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Title: Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.
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Title: The email address that I created exclusively for my (much reviled) LinkedIn account has just received a virus. Does this mean their database of user emails has been leaked? Compromised? Sold?<p>Or are their systems just sufficiently poor that the email has leaked through other means?
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Title: Hey HN, a friend of mine is a budding technical writer, and is trying to get some actual documentation experience under her belt. Anyone have a project they could use some docs for?
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Title: Hi HN, I wanted to know if anyone had good recommendations for a database for massive timeseries. I took a look at InfluxDB and Druid, both of which look promising but they're young projects and I don't want to strand myself with a deprecated component at the core of the system I'm working on. Does anyone have any suggestions/advice/experience they can share to provide some guidance here?<p>thanks in advance!
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Title: This is the email circulating the Valley. The high profile venture capitalist's name has been redacted along with that of the recipient.<p>February 1, 2013<p>[name redacted],<p>Since you asked what I think about Quora and its latest pivot, here's my answer. It's probably far more than you expected but bear with me. From its early days the big question about this site has been "can an almost unlimited supply of SiliconValley cash and hype turn a mediocre idea into a success?"
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Title: I'm a single founder of a high-tech (but not web-based) company. However, I don't really have the thousands of dollars it would take to get a website designer to put together a site for me.<p>I absolutely respect that it's worth the money, the money just doesn't exist. So, I need to find a stopgap so that my company has <i>something</i> out on the web which makes us look professional enough that when I reach out to customers we don't look like total amateurs.<p>Can anyone help me navigate this mild morass? Should I just use Bootstrap and get something minimal up? Or is there some other solution that takes a little more time but would look a lot better?<p>What I'm trying to find is whatever will get me to a site that, not including creating the content, will take me less than 10 hours to get to a clean and modern state for someone who has used Linux exclusively for over a decade, and knows basic programming, but is busy enough to want to really just follow a tutorial (that actually works).<p>I don't care about things like the new trend of scrolling graphics windows or whatever that sin of nature is, or probably most other modern features. I'm looking to make a site closer to DuPont in style than a web startup. The one thing that would be a really "nice to have" is a news feed that I can update via the web to keep the content updated more often.
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Title: I just saw this today, the leaders are suffiently out-of-reach.
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Title: OpenVPN servers are vulnerable to Shellshock under certain configurations.<p>OpenVPN has a number of configuration options that can call custom commands during different stages of the tunnel session. Many of these commands are called with environmental variables set, some of which can be controlled by the client. One option used for username+password authentication is "auth-user-pass-verify". If the called script uses a vulnerable shell, the client simply delivers the exploit and payload by setting the username. This attack vector is pre-auth.<p>When we discovered this last week we contacted [email protected] as well as many of our colleagues. Given how many users could potentially be affected we reasoned that maximum utility would be achieved by giving VPN providers a heads up before warning everyone. If you were affected but not informed I apologize.<p>Cheers, Fredrik Strömberg ([email protected])
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Title: Motto:<p>"I have read and agree to the Terms" is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
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Title: tl;dr foreign company hasn't paid my team's invoices, we probably can't sue, what else can we do?<p>I contracted with an overseas company and was paid for most of my work there. Unfortunately, the company hasn't paid my team for the last few months of our work. We're now coming around on 9 months since the due date.<p>The manager still promises payment but always has new excuses. The company has not gone under and actually has even hired new contractors, albeit in different divisions.<p>Due to the fact that this company is on the other side of the globe, a lawsuit is impractical.<p>Are there any other tactics we might employ, such as public shaming blogs, glassdoor reviews, etc?<p>edit: thanks for all the helpful feedback. Some more details: we have not worked for quite some time (basically after it was clear that something was wrong with payments). I've escalated this to the CEO, he/she has ignored our contacts. This company is in Australia and I am in the US.
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Title: What is your best source of passive or recurring income?<p>In the spirit of previous years' threads:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
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Title: Alright, so a month ago i made this same thread, and it seemed quite popular.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257369)
Since then i´ve:<p>Read:<p>Siddhartha - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)<p>Das Steppenwolf - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel)<p>Into the Wild - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book)<p>Bought, but yet not read:<p>Godel, Escher, Bach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach<p>Being and Nothingness - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness<p>CODE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_Computer_Hardware_and_Software<p>Let´s hear what HN recommends and is currenty reading
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Title: Does anyone still consider MongoDB a viable data storage option for new projects? If so, why?
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Title: http://eais.rkn.gov.ru/en/#form (requires captcha)<p>The requested address is blacklisted<p>Blacklisting Authorization Date 24.03.2014 Blacklisting Authorization Number 4138 Blacklisting Decision Maker Роспотребнадзор Blacklisting Date 02.10.2014
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Title: Philippines
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I quit college because it was expensive for me. I entered the company with 1 year experience basic programming(C, C#, etc.). They have given me a book ruby "Programming Ruby" and started to work there as a web developer/tech support/call center for 3 years. I was just earning $550/month and as the company and people grow it goes down to $250 due to failed pricing and small clients.<p>I was still staying there due to clients that used the product. Also the relationship with clients that I have build because we worked on it side by side.<p>Current Situation:
I have exposed my resume online. I wanted to do remote or relocation overseas.<p>I'd like to ask what is there regular per hour rate of ruby on rails programmer. And how skill is based on the pricing. I was also hoping if $15-$20/ hour.
