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Snapdocs (YC W14) is hiring Rails engineers
Full Time | San Francisco, CA | Remote-to-hire OK
Competitive Salary, benefits, and generous options.

SnapDocs is a early-stage, rapidly growing company looking for a rails engineer. The ideal candidate is someone who plans to become a lead engineer (or perhaps a product manager) in the not too distant future.

We're a small team tackling the absolutely massive mortgage market. We're bringing modern, elegant software to a field that still relies on fax machines and manilla envelopes. We are bringing security, efficiency and joy to a paper-based pillar of the US economy.

The type of problems we're tackling involve workflow, product design, and data. Rapid feature iteration? Oh, yeah! We do SaaS for non-technical users. Everyday, our clients call and email to say that we're making them happy, and that feels great. However, in this industry, most people are unaware of what modern software is capable of. That means we must do research, gather data and talk to customers to inform each of our choices.

Snapdoc's culture is one that trusts its team members to make smart decisions. This means we value both independent work as well as seeking collaboration. We're becoming ubiquitous in one segment of the market and we're looking to hire another core engineer to help us expand further.

==Job Description and Required Skills==
* Rails Engineer. Ideally, you're a fullstack coder. But in reality, you probably lean either towards the front or the back end. That's fine, so long as you know (and are proud of) your strengths.

* Being the 4th member of on a fast-growing technical team. This means helping to form a health and happy culture. We strive to be respectful of each other's time and point of view. We're learning how to do this together. We want to create a place where it's OK to fail, and that you know the team has your back the whole way through.

* Self-motivated. To us that means when you get an interesting problem, you will rip into it until you understand its nuances and perhaps have a glimpse of the solution.

* Empathy. We work closely with our customers, meaning phone calls, emails, and sometimes lunch. It is important in this job to listen to them so that we can build what they need and want.

* Knowledge of AWS would be excellent.

* UX experience (or interest in cultivating it) would be excellent.

* Document classification experience (OCR, etc.) would be a plus.

Send an email to jobs@snapdocs.com telling us about yourself. Please include a resume and a link to github if your profile is informative.
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I'd say that Hollywood is the north-American content industry focused around Hollywood California, but including New York, Vancouver and anywhere else where movies and TV is produced. Netflix is a major content producer who uses the same people as the MPAA backers. Youtube doesn't produce content in the same way, but they are very influential having stolen things like Music Videos from the likes of MTV. These non-MPAA entities compete in the same space but have very different opinions than those who support the MPAA.

My point is that the MPAA does not represent these other "Hollywood" content producers and shouldn't be described a representing any content producers beyond the five members.
He's probably a director of the company and not an employee. That tends to give him additional rights (and responsibilities) that you don't have.

One of those is that you usually can't "fire" a director without board approval. Some director agreements and vesting schedules (if drafted properly) also have special acceleration clauses on termination without cause, so even if you could get rid of him, he'll still get his part of the business.

tl;dr: I don't think you can make that decision - it's up to the co founders and the investors. There's nothing you can do, and even if you could, he'd probably leave with his fully vested equity stake. Time to find a new job if you can't deal with that.
From my limited perspective, it doesn't sound like it's your decision to make. If you've made your opinions clear to the CEO, that's great and you've already fulfilled your duty. Let the co-founders sort it out between them, it may take time to transition the lackluster technical co-founder into a new role. If business is going well, it's unlikely he would leave the company though given he is probably got a while left to vest. As long as he isn't hindering your work and creating infighting/tension in a power struggle, it doesn't sound like he's a problem.

Honestly, it sounds more like you're jealous of his compensation relative to yours. Has your compensation been adjusted since you started working there? If you're now doing the work of a co-founder, you should be compensated as such. If your role truly has escalated, they shouldn't take issue with you asking to have an adjustment made to your compensation in recognition of that.
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Not a new concept, e.g. this common but disputed quote of Cardinal Richelieu:

Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
It would be hard to get this to consumers, but plenty of other search engines have a non-advertising business model. ProQuest and EBSCO get their money from libraries and institutions, for example.
Yes. I'm aware they do and manufacturers of those devices often provide options and information but cameras are seldom used as input devices so they're not usually measured and that's a shame.
The Great Western did it first in the 1830s...

"In 1839 the world’s first commercial telegraph line using the Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle system was commissioned by the Great Western Railway and built between Paddington and West Drayton, a distance of 13 miles."

And later:

"British Rail Telecommunications was created by British Rail (BR). It was the largest private telecoms network in Britain, consisting of 17,000 route kilometres of fibre optic and copper cable which connected every major city and town in the country and provided links to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Telecommunication...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954686
Shoot, I was hoping this was going to be about Jeremy England.
Yes, labor regulations are a cost. Yes, that's because we're civilized people.

