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Title: I recently appeared for the first time on online challenges as a first round of interview process on HackerRank, well experience was good but as i have participated in only 1 of such process, i don't have strong opinion about it. i have been part of live/shared coding interview, they seem to have hard limit as you must solve X% of challenges irrespective of how cleverly you solve the them? So not sure if that angle is even considered when judging the answer.<p>Just wanted to thoughts about such tools? do you think they do a good/bad job? Or is it proper approach to find the talent? Upvote:	52
Title: Sources on the scene are reporting multiple black Lincoln town cars and Escalades with Maryland license plates spotted at Apple Executive Briefing Center. Upvote:	162
Title: I always hear and have read quite a few times that there are thousands of people who earn 150k to 200k salary. I have 9 years of experience but my salary is 118k per year with 2k as stock options per year. I work in data analytics as tech lead without any direct reports. With $2300 rent in Peninsula it is really really hard to live in Bay area for 2 people.<p>Is 150k to 200k only paid at google / Facebook / Amazon / Uber?<p>Where do you find companies hiring managers or directors or tech leads offering such salary ?<p>I have no network. I tried networking and going to meetup but nothing happened. Even if I go networking way it is going to take longer to find job through that route. I am looking for immediate opportunity. I have LinkedIn profile but it seems that most connections are there for namesake purpose only.<p>Any guidance and / or tips you can provide for landing such job in valley ? Upvote:	43
Title: It's no doubt that understanding AI and the associated knowledge around it is going to be critical for many software developers to thrive in the next 1-2 decades.<p>What do you think are the ideal resources to learn today, as a beginner, and how to continue to grow that knowledge? Upvote:	43
Title: So, my most recent stint at Microsoft just didn't work out. The tech was cool, but the day-to-day workflow was tedious and torturous. I only held out for 4 months - my shortest gig ever, but it really was the most I could muster. I really wanted it to work, but ultimately couldn't strike that bargain with myself.<p>So... now I'm back to living on couches and wondering / researching where I might still be able to be useful and productive in the world. It's not an easy question. There are more technology stacks than ever, and I'm suffering very severe paradox of choice. I sure miss the "good old days" when you just focused on writing a single app in C that ran on a well-understood machine, or even a single well-understood OS API. But those days are mostly gone. Now it's all distributed, multi-level conglomerates of varied frameworks and languages sort-of working together. I can't decide whether I have any interest in that. I sort of envy the people who can simply state, "I am a Rails dev" or similar.<p>I feel a lot of pressure to pick a niche. Something. Anything. Because living on couches gets old, fast, and even more dire financial straits await after that. So I'm being driven by the stick, and not the carrot - which is an unpleasant position.<p>I found a great game (on Steam) called TIS-100, where you progress by writing small, well-defined programs in assembly language, for a strange, highly constrained imaginary processor. It's great for its pure distillation of machine-level programming. There was a time when people used to get payed for doing what you do in this game. In other words, I fear I'm getting old, and my career options have just begun to seem uncomfortable. Upvote:	139
Title: Hi,<p>since authorization is important to me as a beginner, I want to ask what are the best practices for web applications at the moment if one needs more fine grained authorization rules than simple roles or permissions for a sideproject (which will probably never turn into something profitable, nor is it planned at the moment)?<p>Until now I've seen role based authorization which works for simple sites but can easily get out of hand for more complex websites (e.g checks like these: user.hasRole("Superadmin") \|\| user.hasRole("Admin") \|\| user.hasRole("YetAnotherRole") \|\| ... ). If I handle it like in the example, I would need to recompile the application if I give roles access to methods for which they were previously not authorized (if it is not possible to just assign the user to a higher role).<p>In previous hobby projects I solved this with permission/activity based authorization, where users are assigned roles, and permissions are assigned to roles. The checks within the application are against the permissions not the roles, and can be changed without recompiling the application. If a role needs new permissions just assign it in the backend, if a specific user needs new permissions it's possible to create a new role with appropriate permissions etc.<p>But how do I handle more complex permissions like this? - Superadmin can delete everyone except himself. - Admins can delete all users but not themself or other admins. - Manager can only delete users that he manages but not himself. Upvote:	75
Title: Recently I switched jobs and joined some old employers and friends on a new endeavour, an advertisement platform. So far things have been very good, so good in fact that we're quickly growing out of our current infrastructure. Last christmas everything went crazy and the, then only developer, rewrote a bunch of things to make it scale better.<p>Currently we write away every single transaction to txt files and once every X minutes gather those and start inserting them into 2 Mysql shards. After that we run a bunch of group by queries to generate cross table reports. Currently our CMS is very limited by this, you can only view data relations in the predefined tables and we would like to have (a lot) more flexibility here.<p>Perhaps the biggest issue of all is that both I and the other developer do not have experience with handeling this much data. We both have worked on systems which handle a fair bit of data, but not nearly as much as this. We've been looking at MapReduce for MongoDB but already run into problems when we try to insert a weeks worth of data, which is about 350gb, because we only get so many IOPS at AWS. If we want more IOPS, it gets really expensive really fast. We're also not entirely sure yet if MongoDB and MapReduce is the way to go.<p>What I'm looking for is a few pointers to help us get headed in the right direction. Which databases should we be looking at? Should we be looking in an entirely different direction? Are there some (recent?) blog posts about this which can help us out? Upvote:	137
Title: 'Ask HN' questions have only a few minutes to gain traction before they fall off the front page of 'new', otherwise they never make it to 'ask' and basically disappear.<p>I feel like this sink-or-swim system works just fine for regular posts, but for 'Ask HN' posts it can be frustrating to see them disappear so quickly. Especially when you consider that more time is invested into asking a question than posting a link.<p>Should 'Ask HN' posts be allowed to stick around a little longer somehow? One solution would be to give them their own separate 'new' page. Upvote:	51
Title: YC Partners, Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell, will be doing online office hours on HN this Friday (Feb 26) at 11am PT.<p>We'll put up a new thread that morning and if you'd like help with your startup, post a top-level comment with a one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you'd like to talk about. The community will vote, and Jared and Trevor will answer the top questions. Upvote:	42
Title: We're trying to get better at writing docs, so I thought I'd turn to you guys for help.<p>How does your team write documentation? What part of the documentation (e.g. architecture, processes, tooling) do you give the most attention to? What tools have you found helpful in improving the documentation your team writes? Upvote:	77
