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Title: My startup of about two years has failed. We were hanging on for the last couple of months in the hopes of getting a big break. We're out of money now. My motivation levels are also pretty low after so many repeated failures.<p>My question is, for other people that have been in the same situation: What did you do after?<p>Did you start looking for a job? Did you jump straight into your next startup. I'm also considering whether it's possible to pick up small programming jobs on Elance to pay the bills.
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Title: I contracted (development work) for a YC startup for over a year. About a month ago, they went radio silent after I decided to end my contract with them and pursue other work. I'm now owed about $8,000 for my final two invoices (which apparently was "on the way" via ACH and must have been retroactively cancelled once I told them those would be my final invoices).<p>They are not answering my calls or emails. I still have access to all of their code and deployment environments (which I have not touched), and they haven't worked with anyone else since my departure. I believe they're going under.<p>What are my options? Unfortunately, I am in NYC and they're in SF, and our contract provides for all disagreements to be settled in SF court.<p>Throwaway account because disparagement, NDA and all that.<p>EDIT: For everyone that thinks I have ideas about doing something malicious to their site, of course I'm not stupid enough to do that. I mentioned the access to code to show how I'm sure they're going under (I know they haven't had any active development since I left).
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Title: Instead of always looking for ideas, lets try and ask this:
What problem in your industry would be a successful startup if someone decided to solve it?
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Title: Despite Google boasting of hiring the best engineers. Their system give us mortals hope that our applications are not so bad after all.
Let me explain the pain I am going through to recover my hacked gmail account.
First, there is no way to talk to someone, their responses are canned, and to top it off, they send you to a link to submit a password request.<p>So far not a problem, but the email you get back after sending the password reset request contains a link to a page that allows you to cancel the request (not sure the genius who had this idea).
Now that the email is hacked, the hacker can read the emails and click to cancel the recovery process. And the vicious cycle continues.<p>What to do?
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Title: I recently did a very basic tutorial on Docker. Afterward, when talking to the tech lead of the project I am working on, he asked me "What are the business cases for using Docker, how could it save us money, how could it make us more efficient?" I told him I would do some research to find the best answers and figured I would turn to you all here at HackerNews for some advice.<p>Thanks in advance!<p>Just so you know, I currently work on a project at my company that uses AWS, Codeship and BitBucket for development and production. AWS and Elasticbeanstalk host our application, Codeship runs tests on changes to branches in BitBucket and then pushes the code that passes on certain branches to different AWS environments for Development or Production.
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Title: We're having lots of trouble getting to many AWS/Amazon resources in US-West2 and it seems like many other people are reporting problems with US-East. Currently we cannot even reach http://status.aws.amazon.com. What are other people seeing and does anyone have any pointers to what the problem could be? There seems to also be a bit of discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/aws?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets#
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Title: and half internet with it I guess
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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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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to
machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company. No recruiting firms or job boards, please.
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Title: Wordpress is terrible. CMS as a whole is bad. Why has no one built a better one? I know people have tried, but why lack of traction?
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Title: I'm typing this on my late 2010 MacBook Air. Recently I was starting having problems with it (you know when you type your password and the system does not recognize your key presses, etc.). And I thought, “Oh, ok, I have to accept that we live in a world of planned obsolesce (how else faster-than-a-gigahertz multi-gigabyte-RAM machine could become slow? If it <i>is</i> capable of real-time response to user's actions, it <i>should</i> respond in real-time) and I have to upgrade to get my job done”.<p>So I switched to this new aesthetically marvelous wonder: an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro.
In 5 days I'm using it the machine restarted two (or three?) times "because of problems" though it has much less software installed than my old rock-stable-in-comparison MacBook Air. And now I'm installing an OS update which already restarted my system twice. First it restarted the system, than it said, “Ooops, I cannot verify the update”, fiddled with it for several more minutes, restarted-downloaded-restarted... Why didn't in verify update before restarting in the first place?<p>Thank you, Apple. But could you please stop shooting things with zirconium particles (seriously, “ordinary” polishing works fine for me) and return to your heritage of making a hassle-free unified experiences? (And also please give us back an iPhone that could fit in a pocket because the certain Asian markets are not the only things out there. When you broke the continuity of your design between the iPhone 5S and the 6 it was as if Porsche suddenly stopped making cars in its tradition and started copying BMW or whatever. But that's up to you, actually). And I'm waiting till my “Magic” mouse reconnects to my new shiny “Pro” machine (it gets disconnected several times a day though it is 20 cm apart and battery is near 100%) and getting back to work. Have a nice day!
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Title: I ask because I'd like to monitor these in my office and inside my home.<p>I use the WebMD Allergy app and I assume gets its data from a government tracking or who knows where but I've read where as the environmental impact of climate change grows, so will allergies.
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Title: Reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some I didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. I am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
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Title: Being a programmer right now is, in general, great. The job market is on fire and the industry is rapidly changing. Supposedly, the rate at which new jobs are created for computer scientists even outpaces the rate at which newly graduated CS majors enter the workforce.<p>Do you expect this trend to hold?<p>If so, how crazy will it get? The rumors posted on here of $300k salaries for non-famous engineers already seem unbelievable to me.<p>If not, what will cause it to end? The only doomsday scenario for developers in the first world that I can think of is a rise in extremely competent dev shops in developing countries.<p>(I realize that no one can predict the future, but I'm curious about the HN sentiment here.)
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Title: Hi NH.<p>A couple of years ago I realised I was a mediocre programmer. After 5 years of work experience with unfinished degree I knew only one language (php of all...) and some good practices on a surface level. I set that for change. For 2 years I studied in my spare time, learned a bit of Java, go, clojure, learned some fundamentals and good practices classics (gang of four, DRY) started reading blogs and following the industry.<p>Except, it's too much. I realised I am into too many things. I know a bit of everything, but not too many things well. I want to study data science, maths, devops and find that my desire is driven by fear of becoming outdated and irrelevant. I would appreciate a piece of advise on managing the learning process, get the joy of tinkering back and conquering the anxiety of ever changing rules to the game. Thank you.
