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Re:Harnessing America's Heat Pump Moment on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:17PM (#45700649)
We love helping folks save on heat pumps with our free, expert analysis and live advice service https://www.QuitCarbon.com - check it out?
Re:Post-money cap SAFE have anti-dilution on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:49PM (#34637263)
Related, and more detailed explanation of the issue and resolution, with math http://pnwstartuplawyer.com/post-money-safe/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:39PM (#33823205)
https://QuitCarbon.com | Software Lead / Technical Co-Founder | (ONSITE partially) San Francisco | Full-Time

QuitCarbon, our climate startup / nascent public-benefit company based in San Francisco, helps homeowners electrify (upgrade from fossil gas appliances to heat pumps, induction stoves, etc), and helps small business contractors flourish by being part of the clean energy transition.

We are growing fast, generating revenue, helping many folks quit, raising our first funding round, and seeking our co-founding or lead software person.

* Full-time, long-term role * Ideally you have both senior individual contributor experience and early-stage startup experience * Salary/equity mix is up for discussion, but will be competitive * We’d strongly prefer at least 1 day/week in-person in SF - this role is not full-time remote * Especially welcoming of non-white-dude folks - but don’t let that stop you if you are a white dude - we take all sorts

Reach me at [email protected] if this gets you excited. We are moving fast here, so don’t delay.

PS. My background is here https://www.linkedin.com/in/coopermarcus/

QuitCarbon (residential electrification retrofits) hiring first software person

Hi, I'm Cooper, co-founder of QuitCarbon.comQuitCarbon is a free, San Francisco-local service that helps homeowners replace gas appliances with clean electric alternatives like heat pumps and induction stoves.We are looking to add the first software person to our team of quitters. Maybe it'll be you, or someone you know?Learn more at...

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Re:Ask HN: What companies with cool missions are hiring? on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:06PM (#33115300)
Here at QuitCarbon.com we have a cool mission and we are hiring https://quitcarbon.notion.site/QuitCarbon-Job-Board-e662ca71...
AxelHealth.com whoops?
Re:Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012) on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:28AM (#23059551)
In the more distant past I found this to be true, but recent LED bulb purchases from Ikea have convinced me they've solved the earlier problems. Their LED bulbs are now great performers with fair prices.
And yet it often is. And, even when it isn't, knowing how much to pay can be hard.

The ideal system is one in which you use the "universal transit payment card" desired in the article to get on the transit system, then use it again to get off (if the transit system requires it - no all do), without having to give even a single thought to how much money you are spending.

When you have different payment cards/passes/tickets in different systems, you have to figure out not only how to buy those tickets, but how much to buy (so that you don't depart the area having vastly overbought - or so that you don't run out of loaded fare value before you end your trip).

You clearly don't travel much and try to navigate different public transit systems.

I travel domestically and internationally, and I always have cash - and it is almost always much more difficult than it should be to pay for public transit, just like the article says.

Re:AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:23PM (#18557787)
Taller, black side is the front - the camera is in that taller end.
Re:The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:10PM (#18181170)
Re:The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:09PM (#18181166)
I very much enjoyed living part of my childhood at Findhorn in Scotland, an intentional community with some aspects of a "commune" or collective - https://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/ and https://www.findhorn.org/faq/
Re:Kong 1.0 Announced on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:14PM (#18019685)
Re:Kong 1.0 Announced on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:56PM (#18019535)
Cooper from Kong here.

No HTTPS support in https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/forward-proxy/ yet - we hope to add it in the future.

Re:Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret War on Weed on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:34AM (#17886370)
Have a look at the results in Portugal (this is a good summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ...) - then, come back here and tell us what evidence you've found of a slippery slope. I don't believe you'll be able to find any such evidence, because there is no such slippery slope in practice.
Re:Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret War on Weed on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#17886346)
While it is OK for the government to make statements that portray things in a positive or negative light, it is not OK for them to do so in the absense of supporting evidence, or worse yet, in the presence of evidence to the contrary. The former is, charitably, called "marketing" - but the latter is more commonly known as "lying".
Re:How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:28PM (#15966519)
This analysis was done by BBVA comparing Tyk and Kong performance https://www.bbva.com/en/api-gateways-kong-vs-tyk/ - disclosure: I work for Kong, but Kong (the company) had no involvement with the benchmarking in that article.
Re:Aak HN: What time series metrics API should I emulate? on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:09AM (#15365378)
Ah, good point, I left that out.

My system will max out at perhaps 1M data points in any given series. More typically it might have 1/10th or 1/100th of that.

Aak HN: What time series metrics API should I emulate?

I need to design a time series metrics API. The API will be read only, needs to support some but not extensive query flexibility, and will be used with a relatively limited number of metrics.Are there any existing APIs you like that I could use for inspiration?Are there any you hate that you hope I avoid emulating?!

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