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Title: On the 8th of June 2014 I purchased 1970 Ethereum from the Ethereum Foundation Presale and received an email to my Gmail account containing my wallet.
As CS student overwhelmed by his thesis I managed to completely ignore the backup instructions and instead left my wallet in my Gmail account.
At least the thesis was good :)<p>You can probably tell where this story is going.
I promptly forgot about this whole event and in 2015 while cleaning out my email account I deleted most of my recently received emails and incidently taking out the wallet with it.
Again I'd like to state that the loss of the wallet is completely my fault.<p>Recently, the price of Ethereum has skyrocketed to over 200 USD per coin, meaning the wallet is now worth ~400k USD.
This means that I can now offer a nice bounty on its retrieval!<p>I'm publicly posting here in the hope that someone from the Gmail team can check and see if they have a copy of the email saved in Google's backups.
Should its contents be retrieveable, I'd like to offer 20% of the wallet's contents (~80k USD) as a finder's fee, alternatively if you choose to forfit this, I'll donate 50% (~200k USD) to a charity of your choice.<p>I realise that this is a last ditch attempt and that wallet is most likely lost forever.<p>This brings us to the morale of the story - "make sure you have backups and they work!"
The 2nd morale is - "no matter how badly you mess up, at least you aren't the guy that deleted an email worth 400k!"<p>If you work on Gmail and you can help or know someone that will lead to its retrevial please contact me [at] [email protected]<p>Best wishes!<p>If you want, you can encrypt your mail to me with my public key: (text too long for HN)
https://pastebin.com/raw/zgZpSKJd
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
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Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<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 a Python programmer and I just started learning Go. What are some good Go codebases to read? I feel it helps me learn better if I look at some existing high quality open source code.<p>There was a similar post about Python a couple of years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369) and it helped me tremendously. I'm looking for something similar with Go.<p>Thanks!
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Title: https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev<p>Build 3133<p>Release Date: 2 June 2017<p>Fixed a visible whitespace regression in 3132<p>Fixed a multiple selection paste regression in 3132<p>Mac: Handle layout changes due to macOS Sierra tabs<p>Mac: Improved default web browser detection<p>Find in Files panel now responds to find_all and replace_all commands<p>Improved rendering performance with a large number of gutter icons<p>Tweaked auto complete colors<p>Fixed fold markers not properly respecting line padding<p>Files can now be renamed when only the case has changed<p>Legacy color schemes are back, but hidden<p>minihtml: Fixed layout of html popups on Windows and Linux under HiDPI<p>minihtml: Fixed crash when doctype is present<p>API: Fixed input panel not running on_cancel when re-showing
the input panel<p>API: Fixed crash in window.set_view_index()
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Title: Hi, I'm a web developer and I search a way to get extra money, in a regular way if possible.<p>I tried to be a freelance, it is well paid but with my full-time job it's too time consuming and I'm not so ambitious.<p>I'm not here to make advertisement but to hear your experience. I'm considering security audit, consulting and things like that be it's the same as to be freelance: you need to search for prospects, etc.<p>Do you have some clue or experience?
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Title: Any book or set of books you wish you had read before a certain age, regardless of topic.
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Title: - I'm 26
- 2 years experience as a SWE at Google (my 1st ever job)
- Enough cash to live the next ~2 years even with no salary
- Unfulfilled at Google
- Dreaming of starting my own company<p>Keeping all these in mind, why am I so afraid of leaving Google?<p>My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on. I want to spend 6 months in SE Asia and travel the world before starting my company.<p>Is fear really whats holding me back? Is Google too good of a workplace to leave?
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Title: Almost every visual programming tool I've seen on HN looks so cool when I see the gif, but when I start using it, it's invariably a frustrating experience. I think it might be because customizing the last 20% is difficult visually, and you so you have to drop down to code. But once you're in visual programming land, changing abstraction layers is difficult.<p>When I asked Alan Kay this question, his first response was "well there are various types of visual programming, some of them have taken off". The type of visual programming I'm thinking about here is a WYSIWYG drag and drop interface for building UIs. Imagine having prebuilt views (tables, buttons, dropdowns, etc.) and being able to drag them and lay them out how you want. Then you interact with their API: this table pulls in data from this SQL statement; this button executes this HTTP query; this dropdown publishes this value, which this SQL statement uses via string interpolation. These "widgets" publish their data, which can be used by other widgets (w1.value), and inside SQL queries. The tables can pull in data from SQL queries. You can use string interpolation inside SQL queries, so dropdowns can influence the query being run. So selecting a drop down value would cause the query to change, which would automatically propagate changes to the table.
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Title: How does Google and Apple calculate top grossing apps, when a number of those apps have their sales from a subscription model that does not happen through the app store (spotify, netflix, etc)?
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Title: What are examples of code that ever programmer should have read and analysed because they show a particularly deep insight into the problem, a creative attempt at a solution or otherwise outstanding proficiency?<p>Goal is to learn something from excellent pieces of code, much like it is practised in art by studying Old Masters, pieces of literature or musical compositions.<p>PS: I admit to exaggeration in the headline / first paragraph ("should have") btw ;)
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Title: Until now I've read:<p>- The Healthy Programmer<p>- Clean Code<p>- Test-Driven Development by Example<p>What should I add to my library?