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Title: If you use functional languages to build full or part of your application or you are aware of any such commercial applications please share!
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Title: Productivity, staying on focus, fighting distraction and procrastination and so on are often addressed in "Ask HN" threads, but it is difficult to find and keep track of the nuggets and best tips and tools mentioned in the responses.<p>So, let's use this thread to collect and share YOUR best tips, tools and ressources for personal productivity.
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Title: Interested to see what the HN community is doing in response to the recent reddit events.<p>Post the name, URL, description, and what you'll copy from reddit, and what you will not.
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Title: Hi guys,<p>i'm a computer scientist student and previously read a lot about Node.js. But, to be honest, i have not really a feeling for what i can use a node.js App. Is it a desktop application where i can use html to render the views and the communication between view an backend works i.e. with a RestAPI? Or is it for pure web applications?<p>Thanks a lot for your inputs.<p>edit: started yesterday with the node.js tutorial from Visual Studio Code and was just curious what type of app i can build with it
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Title: Why there was a "refresh" button in the context menu when you right click on desktop in Windows?
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Title: I'm really bored in college help me(don't know what to do,waiting few hours just for college instructor,learning classic turbo c++, always get distracted by foolish when I'm thinking about my project/an idea)
I living in indonesia,
is there any website out there to find a job. Thank you very much!
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Title: I'd really like to use Postgres as a backing store for libgit2 https://libgit2.github.com/<p>I wonder if there are any kind C programming wizards who know Postgres and might consider doing the open source port? It's beyond my Python programming skills and I dare not write crappy C code for fear of creating something nasty and insecure.<p>I can repay either by reciprocating with Python/web development/Linux/AWS knowledge, or if I have nothing of value to offer then I can offer thanks and praise.<p>The existing MySQL implementation is 460 lines of code.<p>There's a MySQL implementation here:
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2-backends/blob/master/mysql/mysql.c<p>There's a sqlite implementation too:
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2-backends/blob/master/sqlite/sqlite.c<p>Some relevant links:
http://blog.deveo.com/your-git-repository-in-a-database-pluggable-backends-in-libgit2/
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Title: My friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over Facebook with an offer for his user's emails:<p>"It's for an event newsletter. Won't say we got it from you."<p>This ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. Which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. At non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. Combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and I was left feeling a little uneasy.<p>Have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?<p>What happens to user's data when companies die? Is it purged, sold off, dormant?
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Title: I listen to the Changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when I'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. Would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
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Title: If you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.<p>If so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?<p>Topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
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Title: Are there any HN users who make $$ from a shareware ? Any full timers doing this ?
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Title: www.nearbybuzz.com<p>Today i'm launching my startup after more then a year of development. I quit my job last year to make web and mobile apps and Nearby Buzz is my first big project. Love to get some feedback and see what you guys think!
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Title: A few weeks back I sent a survey to my developer friends (results below). I was surprised at how many are interested in learning how to become a freelancer. So, I asked 4 friends who are already freelancing if they'd join a Google hangout and share the story of how they got started. The hangout will be this Wednesday at Noon PDT.
Please join us to learn how each of us got started freelancing.<p>RSVP to the hangout here https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cdkkq1uei70k87ohiaq07sd4o7o?authkey=COmw4ImAtf-a2QE<p>Survey Results
I had 17 respondents to my original survey (here is the survey if you’d like to take it: http://goo.gl/forms/LTAqtJcitT).<p>What do you DISLIKE about your current job as a developer? (multiple choice)<p>* 44% said "not enough actual coding." Other popular responses were "work is boring," or otherwise inefficient.<p>What do you want more of? (multiple choice)<p>* 75% said "freedom to work only part of the year"
* 56% said they want more interesting problems.
* 44% said they want more money<p>If you are NOT a freelancer now, why not? (multiple choice)<p>* 67% I like the security of a regular paycheck & 401K
* 42% I need the health benefits for me or my family<p>The surprising one was...<p>If someone made it EASY for you, would you work as a freelance web developer?<p>* 73% probably, yes
* 27% probably not<p>Admittedly this question was not well phrased since a handful of the respondents are already freelancers or contractors. But still, this is a surprising percentage!
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Title: It is often remarked in the comments here that our "field" appears to have a very bad memory; that we repeat past mistakes and ignore past learnings. I would like to interpret these remarks as an advice to "get schooled".<p>What are some good sources (books?) to get started on this? Most things I can find appear to stop at Turing / Von Neumann, but one would like to think that history hasn't stopped at that point in time.
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Title: I'm hearing about Docker every other day, but when I look into it, I don't understand the purpose of it.<p>I run many websites/applications that need isolation from each other on a single server, but I just use the pretty-standard OpenVZ containers to deal with that (yes I know I could use KVM servers instead, but I haven't ran into any issues with VZ so far).<p>What's the difference between Docker and normal virtualization technology (OpenVZ/KVM)? Are there any good examples of when and where to use Docker over something like OpenVZ?
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Title: As a professional dev, where do you get the best career advice ?<p>Is it a good idea to ask recruters what they are looking for ?<p>Any career coaching services tailors to dev/computer scientist out there ?
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Title: I don't know how many of you remember SlackChats - a place to find Slack groups, which is now known as http://www.chitchats.co. I made this after being inspired by that site.<p>A ton of people use Whatsapp and Telegram groups so you may find it useful to have a kind of Yellowpages for groups, to be able to find them online. The idea is to make it easy to find and connect with people that share your interests.<p>Any and all feedback welcome.<p>The link is: http://mobilechatgroups.com/
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Title: Let's assume both the domain registrar's and AWS pwd are super strong, and that static html files are uploaded to S3 from a 'clean' computer and only from that computer. Can the site be hacked? Defaced? DDOS?
