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Title: I want to get into web dev because as far as I can tell nearly all remote jobs are web dev jobs and it seems pretty easy to learn.<p>I have skimmed a couple of comment threads on choosing frameworks however I'm interested in what's going to give me the highest hourly and good opportunities. I can learn whichever hard to work with tech as long as it can earn me an hourly near ~100$ so does anyone have info on that?<p>I'm also considering an apprenticeship. If you have projects which you have to decline because they're looking for something cheaper or you're already swamped you could throw them my way and mentor me if you think you can make a profit from it, I'm willing to start from the bottom meaning I will work cheap until I get good enough.<p>If you're interested shoot me an email at ,, lazar +dot+ claudiu +dot+ florin ,, over at google's mail.
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Title: I'm not talking about your Dad or Grandma's union of yesteryear but a new type of union focused on collective bargaining for issues that matter and taking decisive action.<p>Our new style of union would:<p>- Encourage corporations to take security and privacy seriously<p>- Advocate for those affected by automation<p>- Aide in the creation of standards<p>- Support free and open source software communities<p>- Strengthen the efforts of organizations like EFF, Archive.org, Tor, etc<p>- Advocate for a free and open internet<p>- Counterbalance corporate interests<p>Once upon a time, unions did a lot of good for working and middle class people and they failed ultimately in the end.<p>It seems we as developers have the power to create a new type of union. A new model that disrupts old ideas for collective bargaining and actually does some good in the world.<p>What will our legacy be? Some things in life are greater than code.<p>Why don't developers unionize?
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Title: I lost a friend who had been struggling for awhile today. Does anyone know how I can use my effort (like in say, software development, or machine learning/AI, or maybe neuroscience) to help people with their struggles/problems, like depression?
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Title: I’m a young student in high school who has predominantly spent their time working on open-source projects to create a portfolio demonstrating proficiency with a range of tools, languages, services, and paradigms. With this as my main asset, how might I best go about searching for a job given no prior formal work experience?
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Title: The title sums it up. Basically, I'd like to know if there's a similar community or format to see the latest most popular research papers, published in free and open access?<p>Obviously we get a lot of these here already. But I'd be looking at something with a wider reach and encompassing more fields. Or separate communities for each field, as otherwise there'd be a skew in the favor of the biggest communities (as we get here for some languages for instance... but I digress).<p>I know HN is not always necessarily about "latest" or "current" content either, but you get the idea.<p>(Tricks to extract most popular articles from HN, Google Scholar or others are also welcome, of course ;))<p>Update: title fix, didn't know the etiquette.
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Title: Hi All,<p>so basically I've started to put all important stuff in (private/personal) git repos, examples are my quote selections and another is visa/passport/travel information that I intend to start to keep a track of and backfilling - the question is would something like sqlite be suitable for long-term storage for this kind of data? i.e: if i dig up this file in 30 years, will I be able to read it? (like i would a text file)<p>The problem is that 1) text files don't give the kind of organisational power i'm looking for and 2) if i ever want to build something on top of these files, having them in a format like sqlite should make for easy implementation.<p>Any other long-term, open options? it doesn't really make for easy google-ing
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Title: I'm looking to form an LLC as a parent company for all of my side projects. What are some of the resources HNers use to do these things? Do you do it by yourself? Do you pay a service like LegalZoom?
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Title: I am looking to buy a side project or startup that can be potentially run by a single person.<p>I don't want to disclose budget. For the right project and technology startup, I can put down money.<p>Please answer with following questions. If you are not willing to disclose data publicly, then shoot me an email.<p>My email is domainsurgeon at gmail.<p>Questions-<p>1. Website url<p>2. What the project or startup is about (one line)<p>3. Monthly active users<p>4. Source of revenue streams<p>5. Monthly income (if any )<p>6. Adsense enabled?<p>Thanks.
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Title: My guess is via each volunteer's phone. Anyone with a better guess?
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Title: What are some market segments / areas that are ready to be disrupted? If you're a VC, what are some problems you don't see a lot of startups trying to solve?
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Title: There is a brewing possibility that I might come across a remote position. I wanted to take this opportunity and travel a few places around the globe. I am planning to start for a few months in my home country and then make the move. But I am not sure how the taxes and other financials work if I am moving around different countries every 2-3 months(or whatever time is ideal). Hence I wanted to start a discussion on the following:<p>- How do taxes work in this case? Am I supposed to be taxed based on my home country, the company's home country or the country I am currently residing in? Are there any services that do this for me?<p>- What kind of visas do you apply for? Business-tourist?<p>Thanks in advance.
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Title: I'm sort-of intrigued by Perl 6, but a curiosity of mine, which I believe that I share with some other people, is how it's used in the real world, be it in little scripts or commercial software. What are your feelings and comments on Perl 6, and if you use it, how and where you use it (I'd be glad it people shared links to published projects and actual code out in the internet). Thanks in advance!
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Title: As a developer, I've found that it's just not worth it to respond to tech companies / recruiters seeking engineers, unless they're based in the USA. Companies based anywhere else, in my experience, expect to pay <i>less than half</i> the rate that US companies will pay.<p>Why is this? There are possible causes having to do with tax rates and culture, but has anyone really looked into it? How big a contributor is this (rather than, say, immigrants as percent of total population, or university quality) to the fact that the US has Google and Apple and Facebook and Twitter, and the rest of the world has… JustEat and Spotify?
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Title: I've read lots of techniques designed to help people concentrate/focus on the task at hand, but with modern media/communications it feels like it gets harder all the time. Has anyone gone the other way and tried to harness their 'distractability' rather than stifle it? In some settings its natural and beneficial to constantly switch focus (eg. a party, talking to different people; or when walking or driving, constantly updating your awareness of your surroundings). Maybe something like work on 4 or 5 things concurrently and switch to a different one the moment you feel distracted or bored?