If you want a libertarian paradise where government doesn't interfere, move to Somalia.
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> I can load my Credit Card onto my iPhone. I don't know if it's possible to do that with a Debit Card.

Assuming you're talking about Wallet (previously Passbook) and Apple Pay, it is possible to do that with a debit card. I use my Simple card with Apple Pay to pay for stuff when I can.
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Right. And college hackathons are the ones the dashboard is about.

The "extra" programming languages may not share the cause with that phenomenon.
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Does not appear to be Coast Guard Approved (nearly every PFD that is approved mentions that it is Coast Guard Approved if it is).

On Amazon you can shop for flotation devices that are "Coast Guard Approved" specifically. I would highly recommend getting one that is.
This was mentioned in the What is Code? threads and really stuck with me:

http://www.bloomberg.com/404

I was listening to the .NET rocks podcast today and the guest asked: Why do all 404 pages say 404? Users don't need to know the HTTP status code. I think it's a great point. It does not seem user friendly.
As someone who's implemented a P2P feature for an application: UPnP works great... if you have a router that supports it. Many in the wild do not. If yours doesn't, you have to manually port forward, which, even disregarding the newbie user issue, isn't possible if you're connected to someone else's network. Otherwise, as I assume you know, you can only initiate connections, not receive them, which means you can't talk to anyone with the same limitation - which might not be fatal to your BitTorrent download, albeit limiting your speed, but kinda sucks in something like a one-on-one video chat or game session.

AFAIK, all major video chat applications use some variant of STUN, on which ICE is based, along with some proxying mechanism for users who truly can't connect directly to each other, which corresponds to the rest of ICE.
I am curious on the ranking. I just came back to see if I had any replies in the Snowden thread, and even though it's as old as this post and has 100 more points and 150 more comments it's on page 3. Anybody knowledgeable in HN ranking understand why that post would be on page 3 and this on page 1?
We bake the container into the AMI, so no fetch is necessary at spin up (there is no cost to generate AMIs, only storage fees, so cost is not an issue).

Packer is used to build the AMIs with the containers built-in, and Docker is used both in Prod (single container to each AMI) and Dev (Docker Compose to bring up entire dev env locally). Both used a shared docker registry.
My pet peeve of the US banking system:

Why does an ACH transfer take 2-3 days in the US, yet in other developed countries, the transfer is instantaneous? Two words: vested interests.

Banks in the US want the ACH system to remain slow to prevent money from moving too quickly so that they can prevent quick movement of funds to the higher interest bearing accounts at another bank, and to make interest off of your principal in your non-interest bearing checking account.

If Americans only know that banking was better in other developed countries, they'd demand a faster ACH service.

There have been a few attempts by the government to speed up ACH transfers, but banking lobbyists have successfully quashed the attempt each time.
It's worth noting that Kubernetes can also run on top of Mesos (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/maste...) and DCOS (https://mesosphere.com/learn/).

So if you invest in Kubernetes and later want to take advantage of Mesos you can lift up k8s and put Mesos underneath.

Mesos is definitely more mature, and you can use Marathon for container orchestration, which is a little more mature than Kubernetes, but it's also a bit simpler. Marathon doesn't have the service, secrets, or pod abstractions, for example.

DCOS adds some additional benefits on top of Mesos, like the dcos-ui and dcos-cli. One of the more compelling features is one-step cluster package installation (ex: dcos package install kubernetes). Currently, the community edition is available on AWS (https://mesosphere.com/amazon/).

I do agree that the kube-up scripts in k8s are a bit of a mess. There's really hard to read and reverse engineer, and each provider has their own divergent deployment methods. That's one of the things DCOS is trying to standardize, to have a consistent deployment pattern for Mesos frameworks that deploys their core components inside Marathon, giving them a more battle-tested platform to live within, and granting automatic resurrection in case of failure.
20 seems like too many....
> You actually do at a wide variety of places - every job I've ever had had no problem letting me duck out in the middle of the day to do errands, visit my grandmother, celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend, etc.

You've been lucky then. I have that now, but previously, it was pretty rigid.

> The problem comes down the road, where Uber etc. have outcompeted everyone else in the industry, and all the jobs are independent contractor ones with prices set by the app.

I see what you're saying, and we don't want to repeat history. I just find it hard to believe with the agility of startups and ever-decreasing technological barriers that Uber won't have serious competition in the next few years.