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Title: I was wondering what other members of the HN community found as sources of inspiration and motivation. Maybe it's a book, a quotation, a poem, an image, a movie, a project you worked on, etc.<p>For example, I've always enjoyed this poem by E. Dickinson - a concise recipe for being honest to yourself and persevering.<p>"Lad of Athens, faithful be
To Thyself,
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All the rest is Perjury—"<p>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lad_of_Athens,_faithful_be<p>My hope is that this thread will become full of good sources and discussion.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Traditional lean startup advice says to keep your full time job while working on your statup on the side, at least until you gain traction...most of all you need to talk to real prospective customers about your product to gauge real market interest, lest you build something nobody wants.<p>But how are you supposed to do that with a full time gig that has you technically under an inventions assignment agreement?<p>Those agreements, arguably, would own anything you create while employed, at least if it's somewhat related to your full time job. Granted, their enforceability is questionable in a lot of cases (especially in California)...<p>But even forgetting legalities for a second, that'd be a hell of an awkward conversation if your boss/team realized that you've been building/pitching your own products on the side without telling anyone. Reactions could range from firing to, most likely, just a general distrust, like you're trying to sneak one foot out the door on the sly.<p>Maybe some folks are really lucky and could just openly lay it all out on the table, but I don't think that's practical for everyone, especially those in large Bay Area companies.<p>I know personally if I asked my boss for permission, the 95% most likely result would be for her to put me in touch with legal...and the legal department is by-the-book, so of course they'd never give me any sort of permission or interpret anything remotely in my favor. I may as well just skip that route.<p>So any advice about the tactics of how to approach this? How to get real potential-customer feedback without risking your full time job?
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Title: Hi, I'm a third year CS student. I have been coding for a little over two years. I have worked on a few side projects.
Recently,more than once I was approached by people who wanted me to help implement their projects. But I have always refused just because I think I'm not good enough.<p>So, I wanted to ask the HN community: have you ever done that? how do you deal with self-doubt? Thank you!
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Title: TL;DR -> https://github.com/rezoner/unfinished-asteroids<p>Every time I get a new job I am being thrown right into middle of the action. No tutorials, no babysitting - just a real project and a task to complete.<p>It is a very stressful and frustrating at the beginning - but - after a short while not only I have completed the task - but also have this feeling that in a month of practice I've learned more than in a year of solving theoretical and imaginary problems.<p>So - I've prepared an unfinished game - and a plot for you as a new employee.<p>Let me know does it work for you and what was your experience with it.<p>I am a bit nervous as this is the first time I am trying to make something more emotionally engaging than technical documentation.
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Title: I am currently developing and maintaining a PHP framework, and when writing documentation I find it hard to see the difference between useful docs and non-useful remarks. How do I get better at writing documentation?
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Title: We are a 3-person startup a few months away from a public launch. We got under the radar of a very big company in the same industry we are operating in. They have been looking at offering a service/product similar to ours and are now wanting to talk to us. We have an NDA in place and have already started preliminary discussions which are now intensifying. I’m not sure what their end game is. It’s not that they are being coy about it, it’s just that they first want to see if there’s room for doing something together in some capacity.<p>They seem to be interested in launching it under their own brand, so I think a simple investment is out of the picture. I think it’s going to go down as an acquihire of some sort. We are moving into the more detailed stage of a technical due diligence type discussion, and we're not sure to what extent we should allow that exploratory effort go. We don't really mind talking about our infrastructure and business aspects, but is it considered acceptable to let them explore the code in great detail? Again, it's a very big and reputable company, so I don't know if we should be so paranoid as to make them walk away.<p>Should we have in place a more specific NDA or a letter of intent of some kind? We are open to doing a joint venture or even an outright acquisition as they have the right resources to take our product very big very fast.<p>Any tips or suggestions?
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Title: I am creating some entreprise software and almost every other information needs to be sent by email in pdf format. Reports, invoices, etc. I am using whtmltopdf right now, but it is far from ideal.<p>My idea setup would be to create some template with fixed parts, growable parts (texts that can vary in size), repeatable parts (lines in a table). And then just feed the data to have a nice pdf built.<p>The closest I found was using LibreOffice to convert a document to pdf (http://railsblog.kieser.net/2013/04/part-ii-creating-beautiful-reports-in.html).<p>It seems PDF generation should be a solved problem. Maybe, Adobe LiveCycle is doing exactly what I need, but it is not open source and I do not have $50k to find out.<p>What are you guys using?
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Title: https://twitter.com/search?q=google%20dns%20down&src=typd<p>BTW, Not sure if anyone noticed, I changed the title on this thread twice. Started out as "Is Google DNS Down ?" then went to "Google DNS is Down !" and finally to "Google DNS was down !"
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Title: This did not seem to have been done before here at HN and I think it would be useful. I propose some guidelines to replies but freestyle works great too.<p>I did not find anything against this in the guidelines, but if there is something wrong with the submission then apologies in advance. I believe that services companies and recruiters
make a living of hiding this information from the developer community, and often take a 20-25% cut just for sending an email with a CV, a second email to schedule an interview and sending a contract for signature over the post. This is a proposal for replies:<p>Top level entry: "My current daily rate is RATE / hour or day, I work in COUNTRY"<p>Second line : "I work as a LANGUAGE Developer/Architect, I have X years of experience and my main skills are ..."<p>Extra details of whether is a remote position would be interesting as well. For replies to top level entries, comments of whether the person is being lowballed or not would help, even if you prefer not to give your rate yourself.