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Title: I've been helping out a startup for the last two years as CTO. I joined early on, but not as a co-founder. Most dev is outsourced - my role is to advise on what is technically possible, liaise with outsourced developers, develop BI tools, and handle the sysadmin. This means getting alerts at odd hours of the day and restarting servers etc, but my role is not full time and has been fairly ad-hoc up until now.<p>The startup has received funding totalling around $600k USD over 2 rounds. Since the 1st round of funding, the full-time two co-founders and designer have been receiving a (low) salary, but a salary nonetheless. Having recently received a second round, this is likely to increase.<p>After my first 6m, I was entitled to options and told I would be sent the details and confirmation shortly. I chased this up last week (18m later), and was told they hadn't implemented a benefits scheme so hadn't been formally allocated anything, but that it was being worked on.<p>After the second round of funding, I advised them that they should get a full-time CTO. The new CTO starts in 2 weeks time and is on decent money. The intention is that I stay on in an advisory role.<p>Another guy in the team in a similar position (he has done unpaid work, but invested less time than I) recently enquired as to whether in light of investment, we would receive any bonuses. The CTO answered that he would like to offer us something, that the investors may not be willing, but that we should find out in the next month or so.<p>I am still being asked to do work. Should I do it? So far, I have received no cash or shares. They have hired a well paid CTO to do my job full-time. I feel like I have been taken advantage of, but am not sure if it's worth holding out given that I <i>may</i> receive some payment and be allocated options.<p>Seeing others being paid for their work while I am essentially working on a voluntary basis is very demotivating.<p>Advice would be appreciated!
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Title: What are some of the most requested algorithms during technical interviews?
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Title: I feel that the previous iteration of this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987) was interesting. A group of people looking together might also be very appealing to some companies.
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Title: Last week I went to a restaurant with some friends and while checking the menu we saw that there was a cocktail with Campari (alcoholic liqueur) - this triggered a 30 sec conversation about the drink. Following day I open my FB feed and something weird happened - there was a Campari ad just in front of me! In the last months of my online life I didn't search for Campari, cocktails, beverages or anything related so I think it would be great if there was a way of finding why that ad end up there!
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Title: I have been having this problem lately. When I close my eyes and try to sleep my mind wanders and soon enough I am thinking about code, programming mentally. And I wake in the middle of the night and I am still mentally coding in a semi hypnotic state. I have slight OCD if that matters. Does any one feel the same? It is as if my mind never turns off.
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Title: Perhaps it's the remarkably young tech scene, or maybe the funding bubble, but I'm 27 years old and feel like I'm too old, and that I'm running out of time to succeed.<p>Wtf is going on here? I can't be the only one.
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Title: Don't have social skills and want to make more money. How can I make pull in $1mn+ as an engineer? What industries and what companies make this happen? I don't want to have to be in the top 1% like Jeff Dean, but top 25% and still get these results.
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Title: WYSIWYG/GUI frontend editors have been around for years now, but the standard development process for frontend developers is still to crack out an IDE or text editor and write HTML/CSS by hand. For such a technical industry this seems like a strange trend - why wouldn't we leverage tools and technology to make building HTML/CSS less of a boilerplate activity?<p>It makes sense that it could be related to the widgetisation of frontends, with chunks of HTML appearing in different locations or as embedded JSX, but I see no reason why editors couldn't provide integration by allowing single documents to be sliced up into smaller components and kept in sync.<p>So, HN, what's your take on the lack of adoption of GUIs for building frontends?
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Title: Like everyone else here, I work for a tech company. I work and live in Seattle. I make around 130k with nearly 10 yrs of experience.<p>It seems though, I am grinding without a lot results. I was in bay area before with dieing tech company.<p>I have tried to see if I can do my own side project or startup, but I have not gone past idea. I don't know frontend development and I don't feel motivated to learn due to 60 to 70 hrs (including travel) each week.<p>All I do is get up, go to the work, go to gym, work again and sleep. No wonder that I am lifelong single person and despite being in shape no woman has shown interest in me or agreed to date me.<p>I don't know if I am burned out.<p>I can't figure out how can I get out of rust and daily grinding. I want to make big bucks 300k or more. I know goog/fb pay that much; but I don't have master's degree to command that much salary. I am not a native American as well.
I am 31 by the way.<p>What did you do to get out of rust and how did you do it?
Seeking guidance from men and women who have enough experience under the belt and/or successful by any definition.
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Title: A few days ago we had this thread [0] where someone asked about a Facebook ad that arrived mysteriously on their page. I saw several possible explanations for this in the thread. Later I found a post by Facebook [1] stating explicitly that it does not use the microphone for ads. I was satisfied, until last night.<p>Last night, while we were at home, my wife mentioned to me that she would like to get a storage box to hold her external hard drives. She described her ideal one as a metal box with some sort of foam to hold the drives in place. She had never searched for something like this before and wasn't even aware that something like this existed. A couple hours later, an ad for such a product landed up on her Facebook page. I was a little freaked out.<p>So, do you have any examples of where something like this has happened to you? Am I being paranoid and this is just a coincidence? Or could Facebook actually be listening in on us?<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597225
[1] http://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-phones-microphone-for-ads-or-news-feed-stories/
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Title: As a 30-something, I've suddenly come to realize that retirement savings are important, and that small amounts of extra savings can add up. Suddenly an extra $100/week actually sounds worth thinking about.<p>Are there simple ways to earn a few extra bucks as a developer in your spare time? Or is it just down to 'invent some SaaS offering and hope people like it'?<p>What simple things have you do that have brought in a small bit of extra income?
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Title: Over the years I've failed to launch numerous things. Some I built and was ready to launch, some I just planned until I psyched myself out.<p>How have you overcome your fear of failure to finish and launch something?
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Title: I will be in Berlin on Friday. How can I get investors to pitch my startup to? We are looking at the seed stage (50-75K) and I realize this is the hardest time to raise money. I have never raised money before.
