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Title: This is something I have been wondering for a while. At my company, we depend on a lot of open-source technologies. We expect that someone will keep rails up to date, fix security vulnerabilities etc.<p>At the same time, I have a lot of projects that I open sourced but have no desire to maintain. Here's an example: http://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress<p>This is a simple Ruby script I wrote that is now one of my most starred projects. I haven't used it in a while (I don't make many presentations) but I still keep getting and responding to bug reports. What's my responsibility here? I am happy to open source my code, but I don't want the extra work of maintaining something I rarely use.
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Title: I know lots of engineers who are unable to find work.<p>I do believe the hiring managers who say they can't find the workers they need. What I don't believe is that the workers aren't out there, hoping to get hired.<p>I speculate that the reasons for the perceived - and ONLY perceived - shortage is that it's far more difficult for employers and potential employees to find each other. Another problem is that us engineers are expected to have real-world, paid experience in whatever technology the hiring company uses, rather than these companies providing on-the-job training.<p>At one time, a college degree and a demonstrable grasp of computing technology was all one needed. Companies were happy to train. No longer.<p>What really kills me is that when a new technology is introduced, one is _immediately_ required to know about it before getting a job where that technology will be used. Consider that Swift, a new programming language that Apple hopes will make it easier to write iOS Apps, has only been available for a few months, yet one cannot get a job writing Swift code, unless one already has PAID Swift experience on one's resume. It's not enough to just read a book. Neither is anyone willing to train.
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Title: Every story on this incident is getting killed moments after submission.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711222
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711196
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711178
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711146<p>Is this story off limits on HN (genuine question)?
Or is it some kind of pro Uber voter ring?<p>Given the previous discussions on HN about what an Uber executive said about a journalist etc I find it difficult to believe that HN readership doesn't care about this case, so I thought I'd ask. Fwiw this is on top of the news in every newspaper and TV Channel in India. TechCrunch reported it too (in a weaselly fashion, but still).<p>EDIT: I am fine with a mod judgement saying "Such stories are irrelevant to HN. Flagged".<p>This was a genuine question. I am not an "outrage warrior" or anything (see my comment history), I just found the instakills odd from a "something is funny here. I wonder if someone is gaming HN voting" perspective, and thought I'd ask.<p>Edit2: I did send email to the mods and didn't get any reply (understandable, given it is Saturday night in the USA. I just don't like nasty people gaming systems, which was a possibility here. Hence the post. Mods, feel free to remove if you think this is inappropriate)
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Title: I debated whether it was too early in December to ask this, but I'm interested in what book(s) changed your life in 2014. I ask because I'm going through something of a personal and professional renaissance and my book of the year was the same as fraqed's when s/he asked the same question in December 2013 [1].<p>My reading list for 1H15 is a bit vague and wooly right now, so I'm interested in your responses.<p>For completeness, this could be considered an extension to a previous post of mine [2], but I'm not looking to solve any problem, either perceived or otherwise.<p>Thank you in advance.<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975638<p>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673576<p>(Edited for typo and formatting)
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Title: PG mentioned this question in his most recent essay, so I am redirecting it to everyone on HN. What does your company (or you individually) need that you would play a lot of money for?
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Title: - Random words to make me feel special: 'guru', 'ninja', 'hacker', etc.<p>- Random words that adds nothing: 'professional', 'talented', 'passionate', 'awesome'. "hmm, maybe I'm not awesome enough for this position" - said nobody ever<p>- Describing your company like it just cured AIDS (if you company actually just cured AIDS, I will allow it). I only want to know what your company _actually_ does.<p>- Explicitly writing that the hired person will have to work a lot. "let's hire someone to do nothing most of the time" - said no company ever<p>What you should write and you are (probably) not writing:<p>- What are some real tasks / problems I might work with on a daily basis? I find it hard to be interested on positions that only mentions "you'll develop stuff". There's a lot of stuff out there, please be clear.<p>- In case of remote positions, is the employee supposed to live near the company or can she be on the other side of the planet?
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Title: A couple of the things I like about PHP, to counteract all the negativity it gets.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I'm a CS student and also a web developer on my free time. I've been freelancing for several companies with modern PHP frameworks (Laravel) and some other companies that use Ruby (on Rails) for the past couple years, mostly backend and API work.<p>I've been getting most of my jobs from oDesk (yeah..), which is a major PITA. Even when the client is decent (which is hard to find but possible) I still have to deal with a 10% pay cut and that stalker tracking software that doesn't even work properly on OS X.<p>There's an huge offer for full-time jobs listings and I was wondering if:<p>a) Is there a listing for people looking for part-time only?<p>b) If not, are there enough companies and freelancers looking for part-time jobs/people?<p>I'm currently running out of work and I'd be up for creating a simple website (similar to http://nomadjobs.io to give you an idea) for this specific situation if there's a need for it.<p>TL;DR: CS Student. Finding part-time dev work is hard. Should I create a website for people in my situation?
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I've been interested in AI creating for a while. I'd be most likely interested in bot making (for casual/learning purposes only, really). How does one start doing that?<p>I do have knowledge of programming but not really sure how to grasp the whole concept.<p>Interested in concepts of how AI works in games such as Starcraft (I suppose, Warcraft too), Hearthstone (and other card games), Counter-Strike work. While I guess the FPS AI (at least the official bots) are not as fair as it might see - they're probably rigged to fail at some point just like chess engines are when are presumably playing in lower ELO.<p>Are there any books, tutorials, challenges that would be a great starter for me?
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Title: We've all been there. Working for the man, just getting by. I'd like to know why you are stuck and how you think you can get out of it. Or, if you don't want to leave the job, what keeps you there? Benefits? Pay? The job is easy?
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Title: I always wonder what inspires different individuals....so basically what inspires you to build a particular tool?<p>Is it a problem? A passion for building something? Do you just randomly build stuff?<p>Would love your feedback, thanks!
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Title: The absolute most basic reason possible for me, I can make something out of nothing.<p>Even after being a front end dev for the last 10ish years it blows my mind. I can open up a blank text editor and make something that can evoke emotion in other people.<p>I can create beautiful and amazing experiences for people (self high 5!) around the world in just 1 night of coding.<p>What about you?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I wrote a custom SSH server in Go, give it a try. It uses your terminal user and SSH keys to authenticate implicitly. Instead of getting a shell, you get an IRC-style chatroom with everyone else.<p><pre><code> $ ssh chat.shazow.net
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If you're getting "Permission denied (publickey)", please use ssh-keygen to create a keypair. Instructions here: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/<p>SSH is a really cool protocol; it's a lot like HTTP2. This is a demo of one thing you can do with it, but I plan to factor out the code into libraries that will let you build all kinds of experiences that can be used with any SSH client.<p>The source code is here: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat<p>(Should be reasonably stable and handle thousands of connections, but apologies in advance if it crashes: Try to reconnect in a minute.)
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Title: I think I'm exactly the audience that TNR wants. I'm well-educated, make a good living, largely agree with them politically, enjoy long-form journalism, and am familiar with the brand and its history. Yet I don't think I would ever subscribe to TNR. I just see a magazine as something that's going to pile up in my house. I can read more than enough great content online for free. If I was going to subscribe to a magazine, I think that The New Yorker is a lot more interesting than The New Republic. If I was going to subscribe to two magazines, I might pick the Atlantic or another competitor over TNR.<p>The media has largely portrayed this as Hughes carelessly destroying a renowned and vital institution. Hughes has certainly made some mistakes, but I wonder whether Foer and Wiesetlier were just letting the magazine gradually slide into irrelevance and inevitable death anyway. This is a magazine whose readership has dropped by half since 2000.<p>If Hughes doesn't want to subsidize a money-losing institution with a declining and aging readership, then isn't it his prerogative as an owner to shake things up? He may have gone about it the wrong way, but ultimately wouldn't the public be better off with a TNR that has an ability to support itself and thrive in the future?
