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Title: Please elaborate on your reasons rather than one liners like boredom, pay hike, own business/consultancy, co-worker problem
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Title: It's been a year since we did our last immigration AMA (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972135" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972135</a>) and we thought it might be time to do another. I'll be here for a few hours to answer your questions about U.S. immigration.<p>As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. With all that's happened in the last year, it might make sense to discuss the changes, real and perceived, in immigration policy and practice now and in the future, such as, for example, an increase in site visits and a more restrictive approach to admissions and visa issuance. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers! One thing I noticed, looking at some recent threads on HN, are some common misconceptions about the standards for extraordinary ability, in both the nonimmigrant (O-1) and green card context, so hopefully we can clear some of that up as well.
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Title: In a popular post today[1] the title claims "VM in Google Sheets", but it's actually in Google Script, which is basically Javascript and not an interesting technical accomplishment (definitely a useful educational tool, though).<p>Disappointed, I set out to fix it. Voila!<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g3-FZBnkDuLqFYOmk457hOvyrS798vO4X2nV77gVzGI/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g3-FZBnkDuLqFYOmk457...</a><p>A Brainf<i></i>k interpreter in pure Google Sheets formulas. The hard part was parentheses matching, so I think other VMs would be even easier.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701460" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701460</a>
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Title: A quote by Kent Beck:
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.<p>So what are the habits I should cultivate to be a great programmer or even a good one?
What are the bad habits that I should drop?
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Title: Am I just looking in the wrong places, or is it still really hard to buy a Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality? Are you running a Linux laptop? Where did you get it?
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Title: We see a lot of startups that use existing platforms for individual hiring to team up freelancers. However building teams on in individual hires take too much time and effort, with no knowledge about compatibility or assurance regarding the resulting efficiency of the team.<p>Startups need more than an group of people, they need an efficient team to move fast. As Aristotle said "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts".<p>What do you think of a platform where recruiters can search and hire teams based on their portfolio and soft skills, while still having access to each individual technical expertise?
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Title: These guys seem to be pretty good hackers. Anyone know how much they make? Or is that classified? If so, anybody have any idea?
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Title: A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we could learn a lot about challenges and wrong approaches from each others' failures.<p>So what's a side project you built hoping to generate revenue from it, that hasn't actually earned you much / any money?<p>Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be / what would you do differently if you did it again? How much time/money did you spend building it, and what kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it?<p>Appreciate any and all answers!
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Title: I'm very interested in learning to write compilers, starting with just a simple made up language.<p>Can anyone share resources? I prefer bound books, but anything is helpful! I've been reading the source of TempleOS for tips as well.
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Title: I have 10 years of experience as a software engineer with various roles as a lead engineer. I have never managed anyone directly - nor hired/fired anyone. I recently applied for a manager role at a great company (not a big-5). To my surprise, they're interested in my profile and would like to start the interview process. My goal is to grow in those areas and gain a new set of skills.<p>This role does not involve intense coding but requires a good high level understanding of technologies. It is focusing a lot on career growth, decision making, resource allocation and mentoring.<p>How could I make a good impression despite the lack of management experience? I did mentor engineers, etc. in the past. Happy to hear about things I should be expecting.
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Title: Hi folks,<p>I'm basically looking into making the transition from a C++98 world into what is supposed to be Modern C++.<p>Since that is a rather opinionated field I'd love to see a few real world examples. Shoot links to your favourite Open Source project :-)
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Title: Curious if people use any personal email tools. I like gmail but also realize I haven't looked for an alternative in several years.
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Title: I took a week off to do some things around the house when it hit me: Watching paint dry in the real world is more pleasing than doing anything on a computer anymore, and I need to get out of this industry.<p>It's not that I haven't lost interest in software. In fact, I'm actually more excited about it now than ever before. It's just that I miss interacting with "real" things in the "real" world.<p>I'm not the type of person that doesn't know how to take breaks. I do take plenty, but the slow shift from computers being a distinct thing from everyday life, to now being a 24/7 inescapable phenomenon, is probably what has me feeling this way.<p>Years ago you used to be able to interact with a computer on your own terms and walk away and get back to the "real world" without burning out. In recent times the digital world has become so deeply integrated with daily life that I sometimes think I might be happier if I never see a screen again. This combined with the widespread surge in popularity of all computer related fields has me wanting OUT.
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Title: Would like to pass in my Evernote note and output something grouped by similar ideas/notes.<p>Does this exist?
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Title: I went through the 80,000 hours (https://80000hours.org) course and felt inspired to do work that matters (rather than just design some stuff for boring corporate companies). As a designer, what would be a pressing problem that I could work on and potentially even get compensated for the work in order to stick with it and pay the bills (so helping out a nonprofit with design might be fun, but it's not sustainable)
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Title: I see myself as someone who's really interested in programming, and computer science more broadly. Like the kind of person who's into it more as a hobby than a career choice; I was <i>almost</i> one of those kids who start hacking when they're eight. But while I know I am really interested in that stuff, most of the time I just stare at the wall when I take my laptop to Starbucks.<p>Again, it's not that I'm not interested in it. Most of the time, I just have this insurmountable mental block. I don't know if it's depression, or what, but it's not merely a lack of energy. Many days I can barely even read; my brain just won't process the words on the page, or on the screen. The occasional, completely random good days I have are marked not only by energy, but mental clarity. Most of the time there's like an ugly fog hanging over my head. When that fog isn't there I'm a twenty-five year old version of that curious eight year old hacker, but when it's there I just stare at the wall.<p>I've tried all kinds of things, except professional help, which I can't really do right now because of reasons: vitamins, caffeine, no caffeine, exercise, meditation, not eating carbs, getting more sunlight. None of it works. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
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Title: For anyone considering building a business as an integration provider on top of Embed.ly (the only way to get embedded on Medium), you may want to follow the advice from the founder, Sean Creeley, who just sent me this:<p>"If your whole business relies on us, you might want to pick a different one.".<p>TIMELINE:<p>1) I ask Embed.ly if the novelty factor (existing competitor) would be an issue before building an integration for them<p>2) They say it'd be ok, as long as the other guidelines are met<p>3) I spend a month building the initial MVP and send it for approval<p>4) The founder replies and instead of providing guidance on what should I change to get approved, accuses me of "copying someone else's work" and that "We aren't going to argue with you on this".<p>Screenshots of all conversions (newest at the top):<p>http://imgur.com/a/7nfPC<p>Make your own judgment.
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Title: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers? How has your experience been with this? What are the services you use for a complete setup?
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Title: I've been trying to get a Remote job for over a month now, with 0 luck so far. I know lots of HN readers are freelancers, so I want to address you.<p>How did you manage to get your first Remote job?
