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Spire (YC W15) is hiring a data scientist to understand the world's breathing
Spire (YC W15) is looking for a data scientist to join our team.

Spire builds respiration sensing wearables that take bio-sensing beyond step tracking. Our sensor continuously and accurately tracks respiratory parameters (such as inhalation and exhalation time, apneic events, etc.) and activity (steps, gait, posture) in realtime, streaming raw data to a smartphone or watch, and ultimately to our infrastructure. Each day we collect, store, and process over 2^32 data points.

Our first product, a consumer wearable available at www.spire.io, uses respiratory patterns to infer a wearer’s state-of-mind (tense, calm, focused). A complementary app provides feedback that lowers tension and increases calm and focus in everyday life. Clinical applications of the device and technology are currently being piloted.

Our goal is to make a meaningful impact on the life of everyone who breathes.

Email jobs@spire.io if you'd like to chat.

Responsibilities

- Research, propose, and implement quantitative methodologies to solve a diverse range of statistical problems centered around turning raw sensor time series data into insights and user actions.
- Translate research into algorithms in shipping products that affect our customers' lives in measurable ways. Measure those ways.

Requirements

- A strong quantitative background. This _usually_ means a BS, MS, or PhD in fields like Statistics, Economics, Physics, Computer Science, or Mathematics.

- A deep understanding of probability and statistics, including experimental design, randomization and blocking, error types and loss, frequentist vs. Bayesian approaches, filter design, hetero vs homoskedasticity, etc, etc, etc.

- Highly proficient with a modeling/analytics language of your choice (Python, R, etc) and relational databases.

- Familiarity with supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches.

- Time series analysis is your bread and butter.

- Familiarity with Linux development environments – you know your way around a shell and aren't afraid of a git merge conflict.

- Retain statistical rigor while driving product development forward at a rapid pace.

- Constantly attentive to detail and devoted to quality.
You condemn us for not considering evidence that contradicts what we want to believe, but you don't actually present any. Telling us to "look at what independent investigators like Chossudovsky have found" isn't much. Maybe a URL? Maybe more than one? Who are these people who are "like Chossudovsky"?
Give them a situation where they have to deal with the problem and compare how well they handle it. Like if you are a product company, ask them to act as marketing and to sell the product to a potential buyer but the customer is orthodox but wealthy. See if they can crack the deal!!!

You can email me, I am good at such scenarios. I would love to help!

ankitgarg43@gmail.com
Frankly I am flabgastered as to why the EMT in the story convinced the jury too. You don't go against medical advice. Arrest the guy in the hospital if need be.
> In the morning I drive into the city for business, then head back out to the campsite to hike, sit and think, and code. I haven't taken a smartphone with me, so those after-city hours are devoid of the usual notification hail.

You must be a great programmer because there is no way I could program without Stack Overflow/Google.
humanapi.co
I get that not everyone can sit down and start grepping how a kernel works, how to architect database solutions, or get what it means to be reentrant in the context of parallel programming. Not everyone can be efficient successful autodidacts; however we have places to learn, like colleges. I would rather see community colleges or university start offering more individual courses to help you get up to speed. There is probably some room for just emerging people in technology completely for a period of time, like some bootcamps seem to do, but these sort of operations reek the same way for-profit universities do, feeling very strongly like whoever is teaching is in it for the money and that the whole operation is a fly-by-night. Beyond that, I wouldn't hire someone out of a bootcamp to do much more than maintain my generic off the shelf CMS, as I'm not sure 6-12 weeks is enough to truly gain the experience and knowledge to avoid anything but the most superficial problems when attempting to build and maintain effective codebases.
Authenticated Encryption in PHP, Implemented Safely
This is so very true. Which is why I ask for EVERYTHING.
Is it really an "epic error" to allow someone to see the source code of your program?
I agree. I'm a fireman with the FDNY and cops absolutely are on our side (and the same side as EMS as well).

In the past 12 years there only was one time where I even witnessed tension between us and them (an elevator emergency with victims, where ESU (New York's SWAT equivalent) and FDNY had overlapping jurisdictions). The bench-clearing hockey game brawls are the stuff of TV.

