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Title: Do you have a favorite job board?
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Title: > Calculator input lag bug<p>> Hitting airplane mode now drops connected bluetooth devices<p>> Swiping right to open a text or app from the lock-screen will cause touchID to fail<p>> Battery life has absolutely collapsed (pretty much have to have low power mode enabled to make it through the day with moderate usage)<p>> iMessage bug corrects "I" to some unrecognizable symbol [1]<p>> Siri App Suggestions now appears to suggest most recently used apps, not frequently - defeating the purpose of the home-button double-click (I assume this was done to support functionality on iPhone X since that doesn't have a home-button).<p>This is just what I've experienced before noon today. Why the decline in software quality?<p>[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/304153/ios-11-autocorrect-bug-typing-the-letter-capital-i<p>Edit: More since lunch<p>> Using bluetooth headphones to control Spotify music app...sometimes, but not always, pressing the button to restart paused audio will start iTunes music, even though I never use it anymore.<p>> I don't know what happened in the Podcast app, but my saved podcasts are not there anymore and the library is difficult to navigate.
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Title: Startups like RealtyShares and Fundrise have been popping up, all promoting great returns and diversification... If you considered or invested with these platforms, how was your experience?
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Title: I guess the reason to start an open source project is to scratch your own itch (or because you love doing it). But finding users who will try it or collaborate with you may require some type of marketing? So did you create time to do that or is working on the project reward enough for you?<p>If you have a popular open source project can you tell me a few things like 1) why did you start it? 2) how did people find it? 3) did you post it somewhere to get traction? 4) do you think it's unfair to just work on something you like but never take the time to get the word out?
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Title: If they need user generated content to function, how do they get started? Do they just get their friends to start using the service?
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Title: I've been doing TypeScript professionally for the last 8 months or so and I would like to push further my knowledge of the language by reading well documented and high profile app or packages. Any suggestions ?
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Title: I'm looking to introduce my parents to some podcasts I've been listening to in an effort to expand their minds and stave off their inevitable senility (kidding [kinda]).<p>I listen with the terrible Apple Podcasts app (open to suggestions here too), but my parents use Google and so I'm not going to link them to the Itunes page.<p>However, I can't seem to find a good search engine that will allow me to search "Philosophize This!" and get back links that they can use to subscribe and start listening easily.<p>Does such a service exist, or is there a better approach I can use?
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Title: At least in the software engineering world, I think a very common one is NIH, the idea that <i>we can do it better</i>, which almost never works out in experience.
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Title: A bit of background: I’ve been a software developer for about ten years now. I started doing JavaScript development and have transitioned in to more “back-end” development using Java, C#, and Python. However, I don’t have a computer science degree and my math education never progressed beyond trigonometry in college. That being said, I keep up on technology near every day and try to keep my skills as up-to-date as possible.<p>One of the major things I’ve seen all over HN and elsewhere is the emphasis on the growing AI/ML industry. I’ve tried to dig into both areas in some detail and find that the math is just way beyond me, leading me to believe that maybe it’s just not my cup of tea given that I don’t have a ton of extra time to teach myself calculus and advanced statistics. However, I’m concerned that if I don’t learn those things my career is going to be dead in ten years.<p>How realistic are these concerns? Should I be as worried as I am or will there be a need for good Java, etc., developers in the relatively near future?
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Title: Ten years ago today I created an account on Hacker News. I just wanted to share some thought about what I’ve seen here.<p>1. The quality of the content, both stories and comments, has remained remarkably high. There have been times where I thought things were slipping but a few minutes on YouTube comments puts everything back in perspective.<p>2. There is just too much to learn and not enough time! On any given day there are more interesting stories to follow than I can possibly follow. Thankfully the comments are consistently good enough that I can read the comments before the actual story to check on credibility and accuracy.<p>3. I have learned to be more precise in what I say and give a little more latitude to others. Comments can get a bit pedantic. Not every comment needs to be a mathematical proof (although there have been many). I thought about creating a user named “PedanticMan” and going around harassing people about their grammar but I decided instead to try not to let the little things bother me.<p>4. There are a lot of smart, enthusiastic, knowledgeable people here. There have been so many comments with deeper explanations and links to extended content. Thank you to everyone who takes the time share.<p>5. Most topics deal with conflicting values and goals. Watching competent people argue different issues has been very instructive. For example, it’s possible to think “C++ is a horrible mess of a language” and “C++ is a powerful tool” at the same time.<p>6. Karma is strange to me. I’m a grown man with a rich life experience and I don’t care what random people on the internet think about me, there are no prizes for karma, and you can’t sell your points. Still, I notice. I get a stronger emotional reaction to it than seems rational. If any of you ever want to hack the system to get more karma try this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>. I think the best thing is to not care too much but pay attention.
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Title: I have a small site (about ~10k active user) that lets users watch movie trailers and create watchlists to get alerts. A buyer is offering $50k for the site. I don't know if this is a good amount or not. Its a decent chunk of money for me but not life-changing or anything like that.
For all the folks who sold their startups or sideprojects, how much did you sell it for and what was the experience like? How did you value your startups?
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Title: Back in the day, PHP was a great tool for getting a site up quickly.
Then Ruby on Rails took off in 2006 and took the lead.
It was the "batteries included" of web frameworks.
You could build a CRUD app very quickly.
Many other language frameworks followed and evolved.<p>It is almost 2018.
What do you think is the best tech for a web app these days?<p>Here are some features I could quickly think of:<p><pre><code> * basic HTTP handling
* good security
* i18n/translation
* ORM/persistence system
* a built-in user/authentication system
* a built-in admin UI
* a migration system for db schema changes
* easy REST (gRPC, etc) API construction
* good form/model validation
* a type system for the language
* websocket support
</code></pre>
I am interested in hearing the HN opinions on this.
What do you think?