Title: Starting at 11 am PST today, Trevor Blackwell and I are going to do online office hours. If you'd like help with your startup, please post a top-level comment with a one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you'd like to talk about.<p>Update: We've gotta run, but this was great. Thanks so much and enjoy the weekend. Upvote:	93
Title: There is always a risk (no matter how small) of any app being deemed inappropriate by Apple and, hence removed from the App Store. I'm not particularly interested in why Apple would do that. If that were to happen, hypothetically, what would Uber, a $63 billion company, do without its primary way to generate revenue? Upvote:	42
Title: I co-authored a book on Python last year and it was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. Does anyone have experience with writing part time or full time on technical topics? How would one get started? Upvote:	148
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:	53
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: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Upvote:	84
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>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519. Upvote:	488
Title: I'm co-founder of a startup that's going into an expansion phase. We are backed by a large VC and have more demand for our product than we can supply. Our problem is that we cannot attract any good developers. Every time we find someone we want to hire they turn us down in favour of some of the tech giants. We offer high compensation (salary, vacation and options) and interesting problems to work on using the latest technology, but it feels like the good developers that don't run their own startup is too afraid of the startup world. We know how important a good core team is for a startup, so we don't want to hire people we don't think fits in our team. Right now we are relying on a bunch of consultants to keep the company alive, but that doesn't feel like a long term solution.<p>So help us HN; how do you attract good developers to a small startup? What can we offer people (besides the "safety" of a large company) to give us a shot? Upvote:	41
Title: It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue. Upvote:	48
Title: And is this ever going to happen?<p>I have been hearing "IPV6 is just on the horizon", "IPV4 is completely exhausted, it's only a matter of months", etc... for years now.<p>IPV4 exhaustion scare-mongering has been so slow recently one might easily have assumed that it was forgotten about or that the problem has been solved.<p>I am sitting here writing some security checks into a new website I am working on that makes sure that IPV4 addresses aren't hammering certain important parts of the site too quickly... and I can't help but wonder when this code will become obsolete due to full IPV6 integration.<p>Does anyone have any insight into the current situation of IPV6? Upvote:	43
Title: Search results yield coursereport.com and switchup.org.<p>With the "top" ones like GA, Hack Reactor, Career Foundry, you are lucky to get more than 50+ reviews.<p>With some of these being over $10k, am I wrong to think there should be more reviews out there? Upvote:	52
Title: Does anyone have any book recommendations? Preferably non-fiction (like business, self-help, finance, tech, etc). What are the best books to read? I'm going on a learning/reading binge, and I want to get the best stuff. Upvote:	98
Title: And if the founders or anyone in the YC jury read this: what was the reason? Upvote:	159
Title: This article touts a pay range of $300k and up for "cloud computing engineers." Are you making this much consistently (not just from one-time stock pops), and doing what?<p>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/tech-companies-new-and-old-clamor-to-entice-cloud-computing-experts.html<p>"Many of them are the kind of jobs that now pay $300,000 to $1 million a year."<p>"With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job opportunities..."<p>"LinkedIn or Facebook can offer an engineer with a few years’ experience a package close to $1 million" Upvote:	111
Title: Has anyone moved out of SF/SV to work in a different tech city? If so, where?<p>Currently Seattle, New York, Austin, Portland, and Boston/Cambridge seem to be the hot destinations as secondary tech hubs. But their costs of living are likely climbing as well, especially Seattle and Austin. How about Raleigh, how's their startup scene? Or Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, or Nashville?<p>Not to mention cities outside of the U.S. Upvote:	191
Title: Wondering? Upvote:	40
Title: As an engineer with a full-time job I am usually juggling contracts on the side and not getting enough sleep. My days of mentally taxing coding all day can make me tired in the middle of the day. Does anyone else have this experience and do you think it's reasonable to request the company you work for to provide a nap time?<p>EDIT: Grammar Upvote:	47
Title: - Macbook Pro<p>- Macbook Air<p>- Macbook<p>- Surface Book<p>- Surface Pro<p>- Chromebook Pixel<p>- Thinkpad X Series<p>- Thinkpad T Series<p>- Thinkpad P Series<p>- Ideapad / Yoga<p>- Dell XPS<p>- Asus Zenbook<p>- System76 Lemur / Gazelle / etc<p>- Other<p>Feel free to share your overall evaluation (positive/negative), technical specs, anecdotes, etc. Upvote:	59
Title: Do you prefer tryping your passphrase every time you use them or you use an agent; if you use an agent, is it 'ssh-agent' or a frontend utility (e.g, Keychain)? If it is ssh-agent, how do you configure it? If it is a backend, what is it and why did you choose it? Please, tell us (me?) about your practices. Upvote:	93
Title: So I've been reading Paul Graham's - Hackers and Painters. A bit late, I know. And I find his ideas fascinating. One that struck a chord with me, was the idea of taste, recognising good taste. I'd like to know examples of beautiful software and what makes it beautiful. Upvote:	345
Title: I'm the Director of Hardware at Y Combinator, and we have awesome companies in our current batch running crowdfunding campaigns. Ask their founders anything! Participating will be the founders of Tovala, Soundboks, Enflux, and Hykso. Also joining me will be Philip Winter, CEO of Nebia, from our most recent batch. Upvote:	89
Title: Fellow Hackers, I am bored and want to learn something new.<p>Have you watched any interesting/useful online courses recently on Coursera/Udemy/edX/OpenUniversity/others?<p>It can be free/paid and I am open to any discipline. Upvote:	99
Title: Non-technical, technical, technical management, people management, perspective, insight.<p>What books or other resources do you believe would make <i>your</i> life better, if your present and future managers read them and lived their lessons? Upvote:	50
Title: I work with a senior system developer who drinks.<p>Basically, he's an alcoholic. He's in his mid 50s. He wasn't always like this. He started drinking a lot when some of his family members died unexpectedly in an accident.<p>The thing is, when he is drinking, he can code things that no one else on staff can do quickly. For example, he once implemented a hash table in about an hour because we had a platform that did not have a C++11 compiler (no unordered set) and needed that data structure.<p>It's kind of frightening to stand behind him, watch him run vi and start editing code. Inside, I'm terrified that he's going to make a mistake. I'm thinking that he should not be touching code when he's like this. But as he starts to edit the files, it's somewhat amazing. I and the others stand and watch in awe as he types so fast we can barely follow. It's not that we don't understand what he's doing, it's that he's typing so fast. Then, he compiles it and it works as expected and he tells us about a few possible issues, etc. and leaves.<p>We have to get him a ride home, help him walk to the door and have an intern walk him to his apartment so that he doesn't go in the wrong place. Then, a few days later, he comes back to the office like nothing has happened.<p>He's a really nice person. Very polite and self deprecating always giving credit to others on the team and mentoring the young guys (he's not an ass). We want to keep him on staff and we need his knowledge and all the guys love him. Just not sure how to approach him about this issue.<p>Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation? Upvote:	78
