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rposborne··on Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
How do you beat https://www.aptible.com/?
rposborne··on How the Chick-fil-A Cauliflower Sandwich was created
They have reasonable kids meals which attracts parents to them over other fast food options, Good fruit options etc. and instead of toys they give either activities or a book.
rposborne··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
Affect Therapeutics | Software Engineers (All levels) | Full-Time | Remote

Apply here https://www.affecttherapeutics.com/about/join/

Affect is building a digital treatment to treat people with substance abuse disorder. You will work side by side with physicians and medical staff to help real people live a better life.

Compensation: $100-200k base salary depending on qualifications + equity options

Tech: Django / Python, React Native, Typescript, Postgres, full CI/CD.

rposborne··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Affect Therapeutics | Team Lead and Individual Contributors | Full-time, 100% Remote (US) | https://www.affecttherapeutics.com/

Lead Engineer Role https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2430091243/

Affect Therapeutics is changing the way the world treats stimulant addiction. The company is backed by Kevin Ryan of AlleyCorp; was founded by Dr. Jeff De Flavio, founder of Groups Recover Together, the country's leading opioid addiction recovery program; and advised by the country's top minds in stimulant addiction, including Dr. Larissa Mooney of UCLA and Dr. Tom McClellan, formerly of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Other openings and more details at https://www.affecttherapeutics.com/

rposborne··on Show HN: Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless
Wouldn't it be better as a PDF so that it can be selected? But somehow still retain the color / formatting.
rposborne··on Raspberry Turk
The documentation on this is an awesome read! What were the costs associated with this build? What would you do differently the second time around?
rposborne··on Show HN: Active Window Logger – Transparently capture usage analytics
There are a few tools out there that use a similar paradigm.

RescueTime, uses the same principal (active focused window) https://www.rescuetime.com/

Wakatime, which is similar, but closer to your "goals" I think. Which issues "heartbeats" of open files / websites / w/e you want that can be related to a given project programatically. https://wakatime.com

Though generally just love this, I constantly strive to automate timekeeping for the trivial stuff.

rposborne··on Show HN: Vamoose, one-click hotel and flight finder powered by NLP
Looks great but you guys have a name conflict with a major bus provider up and down the east cost. http://www.vamoosebus.com/
rposborne··on Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration
Not so much there own "ride sharing" but their own automated car fleet. There already have been rumors of Google using the self driving car in this fashion. It would be simple to swap out Uber for a Google Car.
rposborne··on The 64-core Parallella is alive
Yup, they just shipped mine on saturday. Think they are about to backer 3000 now.
rposborne··on Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf]
Have any of them giving you all benchmarks to hit to secure funding?
rposborne··on Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf]
The definition of a vaccine is that it is preventative vs. a cure which is removing a disease from a previously infected patient.

"A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease."

rposborne··on If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free
It's actually surprisingly accurate. This part in particular " Anytime a product completely novel and innovative enters this space, it is extremely difficult to obtain early adopter. " Bringing a drug to market is a massive undertaking and most Biotech Investors look at novel treatments as way to high of a risk.
rposborne··on locked Tomato Products - Adulteration with Drosophila Fly Eggs and Maggots
This is a pretty old guidance last updated 11/29/05. And this is not a guideline for what is "Allowed" but is a "represents the criteria for direct reference seizure".

Regardless 10 bucks says if you grow your own the rate is going to be much higher. Gardening is not a sterile environment.

rposborne··on China to launch space station by 2023
Misleading Title, China has had a space station since Sept 29, 2011 called the Tiangong 1. The article is reference a large orbital station similar to the Mir in size.

Tiangong 1 could be compared to Skylab but is still most certainly a space station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1

Edit: The original article has the misleading title.

rposborne··on How many people are in space right now?
Expedition 37 with a crew of 6 are in space right now. 2 America, 3 Russian, 1 Italian. The last three launching Yesterday

"Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space Station."

http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-37-soyuz-launch/#.UkQ...

Edit: CORRECTION this is the SECOND half of the Expedition 37 crew launching 25 September 2013, 20:58:50 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M. They are expected to return 12 March 2014. The other three were launched in may.

rposborne··on Box Launches Box Notes To Take On Google Docs
Honestly... This could be a very useful product. We just rarely need "branching"
rposborne··on Google Apps Admin Console Down
The status page says "Unless otherwise noted, this status information applies to consumer services as well as services for organizations using Google Apps."

So they have not yet updated the page, I guess.

rposborne··on Alzheimer's vaccine trial a success
As a safety only trial this leaves quite a bit to be desired. "Larger trials must now be conducted to confirm the CAD106 vaccine's efficacy".
rposborne··on Show HN: My Weekend Project (Turn a website into a set of PDF's)
Currently it's download only due to the fact that PDF's take a decent amount of time to render.