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Title: Conventional startup advice is to 'move fast' and 'pump out features.' Are there any startups that created a great new thing that was growing and then failed because they were improving too slowly?<p>How slow is too slow?
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Title: Considering that a Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Haswell has 1.4e9 transistors inside, even given a really small probability of one of them failing, wouldn't this be catastrophic?<p>Wouldn't a single transistor failing mean the whole chip stops working? Or are there protections built-in so only performance is lost over time?
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Title: I think I understand the use case of Docker for deployment, but does Docker hold its sway at the moment for active development. Data persistence support is not out-of-the-box. Vagrant with its own isolated and shared volume support seems like something that would be very good in active development of software artifacts. What is the view of the HN mass, and what would you recommend?<p>Apart from these two, are there any others that looks promising?
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Title: I've recently been seeing many comments on Hacker News complaining that their submissions don't receive any points. As a result, they believe that vote manipulation techniques such as begging friends for votes on social media and using sockpuppet accounts to counteract this injustice are justifiable and that "everyone's doing it". While blatant voting manipulation may be the status quo at a certain other startup-oriented link aggregator, it is never good because it breaks the integrity of the service.<p>However, the lack of upvotes is just how link aggregators work.<p>The goal of many HN posters is to hit the front page. If you've received 10 points, you'll probably have hit the front page. However, depending on time of submission, you have a 10% to 20% chance of hitting 10 points: http://i.imgur.com/MdUvMB9.png<p>That's low, even if your blog post or startup is the Next Big Thing.<p>However, what's the typical behavior for HN submissions? Here's a chart of the median points for HN submissions at each timeslot: http://i.imgur.com/SN5BuAJ.png<p>The median is either 1 (no upvotes) or 2 (just 1 upvote), which reinforces how the typical behavior of HN really is.<p>Yes, it's possible for submissions to slip through the cracks. HN allows resubmission of links if they haven't had any discussion (as long as you don't delete-then-resubmit to obfuscate the fact that it's a report). If your submission doesn't get points, submit again later.<p>(Code and data for the two charts are available in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps)
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Title: (Pardon this disturbing subject interfering with your Friday night rest and my (very necessary) throw away account.)<p>A year or two ago I started an image sharing site that's been modestly successful in terms of traffic (a blessing). No money or fame, but it's nice to see movement.<p>I try to filter user uploads to at least classify the sexual stuff (80% of it) as nsfw and feature good stuff on the homepage. This is excruciatingly time consuming with 6000 galleries posted per day, but I suffer through it as I can.<p>Sadly, I've noticed a huge amount of extremely taboo photos on the site. From rape and bdsm, which I can kind of tolerate, all the way to extreme child porn. The latter is extremely disturbing.<p>Amazingly, these people post this openly.<p>I never see the press talking about the nsfw side of Youtube, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, and others. How do those sites deal with this problem? What kind of content filtering systems do they use to keep the visible parts of the site clean? How many interns are flagging photos all day long? Is it wise to allow these pages to be indexed? What's my legal burden under Safe Harbor?<p>And.. more importantly.. how does the organic traffic in the nsfw sections play into the strategy of these huge user-generated content sites.<p>NB. I've attempted to build user profiles and a kind of self-moderation system, akin to how Reddit flagging works, but my users seem to be mostly interested in "one thing," and no community-focused members have emerged so far. I still have hope, but need a solution that I can use now.
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Title: TLDR; magnet link:<p><pre><code> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7690f71ea949b868080401c749e878f98de34d3d&dn=reddit%5Fdata&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pushshift.io%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80
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Someone has already put it on Google Big Query - https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_05<p>Link to original Reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/
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Title: Here's how it went down.<p>So last April-May, I built a chrome extension that detects fake reviews on Amazon. It analyzes a combination of factors about the linguistics of the review (part of speech tags, unigrams and bigrams analysis), the reviewer metadata (rank, percent helpful reviews, number of reviews...), and the overall product reviews statistics (standard deviation, percent one time reviewers... etc).<p>At the end the reviews quality are scored on all these factors to give the product reviews a letter grade rating where "F" means that the product is very likely to have gone through a reviews bombing campaign and an "A" grade is for a product that contains mostly reliable reviews from reliable reviewers.<p>On the side I've been applying to Amazon jobs, and the last one I applied I included in my resume that I made such an app. About a couple of weeks later I get an email saying I was lined up for an interview. The interview went OK, I didn't do great in it to be honest, I didn't do bad either. I got asked about the chrome extension I made to describe what it did and why I did it which I obliged in answering.<p>Two weeks later, I contacted them to know about the hiring process and I got a reply that I was not considered for the job and that they couldn't share the reason why.<p>That sucked. What stung me even further, and made me believe that the interview was only a sham reason to only know about my app, was the fact that the product that I used as an illustration on the chrome extension store got banned. Not only that, but multiple products from the same seller and other sellers in that product category engaging in review deception schemes also got banned or more in their lingo "Discontinued".<p>BUT the app still detects products with deceptive reviews in other categories so it wasn't a site-wide update.<p>This is my story. Do with it as you wish. And be careful in dealing with large corporations.<p>Edit: Here's the link to the chrome extension in question:<p>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/evalute-amazon-reviews-le/cfngaogeljebhifobnjlhoakgaogmndj?hl=en
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Title: Have you done it? If so what are the challenges that you faced? What tips do you have for someone trying to do that?
