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Title: I deal with a lot of clients, many of them have their own internal systems and teams, and they add me in to their projects.<p>I've noticed that now my life consists of having multiple Basecamp, Trello and Asana projects all open in different tabs at the same time. Then they want me chatting in Skype, or they text and email. And I have to remote with Join.me, Zoho, GotoMeeting.<p>No longer are project management systems keeping me organized, it's turned into a mess.<p>Do you deal with this too? Are there any solutions out there that can interface with all these major systems at once?
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Title: Applications for Apply HN closed a few hours ago. Now we need a way to sift through the threads and give the community a final say.<p>A few users have suggested that we create a list of applications that had the most interest, then run a poll to let the community produce a final ranking. That seems reasonable, so we can tentatively consider that the default plan, depending on what other ideas appear in this thread.<p>Unfortunately I have to be offline most of today, but I'll read and respond to the comments here tonight.<p>Edit (11 PM Pacific): I'm back now but just too tired and need time to think about this. Sorry. More in the next couple days.
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Title: I have lately been through several pitches from companies and "architects" where they were talking about using IBM Watson but they rarely get into detail what they get from it. Is this just a buzzword for sales guys or are people doing something productive with it?
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Title: You have an idea and would love to get a designer + developer to get that on track! :)<p>How do you scribble your mockup?
Do you have a structure or question-list to make a detailed concept (in my case for a web project)
What are your experiences?
What are your tools?
Could you recommend books or experiences from big companies?
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Title: If you're developing some native executables (C, C++, whatever) on a GNU/Linux platform and possibly GNU/WhateverElse, and some of your object files are custom assembly language produced by hand (or not by a compiler whose developers are aware of this), and not inline assembly but in their own .S or .s file assembled to a separate .o, watch out!<p>If you do <i>not</i> have this blurb:<p><pre><code> .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
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in your assembly code, and do not use a linker option to prevent it, your entire executable or shared library will be silently marked as requiring an executable stack (in all threads).<p>When such an executable is loaded, the stack is made executable. So are any new thread stacks after that.<p>If such a shared library is loaded into an application (even late, with dlopen, I think), a hook is called out of the linker into glibc, which will call mprotect() on all of the existing thread stacks to allow execution.<p>Oops!<p>(This is, of course, a monumentally stupid programmer trap. Write correct, good assembly code without a secret GNU handshake: unknowingly inflict added security risk on your users.)
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Title: It's almost time for the monthly "Who is Hiring" thread!<p>Considering how much time we spend discussing tech interviews here, wouldn't it be nice if each hiring post is accompanied by a line about the nature of the interview process?<p>Examples:<p>i) Interview process: two phone screens, 3 onsite whiteboard<p>ii) Interview process: two rounds on HackerRank, 5 onsite whiteboard<p>iii) Interview process: one take home assignment, 2 on site whiteboard, 1 pair programming session<p>That will help candidates prioritize which companies they want to contact first. Companies also benefit by the fact that the applicant has self-selected for their interview process.
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Title: The language doesn't really matter. I'm trying to see examples of what people consider high quality code (clean, elegant, well-formatted, algorithmically beautiful, etc).
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Title: I'm trying to build a recommender system for news articles. I've read about basic collaborative systems but I'm looking for something more.<p>Do you know of any good intros to building recommender systems?<p>Thanks HN!
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
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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 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. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.<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' console script to search the thread:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
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Title: For context: The project is a PC-hardware recommender (https://www.pc-kombo.de). It looks at benchmarks and tries to find the best combination for the budget, for the parts where there are no benchmarks (hdds, case, …) it relies on reviews and finally coded heuristics (=my judgement). It's a side-project, I have a job (salaried PhD-student, finishing this year).<p>The jump from 0 to some monthly income was a really big thing and took a long time. Then everything moved fast for a moment, but now it did not evolve much in a while, and I'm not sure what to do. I see some options, but they also seem blocked.<p>For example, I'd love to extend the version for the US by adding newegg as a vendor. But the Usage Terms of its referral program are batshit crazy. The consequence by signing it were for me to have to pay them $20k dollars whenever they want, they'd just have to claim a problem with following their terms. I'd have no defense, nor the money.<p>I could also expand to other EU-countries. But I think the monthly work required to keep the database up to date would go over the time budget I have for this project. Maybe if I built that in a very robust way – but my tries to do that for Germany all only improved the situation, there is naturally always still manual work to do… Maybe that should be done anyway, I'm leaning towards it.<p>Maybe I could just make it more known in Germany somehow? Or maybe the site just needs to be improved gradually and would then grow by itself? Maybe (probably) there are other options I miss?<p>I'd love to hear some advice.
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Title: Last month, we decided to reserve a few spots in the next Fellowship batch (F3) for the Hacker News community to decide who they’d like to fund. Startups applied publicly via HN and the community “interviewed” and voted for their favorites.<p>Context:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627</a><p>We ran a poll for the top applications and the voting was so close that we decided to fund one extra startup. Here are the winners:<p>AutoMicroFarm (264 points): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454342" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454342</a><p>Feynman Nano (208 points): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11443122" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11443122</a><p>Casepad (200 points): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452884" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452884</a><p>I’ve talked to the founders of these three startups on the phone already and I’m really excited about working with all of them. We’ve disclosed all the vote totals in the original poll thread (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639</a>). Of course, the application that got the most votes isn’t on the final list and we’ll discuss that in the thread below.<p>We received 343 applications via Apply HN and over 1700 comments were generated across those posts. I was quite impressed by the quality and depth of the discussions on these applications and really loved the moments when HNers would take the time to provide quality feedback to the founders on their applications.<p>Thank you to everyone for participating in our little experiment. It takes a lot of bravery put your passion out there to be judged publicly and it takes a remarkable community to treat that courage with kindness and respect. It makes me very proud to be part of HN.<p>While we haven’t definitively decided whether we’ll do this again at this point (we’ll want to see how the companies do in the batch), I’m delighted and optimistic about what the community accomplished here.<p>We’ve already received a lot of great feedback from many of you on how to do this better, but please feel free to share more below.