And if anyone has some spare time and will, could you possibly help me understand what am I doing wrong?<p>I'm WebDev - PHP BackEnd with 3 years of experience.
Cheers.
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Title: Individual songs, playlists, artists, all suggestions welcome!
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Title: ...in the context of programming and problem solving. For me, it becomes intensely boring and border line ADHD while pondering over a complex problem that requires some dedicated attention without worrying about the end result. Instead, I end up taking the easiest solution that may solve the problem only partially, just for the instant gratification it gives. Needless to say, this is harmful for important decisions.<p>I believe this has come from years of INSTANT dopamine rushes from social media and Hacker News.<p>How do you avoid it?
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Title: It's suddenly gone all grey, with the logo blacked out as if it's being censored.<p>Is there American event that's happening that I don't understand? Is it a reference to the net neutrality arguments going on at the moment?<p>What's the story here?
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Title: We've seen the push for HTTPS in recent years accelerate and become more and more aggressive (in a good way).<p>Browsers have arguably led this drive by notifying users that the pages they are viewing are "NOT SECURE", through the use of pad-lock icons in the URL bar or even notifications under textboxes (e.g. Firefox) [0]. Chrome, too, is driving this trend. And with users fearful of sending data over a "non secure connection", they'll be vocal enough to push website owners to fix this issue.<p>---<p>So, if you could decide: <i>what feature or measure would you want to see adopted as quickly as the push to make all sites use HTTPS?</i><p>[EDIT: kudos if you describe how your new standard could be "forced", e.g. through a URL-bar icon, notifying users somehow, etc. How would you convince other developers and maintainers of large code-bases, websites, browser vendors, etc. that they should throw their support behind your initiative?]<p>Think ambitiously too -- imagine your proposed feature would have the same backing and urgency as we have with HTTPS, with browsers (for better or for worse) authoritatively "dictating" the new way of doing things.<p>---<p>[0] http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/firefox-52.0-warning-insecure-login.png<p>[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/
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Title: The email sent out to alumni (closing paragraphs elided, in consideration of the character count):<p>"I am reaching out to let you know of some very sad news. After considering all of our options, we have made the heartbreaking decision to wind down DBC operations. In other words, DBC's final cohort will start on July 17 and will graduate in December 2017.<p>Campuses will officially close on December 8, 2017, as we are committed to providing our currently enrolled students with full delivery of the program, including seeing them through the entire curriculum and providing at least six months of career support for these students after graduation.<p>Please know that we did not come to this decision lightly, and it is one that deeply affects us all. We’re so proud of what our students, alumni, DBC team (past and present), and community and employer partners have accomplished over the past five years. But despite tremendous efforts from a lot of talented people, we’ve determined that we simply can’t achieve a sustainable business model without compromising our mission of delivering a high-quality coding education that is accessible to a diverse population of students.<p>DBC has been committed to providing access to careers in technology since 2012, pioneering a new industry, and championing a radical form of education -- one focused on hands-on practical training over theory. This talented community of over 3,000 is proof positive that the educational experiment we launched five years ago could make a real difference in people's lives when combined with the passion and grit of our students. If our staff is the heart, you all are the soul of DBC. You and your continued work in the industry will keep DBC’s spirit alive."
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Title: $ date --date='@1500000000'<p>Fri Jul 14 02:40:00 UTC 2017<p>That's today at 7:40pm for those in the Bay Area.
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Title: Yesterday, I saw a HN job ad for One Month - a company that offers a 30-day "bootcamp". I looked at their courses[1] and noticed they're all aimed at beginners.<p>I'm past the stage where I need a course on Python syntax or HTML. Like many of you, I could teach myself these things. However, I would definitely pay $300 (the cost of the courses mentioned) for good hands-on intermediate or advanced coursework in both software engineering and computer science. Unfortunately I can't come up with any ideas at the moment, sorry :-)<p>[1] https://onemonth.com/#premium-course-schedule
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Title: I'm a bit unhappy with 1Password. I don't want a subscription service, I want something that keeps an encrypted file that I can put in dropbox.<p>What is everyone else using these days?
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Title: do you think career and family is either-or, meaning you have to choose either one and sacrifice the other?<p>If you have a strong career ambition and have also raised a big family (more than 1 kid, and spouse doesn't work), do you feel that family is a career obstacle or a booster?<p>In the middle of your life, have you regretted about your choice and wondered what life would be like if you had chosen the other option?<p>Do you think, as an entrepreneur, a family is a necessary part of your life to hold you together when you fall? and to have a purpose to entrepreneurship in the first place?<p>I do not have a family yet. But I'm at the right age (if not already late) to form a family and I'm facing life choices.<p>I have talked with few close friends who are also young parents. Their ambitions seem to be exhausted by their kids and family. As an example, one of my friends told me, the only time he has on his own is after 10pm, as he needs to put his kids into bed first. And often before he has done it, he is too exhausted and fall asleep first.<p>This is a life I fear a lot. I have a strong ambition to be a good entrepreneur, but my partner would like a big family. Can our goals still meet?<p>I know many successful entrepreneurs have a harmonic (Zuckerberg, Gates) family too. But those entrepreneurs started early in their life during their 20s. They had accumulated lots of resources before forming a family. With those resources, they have less pressure.<p>What do you think?
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Title: Turkey reached another milestone of propaganda thanks to the total control of the communications.<p>Right know when you make a phone call using your mobile phone, before ringing starts citizens are forced to listen to 10 seconds voice recording of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<p>Here is a demonstration: https://twitter.com/sendika_org/status/886343590208835584<p>Here is a Twitter search that will provide you with many more videos showcasing the issue: https://twitter.com/search?f=videos&vertical=default&q=erdoğan%20telefon&src=tyah<p>Here is a report by BBC(Turkish edition): https://twitter.com/bbcturkce/status/886351634888085505<p>The message is about the anniversary of the unsuccessful coup attempt believed to be orchestrated by Gulenists(previous allies of the president, currently branded as Terrorists ) that took place on 15.06.2016, claiming the lives of more than 200 civilians and led to uncontested power grab by the President.<p>Right now Turkey is one of the most hostile countries for the journalists. Wikipedia is banned since a while.
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Title: Let me clarify: if you've heard of Themeforest, you'll probably know that it is a website where you can submit website designs that any number of people can buy. The problem is essentially this: you can only buy front-end code.<p>This question is mainly directed towards developers. Would you be interested in creating complete websites (as a template, with both back-end and front-end code) solely for the purpose of selling it on a website similar to Themeforest?