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Title: I just want to know if the following is pretty common thing in the gaming industry, being all new to the field I am not too sure. It would be nice to get feedback.<p>I recently applied for a junior software engineer position with Crytek(Germany).<p>As a first line of assessment they had given me a coding test to be completed within a week, the HR lady gets back to me after a day to tell me that I have only 2 days to complete it. No big deal, as I had already completed it the same day, I submit it.<p>Next after a couple of days, I was asked to attend an international telephonic interview with 4 senior programmers. Unfortunately for the interview, there were some technical problems from their side which resulted in a telephone call where I could hear their conversation but they could not hear me.<p>Shockingly, as they were trying to fix the problem for an hour without realizing that I could hear them, I overhead them making racial jokes/taunts at me.<p>Without giving any further thought to what just had happened, I emailed the HR to request a re-schedule of the interview but I have still not received any reply. I am thinking they might have dropped my application for the fact that it maybe too much hard work for them to assess me.<p>what I would like to know from those of you who may have a lot of experience in the industry, is this something common, that one should expect when you interview in the gaming industry regardless of the company being an AAA games developer.<p>To be honest, I was shocked and appalled by the lack of professional courtesy.
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Title: I'm asking this question on HN because I feel like many people here probably supervise their kids' screen time a little differently than the average parent. So I've read the general recommendations about screen time, but I'd like a little perspective from HNers with young children.<p>My son will be 4 in March. We don't have a tv, so the only screen time he's had is about an hour a day of watching a few children's shows through Amazon or Hulu. It's been mostly good, because the shows are educational and we talk to him daily about what he's seeing. It's really interesting to here what conclusions he draws from some of these shows, and it's amazing what he picks up from shows like Wild Kratts.<p>We recently got an ipad mini for travel. It was great while traveling; he starting using some apps about the human body, one that let him build robots and guide them through a maze, etc. But now that we're done traveling for a bit, he keeps wanting to use the ipad. I want him to continue gaining exposure to devices like an ipad, but I also don't want him to have excessive screen time. He complains loudly for about a minute when we tell him we're finished with the ipad, but then quickly finds something interesting to do in the house.<p>What do HN parents of kids around this age do? At what age did you start setting specific time limits for screen time? At what age did you start your kids on projects specifically related to programming? (I have no need to push programming, but I certainly want to expose him to the concepts. He's already pretending to program the computer he watches videos on, and physical objects that he pretends are robots.)
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Title: Its a common knowledge that being a video game developer for AAA titles means put up your soul to see it get done. Browsing for big companies on Glassdoor gives you a clear picture of what everyone goes through - Twelve hours workdays, six days a week with no paid overtime, terrible management, and intense work pressure [1].<p>If I am not wrong developing 3D games is insanely hard thing to do, for variety of reasons. So why would anyone want to continue working in this industry when he can (hopefully) get better job opportunities by quitting?<p>[1]: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Rockstar-Games-Reviews-E20887.htm
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Title: I am a python developer from India and have applied to many startups in Silicon valley and California and get rejected every time even though they like my profile due to their inability to sponsor my work visa. Where can I find the startups who offer work visa sponsorship?
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Title: I am becoming increasingly paranoid about the applications I use - LastPass is a big part of my daily workflow and I really enjoy it.<p>However after noticing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621560) that LastPass' vault is easily broken into when open, even with strict reprompt settings, I'm starting to trust their security model less and less. I opened a support ticket about the obvious password breach detailed above, and they say it's an inevitable consequence of Chrome's broken security model in extensions.<p>Well, if that model is broken, I don't want to use it. I find it misleading that LastPass even offers a reprompt option, since it is so easy to retrieve passwords from the application when it is logged in, even if a reprompt is required. Sure, it would slow down unsophisticated attackers, but you don't need to be that sophisticated to change the type of an input.<p>I have been trying to use it with very fast autologout policies but it very annoyingly asks for a password twice (once to login, once as a reprompt) as well as the Yubikey for every single site. The usability is garbage.<p>I've been looking at 1Password but I was turned off by their lack of meaningful 2FA support (Yubikey), and their exposure of data if used in any sort of convenient fashion (I would like access from my phone, which is part of the reason I want Yubikey support).<p>What do you use and what do you like/dislike about it?
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Title: I can solve development problems in my head and transfer them to code without a problem. I can design the build the whole system and pass on implemention tasks to the other senior people. However I can not seem to break the tasks up ahead of time on paper in a way that a junior or mid level developer can use to execute the tasks. Does anyone have any resources or tips that I can look into to help me be a better senior developer to the not so senior devs?
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Title: I ask the question purely out of interest, not specifically about tweeking HTTP and TCP/IP but also about the underlying hardware, much of which is decades old. If we could completely divorce the Internet from history, what would be the best design. Would it take much more inspiration from OSI, or look radically different? Perhaps the question doesn't make sense: if we radically changed the Internet it would no longer be the Internet, much as the Internet is not simply an improved version of the phone network.
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Title: I understand the irony in posting this on “hacker”news but please bare with me.<p>I’m a 25 year old european developer/designer. I’m visiting for obvious reasons (startup scene), and some less obvious (I dislike winter in Croatia). I’d like to get a feel for the area and see what all the fuss is about. Also do some networking, meet new people etc… the usual stuff. I'll be staying for 2-3 months.<p>Unfortunately I have an issue. I dislike people who call themselves hackers, rockstars, ninjas, nomads etc. I don’t care about yoga, organic food, vegans, feminists or spirit animals. I dislike overuse of the word “community” and I think the whole “lifehacking” thing is retarded.<p>Online articles give me the impression that most of the techies in Bay Area are like this. Hipsterish, self absorbed, holier than thou, buying into hype/industry fads etc.<p>Is this true?<p>I’d like to hear other’s opinions on this, especially from people who live in the Bay Area. I’ve never been there, so I’m judging based on online research. I could be totally wrong.<p>I’m the type of person who likes eating meat, drinking beer, talking about politics, money, science, entrepreneurship, programming etc.<p>My intention isn’t to be a hater. People are different, cultures are different, that’s fine :-)<p>I’d just like to hear others opinions and get some advice. Like where should I stay during my visit, which meetups should I attend and so on. I’m on a budget and would prefer spending less than $2500/month. I don’t mind living with roomates as long as they’re not rockstars. That’s a bit too loud for me :O<p>Edit: I'm not saying that everyone in the area is like that. Again, that's the impression that I got from online research. I find it hard to believe and that's why I opened this thread.
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Title: I have been using Google Hangouts for IM until now, but recently became interested in an app that would ensure privacy of my conversations.<p>I have looked at several solutions, however, there doesn't seem to be a clear leader amongst them. There has been talk about Telegram's crypto protocol being broken, while TextSecure seems to only be available for Android. Desktop client is a must for me.
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Title: "The key assumption is that the pattern of noise in the cause will be different to the pattern of noise in the effect. That’s because any noise in X can have an influence on Y but not vice versa."[...] "That’s a fascinating outcome. It means that statisticians have good reason to question the received wisdom that it is impossible to determine cause and effect from observational data alone." https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e
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Title: We are using MongoDB for past 1 year, but with time, the aggregation framework is getting slow with 1M+ documents in a collection, even with indexes.<p>People who are currently using MongoDB in production, what kinds of performance optimizations did you have to make in order to deploy it in scale? Any tips, stories, suggestions are welcome!
