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nmb··on Show HN: Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat
Pluto is great. It captures the serendipity (and awkwardness) of in-person events pretty well :)
nmb··on Charles – Web Debugging Proxy Application
Would love to hear about your setup too.
nmb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Color Genomics | Burlingame, CA | Full Stack, Backend, Bioinformatics

Color Genomics is democratizing access to high-quality genetic testing. Our first product, a breast and ovarian cancer risk test that's 1/10 the price of existing offerings, launched in April and was covered in Fast Company, Forbes, and the New York Times[1].

We're lucky to have a team that represents the best from of the worlds of software development and next-generation DNA sequencing, and a scientific advisory board that includes the scientist who discovered the BRCA1 gene.

If you're an engineer who's willing to learn about biological problems, or have experience in next-generation sequencing, feel free to contact me directly: nish@getcolor.com

More info on our mission: https://getcolor.com/#/blog/2015/04/cancer-touches-everyone

[1] Press coverage: http://www.fastcompany.com/3045249/most-creative-people/ex-g...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/04/21/start-u...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/business/more-accurate-aff...

nmb··on Google Takes Stricter Approach to Costs
http://archive.fortune.com/2009/03/26/technology/google_layo...
nmb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Correction: the test launched in late April of this year.
nmb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Color Genomics | Burlingame, CA | Onsite, Full-time | {UI/Frontend, Backend, Full-stack} Engineering, Bioinformatics

Color Genomics is democratizing access to high-quality genetic testing. Our first product, a breast and ovarian cancer risk test that's 1/10 the price of existing offerings, launched 2 weeks ago and was covered in Fast Company, Forbes, and the New York Times[1]. We're lucky to have a team that represents the best from of the worlds of software development and next-generation DNA testing, and a scientific advisory board that includes the scientist who discovered the BRCA1 gene. If you're an engineer who's willing to learn about biological problems, or have experience in next-generation sequencing, feel free to contact me directly: nish@getcolor.com

More info on our mission: https://getcolor.com/#/blog/2015/04/cancer-touches-everyone

[1] Press coverage:

- http://www.fastcompany.com/3045249/most-creative-people/ex-g...

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/04/21/start-u...

- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/business/more-accurate-aff...

nmb··on The Allure of the Prison Break
[tangentially related] 99% Invisible did an episode on the design of bank heists: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-the-bank/
nmb··on Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
thanks for making this and sharing!
nmb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Color Genomics | Burlingame, CA | Onsite, Full-time | Full Stack, Backend, Bioinformatics

Color Genomics is democratizing access to high-quality genetic testing. Our first product, a breast and ovarian cancer risk test that's 1/10 the price of existing offerings, launched 2 weeks ago and was covered in Fast Company, Forbes, and the New York Times[1]. We're lucky to have a team that represents the best from of the worlds of software development and next-generation DNA testing, and a scientific advisory board that includes the scientist who discovered the BRCA1 gene. If you're an engineer who's willing to learn about biological problems, or have experience in next-generation sequencing, feel free to contact me directly: nish@getcolor.com

More info on our mission: https://getcolor.com/#/blog/2015/04/cancer-touches-everyone

[1] Press coverage:

- http://www.fastcompany.com/3045249/most-creative-people/ex-g...

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/04/21/start-u...

- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/business/more-accurate-aff...

nmb··on The User Is Drunk
haven't seen the similar Three Sheets Research mentioned yet: http://threesheetsresearch.com/
nmb··on Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
How did you evaluate the other person?
nmb··on Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project
http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...
nmb··on Capsela, the game that changed my life
Thanks, I'd completely forgotten I had this as a kid until just now.
nmb··on Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
Interesting idea, but it would incentivize people against writing small, modular commits.
nmb··on Win $120,000 in Hall's Developer Integration Fund
Looks cool! Any tips on what makes for a useful/compelling integration?
nmb··on Intro to Distributed Hash Tables
Not to mention THE Ion Stoica! (https://databricks.com/about-us)
nmb··on Recommended Security Reading
Besides lacking resources on social engineering, looks very good!
nmb··on Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
Thank you.
nmb··on Show HN: Cupertino.js – A JavaScript to Cocoa compiler and runtime
At first I thought this was going to be a Javascript interface to SAT tutoring centers and boba shops.
nmb··on Startup School 2014 applications are open
Met Justin Kan at one of these events too. Agreed, dude is super down-to-earth and very nice. Was surprised to learn how much coding he still does for his companies.
nmb··on YC Hacks 2014 Live Blog
Yup, not at the event but got to meet several of them. Very sharp folks all around.
nmb··on Amplitude (YC W12), Mobile Analytics Startup, Raises $2M Seed Round
Congrats guys!
nmb··on Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only
Easily. Just get any two beekeepers to talk to each other and you'll find plenty of examples. Some common ones:

- Whether to use a [queen excluder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_excluder) or not.

- What [kind of hive](http://www.beethinking.com/pages/what-is-the-best-bee-hive) to use, even.

- If using a Langstroth hive, whether to use [10-frame or 8-frame boxes](http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?291373-10-fra...).

- How/when/whether to [feed your bees](http://www.bushfarms.com/beesfeeding.htm).

However, despite having all these disagreements, it's an incredibly friendly community. It's expected that anyone you meet will do things differently from you, so people swap advice and adopt things that work with their style.

Edit: whelp, markdown doesn't work here but I'm too lazy to change it.

nmb··on Gofmt No Longer Allows Spaces. Tabs Only
I got into beekeeping recently, and it's like this, except applied to everything.
nmb··on Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
You might be able to use StartSSL's free one: https://www.startssl.com/
nmb··on TextSecure's Private Group Messaging
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/437030748965449728
nmb··on What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Like How Computers Stay Sane
Yup. :(
nmb··on Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
There will be at least three development platforms called Spark now, the others being http://spark.incubator.apache.org/ and https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Spark
nmb··on Rejecting Billions, Snapchat Expects a Better Offer
Was trying to find that FAQ, I think it might have been this one: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/08/the-ultimate-cheat-shee... (the last bullet of #25)
nmb··on Optimizing AngularJS
In a conversation I had with someone on the React team, he said that when they designed it they were more inspired by highly performant 3D rendering engines (like those of Unreal/Quake) than they were by other web frameworks.
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