Example: Full code (back-end and front-end) of a generic social media website.<p>Thank you very much for reading and taking the time to answer this question. Any feedback is appreciated, as long as it's constructive. :)
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Title: When I started working with neural nets I instinctively started using git.
Soon I realised that git isn't working for me. Working with neural nets seems way more empirical than working with a 'regular' project where you have a very specific feature (e.g. login feature): you create a branch where you implement this feature. Once the feature is implemented you merge with your develop branch and you can move to another feature.<p>The same approach doesn't work with neural nets for me. There's 'only' one feature you want to implement - you want your neural net to generalise better/generate better images/etc (depends on the type of problem you are solving). This is very abstract though. One often doesn't even know what's the solution until you empirically try to tweak several hyper parameters and see the loss function and accuracy. This makes the branch model impossible to use I think.
Consider this: you create a branch where you want to use convolutional layers for example. Then you find out that your neural net is performing worse. What should you do know? You can't merge this branch to your develop branch since it's a basically 'dead end' branch. On the other hand when you delete this branch you lose information that you've already tried this model of your net. This also produce huge amount of branches since you have enormous number of combinations for your model (e.g. convolutional layers may yield better accuracy when used with different loss function).<p>I've ended up with a single branch and a text file where I manually log all models I have tried so far and their performance. This creates nontrivial overhead though.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>My friend and I just launched a vocabulary quiz game. It's a two Player Game where you challenge your opponent with a word and answer their challenge question. Whoever gets the highest score in a round of 5, wins.<p>Currently, words are from Barron's 333 most essential GRE wordlist to help students preparing for the standardized test.<p>You can check out the game at:
[Play Store]
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buildmyvocab.greenglishgame" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buildmyvoc...</a><p>or<p>[Hybrid web app in Ionic - Please allow some time to load]
<a href="https://buildmyvocab.in/wordsgame" rel="nofollow">https://buildmyvocab.in/wordsgame</a><p>We would love to hear feedback from you guys.
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Title: I read it all the time that success and happiness aren't related but to me there is a strong correlation and this makes me miserable :/<p>Can anyone here who feels truly happy tell me otherwise.. What is the source of your happiness? How about people making $1m+, did that increase your happiness?
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Title: What do you spend your money on that greatly increases your quality of life? Is it books, good coffee, Uber/Lyft, massages, gym memberships, vacations, etc?
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Title: I've a Visual Basic application at hand which served its time and still going strong in a productions setting. But changes to the logic are expectedly difficult with UI and business logic completely intertwined. And also, if I want to put it on cloud, this architecture is going to fall off. For the above two reasons, I wanted to upgrade this into a modern stack - and an obvious choice was to - Javascript based UI, with any DB to support (postgres) and a queue or app server to service this.<p>My question is: None of the web style solutions seem to be suitable for a keyboard based (tabbing style) grid to represent an itemized billing. I was able to see some Kendo or dojo etc.., but most of them have a mouse based "Add next Item" button , which is not suitable for a fast paced billing application. Any suggestions within or apart from web based frameworks should I look at? Or should I fall back to some systems programming language (C type) with Qt kind of solutions?<p>Thanks for your suggestions in advance.
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Title: I have not been able to find an answer for this and sadly I do not have any friends currently living there :(
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Title: Hi HN! We are Christian and Ryan (rtw2101) of Audm (<a href="https://www.audm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.audm.com/</a> and <a href="https://appstore.com/audm/audm" rel="nofollow">https://appstore.com/audm/audm</a>). Audm is an iPhone app that lets you listen to the best longform (3000 words or longer) magazine articles from titles including The Atlantic, Wired (plus Backchannel), Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Foreign Policy, Outside, The New York Review of Books, and a bunch of others.<p>We were big podcast fans, but we knew that most of the world’s best storytellers write for top-tier magazines. We also love audiobooks (when they’re read by really gifted narrators), so we knew that stories written for print often work well in audio. So we built Audm.<p>We release most stories in the app at the same moment they hit the magazines’ websites. Right now we produce 5-8 articles (3-5 hours of audio) per week, and that number is growing fast as we onboard more publications. Our subscribers seem to have an insatiable appetite.<p>Something that we didn’t fully appreciate when we started (although our users did) is just how skilled a narrator has to be if they’re going to sound good reading articles that are dense with information and nuanced ideas (which often means very complex sentence structure). We’ve become <i>extremely</i> opinionated about narrators.<p>We’d love your feedback!<p>Thanks all,
Ryan and Christian
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Title: What are you averaging per year, as a freelance app developer?
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Title: Hi! I finally met someone I really like and think she can really do something important for the mission. She seems to engage with idea just as much as I do and can definitely both embody it and bring specialized knowledge to the execution. I am already working with her to execute something I can't technically do. (Not Code BTW)<p>Nonetheless—I want to very thorough and make sure we get to know each other much more.<p>What questions should we be asking each other?
What topics should we be broaching?
How do we get to deeply know each other in as short of a time as possible?<p>The best way to learn this is by hearing about what y'all did or wish you did.<p>I have some ideas. First of all:<p>* Would you like to be a cofounder or just a service provider?<p>If yes, then I would ask Jason Lemkin's two questions:<p>* Are you willing to do this for the next 7–10 years?
* And are you willing to go for 24 months until we have any real traction at all?<p>Then I think Mark Zuckerberg spending MONTHS vetting Sheryl Sandberg. He particularly wanted someone who wasn't afraid of people better than them. Possible question<p>* Who is better than you? Would you recruit them?<p>More ideas:<p>* What is your learning style?
* Are you doing it for the likes, the mission, or the money? How do you rank these?
* How would you manage a team? What would your weekly meeting structure look like?<p>Would love to get even more ideas from y'all! Thanks!
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Title: It's always fun to look at different (micro)benchmarks comparing language/frameworks/systems to each other.<p>I'm curious about real world examples where a change (preferably measurement/profiling driven) has lead to a significant positive outcome in performance, code quality/maintainability, etc.<p>Did changing from Python to Go make it so that you could avoid horizontal scaling for the size of your app, reducing operational complexity?<p>Did switching from Dart to Rails speed up development because of the wide range of libraries available, speeding up time to market?<p>While most bottlenecks exist outside of languages/frameworks, I find it interesting when the language/framework actually made a difference.<p>An example I'll use is switching an internal library from C# to F#:
The module as designed mutated 3 large classes through a pipeline of operations to determine what further work was needed.
I incrementally rewrote this module in type-driven F# with 63 types to model the data transformations and ensure that the correct outcome desired was compiler verified. In the process 3 bugs were fixed and 12 additional bugs were discovered that while edge cases, had a couple of old tickets with "unable to reproduce" as the last comment in the ticketing system.
