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jnpatel

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Co-founder of Wildfire (YC S17)

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jnpatel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Opendoor New Products Team | Product Engineer | Anywhere in US | REMOTE / SF / NYC | 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.

Job listings: https://jobs.lever.co/opendoor/?department=Engineering&team=...

Contact: jay.patel@opendoor.com

jnpatel··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: jay.patel@opendoor.com

jnpatel··on Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right
Could you share what domain your company is in? Just curious what has such HA requirements
jnpatel··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'.

https://github.com/rupa/z

jnpatel··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

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/TmuxIntegration

jnpatel··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.

https://angel.co/wildfireapp

Send me an email at jay@wildfireapp.io if you'd like to chat!

jnpatel··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.

https://angel.co/wildfireapp

Send me an email at jay@wildfireapp.io if you'd like to chat!

jnpatel··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··on How Stripe Designs Websites
Whether you like the way it looks or not, it's amazing how influential Stripe's current aesthetic is:

https://twitter.com/chopse/status/930935055274225664

jnpatel··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

[1]: https://thehub.lyft.com/power-zones/

jnpatel··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.

[0]: http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

[1]: https://www.trifacta.com/products/wrangler/

jnpatel··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··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··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··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··on Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
Bloom filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
jnpatel··on Retiring SHA-1 certificates
Previous discussion on SHA-1 certificate sunsetting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734970
jnpatel··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··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".

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs195/fa16/about.html

jnpatel··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."

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/614904706624720896

jnpatel··on Email Markup in Gmail
Sorry, what's EEE?
jnpatel··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
I didn't check the source, but rendering the <canvas> to a data URL, and using something like this [0] would work.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5199902/isnt-it-silly-tha...

jnpatel··on Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol
We've even seen botnets in the wild, using Twitter for their command & control.

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/08/24/first-twitter-contr...

jnpatel··on Show HN: Simple JavaScript Tetris
I like that that this implementation lets you shift right/left for a split second after you let the piece fall.

Not all Tetris versions I've seen do that. I'm not sure what official behavior, though.

jnpatel··on What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
I'm seeing "Please wait for the host to start this meeting"
jnpatel··on What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
Sounds great, looking forward to chatting with you and others!
jnpatel··on What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
Sid, willing to meet with us too? It'd be very appreciated!

(I totally understand you can't do this for everyone who'll ask.)

P.S. I'm also open to a peer feedback session for anyone else applying!

jnpatel··on Show HN: kenv – an environment file injector for Kubernetes resources
Sounds neat! Have you open-sourced this?
jnpatel··on Show HN: kenv – an environment file injector for Kubernetes resources
An alternative is to use Jsonnet [0] (a JSON/YAML templating language).

You can define an inheritance relationship, where your template inherits pretty much everything EXCEPT the environment variables. Or the jsonnet cli lets you specify variables to be replaced in the template.

There's some kubernetes flavored examples in [1].

[0] http://jsonnet.org/

[1] https://github.com/google/jsonnet/tree/master/case_studies/k...

jnpatel··on Designing and Producing 2FA tokens to Sell on Amazon
If you leave your U2F key in your laptop or PC, I find it to be much more convenient than mobile 2FA. Just one tap and you're in... versus pulling out your phone, unlocking, and typing in the code.

Btw, all U2F services allow you to fall back to phone 2FA if you're on an unsupported device.

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