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Title: !!! Important Follow-up !!!:<p>I've aquired the portion of the log related to the hostage taking, posted below. In particular this log shows that __no__ backup of the data was taken. So please don't pay any money!<p>------------------------------------------<p>Although my colleagues and I have already pointed out the issue of open-by-default databases in spring 2015 (look at the references), today it seems for the astonishingly first(?) time somebody took the opportunity to erase hundreds of MongoDBs leaving only this Message:<p>{ "_id" : ObjectId("5859a0370b8e49f123fcc7da"),
"mail" : "[email protected]",
"note" : "SEND 0.2 BTC TO THIS ADDRESS 13zaxGVjj9MNc2jyvDRhLyYpkCh323MsMq AND CONTACT THIS EMAIL WITH YOUR IP OF YOUR SERVER TO RECOVER YOUR DATABASE !" }<p>Well played, system admins.<p>Updates:<p>The price for the data seems to equate to about 200 USD currently. Thanks, wereHamster.<p>This has been going on since at least yesterday (https://twitter.com/achillean/status/816385533538631680). Thanks, NietTim.<p>There have already been transactions by presumed victims:
https://bitref.com/13zaxGVjj9MNc2jyvDRhLyYpkCh323MsMq . Thanks,
anondon.<p>Please read the official security checklist by MongoDB! In particular, use passwords and don't expose on all interfaces (duh!)!
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/security-checklist/<p>Sources/References:<p>The Jan '15 info paper of which I am one of the authors: https://cispa.saarland/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MongoDB_documentation.pdf<p>(Jan '17) http://www.csoonline.com/article/3154190/security/exposed-mongodb-installs-being-erased-held-for-ransom.html<p>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/04/mongodb_installs_wiped_by_bitcoin_ransoming_script/<p>(German) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Eindringling-nimmt-offenbar-MongoDB-Datenbanken-als-Geisel-3587479.html
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Title: Yep - all the original code's gone and been replaced with a "buy the new product" page...<p>Anyone know where I can get a copy and/or is this even allowed? I thought this defeated the purpose of the open source spirit!<p>Original Github URL: https://github.com/seventag/seventag
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Title: I see a lot of open source projects keep a blog to make announcements about their milestones and updates.<p>Some have their self-hosted blogs, but I also see a lot of open source projects (including very popular ones) using Medium.com.<p>I thought it was a nice timing to ask this question considering today's news about medium. Is it worth it to use medium as your project's main blog? Appreciate any ideas.
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Title: This question was asked 3 years ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243</a>) by kweball, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.<p>> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: If you were to quit your developer job today and move away from the tech world for a little while, what job would you do? Or what domain would interest you?
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Title: There's currently a thread going on where people are discussing what they would do if they quit their IT career. I have been in software industry for more than a decade now and since some years now have been thinking of what I would like to do when I quit the industry and how soon I can quit. I no longer have the immense passion I used to have some years back when it comes to software problem solving.<p>It's been a while since I have been thinking about it but haven't yet been brave enough to quit the industry (mostly financial reasons).<p>My question to others here is, have anyone of you quit the IT industry to do something that interested you (not necessary a job) and how have things been for you after quitting the industry?
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Title: What were some of the positives or negatives? Why did you initially enter, and did you feel like it gave you whatever tools you felt were necessary?
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Title: Recently I upgraded my 2yr old laptop (now it has 16GB RAM, 275GB SSD, baklit keyboard) and now consider which linux distro use as main OS.<p>What are your experience with various linux distros as main OS? Which one is the best? How looks like your dev environment?<p>For me are important these points :<p>- Ability to run virtualized systems (Windows, other linux distros)<p>- Good battery management<p>All necessary dev tasks and experiments will be performed in virtualized systems.<p>Thanks
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Title: As Graphic Art's student, I'm curious if there are any developers with art history here - what's your stories, and how do you apply your artistic knowledge and skills to IT work?
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Title: We are considering moving from Slack to Microsoft Teams, if anyone is using it here, can you share your experience with it?
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Title: What would it take to be involved in $bigScaryOpenSourceProject? I'm passionate about cryptography, security, and privacy so projects like Linux, Firefox, OpenSSL, etc... might be perfect for me to get more involved with. Outside learning C or possibly Rust (for Firefox development in future) I have no idea how I'd start with any of these projects, partly as my day job is all web based so it's what I've been focused on for years.<p>Are there valuable contributions I can make outside writing code? For example, SSL can be tricky to setup but tools like SSL Test and the Mozilla Server Side TLS wiki page are invaluable in making us all safer. What's something in security that's too difficult or time consuming that I could work to automate or make easier?
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Title: It seems every area of our lives has been improved through technology except for the cost of housing. Food and produce has reduced in price to the point where the average minimum wage provides a decent standard of living but the prospect of house ownership is a 25 to 30 year loan repayment (if you are able to get a loan). I know world populations are increasing causing scarcity and that we are also improving our transportation technology but human accommodation needs have not changed and we still seem unable to "hack" urban housing at scale.
Do you see any changes coming down the line that will improve this situation?
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Title: We are about to launch a sass product and I'm wondering if it's too imaginative to incorporate in another country for tax reasons. We're using stripe, based in the US and most of our clients will be in the US. Also it's a .com.
