Hacker News Reader

benloweron Algolia (YC W14) announces new pricing plan with 1M free records

We explicitly have one ranking for each index. This is done for performance reasons. If you've not seen it, this page (https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-r...) in our docs gives some guidance.

Have you looked at using virtual replicas (https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-r...) at all? They don't increase the number of records as they use the same underlying data.

benloweron Algolia (YC W14) announces new pricing plan with 1M free records

Hey everyone! I work at Algolia and we've heard feedback from the HN community and have made some changes recently that provides 100x more records for free so that you can use larger data sets. We have also made it so that all of the core platform functionality is available in the new free plan (we call it the "Build" plan now) so that you can fully evaluate and use everything before ever having to pull out a credit card.

Would love to hear any thoughts on these changes as well as any other things we might do to help you power great search experiences.

benloweron U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members

that's enough money to give everyone in the USA a million dollars!

benloweron MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Would really love to be able to run Windows natively on the M2. Anyone running Windows as their daily driver on an M2 via emulation? How does that experience compare to macOS on the M2?

benloweron I Love My PinePhone

2023 is the year of Linux on the phone!? :)

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Tableau | Seattle, WA | Sr. Product Manager

Looking for a great PM to take the reins of the Tableau Extension Gallery and grow it. Lots to figure out like what new product types should we add and if we should facilitate commerce. Gallery delivers a lot of customer value already and this is and opportunity to amp that up as well as help grow and enable our partner ecosystem.

More details and apply at https://tableau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Seattle-W...

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Tableau | Sr. Software Engineers and Software Engineers, Developer Platform team | Seattle, WA and Palo Alto, CA (ONSITE)

I lead Tableau's developer platform team and we're looking for engineers (and sr. engineers) to join our growing team. The team is split across Seattle and Palo Alto and is responsible for a bunch of APIs and tools that our customers and partners use to integrate with and extend Tableau in lots of ways.

If you love building things for other developers, please check out the details in the job postings (linked below, note these both say "Senior" but we have a couple non-senior openings too) and feel free to hit me up at bklower@tableau.com if you have questions.

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform (Palo Alto, CA) https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform (Seattle, WA) https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...

benloweron A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab

Impressive that Piro has personally created more extensions than exist for all of Edge...

benloweron Firefox 57.0 Released

i was not. def slimy stuff.

benloweron How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online

The snub seems perfectly in line with the Dr's last name

benloweron Firefox 57.0 Released

because Google has the worst biz model in the tech industry and is doing harm to the world.

benloweron Show HN: JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript

Stops working for me after level 1. Repro: 1. https://lab.reaal.me/jsrobot and click "start" 2. Complete the level and click "next level" 3. This takes me to https://lab.reaal.me/jsrobot/#level=2 but the screen is blank 4. Dev tools shows this: "ReferenceError: URLcode is not defined[Learn More] ui.js:32:5"

Using Firefox 56.

benloweron Power BI, Microsoft’s Business Intelligence set of tools, is getting smarter

Sorry to hear that you didn't get the information you needed from Tableau. If you're still interested in connecting I can make that happen. My team is responsible for Tableau's dev platform and our APIs are used for integrations, customization, and embedding. Email bklower@tableau.com.

benloweron Microsoft turns two-factor authentication into one-factor by ditching password

Wow the comment thread on the original MSFT blog post (direct link: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/...) is just painful. It's mostly a collection of people who use Windows on their phone crying out about the lack of support for Windows.

Microsoft won't support their own platform (phone) with this. If that's the case then why would any other developer write apps for Windows? Also, I thought the big push was for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that ran on mobile, desktop/tablet, and Xbox. I can understand that you may not want to write a custom app for a platform with tiny market share but "big" Windows still has a lot of share.

This is a great example of how to erode trust.

benloweron Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Python isn't installed by default on Windows. So this makes it easier.

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Tableau | Palo Alto, Fulltime | Sr. Engineer/Dev Manager | ONSITE

Tableau's (http://tableau.com) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use (http://developers.tableau.com) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources.

If you're interested or want to know more please get in touch with me (Ben Lower, I'm leading the team) directly -> email (bklower@tableau.com), twitter (@benlower), SMS (+1 206.659.NINJA)

benloweron WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser

Very interesting project. Was excited to try this but the quality of the tracking is not there yet. The face detection was off most of the time unless I positioned my camera just right. Then the eye tracking was no good. But they are only using a webcam and doing this right (see http://www.tobii.com/xperience/) requires multiple IR emitters and an IR camera.

benloweron Can a 700 M.P.H. Train in a Tube Be for Real?

Sounds like a bit of a "pipe" dream

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

Tableau | Palo Alto or Seattle, Fulltime | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE

Tableau's (http://tableau.com) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use (http://developers.tableau.com) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources.

Full job description is at https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...

If you're interested or want to know more please get in touch with me (Ben Lower, I'm leading the team) directly -> email (bklower@tableau.com), twitter (@benlower), SMS (+1 206.659.NINJA)

EDIT: Fixed link to full JD

benloweron Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser

Yes Kinect has an array of 4 mics and can do audio beam forming. Plus there's a terrific SDK for Windows.

benloweron Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser

Thx :)

My comment was more about the parent's comment of it being "a real clone" when a Dot is 1/8th the price of this.

benloweron Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser

$750 for the mic?!? (http://www.xmos.com/buy?product=20258)

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

Tableau | Palo Alto or Seattle, Fulltime | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE

Tableau's (http://tableau.com) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use (http://developers.tableau.com) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources.

Full job description is at https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?....

If you're interested or want to know more please get in touch with me (Ben Lower, I'm leading the team) directly -> email (bklower@tableau.com), twitter (@benlower), SMS (+1 206.659.NINJA)

benloweron Ask HN: Interactive data visualization products?

If your data is/can be public then you can use Tableau Public for free.

benloweron Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

Cool to see another company in the AR space! However, their videos that say "actual footage" make the holograms look jumpy and the worry is that could lead to fatigue or nausea. Has anyone tried one of these?

benloweron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

Tableau | Palo Alto or Seattle | Sr. Engineers | ONSITE

Tableau's (http://tableau.com) extensibility team is growing and building a developer platform. Tableau's mission is to help people see and understand data and our team is building the APIs developers can use (http://developers.tableau.com) for everything from automation, custom visualizations, and connecting to new data sources.

Full job description is at https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...

If you're interested or want to know more please get in touch with me (Ben Lower, I'm leading the team) directly -> email (bklower@tableau.com), twitter (@benlower), SMS (+1 206.659.NINJA)

benloweron Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API

That's unfortunate for anyone who was using the API. Not cool to just shut it off like that. However it seems Venmo has realized they are an app and not a platform.

benloweron Why winners become cheaters

Very interesting article. Makes me think this is a tendency that we should all look for in ourselves since it could be we start pushing harder to maintain our new 'status' of winning.

It also seems a bit sad that we tend to get so wrapped up in our successes that we will start cheating to maintain our new self identity.

benloweron How do you spot a nonconformist? Check their Internet browser

Well I guess I should add "Firefox user since 2004" to my resume then :)

benloweron The Reality of Missing Out

Why only 50% of the ad spend? I think the article makes the case that all ad spend is moving to digital. Probably not ever reaching 100% but a lot closer to 100 than to 50.