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Title: Lately a number of open source projects has faced tremendous pressure from people coming from Twitter and Reddit to have issues resolved a certain way. Even when you agree with the social media crowd it seems wrong to let it direct your project's decisions though the sheer volume of its comments, especially so if many of the people commenting aren't involved with the project even as users.<p>From what I have seen so far I can deduce that the technical side of the problem is essentially this:<p>* Limiting the issues to only the contributors excludes the actual users along with the strangers and encourages the more angry strangers to spam you with duplicate issues.<p>* Allowing everyone to comment drowns out thoughtful discussion with "plus ones" and "thumbs up" icons, as well as purposefully uncivil comments.<p>* GitHub's moderation tools are too weak to moderate the individual comments.<p>When your project faces this pressure how do you act to ensure that meaningful discussion happens and decisions are made that are the best for your actual users and contributors in the long run?
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Title: I've been bootstrapping a company by myself and have gotten some traction but it is still very early. Now another early stage company in the same space is interested in purchasing my company. Their primary interest is in getting me on the team, (and I suspect eliminating future competition) not the product or technology per se.<p>They're better funded and I'm getting tired of working by myself, so joining up with them sounds appealing. However, I don't know how to come up with or evaluate fair terms.<p>I'm mostly trying to determine a dollar amount assuming I also get 10-20% of their company and a small salary. They have asked me to suggest a number but I don't know how to come up with one that's fair.<p>Any advice?
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Title: Hi. I co-founded an ISP in Helena, Montana that's about to do 1Gbps FTTH and I'd like to see more tech in the area. We're working with a local economic firm who has a building that it would like to see used for economic development purposes...and an incubator seems like a great fit.<p>So, free Internet and office space in beautiful Montana (which has a low cost of living, BTW). Is this enough to get you to come visit?
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Title: Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm probably going to have to lay off several dozen people, which I've never done before. Needless to say I'm not looking forward to it. What advice do you have to make it as decent as possible both for those who will be laid off and those who will remain?<p>(Probably helpful if you note whether you are someone who has been laid off well or poorly, someone who has laid people off, or just have thoughts about it.)
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Title: I feel like I've stopped rapidly learning after university and plateaued in my career in the last 1-1.5 years. How do you stay sharp and continue to climb in your career?<p>I'm a product manager at a tech company. I read. I work on side projects. I learn new programs like Sketch, take classes on Udemy and Coursera, but do not feel like I'm learning as much as I'd like. I'm not learning that much on the job anymore, just adding value to the company.<p>Update: wow, thanks for all the advice. I'll definitely read through all of it. But beyond advice, I'm also curious what do smart people (like you) do to continue growing in terms of activities.
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Title: I get really impatient when learning new things. I tend to want to finish reading the book as fast as possible, which means I end up not doing the practice exercises. Sometimes I just give up because the book is too long.
Also, because I'm always thinking of the million other things I need to learn, I can't really focus on what I'm learning.
Every time that happens it makes me depressed.
How would you deal with this issue?
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Title: My son (a physics student) wrote to me to point me to a crowdsource project for a CPAP machine.<p>https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airing-the-first-hoseless-maskless-micro-cpap#/story<p>My immediate thought upon seeing the mock up was: balony, with a capital 'B'.<p>It is a tiny thing looking a little like a plastic moustache. I do not see how such a small package could store enough power to run a CPAP device. It is a simple question of moving mass. People breath about 5 liters of air per minute at a low activity level. That’s 2400 liters in an-8 hour period. Air weighs about 1.2 gm/l = 2.88 KG moved in an an 8 hour period. And that illustration did not seem to have much space for a battery. Not to mention space for the magical flapping air pumps derived from CPU coolers!<p>And they claim a price of $3 per device… And it’s disposable.<p>They also say they are using a zinc air battery, which has energy density of 470 Wh/kg or .47 Wh/gm. Let’s generously say that they have 10 gm of battery—that’s 5 watt hours. Lets even more generously say that they have 8 watt hours. That’s 1 watt continuously for a night of sleep.<p>They are saying they can operate a CPAP machine on 1 watt, have it be the sized of a junor tootsie bar, and sell it for $3 per device.<p>The question I’m asking here is what should we do as engineers? Ethically, I mean. I really hate to see people taken in by such an obvious scam.
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Title: Sometimes - like today - I am not interested in anything. I just feel lethargic. I walk around, try to sleep, try to work, try to lift some weights... nothing works. I'm just bored. I play computer games and feel bad for wasting time that I could use to build my startup, do sports, plan a holiday or whatever. But I simply find no energy for any of these tasks.<p>I know that in a day or two I will be full of energy again. Maybe even later on today. But these lethargic moments come often. Once every few days I guess. Any Ideas how to approach this kind of situation?
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Title: Hi y'all.<p>While refactoring a very old PHP website, I wanted to make it as portable as possible so switching providers (such as DigitalOcean to some other VPS) would be easier in the future. I came across this: http://12factor.net/port-binding, talking about exposing the web site on a port. I had always wondered why Rails was usually on Port 3000 while my local PHP website just ran at some URL. I got to digging more and I think I started drowning in confusion. Does Apache listen on 80/443 and just spawn PHP processes (or so I've read?). Is this what it does with Phusion Passenger for Rails? If so, does Rails still get served at localhost:3000 in this case?<p>It mentions the Thin client for Ruby, which is a web server, that is built on top of Rack, which is a web server interface, but there is also a reverse proxy Nginx (but Nginx is also a web server)? Rack and Thin seem to have identical interfaces, so I'm not sure what is going on here. Why doesn't a PHP app have to do any of that? Is it because Apache handles it? Also I also don't understand the details of CGI, FastCGI, WSGI, etc. and why each language needs its own gateway interface. Is Rack the WSGI of Ruby? I understand (I think) that at a very high level, it is a specification for a web server that, instead of serving documents, can pass an HTTP request along to a program which returns a response, that the web server forwards back to the requester.<p>I feel like I have a lot of details but I have no idea how they all fit together. I think what I'm looking for would startanswer would start: "A user makes an HTTP request from their Browser to retrieve a web page sitting on some random machine somewhere. There is a socket connection established (IP:PORT#) and it sends streams of bytes under the TCP protocol..." <-- Not even sure if this is correct<p>Thanks in advance for any help or redirection to other resources!