This could have been done in C# and because I did it in F# it is most likely slightly more difficult for the other team members to jump into. It probably also uses more memory to represent the types than the C# version.
In this case however, the trade offs were worth it and I've been told the module has barely needed to be touched since.
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Title: Given the like natures of the people frequenting this board, I would imagine that I'm not alone (hah) when dealing with loneliness.<p>I've, over the past few years, grown more and more lonely with very little outside contact. My job does not interact with others much, topping out at the same few co-workers day in and day out.<p>I've only ever had a small group of friends, which has grown even more thread-bare with age.<p>Besides "go meet people" (how?), how do the fine people of HN deal with loneliness? Especially in the case your quite introverted? I like being alone, just not all the time, and not to the point of despairing loneliness.<p>I reach out, for fear that it envelops me.
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Title: People seem to be raving about blockchain technologies and new startups are popping up to apply it to new industries every week. How does blockchain actually help a sector like healthcare, finance, retail, etc? Are there examples of where having a decentralized data store solved major pain points?
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Title: TDD, BDD, or any other form or development driven by tests first are very popular approaches in web development or even non-web developments.<p>I'm curious to know if these approaches are also considered a MUST for AAA game development.<p>Is there anyone that has worked with these approaches while developing games or know any big AAA game company that uses test first approaches as something required during the development?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I’m David, one of the co-founders of Sixty (<a href="https://www.usesixty.com/partners" rel="nofollow">https://www.usesixty.com/partners</a>). We're a fully-managed freelancer marketplace for SaaS companies. We give SaaS companies an experts.[domain].com that their users can go to for do-it-for-me help from specialist freelancers, whom we call "experts". We source, vet, and manage the experts. We’ve also built software to connect a user and an expert together via screenshare for on-demand sessions.<p>It's a common problem at SaaS companies that their users want more hands-on help than in-house support can provide, but it takes a userbase of around 1M people and an organic freelancer community to form around the software (think Google Certified Experts or Quickbooks Pro Advisors) before that can easily be provided.<p>We built Sixty to solve the problems we experienced during our time as Squarespace Specialists (Squarespace’s version of experts). With several years under our belt, we noticed 4 major problems around the concept of an ‘experts directory’:<p>1) Most SaaS users need a little bit of external help to derive the full value from more complex software – despite the software increasingly intended to be DIY. Users usually only need to get over a few small roadblocks to succeed.<p>2) The company’s goal of making software intuitive enough for anyone conflicts with the expert’s goal of making more money. Experts all have project minimums that presuppose them taking over the whole project.<p>3) Companies would need user bases of 100k+ before they would be able to even consider creating an experts community.<p>4) Building a community platform is fundamentally different than what SaaS companies were founded to do. It bloats the business model.<p>Our goal is to be a better solution in each of these 4 areas: 1) So users could get smaller scope work accomplished – helping them be more independent and successful on the platform. 2) So the experts can be a part of a better community with increased pay and more stability 3) SaaS companies with smaller user bases can take advantage of the improved activation and retention that expert communities bring, and 4) So SaaS companies can focus on what they do best – building great software.<p>We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building with Sixty! And if you’re building a SaaS company or are particularly skilled at any startup or SMB software (Segment, Mixpanel, Zapier, Customer.io, Mailchimp, Weebly, etc.), we'd love to learn from you.
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Title: I have some bitcoin in Coinbase and I'm not a bitcoin expert, should I move my coins before the upcoming forks?
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Title: What is a good (or the least bad) way to informally tell someone who does <i>not</i> report to you that they are not doing well at work? Should one even try?<p>On the one hand, I would like to limit the coming pain -- I myself was once in a situation where I thought myself a star team member only to find out later that I was not helping much, and that is putting it mildly. I wasted 12-18 months before I figured this out and moved on. I wish someone gently helped me, although it would not be easy -- it was my first job after grad school and of course I knew myself what I was doing better than some dude in the next office.<p>On the other hand, it is a minefield. I am high enough in the food chain that such talk, even informal, could be seen as an interference; he may also decide to shoot the messenger, complain to HR, etc.<p>Thoughts?
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Title: Vue is hot right now. Curious to know who's using it, why, and what for. Or just links to some live apps.
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Title: We asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHN and a passionate discussion ensued, the results are at: http://ubu.one/thankHN<p>You can check that link and see our progress. Already in beta for 17.10:<p>- GNOME replaced Unity<p>- Bluetooth improvements with a new BlueZ<p>- Switched to libinput<p>- 4K/Multimonitor/HiDPI improvements<p>- Upgraded to Network Manager 1.8<p>- New Subiquity server installer<p>- Minimal images (36MB, 18% smaller)<p>And several others have excellent work in progress, and will be complete by 17.10:<p>- Autoremove old kernels from /boot<p>- EXT4 encryption with fscrypt<p>- Better GPU/CUDA support<p>Your feedback matters! There are hundreds of engineers working for <i>you</i> to continue making Ubuntu amazing!<p>We're now reviewing the desktop applications we package and ship in Ubuntu.<p>We invite you to submit the apps you find most useful in Linux, in the format defined below. You can suggest multiple apps in priority order (e.g. Web Browser: Firefox, Chrome, Chromium). Please note apps that are now you use exclusively on the web (e.g. Email Client: Gmail web, Office Suite: Office360 web). If the software isn’t open source, note that (e.g. Music Player: Spotify non-free). If we missed a category, please add it in the same format. If your apps aren’t packaged yet, please let us know, as we’re creating hundreds of new snap packages for desktop apps.<p>===<p>Web Browser: ???<p>Email Client: ???<p>Terminal: ???<p>IDE: ???<p>File manager: ???<p>Basic Text Editor: ???<p>IRC/Messaging Client: ???<p>PDF Reader: ???<p>Office Suite: ???<p>Calendar: ???<p>Video Player: ???<p>Music Player: ???<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Screen recording: ???<p>===<p>We’ve cross-posted this thread to Reddit and Slashdot. We very much look forward to another friendly, energetic, collaborative discussion.<p>Thanks!<p>twitter.com/@DustinKirkland
@Canonical @Ubuntu
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Title: what are you listening to during work or any other time of the day?
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Title: Hey guys! I've been Windows users for over 10 years and about 2 months ago I switched to Ubuntu. I wonder what software do you think will be really useful for the average Linux user and more people should be aware of?<p>I just would like to improve my daily user experience :)
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Title: Hey! I'm coming into a new remote team as Technical Lead on Monday and I wanted to know are some good tools that can help us work better together.<p>Things like:<p>1. Know what each other are working on? (progress/blockers)<p>2. Know what is currently deployed to production and staging? (heroku)<p>3. Keep track of larger goals (milestones)?
