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Title: I got into software development without any education or prior experience at the age of 25 and learned iOS development. I work as an iOS developer & consultant and I feel I'm doing dead-end freelance gigs, which doesn't feel like they will get me very far. I want to be involved in backend development as well but I don't have a clear path as to how I can make that happen. A mentor might have been very good to have here to at least offer second opinions, but I am unable to find one, since the people good enough to be a valuable mentor usually don't stay in this country(I'm in Turkey). Even if there was, I feel like age might be an issue.
Where and how does one find a mentor? Is it too late to find a mentor after 30?
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Title: There’s a lot of talk about remote work nowadays. But has the lack of being able to be with co-workers harmed your career over the long run? Especially if the team is a mixture of remote and co-located people? How have you tried to mitigate that?
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Title: Has anyone actually tested it properly? If so what are the results
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Title: For those tech folks who have parents that are living and that didn't abuse you when you were little, it's Christmas. Call them and ask them how they're doing. Spend some time listening to them tell you about trivial things. Ask them what they think about things. Take time to be interested.<p>For many people in their 20s and 30s, it's easy this time of year to get involved in work and life and forget or put off calling the folks. The holiday season is a tough time of year for many people, especially seniors. Making them reach out to call you...only to find you're busy and distracted and don't have time for them? It can make a bad situation much worse.<p>We see a lot of posts this time of year for suicide hotlines, and that's a great thing that we should all support. But what we forget is that for every suicide, there are dozens of people that the season just makes sad or depressed. A little bit of effort on our part won't make us a superhero that saves the day, but it very well might be a very small thing that makes many peoples' lives a bit better and would otherwise go unnoticed. Reach out.
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Title: I've been in a technology executive role at a large company for 6 years. It's been incredibly fulfilling and the best job I could ask for. In the last couple years though, it's also pivoted a bit and become increasingly draining. Because I can affect my circumstances and mitigate the bad parts, quitting has always felt like giving up, so I've found ways to continue. But I've now reached the point where I'm so burned out that I have very little ambition, and find myself just trying to get through the day, avoiding opportunities and social interactions. I've decided I need to quit.<p>The problem is, I can't imagine what I'd like to do next. As I mentioned before, this has been a fantastically fulfilling job and a promising career. Nothing I can imagine stacks up to it. At the moment I want nothing to do with it, but I think that's fueled by my burnout. If that's the case, it seems silly to switch to a different career. How do I get past this burnout so I can think clearly and be "myself" again?<p>Best idea I have is to take a couple months off and try to recover from my burnout, and hope it becomes clear what I'd like to do next -- even if it's a similar role at another company. But taking time off with nothing lined up has its own risks, and I imagine there's more to it than simply "not working."<p>Any advice?
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Title: I'm part of a small group that is working on a new set of protocols for terminals and shells, in order to move terminal handling out of the kernel as much as possible, and to replace the huge organically grown mess of ANSI escape sequences, terminfo databases, and so on.<p>I'm posting this from 34C3, where I'm asking people the same questions:<p>- What do you <i>love</i> about terminals?<p>- What do you <i>hate</i> about terminals?<p>- If you had to build one from scratch, how would you do it?<p>If you do not wish to answer in public, you can also write a mail to 34c3-terminal-survey at posteo dot de.<p>[I'm posting from a throwaway account because my Github links to the work that we have started on this, and I don't want to bias the survey by having you look at it before answering.]
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Title: I am a big fan of how Basecamp is run as a company, and of the work environment they create for their employees. (Or at least seem to. I don't have first-hand experience.)<p>You can get a sense of their philosophy by reading what the company's cofounders have written on the subject [0][1]. They've even written a book about it.<p>You may not buy it, and that is absolutely fine.<p>If you do however, and if you've ever worked at a company that works similarly, can you post about it here?<p>[0] https://medium.com/@dhh
[1] https://medium.com/@jasonfried
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Title: I'm particularly looking forward to sitting down and strengthening my understanding of computer science topics, including networking and operating systems. I also want to delve more into mathematics and understand its rigor better.