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Title: A real-life engineering problem.<p>In Turkey, a 3 months-old dog has fallen into a 70 m deep 30 cm wide hole and it's been there for 10 days. People and local government organizations are still trying to save the dog. It is still under 70m deep borehole in Istanbul.<p>According to tweets, local government branches of saving, rescuing, mining organizations are also trying to save the dog. They still need for more practical ideas.<p>Here are some information I gathered from tweets of Baris Sengun of Animal Rights Confederation.<p>Some info: the puppy is 3 months-old Kangal breed. They have considered to dig another hole in parallel. Since the soil is soft and muddy, they've been said it might cause landslide. The dog should't get weight but they normally get 1-1.5 kgs per week. So they feed it under control. They tried nets but it did not fit as it needs to.<p>The hole: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830216289155182592, https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830038601174044672
Video from the hole: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830223838034132993
This didn't work: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/831126486551764992
Hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/yavrukopekbeykoz?src=hash<p>Any ideas?
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Title: The startup I worked for has announced that it is going to shut down in May. Unfortunately, that meant 80% of us would immediately be let go. Myself included. The severance pay was really small and my health insurance will be deactivated by the end of the month. As much as I'm trying to just move on and start job hunting, I can't help but to freak out a little about the outcome since it was very unexpected. For some of you that may have experienced being laid off before, what were some of the first things you decided to do afterward? Do you have any advice or share any lessons learned?
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Title: Best conferences in Europe in 2017?<p>Looking for interesting software engineering conferences in 2017 to hunt for tickets already, both with general theme and focused on specific technology stacks. Do you have some favorites?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I am simply writing this post because I can't take this situation anymore and this is a cry from the heart.<p>I've been applying to a <i>million</i> jobs, I always seem to get the same old automated denial and I am just so sick of it. I am incredibly hardworking, disciplined, passionate about what I do and good at it, I've been doing web dev & design since highschool, I learn fast, I sweat the details, I am willing to learn anything it takes to solve my problems, I've launched a startup, single-handedly sketched, designed, and developed two mobile apps from scratch, (both live on iOS and Android at the time, and one of which went on to get over 8000 users the first month, be top 10 of its category, get featured in top women's publications online) , created APIs, have experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), marketing, writing copy, web scraping, product design, interface design, I am Franco-american, bilingual in French and English, speak Node.js, Python, Django, Meteor.js, Hapi.js, and whatever I learn next.<p>I've been "selling" myself as a Product Designer but I truly can't fit in such a narrow box; I love the entire process, I love coding: for me HTML/CSS and code have never been anything more than <i>tools</i> to get whatever was on my mind into the real world. I love clicking a button and seeing it do something. That to me is magic.<p>But I am so frustrated right now, I don't understand why everything takes so long, this process is unbearable. It's already an inhumane effort for me to apply for a regular job, but I am willing to do anything (in tech) as long as it's paid at this point. I just want to come back to New York (I moved there when I was 20, knowing no-one) and work.
I really feel like I can be incredibly useful to whoever hires me and it kills me that no one is even giving me a chance.<p>This is my website: http://o23.io<p>Help.
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Sai, one of the cofounders at FloydHub (<a href="https://www.floydhub.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.floydhub.com</a>). We're building FloydHub to be a “Heroku for deep learning”. We are in the current batch (W17) at YC. But I still like to think of FloydHub as being an HN incubated startup.<p>10 months ago, I was working at Microsoft and doing a lot of deep learning (DL) there. While the DL community is terrific, I was often frustrated by how difficult it was to get started and build upon others’ work. For example, running any popular Github project often started with an exercise in dependency hell. As I untangled these for myself, I wrote up some notes on setting up popular DL frameworks, which unexpectedly started trending on HN after someone posted it there (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697571" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697571</a>). That's when I realized that engineering was a huge bottleneck in deep learning and a problem worth solving after all.<p>I’ve since quit my job and have been working fulltime for the last 9 months on building FloydHub to make deep learning easier. Our goal is to let the data scientists focus on the science, while we handle the engineering grunt work (provisioning and scaling infra, running reproducible experiments, enabling sharing and collaboration, supporting DL frameworks with zero setup, shipping trained models to production easily, etc.) Lots of interesting challenges - happy to talk about them!<p>We have a lot of work ahead, but we’re excited to share with you what we have so far! Looking forward to your feedback.
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Title: I'm about halfway through 'Build You Own Lisp' and I'm really enjoying it. Each chapter builds on the last by adding something new to the same project (and thereby explaining some new concept). I find that the books I'm least likely to bail on are the ones that lead me through the building of one big project like this. What are some of the best titles in this little subgenre?
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Title: HN's primary audience is "hackers", which generally extends to the engineering types. I however have gleaned a lot of insight from comments written by non-coders, particularly those without an engineering background.<p>If you're one of those, I'd love to hear how you found out about HN and what keeps you coming back.
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Title: Any side internet projects, blogging, web app, Hacks.
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Title: Hi guys,<p>I'm Cory. I run http://oppsdaily.com, a daily email for software devs who want to solve the problems people face at work.<p>The email consists of a super brief interview about a problem you have at work, and the software you wished you had (that you would buy), that could solve the problem.<p>Each day I receive a handful responses from developers who want to learn more, and I connect them to the interviewee.<p>I really want to source some of those interviews from this amazing community.<p>If you are facing a problem that you'd like to share, please contact me! - [email protected]<p>I'd love to feature you in one of my interviews.<p>EDIT:<p>If you're not comfortable being featured in an email, but you would like to share in this thread for the benefit of the HN community, please do! :)
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Title: My little cousins are 7 and 9 years old. I have been thinking a lot how can I get them started with building and designing for the web.<p>I just finish my first attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwWT2CERA8<p>I wanted to ask the HN, what other ideas or what type curriculum I can do to make it more fun and interesting for them. All ideas are welcomed.
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Title: I'm bad and should feel bad and only do my corporate books once a year right before taxes. Each year I've completely forgotten everything about QuickBooks specifically and accounting in general, and have to rediscover everything.<p>Is there a quick, written overview somewhere of creating/classifying accounts, processing transactions from banks feeds, etc? Ideally it would also cover common things like what taxes we've paid (state, local, federal) I need to pull out and track separately from payroll and the like.<p>We only have about 100 entries a year right now, and mostly with the same few vendors. It feels silly to pay someone else to do this, though I'm willing to hear that I'm insane to be doing it myself.