Anyway, I appreciate the history of labor law and explanation of dead-weight loss.
Could you please describe main obstacles? Academia is a specific market. Not sure it would feasible to charge companies to be listed on search engine for everyone.
Most of the startup scene is about making a new JavaScript framework, not actually solving the hard problems.
Most likely local film production was dangled in front of them. Hollywood is masterful at extracting concessions from distant bumpkins who can't resist the siren song of "as seen on TV" glamor.
TCL interpreter is really easy to embed into your own project and then you get impressive scripting for that small effort. You can also extend it pretty easily. A lot of people say it's hackish, but it's really not that bad if you sort of follow this mindset like you are ping ponging between what's in charge - your code or the interpreter in turns.
I don't understand why he didn't float? In my experience you bob to the top because of the buoyancy of air in your lungs - not above the water, but you at least float to the surface. Am I wrong?
Because photons are massless and behave like waves.
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"Bit-addressable". I don't think this suffers from the same issues that NAND does with successive writes. The other articles I'm seeing after a quick search also suggest a three order of magnitude increase in write endurance.
Cheers to a fellow lifeguard! It was a great summer job in high school and my first year of college.
Does Aurora do anything other than detect a heartbeat failure, shoot the node in the head and bring it up on another box WRT failover?
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The problem here is that there isn't too much recycling being done. In the process of trying to become profitable companies seem to destroy their products so thoroughly that there isn't much left to salvage by the end.

It's like railway investors deciding that selling off all the metal from the left side of the track is the best way to recoup their losses. By the time that's done, there really isn't much of value left for anyone to pick up and use.
If a million people suddenly want to participate in a single hashtag, you necessarily also have a million devices able to contribute to the distribution of the content. It's far from intractable. It's bittorrent for tweets.
Don't think that's correct.

Lead-generation services like ThumbTack, RedBeacon or any "home warranty" outfits solicit professonals such as electricians and plumbers at their own pre-determined prices, yet at no point an independent electrician is confused with a RedBeacon employee.

If someone posts a Craigslist ad asking for two movers with a truck and mentions a specific budget, they're not automatically entered into a W-2 relationship.
Totally depends on the situation. Grabbing a small kid in two-foot-deep water isn't dangerous. They latch on and you walk away with them. Grabbing a 200lb man thrashing after falling off a boat ... get some equipment.

Fyi, the same rules apply when rescuing people from cliffs or other high places. Don't ever "throw them a rope". Don't approach until ready. They will latch onto anything nearby even if that means them falling because they cannot hold (human hands cannot properly hold bodyweight on modern nylon ropes).
If I'm being honest, this is the kind of thing I would not have allowed. As you describe, your child can make it a few meters away from the side of the pool. Then what?

If your child gets tired, this will not help. This looks like it forced the child into a face-down position, and a tired child forced to be face-down in water doesn't seem like a great idea.

As a fellow parent of a 1.5 year old, I'm sure you've heard of latent drowning. [0] This device seems like it could promote the chances of that happening as well.

[0] https://www.parentmap.com/article/how-a-child-can-drown-5-ho...
Honest question: is abusing canvas really becoming prevalent? The only web app I've seen doing this is flipboard.
Maybe a better way to rephrase this is: "How would you fire your boss?"

You say the technical founder is well-liked by the other employees. How do your peers feel about you?

Respectfully, you sound like a fresh Alpha Male who's found a new pride, topped the old Alpha, and now you're looking to push him out entirely to cement your dominance. But you're doing so under a passive-aggressive cover, as us tech workers often do.

How long do you expect to be with this company? What do you think about leaving and finding another startup to work with? Maybe somewhere whose work and founders you will respect more? Or even starting your own startup?
interesting! I'll try mixing that in when they get to learning backstroke!
You don't want to fire him/her, and the CEO won't fired him/her, for several reasons. Most important of which is, as a co-founder, they have equity in the company, not stock options. Yes, this equity will vest over time but firing with/without cause can change/accelerate things. At the end of the day, you don't want someone who owns a chunk of your company to be pissed at you. This can have ramifications while fund raising.

You need to meet with the CEO, clearly lay out why the co-founders current role is not a good use of time/money/energy, and work to find a new role.
The gadget here puts the overall US rate at 1.07 in 2013

http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html

I did 18-24, it says 1.18.

24-34, 0.98.

5-12, 0.49.

