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Title: At my company (getstream.io) we've been having issues when resolving our domains randomly. After some more investigation it seems some .io nameservers are returning bad results. Specifically ns-a2.io and ns-a4.io. A correct result for crates.io looks like this:<p><pre><code> $ dig crates.io @ns-a1.io +norecurse
; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> crates.io @ns-a1.io +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18874
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3,
ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;crates.io. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
crates.io. 86400 IN NS dns3.easydns.ca.
crates.io. 86400 IN NS dns1.easydns.com.
crates.io. 86400 IN NS dns2.easydns.net.
;; Query time: 83 msec
;; SERVER: 194.0.1.1#53(194.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 20 15:33:13 CEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127
</code></pre>
A bad one looks like the following:<p><pre><code> dig crates.io @ns-a4.io +norecurse
; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> crates.io @ns-a4.io +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43223
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1,
ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;crates.io. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
io. 900 IN SOA a0.nic.io. noc.afilias-nst.info. 1497256201 10800 3600 2764800 900
;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 74.116.179.1#53(74.116.179.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 20 15:34:59 CEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105
</code></pre>
This has happened last year as well, so I wouldn't recommend running something important on a .io domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12813065
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Title: I'm interested in the opinion of React Native from companies who chose to build their mobile apps with React Native and have been doing so for at least a year. RN passes the first-week smell test really well. How has it held up for you in production? How has it held up for dev teams of ~10 or more? Pros and cons?<p>I run a mobile team of ~30 folks. In 2015 we experimented with RN for 3 months before deciding that it was not a good fit for us. I'm interested in stories from the alternate reality where we took the react-native path instead.<p>I'm NOT particularly interested in stories about single devs making prototypes for a weekend. React Native has a delightful experience for this use-case, but it does not directly transfer to being a good experience for a larger team with serious product goals.<p>Thanks
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Title: I'm getting swamped DNS resolution errors for anything .IO.<p>ns-a1.io timesout on every request
so do all the others
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Title: Hi HN! ScriptEd (www.scripted.org) is looking for volunteers to teach twice a week from September until June, to students attending under-resourced high schools. This is a great way to give back, volunteer in your community, and network with like-minded individuals. Volunteers teach as part of a four-person team, with support from ScriptEd staff. Apply at bit.ly/ScriptEdVolunteerNYC or bit.ly/ScriptEdSFBAYvolunteer for San Fransisco and Oakland.
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Title: I founded an vertical-focused enterprise startup. We signed a few huge customers in the space on a build-and-beta basis, and that led to industry awards and a full pipeline of leads and signed contracts for installation (SaaS pricing with small implementation fee).<p>We've done it with a ridiculously small team, however. And it's become impossible to handle the dev and deployment, support and training, security reviews, feature requests, etc. So we are looking at options.<p>We've been approached by a few large companies in the industry regarding acquisition. It looks like we could sell for $12-14M. Kind of exciting, but also well under the value that's possible (which would probably be something north of $400M in our industry alone, with the possibility to move laterally).<p>The alternative is to raise money. We've put together a solid deck and model (I think), but the local venture capital scene is not great (think $1M+ ARR).<p>We think this is a product ripe for SV firms, but those critical "warm introductions" are elusive. We just don't have the network. Only 4% of my cold emails have even been opened (yes, we track it).<p>It's crazy to me that our industry is jumping up and down for our product, we've got offers to buy the company, but we can't raise a seed. I've failed hard here. I'm open for advice.
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Title: As programmers, you may have spent plenty of time on learning different skills or technologies. To practice them, you may have created some weekend projects which would not take your too long while implementing something you find interesting. So what's yours? What technology have you used?
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Title: I'm 17 and I can code at a relatively high level. I'm not really sure what I should be doing. I would like to make some money, but is it more useful to me to contribute to open-source software to add to my portfolio or to find people who will hire me? Even most internships require you to be enrolled as a CS major at a college. I've also tried things like Upwork, but generally people aren't willing to hire a 17-year-old and the pay is very bad. Thanks for any advice!<p>My GitHub is: https://github.com/meyer9
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Title: I was wondering what coffee table books people could recommend that would be relevant to the HN community? Aside from the obvious "Designed by Apple"
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Title: So I've been mostly doing back end stuff for a few years. My ability to fix float issues in IE6 just isn't relevant any more. What's the best way to get an understanding of modern CSS and web design? Preferably simple approaches that don't involve horrible, huge, redundant class names or bloated, overbearing frameworks.<p>This is for a couple of personal projects. I may ultimately end up hiring designers but I want to know what I'm taking about and I'd want to be able to maintain their output.
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Title: The producers of a serious informative show on Dutch national television are looking for scifi authors to interview on the subject of immortality. Which authors do you think they should pick, and why?
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Title: I am David of Peergrade (<a href="https://www.peergrade.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.peergrade.io</a>). Peergrade is a tool for educators to run peer feedback and peer assessment sessions with their students. Peer feedback is a way to train skills like critical thinking, constructing arguments and how to give and receive feedback - all skills that we believe will be even more important in the job market of the future.<p>I teach a university course in data science at The Technical University of Denmark. Two years ago my course suddenly grew from 20 to 150 students (I changed the title to include "big data"). To overcome the sudden explosion in students, I started working on Peergrade. The idea was that I could save some time on grading papers, the students could write better feedback than me since they had more time per paper, they would learn from reading and assessing each others work and I could reallocate the time I saved to more impactful things like mentoring students.<p>One of the things we heard from teachers that had tried peer feedback before was that it was challenging to motivate students to write helpful feedback. One of the ways we try to solve this is by letting students assess the feedback they receive, consequently giving a clear incentive for writing helpful feedback. To combat gaming and unfair assessments, students give feedback anonymously and they can flag feedback which they disagree with for moderation by the teacher. Since students are able to flag and counter-argue the feedback they receive, they also spend more time reading and thinking about the feedback.<p>Today Peergrade is used in institutions around the world, all the way from 4th grade to higher education, across all subjects and with class sizes from just 5 students to thousands of students.<p>We look forward to answering any questions you might have about our product, tech-stack or vision for the future :).
