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Title: Hi all,<p>I teach two 5th graders science and programming privately three days a week and am trying to get them involved with some engineers/scientists in an open dialogue of sorts to inspire them and give them some insight into the world of applied science. I have already scheduled us for some interesting tours of aerospace companies and a lab or two, but I am really hoping I can find someone interested in an ongoing relationship with my students who we could maybe visit or skype with once a month or so, to keep a thread going that had some continuity. I am trying to change two very bright students lives and could use any help I can get. Where would you look if you were me? Who would you contact? Any ideas whatsoever are appreciated.<p>Thank you!
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Title: I'm a freshman in college and have agreed (informally) to help a local small business convert a large excel file into a format their new inventory software understands. I'm meeting with them in a week to determine whether their request is feasible, and then discussing terms of engagement if it is. We've discussed compensation and I've said I will charge a fee for the consultation and then some additional rate if there is any other work that can be done.<p>After this point, though, I'm lost. I don't know what to charge, how to invoice, or what kind of contract I need to write up. There is lots of info about this around the Internet, but it seems to be aimed at more established developers doing larger projects in higher cost of living areas. If I walk in with a 10 page contract asking for $300/hour they'll probably politely decline.<p>That in mind, does anyone have any advice on how to proceed?
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Title: I did use phonegap a few years ago and it seemed very lacking. Partly the fact that phones were not powerful enough to make apps feel native enough. Has anything changed? Is it worth revisiting? Or should I give React Native a go instead?<p>(I am not planning to develop anything graphics intensive)
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Title: I was fired at 51 weeks by a somewhat prominent startup. For the first time, I went on unemployment while finding my next opportunity. The startup contested unemployment however they were overruled by the judge. I went on unemployment for the health insurance as I have a young child.<p>I fear associating my name with this incident however I also think I should warn my fellow engineers. The options were clawed back.<p>How would you handle being fired without cause at 51 weeks? Would you share it publicly?
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Title: Hi! I'm working on this project, it's a reddit-like open source social network, written in django.<p>Beta is almost complete, and now I really want to make it decentralized and compatible with GNU Social. I've never done this before, and some advice would be really useful to me at this point.<p>Where do I start? Which technologies should I pick? Are there any great resources/tutorials about this stuff?
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Title: What are the good channels for developers on YouTube to learn about e.g., programming techniques or best-practices?
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Title: I'm a middle manager at a large tech company that recently took responsibility for a few engineering teams that do some stats heavy work. Each producing forecasts where we talk about accuracy of predictions, some that use machine learning & the like.<p>I have a fairly shallow understanding. I took a basic stats class in undergrad 20 years ago. Over the years, I’ve seen various analysis so I’m not totally lost when people talk about p-values (but also have a lot of gaps where some of the details are lost on me).<p>I’d like to strengthen my understanding so I can better understand/appreciate/represent what the teams are doing. Any recommendations on a course of study?<p>FWIW, I’ve considered just buying a text book or hiring a tutor. I looked at classes at the local community colleges, but both the syllabus suggests a fairly slow pace (and most things I feel comfortable with) and when I took a previous class (iOS development) it was so dang slow in pacing.
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Title: I consider the HN community, on the whole, to be very much concerned with their professional development.<p>Whether it's taking classes, working on side projects, or reading the latest blogs, everyone seems genuinely interested in learning.<p>Based solely on vote counts alone on the frontpage for the last few days,
there appears to be a very large portion of the HN community that both readily follows PHP and/or actively uses it.<p><i>What I find most interesting, however, is the comments section.</i><p>There's a large camp of developers on HN that are very outspoken regarding their abhorrence of PHP.
The language has been ridiculed for well over a decade, so this is to be expected.<p>What's most intriguing is what you <i>don't</i> see in the comments: the huge number of proponents of PHP.<p><i>So where does this discrepancy between vote counts and comments stem from?</i><p>I would venture to guess the vote counts themselves stem from silent proponents.
They likely don't provide counter arguments because it's simply not necessary. Nothing is gained.<p>Everyone here has a unified goal of working on cool problems, building amazing applications, and hoping to strike paydirt for all of our hard work.<p>Maybe it's time we all think about why it is we complain about language X vs. language Y
and just get back to trying to make our lives and those around us better, through code.
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Title: Coming from a newbie perspective. It's something I'm interested in learning more about on the side
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Title: How should a software engineer with no machine learning background get started on the subject?
Do you think that getting started by learning a framework like TensorFlow is a good idea or should I gain a background knowledge first?
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Title: I'm trying to find some inspiration for a new search engine I'm working but have found most searchable directory ui's to be very frustrating to use.<p>I'd love to know what you guys have seen out there. What have been some of the best examples of this type of ui that you've seen?