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Title: A similar question was asked just under a year ago. So I thought it is about time to ask again for 2017.<p>2016 edition is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11259746
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Title: A big bank in Australia has outsourced its work to my consulting company and when I started work at this bank (One of the biggest in Australia) I noticed that my consulting company is illegally uploading bank software to github.<p>They do this because each consultant needs to have background verified by the bank security advisors which takes around 2-6 weeks and moving all the software to github allows all consultants to start working immediately (without waiting for background check to complete).<p>I pushed my code to github without my knowledge the first day and brought this matter to my higher ups in my company but they threatened to take me off the project if I "impeded the workflow of the team".<p>Now, my rest of the contract fees hasn't been paid out.<p>A software lawyer said I could be implicit in this activity (which he says is NOT criminal but civil liability) because I pushed my code to the company github on internet (Regardless of my intent or ignorance)<p>I am an independent contractor with the consulting company. The Financial Ombudsman said I do not qualify for lodging a complaint since I am not "technically an employee"<p>What's the way out? And will I be in legal trouble if I lawyer up?
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Title: What the projects/ NGOs that I can help online using my software engineering/data analytics skills? Perhaps you can share personal projects that you were able to use to help people and community around you
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Title: I'll go first. I think this kettle is exceptional: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sori-Yanagi-Stainless-Steel-Kettle/dp/B0000DIJ6U" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Sori-Yanagi-Stainless-Steel-Kettle/dp...</a>
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Title: Superficially, It ought to be possible to use SemVer major.minor.patch (patch can change data and alter the schema but not extend the schema, minor can extend the schema in backward compatible ways like adding a column, and major version numbers are used for backward-incompatible changes), but in practice I don't see this being applied consistently, especially if data dumps are only occasional.<p>Is your data versioned? How?
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Title: I'm just starting to learn NLP through book natural language processing with python.<p>I don't want to complete the book without knowing essential parts of the book.
It would be great if you guys can point out which one are important concepts to grasp on and thereby i can put extra effort to learn and experiment these concepts.<p>Looking for advice from folks who have learned the NLP concepts or have some kind of experience in NLP.<p>Bonus: point out sample projects to work on.
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Title: As a novice with NLP, having tinkered before with some basic and naive models to do NLP, I would like to learn it properly this time by creating a grammar parser for a language, for which no current model is available publicly.
I can easily access a corpus of sentences for this language, and speaking it myself, I am motivated enough to produce any data needed for this.<p>Where would you recommend to start for such a project, both in terms of minimal theoretical and practical knowledge, but also the engineering aspect of it?
What open source libraries and software are available out there to speed up this process?
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Title: I'm rethinking my backup workflow and I'm curious about other people setups - both hardware and software. How does your backup setup looks like guys and girls?
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Title: Hi, we’re the founders of Bitrise (<a href="https://www.bitrise.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitrise.io/</a>) in the YC W17 batch — YC's first-ever Hungarian startup!<p>Bitrise is a Continuous Integration and Delivery platform specifically for mobile apps. We started working on Bitrise when we were running our dev agency, building apps for clients. It was frustrating to go through all the manual tasks when somebody needed a fresh build, or when all the bugs piled up before releases. We wanted to automate all the manual aspects of app development so we could get back to coding, because that’s what we loved to do.<p>We’ve started with iOS CI/CD, because that seemed to be the hardest and that’s what we had the most experience in. For starters we had to build up a scalable Mac infrastructure, since iOS apps can only be compiled on a Mac machine. That was tough.<p>We also wanted to make setting up and maintaining CI way easier, without scripting, but having the same level of customizability. We’ve come up with an easy workflow and step system, where steps are ready-made and reusable building blocks responsible for one task, like git cloning, deploying to HockeyApp, etc, and workflows are a succession of these steps. All of these steps are open source, and since we started the library grew to more than 100 integrations, around 30 added by the community (<a href="https://www.bitrise.io/integrations" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitrise.io/integrations</a>).<p>Tens of thousands of apps are being built on Bitrise including Foursquare, InVision, Pagerduty, Grindr. We are attracting so many apps because we are the most open platform in this space. In addition to our step library, we’ve open sourced our CLI, our webhook service and all of our build images, and we’re growing together with our awesome community.<p>We raised $200k in 2015 and became profitable last year. We feel extremely grateful and lucky to have gotten here, being a 7-people dev shop in Europe. Now we’re joining YC and we have big plans to take Bitrise to the next level!<p>We’d love to hear your feedback and are happy to answer any of your questions. Thanks!
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Title: Also, does anyone know of any better companies or how Facebook compares to other companies (as far as interesting projects, culture, work/life balance, etc)?
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Title: This may be too pedestrian a topic for HN but I have so many bookmarks that when I had another one it disappears into the pile never to be seen again. I do use folders but now there are tons of folders, too, I've tried Trello, and I tried pocket briefly but it didn't seem quite right though maybe I didn't give it a chance.<p>My latest experiment is Google Bookmarks and I'm toying with just a simple either HTML page I add and categorize bookmarks on or a simple app to make managing them easier. Any suggestions on something to try?<p>To be perfectly honest it's possible the problem is me and not taking an organized approach, not tools that are the problem. Maybe I'm waiting for the bookmarking solution to solve a problem with clutter.
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Title: Lately, I don't feel motivated about anything. Job is okay and I just switched about 8 months back. Work is just not challenging enough. I had to accept job because of good money and my previous job being in danger due to internal org. issues.
I exercise 4 days a week but I still don't see any difference in motivation. I also had my testosterone checked. My GP says its normal.<p>I wanted a leadership position at my company, but I was hired for a position that has no decision making power at all. Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things.<p>I thought I would be making life changing decisions after taking this job, but so far that does not seem to be the case.<p>Should I create artificial challenge and try to get into MIT/Stanford for masters?<p>I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction.<p>What shall I do?