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Title: I'm an experienced Rails developer, and I'm helping a friend learn about javascript frameworks so he can eventually get a job (we're kinda learning together). He was considering the MEAN stack, but with the announcement of all the breaking changes in angular 2.0, I don't think it would be a good use of time to learn angular.<p>It would be nice if there was a Rails of javascript, but there seems to be a lot of competing technologies. Obviously, you can learn new things at a new job, but it would still be better to learn something with a lot of adoption. I'm thinking a MEEN stack (using ember instead of angular) or even using react and flux. Meteor is another choice, but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is. I think it would be best for him to pick one stack and master it well before moving on.<p>It's annoying because, when it comes to Rails, I know exactly what skills a beginner needs to learn. Does anyone know what the more successful js bootcamps like hack reactor teach? Or do you have any advice on a good stack for a prospective full stack js developer to learn?
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Title: With all the talk of us being in a bubble lately, I've been wondering:<p>What was it like for developers when the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000's? I didn't start coding until after that, so the job-market I've always experienced has been one of ever-increasing demand. How different was it then? And how did you make it through?<p>What were job-prospects like? How were your wages affected? Did recruiters simply cease to exist? More to the point, what advice do you have for developers who want to be well-insulated if/when the next crash happens?<p>Thanks a bunch
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Title: Freelancer.com has given me several projects and some very good relationships. I manage to have a very good reputation and charge much more than the average bids for the quality of work provided. So this is to explain why I suggest killing a stead stream of revenue!<p>I first noticed several projects involving money exchange posted on Freelancer.com and opened tickets having noticed this to be strange. This indicated a strong message - There is a major security issue that a set of people are exploiting. While I reported it in vain and felt sad for those who were going to fall for this one but didn't realize I would be the one to be scammed very soon.<p>I had several projects (all web development) I was invited to and paid for which were suddenly reversed without any intimation. The reason provided was that the payments were made using stolen credit cards which they somehow expected me to be aware of!<p>When I planned to move out of it is when I realized a bigger problem. I had grown as a freelancer and earned a reputation that warranted paying the fees that I did. I had built a level of trust that does not come with portfolios of hundreds of projects or testimonials from people on your website. Because, well, there is no authenticity.<p>But by growing within freelancer, I had neglected forming my offline network. I did have a good client base I had got from there but not enough to sustain without new ones as the work was never regular. I had missed a very important step : creating a brand for myself outside of a third-party platform. Ensuring a good client base outside and ensuring that you use these platforms to only supplement you.<p>After raising the issue of multiple reversals, I was contacted by senior staff and compensated with a subscription and promised that I could always check with support team to find if a user was genuine. Shockingly, I was no longer allowed to withdraw funds and the support team do not respond to any questions regarding the same!
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Title: I upvote any article i read fully and i upvote comments i believe to be worthy of prominence.<p>What is your method?
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Title: I'd like to host my own XMPP server for OTR communications. I've previously used OTR on top of Google Chat/Hangouts, but I would like to try managing the server myself.<p>Does anyone have experience with a modern XMPP server? I found a list of server software at http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/servers/, however I'd like to hear some experiences before selecting one.
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Title: I first learned C++ 14 years ago and have only used it in a non-trivial fashion on one or two short projects since then.<p>Today, reading an article on popular C++ myths [1], I now realized there are a TON of things I didn't realize modern C++ can do now. auto, unique_ptr, for_each, and range-for loops were new to me. I'm not 100% certain if all of these were recent additions to the language.<p>What are some things I can do to brush up on the modern features of C++?<p>[1] https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-1
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Title: Does the idea of a computer that bundles a linux distro into one amazing piece of tech like d mac, at a lesser cost, appeal to you?
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Title: I'm 32+, live with my parents and have failed at 4 different startups in the past 10 years, two since I left my last paying job in 2012. In 2014, I had $0 taxable income (due to being unemployed) and was rejected by the following companies:<p>Google* (third time in 3 years)
Twilio* (x2)
Smartling*
Samsung*
Amazon+
Facebook
Cloudflare
AppDynamics*
DigitalOcean
Placemeter*
E.W.Scripps*
Hatch
AppNexus*
OpenX
ThoughtWorks*
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... several others I can remember, but mutually decided the fit was wrong
... MANY others to whom I submitted a resume and never heard back<p>* = rejected after in-person interview
+ = withdrew, sensing impending rejection
else, rejected after phone screen<p>In addition, I took the GMAT and was rejected by the following schools:<p>MIT Sloan
Stanford Business School
Columbia Business School
Harvard Business School<p>If you're thinking "Wow that's a lot of calls and interviews to come up empty-handed", you're right. You see, while my resume is (apparently) attractive, I suffer from crippling anxiety, the kind that says "Hey, you have in interview tomorrow! No sleep for you!" It turns out interviewers don't like bloodshot eyes, dark circles and a foggy Xanax brain. (Nor does the GMAT.)<p>But finally... last week I had an interview at a major university, got 3 hours of sleep but somehow landed the job (pending HR salary approval). It doesn't pay like Google does, but I think I'll learn a lot and I'm extremely grateful that someone finally said "yes" to me. I'm going to make the most of it and will be a better engineer from the experience.<p>Don't give up! If you have any technical skill, whatsoever, someone out there wants to hire you. Just keep plugging along!
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I become active Hacker news at the start of year, its been incredible journey so far. I have learn so many things from computer science to psychology to economics etc. Thanks for all the contribution and best of luck for future. Happy Holidays.
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Title: E.g. http://www.mobiusmotors.com
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Title: I feel that I've been procrastinating a lot in my free time and it's time to learn something new.<p>I see the hype around Go and Rust and I believe I'm missing a lot in my professional development. I'm involved with my start-up and I am facing a lot of challenging data analytics and software development problems during the day. I am using Java/JavaScript/R on a daily basis, but these are mature languages that have been around for a while and I have a hard time learning new frameworks that are beyond my work scope.<p>So what (hot) languages/frameworks are you learnin/using now, that give you the warm feeling that you get a lot of useful knowledge out of them, that's widely applicable?
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Title: Tell us about it here. It would be interesting to hear about commercial apps on the platform.
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Title: It seems like its really easy to lose steam. How do you keep yourself pushing code when life gets busy or you just get bored?
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Title: We all know about Flow and how long of uninterrupted periods one needs to get into it. I am wondering about how to take advantage of the opposite of those long periods.<p>Due to many different unforeseen circumstances, I can't get more than about 20-30 uninterrupted minutes at a time throughout the day from 7am-8PM. I am sure I am not alone in this.<p>All of the tricks of the trade (email once a day, phone off during set periods, scheduled alone time etc...) are not possible for the foreseeable future. I am wondering if anyone has any good ideas for how to be productive in those short windows. Assume that standard work/sleep hours are enforced and that the job is as a Product Manager.