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Title: Hey guys -<p>I'm a intermediate-level programmer, and would like to dip my toes in AI, starting with the simple stuff (linear regression, etc) and progressing to neural networks and the like. What's the best online way to get started?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I have this cognitive dissonance. We're running a self-funded startup (not profitable, burning money, I'm paying) with 3-4 fulltime remote engineers and are looking to hire more.<p>I feel like most people working for us are just there for the money - which is absolutely understandable, because I would be exactly the same. With most people I interview I feel like they're either unqualified, total scammers who are unable to write code, but can speak well, or good engineers whose approach is "Fuck you, pay me". And I get it. I do. I wouldn't want to work for anyone and I remember how I hated it. Now I'm doing the same to other people and it depresses me.<p>I would quit this whole thing and would just retire writing code myself and working on small projects - if not for my co-founder who pushes me to deliver. He means well and he's doing a good job himself, but as he's not technical, he doesn't realize the level of stress and complications I'm dealing with. Most days it's just stress and I'm not happy.<p>Advice?
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Title: I am looking for papers which are easy to understand, papers which are for undergraduates. I often stumble upon papers which require lots of reading to do and soon I have dug into a recursive rabbit hole. I would like to know about papers which have minimal citations/dependencies and only require knowledge of CS basics.<p>A good example of such paper would be Bitcoin. You don't need to be a CS wizard to understand the paper. Plus, you can ignore the math part and yet appreciate the beauty of Bitcoin.<p>Some other examples: Bit Torrent, TOTP RFC.
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Title: What are your favorite/preferred browser extensions/ add-ons?Firefox, Chrome. Primarily productivity focused. But other areas are fine, too. Also mention specific customizations of these, if any. Moderators, please edit suitably, as this is my first post here.
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Title: I'm seeing a lot of hype surrounding Mozilla's recent release of Firefox Quantum - which promises massive improvements, mainly speed.<p>Looking past the speed aspect, where does FF stand against Chrome? Does Rust offer much better security? AFAIK Chrome is gold standard in sandboxing...does this still hold true?
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Title: I haven't used FF in years but I've been so impressed with 57 that I've finally come home. I'm wondering if I'm alone. If you switched, please let us know why you decided to switch.
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Title: This morning I woke up - feeling good for some reason which then I remembered: I had installed Firefox 57 on Ubuntu and Android and experienced the new speed. It may seem a small update in some small open source software but it results in an improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people in 1 day.<p>So thanks Mozilla, Firefox and open source software in general.
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Title: I'd like to work as part of the space exploration industry, at least in some way to contribute however I can. I don't have a scientific or engineering background in the professional sense, but I have programming experience, mostly in web development. I'm more interested in getting a job in it, than participate in open source projects. How can I apply these skills to join a company that is doing work related to space exploration and its related technology?<p>Edit: I want to add that web development is not the only kind of programming that I do. But this is what I've done for 90% of my work.
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Title: We are in the process of selecting an external vendor to integrate with. So, right now we are reading documentations of potential vendors and in the process of doing a doing a feasibility study.
Assuming all vendors provide similar capabilities in terms of costs, features, support, API response times, load testing results and the like what are some pratical things to consider before moving forward ahead with one?
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Title: Hello,
I am currently 22 years old, studying Computer Science. I've been focusing on web development for almost ten years. I've built up a freelance business with active clients and also tried to work as a Front-end developer for a year in small digital agency.<p>After years I am not satisfied with web development and it doesn't make me happy. I can see really young, inexperienced people going into this business, things are changing really fast and there's no methodology, no "scientific" way to do it. I can say that web development is somehow punk business with many "script kids" involved.<p>The second thing I don't like about the job is lack of social contact. You spend big amount of time in front of a computer and when you want to be the best you have to spend even your free time alone. When you look at those best developers, they look kind of awkward, they don't have communication skills and I feel like this is not the way I want to go.<p>Also the third thing that bothers me is the fact that developers are becoming new blue-collar workes (see https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/) since it's kind of easy to learn how to code. You also don't need any certification or license. I see that many IT students do have this blue-collar mentality. They dress badly, they swear alot, simply they look like people from lower social classes. This is what bothers me. When I was younger I really appriciated this "punk" side of the IT. Now I hate it.<p>What I am thinkin about is career change to medicine. I am interested in human body and would enjoy studying it. Also medicine as a field seems to be more mature and traditional.<p>Do some of you see it similarly or do you have different opinion? What do you think about it?
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Title: It's not the product, I strongly believe we have a decent product.<p>we recently launched Sieve PRO
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sieve-pro<p>https://www.sievehq.com/ a saas, where we provide all tools for anyone in tech to start freelancing in 15 minutes. This includes a personal website, client on-boarding, NDAs, requirement collection, eventually invoices, payments, and agreements.<p>When we had 600 people coming to our website, had 400 people click the signup but only 40 people signed up and NO ONE PAID.<p>We were asking for yearly payment $348 ($29/mo) as a part of Elite 100 program where we give away 100,000 shares for the first 100 people and all the features coming up in the next year for free.<p>What did we do wrong?
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Title: I am looking for a better and rigorous ways of reviewing and testing web applications' usability. I use some of this criteria as a measure. But I am not satisfied, I believe even this criteria are vague and can be simplified. What are some you use? Or how can we simplify these points, maybe break them down into something specific?<p>1. Consistent theme - pattern, layout colour, icons and fonts,<p>2. Simplicity and minimalism (Avoids unnecessary repetition)<p>3. Consistent messaging and communication,<p>4. User assistant and user guidance, with data. Expecting less from the user.<p>5. Inline help and other documentation<p>6. Error handling and communication of errors,<p>7. Error prevention and fallbacks<p>Are there any that I should include? Is there any way to make them be more specific and dead simple?
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Title: I spend a lot of time at home programming and I feel like being on a usual office chair is not best and not very comfortable. Do any of you use a less usual chair like the Altwork Station for example ?
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Title: How do you read a programming book? By programming books, I mean books which teach a language/framework/tool.<p>Do you read it in one go and later try examples or go through entire book by trying all examples?<p>Do you read the entire book or just the part to get the job done?<p>What methods/techniques have you found useful while reading such books?
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Title: Some interviewers are great - they are patient, let you talk, are genuinely curious about your previous work, and ask questions such that the interview is meaningful for both parties.<p>On the other hand, I frequently come across some inexperienced interviewers (often young, or early in their career). They interrupt you before you finish, ask obscure questions, and try to assert that your professional experience and knowledge is somehow inferior to theirs (or at least make you feel that way).<p>I feel excited about challenging questions/interviews but sessions with such folks (over the phone, or in person) are always disappointing, and negatively impact the interview outcome. I was wondering if there are any tips on how to handle such interviewers.