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Title: Like it happened with the industrial revolution when the luddit movement tried to stop it and how can we face it nowadays with the next automation revolution
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Title: I'm interested to hear from security experts: have you seen any evidence of the claims in the media? From a technical perspective, do you believe that 1) Russia hacked the DNC and John Podesta, and 2) Russia provided exfiltrated data to WikiLeaks and under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0"?<p>Keep this on-topic for HN: what are the technical arguments being made that attribute these acts to the same attacker, and what are the technical arguments being made that the attacker is related to the Russian government?<p>I'm surprised that the tech community hasn't been more vocal in demanding evidence for these claims. In 2010, Bruce Schneier was skeptical of claims that Stuxnet was created by the U.S., or even targeted a specific nuclear enrichment facility[0]. Of course, he later agreed that evidence showed it had targeted the Natanz plant[1]. This is the skeptical and scientific approach I expect from the tech community. Am I missing something the rest of the community has seen?<p>[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html<p>[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/another_piece_o.html
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Title: Currently building a web app and feature creep and an intense feeling that the product is worthless (I enjoy using it, but it's niche so hard to user-test) is a daily occurrence. is this normal?
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Title: I'm a single founder in California, and via CoveredCA a decent health care plan (PPO) silver from Blue Of California costs $460 a month. I don't qualify for any discounts so I have to pay full individual price.<p>So $5,520 a year for health insurance! Ridiculously expensive. I'm looking for any other options, perhaps plans geared toward small businesses with less subsidies.
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Title: Yes, there are policies but there have been verified stories of personal privacy being violated by others and Google is probably the biggest offender when it comes to privacy violations. Employees that get to manage large swathes of personal information (brain/research groups) could potentially retain access and I'm curious what you all think.
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Title: Search for something on Google, and the URL will look something like this:<p>https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=some_long_string&gws_rd=ssl#q=something<p>The search query is the `#q=something` part of the URL, whereas other parameters are stored in the URL via the query string (the part between `?` and `#`). Why is that? Why isn’t the search query stored in the query string? Why in the hash?
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Title: This is _NOT_ the retraction update of several days ago.<p>http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/update.html<p>previous posts to same link are for the retraction so unable to just link directly as they take precedence.
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Title: Hi, I’m Yunha Kim, founder of Simple Habit (<a href="https://www.simplehabitapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.simplehabitapp.com</a>). We’re in the Winter 2017 batch of Y Combinator.<p>Simple Habit is a curated library of the best 5 minute meditations from the world’s leading teachers. It’s like Spotify for mindfulness and meditations.<p>I started Simple Habit because I used to be a perpetually stressed out banker in NYC, and I started meditating, and it changed my life. Happy to answer questions about the app, or about meditation in general.
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Title: Job title, Location,<p>Salary, RSU/ISOs, Cash Bonus
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Title: Does anyone have data that would suggest how long it takes an org at the scale of an Amazon, Google, or Facebook to entirely replace their HW?<p>I know that current practice at that scale is to not replace an individual chassis, only whole racks when a certain % of servers have failed, but that can't be the whole story, since presumably servers/racks are replaced if they are old enough even if they happen to still be running OK.<p>Google for example almost certainly has no servers (or switches, etc.) running that date back to Y2k even though statistically, <i>some</i> 16-year-old HW would still be working if it hadn't been yanked.<p>So, assuming the HW hasn't actually failed, how old is <i>too</i> old for a "web-scale" company to keep around? And is the answer different for these companies' own services vs. externally facing IaaS/PaaS?
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Title: I'm a newly self taught full stack web developer. My background is graphic design and marketing.<p>WTF do I put on my resume? Anyone have advice for writing a technical resume? Any examples of great resume's to share?<p>Thanks!
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Title: My mother, voluntarily and expertly, is now using Ubuntu Linux on her computer. The computer is a 2007 ThinkPad my uncle had lying around. Unlike her 2007 MacBook running MacOS, which is now incapable of updating enough to run modern browsers, her Linux rig is totally up to date and runs beautifully.<p>I really dislike feeding the stereotype according to which a young man referring to "my mother" presumes that an older woman must have technology skills that are edging around zero. In this case, however, the stereotype fits. My mother is brilliant, earned a PhD in medieval lingusitics, held a significant position at a major national cultural institution, and inspired me from a young age to be a blazing fast typist. She's not a computer whiz by choice, because she rightly decided that becoming one was not worth her time. As a result, she has no interest wasting her life, as I do mine, by learning new programs or hacking around on the command line. For similar reasons, when her MacBook started breaking, she went to the Apple Store to replace it, but then returned it out of disgust for the commercialism of it all. So she asked me to set her up on an old computer running Linux. Today, we talked through how to use email on Thunderbird, and with a little bit of help she was able to get the old computer, full of nothing but community-created software, to meet her needs beautifully.<p>So, at risk of feeding the stereotype, it's true: Even my mother can run Linux.
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Title: For a while now, whenever I build something on the side, my single biggest point of difficulty is getting users and increasing user count month to month. Certain projects I get enough users to initially validate the idea as good or bad, but after that point it's hard to continue to build and grow a decent userbase. I know there are many talented individuals here, so I guess my question to you is what tips and tricks do you use to build and develop a userbase?
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Title: I read /r/programming and /r/golang and have found some really nice gems over the years.<p>What are your favorite subreddits that you have gained some really valuable insights from?