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Title: I can't make a poll on HN, but I would like everyone to contribute with an opinion. Which languages are worth to devote learning in 2015? and what about the new frameworks? Please, be patient and open :)
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Title: Tobias Engel demonstrates (amongst other things):<p>* How to find out the phone numbers of nearby cellphones<p>* How to track the location of a cellphone that you only know the phone number of<p>* How intercept outgoing calls of nearby cellphones
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Title: I'm an 18 year old programmer, broke, inexperienced, and sleep deprived. I've came to the conclusion that I need to be useful to a company to expect any sort of investment of time/energy from them, but the time I have to invest in myself is quickly fading away. Options are of low quantity as in any sob story on the internet, and I'm looking for a way out of this purgatory.<p>I have a few questions for you guys, and if you will answer them I will be thankful and possibly even inspired to do something great.<p>Are there companies out there that are okay investing time/engergy/money into young and inexperienced software developers? Sure, I've read a few articles on the internet about this, but I would love to have a better outlook in the eyes of HN.<p>Would I have a chance? I haven't listed all that I've done on my GitHub, Linkedin, and such, keep in mind.<p>If you were in my shoes and had a month to come up with some income, how would you go about doing it? Believe me, I've spent hours on Fiverr, Freelancer, Gun.io, BountySource, and more, but nothing has came from that except a few dollars here and there. Certainly not enough for a kid who is living on his own. I have, of course, applied to several restaurants within manageable bus distance. No luck. I even attempted to join all of the branches of the military; There were no GED spots open at the time (and don't assume I can't take commitment (because of dropping out of highschool), I have several people who would say otherwise (all programmers)). I realized that if my employment depended on giving in to a flawed education system, I'd rather switch professions. Nothing is worth feeding that monster.<p>If you guys have any advice that could help me on my search for software development income, feel free to reply. I also wouldn't mind discussing any controversy I've caused here. Tell me what you are thinking!<p>Check out these links, and happy late xmas!
www.thehorne.com
www.github.com/jessehorne
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Title: This is a general question, but I didn't want to ask specific one because I'm still trying to understand the bigger picture.<p>We "collect" data all the time, and sometimes it helps us learn something. On one hand we have things that were created by others: funny images, movies, articles on the web, books. On the other we have things creted by us: personal insights, thoughts, snippets of code. How do you manage/organize all of this? Do you have apps/tools for organizing specific type of information and if so, why this particular one? Do you have ideas how to organize/manage this efficiently?<p>But we're not only collecting information [0], we also learn from it. Most people store all this knowledge in their heads for their whole life, but I think it's not efficient (memory loss, can't search, not always reliable etc.), some people create some kind of personal knowledge bases (e.g. personal dokuwiki/mediawiki on localhost). How do you manage/organize things you learn?<p>It may seem that I should create 2 different topics, but for me both concepts are connected[1]. What I'm trying to find is an efficient solution to managing (almost) all the information that enters (and already is in) my life. I don't think that there exist a good app for that, I know that there are some that solve parts of this problem (evernote, wikis etc.), but I'm more interested in your ideas on the whole topic, how to approach this problem, where to look, how to think about this etc.<p>I'm curious about your solutions, ideas and "setups" for this problem(s). If you have any resources (books, research papers etc.) about the topic, I'd love to learn from them. Thank you for your time.<p>[0] as in bits on the disk, learning can be viewed as collecting new information, I guess<p>[1] I liked quote from a book, some code from LLVM gave me an insight into a compiler design etc.
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Title: The single character G instead of Y took down Twitter's API today.<p>If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now. You're very likely using the wrong year format.<p>date
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2015<p>ISO 8601 week numbering has 2015 start this week.
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Title: Hi Hacker News,<p>I am a tech entrepreneur. I've dedicated my life to technology and building products that can help people. I'm relatively smart and really hardworking. My success thus far has been modest, though I have been able to raise funding from a prestigious VC firm. My standards are high so I do not consider fundraising any kind of success. I also detest self promotion and so I have not announced the fundraise. My startup feels like it has just recently found product market fit but I'm not sure. Either way I will go for it. The problem is everytime i try to hone in on myself and focus on my goals I hear about someone I know or someone "like me" (i.e. they have similar attributes, aren't friends but are in my peer group, and are working on a similar idea or an idea i've had in the past) whose raised a bunch of money and is all over the press and in some cases has achieved real success. I have this negative feeling for hours, days sometimes that I can only assume is jealousy. Perhaps because I am competitive. Perhaps because in addition to wanting to build products and help people, I am human and I want to be the "first" or the "best" in my peer group. I don't like feeling this feeling though because I know that I genuinely wish this people well and that if i myself were successful I wouldn't feel this way...or maybe I would? I'd love your help and advice on how I can do away with this feeling and focus on being a world class entrepreneur. I am not OK with being OK with failure and I do not accept being mediocre, but there has to be a way of being competitive in a healthy way without having to unfollow every stream of social media from peers that succeed and without having to feel envious of others. Sorry for the long rant but I'd really like to turn the leaf in the new year and I appreciate your help!
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Title: Previous years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
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Title: Please make the PM of India aware of this gigantic blunder in the name of security. No github means no work for me and I am sure a lot of you.<p>http://pmindia.gov.in/en/interact-with-honble-pm/
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Title: In the spirit of the old threads, let's predict what will happen in 2015<p>2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370<p>2013: none?<p>2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201<p>2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023<p>2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681<p>Please use lists (even a long bullet list) instead of very long paragraphs.
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Title: Everyone seems thrilled that WhatsApp has announced they they have switched to E2E encryption developed by Open Whisper. Is there a way I can verify this is happening?
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
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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: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: It has recently come to my attention that my largest competitor (B2B SaaS in a niche market) has blatantly disregarded all PCI regulations for close to a decade.<p>He uses a multi-tenant database, stores CC numbers in plain-text (full 16 digits, CVV and Expiration Date), and shows that data to the user, in plain-text, at the time of payment.<p>I discovered this in the process of helping a new customer export their data from the old system.<p>I've spent days debating the ethics of reporting or making this public. On the one hand, I'd be putting him out of business (and I'm well poised to scoop up those new prospects). On the other hand, he's putting people's finances at risk and I feel obligated to say something that the public may not be able to discern.<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Title: As a resolution for 2015, I'm hoping to attend more conferences - particularly for web development, server-side languages, Linux, and open source software. What are the best conferences lined up for 2015?
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Title: I am looking for an electronics course that is a good blend of theory and practice. I studied electronics in college and remember Kirchoff's laws and the like, but nothing else. The ideal course would probably start off from there and would include lot of practical circuits to build while explaining the theory of each circuit would work.
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Title: and this is a killer: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Fourier_transform_time_and_frequency_domains.gif
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Title: I'm curious about possible non-conventional living arrangements to cut out one of my biggest expenses. If location weren't a primary concern (I can telecommute as a programmer, but would still want to live within a few hours of a major city), what's the cheapest living arrangement possible? Buying cheap land and hooking up utilities to a mobile home? What are the fees like to run utilities to new property? Are there cheaper living structures than mobile homes? Are there completely different ideas I'm not considering?<p>I'd be curious if I could set myself up with a basic home for $40,000 or less that would mean I wouldn't have to pay any other living expenses going forward besides unavoidable ones (property taxes [though I could pick a state without property tax], maintenance and utilities).