Cops are by and large professionals, who get shot in the face while protecting the same community that vilifies them for a few bad apples.
Shady business tactics, but nonetheless the app seems kind of intriguing (not linking to avoid promoting it).
Why would ETSI endanger its mission by making privacy a priority? http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_es/201600_201699/201671/01.... ("Handover interface for the lawful interception of
telecommunications traffic")
Further to this: mods are so hard that some people use a mod launcher. This replaces the official Mojang Minecraft launcher. But part of the role of the launcher is to log on the player. These alternative launchers just ask the player for their Minecraft username and password! And this is just what the community accepts.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/30orgd/is_there_a...
Odesk won't benefit in that case if the higher minimum rate result in enough fewer deals to reduce their share of the total.
The Top Highest Paying Jobs in Information Security – Part 1
Well, you can still have your syntax extension live in the same repo as the rest of your code. For example, the Servo repo has a "components/plugins" directory that contains our custom lints and other extensions. And other code in the repo just links to it like this:

Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.plugins]
path = "../plugins"

lib.rs:

#![plugin(plugins)]

This doesn't seem too different from the situation in C where you put your cpp macros in a header file so you can #include them in multiple source files.
Ask HN: I am QA, How do I learn to code?
I have been working as a QA for a while now and never had to write much code. Now our QA department is moving towards automating Test. I have to contribute but I don't know the best way to proceed on how to learn to code.
Please help me.
Do you know the title of the book?
I looked around briefly on his site, but didn't see it.

Is the idea similar to Zompist's Language Construction Kit?
Recently someone has made a new client called Orgzly[1] which is actually really well designed. Sync works well enough for me over Dropbox, though I'd really rather use ssh. I guess overall there's a little impedance mismatch between Org-mode plaintext and mobile interfaces but overall I think it works well.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly
I can see what Coding House was trying to accomplish from this description: give the attendees a 'solved' but real problem that they could start building day 1. Show them how to be self reliant in terms of finding answers for themselves (important for any development career). Address the commonly neglected area of interpersonal networking and personal branding (I can't believe I just used that phrase with a straight face, but there it is).

But it seems like it was geared toward people who already had a handle on programming. This, along with inflated marketing promises (welcome to the business world) is where things collapsed.

These are fixable problems. First, time should be split between instruction on concrete beginner level topics and the project. Preferably relevant to the task they will be tackling in the project itself. The instructor should be very well versed in the technologies at least so far as the previously solved project the students build is concerned. The project itself and the steps needed to accomplish the project should be very well understood. The instructor should have a step by step guide from start to finish. This would take doing the project from scratch a few times using the notes from the previous one as a guide. That guide shouldn't be shared with the developers but it should serve as a reference to get them unstuck after beating their head against Google and Stack Overflow.

And, of course, you shouldn't make promises of employment that you can't keep.

Now, those seem to be very core problems but I do see the logic behind a lot of the rest. Exercise is important to work into your routine. Networking is important. Learning to solve your own problems is important. Working with others is important. Doing promo photoshoots and locking your laptop? Not so much.

I can see why this person would want their money back and if I were Coding House I'd pay it, but I don't think everything is as damning as this letter makes out. With some serious tweaks it is recoverable. I think their heart was likely in the right place.
Bruce Schneier – Data and Goliath talk at Google about surveillance [video]
I'm assuming two different Joses?

edit: Keep reading that Quora thread. In one of the hidden responses (hidden because it really isn't a review), it mentions the source of the OP, which has apparently been removed since its original posting: http://joselcontreras.com/about-coding-house/
May be their free marketing strategy :)
The $2,500 minimum is neat, but you still need to be an accredited investor, which means you're essentially already a millionaire.
This post has no substance, is pure spin based on standard mathematical notation. It should be deleted.
Coding is like running. Some people love it, some people hate it. Either way it drains us. No one can run forever.
We are primarily looking in Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Napa, and Sonoma counties. But zoning ordinances are fairly consistent across the state.
I would say that the reason it is named `enum` is exactly not to surprise them. While learning Haskell, I had used `data` several times, but never grokked its true meaning. The naming of `enum` in Rust helped me finally understand what ADTs are, and thus also made me truly understand what Haskell's `data` is. I really appreciate Rust for trying to introduce a certain concept with the existing names.
How much do people use that new word, instead of whatever they were using before?
The cops here are also the fire and rescue (they are public safety officers). I think this is fairly common in smaller jurisdictions that are big enough to warrant more than a volunteer fire department.
Password Tattoos and Pills from Motorola at D11
Seems to be having load issues. Possibly related to being on the front page of HN?
It's unclear to me from the article and linked abstract (and the paper is paywalled) just what kind of minor procedures they mean, but it could be something where a topical anesthetic can be applied but there would still be active internal nerves, like a biopsy of something internal. For things like that, not needing narcotic anesthetic would reduce risk of side effects and also make things much more convenient -- e.g., patients could leave under their own supervision.
Did you see the bubble in 3d printing implode?
One of my favorite Jobs stories is how he took Apple's late-90s lineup of numerous products and simplified it in a 2x2 matrix.