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Title: Especially on developers, startups, and the tech ecosystem.<p>E.g, will the repeal of NN only affect large media companies like Netflix / Youtube, or will it impact the web at large, and limit the distribution of smaller, non-media related startups?
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Title: In the following week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to roll out their plan to end net neutrality.<p>It appears that the public at large and even some internet stalwarts have become apathetic to the coming changes, which threaten to alter the internet as we know it going forward.<p>If this happens without massive public outrage it may indicate to other democratic nations that treating all traffic equally is no longer the norm, and they are free to enact their own "play-to-play" schemes in addition to those imposed by the U.S.<p>What can be done to reverse this course of action?
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Title: Mine:<p><pre><code> 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/</code></pre>
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Title: The internet as we know it today is the result of years of technological evolution. Now we have the hardware and the benefit of hindsight to make creating networks much easier than it was the first time around. I am suggesting that once NN is dead, alternative networks of free information exchange are going to start popping up. The internet will fragment as necessary for free information exchange.<p>When discussing this ideas, people often get hung up on infrastructure. Remember that Puerto Rico is enjoying wireless internet infrastructure right now.<p>And keep in mind that a computer network does not need to support high speed communication to be a valid means of exchanging free ideas- which is what is really at stake with NN.
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Title: What are books that you read for a specific topic, that you've found massive use for in a variety of areas in daily life?<p>I thought to submit this thread after reading<p>> Reading the book (on operant conditioning, with particular emphasis on how it can be used to train dogs) was transformative for me. Operant conditioning is such a major force in shaping our behaviour. I learnt an awful lot of things from this book which should have been taught in school; I see the principles around me in action every day, but they're just not the kind of thing one habitually pays attention to.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425249<p>In regards to a book about dog training.<p>Other books I've seen this mentioned about:<p>- "The Inner Game of Tennis"<p>- "Nonviolent Communication"<p>- "The Design of Everyday Things"<p>- "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk"<p>What are books you read on a specific topic, that have ended up changing your view of daily life, or being useful in many more situations than just the topic of the book?
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Title: Hi,<p>I'm in my mid thirties, rather accomplished, with a very good job (tech) that I like, family with 2 kids etc. I drink way too much however and I fear I'm already borderline alcoholic. I've recently found this 'high functioning alcoholism' term and realized this is me. Which scares me a lot. I do know people that drink a lot in my family (I'm from eastern Europe...) and until recently I've never considered myself similar to them.
For the record, I'm drinking on average 5 evenings per week, between half and a full bottle of wine (which is not that much, certainly I got used to it, so it doesn't put me in the drunk mode neither).<p>I keep an 'inner scorecard' which means I evaluate myself against what I used to be, and what I think I can accomplish (did I perform / accomplish something up to my potential, or did I just did a half-ass effort). Funnily enough, I always somehow discarded alcohol as a factor, justifying it (to myself) that it's not that influencing. Which is of course false. I should add that I work in the evenings very often (I love what I do btw) and most of those time, I drink too when working.<p>What made me realize this problem much more efficiently was running. I started quite recently and did some tests - how I perform, with the same training scheme, with and without alcohol for a period of time. Numbers don't lie. I run much better and also feel better.<p>As to why I'm drinking when I'm working alone, I don't really know (other than I like the taste). Not necessarily to forget problems or something. With perspective, this amounts to huge chunks of time, which certainly impacts my work on side projects / business. Sometimes I think I drink because I'm scared to actually succeed with this side stuff, and somehow unconsciously I sabotage myself.<p>Are / were you in this situation ? If you managed to stop, I would appreciate the 'how'.
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Title: Can you please point me to some papers that you consider very influential for your work or that you believe they played significant role on how we structure our software nowdays?
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Title: For weeks and months, there has been the same conspiracy about Facebook listening to their 2 Billion users to serve targeted ads.<p>Countless questionable youtube videos, reports of all sorts by people who have no idea what it would entail to perform such a stunt on a large scale.<p>After googling extensively, I still can't find any real scientific proof that it's either true or on true.
It's mostly about some people relating their funny experience and mostly about Facebook saying "No we don't"<p>Anyone familiar with Charles Proxy would know it's pretty easy to spy on the traffic going from an app to the backend.
I work in Facebook advertisement and I've been doing it for various reasons already many times.
I've never seen anything that would like a speech datagram, but then again, it wasn't what I was looking for when listening to the Facebook app.<p>I would expect that given Google and Apple should be scrupulous about what the Facebook app does and doesn't, there should be a host of people who've been looking into that urban legend a number of time.
Also the data plan of many people would simply explode too quickly for this to be true.<p>With my colleagues, we've been wondering if it would be possible to rely on a local text-to-speech engine running on the phone. Needless to say that would drain the battery pretty quickly and the dataset needed in the app would be pretty huge... But is it? And would it really drain the battery? More than Pokemon or the Facebook app...?<p>Who among you guys is a seasoned user of Charles and could run the experiment a tad further?
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Title: Do you have a career related or other long-term goal? How do you work towards achieving it?
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Title: A while ago, I decided to write a simple personal landing page. I went about it as any average HN reader would, I googled what the best free way to deploy static html was. I went with Github pages + Cloudflare, as using S3 + Cloudfront did not justify mulling around with paying AWS. The ssl certificate is shared between several site, but oh well, it'll do.<p>I reused an old domain (vv.mk), that I had previously used for a Blogger blog, spent some time playing with latencies, as my page loaded in a second and a half, and Cloudflare didn't seem to cache it. Lesson: Cloudflare does not edge-cache html, and you need a Page Rule to enable it via their interface.<p>I learnt a bit about webfonts, and finally decided to host the fonts myself (on Github pages), rather than do a roundtrip to google, as it added about 300ms on average to page load, using a setup that would work for most recent browsers (https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com).<p>I confirmed I had a blazingly fast site via http://www.webpagetest.org/ and https://tools.keycdn.com/, and then it was time to make Google return it when people searched for my full name.<p>To my chagrin, this does not seem to be easy. I added my name to the title and the description HTML meta tags. I added the domain to the Google Search Console in all its versions (www, no-www, http, https), asked the Google crawler to cralw it and update its index. I added links to it to my social networks profiles where they hadn't been already added.<p>A day after, the Google index is not updated, my site, along with the description of the content that it had up to a day ago, is buried well into the 4th Google results page. My google searches on SEO of personal websites have been completely unfruitful. The 1st Google results page is still populated with useful info (most of my social network profiles), but it seems logical that a personal website would be returned as the first result.<p>Any tips?<p>edit: Most of the comments suggest this is due to the lack of content. While I accept this might be a cause for the bad ranking, the lack of content is quite intentional, the page is meant to be a sort of a personal landing page with links to social networks profiles, workplaces, etc.