I wonder what factors into the differences. I'm sure things like number of guarded facilities, number of swimmers and amount of swim classes are important, it's the specific differences that would be interesting.
You're doing well, it was just someone being a grammar stickler for no good reason.
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>"I wonder where you get/how you generate a dataset of the vital signs of drowning children..."

panic attack data set will get you halfway there and panic attacks happen naturally and sufficiently frequently. Add the dataset from something like asthma attacks (unfortunately it is easy to obtain too).
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Any computer vision / machine learning experts want to weigh in on the difficulty involved in writing an algorithm to visually detect drowning?
There's a huge difference between, "I'm not sure I
understand where you are coming from." and "You are a god
damned idiot, what the hell are you thinking."

True, but I don't see how this is a gender issue, but an issue with how specific individuals handle competitive and potentially abrasive environments. Women are as capable of handling competitive and abrasive environments as men and I've met plenty of men that can't handle competitive or abrasive environments and end up opting out.
Evidently it's not completely secure if you can add an external keyboard and it's in kiosk mode.

(Having worked somewhere close to the field of XP-for-POS, the answer appears to be that the customers really do not like having to do updates. They'd much rather just firewall the tills and hope they don't suffer a stuxnet. They're attacked surprisingly rarely because you can't steal money over the internet this way.)
> I imagine it's because you don't need a dev account

This is finally fixed in Xcode 7.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
One might not realize it, but many people who already know how to swim will take a breathe in while lowering themselves into water. When diving to do a cannonball the first thing many swimmers will do is take a deep breathe. Someone who doesn't swim might... not.

A child who doesn't know how to swim but is copying what they see others doing might be breathing as normal, have exhaled recently, and when they release the handles/ladder and enter the pool begin to sink. Not knowing how to swim and now head-under-water they are unable to get air into their lungs to have any amount of buoyancy.
manipualting stack is exhilarating once you understand it. I learned clojure way after my tcl so now in retrospect I think of it as a macro system - keep it hygenic!
The Eternal September changed things. As participation increased, experience worsened.

"Classical Usenet" was what came before, for the most part.
I think it's a terrible practice, wholly ineffective, and neighboring on pathological to instill terror into your staff at the prospect of losing a child.

There are many better, more effective ways to ensure you're not going to lose a kid. We did things like count children before/after each activity, run drills at regular (not weekly) intervals, etc.

We also had games where kids were left to run in the forest for multiple hours unaccompanied (variations on capture the flag). The kids loved it, your kid would love it, and the counselors in charge of your kid wouldn't be obsessively paranoid about the exact location of your child at every single moment because that level of attention just isn't necessary.
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of course the googled above device wouldn't work as it is. It was only a random google just to gauge the scale of money such tech costs.
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Banks are quite adept at both insurance and recovery from petty fraud.
The HN team often penalizes particular topics they feel like are dominating the front page. As far as I can tell this is typically used to make sure the front page is mostly about buisness, startups and engineering with occasional other topics. But if one topic, like Snowden, starts to dominate the front page HN will not hesitate to penalize it.
This is a completely different technology from NAND.
Some advice on argumentation: don't make a point by subverting well-established jargon unless you're really explicit about it. You just confuse everyone involved.

I actually don't disagree with your point exactly (though it's a little spun: original content on Netflix and Youtube represents a tiny, tiny fraction of the eyeball-minutes of the movie industry -- it might get there some day but it's not remotely there yet). But what you were trying to say was completely obscured by your insane-seeming attempt to say that the MPAA doesn't represent the interests of "Hollywood".
I have already heard two kids claim they can swim, when later it turned out they can only swim with water wings.
I've been going over beginning a ZFS storage service for a long time, however two technical problems have held me back so far:

* ZFS send/receive does not support pause/resume

* SSH overhead may be overkill especially if the ZFS data is already encrypted

Therefore:

* Do you have any plans to solve these issues?

* Have you found them to be a problem in production?

* Do you support encrypted ZFS?
Fair enough. This sort of standoff with pointy-haired managers is always politically tricky. You have to show the manager that there is business value in creating effective and efficient user interfaces and that "getting it right" ultimately saves money. If you are developing software for high-volume capture, your manager will understand that doing it correctly is the main feature.

Also, I've noticed many end users are not confident to comment on what they believe is an inefficient interface. So, problems with user interfaces are not spoken openly unless the interface completely blocks the user from completing his/her task. It takes some amount of permission-giving from the developer's side to get valuable feedback that would otherwise not be spoken about.
Thank you for the correction! It is appreciated.

I am firmly in the camp that wants additional information dissemination, but I am also in the business of understanding why this is hard. I do see knowledge as one of the few universal equalizers, but I recognize, simultaneously, why invested power structures want to protect their advantages.

I agree that current economic paradigms require rethinking, but, short of additional taxation and subsidization, I don't see how we're going to achieve any semblance of novelty in economics.