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Title: I want to build an app allowing users to search local car for rent availability. Upvote:	92
Title: One of the problems with consciousness is that you know that you are conscious but you can't know if others are. Consciousness is like seeing a dog in front of you but only you can see it.<p>Let us begin with an example of seeing a dog: when you see a dog, photons from the dog come to your eyes and converted to neural signal, then, a neural network will <i>recognize</i> that what you're seeing is a dog.<p>How do you <i>know</i> that you're seeing a dog?<p>I believe we can explain this in the same way as seeing a dog. But in this case, what you see is not photons but signals from within brain itself. In other words, brain takes its current states (signals) as its input (this is possibly no different from brain takes signals created by your eyes as its input.) And as you may already known, this is similar to recurrent neural network.<p>In this way, consciousness is a concept learned by brain about the inner processes of brain itself which is similar to: dog is a concept we learned when seeing many dogs!<p>Stream of consciousness is the result when brain trying to model itself and continuously receiving signals from itself!<p>We can put this further and ask: is any brain of any kind (dog, cat, whale) conscious?<p>My idea is that there is a threshold when brain becomes complicated enough to model its own signal! Upvote:	50
Title: I need an urgent advise from all product creators/designers/engineers/entrepreneurs! Just a few hours ago, I found out that the project that I was working on really hard for the last 6 months exists for a few days already on Kickstarter. It's exactly the same idea, exactly the same product. This is not the first time that something like this happened to me.<p>1) Did something like this happen to you before, what did you do? It is really frustrating...<p>2) What would you do?<p>3) Continue working on it or throw everything in the trash and focus on new things?<p>4) Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Upvote:	81
Title: I just haven't seen anything that catches my eye (and many sites make it surprisingly difficult to browse their Black Friday deals). I refuse to go out and shop (it's too cold, & I don't really want to mess with the crowds), but I would buy something online if it was a good price & I had a use for it.<p>Any suggestions or discoveries? Upvote:	54
Title: For a medium-size web SaaS project with a roughly equal mix of computation and IO demands, which of these would you recommend?<p>A bit of my background as it relates to the question: I was an MS Web Stack guy for years and years, but I have spent the last few years getting a solid grasp of Node, and I use ES6 and a lot of third-party and custom npm packages and tool-chains. So I have a basic understanding of the pros and cons of the two platforms.<p>However, .NET core seems to be a game changer, and I wonder of anyone with relevant experience can help me update my understanding of the relative strengths and weakness of the platforms Upvote:	56
Title: It's time to replace my PC. I'm curious about your setups - for a dev machine, what kind of hardware do you use/recommend? How do you configure your machine to keep it running nicely? Any other thoughts configurations/setup for a dev machine? Upvote:	42
Title: Simple enough question. I'm about to start a remote position and I'm looking for good suggestions for a clear, comfortable, and hopefully non-intrusive headphone/mic combo for video calls. Preferably, something wireless would be even better. Interested to hear what others are using Upvote:	45
Title: A common post, but one I always find a good source of inspiration. Happy Weekend! Upvote:	46
Title: Some notebooks and monitors were sold with OLED displays this year. I really liked them on the smartphone or tablets and now I'm thinking about getting a notebook for coding with OLED display, too. (HP Spectre X360 13-4203ng)<p>Does somebody here use an OLED display for coding? Was it worth it? How is your colourscheme or general system setup for it? Any burn-ins? Upvote:	65
Title: I'm not exactly looking for textbooks, but more along the lines of information-heavy material to learn what "derivatives" and "options" and the like are. Upvote:	40
Title: YC S16 enacted a new process called Investor Day[1] where demo day attendees rank their favorite startups and YC arranges a sort of speed-dating with startup<==>investor matches the following day.<p>How did it work out? Is there a plan to continue investor day for W16 and beyond?<p>[1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day/ Upvote:	79
Title: Basically the title. I know the best way to learn some new programming language is by making something i am interested in, but every time i try this approach i feel my code is "hacked" together for example: I need something, i google how to do that something in X language, read the code and try to understand it and then just copy it.<p>After a while i feel like i have learned nothing or just so little that i lose interest.<p>Am i doing this wrong? What is your approach for learning something new? Upvote:	58
Title: On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your happiness level at work? 1=horrible and 10=awesome.<p>How would you explain your level in one/two sentences max? Upvote:	68
Title: Hi Hackernews,<p>i am seeking for life advice. Right now, i don't know what i should do with my life. I feel trapped. Forgotten. Not part of society. And the part that worries me the most : i have become suicidal.<p>Context :<p>I am almost 30 years old. I studied Bioinformatics, still doing my masters. That is one of the main reasons i never worked. It took me 10 years to study and i feel my life doesn't progress, while others buying cars or getting married. Even though i only have to attend 3 more exams, with my current depression, it feels sooo hard to even pass one of them. The reason it took me so long was, that i had to work next to my studies. I am broke as hell, in fact, i have a debts of 20000€. I am based in germany. I applied for 20 jobs so far. Already got 4 rejections.<p>I feel unwanted and even though germany has a social security net .. i imagined my life not to be so bad.<p>I feel like, i can never "start a life", because i studied so long and no one wants a quitter .. at least in germany. I don't know what to do. I am in a unhappy place and i can't get out :( Upvote:	80
Title: Especially interested in reviews from parents who've seen kids playing with these various toys and have a sense of which ones are engaging and which aren't Upvote:	43
Title: Whether in lectures or learning things on the job, how do you retain what you learned? How do you write them down? Upvote:	42
Title: Understanding how git works internally "from the ground up" has been incredibly helpful in my everyday work; things like blobs, commit objects, hashes and how they connect to form the git experience as I know it. Where I had been cargo-culting along previously, it all became clear once I understood the fundamental model of what was going on underneath the interface.<p>I feel like the same thing could apply to PGP/GnuPG. I am cargo culting my way along but I feel like I would feel much, much, much more comfortable if I knew how it worked from the ground up.<p>I have loose ideas of asymmetric cryptography and trust circles and such, but nothing concrete to hinge my actions upon, so I mostly try different permutations of command line arguments until GPG appears to do what I want it to do.<p>Is there a "from the ground up" good guide to PGP that allows me to break out of this pattern? Upvote:	121
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:	72
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. Upvote:	458
Title: Post any companies that are having layoffs, mass firings, unusual churn, etc. If possible, please identify the company or as much specifics so you can help others in the community.<p>Inspired by: "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." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987)<p>If there's enough interest, I will have this bot auto-post on a monthly basis similar to whoishiring. Upvote:	77
Title: I work for a fairly large computer-centric company in the east bay. I relocated across the country from NYC for this job around six months ago. Overall I would consider it a great move -- I'm working on an awesome project, my coworkers are amazing and have told me that my work is great, and my supervisor has told me I was a great hire. I'm fairly certain that the work I've done in the past six months will lead to a patent for the company and to a major feature in our main software package. No cause for concern, right?<p>Well, today, to much pomp and circumstance, the C level company execs announced year end bonuses at a company wide meeting. The execs emphasized that this year we saw record profits, and reiterated how they felt privileged to take care of <i>all</i> employees, from the staff at the company cafe to the long term, senior engineers. This success, as was emphasized, brought with it financial rewards that they were pleased to share with the feet on the ground.<p>Caught up in the hoopla, I queued up for my bonus cheque, only to find it in the amount of... around ~100 dollars, about enough money for a one way cab ride to SFO.<p>Is this cause for concern? I realize that bonuses are, by definition, a bonus, and that I should be happy for anything. But if, after this whole production, the bonus comes to around ~3% of one's monthly rent in the bay area, that seems fucked up, especially given the state of the tech industry in the area.<p>Is this paltry bonus a cause for concern? Should I circulate my resume among friends and former colleagues in the bay? I've worked in similar job titles in the past, so I feel like I can, for the most part, fairly gauge my contributions to the company's bottom line, but this seems like an intentionally bad bonus (hell, just tell everyone that new hires don't get a bonus at all instead of giving them a rounding error). Upvote:	61
Title: This could be just about anything, from "project A but written in language B", "an API or library for real world activity C", "a unified solution for both D and E", all the way to "An open source version of proprietary solution Z", etc.<p>Go wild, dream big. You never know, someone might respond with a link to such a project that already exists... or decide to start one! Upvote:	71
Title: Compared to an actual Linux install.<p>I'm thinking of a MS Surface Pro and am curious how it would be to do my Linux work in a VM. Upvote:	56
Title: I want to develop many daily habits, such as running, reading, or exercise every day, but all difficult to stick to, I know someone, such as zurkburg, who can insist on what they want to do, so I wonder is there any systemic way i can develop a habit? Upvote:	334
Title: Any side projects from Show HN went big in terms of users, revenue or open source etc... Upvote:	247
Title: Like everyone else, HN has been on a political binge lately. As an experiment, we're going to try something new and have a cleanse. Starting today, it's Political Detox Week on HN.<p>For one week, political stories are off-topic. Please flag them. Please also flag political threads on non-political stories. For our part, we'll kill such stories and threads when we see them. Then we'll watch together to see what happens.<p>Why? Political conflicts cause harm here. The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when political emotions seize control. Our values are fragile—they're like plants that get forgotten, then trampled and scorched in combat. HN is a garden, politics is war by other means, and war and gardening don't mix.<p>Worse, these harsher patterns can spread through the rest of the culture, threatening the community as a whole. A detox week seems like a good way to strengthen the immune system and to see how HN functions under altered conditions.<p>Why don't we have <i>some</i> politics but discuss it in thoughtful ways? Well, that's exactly what the HN guidelines call for, but it's insufficient to stop people from flaming each other when political conflicts activate the primitive brain. Under such conditions, we become tribal creatures, not intellectually curious ones. We can't be both at the same time.<p>A community like HN deteriorates when new developments dilute or poison what it originally stood for. We don't want that to happen, so let's all get clear on what this site is for. What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. What it is not: a political, ideological, national, racial, or religious battlefield.<p>Have at this in the thread and if you have concerns we'll try to allay them. This really is an experiment; we don't have an opinion yet about longer-term changes. Our hope is that we can learn together by watching what happens when we try something new. Upvote:	1630
Title: If have personal blog about it please share it. Upvote:	63
Title: I'm in the process of choosing new device(s) for a small wireless network in multi-story building and prefer having devices supporting some open source router software/firmware (OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato). The amount of models available is enormous, but as the last Ask HN[0] (from 3 years ago) on this topic was a good starting point I think some good up-to-date advice can come up now. malandrew the original poster told it well so:<p>> If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features? > While it would be nice to know the best models as of today, I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.<p>[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828699 Upvote:	253
Title: (I'm aware there are many that can be found on Google search, I want to see if anyone here has any experience with them...) Upvote:	106
Title: A few years ago, I wanted to make a product, but I wasn't very technical. So I decided to change that--I got technical. My problem is that I'm embarrassed of what I make. Intellectually, I know that I shouldn't be bothered by this. I don't have a huge team of VC-backed employees burning money to make a perfect thing. It's just me. But I'm tired of being shit on by my friends and family. According to my family, programmers are just "coder monkeys," people you hire to make your grand idea and <i>that's how it's done</i>. Friends look at me like I'm a lesser person because I'm not out to work for the most prestigious company like they are. I want to make a tool for small businesses, I want to do it profitably, and I want to be proud of it.<p>How do you deal with people saying, "That's it? Anybody could have done that in a couple weeks!" Maybe that's true! Maybe I'm not a very good product maker! But I want to be, and you've gotta start somewhere, right? Combine all of the above with a case of worsening depression and it's hard for me to stay motivated and it's hard to keep defending myself. I also worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work. Does anyone have any advice? How do you do it? Upvote:	119
Title: I started to work on a job board to improve my Node.js / MongoDB skills and I'm thinking of actually launching it. But how do I make my board different from all others? I'm thinking of having a mandatory salary field so that each job would contain a salary range.<p>Stack Overflow data shows that job ads with salary receive 75% more clicks. https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/07/salary-transparency/#75. Other job sites are reporting 20% - 30% increase in job applications for ads with salaries. Upvote:	154