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Title: Looking at larger e-readers (8-10inch) I am surprised how few options there are and the prices $300+. Yes the regular 6" Kindle is cheap but larger sizes are not.<p>I would rather read text books on an e-reader not a tablet.<p>The specs of most e-readers are low. Is the screen that costly? Is this the reason for them being that expensive? Or is it lack of demand?
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Title: Joe Kennedy famously survived the Great Depression by selling out of the stock market once the shoe-shines started giving him advice. I'm not sure if it's just I'm in an industry where people are more aware or not, but I'm starting to get worried about an economic downturn in the next couple of years. Either way, I figure what helps in a recession would be good to do anyway.<p>What advice have you guys heard/followed for protecting against another recession? And I don't mean the generic "cut spending, have an emergency fund" stuff. I mean the stuff that I won't find at the top of a google search or on WikiHow.<p>Edit: to be clear, I specified against the generic advice because it's already easy to find and simple to follow. I'm looking for advice and tips that can supplement it. Thank you to those who pointed out why the generic advice is still a good idea.
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Title: I recently read about how routinely using checklists during complicated activities can have a transformative effect on the quality and efficiency of your work. Think Surgeons, Pilots, Civil Engineers etc.<p>How do you use checklists in your day to day life? Where have they been most transformative?
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Title: I'm interested to hear what internal tools you've built at your startup and why it was successful!
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Title: Whenever sideprojects or ways to gain passive income are discussed here, the conversation focuses on programming projects that can be run on the side. Of course, this is very much connected to the nature of the side.<p>However, I'd like to hear from people who do/did sideprojects that involved little programming from their side and that, maybe, even provided them with a passive income. For me it's a bit difficult to imagine such projects and I think it would be a novel topic to talk about.
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Title: I work a desk job (as a software engineer). Just started lifting M-W-F following the strengths 5x5 program, and counting calories with an app.<p>What do you do to stay healthy? Any advice you can share?
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Title: I've decided that the optimal path I want in life is $2.2 million dollars, and then to live the rest of my life off of the interest generated from an index fund (approx $80K/year after tax).<p>Right now I'm in college studying Computer Science, and in my free time I write (I'm not any good at either yet, but now's the time to get good, so I'm not worried).<p>I've thought about a start-up, but the risk and reward are both too high. A successful startup is around the $10 million to $1 billion, depending on what you create. This is way over my goal. I'm sure the risk is proportional to the potential money earned, so it'd be inefficient to overshoot my target.
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Title: If you are a software developer or if you work in a software related company, what's the age by you expect to be financially independent such that you no longer need to work solely for the money?<p>What are some common mistakes software engineers make that prevent them from getting their sooner?
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Title: And I guess a follow-up: how did you know? Half of me thinks that you have to work hard and be diligent to make it work, and the other half thinks it's just a matter of good interaction between your natural selves.
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Title: I'm using docker since a week now and I'm fascinated by it. Wanted to learn how it works under the hood.
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Title: I'm looking for a wristband/watch/"thing on the arm" with GPS, heart monitor and pedometer(accel+gyro).<p>I looked at what is on the market, but sending my bio metrics to fitbit or garmin servers is not something I want to do.<p>Is there a fitness tracker band that is hackable in a sense that I can get the data out of it without proprietary software? I don't mind the firmware being closed source, as long as there is no LTE. I just want to sync and manage my data myself.
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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'm learning PHP for a new position and tried using codewars and codefights. I'm not impressed by the UX with either of them, they're over gamified. The quality of Kata on codewars is not good (at least the easy stuff) and both are broken in random trivial places.<p>Can you offer suggestions on similar platforms that are less gamified, higher quality challenges, and more reliable?
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Title: I have seen numerous Software Engineers, Web Developers and, tech people working on various domains in different renowned companies, who are literally active in everywhere! For example, they are extremely good at their fields of work. They are equally active on Social Media such as Twitter or, Facebook etc. Also, maintain blogs with quality contents. Most of them posts valuable answers to Stack overflow, Quora etc. They also Attend conferences/ meetup with slides full of gems and, not to mention about their high quality presentations(indicates their dedication in preparation). And, actively posts update about recent series/movies/musics they watched or, books they have finished reading! I might have missed some other things they do but, I just wonder how do they manage their time to such extend!
How do they do it?
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Title: Let’s say you’re a lucky Software Engineer who makes between $150-250k per year. How will the new 2018 tax plan help/hurt you? Let’s use HN’s brain to find out ;)
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Title: I've learnt so far about Captain Disillusion and Every Frame a Painting from people on HN. Thank you! My favourite for years has been Vi Hart. I haven't done much youtube channel exploring at all, so no channel is too obvious. I thought I'd ask for more, seems it's been a lil while since anyone did.<p>So - what are your favourite art/maths/music/film/science/technology-related channels featuring makers of incredibly awesome videos? Other subjects are fine too. (Vi Hart is fascinating whatever the subject. That kind of thing.) Thanks in advance :-)<p>Doesn't have to be youtube.
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Title: How much value does your employer put on code quality, design patterns, tested code, test coverage vs. shipping features fast and fixing/refactor it "later"?
