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philippb

439 karma · joined October 12, 2010

Co-Founder of KeepSafe and enjoying San Francisco
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philippb··on I ran the numbers on CA Property Tax Appeals – and it's a winner
Can you elaborate, not sure i fully understand what you are thinking. But I want to :)
philippb··on I ran the numbers on CA Property Tax Appeals – and it's a winner
I'm focusing on the annual assessment appeal. So this you need to do every year. For me this year, for the first time, they kept the assessed value low.

Zillow and others don't use the right way to look at comparable homes in the assessors and assessment appeals board view.

I could auto appeal each year for you. Right now I'm just trying to get as many people to appeal before the deadline of Dec 1st for the remaining counties. But if you enter your address and email, then I'd run it next year and inform you.

philippb··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
www.appealseal.com

a tool to help California home owners to lower their property taxes. This works for people who bought in the past years low interest environment and are overpaying in taxes because of that.

Feel free to email me, if you have questions: phl.berner@gmail.com

philippb··on Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
It was for something personal... so I'm just having my bill for breakfast
philippb··on Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
this case was a little bit of a one off. Created a convertible note for a piece of land that doesn't exist yet.
philippb··on Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
thanks for the tip with two AI models. I've done that in writing coding specs. I already gave it a lot of detail about who it is. will give this a try.

Do you have an exit criteria that you can define for when the models stop picking on the other models solutions?

philippb··on ChatGPT Search
Has anyone any clue if this is going to be available via api to index private data?
philippb··on New Collaborative PCB Design Tool Launch
Super excited about your progress!!!
philippb··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of newsletters you care for?
Thanks for the reply. That sounds awesome!!!
philippb··on Show HN: Open-Source “Housekeeping for Clouds” for SREs
Looks amazing
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
i just wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to reply. This has been way better input than I thought it would turn out.
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
I was hoping that someone has experience in storing data with FileCoin. But I think it's just to early still to bet an existing business on it.
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
Thanks for laying this out. Never rented rack space my self
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
See updated question. Thanks for asking
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
Thank you!
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
The is amazing. Thank you. I’ve been looking at Backblaze storage pods that seem to be designed for that use case. Never rented rack space.

Do you remember somehow the math on how much cheaper it was or how you thought about upfront cost vs ongoing. Just order of magnitude would be great.

philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
Thanks for the pointer. Never thought about this as an option. Great stuff!!!
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
We are.
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
I’ve looked at them. Would love to talk to you about your usage and experience with them.
philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
Great question. I updated the original post. It’s user generated images and videos. We download those to the phones in the background.

We don’t touch the data at all.

philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
If you can solve that for me without affecting revenue I have $1m in cash for you right there.

We are a photo/video storage service.

philippb··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
Good point. I updated the post with some more infos
philippb··on Using Apache Spark with Intel BigDL on Mesosphere DC/OS
super interesting... I think deep learning infrastructure still needs a lot of improvement. thanks for sharing.
philippb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
Keepsafe | Software Engineers | San Francisco (South Park)

Keepsafe is redefining consumer privacy and security. Join a cash flow positive startup in a product expansion stage and a small team of highly talented people.

Open positions:

- Android Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/d561f35a-2435-466a-85d7-f346f...)

- Senior iOS Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/484258ca-cea9-4ec6-8cff-74db0...)

- Android Kotlin Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/6414e440-ed8e-4c1e-a156-6e4e1...)

- Senior Backend Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/9b12b55a-5480-49ed-92c8-9d8c9...)

Other benefits:

- Healthcare, dental, vision, 401k

- Free daily lunch

- Able to work in Berlin for periods of time in Keepsafe Europes HQ

- Flexible work days to accommodate skiing deep powder during the week.

philippb··on Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp
I'm the CTO at KeepSafe. We open sourced aiohttp.

We wrote aiohttp for our production system. We build everything on aiohttp. In our production systems we constantly run more request then in the benchmark with business logic on each request.

The main reason we like aiohttp a lot if that you we can write asynchronous code that reads like synchronous and does not have callbacks.

philippb··on OS: Android library to create complex multi-state animations
we're using this in our production app for sync animations. you can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kii.safe&h...

Just add a photo with a verified account to see our animation on the image thumbnail.

philippb··on Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources
we haven't encountered any problems with lint. Your app will just not compile and tell you whats missing.

The case from the readme is: We were loading view A. Then we looked for R.id.something in view A in a method.

Later we replaced view A with B, but never took out R.id.something that was referring to view A (it was also never used). This never caused problems as view A was still in the resources.

Lint marks view A as unused as no activity is ever loading it. After removing A, R.id.something can not be found anymore and you will get a compile error. It was time to remove that dead reference.

philippb··on Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources
not sure what your project structure looks like, but you can always run lint separately (like in the gradle example) and then use --xml <lin-output.xml> Then it will use the already existing lint output to remove the resources
philippb··on An open letter to Google: Unplug Google Plus from the Play App Store
as mentioned, even ratings are not possible without a linked account anymore. Also changing a rating is not possible anymore...
philippb··on An open letter to Google: Unplug Google Plus from the Play App Store
The Play sore app does even require a Google Plus account when you just want to leave a rating. Ratings are 100% anonymous as they don't show up in the reviews and are global (where as reviews a language specific). This just doesn't make sense to me.

Mobile apps that require a e.g. facebook account as their only sign up have up to 50% drop offs because people don't want to sign in with a service like Facebook.

I strongly believe that ratings and reviews are a core function of a app store eco system. Links to profile pages don't give me as a person who wants to download the app a real benefit. Google did a really nice job with their NLP to highlight reviews that had more depth in the store overview.

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