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Title: From what I understand so far, it's just a portal that gives the news. What I don't get is why have a custom monitor, keyboard? I am not sure how is the network connected, is it a VPN. The cost of the product is ridiculous. I do not understand why are people paying for it. Is there a cheaper alternative that does not require specialised hardware? I know Bloomberg is a politician, has he managed to pass some ridiculous law that forces everyone to pay for his product?<p>P.S.: I do not understand Finance or the wall street world. But I am curious to know about the tech they use and why they are paying a huge amount for it.
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Title: Having been writing software for over 10 years, I recently learnt that a friend has been making more than $220K for the past several years (similar background). I'm at $170K and always thought I'm getting paid really well (I'm an engg manager + programmer in bay area, Java expertise).<p>Curious if people here make more than $200K - what your role/salary/experience is.<p>How did you get your high salary? How have you been raising it? Do you plan for it, or does the company reward you automatically? Do you switch jobs a lot?<p>Side curiosity: how much do execs (such has CTO or VPE make?)
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Title: We've seen a lot of posts about salaries these last few months on HN and I'm wondering if people are lying about their monthly paycheck.<p>I have 10 years of experience in the field, I'm based in Silicon Valley. Worked in the city, south bay and the peninsula. I'm a full stack engineer, I switched employers 7 times in 10 years constantly getting pulled into another hot opportunity! Sometimes from ex-colleagues, most of the times from recruiters. Looking at glassdoor.com and my personal experience, salaries are much lower than what people are claiming on HN. There are exceptions out there, Google, etc. I've been their myself as well as another one of the big 5. Experienced engineers make a lot of money but it's mostly coming from Stock/RSU's and sometimes bonuses. I'd totally believe it if you tell me "my total offer was about $300-500/k", but it's not yearly. And the base salary is rarely $200k/year for a "simple" individual contributor. Unless you're a guru at google. It seems that a lot of guru's at google are active on HN :) Most of it comes from RSU's or stocks cumulated after several years (or well negotiated when hired). The vesting period is usually 4 years, not one year, so you can't really say my package is $500k. It doesn't mean anything. I would say, the base salary for 10 years of exp in Web/Mobile or any related field is about $140-$170k per year on average. After tax it's obviously way lower.<p>A lot (too many) people on HN are claiming $200k base salary per year as being totally normal. I honestly wish it would be true!!
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Title: She's a recent grad with an international relations major. Now wants to go to a local web dev boot camp, which looks to me just more-or-less legit. Any alternative ideas?
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Title: I'm stuck on a particularly irritating show-stopping bug (microchip's ADC functionality just giving 0 no matter what voltage is applied) and haven't been able to find a solution in days. I feel guilty continuing to charge for the many, many hours of investigation without producing anything....it's just making me feel incompetent and thieving.<p>Has this ever happened to you, and if so how did you handle it? Do you keep charging, or work for free, or just tell them "sorry, you have to hire someone else to complete this, I just don't know why this is happening" ?
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Title: I see you can ask Marc Andreessen for advice at https://21.co/pmarca/ - It costs $100 <i>if</i> he answers... Has anyone here asked him for advice and received it, and if so, was it worth the $100? I saw this a day or so ago, and at the time it was $20. The price seems to be inflating fast!
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Title: If you were the CEO of Twitter, what would you do in 2017 to make Twitter great again?
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Title: I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea)<p>What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...)<p>Thanks
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Title: I noticed that a lot of my colleagues were thinking of switching away from the Mac and onto Surface Books or Surface Pros. I've had a Surface Pro for the last six months after having MacBooks for two years prior, and some bugs aside, I am really happy with it.<p>Who else is thinking of doing this?
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Title: Why can't web development be as simple as delphi?
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Title: I'm getting<p>{
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Title: 5 of the 20 all time most popular HN stories were posted in the last 9 days. Has the HN readership grown dramatically in the past couple weeks or this just an anomaly?<p>Top 20 HN posts of all time:<p><pre><code> https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story
</code></pre>
The five posts in question:<p><pre><code> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673</code></pre>
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Title: I'm very sensitive to bad call quality. I'm very easy going about most things, but poor sound quality or an intermittent connection on a call, make it completely impossible for me to maintain normal communication and also makes me extremely cross.<p>As a result I am very attuned to the general quality of different call services. I always know when I'm on a PSTN that terminates to another PSTN - yes maybe the voices are a bit trebly but the connection is so consistent and wonderful. I actually appreciate the quality of those calls.<p>Skype, Viber, our own corporate VOIP system (whatever the hell it is) all drive me completely nuts. I have 240MB/s at home, but still VOIP lets me down: about 1 in 3 calls is of a quality I am happy with.<p>I guess my question is: will this ever be solved to my satisfaction, or is it simply the nature of the beast and "good enough" for most people?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: I tend to read PDFs at my computer, and I would prefer to read them on e-ink, on a large display.<p>I just searched and found Dasung Paperlike[0], but it seems both quite small and quite expensive.<p>Is there some technological limitation to creating a large e-ink monitor?<p>0:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e-ink-monitor-13-3#/
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Title: Hi HN, I’m Isaac, co-founder and CTO of Armory in the YC W17 batch.