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Title: I'm overwhelmed by all the options out there. Duolingo, pimsluer, classes, books, etc. What did you do to become fluent in another language? How long did it take you?
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Title: The story http://nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-donald-j-trump.html has been submitted multiple times but each time it was flagged and removed. It made it twice to the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716678 with many points and comments but still got removed... Given that Thiel just became a part time advisor of YC that's a weird coincidence.
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Title: How to handle the situation when the grown in the company (Salary raise, Bonus, Stock, Promotion ) is measured by "relative performance" and you are stuck with a workaholic team mate who keeps sending update emails at weird hours in the night . Its good for team productivity but not for general team health and peer's growth in company.<p>Update - I am been rated above average in the current appraisal system and quite happy with the work I do. Changing job would be resetting all the good will and trust that I have built here. But after advent of this colleague, I see everything declining as exceptions are changing, sometimes portaged as "irresponsible". I can work like donkey but I like to continue to spend tine with friends and family and follow all my hobbies unlike the peer.<p>I don't really want to portray my peer as bad(He is mostly nice on the face), just need honest opinion if this job is still a right fit for me.
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Title: I have a hypothesis about broad problems companies are facing which I am planning to solve. In order to validate it, I need to ask many companies about if they are facing similar problems and if they are willing to discuss it. I have already reached out to my network and got responses. Apart from that, I am mostly cold emailing companies hiring for positions to solve these problems but haven't got significant responses to cold emails. What would be good way to ask about it?
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Title: I've made a few side projects during the last years. Most of them are not longer online. I built this one during the last Xmas: https://www.coderlevel.com/ and I'm currently making this one: http://www.transparentstartups.com/<p>Unfortunately I'm terrible at promoting those projects or websites, so after a few months of work I usually end up giving up about them.<p>I find Software Development reasonably easy in general. I can convert my ideas into MVPs in a few weeks. However I struggle a lot with the Marketing side of it.<p>Have you been in the same situation in the past? How did you overcome it?
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Title: I would love to hear the thoughts of people who have kept up with the developments in both these languages.<p>Some of the stuff I'm wondering along is features, safety, performance, simplifying the language and so on.<p>C++11/14 brought good things to the table, perhaps C++17 will bring more improvements?<p>I havent gone through the proposals for upcoming features in either language but seems like the pace of Rust development is really good.<p>But then there is the idea of ignoring legacy C++ and treating Modern C++ as a new language altogether.<p>Just curious to hear anyone's thoughts on the state of these two languages.
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Title: A New (Free) App Screenshot Maker for anyone to create beautiful screenshots for both Google Play and the AppStore'
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Title: As a non-native English speaker I find that the best way to check grammar is to google whole parts of sentences (in apostrophes - exact match). It's because there are multiple exceptions to language rules and some wording just can feel "not right" despite being correct.<p>Is there a tool that does something like this automatically?<p>I thought about writing such tool by myself, but it seems there are no good-quality, free search engine APIs that allow many calls. Or, maybe there are some open APIs to book dumps or something similar?
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Title: Change and variety of options is a good thing, but in js the rate of change in methodologies, frameworks, libraries is so much high. For example angular 2 is not compatible with angular 1, so before you even learn a framework its API is different and when you finally learn it, probably is considered outdated.
Why is this happening especially in js?
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Title: I work as a dev in UK for 6 years now, mostly JVM (Scala, Java), SQL, Javascript, some Python and Rust. I am now very interested in starting working remotely, so I'm curious what stacks are popular in remote jobs? What should I concentrate my attention towards from purely realistic and practical perspective?<p>Obviously if I could choose I'd prefer something like Scala/Big Data or Rust/Real time, but something tells me Ruby/Rails and Python/Django or something with Javascript will be way more popular?
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Title: Sites down:<p>- DYN<p>- Twitter<p>- Etsy<p>- Github<p>- soundcloud<p>- spotify<p>- heroku<p>- pagerduty<p>- shopify<p>- intercom (app, not landing page)<p>Note that if these sites seem to be up to you, it's likely that your machine has cached the DNS response for these sites.<p>Some of these sites seem to work when using a UK VPN
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Title: It seems like every week there's some new story about data theft in the news (Yahoo, LinkedIn, Target, now Weebly). How are these attacks being done? Is it primarily SQL injection? Social engineering to get the database credentials? How can we protect our own databases from such attacks?
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Title: I'd imagine that DDoS attacks is something that DYN and other DNS providers would spend a lot of resources to prevent. Was there something specific about this DDoS attack that DYN was unprepared for? Or is there some reason that distributed natural of DNS makes it hard to prevent DDoS? Anyone know of any steps that DNS guys are taking to prevent another DDoS?