Title: I'd like to get into freelancing, but google is not being very helpful. I understand all the stuff about how to work with a client and what to charge and all that sort of stuff. The thing I can't figure out is how do you get the first job and the one after that? Where do you look to find these things? Do you approach potential clients? Or do you hang out your shingle and wait for them to come to you? Upvote:	40
Title: Which city/state has the maximum number of jobs available that are accessible to self-taught devs w/o college degrees? Upvote:	63
Title: Anything from low traffic and upvotes to a weak product. Upvote:	42
Title: Are you with a job at a startup or currently running a startup. Do you do any form of employee performance appraisal? (either once a year or multiple times a year).<p>What format (top-down, 360 Peer Review) and tools do you use to facilitate that? Has it been effective? Upvote:	77
Title: I'm an active member of this community but I'm using a throwaway instead because I don't want this issue to be linked to my identity<p>tl;dr: I graduated Software engineering 3 months ago and I'm currently without a job and back to live with my parents.<p>During school I was always told that I was "brilliant and one of the best". I tried not to show it with any attitude, but after a lot of people repeating over a period of many years, I think it entered the back of my mind but still with impostor syndrome.<p>On my final year I interned at a very prestigious company (not big 4, but still a huge one) with a great salary and an important project. Everything seemed to go the way everybody predicted and expected of me.<p>At the end of my internship, my manger lets me know that I will not be hired because the company is not hieing junior engineers at this time, but he would gladly recommend me to anyone.<p>I sent my resume to more than a 100 companies and I got a decent number of responses, interviews and even offers. However, all of the offer were with not-that-interesting tech stacks and really bad compensations.<p>For me it was not about the money, but a show of how much a company appreciate me and how they think of me.<p>I refused all the contracts so far, and the responses are fewer everyday. I'm eve, starting to regret not accepting a couple of them, after all this is maybe what i'm really worth and I was in a bubble all that time.<p>A few weeks ago I realized that I was gaining weight, and that I'm no longer interested in social interactions or my hygiene.<p>I told my family that, i got laughed at and was asked to find a job and stop being spoiled and lazy.<p>I don't know what to do.<p>Pick the next offer I get because there may not be another? See a professional about my current mental health?<p>I realize that this is more an anonymous rant than an Ask HN but I have no one else to ask Upvote:	48
Title: Crytek haven't paid their employees in Bulgaria in 3 months and all workers in that office are currently owed 3 full salaries. The company is not looking to pay these salaries any time soon and have spent the last few months lying about the availability of this money in order to keep as many employees as possible.<p>The Yerli brothers (Avni, Cevat and Faruk) are now looking at the second delay in the last 6 months (after finishing up a delay of 2 months just before the current one) and the third payment delay in the last two years.<p>The former director of the Sofia studio, Vesselin Handjiev, left several months ago and the studio is entirely at the mercy of Crytek Frankfurt's leadership, which has proved to be unsuccessful in stemming the current bleeding for 6 months.<p>Anyone who has an offer or is otherwise considering joining Crytek is advised to steer their ship elsewhere, as the current situation is rumored to apply to all studios within the company, even after the closure and selling off of several of the Crytek studios around the world. Upvote:	96
Title: I'm in my late twenties and I'm having a bit of a tough time dealing with my level of programming skill.<p>Over the past 3 years, I've released a few apps on iOS: not bad, nothing that would amaze anyone here. The code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts. (Biggest: 30k LOC.) While I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise — I feel most of my time was spent on battling stupid bugs. I haven't gained any specialist knowledge — just bloggable API experience. There's nothing I could write a book about.<p>Meanwhile, when I compulsively dig through one-man frameworks like YapDatabase, Audiobus, or AudioKit, I am left in awe! They're brimming with specialist knowledge. They're incredibly documented and organized. Major features were added over the course of weeks! People have written books <i>about</i> these frameworks, and they were created by my peers — probably alongside other work. Same with one-man apps like Editorial, Ulysses, or GoodNotes.<p>I am utterly baffled by how knowledgeable and productive these programmers are. If I'm dealing with a new topic, it can take weeks to get a lay of the land, figure out codebase interactions, consider all the edge cases, etc. etc. But the commits for these frameworks show that the devs basically worked through their problems over mere days — to say nothing of getting the overall architecture right from the start. An object cache layer for SQL? Automatic code gen via YAML? MIDI over Wi-Fi? Audio destuttering? Pff, it took me like a month to add copy/paste to my app!<p>I'm in need of some recalibration. Am I missing something? Is this quality of work the norm, or are these just exceptional programmers? And even if they are, how can I get closer to where they're standing? I don't want to wallow in my mediocrity, but the mountain looks almost insurmountable from here! No matter the financial cost or effort, I want to make amazing things that sustain me financially; but I can't do that if it takes me ten times as long to make a polished product as another dev. How do I get good enough to consistently do work worth writing books about? Upvote:	328
Title: I'm curious what are results, your experiences with daily blogging, taking photos, drawing etc. challanges. How long have you tried it, any suprising results, did the end results of this process met your expectations? Upvote:	50
Title: (this is a throw away account for an obvious reason)<p>I have a very small personal side project, ~1k+ UVs/day. A few days ago, one large company (think Alexa top 1000) got in touch with me with a proposal to acquire my project for for a small price of $10k.<p>I have never dealt with things like this before and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to sell the project, but instead would like to grow it (which is quite hard to do on my own).<p>Would it be smart to suggest them some sort of a partnership, as it seems like they are ready to talk? Upvote:	80
Title: Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks. Upvote:	779
Title: Just noticed that about 57% of websites don't use a CMS like Wordpress/Drupal/etc. [1] If you don't use a CMS, what do you use exactly? I use github to host static sites, and things like Heroku for web apps.<p>[1]: https://w3techs.com/ Upvote:	48
Title: Hey guys,<p>I just wanted to gauge interest levels in an e-book that goes through building a complete web application using React and NodeJS?<p>It would explain how to:<p>- Create a webserver with user authentication - Hook up and work with databases via an ORM. - Generate API endpoints - Connect API Endpoints with a front-end framework like React - Explain how React and Flux works with APIs - Tips and Best Practices on building out a CRUD application using this framework - Security - Maintenance - Best practices in Production<p>Questions: 1) Would you be interested? 2) Would you pay for it if it was good, and had sample chapters? 3) Where do you get this information now? Upvote:	42
Title: Title says it all! Have a $300-ish budget for a new screen for dev work. I've been using a https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10509 for a past job and enjoyed it but it's been a few years since that model came out so I thought it was worth asking.<p>If it makes any difference I'm on the new Macbook Pro w/ Touchbar which I'll be pairing it with (as well as wireless keyboard/mouse). Thanks for any suggestions! Upvote:	107
Title: Reddit is filled with internal jokes. HN is a big echo-chamber. Lobste.rs is invite-only. Imzy?? (too young maybe?)<p>Any good forum out there? Upvote:	48
Title: Please be as specific as possible. Also please mention your company and/or industry.<p>This should help folks trying to get into your company/industry on what they need to know and conversely help you in finding a better pool of candidates. Upvote:	242
Title: Anyone who has applied for a job in the last few years knows the routine: take the time to apply to numerous job postings, maybe get an interview or two, but mostly never get a response yay or nay. You might even get a few interviews in, only to never hear another peep.<p>If an applicant takes the time to apply to your posting, why not give them a follow up regardless?<p>What would it take?<p>Disclaimer: I'm building https://www.hireloop.io to hopefully bring communication full-circle. I really want to make this less painful. Upvote:	58
Title: I've started a software company and want to keep it just me and no employees. In this day and age with the popularity of SaaS and uptime needed is it still a realistic goal of starting and keep running a micro ISV? Upvote:	315
Title: I’m specifically interested in what you’d tell someone to help them develop a senior engineer mindset. And when I use the word “senior” I don’t mean title or age, but the engineering maturity that it implies. Upvote:	102
Title: In the last few months I started using a clipboard manager (Ditto) and I'll never go back. My 'clipboard anxiety' (did I leave something in the clipboard? can I copy this? better open notepad and Ctrl+V just to be sure...) is gone, and I can copy stuff with reckless abandon.<p>This got me wondering, what are some of the other productivity hacks like this that I'm missing out on? I already use AutoHotKey and rave about it to anyone who will listen, but there must be other ways to improve my workflow.<p>What productivity hacks have changed your life? Upvote:	72
Title: Can anyone recommend cheap and simple SAAS options for a landing page?<p>I'd like visitors to be able to enter an email address for product availability updates.<p>I would also like to host it on a custom domain. Upvote:	48
Title: Unbeknownst to me, Dropbox phased out Public/ folders new accounts as of 31 July, 2010[1]. As an existing user I never noticed and continued to use my Public folder to distribute some little freeware apps.<p>Today I got an email saying,<p>> We're always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience... we'll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Public folder until September 1, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.<p>The part about links being "deactivated" is troubling. It is true that one could easily create new Dropbox "shared links" to the files one wants to share. However, bit.ly links and similar are forever! There is no way to redirect or edit "bit.ly/my_great_freebie" or change "goo.gl/aRgle" to point to a different place. And once you've made such links public, you have no control over where they are re-posted and no idea who might try to use them in the future.<p>So a major unanswered question is, after 1-9-17, what will a user see when following a link to a now-private file or folder? Will there be any way for the owner to customize that from the default 4xx error page -- or possibly even redirect it?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114474 Upvote:	58
Title: Let's do HN retrospective and see where we stand.<p>About me - left a falling titan of the Internet and moved to Seattle to work for another tech company. Weather sucks here in winter.<p>Fallback - I wasn't able to get girlfriend or any woman interested me this year as well. I don't drink or smoke and lack of hobbies contributed to it. I am getting lonely a lot lately. May be because I am 31 now.<p>What about you? Upvote:	44
Title: Last time we had an update was on May 31:<p>https://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income/<p>I was wondering if there are any updates that could be shared with the community. Upvote:	266
Title: Sure there are sites like Upwork or Freelancer, but they limit the amount of jobs that you can bid for. I'm not sure if I could successfully get jobs there, so I don't want to waste any bids. People jump on any good projects like crazy. Aside from that, I've been told to scout out local business, but for the moment lets just say that one's a no. How can I get freelancing jobs as a developer? Upvote:	433
Title: Didn't we like privacy? Upvote:	84
Title: I know this is not a dating/pua discussion forum; but I am similar to most people here. I am if anyone else here also suffering from dating dilemma. I am SE asian and live in Seattle. I am 31 and have no friend so far here in Seattle. Weather is so depressing that I have not seen the Sun in last 30 days.<p>I am not a very good looking guy. I go to the gym at least 3 times a week. I am not overweight as well. Only strike against me is my premature baldness. I personally don't think it is such a big deal now. However, when I was in SF, it was a big deal for most of the women.<p>Where do you meet women if you don't have social circle? I am on tinder and CMB, very rarely I get matched with someone. Chances of a serious relationship are almost zero with girls on tinder and CMB.<p>Do you have any suggestions? Upvote:	41
Title: I've noticed that both Firefox and Chrome issue a new HTTP request when you view the source for a web page that you've already loaded. It's particularly annoying when the page itself is slow to load or if it won't load at all.<p>Why is that? Wouldn't they have the existing source for the originally received page cached already? Is it based on Cache-Control headers?<p>This has been on my mind for a while (usually comes up when looking at what's behind slow web apps) and came up again with Piwik on the front page[1]. Their website was semi-down (HN hug of death) but eventually loaded. I wanted to see what their GA equivalent tracking code looks like but the page failed to load as rather than showing the cached copy, it tried to fetch a new one.<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210195 Upvote:	173
Title: I've been seeing more interest in RISC-V lately, I suppose due to the recent RISC-V workshop at the end of November:<p>https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=risc-v<p>I can see how the architecture is of benefit for academic research, given how conservative all the other ones are with regard to protecting their IP. Some of the NDA related hoops I've had to jump through as an embedded developer have had a direct revenue impact on past projects, so I'm pretty motivated to avoid that nonsense by supporting a neutral, open, consortium-backed architecture instead.<p>However, if I put my business hat on and am preparing to bid on a project, I find myself without a strong argument for favoring RISC-V instead of ARM or MIPS. I can make an argument for the usual open source benefits of design longevity and avoiding vendor lock-in, but it's a really hard sell when it boils down to SiFive versus essentially the entire rest of the semiconductor industry.<p>Is there something I'm missing about RISC-V? Some commercial advantage I'm not aware of? Upvote:	96