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Title: All customers should have received the following email. For some reason its not posted on their website.<p>-----<p>Dear customer,<p>Today our transaction processing server detected problems with our hot wallet and stopped processing withdrawals.<p>You should STOP SENDING bitcoin deposits to your Bitstamp account IMMEDIATELY as private keys of your deposit address may be lost.<p>Your bitcoins already deposited with us are stored in a cold wallet and can not be affected.<p>We will send you more info as soon as possible.<p>Best regards,<p>Bitstamp team
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Title: As it's a new year 2015, let's re-open this topic to see how things are going on this front :)<p>It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue
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Title: Programs like General Assembly and Flatiron School are touted as effective ways to mint new developers very quickly, and a bunch of them boast hiring rates over 90% and average starting salaries of 100k or more.<p>And yet, looking around, there don't seem to be many jobs for entry-level Rails or iOS developers. If you look around on job boards, there simply is not much competition for entry-level talent. Most of the job growth appears to be in academic stuff like AI and data science which requires at the very least a BS and probably an MS. The run-of-the-mill web and mobile developer positions all demand at least some level of experience (generally 2-6 years). It just doesn't seem like there is enough demand for inexperienced talent to make this kind of program effective.<p>But if the stats that these bootcamps throw out are true, there are companies hiring people at $100k who, twelve weeks ago, had never opened a text editor in their lives.<p>If you've hired from one of these programs, what made you turn to them? Was it a success? And if it's really possible to build a rails developer from scratch in 10 weeks, why not just just do it in-house through an internship program and avoid paying commission to these schools? And why do most companies still ask for "<i>at least</i> a Bachelors in CS" for web and mobile development positions?
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Title: I started working as freelancer since Sep 2014, the new year is here and I'm not in the situation I was hoping to be. I leave my day job to get better income but more important to get more interesting projects to work with, I always felt that I was stuck in the same tasks the same tech and with no opportunity to get any new stuff to do, and been more real with no opportunity to have a career, there was not other job position to take, so I resign and start doing freelancing and It starts really well, I have to make efforts speaking english and sending detailed reports, but all went well, good ratings, good feedback, great clients, months later I'm not doing the projects I was expecting, I feel the same that in my past day job that I'm stuck in the 40$us 100$us kind of projects, with no new things to do and I want to do more, I know I'm starting and I need reputation and maybe be more patient, but is hard to see myself in a better situation in the future.<p>My current work history is great, I have only five stars ratings, but my clients just contact me to small short projects, I want it to change, I tried to apply for different projects, and start learning new tools, I'm really getting into Ansible and Docker, but I'm getting no responses and I'm not sure what clients are looking for.<p>HN, how would you deal with this situation? What can I do to get better opportunities?<p>This is my first post but I search into HN to look for experiences, I read great advices here I can say I had been motivated to leave my work because of some comments.<p>Maybe I'm anxious and need to be patient, but I would love get some advices to get a new 2015 start, and be proactive about the things I can change and learn to be in the position I want so much.<p>Love and Happy Reyes Magos for all.<p>~ Betty
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Title: I live in Russia, in a small town, not in Moscow and not in St. Petersburg.<p>There are too few passionate programmers around me who are good enough and who want to work for free or at least for food first time, or to take part in hackathons for making and prototyping ideas and making great product.<p>I'm looking for opportunities for my personal and professional growth. I want to find friends and partners in the USA to build software and hardware together and run startup company in the USA. Just because I think the USA markets are huge in the comparison to russian markets.<p>I think, changing the location could open up some benefits, though it has disadvantages too.<p>I have for now B1/B2 visa, but I have no ideas where to go and what community to meet or join in the USA for the first time to make good networking related to tech entrepreneurship and making software. And how to create reliable relations to expand them when I'll go back.<p>So, what would you do if you was me? Try to make success story here or change location?<p>Thanks for help, HN
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Title: Wicked Pictures sent a DMCA takedown to Google: https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10275257<p>Which includes many URLs that do not infringe on IP, such as https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo and https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick , among many many others.<p>Search for e.g. Rust Cargo and you'll see the warning from Google that some results have been removed.
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Title: It's clear that petitions are useless, but it's even more egregious when they're promoted by the government and left out to dry for 2 years.<p>We shouldn't accept this from our government.<p>I don't want us to be a community of sheeple who complain a little bit, but ultimately just shrug our shoulders. We shouldn't have to stand for reckless, almost-criminal, prosecutorial abuse. It's basically the same as a cop beating up somebody to "make an example"<p>Should we code something? Organize a rally in the major cities? Write code to make it easy to start rallies? What're some good ideas to show our discontent?
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Title: In 2011 I wrote a low-end GIS program for Mac, called Magic Maps. The idea for the app was to make a simple, Mac-like alternative to ArcGIS and QGIS that makes it easy to plot points, import Shapefiles, and create chloropleth maps and animations without first wanting to open your veins in a bathtub.<p>It was my first desktop app, so the code isn't great, but it's found a loyal user base over the years has netted over $50k since 2011. Unfortunately, Magic Maps is now suffering from neglect and bit-rot, and some of the users are starting to revolt. At the very least, it needs a bit of work to fix crashes, ensure it works smoothly on Yosemite, etc.<p>I'd do this work myself, but I am putting all my time into another app, and as much as it pains me, I just don't have time to invest into Magic Maps any longer. I'm putting this out there because I'm honestly not sure what to do with the software at this point, and I'd like to hear other people's perspectives. I see my available options as:<p>* Open-source the project. I think open-source works well for a lot of things -- and I've done a lot of open-source work in the past -- but user-friendly software doesn't seem to be a good fit for open-source without ongoing sponsorship.<p>* Try to sell the project. This seems ideal, as I think there's potential for Magic Maps to be a viable business with a sufficiently savvy owner, but I'm not sure there's a market for code that doesn't include a developer or test coverage.<p>* Wind down the project and call it a day. This would be the least amount of work for me, but it hurts me to think about it. It just seems like a waste to throw away all that design and engineering effort -- it's a neat little package and I'd hate to put it in the trash.<p>Have other people been in similar situations? What did you do, and what do you think I should do? Sell it, open-source it, or call it quits?<p>BTW here's the Magic Maps home page: http://magicmaps.evanmiller.org/
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Title: A few years ago I was inspired by this artice: http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/11/01/6-things-you-need-to-learn-to-build-your-own-prototype/. Now I am able to build my own Rails apps and run them in production. I am now wondering what it takes to launch and successfully run a website with 5-10K users? All the articles I have found doing a web search were vary basic.
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Title: hide goroutines and channels from developer.
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Title: I am full time software developer with 15 years of industry experience. At this point in my career it seems like I can do more than what I do at my day job. What are some of the ways to get started on software side projects to have fun and for an additional income stream?
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Title: Planning on launching a small SaaS service, and don't know what are the implications.
Also if I needed to create a company, would it hurt my chances of getting a full-time job?
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Title: Hello,
I am living in South Korea and I am a foreigner. The procedures to setup a company in SK are quite complicated for me. I just want to have a legal entity to run my online business (SaaS), I would like to ask if there is any country that allows me to register a company online (with simple procedures). Thank you very much!<p>P/s: This question is inspired by this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870593<p>So thank the author ;)<p>I've heard a lot about some weird countries like: Luxembourg, British Virgin Islands.. where many paper companies are made for different reasons (tax evasion, law...), so I think anyone can register a company there with ease?
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Title: I would love to get some advise from people who have been in less than ideal situations and how they got through it. I would love to know techniques for dealing stress, mundane work environments, and not being challenged.<p>I was involved in a startup for a year that ended early last year because the person funding it got cold feet - it was his idea. As a result, I basically took the first job I could find, which is in the finance industry. My roles to date have largely been around management of people and architecture.<p>My home town is literally at the bottom end of Australia. Beautiful place but there are very few development jobs and no paying startups here.<p>I have a child with another on the way. My partners salary is insufficient for us to live on.<p>My job is a dev at a medium size company (around 300). The development in this company is appalling, non scoring on the Joel test and the work is boring. There is no challenge, people play games on their phone and sleep all day. The managers are micromanagers and the developers sit at the bottom of the org chart (this is a software company).<p>I'm building a cool product out of work, but I'm at it alone and I fear that someone will beat me to market (trying for bare minimum viable product). I also fear burn out (has happened before), the company attempting to invoke its IP clause of contract when they find out (legal advice has been that they have no ground).<p>I'm working 8h a day in my day job and 5-6h a night on the startup. I take weekends off to spend time with the family.<p>I have a deep understanding and portfolio of experience across mainframe development, enterprise Java, .NET, mobile apps & web development. I need something that challenges me - moving is off the cards due to baby #2 & I doubt selling remote work (if I can find a reliable income stream) to my partner.<p>For those who have been in similar situations: how did you manage and balance everything?
