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Comment · 11 years ago
Notable Labs (YC W15) | https://notablelabs.com | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite
Changing the way cancer is treated is our personal mission, which starts with putting patients first. We’ve developed an individualized laboratory testing service for cancer patients and their doctors. We screen thousands of FDA-approved drugs against the patients own cancer cells to identify drug combinations that can be immediately prescribed by their doctor without a clinical trial. By repositioning treatment as a patient-centered service we can unlock the power of modern data science and laboratory automation to achieve the promise of combination therapy and personalized medicine.
== Looking for ==
Fullstack engineer
Help build out the stack powering our robotic lab. You'd join as the third engineer and would own the frontend dashboards and related API's.
The day to day work would involve designing web apps with the science team for use in the lab and then building out the frontend code and backend API's. Beyond the core infrastructure, you'd have the freedom to explore new areas where we need help such as machine learning, robotic automation, and data visualization. Experience with Ruby/Python, Angular/Backbone/React, Grunt/Gulp, API design a plus.
Data Scientist
Use machine learning to help us decide which drug combinations to test for a patient. Even with automation, we're only able to test less than 5% of the combination space. You would work with the science team to design the features and then would work with the engineering team to put the model into production. Experience with bioinformatics, machine learning, Python, R, API design, and nosql products a plus.
== Tech Stack ==
Ruby/Rails for automation API's, Angularjs frontend, Python for data analysis, AWS and with Chef
== Contact ==
Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/notablelabs, mention Hacker News
Comment · 11 years ago
Townsquared - https://townsqd.com - San Francisco, CA - Hiring: Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer
Townsquared empowers local businesses by providing easy way for them to communicate on a secure, neighborhood based social network. Between New York and San Francisco, we've connected thousands of local business owners so they talk about what matters to them. Local businesses love what we're doing.
Our stack: Ruby, Rails, Nodejs, Angular, some PHP and Python for data analysis, Chef, AWS
We're looking for:
Frontend Engineer: You'll lead our frontend team in pushing our design + js forward, Angularjs, Foundation based. Open to new technologies
Fullstack Engineer: So much awesome stuff to build, so little time! You'll be working with small, focused teams to build out new backend features
More details: https://townsqd.com/jobs
Email [email protected]
Comment · 11 years ago
Orange County, CA or remote
surfbreakrentals.com
Part time contracted (40 hours per week, 4 month minimum)
Seeking Freelancer Ruby on Rails and Javascript intermediate/senior developer to work with on Surfbreak Rentals, the a place to rent beach houses at surf spots worldwide. Flexible in time and location, F/T or P/T. You'd be the technical lead on the project with outside advisors available when needed.
Please send github profile, resume, previous work along with hours available.
Stack: Rails, Backbone
Contact [email protected]
Comment · 12 years ago
I'd take this further and add that you should always be doing something wrong in the pursuit of more than just code. As a novice programmer you can spin your wheels learning every best practice without building much of anything. And HN often compounds this problem - look at every 'You're doing it wrong ...' post. Instead, I think you should make something crappy and make the rookie mistakes. Overtime, simply look to improve bit by bit.
I imagine someone will protest this idea, saying that there's already enough crappy software out there, that the world doesn't need any more technical debt. But this fails to realize that technical debt is a good thing in someways- it's a by-product of learning and crashing through boundaries.
In a way, technical debt is analogous to carbon emissions- yes, by itself it's a bad thing. But in the larger scope, carbon emissions are a by-product of industrialization, a process which has vastly improved our quality of life. Technical debt, like carbon emissions, is a sign of progress.
Comment · 14 years ago
Good idea. Does that Cinema Display on their homepage also look odd to anyone else? https://d2221r371oqwhn.cloudfront.net/assets/feature-image-b...
Comment · 14 years ago
I second, works great.
Comment · 14 years ago
This article came across as offensive. Honestly if a company is actively classifying people as losers, it's not really the type of company I'd like to work at. A better hiring policy might be 'hire amazing people' and then look for the amazing in people. This approach is so negative and off-putting.
Comment · 14 years ago
btguard.com is pretty much this. But you need to pay for it, because getting decent speed requires some servers.
Comment · 14 years ago
Those facts kind of debunked any point the article was making. Interesting look on the past perhaps.
Comment · 14 years ago
Creating a more appealing activity for girls seems like a good step. An even better step might be trying to fix perceptions regarding the engineering centric activities out there for kids (lego mindstorms, fort building, etc).
Right now this solution feels like similar solutions being pursued in computer engineering to fix the gender imbalance- namely creating girls-only coding groups. This is good in some ways, but I feel like it breeds two standards (with the female standard being weaker). For me, the best type of progress is girls working alongside the boys, with both happy and comfortable.
Comment · 14 years ago
There's a startup campus in SOMA. Bunk-bed dorm style, mostly devs + startupers, $35/night if they still have space (I think they're almost filled with the Disrupt coming up). I've heard good things, message me and I'll put you in touch with the organizer.
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree, this entire article is a waste of time. How can you draw any kind of blanket conclusions from such a contrived experiment? At the very least talk to some actual businesses and see what their opinions are.
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree- perhaps a dimming highlight would be a bit nicer (background dims, except for a box around the selected link). Otherwise, great work.
Comment · 14 years ago
Excellent critique. I feel that HN often blows by rational ignorance with some of it's advice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance). Sometimes it's best to do it wrong and actually do something, rather than hopping around per someone else's dogma and never actually making anything.
But I think it's also possible that the HN frontpage simply doesn't give a good impression of the average hacker. The average hacker is not welding together the latest js frameworks while tying it all together with node.js and hadoop. Perhaps more articles on "common man" hackers could be beneficial, or at least give some perspective.
Here at Notable, we're building a robotic platform to fight cancer, one patient at a time. Our translational drug discovery platform identifies treatment options for relapsed and refractory cancer patients -- starting with Acute Myeloid Leukemia-- to address the long tail of cancer treatment.
We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to help us scale up. You'll build API's that ultimately control the robots in the lab. Our stack is Rails / Django / React, all on AWS with Terraform.
Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/notablelabs/jobs/4002836002?gh_...