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Title: No matter the level of expertise or experience, it's always a favorite question of mine to ask people this.<p>If you could restart your career from day 1, what would you do differently (or the same)?<p>Please also leave years experience/current position.
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Title: A couple days ago we ended the first Apply HN experiment with a big fuck-up, and I'd like to try to make it right. (For background on this, see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627</a>). I thought I'd made it clear that we'd make things up and change the Apply HN rules as we went along, but it wasn't clear. It took time and a large stack of HN user comments for me to perceive this, but I get it now.<p>Maciej, I'm sorry. Your interpretation of what I originally posted was not only reasonable, it was how most people read it. The fault was not yours, but mine. We changed the rules of a game you had won, to cover for my failure to anticipate an unwanted outcome, and you were right to be pissed.<p>We've offered Maciej the $20k, and he graciously accepted and asked us to donate it to the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness (<a href="http://www.cohsf.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cohsf.org/</a>). We'll take care of doing so. (Edit 2016-05-08: We now have.)<p>A note to HN users: The intention behind Apply HN was to do something new to excite and interest the community and engage it with YC in an interesting way. That did happen, but it pains me that it also partly turned into the opposite. If any of you have suggestions for how to do better, I'd like to hear them.
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Title: I have this side project that has been stuck for quite some time, because I can't seem to make up my mind if I should go with a desktop or a web application. Is any single developer or small team making a living of desktop apps, and are they still relevant?<p>My side project is a kind-of productivity application, and my target users are not really technical people and will probably have one computer, but as I'm a "lonely" developer (working alone) I have to think about the future, and so I have to try to make the right choice on this..<p>It would be great to hear both successful and unsuccessful experiences made by single or small teams of developers..
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Title: Just hired a new biz dev person. Over the weekend, he sent some messages that were inappropriate to one of my existing employees.<p>He asked to take the conversation off Slack (moved to Whatsapp) and asked if they could hang out (she said, "sure as friends in work context"), referred to her as a milf (ugh...), and asked if he could tell her a secret (she refused)<p>My employee handled it well and didn't let it get out of hand. I've seen the evidence of the texts in question.<p>The employee came to me in confidence (I'm one of the founders) and told me she really doesn't want to cause problems with the team. I'm really upset by this guy's behaviour and I want to fire him immediately. If I do, she'll know and it will be a violation of the trust she placed in me.<p>So what do I do HN? Do I fire him? Kick his ass? Get them in a room with a HR rep and talk it out? Hold a "how to recognize sexual harassment seminar"?<p>The employee in question has made it clear that it's not a big deal and she knows how to deal with it, but fact is she shouldn't have to deal with it and I want to make it clear that these things aren't acceptable in the company we're building.
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Title: I posted on the Who wants to be hired thread last week. I have received a ton of recruiter spam, all saying "We have the perfect position for you". I quickly realized they say that to everyone. I'd rather talk to a company directly.<p>What's the procedure for getting a new job without going through external recruiters?
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Title: Obviously besides HN. I'm curious on the list of sites that you visit daily. For news or plain habit.
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Title: It's sad that a lot of things have been orphaned and obsoleted or were web-based and no longer work... What's something that <i>you</i> used to use that isn't around these days?
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Title: For those who have found a way to develop software, particularly web backends and frontends, via smartphone - what is your workflow? Which tools are best?
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Title: Been hunting for a month, probably 10-20 applications. 1 interview, haven't heard back yet.<p>Am I being too impatient? How long did it take you to get an offer for your first full-time position in dev? What should I expect?<p>Edit:<p>Thanks for the feedback so far!<p>- I'm applying for work in Vancouver, BC<p>- I have friends in tech; one works at a company that's aggressively hiring and he gave me a reference. Unfortunately not even an interview from them<p>- I have some internships/student work experience in dev, but they're lower tier (unheard of companies)<p>-Been going to meetups/hiring fairs. I've had good discussions with engineers there, hand them my resume, but probably gets lost in a pile/black hole of HR
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Title: It's kind of silly. There are design tools that don't let you write JavaScript. There are JavaScript tools that don't let you write server side JavaScript (or any other language). There are server aware tools that don't let you run on your own servers. And that's before discussion of collaboration et al.<p>Is there a reasonable workflow out there?
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Title: What are your main use cases and go to questions for Echo? How effective and useful it is?<p>For those who also have Cortana/Siri/Google and Echo which one is most useful?
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Title: I know I don't have all the facts. But apparently the system 911 is using to find your location, depending on where you live can have a 10% to 95% chance of finding your exact location; and by 2021 they still won't be able to find 1 out of 5 people.<p>Can someone tell me, if we're talking about bold people tackling the world's biggest problems, is there anyone working on this? It seems to me like an obvious, ripe place for disruption.<p>Here's a source of the problem explained in more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs
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Title: Hi,
I'm trying to compile a list of projects, algorithms and maybe data structures that I feel every well-rounded programmer should have implemented at least once in their career. I'm hoping this list can then function as a guide for programmers to challenge themselves and maybe fill gaps in their knowledge they didn't know they had. So far, I've come up with the following list:<p>* Data structures
- Linked list
- Hash map
- Several types of trees<p>* Algorithms
- The common sorting algorithms
- Dijkstra
- Graph-traversal algorithms<p>* Projects
- Ray tracer
- Parser/Interpreter
- Compiler
- Virtual Machine
- Small kernel
- Neural Network
- Web server<p>The algorithm and data structures section I believe should be covered by any decent computer science education (but may be useful to self-taught programmers). The projects are slightly more advanced and may take up to several weeks to implement completely.
I realize this list is far from complete, so that's why I'm turning to you: do you have any projects that you've worked on that turned out to be very educational and made you a better programmer once you completed it?
