Looks similar to RealtorStats.org
Readit Newscarfacts commented on Show HN: Property Trends Scraped from Zillow trends.pillr.io... · Posted by u/tndibona
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
carfacts commented on Running Containers on AWS Lambda earthly.dev/blog/aws-lamb... · Posted by u/shaicoleman
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...
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.
carfacts commented on UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019) percona.com/blog/2019/11/... · Posted by u/timeoperator
I recently read a book by Google’s head guy on API design that was specifically about designing APIs and it had a big section on what makes a good identifier and why people reach for UUIDs and why specifically it is a problem on multiple levels.
The thing that he ended up recommending however was super interesting in that I had never seen it mentioned before but it was basically to use this instead http://www.crockford.com/base32.html
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.
One can imagine why realtors would want to underprice for publicity or whatever, but why would an owner consent to this?
Lots of realtors do it in Los Angeles, casual browsing of neighbourhood sales data on sites like RealtorStats show how common it is
carfacts commented on Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice commoncog.com/blog/tacit-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
IMO Tacit knowledge is what we used to call judgement.
Judgement is basically knowing a bunch of things but having a good idea of which things are more important than others, and especially knowing which things are worth spending time on any which aren't.
It's like when I see someone talking about financial options and they put everything on the board at once: what are puts and calls, what's an iron butterfly and other strategies, do they need to know the payoff diagram, what about black scholes, what are the Greeks, when should I exercise, and so on. They are all things that a professional option trader knows, but when you're a pro you reduce your cognitive load because you know what actually matters and you are not juggling all these concepts at the same time.
It's also the source of frustration when interviewing. Say you've written CPP for many years, you're probably not prepared to answer questions on all corners of the language, even though you're an expert in some sense. Someone relatively newer might be better at that task, because they're thinking a lot about everything, including things they haven't decided are unimportant yet.
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).
carfacts commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
I’m a Canadian software engineer but my degree is in law (I’m a self-taught developer). Do people in my situation manage to get H1B or TN visas despite not having a technical degree?
Thanks a lot!
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
carfacts commented on Y Combinator's Demo Day loses luster axios.com/y-combinators-d... · Posted by u/samizdis
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.)