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We have had a similar issue too. Our child was injured due to a faulty piece of furniture in the rental house. He was even injured! This was 100% not intentional.

All these talks about aircover is crap! This fully protects the host and puts all the blame on the guest.

Ask HN: How to efficiently import Excel/CSV files

I have this recurring problem at my startup that I'd like to solve.Our clients give us an Excel/file and I need to 1) match the columns 2) clean up the data 3) return errors (if any) 4) import each row into my databaseIt's very difficult given that so many things could go wrong. I have already invested a lot of time in building a file parser with column matcher but the results aren't there...

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Black Lives Matter
Re:Google Fonts Analytics on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:18PM (#22369600)
I'm surprised that Linux is the most popular client for this.

Ask HN: How do you handle user notifications?

After building >10 web and mobile apps, I realize that I am spending too much time building the same User Notification System in my backend.By User Notification System, I mean the logic that consists in sending transactional emails and push notifications to users.It usually consists of (for email): - writing the content of the notification (e.g. HTML/text) - sending the notification (e.g....

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Ask HN: Demo Accounts in Production

Our clients / investors are asking for a test / demo account of our platform. How do you handle those in your system?Do you create real users with fake data or do you hard-code some "test" mode to avoid CRUDing data?

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Re:Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. To Mimic Humans (Sometimes) on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:34PM (#19986754)
Looks like they could use Upcall.com
Rippling handles that: you can onboard / off-board employees in one click

Ask HN: How do you handle cancellations?

If you own a Saas company or similar product, how do you currently handle cancellations by users?Do they have to contact you? By email? Phone? Chat? Do you offer a Cancel button?What best practices have you seen?

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Ask HN: Snippet on Third-Party Website

I would like to develop a snippet of code that is added to third-party websites, similar to Stripe. When added on a page, it shows a button which opens a modal with a form when clicked. I want to minimise the effort on the client side and have them just copy-paste a short snippet such as <script src="https://mydomain.com/snippet.js"></script>Stripe, Hubspot, Google Analytics all do...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you reading? on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:00PM (#19090948)
Re:Ask HN: Need for a human-powered text-to-speech API? on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:46PM (#18622589)
I wonder if some tech companies need more human audio samples to train their ML?
Re:Ask HN: Need for a human-powered text-to-speech API? on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:16PM (#18622311)
Absolutely agree, it's a super crowded space. Question is: are you happy with existing TTS API? They sound so robotic.

Ask HN: Need for a human-powered text-to-speech API?

We are working with a network of US-based people good on the phone.Is anyone interested in an API that would accept text as input and return a MP3 of someone reading the text within a couple of hours? We have a couple of US-based people who could do the job really well in a couple of minutes.Command: POST /tts { text: "Hello John. Thanks for joining us today.", voice:"female", web hook:...

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Show HN: Human Text-To-Speech API

Is anyone interested in an API that would accept text as input and return a MP3 of someone reading the text within a couple of hours? We have a couple of US-based people who could do the job really well in a couple of minutes.Command: POST /tts { text: "Hello John. Thanks for joining us today.", voice:"female", web hook: "../webhook/response" }Webhook response (a few minutes later): POST...

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Have you tried Toptal?
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:08AM (#18457002)
They are the new Microsoft
Stock markets have fared quite well in the past 5 years which explains why compensation is so good. But what if there is a market crash?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018) on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:02PM (#17206664)
UPCALL | San Francisco, CA | Full-time ONSITE | Sales Upcall is the next generation on-demand call center, providing access to phone callers to all Small Businesses. Upcall is transparent, scalable and affordable.

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