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I'm not a rocket scientist I'm a hacker

I built from scratch the entire stack of an IoT social network that has made front-page here at hacker news and went on to raise money and start Earth's first social internet-controlled devices community

I built from scratch world's second real-time sales coaching platform that listens to your sales calls to suggest critical things to say

I've been the tech lead and a large mobile gaming studio leading the design on scaling to support xx,xxx concurrent users

I've used the underlying IBM Watson engine to save a large health institution ~$50mm using NLP to detect diagnosis codes and published results in an informatics peer-reviewed journal

My specialty is early stage companies that need a "hacker" to quickly prototype, create MVP's, with relatively lasting design (next iteration is to think about making it robust)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React.js, Vue.js, Node.js, Ruby-on-Rails, Elixir, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Go, GCP, AWS, Elasticsearch

Resume/CV: Described Above or go to linkedin.com/in/theodore-lee-6786b1b

Email: theo 825 / at / gmail

Open to contract roles

She's got a shield and sword to fight the onslaught. ~200ms latency, running on golang, node.js, react.js, python. Aim, shoot, also talk (text-to-speech)

Hey Jason, I'm working on a platform where people can control other people's robots. We're leveraging crowd intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence, but we'd like to incorporate artificial intelligence soon. Perhaps you'd have some interest to check it out. We're at http://runmyrobot.com.

Here's a readable summary (also said below):

Raspberry Pi that runs the python program that sends video to the webserver using ffmpeg. Adafruit Motor HAT to connect the motors to the pi. Android phone is strapped to robot that runs a custom android app that receives chats from the website and also says them out loud using the Android API for text-to-speech. Everything sits on top of a 3d printed chassis. Cheap logitech webcam. Web app is a node server, socketio, ec2.

Raspberry Pi that runs the python program that sends video to the webserver using ffmpeg. Adafruit Motor HAT to connect the motors to the pi. Android phone is strapped to robot that runs a custom android app that receives chats from the website and also says them out loud using the Android API for text-to-speech. Everything sits on top of a 3d printed chassis. Cheap logitech webcam. Web app is a node server, socketio, ec2.

Ah, taking note. Thanks

One robot is in Santa Barbara, California and the other is in La Jolla in San Diego, California at a park somewhere. If you type in the chat box, the robot will say the chat out load.

At ShipHawk, each developer is entrusted with autonomy and is provided transparency to all parts of the company. The more you put in, the more you get out of your experience here. We are a small agile team that's growing rapidly, 10 minutes away from Santa Barbara beaches. Pair programming and mobbing are the standard. We're tackling ambitious problems and there's no shortage of optimism and excitement here.

In addition to standard development skills, we're looking for you to have optimism, ambition, and a go-get-it attitude. You enjoy solving complex packaging and shipping problems and seek to make a tangible difference to the industry fast. For example: say you have a bunch of boxes of different sizes. You'll have to determine whether the boxes can fit on a pallet, and what the best way is to arrange them. If you say: no problem, give me multiple pallets and a weight and orientation constraint, then we want to talk to you!

You have: - 3+ Years of Ruby on Rails Development and 5+ years developing software in a commercial environment - Solid experience in building high-performance, reliable and scalable services - Experience with Ajax based user interfaces - Experience with our current technology stack is a bonus: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, React, Git, Postgres - Shipping/transportation industry experience is a bonus We want those who are efficient, organized and follows through on commitments. You're autonomous, have great analytical skills and pay attention to detail. In addition, you're calm under pressure, have a great work ethic and communicate well.

Please email me at [email protected] if this interests you and please note in the subject line that you are from HackerNews

At ShipHawk, each developer is entrusted with autonomy and is provided transparency to all parts of the company. The more you put in, the more you get out of your experience here. We are a small agile team that's growing rapidly, 10 minutes away from Santa Barbara beaches. Pair programming and mobbing are the standard. We're tackling ambitious problems and there's no shortage of optimism and excitement here.

n addition to standard development skills, we're looking for you to have optimism, ambition, and a go-get-it attitude. You enjoy solving complex packaging and shipping problems and seek to make a tangible difference to the industry fast. For example: say you have a bunch of boxes of different sizes. You'll have to determine whether the boxes can fit on a pallet, and what the best way is to arrange them. If you say: no problem, give me multiple pallets and a weight and orientation constraint, then we want to talk to you!

