These are very salient points, especially given that right now many of the advancements (from a technical and methodological perspective) established from GiveDirectly's early Kenya and Uganda programs are furthered by a spin-off known as Segovia (http://www.thesegovia.com/product/). Perhaps this is the startup behind the scenes that's more inline with the startups brought up on HN.
Our mission is to use predictive analytics to improve the student learning outcomes and empower better educational decisions. We work with a wide range of institutions, from four-year universities to community colleges, where our platform helps students and faculty improve individual experiences and provides administrators insight into school wide success.
We are currently hiring across the board, including:
- Data Scientists (lots of bayesian inference and time-series analysis)
Our mission is to use predictive analytics to improve the student learning outcomes and empower better educational decisions. We work with a wide range of institutions, from four-year universities to community colleges, where our platform helps students and faculty improve individual experiences and provides administrators insight into school wide success.
We currently hiring across the board, including:
- Data Scientist (lots of bayesian inference and time-series analysis)
They also have one in Austin, but the greater issue here is that the stores can't help customers as much. Specifically, in order to comply with state laws the stores can't talk about the purchasing process nor help with the registration. Tesla's site has more details on what they can and cannot do: http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas
Thanks! Here's the specific section on backbone from page 11:
Backbone.js is a great example of an abstraction pushed
too far. While we initially liked the ease of wire-up, in
practice it suffers from the same issues as all such databound frameworks from WebForms to client/server tools. We
find that it blurs the framework and model too much, forcing
either bad architectural decisions or elaborate framework
hackery in order to preserve sanity.
As the industry shifted from desktop GUI development to the web, it seemed natural to port the most successful patterns and designs to the new paradigm. After 15 years of trying, we feel that there are still no component-based frameworks that have successfully achieved this. We recommend not attempting to make web development into something that it fundamentally is not. It is time to accept
the page and request-based nature of the web, and focus on the frameworks that support - rather than work against - these concepts.
This seems reasonable, but single page apps don't have a page and request-based nature, and Backbone seems a good fit for this case.
Eligible is a Health Information API that launched last summer (YC S12, I think). This sample app is a basic demonstration of the API's ability to instantly show patient eligibility information for specific medical procedures. Prior to their API one would have to call insurers and other groups to verify eligibility, rates, etc. They are doing some very cool stuff to normalize health data across many different systems.
Yup, just got the same email. I really wish they had linked to the blog post and explained the situation in more details instead of using the standard email template. It's interesting though that one of the recommendations was to revoke access to third-party apps.
This may not be a comparable example, but the TexasTribune is a digital only publication that focuses on Texas news and political coverage. They operate on donations and through revenue from content partnerships. According to their about page[1] they will break even on $4.5 million this year.
Looks like the model can make sense. You have to be smart about the audience and focus on quality, value-add content.
This is a pretty good intro to DFTs. I was excited to see that others were also motivated by the connection to music and math! I looked into this quite in linear algebra in college and found Benson[1] and Smith[2] to be really thorough and interesting resources on the topic. Hope they help others!