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Title: I'm a student of VIT University, India. Everyone in our country, from academia to industry, looks at us as second class undergrads.<p>I'm passionate about solving problems and making things, especially AI and game development. But due to some bad decisions I ended up dropping two years after high school and could not get into the IITs i.e. the top colleges in India. Ever since I started college and found the sub-par level of CS education here, I have tried to take my education into my own hands. I'm an autodidact by choice and here is the strategy that I have followed for the past one and half years at college:<p>- MOOC :
I have studied all the important CS courses from popular MOOCs like CS50, MIT OCW, etc. I have earned a certification in an AI MOOC taught by the IITs and completed the Machine Learning course from Coursera too.<p>- Projects :
I have done some good projects and open sourced them at https://github.com/AmanDaVinci<p>- Others :
I have worked as a two man team to publish a game on Play Store and we also sell our plugins, tools and assets on Unity3D asset store. I have organized and instructed successful game development workshops as I plan to start a Game Dev club in our college.<p>Considering the experience and expertise of the HN crowd in the engineering field, what more could I do to be at par with the top students of the world?<p>1) Should I invest in AI / ML nano degree certificates?<p>2) Should I work more on real software projects like open source AI and games?<p>3) Can I do anything else to improve myself?
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Title: Hello HN, posting under a throwaway since I've been around for quite a while.<p>Long story short, I got laid off this morning for the first time ever (without cause). The reason for the termination was cited as an internal re-org. Truth be told I was planning on quitting at 3pm during my bi-weekly one-on-one with the CTO, so I'm taking it in stride/happy.<p>I've worked here just under a year. The company is paying me 4 weeks salary as severance, with medical benefits ending 1 week after pay ends. This is contigent upon my signing a release which essentially ensures I maintain confidentiality and prevents me about the company publicly, due one week today.<p>Just posting to ask if there's anything I should be wary of, and if there's any advice from people who've been through a similar situation, thanks!
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Title: I've been dealing with life and haven't had a job or written a line of code in over a year, but am now ready to get back into the job market. What are some need to know things in terms of frameworks and workflow that I should be aware of?
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Title: The last few months have been pretty rough for us liberal optimists. HN used to be a solace for me where I can read about the folks building the future & get inspired. I'm tired of the endless semantic bickering and want to dwell someplace where taking risks is valued above never failing.<p>Is there still somewhere like that on our great internets? Contact info is in my profile if you're not comfortable sharing details publicly.<p>EDIT: I couldn't ask for a more perfect juxtaposition :D<p>https://twitter.com/rkoutnik/status/820284756315226112
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Title: I've been looking around for a while now, but haven't really found what I'm looking for. Essentially, what I'd like to use to learn powershell effectively with is a "powershell by example" page somewhere, similar to gobyexample.com or rustbyexample.com where the tutorial encourages active tinkering.<p>What have you been using to effectively learn the ins and outs of powershell usage?
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Title: Are there any companies, fields or specific areas related to software development that offer +200K base salary per year? I don't care about stocks or bonuses... let's say this is for 8-10y of experience.<p>Example: Netflix (+200k/y base salary with no extra)
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Title: Guys,<p>After many years trying and being extremely pro-startup, pro-entreprenursip and failing almost every time, all I can do right now is just stay at bed. (I'm 23 btw)<p>I lost interest on everything. The world will still go with or without me. Taking a job at tech right now is the last thing I want. If I could break my Mac in 10 pieces, I would. (I won't).<p>I can't believe I came this far down. I don't talk about this outside my family. I went to multiple therapies in the last year, but didn't help. Meds made everything worse (which forced me learn the hard way about the big-parma lie 'chemical imbalance of the brain' theory).<p>So I ask you... What motivates you to do what you are currently doing? (8>= hours/day)<p>Of course, if you are at SpaceX, Tesla or Uber doing Autopilot that would be really interesting, but doing CSS3 or even React is not something that makes me feel the world needs me.<p>I convinced my self for so long that whatever I was doing was going to be great and help lots of people, but it didn't.<p>Thank you
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Title: Essentially my question is related to whether there is a saturation of programmers in progress right now?<p>Looking at freelancing sites it seems that programmers from many regions come to work for ridiculously low rates. As programming is considered one of the more rewarding jobs regarding payment (at least in developing countries like mine), it makes me wonder whether this state will remain as it is now, or we should be expecting that it will fall apart, essentially putting programming jobs back to the same level with other day-to-day jobs.
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Title: Hi,<p>Once I'm in a company I can make myself very useful by analysing, abstracting problems and telling people what they want from each other when they are having discussions and filling any gaps in front-end development. But because I'm no specialist in anything I find it hard to get my foot in the door. I could specialize or qualify in programing more, but I prefer the management and product owner work.<p>I'm 28, close to finishing my studies in "media and fine art" where I focused on experimental informatics, more precisely news distribution in the internet, interfaces and haptic feedback.<p>Wherever I worked I joined for some rather low-skill work and quickly become the one to organize at least the conceptual or technical aspects of the project.¹<p>I freelance doing some custom wordpress sites (those where you do need to write a bit of php) or small web implementations and work in a 3-4 person startup (unfunded, but self-sustaining by side-gigs). At the startup there is not much pay and I do some communications with customers and concept, design and frontend of a cordova/angular app. If this startup succeeds, I will most likely float on top and have a nice job, but not much equity.<p>Now the question: Where to go from here? The launch date for the first project of the startup is immanent, so I'll see how that performs soon. There is of course a lot of reason for doubt as with any startup, so I plan to look for a better payed job.<p>Thanks so much for the help!<p>¹ This way I went from flash animations (a few years back) for our client BMW to writing the specifications for a new outsourced MVP in one company (they offered me to become CTO on paper for the new child-startup, but for laughable pay). In another gig I moved from assistance to technical supervision of a short-film festival sponsored by the german state television.