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Title: I have an NFC implant from dangerous things in my left hand. When I got it I was imagining unlocking doors with a wave but since most scanners are incompatible I've been unable to use it at my last two office buildings.<p>I plan on getting a door lock for my apartment but maybe next month when I move into a new one.<p>Nowadays the only practical use I have for it is a party trick where I convince people that their phones have had DNA recognition for years. When I hold it up to my hand, up pops the vcard in my chip leaving them amazed about the technology they never knew their phone had.<p>Sometimes they find the truth incredilous and refuse to accept that I have a chip implant when I make the reveal. I guess DNA scanning is more believable.
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Title: What people use to prevent robots and crawlers from websites?
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Title: As a hardware and software tinkerer who loves working on new projects every week, what's the best business to start that could support this lifestyle of making?
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Title: Not just good code described in books like Code Complete, But aslo has a great architecture as a whole, and should be open source business applications, as there are many great library/framework/generic applications like Yii Redis Lua Linux, but open source business applications with great architecture not easy to find.
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Title: Hi everyone! I am Bjoern from Templarbit (<a href="https://www.templarbit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.templarbit.com</a>). Me and my co-founder Matthias are part of the current YC batch and are excited to launch our product. Templarbit protects web applications from XSS attacks and other malicious activity.<p>Previously Matthias and I worked together at a cyber security firm where we saw many vulnerability reports. After spending some time running engineering at another startup we realized there is a big need for a security solution that can easily be understood and deployed. Something that helps software teams protect what they are building.
We reached out to friends and strangers at other software startups to see how they handle the security of their applications. Surprisingly to us, not many teams felt like they did a good job in that area, mostly due to lack of tools available to them.<p>With the advent of browser support for Content Security Policies, there are new ways to protect against these attacks. Setting a CSP header is a great way to mitigate XSS attacks, but managing changes to the policy and having a reporting endpoint that gives you insights into what is being violated is still difficult. Templarbit helps with this. Our reporting dashboard can help you discover and fix violations in real-time and shows you in most cases exactly where in your app the issue exists.
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Title: It'd be interesting to know what books have had the greatest effect on how you structure your code and projects?
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Title: Recently I found Julia Evans blog, which is great read for someone wanting the have a broader knowledge of software engineering, operating systems and related themes.<p>What other similar blogs do you guys follow as well?<p>Julia Evans blog, for those interested is<p>https://jvns.ca/
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Title: I have no network, no ability to relocate, can't get a full time job right now, and urgently need to make some bucks real quick, even if it's less than I would otherwise qualify for.<p>But several articles and comments here suggested that upwork.com and similar freelance websites do some really shady things and that it's not good to use them for any kind of work, even temporary.<p>And having worked remotely for the past 5 years has really limited my ability to build a network. I don't have LinkedIn and even if I did, it's more meant for building a network than for finding a quick gig.<p>I've got plenty of frontend/backend/mobile/desktop skills, having made several websites and iOS apps, and 5 years experience working remotely, so I'm definitely confident that I'm qualified to do some freelancing and get a good pay, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a job using these skills but without a network.<p>Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks HN.
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Title: I can't fathom sitting in front of a computer writing code for the next 3 decades.<p>Any ex-programmers here? What do you do now? What credentials or qualifications do you have if any?
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Title: I am currently hiring developers for a junior position again for my startup.<p>I say "again", because the first time round we had so many applicants (400+) that it was a tough challenge discerning the best candidates from the pool and had allocated 10 interviews a day. The interviews were so bad that I ultimately rejected all of the applicants. I also withdrew the position because it was wasting my time.<p>Preferably, I would like to hire senior developers instead, but they are too expensive for my budget.<p>I slogged it out for another 4 months and I'm giving it another go on hiring juniors. But would not like to make the same mistake.
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Title: I'm working on a book about microservices and want to know what questions and topics you'd like to see covered.<p>What were your biggest hurdles when first adopting microservices? Was it hard for your team to determine service boundaries? Did you struggle with developing and managing them?
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Title: Are there quantifiable numbers that can say whether a start-up or a company is doing well and will have successful IPO or exit in the near future?
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Title: Hi all,<p>We are D-ID (<a href="http://d-id.com/" rel="nofollow">http://d-id.com/</a>), part of the YC S17 batch. We protect people's identities by processing face images in a way that denies automated face recognition, while keeping them similar to the human eye. We’ve just launched on TechCrunch and signed our first pilot, so here’s some info about us.<p>With the advancements of face recognition technologies (both in accuracy and growing use), the data in face images must be protected, because unlike passwords, you cannot change your face.<p>We came upon this idea after experiencing it as a personal pain at first, while serving in the military where we were not allowed to post to social media for reasons of information security, later to realize that it has become a worldwide issue where we’re all losing our basic right to privacy.<p>At first it was meant to be a B2C product, but we then understood that businesses are in greater need due to their responsibility in handling personal data of their clients and/or employees.<p>Since we use image manipulation techniques, it's clear that if all goes well it will probably start an arms race with face recognition algorithms. Would love to hear your ideas as to how to win in this battle :)<p>Our approach helps companies which handle images (cloud storage or even just profile pictures of their employees/users) to comply with privacy regulations, such as the GDPR (an EU regulation, nearly worldwide in its scope, which addresses face images as Sensitive Personal Data).<p>This gives companies a way to keep using images but without the responsibility of protecting the sensitive data they carry, helping them build their brand reputation for caring about the privacy of their clients/employees. We also enable security agencies and governments to protect their citizens and employees.<p>We’d love to hear feedback from the HN community! And we'll be glad of course to answer any questions you may have.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>My name's Nadav Hollander, and I'm the Founder of Dharma.<p>Dharma is building an open-source library that makes it really easy to programatically borrow and lend cryptocurrencies using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.<p>Today we're launching our Alpha Testnet release -- a command line tool that allows you to<p>1. Access a line of cryptocurrency credit from the command line in under 5 minutes
2. Easily build a bot that auto-invests in loans under hyper-customizable, programmable criteria<p>Check it out: <a href="https://github.com/dharmaprotocol/dharma-cli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dharmaprotocol/dharma-cli</a><p>Why I Think This Is Cool:<p>1. Loans in the Dharma Protocol are basically miniature ICOs issued by borrowers -- an investor's stake in a loan is held in a digital token that entitles them to future cash flows. That means loans are just as tradeable and moddable as Bitcoin or Ether, and packaging loan tokens into tranched debt instruments of all shapes and sizes is relatively trivial to implement in an Ethereum smart contract.<p>2. Dharma is an open protocol. This opens the door for any client application, including existing online lending platforms, to tap into a non-proprietary army of lending bots as a source of lending capital. This has the potential to dramatically lower the cost of capital for online lenders -- and, in turn, borrowers.<p>How This Can Be Better:<p>1. Loans in the Dharma Protocol are slow and expensive. Ether gas costs are fairly steep for writing the requisite loan data onto the Ethereum blockchain, and an on-chain auctioning mechanism places a bottleneck on how fast a loan can be funded. We plan to address these issues by migrating towards an off-chain auctioning mechanism layered on top of a Kademlia-style P2P network.<p>2. The identity verification mechanisms we use to assess baseline creditworthiness are very weak -- any mainnet release of the protocol would necessitate much more robust KYC flows.<p>Please play around with the CLI -- would love to hear feedback!
