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keven··on FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
For people interested in Crispr, Rich Horgan started a non-profit called Cure Rare Disease working to fast-track customized therapeutics for his brother and other families with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using in-vivo gene editing.

https://cureraredisease.org/

keven··on Cost of Coworking Space vs. Your Own Office
The whole series

When to Get Your Own Office – The Alternatives: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/02/when-to-get-your-own-off...

When to Get Your Own Office – You’re On The Hook: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/07/when-to-get-your-own-off...

When It’s Time To Get Your Own Office – The Math: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/19/when-its-time-to-get-you...

keven··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)
SpaceList — Vancouver, BC — Full-time — http://spacelist.ca/engineering

SpaceList is the leading marketplace for commercial real estate in Canada. Finding office, retail and warehouse space is a painful process for businesses, and we have a unique opportunity to make their search faster, more accurate and more enjoyable.

We are a group of experienced entrepreneurs, real estate processionals, designers and engineers. We hire intelligent and humble people who are focused on doing great work that makes people happy. We work hard, and we have fun. Each day we come up with new ways to make commercial real estate data more accessible, useful and actionable. At SpaceList the entire team is involved in strategy, contributing ideas and developing solutions.

-------- The Role --------

We are hiring an intermediate rails developer to build and ship great software. You will be working closely with a team of six that includes: a senior rails developer, a growth hacker, a data scientist, a marketing team & the founder.

---------- About You ----------

We don't want a short order cook, we want a chef. You need to be able to put yourself in our users shoes, understand their issues, and design a solution that will make them happy. You must draw great insights from feedback and get your ideas across clearly & concisely. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to get done... whether it is a quick bug fix or a customer support call. Above all else you are an excellent communicator & collaborator.

- BS CS/CE or equivalent experience

- Excellent writing skills

- Ruby on Rails, Rspec

- Html / css

- Javascript (Bonus: experience with backbone/meteor/angular)

- Postgres (Bonus: experience with mongo/redis)

- Unix

keven··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
SpaceList — Vancouver, BC — Full-time — http://spacelist.ca/engineering

SpaceList is the leading marketplace for commercial real estate in Canada. Finding office, retail and warehouse space is a painful process for businesses, and we have a unique opportunity to make their search faster, more accurate and more enjoyable.

We are a group of experienced entrepreneurs, real estate processionals, designers and engineers. We hire intelligent and humble people who are focused on doing great work that makes people happy. We work hard, and we have fun.

Each day we come up with new ways to make commercial real estate data more accessible, useful and actionable. At SpaceList the entire team is involved in strategy, contributing ideas and developing solutions.

-------- The Role --------

We are hiring an intermediate rails developer to build and ship great software. You will be working closely with a team of six that includes: a senior rails developer, a growth hacker, a data scientist, a marketing team & the founder.

---------- About You ----------

We don't want a short order cook, we want a chef.

You need to be able to put yourself in our users shoes, understand their issues, and design a solution that will make them happy. You must draw great insights from feedback and get your ideas across clearly & concisely. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to get done... whether it is a quick bug fix or a customer support call. Above all else you are an excellent communicator & collaborator.

- BS CS/CE or equivalent experience

- Excellent writing skills

- Ruby on Rails, Rspec

- Html / css

- Javascript (Bonus: experience with backbone/meteor/angular)

- Postgres (Bonus: experience with mongo/redis)

- Unix

keven··on StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?
keven··on StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
Right now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc
keven··on StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
We will enable custom stack soon!
keven··on StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
Yes, once you installed virtualbox and our command line tool, stkr, a virtual machine will be downloaded automatically and a stack of your choice will be set up locally.

Visit getting started page https://www.stackrocket.com/docs/getting_started or ping me if you have more questions.

keven··on StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.
keven··on StackRocket: Build and share virtualized dev stacks, start coding in minutes
In addition to Olivier's comment, we will also have deployment option to popular cloud providers such as Heroku, PHPFog and EC2
keven··on Are we in another bubble? Empirical data from CrunchBase
It would help but most private companies don't report annual revenues.
keven··on Are we in another bubble? Empirical data from CrunchBase
I agree. The data is not consistent but it's probably the most well-maintained and accessible data (with its api) to my knowledge.

That is the reason I look at investments from 2005 since most investments prior to that were not entered.

keven··on What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod?
What if you had bought Apple call options instead of AAPL stock?

If you bought AAPL April $200 Call on Feb. 1 (at $10.20), you would made around 370% return. But obviously trading options is more risky, because you have to get both the direction and timing right.

keven··on Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron
"Work on building a "robust" society, capable of withstanding errors, in which the role of finance (hence debt) would be minimal. We want a society in which people can make mistakes without risk of total collapse. Silicon Valley offers a good example, where people have the chance to fail fast (and repeatedly)."
keven··on Get the most out of zsh
used these zshrc files to get started

linux: http://stuff.mit.edu/~jdong/misc/zshrc os x: http://stuff.mit.edu/~jdong/misc/zshrc-osx-blackonwhite

keven··on Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?
The main issue is Apple's consistency with the App approval process. This is the screenshot taken from Wolfenstein 3D on App Store, showing multiple shootings, body on floor and blood.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82/wolfenstein3d.png

keven··on Ask HN: hacker culture and ramen
it's known as Instant Noodle for most asians
keven··on Python course in Bioinformatics
With title "Perl for Bioinformatics"
keven··on Using an automated day trader to generate income
http://www.portfolio123.com/
keven··on Ask HN: Suggestions for Mac Laptop
I have my eyes on the 13" 2.0GHz Macbook w/ 4GB Ram and SSD. The price adds up to be a little more than entry-level MBP. What do you guys think?
keven··on The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort
That reminded me when a physicist once told me that in physics and life, Work = Force * Displacement.
keven··on Printing only what you like (Format any web page for printing)
Similar to Aardvark, a Firefox extension
keven··on Ask YC: Laser Eye Surgery?
Was it worth it? For sure! No problem for few years except floating strings around my eyes (got used to it).

Would I do it again? Probably not. I still have memory of the corneal suction ring coming slowing into my eye. At least the surgery was short.

keven··on fbFund and Y Combinator
I agree. To join YC in summer '07, I moved with my wife and a set of two-year-old twins to Cambridge from Vancouver for four months.

We had great memories of Cambridge and thought it was worth it.

keven··on Ask HN: Best books/source to learn about investing?
Index fund is the way to go for many people. In fact, it is the suggestion William Sharpe gave to (pre-IPO) Google employees.

http://www.sanfranmag.com/print/node/3368

keven··on Ask HN: Best books/source to learn about investing?
Highly recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.

also http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm

keven··on Ask YC: Naming a startup
find a funny-sounding word from Dr. Seuss books and get back to the product.. worked for a few startups
keven··on PG: Disconnecting Distraction
Since I work on one laptop and can't turn wifi off (IM w/ distributed workmates), PG's trick doesn't apply to me.

However I find simply separating work/fun applications has helped me work more efficiently and reduce distractions.

For examples: I switched to NetNewsWire from Google Reader. And I use Safari only for work and Firefox for general browsing. Trick is to keep the non-work applications turned off while working.

keven··on Dabble Do: social to-do list Facebook app from the makers of Dabble DB
Most productive facebook app to get things done. Pass todos to friends and 'crack the whip' until they're done.
keven··on A detailed look at Vancouver's startup scene
SocialPicks is incorporated in Delaware. To attend YC's SFP '07, I applied for a 4-month TN Visa at a port of entry (Vancouver airport) en route to Cambridge. More info can be found at http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1274.html
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