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Title: I have had an offer from a company in Berlin, Germany around two months ago which I accepted and have had to join next month. I have got a better (much better in terms of salary, relocation benefits, tech stack etc) offer from another company in the same city and I want to accept that. Now a part of me is telling me that I should stick to what I accepted before and it would be wrong if I tell them that I am not coming and the other part of me is telling me that I will not be happy there both from the work that I will be doing and the other monetary benefits and so wants me to accept the second offer.<p>I am confused now that whether I should join them or accept the other offer. Did you ever had a situation like this, did you ever resign from a company on your first day?
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Title: We've had a sudden crash of the underlying storage (apparently) on one of our production workloads - and because the crash is in the underlying storage the MultiAZ setting makes no difference. Neither the primary nor the replica work.<p>The point in time restore can't complete a restore to the last available point, so this looks like data loss to me. Points a earlier in time work fine, so might be an issue with a recent patch or failure.<p>I'm currently in conversation with support, will update when I have more information.
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Title: Hello HN: I got offered my first consultant job for a company with a really old&bad (no documentation, spaghetti, monolithic...) PHP codebase. Most parts of the codebase is working fine in production but some parts have to be replaced. Can you recommend any good books/papers/websites on how to get started? i don't need language-specific material.
i need methodic/abstract advise.
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Title: My favorite is- Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture by Matt Goulding(Fascinating book on Japanese Culture)
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Title: Enough is enough. It’s now 2018 and I’ve spent months trying to come up with good side business/product ideas and have hit an analysis paralysis point with no good ideas. I’d like to focus on small business problems but just can’t seem to find any. I’ve emailed businesses, scoured the web and am having little luck. My last product was a hypothesis that never gained traction so I’m now extra cautious (maybe too much) about jumping into any new unvalidated ideas.<p>Any entrepreneurial advice on how to get out of this funk? And also any advice/approaches on how to identify a good idea?
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Title: How can we...<p>• improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?<p>• strengthen and expand non-profits or charities?<p>• educate or help the working conditions of labor (people who work for wages)?<p>• improve the ecological sustainability and environmental impact of supply chains?<p>• Expand access and convenience of healthy foods and diets?<p>• Improve democracy at the organization or government level?<p>If you're already part of an organization focusing on these things, tell us about it!
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Title: As time goes on I find myself, both in my professional and my personal life, adding more and more usernames and passwords I need to remember. I have over a 100 accounts I need to keep track of and access typically access at a whim.<p>Since it's insecure to both use the same password over and over or to modify a single password per service (e.g. appending "fb" or "tw" etc to a password when using a different service) I have found that a password manager is literally the only thing working for me.<p>However, as break-ins become more and more frequent, I am concerned that my single point of failure, my password manager, could become compromised. I mean it seems almost inevitable, right? An attacker wouldn't even need to compromise the service or app you're using but your phone instead to gather the same data.<p>So I'm curious to those of you who use something other than a typically password manager: what do you use and has it been successful or a pain?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, 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>.<p>Note for this month: please don't go through these posts and downvote them in bulk. Users who do that eventually lose downvoting rights.
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Title: Sometimes there are points during which I'm doing pretty well for myself and am wholly content with where I'm at, without any strong desire for anything different/better.<p>How do you stop such a state from stagnating you?
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Title: My original retina MacBook Pro is showing its age and I'm jealous of my wife's 12" MacBook, particularly by weight. But I also really like free and open source — could I really just turn around and buy another MacBook?<p>System76's Galaga Pro looks about right, but I hear tell of 3.5 hour battery life and fan issues. Any other recommendations for a lightweight laptop with excellent battery life for mostly alacritty/tmux/vim workflows, Go/Terraform/Python/OpenStack development, and DevOpsy/Cloud Engineering kind of sand boxing?
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Title: If you would have chance to get out of IT and start your own non-IT business. What would be your new field/niche? (ignore possible income decrease, entry difficulties and other complications)<p>What is the most exciting thing on desired area?
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Title: How do you develop your knowledge or keep your self upto date on Cryptos/Altcoins? Please suggest books/blogs/websites/person to follow.
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Title: A few of my VPN's IPs seem to be blocked. I just get greeted with an empty page (I checked inspect element). Is there any way to submit an unban request to these IPs? It's really annoying.
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Title: There was a proper discussion on it about two years ago. Recently a similar thread was posted, but not to many response.<p>I do not work at any of the above. I work at a fintech company and make 80k + Bonus (Europe) with no equity (12 years experience, senior dev).