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Title: Currently getting health insurance for my wife and me through my employer and plan to transition into freelance/consulting. I'll have to start paying for insurance and was curious what other freelancers on HN are using, what monthly costs are like, etc.<p>I am especially curious what freelancers in the NYC area are doing.<p>Thanks!
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Title: It's that time of the month again to share what HN'ers are working on! Have you taken on new side projects that you'd like to share with the community? How is your current side project going?<p>I'm currently re-designing one of my side projects - sideprojectors (http://sideprojectors.com) - yeah really. What can I say, I love side projects.<p>FYI, here's the previous month's
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274
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Title: I need your advice, guys.<p>Angel-funded startup isn't going to make it to its series A, will be going on the auction block soon. I'm an employee with a significant equity stake, but not a founder, who invented and implemented the software which is the company's sole salable asset. (In hindsight I am very aware that this was a lousy situation to have put myself in, but here we are anyway.)<p>The software has real value, good market visibility, and actual sales. I don't think we'll have much trouble finding buyers -- but most of the likely acquirers are larger corporate types I have little interest in working for long-term. (This is at least partly burnout talking, but I'm kind of done working for other people at all at this point.)<p>So I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from, but this is new territory for me and I have no idea what would be reasonable to ask for and what would get me laughed out of the room.<p>I know there are a lot of variables here so I'm not asking for dollar amounts, just a general reality check on what I can expect from the next few months. In particular: what's the shortest transition-the-product-to-new-ownership period I can reasonably look for? Is there typically any short-term payout for acquired employees or will everything be in salary and slow-vesting options? Is there any likelihood of an acquirer being interested in purchasing the product but not its developers? Assuming I do stick it out as an acquihire, what's the likelihood I'd be allowed to remain in charge of my product vs having to execute on someone else's vision? When, if ever, is it appropriate for me to ask to be included in negotiations with acquirers? Most importantly: how do I best stand up for my own interests here, without being the asshole that ruins the deal for everyone?
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Title: Hi all,
I am currently going through Learn Python the Hard Way, and am on the review section where I have to read through source code.<p>Can anyone recommend some good open source Python software I can look at? I am specifically looking to see ones that employ idiomatic Python, and maybe see how they approach testing (I am not completely new to programming, just rusty after being out of the field for a long time)<p>Extra bonus points if the software is something you use regularly.<p>Cheers!
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Title: I was recently reading reddit /r/netsec, about the New York Times using WebRTC to gather local/vpn ip's (Thanks to Dan Kaminsky).<p>http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dgwee/how_the_new_york_times_uses_webrtc_to_gather/<p>https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/<p>In that thread, I noticed something very interesting, that apparently one of the same guys involved in the NSA backed Pentagon paper touting Extended Random on top of Dual Elliptic Curve, Eric Rescorla, is now working at Mozilla, and has some say in keeping the WebRTC setup in Mozilla working like it is.<p>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893<p>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331<p>So far any attempts to get a comment out of Mozilla about hiring someone who was known to participate in weakening crypto has been met with silence as far as I can tell.<p>The question that this brings up in my mind is what should companies and communities built around those companies do with programmers who have been involved in such subversions? It's entirely possible Eric Rescorla was unaware of the purposeful weakening proposed in the 2008 paper, and that it was the NSA contributor who performed this function, but the fact that Mozilla declines to comment on the matter and that this is a person who has quite a bit of say over a very commonly used browser raises concern.<p>As leaks like Snowdens become more and more prevalent, how should programmers who have been known to be potentially hostile to user privacy or other user concerns be treated, both by the community and by the companies that employ them?
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Title: I am comfortable in coding, also familiar with python programming.
What approach should i follow to learn machine learning with in SHORT TIME.<p>Should i start with a book(if yes which one), or with a machine learning library or with a project or with complete machine learning algorithm implementation in python.<p>Please provide me step by step guide which i should follow (with the source links and references[if possible]) to learn machine learning in one or two months.
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Title: Looking back over last 20 years, technology (esp. related to computers) had made extraordinary leaps forward and the pace is accelerating.<p>As a total layman in the physics world, it appears (looking from the benches) that things are crawling at the same speed they did 20 years ago.<p>Is that true ? Is the speed of physics advances accelerating as well ? What has been happening that we might of been missing ?<p>EDIT: Especially in the applied & practical worlds
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Title: I'm considering accepting an opportunity at Netflix, but I'm not sure what the environment is like. Can someone at Netflix or who has worked at Netflix give an objective description as to what it's like there? I've read that everyone there is very smart, and the bar is set extremely high. I am very good (amongst the top people in every group I've worked at), but I'm not a god so I'm worried that I'm not good enough and that I will be let go within a month. Are things really that competitive and cutthroat as I've heard, given what I heard was a 10%/quarter turnover rate?
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Title: There are a lot of great things I want to learn but I find it hard getting myself to buckle down and get in the process of learning. How have you found ways to stop beating around the bush and get to learning?
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Title: Hello All,<p>My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!<p>After a year or so reading HN, I finally made an account! This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place! I have learned a great deal from all of you. With this said, I am embarking on a two year journey to apply to YC in FALL of 2017. I have given myself this arbitrary timeline to motivate myself.<p>You see, I am a total noob. I'm about to enroll in an online coding bootcamp. This is to grasp enough CS/coding experience so I can graduate from the proverbial 'I'm looking for a technical co-founder' dilemma, and to build the MVP on my own. What I become, for better or worse, is how I will attract the right people to tell my story and grow a company together. In the meantime, I am working on myself first and learning each day from all of you. I am excited to begin this marathon I call starting a startup.