Ever had a deployment fail only to find out it was impossible to rollback to the previous version? Or get paged at 2am when the user experience is broken?<p>Armory.io makes deployments boring (like ‘waiting for your code to compile’ boring), non-events that happen continuously, and always in the background. We do that by simplifying the installation and configuration of Spinnaker - an open source continuous delivery platform from Netflix.<p>We all worked together at our last company and experienced the pain of scary deployments with low engineering velocity. When I became the SVP Engineering there, I decided that needed to change. We broke a brittle monolith app up into microservices, started deploying with Kubernetes, and created a CI/CD pipeline that allowed us to go from deploying just a few painful times per month (taking weeks and multiple manager approvals to deploy) to 2,000x deployments per month, continuously. The cascading effects were that we started working on parts of the codebase that had been stagnant for years because we were afraid to touch them (the original developers had long left the company). Here’s a screenshot of a chart that shows the delta: <a href="http://drod.io/43452e3V0N28" rel="nofollow">http://drod.io/43452e3V0N28</a> — each color is a different microservice; you can see how those blossomed as we broke the monolith up and started deploying each microservice on the cadence that was best for it. And we had much happier engineers, too, because they could see their code running immediately in production, and they took ownership of it running successfully in prod (as a side effect we went from a traditional ops team to a no-ops approach).<p>We were so passionate about the transformative effect this had on the company that we started Armory to bring it to any company — which is especially needed in large, low performing organizations that typically deploy just 7x per year (compared to 4,000x per day at Netflix).<p>We’d love to hear your stories of deployments gone wrong, hear your questions about Armory, or anything else on your mind!
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Title: Without calling out the identity of any companies or coworkers, I'm curious what bad treatment other engineers have seen in the workplace
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Title: For the last two and a half years I've been developing computer vision algorithms for a proprietary embedded platform in C. Without a proper CS degree (my bachelors and masters were in mechanical engineering), or experience (Stuck writing a very limited subset of C i.e. no malloc(), free(), libraries etc etc), I don't have the confidence to call myself a developer. So I was looking for avenues to maybe improve my skills and knowledge. So in short I'd like to ask, what one thing let you grow/learn the most as a developer?
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Title: <Using a throwaway account for privacy><p>I have been looking to change jobs over the last 8 months. I am in a product management leadership position at my current job, and looking to shift to a similar role in either a slightly smaller company or in a different industry. However, I have found it extremely hard to accomplish this. I have no idea why I am failing in final rounds, but in most instances the feedback has been "You are a great candidate, and we would like you to interview with this other role. But this particular role is not a good fit"<p>What am I doing wrong ? Few facts about me"
- I have over 12 years of work experience across 4 companies (well known brands)
- I am in my mid 30s - I am Indian, and FOB, with an accent (not a heavy accent though)<p>I have run completely out of ideas now. I have probably spoken with 100 people during the course of 15 interviews and I haven't gotten any feedback on what I am doing wrong. I absolutely HATE my current job. I get depressed thinking about working in my current job for the foreseeable future. But looks like I don't have any recourse. I am almost thinking of halting my job search and finding some kind of hobby to keep me occupied and keep my mind off work. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Shobin, co-founder at Lively (<a href="https://livelyme.com" rel="nofollow">https://livelyme.com</a>). Lively is a Health Savings Account platform for employers and individuals. If you are unfamiliar with an HSA, think of it as the 401(k) for healthcare. We are in the current batch at YC and are excited to share our offering with you.<p>Lively was born over a year ago with personal experiences that both Alex (my co-founder) and I experienced firsthand. The short story is that we were experiencing a lot more out-of-pocket medical expenses than we were prepared for. That is what propelled us to begin looking around and came across the health savings account. The HSA is a triple tax-advantaged account (in the US, so we're US-only) that allows you to contribute pre-tax dollars, invest your money and let it grow tax-free, and withdraw money tax-free so long as it is used for qualified medical expenses (at any point in the future). It has been an industry dominated by banks and other financial institutions and we saw an opportunity to enter it by focusing on user experience.<p>Alex and I are life-long friends and see this as an important problem to help solve. We are also happy to answer questions about our business, but also health savings accounts and high deductible health plans.
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Title: I can't believe I hadn't watched this movie till now. It just blew my mind. Being a hacker, tinkering, solving problems was the dream I ever imagined doing. This just rekindled my dying spirit of hacking. Just wanted to share my exhilaration.
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Title: I was looking into improving my speech skills and also be more confident at public speaking, are there any good online course or resources that you know of?
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Title: It is inspiring and interesting to learn newly profitable businesses.<p>2012 edition : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088538<p>2013 edition:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983631
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Title: So I understand what happened with the Cloudflare bug, that https POST request content was leaked into HTML documents on the same or other servers and some of it was cached by search engines or malicious foreign powers. Whenever something like this happens the HN community whips up into a frenzy with people coming out of the woodwork that appear to be experts saying that "this is the end" and "this is so bad, we're f*cked".<p>Meanwhile - none of my friends in the
"real world" (outside the HN bubble) seem to be affected by this at all. I have a client that's a Cloudflare customer and they got an email saying they just weren't affected. And I haven't seen any huge leaks or items in the press about some terrible hack or theft that has brought someone or a corporate "down".<p>Should we always take news like this with a grain of salt? When can we tell when an attack like this is a fundamental undermining of the entire internet infrastructure, an attack that will cripple a few major companies, or just an issue that revealed some data but was mostly just overblown? Would love to hear some opinions!
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Title: Please excuse the frustrated tone; the "secrecy" all over the internet about the whole issue has been driving me insane.<p>The usual useless BS is "oh, these companies get it from governmental public records". Yeah, right. I'm pretty <i>darn</i> sure that some of the personal information I can find online on MyLife, Intelius, InstantCheckmate, Spokeo, etc. is not in some government agency's public record, and regardless, surely there's no way that hundreds of companies are repeating each others' work over and over again when they could just buy the information from someone.<p><i>Someone</i> (or a few) hidden underneath has to be doing the heavy-lifting of scraping people's data from sketchy sources and selling them to third-party companies while staying hidden. My question is, who are these, and (where it is possible to know) whom are they selling to? How can I find out? Surely someone knows, and I'm tired of playing this goose chase where those who <i>don't</i> know just make random guesses as to how the information must be coming from some some public records, and those who do know say hardly anything beyond "you have to know where to look".<p>I'm not looking for just 1 pointer, though I would appreciate it. I'm tired of pointer chasing. I'm just looking for as comprehensive a list as possible. It <i>has</i> to exist somewhere... after all, when a court needs to order that someone's information be purged (for whatever reason, e.g. for safety), it's <i>got</i> to have a list of these data aggregators somewhere, so I'm sure some people must know. So how do I find out? I'm hoping to also learn to fish in addition to being given the fish.<p>Thank you!
