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Any early access codes you're spraying around? Also how does Function compare to something like your out of the box test-ordering companies? https://www.ultalabtests.com

Related to today's frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941332

MINDBODY (http://www.mindbodyonline.com) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers

MINDBODY is the leading platform for fitness, beauty and wellness businesses -- created in 2003, NASDAQ-listed (MB) since 2016. We have a mission to continue to help individuals lead happier and healthier lives. So far: nearly 70,000 small and large businesses run on MINDBODY, and tens of millions of consumers use us for their regular fitness and wellness activities.

Our headquarters is in San Luis Obispo -- equidistant (3h) from Los Angeles and San Francisco on the 101, yet seemingly a world away. SLO is an oasis tucked in the middle of California, with a growing tech scene, yet firm foothold as one of the happiest cities in the US (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north...), if that means anything to you. It's a great place to visit, and an incredible place to live.

We are hiring across the board -- see https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities.

My team in particular is hiring:

Sr Director, UX: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

Director, Product Marketing (and many PMM roles): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

Senior Product Manager(s): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities..., https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

MINDBODY (http://www.mindbodyonline.com)) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers

MINDBODY is the leading platform for fitness, beauty and wellness businesses -- created in 2003, NASDAQ-listed (MB) since 2016. We have a mission to continue to help individuals lead happier and healthier lives. So far: nearly 70,000 small and large businesses run on MINDBODY, and tens of millions of consumers use us for their regular fitness and wellness activities.

Our headquarters is in San Luis Obispo -- equidistant (3h) from Los Angeles and San Francisco on the 101, yet seemingly a world away. SLO is an oasis tucked in the middle of California, with a growing tech scene, yet firm foothold as one of the happiest cities in the US (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north...), if that means anything to you. It's a great place to visit, and an incredible place to live.

We are hiring across the board -- see https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities.

My team in particular is hiring:

Director, UX: https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

Director, Product Marketing (and many PMM roles): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

Senior Product Manager(s): https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers/opportunities...

Their email to users offers a transition to the Small Business product... which appears to be the same product at $10/month/device. So this is really a pricing change, though you can enjoy a 75% discount for a year while you decide what's next.

To a large extent that's on the employee. If you choose to move to an area with no industrial foundation, then you are stuck with the horse you rode in on.

(It's also -- knowing the Zapier history of being aggressive on the employee-friendliness front, and having interacted with them in their earlier days -- somewhat uncharitable as a default position.)

We priced our product appropriately for our customer base and the value offered by our product: which is to say, an order of magnitude more costly than a typical VC-subsidized, "make it up in volume" startup approach.

This certainly resulted in the opposite of growth, raw-customer-count-wise, but it's led to a legitimate, sustainable and growing business; streamlined our maintenance and support costs; and focused our product roadmap.

Yes to both!

Here's a slightly more detailed description: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-algorithm-used-by-Diffbot-...

All identification and extraction in our APIs is based on our ML models, which have been fed hundreds of thousands of data-point examples from annotated web pages. Basically: our back end has reviewed millions of web pages to learn what various components of a page are -- and even what "type" of page a page is -- and uses that to make judgments on ones submitted via API.

We exclusively rely on ML for our core product at Diffbot: automatic data extraction from web pages (articles, products, images, discussion threads, more in the pipeline), cross-site data normalization, etc. It's interesting and challenging work, but a definite point of pride for us to be a profitable AI-powered entity.

If anything this makes -- should have made -- taking a principled stand drastically easier.

It also doesn't follow that a defense then could ever be "we won't fire..." He's not an employee nor a YC vote-carrier nor an equity holder that you seemingly can fire.

Public statements made under duress (however weak the duress) or after the political calculus is done are worth their weight in tweets. Any silence -- which has been anything but in Graham's back and forth with Hansson -- is already indelible.

This is really just a lame, Valley-lensed Pascalian wager. Say nothing and maintain a flatline with YC applicants (who care mostly for YC demo day flow) and the notoriously humorless Thiel; say something and enjoy only the satisfaction of having demonstrated (Apple-like) courage of conviction -- while risking whatever havoc Thiel wishes to wreak upon you.

The right thing to do here would have been to award the fellowship to the voting winners and then amend your rules to exclude "applicants about whom we have bad vibes" going forward.

Retroactively doing so, sure, is your right but it's fairly underhanded.

In very broad strokes this is how we power many of our API features at Diffbot. We have hundreds of thousands of human-trained web pages amounting to millions of individual elements that have helped to train our system.

Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com) | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE

Diffbot uses machine learning, NLP and computer vision to automatically extract data from web pages. We offer a host of APIs and services around this technology to hundreds of (paying) customers. We recently announced our profitability and the raising of $10M in Series A funding to bolster our significantly expanded efforts: http://www.diffbot.com/company/news/

Machine Learning Specialists: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/data-opera...

Data Operations Product Manager: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/data-opera...

Search Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/search-eng...

Technical Account Exec: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/technical-...

We're also looking for a Support Engineer / Support Lead -- someone with broad web experience and facility speaking to developers/engineers.

See above for job information or write us at support@diffbot.com or me directly, jdavi@ same domain.

Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com) | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE

Diffbot uses machine learning, NLP and computer vision to automatically extract structured data from web pages. These are not buzzword terms for us -- our engineers' primary work is in improving and expanding our models in support of our current and new APIs (and our hundreds of paying customers).

Machine Learning Specialists: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/data-opera...

Data Operations Product Manager: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/data-opera...

Search Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/search-eng...