Title: I have been programming <i>immersive</i> ads. I could modify from an embedded iframe the content of information sites, suck data out of people, manipulate data (like navigation history). And I got really not confident in what unethical people could do and seen no way we could detect misbehaving code.<p>I feel like the potential of vulnerabilities dynamic ads (JS based) exposes the users to is under stated by the industry.<p>I use adblockers to just protect myself. Who else does it?<p>And who else think their may be an ad-gate of the ads companies not stating the risks clearly? I mean to any coder that actually coded ads, we know what it actually can do, right? Upvote:	128
Title: Details hidden to provide anonymity to both parties.<p>I am being terminated from a startup 2 weeks before reaching my one year cliff. The other day I was asked to sign a release form noting the date of termination and that I would receive no stake in the startup.<p>To provide some background, I was visiting the company at their new out of state location for a few weeks. Historically, the company started in SF and moved. We also worked remotely for a better part of a year. I was asked about my future with the company, and I mentioned that I would like to transition out of the company. My flight back home was scheduled for next week, but it was pushed up to two days after the discussion when a new ticket was purchased for me.<p>The following weeks progressed with my permissions to various websites were being revoked, and my receipt of a release form.<p>The company was bootstrapped, less than 5 people, and everyone worked for more than half a year without salary.<p>I saw a similar situation here on another Ask HN thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962292<p>What are your thoughts and advice about the situation above?<p>Thank you for taking the time Upvote:	77
Title: To people who work at Amazon, how much do you make? I work at Amazon, and my pay is below.<p>Discussing pay is awkward, so most people don't. But this creates an imbalance of power in salary talks. A person I trust who was recently promoted was offered in the range of $55K for their new role. However, I know of one or two people who were hired into the same role from outside the company who apparently started at $70K+.<p>I suspect that internal candidates have less leverage in pay negotiations than do external hires. I think most people probably won't decline a promotion, even if the raise is weak, because the alternative is no promotion and no raise. Transparency corrects this imbalance.<p>Me:<p>Position: Developer (not classified as SDE, do not manage ppl) Tenure: 2 years Job Level: 5 Base Pay: $73,000 Signing Bonus: $25k Year 1, $21k Year 2 2016 Stock Vest: 104 shares LY Review Score: Exceeds LY Pay Increase: 4%, plus 35 shares of AMZN Most Recent Promotion Increase/Stock Grant: N/A - no promotions Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes<p>If you're wondering about Native English Speaker, I included it because I think it might be interesting.<p>I'm not aware of any Amazon policy which prohibits sharing one's own compensation, but I still made a throwaway. A shift of power is never welcomed by those whose authority is diminished.[2]<p>To non-Amazonians, perhaps you could start an "Ask HN: How much do you make at XYZ" for your own employer so you and your coworkers can share the same thing. Comparing compensation for different companies could also be interesting.<p>[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation<p>[1] That isn't to suggest that I suspect Amazon of taking part in any illegal activity. I don't believe Bezos would even entertain the idea. I like Amazon, and overall I'm happy here. What I want is a more fair salary negotiation process.<p>[2] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/frederickd134371.html Upvote:	1213
Title: I don't work for Google, but I would like to.<p>How much do senior software engineers make? What level are you? Do you work at Mountain View HQ, or elsewhere?<p>I don't have much to share, but I make $130K base at a Silicon Valley startup. Options aren't worth anything (yet), but from what I've read on HN, they probably won't be worth anything anyways. (-:<p>Thank you in advance for sharing!<p>This post was inspired by an earlier post by an Amazon Employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984 Upvote:	193
Title: Applications for YC for Summer 2016 are due next Thursday 3/24.<p>People often have questions about YC, and I'm happy to answer those (or questions about anything else).<p>EDIT: Ok, I have to run. Thanks for the questions! Upvote:	429
Title: London is supposed to be the next best market outside the US, yet from recent salary threads, developers are paid half or less of US salaries.<p>For example, with 5 years experience, I am on £75k ($110k) in a startup as a Senior Dev, and that is considered pretty good. I could get maybe another 10-20% if I had 10 years experience or was really exceptional. A Team Lead with 7-10 years experience can expect around £100k ($150k).<p>But my salary is only comparable to a fresh graduate at Google in SF. A Google dev with 1 year experience in SF will earn as much as a Team Lead in London with 10 years experience! Upvote:	60
Title: I am considering offers as a university student.<p>Adobe has made me an offer, but I can't find as much information about it as I can for companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.<p>What is good about working at Adobe? What is bad about it? What is its reputation like in the industry?<p>Thanks. Upvote:	43
Title: It's been a while since this ESP8266 VNC Client library has been out.<p>https://github.com/Links2004/arduinoVNC<p>Today I finally got my ILI9341 display, so tried to set it up as a remote display for the Raspberry Pi. Here's a demo video and photo.<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFWgACP6sw https://www.instagram.com/p/BDJwURSkdY_/<p>On the Pi, all you need to do is start a TightVNC server, something like this<p><pre><code> vncserver :1 -geometry 320x240 -depth 16 -name "ESP VNC :888" -alwaysshared -s 0 -nocursor -broadcast </code></pre> The ESP8266 connects instantly on boot up. Looking at the accuracy of the touch panel, doesn't look very practical as an input device, but it could be fun as a remote display if setup correctly. Perhaps some sort of dashboard running on the RPi. You could even set it up to connect to multiple Raspberry Pi's by using one of the ESP's GPIO's to to select one. The video refresh rate looks bad, I guess because I couldn't find a way to setup hextile encoding with TightVNC. If you looks at his original demo video running the XVNC server on a Linux box, it looks much smoother (20-25fps). Overclocking the ESP to 160MHz might help too.<p>Finally, this library is an entrant in the 1st Annual ESP8266 Design Contest. If you think it's kinda cool, please go and vote for it here: http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=8832 Upvote:	56
Title: I recently updated my AngelList profile and they emailed my employer, pretending to be me, to "confirm" the project I'd added. How can they think this is a good idea? Upvote:	958
Title: "No server is currently available to service your request.<p>Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Upvote:	89
Title: I'm interested in getting started with Algo Trading, but I'm not really sure where to dig in. I have a BA in economics and finance and did a capstone in pricing derivatives. Any good recommendations on how to get started? Any good MOOCS or books? Upvote:	42
Title: Why has the black bar been added on top of the title bar ? http://i.imgur.com/O8FU6km.png Upvote:	149
Title: What makes a entry level, mid level senior dev? Upvote:	42