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Title: Excluding school projects and toy languages, who here has created a programming language and why?<p>I'll go first. 13 years ago I created a specialized language for processing XML data. XmlPl marries the syntax of C, XML and XPath. It is very fast and efficient. It never caught on. See http://xmlpl.org.
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Title: Hey all,<p>I’m Rick, the founder of Apozy. We’re a YC-backed company in the current batch and we've created a browser extension that stops people from getting hacked by things like phishing and malware. We're excited to get your feedback, hear your ideas, and answer questions!<p>I’ve been a hacker and penetration tester for 10 years. I started out by poking around people’s computers in 7th grade, then moved to poking SQL databases behind forms around high school. I eventually wrote a talk about session hijacking on MySpace in 2007 and was absolutely beyond horrified to stand in front of a bunch of people and pretend I know WTF I’m doing.<p>Soon after I was hacking Fortune 500 companies at a few consulting firms and decided that phishing was a <i>way</i> bigger problem than people really knew at the time. That ended up being right, considering it’s now the most successful attack vector for breaching companies. I wanted to change the way people solved this problem and that’s how Apozy was born. I introduced the idea to my now cofounder, Erhan, and he was onboard almost immediately. Erhan was the best developer I knew, had run a development firm in the past and was a hacker by hobby.<p>Fast forward to today, we’re busy building our solution to next-gen attacks. Apozy’s browser extension immunizes you against phishing and malware attacks. Phishing is out of control--1 in 3 companies fall victim to CEO fraud emails alone--and the current approach of blacklisting sites can't keep up. Instead, Apozy analyzes your browsing habits to stop you from entering data into suspicious sites that don't fit your usage patterns. We also aim to protect privacy by providing objective site privacy ratings, stopping trackers, and upgrading connections to HTTPS. Apozy is currently free to download on the Chrome store and soon will be on Firefox.<p>To check out Apozy, you can visit our site at <a href="https://www.apozy.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.apozy.com</a> or head over to the Chrome store at <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apozy-trusted-browsing/akgjbibhebefdjbebhpmknohhojhppeb" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apozy-trusted-brow...</a>.
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Title: I'm almost 40 years old. I was a speaker at tech conference in the summer, and I was the oldest speaker there. It feels like younger folks are coming up fast, can work longer hours, and are cheaper.<p>I'm wondering how have you dealt with the challenge of being an older dev?
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Title: I have been talking to some people in the industry and it seems the general sentiment is that the CS job market is waning. Is this sentiment true?
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Title: Looking for recommendations on how I can generate or obtain new sources of income while working a full time job.<p>Active or Passive income, due to my minimal resources I see active as my only realistic option but happy to review any and all suggestions!
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Title: Hey HN, we’re the founders of Penny (<a href="https://www.pennyapp.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pennyapp.io</a>), part of YC’s W17 batch. We’re building an easy way for people to keep track of their finances. In a nutshell: download the app, connect your accounts, get insights and advice on your finances.<p>We actually got our start on HN over a year ago. Alex and I spent a couple weeks putting together a prototype of the app as a fun side project in between jobs. We launched that on Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942202" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942202</a>), managed to raise a seed round a few months later, and then re-launched on Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858327" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858327</a>) several months later. Thanks for the encouragement and feedback along the way!<p>Some things that we’ve learned and/or would be happy to discuss:<p>- Having only five categories scaled way further than we thought. It turns out there’s a silent majority that appreciates the simplicity. We just added a premium version that includes subcategories, but we made it over 1.5 years without them.<p>- We built Penny as a web app (Cordova). It pretty much guarantees that we don’t get featured by Apple or Google, but it allows us to iterate really, really quickly. All users always have the latest version, and we can update the app in two minutes flat. We think the tradeoff is worth it.<p>- We’re using a chat interface because it allows Penny to explain your finances in simple, relatable English, but we’re not on any chatbot platforms. We also strongly favor predetermined choices over freeform messages.<p>- Most people don’t realize when they’ve potentially been harmed: over 40% of our Wells Fargo users hadn’t heard about the scandal a month after the news broke. For the Arby’s breach it was over 70%, and for the Navient lawsuits it was 93%.<p>- We decided to roll our own Ruby DSL for writing conversations, which renders a JSON syntax tree that’s interpreted by the client. Right now, Penny has 34,560 words of copy, 888 emojis, and 93 GIFs.
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Title: Aside from the ones that hacked somethinf together themselves: how much did you pay? What did you get? Was it worth it?
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Title: I personally would take up golfing or play chess by the park. What about you guys?
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Title: I recently had one of my colleagues comment on my GitHub account graph - 'There won't be many green boxes in your account once you have a kid'. This was in response to my suggestions on how we should all keep learning.<p>I argued many good programmers have family with kids and still manage to keep up. They brushed me off saying it's just not possible or they don't look after their kids.<p>When i look up the internet I find people doing full time job delivering products while having a family and some still find plenty of time to blog or write books. How is this possible? Are these people super-human?
How are you all doing or managing if you have kids/family?
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Title: What has been your experience and would you recommend it?
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Title: I searched for an announcement but I didn't find anything. On a recent post I was reading the comments [0] on I noticed a "more" link at the bottom to take me to the second page of comments, I had never seen that link before and wondered if it was new.<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13817557
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Title: Doing some design for an upcoming project and taking a survey.<p>I'll go first. Model training happened nightly on a Spark cluster. This output a PMML-based SVM model. The model was instantiated on a cluster of compute servers running Openscoring. A thin Node web service wrapper used the Openscoring cluster to serve realtime client prediction requests. Dataset size in the hundred millions of examples with hundreds of features. Handled thousands of requests per second, no problem.<p>Separating the training technology from the execution technology was nice but the PMML format is limiting in the kinds of models you can use that both you trainer and executor will support. What are people doing who use same tech for both? For something like Tensorflow, I assume you must have to save the model as binary from the train step and then send it off to the prediction cluster to be instantiated again for execution?