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Title: The JS job market in STL just isn't cutting it for me so I'm thinking of moving to CA and jumping into the tech scene there. Women, non-binary, people of color, how do you vet companies for not having horribly toxic work environments? I feel like I keep getting the same canned PR response of how great the culture is (for assumedly white dudes), but ping pong tables and free beer doesn't mean shit to me if I'm going to be underpaid, harassed, or viewed as not-technical enough on the regular.<p>What kind of interview questions have you found useful in weeding out unsupportive environments? What factors attract you to one company over the other? What other tips can you provide for reassuring me that I'm not just multiplying my potential abuse factor by jumping into a sea of ego-inflated tech bros?
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Title: Hi HN, we are the founders of WittyThumbs (<a href="https://wittythumbs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://wittythumbs.com/</a>), a place for people to learn how to improve their online-dating conversations. We started this company because it’s the resource we wish we had years ago.<p>The two of us had that sinking feeling in our early 20s that we’d missed our best opportunity to date because while everyone seemed to have thriving dating lives in high school and college, we were preoccupied by more “nerdy” endeavors. Having focused on career at an early age, we were relatively clueless about dating.<p>We spent years dissecting dating and learning the skills piece by piece, like it was an engineering problem. The skills and confidence eventually clicked for us. We discovered rules we could follow to help us navigate the messy world of modern dating. Looking back, we saw no reason why it had to be a grueling 10-year process. We started blogging about texting techniques and Lior coached dating professionally for in-person clients.<p>Having earned a reputation among our friends for being dating and texting gurus, it got to the point where tons of friends were asking us for advice every time we’d hang out. Liron wrote some custom chat software that organized all the shared texts and screenshots of various men talking to various women. Suddenly we were all hanging out in these chatrooms and analyzing one another’s texts. So we’ve seen signs that many people really need this kind of dating advice.<p>On WittyThumbs, you can post anonymized online-dating conversations you’ve had and get feedback from our team of experts and the user community. You can also request a private 1-on-1 chat with an expert to get realtime advice about a conversation, or about any dating subject.<p>We’d be happy to answer any questions you have about us, our company, or plans for the future.
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Title: Most sites seem to have ToS saying that scraping is not allowed, but in lots of cases that shouldn't be the case. If you see that, does it change your opinion?<p>Does the purpose of your scraping make a difference, if one use is just a project but another would be selling the data?<p>Are comments on sites like this public data or private?<p>What about sports statistics that sometimes are "private" by the league, rather than just open for people to use and write interesting articles about it?<p>Overall thoughts?<p>I actually created a site (I edited and deleted the mention of the name here because apparently people don't believe that I don't care about people looking at the site.) that scrapes comments and posts from Reddit that link to Amazon products and shows that information. I'm thinking of adding Amazon links from HN and other sites, but just not sure about how people would feel about scraping from sites like this.
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Title: I'm having trouble working this out, because I have to earn money to pay for car insurance and such, but software companies are not willing to hire people my age for good reason. My resume is also limited because I have only built applications for a few businesses who I had previous connections with. I'm looking for advice for how to start freelancing, because that seems to be the most viable way, without a large resume to start.
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Title: What hack did you create that helped increase engagement and visitors to your platform?
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Title: Even after working so many years. I still get moment that I want to snap. Any way to not bring emotion from work back home?<p>Workout usually will just make me more angry.<p>Meditation/music can only help when you are not at the edge point.<p>Talk to people helps. But one person can only bear with you for so much. Even though it is a good friend/love you very much.<p>Even tried chatbot. Again, not working when at the edge point.
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Title: There have been many, many posts about how toxic advertising and Facebook are (I've written many myself[1][2][3]) for our internet ecosystem today.<p>What projects or companies are you working on to combat filter bubbles, walled gardens, emotional manipulation, and the like, and how can the HN community help you in your goals?<p>[1]http://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/
[2]http://veekaybee.github.io/content-is-dead/
[3] http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/
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Title: Always there's something you struggle to understand and you're surprised w/ yourself
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Title: I feel like I have seen various waves of hype regarding programming bootcamps but the people who I have talked to about it are always people who are considering going or just graduated. Interested to hear from someone who's been out in the wild for at least a couple years.<p>What are you doing now? Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got? Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers?
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Title: Just for some news feed like contents - it might be troublesome to launch an instance of the single purpose.
Looking into Google spreadsheet as API endpoint.<p>What is your choice?
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Title: Hey HN.<p>We're two hackers from Korea, visiting SF from June 13 to June 24.<p>Our current plan is to just jump around good cafes and parks, while doing Kaggle competitions.<p>Any recommendations on places to visit? Things to do? Cool meetups?<p>What's the best way to experience the Bay Area?<p>On the small chance that anyone is super generous enough to give a tour around their HQ, I'd be greatly appreciative. (email in profile)
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Title: If you're not a developer, what brings you back to HN? Why do you read this? What value do you find? How did you find HN in the first place?<p>Please identify what you do as well, thanks!
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Title: I've been programming for about 4 years now. During that time I've become an integral part of my team and have constantly been learning. Despite this I always read comments on HN and feel like there is SO much to learn that I'll never have the time for. I work at a big company and desperately want to leave so I have been dedicating time to prepare for interviews (pretty much just CTCI at this point). Even if I do get better at my interviews and land a job elsewhere, I'm worried that either I'll 1) not be as good as the other engineers there and they will quickly notice or 2) will basically feel the same as I do now. Hopefully the latter doesn't happen. My work environment is pretty negative right now so maybe a change of scenery will help.<p>Anyway, back to the original question. Does anybody else come on here and feel overwhelmed? Too much to learn, a lot of other people out there who are so much better than you etc. Could be just me, the Bay Area, or tech in general.
