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mericsson··on Bitbucket Pipes
Seems like a smart move for Atlassian. Still no dominant CI cloud provider.
mericsson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Mixmax | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full-stack engineer or INTERN in Fall '18 | https://mixmax.com/careers We're a profitable, fast-growing startup looking for full-stack engineers.

Mixmax is the hub for all your business communications. We integrate with your company's existing toolchain - email, calendar, chat, CRM, and more - to bring all information into one place. This means we're syncing, storing, & indexing hundreds of millions events a day into our system, and then building fast APIs and delightful front-end UIs to make the data actionable for our users. Additionally, we have an extensive Developer API (developer.mixmax.com) that powers entire third party products.

Try the product (it's free!): https://mixmax.com

Eng challenges: https://mixmax.com/engineering

Stack: Javascript, Node, Mongo, Elasticsearch, React, Go, AWS

Team fun: https://instagram.com/mixmaxhq

Customer love: https://twitter.com/mixmax/timelines/676913925221449728

APPLY TODAY at https://mixmax.com/careers. Interview process: 15m phone call -> 1h remote tech challenge -> onsite w/team -> reference

mericsson··on Mixmax raises $10.35M to improve email
Blog post by lead investor: Email on steroids  — Creandum leads Series A in Mixmax.

https://blog.creandum.com/email-on-steroids-creandum-leads-s...

mericsson··on Estonia planning its own cryptocurrency, called 'estcoin'
“The purpose of estcoin is to accelerate [development of Estonia's e-residency program], while also providing additional funds and interest for the development of our digital nation.”
mericsson··on Introducing search-string: an advanced search string parser
This minimal (no-dependency) npm package is used throughout Mixmax in browser and server-side code. Check it out, welcome any comments! https://github.com/mixmaxhq/search-string
mericsson··on Show HN: Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON
Well done! How does this compare to diffbot's website extraction? https://www.diffbot.com/
mericsson··on TLDR Stock Options
Links don't appear to be working to https://captable.io or https://angel.co/clear/how_much
mericsson··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
Related Economist article: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2172112...
mericsson··on Gmail Add-ons
Will it support both iOS Google Inbox and Gmail apps?
mericsson··on Gmail Add-ons
Very neat, reminds me of Salesforce Lightning -- customizing UI across devices in client side Salesforce apps. https://developer.salesforce.com/lightning
mericsson··on Launch HN: Lively (YC W17) – 401(k) for Healthcare
How about offering a mailing list signup? Instant push notifications doesn't feel like the right medium for receiving info about HSA. Turned me off a bit as well.
mericsson··on Launch HN: Lively (YC W17) – 401(k) for Healthcare
Great stuff!

"Were you surprised when you started getting charged a monthly fee for your HSA when you left your employer? Yeah, so were we!" -- this surprised a friend of mine. I sent this his way.

Any plans to offer investment options as part of the HSA?

mericsson··on Ask HN: Needs advice on learning NLP
Some good advice here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-get-into-natural-languag...
mericsson··on VR experience Job Simulator has earned $3M
Voices of VR thoughts on why it is so successful here: http://voicesofvr.com/498-keys-of-owlchemy-labs-success-agen...
mericsson··on Nylas Mail is now free
https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/gmail-now-has-more-than-1b...
mericsson··on Clarkson – Notify your users of new features
Co-founder of Clarkson here. Happy to answer any questions / comments.

With Clarkson, our mission is improving overall feature adoption by relevant notifications of feature updates and analytics to measure your progress.

We'd like to be the best-in-class tool for announcing new features to your users. Just drop a small JS snippet on your application and start announcing. :)

mericsson··on YC W17 Invites/Rejections
Wondering anyone who got accepted for an interview want to switch dates?

We signed up late for the interview and are currently scheduled for 11/2 but my co-founder will be out of town then. Anyone have a slot the following week that would want to switch? Mail me at mericsson@gmail.com thx!

mericsson··on The Strange and Sudden Disappearance of a Coding Bootcamp Founder
A close friend of mine did https://devbootcamp.com/ --- and coupled with the instruction and a lot of hard work in the class, was able to switch careers successfully. This was a few years ago when there was less competition amongst boot camp graduates to find jobs, but I'm still seeing devbootcamp graduates successfully change careers.

I think the combination of the kick in the ass, working on projects as a team, and access to recruiters at the end of the program is what makes them successful.

mericsson··on Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down
Perhaps you can refinance? Lots of banks offer no-fee refinances. I used Cash Call (not that they have an amazing reputation) but they did a good job with my refi.
mericsson··on Coinbase – Exchange API
Looks like this is the new Coinbase Lunar project being announced tomorrow. http://www.btcfeed.net/news/coinbases-lunar-announcement-ana...
mericsson··on Confessions of a Car Salesman (2001)
If you enjoyed this, worth checking out This American Life episode: 129 Cars [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...].
mericsson··on Salesforce to make big push into healthcare industry
fwiw Salesforce announced Merrill Lynch as their biggest customer in 2007 and have added a few more since then.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/why-salesforce-coms-merrill-ly...

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/cloud-computing/2049/mer...

mericsson··on Show HN: TripBright – activities and tours for your Airbnb guests
why downvote? encrypted passwords aren't important?
mericsson··on Show HN: TripBright – activities and tours for your Airbnb guests
A signup page without enforced SSL :(
mericsson··on Prismic.io goes live
Anyone figure out how to view a site created from scratch that has newly published documents? Not obvious how to view a site as an unauthenticated user.

Or is the API the only way to consume content published on a repository/site?

mericsson··on Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
Even assuming everyone has a credit card, entering a credit card on a mobile phone is enough friction to cause the potential consumer to postpone or never make the purchase. It seems like Affirm would solve that problem.