Hacker News: vcolano

New comment by vcolano in "We will never have enough software developers (2020)"

vcolano — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:09:12 +0000

Go ask people installing solar panels and heat pumps if the idea of working a "cognitively taxing" job where they could make more money, work from anywhere and not be dead physically tired at the end of the day sounds appealing... I don't think you'll hear them all say "screw that, I love installing solar panels". The grass is always greener for sure, but none-the-less software engineering and tech offers a very high quality of life with significant earning potential and a ton of flexibility.

New comment by vcolano in "Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets from SUVs"

vcolano — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:18:43 +0000

IMO a gas tax rate that is on par with the rest of the developed world would be the most sane way to combat this. Gas taxes in the US and Canada are dismal compared to many other countries (https://afdc.energy.gov/data/widgets/10327).

And of course more investment in pedestrian/biking infrastructure and more walkable city planning.

New comment by vcolano in "Why San Francisco is in trouble – highly compensated city employees"

vcolano — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:43:47 +0000

The issue I perceive with this is that all of these wages seem to be extremely inflated compared to the job market for similar roles. Are private hospitals in SF paying RNs almost 300k a year? Are the FB shuttle shuttle drivers or delivery drivers in industry making 108k a year? I doubt it.

New comment by vcolano in "Megadesk"

vcolano — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:27:26 +0000

Hmm, I could use this finally realize my dream of the "Squatting Desk".

New comment by vcolano in "Python Is Eating the World"

vcolano — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:02:24 +0000

That's all good and fine until you want this model you built with tooling you barely understand to be deployed. Then your gross data scientist spaghetti code gets handed off to some one who actually has the skills to turn it into a robust deployable code base.

I love that Python has brought a lot of people into programming and that it makes it relatively easy for domain experts to do advanced analytics. However, another side of me wishes that there were a less user friendly language being used for data analysis so that it would force all of these people to actually learn to code half-way decently.

New comment by vcolano in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)"

vcolano — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:53:40 +0000

Concerto Health AI | http://precisionhealth.ai/were-hiring/ | New York, NY or Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time

Concerto Health AI is building a team of healthcare and AI experts to break down data silos and make the world’s cancer data actionable. We have a multi-disciplinary group of people from top healthcare and data companies working together to build value for the cancer ecosystem.

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stack: python, making heavy use of numpy/pandas/scipy - SQL - AWS

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Positions available:

- Sr. ML/Backend Engineer

- Data Scientist

- Healthcare Data Scientist

- Technical Project Manager

New comment by vcolano in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)"

vcolano — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:27:49 +0000

Precision Health AI | http://precisionhealth.ai/were-hiring/ | New York, NY or Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time

PHAI is building a team of healthcare and AI experts to break down data silos and make the world’s cancer data actionable. We have a multi-disciplinary group of people from top healthcare and data companies working together to build value for the cancer ecosystem.

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stack: Javascript/React front end - pure python backend making heavy use of numpy/pandas/scipy

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Positions available:

- Sr. UI Engineer

- Sr. ML/Backend Engineer

- Data Scientist

- Healthcare Data Scientist

- Technical PM

New comment by vcolano in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

vcolano — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:35:43 +0000

I'd agree young Americans are less interested in owning their media and there does seem to be a general trend away from materialism and towards spending any extra income on experiences over objects. However, I reject the notion that the younger generations are less interested in owning property. Young people do want to have a stake in the system, but most places young people are living (especially where they're moving to) it's nearly impossible for most of them to get into the property/housing ownership game to begin with due to housing price inflation and stagnant wages.

If you took millenials and plopped them in the economic context that the young generations of the 50s (or even 70s/80s) had I think this would be a very different story.

Exploring the Militarization of US Police Forces

vcolano — Tue, 16 May 2017 00:33:27 +0000

Article URL: https://vcolano.github.io/Exploring-the-Militarization-of-US-Police-Forces/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14346480

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