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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:08PM (#12413989)
Hey, Andrei (the UBC grad) and founder of Human API here.

We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.

I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014) on Thursday May 01, 2014 @11:16AM (#7680263)
Human API, (Palo Alto, CA), Full Stack Software Engineers

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Human API is building the universal health data API, data infrastructure & developer platform to make it really easy to integrate health data.

We are looking to add core full stack / data engineers to our fast growing team. We are well funded (Max Levchin, Andreessen Horrowitz, Eric Schmidt, among others) and based in downtown Palo Alto in sunny California.

More details: http://humanapi.co/aboutus

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Contact [email protected] if you're interested.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014) on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:30PM (#7327218)
Palo Alto, CA /// Human API (http://humanapi.co) /// FULL-TIME

We're an early stage health technology startup based in San Francisco. We are building the universal health data infrastructure to power the next generation of healthcare apps (and the developer tools to go along with it). We recently closed a funding round of $2.1M with some awesome investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Eric Schmidt, Thomas Korte, Alex Payne, Max Levchin, and a few others.

We are adding 4 more engineers to our core team to help us build out our infrastructure and continue to scale our API.

Job descriptions are here: http://humanapi.co/jobs

Happy to sponsor H1B / TN visas for awesome candidates.

If you're interested just send me an email to [email protected]

Re:The bitcoin crash is starting! on Sunday December 01, 2013 @02:16PM (#6828717)
Target buy price?
Re:As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell on Monday November 18, 2013 @03:17PM (#6756672)
Is anyone operating a reliable bitcoin options market?
Re:Little Data: How do we query personal data? on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:57PM (#6721007)
It is free for the end user to sign up and use as a personal API (and we already have around 50 or so services). What we charge developers for is building multi-user applications on top of it.
Re:Little Data: How do we query personal data? on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:36AM (#6718761)
We are working on solving some of this, specifically for health data, at http://humanapi.co - you can connect your various data sources, and we then give you a central personalized API you can query.

(full disclosure, I am the founder of this company)

Ask HN: Where do you find/filter/read the latest research publications?

Ranging from personal interest in a broad area, to wanting to know which recent research has been most popular or stirred the pot the most, I always find myself wanting to read 2-3 of the latest journal articles.The common question / thread I'm always looking to answer is "whats currently at the bleeding edge", and I've found it hard to do this efficiently without guidance from someone in the...

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I was waiting for someone to do this...
Re:Why US Healthcare sucks and how I’m trying to change it on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @12:07PM (#6635189)
Delian - love the initiative!

There are a few basic assumptions underlying your vision that may be useful to flush out further (I can tell you that, from similar experience, what you are going to bump in to is a fundamental lack of desire from the majority of the system to see change).

1. You are betting that Obamacare will actually drive the system towards "accountable" care -- we are a long way off from this unfortunately. I won't rehash it all here, but many ACOs are turning back from the model: http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/HHNDaily/HHNDailyDisplay.dhtml?...

2. You are betting that patient engagement in their own health will be high, particularly for the high cost, at risk patients. This has been historically proven not to be the case. High touch intervention + technology works (i.e. take a look at the Diabetes Prevention Programs now being run digitally by organizations such as Omada) but technology by itself has had a pretty low hit rate with driving meaningful patient engagement for the at risk populations. For some reading on the challenges of adherence, check out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661624/

I really do think we need more people working on these problems, so keep at it, and if I can help at all please let me know!

(drop me a line at [email protected])

Re:Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:10AM (#6625280)
open in incognito window (cmd+shift+n)... yeesh.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013) on Monday September 02, 2013 @10:17PM (#6318347)
HumanAPI (Funded startup) - Palo Alto, CA - http://humanapi.co/careers

HumanAPI is building the unified API for all human health data, and we are hiring another experienced engineer to add to the core team.

We started this company in late March this year, and are currently hard at work building the infrastructure to pull in and analyze health data from a wide variety of sources. Some of these include: wearable sensors, consumer health devices, smartphones, and genetic testing services (like 23&Me). We collect this data, normalize it, and have built an API to allow any application developer to easily and securely build applications with our service.

We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.

The person joining must be an opinionated, independent thinker and feel comfortable making big decisions. You have experience shipping real products to users. You are broadly curious, have probably had some side projects, and you have ideally hacked around with some hardware as well.

You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. You don't identify with specific technologies as much as you identify with the problems that need to be solved.

Ideally, though not required, you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

Come help us build the human health data infrastructure layer.

To apply, send an email directly to [email protected] with your background, some relevant links (github, linkedin, etc), and any questions you have :)

Re:Why We’re Traveling on Thursday August 29, 2013 @03:47PM (#6298173)
How did you find the house?
Re:Two Ways to Get to a $100 Million Valuation on Thursday August 15, 2013 @03:50PM (#6220149)
The two options for a highly valuable company are to either spend heavily to acquire high value users (i.e. Palantir, LTV:CAC ratio), or spend nothing to acquire ubiquitous users (i.e. Facebook, high viral coefficient).

Another important factor not mentioned here (but highly relevant towards a $100M valuation) is market size, which can often provide a restrictive upper bound if the product is too niche (in either case above).

I second this.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013) on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:04PM (#6143099)
HumanAPI - Palo Alto, CA - Full-time (http://humanapi.co)

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HumanAPI is building the unified API for all human health data, and we are hiring another experienced engineer to add to the core team. Our mission is to collect, organize and make sense of all human health data.

We started this company in late March this year, and are currently hard at work building the infrastructure to pull in and analyze health data from a wide variety of sources. Some of these include: wearable sensors, consumer health devices, smartphones, and genetic testing services (like 23&Me). We collect this data, normalize it, and have built an API to allow any application developer to easily and securely build applications on top of the human body. Pretty cool, huh?

We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.

The person joining should be an opinionated, independent thinker and feel comfortable making big decisions. You have experience shipping real products to users. You are broadly curious, have probably had some side projects, and you have ideally hacked around with some hardware as well.

You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. You don't identify with specific technologies as much as you identify with the problems that need to be solved.

Ideally, though not required, you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

Come help us build the human health data infrastructure layer.

[email protected]

Re:A Passive Income Hacker's View on Wealth on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @02:04PM (#6128789)
Curious what you learned from this experience, how old you are, and what you're doing now.

Come help us build the API for your life

HumanAPI (http://humanapi.co) is hiring another experienced engineer to help us build the API for your life.We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.You must be an opinionated, independent thinker. You must have shipped a product with real users. You must be broadly curious, have side projects, and you have ideally...

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Re:Any.do Cal on Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:52PM (#6030405)
I love it, b/c I hate every single calendar app I've ever used to date.

Timeline on android version?

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