Title: I read many articles about "Company X taking on Slack", but they fail to point out exactly how the company plans to disrupt Slack.<p>http://fortune.com/2015/09/23/microsoft-slack-killer/<p>https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-slack-work-office-chat http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/domo-takes-on-slack-with-130m-at-2-billion-valuation/<p>http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-to-take-on-slack-and-facebook-with-new-ai-powered-chat-says-report/<p>http://www.slashgear.com/quip-adds-chat-rooms-to-take-on-slack-21380086/<p>http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/27/hipchat-looks-take-slack-new-app-private-networks/<p>We use Slack all day, it is deeply embedded in our productivity and workflows, it just works. What exactly would convince us to give up something that works?<p>Emulating Slack is not enough, how do you think Slack can truly be disrupted? Upvote:	40
Title: It could be much, <i>much</i> easier to browse HN if we could hide subtrees of comments the same as works on reddit.<p>It's a huge usability problem.<p>It's dead simple to program.<p>Please? Upvote:	311
Title: Hi HN,<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for a payment processor for use by a startup?<p>Some details:<p>-We have a high volume of payments with low margins.<p>-The tech stack is node.js with react/redux. There is a planned iOS/Android app.<p>-We're based out of Canada and only serve Canadian customers.<p>Even if your preferred processor doesn't cater to those bullet points, I would be interested in hearing your experience with them. Thanks in advance.<p>P.S. I'm sure this question has been asked many times already, but I found nothing too relevant from within the past year: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=payment%20processor&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story Upvote:	83
Title: We are a team of 12 developers in our local office plus five to six remote guys. How do you integrate remote developers? On a technical level (video conferencing, IM), but also on a social/personal level (team spirit etc.). Upvote:	127
Title: While fooling around with Fiddler looking at data going in to and out of my phone, I discovered an application with a serious data leak.<p>The leak includes customers private and personal information such as height, weight, address and phone numbers including that of my wife.<p>No one seems to take the data leak seriously and it is a simple IDOR on their API.<p>While I had thought about probing deeper, I did not want to get tangled up into any legal trouble and stopped immediately.<p>I have been unsuccessfully trying to contact anyone at the company that will listen. I have Tweeted, Emailed and tried calling the contacts I see available on their main page and developers on LinkedIn and I received one reply from an automated ticketing system and no call back from my voicemails.<p>Is there an easier way to disclose a vulnerability like this without risking legal actions? The company is not on HackerOne and I feel that when a young company receives news like this they will either go on the attack or respond in kind.<p>Is it worth just forgetting the whole thing removing my accounts and moving on? Upvote:	43
Title: Did anyone notice that NPM removed the Disqus comments from: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm<p>The Disqus thread is still available, but comments have been closed: https://disqus.com/home/forum/npmjs/<p>Since the Kik fiasco I am losing all good faith in NPM now. The community clearly disapproved NPM's decision and instead of dealing with it in a transparent way they decided to just close and remove comments instead. Are they turning into North Korea now or what the hell is going on there? Upvote:	46
Title: I have read a few methods of debugging code. What is the method that you use to efficiently do so? Upvote:	89
Title: Just anounced at Build! Upvote:	76
Title: The top of this thread devolved into an off-topic discussion of the Month Hall problem [1]. I'm often on my phone and don't have the ability to use the browser extension that adds collapsing boxes on a desktop. Plus I think this would be a feature that could allow everyone to more easily locate interesting discussion.<p>My favorite discussions on HN are the ones where comments are primarily on topic and substantive. How can we get more of this?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389370 Upvote:	143
Title: About every 15 seconds all day, another Mail Delivery Subsystem Status Notification Failure pops in from random servers around the world for some email that supposedly I sent, but of course did not. Apparently someone is sending out thousands of emails as coming from my address, and there is nothing I can do about it, right? Here are my questions:<p>1) Or, is there something I can do about this? 2) Will this cause my email address to end up on blacklists and cause me significant problems? 3) Why in 2016 are Internet mechanisms not in place to prevent stuff like this? Upvote:	143
Title: Let's collect all of April Fool's day links here instead of polluting the home page. Upvote:	79
Title: With Reddit being forced to take down its canary, it is more important than ever to make canaries mainstream/acceptable. Upvote:	49
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:	90
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: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Upvote:	154
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>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519. Upvote:	427
Title: Share your information if you hate your job. Please use this format:<p>How much of a jerk is your boss? (0-10)<p>How chaotic is your environment? (0-10)<p>What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you?<p>What are you currently doing?<p>What would you like to do instead?<p>Readers: Please only fire people that are direct reports of yours. Upvote:	117
Title: I'm hoping to find ways to improve the code review process at the company where I work.<p>My team has a fairly has a fairly standard github PR-based process. When you have some code you want to merge into the master branch you open a PR, ask another developer or two to review it, address any comments they have, and then wait for one of the reviewers to give it an LGTM (looks good to me).<p>The problem is that there can be a lot of lag between asking someone to review the PR and them actually doing it, or between addressing comments and them taking another look. Worst of all, you never really know how long things will take, so it's hard to know whether you should switch gears for the rest of the day or not.<p>Over time we've gotten used to communicating a lot, and being shameless about pestering people who are less communicative. But it's hard for new team members to get used to this, and even the informal solution of just communicating a ton isn't perfect and probably won't scale well.<p>So, has anyone else run I to similar problems? Do you have a different or better process for doing code reviews? As much as this seems like a culture issue, are there any tools that might be helpful? Upvote:	357
Title: Hi Hacker News,<p>I'm Jared, I work at Y Combinator. We're going to be talking and writing about how we use data at YC, and I'd like to get the community's feedback on what would be most interesting. For example, some topics we're considering are:<p>- What data you should have before applying to YC<p>- How YC uses data to help evaluate applications<p>- What mistakes we've seen early stage startups make with data<p>We'll be hosting a talk on this and then writing a blog post to follow. What would you like to hear about? Upvote:	63
Title: I am curious to hear your experience hiring or getting hired using https://www.starfighters.io. Upvote:	59