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Title: I have a personal blog (mostly dev related); it's been going for a while. On a couple of specialist subjects (F# type providers being the main example) some of the posts are reasonably popular and linked to by many other people. Although it's a small site, on these subjects it tends to show up in the first page on Bing, Duck Duck Go, etc for searches like "Type provider tutorial" and right at the top if you use a specific phrase (like the title of my most popular post, "Type Providers from the Ground Up".<p>Google hates it. Basically, however specific the query, my blog never turns up unless you actually put the base url into your query. Ironically, plenty of spam sites' copies of the posts appear quite high in the search results.<p>What do you do in these types of situations? I've done no SEO beyond writing content, so I'm pretty sure I've used no "black hat" techniques. I've no ads, no duplicate content. Google webmaster tools claims the site is not blacklisted and that there is nothing wrong with it.<p>It feels wrong and possibly pointless to start again several years down the line with a new url just because Google doesn't seem to like the current one; but on the other hand, the lack of organic search results will always be a limit on the readership. For a personal blog this is irritating and disappointing - if I was freelance or this was my company blog, it would be a real and immediate financial hit.<p>Thoughts or advice for people facing this situation?
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Title: Hi,<p>I am a software developer with experience in Python/Django/MySQL for 3 years. I am currently interviewing with Stockholm area startups. The companies are modern age startups working in the area of mobile and ecommerce. I want to know what is a good salary for 3 years experienced web developer in Stockholm area?
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Title: Based on your feedback we've come up with a new search UI that should better stick to HN's style: https://new-hn.algolia.com<p>Tell us what you think about it and what you'd like to see next (we're thinking for instance about adding search analytics on frequent queries in the last 24h/month/....)<p>Talking about next evolutions, we actually had something in mind and wanted to run it through HN's community. It's kind of crazy different so we hope we'll get tons of feedback on this one. This is an experimental skin with more search features and you can try on https://new-hn.algolia.com/?experimental<p>Here is a blog post explaining our reasoning about this experimental style: http://blog.algolia.com/try-new-experimental-version-hn-search/<p>We can't wait to get your comments and ideas!
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Title: Howdy<p>I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the company scaled up (about 45 people) but, instead of being happy, I feel like everything's been taken away from me:<p>- Technical strategy: I strongly shaped the technical direction of the company defining a lot of critical points, and now they brought in a VP of engineering<p>- Management: I managed an entire team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager<p>- Customer facing roles: I was having a lot of customer interaction and support, now they brought in a support engineer and I don't even know who our users are anymore<p>- Infrastructure management: I took care of building a state-of-the-art scalable and fully automated infrastructure in the public cloud, and now they brought in an operation guy<p>- Developer: This is the only thing I still do, full time<p>Essentially, and I understand it's just my ego speaking, I feel like there has not been any career advancement for me. The only benefit has been the gazillion things I learned in this ~2 years journey by doing the above roles.<p>I've been told that now, since I don't have to worry about the other things, I can focus on what I'm able to do best, <i>just</i> writing code (which I agree, all the tasks I did were less challenging than some critical parts of the code base I wrote from scratch), but still in the "about us" web page of startups just the management is going to be listed and take the credits. Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing?<p>I understand this is a first world rant and and I should just "be happy" it has been a success so far, but still I find it hard and I would very much appreciate the opinion of other people who went through something similar.<p>Thank you
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Title: I recently met with a software development company to commission a new iOS app. I suggested that I wanted it written in Swift as opposed to Objective-C and was told that Swift isn't ready for production.<p>The app is a list based app, making use of the Map API and making HTTP calls. No complex maths or graphics involved.<p>What do you say? If not, why not?
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Title: Additionally: How Would we Notice, provided that there Would not have been a pressrelease or similar to anounce it?
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Title: I am a full-time software developer looking for extra income. I spend a lot of time "cold-emailing" local businesses and messaging other companies who are actually looking for applicants. The result is always the same: "we are not looking for freelancers/contractors right now".<p>I have also used freelance sites before (unsuccessfully) like ODesk and Elance, and I have really hated how they work. It seems like all freelancing on those sites is a price war. I am confident about my skill-set and I'm not worried about not being able to deliver, but the way bidding is organized on these sites feels really demeaning.<p>So ultimately, my question for HN is how do YOU find or establish new freelance/sub-contracting/contracting gigs? Should I just deal with my annoyance at ODesk/Elance or are there methods I'm missing? Thanks!
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Title: Some history:<p>We have spent a large portion of our daily company time developing something like Apportable for apps, not games. We tried Apportable on multiple occasions and it's too game focused. Our clients all want Android apps but basically don't want to pay for them or spend time on them, for them, iOS is the first class citizen, Android comes far behind that and the rest is usually not even mentioned. Especially line of business apps are very much like: make the iOS perfect and 'the rest' (as much as you can do fast/cheap) should be done, but don't bother us with it.<p>Status:<p>We compile the iOS apps we build to Android and release them; we currently also have alpha versions for WP8 & HTML5 which work well enough. But we need to do it (just like Apportable by the way) currently; we 'fix' our library when there are methods / classes missing. We allow, in quite intuitive ways, to use the native API's where clients want/need to.<p>Future:<p>We would like to finish this so it can be sold online, maybe as a service or download; currently it's sold together with every project we build and that works well but the money from that is not enough to 'finish' this into a product. To finish that entire phase and start selling worldwide (instead of project based, which, by the way, is still a lot cheaper than doing an Android implementation yourself) we need more money then we can fund ourselves. We are situated in Europe and the investors (mostly angels) we speak to either have no clue what this is or how much upside it has or offer far too small amounts for too much % (usually actually less money than we can make ourselves selling it in a month or two which is just not enough to invest in it).<p>What would be a good route for us to finding the right people? It does not have to be in the EU/UK, but that seems the most likely option.
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Title: I'm working on a project that contains a REST API, and I want to write out a spec before I start. Are there tools for this, or should I just make a Google Docs table for it or something?
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Title: Why are there never any job postings for non web or mobile jobs on Hacker News? Even in software engineering, there are a lot of other fields.