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Title: Some books, such as The Lean Startup and The 4-Hour Work Week suggest testing your idea before building it. I've recently built a buy button for testing ideas and I'm interested in how I can expand the service.<p>Do you have an idea?<p>Would you be willing to test it?<p>What's stopping you?
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Title: What is on your playlist?
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Title: Trying to learn every day.
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Title: I have been a hoodie and jeans kind of guy for a long time.<p>But now that I graduated and started working as a developer, I feel that my attire might be getting in the way of being taken seriously.<p>Do you have advice (or service) that would help me up "my game" without seeming that I try too hard?
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Title: Yesterday, I have published some article (that is irrelevant to this discussion) up on my blog. In it, I've embedded a YouTube video. Now, it got me thinking. Even though I have configured my analytics service (Piwik) in such a way that it respects Do Not Track policy, embedding a YouTube video made me break my own, so far not heavily enforced, Do Not Track policy.<p>It got me thinking, and honestly, I have no clue how much time have I done it in the past by embedding third party content.<p>So, my question is: Do you respect DNT in your own personal blogs / websites / web app projects, and if so, how? Do you carefully inspect every source before embedding it, re-host everything and things like that, or are you using some sort of an automation tool that I am not familiar of that will force you to only embed content that respects DNT?<p>I should point out that I'm not aiming for a regular DNT is a good/bad idea discussion, but for the practical examples on how someone, as a website owner, <i>could</i> respect the DNT idea if he wants to.
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Title: I haven't had a good experiencing with Yubikey's support and sales team and I'm looking for an alternative.<p>What other keys are people actively using?<p>I'm interested in something with equivalent features to the Yubikey 4 (NFC not required, U2F mandatory).
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Title: I'm doing everything I can each day to keep learning (UX, full stack web development), keep eliminating bad habits (health, thinking, relationships, financial), and applying to jobs everyday (on-site, remote, freelance, temp, intern).
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Title: After 18 months of 80+ hour weeks, no weekends, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of opportunity cost income, I am tired.<p>I'm having a really difficult time making a decision and appreciate any advice the HN community can offer.<p>Here is a quick summary of my situation:<p>A bit over a year ago, I left a high paying corporate job to start a company. For ~6 months, my co-founder and I did not pay ourselves and ran through a lot of our savings. We soon got accepted into a top tech incubator and were able to use their small investment to keep running. After graduating from the incubator and without even really trying, an investment of more than $1 million fell into our laps. Shortly after, a very successful company contacted us about a potential acquisition and after two months of talking extended a "low-ish ball" acquihire offer to myself and my co-founder.<p>I wish we had the momentum and growth to comfortably pass on the offer but the reality is that we have not had much confidence in the business for a while. Even before the investment fell into our lap we considered "pivoting" to an entirely new idea because we were so frustrated with the highly competitive market in which we were operating. The acquiring company now also has plans to enter our market and it would be very difficult to compete.<p>The terms of the deal allow us to mostly pay back our investors in full and would line us up with great jobs. It is not the exit we dreamed of but it gives us a nice story for the future and allows us to "wipe our hands clean".<p>We have been working 80+ hours weeks without weekends and extremely low pay. My health has been declining (I was recently injured and need surgery but cannot without better insurance) and I had to move away from friends and family. I'm still young but my savings have essentially run out and I have become somewhat disillusioned by startup life.<p>Is it time to call it quits?<p>Thoughts?
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Title: How are procedures to open a startup in Berlin / Germany? What about taxes? Is it generally a startup friendly environment?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Like many of you, I found myself discovering dozens of great posts on HN and never actually finding the time read them. I used to save every cool link to Pocket, but… well… same story — I rarely found the time to read them.<p>So I thought it'd be great to listen to the top articles, the same way I listen to podcasts.
Initially, I tried out narrating articles with latest text-to-speech synthesis from Amazon and Google, but it was still pretty bad. Especially with long form content. So I thought I'll do this with real humans, real voice actors. So I made ReadByHumans. [1]<p>We are starting out by narrating top articles from HN and some longer cryptocurrency white-papers. Giving away 3 top articles from last week and we’ll be sending one more audio article weekly.<p>In future and at scale, we’d love to narrate any article or a document, on demand and with only a few hours turnaround time.<p>Would love your feedback!
What type of content would you like us to narrate?
Is it easy to access the podcast feed?<p>Thanks!<p>[1] <a href="https://readbyhumans.com" rel="nofollow">https://readbyhumans.com</a>
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Title: I was recently promoted to an engineering management position of a tiny team. I'll be expected to contribute code while we're still small, then gradually fill my hours with more managerial activities as we grow.<p>I've never managed people, let alone an engineering org. What books can teach me solid principles for maximizing our team's impact? I've read so many horror stories about "We switched to X software development philosophy and it was a disaster: News at 11" I'm wondering if there are classic instructional books/resources that still ring true today, cutting through the latest fads.<p>Is the Mythical Man Month still a good start for the software/project side of things, for example?