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Title: AI/VR and slowly lot more. I am getting quite anxious if my skillset might go obsolete.
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Title: I too often find myself getting stuck when it comes to more advanced SQL queries. I have never actively learnt SQL and realise that I don't have a great mental model of how it works. I would like to improve this as it is killing my productivity from time to time.
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Title: I'm hoping to have a technical discussion, emotions aside.
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Title: Dear HN,<p>I need your gentle advice, I am fully burned out,
have a great job, where each of my step creates a trouble to someone (in terms of code)
Every single line of code I add to codebase, creates lots of bugs/crashes. I work more than 60hours/week, but in terms of productivity probably its 5hours/week. When I sit to coding, I just look at the screen and do not know what to do next.<p>Leaving my job probably not an option, I have a family. Feeling so depressed.
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Title: I have recently been involved in the overhaul of an established business with poor output into a functioning early/mid stage startup (long story). We are back on track but, honestly, my lessons learned fly in the face of a lot of currently accepted wisdom:<p>1) Choose languages that developers are familiar with, not the best tool for the job<p>2) Avoid microservices where possible, the operational cost considering devops is just immense<p>3) Advanced reliability / redundancy even in critical systems ironically seems to causes more downtime than it prevents due to the introduction of complexity to dev & devops.<p>4) Continuous integration seems to be a plaster on the problem of complex devops introduced by microservices.<p>5) Agile "methodology" when used as anything but a tool to solve specific, discrete, communications issues is really problematic<p>I think overall we seem to be over-complicating software development. We look to architecture and process for flexibility when in reality its acting as a crutch for lack of communication and proper analysis of how we should be architecting the actual software.<p>Is it just me?
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Title: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html<p>The official guidelines only permit paywalls with a viable workaround and the WSJ workarounds have all stopped working for many people, myself included. I'm getting pretty tired of clicking links and getting a headline + 12 words.<p>Before someone asks, I don't think the WSJ has earned a subscription from me. But that's beside the point - isn't it now in violation of HN's rules?
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Title: I want to get into the field and think supporting an open-source project in that area is a great way to do that.
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Title: Hello HN! I've decided to quit my job to boostrap my projects à la IndieHackers. I don't want to raise money and I only have a few $k. My plan is to build everything myself, using a stack such as Python/Django + HTML/CSS/JavaScript + eventually iOS, and the initial goal after validating my MVPs is to become "ramen profitable."<p>Levels has been greatly inspiring to me and I've read most of his blog and work about NomadList. https://twitter.com/levelsio<p>I'm going to go with the flow and figure out and learn things as I go, so my question is whether there are any advice you can think of (release on Tuesday?) that could possibly save me time, money, and mistakes.<p>Let me know if knowing what the projects are about, but they're basically simple services with niche userbases (e.g: Squarespace for photographers and Slack for gyms)<p>Thank you HN!
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Title: I was considering buying an Ultrabook for a long trip. I don't want to make a big investment, so something like a Surface Pro is too expensive, but I would like to be able to use it both as a tablet and as a desktop while travelling, with a keyboard.<p>I have found 2 options with similar specs and prices, the Chiwi Hi10 (with variants, Plus, Pro), and the Teclast x98 (with variants Plus, Pro).<p>Both have a decent 4 core Cherry Trail Z8300 CPU, 4Gb of RAM, 64 Gb of ROM, a decent screen (1080p Hi10 and Retina-level the Teclast). Both dual-boot Android and Windows 10 (and probably you can install Linux on both).<p>The Hi10 has a dock for a keyboard, and 2 full size USB ports, and is 10.1", while the Teclast has a better battery life, better screen resolution and is 9.7".<p>They both seem to have specs that in my opinion would be capable for programming. My question is, would they be good enough for programming? Is it possible to install any desktop app on Windows 10 in a tablet, i.e. IntelliJ IDEA? Is it possible to enable WPS (Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) on Windows 10 in a tablet?<p>Also there is a version of the Hi10, the Hi10 Plus, which is slightly bigger (10.8") has better battery and screen resolution and comes with RemixOS instead of Android. Can you install any Android application on RemixOS?
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Title: I'm look for a new chair for my new desk. What recommendations do you guys have for a desk chair that I can sit for 8-12 hrs on somedays?
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Title: Hi, *nix newbie here. I'm struggling with understanding how my Ubuntu's filesystem works and what general practices various applications follow when they install to my Ubuntu instance. I'm currently reading the ldconfig man page and feeling pretty lost. Any good guides or resources for understanding how filesystems and links work?<p>Thanks!
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Title: What are some of the things you 'surround' yourself to keep going even after repeated failures. Failing can be related to any task in life - startup/job/relationships. What are some of things which inspire you and help you pull yourself back to chug along the track again.<p>edit : + things you say no/avoid while persevering.
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Title: I always wondered why car companies like Mazda or Hyundai or Honda don't produce cars that may not have the performance capabilities of a Ferrari but resemble one in their shape? Thus advancing the way the car market looks now a days. Does anyone have a clear answer?