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Title: Questions:<p>1: Which technologies are popular and what do people like about them? (To help someone deciding between). Seems like React frontend, or perhaps Vue? and Node being the popular backend?<p>2: Is there a site that keeps track of the various options for frontend and backend frameworks and how their popularity progresses?
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Title: Hello All,<p>I decide to do something over the weekend may be a small project or learn something new or prepare for interview, but Saturday and Sunday goes by and I do nothing but to browse internet, facebook, youtube and going through links.<p>At the end of Sunday, I feel like, I wasted my weekend and get little bit depressed.<p>If anyone has gone through process, can you please share how to got out of this loop on every week end?
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Title: I'll start --- I once spent a couple days on a summer job looking through industrial incidents related to the Great Boston Molasses Flood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood). Wikipedia is definitely full of very interesting rabbit holes.
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Title: I created an app named Sightings https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sightings-for-pokemon-go/id1153442744?ls=1&mt=8 which is a companion app for Pokemon go where users can report sightings of monsters and those nearby would be able to see them or get notifications if the app is running in the background.<p>I submitted an update which was rejected by Apple because I used Google Sign-In. I thought it was the obvious choice for authentication methods since all Pokemon GO users will have one and it didn't violate an app guidelines so I responded using the resolution center.<p>I got a call today from Apple and try as I might I could not convince them that my using Google Sign-In does not link to Niantic or the Pokemon Company and you don't need to use the same account you use for Pokemon GO or even have a Pokemon GO account to use my app. They said if I switch to Facebook login or created my own that would fix the problem.<p>The token I get from Google when a user signs-in does not allow me to connect to Niantic's API even if I wanted to but this was lost on the app reviewer.<p>I submitted an appeal to the review board and will post an update once its complete.
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Title: I've been a web developer for the past 10 years and I've mostly used PHP in my projects. I've also had a chance to code in JavaScript, C#, Delphi. I've had the chance to build large website (>500k users/day) and desktop apps used by millions of users per month, but I always used the technologies that felt comfortable to me. I knew Zend Framework very well, so I used that one to build the services.<p>My "oh wow" moment was when I discovered Phalcon PHP framework (https://phalconphp.com/en/) about a year ago. I've switched all our projects on this framework and saved thousands of $$ because of the performance impact.<p>The other thing that made my day was when I discovered Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/). I never knew Python, but I decided to give it a try. The performance is amazing (I always thought that it was slower than PHP - I was wrong) and it seems I can build the projects faster that I ever could using PHP (with any framework).<p>What were your "wow" moments in your career? What was your best decision to improve your work?
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Title: After you've had meetings with potential customers you usually send them some documents explaining the service as well as a price quotation.<p>Do you share a google doc? A website? Do you send them a pdf?<p>- How many pages?
- Do you use images/screenshots?<p>Alternatively, if you're a purchaser of SaaS services, how would you like to receive the information/offer?
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Title: Hello fellow HNers,<p>How do you organise your life/work/side projects/todo lists/etc in an integrated way?<p>We have:<p><pre><code> * To do lists/Reminders
* Bookmark lists
* Kanban boards
* Wikis
* Financial tools
* Calenders/Reminders
* Files on disk
* General notes
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However, there must be a better way to get an 'integrated' view on your life? ToDo list managers suck at attaching relevant information; wikis can't do reminders; bookmarks can't keep track of notes and thoughts; etc, and all the above are typically not crosslinked easily, and exporting data for backup/later consumption is hit and miss from various services.<p>So far, I've found a wiki to be almost the most flexible in keeping all manner of raw information kind of organised, but lacks useful features like reminders, and minimal tagging support, no easy way to keep track of finances, etc.<p>I understand 'best tool for the job', but there's just so...many...
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Title: Recently I've been through the on-site interviews at Google and had a terrible experience. The recruiter went silent after my on-site and my calls are directly going to voicemail. The on-site was a month ago and I've heard nothing regarding my status. I've shared this experience with some of my friends, and they've all had similar experiences. My question is - how is Google getting away with such bad recruiting practices? I've never had a company not call me back after I took a day off work to interview, even if it is bad news! Shouldn't bad recruiting practice like this hurt the company's reputation? And shouldn't people be more hesitant to apply to companies knowing that they will be treated badly?
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Title: I do affiliate marketing. Just looking for few other options and would love to hear your experience/story of creating passive income sources !
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Title: Talking about the digital world of course. Young man here, should I learn one thing really good (like back-end programming) or go all out and learn as many things(front-end, 3d, photoshop, back-end etc..) as possible and be okay in all of them.
