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End of the gold standard in the US

For a bit of fun you can use this prompt:

Read this paper and write a time-travel story plot line based on its contents https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad98df#...

Immediately made me think of the set for the show Severance

This is a Denver startup. go Fiona!!!

This is a fun question, and makes me reflect on how little I play in novel or whimsical ways with search engines anymore. Came to this thread for some inspiration, I hope others will chime in

I have been blogging for 15 years, and it has been worth it. Some years I only write a couple posts. Writing helps me clarify my thoughts, and while I publish just a fraction of what I write for myself the act of sharing it gives me a small thrill. A few times a year, someone will read and reach out and it is a much deeper form of connection than social media comments/likes.

Came here to post this <3

It’s funny, the impact this had internally. It’s like we all believed in what we were doing even more when we felt that magic. I hadn’t watched this again since it happened, still gave me chills.

I’m sharing this today to celebrate the second edition coming out.

Brad Feld, who is one of the co-authors, led our series A and B at Mattermark and I learned how to run my board with his support. This book is a practical guide that demystifies how board are run, and very helpful to any founder.

Atomos space tugs can’t happen soon enough! https://www.atomosspace.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhO3rvMTx9QIV8...

Thanks Chad!

CTO and cofounder of Firstparty here, just wanted to mention our trial comes with 1,000,000 events free so if anyone wants to kick the tires it should be free for a long time for projects that don’t do a ton of web traffic, and we would love your feedback.

Interesting list, though I’m not clear why this author is credible. Did I miss something there (the linked PDF lacks any research citations or bibliography)? Regardless, I hope this topic being high ranking on HN will help some people who might be coming across this info for the first time.

I know HN has a predominately male audience, so it might be useful for readers to know that Autism spectrum behaviors have been shown through research to present pretty differently in women. This list didn’t touch much on romantic and sexual aspects of interpersonal dynamics. Learning about this has helped me understand myself better and support other women on the spectrum more graciously https://www.aane.org/women-asperger-profiles/

It has made me curious about my own mother, and also the developmental journey kids of my friends on the spectrum. I hope this will add to the conversation.

Wow, this is art

Wonder how many people did not skip to the end and then skim back

Congratulations Douwe and team, I can't wait to see what you build next!

Good morning HN. I am the DRI (directly responsible individual) for about.gitlab.com and I have created this issue to audit our trackers, cookies, and other data collection on the marketing website https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/inbound-marketing/ma...

Our product does not include the tracking that is used on the marketing site.

Rents in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood dropped 9% in May https://www.google.com/amp/s/sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2020...

My guess is that the departures will continue as unemployment rates grown and that when federal and state payments run out we will see a further decline.

I think companies will soon have to justify why they can afford to have an office with remote as the better (and cheaper option). Other than headcount, rent is usually the largest line item for a startup

I am leading the Meltano project at GitLab and would love to collaborate. Could you drop me a note dmorrill@gitlab.com?

Erica is an incredible founder who worked on Bitnami/Bitrock for 14 years. I’m lucky enough to have invested in her at Demo Day, have her as my partner at XFactor Ventures and as my friend. She is going to be phenomenal in this role, she is so deserving of this win and Microsoft is very lucky!

Ideally, to abstract away complexity (which is what causes that “heavy” feeling)

Of course! Dropping you a note now

Would love to see if we can collaborate. Can you drop me a note danielle@gitlab.com?

Thank you for taking a look, you're right and we are working on it right now. This is perhaps a little more attention than we expected for our tiny 5 person project, and lights a great fire under us!

Thank you for the feedback, I've created an issue here: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/issues/691 and we are working on it now

In the meantime, one way to see more is to checkout our getting started guide: https://meltano.com/docs/quickstart.html and also our YouTube channel which has weekly "Demo Day" videos sharing our progress: https://www.youtube.com/meltano

Really appreciate you taking a look at what we're up to!

There are some great tools in this space, definitely worth exploring.

Our vision is to glue the steps from ETL to dashboard together in an end-to-end solution. We pick whatever we consider best in class and integrate it. So far, we've got Singer, DBT, Jupyter Notebooks and Apache Airflow and we're using VueJS for both the product UI and our website.

We're also working on a blog post exploration what other acquisition might happen in this space. We're adding suggestions to the spreadsheet as we hear them on Twitter, HN, etc https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/10/first-looker-and-tableau...

Have not decided yet, but I’m leaning toward consulting services and possibly even marketplace. There are so many more independent analysts, data engineers, and other experts/specialists who could provide a service network beyond anything we could hire internally.

It’s still very TBD while we get the product to a place where those opportunities start be more emergent. We definitely expect it to be an open core model though, similar to GitLab.

By remaining self-hosted we avoid the big expense (and risk) of storing users data, and they can pick whatever cloud they want. Our team is 5 core members working at GitLab, and we have about a dozen contributors. So it’s kind of a startup within a late stage “startup” (unicorn).

Wow, Looker last week and now Tableau. I’m only 90 days in to running the open source equivalent inside GitLab, and these big revenue multiples are telling a fascinating story. I would’ve loved to be a fly on the wall for this negotiation, what a great outcome for Tableau shareholders!

With all that’s happening we’re definitely looking to pick up the pace, and would love to work with more contributors on the free open source alternative at Meltano (www.meltano.com)

Edit: just wrote a quick post with some open questions I'd like to explore around this deal https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/10/salesforce-is-acquiring-...

The call just wrapped so folks could grab lunch, but anyone who is interested can see next steps for the project in collaboration with @buremba and the Rakam team here https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/rakam-is-collaborating-w...

We have launched a new open source project to work on the spec and collaborators are welcome

Yes, you can see the full list of model repos for Meltano here: https://gitlab.com/meltano?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter=model-

Would love to collaborate, do you want to join our Zoom call https://gitlab.zoom.us/j/542273985? (Anyone else who wants to join in is welcome, the link is open)

Any sense of the profit margin they’re seeing?

I so deeply agree with this, and I was surprised to discover just how much startup-specific stuff these specialized lawyers can do. Model your cap table in various scenarios (since most of us don't have a finance person early on this is HUGELY helpful) and also give you the due-diligence checklist for pretty much any counter-party, since they've sat opposing them all. They're also working on lots of deals, so they can give helpful answers to, "is this normal?" or "what are you seeing in the market?" that can help inform how hard to negotiate.

If you have a distaste for lawyers, as a lot of people do in our culture, and try to put off deeply engaging and instead do it yourself you are going to get burned. It is better to pay someone their hefty fees and then ask TONS of questions, so that you will truly learn from everything you have them do. This is the unsexy part of running a startup that I wish I could tell every founder. You just have to embrace it, might as well get good at it.

Don't be the jerk, this comment is absolutely against the spirit of Hacker News. Get your mind right, you're ruining the community when you make posts like this.