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Title: I have a strong feeling I suck at coding. I have a B.S. degree in CS from an average school in the USA.<p>1) I have a bunch of projects, but they're terribly boring and have ugly looking code. For example, I spent a year working on an ecommerce site. It does what it needs to do, but there were no smart decisions behind the back end. I never had to use design patterns nor data structures. I just pieced it together.<p>2) I have a lot of trouble with "HackerRank" style problems. I just finished one, an hour ago, called Codility. Even though I passed all the shown test cases, the final results showed that I got the following scores 13%/95%/0%. The 0% was a debugging problem that required a max of 2 line changes. I have absolutely no clue how I got a 0% there.<p>I've been trying to get a job anywhere, doing some programming, but all the rejections have destroyed me. Aside from the above coding problems, during interviews companies always seem to want experience in X technology. In one of my most recent final interviews, the VP grilled me about not having Python experience (I don't list it on my resume, but the job required it) and stuff I have barely any knowledge on. For instance, I said I did automated testing as part of a software engineer contract (2 months long), but it was not a job requirement so I didn't get any knowledge beyond writing simple unit tests for my personal benefit. The VP started asking me if I used stuff like path testing, error testing, and a bunch of other words I've never heard of in my life.<p>Is there any hope for me, or should I look elsewhere?
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Title: Hey HN! I’m Derek of Py (<a href="https://www.downloadpy.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.downloadpy.com</a>). Py is an education app for iOS and Android that teaches topics like app development, building websites and data science. We're in the current YC batch.<p>My co-founder Will and I have been friends since high school. We've been frustrated for a long time with the way existing learning platforms teach coding. They tend to be one-size-fits-all solutions that don't make learning to code a fun experience. Also, most platforms don't personalize content based on a user's prior skill level or behavior within the product.<p>We think personalizing content is key. We customize the content that users see and make it game-like to encourage people to spend more time on concepts they’re struggling with.<p>We also believe that interactivity is super important. Rather than passively watching a video, we want users to engage with the content. I’ve found from personal experience that I’ll watch an EdX video thinking I understand what they’re saying, only to discover later that I’m struggling on a quiz about the exact same concepts I thought I had learned.<p>When we first launched Py on the App Store about one year ago, it was named Pythonic because it only taught Python. Over the summer, we expanded to teach more programming languages and shortened the name to Py. While finishing up our last year of college we iterated on the product, developing more interaction types to make learning more engaging, and building more courses.<p>Excited to discuss mobile edtech and teaching people how to code! Also, we're quite curious to hear about your preferred way of learning...
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Title: Hello HN!<p>Let me give you some background info:<p>- I'm 29 years old, computer science graduate.
- I founded two startups. First one failed after 4 years. The second one was acquired 3 months ago but do not take it as a success. We had to sold it to one of our competitors at a price of one tenth of the our series A valuation. Basically, things go bad so fast, it was our best option. I've left the company as a part of the deal.
- In both of the companies I've founded, I had to wear too many hats. As a result, I have not excelled in any particular skill, rather I've gained medium level of experience in variety of skills from development to product design to finance.
- As a result of the recent acquisition I've some money in my bank account which can cover my expenses for a year from now.
- I was mentally exhausted, so I decided to keep things slow for a while and that's why I've not been doing anything for the last three months.
- Doing nothing made things worse, since I'm constantly thinking about my future and I can not find anything that I want to do.
- I've decided to apply for some jobs but I'm not sure which position I may fit in.
- I'm feeling like a huge failure.<p>What should I do with my life now? Has someone in here ever experienced something like this before? I'm open to any suggestions.<p>Thanks!<p>ps: posting this from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I hope you don't mind.
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Title: I want to know and be able to build what cloudfare did with nginx.
Figure things like: why request buildups happens on nginx whereas haproxy works fine.
And in the end architect the distriuted to localize failures and not affect rest of the system.
Thank you,
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Title: Even with HTTPS, my ISP can still:<p>A) see the domain names of sites to which I connect<p>B)the time at which a connection was made<p>C) the volume of data moving over a connection<p>So even if I use a VPN, my ISP can still see that I connected to https://vpn.com around the same time https://vpn.com connected to https://embarrasingNSFWsite.ru. They can also see that the data from https://embarassingNSFWsite.ru is pretty similar in size to the data I recieved from my vpn.<p>So, are there any tools or techniques that can eliminate these inferences, or at least reduce their accuracy?
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Title: We raised a few hundred thousand seed sort of round sometime back. Have been working on product for more than a year now, recently launched about a month ago. Response has been sort of nice. Have a few thousand users doing transactions.<p>But I still feel lost and burned out. I built out the product from scratch, later we hired a few guys who are okay in terms of skills. Now I spend a lot of time guiding them to deal with the issues that keep cropping up every now and then. Trying to move away from being a single point of failure in the startup. Finally booked a vacation, but feeling quite guilty about it. I know I need some rest time, energy levels aren't what they used to be. But still feel guilty and will probably end up working 4-5 days as week on vacation as well...<p>What do you guys do to recover from such situations?<p>Motivation levels are getting very variable everyday. Had quit job 2+ years ago, started withdrawing a small salary about a year ago so personal liquidity situation isn't that great either. But now need to start to raise more money soon for company... Is it normal to feel quite screwed while running a company most of the time?