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Title: I just finished graduate school and am trying to design a small personal website that showcases the research I've done to potential employers and explains how and why my skills would be useful in an industry/startup setting. I also want to give a little background about myself.<p>I've been looking at a variety of people's personal websites; however, I've noticed most of the researchers I follow tend to highlight their papers/publications on their website, which doesn't seem quite so useful for someone who wants to work in industry (in most of my interviews so far, I get the impression that publications are secondary to the technical skills I've acquired).<p>What are the best personal project websites you've seen? Something that a potential employer would look at and think "I need to hire this person".<p>Thanks!
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Title: I've been considering putting in the effort to get up to speed with a major project like Chromium or Firefox.<p>Ideally, if I am going to put in the massive amount of effort, I'd like to at least have the potential to get paid for the effort. Let me stress, getting paid is not the primary reason. I learn code bases and write code because I love the art.<p>Any advice from serious open source contributors?
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Title: I know the Interop feature is coming to Bash for Windows (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/10/19/interop-between-windows-and-bash/) which to me seems to solve the complaints I had with the initial implementation.<p>Can anyone comment on their experiences using Bash for Windows for development full-time?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I was waiting for the new MBP to buy a laptop, but the recent announcement left me cold. What laptops have you found to be comparable in build quality to MBP? It looks like HP Elitebooks and Asus Zenbooks might be possible candidates. Are Lenovos worth considering post-superfish-gate?
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Title: Just lost my fourth job this year. I can't definitively claim it is because of my blindness, I may just not be very good at software development. But one thing is for sure, there are many dev tools that are either hard or impossible to use if you're blind. I'm looking at you JIRA, GitLab, Chrome Dev Tools, etc.<p>I'm tired of feeling helpless. I want to build tools that make my life easier. Any other blind devs in the same boat who would be interested in collaborating?
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Title: Hi,
I've been waiting few months for yesterday's MacBook upgrade and I'm dissatisfied, as most of you. I read many comments about alternatives and one of recurring favorite is Dell XPS Developer Edition. Could I ask you about your experience with this model? I'm interested in high-end version (16gb and UltraSharp screen). Is it worth this money (less than Macbook, but still)? I actually want to buy "best machine money can buy", which is powerful (for JVM development, besides personal stuff like movies and web), but still easy to carry-on while traveling. Most of the machines are Windows-oriented, which doesn't fit my workflow and there's a limited choice of laptop fully compatible with Linux. Dell XPS 13 seems like one. Do you have positive experiences with this? Would you recommend it?<p>I just get rid of normal desktop and use mainly my office machine - heavy, powerful ThinkPad W541 with 32GB ram and i7, but it's plastic and the screen is so-so.<p>Thanks!
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Title: It's four days ago the pEp-Development branch was merged into the master source code repository of Enigmail, meaning the pretty Easy privacy (p≡p) technology is now at Enigmail's core to encrypt e-mails:<p>https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/source/ci/382c7dc3cc84a0fa9648ad5f7054e725d32eda22/log/?path=<p>In fact, for novice users (or such without OpenPGP setup), the new p≡p scheme will be used (as "junior mode") to automatically create keys and distribute them to the communication partners: https://twitter.com/pEpCouncil/status/792233350463447040<p>p≡p has a broad, cross-platform approach as how to automatically encrypt all "written digital communications".<p>Furtherly, its technologic core (p≡p engine) underwent a code audit: https://pep.foundation/blog/press-release--pep-releases-first-code-audit-of-the-pep-engine/index.html<p>A beta of Enigmail/p≡p will be launched at Mozilla Festival in London, this Sun: https://twitter.com/pEpCouncil/status/791575091343687680<p>Good video talks explaining what p≡p actually is, were given at the GNU Hacker Meeting (GHM) in Rennes, France:
https://gnunet.org/ghm2016
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Title: Anyone know of a good IMAP host that I can use with my own domain?<p>Fastmail is good, but quite pricey (cheapest option if you have your own domain is $3.61 a month, and that's if you pay three years in advance. On top of that comes the price of the domain).<p>For privacy reasons I don't want to use Gmail, and I don't want to use my own server.<p>Zoho might be an option, but it's unclear to me whether or not it is an Indian company (the Wikipedia page is unclear regarding that), and it's unclear to me whether or not there are possible privacy concerns with Indian email hosts.
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Title: Using SIM cards in mobile phones seems antiquated. Should there not be a software solution that lets you select which network/s the phone should connect to?<p>Feels like this is probably the result of telco networks wanting as much friction as possible to change providers, but is there something more to it?