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Title: Hello Hacker News!<p>We're happy to announce the first public release of the Stanza programming language! Stanza is a new optionally-typed general purpose programming language from the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed to help programmers tackle the complexity of architecting large programs and significantly increase the productivity of application programmers across the entire software development life cycle. You can check out the website here:<p>http://www.lbstanza.org<p>Here are three really cool things about Stanza:<p>1. It is <i>both</i> statically and dynamically typed. If you give no type annotations, Stanza behaves like a scripting language. The more type annotations you give, the more errors Stanza will catch upfront.<p>2. It has a <i>class-less</i> object system. We believe in both object oriented programming and functional programming, and designed Stanza's object system to seamlessly incorporate both styles.<p>3. It has a really powerful coroutine system called targetable coroutines. It's a <i>general</i> control flow construct that can be used for fine control over concurrency, and is useful for things like video games and webservers.<p>We've already been using Stanza internally for about two years now. Using Stanza, we've designed a hardware language called FIRRTL, designed a teaching language called Feeny for teaching a graduate course on virtual machines, wrote a tool for automatically generating circuit boards for robotics, and (as upstanding computer scientists) wrote the entire Stanza compiler in Stanza itself.<p>Now, Stanza is stable and mature enough for us to feel confident to share it with everyone. We hope you'll check it out!<p><pre><code> - The Stanza Team</code></pre>
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Title: Software quickly gets outdated and re-written all the time. Sometimes the whole product is shutdown. I was just curious about products/modules that you had coded that has stood the test of time!
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Title: I find myself spending most of my time debugging older code, and I'm curious as to how other people's time is split at work, between developing new code, extending existing code, and maintaining existing code.
Anyone care to share?
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Title: I'm wondering what type of technology can be used to build something like Google Home without the privacy concerns from Google or the government listening.
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Title: There are still malware and advertising sites out there that allow browsers to use modal dialogs (ie, you can't interact with the page without answering the dialog). You can't even close the tab without getting rid of the dialog. There are also sites that will kill your page history by going through a bunch of redirects to prevent you from leaving with the back button. Why are these kinds of things allowed and supported by web browsers? Why do they even need the ability to have a pop up dialog with modern web sites being what they are?
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Title: It seems to me that email and calendar data are so personal that you shouldn't have to trust someone else to store and handle it for you. Yet when I try to find a way to host it for myself I get scared of the trickiness of the setup or the amount of maintenance required. Am I just looking for all the wrong things or is it in this day and age not possible, even for a reasonably tech savvy person, to host your own email and calendar securely? With securely I mean secure from all adversaries except for maybe nation-state adversaries.
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Like many people have pointed out in the comments an even bigger problem is being blacklisted by other ISPs. Any ideas how to deal with this while still maintaining control of where your emails are stored?
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Title: I have the practice of disabling paste functionality into password fields. I don't understand why it is necessary - on the contrary - it discourages use of password managers - especially on mobile devices.<p>The justification by the app builders is that it "improves security". I dont buy it.<p>Is there a good reason to disable this functionality? What does it improve since automated hacking programs can always by pass it?
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Title: My question sounds overly generalized, but indulge me:<p>Can you think of any worthwhile/interesting software that is desktop-specific (Windows/Linux/Mac) and that does not already have in-production offerings by at least two competing teams?<p>It's actually shocking how difficult I'm finding it to answer this question. Ten years ago you could have said anything from money management software, to code editors, vector image editors, remote storage, news readers etc. etc. but now all of those markets seem to be addressed and with saturated competition.<p>This makes me wonder whether the "organic software" model of companies like Bohemian Software (Sketch) and Panic (Coda, Transmit) is no longer viable. If you were to create such a company today, what kind of software would you write? Is there still even a single opening in the desktop space for any kind of new software? And how could you assure your ability to compete on the chance that a megacorp (Google, Apple) suddenly implements all of your software functionality and builds it into their services for free?<p>Is there <i>any</i> path forward for independent studios making desktop software anymore?
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Title: Similar questions have been asked in the past, but things change quickly. What are some passive income strategies that have worked for you in 2016?
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Title: Refly is a smart marketing tool, which helps the marketers, especially inbound marketers in reaching out to the audience in a better way. As our programming editors can warn us about syntactic and semantic errors ahead of time we haven't found a single text editor that does a similar thing. Of course most editors provides helpful warnings about the grammar and spelling. They are syntactic errors. Imagine if our text editors can warn ahead about logical flows in our content. The semantic errors. We are using our experience working in AI and Natural processing to build a tool that will do just that.
Sign up for beta at, https://refly.it
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Title: Read this story about lost macbook pro [0], I am wondering about the encryption tools for laptops. Even though a lot of work we do these days is on cloud (github/bitbucket/gitlab, dropbox etc), I still would hate to lose my laptop specially if unencrypted<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11759741
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Title: I want to write a tutorial that other programmers would find useful. What is your "I'd really like to learn this" for 2016?
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Title: In C++, I follow a playbook for keeping all hell from breaking loose:<p>1) Write a googletest
2) Write a googlebenchmark
3) Run all unit tests under AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, and g++ UB sanitizer
4) Tidy up with clang-format
5) Run cppcheck<p>So I feel pretty confident I'm not doing something braindead if I can get this stuff through CI.<p>But for Python, I don't really have good idea when I'm doing something that'll cause me agonizing pain in the future. The only tool I use is flake8, which is awesome, but I can't see memory leaks or performance profiles.<p>What strategies do you adopt (and what tools do you use) to keep all hell from breaking loose in large Python projects?
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Title: I've owned a Mac for about a year now, and it's worked very well. I do however miss being able to game on my laptop, and with the announcement of Bash on Windows I'm thinking of making Windows my sole environment.<p>Those of you who have tried this: What's your experience been like? Is it inferior in any significant way to your workflow?
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Title: I'm wondering what makes people give up on learning to code even when they know the value in it. Why did you give up on learning to code even after you started highly motivated.
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Title: What do you do now, other than management?
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Title: I remember some time ago a scare of meta data or something similar being leaked and specific peoples traffic being available (not security background so sorry if that doesn't even make sense), was just wondering if there were any scripts to randomly send requests to accumulate random meta data and obfuscate your real traffic?