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Title: (TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png)<p>While digging around in drawers that hadn't been touched for decades, I found a wonderful piece of history. The Palm Treo 600 [1] was the Mercedes-Benz of the cellphone 10 years ago, and I was lucky enough to rediscover one.[2]<p>So I decided to restore it to working order, slapping in a T-Mobile SIM[3] and a fresh battery. It worked! It could browse the Internet[4], send/receive text messages[5], make phone calls...[6] The onboard browser even passed Acid1[7,8] and could do some level of JavaScript![9]<p>Unfortunately, most websites were a little heavy on this poor thing's CPU. One site that I knew wasn't heavy was Hacker News!<p>Unfortunately again, it didn't work. It "didn't work" in an odd way, though: it raised a "Communication Error" that would never occur on other pages, just Hacker News. So I did what any inquisitive individual would do: record a video, and ask HN support!<p>This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw<p>This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png<p>I am truly honored to accept this award. I'd like to thank Palm, for making such an incredible phone (10 days of battery life!), as well as the Academy. And also my parents. And you, dear reader. Thank you so much!<p>PS: kogir :)<p>PPS: I've always wanted to do some teardowns of old device UIs and see what our mobile device forefathers thought up. I have a couple of really cool archeological finds that I could share.<p>[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600
(gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R)
[2]:http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg
[3]:http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg
[4]:http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg
[5]:http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg
[6]:http://i.imgur.com/z9mNkHt.jpg
[7]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid1
[8]:http://i.imgur.com/9VKcxlY.jpg
[9]:http://i.imgur.com/5KeI9TI.jpg
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Title: I noticed the following requirement on a job posting:<p>"You're ridiculously in love with Python."<p>I realize they're probably using exaggerated language to make the job posting stand out, but my initial reaction was that anyone "ridiculously in love" with Python (or any language) probably doesn't know it well. And I'd be a little worried about working with the person who wrote that requirement.<p>More broadly, who is that phrase supposed to appeal to? Are they intentionally trying to get people who are still in the honeymoon phase with Python? Maybe those people are generally less jaded and would fit in better?<p>Or maybe they're trying to select for people who don't complain about their tools, people who "just get the job done"? This seems to risk also selecting people who aren't discerning, but maybe the tradeoff is worth it?<p>Did anyone else react the same way I did?
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Title: Hi HN,
I am a developer in my 30s with over a decade of experience. Being on a lookout for a new job, I have been researching lots of jobs lately (since I don't mind moving, been looking in most parts of the US). I am divided at the moment between finding a startup job or finding a rather drab big corp job with good money.<p>I noticed some rather unsettling job adverts in the past while. Some pre series-A startups in the valley offering like $90k in salary for an experienced developer and 0.05% equity. I am just trying to understand who are their target candidates that they expect to join for such an offer (not to mention crazy working hours)?<p>I have a small family with SO not working. So, I'd be at best manage to make ends meet at that kinda salary in SF, plus the equity is negligible, and the work hours... seriously, am I missing something here? Who would take these deals? And then I often find popular posts on HN where founders are giving out about how tough it is to get good engineers!
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Title: Big data is a trending topic these days and I'd like to get my hands dirty both out of curiosity and to make myself more relevant on the marketplace. That being said, I'm not sure which data sets are both interesting to play with and easily accessible. My question is:<p>For those of you already working with big data, what kind of data do you work with?
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Title: Do you have any recommendation on where in the world to register a company when being a traveling digital nomad and EU citizen in Asia?<p>I've been reading a bit about the Hong Kong and Singapore company structures, which both offer low tax and flexibility. I would like to hear more about it from experienced people.<p>Thanks.
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Title: (note: i'm not the author, but i believe he's welcoming help in taking it further)
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Title: I recently watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It's a documentary on a 85 year old man named Jiro who has spent 75 years of his life learning to make sushi. He's addicted to his craft and has made his number one focus in life perfecting the art of making sushi.<p>Jiro lives a way of a shokunin which is<p>"defined by both Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries as 'craftsman' or 'artisan,' but such a literal description does not fully express the deeper meaning. The Japanese apprentice is taught that shokunin means not only having technical skills, but also implies an attitude and social consciousness. ... The shokunin has a social obligation to work his/her best for the general welfare of the people. This obligation is both spiritual and material, in that no matter what it is, the shokunin's responsibility is to fulfill the requirement."- Tasio Odate<p>Jiro has simplified everything in his working environment from cooking techniques and tools. He his pure in his focus of only making the best sushi possible and does so with a team of 5-6 chefs under him.<p>If Jiro was a computer programmer instead of a sushi chef, what would be his techniques and tools to perfect the art of computer programming?<p>Here is a list I have so far:<p>-Text editor
-A programming language
-Databases
-Algorithms
-Math
-Debugging
-Tests
-Writing Documentation/Comments
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Title: We were working on an idea on the side. We also have an MVP. But the exact same idea got funding today from A list investors. I agree there are at least 2 sets of people working on same ideas but shall we keep going ?
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Title: Dear startup employer,<p>It's a workday, but I'm not at work. I'm pretending to work from home. Company policy says I should file for PTO, but I won't. You'll never know; I'll feel guilty.<p>But I need this day. You took a lot from me. I didn't hesitate for a second when I dropped all my weekend plans and rushed to fix what was broken. I worked all weekend, late into the night. I was there first thing Monday morning, and again on Tuesday. Then I stayed up all night Tuesday because it was release night.<p>I didn't do any of this because you pay me to. I did it because I take pride in my work. Things were broken. I'm responsible for them.<p>Now I'm taking time to eat a meal. I'm having the day I should have had last weekend. I'm breathing. The stress is ebbing away. I'm recharging so I can do great work for you again tomorrow.<p>Startup employer, I need this day so I can be awesome for you. But you want to take this day from my PTO, and that's just not right. You took my whole weekend. You took dinner with my spouse. You took a whole night of sleep and I came to the office anyway, because my coworkers depend on me. I'll never complain about these things because I'm an internet engineer and this is my job. If it's down, I'm up, no questions asked. In the morning we'll do the post-mortem work to see how to make it better.<p>Startup employer, we need to talk about our vacation policy. I wish you'd read this article about Netflix: <https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/1>. Please read it, because when I read it, I want to send them my resume. I love the idea that we can be honest and reasonable with each other about my time. I'm flexible for you. Why can't you be flexible for me?<p>Startup employer, please stop tracking my PTO. There's a lot of other things in that Netflix doc I'd like to talk to you about but let's take this first baby step together.<p>We can do this. We'll both be better for it.<p>-exhausted tech worker
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Title: Say you come up with some great productivity application. It's web based, has a back end and a JavaScript front end for browsers and mobile.<p>You put it on github under an MIT or BSD or similar license. So corporations or anyone else can download and install your software and use it at no cost.<p>On your main website, you offer the software but on a per-user fully hosted, running online basis. So your revenue will come from people signing up to use your fully hosted service where they don't need to make any effort to install or configure - it just works. You also make money offering support contracts to people who have downloaded and installed their own copies of the software.<p>The reason you have open sourced it is to spread the word, gather interest and build community around your product. The theory being that the vast number of free users will be the impetus that leads to a small number of paying people discovering and using your product. Maybe free and open source is more newsworthy, more likely to get press and blog coverage?<p>Theoretically anyone could take your code and set up in competition to you. Anyone could fork your code and rename it to something else.<p>So is open sourcing your SAAS application a good way to do business, or is it foolish and giving away the farm?<p>Is there any examples out there of companies that have actually made money taking this approach?<p>I'm scared that if I fully open source then I will somehow have given the value away.