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Title: My grandfather just passed his 91st birthday. His only regret about getting older is that he will never experience what it is like to skateboard or rollerblade.<p>I would like to give that to him.<p>My grandfather is a veteran of World War II, a former FBI field agent who fought against organized crime, a father of four, a grandfather of nine, and not only the most honorable, but also the most consistently jovial person whom I have ever known.<p>When reflecting over his long life thus far, he was asked if there was anything he wished he had done when he was younger. He looked off into the distance, and after a long while, said, "Well, I'd like to learn to use a skateboard, or maybe rollerblades. Yeah, that might be easier on me."<p>He smiled and we all laughed, but as we looked back to him, he said wistfully and without a trace of irony, "I really would... But sometimes I have to remind myself I'm not seventeen anymore."<p>This is where I need your help.<p>Earlier today a friend sent me a video of her bed-bound grandmother taking VR tours of distant cities to which she had never traveled. As she looked left and right, her expression became one of pure wonderment, an unrestrained smile spreading wide across her face.<p>I want to provide the same experience for my grandfather.<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for a performant VR stack, preference of VR make/model (HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift), or knowledge of high quality content sources?<p>With regard to price, I am on a limited budget due to recent medical expenses, but I earn a good living. So if there is one option that is clearly better, I would rather sell every luxury item I have than deny him the best experience.<p>Thank you all for reading.
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Title: I've been very happy with my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina and was looking forward to a worthy successor. However the unveiling of the new Macbook was a big letdown for me. Everything that made the Macbook "Pro" seems to be removed. Enough has been said about the topic already what I want to do here is look at what alternatives there are.<p>So my question for you is; Which laptops, around the price point of your average Macbook Pro, come close to the build quality of the Macbook and use hardware that's greatly supported in Linux.<p>Extra kudos if somebody can recommend me a terminal on-par with iTerm. Out of all my apps I think I would miss iTerm the most.
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Title: I was reading this Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1879530) from about 6 years ago and wondered what HNers regret. Not necessarily your views on the concept of regret but actual examples from your life. I mainly regret not taking university seriously half a lifetime ago, but as a result I became a lifelong self-learner.<p>Suggested related reading on the topic:<p>"In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives"<p>https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/17/missing-out-adam-phillips/<p>___<p>In the Ask HN link above, a guy says he opened an unread email two years late and saw it was from Facebook in 2009 wanting to hire him.<p>Similarly, perhaps, one of my regrets was having received an early 2014 email that I didn't open, from someone I didn't much feel the need to keep in contact with. In late 2014, I finally read it. It was an offer to be the personal guide to the US team at the World Cup in Brazil...
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Title: Just got a warning when trying to visit ycombinator.com:<p>https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=ycombinator.com<p>Seems like a false positive, but might be worth to get it cleared.
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Title: I hold a PhD in applied machine learning, and have been working as an engineer at a startup for about 10 months now. A few weeks ago I moved away from where my company is located for a few months for personal reasons and have been working remotely. I really like this setup, as I'm in the comfort of my home throughout the day and have the discipline to carry out my work despite the change of place. And it is something I expect to do often in the future as my wife is in a profession that requires her to be physically present when dealing with her clients, and I realised that there may not always be the most interesting opportunities for me in some places where we live together (for example now).<p>This got me thinking about what I should pay attention to if I wanted to have a successful career working remotely. What kind of companies are more open to allow this form of work? How about freelancing? Are there any forums or groups online where I can find more information about working remotely? I have little idea about this as I have always been physically present at my place of work during the past 9 years of my professional life.<p>I thought this would be a very good place to get various points of view. Thanks in advance for any useful information you have that you share!
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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:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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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: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
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Title: Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:
Project name<p>Project description<p>What do you hope to build this month?<p>What kind of skills do you need?<p>Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.<p>Your license(s)<p>Consider tagging your project’s relevant issues with “ask hn”. To search these issues, go to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=state%3Aopen+label%3A%22ask+hn%22&type=Issues&ref=searchresults
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Title: The startup I work at will soon be undergoing an exodus of staff due to a failure in leadership and management by the founders. Really painful, sad, situation for all involved.<p>So, I figure if we're allowed to talk about who is hiring, why not the other way around? At the very least, we can get a pulse on those companies which smells like roses on the outside, and reek of something more earthy on the inside.
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Title: So you're disappointed by the new MacBooks, lots of us feel the same way, myself included.<p>So what's the best, most high-powered Linux-supported laptop on the market today?<p>Ideal specs: quad-core cpu, 16GB+ RAM, 1TB+ SSD.
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Title: How many people here have ACTUALLY gotten a job through the monthly post?<p>Provide what information you can (company, job title, post (if it's still alive)).
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Title: I've been struggling a bit in my education, mainly because I want to focus on gaining experience in the technology industry. I was wondering, as an employer, do you tend to favor experience or education from an applicant?
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Title: There have been threads recently lamenting how many in the web community often chase new and shiny. Many advocate choosing "boring," tried-and-true technologies for the web. What are the "boring" stacks that you see successfully used for the web? If you were starting a new web project today, what would your "boring" stack look like?