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Title: I'm college student, working as a part-time Java developer. During summer I would like to work on a side project, which includes building a webpage from a scratch. It is not a billion dollar startup idea, in fact, it probably won't be profitable at all, I'm doing it only for fun and to learn new things. The thing is, I don't know anything about webdesign except for some basic html and css and I don't want to spend whole summer learning javascript and responsive design, because it would feel more like a chore to me, when it is supposed to be interesting and fun. I'm looking for a front-end developer (Angular/React/...), who would join me and together we would attempt to create something. No rush, no deadlines, no salaries. So the question is:<p>Is there a place where can I find people looking for something to work on and expecting nothing, but an experience in return?<p>EDIT: HN won't let me to reply to all comments, because I am "submitting too fast". I just want to clarify - I don't want someone to make whole webpage for me. I just want to do the classical split between backend (I'll do that) and frontend. That's like how it is done in most of the companies.
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Title: i am not as interested in the price volatility of this asset class more inspired by the crypto anarchism that they enable and new trustless, non custodial and truly decentralized apps that can be built on top of modern blockchains
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Title: By bad documentation I mean - improper structure, too cryptic for a beginner or not legible.
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Title: I am an average solo user / applied researcher using Windows locally with a GTX 1070 8GB and looking for speed and documentation first, so Theano is way ahead in these departments. That said, we are also told TensorFlow is the next big thing because of scalability (?). TensorFlow works under Windows with Anaconda and Python 3.5 through Keras as well, so I have it available indeed and can try the benchmarks. Where do we stand, really? Thanks.
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Title: SoundCloud has deferred salary reviews until the next funding round is complete.<p>Over the last few years, travel between offices has been restricted to business critical travel only.
More expensive food items have started disappearing from our kitchen.<p>Employees used to get a small bottle of champagne on their birthdays & employment anniversaries.
This doesn't happen anymore.<p>All of the above feels reasonable.<p>However, they recently announced that the July 1 salary review that everyone was promised will be deferred.
There is no information about back pay or a date about when the next salary review will happen.<p>Salary increases are predicated on the next round of funding.
They anticipate that the round will close over the next couple of months, if not weeks.<p>I'm sure that everyone here will have been in similar situations before.<p>What did you do? And, how did you decide whether to continue working or start looking for other opportunities.<p>Also, what other arrangements, we, as employees should consider putting forward.<p>Example: I'd be okay working 4 days weeks, until the salary review is complete.<p>What questions should we ask our founders that'll help us build confidence that the company's financials are in a reasonable shape?
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Title: A heads up for any other Cloudflare customers that have enabled Argo. This feature is supposed to improve performance due to better routing but what is not mentioned is that any abuse traffic, even explicitly blocked traffic is still counted against the $0.10 / GB.<p>I had an attack come in a few days ago generating false traffic and blocked it via Cloudflare's IP firewall. All traffic, including blocked, still counts towards billable per gigabyte bandwidth as confirmed by their support staff. They may sometime in the future separate the counts but for now the support recommendation is to disable Argo.
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Title: Have a side project which is an analytics web application based on 100k+ records. I was initially thinking to get a small payment from each user. But it appears to me that - information provided can be easily scrapped from site (if someone really wants) and it won't make sense.<p>So I am thinking of revenue model based on ads. At its 'full' potential web application can draw a million visits per month (in 2-3 years may be).<p>Adrevenue calculators show adrevenue of $2000 dollars for a million visits[0] with 2 pages/visit and $1 RPM.<p>How realistic are these adrevenue calculators ?<p>Can anybody share their experience with real numbers and insights.<p>https://www.omnicalculator.com/business/website-ad-revenue\<p>edit: reformed sentence
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Title: If so, what tools do you use, apart from to-do lists?
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Title: Hey there! Long time reader (and bookmarker) of HN. I wondering how others deal with an obsession to bookmark things. I constantly scan HN all day and few other sites and bookmark things I fear I'll miss or could be useful in the future.<p>This nasty habit has accrued 10k+ of bookmarks/pocketed articles/saved threads. I'll never get around to reading them all but I have a ton of anxiety of removing them. I feel like a digital hoarder.<p>Any advice on how to set me down a path to change this habit?
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Title: Hey,<p>Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader. As a bit of background, I've been around the "startup" scene on and off, even participating in YCombinator during S12. I have a few side projects here and there and I also do a lot of full-stack web development using Python/Django.<p>I'm very much interested in soliciting your feedback and feature requests for the Debian 10 ("buster") development cycle which opens up tomorrow after the release of "stretch" today. This is obviously a shameless appropriation of Ubuntu's post a few months ago and some requests would definitely overlap but I feel we could get some interesting replies nonetheless.<p>Please include in your replies the following bullets:<p>- HEADLINE: 1-line description of the request<p>- DESCRIPTION: A lengthier description of the feature. Bonus points for constructive criticism...<p>- DISTRIBUTION: (Optional) [stable, testing, unstable, or even a Debian deriviative]<p>- ROLE/AFFILIATION: (Optional, your job role and affiliation)<p>We would be exteremely interested in your feedback! Everything is fair game -- kernel, security, community, default settings, architectures, init systems (!), desktop, Docker, documentation, default packages, cloud images, etc. etc.. Feel free to comment even if you are using a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu, Mint, etc. too.<p>Thanks, HN!<p>—lamby<p>https://twitter.com/lolamby
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Title: I'm a web developer who is looking for passive income ideas. I'm actively looking for income sources that fit well to my skills.<p>Do you have any recommendations, ideas, stories?<p>Thanks.
