JulianRaphael

Great - I'll send you an e-mail with more info :)

Hi Mitchell, I'd be very interested to discuss this with you. I've been working on a similar application for over a year. What would you expect from the right person?

In the last months, I have started to teach myself the basics of CS besides my full-time job. I'd appreciate any comments and recommendations on how to structure the learning path ahead most efficiently. It would be also interesting to hear about your experiences, especially if you have taught yourself how to program.

"We believe the real test is whether humans can achieve a lot more with machine learning assisting them"

GREAT! Bring it on. Let's usher in a new age of technological advancement.

"For instance, it’s Google Assistant that will allow the Google Home gadget to turn off your lights, play wake-up music, warn you of a delayed flight, and change dinner reservations due to that delay"

Oh...THAT is the "AI" the supposedly smartest engineers in the world work on...

I agree, although bonuses and shares can also backfire (esp. bonuses). There seems to be a mix of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that work well. Do you think there is an optimal solution to make an employee have skin in the game, but in a positive way?

I look forward to reading this book. It would be interesting to have an investigation of the two different kinds of "skin in the game" in this book.

There is a positive spin of the expression, e.g. the entrepreneur, who has skin in the game of his company via his shares and resources. This scenario (ideally) results in eustress.

However, there is also a negative spin of the expression, e.g. an employee, who has skin in the game by being afraid of losing his job. Usually, this leads to distress over the long term.

Hence, if I want to employ someone I face a dilemma: the employee should have skin in the game, but it shouldn't create distress. There's a huge set of options you can go with as the employer, but I wonder if there is an optimal solution.

Thanks for doing this for us to keep this a great place. HN has impacted me like no other site on the web.

Great answer, thank you. I find MRI related posts one of the most exciting - there is so much potential in the technology, especially as medicine moves from treatment of symptoms to prevention more and more. If there would only be more people working on this instead of social media apps...

I find it interesting to see that the trend in this space seems to move towards small MRI units. Do you know of similarly innovative companies that work on full-body MRI machines?

For me, the perfect business case (esp. in a country with a public health system) is having regular, accurate full-body scans that are checked by software for tissue changes. Early detection of some of the most deadly diseases would save insurances a tremendous amount of money and human beings from unquantifiable suffering. Are there any publications / blogs that you would recommend to stay up to date with MRI technology?

Thank you for all this interesting information!

With your knowledge, would you consider MRI R&D to be as open for disruption like space technology was until a few years ago?

Do you think the same reductions in cost can be achieved by a group of similarly insanely smart people like those at SpaceX?

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Location: Munich, Germany

What: creating a financial digital assistant to improve the efficiency of all things personal finance

Role: CTO (iOS, Android, Java, Spring)

Compensation: salary + equity (based on experience, starting at €70k + 1.0-5.0%)

You will:

* easily navigate the challenges of building stable technological infrastructure within a startup

* set up a highly efficient DevOps structure

* recruit and lead developers

* translate business needs into measurable technological issues * scale our products across different platforms

* set up and lead our tech blog

* present your work at tech conferences

* drive the overall growth of the company as part of the leadership team

We offer:

* a great compensation package (salary + equity)

* flexible working arrangement (flexible hours, remote)

* relocation support if you want to move to Munich

* office directly located in the centre of Munich

* education vouchers

* freedom to test and iterate your personal management philosophy within our company

Interview Process:

1. 15 Min call with CEO -> culture fit + basic tech questions

2. 45 Min call with interim CTO -> tech interview

3. Paid work day -> fit fit fit?

4. Final decision

Contact: js@getzuper.com

Maybe Google's incredibly irresponsible response hints at their general strategy regarding authentication on the internet: they are already pushing for the replacement passwords. I'm quoting: "[Google plans] to release an ultra-secure and easy to use identity verification platform that eliminates the need for long, user-generated passwords. Dubbed U2F (Universal 2nd Factor), the consumer-facing side of this initiative will be a USB dongle called the YubiKey Neo. Built to Google’s specifications by security specialist Yubico, the YubiKey Neo is a small, durable and driverless device that requires no battery. Plugged into your computer’s USB port it will add a second, highly secure layer of verification when you point Google’s Chrome browser to your Gmail or Google Docs account. You’ll initiate the login by typing your username and a simple PIN. The browser will then communicate directly with the YubiKey Neo, using encrypted data, to authorize account access. With U2F verification, if someone wanted to login surreptitiously to your account, he or she would need to know your username and PIN while simultaneously having physical possession of that specific YubiKey Neo."

Furthermore, they had Regina Dugan, former DARPA director and now their VP of Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, on stage at All Things Digital in 2013 talking about electric tattoos and edible passwords which would turn your whole body into an authentication token with a 18bit ESG light signal. (Link to talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzB1EcocAF8).

So maybe they just don't care because they won't use 2-factor-authentication for much longer anyway.

I guess the acquisition of Waze and the investment in Uber will play out really nice for them with regards to the "crawling" of streets you describe. Uber and Waze cover the most important urban areas, where the majority of all miles are driven. At one point they'll probably equip all Uber cars with the right technology to map out the most important territories. Feed in all the data from Waze and you should have a decent starting point for the main urban areas.

I experienced a very similar situation, resulting in a stress-induced tumor and heavy depression. This experience has completely changed my life and I'm incredibly happy that I got a second chance in life to live a better life. These situations happen because people learn and focus on how to manage the outside world but hardly anyone knows how to manage the inner world. Furthermore, most people don't talk about the stress or their fears and thoughts that torture them, not even with their spouses. The bad thing is that you can easily identify the first signs of depression or burnout and counter it with therapeutic measures, yet so many end up completely burned out.

You don't even have to pay a therapist, our minds can be trained to build extremely powerful therapeutic algorithms to avoid these situations. After my experience I quit my job as a business subordinate and started building a tool to help others manage their inner world better so that they hopefully don't end up where I did. Our approach is heavily scientific (we have two ongoing PhD projects to investigate and test our program) and we have just started out.

I'd be happy to connect with anyone who wants to share their experiences and thoughts on this topic. If you feel like it, drop me a line at: julian@appnroll.com If you are stuck in depression or a burnout and feel like breaking down, please don't hesitate to contact me, too - sometimes you just need to talk to someone. Hang in there!

I have a very pragmatic view that psychopathic traits are just one specific set of algorithms of the many possible sets of algorithms our personalities can exhibit to connect and interact with other personalities or more generally speaking our environment. Looking at the state of the world, at least a subset of these behavioral algorithms seems to be quite efficient (as the letter shows) and various subsets/traits seem to be very common and even desirable. Obviously the manifestation of the overall set which you would define as "psychopathy" varies from psychopath to psychopath, hence the image of the "cartoon evil serial killers", the "CEO" and many more in between these two. I guess in the end it depends on the balance of influence between three factors: the other sets of algorithms which make up your personality, the personalities you interact with and your environment.

I personally think we should look into what we can learn from this set of behavioral algorithms (the good, the bad and the ugly) and how you can balance it to leverage its benefits while not suffering from its drawbacks. That's at least how I deal with it.