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Title: Just as a thought experiment for current Apple users - if you joined a new company and were offered a new MacBook Pro (the most recently showcased) or a new [NON-APPLE] laptop, would you choose the [NON-APPLE] laptop? I ask because I've heard many say they're looking for hardware to run elementary OS on, which is mimicking the mac OS UI (I don't mean to disparage elementary OS - I think their work is fantastic!). If you're not paying the bill, will you really move away from Apple?
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Title: I was wondering do you have some recommendation that would help along the learning path of Junior to become very good at what one does?
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Title: You cannot install the WOT addon anymore in Firefox. This is due to WOT selling all your browsing data to firms - easily de-anonymizable (containing e-mail addresses, usernames or identifying parts of URLs in cleartext).
Reporters of German broadcast NDR found out about this by inspecting a test dataset they acquired disguised as a company asking around to buy personal data.
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Title: A client asks to add UML diagram support to my Helpinator, but I am not sure that it's worth my time.
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Title: As simple as that, you have a month, what challenge do you tackle?<p>Typical examples:
- write a book
- code a game
- train to run a marathon by the end of the month
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Title: Hey,
I am currently learning front-end (knew jQuery but after many recommendations and doing backend for a long time decided to "modernize") with Vue.js components, etc... but feeling very overwhelmed with the big change, and after trying tutorials I don't know how to begin coding a real app, even after learning the concepts. Everything I try feels messy and strange, leading me to a lot of frustration. It seems very over-engineered.<p>I also wanted to start trying react but the sheer amount of boilerplate templates to start a project is insane and come with so many things I probably won't use. The file trees seem massive in comparison to simpler projects made in jQuery, which don't help the stress much...<p>Overall, I am very overwhelmed with what I am seeing in the front-end world, how do I proceed? I don't know how to continue this. Any tips? Experiences?
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Title: I am new ish to perl, coming from Python, and absolutely love the language and the community! I've been poking around perl 6 and it seems even cooler! It has everything I want: gradual typing, multiple paradigms, an up and coming package manager, and a nifty logo.<p>So, why isn't it the poster child of the scripting languages yet?
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Title: A similar thread was posted a couple of years ago. If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, I'm sure the HN community would have an interest in hearing about them.
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Title: What would you do?
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Title: I recently came home to find the home PC has been bricked - the boot layer has somehow been corrupted.<p>This is pretty remarkable given that my dad only uses it watch golf videos and edit some photos in lightroom. He may occasionally indulge in some porn <i>cough</i>.<p>I figured he'd be relatively safe as I installed an Adblocker and had Norton installed on the device but I did not realise how vulnerable he was until I found out he can't tell the difference between a pop up and a genuine desktop notification. He has even clicked through on a "You have been chosen to win an iPhone 7" link recently - he saw no harm in at least seeing what might happen.<p>He also likes to download videos from youtube so I taught him how to use youtube-dl but ended up downloading some malware-infected ripper because it had a more convenient UI.<p>How do I educate someone from such a base level?<p>What can I put on the PC to protect them? I avoided using scriptblockers as I don't think they are tech savvy enough to work out why a page might not be working.
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Title: Just wondering. No real reason to ask. (Completely serious question, however)
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Title: Seems like they have a live data feed...
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Title: I've recently become quite intrigued by the concept, and want to learn more about it.<p>If you have any resources, I'd love to see them. They can be videos, articles, tutorials, courses, etc.<p>If there is any prerequisite knowledge required, which I assume there will be, I would also love a starting point. As for my background, I have experience in full stack web development, game development, and about a year's worth of academic computer science study.
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Title: We haven't had an idea thread in a while. Can you share what project you wanted to implement but you couldnot for some reason.<p>What ideas and projects will take over communities and in turn the world in next 3 years?<p>I personally think- adtech is very saturated. DSP have become commodities with each company coming up of their own. There is a good chance for innovation in this space.
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Title: I have an MBA from a top 3 school and have a high-paying job as a PM at a top 3 tech company. But I don't feel like I am building tangible skills as a PM, it is more about project management and coordinating. I think about the future and get excited about technology and the types of things you can build and contribute to if you know how to code (e.g. block chain, deep learning, etc.). I have a feeling tremendous opportunity will be available over the next 10 years to software developers while other disciplines such as management become less and less important. Am I crazy to make this career switch?
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Title: Hey HN. I'm a senior UI designer (6+ years of experience. Have worked for Disney, MTV, United Nations, large banks and others cool companies).<p>I'm flying to California in the upcoming weeks and I'm looking to meet and work with cool startups for free. Yes, free. (Company size doesn't matter. NDA's are ok too).<p>I can help with branding, UI (web/mobile), presentation decks, & product design. For free. No equity either.<p>In exchange, I'm asking for food and a room to sleep. Ideally I will work with each startup up to 1 week and then move to another city/startup.<p>If you're interested lets chat!