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Title: I started working on a little web service startup idea with a colleague about two months ago. We managed to implement a minimum viable product which at this point is basically just a website with registration, payment and a nice domain. But we realized that our passion for this project currently isn't strong enough compared to the legal legwork that comes with going public in our jurisdiction while dealing with our full time day jobs.<p>So, we figured that we might try sell the MPV plus domain to somebody who's in a better position to get the business started.<p>Is this at all a realistic idea? Where should we advertise it? For how much money could we expect to sell something like that?
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Title: I program at work most days, for most of the day. I enjoy programming, and when I come home I want to program more (to learn and build things). My issue is, I associate coding with work. Sometimes after coding at home and returning to work I have a "burnout" feeling, similar to that I get after working weekends. In the past, my home computer setup was similar to my work setup (a desktop with 2 monitors). I switched to a laptop at home, which helped. Does anyone else relate to this experience? If so, have you found any ways of solving it?
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Title: Most of mine are more of demo's I built for blog posts and teaching rather than SaaS products people are actually using. Some of my projects are rather complex and (at least I believe) do well to show knowledge and understanding, but I feel like the fact that they are demos rather than products make them rather useless.
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Title: Looking for some examples of simple yet effective onboarding journeys.
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Title: Not sure if there are any experts here, but if there are, I'm quite curious about the following:<p>1. Do we have any technology (independent of cost) existing today to have a fully automated farm? Meaning, set everything up and it'll just spit out yield? This would include taking into account weather, planting, removing weeds, etc. The input into this "system" of course would be the "ingredients" such as soil, soil, and of course, sunlight. [1]<p>2. What's the maximum yield we can get out of an acre these days? If I wanted to buy, say, an acre (for food) and start a small town in southern United States and feed 1000 people easily, is that possible? For simplicity let's say everyone is vegan.<p>[1] Here's a snippet of research I've done that may be of interest to readers.<p>Air and soil: There's been some advancements in sensors which is an obvious requisite towards the auto-farm. However I haven't read anything recently about this. Most recent was (http://gizmodo.com/swarms-of-soil-sensors-may-help-farmers-water-smarter-d-1713098054)<p>Robotics: I know they (farm bots) exist (http://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/5-robots-on-the-farm/), but I haven't heard of them actually being more productive than existing high-yield solutions. I do think in the end they'll be superior.<p>The single most advanced modern farm I've heard of is: http://seedstock.com/2013/01/24/indoor-grower/. Anyone know of anything that surpasses this? Just making farming (perhaps one of the most labor intensive things you can do these days) less of a burden will prove to be a game changer (e.g. you may find a single person willing and able to maintain an entire one acre farm).
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Title: There aren't "junior product" positions.
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Title: Earlier I was intrigued by an crash-course posted on here titled "Learn Tensorflow and deep learning without a Ph.D", linking to a GCP page here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/01/learn-tensorflow-and-deep-learning-without-a-phd<p>Would those offering jobs related to deep learning really be comfortable offering the a position building / using these kinds of models without an advanced degree?<p>Those who have gotten a job in deep learning / machine learning without an advanced degree, could you share your experience?
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Title: Hi, we're the founders of Scaphold.io (<a href="https://scaphold.io" rel="nofollow">https://scaphold.io</a>) in the YC W17 batch. Scaphold is a GraphQL backend-as-a-service platform that helps you build apps fast. We built Scaphold because we were app developers and we were frustrated by how long it took. We started building apps together back in college, and every time we started a new project we found that we spent a lot of time doing the same things. Whether it was setting up the infrastructure, integrating APIs, managing REST endpoints, or even implementing something as simple as pagination it took a lot of time. BaaS platforms have existed before but we were disillusioned by the lack of flexibility they provided. This all changed the day we first found GraphQL in an article posted here about a year and half ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10217887" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10217887</a>).<p>At the time, we were working at Microsoft and started hacking on what eventually became Scaphold at night and on weekends. We were driven by this vision to be the foundation for people's apps, the scaffolding of their masterpieces. We were lucky to get accepted into the YC Fellowship program last April and launched our first version of Scaphold last May. We learned a lot. The Fellowship program helped us gain initial traction and after several months of focusing on product and strong growth, we reapplied to the YC Core program and were fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to join the winter batch and to continue the dream.<p>Since then we have been hard at work improving the platform and have reconstructed it from the ground up. Today, Scaphold powers thousands of apps and we think it solves a lot of the problems of BaaS platforms that came before it. We're really excited about what we have built and would love for you to try it out. It's free to sign up and development tier stays free forever so you can get straight to building apps.<p>We'd love to hear your feedback and are happy to answer any questions. Thanks!
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Title: Throwaway account for obvious reasons.<p>Some background: A few months ago I was tossed into a dumpster fire of a project that has now grown to ~15 developers. Business dramatically added scope and was changing requirements and demanding devs work nights/weekends to accommodate. As a result I made the decision to leave.<p>I was set to leave right after the app went into production, however now the launch date for the app has been pushed back such that I will be leaving one week before it goes into production. I want to stay until it is complete and do not like the idea of leaving right before it goes to prod, however my new employer wants me to start ASAP and with my date having been pushed back one week I'm not sure they would be too keen on it being pushed back another week.<p>How would you feel if a fellow developer left in the circumstances described?
If you were a dev manager or hired this developer, how would you feel about them leaving in the circumstances described?<p>Thanks for your feedback
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Title: Hi HN, how do you do this? My current workflow is this:<p>1) Begin a new projects<p>2) Work in this project 1 or 2 days<p>3) ...<p>And that's it... Do you work everyday in your projects? You decide to work X days in a project and then "is finished"? Maybe you have a feature list and once everything is ready you stop working?<p>How you do this? :)<p>Thanks!