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Title: I know what Docker is and how it works. What are some problems that get solved better when using Docker?
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Title: Just curious. I am, like many men, a fan of quality porn and wonder if anyone is trying to solve problems in that industry. Or is too taboo?
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Title: I've got a VPS which I use for small programming projects and college assignments. Two weeks ago I received an e-mail from my provider, stating that "your VPS has been transmitting a lot of outgoing traffic which results in a very large traffic usage bill". In September on my 500 GB data-limit VPS, it had been transmitting 27 TB of data traffic. This resulted in a € 3300 extra charge on my € 15 VPS. I'm expecting a similar bill for this month.<p>Of course I immediately shut down my VPS after the notice two weeks ago, but by then it had been using these amounts of traffic for a month and a half.<p>What are my options here? I can't afford to pay > € 5000 unfortunately. Does anyone have similar experiences?
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Title: New developers (I consider myself here) will always estimate wrong. They will also feel bound to their estimates as deadlines.<p>I've seen this happen with myself, and now with another developer I've been helping along (we both do consulting & build websites for people). Strikes me as the sort of problem we didn't know we had until we get in the thick of it, and I wasn't satisfied with my answer for her.<p>I know this is a basic question, but figured I'd ask, what's the high value way to demonstrate willingness to share estimate revisions promptly and transparently? What's important to remember when you start getting stressed out?
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Title: apple.com currently does not have a valid certificate. Note that I'm accessing the page from Europe, so this is not the issue with China MITM-ing iCloud.
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Title: Hi All,<p>One of my best friends was just caught in an unfortunate explosion, and he has lost his left arm.<p>He's pretty into gaming, and i think recently he switched form Xbox to PC. He mentioned to me that gaming is something he'll really miss, and i've told him "No, way - we can work something out!"<p>Could anyone suggest what to start looking at? I've been thinking about a Joystick with secondary feet controls maybe? Any info/help would be awesome!<p><i></i>edit<i></i>
- Thanks everyone for replying to this! I came straight here when i started thinking of it because i trust hn community and the power of group think!<p>- Also i think he has been playing mostly FPS stuff.<p>- Razr Naga is coming up a bit so that could be a good starting place.
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Title: See @KennWhite: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525110471733817344<p>Verizon Wireless is injecting a UID into all HTTP requests made on the VZW network, regardless of whether or not you've opted out of their Customer Proprietary Network Information (CNPI) options.<p>It's injected at the network level- So it tracks across browsers and ignores 'private browsing', do-not-track headers, overriding the UIDH in the client/curl, everything. My confirmation showing the headers only appearing in unprotected HTTP requests (disappearing when VPNed):<p>https://twitter.com/rammic/status/525360201361530880<p>If you're on the VZW cell network and not using wifi, you can check your own ID here (via @j4cob):<p>http://uidh.crud.net/
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>My father, who is a 56-years old software engineer and introduced me to software development, got unemployed some months ago and is having an extremely tough time getting a job here in Spain.<p>In his whole life he has worked as a developer, businessmen and executive at various companies such as Xerox.
However, he went the developer path these past decades instead of moving on to something more 'senior oriented' such as being a project manager.<p>He has been always learning new stuff, so right now he has a MongoDB certification and is totally fluent in Django. But most of the companies he applies to just see his age and step back.
And I'm also worried because here in Spain large companies are seeing the crisis and the really high youth unemployment as an opportunity to hire youngsters under really poor conditions, and they can actually hire five young developers for the price of one senior dev.<p>So I'm not really sure how I can help him, I actually know a lot of people in the startup ecosystem but startups usually want people in their 20s and 30s. I have also read a lot of posts regarding 'old developers', and he has read them as well.<p>He has a fresh mindset, wants to move to another city/country if it's required, and has tons of experience, so it's very hard for me to see him having this tough time... Any tip would be very helpful<p>Thanks a lot
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Title: I've been browsing Udemy courses yesterday and I was floored to find that some programming courses might have sold in excess of a million dollars (unless Udemy hands out coupons all the time and few people actually pay the full price for a course - I don't know that).<p>There are also courses like "how to create a bestseller on Kindle".<p>Now I am thinking of creating my own programming course, but I realize I can not really make such a promise as helping people earn money with programming (except getting a job, but that also seems a but much for a single video course). It would be cool to make a course "learn programming language X and earn 1000$/month in passive income" but it seems a very doubtful proposition to me.<p>Is it harder to make money with programming than with other content creation (ebooks, video)?<p>Udemy says the average course earns 7000$ - not a lot, but I think still more than the average income for iOS or Android apps? And it seems to me a course or ebook might be much simpler to create than a good app.<p>Of course those "make a Kindle bestseller" courses might just be fake "get rich quick" schemes, but I am not so sure. I can imagine having a good title and reasonable subject a book can become a bestseller easily.
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Title: A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about the semantic web as the next big thing. What happened? Are there still startups working in that space? Are people still interested?
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Title: I've had this idea for a SaaS based product and started working on it not too long ago (about 2 months in as solo founder/dev moonlighting). Since it is for enterprise I figured getting a solid product that does one thing really well is more important than building MVPs of product features. I still have at lest 2 or 3 more months into development before I start selling version 1 of the product.<p>But now I see my potential competitor also rolling out the same product I am making. They have a $1b market cap, have a large customer base and I can imagine they would find it easy to sell it than I do. I was sure that this would happen some day but not so soon. Their offering seems good enough to entice customers. The only thing I can compete with them right now is Price. They charge a lot for their product and I can beat it by being a fraction of what they charge.<p>I am currently confused wether to continue building or give up and start-over on something else?