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Title: https://www.medifee.com/treatment/dental-xray-cost/<p>http://health.costhelper.com/dental-x-ray.html<p>Why would a full mouth xray cost be this different, there may be some difference in few aspects but what adds up to more than 1000% difference?
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Title: I have a 1TB DB that will grow over time and have been looking for a host that is relatively cheap. Everything I see is hosting with SSD so getting 1TB and larger is somewhat expensive. Are there any (cheap) HDD hosts out there?
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Title: I'm not interested in building an other B2B Invoicing SaaS app. Instead I'm trying to look for pressing problems, where I as an engineer could potentially contribute to. What do you feel is an important problem that, when solved (or at least worked on) could make a big difference in the world.
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Title: I woke up this morning and discovered Internet Services in Cameroon have somehow been limited. I am suspected the regime of Paul Biya have tampered with the internet service and Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, VPNs, Vcontact aren't working. I am sure many other social media have been cut off as well.
I am sure you guys are aware of the ongoing crisis that have rocked the "English speaking regions" ( Former Southern Cameroons) of Cameroons since November 2016. There have been plans to celebrate the symbolic independence of this region " The Former British Southern Cameroons" on the 1st of October 2017. That is on Sunday and the region have been heavily militarized by the Biya regime, Homes of people invaded, beaten , some killed, many kidnapped and with this shutdown to major social media to which it is where most of these crimes are exposed, many have been fearing a total Genocide that can be perpetrated on the people of that region. There were rumors that, the internet will be shutdown come 30th September. The Minister of Communications made a public communique two days ago to say, the internet won't be shutdown but I guess it was just a ploy as through some websites are working, major social medias ( Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter) have been cut off. Please, make the world know what is happening in this region. This is a sly move to blackout to the world what atrocities the Biya's regime is/will be perpetrating in these regions. Thank you.
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Title: We have created a computer vision and smartphone based audience polling solution that promises all the benefits of clicker devices at minimal cost and that too without the students requiring any electronic devices.<p>Use of continuous feedback systems like clicker devices is proven to improve learning outcomes in classrooms and such devices are widely used in Universities. BUT such devices are costly and hence cannot be used in mid-low income setups. Also, carrying devices in bulk is a problem.<p>In our solution, we replace the clicker devices with normal sheets of paper with QR Code like patterns printed on them(We call the sheet — piCard). The four orientations of the sheet translate to options A, B, C and D. Each student gets one such sheet. The teacher asks a question and students rotate and lift up their sheets and show it to the teacher who has our scanning app running in his/her smartphone. The app scans all the sheets at once. Yes, you heard it right — at once! Whatever is visible in the single camera frame, gets scanned at once. The teacher gets to see the responses instantly with counts of correct and incorrect responses. These responses are synced to our analytics platform where we perform question, class, quiz, subject and student level analysis to track each individual student’s performance over time and clearly find out their strong and weak areas.<p>Here is a blog post related to it - <a href="https://medium.com/22bate7/picards-hello-world-3a2da6f7b885" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/22bate7/picards-hello-world-3a2da6f7b885</a>
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Title: I actually want to understand the chip manufacturing process - design, prototyping (using FPGAs, etc), baking process in foundries. And also at least a basic understanding of how IP is managed in chip industry - like "IP core" is a term that I frequently hear but due to the myriad interpretations available online, I don't really understand what an "IP core" really means. Hoping to get useful advice from veterans in the chip industry.
Upvote: | 267 |
Title: Like every startup our customer dwfinition is pretty flexable at this point, so any recommendation on lean and efficient CRM proccess is appriciated
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Title: edit: Judging from the lack of definitively positive about Startup Alley, maybe TechCrunch needs to make it more valuable somehow to participants?
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Title: And how does that impact your productivity?
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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. One post per company please.<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:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
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Title: Hey HN! I’m Mark, one of the founders of Forever Labs (<a href="https://foreverlabs.com" rel="nofollow">https://foreverlabs.com</a>). We bank your stem cells to help you live healthier longer.<p>I’ve spent the last 15 years developing therapies using bone mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of neurological injury and disease. Over these years, preclinical research of mine and others has translated to over 500 clinical trials currently employing these cells for treatment of stroke, heart disease, dementia, and more.<p>This is especially good news when it comes to diseases such as ischemic stroke, where we haven’t had a new approved therapeutic in over 20 years. It is no exaggeration to say that stem cell therapy is creating opportunities for treatment where few existed.<p>However, there is a problem. To put it simply: 1) Your own stem cells treat you best, 2) your stem cells decline with age, and 3) you need your stem cells most for diseases that affect you when you are old.<p>Our solution is to cryopreserve your stem cells now, creating a reservoir of youthful stem cells that you draw upon throughout your life.<p>In addition, we are developing applications for these cells that not only treat age-related disease, but actually delay their onset.<p>Of course, few matters in biology and medicine can be “simply put”, and we’d be happy to discuss details below!
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Title: Someone I know has been working at a startup for a almost a year. 2 months after their (2 weeks) vacation they decide to quit for another (closer) job.<p>This is what the CEO wrote to that employee:<p>"I would like that employees don’t take two weeks of paid vacation then give notice the next week, feels like stealing from the company but that’s life. I really wish you hadn’t, it leaves us with a terrible experience from someone we I enjoyed working with. Especially when that money really matter to us."<p>That employee had glowing reviews from his colleagues during their time at that startup. The CEO even tried to cajole them into staying. Also, that employee still has not received last months pay ...<p>Are all startups like this?
