jnpatel | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
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jnpatel | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
Opendoor New Products Team | Product Engineer | Anywhere in US | REMOTE | 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.
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: [email protected]
jnpatel | 4 years ago | on: Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right
Could you share what domain your company is in? Just curious what has such HA requirements
jnpatel | 4 years ago | on: How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
I use `z` as a less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'.
jnpatel | 5 years ago | on: Get Started with Tmux
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
jnpatel | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
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.
Send me an email at [email protected] if you'd like to chat!
jnpatel | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Wildfire | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | http://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 to hire our engineer #1 - a generalist engineer excited to work on both full-stack product and infrastructure.
Send me an email at [email protected] if you'd like to chat!
jnpatel | 7 years ago | on: Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs
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?
jnpatel | 8 years ago | on: How Stripe Designs Websites
Whether you like the way it looks or not, it's amazing how influential Stripe's current aesthetic is:
jnpatel | 8 years ago | on: Lyft adds a new app for drivers
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
jnpatel | 8 years ago | on: Transform Data by Example [video]
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.
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017
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?
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model
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...
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impostors (2016)
Here's the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EErpYvOdRf4
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Your Twitter mentions and DMs in an email on a schedule that suits you
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.
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
Bloom filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Retiring SHA-1 certificates
Previous discussion on SHA-1 certificate sunsetting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734970
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
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.
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
For its EECS undergrads, Berkeley requires CS 195: "Social Implications of Computing".
jnpatel | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does it matter to be the first on the market?
Justin Kan has this great quote: "Startups mostly don't compete against each other, they compete against no one giving a shit."
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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: [email protected]