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Title: Four years ago I started a job and it was pretty good at first. But due to some corporate changes everybody just got slammed with work. Upper management does not think it's wise to hire more people so they are burning everybody out and people are leaving. The workload is unmanageable and it just never ends.<p>It's time to move on but I am just too burned out. I have even recently caught myself forgetting pretty basic stuff. My weekend are just spent recovering from the week really. I don't do much activity that I used to for fun because I am just so tired. I asked my psychiatrist and I am not depressed.<p>Any advice?
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Title: Photography is my hobby and I need to practice. Anyone need a photo for landing page or for anything else?
You can post you request here or send me email at sergey at genbit.ru<p>I'll try my best to take photo you need, for free.
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Title: As the browser becomes home to more and more software that traditionally would be desktop only, where do you see web apps and desktop apps in 5 years?
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Title: I'm looking for a replacement for Windows PC Backup (Windows 7). Not VMs. Ideally it should offer a backup to USB/NAS locally, and also backup offsite to a cloud service.<p>If the cloud service offers client-side encryption then double bonus points! Also, Synology support is a triple bonus!<p>Spideroak, Tresorit, Crashplan, Acronis, Backblaze, Carbonite, Mozy, HiDrive? Any others?<p>Recommendations from people using these services are very welcome.<p>I'm looking for a proper <i>incremental</i> disk-wide backup solution that offers local USB backups too, so Dropbox, Onedrive and Google Drive don't qualify. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that assumption.
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Title: As the invites (or rejections) will land in 1000s of inboxes today, 3% will be seen packing their bags for the interview and others will get back to building their startups.<p>Let's do one thing - the 97% who won't get the chance of interview will post their product's homepage and demo URL in this thread so that we all can provide crowd-feedback to them.<p>The happier 3% are also invited to share their products/demo as well.<p>Let's do it, then?
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Title: I've consumed a great deal of major, public facing APIs over the years, some I've liked more than others. However, I'm writing a series of APIs for a new project, and ahead of starting I've documented the things I like about some APIs and things I don't about others. For example, uri construction, documentation, response time, flexibility, code samples and organization of taxonomy help me differentiate good and bad.<p>I thought I'd ask, what do you think makes for a good api?
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Title: I went on the interview with Amazon AWS and Google, and I couldn’t make it to the final round. It is disappointed but I feel thankful for this opportunities and I’ve learned a lot. I am a person who never be afraid, always moving forward and never stop. Always looking for positive opportunities. I’m very sure what I want and where I want to be in the future. But this feeling I have right now is kinda lost and confused. I’ve been taking care of my family since I was in school, I have pretty rough journey of live but I’ve done quite a good job on being a good daughter, responsible sister and strong self. I never give up no matter what. But these days I’ve been quite depressed and never have this feeling before. So many night I have (real) dream about the night my brother die and I wake up and cry, feeling lost, lonely and kept asking myself random questions. I tried to meditate to tame the mind and thought but it seems like it didn’t work as it always. I make a joke on it, maybe it is quarter life crisis, I’m 25 and soon turning 26, I should be ok by then.haha. I guess this could be an aftershock from AWS and Google interview. And I don’t know how to deal with it.… anyone ever struggle in this feeling before and how to get rid of it? Any suggestion or comment would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much :)
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Title: patio11 and other people on HN recommend that instead of just responding to job postings and sending out one’s resume, a better way to get a good job is to find hiring managers and meet them over a cup of coffee.<p>To me this sounds like sound advice. Still, I must admit it would feel a bit weird to ask my peers for their manager’s number and then ask the manager if they want to meet, just ”out of the blue”. Perhaps these customs vary from country to country. (I live in Sweden.)<p>I don’t know, maybe I’m overthinking this. I guess it’s just as simple as asking and see who will seize the opportunity? Or is there some ”coffee date etiquette” one should be aware of? :) Is it okey to ask someone (my peers) to give out someone else’s (the manager’s) number? <p>Also, my occupation is currently not programming, I’m rather targeting sysadmin/application support jobs.
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Title: I'm trying to find a good alternative to google-apps free custom domain email hosting for a client that doesn't want use there services. Doesn't necessarily have to be free but it does need to support custom domains.
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Title: Sometimes when reading HN I wonder how people get to express their ideas in such a clear and persuasive way, many times they seem to be very intelligent and informed. I have been trying to improve my English a little but not having anybody to write to or any need to use English makes me believe that I will be stagnated in a low level profile, and that I will never will achieve the level of mastery and proficiency they show so well in their writing.<p>Recently, reading some cites, like Rooselvelt "man in the arena" I got a little sad because perhaps I am doomed to never be such a great speaker. Anyway, I will continue reading HN, enyoing such an intelligent and informative community and trying to hone my English. So bravo for HN.<p>I find it not justice that "Tim Cook Speaks Up" is eating my cake. What if I am only a heterosexual guy, a troll and my only goal is to get some karma points.<p>I realize that the language topic is a pure one and that it should be separated (sanned) from a egotists, only looking for karma points guy. But what?, you guys are beautiful and constructive, sorry for not just being that type.