(Maybe not the best link, but it shows what I'm talking about.)

http://www.slopefillers.com/steve-jobs-product-matrix/
Side note: When in this position, be sure that you have clearly established what the job duties are for this person and don't start changing them on a whim; discuss, negotiate, but don't do command-and-control here. Frustration tends to result when things change constantly or that person is answering to multiple people/founders who fail to communicate and coordinate with one another. In other words, treat this person, their time and abilities as valuable. I'm currently watching another startup that had the same dilemma recently completely alienate yet another non-technical staff person who contributes a lot to the company. Don't be That Startup. Everyone matters. Clarity and reasonable expectations (as opposed to the complete charlie foxtrot I've observed) will go a long way. You've already demonstrated that you don't exactly know what you need this person to do, so put some serious thought into that before proceeding to frustrate the hell out of someone who wants to work hard for you and contribute to your success.

And pay them well for the hassle that will inevitably ensue even if you do feel like you know what you're doing and have created a position that has clear duties and the authority to execute them. Chances are you don't yet. Don't make your new hire pay that price all by themselves. It's easy to do this by just not taking seriously the company's obligation to value an employee's time as much as they value their own. I've watched that first non-tech hire (repeatedly, several people at this point) become a garbage can for every dysfunctional, disorganized decision (or lack thereof) the startup couldn't dump on the tech people, and that will burn your new person out.
I have a similar anecdote. My parents moved from the country into practically the middle of Austin and took my little brother with them. He always complains how there is nothing to do in Austin and he wishes he still lived out in the country where we're from. Which is ridiculous, because there is never nothing to do in Austin!
It's funny, just earlier today I was thinking how useful something like this would be. Even as an experienced developer, there are times when I'd like to bounce ideas off someone else for more immediate feedback.

Right now, I do that with co-workers, friends, and peers working on similar open source projects as myself. People are often busy, and time zones often don't match up.

$10 for 15 minutes seems to be on the high end of what I'd be willing to spend and really on the low end of what I'd be willing to charge. I'll probably give it a shot, but I feel like there needs to be more incentive to be a mentor (whether that be monetary or other).
This is very dependent on context.

1. How - choose your own adventure. Do you have the funding for a full-time security engineer? If yes, you make that hire your de facto Director of Security and have them own the security ramping up process for your company. This includes doing penetration tests and assessments on your entire infrastructure, instituting policies for everything from audits to incident response, being the security arm of your software architecture going forward, and educating the rest of the development team about how to find the most common issues in their own code. This person will also facilitate the reviews of everyone's code before it hits production, recruiting a team of security engineers if/when you're big enough, and so on.

If you're not able to hire that person yet, you have to do it yourself. This involves hiring an outside consultancy and a responsible disclosure program. It also means you'll have to get training for your development team to learn basic security for their own software until you can afford a full-time security engineer. Outside consultancies are more expensive in the long run, and not as comprehensive as in-house unless you can afford to have them go at everything on retainer (most companies will only pay for them to audit big feature releases, and ignore technical debt and small/medium pushes to production).

Let's say you have to do this yourself and don't quite have the money for a consultancy or a security engineer yet. You'll want to get acquainted with all the common security errors in web and mobile applications. Read The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. It should be the only book you need, unless you want to specialize in infosec. As a developer, this will help you find almost all the problems you're likely to commit in modern web development.

Next, make a responsible disclosure program. Don't offer money just yet, because you aren't necessarily expert enough to assess real security reports from invalid ones that are just looking for easy money.

2. When - as often as your software development life cycle allows you to. You implement regular, consistent, rigorous methodologies like peer-reviewing source code and ensure that every piece of code is checked before being pushed to production. Likewise, every feature release is checked before being pushed to production. Every time code is scheduled to hit production, you do a security audit.

You also do thorough audits of your technical debt, i.e. everything that was released >6 months ago and is still maintained in your infrastructure. This is to be done monthly, if you have an internal team, less frequently if not.

Again, if you don't have full-time staff to focus exclusively on security, you'll be paying someone else to do it, and you'll want to prioritize feature releases.

