samuelbrin's comments

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

"field" would be a strong word as it's more of a diy hobby thing, but in the world of FPV drones I'm excited for flight controllers with integrated 4-in-1 ESCs (electronic speed controllers). Wouldn't say it changed the game but makes it so much easier to build these quadcopter and opens up new possibilities.

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure

This made me smile. During a very trying time. Can you please make similarly awesome comments/observations on political forums?

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Welcome, ACLU

Thank you YC. Thank you all so much. On this particular issue, I do not think it is worth engaging with people about its merit or timing. This is a critical moment in history and you are doing something. The velocity of decision-making in the oval office means we literally don't have time to sit down with the cynics right now.

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship

"At the very least it seems that several Facebook employees decided that their conscience was worth more and quit over having to work on this. Kudos to them." Source on this?

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: CFO Backed Tips for How to Systemise Your Business

confirmed, zero things in article

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Machine Learning and Ketosis

I don't doubt for many that reduction in carbs amounts to reduction in calories. For others though, eating a lot, and not worrying about consequences, is a coping mechanism for how shitty the diet is. I'm super biased from my own past experience, but I was having 3000+ calorie days with minimal exercise and losing weight on keto. Open to the idea that I'm somehow wrong though :-)

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Machine Learning and Ketosis

I wish I had data to back this up, but there is no chance I was in caloric deficit on the keto diet. I lost lots of weight at the time. Not claiming my body violated energy conservation, but clearly this is more complex than "you don't get weight loss for free so you have to exercise more". So many folks doing the keto diet are sucking down ungodly amounts of bacon, heavy cream, etc and losing weight

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Machine Learning and Ketosis

Hmm I don't think you're right. I'm looking at an old bottle of ketostix brand, and it specifies Acetoacetic Acid, which seems to be some kind of ketone. Or maybe it's another byproduct?

Edit - Also, presumably the other factors like hydration and time of day could be tracked as well used to apply learning

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Machine Learning and Ketosis

I might have missed it, but doesn't look like ketone levels was one of the factors being measured. You can actually buy ketone pee strips at any drugstore for cheap. Would have been an interesting thing to track, since conventional wisdom says that ketosis is binary, you're in it or your not, and the actual ketone level doesn't affect the weight loss. I'm sure this has been put to the test in some experiments already, but maybe applying learning could teach us more and validate/invalidate this hypothesis

samuelbrin | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

robinhood | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Robinhood (www.robinhood.com) is democratizing access to the financial markets. We built the world's only mobile-first stock brokerage, and eliminated trading commissions. Join us!

* Web Engineer (Build our web product!! Expert level JavaScript, we use react)

* Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

* DevOps Engineer (linux, saltstack, terraform, consul, aws)

* Android Engineer

* iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

robinhood | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Robinhood is democratizing access to the financial markets. We built the world's only mobile-first stock brokerage, and eliminated trading commissions. Join us!

* Web Engineer (Build our web product!! Expert level JavaScript, framework agnostic)

* Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

* DevOps Engineer (linux, saltstack, terraform, consul, aws)

* Android Engineer

* iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

robinhood | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Web Engineer (Build our web product!! Expert level JavaScript, framework agnostic)

Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

DevOps Engineer (unix, configuration management, aws)

Data Infrastructure Engineer (Hadoop, Kafka, Distributed Systems)

Security Engineer

Android Engineer

iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

Robinhood | Palo Alto | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

Data Infrastructure Engineer (Hadoop, Kafka, Distributed Systems)

Security Engineer

Web Engineer (expert level JavaScript, framework agnostic)

Android Engineer

iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

Robinhood | Palo Alto | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

Data Infrastructure Engineer (Hadoop, Kafka, Distributed Systems)

Security Engineer

Web Engineer (expert level JavaScript, framework agnostic)

Android Engineer

iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

Robinhood (https://www.robinhood.com) | Palo Alto | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

- Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems, Python, Go)

- Data Infrastructure Engineer

- Android Engineer

- Ops Engineer

- Security Engineer

- Web Engineer (frontend)

- iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

Robinhood | Palo Alto | ONSITE | https://robinhood.com/jobs

Backend Engineer (Python, Go, Distributed Systems)

Data Infrastructure Engineer (Hadoop, Kafka, Distributed Systems)

Security Engineer

Web Engineer (expert level JavaScript, framework agnostic)

Android Engineer

iOS Engineer

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

Robinhood (www.robinhood.com): Palo Alto, CA [ONSITE, VISA]

Robinhood is seeking engineers to build products and infrastructure empowering a new generation of investors. Ideal candidates will have experience in a respectable engineering org and/or a substantial open source presence.

- Web Engineer (JavaScript expert, but we're framework agnostic)

- Backend Engineer

- Ops/DevOps/SRE

- Android Engineer

Please apply at www.robinhood.com/jobs

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Apply at www.robinhood.com/jobs

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Robinhood (www.robinhood.com): Palo Alto, CA [ONSITE, VISA]

Robinhood is seeking engineers to build products and infrastructure empowering a new generation of investors. Ideal candidates will have experience in a respectable engineering org and/or a substantial open source presence.

- Web Engineer (JavaScript expert, but we're framework agnostic)

- Backend Engineer (RESTful APIs, Distributed Systems)

- Ops/DevOps/SRE: (AWS, config, deployment, monitoring, security)

- Android Engineer: (Consumer product experience required. Retrofit, gson, rxjava, okhttp, dagger, butterknife, appcompat experience a plus)

samuelbrin | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

Robinhood (Palo Alto, CA) www.robinhood.com

Web Engineer - We are seeking an experienced frontend web engineer to help build the Robinhood web app, for both desktop and mobile. The product features real-time, live-updating data and context-dependent interfaces, so you’ll be building a very rich client-side web application.

Data Infrastructure Engineer - We're looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build our real-time data and event processing pipeline. This system will power several new product features and our real-time risk monitoring framework. Your work will help process an unprecedented amount of financial data. (Experience with Kafka/Kinesis/Storm/Spark & Hadoop preferred)

Backend Engineer - Robinhood is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help build our brokerage web API. This includes systems such as market data, trading, accounting, authentication, and security. An ideal candidate would have previous experience designing RESTful APIs and the backend systems that implement them.

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/robinhood