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Title: I've been in transition for a while, leaving a big enterprise and moving towards more independent work through own consulting business.<p>In the process I reflected a lot and one of the important topics I am trying to understand is about underlying motivations for my actions.<p>I can see what is going on in my head, that I tend to materialise some image of my future self, create value for the family and the environment I live in, position myself good for the future-needed skills, have joy in what I do, have more freedom to decide of my future direction ... there are many different triggers of motivation for my actions, but from time to time they seem random and misaligned.<p>As said, I can see what is going on in my head but I was curios about how others interpret and manage their motivations which trigger their actions.<p>Would be happy to have some insights into your heads if you may allow :)
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Title: About a month ago I wired $5,000.00 to my Coinbase account. A straight forward process, they provided wire information and a reference number so they can attribute the funds to my account. The wire went through, but the funds never appeared in my account.<p>No problem, Coinbase is slammed, having outages, busy, etc. I waited. After about a week I sent my first email to their customer service. No response.<p>No problem, I sent another email after about ten days. I waited. After 15 days I got a response to my second ticket, not my first (which I assume is lost). It read: "This is an automated email. As we experience rapid growth, we are also experiencing a high volume of support requests, and we regret not being able to answer your inquiry in a reasonable amount of time."<p>No problem, I will wait. After about 20 days I re-read the email. Apparently, they close the ticket automatically, even though they never actually responded and you have to respond to re-open it. "If you require further assistance, please reply to this message with a note that you still need help." So now I responded saying that I still needed help.<p>Problem. Now we are are passing 30 days, no real response, no money in my account, and no way to contact Coinbase.<p>Any ideas?
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Title: Hey! I’m Blaine from Solve (<a href="https://www.solve.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.solve.com</a>) and we're in YC's current batch. We save international travelers hours of time by greeting them at their arrival gate, expediting the immigration/customs process, and making sure they're safely in their vehicle heading to their destination. We’re available in nearly 500 airports around the world, and we help with departures and connections too.<p>Our service sounds like it'd be expensive, but it is actually quite reasonable for someone who's already traveling internationally. For instance, our service for two people arriving in London costs $225 and in Hong Kong it costs $210. It's about $75/person from there. Many of our clients are business travelers and families, but we can help anyone who values their time and/or wants some extra assistance getting through the airport.<p>I stumbled upon this idea when a friend and I were flying from Seoul to Bangkok. I wondered if there was a way for us to get through customs more quickly, so I searched Google and found a (rather shady-looking!) website for a company that said it could help. I took the risk of giving this company our passport and credit card details, and amazingly, it all worked out. When we arrived, an agent met us at the gate, we were whisked through the airport process in minutes, and the agent helped us get a taxi to our hotel.<p>I wanted to book the service for other trips, but there was no easy way to do it. So, my co-founders (Shawn and Justin) and I built Solve. We’d love your feedback and are happy to answer any questions.
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Title: I'm a JavaScript, jquery and PHP developer. I currently use and have experience with npm, nwjs, bulma, bootstrap, handlebars, sass, uglify and Jade.<p>I'm having a difficult time finding remote work and I seem to lose opportunities compared to others based on my resume alone. I'm passionate about learning and growing as the tech industry does. I'm all about automation and I'm currently building a robotic lawnmower :)
If you have any recommendations where to apply or want to critique my resume, I appreciate all and any help.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Or if you could go back in time, what would you have done differently, what lessons have you learned ?
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Title: I am keen on knowing the answer to this intriguing question.The closest thing i came across is this. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12207/countrywide-internet-isolation-inevitable-fork.<p>https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12207/countrywide-internet-isolation-inevitable-fork
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We're the founders of<p><a href="https://kyso.io" rel="nofollow">https://kyso.io</a><p>We want to make it really easy to share data-science within teams, and
we've started with Jupyter notebooks.<p>We render the notebooks really nicely, so you can embed interactive visualisations like Bokeh, and Plotly plots.<p>Another nice thing is we allow you to hide the code for non-technical readers, so you basically get a beautiful data blog.<p>Look at <a href="https://kyso.io/laura/" rel="nofollow">https://kyso.io/laura/</a> for some examples.<p>We really want to hear your feedback, let us know what you think!
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Title: For most people, dreaming about quitting a job to focus on a side project or a startup is a dream come true, especially if it ends up being successful. It can bring about so many emotions and fears all during that entire process... not knowing what is going to happen.. and what if it failed? Would it have been possible to return to your old job? So, for those who quit their jobs and were successful, how did it feel and what did you learn?
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Title: I would like to hear from people who have used AWS Lambda in production, how was there experience with it.
It would be great if you have references to project repositories.
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Title: In a most unfortunate incident, my dad slipped in our house and received a severe spinal cord injury (c5 to c7). This has rendered him quadriplegic. He is currently stable and is in in-house rehab. He was very active and was a part time professor. He also had a one or two consulting assignments.<p>He would like to use his laptop/ipad/phone. After some research I found some companies like TeclaShield that sell switches/ bluetooth interfaces and such.<p>Does anyone have any experience in this area? Your help or advice will be really appreciated.