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We have an idea for helping AI research and we’d like to hear your thoughts on it. We want to help get a lot more people working on ML projects they find interesting. If you've been thinking about or working on a side project or have some idea that won't let you go, you're who we want to reach.<p>Why try to help? Nat and I are passionate about AI. We want to
see more Show HNs that use machine learning. We've been rewarded by
pursuing our own shower-thoughts and want to remove any barriers from
others thinking of doing the same.<p>Our plan for this is AI Grant (<a href="https://aigrant.org/" rel="nofollow">https://aigrant.org/</a>), a non-profit
distributed AI research lab. We're issuing grants to the smartest
people we can find, doing interesting work that might otherwise not
happen, and connecting them to mentors, experts, and each other. We ran our first round this spring, and awarded $50k in grants to 10 projects.<p>Filling out the form should take less than five minutes. Grantees get:<p><pre><code> - $2,500 in cash.
- $20k each in Google Compute Engine credits.
- Q&A with AI experts including Andrej Karpathy (Director of AI at Tesla and previously at OpenAI) and researchers at Google.
- Access to the network of other grantees
- 250 Tesla K80 GPU hours from FloydHub.
- $1k in ScaleAPI data labeling credits.
- $5k in CrowdFlower data labeling credits.
</code></pre>
This is not an investment in a company, it's a grant to follow your
dreams in research. You don't need to be part of any special
organization or community to apply. We don't ask for equity. All we
ask is that you do your best work, wherever your interest lies.<p>Please let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions on how we
might improve, either on the specifics of AI Grant or the general goal
of spreading AI research to everyone smart who wants in.<p>- Daniel Gross & Nat Friedman.<p>P.S. I'm a partner at YC. This is Nat's and my side project, not a
YC effort.
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Title: Bodywise I love it, my back pain is much less and I alternate between sitting and standing in 1h intervals.<p>My problem is that I find it much harder to concentrate while I am standing and I am writing much more code while sitting.<p>Curious about other opinions?
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Title: I'm looking for some inspiration for what I can do with my $35 computer. I think we can all learn a lot from any cool hardware project.
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Title: Hey HN! This is Nikhil here with Ankush and Kunal. We founded Piggy (<a href="https://piggy.co.in/" rel="nofollow">https://piggy.co.in/</a>), an investment app for Indians. Think of it as a mobile-first Vanguard for India. With Piggy you can invest in mutual funds, track your investment portfolio and save for retirement.<p>Historically, public sector employees vastly outnumbered private sector ones in India. Those public jobs came with pensions, so no one had to think about investing their own money. In 2016, for the first time, the private jobs overtook the public. People have to invest their own money now, and it's complicated and expensive. We built Piggy to help solve those problems.<p>This new Indian middle class is searching for good places to invest, which is why the mutual fund market is growing so quickly - assets grew by 40% in just the last year to $300B. Every one of these new investors has a smartphone, which is why Piggy is mobile first.<p>The app has quick online account setup, easy to use interface, built in user support (in app chat, email and call). Users can access all the fund houses in a single app. Transactions cost less than $10 a year and there are options for lowering that cost. The app charges a flat fee of 50 cents per buy transaction. We take no hidden commissions from asset management firms, unlike most services in India. Saved commissions mean higher returns for our users.<p>Ankush and I have fixed income analytics experience at an investment bank, and Kunal has worked with Amazon. When we started working, we got limited advice from our family on where to invest, mostly in traditional bank-based saving products with low returns. We also saw many of our friends fall prey to bad financial products. When we did learn about mutual funds, there was nothing out there that was easy to sign up and use, that didn’t charge a bomb or hidden commissions. We got together over many late night conversations and decided to build it ourselves.<p>We’d love to answer your questions about Piggy and love to discuss fintech in India and emerging markets!
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Title: What problems do you face when managing a rental property remotely?
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Title: So I'm currently in Shanghai and tried to ping 1.1.1.1, and surprisingly I got a response!<p>* 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=3.46 ms<p>* I get a 19ms response from my 4G mobile network<p>* I get no response from a server in Hong Kong.<p>I looked it up and apparently it's a APNIC research prefix, so I decided to do a traceroute and got this:<p>traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gateway (172.20.0.1) 0.370 ms 0.204 ms 0.443 ms
2 27.115.97.209 (27.115.97.209) 1.166 ms 1.157 ms 1.150 ms
3 112.64.249.197 (112.64.249.197) 3.351 ms 3.350 ms 3.343 ms
4 58.247.223.18 (58.247.223.18) 4.203 ms 4.204 ms 4.197 ms
5 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 5.927 ms 5.926 ms 5.919 ms<p>My question is why on earth have they routed 1.1.1.1? If I go to 1.1.1.2 it goes beyond the city and fails somewhere upstream.
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Title: I have a piece of software in the robotics / computer vision domain I'll be open sourcing soon. I want to prevent any military from legally using it (I know that if they find it useful, they'll just use it anyway - that's not the point).<p>Does anyone know of a well behaved license that has this feature?<p>EDIT: I understand that restricting usage would make this not 'free as in speech' software, however I don't really mind.<p>Further clarification: I mean use by a military organisation for any purpose. If it makes it (somehow) into accounting software used for running military procurement/payroll or medical devices used in a military hospital, I also want that to be against the license.
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Title: Whether it is a side project or a professional one, what programming language and/or framework (web, gui, &c) do you plan to use for your next project, and why?
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Title: Amazon SQS: US (East) seems to be facing problems for me. Anyone else facing the same issues?