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Title: I will have 6 months off in the spring for a sabbatical. I've been working on a list of things to do during this time. I am constrained by a wife/kids so this won't include a 6 month trip to Thailand or anything. I've considered the obvious, work out more, hike/cycle more, etc. Any other suggestions/recommendations? I'm looking for tech stuff like projects/books/etc but also non-tech stuff as well. I don't want to spend 60+hrs/week at the laptop like I do now.<p>EDIT: here's my list so far: fishing and fishing knots (I have my grandfather's gear, but lack his skill), cooking more, learning to make great bread, raspberry pi projects with my son, reorganize/layout my garage, improve my golf skills, reading, explore trails I've never been on, visit friends & family (travel), camping/backpacking
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Title: I have been building up a small team of programmers that are coming from CVS. I am looking for some ideas on ideal workflows.<p>What do you currently use for teams of 5-10 people?
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Title: I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or great.<p>Please update all of our browsers so that no automatic video/audio can play without user interaction/permission.<p>Its getting to be impossible to visit many sites today without being bombarded by video and sound playing by default on the web. In the worst cases such as on mobile browsers like iOS Safari, visiting a site will start playing media that kills whatever you're already listening to in another app.<p>This is eating up our data and inconveniencing millions of people using your products.<p>Please help us enable a better web.
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Title: I have half an eye on NZ right now (waiting to hear from some friends of friends) and on the interwebs there are a few articles written by not obviously-insane people about how sensible it is to have a few stocks of this, first aid kits of that and so on. I feel it's next in my list after getting the tax-efficient index savings going.<p>Is this a common thing and any advice?
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Title: For context I'm a day to day iOS developer. However I'd like to quickly be able to make cross platform applications, and React Native is apparently lacking for Android.
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Title: For those of you with income generating side projects, have you incorporated? Do you pay quarterly taxes? Do you list it as other, unreported income on your returns?
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Title: I'm speaking about human languages, not Programming
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Title: In terms of learning new things, trusting that it's secure production ready, and bootstrapping when possible. React seems interesting, but it requires a lot more additional components as you only seem to get the view. I've used RoR before but for something like this performance could be an issue. The good thing with rails though it has basically everything needed with plenty of scaffolding. Angular is a monster and that at least would give the entire MVC but seems to be on the decline and is not a friendly framework.<p>I've had other posts where I'm trying to find a good CRM, and have come to the conclusion that some will get me close but ideally building a bespoke version would give me full control and be able to add whatever features I want without arbitrary limits. Additionally, since it's a larger undertaking compared to previous projects a lot of experience could come from it.
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Title: Any suggestions are welcome (websites, books, etc).<p>For now, I know only the very basics, e.g. having one h1 per page.
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Title: Donald Trump getting elected I am no longer playing around, my life is going full encrypted.
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Title: I'm thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.
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Title: Hey HN.<p>I’m Craig. I work at YC. We’re starting the podcast up again and want your input.<p>Who do you think we should interview?<p>We’re open to all suggestions but maybe these prompts will help:<p>- Who has shaped technology and hasn’t done many interviews?<p>- Who has an interesting take on the future and is building it?<p>- Who is just really interesting and you’d love to hear more from?<p>Thanks for your input. Can’t wait to see who this post surfaces :)
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Title: With so many "new" js frameworks (like React, Vue.js, Mithril,..) and js-like languages (Elm, Dart, TypeScript,..) is classic jQuery still taken as something good and recommended to use for the front-end? Or should it by replaced by something else? Maintainability and minimum of errors are more relevant for me than raw speed or "hype".
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Title: We all know how the election turned out. I believe the internet is contributing to echo chambers because of filter bubbles. I think it is rare to see some news that is not biased one way or another, and I believe it is hard to expect it not to be so, because of our own individual biases. I think there is a need for tools that can help us see the other side.<p>What if we had a tool that is delivered as a browser extension, that can show links to alternate views (think URL links) of the exact same topic that you are reading? It can use information like how biased the current article is towards different people/events/ideas and find an alternate article that can help you understand other-side. It may not solve all the problems but it would be a good start. Would you find it useful? Do you have a better idea?<p>This requires skills (NLP/ML) that I don't have but I am willing to spend time/effort (I am a programmer/big-data-engineer) to make it a reality. Would anyone be interested in working on it? It will be open source and any organization that runs this will be non-profit.
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Title: I speak so little every day; I want to improve my communication skills, so I wonder any way I can measure how much I speak every day?
