Hacker News: jnpatel

New comment by jnpatel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

jnpatel — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:58:37 +0000

Opendoor New Products Team | Product Engineer | Anywhere in US | REMOTE / SF / NYC | Full-time

Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast.

We are a “startup within a startup.” A small, cross-functional team working on one of Opendoor’s next plays. I helped create this team when my previous YC startup was acquihired by Openhood.

For the right candidate, this role should feel like the best of all worlds: the funding, supportive infrastructure and gravitas of a public company; with a full-stack, scrappy team building from scratch, immersing in customer needs, and iterating fast.

Our team is unique within Opendoor, and also for the technology industry more generally. We have c-level executive sponsorship to move fast and independently, and to build from first principles. Our team has experience building from “0 to 1” at Opendoor, Square, Dropbox, Uber, and Y Combinator-backed startups.

Job listings: https://jobs.lever.co/opendoor/?department=Engineering&team=...

Contact: jay.patel@opendoor.com

New comment by jnpatel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

jnpatel — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 05:46:03 +0000

Opendoor New Products Team | Product Engineer | Anywhere in US | REMOTE | Full-time

We are a “startup within a startup.” A small, cross-functional team working on one of Opendoor’s next plays. I helped create this team when my previous YC startup was acquihired by Openhood.

Sr Product Engineer, New Product: https://jobs.lever.co/opendoor/265cf894-ce48-4324-9c90-d0814...

Product Engineer, New Product: https://jobs.lever.co/opendoor/8cd96c7f-f9cd-464e-b95c-3973d...

Contact: jay.patel@opendoor.com

New comment by jnpatel in "Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right"

jnpatel — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:11:35 +0000

Could you share what domain your company is in? Just curious what has such HA requirements

New comment by jnpatel in "How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)"

jnpatel — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:11:03 +0000

I use `z` as a less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'.

https://github.com/rupa/z

New comment by jnpatel in "Get Started with Tmux"

jnpatel — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 06:34:36 +0000

tmux panes and windows become native iTerm panes and windows. It allows you to open and split with the iTerm keyboard shortcuts you're used to ⌘N, ⌘T, ⌘D.

Make sure you use `tmux -CC` to launch

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/TmuxIntegration

New comment by jnpatel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)"

jnpatel — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:54:41 +0000

Wildfire | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | https://www.getwildfire.com/

Wildfire (YC S17) is an social consumer news app where users post about local events (campus safety, parties, celebrity sightings, and more) to notify the people right around them instantly. We are a 4-person startup of recent UC Berkeley grads backed by YC and several top Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

We're looking for people excited to join our early engineering team - for mobile and full-stack roles.

https://angel.co/wildfireapp

Send me an email at jay@wildfireapp.io if you'd like to chat!

New comment by jnpatel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)"

jnpatel — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 01:40:19 +0000

Wildfire | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | http://getwildfire.com/

We're looking to hire our engineer #1 - a generalist engineer excited to work on both full-stack product and infrastructure.

https://angel.co/wildfireapp

Send me an email at jay@wildfireapp.io if you'd like to chat!

New comment by jnpatel in "Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs"

jnpatel — Sat, 12 May 2018 18:08:17 +0000

Would you all like it if the links on the front page of HN were more like those on Discover dev, or happy with the way it is?

New comment by jnpatel in "How Stripe Designs Websites"

jnpatel — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:09:45 +0000

Whether you like the way it looks or not, it's amazing how influential Stripe's current aesthetic is:

https://twitter.com/chopse/status/930935055274225664

New comment by jnpatel in "Lyft adds a new app for drivers"

jnpatel — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:49:12 +0000

Here are the direct Lyft pages on the two new driver features mentioned in the article: Scheduled Rides [0] and Power Zones [1].

[0]: https://blog.lyft.com/posts/introducing-scheduled-rides

[1]: https://thehub.lyft.com/power-zones/

New comment by jnpatel in "Transform Data by Example [video]"

jnpatel — Thu, 18 May 2017 02:10:33 +0000

DataWrangler [0] (now productionized as Trifacta Wrangler [1]) does pretty much that. It gives you suggested lists of transformations such as "Cut from position 18-25 as the Year column", that you can chain together as your data cleaning pipeline.

[0]: http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

[1]: https://www.trifacta.com/products/wrangler/

New comment by jnpatel in "MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017"

jnpatel — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:36:16 +0000

Is there a way in which MathJax could redirect their cdn.mathjax.org to cdnjs.cloudflare.com and maintain backwards compatibility for existing sites?

A DNS redirect would break the SSL, right? Perhaps a HTTP 3xx redirect?

New comment by jnpatel in "Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model"

jnpatel — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:25:40 +0000

I've been a long-time user for OS X's built in text-to-speech [0].

IMO, it actually performs pretty robustly on these examples. Is Apple still using just diphones, or are they post-processing in some way?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk#Text-to-speech_in_Ma...

New comment by jnpatel in "We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impostors (2016)"

jnpatel — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:19:47 +0000

Here's the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EErpYvOdRf4

Ask HN: How do you hear about local news?

jnpatel — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:25:12 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13889740

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jnpatel in "Show HN: Your Twitter mentions and DMs in an email on a schedule that suits you"

jnpatel — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:38:11 +0000

Nuzzle (http://nuzzel.com/) is a great option for email digests of articles that several of your Twitter followers have shared. I haven't looked into how much customizability they give you over the content/frequency of the emails though.

New comment by jnpatel in "Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?"

jnpatel — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:10:41 +0000

Bloom filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

New comment by jnpatel in "Retiring SHA-1 certificates"

jnpatel — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:20:57 +0000

Previous discussion on SHA-1 certificate sunsetting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734970

New comment by jnpatel in "I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road"

jnpatel — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:43:14 +0000

The author's title seems misleading, since in the post's comments Thomas acknowledges how he's not sure if his design was being actually used for Silk Road or if his leaseholder really was freelancing for SpaceX.

New comment by jnpatel in "Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team"

jnpatel — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 05:38:37 +0000

For its EECS undergrads, Berkeley requires CS 195: "Social Implications of Computing".

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs195/fa16/about.html