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Title: Yesterday I made a deal with an old high school friend that reached out to me about a job as well as a loan. In general, I don't loan money to friends. It gets complicated quickly and risks the actual relationship. However, I made a deal with him where I would give him a little more money that what he asked for and he wouldn't need to pay me if he committed to learning how to code (with my assistance).
I hypothesize that the growth that I will receive by teaching code and the potential positive impact that can result in his life will be worth the experience. Have any of you done something like this? I would love some pointers or thoughts :)
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Title: Seems like a Silly Question, but how do you organize your files.
I struggle to find a way to keep my reference documentation organized such as ebooks relevant for programming or other related tasks.<p>thanks for reading
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Title: In the last 3 or 4 months, I've been noticing that search results from Duckduckgo, which I've been using and loving for years, have gotten much, much worse. There are many fewer results in my queries, and I often have to resort to searching Google via !g and wind up getting many more results.<p>Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just me?<p>Has anything changed at DDG that might account for this?
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Title: Of course the proper job of a CEO is to put a team in place to do all these things. However, the point of the question is if it were your company and things to control, how would you keep the train on the tracks?<p>Some examples:<p>- What would you do to motivate 14k employees who have been turned upside down?<p>- How do you slow the burn without mortgaging the future of the company?<p>- How do you balance driver and rider demands?
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Title: Compressing images is extremely important for web performance. There are several desktop apps (e.g., ImageOptim, Trimage, ImageAlpha) and web services (e.g., TinyPNG, Kraken, Cloudinary, Imgix, CompressPNG, ImageOptim) that perform optimizations.<p>Thumbor (http://thumbor.org/ ) is a tool that can be installed locally in an application architecture. However, it is focused on cropping & resizing, though it can also transcode to WebP and call external optimizers.<p>What is the most complete solution you are aware of that compresses & optimizes png, jpeg, and webp and can be operated on a server? It should not only be able to optimize as part of the build process but also in response to user-generated content.
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Title: Do you feel fulfilled with the work you do every day?<p>If yes, please explain what it is you do and why it is so fulfilling.<p>If no, please explain why not, and what type of work you think would be fulfilling?<p>I'm relatively new to the job market out of college, and it was a bit of a shock for me to see how many (in my opinion) bullshit jobs there are out there, to the point where I've had an extremely hard time finding work that could earn me a comfortable living (I don't need 6 figures) and align with my moral/ideological compass.
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Title: How do you do it and how much are you making?
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Title: I am new to this Podcast thing on iPhone, and I'm looking for either something funny or about startups.
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Title: I see so many people doing side projects or business. I have excellent backend data engineering skills in the data analytics space.<p>However, I honestly don't know anything about front end and don't know where to start?<p>I don't feel motivated enough to learn Javascript/Node etc. Frameworks are evolving very rapidly. I am sure how much learning front end will help in day-to-day job as well. I am good at getting things done. When I look at good freelancers they are often charging $50 or more per hour. I don't want to spend a lot of money just to build a website.<p>Do you have any suggestions on how to get started and what are ways to build a side business?
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Title: A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions.<p>So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input.<p>Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the AI's threat-weighing algorithm, Completely redid the tutorial system, Added some real basic (and I mean BASIC) "animations", Redid the in-game UI (several times), And most importantly, HUNDREDS OF BUG FIXES.<p>For everybody who didn't see the original thread, Meatshields is a free, online, turn-based strategy game I made that is heavily inspired by Advance Wars. Those games took a very long time to complete in-person so I wanted to build a similar game online where players had many games going on at the same time and would log on once or twice a day to take their turns.<p>If anybody has any suggestions or bugs they encounter, please feel free to post them here. Otherwise, I hope everybody likes the game, and thanks again for the help!<p><a href="https://meatshields.com/" rel="nofollow">https://meatshields.com/</a>
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Title: I am interested in the technical specifics - what happens end-to-end, and where does the slowness/latency come from?
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Title: I am interested mainly in bash helping me with the workflow of apps I run on the command line.
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Title: It is supposed to have added functions of supplementing brain functions, do you have any personal experience with it?<p>earlier discussion (2010): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198116
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Title: I'm interested in seeing if anyone has a process they use to help with learning.<p>- Do you focus on one topic/book/course/project/article at a time, or split your time between multiple things?<p>- Do you use any tools to track your resources, todos, notes, or goals?<p>- Are there any pain points you have while learning, or are there any tools you wish existed?
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Title: Ideally, I would like to be good enough to get a job at an AI/robotics startup. I already have a CS degree, a decent math background, and am working as an embedded software developer for a large company.
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Title: Googling around, I can find many examples of this question, but they are all dated before the move to Vulkan/DX12, which I've heard has represented a big paradigm shift.<p>Are the old recommendations still relevant? Or are there newer books which are more relevant to someone looking to get into the field today?
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Title: Hey guys,<p>I've been a developer for some time now, but I've never had to do anything with deployment, servers, and all these good things.<p>I'd really like to have the basics so would you guys have some nice resources to gain some general knowledge about it.
Thanks!