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Title: I work at a startup in silicon valley. Most of my colleagues spend a lot of hours at the office--usually at least 12hr days. I know most of these people (including myself) could make substantially more money working at a more established company and that our options are unlikely to be worth more than the salary we will have "sacrificed" by the time an exit opportunity comes along. Now, the reason I'm at a startup is to learn about doing a startup. But I think most of my peers have zero entrepreneurial ambition. There's also a shortage of engineering talent. So.. why are you breaking your back working on someone else's dream (and potential fortune) when the incentives (as far as I can tell) don't warrant it? If you love hacking, why not keep bank hours at the office and work on your own projects outside of that? I used to buy into the myth that bigger companies that pay proper salaries are like working for some soul-destroying 1960s IBM corporate mediocrity. But now I have friends at bigger companies--the difference seems to be that they have unlimited resources, big annual bonuses, nicer office furniture and less pressure. Otherwise we work on very similar things. Maybe you like to "stay hungry"... well, why not do your own startup instead of staying hungry working on something that will make a handful of people (not including yourself) very rich? I apologize if this comes across as confrontational--that's not my intention. I'm more just kind of baffled, and I assume I'm missing something, hence the ask. Thanks.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I accidentally discovered the hourly wage that some of my newly hired female coworkers make (offer letter left in the open). The trouble is, they have been hired in at the exact same job and experience level (programmer, right out of college) that I was a couple years ago, but they are being paid less than I was at that time.<p>The pay difference is pretty small, about $1.00, but our company also claims that our salaries are pretty algorithmic based on experience level.<p>I don't believe that anyone at our company would consciously pay women less for the same work, but it looks like maybe its happening unconsciously.<p>I feel a little uncomfortable talking to either the relevant coworkers or my supervisor about it because I'm not sure it's my place to comment on what they are getting paid, but it also feels like I am contributing to the problem if I don't say something.<p>What should I do HN?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work.<p>Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
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Title: 15 of the 30 cities with the highest rents in the US are all in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Title: Who's using Clojure in production today and what are you using it for? I'm curious about the state of the ecosystem and its adoption today.<p>There are a lot of old threads (on HN[1] or Quora[2]) that ask this - but none of them seem to reflect latest on who's using Clojure in production in late 2014. The recent State of Clojure data [3] doesn't capture this either.<p>[1] https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/whos%20using%20clojure<p>[2] https://www.quora.com/Whos-using-Clojure-in-production<p>[3] https://cognitect.wufoo.com/reports/state-of-clojure-2014-results/
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Title: In the ICU at UNC hospital in chapel hill. Had emergency surgery and it looks like I'll be OK.<p>Wish I had some deep insights to share as a result but right now all I can really say is<p>"If you start feeling chest pains, don't hesitate to call 911. If I'd waited much longer I probably wouldn't be here to send this. Learn the warning signs and call 911 if in doubt."
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Title: New docs for mean.io, the fullstack js based on mongo,express,angular and node.js lot of docs about extending mean.io with contributed and custom packages.
http://learn.mean.io
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Title: It would be interesting to include:<p>-Technology used<p>-Statistics<p>-History
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Title: I'm leading a team of programmers - not all of whom I had a say in choosing. They're generally a smart lot when it comes to understanding the algorithmic & functional logic - but make beginner level mistakes like hardcoding thigns, naming functions like "findeventsfromthelast6hours" (when the 6 hours could be changed at some point - rendering the name of the function pointless). And so on...<p>I review commits now and then and find some of these issues - but due to the nature and timeline fo the project cannot do it for each and ever commit of course. So I'm wondering what I can do about this? Is there a short guide or book that I can recommend my team to read? I of course tell them these things myself too - but it gets frustrating because I keep feeling like a lot of this should really just be common sense.
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Title: The HN community was instrumental in getting my campaign funded, so I just wanted to say thank you. I also wanted to thank the investors who offered through HN, your offered support and praise has really meant a lot. This funding will allow me to keep the company private and hopefully one day fully open source everything permissively (full source is going public on Github in a few months regardless). I am streaming Voxel Quest all day with the new perspective camera being demoed on twitch.tv (link below), and I will answer any questions here as well. VQ is in its last day of Kickstarter if you still want to pitch in. Thanks again everybody, I am moved beyond words. :D<p>Edit: one side note - the perspective camera I am demoing was developed in the last week of running the KS campaign, so it is still quite buggy but nonetheless a good proof of concept. :)<p>Edit 2: also, it is amazing that we got there with zero coverage from gaming press! Thank you again HN for being the one site with enough "vision" to see something meaningful in my work. :)<p><pre><code> (Youtube demo of perspective):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5QKin0HAtI
(Live demo):
http://www.twitch.tv/gavanw
(KS Link):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gavan/voxel-quest</code></pre>
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Title: Let me just start off saying I'm 100% amateur and I don't really know that much so I could be all wrong.<p>I was browsing the website and got redirected to a random URL. Tracing the requests back I found that the redirect was caused by improperly sanitized html. The exploit more or less gives you an iframe worth of functionality. This allows for very sophisticated phishing.<p>Firefox is not vulnerable to this (You might be able to guess what the vuln is from that).<p>Now this actually pales in comparison to the 2nd exploit I found. I'm significantly less sure this works but I'm still pretty sure it will. I have only tested it out on the preview mode and not published.<p>The preview mode DOES sanitize(hits their server and comes back, basic stuff like <script> gets cleaned up). It just doesn't do a very good job at it. Now, they could have 2 different checks, one being more secure when publishing but this seems unlikely. I'm not really familiar with the applicable laws so I'm not willing to actually publish an attack to test.<p>The 2nd exploit allows me pretty much free reign on their page. More or less it lets you execute whatever javascript you want.<p>I have sent the company 2x messages through a form they have for reporting securities vulnerabilities. However I'm not even sure that they got through as I never received a confirmation email (it said one would be sent).<p>I tried calling as well but I just discovered it last night and I haven't gotten through to anyone who knows anything.<p>My conundrum is this is an EXTREMELY popular website. Top 100 on Alexa, 30bn+ market cap. If this vulnerability is actually real I'm not sure I'm comfortable sitting on the information for a prolonged period of time considering how easy it would be to exploit.<p>In the meantime I'm going to continue to try and contact the company but I'm not really sure what my next steps should be otherwise.