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Title: I'm trying to get insights from developers for a school project on how they get better at coding.<p>The survey below contains just 6 simple questions to answer. Or just answer here. THANK YOU!<p>https://goo.gl/forms/emc16fdMC8UkTYYh1
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Title: As someone who is planning to make the move to working from home in the future, I find myself wondering what's the optimal game plan to be able to get to a position where I can get a job like that.<p>Now, this is quite a broad question (what skill to acquire, how to "sell" it and yourself, which companies to aim for, tips to retain sanity as a semi-hermit etc.), so feel free to answer whichever facet of it you find more interesting.
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Title: I think I think (yes..) that it is. Because you are creating technology that almost certainly is making the world worse. The amount of joy people get from gambling for fun is outweighed by the amount of grief gambling addiction causes. And even if it isn't, most online casinos are designed in such a way to attract addicts. I'm not very sure of my opinion, so I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks!<p>Edit: Ops. Should have mentioned that in my part of the world, online gambling is <i>not</i> illegal.
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Title: I picked up Golang recently and I am curious about how people use it to develop web applications. How does your tech stack look like?
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Title: Hey everyone, New York AG Eric Schneiderman here.<p>For the last 6 months, my office has been investigating a flood of fake comments that corrupted the FCC’s net neutrality comment process. Approximately 1 million of those comments may have been submitted using real people’s stolen identities--including those of as many as 50K New Yorkers, such as a dead person and a 13 year old child. This is akin to identity theft on a massive scale, and it undermines the public’s right to be heard at the most basic level of our government’s rulemaking.<p>Yesterday, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and I held a press conference to update on my office’s investigation and called on the FCC to delay its net neutrality vote until we can get to the bottom of it. In an era where foreign governments have indisputably tried to use the internet and social media to influence our elections, federal & state governments should be working together to ensure that malevolent actors cannot subvert our administrative agencies’ decision-making processes. You can watch our full press conference here: <a href="https://youtu.be/TtZEC21QN-c" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/TtZEC21QN-c</a>.<p>I’ll be back this afternoon to take your questions!<p>In the meantime, a few things you can do to help in this fight:<p>1. My office requested help in our investigation from the FCC at least 9 times, but the FCC’s Chairman and his staff responded by stonewalling (yesterday, the FCC’s IG finally indicated they may assist with our investigation). So we’ve gone to the public. My office has set up a website for you to check whether your name was used to submit fake comments, & file a report if it was: <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/fakecomments" rel="nofollow">https://ag.ny.gov/fakecomments</a>.<p>2. While FCC Chairman Pai has declared his intention to roll back net neutrality, we can still beat this effort back in Congress. If you haven't already spoken to your representatives, please do it today. You can contact your Senators and Congresspeople through the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.<p>Thanks all. Keep speaking out.
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Title: What area's of your life has had the biggest impact due to meditation? What type of meditation you do? How frequently and how much duration? Comparison between daily practice vs long duration retreats?
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Title: We are a small 5-person enterprise software startup, operating in the data analytics/ML space. We are working on starting a proof-of-concept with a huge potential customer ($50+bn in revenue). We recently identified our first use case, and are ready to get into contract negotiations.<p>But then they got back to us with an odd request: they want to see our source code (likely upon completion of the PoC). Given that our core IP is our models and algorithms, we are reluctant to agree. Their justification is: "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions."<p>We know that they have lots of resources and are building up internal data science team. And yet it was pointed out to me that their goal might not necessarily be to outright steal our IP, but rather to cover their bases. But we are still worried they might be "inspired" by the parts they see and get their internal teams to replicate across other sites or use cases. And we don't have the resources to litigate, nor any way of knowing they do this.<p>My questions:
1) Has anybody run into a request like this? How would you respond?
2) How likely do you think their goal is to genuinely "see what happens under the hood" as opposed to replicate in the future?
3) Are there any legal protections we can put in place to prevent them from not just copy-pasting our code, but also from "learning from it" or so?
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Title: Granted, as I am only graduating with a straight BSc it is perhaps a bit presumptuous of me to consider myself a mathematician, but I would like to. I've been looking at jobs and the only people who seem interested in me are banks or people looking for a "quantitative analyst" in the financial sector.<p>Who hires mathematicians, other than the aforementioned financial industry?<p>I know that machine learning is pretty math heavy, and I have taken a look at some of the mathematics involved and some programming firms also don't mind if you have a BSc Mathematics/Applied Mathematics degree. But doing that doesn't seem like doing mathematics.<p>This is perhaps an odd question for the site, but I have been struggling with this and everyone here seems professional and helpful from my years of reading here.
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Title: Created a throwaway for a variety of reasons. I am currently running a profitable service business, making $10k+/mo. But I feel miserable and I don't understand why. The work I get to do is easy and enjoyable. The clients I get to work with are great. Once I get started working I get stuff done pretty quickly, but the problem is getting started every morning. ONCE I get started, everything is fine, but every day I feel demoralised to GET STARTED. The time period of waking up until getting started feels absolutely miserable. I have no idea how to solve it since, from my perspective, it isn't clear what the problem is.
Like I said, the work + customers are fantastic. But why do I still feel so demoralised and horrible every single morning?
How could I solve this?<p>Update: Additional info<p>* I work from home<p>* I only work 5 days a week, around 3/4h a day.<p>* Don't follow a specific diet and don't exercise regularly<p>I've been struggling with this feeling for a few months now and I can't seem to see why. My days are not long, the work itself is fun, but to get started in the morning is absolute hell. I keep postponing work until late in the afternoon sometimes.
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Title: What is your best source of 'passive' or recurring income?
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Title: I don't know if there is any future for blockchain or not, but there might be and I am currently a bit bored of what I've been working with so far, so I thought it might be interesting to work with something as new and undeveloped as blockchain just to get that "hacker" feeling back, which I had when I started with web programming back then.<p>UPD: could you keep your sarcasm to yourself, please? It's not a place to discuss how much of a bubble everything blockchain-related is.
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Title: If 10 people have 10 bitcoins that they bought from coinbase for $10, and now the ‘market’ says 1 BTC = $10,000, and all 10 people want to cash out, how does coinbase make disbursal? Obviously there are new people coming in and buying BTC at a higher price, but due to the surge, can Coinbase really honor all deposits?
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Title: GDAX down, additionally, Bitfinex says it is under a significant denial of service attack.