Title: I use Notational Velocity for my notes and I love the ease of use but I'd like something that will allow me to share a note with a client and also has code highlighting. And image uploads. I want to be able to upload screenshots. I looked around but can't find anything that's a mix of Evernote, Wunderlist and GitHub Gists. What do you HN people recommend? Upvote:	68
Title: Do you see in your local market a movement of B2C SMBs shutting down their websites, leaving their web presence to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter only?<p>Edit: added "B2C" context to question. Upvote:	87
Title: I work in a startup in San Francisco. We're profitable & growing, about 30 people now. I'm one of the first engineers so I have a good chunk of stock options.<p>A lot of times when I talk to my friends (mostly engineers, mostly in their middle 20s) about stock options they don't even know the basics.<p>A few examples from my life:<p>* A coworker left the company right before the end of his first year. He had ISOs, and it wouldn't be that expensive to buy them, but he still decided to leave right before the 1 year cliff date to go work in another company.<p>* A friend of mine did not sign his stock options paperwork when his employer gave it to him more than 1 year ago. I guess he was just lazy, didn't want to sign something he did not fully understand. I don't know all the details but I assume if he signs it now he loses 1 year of vesting, the grant price will be higher — just not the greatest decision / attitude imo.<p>* Another friend left the company where she had stock options, 6 months later she found out that the company was sold. She remembered about the stock options and asked me for advice. She did not know much about the topic so I told her roughly what her options were, told her about the 90-day rule. I later found out that she ended up getting some money from her past employer.<p>I know that there's a conversation [1][2] about changing some of the technicalities around stock options, but I think there might be an even bigger problem — many employees don't understand the basics of stock options, hence they don't value equity as much as employers / investors do.<p>Or is it just me and my friends?<p>1. http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity<p>2. http://blog.triplebyte.com/fixing-the-inequity-of-startup-equity Upvote:	90
Title: Finished install yields OpenBSD 6.0, Lumina DE, Firefox, mplayer<p>Install base system # https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html<p>### As Root<p># Increase resource limits vi /etc/login.conf:<p>:datasize-max=2048M:\<p>:datasize-cur=2048M:\<p># Execute commands as root:<p>vi /etc/doas.conf:<p>permit nopass username_created_during_install<p># Package mgmt: PKG_PATH and pkg.conf<p># Edit .profile to add package path:<p>export PKG_PATH=http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/<p>vi /etc/pkg.conf:<p>installpath = http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/<p># Improve disk performance<p>vi /etc/fstab:<p>Append ”softdep,noatime" to all entries with filesystem type ffs after rw<p>Ex: .... rw,softdep,noatime 1 1<p># Get wireless working w/ or w/o WPA<p># Determine wireless interface name (ex. iwn0) with ifconfig:<p>ifconfig -a<p># Establish wireless w/ WPA, substituting own interface name:<p>ifconfig iwn0 nwid network_id wpakey password<p>dhclient iwn0<p>#Establish wireless w/o WPA, ex: guest network<p>ifconfig iwn0 nwid network_id -wpa<p>dhclient iwn0<p># Make wireless perm:<p>vi /etc/hostname.iwn0<p>dhcp nwid network_id -wpa # Without WPA<p>dhcp nwid network_id wpakey password # With WPA<p># Reboot<p>reboot<p>### As mortal user<p># Install packages:<p># Ex: pkg_add -v <package><p># mplayer plays media, esp. YouTube in browser<p>doas pkg_add -v firefox lumina mplayer # Installs Firefox, Lumina DE, and mplayer<p># Start xscreensaver daemon to use Windows-L xlock<p># Activate tap-to-click for trackpad (skip if desktop computer)<p># Configure Lumina DE to invoke with “startx” under own user<p>vi .xinitrc in own directory:<p>synclient TapButton1=1<p>syndaemon -i 1 -d<p>xscreensaver -no-splash &<p>exec Lumina-DE Upvote:	43
Title: If you had $500K to invest, which would be your entire equity, cash money, how would you invest it?<p>It's your equity so a low risk would definitely be considered. Looking for creative advices, not boring banking stuff... Upvote:	45
Title: If one were to use Hacker News as their only source of information, it would seem that machine learning is a very overrated topic. There is something related to it on HN's front page almost every day. This proliferation of courses, resources, books and startups would hint that machine learning is becoming more and more accessible to the average programmer and that the market is on track to getting saturated quickly. Is this the current trend? If yes, is it limited to the US? What about the machine learning scene in Europe? Maybe someone here could provide some perspective. Upvote:	204
Title: I'd like to know which books HN read in 2016. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects. Upvote:	414
Title: From idea to release and first paying customer, how long did it take? What were the challenges? Encountered anything unexpected? Upvote:	40
Title: Are you using, or have you used, a cloud-based IDE or development environment like Koding, Cloud9, CodeAnywhere, etc? What do you like about it? Dislike about it? Upvote:	60
Title: Company hasn't paid the staff since Jun 2016. Now CEO decides to close office in VN without clear path to pay us. PosibaVn is the core engineering team and it's not their failure.<p>Is there anyone can help us? Upvote:	59
Title: This a bit off topic for HN, but I would like to know your sleep patterns, and what you do to get great sleep. Upvote:	52
Title: For those of us interested in dropping off the grid, what are the best current methods of removal of information from search engines and servers that host information about you, whether known by you or not? How could these methods be improved upon to increase the coverage of erasure? And what do you think the future of personal identify cleanup will look like, or will it even be possible after a certain point? Upvote:	239
Title: I am researching for ways to promote content to regional audiences. The problems I've felt so far:<p>- Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined (transliterated) search and rank the best?<p>- Top Trends show what is being searched for in english. No option to see search top trends <i>by language</i> . Any way around this? [0]<p>- Even if its a non-english website, what are best the practices for URLs? Should they still be in english or can we use the regional language?<p>0 - Such a feature would be incredibly useful I think.<p>Edit: Clarified that by trends, I was referring to top trends. Upvote:	65
Title: I wish you all a Merry Christmas! Upvote:	153
Title: Merry Christmas! Upvote:	71
Title: Wanted to know what are or if there are any coding related podcasts which people are subscribed to. The specific topics I am looking for are<p>- Algorithms/Data Structures<p>- Javascript<p>- Scala Upvote:	154
Title: What are some ideas for apps that could be built to become more conversant with near-realtime technologies à la Storm, Kafka, Spark Streaming and the like?<p>Let's define realtime not as financial index realtime but as responding very quickly to a potentially large number of input events which will be coming in over a network. Upvote:	40
Title: I got an Amazon Echo and some wifi enabled light bulbs and electrical outlets for Christmas.<p>What are your favorite uses for it? Any cool "skills" you've made? Upvote:	106
Title: I am doing Bachelors in Information Technology and to my bad luck, my curriculum does not have a course on compilers. I looked online and found one on Coursera only to realize that it has now been removed. Could you guys recommend a good compilers course or book which gives a good introduction to the topic along with a guided practical implementation? I would be much obliged. Upvote:	66
Title: I noticed Bootstrap 4 has not been released yet. Is it close to being released or should I still learn and use Bootstrap 3 at this moment? Upvote:	106
Title: I'm absolutely lost. I have been coding for so long but I have never had a software development job, I've been self taught and been on this road for so long. Surprisingly I have been extremely active in sports, I'm extroverted, I love being social and coding has been my passion. I can't get a job because the requirements and qualifications is way too demanding even though I am 100% I can handle the work load and delivery whatever it is the companies need.<p>I did 5 years of PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, I studied Java in University, I have done Python, and for the past two years Objective-c/Swift I've built 15 applications.<p>It is extremely hard in this industry that is changing so fast and it is very competitive.<p>I really feel like giving up. Upvote:	54
Title: Hello,<p>I am 32 yo and started programing since 14. I am a self learner and programing is far from being a passion, it is my life. Through the time, I programed using, QBasic, QuickBasic, Visual Basic, C++, C, HTML, JS, CSS, PHP and Python. Actually I only use the 6 last.<p>I live in democratic republic of the Congo, in the heart of Africa. In my country, developer jobs are quasi-non-existent. My wish is to work remotely. But, many remote Jobs I find online require being USA resident.<p>My Wish is to have an employer accept me working for approval even for 3 months. I learn quickly and I can add new languages to my fingers if required.<p>Thank you. Upvote:	93
Title: Who is correct in this case?<p>I've been rather constructive in attempting to resolve this matter with gitpay to simply remove my information. However they have not been cooperative.<p>This person also provides an argument that is not valid.<p>What are your thoughts on this conversation?<p>https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4 Upvote:	63
Title: ...and what did you learn in the process? Upvote:	173
Title: Most of the news, blog, or e-commerce websites I visit these days ask me to get notified about the new content. Is this ruining the web experience? Is this overuse of Notification APIs by websites?<p>E.g. mdn.mozillademos.org wants to show notifications. {BLOCK} {ALLOW} Upvote:	62
Title: What is the most important thing to think about when you’re switching from a development to a (project) management position? Upvote:	164
Title: Granted that DuckDuckGo.com is quite a childish name, but then so was Google when we first heard about it in early 2000s, wasn't it? I just switched to DDG recently and feel that not only is the interface fast and minimal (like Google used to be in those early days), but even the results seem to be a lot better (at least specific to the programming topic that I search too often). I'm getting a feeling that some day in future, DDG is going to become as big as Google, if not supersede it. But a search engine's results are only as accurate as the number of users who search and contribute to it, so its my appeal to people to give a chance to DDG and start using it more and more instead of Google. Upvote:	241
Title: Apart from exercise, what other habits have had a big impact on your health?<p>For me, standing desk was a noticeable improvement from sitting desk for health and avoiding procastination. But it is not doable when your energy is low ( tired or sick) and if I had particularly mentally demanding job on hand.<p>I have much better weight loss when pairing exercise with standing desks Upvote:	80
Title: Not sure where to begin I am a US Citizen not a felon but wondering what I can do or the process to get started in moving to Europe?<p>what's it like out there comparing to America. I want a new life fresh start new faces.<p>I have family in Europe I don't have a degree or anything yet. I know some programming but I plan to live with an aunt out there. No kids no job 26 years of age Upvote:	161
Title: I'm planning on hiring a good programmer but I'm getting trouble choosing the best from my applicants. I'm a software developer myself but I can't recognize a great programmer from a bad one. Any ideas? Upvote:	42
Title: So in the spirit of new year's resolutions I'm planning to learn some new things this year; specifically, I want to to draw, and I want to at least get started learning Japanese. I'd also like to keep improving my skill at mahjong, which I picked up last year, and keep on learning tech-related things.<p>However, I find it pretty difficult to pick up new things. Learning to draw especially is pretty overwhelming for me; I have no idea how to start, as someone with no skill or experience in drawing whatsoever. Learning a language is also pretty intimidating, and it doesn't help that I find the usual way of learning languages (grinding flash cards) to be distinctly awful (not to mention I'm terrible at it).<p>As HN seems like a community where people love to learn new things, how do you guys go about things like these? Upvote:	222
Title: Hey there,<p>Self-taught web developer here. I managed to get a job after 11 months of learning of my own. For me, the sheer amount of resources was overwhelming and sometimes got me thinking to give up, but I kept at it and managed to get a job and find out how web dev looks like in real life.<p>Eager to hear your stories.<p>Thanks, Alin R. Upvote:	45
Title: If you could pick one place or city in the world where you'd live and work (software dev) for the next 10 years. Where would it be? And why would you pick that place? Upvote:	175
Title: You can now buy 128gb USB sticks or SD cards for around $20. Meanwhile, 16 gb RAM sticks still are $100+.<p>Are the performance specifications for RAM that much more stringent? Is the demand for SD cards and USB sticks that much greater that there's more economies of scale? Upvote:	165
Title: I've been offered stock options as part of my offer to join a company.<p>They have offered me a competitive salary, as well as 200 options at 1300 USD per option. The company is valued at around $1B. Options vest on a four year schedule.<p>Do I have enough information to make a call on whether this is a good deal, or do I need to know more? Upvote:	58
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:	132
Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Upvote:	145
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. Upvote:	612
Title: And what is the purpose?<p>I'm still using bash, awk, and a bit of FORTRAN for scientific computing. Upvote:	212
Title: I wanted to ask what people have read and would recommend for a book(s) on Distributed Systems. Both the Coulouris book and the Tanenbaum book seem to be pretty standard but the reviews and ratings on these seem to be underwhelming:<p>https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradigms-2nd/dp/0132392275/<p>https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Concepts-Design-5th/dp/0132143011 Upvote:	99
Title: I'm a programmer with a lot of experience with GL. I'm mostly working with data visualization in general, but I wrote several non-toy 3D engines in the past.<p>I've been rather oblivious with VR as of date, even though I toyed with 3d glasses on an SGI Octane decades ago. After a couple of experiences with the Oculus though, I'd love to start hacking on VR technology.<p>As my development platform for the last 10+ years as been exclusively Linux, and again almost exclusively targeting high-end NVidia cards, I have no interest in switching OS whatsoever.<p>What is the status of VR on linux? It seems that most headsets are platform and vendor-locked. Why is this the case? Are some devices more hackable than others? Upvote:	90