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Title: Moved across the country for a startup and had to put my desktop in the office (the only machine I own) since they don't give you a computer. I feel like I'm missing out since the other devs take their shiny MacBook pros and sit around a table and work (and chat) while I'm tucked away in an obscure corner. Also, driving to the office everytime time something breaks on a holiday could be a major inconvenience. Still gonna keep my desktop in the office so looking for a cheap laptop. I work on python Django so as long as it can run PyCharm and slack and a few chrome tabs, I should be fine (no need to run VMs or anything fancy). I live in India so my options are somewhat limited since many models are either unavailable or simply more expensive than in the US. These are the models I narrowed down on to:<p>1. Refurbished Lenovo T420. 2nd gen i5, 16 gigs of RAM. Really cheap for 250$. Just concerned since the cpu is old<p>2. [A cheap 6th gen core i3 laptop](https://www.amazon.in/dp/B074DYBT2K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_W290zbRF005PZ). Brand new. 450$. At least the battery would last a couple of hours and since it's new it might not break down for another 2 years.<p>3. A MacBook air. 1000USD. Pretty expensive for me. But willing to Shell out the money if it is absolutely worth it. Concerned about learning the weird shortcuts (and force forgetting them when working on my desktop). It's 'nix but it's really not Linux. I've heard that getting some libraries to work on Mac is a pain - if at all possible. Still worth it? Battery life would be liberating but not sure if it is relevant for me<p>Thanks in advance.<p>PS: My desktop has an SSD so I am planning to take it out and put it on the laptop I end up buying.
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Title: Is Vagrant a dead or dated tech now? Do the dev teams still use it?
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Title: What resources are available to get into these two and related topics?<p>Would be also better if there are papers/books that introduces to these concepts (and toy implementation)?
Upvote: | 526 |
Title: When hiring someone as a junior developer, what do you look for if they don't have a college degree?
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Title: I love the design on the new pixelbook - https://store.google.com/us/product/google_pixelbook but I have a hard time believing that its of any use for a developer or even a remote power user. Does anyone have any experience using it as their primary machine and for what purposes ?
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Title: A demonstrator of what is possible with Common Lisp and what kind of new interface a rethink of browsers could provide.<p><a href="https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT</a><p>Very Alpha. Missing history, bookmarks, sessions etc.<p>nEXT is not intended to replace your current browser. It is just like adding another tool in your toolbox, you use nEXT when you want to get actual work done.
Upvote: | 132 |
Title: Seems like it was common practice a couple of decades ago. Does anyone try to retain developer talent these days?
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Title: In your opinion, which papers and books are mandatory to really understand NoSQL subject?
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Title: I don't think 'i robots' are hard scifi. Today i sixth times read The greatest 'True names'(1981) by Vernor Vinge, it is an incredible AI cyberpunk hard scifi novel，aslo a great literature.<p>Update: Thanks for all the great recommends，it is greatest time to find ideas in these books today. Please aslo add the book publish year，i think it will be helpful to see the writer's wonderful superior consciousness.
Upvote: | 170 |
Title: It seems silly to write the same types of code over and over to build CRUD web user interfaces. There have of course been hundreds of UI builders. Why aren't they used? Styling should just use plain CSS. Behavior should be mostly auto generated config from a standardized format such as json schema or a db schema. Behavior customizability should come from tweaking the auto generated json config, and adding some HTML and JavaScript to higher order components. The build targets should use plugins, starting with angular and react. Components should use a shared plugin infrastructure. Designers should be able to prototype in an invision like tool with real CSS and HTML that can be checked into source control. Why isn't this the way things are done?
Upvote: | 201 |
Title: I'm curious as to how much it helps, in particular for a software engineer. A bit about me. I'm 35, male, unemployed and unmarried (so I don't have much financial backing) and don't live in a tech hub. I went to a fairly standard state school for a non-STEM degree to get into web development.<p>Now I know web development can have the potential to provide a stable, well-paying career. I have not seen this much in my experience. I've only been contracted by very small companies for putting out fires, or for projects that they don't want their "core" employees to work on. These places underpay a lot to contractors, and do not make any permanent job offers to me. My professional network is also weak. Nobody I know is looking to hire software developers. I think my reputation works against applying to large companies.<p>As for my goals, it is to work in high-performance computing, in particular with aerospace. My example: adaptive resolution grids for fluid simulations. My reality: CRUD apps and CMS websites for small-med business clients.<p>Obviously good experience and talent can overcome that, but that's a lot easier said than done. I did not receive a lot of good experience, and see myself as a mediocre developer. So what are your thoughts about returning to college and doing it "the proper way"?<p>The plan is getting a CS degree at a better school, get one or more internships from reputable tech companies, build connections with people from those companies, and receive full-time job offers. There are a few stated theories made about the hiring pipelines of many of these companies, giving new grads an ironic strength.
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Title: Why doesn't Microsoft just build a custom version of Android? They get instant access to the vast android apps and they can integrate it deeper with the Windows ecosystem and also innovate in their own "fork" of android.<p>They could eventually surpass other versions of Android and become the goto android implementation.<p>I never understood why they didn't go that route - after all Android is open source. What am I missing?
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Title: If you have, say, a several GB file (too large for something like email or standard Dropbox, but not big enough to warrant at specialized solution) and need to send it to an individual or a small group of people, without being able to physically hand them a thumb drive, how would you personally go about doing so?<p>This seems like it would be a solved problem for the day and age, but I've yet to really find a good solution.
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Title: E.g. Paperwork not to forget, items to document, things to expect when dealing with insurance, etc. I'm looking to avoid stupid mistakes from things I just didn't think of.<p>I'll forward the discussion along to the thousands of others in a Facebook group facing the same situation.
Upvote: | 498 |
Title: Analytics, or language, or anything Watson
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Title: How was the new role challenging? What skill-sets from earlier were important in the transition?
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Title: I have a high bar for expressing absolute confidence for something (ie knowledge in a field or proficiency in a language) and am continuously surprised by people who claim mastery of something/that they are a natural at something, but in reality are quite mediocre, or above average at best. Furthermore, the same individuals tend to put down others who are more humble/less confident in their skills, directly or subtly.<p>It infuriates me when these individuals subtly bring down others, but I am unsure how to approach it - directly, indirectly, or just ignore it and focus on my own work and goals.<p>I also anticipate that I’ll be told the only way is for me to be more vocally confident in myself, but that is not my natures and I have little appetite in continuing the status quo.