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Title: Do they keep in touch with you? Are they open to new ideas? How do you keep your relationships going post failure?
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Title: I just received a very strange email from the support account at BrowserStack. I cannot, however, verify the information.<p>The contents of the email: http://pastebin.com/RQXd2Au3<p>Can anyone else verify if they've received the email, or what the official word is?<p>If there's any information from the email itself that I can provide to verify the authenticity of the message, please let me know. I do have a BrowserStack account that I use regularly, and as such find this email to be quite worrisome.
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Title: I was Googling some Python topic when my search results page suddenly split in the middle with some text saying something to the effect of "You speak our language, would you like to take a test?", linking to http://www.google.com/foobar/ .<p>I followed it and was led to a pseudo-shell, where I then found some coding problems. I can return to the page to continue working on them.<p>I've searched around and haven't found anyone else talking about this. What is it?
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Title: Live coverage here http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220000361.html<p>Thanks @brianpgordon - Check out this gif of the orbital maneuvers required for Rosetta to reach its destination: https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif<p>Live twitter feed of ESA https://twitter.com/esaoperations<p>It looks like @Philae2014 made a fairly gentle touch down on #67P based on amount of landing gear damping #CometLanding
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Title: So this happened around the middle of October and ever since, I've been trying to process my mind around it. I wrote about my depression and shared it with others. I wrote it as way to sort of come to terms with things and let people know that they aren't alone.<p>A couple days after I wrote it, I shared the piece of writing with a couple people on Twitter. I'm going to guess that my boss must have saw it popup on his timeline which led to me getting a phone call from him. We just talked about it and how I was feeling. He told me to take the next day off. I guess he was trying to be nice and be a good person but the day after the day I was given off, I received another phone call from him. He pretty much said, "I don't think it's best if you come into work. If you have anything of ours, just return them when you feel like it." aka we're letting you go. He reassured me it wasn't because of what I wrote over and over again. I, on the other hand, do think I was let go because of what I wrote. I wasn't given an explanation as to why I was being let go. I don't and didn't think of myself as a liability but I guess that's how I was viewed.<p>I talked to a couple people about it. Some said he was in his right to let me go, others said it wasn't right for me to be let go. I'm currently on a gap year and all I wanted some work to do and hopefully gain experience from. I can't do that and every junior Android developer position I've applied to in Chicago has pretty much turned me down. Chicago doesn't have that much junior Android developer positions compared to other cities. I can't get the experience I wanted and can't earn the money I planned on earning. At this point, I have no idea what to do. I just work on my own small projects day to day. What do you guys think I should do? Do you think my boss was in his right to let me go even though I didn't mention anything about the company in my writing?<p>Any help would be appreciated.
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Title: I want to create things, and I do. I can never get myself beyond the point of simple demos and experiments, because I severely dislike working.<p>I fail school classes, I disappoint people, most importantly myself and I fail to finish simple tasks, only because I do not work hard.<p>Where do I go with this? I want to create things, but lose my motivation when it becomes hard.<p>How are others dealing with these kind of problems? I'm sure I cannot be the only person with a paradoxical lazy-ambitious attitude here.
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Title: I've found a domain name I like that somebody else owns. There is no website (just a completely blank page), and the WHOIS contact information is protected by a proxy company.<p>Domain registars (GoDaddy, NameCheap, etc.) offer domain agency services where, for a price between $20-$60, they'll attempt to contact the domain owner and present a bid for the domain.<p>What's the best way to bid on the domain? Contact the proxy company and try to go through them? Or are the registrar affiliated domain agents worth the money?
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Title: Under certain error conditions, a bug in our API code briefly published 84
users' usernames, email addresses, password hashes, and 100 most recent votes.
This information appeared at https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates. We
notified affected users on Monday, November 10th via email and (for users
without email addresses in their profile) on Tuesday the 11th via a message in
the site header.<p>Affected profiles were leaked on one of 10/12, 10/20, or 11/02. In every case,
the leaked data was overwritten 30 seconds later by the subsequent update
batch. The leaked password hashes were salted bcrypt (FreeBSD's default
libcrypt implementation). Though we think the risk is low we encouraged
affected users to change their password on HN as well as on any other sites
where they used the same password.<p>Many thanks to Ovidiu Toader for alerting us to the bug and for sending us
examples that assisted us in tracking it down. While the bug was fixed on
Sunday, November 9th within minutes of our becoming aware of it, Ovidiu
originally reported the issue one week prior - we just didn't see it in a
timely manner.<p>To help improve our future response times, we've created a dedicated reporting
address, [email protected] that we'll publish on our contact form.