Technical Account Exec: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/technical-...

We're also looking for a tremendous Support Engineer / Support Lead. See above for job information or write us at support@diffbot.com or me directly, jdavi@ same domain.

We've been tracking prices across hundreds of retailers for much of 2015, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's Amazon. This list is a subset showing the realtime prices from dozens of merchants on some popular items.

Walmart is a close second and will regularly outprice Amazon on certain items.

Your assumption is that obese / overweight individuals are seeking abnormally inefficient bacteria, as opposed to their perhaps having abnormally efficient microbes. I'm sure the world of the overweight is comprised of many types: those who simply overeat beyond their "normal" bacteria's ability, those who eat their way to super-efficiency, those who accidentally (antibiotics, food poisoning maybe, Caesarean-section-delivery -- who knows?) arrive there, etc.

Simply labeling it a problem of self-control paints with far too wide (and pejorative) a brush. Let's assume a hospitalization somehow leaves you with a more efficient gut -- how easily can you stop eating, say, 250 calories a day? (Research shows: not easily, and not forever.)

Changes in the gut could be quite profound -- well beyond caloric uptake. It's quite likely that gut bacteria influences mood and other things we commonly attribute solely to the brain. If that's the case who knows the impact gut biome changes could make on desire, "willpower," adherence to a diet, the allure of "soda and Snickers" compared to other foods.

The New Yorker had solid overview -- i.e., "how much we know about how little we know" -- of the gut microbiome in 2012: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/germs-are-us

The calories-in, calories-out crowd isn't wrong thermodynamically speaking (I am fairly certain!), but an important component of that is how many calories are being taken-up by bacteria and how many are passed through without being utilized. If my gut sucks up 20% more calories from the same food as someone else, I'm going to have a harder time managing my weight than he/she will... even if we eat and 'move' at precisely the same amounts.

This is fairly close to that functionality -- but not exactly there yet.

What are you looking for in an archive functionality that isn't available (a) via Slack's own export tool (JSON dump of your channel), (b) other O-S archivers or (c) paying for Slack so that you have all your messages available? Ability to archive channels regularly/automatically and search contents (outside of Slack)? That's a direction I've considered going since searching within Slack is IMO a pain.

Seems like the kind of thing that our increasingly 'open' startup culture could utilize as we move toward complete corporate translucence!

Also a viable liveblog option using the product that's already used for communication vs. a dedicated liveblog app:

1) Create a #channel for a specific event. 2) Turn that channel "live" 3) Embed the IFRAME in your blog post 4) Liveblog away

We've been using this internally to monitor for news about ourselves (Diffbot) and other relevant topics and decided to roll it out for anyone. It's useful to have news alerts right where they should be -- in a forum where everyone can discuss themselves to death.

This is powered by Diffbot's automatic article identification and text-extraction, Crawlbot (our intelligent crawler) and our web Search API. If you're a Slack user, check it out!

Arsenic amount depends on where the rice is grown (largely based on historical pesticide use). http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much...

I have the entire LS collection and they are exceptional. As a rum man I agree with you about the complexity available in aged rums -- and even the early trial versions of Lost Spirits that predate the full-fledged Colonial example are outstanding from a "mouth feel" standpoint. I have routinely trotted them out to put in front of my Scotch-drinking betters, and while a Scotch snob is an impossible conversion target, it's rare to have one not express surprise at what they've tasted.

They are all overproof but extremely drinkable. Even the 151-proof "Cuban Inspired" can be sipped, and its texture sensed, which is pretty unbelievable for its alcohol content (notwithstanding its age).

Anyway, all this to say this is less fake than other techniques, e.g. sugaring wine.

If you're in the Bay Area K&L and Beltramos carry various versions, all $40 or under. Worth a shot!

I think that's just conventional wisdom/wishful-thinking propagated forward (like so much dietary advice): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985 (cited in http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/23really.html).

I use Hazel (mentioned by drhayes9 too) to monitor various folders and take action regularly. On the delete side, this includes:

* clearing out any items in Downloads > 1week * clearing out any items from my "Temp" folder > 1 day, unless they have an explicit "save" tag ("Temp" is my go-to alternative to the Desktop and is where I stash anything, well, temporary-ish) * automatically moving screenshots into my Temp folder (where they will soon be deleted)

Once enough is coming up through grassblades then farmers can cease giving it to the cattle directly. The holy grail of Unlimited Tramadol!

There is so much yet to come from studying the microbiome and its influence over "us" (the brain part, that is).

For a good overview of how much there is still to uncover, see the 2012 New Yorker article "Germs Are Us": http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/germs-are-us

For a lighter-still take on the gut-brain connection, Radiolab had a segment a couple of years ago on the vagus nerve (mentioned as a possible culprit in the linked article/study): http://www.radiolab.org/story/197242-gut-feelings/

Emily Deans routinely blogs about the gut-brain connection: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/...

The original purchase decision I find fantastically brilliant -- and I hate that word.

When LI bought Rapportive they bought access to my entire actual social/contact graph, whether I wanted them to have it or not. I've never done the "upload your contacts so we can spam them" on LinkedIn, but because of Rapportive: every one I email, and everyone who emails me, LI knows about. They know the frequency of my interaction, all in exchange for giving me a bit of information about the people who write me.

They must have reached a point where either they have mined it sufficiently (and new installs are low) to not worry anymore about crippling it, and/or they realize that the bulk of the data that users care about is the LI data anyway (true for me), and they'd like to try and continue productizing it along that vector -- rather than simply living off the data feed it produces.