I'm on the AppSec team at Accuvant LABS. If you have any more detailed questions, feel free to reach out. I'm always glad to point people in the right direction.
It can be a little chilly, but nowhere near as cold as North Dakota! The summers are really nice, though.
That is okay. I stream Spotify through a VPN try to break that much traffic only to find my playlist.
given what they do in such situations involved people, it is no wonder when a police officer would not let owner to take his dog wounded by the police to the vet for an hour

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2014/07/25/police-sh...
You were a white couple walking downtown at night. I want to live in the utopia of Star Trek, but the reality of our world is that you were probably being shadowed by the police because they were looking out for you. You likely experienced the reason many downtowns are so "safe" these days. I know many police officers personally because of my past in the military (guard), and this is not uncommon, for police to circle around if they see someone that looks like they're up to no good, or if they look like an inviting target. I really wish we could live in a world where racism wasn't so rampant, but...
I could raise $250. Maybe $2500. :-P
Tips for Startup Hardware Developers from DrinkMate CEO Shaun Masavage
A fun, easy-to-use implementation of the conductor program (see http://www.musanim.com/tapper/ for an historical overview of this idea). Not a professional-grade tool, but a good introduction. I played through all the fugues in the first book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier --- I ALMOST know them well enough to do this perfectly (except, of course, for the ornaments; I almost never guessed those right). The one thing that surprised me: after playing for a while, my fingertips felt really bruised (this is on an iPad); I've played the piano for 54 years, and I've never had this sensation playing a real keyboard instrument.
I'm astonished at the amount raised from "friends and family." If my network of people I can ask is 250 people (a lot!), and my success rate for securing some amount of money is 10%, the average amount contributed per person is $10,000. Maybe it's my modest means speaking here, but that's an insane amount.
How do you feel about the possibility of a HAL-9000 like scenario where oversights in the design of the program lead to it exhibiting unpredictable and dangerous decision making behavior under certain conditions?

The novel of '2001' goes into deeper detail than the film regarding the context in which HAL was programmed. To summarize, his mission was to deliberately withhold certain information about the mission from the crew due to the likelihood of xenophobic sentiment developing amongst them if they knew they were traveling to the site of extra terrestrial intelligence. In a sense, he was fulfilling the parameters of his mission in a way which was contrary to the purpose of it. I always interpreted this story as showing us that the more complex a system, the less accurate our predictions of its failure modes are going to be.

I do not think absolute destruction of humanity is likely either, but I also don't think our first steps with AI on this level will be without the loss of life either (of both human and machine). Keep in mind, the same was and is true of space exploration and is essentially an inherent danger of working with the unknown and on the frontier of our knowledge.
It's not about the pitch deck. It's about the product. How many people really want a custom radio front panel?

There are other customized products in that space which might be more useful.

* Customized entertainment remotes. Tell us what gear you have, what you like to do with it, and we make a remote or remotes that makes it easier to use. You might have a simple "watch TV only" remote, and a tablet type "does everything" remote.

* Light your house and garden. Send us pictures of your house and garden, answer some questions about how you use them, and we'll design an outdoor lighting system for it and have an installer put it in. You get to see renders of what it looks like at night before you buy. (There are Autodesk tools for that.)

* Custom control panels for the aftermarket auto sound industry. Make cool stuff for LA rappers and wannabees.

* There are lots of industrial products which need heavy customization. Offer on-line ordering tools for such products as a service to industrial sellers.

Trying to hammer a customized product model into the web-based "order on line, ship to customer, integration is someone else's problem, no customer service" model wasn't going to work.
This just doesn't make any sense, not that I know more than the next guy. Nadella is a tech guy, it's very unlikely that he wants to make his CEO depend on such a huge financial deal. Salesforce's market cap is almost 50B right now with no GAAP earning. What's in it for Microsoft?
You just captured my early teens -- I lived up and down Beach Blvd in the La Habra to Anaheim area from the time I was 5-6 until my mid-teens, and then spent a lot of time in Huntington Beach.

I never really thought of it as the suburbs at the time. Thanks!
In Massachusetts the smell of marijuana isn't enough for police to search your car. This was changed recently (summer 2014).

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/09/sjc-odor-unburnt...
> vilifies them for a few bad apples.

What is that saying about "a few bad apples" again?
It's the headline of the rockpapershotgun.com article, that's simply their writing style. I added quote around the title, to make it clear that it's the articles title and not my opinion.
Thank God for JOBS Act Title III. Title III finally allows “non-accredited crowdfunding” component to the JOBS Act, which allows non-accredited investors to participate & invest into private companies at $1,000 to $5,000.
> people with knowledge of the matter said.

> Salesforce jumped 5.9 percent to $75.82 as of 3:01 p.m. in New York trading.

This article, and the subsequent stock price hike are all the result of an anonymous tip. How can I become one of these anonymous "people with knowledge on the matter"?

A malicious actor could make a killing submitting false tips on buyouts and taking advantage of the following stock price hike.
The SAT doesn't correlate to grades...

And grades don't correlate to much either.
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