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Title: We are a mobile development agency based in India I understand there are plenty of us on various platforms.<p>How do we work on changing customer's perspective?
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Title: UK Expat here living in Munich.
Anecdotal, but many companies here (startups and corps) are getting more and more CVs from EU staff of Tech startups in London. Not sure if it's the same in Berlin or other EU hubs. Also wondering if UK citizens would move over to gain extra rights of EU movement when here during the transition.
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Title: A particularly negative review of a London startup[0] by a former employee has been doing the rounds on social media recently. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely positive reviews by current employees have suddenly cropped up for that company as well. So positive they feel a bit like HR plants. But then again, the original feels like a gleeful hatchet-job and is maybe a bit extreme going the other way.<p>Is Glassdoor reliable, and if not, are there any reliable alternatives?<p>[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-ROLI-RVW17219691.htm
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Title: Recently, I've seen a massive increase in interview questions that seem to mirror leetcode.com and similar websites.<p>A lot of my colleagues, mostly senior, feel these types of interview questions are wasteful because anyone who spends a week reading over leetcode.com can memorize most of the questions/answers.<p>What's your perspective? Are you a big DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Interviewer or are you more of "Ask various questions to see how naturally intelligent are they?"
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Title: When I look at job posts, I really care about what technology is being used, what would my role be on the team and project, and more.<p>What things do you look for in a technical job post?
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Title: I see a lot of software that's priced at about $1000. Stuff like photoshop (formerly at least), hex-rays[1], ICC[2]. Who is the target audience for these products? Individuals/enthusiasts will be hard-pressed to come up with the money, while large companies will be able to afford it and could even buy 10 or 20 without a second thought. So who is expected to buy it?<p>1: https://www.hex-rays.com/<p>2: https://softwarestore.intel.com/SuiteSelection/ParallelStudio
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Title: I look around and I feel like all the startups are either bullshit or making the world worse off. I've been a software engineer and data scientist. I've worked with machine learning. What should I do next?<p>I'm sick of working with advertising-based businesses because I believe advertising is convincing people to buy useless shit. I don't want to work in health, because the government and insurance have fucked up the healthcare system, and I don't want to be part of it. I kinda like fin-tech, but it seems at the end of the day about make rich people richer and/or getting poor people to pollute more. I've thought about heading more towards pure research, but I want to know I'm doing something for a good purpose.<p>I'm also totally sick of the ideological crap at lots of startups. I don't want to have to drink the kool-aid. Neither do I want to work for some large corporate machine.<p>I want there to be real values behind what I'm working on that I can believe in. Despite claims to contrary, I find the entire business culture rotten to the core. What should I do?
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Title: Side projects seem to remain side projects as long as they don’t make a lot of money. But I think just asking about side project is not really useful if you really want to know what’s the chance that a side project could find something bigger.<p>I’m curious to know who here has had a side project transitioned to a full-time business, and at what revenue numbers, if you’re willing to share, the transition occurred.
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Title: Post them here!
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Title: I run a UI design studio that works with tech startups, but occasionally helps OSS projects out. We currentlu have a spot open to help out an open source project with their UI design for the coming month. Feel free to post your project or contact us directly.<p>Check out http://fairpixels.pro for work and contact details. (or my bio for an email address)
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Title: One day it was popular and then it started going through redesigns and relaunches. For a while, I used it to see what was trending, but then they hid that info from the home page and then brought it back until finally the site appeared to be a broken ghost town.<p>I'm just trying to construct a narrative to satisfy my curiosity. What exactly happened? Was it death by a thousand cuts (if so, where did it get cut?) or was there one fatal mistake (like Digg).<p>Discuss. (And feel free to share any links to stories/articles on Delicious' demise.)<p>EDIT: Typo. I meant "Digg", not "Reddit."
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Title: Hey. I wan't to ask you guys what is your solution for gathering info about reflows/repainting, layout trashing and overall performance on the client side of application. Do you use any tool to gather and store analysis data, classical Chrome dev tools investigation or maybe some metrics implementation inside your code?
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Title: I was watching the network logs as I logged into my credit union and saw that they attempt to request favicons from lots of third parties including dropbox, accounts.google.com, stackoverflow.com, squareup.com, instagram.com, skype.com, tumblr.com, expedia.de, pinterest.com, de.foursquare.com, eu.battle.net, store.steampowered.com, reddit.com.<p>The favicons are usually loaded from the login page of the service, so I'm guessing they are doing that old trick to see if the browser is logged into those services by requesting the favicon.<p>I emailed them about this and after two months all they said is that it's part of their security software checks and not from anything suspicious.<p>Do they do this to create a 'social media fingerprint' of me as an additional check? Even though a few of the services are the German versions (credit union is in the US) and a few have fixed this so that it doesn't work anymore. It just seems strange and excessive.
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Title: I've been writing software for startups for the last three years. I'm self taught and started right after high school. I've worked for my current employer for about 18 months and our team and technology were recently acquired. As I've begun to assimilate into the new company, I'm realizing how burnt out I am and how little satisfaction I get from writing software for enterprise companies. My question is, what's next? I've looked at other tech jobs and few of them spark my interests.<p>I realize this is a very open ended question. Any advice is thoroughly appreciated.
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Title: Or at least, attempts to make simple content based websites work more and more like apps?<p>Because it seems every site that's gotten a 'redesign' in the last year or so seems to have become some clunky, awkward to use 'app' like thing with dynamic content loading where simple text would do just fine.<p>Reddit's annoying enough like this (thank you mobile 'loading' screen for every page), but then you've got stuff like Wikia where it seems every single page is loaded via AJAX. Then breaks horribly because it gives me 404 errors 9 times out of 10.<p>Do these companies not realise how awkward these new designs are to use? Or that if you're not making a social media site, your site doesn't need to load like one?