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Title: I remember watching video or some tutorial how to change plain, unstyled html page into nice looking, readable design (with information about fonts, colors, spaces). I have problems with finding it now, anyone can help ?
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Title: What is working for you and how much is your income from side project and/or passive income?
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Title: Do you keep work and personal separate? Do you use multiple providers like iCloud/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive or do you stick to one? Do you do any type of auto-sync folders?<p>What's your process like? I'm curious on what people to find the most automatic and reliable solution for typical day to day with photos, documents, and their work backups. (Thinking more along the lines of your own side projects or things that you're more in control of, less on the corporate side that have imposed solutions and is managed by a team).
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Title: I work as a developer (Java full stack if it makes any difference) and live quite far from my workplace: it usually takes me one hour and a half to and from work by car. Moving closer to my workplace is not an option nor is it using other means to go back and forth (eg train/bus).
I feel like my time spent on the road is mostly wasted: I'd like to find something IT-related to do (both listen to and reason about) that can help me learn new stuff.
Since I'm passionate about Linux, I usually have a few Linux (or BSD) podcasts to listen to while driving but I found that to be not really instructive, just more enjoyable than listening to the radio or some music playlist.
I'm looking for any kind of suggestion from fellow developers who are in the same spot and have found any interesting way or resources to 'spend wisely' their travel time.
What resources would you suggest (if any exists) to learn something while driving (much like you would do with a foreign language audio course)? Is it even possible? Has anyone tried or can share an experience of 'audio learning' IT related?
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Title: After almost a week of direct questioning, canary is still not updated:<p>https://riseup.net/pl/about-us/canary<p>Certificate fingerprints deleted for certain domains on Oct. 22nd without notice:<p>https://github.com/riseupnet/riseup_help/commit/8a8c98e0aaa635130a899c1980569f34633d159d<p>Page where fingerprints no longer appear:<p>https://riseup.net/pl/security/network-security/certificates
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Title: if it is ok to share it, how much you pay for servers? how many requests/seconds you got? how much memory you use? or what GC or AWS instances you are using?
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Title: I am building out my CS book collection, and I was curious to see if there is a widely accepted group of textbooks that are considered the bibles of different CS fundamentals. For an example:<p>* Brian Kerrigan's "C Programming Language" for C language<p>* W. Richard Steven's "IP/TCP Illustrated" for networking<p>Thoughts?
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Title: Hello,<p>I've been hacking on a new tool for teaching JavaScript. The main idea is, instead of using videos or articles to explain concepts, I used just audio that's matched with an in-browser editor. I used time cues from the audio to programmatically change the content of the editor and execute code. After each session, a challenge with code assertions can be used to validate what was learned.<p>Here's a demo (using a basic React example): http://jscomplete.com/interactive-learning-demo/<p>I'd love to hear what you think of this idea and educational delivery format.<p>Thanks!<p>https://edgecoders.com/are-videos-really-the-best-tool-for-the-job-of-educating-coders-e550a3be54a1
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Title: I still use Wordpress and shared hosting for most projects and microsites, simply because it's easiest and I'm not a developer. But I suspect there are better ways to do this in 2016/2017. Especially since I'm prepared to learn more.<p>Essentials: static hosting, custom domains, html, css, js
Nice to have: php, FTP, markdown support<p>Am I missing out on AWS, Github, Digital Ocean, Heroku?<p>What are the pros and cons?
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Title: In light of NIST's recent announcement, and several articles about password managers, why aren't sites being designed with client certs as an authentication or at least 2FA mechanism?
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Title: A couple of years ago, I written an intro to tmux (https://tmux.github.io/) inside tmuxp's (https://github.com/tony/tmuxp) documentation called The Tao of tmux (https://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about_tmux.html). I'm in the process of turning it into a feature book.<p>I am aiming for a December 23rd, 2016 release and am plugging away full time.<p>I make it available to read on the web for free at https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read.<p>The GitHub is at https://github.com/git-pull/tao-of-tmux.<p>For pre-ordering:<p>- The Leanpub page (updated on a regular basis) is https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux.<p>- Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MG342KU<p>- iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-tao-of-tmux/id1168912720<p>Also I have a coupon for pre-orders @ $7.99 https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/c/oBsI4y3o4quu.<p>So there are 2 other books available in the now. I prefer my style of writing about tmux and teaching, since I maintain a few open source libraries for tmux I bring my own perspective along. Also I'd rather stay away from publishers, again, I prefer a book that's available for free to read on the web, DRM-free if you pay, and not have to worry about printing :). It's my first book ever so I feel a lot of pressure to get it done right.<p>I'm definitely open to feedback and requests to add things. I feel a duty to make a really good book for the community. Any help to spread the word is much appreciated!
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