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Ravelin
Company blog · ravelin.com/blogsecuritybusiness
Ravelin is the company blog at ravelin.com, writing about security and business. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Ravelin as a machine-learning fraud detection company for online businesses, in job postings and in a list of AI-backed startups. None of the comments discuss its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fraud prevention and payment solutions that adapt to your challenges, risk appetite & goals so you can combat the fraud of today and be ready for tomorrow
What Hacker News says?
Ravelin | Software Engineer | London, UK | onsite, full time, interns, https://www.ravelin.com/ We use machine learning to provide real-time fraud detection for online businesses, such as Deliveroo, YPlan and Easy Taxi. The tech stack is Go microservices on the backend and TypeScript and Angular on the frontend. Experience in these is nice, but definitely not required. We're currently hiring for: * Senior front end…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Detecting online fraud networks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRavelin [ https://www.ravelin.com ] | London, UK We do real time credit card fraud prevention for online merchants - specialising in the on demand economy, ala Uber/Hailo/Deliveroo/Postmates where low latency decision making is critical. We're building intelligent infrastructure to accurately predict and block fraud in real time, utilising the latest and greatest technology. The vast majority of our software is writ…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Multi- to monorepository as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRavelin is a new type of fraud company. We are pragmatic in our approach to solving the crime of fraud, which means using bleeding edge technologies coupled with tried and proven methods. We are looking for smart people who have or are willing to learn new skills (machine learning, neural networks, python, golang, cloud automation etc) and are capable of working autonomously, yet are friendly and respectful enough t…
Comment linking /jobs/senior-frontend-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”Submitted What on-demand fraud in 2016 looks like as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe at Ravelin ( https://www.ravelin.com ) are building solutions to stop this. Still surprises me how many people think banks/schemes are responsible for CC fraud, when it's actually the merchant that gets punished. And yeah, fraudsters operate like locusts.
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on “Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud”Submitted Scaling a startup using DynamoDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe space for AI-powered venture-backed companies is really booming. Full list of companies mentioned in the article: Enigma - http://enigma.io/ Sift Science - https://siftscience.com/ Ravelin - https://ravelin.com/ H2O.ai - http://h2o.ai/ Seldon - http://www.seldon.io/ SigOpt - https://sigopt.com/ Gluru - https://gluru.co/ x.ai - https://x.ai/ SwiftKey - https://swiftkey.com/en Matternet - https://mttr.net/ SkyCatc…
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on “Investing in Artificial Intelligence”Submitted AI-powered refund abuse and dispute fraud: The democratization of deception as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 fraud insights gleaned from MRC Vegas as a story · 1 points
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