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Title: I've heard many people stating blockchain will become ubiquitous over the next few years, but I'm not entirely sure what benefits it provides.<p>The internet obviously provided companies a way to reach and connect with millions of people from all over the world. AI allows companies to use machines to do tasks once only humans could do. Cloud computing frees companies from the hassle of maintaining physical hardware.<p>But what does the blockchain offer me if it's really on par with these other innovations?
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Title: Is it advisable to put off any device purchases until this issue is fixed in a new generation of CPUs? So in 1-2 years?
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Title: Ask HN: How to get industry insights? / Meet people outside your bubble?<p>I am very interested in the inner structure and dynamics of industries. In the last years I got to know a few industries through old friends and school buddies. Unfortunately the circle of my peers seems to narrow in on computer science from year to year and it becomes more rare to get such insights.<p>The industries can be as trivial as german christmas markets. For example:
Are the stands organized business or individuals?
How much revenue do you expect on a weekday?
How much value is captured by the organizer of entire markets (probably the district/city?)?
How much money is spent on marketing/advertisement?<p>Ultimately I am also looking for startup ideas:
Where in the value chain are inefficiencies? For what reason are they there? (precursor to Peter Thiels famous "thing you know, that no one else knows/believes")<p>The answers to some of these questions are not publicly available. I spent the day today in the library and found that information in books on these topics is often outdated or nonexistent.
This might be due to this type of information often being considered a company secret (e.g. revenue per day) or the data is never collected because of its perceived triviality (business size of christmas stands)<p>How do you approach these questions?<p>Ultimately this is a question on networking. How do you meet people from different industries outside of your cirlce?
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Title: These threads always pique my interest, and it's great to hear how people are innovating to make some extra income. Please share your new projects for 2018!
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Title: At what point did you incorporate (if at all), and why did you choose to incorporate when you did?
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Title: My previous company (Bay Area startup) was acquired by a Fortune 500. I reached out the founders, congratulating them and asking about my options. The Fortune 500 lawyer team responds saying "[they] do not have a record of any shares held by [me]". I reply back with a copy of a check I made out to Bay Area startup with a Memo explaining that this money is to purchase the options. The check was cashed and endorsed with the Founder's signature on the back.<p>Other than this check and the 83b election document, I don't have any other documentation about how many options I own.<p>PLEASE HELP. I don't know how to proceed. Do I begin Arbitration or find an attorney?<p>I am totally put off right now, feeling betrayed by the founders.<p>Edit: Thanks everyone for the warm thoughts and advice--I'm looking for a lawyer now. Really glad I posted.
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Title: What sci-fy movies do you recommend and why?<p>Beyond the mainstream classics "Terminator I & II", "Blade runner" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" I don't know many more.
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Title: From what I have read and can assume, in the USA trades between tokens should be treated as tax events to apply short/long term capital gains and not like-kind exchanges - tax should be paid immediately (current tax cycle), rather than when exchanged back to fiat.<p>Does anyone have any useful resources or authoritative info & suggestions on how to go about calculating and reporting taxes on crypto and ethereum tokens?<p>Thank you in advance.
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Title: I just wanted to see if there are any "low hanging fruit" in terms of increasing your security and/or privacy. Basically, anything that does not take any effort to maintain and does not make you lose any productivity.
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Title: Would like to see a list of resources that would be useful to help improve estimating skills.. books, resources, methodology etc.
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Title: thank you for everything
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Title: I'm really sorry for creating a new account to stay anonymous. Feel free to ban this one if it is considered misbehavior.<p>Having that said, you can read the full story on my first comment below.
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Title: Hi there,<p>I have a CS degree and I've been working as a software dev for about 2 years now for a smaller company doing backend stuff. I want to make the switch and get a job at one of the BIG 4 tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Google or FB).<p>Before I start applying I want to make sure I'm ready for the technical interview since I've heard the interviews are intense and I need several months to prepare for it. I'm up for the challenge and I want to do it, but I'm not sure where to start.<p>Where and how should I start getting ready for a technical interview? How much time would I need to be sufficiently prepared for one?<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: Feel free to share links to Github repos, checklists and study plans, they are very helpful too!
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Title: Is there a hacker-news-esque site for things like art, music or movie or other fields in general?<p>Reddit has a plenty of subs on these topics, but they seem quite noisey.