Title: Here at HN HQ we've been wondering: if Hacker News could fund startups, what startups would it fund?<p>Hacker News users have many diverse perspectives on technology and business. Perhaps if HN picked startups, it would pick differently than YC. Maybe different startups would be motivated to apply, if they knew that the interviewing and deciding would be done by the HN community. Interesting things might happen, or they might not. We'd have to try it and see.<p>I ran this by Sam and he ran it by Kevin and we all got excited, so we're going to try this as an experiment. Starting today, there's a new track for YC applications: applying directly to the Hacker News community. We'll call it "Apply HN". Note that word experiment! We'll start small and figure it out as we go. But here are the initial conditions.<p>YC’s Fellowship program will fund a minimum of 2 startups selected by the HN community for this summer's F3 batch. (They name their batches sequentially.) The Fellowship is the YC program that fits best here since it’s designed to be experimental and inclusive and doesn’t require people to move to the Bay Area.<p>All the interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads, and everyone is welcome to participate. For this summer's batch, Apply HN will accept applications starting now and ending April 27.<p>If you'd like to apply to the HN community for YCF funding, simply post a submission whose title begins with "Apply HN" and explain what your startup does. Hopefully community members will ask you questions and good discussion will ensue.<p>If you'd like to help pick which startups to fund, simply jump into any Apply HN thread that interests you. Ask questions and post comments that you think will help the community make the best decisions. These will be regular threads, with all the same voting and so on, but with one additional rule: Be Nice.<p>Be Nice is a stronger version of our usual rule, Be Civil. Anybody who applies to HN in public this way is putting both themselves and their baby in a super vulnerable position. We're going to rise to the occasion by being not only civil, but nice. When interviewing startups, by all means be curious and probing—but only if you can also be nice. The word "nice" originally meant "not knowing". Then later it meant "precise and careful". And now it means "kind and thoughtful". Let's put all those qualities together.<p>At the end of the month, we'll rank the startups and YC will fund two. The ranking will depend both on upvotes and on the quality of discussion, similar to how the ranking of stories works. We can talk about this in the comments, but to answer one question I know will come up: Upvotes are an important factor but they're too brittle to rely on exclusively; doing so would encourage the wrong kind of trying to game the system. So we're going to gauge community interest both by upvotes and comments, and in case of doubt I'll make the final call—or better, figure out a way to put the final call to the community.<p>That's what we're thinking so far. If it seems unstructured, that's on purpose: we don't want to bias it along the lines of how YC already operates. We want to see what the community comes up with.<p>Questions or suggestions? Let's discuss and refine this together.<p>Edit: As discussed below, we'll add a top link for these a la /ask and /show. I won't get to that till later, though, so in the meantime, use the following link to find Apply HN discussions: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byDate&d...</a><p>Edit 2: Here's the link describing how YCF works: <a href="https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/</a>. Read it to make sure you're eligible. It's a lot more flexible than YC Core, but there are still some restrictions.<p>Edit 3: There's now a ranked page of applications at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn</a>, a complete list at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/applynew" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/applynew</a>, and a random sample at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/applyrand" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/applyrand</a>. Upvote:	867
Title: Problem : Only professional networking site out there is also the biggest spammer. Mainly because it serves to Sales and Recruiters more than it does to Users<p>Solution : A place where users can do the following : 1. Publish their profile, interest and recent work. Ex direct stream to github projects blog articles about your work<p>2. Create forms that others need to fill in before inviting. Ex : DirectConnectForm - just how do i know you field HireMe form - mandatory fields like company name, comp, location, etc SellMe form - Product, problem it solves, pricing, demo link, etc Other customized forms.<p>3. People who are interested to connect with you need to go through one of the forms. These forms define the edge of the graphs Upvote:	40
Title: WedWell (http://WedWell.co) helps couples hire the best vendors for their wedding by getting vendors iterate details electronically and to bid for their event.<p>A wedding brief, created by the couple, is a text based description of what they want to see for different aspects of their wedding. Initially we will breakdown the brief into the first wave of vendor types: (DJ's, Cakes, Flowers, Photos, Invites). The brief can include links to Pinterest boards, Spotify Play lists and Google Drive documents. Ideally, the brief becomes the digital representation of the couple’s wedding that they draw all inspiration from.<p>Couples can invite vendors to bid on their brief by viewing a list of the vendors and sending them messages. We will also solicit external vendors for the couple’s brief.<p>Vendors will respond with their proposals. The proposals will come in as text/hyperlinks to describe their services. It's up to them to sell themselves to the couples.<p>The couple will tell WedWell how much they want to pay for each vendor type. We may give suggestions for pricing based on analytics available to us. The couple will put a credit card down for each of the vendor they would like to book. After the week long bidding period the client will then have the choice to either confirm or cancel the awarded prize (50% of the payment).<p>We will normalize all the agreements. The vendors will receive 50% of the prize as the contest ends. We will then award the other 50% after the wedding. We will build in a rating system for each vendor to ensure the best vendors are rewarded with more contest wins. Upvote:	43
Title: A tremendous, huge opportunity to fund the Bay Area's slowest-growing unicorn. Upvote:	409
Title: When building an application Developers use APIs to serve different functions. This can be payment, data, social network, push notifications. All of these APIs are pivotal in adding a robust feature set to their application. Some they build themselves, but many are used from existing companies and their platforms. However, using an API is a leap of faith. A Developer uses these APIs perhaps because of its reputation in the Developer community. Perhaps someone has used it in the past and found it to be useful. However, this is genuinely a leap of faith they take to use a tool in their application and trust it implicitly. But what happens when that trust is broken? What happens if that API doesn’t work as well or costs too much? That Developer has to dig back into their code, remove dependencies, and recode their application in a process that takes time. Sometimes lots of time.<p>Meet Brightwork.<p>Brightwork is an API Developer Tool. But it’s so much more. With Brightwork Developers can now see usage information as well as performance information about the APIs they use with their application. They can also see cost projections for their APIs as it relates to competing APIs. However, we take it all a step further. Now Developers can simply click a button in the Brightwork dashboard and switch APIs without having to write one line of code. We do all the heavy lifting in the integration layer and move the API so Developers can spend more time building applications that are agile, meaningful, saves them time, and ultimately money.<p>On top of offering all of this intelligence with their APIs, we’re offering full stack profiles. These are what we’re calling “BrightStacks” but are pre-built API bundles that can be used in their full stack. So instead of programming these services individually, entire stacks can now be turned up in minutes, not hours or days.<p>http://brightwork.io Upvote:	64