You have: - 3+ Years of Ruby on Rails Development and 5+ years developing software in a commercial environment - Solid experience in building high-performance, reliable and scalable services - Experience with Ajax based user interfaces - Experience with our current technology stack is a bonus: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, React, Git, Postgres - Shipping/transportation industry experience is a bonus

In addition we want the usual skill set: efficient, organized and follows through on commitments. You're autonomous, have great analytical skills and pay attention to detail. In addition, you're calm under pressure, have a great work ethic and communicate well.

Please email me at [email protected] if this interests you and please note in the subject line that you are from HackerNews

The Kaiser Permanente Medical Informatics team is looking for more software engineers. You will get to do more than code monkeying, though admittedly, there is always some time spent code monkeying. You will get to help improve our natural language processing pipeline to wrangle large clinical datasets (How can we do phrase chunking in a parallel manner? Can we get down to real time, sub-second, speeds?). Help improve our internal tools to assist our physicians and linguistic annotators. Can you use statistical analysis or machine learning to "recommend" other diagnoses? Or, my own personal curiosity, sparked recently in office: can we reprogram an FPGA to be optimized for pattern recognition computations?

If these kinds of things excite you, please send me an email at [email protected]. We're based in beautiful Del Mar, CA, btw.

Cheers

I am a bit clueless here. What is bad about parsing large files with Awk?

Hi lucidrains, I'd be curious too what kind of thoughts you have about the health startup field. If you'd like to email me, I would love to chat.

Hi FireBeyond, your email is not listed, but I'd appreciate it if you could email me as I have a few questions. I am curious as to what companies you may have meant when you said, quote: "There are entire companies devoted to nothing more than this - taking a ICD9/10 diagnosis, some procedure codes and massaging the bill to get the biggest possible bill". I had searched before for exactly this and found very little to lead me. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi rficcaglia, I would like to buy you a pint, or lunch, or coffee or something. Are you in the Silicon Valley area? Your email is not listed, but mine is. I am interested in natural language processing and machine learning in the medical field. Would you know anything about this?

I'm curious, which company is that that did the largest electronic medical record rollout in the country? Sounds interesting.

This brings up an interesting topic: can a rational person do anything that's not for the purposes of ego, or to be more polemic, sex? Hypothetically, if one were to be completely ego-free and also rational, they would have to reconcile that their work and their productions here on earth, are infinitesimal and perhaps negligible on the scale of galaxies. Surely, all human motivations break down at that level, and for a person to continue to be productive, they must admit to the level of "i'll produce something here on earth, that will a.) give me attention (and hence a chance at a more lovely significant other), b.) money (so that I may live comfortably and have a better chance in the future to achieve 'a'." To even claim altruism is to use the adjective to positively light one's ego, no? True altruism would have to function under "rather than doing nothing, i shall do something good, but 'I' do not exist", and under the course of 80 years, any person would succumb to a more aesthetically pleasurable life.

I've always thought that companies should have emphasized how perfect it is for college students.

Use cases:

-Torrent textbooks. Now you have all ten of your heavy textbooks in one thin compact device. Also, they're now free.

-Sitting in lecture and the professor says something that you'd like to wikipedia. Why haul out a clunky, sleepy laptop when you can do it quickly on your tab. Also, you can read hacker news quite conveniently when the professor is 5 minutes late.

-Write notes. Also, there's got to be some app that let's you draw on your screen so you can record diagrams as well.

-Physically convenient. You can almost completely replace a full backpack with a one-handed 7-inch slab. It also plays music so you can turn on that rain ambience mp3 while you lay on the campus lawn reading any of the millions of ebooks that are now at your whimsical disposal.

There is a growing dissonance in college: one group of people are intent on having a career in the academics. The other are getting their bachelor's as only for the fact that it's the new high school diploma: just a necessity to keep up.

This leads to confusion for a lot of young people. The ones who are more ambitous will have thoughts that college isn't enough for them, and will consider their dissection that college is a beauracratic sheepfarm to be brilliant, and they will have convincing thoughts of leaving which is unfortunate. It is unfortunate because there is another realm which a lot of these young people might find a lot of challenging enjoyment and that is the academic world. Unfortunately again, though, the first two years of college have been dumbed down to accomodate the new trend of having college not mainly being for aspiring academics.

I have to wonder that if these students stuck it out (and perhaps with the choosing of a rigorous major) they'd find their life leading a whole new direction by the end of their upper division courses.