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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring right now? on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:12PM (#22676456)
Hatch | ENG roles | SF, CA | FTE | Onsite/remote (although I guess we're all remote right now)

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Help us move millions of dollars around--our stack is Kotlin, Spring, React, and Typescript, k8s. We're hiring engineers across all parts of the stack who want to help small businesses in the United States find their footing again in a very uncertain time.

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Re:NYT: Designing a Faster, Simpler Workflow to Build and Share Analyt... on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:58PM (#14405279)
Any plans to open-source BQQL from the NYT? This looks like a really simple/lightweight DAG runner!
Re:Show HN: Lucy, a smart robot that bends sunlight where you want it on Thursday August 06, 2015 @02:09PM (#10018255)
Solenica (which makes Lucy) was covered in TechCrunch [1], Mashable [2], Wired [3], and Forbes (as part of Qualcomm's accelerator) [4].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/sunnybot/ [2] http://mashable.com/videos/2543680924001/ [3] http://www.wired.it/economia/business/2014/10/23/i-progetti-... [4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2015/05/30/qualcom...

Re:Happy 10th birthday to us on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:14PM (#9768727)
Happy Birthday Reddit!

I also really enjoyed this post from Alexis re: their journey [1]--particularly this excerpt:

"I talk about this a lot in my book, but it was PG who invited us to apply to the first ever round of Y Combinator and ultimately Jessica Livingston who banged on the table to accept us into the program after PG and the other partners rejected us.

I often think about what would have happened if she hadn't demanded that we be part of the program. There'd be no reddit, that's for sure."

This doesn't get repeated quite often enough as it should, but jl is probably one of the kindest, most intelligent, and most perceptive partners at YC, and probably in the entire venture capital industry.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/alexis.ohanian/posts/10102187402893...

Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? on Monday March 30, 2015 @06:54PM (#9293176)
David Huerta is one of my all time favourites. Check out "Abres y Cierras" (Open and Close)[1]

http://www.beforesaying.com/images2/Open%20and%20Close%20(En...

Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? on Monday March 30, 2015 @06:49PM (#9293148)
This poem (and the original spanish) is one of my favourites! Thank you for posting.

Framed Data (YC W14) is looking for engineers

Posted by thomson on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @03:56PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We've built a predictive analytics platform that answers fundamental questions about why users retain or leave your product. We use machine learning and ensembled predictive models to make user predictions, but we abstract all that away behind an easy to use interface and a very opinionated product that only provides dashboards that tell you why users are leaving, and an API that tells you...

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Re:Put an end to people mispronouncing your name on Thursday July 03, 2014 @05:16PM (#7985898)
My name is Thomson, and I've set up the following aliases for my gmail (in decreasing order of traffic): thompson, thomas, tom, thom (my dad's name). I get an e-mail at least twice a week.
Re:Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going? on Sunday June 29, 2014 @07:13PM (#7962875)
I wonder though, if a similar list made today will stack heavily toward B2B SaaS and omit promising social consumer applications, just because the pendulum has swung toward valuing B2B companies more.

Framed Data (YC W14) is looking for engineers

Posted by thomson on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @09:12PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're building a predictive analytics product that helps companies know when their customers are about to leave them, and for what reason. Our product is still rough around the edges, but it works and companies have found us useful, and crucial to how they interact with their customers.There’s a lot of things to work on at Framed-—we still need to build large scale systems and data pipelines to...

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Re:How to crash any Conference, Demo-day, and VIP Party on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:09PM (#7605250)
I'm certainly a bit sympathetic to wanting to attend informative conferences and events that charge way too much (even for 'founder-friendly' badges), but I'm not sure if the author ever justifies breaking into both 500 and YC's demo days, which are events reserved for investors and press.
Re:Last Minute Advice for YC Applicants on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @08:32AM (#7428149)
Send me an e-mail! [email protected]
Re:Applications open for the summer 2014 YC batch on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @01:00PM (#7341835)
Echoing other YC people: More than happy to help with reading over applications and giving feedback! [email protected]
Re:Show HN: Abacus – Killing The Expense Report on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:10PM (#7219142)
Thanks for making this! We've been on Abacus and it's been a really slick and really easy experience. Highly recommended.

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