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Title: Hi there! I'm looking for an easy way to get started with AI/ML/DL.<p>I don't necessarily need to go super deep into details, I'm more interested in a practical high-level overview.<p>I know about Andrew Ng course [1], 3blue1brown videos [2], and Berkeley AI course [3]. What else would you recommend?<p>[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning<p>[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi<p>[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIeooNSdhQE5kRrB71yu5yP9BRCJCSbMt
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Title: Since I got out of college, I have been trying to hustle through for growth and am finally running a funded startup now as founder/CTO. But last 6-7 years have just gone by damn fast. Always loved learning new stuff, but don't have enough time to really be immersive in anything. Now when I see an interesting problem in math/physics I can hardly give it an actual shot and it makes me very very sad deep down. Developing a strong desire to go back to college if this unhappiness continues, but has that really worked for anyone here?<p>> PS: I tried the philosophy as per http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html:<p>[x] "Don't ignore your dreams" => Doing it. Makes some part of a day to feel good... |<p>[?] "Don't work too much" => difficult to achieve in combo with above :( |<p>[?] "Say what you think" => Not easy as an introvert INTP, but learning |<p>[?] "Cultivate friendships" => Damn difficult to meet genuine folks after college (Would love any suggestions on where to find them... Definitely not facebook :/ ) |<p>[ ] "Be happy" => Nope. This is just not working...
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Title: Anything goes!
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Title: I am an average Excel user. Work and whatnot necessitate that I need to get closer to expert level, particularly with regard to pivot tables and pulling data from one sheet/column/row And feeding it into other places as a sum, percentage, ratio, etc.<p>I would prefer an actual course with structure and a coherent curriculum instead of random YouTube videos. I know there was a startup here about 8 months ago touting Excel training. Any suggestions? Thank you.
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I've applied for dozens of jobs in the Who Is Hiring Jan 2018 thread, like I do every month. As always, I am ignored 95% of the time, with the other 5% of jobs responding "nice stuff, we'll keep in touch". The sentiment is nice, but obviously doesn't pay the bills.<p>The reason I'm asking is because I consider myself pretty talented. I do fullstack dev and I also design. (If you're curious you can see my resume here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VijR1MF6xDNzH9IPrsv2UxLeC8sZ8nSF2Eux7lkuYQ8/edit and my design work here: www.beaver.digital).<p>Are other applicants just ridiculously more skilled than I am? Or am I doing/assuming something wrong? What has been the experience of others?<p>Thanks.
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Title: I've found some web app vulnerabilities to some high profile services in my country, but the vendor doesn't seem interested in fixing them as 6 months have passed and they claim to have other things to do, which, judging by the announcements on the main page, is finishing missing features.<p>The fixes to the flaws that allow for iterative exfiltriation of PII are <i>trivial</i> to implement as well. The others are simple reflected XSS's.<p>What is the most appropriate course of action here?
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Title: Hey,<p>Since years I've been seeing tones of news "how machine learing did smth... " and today that's enough with just reading how other people change the world with AI. I want to join into this area and scientificly understand how it everything works - make my own projects...<p>-I'm a third-year Computer Science student who just has passed most of the needed courses like obj programming,python course, databases, math statistics, algebra etc... I really enjoy playing with data like projecting databases, programming backed etc...<p>Everything I know until today - I have learned on my own(swift, python, backend). Mostly by practice and solving problems. Now I really want to start serious journey with Machine Learning and AI.<p>But by making some small research which made me realised that I don't want just to implement already done frameworks for e.q face recognition (maybe I should?)
I would like to understand the topic really seriously and be able to explore this area...
---but here's a problem because I don't know how to start it. I've got enthusiasm, some ideas for a projects, but still don't know almost anything about how exactly everything works.<p>When I was starting with programming, I read some books, watched online lecture and bang. I started doing my own projects. How to start in this more scientifically sophisticated area?<p>Are there any courses, books, online lectures which you can recommend me for a start to understand how it all works? Unfortunately, my university doesn't lead any more interesting courses in this area... People here are just fascinated with it but nothing more complex...<p>I'm still young so why not to lose time on something that seems to be really fascinating ;)
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Title: Is there a price point at which mining is no longer financially viable. I'm guessing the point is higher for the smaller mining pools/miners and lower for the bigger mining pools. At what levels is the risk of a 51% mining power to one pool likely.