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Title: Hey HN! This is Marco, one of the founders of Sunu (<a href="http://www.sunu.io/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sunu.io/</a>). We're building a sonar smartband that improves navigation for the visually impaired.<p>Sunu band combines an ultrasonic transceiver, an inertial motion unit plus a haptic module powered by a bluetooth Arm processor. All this hardware together driven by years of observation and product thinking, over 20 years of experience of blind travel training from our advisor Daniel Kish (aka the real life Dare Devil) and research from the Blind Mobility Research Unit at Nottingham University In England, result in a simple device that gently informs the user of obstacles on their way: proximity, surface density, edges, openings and other information provided in real time. This enables the user to take the best navigation course with ease. It basically works like a new sense: feeling your surroundings at your wrist.<p>I'm an inventor since I have memory (blame Dexter's Lab), and my best friend from childhood is deaf. I thank life to put these two on my way because early on I found my passion creating games and tools with my friend, which eventually lead me to study robotics, develop 7 assistive devices until this last one hit me to pursue something more. During a year long community service at an institution of blind children I had a life-changing experience which made me realize what I really wanted to do: create technology that serves the disabled community starting with a mobility device that helps the blind move freely.<p>I'm happy to talk and share more. Don't forget to share, someone in your community may thank you for that!
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Title: I was inspired by the recent article on how Slack (which is built with Electron) is a RAM hog, but I've always wondered how things were done differently when compared to Atom too.
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Title: In the past some of my loved ones fell into a variety of online and phone scams. Experience in development has helped me personally, but even I've been taken advantage of when my guard was down.<p>Most of my efforts helping others were too little or too late: educating after the fact, Ubuntu Linux (too incompatible), password managers (left unused), etc.<p>How does the HN community protect their loved ones from these things?
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Title: Is it a good retainer model? How much are you making from it? Does it require a lot of ongoing work?
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Title: Many HNers have side projects that make small amount of money or have a userbase. If you would like to sell your webapp/mobile app, please specify. Don't forget to add contact information<p>Note to moderators: Can we please make this a recurring question like whoishiring thread?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Has any one gone part time? How did it work out? What are you doing with the extra time? Anything you would have done differently? Anything else you want to tell us?<p>Cheers!
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Title: What are the best resources for learn advanced js/es6/react ?<p>Something similar to "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby"<p>Right now I'm a junior/mid js developer, but I want improve my skills/code/tests etc...<p>Any help is welcome.
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Title: We are a recruiting startup with a small twist. We represent engineering candidates who receive a recommendation through our personalized vetting process, which includes a technical interview with an unbiased third-party senior engineer. We match the candidates with interviewers based on their background and the roles they are looking for. We pay for the senior engineer's time to interview so that the feedback is completely unbiased.<p>These interviews are unique in that they are not set up to test if a candidate is a fit for a pre-set role, but instead they are personalized to extract each candidate's strengths and the roles in which they'd excel.<p>The senior engineers who interview for us have collectively interviewed 1000s of candidates and have built and led engineering teams at top tier startups and bigger companies (e.g., Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.).<p>Here are the two evals
Candidate1: <a href="https://goo.gl/U4jPR7" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/U4jPR7</a>
Candidate2: <a href="https://goo.gl/VXMXRF" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/VXMXRF</a><p>We'd love feedback on the two candidates and our interviewers' evaluations of them.
- Does the feedback give you a good sense of the candidate's strengths and the environments they'll do well in?
- Would this save time in your evaluation process because the candidate has already been recommended after a technical interview?
- Do you want to interview this candidate for your own team? Why or why not?<p>If interested in these candidates or other vetted candidates with full evaluations and interviewer identity, please feel free to reach out to [email protected]
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>Does it makes sense to you to start a (technical blog) when you know you're not an expert in any field ?<p>I would like to start a blog where I could put articles about things I'm learning (frameworks, programming languages, concepts...) but I'm afraid it won't be relevant for anyone as I'm don't have any real advanced knowledge in any fields in particular.<p>Just to be clear : I don't expect/want to make money of it or to become suddenly attractive for recruiters, I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
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: Hi everyone, I'm Rotem from Guggy (<a href="https://guggy.com" rel="nofollow">https://guggy.com</a>). We help you make your friends laugh by turning your text messages into personalized, funny GIFs. We're currently serving 4M GIFs daily.<p>It works like this: Whenever you want to spice up your conversation, you click on the Guggy button and get a selection of GIFs with your text in them. If you find one that you like and that you think is funny, you click it and a link gets copied to your clipboard.<p>When we started Guggy, we were trying to provide non-technical users with an easy way of creating funny GIFs, and for that we built a GIF editor, only to discover that the real problem was that people had a hard time combining the right text with the right GIF. That got us thinking that we should try to automatically create the text/image pairing, relieving users from the need to search and match. To do that, we've built an NLP engine that understands 'messaging language', that is, slang, excited writing (e.g. “soo amazinggg!”) and leetspeak, to name a few.<p>We’ve also built a fast image rendering engine that generates the final media for the user in real time. This stands out from existing solutions, which rely on existing media files (served via CDNs). We don’t store the files at all, we generate them on the fly at each request. That gives us flexibility in personalizing the content to the user.<p>We’re two co-founders who are also cousins. We have been working together on numerous projects for several years, and always wanted to build something related to humor. Of all the projects we've tried, this is the one that just sort of took off, and we've been following where the users want to take us. It's kind of a dream project because the technical challenges are interesting and we get to work in a space that amuses us.<p>Here is a real example from our users of how a regular message can become expressive and engaging using Guggy - <a href="https://img.guggy.com/media/iL1rqhoZE7/animated/2/h/guggy.gif" rel="nofollow">https://img.guggy.com/media/iL1rqhoZE7/animated/2/h/guggy.gi...</a><p>We offer our own Android/iOS GIF keyboards for natural experience, or you can just use our standalone apps. We also have bots and an API so you can use Guggy via messengers such as Facebook and Slack.<p>I've heard that this place can be a bit serious! but if you don't find it annoying, we may reply to bits of your text in the comments with Guggy URLs, just for fun and to show what the system can do.<p>We’d love to hear your thoughts on our product, and feel free to head to guggy.com and reply with Guggy GIFs :)
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Title: Share your company's performance review methods (or even link to your performance review forms), and your thoughts on them.