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Title: As the title said-- I'm just curious how the rank and file employees and engineers fared with the acquisition.
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Title: What's the service? What are you generating? What's your biggest takeaway?
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Title: Hi HN, we’re the founders of Fiix (<a href="https://www.fiix.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.fiix.io</a>). We’re a startup from Toronto, Canada in the YC W17 batch.<p>We send licensed auto mechanics to your home to fix your car within 3 hours. All you need to do is send us a message over chat. We figure out what your car needs and send over a vetted mechanic with all the parts and tools to perform the repair at your home.<p>We started the company as “TireSwap” from Arif’s parent’s attic as a way to have your tires changed at home. Our customers asked for more and more repairs, until we offered over 300 services. We rebranded to “Fiix” and were accepted into the YC Fellowship (somewhat unorthodoxly!) via Snapchat (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678286" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678286</a>). Since then, we've quit our jobs, repaired thousands of cars, and are now processing almost $100k/month in sales.<p>Getting our unit economics right has been the most important takeaway from YC. We’re priced so we have enough money to acquire customers, offer a great price, and earn a profit to grow the business. We’d love to hear what you think about our company, and if you have any tips on local growth, those would be appreciated!
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Title: I'm helping a friend's startup figure out pricing for their products. What are some tools/services that you use to do this? Are there any pricing analytics platforms that you'd recommend?<p>I can't find anything that wasn't enterprise focused ("Call for pricing!"). Are there any services that your company uses that you're happy with? Ideally, it would help calculate common metrics & make suggestions for pricing experiments (& help run them!).
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Title: I work as a senior frontend developer in a company and have experience with backend stuff and devops, learning new things constantly. My colleague and friend is the team lead of our team at that company (10 members in the frontend department). Before working in the company I had a long successful path as a 100% remote freelancer (7 years of work).<p>The stuff we now work on in the company is quite complex - a realtime trading platform with tons of inner components, complex logic, large codebase. To me seems like we got quite experienced and gained precious expertise by the moment. We have the ability to extend our expertise to other fields as well.<p>Now I feel like my career path now is to establish something on my own and work on a product.<p>I talked to my colleague about his will to join me as a partner in growing our own business and it looks like we are on more or less the same page about what we want and should do.<p>Here is my plan:<p>1. Do preliminary research. Prepare the basement in form of a site with portfolio, our focus, expertise and articles.<p>2. Start looking for projects online to work on for companies as a contractor team. I will bring us some coins for the first time.<p>3. Setup the business processes and make the workflow stable and profitable.<p>4. Keep working as a team for clients and start working on our product ideas.<p>5. Switch from contract work to our products gradually.<p>Here are my questions:<p>- Willing to find projects for a small team (2-4 members) of developers/designers should I look for larger projects in a different way?<p>- How do I identify that a company might be in need of a team like ours? I don’t want to spam everybody trying to catch a project.<p>- Should I prioritize our online sales channels over local ones?<p>- Should I partner up with firms like ours? Contact them and show our offer so that they could be interested in subcontracting with us?<p>- Should we have mentors/coaches?<p>- Should I hire a salesperson to look for projects?
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Title: Sometimes I like to rediscover the good old days of the Internet, and I think I can find some of the frontier spirit on reddit (or maybe other communities like 4chan?).<p>What are the subreddit (or other forum) that you sometimes follow and that you would like to suggest to the HN community?<p>They can also be super niche but not necessarily inherent to technology or computer science.<p>(sorry for my english)
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Title: After taking a React and Redux course for a while, I decided to rewrite an old app in it for learning purposes. Started with create-react app and everything was working fine. Ran yarn add react-router to try and add routing to the nonexistent app, and there began my five hour struggle to get this working (which is, not even done yet.)<p>After looking for docs for a long while to even get the page to render (because the react-router documentation isn't working well either), I ultimately wanted to scream. And I ask myself, why did we overcomplicate front end so much and how did we get to this point?<p>Now to you: how do you deal with JS fatigue? Please share tips, and learning plans, etc. Is it just me, or is this too complicated for something that should be simple? And are there any alternatives or hope?
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Title: Developers have done some amazing things with JS, but I think everyone can agree its not the most elegant language.<p>I understand we are where we are because the its the only language supported by browsers. But will we ever move away from it?<p>Could Google or Mozilla build support for another language into their browsers while developers gradually move away from JS?<p>Will developers be open to alternatives? Will we finally standardize on a simpler set of tools and frameworks?<p>Does WebAssembly solve this? Is TypeScript good enough?
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Title: I check hacker news daily. Is there any other blogs which provides good technology content daily basis ?
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Title: I am launching a startup which is currently a one-man operation. I am planning to develop content to drive inbound marketing. I have both Highrise and Hubspot trial/free accounts for CRM and am considering Wix for my web presence based on some of the great looking templates they have available. Curious to know what products & integrations others are using to get their marketing efforts off the ground?
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Title: I keep reading on HN that I'm order to become a better developer I need to write code everyday, and more importantly read other people's code.<p>What are some examples of good code that you've seen?<p>Personally I'm interested in Ruby on Rails and I've recently started going through GitLab-CE[1] but what is your favor code?<p>[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
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Title: OK let me tell you my story:<p>My Mac was stolen, and I used Find My Phone to lock it immediately. A week later, the thief opened the device, and sure he can't access it.<p>After two weeks, I lost my hope, sure I won't be able to get it back, so I decided to activate the Eraser.<p>Just an hour ago, I received the notification that the device erasing process has started.<p>I lost my device and all my data but not my privacy. And I found on Apple support forums that the device will remain locked as long as it still listed in my Find My Phone.<p>Now I'm planning to buy an x220 and get back to Linux. I was wondering how can I secure a Linux laptop and make it (somehow) harder for the thief to access my stolen device just like Apple did.<p>Do you have any experience with this? Do you mind to share?
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