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Title: Which CS/Programming related book(s) that were released in 2017 would you suggest?<p>My suggestion: Clean Architecture by Robert Martin
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Title: Help me understand why this strategy would fail.<p>Let's assume I got 100M$ with me.<p>Step 1: Purchase 70M$ worth of bitcoins.<p>Step 2: Spend 30M$ marketing bitcoins as the next big thing<p>Given that bitcoin is a pretty good product, the additional marketing would help convince people to invest in it.<p>Step 3: Convince 1000 other 100M$+ net-worth individuals to do this.<p>Step 4: Let it surge. Wait till the combined worth of 1000 investments above is <30% of the market. Pull out.<p>At this point there is about 30B$ of marketing budget. 3 times of what Samsung spent on marketing in 2016.<p>Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this. At this point, it's worth mentioning that 'Bitcoin is a great product' unlike the former case.<p>Doing above is possible with any public stock but it's probably illegal. With Bitcoin I am assuming there is no such check.<p>So what's stopping people from doing this?<p>Anyone else thinks this is how it's happening already?<p>Related article:<p>[1000 people own 40% of the market]<p>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market
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Title: I've been keeping my eye on CSS grid, paying attention to its benefits and advantages. From what I see, it will only make my life a lot easier. What should I know before I dive in and adjust my existing layouts to use CSS grid?
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Title: Since I lack the ML background to debunk this suspicion, I figured I'd let HN debunk it for me. Seeing AlphaZero's success at learning Chess, Shogi, and Go, I was immediately struck with the intuition that the fact that AlphaZero could learn so much from "self-play" should provide some insight into improving human teaching and learning strategies. With the caveat that humans lack AlphaZero's ability to separate themselves into two versions, I can imagine a teaching paradigm that emphasizes simulating competitive activities but playing as both sides. Is something like this at all related to what AlphaZero's doing and are there chess training paradigms that emphasize this type of simulation?
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Title: The past few days have shown what happens when many people attempt many transactions using Bitcoin. The network slowed to a crawl. Transaction prices went through the roof. And we still are at a point where only a tiny fraction of people are using Bitcoin, and only a tiny fraction of all financial transactions are using Bitcoin.<p>How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction? I don't think it can.<p>I have owned BTC for 5 years and I am enjoying the rally, but with the high transaction fees, back log, and long transaction times, I wonder how well it can really work as a replacement for banks.<p>Am I wrong?
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Title: I am a freelance web dev, bootcamp graduate. I often feel like a fraud when I build my projects as I often miss the correct computer science foundations to understand deeply the topics I am dealing with. This is why I will dedicate my 2018 year to teaching myself CS. I will follow the Teach Yourself CS curriculum (https://teachyourselfcs.com/) and will try to go through it in 1 year.<p>Who would like to join me in the challenge? Maybe we could create a community?<p>Here is a blog post where I explain my approach:
https://dlet.me/stopping-my-imposter-syndrome-by-teaching-myself-computer-science-9ec1e0474060
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Title: Looking at the last five years of my career, I have come to realize I might hate working for someone else.<p>I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues that will only make the company's owners richer but won't change much for me. I say don't change much because a 2-3% raise once in a while is nice, but it's nothing in comparison to the thousands/millions extra it will make the company, while the only result for me is that I get to keep my job and do more of that.<p>I also have a very hard time feeling any personal pride or accomplishment for helping the company's bottom line. It's not my company, and I really don't feel anything whether they sell more or made a couple millions extra this year because employees worked (unpaid) overtime. My boss getting a new Tesla or yet another house from the extra profits doesn't make me happy.<p>This thinking is hurting me though because it makes every job I ever had barely tolerable, slowly creeping towards miserable after enough time. I am aware of it but I can't overcome it.
I've tried working at startups, and 150-300 people mid-sized companies.<p>On the other hand, I don't think I'm the entrepreneur type either. I don't have any idea that I'd like to pursue and start building a company around, going through that grind is not something that appeals to me.<p>Has anyone ever felt this way? What did you do about it and how do you cope with it?
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Title: It seems a little ridiculous that Google Hangouts video calling still does not work in Firefox 57. Why is it still not supported?
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Title: I am a bit lost when it comes to unit testing in Golang. When developing in Java and Javascript it is easy to mock out data and functions, make assertions and expectations such as making sure some function was called inside a function your testing. What are some things to make sure to test when unit testing Golang functions and what is a good strategy for mocking things out?
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Title: Any recommendations for a worthwhile, fully online CS program? I'm more interested in a BS than a BA, but if online programs are limited (and that seems likely), I won't rule anything out.
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Title: I often find myself "needing" to take a mini-break after just a few minutes of concerted effort while coding. In particular, this often occurs after I've made a tiny breakthrough, prompting me to reward myself by checking Twitter or HN. This bad habit quickly derails any momentum. What are some tips to increase focus stamina and avoid distraction?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm a game designer and programmer who recently started his own business. I was off to a rocky start but thanks to a blog post on gamasutra that ended up on HN I managed to reach my sales goal and I'm in the clear for the next 6 months. The problem is, I don't want to repeat the previous mistake and, although I have another game in the works and 2 more updates ready to ship for the first game, I'm looking to extend my savings and not have to bank on the next projects having the same luck.<p>I've setup an account on Upwork and have applied to more than 40 projects over the course of 1.5 months. I finally scored a quick 5$ job on translating a couple hundred phrases to another language. I have listed all the projects I worked on, quite a few of them being big titles (like The Dark Knight Rises, N.O.V.A 3, Frozen). I also listed the ones I developed myself as an indie and I have my credentials and LinkedIn listed as well.<p>I targeted projects related to my skills and experience with solid referrals and examples but I never seem to get the job. I lowered my hourly rate to 15$ / h and I still can't win any projects.<p>Any chance I can get some tips from people with more experience than me on freelancing? Or do you know any better place where I can find gigs related to programming (Lua, C#) or Game Development? Heck, I'd even take article writing since I like doing that and it would surely help me keep the lights on for longer.<p>Thanks!<p>Edit: I have been making games professionally since 2010 and even worked in fields related to Home Automation to save money for my own business.
