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nice post! startup-within-a-startup is always tough, but it seems like making the team as much like a startup as possible (in every way) is the right approach.

Dover | San Francisco, CA | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.dover.io/careers

Dover is a full-service sourcer for the fastest growing companies in North America. We help many top startups hire the best talent for their open roles by taking over their sourcing and scheduling.

The Dover engineering team is small but incredibly effective. We value productivity over face-time, action over inaction, and focus over feature creep.

As one of our first few engineers, you'll have a massive level of ownership over our engineering culture, end-to-end ownership over the systems that you build, and influence on product direction.

At the core of what we're building is a simple question—"is person X a good fit for job Y"—but doing this well is challenging, requiring a combination of large-scale data scraping, aggregation and processing. We pride ourselves in automating things nobody thought possible.

We primarily code in Python, with some occasional JavaScript. We leverage Kubernetes heavily for our orchestration and deployment. We also make extensive use of Google Cloud, Docker, Postgres, Mongo, and ElasticSearch within our infrastructure.

You're a full-stack or backend engineer with 3+ years of software experience at one or more companies with a strong engineering culture. You're ready to be an individual contributor, design and build sophisticated systems quickly, and work in a fast-paced environment.

Contact: hello@dover.io

Congrats on the launch! What's the minimum number of support agents do companies need to have before you're a good fit for them? Or how do you think about what a qualified customer looks like?

Dover | San Francisco, CA | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.dover.io/careers

Dover is building the first truly modern recruiting agency. We help some of the fastest growing companies hire the best talent for their open roles.

The Dover engineering team is small but incredibly effective. We value productivity over face-time, action over inaction, and focus over feature creep.

As one of our first few engineers, you'll have a massive level of ownership over our engineering culture, end-to-end ownership over the systems that you build, and influence on product direction.

At the core of what we're building is a simple question—"is person X a good fit for job Y"—but doing this well is challenging, requiring a combination of large-scale data scraping, aggregation and processing. We pride ourselves in automating things nobody thought possible.

We primarily code in Python, with some occasional JavaScript. We leverage Kubernetes heavily for our orchestration and deployment. We also make extensive use of Google Cloud, Docker, Postgres, Mongo, and ElasticSearch within our infrastructure.

You're a full-stack or backend engineer with 3+ years of software experience at one or more companies with a strong engineering culture. You're ready to be an individual contributor, design and build sophisticated systems quickly, and work in a fast-paced environment.

Contact: hello@dover.io

Pixlee | Toronto, Canada | Onsite, Full-time | https://www.pixlee.com/careers

Today, one in four Americans interact with Pixlee-managed content before making online purchase decisions. Pixlee offers a unique opportunity to thrive and grow rapidly at a global scale in a small-team startup environment. Our customers are some of the largest brands in the world and everything you do here affects millions of consumers.

Hiring for:

- Software engineer with experience with APIs and integrations. https://www.pixlee.com/careers?gh_jid=1267422

- Software engineer in test. https://www.pixlee.com/careers?gh_jid=1267422

Reach out to max@pixleeteam.com if interested.

Woah, crazy. Thanks for pointing this out...

Totally agree. We have a lot of builders on the platform already. We started with founders because that's the community we know best, but it's pretty easy to expand it to to all sorts of makers, builders, future founders--generally ambitious people.

No problem. Just shoot me an email at max@swap.space.

Sure! Here's a direct link to the application form: https://swapspace.typeform.com/to/Bg59Xe

If that doesn't work, send me an email (it's in my hacker news profile).

Many good products start as a side project :)

Yeah, that's definitely a concern we've heard. We're starting with startup founders because that's a niche we know well, but it can work for any frequently traveling professional.

There's a big tailwind for more people traveling for work and working remotely, and staying 1+ weeks in a hotel/Airbnb is prohibitively expensive. There are startups working on solving this by creating their own custom spaces, but we know tons of people who just leave their room unoccupied because they don't want to deal with minor hassles like key exchange, cleanings, making sure the temporary visitors get along with roommates, etc. We think solving all that will open up a massive new supply of short to medium term housing.

It's insane. One of our core hypotheses is that a lot of people in SF don't want/need to rent out their rooms for a profit. They'd rather just meet and host particularly awesome people.

Yes! We are alpha testing other locations and have around 25 homes between NYC, Boston, LA, and abroad. You can fill out the form and mention the city you'd like to go to in the freeform question, and we'll contact you!

Thanks for the feedback! Added a little note that it only takes two minutes :)

Hey Chris! We usually end up being a bit cheaper than Airbnb, since the hosts on here aren’t trying to make a profit, but just cover their costs and meet awesome people.

I've found this article to be the most helpful for understanding how net debt and equity come together to comprise EV: https://www.wallstreetprep.com/blog/common-topics-of-confusi...

Is this not an awfully scary precedent? How can Google be expected to modify it's algorithm on-demand in these cases?

Zinc | zinc.io | YC W14 | Head of Engineering

Zinc is an API to buy anything on the internet. We've built a profitable business with only two full-time team members -- the founders. Contact max@zinc.io for more details.

We've been working with these guys for several months now and the savings are pretty massive. On Amazon, in our experience, about 5-10% of purchases will qualify for a refund. It's a set-and-forget type service, so you literally don't have to do anything after signing up.

TechCrunch needs better editors.

The slides, if not educational, are inspiring and elucidating . They might not reveal new insight, but frame existing insight in a way that's easy to understand.

Direct link to the proceeding on the fcc website: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display (Proceeding #14-28 here: http://www.fcc.gov/comments)

Isn't history also just much more documented after the advent of the internet and Wikipedia itself?

We request permission for all websites since we are rapidly adding support for more retailers. We don't want to have to ask the user for new permissions every time we add a retailer.

Make sure to use pip 1.5.1 and it should work.

Which version of pip are you using? It should work if you upgrade to 1.5.1.

Seems like Dropbox allows that many metadata calls. When I was testing this for myself, I started getting 429s when I would make 5+ refreshes in a minute, but it also rate limits on a user-by-user basis.

Maybe you have too many files in your Dropbox for the app to handle? It only displays files over 10kb, though..

OP here. Like people have mentioned, it's the granularity of the Dropbox API. Sorry about that. The backdrop of the landing page is basically a screenshot of what your visualization will look like.

Interesting to see if this will open up the web to more linked data based trends.