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Title: I'm curious about how much developers make in Toronto or Ontario in general.<p>Please describe what you do and how much you make. I'll post mine below.
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Title: Since Alan Kay has shown interest (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806853) in saying something on the topic of OO and functional programming I opened this thread.<p>I purposefully left out the word "versus" because I do not believe there is such a strong dichotomy and to avoid flamewars.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<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' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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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:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: I have several machines around the country that I need to remotely manage. Team Viewer has been unreliable and I'm looking to move our organization away from it.<p>Can anyone recommend a better remote management solution?
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Title: In my organization, I started out as a senior software engineer. Through my work, I put together a number of detailed architecture designs and was given people to help build our product over time. As the definition of the architecture and implementation came along, I was given more and more responsibility and duties, to the point where I'm helping to set the direction and schedule for major parts of the software organization. At this point, I've even been given allocated headcount for a large team to help build it all. I don't really have a manager, as I report directly to the VP of software, and mentors are far and few between.<p>I'm still personally tasked with building out the architecture, writing code, training newhires, handling the HR-side of management (PTO, sick leave, etc), hiring plans, work estimates, gap analyses, bizdev relationships and so on. I've asked for training, but so far haven't actually received any. I don't have a college degree, learned everything I know about software engineering myself, and have no experience or training with the business-side of things.<p>How have those of you in similar situations dealt with the stress of it all? I find myself overwhelmed with responsibilities, and some of the political pressures from above are starting to take their toll.
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Title: Hello,<p>what is your experience with Scala language? Do you like it? Would you use it for your next project? Are you thinking of something else?<p>Cheers,
Wiktor
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Title: AWS Is currently having issues with a bunch of our instances and the console reports the following error
"An error occurred fetching instance data: The service is unavailable. Please try again shortly.
"<p>Anyone else experiencing a problem?
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Title: Hey, I live on a Hawaiian island and I'm trying to migrate from freelance work (too all encompassing, stressful for what I get paid) to a "real" job.<p>Is the market as poor as it looks? I don't really care about the poor pay compared to the Bay but it doesn't look like there's anything there besides defense contractors.
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Title: From the KeePass site: http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html#updsig<p><i>In order to prevent a man in the middle from making KeePass display incorrect version information (even though this does not imply a successful attack, see above), the version information file is now digitally signed (using RSA-2048 and SHA-512).<p>KeePass 2.34 and higher only accept such a digitally signed version information file. This solution is more secure than just using HTTPS, because it guarantees version information safety even when the webserver is compromised (the private key for signing the version information is not stored on the webserver).</i><p>Downloads page: http://keepass.info/download.html<p>Edit:
The update has NOT yet been released, as of (CET 11:30 2016-06-06)
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Title: They claim I violated their "personal use only" policy, which I presumably did by paying contractors to work on my house (this is only a guess, they have not been clear on exactly why). But that doesn't mean it's excusable to leave me in limbo for almost a week without access to my money (and quite a bit of it) while I need to pay people I'm employing. I've done absolutely nothing wrong nor illegal. Their customer support has been useless.<p>I don't know what recourse I have anymore short of waging social media war. Please retweet if you sympathize, thanks in advance: https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/739994477339758592
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I am a fairly decent programmer by now, but I would like to explore AI more deeply.<p>I do have basics of statistic, I know about mean mean square error, linear regression, regression tree, k-mean etc...<p>I would like to get into deep learning but actually I don't know what direction I should take.<p>I would like to do like I did with programming, exploring simple problem first and then moving into more sophisticated stuff.<p>However I feel like that the problem of the field are pretty expensive to work on either from a monetary point of view (GPU) and from a duration point of view.<p>Anybody has took this same path before? What would you suggest? What problem did you learn the most from?
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Title: I work at a large, non-software company in the US as an entry-level software engineer, where I've been working for a little over a year, now. This has been my first job out of college, though I did do freelance work for a few years prior. I'm very unhappy at my company, and I'm wondering whether this is due to the company, or instead due to my own unrealistic expectations.<p>In my organization at this company, each team is assigned one senior engineer, one or more non-senior engineers, and one or more offshore engineers. On my team, I am the only non-senior engineer, in addition to half a dozen offshore engineers. In the ~12 months that I've been on my team, 3 senior engineers have joined and subsequently quit, which has left me to learn the ropes of our (unnecessarily large and often undocumented) application and manage all of our offshore engineers on my own.<p>This means that I usually work significantly more than 8 hours per day (8 hours is the norm at my company). Lately, this also means that I'm usually quite a bit more familiar with our application than the senior engineer on my team. This has led to a number of hilarious situations in which I am at my desk, IM'ing the senior engineer what he needs to say at meetings, as those meetings are happening. I can't attend these meetings, because they're only for senior engineers!<p>Because I generally have no time to write code or do anything other than write e-mails and put out fires during the work week, I spend a large part of my weekends writing code for prototypes and projects, thinking about the designs of various parts of the company's application, improving our documentation, writing code quality guides, and coming up with various process improvements (e.g. ways to improve our source control policies, ways that we can improve our interview process, etc). When I show other people (engineers on other teams, management, etc) what I've worked on, I generally don't get any response whatsoever. This is problematic, because I need management to sign off on any changes that I make to our code-base or any of our processes, and without their sign-off, my work basically goes to waste. It's alright if none of my ideas get implemented -- they might be bad ideas (in hindsight, I know that some of them are!) -- but it would at least be nice to get some feedback, and I never get any.