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Title: An old friend of mine died of cancer on Sunday, alone in a Thai government hospital, with no family or friends around him, in a language he didn't really understand, it sad ending, it was not a dignified way to go.<p>His only contact with the others in world in recent months has been WhatsApp which I setup when I visited him earlier in the year. He had expected to live several months but things took a turn for the worse and rapidly deteriorated over a few days. WhatsApp the buggers put an arbitrary time limit on the app between updates so he was locked out - confused and desperate (coupled with the morphine), I guess he had enough mentally.<p>I presume his phone was never updating due to storage being near limit - tbf his phone was a mess and he was a technophobe, and since he never saved contacts just sent off the number I guess there was no record of his contacts in his main phone. I have in phone in my possession now, but my new number was not there for example, he had tried to call my old number via non Internet on the 8th. I've managed to sort out the hospital, the death certificates, family wishes, and temple send off, but I'm sure he would not of wanted to leave things in this way.<p>App devs - We're not all in 1st world countries surrounded by friends and family, with techies to troubleshoot. Please don't brick your communication apps on a time limit, maybe disable emoji or video calls or some non core functionality, but lets not go nuts and block the whole app for the sake of adding telemetry, ads, or more politically correct emojis. This wasn't a protocol change or anything else afaik which makes me quite angry. <i>end of rant</i>
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Title: Could be a piece of tech, car, clothing, book, pair of indestructible boots—I’m curious what is is/was and why.
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Title: Our company Vertex.AI has been working on this for a while but this is the first public release. We're starting with using PlaidML to bring OpenCL support to Keras and more frameworks, platforms, etc are coming. Yes, this means you can use use your AMD GPU for deep learning dev. Sorry, no Mac or Windows support yet although the brave can try building from source (it should work).<p><a href="http://vertex.ai/blog/announcing-plaidml" rel="nofollow">http://vertex.ai/blog/announcing-plaidml</a><p><a href="https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml</a>
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Title: I have total 7 years of dev+DS experience and have ambitions to break into 100k+ salary range in coming year. Should I must move into management role for this?
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Title: How do you plan/document your project?<p>Every time I start one, it is a combination of code, research, prototyping, sparse documentation. In other words it is very disorganized. At some point I have a bunch of different files, apps, documents, not entirely related that I have to stitch together to make sense of anything.<p>Does any one have a solid process for planning a project?
Upvote: | 60 |
Title: While there is plenty of cheap alternatives for your VPS or Cloud server, I'm curious for those who are using shared hosting, if at all, what are you using it for?
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Title: I'm a European developer and I've been subcontracting through Gigster and similar for the last year making around $7.5k/month ($50/h) working with US based companies, 100% remote.<p>Recently I've decided to team up with a good friend and work directly with clients. I do client-side development (React, es6 etc.) and UX design, while my colleague does Ruby on Rails, DevOps and system administration. We are high-skilled, self-managing, and have worked together on several complex projects.<p>We work remotely and are based in a small Central European country, but we're happy to visit US based clients when required. We are looking to charge $80+/per person/per hour.<p>The biggest hurdle is finding the first $80+/h client, as we never took the time to grow our professional networks (subcontracting will do that to you).<p>I've read patio11's essays and those of many other similar authors, but most of the advice is based on local consulting.<p>Are there any HN-ers who are working 100% remotely outside the US, and have been able to earn $13+k/month consistently? What's your story?
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Title: Hey HN!
I am Akash, co-founder of Cashfree(<a href="https://www.cashfree.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.cashfree.com</a>).<p>Cashfree is India's first payments platform that automates inbound and outbound bank transfers. This replaces the slow, error prone alternative of uploading Excel files for bulk payments or manually reconciling payments received via bank transfers. Using Cashfree, payouts that took more than a day to process, happen instantly and independent of banking hours.<p>We help businesses like fintech platforms and marketplaces to easily setup custom payment flows to receive and disburse money.<p>Cashfree is being used for automated payouts and collections for use cases like -<p>* Supply chain collections by distributors<p>* Crowdfunding campaigns<p>* Marketplace vendor settlements<p>* Instant deposits and withdrawals at bitcoin exchanges<p>* Payroll for on-demand economy workers<p>* Loan disbursal and repayment by lenders<p>* Invoice payments at Modern ERP and Accounting tools<p>* Instant refunds (versus 5-7 days presently)<p>We started Cashfree to help e-commerce customers pay for their COD orders on delivery, through their mobile. While running Cashfree, we faced challenges around settling payouts to our partner merchants. Our partner merchants too shared similar problems and it made us dive deeper. We found no other payments company solving this common problem and decided to build a solution.<p>We support RESTful APIs that can be integrated easily with tech stack of a business (a) to carry out payouts and (b) automatically reconcile inbound bank transfers. Our solutions are built on top of banking infrastructure and are compliant with the regulations.<p>Would love to answer your questions about Cashfree and look forward to discuss anything on payments and bank transfers.
Upvote: | 91 |
Title: I've seen many discussions around this topic lately, but I'm particularly curious to understand why most people think that software/code quality is something secondary and could be addressed late in the process, for instance with peer review.<p>Why isn't the idea that software quality starts way before you write any line of code the predominant mindset amongst engineers / the industry?<p>I have the feeling that most companies don't hold discussions about what software quality means and how it should be measured.<p>To which extent do you agree or disagree with this feeling?
Upvote: | 80 |
Title: To accompany the current discussion about SV's housing frustrations- have you relocated to another city that has a substantial amount of tech jobs?<p>Preferably stories besides Seattle, Austin, or New York would be interesting- wondering if any Bay Area hackers have actually moved to Raleigh RTP, or any other secondary / tertiary tech hubs that don't get as much coverage.
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: I'm looking for discussion forum websites (e.g. stack overflow) that has a built in drawing tool in its text editor.<p>Are there any out there?<p>And are there any tools/plugins to do this on your own website?