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Title: Hi fellow Hackers!
I am a grad student/wannabe-enterprenuer/hacker and I am really looking for advice in choosing a good work machine that would suit all three roles. Your advice is most welcome. I've been using company laptops and an old Dell Studio that worked well for last 7 years. Now I need one and the market is flooded with configurations and models. Maybe this discussion can help me and others in choosing something that is our livelihood :)
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Title: I find myself simply passing on sites/articles where I cannot adjust the font size on mobile. Care to take a guess on the percentage of sites that users choose not to read due to non-adjustable mobile font size? I'm getting the sense that a signficant portion of ones userbase is being ignored and alienated with sites that do not have pinch-zoom functionality. If this is the case, then it's fairly low hanging competitive fruit to enable this kind of functionality.
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Title: Seems whenever I've had a hard day fixing a bug or doing some difficult coding, I struggle to sleep at night thinking about it.<p>Anybody else suffer from the same? How are you switching off before you go to sleep?
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Title: Some highlights:<p>1. Take a look at 'gethostpoop'
2. Take a look at 'getportpoop'
3. Make sure to read the netdb.h rant in the function above.
4. #ifdef GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE<p>Nearly half the comments in the file are taking the piss out of BSD sockets. Enjoy!
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Title: I am starting to get a little bit hopeless on this one. Once I had passions and stuff I wanted to do, I learnt enough JS to build a small app that has proven to be incredibly useful for my family. Then came university and almost all my passions have gone, I am a good student but as of lately I have been struggling with the courses I liked in the past.<p>Nothing excited me anymore, and not that I am sad. I still can crack a joke I still can smile but nothing seems to make me happy anymore. I think I might have depression. I play games and procrastinate all day and it doesn't make me feel any good it is just a getaway.<p>Sadly I live in a 3rd world country, where mental illness is not an illness. I can get little help from people. Our healthcare system simply doesn't work at all. So HN crowd, how do you deal with these feelings?
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Title: Hello,<p>In September I will start my first real job as a software developer (mainly backend) in a great company. What's the best thing I can do to prepare for it (i.e. to quickstart instead of having to learn everything on the job)? Study algorithms and refresh some of the stuff I studied in my CS courses? Or learn the stack they use on a daily basis in depth (e.g. frameworks, DBs, etc.)?<p>Thank you!
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Title: As a data scientist or software engineer working with "medium / large" amount of data, how do you visualize them?<p>Lets take a few example:<p>- Working on a iPhone app dealing with signal processing, Fourier transform etc, how do you visualize your signal and frequencies?<p>- As a back-end engineer working with a directed graph data structure, how do you quickly visualize your graph? are you interested in seeing your graph changing, step by step?<p>- How do you quickly visualize massive amount of data points into time series?
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Title: Nexmo.com provides messaging and voice solutions, such as SMS gateway functionality, and has prominent customers like Airbnb. On May I found a serious security vulnerability on their website that enables anyone to reset the password of any account on Nexmo.com by knowing the accounts email address and thus to take over an account and see what SMS messages were sent by the account, happily use credits of the account, et cetera.<p>I tried to figure out how to contact them about the security vulnerability, they don't have a dedicated site about security nor how security researchers can contact them, like Github and many others have (https://help.github.com/articles/github-security/). Which make me think about how important security is to that company, but anyway.<p>So I ended up writing to their general-purpose support email address describing that I've found a highly severe security vulnerability related to password resets and would like to get in touch with someone from their IT security department or similar. And here's what they replied:<p>"Thanks for your email - this challenge has finished already, but we appreciate you contacting us."<p>Wait ... this "challenge" has finished already? What the serious f<i></i>*?!<p>So I replied and explained to them that my inquiry isn't about a "challenge" but a serious security hole on their site.<p>Finally, it seemed that they understood what I wanted and they replied with the following:<p>"Thanks for letting us know about this, as a result of your email we are investigating it internally. If we need any further information from you we will let you know."<p>The reply seemed a bit weird to me. Why don't just get in touch with me so I can explain the vulnerability? I respected their answer.<p>As of today, the security vulnerability is still present. How can you as a company just simply not even care about security and customer information?<p>So HN, what should I do? Just forget about it?
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Title: This is inspired by the recent "How's your eyesight?" post where a commenter posted sarcastically that a better question would have been "How's your drinking problem?".<p>Now while the title may have been a little hyperbolic, I do think it's important for us to discuss the drinking culture we're always around.<p>How does drinking fit into your life? How has your body or your mind responded to increases or decreases in the frequency of drinking? Have you tried being aware of any of these things and if so what did you learn?
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Title: I used to love software/programming but it's getting boring now. It seems so clear to me that so much futile effort is being put into building yet another language, yet another editor, yet another UI rework, yet another infrastructure rework. And for what, just because people would have something to show for. Seems the number of people trying to come up with futile things for the sake of popularity has outnumbered the ones who try to do real work.<p>The hate for one language as if other languages are elite. Trying to use all the features of a language and thinking a one liner is cool even when a five liner and a one liner is same when compiled into machine code. Too much jargon, falsely claimed software engineering practices and overly zealous object oriented mentality (Seems people try to use Object Oriented for everything, they call it the best, even better than simplicity in many cases.)<p>Quite frankly many years of self hacking/studying and experience in industry, I think I've just had it with software industry. Does it get any better ? Am I seeing things correctly ? Is this a burnout ?
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Title: I was looking at Kotlin and was curious. It looks very interesting feature wise but I worry about its long term viability given it's low presence on GitHub[1] and < 40 users on #kotlin on Freenode IRC. Is this worth writing a big project in?<p>[1] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=language%3AKotlin&ref=searchresults&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=
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Title: I liked Erik Levenez's giant poster: http://www.levenez.com/lang/<p>I am looking for anything of that sort -- books, posters, newspaper articles, well-written blog posts.<p>Thanks!