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Title: Background: My wife works as an administrator at a Canadian cosmetic surgery clinic. The physician, Dr. C., is quite successful and is ranked #1 in our city on sites like RateMD.<p>Yesterday, she was cold-called by an SEO startup in an attempt to sell her a revamped website and SEO services. He said they had already designed a placeholder website, and that he would personalize it for them if the clinic would purchase their services. She politely refused.<p>Out of curiosity, her colleague, J, called the phone number on this fictional web site. J pretended to be a potential client and asked to schedule a consultation. The other party said "The doctor is currently busy; I'll check with him and call you back." J asked which physician she would be seeing. He gave her the name of Dr. C (the physician at J's clinic!) along with his background and credentials (gleaned from the bio on Dr. C's website). When pressed for the clinic's location, they gave J a (fake) address in Chinatown.<p>My wife then called the SEO company to complain that they seemed to be impersonating a legitimate clinic in order to sell SEO services (she did not mention J's call). The person she spoke to (listed as one of co-founders) became very rude. He denied that they were doing anything wrong and huffed that "If you don't want to grow your Web presence then we don't want your business!"<p>I believe that this is an attempted "growth hack" and not an outright scam, but they are taking it too far. Using a real physician's identity, even in a placeholder website, can damage his reputation, not to mention displacing him as #1 in Google search results for our city.<p>HN, do you have any thoughts on what action my wife can take to stop this behavior?<p>Update 1: Interestingly, the fake clinic domain name is VERY similar (one letter difference) to another, legitimate clinic in the city.<p>Update 2: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons is in contact with wife's clinic. Preparing to unleash the hounds, no doubt.
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Title: I went in to work this morning, in downtown Cleveland, ordered a BLT for our free lunch friday, and got called into a meeting. I was told my position was being removed (probably to cut costs, although they did not say), and I needed to clean off my desk. I'm a javascript developer. I built a large angular application while there, but it is now built and there are other developers who can support it.<p>As far as I see it, I have this great opportunity to break out of the regular 9-5 job world, which I have always wanted to do. I have been working weekends on pearmarket.co, which is a website for small farmers to more easily promote their products online (I have recently open sourced the core of the project at https://github.com/thecolorblue/beetpress). Unfortunately, it is not currently in a place where I can dedicate all of my time to it and see any income. I would say I am 3 months of solid work away from having a good beta. I do not see this as an option as it would clear out most of my savings, and leave me in mostly the same position I am in now.<p>I have looked into doing freelance work, but as I am self taught my CS skills are not as solid as other developers, and my design skills are just about average. I am more product focused, I try to work as closely to the end user as possible and clearly define what they need. There does not seem to be a need for freelance product people (is this a good assumption?). It's also important to note that I am 28 and just got engaged. Moving is an option, but living on a spare couch for a couple months is not.<p>So I really have two questions. What would you do in my situation (would you stay in a smaller city?), and if you could start over in web development, what would you focus on?
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Title: A few weeks ago, the developer of javelin browser, Steven Goh, posted on this site about the new browser he was developing.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368199 nubela<p>I wanted to show support for his work, and installed the browser and tried it out.<p>Today I received an email from the developer on my WORK email promoting his IndieGoGo campaign.<p>The app discovered all the email addresses on my device (which includes my work email) and sent it back for later use.<p>And there is no unsubscribe option in the email.<p>first he steals my email address and uses it for marketing purposes without even asking me permission
and then he doesnt even provide me with an option to unsubscribe.<p>This is why I am always hesitant to try new apps or apps that I feel are asking too many permissions. They abuse your trust.
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Title: I'm in a partnership project where I am the developer and my partner is the marketer, and it hasn't felt like a partnership at all.<p>The app is written in AngularJS and Node-Webkit (gosh, I regret not using React), and I'm bad with time which my partner understands, but every week asks me to get it done over the weekend and it's been a month of that so far.<p>I'm working 7 days a week 10+ hours a day and I can't handle it, I can't eat from the stress getting to my stomach, and I can't sleep because I always think about the project. On top of that, I'm the only one expected to work these ridiculous hours, everyone else is usually 8 hour week days.<p>I just want to get this project done, start making money but also nicely (without explaining all the technical details) why it is taking so long.<p>What should I do in this situation?<p>Thank you in advance!<p>EDIT: Grammar fixes and separated in paragraphs.
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Title: ... Has tools to measure 3D buildings and other locations, print high-resolution screenshots, view demographic and traffic layers, and even record your virtual trips.
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Title: I've always wanted to start writing a life journal for myself. But there have always been one nagging reason that kept me from doing so: the fear of not securing it properly, and having it <i>leaked</i>, so to speak. Naturally, a journal will contain intimate thoughts that I've kept from anyone else. And I intend to store more data than paper journal normally does: images, knowledge etc. A wiki about myself.<p>Now, I'm just another run-of-the-mill mid 20s programmers, I'm not on any list that I'm aware of. And you can never say anything about life, but I'm not particularly intend to join any list of a three digits agency, either ;).<p>That said, I'm not sure if my paranoid is grounded or not. My answers to the two basic questions on threat modeling: "What's the likelihood of a threat against the journal would be?" and "What would happen if the threat actually happen" would be "I don't know" and "I hope I'm old enough". On one hand, I've no reason to believe that my info would be of anyone interest. On the other hand, I'd rather not find out whether anyone does.<p>I've been thinking about it for a bit, and the most secure way seems to be getting a secondary machine without network access, and just write the journal there. This approach has several problems:<p>- Collecting data: I'd have to actually transfer data I got from another machine to this one, via some air gap methods. This seems way overboard to me.<p>- Backup: regular backup won't be a viable options, especially for redundancy in term of geography.<p>All in all, I'd prefer to have some security/encryption scheme that I can use on a normal machine. Of course, the trade off will be security. I'm willing to accept that if I managed to be a named target of a 3 letter agency on a 20 person lists, they will successfully mount an attack for the data (I wouldn't be able to stop them, either way). But beyond that, I'd like the data to be as secure as possible. How would I accomplish such objective?
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Title: I'm a freelance web developer and I'm planning on putting together a general purpose web development contract for future projects. I was hoping to get a feeling of what I should be covering in the contract. I'd love to make a easy to read, non-legalese contract that covers the basics (payment, ownership, expectations, work hours etc.) which would give a client an introduction to my terms and be tweaked on a per-project basis.<p>I understand that I/WANAL & YMMV etc. but it would be nice to see what people are using themselves.
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Title: Throwaway for obvious reasons.<p>I built an open source project, licensed Apache. A startup raised more than 1M based on my project and forgot to remove the links to my site. A potential investor shot me an email telling me that the startup ripped my demo and is telling investors that they own the IP.<p>How should I respond? Is this common practice?
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Title: Hi. I am not the writer, and english is not my primary language, so sorry if there are some errors in my text.
I just want to tell you a little story about me and google.<p>I am living in Crimea. Maybe you know where it is, and the events of the last year, may be not, but this post is not about it.
It is not about politics, it's about technology.<p>Due to the sunctions of the usa government - usa companies must to stop import and export of tech products and services with Crimea.
Blocked Apple app store, blocked Google play market, blocked Odesk - it hurts, but I was ok with it.<p>But google has really pissed me.<p>Google has blocked:
Android documentation - www.android-developers.com - 403.
Golang - https://golang.org/ - 403.
Angular.js - Web page is not available. But works while I am using Tor.
Google app engine - 403, now I can't use Udacity, and other services that uses GAE. Maybe some companies do not even know that their users cant get to websites.
Chromium - 403, Google Code with documentation and all the projects unrelated to Google - 403.
And so on.<p>Yes, I know how to use Tor and i2p. But I don't see any reason to use google powered technologies and invest my time, as developer, in them any more.<p>So, I have a question - why do we need such an OPEN technologies, that can be BLOCKED tomorrow?
Today - it's me, but who knows what will happen tomorrow, and which countries or companies will decide to block their, so called open, tools that you use.<p>I'm sorry that this is happening and I really believe that the Internet and technology should be above politics.
At least technologies, which are presented as open.
I made a conclusion for myself about corporations, technologies and tools I will choose to learn and work with tomorrow.
I hope my message will cause someone else to think about it.<p>Thank you.
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