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: I recently bought a very large desk and a comfortable work chair where I had previously been using a small cluttered desk and a very uncomfortable chair. I think the increase in available space and comfort will make me more productive but I wanted to get other people's take.
Upvote: | 78 |
Title: Has anyone received an invite/rejection email for the W2018 batch?
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Title: 1 minute screencast: <a href="https://youtu.be/AmDL2QtkoJ4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/AmDL2QtkoJ4</a><p>If you'd like play with it, please send a note with your name and email to [email protected] and I will send you an invite (via TestFlight).<p>If you're the kind of person who listens to albums cover to cover, or would like to manually arrange your records instead of going through a boring alphabetized list, or are just really annoyed with the iOS Music app (like I am), you should check this out!
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: Hi HN, Gaurab here, co-founder and CEO at Solugen (YC W17): <a href="http://www.solugentech.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.solugentech.com</a>.<p>We convert plant sugars into hydrogen peroxide. Our overall goal is to replace petroleum-based chemicals with purer, plant-derived substitutes. We’re going after peroxides first because the process to make them is petroleum-dependent and quite atrocious.<p>Peroxides are everywhere: they’re used to disinfect and clean many of the surfaces you encounter everyday; they’re used to make the plastics in the chairs you’re sitting in; they’re used to etch the a7 chip on your iphones, they’re even used to clean the food and water that you consumed today. But the dirty secret is that it’s extremely expensive to make peroxide, costing up to $100M to make a small facility, with an end product that’s contaminated with a high level of dangerous impurities. Worse, because of the petroleum based chemistry used to make peroxide, one facility explodes per year!<p>So we made something better. I was finishing my MD/PhD and discovered an enzyme in pancreatic cancer that could efficiently produce hydrogen peroxide from sugars. At the same time my co-founder Sean was was at MIT finishing up his chemE PhD on the production of hydrogen peroxide on nanoparticles. We came together and used crispr/cas9 technology to scale up our process and figured out how to convert plant sugars into hydrogen peroxide for a safer and cheaper process that doesn’t explode. You may be asking “what happens to all the carbons in the carbohydrate backbone?!”, well we actually use the carbohydrate itself has a catalyst, regenerating through a hydrogenation process. So the only inputs in the system are H2 + O2 and the only output is H2O2.<p>We’ve made the world’s first peroxide made from plants, calling our product BIO-Peroxide, and released a Bioperoxide wipes line called Ode to Clean: <a href="http://www.odetoclean.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.odetoclean.com</a>.<p>Our tech enables:<p>1.) CRISPR/Cas9 means enzymes can be readily optimized and mass-manufactured very inexpensively. We can continuously engineer and release new enzyme catalysts like software. This means biotech can now compete against traditional chemical processing.<p>2.) Direct consequence of 1. is that chemical synthesis via enzymes will be cheaper and more efficient than traditional fermentation processes<p>3.) Traditional petrochemical process design is not suited for enzymatic reactions, and neither is fermentation. We need new reactor systems that are bespoke for each enzyme. Enzyme-reactor fit.<p>4.) Because enzymes are so efficient and our new reactors maximize enzyme efficiency even further, the entire chemical industry can be made smaller through micromanufacturing. Economies of scale no longer need to be so excessive.<p>This leads into Solugen's MASTER PLAN!! (muahahha)
Phase 1, we developed our own enzyme and our own custom reactor for it. We can now make plant-based products such as hydrogen peroxide that can compete against petroleum processing, even on a small scale (see <a href="https://www.odetoclean.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.odetoclean.com</a>). Phase 2, we will partner with other biotech companies to bring our reactor technologies onsite. Here we do paid pilots, design and sell a process package, offer technical support during installation, and we sell our engineered enzymes to the customers. Phase 3, we move into other chemical verticals, Phase 4, become a general chemical company that we want to model after 3M where there are both significant b2b and b2c revenue streams.<p>Really looking forward to a discussing with the community and getting feedback! This market is exploding! (bc peroxide plants blow up)
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Title: I'm doing a lot of teaching and I've been using PowerPoint. I recently saw some people use Prezi and liked what they were able to do to map concepts visually to make them easier to understand. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the features that made Prezi powerful have been neutered in Prezi Next and isn't able to do a lot of what I'm looking for (no path editing, no infinite canvas, etc). What alternatives are there?<p>Some requirements for me:<p>* WYSIWIG editor
* Tutorials
* Infinite canvas/Path editing
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Title: So this weekend I am learning some LISP. I thought best way would be to get some basic introduction (which I already did), and then build a project. So for practice project I have decided to make a URL shortner web service. I am setting up SBCL as that seems to be the most popular. I have few questions though:<p>- What are my package manager options? I can see quicklisp and qi. The quicklisp seems to install everything in a global folder. I am looking something closer to npm or bundler that stays local to my project. Qi seems like it. But I am still confused, what are my options here?<p>- What web frameworks are recommended. I don't need a full fledged framework, I need something micro, that just get's the job done. What are my options here and what's most recommended?<p>- For storage database I want to use something embedded and fast. SQLite is one option, what are my other options? Are there any "pure lisp" implementations of Key/Value stores?<p>- For hosting I know I can get it running on a VPS. Are there any other options I am not aware of out there?<p>I am total n00b so some questions might sound stupid to full time lispers, so bear with me :)
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Title: Do you use just paper, Email drafts or any special apps? And how do you remember where you have noted down some specific thought or idea?<p>I've tried several apps like Evernote, Trello, Asana or voice Memo apps ... Also I am maintaining like 2-3 ToDo lists on paper troughout my home. But in the end I often loose tasks, or interesting ideas come up again like 2 months later and I cant remember where I already wrote about it.<p>What Tools do you use?
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Title: Very soon ageism will catch up with me and I'll be unemployed. ( I'm in my forties). I'm smart enough to do most business related software development but mediocre enough that I won't be hired by the likes of Google.