<p>To make matters worse, management doesn't seem to be aware of any of this. My manager has suggested that I try to take on more tasks at the next job-level up from mine, when by the company's own guidelines, I've been doing the job of a senior engineer for some time now (though I probably haven't been doing as well at it as an actual senior engineer would). I will admit that I haven't been doing an great job of making myself "visible" to management, but I think that I've been doing enough that they should have more awareness than they seem to have.<p>Other than that, I just can't seem to connect with anyone at work. I try to have conversations with other engineers about software (I've tried a wide variety of topics), and am generally greeted with head-nodding and a blank stare -- sometimes other engineers even make impolite comments about my interest in software. I've tried to organize meetings where we can discuss computer science topics, but management, while supportive of the idea, has warned me that there might not be enough interest to warrant having such meetings.<p>The general M.O. here seems to be to do just enough work to shift responsibility to someone else, to be Agile (with a capital "A") even though our organization is anything but, to schedule meetings (never try to solve a problem using automation -- meetings are the only way), and to basically maintain the status quo, even when doing so means making bad decisions that will cost the company big time in the future. By the way, it's not cool to think or converse in terms of abstractions -- only speak in terms of APIs, please (paraphrased advice that I've been given by management).<p>I've been trying to make the best of things: the attitude I've tried to have over the past year has been that if I can identify various things that we do wrong at work, and can come up with better ways to do them, then it's almost as good as working somewhere where things actually get done in the right way. Still, I'm unhappy. For the first time in my life, I feel like I might be depressed. I don't like waking up for work in the morning, and on the weekend, all I can think about is how much the next week is going to suck.<p>It seems like this should be a really sweet job -- after all, you can do what is essentially bad work and still get paid, the environment is laid back, and people are friendly, for the most part. But it's actually really frustrating. It feels like no matter how hard I try, I'll never make any improvements to the company's situation, because our organization in the company is structured in such a way that one single person (at my job-level, at least) can't really affect any change by him/herself. Thus it feels like the only way to proceed is to knowingly do bad work.<p>Am I expecting too much? Is this just how software engineering is? I'm grateful to have a job, and don't mean to be a know-it-all. I know that my company doesn't owe me anything more than a paycheck, but I just don't feel like this is a good situation. I've talked about some of this with management, and the response has basically been "That must be frustrating." I don't know many other software engineers, and didn't do CS in college, so can't reach out to classmates or professors for advice.<p>Please, HN, set me straight!
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Title: I compiled this list from HN news article titles that claimed something was broken.<p>Everything<p>TV<p>Java and Python sorting algorithm<p>OSX memory management<p>Hiring<p>HTTP<p>The internet<p>Email<p>Math.random in V8<p>Some links<p>The string type<p>Google's hiring process<p>Web development workflow<p>EC2 firewall<p>RNG<p>SSL<p>The ocean<p>Email forwarding<p>Sleep<p>WhatsApp<p>Bookmarks<p>Bitcrypt<p>The patent system<p>Breaking news<p>POSIX close(2)<p>Scientific peer review<p>Your Tumblr<p>systemd<p>Your wireless router<p>Nearly all binary search and merge sorts<p>OpenGL<p>Bread<p>Maven<p>HN submissions system<p>Your Docker image<p>iOS 8.0.1<p>VirtualBox<p>OpenSSL's implementation of DSA<p>Airport security<p>Facebook<p>The War on Drugs<p>Diablo III economy<p>All the crypto code you've ever written<p>Web development<p>Unicode in Python<p>Go packaging<p>DNS in OSX 10.10<p>Agile<p>Interviews<p>Security of USB<p>Mac App Store DRM<p>HTML <a> element<p>Your business<p>The venture capital model<p>CMS<p>RC4 in TLS (kind of)<p>GSM encryption<p>Visa and MasterCard security<p>Google's design process<p>Silicon Valley<p>java.nio.file.WatchService, on Linux<p>Employee equity<p>East New York<p>Language learning<p>DCI in Ruby<p>Logout in Ruby on Rails<p>Performance tools<p>India's higher education system<p>Copyright<p>Algorithm development<p>GitHub's language detection<p>Shopping<p>HN flagging system<p>Google App Engine<p>Photo uploading<p>US justice system<p>Outlook<p>Our pricing model<p>RC4 in TLS<p>The calorie<p>Online dating<p>Bitcoin<p>Tech journalism<p>Firebug<p>California's jaywalking law<p>Wireless<p>Browsers<p>Your online WYSIWYG editor<p>Skype for Windows<p>NBC's Olympics coverage<p>The payments industry<p>Someone's iPad<p>The App Store business model<p>Hollywood<p>The 30-day free trial<p>America's meritocracy<p>Continental Airlines funnel<p>Advertising in mobile games<p>Flash ads<p>PayPal
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Title: I keep finding myself on both the sides of this question<p>"I have money but no time, how do i find some bright college student to work on this small project for me?"<p>"I need 400€, How do i find a small project i can develop for and have no expectation of follow up or commitment"<p>I find hard to trust elance, upwrok and similar as it's either super-developer-guy or random-indian-guy, middle ways are buried behind the two extremes.<p>On the other side of the fence, as a programmer on those websites it takes a lot of time to build up reputation and network and it's easier to just get a job at McDonalds or similar (e.g. make a website and let someone else maintain it) for those 400€.<p>Something like university/hackerspace/open source facebook group with a barrier of entry to keep the quality but nothing as formal as a website
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Title: I'm eager to find references on modern approaches to robotic control.<p>The coordinated robots from Boston Dynamics (acquired by Google) impress the most, with their ability to react quickly to perturbation and move competently over difficult terrain.<p>I assume they are not solving inverse kinematics problems continuously, and also assume that much of their progress was made before the deep learning revolution, so maybe they don't even use neural networks either.<p>So are they using any reinforcement learning? I have no idea so would appreciate any quick summaries or pointers to relevant information.<p>What other companies are working in robotics at the same level as Boston Dynamics?<p>Approaches to robot perception, path planning (e.g. A*), and environmental mapping (e.g. SLAM) are also very interesting, but not the topics I'm interested in for this question.
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Title: Hey guys,<p>I'm participating in an hackathon and had this idea: users of open source github repos can contribute $X for every commit the developer contributes, with a monthly cap. It's a recurring donation based on development activity.<p>Give some love to open source devs.<p>What do you guys think?
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Title: I want to write a tutorial/guide that would help other programmers. There are a lot of quality _technical_ guides available and I don't want to write just another one. So I'd like to create something _non-technical_ (productivity, communication, work-life balance...?) that programmers would find useful.
