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Verse Medical | Full Stack Software Engineer | NYC preferred, remote (US or Canada) also works | Series A startup It costs nearly $12,000 a night to spend a night at the hospital i…

Please correct me if wrong, but these are likely measured via the book value of the investments which reflects the private market valuations of the companies you mentioned.

The target market for Google Hire was probably Lever's ( https://www.lever.co ) customers, i.e. mostly funded startups and other companies hiring white collar employees. For these …

As someone working in this area, this is an interesting article. The core issue of compliance is somewhat buried in the text, but worth pointing out. Optometrists' chief complaint …

You could make this same argument to argue that Slack would fail against email. Something like: there are all kinds of email integrations, user-specific and group-specific setups, …

On the flipside: if you're a person that's convinced Uber should be valued at a fraction of what it is and you're not shorting it, why aren't you? You might argue the market will r…

Whether or not a company is a "tech" company is kind of a muddled question, but taking even a brief glance at https://airbnb.io/ (their engineering blog) makes it clear that AirBnB…

I meant applying a linear approximation.

Not meant as a critique to this book, but the fact that RL-based approaches rarely work for optimal control problems (in, for example, robotics) came as a surprise to me, given the…

This seems like a questionable comparison. Apple Music, et al. license content and there are few companies that are able to do this. This creates a barrier to entry that wasn't pre…

One of the keywords you're looking for is "statistical forecasting." It's a fairly specialized data science skill since it requires experience with some fairly specific techniques …

This is great to hear! We've had a peak sales day thanks to all the HN-directed customers.

These are all great points. > Where did you guys get that idea that prescription should match so very precisely? It's often much less about the prescription than the characteristic…

Sure, I can talk a bit about it. Essentially, the problem (like all other ad opt. problems) boils down to estimating the expected value of a particular click. This is a particularl…

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We don't claim to be the cheapest on all products yet - there's some bizdev work to do before we can say that.

That sounds interesting, but if you've been prescribed the Acuvue Moist, you can only purchase the Acuvue Moist as per law. So, although this info would certainly be interesting (a…

We're transitioning to a new website ( which is already live on mobile devices when you go to https://beta.jetlenses.com/ ) . It's probably order of magnitude better and the logo i…

Interesting point. We currently direct a lot of our customers to Opternative ( https://www.opternative.com/ ) to renew their prescription. Medium term, we might look into doing som…

Yes! Please just email me at dhaivat @ jetlenses.com with the specific lenses you need and we can figure out if we can get them for you.