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Re:Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract ... on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:57PM (#36796425)
I would be very much interested in reading more about this, do you have any good articles you could point me to?
Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:04PM (#22004321)
Totally agree with this. Lime bikes were garbage (I have not tried their newer redesigned ones, since I swore Lime off). I had a Lime bike literally snap in half at the joint where the handlebars connect to the riding platform WHILE I was riding it. It flung me forward in to the street. Luckily no traffic around. I contacted support and they offered to reimburse me for the ride. No indication they were treating it seriously whatsoever. After that, I can't support Lime at all.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019) on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:41AM (#20593328)
Oh. I guess PMs are not a thing huh? Sorry I am bad at Hacker News!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019) on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:53PM (#20586436)
Mixpanel | Austin/SF | Full stack, front-end | ONSITE

Mixpanel is a web / mobile analytics company, and we are hiring for our new ATX office. This is a unique opportunity to work with top-tier talent and be compensated as such while helping us a grow our small team in Austin into something bigger.

The product engineering team creates the face of Mixpanel. We organize in small, nimble product groups (two to five engineers in close partnership with PM and design) with huge autonomy over what we build and how we build it. You will own the full stack for your product areas, from database schemas and HTTP APIs to data visualization down to the last CSS detail. A passion for product and empathy for the user are key. Our stack includes Python, Golang, and lots of JavaScript & TypeScript.

See what we’re working on: https://mixpanel.com/product-updates

Remote work is also a possibility for exceptional candidates after a period of onsite onboarding. We have several remote engineers working in this capacity around the US :)

PM me if you're interested!

Re:Data Deduplication at Scale on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:21PM (#20482110)
We essentially do do this--duplicates are only looked for in the (project, user, time) shard. It’s certainly more than a handful of pages, but nothing extremely cost prohibitive at all. The indexer dedupes a whole shard at a time, but only if at least one duplicate exists--in the normal case, we just do nothing. Unfortunately, we also can’t control the number of duplicates that we get (since we ingest data from our customers, we can't control how good it is), and a lot of the time, the number of duplicates are fairly frequent due to suboptimal implementations of Mixpanel, making the whole shard deduping a fair tradeoff. We definitely never touch the network :slightly_smiling_face:

Ask HN: What makes consoles so much better than PCs for games at their price?

Posted by notknifescience on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:11PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A PS4 currently 300 dollars on Amazon. It would be difficult to build a PC for 300 dollars that could play video games at the same quality / performance. So where does the gap come from, or what is so specialized about consoles that allow them to do video games so well? Is it just sheer economies of scale from standardized hardware?

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Re:Mixpanel Launches A Site For Analytics Education on Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:41PM (#4918249)
By the way, the link to the site is a bit buried in the Techcrunch article, so here it is:

https://mixpanel.com/education

Re:Introducing Flow from Mixpanel on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:19PM (#3741444)
Adding the badge to your site is not at all required to use Flow. We would like it if you did, so we will give you 4x the page views if you do, but it's not necessary at all.