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Title: Being the Open Internet advocates that they are, you would imagine that most of us are generally big supporters of Firefox. So why then aren't more of us using it as our primary browser?<p>For me it's a simple feature in Chrome "tab to search" which frustratingly has never been ported into Firefox and every time I try to switch over the absense of this feature lures me back to Chrome as I'm just more effective with it.<p>Ref: http://www.danielfuterman.com/google-chrome-tab-to-search<p>What stopping you?<p>[edit: grammar fixes]
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Title: It seems to me that journalists and activists could benefit from software that could help track networks, timelines, etc., and organize unstructured data the way an intelligence analyst would. Anything like that out there?
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Title: Hey all,<p>I have been keeping a personal journal for a bit more than 2 years now. Mostly for the purpose of retrospective analysis, tracking my goals, challenges and general mood. For now I was just dropping my thoughts into a simple text file with timestamps. I'm looking to improve in this area through tracking things more systematically and developing a stronger habit. I have some general questions to the community here :<p>Do you keep a personal journal?<p>If yes, do you find it useful?<p>What tools would you recommend?<p>Is there any specific methodology that you follow?<p>When journaling, do you try to track any specific aspects of your life or just write about anything that is currently occupying your mind?<p>Any advice on how to get the most out of personal journaling?<p>Thanks for the answers!<p>tl;dr : I'm looking for your advice on journaling.
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Title: Top posts get lots of comments ("Ask HN" especially). Do you read them all? Scan them all? Read only the top few? Is it worth the time?
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Title: Is there a quality service that you use or is it all developed in-house? I know licensing systems can range from super simple [0] to intrinsically complex — that's why I'm curious.<p><pre><code> - What do you like/dislike about your current system?
- What features are lacking that you wish it had?
</code></pre>
[0]: http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/05/17/commercial-gems/
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I run an education focussed r&d shop (www.jibly.com) and regularly work on mobile app projects for large firms.<p>This year, I wanted to start teaching a group of underprivileged children (orphans, refugees, etc) anywhere in the world, how to code for every commercial app project I do for companies.<p>So for every app project I get, a group of kids gets the tools and resources to learn how to code.<p>I'm thinking of donating laptops with pre-installed child friendly coding environments. Including books, manuals., etc..<p>What are some great ways to teach groups of children how to code, without being present every day?
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Title: For the last 3-4 years I've been working at a super small startup doing Rails, and basically just using my existing technical knowledge and avoiding the learning cost of new technologies. I know React has gained a lot of popularity -- what else is worth looking at as I take my head out of the sand?<p>Not limited to web programming; OpenCV and other technologies are neat too!
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Title: Insight can be from technical / sales / marketing / interpersonal / other aspects.
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Title: Serious question. I've been trying to learn Rust for a month now and I keep end up fighting the compiler with borrowing errors.<p>I'm really not sure where to turn for help. It seems like everything I know about structuring a program goes out the window when borrowing comes into the picture.<p>Thanks.
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Title: YC (Sam Altman) you did a great post recently on Affordable Care and the direct impact on YC company employees. Thank you for that, truly. Can you do the same for YC employees from: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya<p>some background:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-28/google-recalls-some-staff-to-u-s-after-trump-immigration-order
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Title: I was recently offered a relocation package to move my family (myself, wife, and daughter) from Canada to California. I have nothing to compare my package to so I don't know if what I'm being offered is good or not. I tried to find information around the web but I couldn't find much.<p>The package that I'm being offered is $30,000. My position will be as a Software Dev Manager. We've been told we can use that money towards anything with a few exclusions. Oddly enough, legal fees for immigration are not covered by their package. Some quick math we did for moving costs, air fare, temporary rent while we buy a place, various furnishings, etc. still came in above $30,000.<p>What have your experiences been like with relocation packages? How good is $30,000 for moving a family of three?
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Title: I have been chatting all day with Simple Mobile.<p>And honestly, I've never encountered such ugly service.<p>It now appears that a promotion that they sent out was actually a deceptive tactic for getting me to re-up. They offered 10GB extra data, only to later deny that any such promotion existed (even going so far as to say that they weren't responsible for the contents of a subdomain of theirs).<p>You may find my chat with them to be entertaining:<p>https://jmyles.github.io/simple-mobile-drama/chat-publish.html<p>What do you do when you encounter something like this?
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Title: I was thinking of going to US Pycon. My company here in Montréal has already bought my ticket. However, I'm Mexican, one of the currently targetted people, and it fills me with trepidation to try to visit the US at this time. I may also need to buy a new visitor visa. The US has demonstrated that it will unilaterally revoke permission to go or be there.<p>I also feel like I'm morally obligated to make some kind of stand about not visiting the US right now, even if everything goes OK for me.<p>What do you think? Are you going to the US?
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Title: Just posted this on my FB wall, figured someone around here might have ideas.<p>r.e. recent immigration policy changes, practically speaking: Anybody here, or know someone, who's stuck in an airport/country they expected to leave today, and needs a sandwich/a ride/a place to stay/a friendly ear? Seems like we're going to need a network of care to look after the stranded.
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Title: It's been only 8 days since Trump was sworn in as president and every passing day I find myself more and more disgusted and appalled by his racist and idiotic actions.<p>As a common citizen, what are the highest impact things I can do to oppose his actions?<p>Edit: Sorry about bringing up politics here but this is something that I feel cannot be ignored any longer. The reason I ask here is because I feel like there are some of the smartest people in the world who read HN and would love to get everyone's opinions.