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Title: I know about a couple of programs that run for working engineers and gives them time to work and learn something totally new with other like minded people. What are some other programs that serve as good "educational retreats"?<p>The couple of programs I know about are<p>The Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com<p>Bradfield Sabbatical Program:
https://bradfieldcs.com/bsp/<p>Looking for programs in US.
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Title: I have been following the rise of value but I am still unsure about reason behind its rise.<p>Most of the discussions point on crypto sub-reddits are about buying and HODL-ing. I sort of understand that people are investing hoping someone (A greater fool?) buys it from them at a higher value.Holding also discourages people from using it in exchange for goods and services. Isn't that defeating the purpose of a currency?<p>Also, what justifies Bitcoin's value at ~17k ?<p>I am interested in reading any neutral posts or articles analysing the rise of Crypto and where it is headed.
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Title: I haven't see any friends, Democrats, or Republicans (including comments on Fox News Facebook posts that I've seen) that weren't pro Net Neutrality. Curious, I searched to see who was against it beyond AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Arguments_against): Individuals who oppose net neutrality include TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn,[172][173], Marc Andreessen,[174] Scott McNealy,[175] Peter Thiel,[168] David Farber,[176] Nicholas Negroponte,[177] Rajeev Suri,[178] Jeff Pulver,[179] John Perry Barlow,[180] Mark Cuban[181] and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.<p>Corporate opponents of this measure include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Juniper, D-Link, Wintel, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Panasonic, Ericsson, and others.[85][166][167]
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We are launching an app (Mirror) that uses a single selfie to create ~250 emoji/stickers that look like you and your friends.<p>We previously started a large online travel company in Russia (Ostrovok, >$500m in sales this year) and while there got very interested in AI as a tool to solve business objectives like predicting cancelations or conversion rates to inform marketing spend. And when we started something new, we wanted a product that had extremely high-frequency usage to build feedback loops into + something that a lot of humans really want to do, but that AI can do better.<p>Emoji keyboards sound like trivial toys, but this is actually a path to teaching AI one of the most complex human social behaviors. Offline, our faces communicate the majority of information that passes between us; far more than words do. In fact there is a whole piece of our brain (fusiform gyrus) dedicated to facial analysis and if lesioned humans lose ability to read faces while losing nothing else. Basically humans pay closer attention to faces than to any other object in the universe – from the day we are born.<p>AI needs data that informs it whether its decisions are right. And emoji are by far the largest structured source of facial data + usage in the world – >15 billion sent a day. Getting that ocean of data will help train AI that can solve all kinds of future problems – from VR characters that look like you in the gameworld, to personalized advertising that has your face in it the way you like, and a lot of other things. Everyone asks us why after starting a big “serious" company, we decided to work with emoji, and this is the reason.<p>On to the actual product. We think custom emoji apps like Bitmoji are a good step towards bringing our real, unique faces into messaging. We take this further and let you:<p>- Get your emoji in 3 seconds with one tap.<p>- Not spend mental energy wondering what your head shape/nose shape etc. are<p>- Add your friends/family (soon your pets and more) to your own emoji in seconds. Manually constructing 10+ friends is just too hard.<p>- Use all text-containing emoji in 8 languages (will expand to >25 shortly). We really have no idea why Bitmoji and other such apps tend to be English-only.<p>- Get emoji that become more and more recognizable/liked with time by learning from data (explicit choices + implicit metrics). For example we see that people want larger-than proportional eyes and darker skin. Except in Japan where it seems users want lighter skin. Really excited to find more like this with usage data.<p>Google Allo (and some others) tried doing this but got very little done. The reason is that while the idea is extremely obvious, the tech is quite hard. Here's why:<p>- You have to get a lot of facial features right. Some of these (e.g. hair, facial hair) are very diverse across age/sex/ethnicity. Some (e.g. head shape) are 3d but need to be inferred from shadows in a 2d image. Some (e.g. lower eyelids or wrinkles) can be detected but have a tradeoff of authenticity vs beauty. Some (colors of skin, hair, lips, eyes, eyebrows) are highly dependent on lighting conditions. All are must-haves. And this is still not enough – you have to detect and place wrinkles, birthmarks, sunspots etc. too<p>- You have to compensate for a lot of variability in selfie-taking – lighting/shadows, turn/pitch/tilt, camera distance, device camera type, background, whether the user is smiling or not etc.<p>- You have to use one photo to infer and reconstruct how that person looks with different emotions.<p>- There’s a whole dedicated part of the brain for this task, with a lot of neural machinery (fusiform gyrus). Humans can’t formally explain how they recognize other humans, but are very demanding to result quality. Humans take our exceptional skill at face recognition for granted, although for us a face is THE most well-perceived object in the universe. Think about it: can you instantly recognize a piece of a random wall that looks similar to every other wall, and that you stared at for an hour 10 years ago? You can do this with a face.<p>All the above makes training neural nets that solve recreating (rather than simply recognizing) faces much harder.<p>It took us close to a year and a large engineering team + multiple people with many years of experience with faces to get this to beta.<p>We know there is still a long way to go to make the product great. Right now we are working on several things to make it better:<p>- improving the tech from just “personalized” to “recognizable by friends” – both by utilizing feedback loops and by looking at new developments in AI. Particularly excited about GANs although we don't see a pure-GAN approach as viable (longer discussion).<p>- adding new features – e.g. auto-detection of groups of people, pets, clothes, backgrounds. doing a lot of this automatically based on your Photo Stream content and on-device ML technologies.<p>- expanding our content library to ~10,000 emoji in 25 languages.<p>You can get the app here: <a href="https://www.mirror-ai.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mirror-ai.com/</a><p>Let us know what you think – we really appreciate all your advice!
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Title: Now that the year is (almost) over, what do you think are the must-watch tech talks from the past year?
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Title: Folks, Microsoft is officially considering providing Python support in Excel (finally). If you are interested in this, please visit their uservoice page and let them know what you think. Thank you!<p>https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10549005-python-as-an-excel-scripting-language
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Title: I really hate writing cover letters as I never know what to write or if anyone is even going to read them.