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Title: What indicators do you look at to determine whether the company is in good or bad health or trending in a direction?<p>Do you have anecdotes (or even more significant data!) about signs or events or shifts in culture that ended up foretelling a change to the company?<p>[Update(s)]<p>I mainly meant "startup" (i.e. not Fortune 500) when I said company. But I don't want to prevent discussions about larger entities, so perhaps we can preface comments with which type of company you're talking about if necessary. :)
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Title: After all those years, I sometimes feel like the whole ORM thing hasn't made progress or been settled. Which ORMs do you like and what do you like about them? What is the sweet spot? I'm asking this because database I/O has always been my biggest frustration when doing application programming. These days, I do more functional programming and tend to side with the ORM haters but I do occasionally wish I could just abstract out the database more. Anyways, I'd just like to hear HN's thoughts on this.
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Title: I find myself not checking my Facebook feed as often as before. Instead I check the HN feed more and more everyday. Am I alone? Between VR, AI, Cryptos, etc, I love the technologies of today's world. Very exciting time ahead. Thanks HN.
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Title: Feather (<a href="https://rentfeather.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentfeather.com</a>) is a furniture rental company, setting out to provide stylish, affordable furniture to people and startups that move frequently.<p>I've moved 5 times in 6 years living in New York, and each time I spent an overwhelming amount of time at IKEA buying, schlepping, and assembling furniture I didn't exactly want. And at the end of each lease, I found myself with furniture that didn't travel well to my new apartment, and often had to scrap it, only to return to IKEA again to furnish my new apartment.<p>It was a cycle of buying things I didn't really want, that didn't really last - and I'm sure many of you have gone through the same trouble.<p>That gave me the idea for Feather. Click a few buttons and your furniture is delivered, fully assembled, and placed in the room of your choice. And importantly, when you're ready to move, tap a button and we'll come and pick it up.<p>We're excited to help people live more free and flexible lifestyles - and would love the feedback of the HN community!<p>Thanks all,<p>Jay, Founder & CEO
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Title: I'm a full-time software dev and also working on some ideas in my private time. Lately I find it difficult to manage different personal projects I'm working on. I have way too many ideas of things that should exist in the world and it seems I'll never be able to complete any of them in the available time. How do you prioritize your ideas, what should be a good process to finalize various personal projects?
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Title: What was impossible to build a few years ago has become incredibly easy if not simple in bitcoin/ethereum blockchain?<p>If you were to rebuild any of the consumer facing web apps/web infrastructure technologies which would you rebuild on top of the ethereum blockchain
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Title: Seeing top HN link about sexual harassment in SV https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673777 and my recent experience facilitated this posting.<p>I will try my best to keep this post brief, so please ask in the comments about details I left out.<p>Swift action has been taken against me by management, due to an accusation by an anonymous female co-worker. All management could tell me is that I made this person "feel uncomfortable", I am guessing in a sexual way. My desk was moved across the building away from where my immediate co-workers sit, and I was told to be not talk to women at the office unless absolutely necessary regarding business matters.<p>The extent of my non-work-related conversation with female employees has been saying hello/goodbye and making small talk on occasion (How long have you been with the company? Do you have travel plans for this summer? Are you doing anything fun this weekend?) I realize some of these questions could be viewed as hitting on someone, but that was not my intention, and believe that question was cleared up once they responded to me that they were going to see their boyfriend/girlfriend.<p>I am a male in my mid-20s on an internship ending in a few months. (The company has told me they do not have the budget to hire me full-time or extend my internship.) In the grand scheme of things, I understand this is small potatoes. But what has kept me up at night is the worry that I could be accused of sexual harassment or rape in the future leading to job loss or criminal charges.<p>I am frankly quite scared of talking to or approaching any women in my office, even for a work-related purpose. This is not a good long-term strategy, and I am not sure how to proceed. I would love your thoughts or advice on this topic. Thanks in advance!
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Title: I've always wondered which one of the two is more user friendly - a username or an email?<p>An email is usually longer and involves special characters. A username on the other hand is usually easily forgettable.<p>So what is the best practice when it comes to picking up a user login attribute?
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Title: It's been awhile since it was asked, so I thought it was time to ask again. I'd prefer something with a widget on Android, and I don't want to exclude iOS offerings for those who use that.
I'd also prefer better UIs, of course functionality is important, but in my opinion UI has a functionality factor to it as well.
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Title: I am angry at myself for being stupid. I worked for 70+ hrs a week for one year and built a new groundbreaking platform. During my recent conversation with my manager, he told me it's not enough for promotion and we should wait. I did my best to convince him.
I am wondering what did I do wrong? Quite frequently I get walked over by people. Although I am good at workplace politics I am not best. I am baffled that men and women who are underperforming are going to be put for promotion. I know first hand two people who have caused delays in projects are going to be considered. All they have is probably strong connection with their managers.<p>How do you navigate workplace politics and getting ahead in the career? Changing job is one option but how long I can keep running from situation?
Also,given the state of technical interview and irrationality to ask any irrelevant question, I don't know if I wanna go through it again anytime soon.<p>What do I need to do to move ahead and up in the career?
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Title: What job boards or apps/services, from any industry, does the community think are great examples of the job application process done well and what is it they do better than the others?<p>Lastly, when a job application does use LinkedIn's auto-fill feature what are your experiences with it?
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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, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Assuming that I can exchange keys of some sort (physical, digital) with the other contact.
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Title: For those who make €100K+ annually in Europe, where are you based? Where do you work? What is your position? And what is your job like?
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