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Re:Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:02AM (#43058199)
If you can say, what are her clientele like?
Re:LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:55PM (#43016719)
It's a cool technique, but at $0.01/call this would cost like... $30 to sort 10k items and take several minutes. Lots of people can get by with just embeddings
Re: on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:43AM (#32483409)
Potentially everything hosted on netlify — including their own website.
Re:Styled-components npmjs postinstall malware on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:41AM (#30791445)
hmm, does this really count as malware? I understand where you're coming from but ultimately it's just text
Re:Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:40PM (#29234497)
Check out https://tailwindcss.com/ — it's been gaining popularity as a CSS system and comes with great defaults
Re:Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:15PM (#29229735)
Thanks for the feedback on pricing — it's definitely a work in progress (and we'll make the visual distinction clearer on our website). Our goal is to be as accessible as possible, so we're flexible with the plans right now. Pricing shouldn't be the reason that a team misses out on data issues.

When you sign up, you'll have access to everything immediately, so you can connect and try it out and when we start enforcing the limits, we'll give you ample notice.

I'm curious if you have opinions on the plans and pricing. Do the plans make sense as 1. individual 2. team for warehouse 3. team for whole stack 4. enterprise?

Re:Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:04AM (#29228221)
That sounds like a great plan. We're planning to build our public API and CI/CD integrations early next year, so that developers can know what the downstream impact of their changes might be, and whether it could introduce unexpected results. We may be able to slot right in there with Pact.

Mitigating the impact with monitoring is where we're at right now, but we're with you that preventing errors can be even more important.

If it's interesting to you, we're happy to open up a shared slack channel to dig into the nuance as well! Just email me ([email protected]) with the email you'd like to be added.

Re:Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:24AM (#29227727)
1) An integration with Metabase Cloud is on our roadmap for Q1! We'd love to integrate with Lightdash, but they don't have a public API just yet[1].

2) Several of our customers use us to alert on schema changes in Postgres, specifically so they can get ahead of application database changes that will end up in the warehouse, so you're definitely not alone! Here's a link on how to connect postgres: https://docs.metaplane.dev/docs/postgres

That's an excellent stack and one we kept front and center when building out Metaplane, so definitely let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions here!

[1]: https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/632

Hightouch user here. HT actually has a lot of that - git integration [0], visual segmentation [1]. Not sure about self-hosting though. Open-source is cool, will check it out.

[0]: https://hightouch.io/docs/integrations/git-sync/

[1]: https://hightouch.io/docs/hightouch-audiences/overview/

The Salesforce data is in Salesforce, and the HubSpot data is in HubSpot, and the Mixpanel data is in Mixpanel, but those applications don't have each others data (not to mention missing any transformations on top). E.g. As a sales rep, you can benefit from understanding product usage and marketing activity for a contact in salesforce
Thanks for mentioning this! I've also been looking to donate to Sri Lankan charities in the north-east but it has been difficult to understand which charities are still operating and have a legitimate impact.
Re:Stripe Identity on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:42AM (#27503945)
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Toronto 2018 - 41%

Toronto 2014 - 55%

Toronto 2010 - 51%

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Boston 2017 - 29%

Boston 2013 - 38%

Boston 2009 - 31%

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Chicago 2019 - 35% (first round)

Chicago 2015 - 34% (first round)

Chicago 2011 - 42%

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NYC 2017 - 18%

NYC 2013 - 13%

NYC 2009 - <11%

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LA 2017 - 20%

LA 2013 - 23%

LA 2009 - 18%

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Vancouver 2018 - 39%

Vancouver 2014 - 44%

Vancouver 2011 - 35%

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London 2016 - 45%

London 2012 - 38%

London 2008 - 45%

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Tokyo 2020 - 55% (during pandemic)

Tokyo 2016 - 60%

Tokyo 2012 - 63%

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Paris 2020 - 40% (during pandemic, lowest turnout on record ever)

https://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledgebase/kb/docs/articles/ci...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/11/08/voter-turnout-boston

https://chicagoelections.gov/en/election-results.asp?electio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_New_York_City_mayoral_ele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Los_Angeles_mayoral_elect...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/voter-turnou...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_London_mayoral_election

https://www.france24.com/en/20200628-liveblog-low-turnout-in...

Re:Replit raises $20M for collaborative browser-based coding on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:30PM (#26186679)
Amazing. I've been using repl.it to teach my cousins how to code and it just completely eliminates the burden of having to learn git, terminal, build processes so we can make cool things as quickly as possible.

I feel like you could teach programming with real languages at a much earlier age with tools like Repl.

Re:Yada – Never Rewrite Anything Again on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:28PM (#26186656)
I feel like this could be cool but don't quite grasp the use case. Could you add a video or walkthrough?
Yes and yes. Feel free to DM me on twitter (same username). Also check out Ginkgo Bioworks (http://ginkgobioworks.com/), one of the top 100 YC companies. They're working on some really hard problems.
Check out Kepler (https://kepler.space) -- they're doing great work in satellite constellations to provide constant access to the internet in underserved parts of the world. I can vouch for the founders and team.
Tell them that you're really focused on customer development or building product right now (which I'm sure you are anyway) and that you'll reach out to them later ahead of fundraising. You don't owe them anything!
Re:Metaplane: “Is this dashboard broken again?” on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:24PM (#26007796)
Great question! As a team of software engineers and data scientists, we relied on observability tools like Datadog to build reliable infrastructure for products, but were really surprised that it didn't exist.