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Title: I'm an Architecture graduate who's looking to change careers. I've dabbled with coding for years but feel a formalised education may be prudent in enabling me to make the change. Has anybody else made a similar switch, and if so what did they encounter?
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Title: I'm becoming active in a local group of citizens (constituents of one electoral district here in the United States) who are trying to promote protection of civil liberties. Many are quite new to any kind of political activism and quite a few are very new to participation in online networks. What are your recommendations for sources of advice on best online security practices, easy for beginners to understand? The local group includes some technology professionals familiar with online security and administration of websites and mailing lists. The group plans to build a public-facing website, an internal use website, a mailing list for group participants, and other online channels of communication. It already operates a Twitter account and Facebook group (which is becoming quite active) and hosts in-person meetings. I would appreciate tips to pass on to new members about personal Internet security best practices and resources for nonprofit organizations or political action organizations to maintain secure communications in a possibly hostile environment.<p>Thanks for any suggestions you have.
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Title: Post any algorithms you think are cool, inventive, or useful.
PDF links or blog posts are appreciated.<p>My current favorite is SWIM.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asdas/research/dsn02-swim.pdf
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Title: I am an old fart. 47 years old. Thats dead in computer years. First computer at 16. 48k of memory. A closet nerd. closet. I don't look like a computer guy. I know. I know. I have been told so many times. I go back. ms dos.. dbase qbasic. And I know the modern stuff. 20 year track record
I won't bore you. 10 years C# SQl server. Im playing with nodejs and vuejs now...<p>Anyway. I have been to 5 interviews this month
and nobody gave me a fucking job. Programming has humbled me I know you can only know so much.
I blew 5 interviews this month. 5. Thats crazy.
Every single one of these interviews was somebody asking me some random shit. RANDOM shite and if I didn't answer there random generated shite I didnt get the job.
I should have been a dentist I would have gotten more respect and maybe more love. Any replies.
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Title: The one thing that keeps me inspired, more than anything, is following up with the activities of people whom I consider as masters.<p>When it comes to programming, which developers do you closely follow?<p>Please include blog/website/github links.<p>A couple of my favourites:<p>[TJ Holowaychuk](https://github.com/tj) - because he's a wizard. The number of premium open source projects he's been a part of, is just astounding.<p>[Dan Abramov](https://github.com/gaearon) - First hit on his redux talk, then drifted to his blog posts. I like his clarity of expressing the why's and how's.
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Title: How do you break into a career in a niche field like SAP development. From what I see, I can learn about SAP all I want, but without professional experience, it wouldn't seem like you can get a job working with it?
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Title: Recently, Microsoft has been showing more openness with regards to their products by open sourcing asp.net core and the coreclr runtime for example.<p>I would like to know if there are actual startups that are using or considering to use these technologies to build their product and services, especially in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area?<p>If yes how do you manage (or plan to manage) the risks associated with these relatively immature technologies?<p>If not what are the reasons for a startup to stay away from .NET CORE?
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Title: This has been asked before, but it's been a while. I'm picking it up, and am curious to hear from people with experience. What are you using it for? What do you like and/or dislike? Would you use it again? If not, what would you use instead?
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Title: Tldr; I'm an architect (in a niche industry) trying to get a job in another industry but find myself constantly rejected for either having not enough experience for a similar architect/lead role or being overqualified for a lower role (i.e. dev, support, etc).<p>I've been in the telco industry for 12 years where I started as a systems tester, became a support engineer, got into a lead role for a team of support engineers (i built the team from scratch at a startup!) and eventually ended up as an architect for a vendor (think Cisco) where I do pre-sales, architecture design and lead the onshore/offshore teams to deliver client projects.<p>Early last year, I noticed a big shift in my industry to Managed Services and knew that it is a space I need to get myself involved in if I were to stay relevant for the next few years. Unfortunately, the company I am with is neither in this space nor have any plans in the future to be in it hence I started to look around for jobs at other companies in this space. After 3 months in, I'm now feeling utterly perplexed.<p>I tried applying for lead/architect roles and was rejected (without even going to the interview stage) being told that I don't have enough experience or expertise. Fair point I guess since I'm in a niche industry thus I started looking at roles that allow me to start at the bottom (i.e. dev, support/operations, customer success). Even then, I keep getting rejected with the common trope that I don't have enough experience or I am either overqualified and/or will not be a good fit for the team!<p>I asked my professional network for some inputs on the matter and I've been told that I'm in an age group (30-40) where companies are not that keen to hire cause I'm considered too old (ageism). Is this possible? I'm barely in my early 30s so I find that very strange cause I don't consider myself old at all.<p>So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this?
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Title: I have created a non profit project for ease of governance. There is no business model. I do i scale it and keep it running? Any other options than donations?