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Title: Today my google account was suspended for ToS violation. I think it might have something to do with the "ruin my search history" viral thing yesterday.<p>Did anyone else who participated in that have their account suspended today?<p>(Talking about this -- do not open link if you do not want to literally ruin your search history: ruinmysearchhistory.com)
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Title: I'm curious about the hardware used to run Hacker News. My guts tell me that despite its popularity it is running on modest hardware, but I'd like to confirm.
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Title: I recently joined a startup as their CTO and I'm hating it. They've been around a few years and have product market fit and now need technical leadership to grow the team and product.<p>It's my first senior management position, having been heavily code focused the last 12 years, with some small management as a senior/lead.<p>For my entire career I feel as though I've been working towards being the CTO and now I'm here I find it's not at all what I expected. It seems to be mostly about dealing with everyone's crap, trying to fight fires and constantly battling with the other managers and tech team to get things done. I haven't even written a line of code in months.<p>Over the past few years I've had a few gaps in my career where I have started my own business and been fully in charge of things. Those times were amazing although I never reached any level of sustainability. I thought perhaps being CTO in a startup would give me some of that same ownership, control and enjoyment but it just feels like another job. I actually feel a bit depressed by the whole thing which is a new sensation for me and my personality.<p>Am I expecting too much? Is it simply another job? What can I do to fix this or should I leave and get back to a coding job?<p>I'd love to hear from people with similar experiences!<p>PS. Sorry for the throwaway account but my main account has too much personal info for this topic!
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Title: Summary: Startup not paying wages or tax on employees, to claim unemployment benefit I have to report them.<p>Hi guys, I'd appreciate some outside perspective here.<p>I've been working with a startup for about two months as their CTO. Small team, three/four developers depending how you count. Handshake deal said moderate salary until series A but with equity.<p>I've been pushing and pushing for a contract stating the terms, but there always seemed to be something else the CEO had to do. However, I met the rest of the team and it all seemed legitimate.<p>Around the two month mark, I dug my heels in and said contract or I walk. Next day I have a meeting with the CEO and it comes out that there's no salaries being paid, people are working for equity. I explain that this isn't appropriate for my situation, to which the CEO responds with more work for me to do.<p>Obviously, I should walk away at this point (or ideally weeks before), but there are some twists:<p>1) The work that I produced for them is still mine, as no copyright transfer has been signed. They'll almost certainly be trying to sell this / bring it to investors.<p>2) It's not legal to work only for equity in my country, there's a minimum wage, and each employee has to be registered and tax paid on them to the government. I went to apply for unemployment assistance and was told that regardless of whether I was paid, I was considered employed, and thus had no entitlements. Furthermore, as I wasn't registered the company was not meeting its tax obligations in hiring me.<p>This brings me to the crux of my problem: If I want to claim unemployment benefit while I look for a real job, I must torpedo the old company. This is bad as it not only can hurt my reputation, it will negatively affect the co-workers who have previously worked for low wage and equity.<p>My feeling is to walk away and cut my losses, but I thought the community may have other suggestions.<p>Thanks for looking.
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Title: What I mean by "psychology of programming" is broadly the application of psychological methods to understanding the process of programming. What are some interesting empirical results of such research?<p>Some examples of the kind of research I would be looking for:
- What are some key factors that affect comprehension of programs? How would those factors differ within each programming paradigm?
- How much of a measurable impact does a particular syntax of a programming language (e.g. python vs. lisp vs. C-style) have on program comprehension?
- Is there good empirical evidence that particular programming no-no's (GOTOs, global variables, etc.) actively hinder program comprehension?<p>I'm not necessarily interested in answers to those particular questions - I could obviously google for specific answers to specific questions. Instead, I would ideally like to know if there exist good meta-analyses which would aggregate findings in broader areas of said research and serve as starting points for further investigation.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Hi,<p>I'm looking to improve my data science skills and have taken Coursera courses.<p>Are there any additional resources for me to learn on my own? What's the best approach?<p>My background is in software engineering, web development and business intelligence.
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Title: I realized that almost all I ever do on HN is press Cmd-F, type "lang", see 0 results, and close it. So I figured I'd just ask y'all instead.
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Title: Naturally, YC cannot accept everyone that applies. We know that many YC alumni have gone on to be successful, but we don't hear too much about the companies that were rejected and have now gone on to become going concerns. YCombinator is not the only way to launch a startup. How many that are turned away actually continue working on their startups, and successfully?
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Title: Hej HN.<p>I would love to know if there is a good site/source for files of different media types.
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Title: Yesterday my grandfather received a phone call at his home address from "one of my friends". This "friend" told him that I was in a tragic accident in Las Vegas while at a [real friend's name] wedding. This scammer knew some fairly detailed information about me to try to scam my grandfather. He called me and my dad and avoided the scam, but boy was he worried!<p>The ask is: What should I personally do to cover my ass. I have a blog, social media accounts, etc and am now worried about getting hacked, scammed, or family being prayed upon. Thoughts?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?<p>I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.<p>Thanks!
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Title: In my experience, most recruiters are leeches on the system who only have short-term goals -- place as many as possible, no matter whether they fit, long term reputation be damned. I've experienced this from their telemarketer like calls as well as when I was leading a large project and needed additional help. The recruiters weren't saving me any time -- if anything, they were costing me time and I finally demanded that I interview the candidates that my boss was bringing on. I've never had to work with them on the other side as in 20 years I've never had to search for a job and only interviewed once when I moved to a new area and didn't have existing contacts trying to recruit me.<p>I recently left very profitable employment to form my own company and to start doing consulting/contracting. So far I've been busy enough just through word of mouth, but eventually I expect that well to dry up since I live in an area without a huge number of tech companies, so I'm starting to put out feelers to build new relationships and find new potential clients.<p>I imagine there must exist a subset of recruiters who take time to fully vet their candidates and only promote them to companies who are a good fit. It seems that finding one of these could be a win-win. Just like on the hiring side, I don't want to waste time dealing with carpet-bombers. I would love to build a meaningful relationship with one who can get to know me, get to know my skills, seek high quality matches from companies who also value this person's selectiveness and talent pool.<p>Do such recruiters exist? How does one find them? And on a related note, are there particular recruiting companies (who place corp-to-corp contractors) that have a good reputation in this regard, and any that you would caution me to watch out for?