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Title: The question here comes from my concern of how some startups can actually survive with high technical debt with customers? Wouldn't that lead to their failure as a product/service sooner or later?<p>I work as a web architect contracting with startups on smaller complicated pieces of technologies. These days lots of startups I talk with have a very high technical debt in their product(s) and most of them don't seem to care.<p>My first advice to them is that things like that can kill a product, but I've had some strange feedback after passing on that advice.<p>So I wonder if technical debt does actually have pitfalls along the way? (Bootstrapping yeah I agree, but not when you have 8 engineers on the team)
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Title: During a regular work week I work a couple of days in a co-working space, the other times either from home or at a client site - and I’m tired of carrying around my laptop all the time.<p>My dream setup would consist of a couple of low-fi workstations, say a bunch of Intel NUCs or the like, one at each site. Then, whenever I leave in the middle of work at one site, I can go to the other and pick up from there. However, due to sub-optimal internet connectivity I can’t use thin clients with a cloud-based X server. At each work location, I’d need to run my jobs on that machine (either bare metal, or virtualised). Is there a way to e.g. synchronise one virtual machine image across the workstations, when I switch locations? I wouldn’t need to run two workstations at once. Bonus points if a program or configuration, that I install one machine also shows up on the other workstations. I have no special requirements, any Unix-like OS with a window system is OK.<p>Is anyone of you running such a setup? Or have you found a similar solution? I have that nagging feeling I can’t see the forest for the trees, given that I haven’t with IT setups since 1999. Thanks!
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Title: We've all toiled and eventually solved some problem. Would be awesome to see some of the toughest problems HN community members have solved. Could be from any domain though it's better if the problem is somewhat technical.
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Title: I'm considering taking time off work (up to 6 months) to invest in learning some new skills. I'm 28, have a solid background in math, and my professional experience is mostly in finance (sigh). What are some useful (technical or non-technical) skills that it's worth investing into learning?
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Title: During the last 90 days I submitted 4 stories. None gathered even a single point, although they were moderately successful on Reddit. My submissions happened at a good time, had descriptive titles and similar submissions gathered significant more traction. Maybe not all of them are prefect for the HN audience but they were all high quality and the result was as surprising as disappointing. Am I doing something wrong besides not making my friends vote?<p>Fore reference: Here are the submissions:<p>- Yesterday: Show HN about a font comparison tool I wrote. Was on r/programming front page for almost an entire day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9957472<p>- A webGL visualization of a diffusion process. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605938<p>- An article (IPython Notebook) about generating a gauss-distributed number range. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9499845<p>- An article (IPython Notebook) about the 2D Ising model and a program I wrote about to solve it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546872
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Title: By popular demand, Who Is Hiring is moving to the first
weekday of each month. The next thread will be on Monday, August 3
at 11 AM EST.<p>Since the Internet abhors a vacuum, this weekend is at risk for an ersatz
who-is-hiring thread stampede. Would you all please flag these? They're
unfair to the users who get trapped in them, and figuring out who
eventually found their way to the official thread vs. whose jobs need
to be moved there is a royal pain.<p>Also, we've updated the FAQ to clarify that no one is allowed to submit job ads
as stories to HN. That includes YC startups, since the job ads we let them
post are not stories: they don't have points or comments, and come in through
a different mechanism. So if you see a job ad in the form of a story, on
/newest or elsewhere, please flag it. Edit: this isn't a rule change—we just noticed that not everyone knows what the rule is.
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Title: I'm at this point in my career where I'm in a good groove improving my technical skills, but I'm starting to require more and more time into my softer skills (communication, negotiation, persuation, et al). What are your favorite resources (classes, websites, books, blogs) that you use to develop those skills?
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Title: It seems that the past 6 years or so saw most big ISP's dropping USENET support claiming mostly piracy concerns. Was it piracy or the fact that it's tough for the government to control what people say on USENET?
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Title: I'm looking for the self-proclaimed "last private web hosting" site, that requires no name. You could send them $1 USD in the mail with a desired account & password & they would set it up for you.<p>I think void was in the title. Anyone know?
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Title: I'm currently using an artificially-shaped 256k Internet connection (it resets in a couple days), and over the past few weeks browsing the web, I've very consistently found HN to be one of the fastest loading sites I've come across.<p>I understand that HN is built on top of Arc (http://arclanguage.org), a Lisp variant, and that the code (https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc) uses flat files to store post and vote data. This is generally speaking quite an unusual/unexpected architecture for a site presumed to serve a consistently moderate load, but HN manages to do so remarkably well, presumably because the site itself is so incredibly lightweight. I don't think the minimal HTML is the only factor though, although it probably counts for the majority.<p>I'm interested to understand as much as possible/practicable/relevant about the server(s') configuration, uplink bandwidth, other tunables, etc, so I can get an idea of what makes HN so exceptionally responsive and "a cut above 99% of everything else". Does CloudFlare <i>really</i> make <i>that</i> much of a difference? :P<p>I know there's some "secret sauce" in there somewhere, because virtually-verbatim clones of HN such as http://firespotting.com/ seem <i>almost</i> as fast... but <i>just</i> not as instantaneous as HN.<p>(PS: On the occasions I get hit by it, my ISP's shaping config seems quite involved/nuanced, and I actually want to profile it because it's so catalyzing and would be very useful to apply to my own projects for "worst-case" testing. For the interested, the details I have thus far can be found here: http://serverfault.com/questions/709529/how-can-i-profile-my-isps-bandwidth-shaping-settings)
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Title: I wrote my own unofficial API for a banking website[0] (check balance, send money, view transaction history) by essentially writing a crawler that would do whatever the a user would do if they were navigating the website themselves. I built it for fun to see if it was possible and then shelved it along with the rest of the half-completed projects littering my hard drive.<p>I was wondering how feasible it would be to use it as a basis for a service to facilitate e-commerce. It would require the user to give me, a 3rd party, their credentials which isn't something I'd recommend someone to do. But then again, Mint has done well for themselves doing just that so perhaps my opinion on the matter isn't entirely relevant.<p>PayPal, BrainTree, Stripe, etc. are not available in my corner of the world and I feel that's too bad cause a good payments solution could be a big deal to businesses and consumers alike if available. I'd be happy if the bank shuts down my service as long as they (or someone else) provide an alternative.<p>Have you provided your bank credentials to Mint or another similar 3rd party service? If so why? Did you ever stop to think if it was a bad idea? Do you think most people do?<p>[0] https://github.com/xtrumanx/zapi
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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: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to
machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company. No
recruiting firms or job boards, please.
