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gurubavanon LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill

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

gurubavanon [dead]

Potentially everything hosted on netlify — including their own website.

gurubavanon Styled-components npmjs postinstall malware

hmm, does this really count as malware? I understand where you're coming from but ultimately it's just text

gurubavanon Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

Check out https://tailwindcss.com/ — it's been gaining popularity as a CSS system and comes with great defaults

gurubavanon Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

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?

gurubavanon Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

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 (guru@metaplane.dev) with the email you'd like to be added.

gurubavanon Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

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

gurubavanon Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools

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/

gurubavanon Launch HN: Hightouch (YC S19) – Sync data from data warehouses to SaaS tools

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

gurubavanon Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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.

gurubavanon Stripe Identity

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 hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

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

gurubavanon Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision

Toronto 2018 - 41%

Toronto 2014 - 55%

Toronto 2010 - 51%

Boston 2017 - 29%

Boston 2013 - 38%

Boston 2009 - 31%

Chicago 2019 - 35% (first round)

Chicago 2015 - 34% (first round)

Chicago 2011 - 42%

NYC 2017 - 18%

NYC 2013 - 13%

NYC 2009 - <11%

LA 2017 - 20%

LA 2013 - 23%

LA 2009 - 18%

Vancouver 2018 - 39%

Vancouver 2014 - 44%

Vancouver 2011 - 35%

London 2016 - 45%

London 2012 - 38%

London 2008 - 45%

Tokyo 2020 - 55% (during pandemic)

Tokyo 2016 - 60%

Tokyo 2012 - 63%

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...

gurubavanon Replit raises $20M for collaborative browser-based coding

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.

gurubavanon Yada – Never Rewrite Anything Again

I feel like this could be cool but don't quite grasp the use case. Could you add a video or walkthrough?

gurubavanon Ask HN: Companies that are contributing "something good" to the world?

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.

gurubavanon Ask HN: Companies that are contributing "something good" to the world?

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.

gurubavanon Ask HN: A late stage VC keeps approaching an early stage startup

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!

gurubavanon [dead]

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.

gurubavanon Metaplane – “Is this dashboard broken again?”

Ah, sorry about that! Just posted it again without "Show HN:" in the title!

gurubavanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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.

gurubavanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

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.

gurubavanon YC-backed Muzmatch definitely doesn’t want to be Tinder for Muslims

let me tell you about a site called http://gurubhavan.in/

gurubavanon USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources

Seems very similar to http://datausa.io

gurubavanon Falcor – A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching

So does Netflix not actually use GraphQL?

gurubavanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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.

gurubavanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

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.

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

gurubavanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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

gurubavanon An alternative to fat JARs

Don't believe everything you read -- especially when there's a single source.

gurubavanon Show HN: A Facebook messenger for Chrome

Hey caiob, thanks for responding, it's definitely a popular request (see other comments on this post). I wish we could do better than the pop-up, but it's the only way we can support group chat.