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Title: Hi!<p>I am currently a solid frontend developer (which is pretty laughable to say, because my experience is just about 3 years), I know (to some degree, of course) you can say almost everything "new and shiny" (for regular apps, without graphics and etc) – popular bundlers, up to stage 1 features, React/Vue/Angular/Cycle, all this state management systems, like Redux/Mobx/Rx and other, CSS with css-next, and so on. I also played with ClojureScript and Elm – and while it seems kind of cool, I don't really see it as a solid option to bet on.<p>The thing is that I feel stuck. The new frameworks come up every month, a lot of people in JS community have pretty low CS understanding, and therefore the level of discussion seems pretty miserable. Moreover, I don't really want to keep up with frontend, and want to learn something more solid. Not as solid as system programming, but I feel that back-end might be a good choice. But the availability of platforms is astonishing – and while I played some time with Elixir and Clojure, I feel that I should bet on Python and Go. I want to get a versatile language(s) (I know, it is not a good idea to stick with just one language, but I need to pick it up during the year; also I like to move between countries, so it should be in demand in general in Europe.<p>So, what can you recommend as a fast-picking language and what is the best to become familiar with the whole cycle – development, testing, deploy to the cloud, monitoring, etc (I only scratched the surface in all these topics, so I definitely need to solidify it). I am leaning towards Python/Go (I wrote a small API for my side project in Go).
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Title: I'm in my 30's doing marketing and am starting to feel like the old man of the teams I work with. I look around and there is hardly anyone over 40 and no-one 50+ unless they hit executive level. The industry is about new technology and working long hours. While there are exceptions, generally it doesn't seem a good career to age in and I figure I have ~10 years...<p>..so as someone that likes to plan ahead. What do you think are good career options for the 50+? I've been trying to think of jobs were age is an advantage. The best I can think of is financial planning. Most people visit their planner when retirement is on their mind, so you'll likely be meeting people of a similar group and mindset. Whereas in this industry being 21 and enthusiastic wont go far with many older people.<p>What does HN think are good options?
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Title: Personally a lot of my motivation comes from my company's culture and personal alignment with the company's vision and mission.
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Title: I use docker extensively with python backed ansible scripts to manage my product deployments (with a jenkins CI/CD pipeline). That has been a lot of fun, but I have also played with both Kubernetes and Openshift.<p>I love what Openshift Origin can do, but the learning curve is like a brick wall (See Dwarf Fortress Fun for an example) and the costs are far from minimal.<p>Kubernetes is easier to learn, but comes with its own gotchas.<p>What do you do to maintain stable deployments that allow for easy CI/CD? How do you minimize costs with your solution?
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Title: I've ask somewhere on the internet about this question. But, never receive good response and also the answer is not related on my field.<p>This question, has make me failed on interview process on one of antivirus company, despite, it was long a ago, sometimes I cannot move on and still wondering what is the best answer for this typical question.<p>Since, this site a lot of IT guys, it might be related and I hope I will received very good advice and answers.<p>Thanks.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: I'm very new to the open source world, but I built a command line tool for myself that I think other people could use too. I'm in the process of building a few new features that I think would be helpful to people (and to myself). Should I hold off on telling people about it until I finish those features? Or should I market it and then see which features people want? How do I find out what makes a tool "good" for other people?<p>Also, what's the correct way to tell people about a tool like this?
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Title: I applaud the transparency of the GitLab team in their recent outage, but felt bad for the engineer who's typo was called out. Anyone who's done something similar will know the feeling immediately after realising your mistake...<p>To show that this sort of thing happens to the best of us, let's share some of our horror stories :)<p>A few months ago, I joined a new team and was still finding my way around the environments. I was tasked with performing manual deployments to a Dev, QA and Staging environment that weren't wired up to our automation system yet. We'd scheduled maintenance windows a week apart for the QA and Staging envs as we allow customers to test against these.<p>So the day of my QA deployment, I start by applying the database changes which all complete successfully.
Next, I upload the new .ear files and deploy the new build of our web app. Again, all looks good, so I tell the QA team they can start testing.<p>Then the alerts started...<p>I deployed the app to the Staging env by mistake (and unexpectedly restarted the app server). I didn't realise the naming scheme of the hostnames indicated the environment in this case :/<p>Our UI broke immediately due to the schema changes, so my mistake was _very_ visible. I was lucky I could roll back the change easily, but I don't think I'll forget that day any time soon.
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Title: For years I kept my coding notes in spiral bound A4 and A5 notebooks. Handwritten notes are quick to create, but hard to search. So these days I make notes in a series of flat files I edit in Notepad++. The files will have design ideas, debugging tips like favourite windbg commands, notes on existing code, scraps of SQL, stack traces for critical pieces of code, test results and timings, HOWTO notes on build and config, URLs,
draft blogs and outline plans. Notepad++'s Find in Files is invaluable for navigating them. There was a thread last year on paper notes [1], but I'm wondering how folk keep soft copies of notes. Back in the late 80s
I used GrandView [2]. What new solutions are there for capturing and organizing coding notes? How do you do it?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890742
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrandView_(software)
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Title: What does your morning look like from the time you wake up to the time you get to work?<p>How do you transition your mental mode from personal/family obligations to work? What do you do in the first 30 minutes of getting to work?
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Title: I've been wondering what's the best use you can make of your one on ones (for someone who recently started working). What do you discuss when you have regular one on ones with your leads and irregular ones with org leads etc?
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Title: I was checking out this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ04LnSjWek) on Azure Machine Learning the other day and I was very impressed. Basically you can click-and-drag all sorts of components together to create a model, test it, compare algorithms, visualize data sets and results and then publish the model as a working web service. With this tool you can set up a fairly complex machine learning model in just one hour, including 'implementing' different algorithms and comparing their results. Especially for building a proof of concept and for experimenting, I think it's extremely powerful.<p>I never heard anyone here about using it, so I was wondering why not? Bad experiences? Nobody knows about it? Can anyone tell me about their experiences?
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