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Title: for reasons too long to write here I have around $8k of credit on AWS from my last failed venture that will expire end of this august. Id hate to let those credits go in thin air and I don't have the time to build the stuff I imagined myself building to use them, so I thought Id give it to the HN community if they come up with a really cool 'demanding' computational task to use this kind of server power.<p>Comment on how you'd like to use it and if you impress us they're yours.<p>p.s id be super happy if somehow the computational power is used to build/crawl some kind of data that would directly/indirectly help anyone for free. Second to that would be if hackers in the comments come up with an idea and do it together.
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Title: Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44c65b5779d9d8021e002584fa73740f36d052a6&dn=10m_hn_comments_sorted<p>Go to https://hn-archive.appspot.com/ for the torrent file / source code.<p>I'll be semi-frequently checking the story and answering any questions which may come up.
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Title: if so, do you think chess skills translate into good programming skills?
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Title: Some people seem superhumanly productive. For example Hadley Wickham (ggplot2), Taylor Otwell (Laravel) etc. They are creators as opposed to managers (who have the luxury of delegating and managing). How can they produce so much consistently, at such a high quality?<p>If you are a highly productive person (and yet have a good work-life balance), could you share your methods?
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Title: For my Bachelor Thesis i am doing all little research about the usage of webframeworks. The Thesis is about isomorph JavaScript based frameworks but i am also interested what else do you use.
Please evaluate your framework under the following aspects:
1. Time needed for Learning the Framework (in Hours)
2. Overall Development Speed (0-3 Points, greater better)
3. Maintainability of the Code (0-3 Points, greater better)
4. Why did you choose that Framework?<p>I know its difficult to define or measure those things but it will get a helpful overview for my thesis. Thanks in advance for your Time! :)
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Title: I heard in NPR today that Netflix fires people that are average and only keeps those that are exceptional. Does any one have any experience working in such a company? When I heard about netflix, it seemed like life would be very stressful if you always have to worry about getting fired. But on the plus side, you get to learn a lot and work with exceptional people, which is a great way to learn. ANy experiences or opinions?
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Title: I've never been able to find a clear explanation of this, and given Coinbase's announcement today I thought it was a good time to learn.<p>So:<p>I get that if I leave my startup today I have 90 days to exercise my options.<p>I get that I'll have to pay the agreed 'strike price'<p>But everything after that is unclear to me.<p>Would I be paying tax as if I'd made capital gains in the amount of the delta between the strike price and the stock's value today? Would the stock's value today be based on the company's valuation at the most recent round of funding?<p>If the company goes on to raise more VC funding, would I be liable in future years for the 'capital gains' on this stock?<p>If the company went on to fail, would I be entitled to tax breaks for loss of stock?<p>etc.<p>I'd love to see a clear explanation of all this stuff from someone who's been through it or just knows it. Thanks!
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Title: As a developer, I'm interested in working on a problem in my spare time. However, most of the problems I've thought of over the years have already been addressed in my field. I'd like to consider other fields that have problems needing solving, but I'm not really sure where to start other than doing pretty generic Google searches.
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Title: The internet used to be a really cool place full of wild ideas and weirdos.
Now its like a tidy, tightly policed suburban shopping mall.
Whats the next big thing?
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Title: TLDR; What are your favorite resources for how to build a secure webapp?<p>I've been looking to learn how to secure web apps more systematically. Just thinngs that (should be) well-understood by now--logins, customer data security, how to take payments with or without storing credit card info (even if that's just using a third-party processor). I've found the OWASP site, which seems poorly maintained and terribly organized, and a bunch of books that focus on how to pentest existing apps. The books that focus systematically on security, like Security Engineering, are extremely general and don't explicitly cover the webapp use case.
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Title: I like reading non fiction but a lot of it is like pop psychology with not a lot of informational content.<p>I've picked up two books recently and I've learnt a lot :<p>The Selfish Gene By Richard Dawkins<p>The 10 Day MBA By Steven Silbiger<p>There's very little fluff in these books and you learn something useful on almost every other page. I'd like to read more such books , especially on technical subjects.
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Title: I recently was playing around with Maxmind's free GeoIP database but was disappointed at how inaccurate the free version was.<p>I started hacking away yesterday at making an alternative database that seems to be more accurate, but it's still in the works. Who here would be interested in a free alternative, including and excluding cities, updated on a daily basis, and if so, which format's would you like to see?
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Title: After the recent Firefox incident I realized how I lied to myself by believing that I'm secure just by using Linux.<p>My setup is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (job requirement) with XFCE. So here's my question:<p>What is the best Linux sandbox available right now?<p>Even better if it's something simple to use and battle tested. Main things I would like to sandbox is Firefox, Thunderbird, Wine, Torrent stuff and maybe Chrome (is it necessary? my chrome://sandbox shows YES to everything except "SUID Sandbox")
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