I see a lot of sites offering advice on how to write generic cover letters, but most all of them don’t seem appropriate (at least to me) for tech jobs - more for formal sales, business jobs. I'm interested to know what HN’ers with experience on either or both sides have to say by way of advice - What do you usually write/expect, is it even really a requirement?. Do you attach a separate document or just write an informal email. What tone do you take - formal, familiar. Do you summarize your skills experience or just include a link to Github etc.
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Title: <a href="https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/webrtc-data-channel-demo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/webrtc-data-channel-demo</a><p>Hi! I made this GitHub repo to try and show WebRTC data channels and the connection establishment flow in a different way from what I was able to find online.<p>My aim with this repository is to make WebRTC data channels accessible to any web developer by showcasing offerer and answerer separately for total novices (makes it much clearer what's going on on each end of the connection) as well as combined approach where a peer can be both offerer and answerer.<p>I use postMessage instead of a real signalling channel, because I got fed up with people bringing whatever 3rd party signalling solutions to their WebRTC tutorials and I want for this to be as simple to set up and run as possible. That's why it returns off file protocol - no server needed, just open and play!<p>One more goal with this tutorial is to keep it up to date. Once a supported browser (Chrome, Firefox) starts complaining about a deprecated API or the WebRTC spec evolves, I try to rewrite the demo to use the latest and greatest. You can see that in me using async/await instead of promises which also tremendously helps readability.<p>In the future, I will extend this to support mesh connection topology and make it possible to hold group conversations or multiple conversations at the same time.<p>If you've been waiting to see what all the fuss with WebRTC is about, I hope this encourages you to start exploring. Any feedback is welcome!
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Title: I don't know where to exactly start. I was thinking of first learning Python by studying from the book "Automate the Boring Stuff." Then for the actual CS stuff, maybe taking the online course CS50 offered by Harvard, then moving on from there.<p>But after learning Python then what? I'm not exactly sure where my interest lies or what I actually feel like building. Thus, I'm not sure if I want to go the web route, which seems common to many, or going some different area?<p>I looked at the Google Software Engineer minimum qualifications, just to get an idea of areas to pursue. It reads: "Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development."<p>I'm not so fond of mobile development, and web I'm unsure of. From those areas which are most accessible to a non-CS/Math/Engineering degree holder (bachelors in biology)? I believe Machine learning and NLP are more suited to Masters/PhDs? So maybe they are out of the question.<p>Any advice on how to tackle my journey in becoming a Software Engineer? Maybe an outline on how to approach my learning in steps?
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Title: I have recently started taking interest in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI. I would like to attend good ML and AI conferences in Europe. Any recommendations?
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Title: I‘ve recently set up Jenkins to continuously build and test a Mac app (Postico), and it‘s not been a pleasant experience. Everything is poorly documented, you constantly need to switch between different paradigms (point and click interface, procedural pipelines, declarative pipelines), the API is atrocious, and I haven‘t figured out yet how to configure the dashboard.<p>So I‘ve started to look for more lightweight and flexible alternatives. My build process consists of a couple of shell scripts (bash), some ruby scripts, and even a python script. The individual parts work well, I only need something to tie it all together and display status.<p>It can‘t run on docker because the app is built with Xcode, but I do use docker to start up test servers that our unit tests run against.<p>I‘ve been looking at buildbot, and it looks like it does what I want. Does anybody have any experience with it?<p>I‘ve also considered using a general purpose task scheduling system, but I don‘t know anything about that space. Does anybody have good recommendations?
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Title: I'm having a really hard time deciding between sticking with what little Python I know and using Django or switching over to Ruby/Rails for developing my side project. I'm hoping anyone could jump in and voice their opinion on either side.<p>Clearly the Ruby community is experiencing some kind of event where the numbers are shrinking and some of the more prolific bloggers/contributors are talking trash and moving on and i'm not sure what to make of this. There is alot of tutorials and information already out there but it's getting dated and i'm not sure how much of it that was written in several-versions-old Rails will still apply and there's not ton of new stuff coming out. There seems to be a gem or tutorial for anything I could need to do but it's growing more stale by the day as their creators seem to be off to greener pastures.<p>Python has it's moments for me but after doing some tutorials I'm really finding Ruby/Rails to be just fun and exciting to use. I like how thorough the framework is and the development experience in general, with console commands for everything and automated tests re-running on save, and it seems they are adding greatly to the rails core, as opposed to Django's big 2.0 feature was basically copying Flask's URL system. I also like the community having a vocal figure like DHH kind of "leading the pack" with alot of methodology I agree with.<p>Is ruby really as bad as people say and is on it's way out? Is leaving Python for it, if my only interest is web-application development, a dumb idea? it seems like i'm standing at this cross-roads looking out and seeing on one side, Rails is awesome but people hate Ruby, and the other side is people love Python but Django is a big limp dick and I don't have time to program the kitchen sink with Flask. choosing between either is very confusing...
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Title: I'd like to know which books HN read in 2017. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects.
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Title: I’ll be here for the next 2 hours and then again at around noon for another 2 hours. 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. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!
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Title: I just started learning Developing application and I am looking for passive income ideas. I'm actively looking for income sources and my skills. I just launched https://www.cmyport.com/ as a side project and adding new feature soon. I am learning php/mysql and looking for suggestions.
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Title: I’m trying to find the best resources I can for learning about boot loaders. I recently installed Fedora dual boot on my MacBook Air and want to understand what is happening during the boot process, and why, for example, I’m now staring at a Grub console after resizing my APFS partition.
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Title: Looking for recommendations on books to read over the Christmas break about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies generally. eBook format preferred.
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Title: Are you happy with it?
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Title: I am taking some data science courses. Is there any link between data science and cyber security? and where can I learn cyber security stuff?
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Title: Hi folks! Can someone please tell me where my theory breaks?
I theorize that the cost to get enough shared ledgers to agree that user x has 0$ (previously had $5M) is less than or equal to the amount of money that could be divided amongst the thieves.
IE if you get enough people to say the sky is purple is the sky purple? Isn't cooperation key to a decentralized system? What happens when a new patch is released that pays you $100 to say a lie that user X has $0 and everyone involved has $100 more?
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Title: Has it only been the first mover effect or are there (decisive) features that other technologies don't have?
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