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carfactson Show HN: Property Trends Scraped from Zillow

Looks similar to RealtorStats.org

Good Accelerators offer this to their cohorts as a service. Techstars, which I was a part of, has a login-required site where founders post their experiences. Pretty useful to save you time with VCs that won’t participate in your round because of sector, size, competing portco

carfactson Running Containers on AWS Lambda

You’ll have to deal with lambda cold starts if you want it to be performant:

> When the Lambda service receives a request to run a function via the Lambda API, the service first prepares an execution environment. During this step, the service downloads the code for the function, which is stored in an internal Amazon S3 bucket (or in Amazon Elastic Container Registry if the function uses container packaging). It then creates an environment with the memory, runtime, and configuration specified. Once complete, Lambda runs any initialization code outside of the event handler before finally running the handler code.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/operating-lambda-perfor...

carfactson Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://www.realtorstats.org

Organizes data from real estate sales to help find an agent that will maximize your selling price. Eg, who will beat the Zestimate in Echo Park? I started it to help me find an agent to sell my house in LA and then decided to expand it across Los Angeles area neighbourhoods.

Also got me using Next JS, and deploying on Vercel.

carfactson UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)

This format was discussed in a HN first page post just this week:

> This alphabet, 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ, is Douglas Crockford's Base32, chosen for human readability and being able to call it out over a phone if required.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794186

carfactson A 1,300 sq/ft house in Sunnyvale, Calif. has sold for $823,000 over asking

Lots of realtors do it in Los Angeles, casual browsing of neighbourhood sales data on sites like RealtorStats show how common it is

carfactson Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

This is why often when setting guidelines around particular behavior, standards that require some judgement may be better than rules that are to be followed blindly without any discretion.

Compare the rules around speed limits, don’t drive above 70mph (no judgement, could be too slow or too quick in a given situation) vs the one often observed and followed in reality, drive at a reasonable speed, roughly what others are driving at (use your judgement about what’s safe).

carfactson I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Was in similar situation, though Australian. I got a letter from an education/certification expertly that said my past experience as dev and education (also had a BA) was equivalent to a BS. Recommend you get an attorney/Peter to help you

carfactson Y Combinator's Demo Day loses luster

I’m a founder that went through Techstars, not YC so maybe not exactly similar but accelerators want you to wait to Demo Day to have any investor talks while VCs want to get in early. Much like experienced used goods resellers will attempt to pick through yard sales early - no competition leads to investor friendlier terms. So an investor telling YC candidates not to wait to have these conversations isn’t exactly news. (Question whether waiting makes sense, but these are the dynamics.)

carfactson Google Antitrust Notes

Asking for relief in a vague generalized form is the general practice in larger complex cases where the relief the claimant would be entitled to depends on the outcome of and findings associated with various claims made. As these become known, parties will be given an opportunity to be more specific about the relief they think is appropriate.

carfactson Some auto insurers are sending refunds to customers as crash rate falls

Called this a few weeks back: Ask HN: Will auto insurance premiums go down? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719791

carfactson Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over

> “We are focused on improving profitability in this market.”

Seems like some kind of collusive price signalling announcement to Lyft. Eg, “we’re going to up our prices, here’s your chance to do the same”.

carfactson My $3.3M Mistake (2009)

Reason could be fiduciary duties owed by directors of the dad’s company. As a director you can’t give away company assets at below market value, without shareholder consent. If there were shareholders in the company other than the dad, then those shareholders could have sued the dad for breaching the duties he owes to the company. So if the other shareholders refused to give informed consent to a below market value deal, the only way for it to happen was to do a deal that made those shareholders happy.

carfactson Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees

How did they ensure the sign interpretation was correct? Seems like the information/disinformation problem in espionage.