We're not 100% sure you can't just use Datadog for this, but it seems to be shoehorning a technology to a usecase its not designed for.

Re:Metaplane – “Is this dashboard broken again?” on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:14PM (#26007653)
Ah, sorry about that! Just posted it again without "Show HN:" in the title!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018) on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:21PM (#17905496)
Appcues | Senior Frontend Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.appcues.com

At Appcues, we’re helping teams create products their users love. We think leaving a great first impression is a large part of that, so we've created a platform that lets product managers create onboarding experiences for their products—without needing to write any code.

Many front-end engineers spend a lot of time doing the same non-domain-specific work at every company: building onboarding tours, modals, and tooltips. Like AWS did with many non-domain-specific backend tasks, we're here to take this burden away from the engineers and empower product managers to do it themselves, freeing engineers to work on the hard technical problems they really enjoy.

Major companies like Canva, Lyft, and IBM are already using us to create amazing user experiences, and over 30M people have seen experiences built with Appcues this year.

Appcues' web products are built with ES6, React, Redux, Styled Components, and the rest of the modern frontend tech cast.

We're looking for a great frontend engineer to bring our product and user interface to the next level. You will collaborate directly with our users and our 14 incredibly talented engineers—veterans from companies like HubSpot, PayPal, Bose and the MIT Media Lab—to ship product that solves real problems.

Hit me up, apply online, or check out our glassdoor for more information.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018) on Thursday March 01, 2018 @05:10PM (#16496869)
Appcues | Senior Frontend Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.appcues.com

At Appcues, we’re building a team of driven, focused, smart women and men who want to make a meaningful impact growing a business.

We're looking for a few great frontend engineers to bring our product and user interface to the next level. At Appcues, you'll have a chance to make major impact on our product, improve the experience of hundreds of companies and millions of their users, and collaborate with a team that's passionate about improving onboarding, user communications, and ourselves. We strive to be inclusive and transparent around all aspects of the business, and we're highly allergic to office politics and gossip.

Appcues' web products are built with ES6, React, and Redux, with a supporting cast of Sass, JSXDOM, and Firebase.

You will collaborate directly with our users and our 9 incredibly talented engineers—veterans from companies like HubSpot, PayPal, Bose and the MIT Media Lab—to ship product that solves real problems.

Hit me up, apply online, or check out our glassdoor for more information.

let me tell you about a site called http://gurubhavan.in/
Seems very similar to http://datausa.io
Re:Falcor – A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:17PM (#13611546)
So does Netflix not actually use GraphQL?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016) on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:27PM (#13085464)
We have a pretty fast hiring process, but we're definitely looking for several key engineers. Hit us up and we'll get back to you quickly with more details.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:05PM (#12628599)
Appcues (https://www.appcues.com) | Senior Frontend Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time

At Appcues, we’re building a team of driven, focused, smart women and men who want to make a meaningful impact growing a business.

We're looking for a few great frontend engineers to bring our product and user interface to the next level. At Appcues, you'll have a chance to make major impact on our product, improve the experience of hundreds of companies and millions of their users, and collaborate with a team that's passionate about improving onboarding, user communications, and ourselves. We strive to be inclusive and transparent around all aspects of the business, and we're highly allergic to office politics and gossip.

Appcues' web products are built with ES6, React, and Redux (new stuff), with a supporting cast of Sass, JSXDOM, and Firebase. We use WebSockets for transport.

You will collaborate directly with our users and our 6 incredibly talented engineers—veterans from companies like HubSpot, PayPal, Bose and the MIT Media Lab—to ship product that solves real problems.

http://appcues.breezy.hr/p/cd84559f4941-frontend-engineer

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:43PM (#12407336)
Appcues (https://www.appcues.com) | Support Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Full-time

At Appcues, we’re building a team of driven, focused, smart women and men who want to make a meaningful impact growing a business.

Our customer base has doubled over the last few months, so we’re looking for our first Support Engineer to provide our customers with reliable, personal assistance and encourage them to use Appcues to its full potential… and then some.

To us, support isn’t just an operational nuisance required of any growing business. Rather, it’s an engine of growth: an opportunity to cultivate relationships, delight our customers, and get critical feedback to help our product mature. Each of our 15 teammates contributes to customer support, and we take pride in doing it well.

As the leader of our support strategy, you will work at the intersection of our customers’ teams and our engineering and customer success teams. You will be responsible for solving complex customer issues with excellent email/chat/phone support, writing delightful documentation, informing the team of recurring issues, and serving as a domain expert for how Appcues works with various web technologies our customers use.

You will collaborate directly with our users and our 6 incredibly talented engineers—veterans from companies like HubSpot, PayPal, Bose and MIT Media Lab—to ship product that solves real problems.

http://appcues.breezy.hr/p/b6c929b8d1f2-support-engineer

Re:An alternative to fat JARs on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:26PM (#11947500)
Don't believe everything you read -- especially when there's a single source.

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