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Title: For the seasoned startup vets out there, I was wondering about how working for or starting a failed startup would impact career prospects down the line.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I get that the best way of learning is to try to build something but is there a list of projects that accentuate a language's purpose/paradigm in a way that building said project has the best time to learning ratio?
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Title: Hi HN community!<p>I am trying to decide on Microsoft's CV offering vs . Google's CV offering for my B2B startup. Any recommendations from people who have tried both??<p>Background - We are trying to use images of models uploaded by agencies and deriving labels & image properties. Face detection is something that is an added bonus if possible.
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Title: Hey HN guys,<p>Saw this thread from a couple of days ago about profitable one-person SaaS apps. I'm wondering: how did you grow your business to become profitable? What were your main user acquisition channels?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I used to have a bash script I would run to install everything (libs/tools) you're average web developer would need (node, sublime, google chrome, , python libs etc etc). Unfortunately I lost it after some time. Does anyone use anything similar?
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Title: This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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Title: Hi all,<p>Am a developer based in Africa and have developed small applications for the company I work for an airline ground handling company and have also created apps for sale on codecanyon.<p>Am a competent programmer not necessarily a good one but am able to get things done when under pressure, For example I made the codecanyon application at a previous job as an intern when we were required to comply with certain ISO regulations within a month. I did it as I had no way out. It has earned me approximately 250USD per month which in Africa is enough to pay rent but not be self employed.<p>The problem comes when I need to do something that I am 100% responsible for. For example create a SaaS app. The usual process goes like this Have an idea, Get excited, come up with all kinds of cool/new features that look marketable/useful, sometimes I go to the extent of buying a domain, when it reaches to implementation I get this crippling doubt on whether what am creating will sell/will be a profitable SaaS application. I am simple crippled by the fear of failure and abandon my wonderful idea. As a result I have numerous half baked personal projects. This projects do have their advantages as I discover new ways to do things that are very beneficial to my work projects but for my personal projects and personal life they are a dead end.<p>Do any of you experience this, do you just push it to the back of your mind and push on forward or is it just that am a coward?
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Title: Hi all,<p>going trough college, it struck me that notes are still mostly a pen and paper business. At least, that is my experience, as well as my colleague's, for anything that is not plain text.<p>I found that there is no app that allows me to quickly mix together text, math formulas, code, images, sketches, graphs, and other kinds of media (yes, yes, I hear you invoke the mighty LaTeX... but can you write correct LaTeX on-the-fly?).<p>I would like to tackle this problem by building a platform for storing and sharing your personal knowledge, and it would help greatly to hear other people's insights on this matter.<p><pre><code> So, what I am asking is: do you take complex notes with a computing device?
If yes:
how? what method, device, app?
do you re-process your notes offline?
would you like some functionality that you don't have in your system?
If not:
what is missing from current technology that would allow you to do so?
would you want to upgrade from paper to a computer or tablet application that suits your needs?
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Thank you!<p>p.s. In case you want updates on this, check back on http://taquino.it in a few months or send me an email (see HN profile)
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Title: About 9 months ago, I asked Hacker News to help me free an innocent man serving a life sentence for murder. I shared my letter to the DA's office and asked for feedback.<p>People responded to complain that my headline broke the rules. But nobody took the time to read my letter.<p>Good news: I won anyway. The DA's office just announced that they got the wrong guy. Tomorrow, after 11 years in prison, Ray Jennings will walk out of court a free man.<p>Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323025<p>Today's story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-conviction-doubt-20160622-snap-story.html
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Title: I tend to always look to api.github.com when I need a little inspiration.<p>Anyone have some good examples of a particularly well laid out API?
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Title: Hi all,<p>We did an immigration AMA a few months ago and thought it might be time to do another. I'll be here for a couple hours to answer your
questions about U.S. immigration. There are countless potential topics, but here's one I thought we could highlight today which is
particularly important given the backlogs and delays in the green card process.<p>Two ways of getting a green card--the extraordinary ability and national interest waiver routes--are often very good options, and often overlooked because of a misunderstanding about the standards. Clearing up some of the misconceptions could be helpful to those of you in this community who might benefit from these routes to a green card. So if you're interested, ask me particularly about that, but I'll be happy to answer about U.S. immigration in general. As before, I can’t comment or provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts.<p>EDIT: Thank you for participating in this AMA. It was very interesting and enjoyable for me. I hope that it was helpful. I need to sign off now but I’ll be checking in again later today.
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Title: The NOR Machine<p>The idea is to use just one function to compute everything. It suffices to do this for bits: bytes consist of bits, and if we can compute bits, we also can compute bytes, and everything made up of bytes. That is, everything.<p>There are sixteen boolean functions of two arguments. Two of them are special: NOR and NAND. The other fourteen functions can be computed using only either NOR or NAND. We’ll use NOR.<p>NOR’s truth table is as follows:<p><pre><code> ===== ========
Input Output
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https://github.com/yuanxinyu/NOR-CPU
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Title: I'm self-studying cellular automata and I'd love if there were any sitebooks or torrentable textbooks.
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Title: I've been on a big math and physics kick lately and have started reading Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces".<p>It's got me thinking - what software is out there that is kind of like a particle / quantum physics sandbox? Any environments where you can start playing with things, such as particles and forces, with lots of graphics / interactivity?<p>To put it another way - what are some of the best 'software physics toys' that people have come across?<p>I've seen 'The Powder Toy' (http://powdertoy.co.uk/) and 'Algodoo' (http://www.algodoo.com/). Algodoo seems to deal mainly with mechanics and The Powder Toy is extremely fun though not really meant to be realistic as such.<p>Anything like 'The Powder Toy' but more in-depth?