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Title: Edit: Thank you everyone for the incredible wealth of insightful suggestions. To anyone who wants to continue the conversation, I'd appreciate your pinging me at [email protected] with your continuing ideas, so we can stay in touch. Many challenges lie ahead for us, but your help will keep us on the right track.<p>Again, on behalf of all the folks with records trying to get on with their lives, and myself personally, thanks again for your incredible support. Richard<p>-------------------------------------<p>Hi HN,<p>My name is Richard Bronson and I'm the founder/CEO of 70MillionJobs (<a href="https://www.70millionjobs.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.70millionjobs.com</a>). Our website is the Internet's first job board for 70 million Americans—1 in 3 adults—with criminal records.<p>I'm something of a domain expert in this area because I myself have a criminal record. In the early 1990s, I worked on Wall Street and some of what I did was illegal. For a time I was a partner at the infamous Wolf of Wall Street firm, Stratton Oakmont (Scorcese film). I ended up with a 2 year Federal prison sentence. I was guilty.<p>I experienced first hand how difficult it was to get on with life after going through the "system." I served as Director at Defy Ventures, a great non-profit in the reentry space, but was interested in a scalable solution to ex-offender unemployment and resultant recidivism. I felt a new, for-profit, tech-based approach was necessary, so I launched 70MillionJobs. We're seeking "double bottom-line" returns: make money and do social good.<p>Like most job boards, our business model is based upon employers paying to advertise their jobs. We expect additional revenue to come from municipalities, who spend tens of billions of dollars annually, when someone is rearrested.<p>You might not be surprised to learn that most formerly incarcerated men and women are petrified to discuss their background with prospective employers. So we created a "safe haven" where all parties knew the score, and applicants could relax knowing that jobs being offered were with companies that accepted their pasts.<p>Since many of our applicants don't have a laptop or easy access to the Internet, we send out text alerts they can easily respond to. Because most of these folks have limited work experience and limited formal education, we plan on building a video resume platform to accompany their resumes. In person, many of these folks are respectful, bright and personable, so this will show them at their best.
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Title: As in B2B sales, where nearly all potential clients are only open Monday - Friday.
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Title: Originally just us-east-1d was not reacting well, but now most EC2 instances don't do much anymore.
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Title: I'm quite curious about how people on Hacker News find interesting content along the day. What are the topics you are interesting in? What are the websites you go to? (HN is probably in there) Do you have some mailing list you are counting on to deliver you good content? Are there some tools you like to use to store and read later?<p>On my side, I like to read HN and getting a lot of information on subreddits that are related to my favorite topics : MachineLearning, LanguageTechnology, Node, GoLang, Cooking, Baking, CheeseMaking, Beer. In my perception, the more niche the topic, the more you can find quality stuff on.<p>When I find a link of interest I bookmark it on Chrome where I have Google's Bookmark Manager plugin to make it more sexy. Personally I'm not a fan of Pocket but I know a lot of people like it.<p>So, what about you?
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Title: The situation is as follows:<p>I live in Stockholm but my current lease will run out at the end of August. Now it is entirely possible for me to get a new apartement. But a thought has lodged in my brain that I can not get rid of. I want to buy a boat, find a slip here in Stockholm and live on the boat for the foreseeable future. I'm sure I could handle the practicalities of it. On the pro side is the fact that I want to try to live on a boat (quite small sailboat in this case) and "off the grid". Sure it's a bit romanticised, but isn't your youth the time to make mistakes?<p>On the con side I'm worried my social life will suffer, I might lose friends. Can't invite people home. People don't want to date a hobo living on a boat?<p>So my questions is: How severe is the stigma around living on a boat? Does anyone have experience of living in a way that's looked down upon by the rest of society?
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Henry and Paul, cofounders of Meetingbird (<a href="https://www.meetingbird.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.meetingbird.com</a>) in the current YC batch. We're building a calendar for teams.<p>Calendars have traditionally been built for individuals, not teams. As teams grow, calendars become so busy that optimal scheduling and time management is nearly impossible without software. Meetingbird analyzes participants' availability, meeting rooms, and other constraints to quickly find the best meeting time and location. When team members' calendars are completely booked, Meetingbird understands which meetings can more easily be rescheduled than others, and inputs that to the scheduler. The scheduler improves as it better understands everyone’s calendar preferences. Our goal is a calendar that makes scheduling easy, allowing everyone to spend less time scheduling and more time getting things done.<p>For individuals, Meetingbird serves as a beautiful (we hope!) calendar that makes scheduling as easy as sending a link or picking a time from within Gmail with our Chrome extension (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meetingbird/joheckceackgilmpkgcihjfgggbnejcg" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meetingbird/joheck...</a>).<p>We first became interested in this problem because we experienced first-hand the pain of scheduling working at companies in a variety of industries, from tech to finance. The process of building Meetingbird and talking with hundreds of employees at mid-to-large-sized companies has confirmed how time-consuming and frustrating scheduling is for everyone.<p>We’d love to hear your feedback and your ideas about calendars and any frustrations of using them as teams!
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Title: Hey HN, I’m the founder of AssemblyAI (<a href="https://www.assemblyai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.assemblyai.com</a>). We're building an API for customizable speech recognition. Developers and companies use our API for things like transcribing phone calls and building voice powered smart devices. Unlike current speech recognition APIs, developers can customize our API to more accurately recognize an unlimited amount of industry specific words or phrases unique to what they're building without any training required. For example, you can recognize thousands of product or person names with our API. Or you can more accurately recognize commands/phrases common or custom to your use case.<p>We've developed our own deep neural network speech recognition architecture, and aren't using any open source speech frameworks like Kaldi or Sphinx (just Tensorflow). Because of this, we're able to run things more affordably and pass those savings on to developers.<p>I used to work on projects that had speech recognition requirements before starting AssemblyAI, and saw how limiting, expensive, and hard to work with traditional speech recognition services and APIs were. We want to help developers and companies easily build products with speech recognition.<p>Would love feedback from the HN community on what we're building, and if you have any questions about deep learning or deep learning in production ask away!
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Title: It's easy to find people talking about why they took the gamble to switch to Elixir. I'm interested in those who have tried out Elixir in production (or a serious prototype, not just dabbling) and then decided not to use it. Why not?
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Title: I'm looking to protect a piece of electronics that will be put in the Freezer and Outdoors. I've looked into Conformal Coating to protect the pcbs from Condensation. Is this a good solution?
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Title: Hi all, after a lifetime of software development I've been promoted to Director of a 30-man software development team. What do I need to learn and where do I learn it? Anyone make the jump from tech to management successfully?
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Title: This is the inevitable post after jeff_harris released restful-doom <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919534" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919534</a><p>twitch-plays-doom is a Python Twitch IRC->restful-doom proxy to control doomguy with a staggering 8 second delay.<p>The project was Saturday night's 'I wonder if I can make this work' session. Since it's been live there has been a team of four successfully make it to half way through E01M01.<p>I've since added godmode to the chat (you can guess the command).<p>This was fun, hope others get some enjoyment out of it.<p>Twitch Stream/Chat <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/dddanmar/" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/dddanmar/</a><p>twitch-plays-doom <a href="https://github.com/dddanmar/twitch-plays-doom/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dddanmar/twitch-plays-doom/</a><p>restful-doom <a href="https://github.com/jeff-1amstudios/restful-doom/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeff-1amstudios/restful-doom/</a><p>chocolate-doom <a href="https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/</a>
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