We're also creating a "Wall of Fame" to properly thank and credit past and
future vulnerability reporters. More details will follow.<p>Super sorry about this,<p>The Hacker News Team<p>(Edit)<p>A clarification, since some people seem to be misunderstanding: Only publicly available data is intentionally pushed to Firebase. That any part of a user's profile other than their username, account age, about text, and list of submitted items was published <i>IS THE BUG</i>, and is now fixed.
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Title: Specifically, I'd love to be able to pass in geocoded location boundaries and color styles to generate a map of the chosen color over the chosen area. Google maps is obviously great for showing navigational data or directions, but I'm thinking along the lines of something more graphic.<p>Does anyone have any thoughts along these lines?
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Title: The "Idea Sunday" HN thread described as "A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on." by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601 (223 days ago) seems to be dead.<p>Is there any replacement for that thread? Any website? Or shall we reactivate this thread?<p>Thank you in advance,
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Title: I started commuting to work on my bicycle earlier this year and was not wearing a helmet for the first few weeks. A coworker gave me a hard time about it and I finally decided I should get one.<p>My chain broke on my short ride home today for lunch leaving me quickly unbalanced and on the ground in a hurry. My helmeted head definitely hit the ground and would likely have been badly injured had I not been wearing it.<p>I am very thankful that my coworker pressured me to wear what I thought was fairly unnecessary due to my short commute and safe riding habits.<p>If you ride a bicycle, please wear a helmet.
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Title: Is Azure down?<p>Status: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current<p>Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=azure&src=typd
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Title: Or, really, he quit using uber.<p>(TL;DR - they are possibly evil)
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Title: The same thread was started 2 years ago with a follow up last year. I think it's time for a refresh and updates from those who answered before.
Previous threads:
Last Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
Year Before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
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Title: Hi Hacker News,<p>Rails programmer here -- I've been working with Rails since 2008 and I've been doing remote jobs for a living since then.<p>Lately I can't find any work at all with Rails, what's going on? What happened? Where did all the Rails jobs went?<p>I remember during 2008 doing multiples jobs at the same time, I used to get lots of offers, lots of interviews and gigs, etc, things have been really nice. Nowdays I barely get any interviews, and if I'm lucky to talk to someone, they ask for Node.js/Ember experience as well, etc.<p>Did all the jobs went to Node.js and other languages? Or I'm just doing something wrong?<p>It's really depressing accumulating all the knowledge and skills I got since then and not being able to use it or find more work. Even more depressing that I can't find work and my income depends on this.<p>Any suggestions or recommendations welcome. I'm only looking for remote work.<p>Sigh, please help. :-(
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Title: Since the recent surge of interest in FreeBSD I've been curious to find out more about it. I did some Googling but couldn't find any quality articles discussing FreeBSD from the common Linux-er's perspective.<p>I did find this: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01. It doesn't have a date, but he mentions using GCC 3.2.2, which came out in 2003, so I'd say the info is pretty out of date.<p>Can we share some links and knowledge?<p>PS: I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say I'm not remotely interested in arguing over which system is "better" - I just want to know about differences in design and unbiased identification of strengths and weaknesses.
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Title: Hi HN! I'm close to culminating my job search after almost four months. I'm looking at increased dev responsibility without people management with a significant pay increase (+22.8%) magnified by a lower cost of living here in Texas. Going through my paperwork, it's all straightforward; I thought the NDA was reasonable, but I'm having issues agreeing with the NCA. It's lengthy (48months, aka 4 years) and I feel very loosely worded (not to mention one sided). The thing is, very few companies seem to be out here, and I'm afraid of bringing this up since I may lose out on a rather significant pay raise. I'm thinking of asking for a more specific one (reduce it to the branch of the company that I work with, instead of every facet such as ecommerce/healthcare/whatever else is in the pipeline) and reduced time (24 months). Any advice?
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Title: Boring details: I started a company in July aimed at creating a new fantasy sports platform, focused on stat-heavy leagues, dynasty leagues, niche sports, eSports, and tabletop games.<p>Our CTO was hired away last month, our two other developers are learning Node and Angular, but not much progress has been made on the product. Lead developer doubts we'll get a product out before baseball season.<p>Haven't been able to find a replacement CTO/lead architect to help lead the development side.<p>Angels and VCs say we're too early, need usage stats to invest.<p>I'm not going to be able to make rent for January.<p>Stress is getting to me. I'm thinking I should just shut the whole thing down, but I've got that voice that says, "Giving up is way harder than trying".<p>Any advice would be appreciated.
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Title: i.e. firms using collaborative/innovative/participatory methods of organizing?
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Title: Dear HNers, I've two friends of mine that are not happy with the economic issues here in Europe and struggle to find a decent source of income. Both are very smart, and I suggested them to turn into programmers, which is one of the jobs that still is able to make you pay your bills easily.<p>However they are one ~30, with previous experiences of coding only at hobby level (C course, but he has the ability to translate ideas into C easily) and one ~40 years old (which used to be a PHP programmer, but is not doing serious/complex stuff for years at this point).<p>What is the simplest way for them to learn something that will bring a job ASAP? For example Android development? Node.js? Ideally this should combine a reasonable learning curve, the ability to work without knowing the whole computer science stuff, but just specializing into something, and should be a currently very requested technology.<p>Thank you a lot for any reply!<p>EDIT: I forgot to say that one has knowledges about Digital Signal Processing (in the field of music), and one is fluent with HTML/CSS (but not Javascript).<p>EDIT2: Thanks a lot for all the replies! This is very helpful.