As they say, most technical work or any work that requires deep focused thinking is generally a race to the bottom. I see great potential if programmers/technical/above average minded people are willing to put aside their overly individualist and reclusive tendencies, and start realistically co-operating. I'll like to get in touch with fellow technical minded individuals who have realized this, and who want to hash out ideas for any mutual co-operation. I have nothing concrete in mind yet, but I can be reasonably sure that I'm not looking for software related ideas. I am 100% sure that if I do not take any steps now I'm going to be a unemployed bum in a few years. ( besides being unemployed you will also be see as useless - if you are male. Make no mistake, society is harsh on men who are not racking in money.)<p>A starting point could be some online forum where ideas/views can be exchanged. It must me emphasized that this post is not a solicitation for money. Money might be involved but only at a significantly later stage. Email: dennis_jeeves-1((at))yahoo.com<p>-------------------------------------------------------------<p>p.s - I have had a few emails to my previous similar posts. In addition to emailing me I suggest that you also respond to my post here. It lets readers know that there are people in similar situations and that their problems (of ageism/jobs) are not unique.
Upvote: | 141 |
Title: Here is an API we created to check availability of a TV show or Movie across multiple services<p><a href="https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly" rel="nofollow">https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly</a><p>On Demand Services:<p>- uk<p><pre><code> Netflix
Amazon Prime
Amazon Instant
iTunes
Now TV
TalkTalk TV Store
Google Play
BBC iPlayer
All 4
My 5
Rakuten TV
ITV Hub
- us
Netflix
Amazon Prime
Amazon Instant
iTunes
</code></pre>
Live TV:<p>- uk<p><pre><code> All channels - BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV 1, Channel 4, Sky 1...
</code></pre>
More countries/services are being added. Let us know which ones you want !
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Title: One of the most obvious things is to better utilize your Reserved Instances, but what are some things that are not so obvious? Do you use any tools? Thanks!
Upvote: | 100 |
Title: I have spent the past year looking for good ideas for a startup and have little to show for it.<p>--------------------<p>-Things that we have:-<p>1) A great early team, made up of myself (just a normal bizdev guy) + 1 talented former private equity partner (who made a fortune on Wall Street) + 1 talented CMU CompSci PhD. The three of us have been friends for years and work together really well.<p>2) Investors that are willing to write blank checks (within reason) because of the trust in the team (mainly former colleagues of the PE guy).<p>3) Cash in the bank to continue experimenting<p>4) An interest in SaaS and ML (and some experience in the latter)<p>-Things that we don't have:-<p>1) Ideas of what to do<p>--------------------<p>We have read EVERYTHING on how to come up with startups ideas (ranging from Paul Graham essays to The Mom Test). We have ran interviews with friends in corporate and startups, asked old colleagues, attented conferences, organised meetups in our city, a ton of time spent networking, etc.<p>The few product ideas we came up with following the above process we dropped, often because we discovered that that space is ultra crowded or commooditized.<p>We will not give up but are getting unsure on how to break the stalemate.<p>Any tips or advice?<p>Thanks!
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Title: A friend of mine is doing PhD and in-need of some latest and innovative encryption methods for the thesis. Could anyone please recommend something?
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Title: Google has been offering an API for airfare data at https://developers.google.com/qpx-express.<p>I just received this email:<p>"Dear QPX Express API Customer,
After careful consideration, we've decided to shut down the QPX Express API as of April 10, 2018.<p>How this affects you<p>After April 10th, you will not be able to access the API and will no longer be charged for this service. Until then, you will be charged a reduced rate of $0.02 per query for any queries beyond the 50 free daily quota.<p>Next steps<p>You don't need to take any action. However, if you are actively using this product you may want to find an alternate solution before April 10, 2018. If you have any questions about these changes, please don't hesitate to contact us at any time.
Sincerely,<p>The QPX Express API team"<p>More info on the shutdown: https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/faq#EndOfServiceFAQs
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Title: As a backend deveveloper, I often have many webapp ideas, but I can't do design/UX to save my life, so I never finish things because I get discouraged of how bad it looks in the beginning.<p>Does this happen to anyone else? This is so frustrating and discouraging. I often get unmotivated to finish things because of this issue. How do you guys deal with it?<p>I'm talking strictly about side/weekend projects.
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm curious what services do you/your companies use for human translations of your app/website/videos, etc? Machine translations from Google Translate are only so-so at best. Do y'all use a third party service for the translations. If so, which one(s)?<p>Considering poking around Fiver and maybe Upwork, but was wondering if there's any startups/companies that offer human translations as a service?<p>Thanks!
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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. One post per company please.<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 would pay $10 every 3 months for a highlevel review/changelog of the top Javascript frameworks.<p>I would pay $1/month for book suggestions related to technical leadership.<p>I would pay $2/month for 10 suggestions of breweries I haven't tried yet.
Upvote: | 91 |
Title: I do a lot of coding for work (Quant Analysis) mostly in Matlab, but also VBA, and occasionally python. My team has come to write something like 15k lines of code for our overnight process.<p>How do you learn to structure a large program? We basically have one Matlab file that calls tons of other routines in different files in a straight order. All are in the same folder. The whole thing is out of hand. We also do not have any form of source control or testing. Wen things break, we fix them on the fly.<p>Do you have a good book recommendation on project structuring?
Upvote: | 115 |
Title: I'm a front-end web designer that doesn't know JavaScript. I wish to learn the fundamentals over winter (northern hemisphere) and continue to extend my knowledge. I am not on a time limit, I have a budget to purchase materials, and I'm allocating up to three hours a day to learn.<p>My question: what resources do you recommend for someone learning JavaScript from scratch in 2017?<p>Thank you.
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed is API. Zero warning. Lots of apps probably use this.<p>Before, you could get stock information by using http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv<p>Now, you get the following message:
It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service is being discontinued. For all future markets and equities data research, please refer to finance.yahoo.com.<p>What violation of TOS? People have been using this for years without any issues.<p>If you are going to cut this off, how about a warning and heads up?<p>Guess that's what we should expect from OATH / Verizon.