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Title: The Brexit crisis has got me thinking about inequality more broadly.Technologists have politicians in their thrall, and are not afraid to throw their weight around promoting curriculum changes in areas like math, and to also push the concept of "every child must code". Yet these same technologists claim that they hire a small percentage of job applicants for their companies.<p>It's clear that cognitive ability correlates with coding ability, and the idea of the 10X developer is widely accepted in our world. As a broader industry, we practice shameless elitism and seem to be making real-world software development more inaccessible to non-experts (apart from child-level development environments). As professionals. we deride RAD tools and "drag and drop" development, and show geek love for ever-more abstract modes of thinking like Functional Programming that a small percentage of working developers, let alone the general public, will grasp.<p>What's the end-game? Are we trying to create a new cognitive elite? Is it a labor lottery so that the small percentage of kids who are turn out to be good at coding will become professional programmers? Are we willfully blind to the fact that human talent is not evenly distributed? Or is the lack of accessibility ("easiness") just a blind spot that we have yet to address?
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Title: There is so much broken software out there that sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming and depressing if you have been 'yak shaving' for hours/days/months on end.<p>It's not rare to forget what you were doing after layers are layers of workarounds and fixes you have to do before actually doing the thing you wanted in the first place.<p>I'm wondering if people would have examples of good software they enjoy using and trust them to work properly so others can have some hope or feel better about it overall.<p>A similar question was asked 8 years ago ("What software makes you happy?" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128714) but I would like to focus on the reliability aspect of software.
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Title: We have an unfair advantage in a fast growing market and could now get outside capital for this. As an alternative we could just keep rolling with our little team, scale like we already do and make good money and don't blow this whole thing up like our investors would want us to do. We will be financially independent either way in a few months. We just want to be happy and don't have a more busy life. We don't have experience with outside investments. Is a scenario in which we use the funding to hire a great team that more or less replaces us unrealistic? Sure, its nice to see our project at the next level but only if this doesn't make life even more busy.
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Title: At my last performance review I was told that I engage in toxic discussion too much and I should halt.<p>The problem is, I don't know what constitutes toxic behaviour and how to prevent it. I do have a lot of issues (very bureaucratic and slow central organisation whom I am forced to deal with) and I do bring them to light as the reason for things taking too long- If I'm blocked by the central IT body then I have no qualms telling people I'm blocked. I also take passion in my job, so I might seem complainy.<p>But, How can I make sure I don't engage in toxic discussions? Are there any people here who have overcome toxic behaviours?
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Title: Hello.<p>I have been a happy Eye-Fi X2 Pro user for a couple of years now, in fact I have two of your cards and on the whole they’ve worked well.<p>Receiving your email about removing support for X2 cards this morning has made me furious. That your company would have the gall to sell cards that would be obsolete within a few years is preposterous. Weasel words about “encryption technologies changing” etc are meaningless, as SSL has not changed fundamentally over this time and all the Wifi protocols are still supported by today’s routers.<p>I suspect you are cutting costs by not having to maintain older systems to support the older cards, which would be fine if your service was software only. By selling hardware, your company has an obligation to your customers to make sure the cards work without your involvement beyond your support period, or to keep supporting the cards. If you were offering an 80% discount on upgraded cards then I could stomach the transition, but a 20% discount is miserly and clearly designed to grow your bottom line.<p>I would have updated to the Mobi cards in time anyway, but out of principle I will avoid Eye-Fi products in the future and advise my photographing friends to do the same.<p>Shame on your company.<p>Background: Eye-Fi have sent all their customers an email to inform them that all of their cards older than their latest Mobi series will be made obsolete beyond September 16. Services required for the cards to function properly will be turned off by the company, with no support offered. Their X2 cards (amongst the affected) were offered for sale as late as March 2015.<p>http://x2migration.eyefi.com/hc/en-us/articles/216741158
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Title: Hi, I'm Clint Ehrlich, a hacker/law student who helped get an innocent man released from prison. I'm here on HN asking for advice about how to help my new friend get back on his feet.<p>A year ago, I saw a Dateline NBC episode about an Iraq-war vet, Sgt. Ray Jennings, who allegedly killed an 18-year-old girl in a parking lot. The evidence didn't persuade me, so my dad and I started our own investigation.<p>We wrote a 34-page letter to the DA's office, which you can read here: <a href="http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/criminal-cases/raymond-lee-jennings-case.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/criminal-cases/raymond-lee-jennin...</a>
The letter persuaded them to reopen the murder investigation.<p>Last week, after 11 years behind bars, Ray walked out of court a free man. But he was released onto the street with no resources. Do any of the great minds at HN have any ideas about how I can help him get money for housing, food, and clothes?<p>The most obvious answer is litigation. And in a year or two, Ray will probably receive some compensation from the State. Unfortunately, there's no way to access those funds in time to cover his immediate expenses.<p>In the future, Ray also may be able to earn some income talking about his story. Unfortunately, the charges against him won't be formally dismissed for another 2 months, and until then he is understandably reticent about speaking publicly.<p>I have set up a GoFundMe campaign. It did well, but momentum has stalled. I'd appreciate any recommendations about how or where to promote it:<p><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/RayJennings" rel="nofollow">https://www.gofundme.com/RayJennings</a><p>Thanks for your help. I'm sorry that I was a bit caustic in previous posts asking for help with this case. I contacted the Mods, and they encouraged me to try again with a different approach.
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Title: I'm not asking for the city that will replace it, but more if anyone knows cities containing a similar entrepreneurial/maker drive, that are perhaps undiscovered by most western people?<p>This is because I would like to visit/live in places like these before they become well known (kind of like a hipster, but with less facial hair)
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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:
</code></pre>
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. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<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' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: I'm interested to hear how people manage their personal finances, and any advice on that score. Do you do it through your bank, do you have a personal broker, online services?<p>I am especially interested in hearing from people outside the US, more so if they have assets in the US that they manage as well.
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Title: What's the coolest way to repurpose an old laptop? I'd love to put the excess computing power to use somehow, or start building connected home/IoT stuff, but I'm mainly just interested in hearing what others have done...
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