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Title: I've spent a lot of time learning JavaScript (done the Codecademy JS course, finished CodeSchool's Real Time Web with Node.js, and read and implemented most of Node.js in Action), and I thought all I would need to do after I learned it was to start writing code.<p>Well, I can write code, sure. But I don't know how to _solve problems_ with it. I know how to create a webserver in Node that echos "Hello, World!" because I've done it a thousand times. But I don't know how to make a site with logic and structure behind it that will lend itself to solid functionality that users can benefit from.<p>How do I learn that?
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Title: Well, we developed very cool app (both android and IOS) to help restaurants to speed up sales. Apparently it is not a very hot field to be in at this point, but we do have very unique product.<p>Myself is not a very good salesman, neither my partners, since we all come from a engineering background. We can do market research, manufacture hardware and build apps, but selling our product is hard.<p>Any suggestions?
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Title: I've been thinking since quite a while to replace my current laptop. It's a 2011 VAIO which I modified to run Ubuntu 14.04 . But, it seems to be giving up on me since a few days, and with the thanksgiving discounts going, I might actually get myself one :P<p>So, what is the best laptop that runs Linux natively, or after modifying. Plus, try to make it a little more affordable($200 - $850).<p>P.S. Nobody mention the Mac, it's a beauty in itself, and I won't be able to replace OS X by Linux emotionally.
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Title: I binged (jk googled) and couldn't find anything.<p>This was in a comment located here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673760<p>And it piqued my interest.<p>How did this happen? Or did it happen?
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Title: Ezra Zygmuntowicz, a founder of the rails hosting company Engine Yard and original developer of the web framework Merb, passed away Wednesday, November 26th. No details yet, but what was a rumor on twitter has been confirmed by Stuffstr.com's VP Steve Gutmann, the last company Ezra work at as their CTO.<p>Will update as more information is known.
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Title: So, someone posted this on HN. Do NOT click on the link hooked to the post. hxxps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8676812<p>Basically it's a jsfiddle with loads of img tags linked to HN causing loads of requests. I didn't think when clicking, and my home IP got blocked. Emailed PG but I know he gets tons of emails and not sure if he'll even see my message. How can I get my IP unblocked?
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Title: Hey everyone,<p>Since angular 2.0 is moving into a weird direction i.e use of a totally different language called AtScript.What are other alternative that a developer should invest their resources and time in?<p>Thanks
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work.
Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
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Title: A little bit of background:<p>As I've become more skilled with programming and electronics I have felt myself begin to near a wall. My knowledge of and skills in math is relatively poor and all the interesting things that make up the more advanced programming and electronics pursuits seem to be heavily based on math.<p>When I butt heads with these more advanced topics I find I resort to scouring the internet to cobble together pieces of various tutorials and guides. While it does feel good in a way to hack together limited understandings to make satisfactory solutions I'm beginning to feel less like a hacker and more like a hack. The knowledge I gain is shallow and I don't think my tactics will get me much further.<p>Instead of working backwards from implementation I would like to start from the beginning and learn math the proper way. Unfortunately most of the resources I find online seem to more focused on teaching me how to <i>solve math problems</i>. I have no interest in solving specific math problems on a test, I'm not going to school and I doubt I will ever take a math test again in my life. I want to work up from first principles and gain the tools to reason about the world mathematically and understand the cool things that are currently out of my reach like antenna design, machine learning, electromagnetism, cryptography etc.<p>Unfortunately I so know so little I have no idea how where to start. What websites are helpful, what books I should buy, etc. I was hoping someone here could share. Thank you.
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Title: We all know examples of paid online services that became profitable. For example Balsamiq, Tarsnap and Bingo Card Creator.<p>I love to build small tools that do something useful. But they do not offer enough value to charge for them. Imagine tools like "When will the sun rise today in city X" or "How much taxes are in $X" etc. Some of them are used by tens of thousands of people a month. And I get a lot of "thank you, that's cool and useful" emails.<p>So far I'm not making any money from them. When I slap adsense on them, I only make a few bucks. Like $0.5 per 1000 visitors. Even if I optimized that to $2 per 1000 visitors, it still would be just around $150/month for all my websites.<p>But since I love doing these little, interesting projects, I will probably make more of them anyhow. Most of the projects I have in mind are little tools that cater my own curiosity. Nothing people would pay for. Like "find all xkcd comics related to a topic" and stuff like that.<p>Do you guys think there is a way to make a living like this? Are there any examples of profitable websites, created by one guy that have some informative value but not so much that people would pay for it?
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Title: Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.
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Title: This may seem like a silly question but it's something that's been affecting me for a while now. With the sheer amount of information available in the world today I have simply become overwhelmed. My mind is in a constant racing state. It's calm but not calm if that makes sense. While I could very well be thinking about nothing or something specific like writing this message. My mind seems to have multiple levels. One of which is directed to what I am actively doing and one below it which seems to process information in a never ending manner. I am not actively thinking about these things but it's there. Articles and books to read, shows to watch, things to do in my personal life and at work. Career advancement. All of these things just never stop but I could be calm. I can sleep fine, they don't cause active anxiety. They just linger in the background. Shooting around saying me me.<p>It's getting exhausting. I like to be informed. I like to know what people are talking about and like to be able to have a point of view. I like to have an opinion and be able to argue it. But I have realized it's just getting to be too much.<p>Currently my instapaper account has some 800 articles I have yet to read. Kindle has about 10 books I want to read. pinboard account has about 100 unread articles most of which are small books.<p>Any advice on what I should do? Do I just purge them?
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