Title: Brodlist (http://brodlist.com) is new ground-breaking database that aims to replace the relational database.<p>Its features include Schema-on-Need, so that you don't have to model your database, just start using it. History is built in. You can query the current state of your data or how it looked a week or month ago just by specifying 'when' as part of the query. It's performant on commodity hardware and scales horizontally, which is why we can offer it for next-to-nothing. Because it's offered as a REST-ful service where the language is the interface, your API is built-in. What's more, the authorization is specified as queries, so you can easily lock down any set of rows or columns for any user.<p>Finally, it uses a new query language that is much simpler. To get the list of employee equipment in the Sales Department would be queried like this: Employee.Equipment : Employee.Department = "Sales"<p>The same result in SQL requires this query: SELECT q.* FROM Equipment q INNER JOIN EmployeeEquipment ee ON ee.EquipmentKey = q.ID INNER JOIN Employee e ON ee.EmployeeKey = e.ID INNER JOIN EmployeeDepartment ed ON ed.EmployeeKey = e.ID INNER JOIN Department d ON d.ID = ed.DepartmentKey AND d.Name = 'Sales'<p>SQL and the relational database has been around for 50 years. It's finally met its match. Upvote:	46
Title: http://thielfellowship.org<p>I want to apply, but i need advice from someonewho went through it. Upvote:	50
Title: It seems like HN can't get enough of AI/Machine Learning (with Robotics sort of lumped into those) and Crypto at the moment, but for those that aren't interested in solely those disciplines, what real-world applications are you seeing that are focused around other central disciplines of computer science? Such as:<p>* Architecture<p>* Performance<p>* Graphics/Computer Vision<p>* Networking<p>* Concurrent/Parallel/Distributed systems<p>* Databases<p>* Human-Computer Interaction/UX<p>* Scientific/computational science Upvote:	63
Title: I am currently working in a position that felt like a great startup to work at during my interview. However, a few months into the job I realized my boss was a complete and utter asshole. Given this is my first job out of college, I've stuck with it and I am looking for a new role. How can I detect during the interview / research phase to avoid such situations?<p>Some things I've been doing is looking at Glassdoor but the problem with that is the reviews are highly dependent on the role, or the department or some manager who may or may not still be at the company.<p>I am a pretty average developer which is why I was kind of desperate for that first job out of college but after getting more experience, I know I can do better than this. Upvote:	356
Title: http://paralleltext.io enables a simple way of learning languages by reading and listening human translated books in parallel.<p>Problem: Learning languages is a difficult process that requires hard work no matter if you choose the academic way or to use existing apps. It also requires continuity, a key factor which is hard to achieve with the available methods.<p>Solution: We want to change that by combining the learning experience with the pleasure of reading and listening to a book. A large number of book translations is available, but we think they're being underutilized for this purpose.<p>Progress: We built a tool that matches human translated paragraphs from ebooks in all European languages and a novel interface to read them. Now we are focusing on adding more books and more engaging features.<p>Market: Language learning and publishing<p>Team: We are two developers, both with product management experience living in Berlin.<p>Feedback: we got amazing feedback so far (https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/3x2tux/paralleltextio_improve_your_knowledge_of_foreign/) Upvote:	46
Title: Potemkin Demo: <a href="https://demo.casepad.io" rel="nofollow">https://demo.casepad.io</a><p>Problem: lawyers, judges, and clerks who work in high volume case environments (public defense, small claims, family, housing, prosecution) at the state and local level need databases to: (1) Get access to basic information about their cases (2) Fulfill their sometimes onerous compliance requirements (3) Run basic analytics on their caseloads (4) Schedule their work around court appearances, client availability, etc.<p>Existing tools don't deliver on these four points because: no mobile or web access, onerous amounts of time to generate simple compliance reports, a lack any sort of extensibility, no integration with basic office productivity tools, bad search/indexing, and no automation of the onerous data intake process.<p>Casepad: is an attempt to solve these issues. We have partnered with one of NYC's institutional defense providers to build a modern database service geared towards these needs. They've provided us with full access to their staff, introductions to other professionals, and some "seed" money to build an mvp.<p>About us: we're brothers. I'm a '14 college graduate who worked in NYC as a data analyst. My brother is studying CS in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where we both grew up.<p>Why We're Applying: two main reasons. First, we could use the money. It would be great if my brother could afford to move to NY with me and we could both tackle this full time. Second, I think we would benefit from the mentorship that YC and its network have to provide. It would be great to learn more from folks who have built great tech businesses.<p>Prior Work: we've been writing code and interviewing users for Casepad for about 3mo now. Over 60 attorneys, judges, and clerks were interviewed while we validated some of our assumptions about the broader legal market.<p>If you have any questions, comments, feedback, or interest in the project reach out. We'd love to hear from you! Upvote:	173
Title: Problem: Is our home free of poisons and toxins? Idea: At home testing for dangerous materials; customers fill a vial with vacuum dust and mail it to us. Our lab will test for lead, asbestos, or other containments that may be lurking in your home. We’ll also test your water for lead, mercury, pharmaceuticals, and other toxins. Customers can then work to improve their environment and test on a regular basis. Market: Anyone who lives under a roof and cares about their family’s health.<p>About Us: Husband (data engineer) and wife (bioinformatist). I’ve worked in startups and big companies solving data problems, my wife has built LIMS (lab information management systems) for pharma and bio-tech companies. We live in the SF Bay area, and we’re always concerned about the safety of our environment for ourselves and daughter, but haven’t been able to validate that our home is safe to live in. Upvote:	96
Title: Dear HN, I'm CEO of a Germany-based eSports startup and we have a problem.<p>Today we were approached by a Chinese user of our website who told us that a China-based startup has launched a direct clone of our website aimed at the Chinese market.<p>Our website https://strivewire.com is a host of for-money eSports tournaments in the Hearthstone vertical, but we are working on expanding to other games as well.<p>The website in question is a very obvious clone of ours and has both .com and .cn domains: - www.haogegebisai.com - www.chosengamer.com<p>Basically they copied all the design and even our logo down to the actual URLs.<p>I've added their CEO on WeChat and inquired about this, and he said they are big fans of our startup. But he also mentioned that they already have investors. Their website launched two days ago and already has a bunch of activity.<p>We've talked about this internally and hope to be able to gain this startup as a Chinese subsidiary, but we are still unsure if this will actually work out.<p>From a legal standpoint we are very unsure how much you can actually do in such a case. Should we just wait it out? Our should we aim to litigate to put pressure on their investors? I have some experience in international litigation in cybercrime cases, but from a practical perspective it is very likely to bind a lot of resources and focus.<p>Another huge problem for us is that we are in talks with a very large Chinese IT company (triple-digit $Bn market cap), and if there is a clone growing in their backyard they might pass on us.<p>It'd be great if people with more experience in these things could give us some advice.<p>Thanks, Benjamin<p>TL;DR: Chinese startup is cloning our business, unsure what to do Upvote:	131
Title: There are lots of free courses online but some offer the option of paying and receiving a certificate on completion.<p>Does anyone here have one of those certs? Do they hold any value? Is it worth paying for the cert when you can still do the full course for free? Upvote:	138
