to a more probiotic friendly diet.
Python.org offline?
If you're going to sell something, you need to have some sense of what it's worth or you run the risk of being taken advantage of.

One of the most valuable things you will ever sell is your time and work energy. That's a sale worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, every year.

It is incumbent upon you to understand the value of what you're selling, or else someone will lowball you and take advantage of the situation when you say "yes."

Maybe that's unfair. But it's just how things work.
The Modern Day Scarlet Letter
Your 100x and 1000x example would represent the best of the best of course.

Then you use that to contrast how a public company may only yield 2X at an extreme over a year.

First, VC investors are rarely looking at a one year horizon on a new investment, so I have no idea why you chose a year as a reference point. Why would you compare an elite outcome of 1000X in VC to a typical public company?

Second, just like the best VC investments, some of the best public companies have returned 100X and 1000X. Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, AOL, and numerous others.

Berkshire is closing in on a 1,000X return. Walmart has produced a 1000X return.

Cisco pulled off a nearly 100X return in the first seven years as a public company (it took Facebook eight years to IPO, and Google six years).

Apple recently did it as well, with a 100X return since 2003. Las Vegas Sands managed an 85X return over five years recently.

The only valid hit against public companies like these, is the time frame it took.
Copernicus came up with the theory. Galileo became a heretic for how he popularized it.
I love Sauerkraut on a good sausage. Do you actually eat it on it's own?
Yes. It's an attitude promoted by management to keep people ignorant, divided and too paranoid to demand their fair market compensation from their employer.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...
Actually, the Supreme Court has not offered an absolute rule. If you read the article I offered, you would have learned about the nuances that the Supreme Court has provided in terms of areas of protection to non citizens and areas of no protection.
I don't have a link, but here's one aspect of it that'll give an idea:

Exams are not proctored. They are usually take home. It is up to the student to honor the rules of the test, such as time constraints and whether it is open or closed book.

This has interesting results. It turns the students and professors into collaborators rather than adversaries, it's simply a much nicer atmosphere.

It's so easy to cheat that there's no status for it. In fact, if you're going to cheat, you'd better be damn sure your fellow students don't find out about it, because they'll ostracize you. The students like the honor system, and they're not going to tolerate anyone undermining it.

Also, students often simply left their dorm rooms open. In my four years there, I never heard of any incidents of students stealing. Not once. It was pretty obvious that the students simply would not tolerate other students stealing. Policy was that the campus security was not allowed in the dorms unless invited by the students.

I hope that gives some idea of how it worked.
For reference, compared with Rust:

* Yes, with compiler plugins
* Yes, with macros
* Maybe. I think that you could use a compiler plugin
to do arbitrary transformations on all the code in a
module, but I haven't seen an implementation.
* Yes
* What garbage collector?
* Yep
* Kind of. Any method can be invoked as a function with
the <type>::func(val, args...) syntax, but the
opposite's not true.
* Check
* Yep, via Emscripten