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Title: What is causing it's rise and do you think there will be a sudden rush of downfall to it soon? What may cause the downfall of it?
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Title: Hello, What are the top promising technologies of tomorrow must learn today? for example, I hear a lot of buzz around "Blockchain"<p>shot
Upvote: | 78 |
Title: Which programmer do you look up to? And why?<p>Were they a mentor? Someone you didn't even meet, but were inspired by?<p>What did you learn from them that you can share with us?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: I am currently in college studying software development. Please answer my question as if I have no previous knowledge of the startup environment.
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Title: Should I use Meteor for production apps? If not, which Framework should I use for reactive realtime apps?
Upvote: | 146 |
Title: I think having the right priorities, and a constancy of purpose is key towards a successful and happy life.<p>But I often find myself using most of my efforts in vain, on unimportant problems. This is partly due to working on chaotic organizations, receiving an overwhelming amount of daily information to process and, ultimately, my incompetency at staying focused on tasks worth doing.<p>How do successful HNers manage their lives? What are some principles and methods that have made your success possible?
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Title: I operate as a US based, LLC and have a UK based client. We have a pretty robust master services agreement in place with clear term and termination terms. The client stopped talking to me or replying in anyway with a large bill (1 FTW, ~2 months). What should I do?
Upvote: | 67 |
Title: Hey all and happy Sunday,<p>I have a lot of learning projects in the pipeline, and selected three for this season (3-6 months.) I don’t aim to master them; I just want to have a good (non-superficial) understanding of the overall picture, and to be moderately proficient in applying the principles/tools.<p>For background, the projects are art (moderately skilled), data science (only interested in foundation/background level) and reading (practise covering as much as possible, without sacrificing thoughtfulness.) There is also a new language but I’m keeping that very light (radio and penpal exchanges only.)<p>Even though they are meant to be recreational, and I have learning strategies for each of them, I sometimes struggle to juggle between them. I also have other commitments (I would say the ratio of commitment:recreational is 60:40). It’s a bit frustrating and I feel that it’s more of a personal flaw, as I know that many others have even less recreational time, yet successfully diligent with their learning projects. (I don’t beat myself too much though, haha)<p>So, I am interested to hear about your learning projects, how you manage them without losing your sanity, and how you maximise short time periods. Plus your own tips for learning. Thanks :)
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Title: I am a Pakistani, currently in Dubai working as an Engineering Lead and have been offered a job today from a company in Berlin for the position of Senior Software Engineer (PHP) and here is what they are offering me:<p>- 5000 Euros/month salary (I have been told that there is 38% tax, not sure if it is more)<p>- 24 holidays per year<p>- No ticket back home yearly<p>- 1500 euros for relocation<p>- 800 euros yearly educational budget<p>For my current position I am getting following<p>- Getting almost same salary (but it is tax free and I save around 4000 euros per month)<p>- 13 salaries in year<p>- 24 holidays<p>- Ticket back home yearly<p>Given that, I am happy at my current company. My only concern about Dubai is<p>- You can stay here in Dubai as long as you want but you will never get the permanent residency<p>- There are small number of good companies so I am not sure about the future here in Dubai if I ever have to leave my current company.<p>Having looked at the comparison above, if you weigh the pros and cons between Dubai and Berlin, would you recommend me to accept the offer? I don't know much about Berlin, could anyone please tell me how much could I save with 5000 Euros a month of salary<p>I am really confused and would love to know what would you recommend given your experience in Berlin Germany?<p>PS. I am a single person, a typical guy, no girlfriend, no night life, spend most of my time on my laptop hacking around. And most of the time, all I need is food and bed. Considering all of that, in a salary of 5000 Euros per month, how much could I save per month after my food and rent expenditures?
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Title: We are currently going through a rethink of our documentation (not for customers, just our internal processes, tools, etc.). Currently we have a docs directory in the root of our project repository which holds a bunch of markdown files, but we are beginning to grow out of this. Keeping links accurate and update to date isn't too much of a challenge, it's the barrier to entry. Filing a PR to make a minor documentation change is just too much. We could have the documentation in a separate repository, but if we are going to be making this leap, we want to be sure we are using the right tools for the jobs.<p>The way we see it, we are going to end up requiring at least 2 different types of documentation. The first is our deep documentation of our tools. This explains exactly what it is, how it works, etc. and is designed for people who want to work on these sorts of tools, not with them. The second is a quick fire Q&A. "I'm having issue X, how do I fix it?" Think StackOverflow.<p>So, what does your team do for these challenges? How effective is your solution? What do you think would be better?
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Title: I believe others are having problems too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637299<p>Update: The issue seems to be around 50% packet loss.<p>I called Business Support and the person was unaware of the issue, so please also call in to report the issue so Comcast starts to realize how much of a problem this is.<p>I had the support person ping facebook.com from my modem which showed packet loss. I asked them to send me to the next tier of support which they did. (This ends up being a ticket where someone will call me back.)<p>The issue started for me around 12:50pm Eastern time.<p>Update 2:10pm eastern: There's another thread on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637607 (update: 2:26pm the other thread was removed from the home page)<p>Update: I contacted Comcast Network Operations Center. They confirmed they're aware of the issue and working on fixing it, but didn't provide any more details.<p>Update 2:30pm eastern: The issue appears to be resolved.
Upvote: | 129 |
Title: Down Detector (http://downdetector.com/) is showing a huge spike in reports over the past 30 minutes. Many of our users are having trouble reaching our LB in Northern Virginia.<p>Anyone else having this issue or any insight as to what's going on?
Upvote: | 166 |
Title: I am a CS undergrad student from India and I would love to continue with academics/research. But getting into top institutes in India requires high percentiles in competitive exams which are not my cup of tea.
Upvote: | 71 |
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