Title: I want to build an app allowing users to search local car for rent availability. Upvote:

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Title: One of the problems with consciousness is that you know that you are conscious but you can't know if others are. Consciousness is like seeing a dog in front of you but only you can see it.Let us begin with an example of seeing a dog: when you see a dog, photons from the dog come to your eyes and converted to neural signal, then, a neural network will recognize that what you're seeing is a dog.How do you know that you're seeing a dog?I believe we can explain this in the same way as seeing a dog. But in this case, what you see is not photons but signals from within brain itself. In other words, brain takes its current states (signals) as its input (this is possibly no different from brain takes signals created by your eyes as its input.) And as you may already known, this is similar to recurrent neural network.In this way, consciousness is a concept learned by brain about the inner processes of brain itself which is similar to: dog is a concept we learned when seeing many dogs!Stream of consciousness is the result when brain trying to model itself and continuously receiving signals from itself!We can put this further and ask: is any brain of any kind (dog, cat, whale) conscious?My idea is that there is a threshold when brain becomes complicated enough to model its own signal! Upvote:

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Title: I need an urgent advise from all product creators/designers/engineers/entrepreneurs! Just a few hours ago, I found out that the project that I was working on really hard for the last 6 months exists for a few days already on Kickstarter. It's exactly the same idea, exactly the same product. This is not the first time that something like this happened to me.1) Did something like this happen to you before, what did you do? It is really frustrating...2) What would you do?3) Continue working on it or throw everything in the trash and focus on new things?4) Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Upvote:

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Title: I just haven't seen anything that catches my eye (and many sites make it surprisingly difficult to browse their Black Friday deals). I refuse to go out and shop (it's too cold, & I don't really want to mess with the crowds), but I would buy something online if it was a good price & I had a use for it.Any suggestions or discoveries? Upvote:

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Title: For a medium-size web SaaS project with a roughly equal mix of computation and IO demands, which of these would you recommend?A bit of my background as it relates to the question: I was an MS Web Stack guy for years and years, but I have spent the last few years getting a solid grasp of Node, and I use ES6 and a lot of third-party and custom npm packages and tool-chains. So I have a basic understanding of the pros and cons of the two platforms.However, .NET core seems to be a game changer, and I wonder of anyone with relevant experience can help me update my understanding of the relative strengths and weakness of the platforms Upvote:

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Title: It's time to replace my PC. I'm curious about your setups - for a dev machine, what kind of hardware do you use/recommend? How do you configure your machine to keep it running nicely? Any other thoughts configurations/setup for a dev machine? Upvote:

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Title: Simple enough question. I'm about to start a remote position and I'm looking for good suggestions for a clear, comfortable, and hopefully non-intrusive headphone/mic combo for video calls. Preferably, something wireless would be even better. Interested to hear what others are using Upvote:

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Title: A common post, but one I always find a good source of inspiration. Happy Weekend! Upvote:

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Title: Some notebooks and monitors were sold with OLED displays this year. I really liked them on the smartphone or tablets and now I'm thinking about getting a notebook for coding with OLED display, too. (HP Spectre X360 13-4203ng)Does somebody here use an OLED display for coding? Was it worth it? How is your colourscheme or general system setup for it? Any burn-ins? Upvote:

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Title: I'm not exactly looking for textbooks, but more along the lines of information-heavy material to learn what "derivatives" and "options" and the like are. Upvote:

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Title: YC S16 enacted a new process called Investor Day[1] where demo day attendees rank their favorite startups and YC arranges a sort of speed-dating with startup<==>investor matches the following day.How did it work out? Is there a plan to continue investor day for W16 and beyond?[1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day/ Upvote:

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Title: Basically the title. I know the best way to learn some new programming language is by making something i am interested in, but every time i try this approach i feel my code is "hacked" together for example: I need something, i google how to do that something in X language, read the code and try to understand it and then just copy it.After a while i feel like i have learned nothing or just so little that i lose interest.Am i doing this wrong? What is your approach for learning something new? Upvote:

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Title: On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your happiness level at work? 1=horrible and 10=awesome.How would you explain your level in one/two sentences max? Upvote:

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Title: Hi Hackernews,i am seeking for life advice. Right now, i don't know what i should do with my life. I feel trapped. Forgotten. Not part of society. And the part that worries me the most : i have become suicidal.Context :I am almost 30 years old. I studied Bioinformatics, still doing my masters. That is one of the main reasons i never worked. It took me 10 years to study and i feel my life doesn't progress, while others buying cars or getting married. Even though i only have to attend 3 more exams, with my current depression, it feels sooo hard to even pass one of them. The reason it took me so long was, that i had to work next to my studies. I am broke as hell, in fact, i have a debts of 20000€. I am based in germany. I applied for 20 jobs so far. Already got 4 rejections.I feel unwanted and even though germany has a social security net .. i imagined my life not to be so bad.I feel like, i can never "start a life", because i studied so long and no one wants a quitter .. at least in germany. I don't know what to do. I am in a unhappy place and i can't get out :( Upvote:

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Title: Especially interested in reviews from parents who've seen kids playing with these various toys and have a sense of which ones are engaging and which aren't Upvote:

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Title: Whether in lectures or learning things on the job, how do you retain what you learned? How do you write them down? Upvote:

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Title: Understanding how git works internally "from the ground up" has been incredibly helpful in my everyday work; things like blobs, commit objects, hashes and how they connect to form the git experience as I know it. Where I had been cargo-culting along previously, it all became clear once I understood the fundamental model of what was going on underneath the interface.I feel like the same thing could apply to PGP/GnuPG. I am cargo culting my way along but I feel like I would feel much, much, much more comfortable if I knew how it worked from the ground up.I have loose ideas of asymmetric cryptography and trust circles and such, but nothing concrete to hinge my actions upon, so I mostly try different permutations of command line arguments until GPG appears to do what I want it to do.Is there a "from the ground up" good guide to PGP that allows me to break out of this pattern? Upvote:

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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:

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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.Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519. Upvote:

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Title: Post any companies that are having layoffs, mass firings, unusual churn, etc. If possible, please identify the company or as much specifics so you can help others in the community.Inspired by: "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." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987)If there's enough interest, I will have this bot auto-post on a monthly basis similar to whoishiring. Upvote:

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Title: I work for a fairly large computer-centric company in the east bay. I relocated across the country from NYC for this job around six months ago. Overall I would consider it a great move -- I'm working on an awesome project, my coworkers are amazing and have told me that my work is great, and my supervisor has told me I was a great hire. I'm fairly certain that the work I've done in the past six months will lead to a patent for the company and to a major feature in our main software package. No cause for concern, right?Well, today, to much pomp and circumstance, the C level company execs announced year end bonuses at a company wide meeting. The execs emphasized that this year we saw record profits, and reiterated how they felt privileged to take care of all employees, from the staff at the company cafe to the long term, senior engineers. This success, as was emphasized, brought with it financial rewards that they were pleased to share with the feet on the ground.Caught up in the hoopla, I queued up for my bonus cheque, only to find it in the amount of... around ~100 dollars, about enough money for a one way cab ride to SFO.Is this cause for concern? I realize that bonuses are, by definition, a bonus, and that I should be happy for anything. But if, after this whole production, the bonus comes to around ~3% of one's monthly rent in the bay area, that seems fucked up, especially given the state of the tech industry in the area.Is this paltry bonus a cause for concern? Should I circulate my resume among friends and former colleagues in the bay? I've worked in similar job titles in the past, so I feel like I can, for the most part, fairly gauge my contributions to the company's bottom line, but this seems like an intentionally bad bonus (hell, just tell everyone that new hires don't get a bonus at all instead of giving them a rounding error). Upvote:

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Title: This could be just about anything, from "project A but written in language B", "an API or library for real world activity C", "a unified solution for both D and E", all the way to "An open source version of proprietary solution Z", etc.Go wild, dream big. You never know, someone might respond with a link to such a project that already exists... or decide to start one! Upvote:

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Title: Compared to an actual Linux install.I'm thinking of a MS Surface Pro and am curious how it would be to do my Linux work in a VM. Upvote:

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Title: I want to develop many daily habits, such as running, reading, or exercise every day, but all difficult to stick to, I know someone, such as zurkburg, who can insist on what they want to do, so I wonder is there any systemic way i can develop a habit? Upvote:

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Title: Any side projects from Show HN went big in terms of users, revenue or open source etc... Upvote:

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Title: Like everyone else, HN has been on a political binge lately. As an experiment, we're going to try something new and have a cleanse. Starting today, it's Political Detox Week on HN.For one week, political stories are off-topic. Please flag them. Please also flag political threads on non-political stories. For our part, we'll kill such stories and threads when we see them. Then we'll watch together to see what happens.Why? Political conflicts cause harm here. The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when political emotions seize control. Our values are fragile—they're like plants that get forgotten, then trampled and scorched in combat. HN is a garden, politics is war by other means, and war and gardening don't mix.Worse, these harsher patterns can spread through the rest of the culture, threatening the community as a whole. A detox week seems like a good way to strengthen the immune system and to see how HN functions under altered conditions.Why don't we have some politics but discuss it in thoughtful ways? Well, that's exactly what the HN guidelines call for, but it's insufficient to stop people from flaming each other when political conflicts activate the primitive brain. Under such conditions, we become tribal creatures, not intellectually curious ones. We can't be both at the same time.A community like HN deteriorates when new developments dilute or poison what it originally stood for. We don't want that to happen, so let's all get clear on what this site is for. What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. What it is not: a political, ideological, national, racial, or religious battlefield.Have at this in the thread and if you have concerns we'll try to allay them. This really is an experiment; we don't have an opinion yet about longer-term changes. Our hope is that we can learn together by watching what happens when we try something new. Upvote:

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Title: If have personal blog about it please share it. Upvote:

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Title: I'm in the process of choosing new device(s) for a small wireless network in multi-story building and prefer having devices supporting some open source router software/firmware (OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato). The amount of models available is enormous, but as the last Ask HN[0] (from 3 years ago) on this topic was a good starting point I think some good up-to-date advice can come up now. malandrew the original poster told it well so:> If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features? > While it would be nice to know the best models as of today, I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828699 Upvote:

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Title: (I'm aware there are many that can be found on Google search, I want to see if anyone here has any experience with them...) Upvote:

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Title: A few years ago, I wanted to make a product, but I wasn't very technical. So I decided to change that--I got technical. My problem is that I'm embarrassed of what I make. Intellectually, I know that I shouldn't be bothered by this. I don't have a huge team of VC-backed employees burning money to make a perfect thing. It's just me. But I'm tired of being shit on by my friends and family. According to my family, programmers are just "coder monkeys," people you hire to make your grand idea and that's how it's done. Friends look at me like I'm a lesser person because I'm not out to work for the most prestigious company like they are. I want to make a tool for small businesses, I want to do it profitably, and I want to be proud of it.How do you deal with people saying, "That's it? Anybody could have done that in a couple weeks!" Maybe that's true! Maybe I'm not a very good product maker! But I want to be, and you've gotta start somewhere, right? Combine all of the above with a case of worsening depression and it's hard for me to stay motivated and it's hard to keep defending myself. I also worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work. Does anyone have any advice? How do you do it? Upvote:

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Title: I started to work on a job board to improve my Node.js / MongoDB skills and I'm thinking of actually launching it. But how do I make my board different from all others? I'm thinking of having a mandatory salary field so that each job would contain a salary range.Stack Overflow data shows that job ads with salary receive 75% more clicks. https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/07/salary-transparency/#75. Other job sites are reporting 20% - 30% increase in job applications for ads with salaries. Upvote:

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Title: I'd like to get into freelancing, but google is not being very helpful. I understand all the stuff about how to work with a client and what to charge and all that sort of stuff. The thing I can't figure out is how do you get the first job and the one after that? Where do you look to find these things? Do you approach potential clients? Or do you hang out your shingle and wait for them to come to you? Upvote:

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Title: Which city/state has the maximum number of jobs available that are accessible to self-taught devs w/o college degrees? Upvote:

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Title: Anything from low traffic and upvotes to a weak product. Upvote:

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Title: Are you with a job at a startup or currently running a startup. Do you do any form of employee performance appraisal? (either once a year or multiple times a year).What format (top-down, 360 Peer Review) and tools do you use to facilitate that? Has it been effective? Upvote:

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Title: I'm an active member of this community but I'm using a throwaway instead because I don't want this issue to be linked to my identitytl;dr: I graduated Software engineering 3 months ago and I'm currently without a job and back to live with my parents.During school I was always told that I was "brilliant and one of the best". I tried not to show it with any attitude, but after a lot of people repeating over a period of many years, I think it entered the back of my mind but still with impostor syndrome.On my final year I interned at a very prestigious company (not big 4, but still a huge one) with a great salary and an important project. Everything seemed to go the way everybody predicted and expected of me.At the end of my internship, my manger lets me know that I will not be hired because the company is not hieing junior engineers at this time, but he would gladly recommend me to anyone.I sent my resume to more than a 100 companies and I got a decent number of responses, interviews and even offers. However, all of the offer were with not-that-interesting tech stacks and really bad compensations.For me it was not about the money, but a show of how much a company appreciate me and how they think of me.I refused all the contracts so far, and the responses are fewer everyday. I'm eve, starting to regret not accepting a couple of them, after all this is maybe what i'm really worth and I was in a bubble all that time.A few weeks ago I realized that I was gaining weight, and that I'm no longer interested in social interactions or my hygiene.I told my family that, i got laughed at and was asked to find a job and stop being spoiled and lazy.I don't know what to do.Pick the next offer I get because there may not be another? See a professional about my current mental health?I realize that this is more an anonymous rant than an Ask HN but I have no one else to ask Upvote:

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Title: Crytek haven't paid their employees in Bulgaria in 3 months and all workers in that office are currently owed 3 full salaries. The company is not looking to pay these salaries any time soon and have spent the last few months lying about the availability of this money in order to keep as many employees as possible.The Yerli brothers (Avni, Cevat and Faruk) are now looking at the second delay in the last 6 months (after finishing up a delay of 2 months just before the current one) and the third payment delay in the last two years.The former director of the Sofia studio, Vesselin Handjiev, left several months ago and the studio is entirely at the mercy of Crytek Frankfurt's leadership, which has proved to be unsuccessful in stemming the current bleeding for 6 months.Anyone who has an offer or is otherwise considering joining Crytek is advised to steer their ship elsewhere, as the current situation is rumored to apply to all studios within the company, even after the closure and selling off of several of the Crytek studios around the world. Upvote:

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Title: I'm in my late twenties and I'm having a bit of a tough time dealing with my level of programming skill.Over the past 3 years, I've released a few apps on iOS: not bad, nothing that would amaze anyone here. The code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts. (Biggest: 30k LOC.) While I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise — I feel most of my time was spent on battling stupid bugs. I haven't gained any specialist knowledge — just bloggable API experience. There's nothing I could write a book about.Meanwhile, when I compulsively dig through one-man frameworks like YapDatabase, Audiobus, or AudioKit, I am left in awe! They're brimming with specialist knowledge. They're incredibly documented and organized. Major features were added over the course of weeks! People have written books about these frameworks, and they were created by my peers — probably alongside other work. Same with one-man apps like Editorial, Ulysses, or GoodNotes.I am utterly baffled by how knowledgeable and productive these programmers are. If I'm dealing with a new topic, it can take weeks to get a lay of the land, figure out codebase interactions, consider all the edge cases, etc. etc. But the commits for these frameworks show that the devs basically worked through their problems over mere days — to say nothing of getting the overall architecture right from the start. An object cache layer for SQL? Automatic code gen via YAML? MIDI over Wi-Fi? Audio destuttering? Pff, it took me like a month to add copy/paste to my app!I'm in need of some recalibration. Am I missing something? Is this quality of work the norm, or are these just exceptional programmers? And even if they are, how can I get closer to where they're standing? I don't want to wallow in my mediocrity, but the mountain looks almost insurmountable from here! No matter the financial cost or effort, I want to make amazing things that sustain me financially; but I can't do that if it takes me ten times as long to make a polished product as another dev. How do I get good enough to consistently do work worth writing books about? Upvote:

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Title: I'm curious what are results, your experiences with daily blogging, taking photos, drawing etc. challanges. How long have you tried it, any suprising results, did the end results of this process met your expectations? Upvote:

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Title: (this is a throw away account for an obvious reason)I have a very small personal side project, ~1k+ UVs/day. A few days ago, one large company (think Alexa top 1000) got in touch with me with a proposal to acquire my project for for a small price of $10k.I have never dealt with things like this before and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to sell the project, but instead would like to grow it (which is quite hard to do on my own).Would it be smart to suggest them some sort of a partnership, as it seems like they are ready to talk? Upvote:

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Title: Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks. Upvote:

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Title: Just noticed that about 57% of websites don't use a CMS like Wordpress/Drupal/etc. [1] If you don't use a CMS, what do you use exactly? I use github to host static sites, and things like Heroku for web apps.[1]: https://w3techs.com/ Upvote:

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Title: Hey guys,I just wanted to gauge interest levels in an e-book that goes through building a complete web application using React and NodeJS?It would explain how to:- Create a webserver with user authentication - Hook up and work with databases via an ORM. - Generate API endpoints - Connect API Endpoints with a front-end framework like React - Explain how React and Flux works with APIs - Tips and Best Practices on building out a CRUD application using this framework - Security - Maintenance - Best practices in ProductionQuestions: 1) Would you be interested? 2) Would you pay for it if it was good, and had sample chapters? 3) Where do you get this information now? Upvote:

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Title: Title says it all! Have a $300-ish budget for a new screen for dev work. I've been using a https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10509 for a past job and enjoyed it but it's been a few years since that model came out so I thought it was worth asking.If it makes any difference I'm on the new Macbook Pro w/ Touchbar which I'll be pairing it with (as well as wireless keyboard/mouse). Thanks for any suggestions! Upvote:

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Title: Reddit is filled with internal jokes. HN is a big echo-chamber. Lobste.rs is invite-only. Imzy?? (too young maybe?)Any good forum out there? Upvote:

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Title: Please be as specific as possible. Also please mention your company and/or industry.This should help folks trying to get into your company/industry on what they need to know and conversely help you in finding a better pool of candidates. Upvote:

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Title: Anyone who has applied for a job in the last few years knows the routine: take the time to apply to numerous job postings, maybe get an interview or two, but mostly never get a response yay or nay. You might even get a few interviews in, only to never hear another peep.If an applicant takes the time to apply to your posting, why not give them a follow up regardless?What would it take?Disclaimer: I'm building https://www.hireloop.io to hopefully bring communication full-circle. I really want to make this less painful. Upvote:

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Title: I've started a software company and want to keep it just me and no employees. In this day and age with the popularity of SaaS and uptime needed is it still a realistic goal of starting and keep running a micro ISV? Upvote:

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Title: I’m specifically interested in what you’d tell someone to help them develop a senior engineer mindset. And when I use the word “senior” I don’t mean title or age, but the engineering maturity that it implies. Upvote:

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Title: In the last few months I started using a clipboard manager (Ditto) and I'll never go back. My 'clipboard anxiety' (did I leave something in the clipboard? can I copy this? better open notepad and Ctrl+V just to be sure...) is gone, and I can copy stuff with reckless abandon.This got me wondering, what are some of the other productivity hacks like this that I'm missing out on? I already use AutoHotKey and rave about it to anyone who will listen, but there must be other ways to improve my workflow.What productivity hacks have changed your life? Upvote:

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Title: Can anyone recommend cheap and simple SAAS options for a landing page?I'd like visitors to be able to enter an email address for product availability updates.I would also like to host it on a custom domain. Upvote:

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Title: Unbeknownst to me, Dropbox phased out Public/ folders new accounts as of 31 July, 2010[1]. As an existing user I never noticed and continued to use my Public folder to distribute some little freeware apps.Today I got an email saying,> We're always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience... we'll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Public folder until September 1, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.The part about links being "deactivated" is troubling. It is true that one could easily create new Dropbox "shared links" to the files one wants to share. However, bit.ly links and similar are forever! There is no way to redirect or edit "bit.ly/my_great_freebie" or change "goo.gl/aRgle" to point to a different place. And once you've made such links public, you have no control over where they are re-posted and no idea who might try to use them in the future.So a major unanswered question is, after 1-9-17, what will a user see when following a link to a now-private file or folder? Will there be any way for the owner to customize that from the default 4xx error page -- or possibly even redirect it?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114474 Upvote:

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Title: Let's do HN retrospective and see where we stand.About me - left a falling titan of the Internet and moved to Seattle to work for another tech company. Weather sucks here in winter.Fallback - I wasn't able to get girlfriend or any woman interested me this year as well. I don't drink or smoke and lack of hobbies contributed to it. I am getting lonely a lot lately. May be because I am 31 now.What about you? Upvote:

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Title: Last time we had an update was on May 31:https://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income/I was wondering if there are any updates that could be shared with the community. Upvote:

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Title: Sure there are sites like Upwork or Freelancer, but they limit the amount of jobs that you can bid for. I'm not sure if I could successfully get jobs there, so I don't want to waste any bids. People jump on any good projects like crazy. Aside from that, I've been told to scout out local business, but for the moment lets just say that one's a no. How can I get freelancing jobs as a developer? Upvote:

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Title: Didn't we like privacy? Upvote:

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Title: I know this is not a dating/pua discussion forum; but I am similar to most people here. I am if anyone else here also suffering from dating dilemma. I am SE asian and live in Seattle. I am 31 and have no friend so far here in Seattle. Weather is so depressing that I have not seen the Sun in last 30 days.I am not a very good looking guy. I go to the gym at least 3 times a week. I am not overweight as well. Only strike against me is my premature baldness. I personally don't think it is such a big deal now. However, when I was in SF, it was a big deal for most of the women.Where do you meet women if you don't have social circle? I am on tinder and CMB, very rarely I get matched with someone. Chances of a serious relationship are almost zero with girls on tinder and CMB.Do you have any suggestions? Upvote:

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Title: I've noticed that both Firefox and Chrome issue a new HTTP request when you view the source for a web page that you've already loaded. It's particularly annoying when the page itself is slow to load or if it won't load at all.Why is that? Wouldn't they have the existing source for the originally received page cached already? Is it based on Cache-Control headers?This has been on my mind for a while (usually comes up when looking at what's behind slow web apps) and came up again with Piwik on the front page[1]. Their website was semi-down (HN hug of death) but eventually loaded. I wanted to see what their GA equivalent tracking code looks like but the page failed to load as rather than showing the cached copy, it tried to fetch a new one.[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210195 Upvote:

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Title: I've been seeing more interest in RISC-V lately, I suppose due to the recent RISC-V workshop at the end of November:https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=risc-vI can see how the architecture is of benefit for academic research, given how conservative all the other ones are with regard to protecting their IP. Some of the NDA related hoops I've had to jump through as an embedded developer have had a direct revenue impact on past projects, so I'm pretty motivated to avoid that nonsense by supporting a neutral, open, consortium-backed architecture instead.However, if I put my business hat on and am preparing to bid on a project, I find myself without a strong argument for favoring RISC-V instead of ARM or MIPS. I can make an argument for the usual open source benefits of design longevity and avoiding vendor lock-in, but it's a really hard sell when it boils down to SiFive versus essentially the entire rest of the semiconductor industry.Is there something I'm missing about RISC-V? Some commercial advantage I'm not aware of? Upvote:

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Title: I use Notational Velocity for my notes and I love the ease of use but I'd like something that will allow me to share a note with a client and also has code highlighting. And image uploads. I want to be able to upload screenshots. I looked around but can't find anything that's a mix of Evernote, Wunderlist and GitHub Gists. What do you HN people recommend? Upvote:

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Title: Do you see in your local market a movement of B2C SMBs shutting down their websites, leaving their web presence to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter only?Edit: added "B2C" context to question. Upvote:

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Title: I work in a startup in San Francisco. We're profitable & growing, about 30 people now. I'm one of the first engineers so I have a good chunk of stock options.A lot of times when I talk to my friends (mostly engineers, mostly in their middle 20s) about stock options they don't even know the basics.A few examples from my life:* A coworker left the company right before the end of his first year. He had ISOs, and it wouldn't be that expensive to buy them, but he still decided to leave right before the 1 year cliff date to go work in another company.* A friend of mine did not sign his stock options paperwork when his employer gave it to him more than 1 year ago. I guess he was just lazy, didn't want to sign something he did not fully understand. I don't know all the details but I assume if he signs it now he loses 1 year of vesting, the grant price will be higher — just not the greatest decision / attitude imo.* Another friend left the company where she had stock options, 6 months later she found out that the company was sold. She remembered about the stock options and asked me for advice. She did not know much about the topic so I told her roughly what her options were, told her about the 90-day rule. I later found out that she ended up getting some money from her past employer.I know that there's a conversation [1][2] about changing some of the technicalities around stock options, but I think there might be an even bigger problem — many employees don't understand the basics of stock options, hence they don't value equity as much as employers / investors do.Or is it just me and my friends?1. http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity2. http://blog.triplebyte.com/fixing-the-inequity-of-startup-equity Upvote:

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Title: Finished install yields OpenBSD 6.0, Lumina DE, Firefox, mplayerInstall base system # https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html### As Root# Increase resource limits vi /etc/login.conf::datasize-max=2048M:\:datasize-cur=2048M:\# Execute commands as root:vi /etc/doas.conf:permit nopass username_created_during_install# Package mgmt: PKG_PATH and pkg.conf# Edit .profile to add package path:export PKG_PATH=http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/vi /etc/pkg.conf:installpath = http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/# Improve disk performancevi /etc/fstab:Append ”softdep,noatime" to all entries with filesystem type ffs after rwEx: .... rw,softdep,noatime 1 1# Get wireless working w/ or w/o WPA# Determine wireless interface name (ex. iwn0) with ifconfig:ifconfig -a# Establish wireless w/ WPA, substituting own interface name:ifconfig iwn0 nwid network_id wpakey passworddhclient iwn0#Establish wireless w/o WPA, ex: guest networkifconfig iwn0 nwid network_id -wpadhclient iwn0# Make wireless perm:vi /etc/hostname.iwn0dhcp nwid network_id -wpa # Without WPAdhcp nwid network_id wpakey password # With WPA# Rebootreboot### As mortal user# Install packages:# Ex: pkg_add -v <package># mplayer plays media, esp. YouTube in browserdoas pkg_add -v firefox lumina mplayer # Installs Firefox, Lumina DE, and mplayer# Start xscreensaver daemon to use Windows-L xlock# Activate tap-to-click for trackpad (skip if desktop computer)# Configure Lumina DE to invoke with “startx” under own uservi .xinitrc in own directory:synclient TapButton1=1syndaemon -i 1 -dxscreensaver -no-splash &exec Lumina-DE Upvote:

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Title: If you had $500K to invest, which would be your entire equity, cash money, how would you invest it?It's your equity so a low risk would definitely be considered. Looking for creative advices, not boring banking stuff... Upvote:

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Title: If one were to use Hacker News as their only source of information, it would seem that machine learning is a very overrated topic. There is something related to it on HN's front page almost every day. This proliferation of courses, resources, books and startups would hint that machine learning is becoming more and more accessible to the average programmer and that the market is on track to getting saturated quickly. Is this the current trend? If yes, is it limited to the US? What about the machine learning scene in Europe? Maybe someone here could provide some perspective. Upvote:

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Title: I'd like to know which books HN read in 2016. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects. Upvote:

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Title: From idea to release and first paying customer, how long did it take? What were the challenges? Encountered anything unexpected? Upvote:

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Title: Are you using, or have you used, a cloud-based IDE or development environment like Koding, Cloud9, CodeAnywhere, etc? What do you like about it? Dislike about it? Upvote:

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Title: Company hasn't paid the staff since Jun 2016. Now CEO decides to close office in VN without clear path to pay us. PosibaVn is the core engineering team and it's not their failure.Is there anyone can help us? Upvote:

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Title: This a bit off topic for HN, but I would like to know your sleep patterns, and what you do to get great sleep. Upvote:

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Title: For those of us interested in dropping off the grid, what are the best current methods of removal of information from search engines and servers that host information about you, whether known by you or not? How could these methods be improved upon to increase the coverage of erasure? And what do you think the future of personal identify cleanup will look like, or will it even be possible after a certain point? Upvote:

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Title: I am researching for ways to promote content to regional audiences. The problems I've felt so far:- Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined (transliterated) search and rank the best?- Top Trends show what is being searched for in english. No option to see search top trends by language . Any way around this? [0]- Even if its a non-english website, what are best the practices for URLs? Should they still be in english or can we use the regional language?0 - Such a feature would be incredibly useful I think.Edit: Clarified that by trends, I was referring to top trends. Upvote:

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Title: I wish you all a Merry Christmas! Upvote:

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Title: Merry Christmas! Upvote:

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Title: Wanted to know what are or if there are any coding related podcasts which people are subscribed to. The specific topics I am looking for are- Algorithms/Data Structures- Javascript- Scala Upvote:

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Title: What are some ideas for apps that could be built to become more conversant with near-realtime technologies à la Storm, Kafka, Spark Streaming and the like?Let's define realtime not as financial index realtime but as responding very quickly to a potentially large number of input events which will be coming in over a network. Upvote:

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Title: I got an Amazon Echo and some wifi enabled light bulbs and electrical outlets for Christmas.What are your favorite uses for it? Any cool "skills" you've made? Upvote:

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Title: I am doing Bachelors in Information Technology and to my bad luck, my curriculum does not have a course on compilers. I looked online and found one on Coursera only to realize that it has now been removed. Could you guys recommend a good compilers course or book which gives a good introduction to the topic along with a guided practical implementation? I would be much obliged. Upvote:

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Title: I noticed Bootstrap 4 has not been released yet. Is it close to being released or should I still learn and use Bootstrap 3 at this moment? Upvote:

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Title: I'm absolutely lost. I have been coding for so long but I have never had a software development job, I've been self taught and been on this road for so long. Surprisingly I have been extremely active in sports, I'm extroverted, I love being social and coding has been my passion. I can't get a job because the requirements and qualifications is way too demanding even though I am 100% I can handle the work load and delivery whatever it is the companies need.I did 5 years of PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, I studied Java in University, I have done Python, and for the past two years Objective-c/Swift I've built 15 applications.It is extremely hard in this industry that is changing so fast and it is very competitive.I really feel like giving up. Upvote:

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Title: Hello,I am 32 yo and started programing since 14. I am a self learner and programing is far from being a passion, it is my life. Through the time, I programed using, QBasic, QuickBasic, Visual Basic, C++, C, HTML, JS, CSS, PHP and Python. Actually I only use the 6 last.I live in democratic republic of the Congo, in the heart of Africa. In my country, developer jobs are quasi-non-existent. My wish is to work remotely. But, many remote Jobs I find online require being USA resident.My Wish is to have an employer accept me working for approval even for 3 months. I learn quickly and I can add new languages to my fingers if required.Thank you. Upvote:

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Title: Who is correct in this case?I've been rather constructive in attempting to resolve this matter with gitpay to simply remove my information. However they have not been cooperative.This person also provides an argument that is not valid.What are your thoughts on this conversation?https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4 Upvote:

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Title: ...and what did you learn in the process? Upvote:

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Title: Most of the news, blog, or e-commerce websites I visit these days ask me to get notified about the new content. Is this ruining the web experience? Is this overuse of Notification APIs by websites?E.g. mdn.mozillademos.org wants to show notifications. {BLOCK} {ALLOW} Upvote:

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Title: What is the most important thing to think about when you’re switching from a development to a (project) management position? Upvote:

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Title: Granted that DuckDuckGo.com is quite a childish name, but then so was Google when we first heard about it in early 2000s, wasn't it? I just switched to DDG recently and feel that not only is the interface fast and minimal (like Google used to be in those early days), but even the results seem to be a lot better (at least specific to the programming topic that I search too often). I'm getting a feeling that some day in future, DDG is going to become as big as Google, if not supersede it. But a search engine's results are only as accurate as the number of users who search and contribute to it, so its my appeal to people to give a chance to DDG and start using it more and more instead of Google. Upvote:

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Title: Apart from exercise, what other habits have had a big impact on your health?For me, standing desk was a noticeable improvement from sitting desk for health and avoiding procastination. But it is not doable when your energy is low ( tired or sick) and if I had particularly mentally demanding job on hand.I have much better weight loss when pairing exercise with standing desks Upvote:

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Title: Not sure where to begin I am a US Citizen not a felon but wondering what I can do or the process to get started in moving to Europe?what's it like out there comparing to America. I want a new life fresh start new faces.I have family in Europe I don't have a degree or anything yet. I know some programming but I plan to live with an aunt out there. No kids no job 26 years of age Upvote:

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Title: I'm planning on hiring a good programmer but I'm getting trouble choosing the best from my applicants. I'm a software developer myself but I can't recognize a great programmer from a bad one. Any ideas? Upvote:

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Title: So in the spirit of new year's resolutions I'm planning to learn some new things this year; specifically, I want to to draw, and I want to at least get started learning Japanese. I'd also like to keep improving my skill at mahjong, which I picked up last year, and keep on learning tech-related things.However, I find it pretty difficult to pick up new things. Learning to draw especially is pretty overwhelming for me; I have no idea how to start, as someone with no skill or experience in drawing whatsoever. Learning a language is also pretty intimidating, and it doesn't help that I find the usual way of learning languages (grinding flash cards) to be distinctly awful (not to mention I'm terrible at it).As HN seems like a community where people love to learn new things, how do you guys go about things like these? Upvote:

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Title: Hey there,Self-taught web developer here. I managed to get a job after 11 months of learning of my own. For me, the sheer amount of resources was overwhelming and sometimes got me thinking to give up, but I kept at it and managed to get a job and find out how web dev looks like in real life.Eager to hear your stories.Thanks, Alin R. Upvote:

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Title: If you could pick one place or city in the world where you'd live and work (software dev) for the next 10 years. Where would it be? And why would you pick that place? Upvote:

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Title: You can now buy 128gb USB sticks or SD cards for around $20. Meanwhile, 16 gb RAM sticks still are $100+.Are the performance specifications for RAM that much more stringent? Is the demand for SD cards and USB sticks that much greater that there's more economies of scale? Upvote:

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Title: I've been offered stock options as part of my offer to join a company.They have offered me a competitive salary, as well as 200 options at 1300 USD per option. The company is valued at around $1B. Options vest on a four year schedule.Do I have enough information to make a call on whether this is a good deal, or do I need to know more? Upvote:

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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:

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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<pre><code> Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Upvote:

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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.Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519. Upvote:

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Title: And what is the purpose?I'm still using bash, awk, and a bit of FORTRAN for scientific computing. Upvote:

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Title: I wanted to ask what people have read and would recommend for a book(s) on Distributed Systems. Both the Coulouris book and the Tanenbaum book seem to be pretty standard but the reviews and ratings on these seem to be underwhelming:https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradigms-2nd/dp/0132392275/https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Concepts-Design-5th/dp/0132143011 Upvote:

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Title: I'm a programmer with a lot of experience with GL. I'm mostly working with data visualization in general, but I wrote several non-toy 3D engines in the past.I've been rather oblivious with VR as of date, even though I toyed with 3d glasses on an SGI Octane decades ago. After a couple of experiences with the Oculus though, I'd love to start hacking on VR technology.As my development platform for the last 10+ years as been exclusively Linux, and again almost exclusively targeting high-end NVidia cards, I have no interest in switching OS whatsoever.What is the status of VR on linux? It seems that most headsets are platform and vendor-locked. Why is this the case? Are some devices more hackable than others? Upvote:

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