Title: I am beginner in this whole javascript/node ecosystem. Currently i am going through express.js framework, and would like add a client-side framework/library to my repertoire.Any suggestions would be welcome. Upvote:	144
Title: Hey, I have found myself in a bit of a bind at my job over the last several months. A little backstory, I am a bisexual man in a relationship with a woman. I'm not sure how it happened for me this way, but it did, and I am honest about who I am with those that are close to me. So, here is my current situation:<p>I started working at a part of Oracle back in September, and over the next several months my coworkers one aisle over from me have begun talking about my sexuality in a very demeaning manner. They are I guess 'whispering', but I can clearly hear them talking about whether I am gay or not on a close to daily basis. This is also followed up with jokes about how I 'think' I'm Bi, and how thats a bunch of bullshit. I work in an area where I am one of the only engineers and am surrounded by a bunch of what I would call Prep School types.<p>I have tried to ignore it, and brush it off, but it gets in my head and makes me really upset. Which is then in turn misinterpreted as me having a 'bad attitude'. I have opened up to several other people at work about it and they have suggested going to HR. I have never really been the type to go to teacher, but I feel like I'm kind of out of options here. I also worry about the possible repercussions of it.<p>I guess I am wondering if anyone has been in a similar boat? And perhaps has some advice to share? Thanks Upvote:	48
Title: Paul Graham claims that startups should use the most powerful language for a job, like Lisp. I'm looking for statistical evidence for or against this theory.<p>For example, amongst the thousands of YC startups, have ones that used Lisp or Smalltalk or other esoteric but powerful language succeeded more than startups that used a mainstream language like Python, Java or C++? Do we have statistics of success rate by language?<p>One should not look at a single startup (ITA software) that used Lisp and succeeded and conclude that it pays for the average startup to use Lisp (or other powerful language like Smalltalk). Upvote:	80
Title: What is the reasoning behind only an itemid in the URL for HN? Is there an SEO impact?<p>For instance, a url on reddit may be:<p>https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4ea7ee/what_would_the_horizon_look_like_if_you_were/<p>while a link on HN looks like:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465163 Upvote:	51
Title: Demo: <a href="http://www.wantobuythat.com/demo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wantobuythat.com/demo.html</a><p>Problem: Within online trading forums, including Facebook Groups, users post what they want in the hope that sellers will get in touch and make the sale. Yet, these 'want to buy' posts aren't standardised or searchable so it's impossible for sellers to see your post and for you to get the items you need.<p>This issue is bigger than just online communities too, there's currently no central hub for people to post what they want to buy which is viewable to sellers.<p>Wantobuy: We're standardising 'want to buy' posts so that if you're selling something you can see who wants to buy it, how much they're willing to pay and then sell for the highest price. We're taking this one step further and once users post something they want we'll search top retail platforms (Amazon, eBay etc.) to see if it's already available online and show the user 'wheretobuy' it.<p>About us: Jack (21) and Sam (22) who have known each other for 11+ yrs and built stuff together in the past (Check out Spaces, which we got to 30th on the App Store without spending any money - <a href="http://needa.space" rel="nofollow">http://needa.space</a>). We're big on sneaker and streetwear Facebook groups (yes, we have camped out for sneakers a few times..) and so will target these first before scaling to further product categories. We're applying because we're determined to learn from the YC network, plus we're about to graduate so the money would massively help us survive whilst we build Wantobuy.<p>So far: Over the past few months, we've interviewed Facebook Group admins, given them a demo of the app to play with and received extremely useful feedback.<p>Any feedback, questions or comments would be super useful too! Upvote:	41
Title: Hacksaw Academy just launched a public beta this week and it looks as though Codecademy has their work cut out for them. Source: http://beta.hacksaw.academy/ Upvote:	85
Title: I have tried to learn vim, and I am on the fence about which editor to use. I have tried Atom, Eclipse, Emacs, etc. VSCode just came out and Facebook has its Nuclide editor on the shelf. People hold vim as a pinnacle of editing technology.<p>Can you show me with a short screencast why vim is superior? And, why it is worth spending the time to learn, not only mentally and visually, but also mechanically with my hands.<p>Thanks. Upvote:	60
Title: Problem: Today, people spend hours searching for sustainable products and services. They end up browsing through apps, blogs and online reviews. Existing services such as Yelp and Google Maps offer little guidance and users end up with information overload.<p>We started Sure to make this process easier. Interviewing our target users validated our key assumption: finding sustainable options should be as easy as finding the closest McDonalds. The market in Europe alone is 56.8M, and with more than 75% willing to pay more for sustainable goods, the need we’re meeting is both prominent and growing.<p>Solution: Sure is a Facebook Messenger chatbot for finding and buying sustainable products and services. Powered by human assisted AI and using data capture and machine learning, Sure provides personalised recommendations for sustainable consumption curated from a crowdsourced database.<p>Why YCF: In March, our MVP had a monthly growth rate of 64% and with F8 earlier this week, we’ve tripled our number of active users and received over 1,500 messages just in 1 day. As The Guardian put it, Sure is one of the earliest chatbots on Messenger that actually manages to achieve the conversational UI but we need to expand to other cities and add product lines fast enough to keep up with the demand.<p>We would love to hear your feedback here and will be happy to answer any questions. Before that, go ahead and try Sure at m.me/besure.io<p><a href="http://besure.io/" rel="nofollow">http://besure.io/</a><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/13/facebook-army-chatbots-messenger-news-sports" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/13/facebook-...</a> Upvote:	74
Title: I get to choose a new laptop for work. I'd like to switch back to Linux as I think it does 95% of what a Mac does, and it's better at some things. What are people using? Upvote:	185
Title: I'm thinking to build a language-specific personal assistant, like Siri or Cortana. I'm excited about the technical challenge but wondering about its feasibility.<p>Some of the challenges are:<p>1. NLP: I am not aware of any non-English library and don't have much background on the subject.<p>2. Voice recognition: same as the above.<p>3. Web crawling: there are tons of libraries for doing crawling and I have a decent understanding of the subject.<p>So few questions:<p>1. are there any other challenge that I have not considered?<p>2. is the project feasible?<p>3. will it succeed? Upvote:	101
Title: Just read an article from Microsoft on Dave Cutler receiving CHM Fellow title, and was wondering if any of his code is publicly available. Upvote:	59
Title: I have been having this issue for some months now, but it has been present for a long time.<p>Basically, I can't make me to focus on my work until it's really close to the deadline of my task or even later. I keep procrastinating or code other things, but the one task that I know is my highest priority and the one that should be done, always gets ignored until last minute.<p>The weird thing is that even when I took a break from full-time work for a year or so, I eventually got to the point that even for my own (low or high importance) projects I would do the same and procrastinate instead of working on the project that I know I must work on to accomplish my goals. I think I generally do this not only on code stuff though. Anyone else had this? Upvote:	351
Title: What was it like to make the first enterprise sale at your startup?<p>How'd the enterprise hear about you? What was the first meeting like? What obstacles and challenges did you run into? Were there other companies in the mix? What did you do wrong? What did you do right? Upvote:	496
Title: Few years ago, I would have chosen AWS over GCE. Now, I am starting new project and need to reexamine which cloud provider to use. If you are starting new project in 2016, which cloud provider do you choose? AWS or GCE? They both seems to provide the services I need such as database, storage, scalability etc.<p>Correction: I meant to say Google Cloud Platform instead of GCE. Upvote:	76
Title: Problem:<p>1. The traditional resume is out of date. Digitizing it and overlaying a social network on top helps, but underneath it's still an old resume. So what's the problem with the traditional resume? The traditional resumes focus too much on job titles and the companies that gave you those job titles. It just doesn't convey what you actually did well enough.<p>2. People don't get credit for their work. What do we mean by that? Is everyone still willing to believe that only Steve Jobs and Jony Ive developed the iPhone? What about the hundreds of other engineers, designers, and executives behind it?<p>Enter TheyMadeThat:<p>We solve both problems by:<p>a. Focusing on your work instead of your tenure - even your kids (HR & recruiters) can more easily understand what you do:<p><a href="http://www.theymadethat.com/people/tony-fadell" rel="nofollow">http://www.theymadethat.com/people/tony-fadell</a><p>b. By giving your work their own profiles, with important details such as history and evolution:<p><a href="http://www.theymadethat.com/things/nest-learning-thermostat" rel="nofollow">http://www.theymadethat.com/things/nest-learning-thermostat</a><p><a href="http://www.theymadethat.com/things/apple-macintosh" rel="nofollow">http://www.theymadethat.com/things/apple-macintosh</a><p>To reduce the noise and spam; unlike LinkedIn, your social network on TheyMadeThat is simply the people that you have directly worked with on a project. It doesn't matter if they worked at the same company as you, if you didn't work with them on something then they're not part of your network. Most importantly we are not going to spam you about whether or not you know 'yet another random person'.<p>Feel free to test drive our alpha: <a href="http://theymadethat.com" rel="nofollow">http://theymadethat.com</a><p>(Just please don't delete any data or add garbage data to our site. Yes we have database backups as well as version history for everything but we'd rather not have to roll anything back, since we already have mountains of other work to do.) Upvote:	43
Title: I find it really hard/confusing to understand stocks and the market from the investing perspective. I'm a beginner in this domain. So, I keen to learn about it so that I can understand the technical details too. I did a search and found out that everybody is recommending "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. I'm kind of person who likes to watch videos, so I also found couple of courses (paid) on Udemy but those aren't good and just wastage of money. I also found that Investopedia is an excellent resource. It contains a lot of good tutorials [0], guides [1] and videos [2].<p>You might have already learnt what I'm trying to. What's your story? It would be really nice if you can also share the resources that proved really useful to you.<p>[0] http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/ [1] http://www.investopedia.com/university/ [2] http://www.investopedia.com/video/ Upvote:	150
Title: https://medium.com/@justinjsmith/hatin-on-microservice-passwords-4f8f0c0143ec#.rmxrg2h9l Justin's argument is summarized thus "It’s true that a client must still authenticate with the security service, but the security service provides a central place to focus on and to harden. As I mentioned previously, it’s less about how the client authenticates, and more about where the client authenticates". Do you think this argument holds up? It sounds a bit like throwing up our hands and saying that instead of trying to solve the problem we'll just shift responsibility for failure. Upvote:	42
Title: Hi,<p>I recently switched to a hardware company and we are working on a medical device. We need a nice, touch-based user interface on a 5"-10" inch display. Some math calculations in the background, but no realtime stuff. I am an experienced developer on different platforms but I never programmed an embedded device.<p>What is the mainstream OS on embedded devices right now? Linux, Android, Win 7 Embedded? What about Windows 10 IOT?<p>What is a good setup? Rasberry Pi + official touch screen? Are there medical grade devices out there (doesn't matter if it is expensive)?<p>What about developer tools? Okay, Visual Studio for windows? But what about the other platforms? Still C?<p>You see, I'm pretty clueless, so any help is much appreciated!<p>Thanks. Upvote:	44
Title: 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞<p><a href="http://www.elfinite.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.elfinite.com/</a><p>Full text: <a href="https://goo.gl/4gxRmd" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/4gxRmd</a><p>PROBLEM:<p>We are flooded with content and staying up-to-date with topic we are interested in is getting really hard.<p>I am extremely interested in design. There is no single website that I can visit to stay completely up-to-date with design.<p>I need to visit dribbble, behance to see which graphics are the most voted for today = what are the current trends. I need to visit designernews.com, reddit.com to see what are the most voted articles about design. Then I should go to sidebar.io and check out the links there, and finally I also should visit medium.com to check what are the trending design articles today.<p>It may take an hour or more to do all this but only then can I be sure that I am truly up-to-date with design.<p>SOLUTION:<p>With Elfinite we want to significantly reduce the time we have to spend to stay up-to-date with the topics that matter to us.<p>Elfinite continually collects links from the most popular online content providers (i.e. YouTube, HN, NYT) and checks the number of shares (total number of likes + shares + comments) on fb.<p>Finally, it rates each link by applying our algorithm (publishing time + growth number + number of shares ). The highest rated links are then published on the main page in the appropriate category.<p>ABOUT US:<p>There are two people working on this project right now. I am the programming guy, and @brtkbrtk is responsible for product management.<p>WHY WE ARE APPLYING:<p>First, we need money for AWS and marketing. Second, it would be great to learn more from folks who have built great tech businesses.<p>PRIOR WORK:<p>I was a manager at COMARCH SA (5500+ emp.) where we were developing teleradiology solution: <a href="https://teleradiology.comarch.com/" rel="nofollow">https://teleradiology.comarch.com/</a>. I was fully responsible for this project.<p>𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 Upvote:	63
Title: Let's say you have very limited time to learn and that you are not doing much learning in your day job. How do you decide what to learn? What is your process for picking up topics to learn (other than "this is interesting")? Upvote:	128
Title: Hello,<p>I've recently been doing a lot of systems programming and low-level stuff. I'm hacking away on MIT's xv6 kernel for my OS course. I want to improve my C skills, and want to learn the limits of what can be done with C, the preprocessor etc. I'd be really grateful if some one could direct me to resources that would help me out in this regard.<p>I want to basically learn how to write robust, readable and production-quality C which doesn't crash to a segfault.<p>Also, is there a oft-used style guide for writing error-handling code in C?<p>Thank you. Upvote:	45

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