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Title: Yesterday I ran a bunch of searches, looking for specific types of people in my 2nd degree network. After a dozen or so, LinkedIn start limiting my results, saying I needed to activate a premium plan to see all results. Fair.<p>Today, I went to search my own connections, 1st degree, and they will only show me 3! To see the rest, I need to pay for a premium plan, which start at $29.99 a month. Bull!<p>Screenshot: https://twitter.com/Jmartens/status/953698471415918593
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Title: As far as I can tell, the demise of Mozilla Persona has left a vacuum in terms of user-controlled identity solutions. Why did Persona fail? What else is happening in this area? What's coming up on the horizon?
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Title: Happened everyone today. If you have a bill payment which paid yesterday, processed today and will be sent tomorrow, I'd say go check your account. Mine and my wife's account along with a lot of people got double charged today. We've called the customer service and they've said that everyone was charged double and they are fixing it.<p>Well, this sounds like wells fargo played with our money overnight and giving them back to us.<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: Hey HN! I’m Jared, the cofounder & CEO of Enzyme (<a href="https://www.enzyme.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.enzyme.com</a>).<p>We’re building software that helps life science companies with FDA approval and compliance. Think of something like TurboTax but for companies that are regulated by FDA. Our product reduces both the time and cost of taking a drug or medical device to market.<p>People often talk about how software is eating the world, but that process has taken longer for heavily regulated industries in part because of their complexity. However, there are now subject matter experts who grew up using and writing software and who have also spent enough time in their industries to be able to write useful software for them. This problem is very personal for my cofounder and me. We’ve both spent 11 years in the med device/biopharma industry and have personally felt the pain of how inefficient this is, having seen products we put our heart and soul into take months (sometimes years) longer than they should to reach patients and change lives.<p>We’re taking a labor-intensive, paper-based business process and replacing it with software that allows existing teams to perform much of the needed compliance work themselves, reducing the need to engage consultants or full-time compliance officers. Staying compliant is unfortunately very costly: small companies spend $100K+/yr on consulting fees, while larger companies spend $100M+/yr on FTEs and $10M+/yr on software packages that perform only a small part of the compliance workflow!<p>We’re focused on medical device/diagnostic/digital health companies for now, so if you’re a founder in this space we’d love to talk.<p>We can answer questions about regulatory/compliance strategy -- in the US, EU, and other geographies -- along with other aspects of medical product development (such as design controls, verification & validation strategies, risk management, user experience, etc).<p>There's some additional info on our TechCrunch launch announcement, here: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/enzyme-io-wants-to-make-fda-compliance-easier-for-startups/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/enzyme-io-wants-to-make-fd...</a><p>Thanks for reading and we welcome your feedback!
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Title: Previously, I did use gmail drafts, but now I use private installation of doku-wiki for documentation of my design, schemes, know-how, created source code (git module), lesson learned.<p>Wondering what use HN community, if there is better way or tools for that.
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Title: Are there any big-endian chips still in production outside the embedded or specialty market?<p>Even MIPS and PPC now support a little-endian mode and are usually deployed that way. ARM is nearly always LE or deployed that way, and RISC-V is LE.<p>Edit: bonus factoid:<p>Little-endian is slightly more confusing for humans but may be objectively better for machines. On a little-endian machine integer size casts are free -- e.g. casting a uint64_t to uint32_t just means reading the first 4 bytes of it. On big-endian machines integer size casts require pointer math.
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Title: When I was working remotely as a dev, I found one of the hardest problems was communicating what I was working on with my team.<p>My parents always taught me to be modest when speaking about myself, and to let my results speak for itself. However, I found that in a team environment, proactive communication works much better.<p>How do you share your day to day with your team? What tools, methods, or habits do you use to solve this problem?
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Title: We are building a company (<a href="http://www.keedo.tn" rel="nofollow">http://www.keedo.tn</a>) to reduce the gap in education accessibility between urban and rural zones and private/public systems. We provide web apps and learning tools (we already started developing some tools like a virtual piano, body anatomy viewer, maps for geographic subjects, stories reader and so on) and we are fully cloud based, so everything is accessible and shared over the network.<p>Our big challenge is to provide a cheap computer with internet connection, (wifi/3G) support and acceptable performance. For information, the family income for our first clients in such regions, is on average $130 per month.
We love the OLPC_XO <a href="http://laptop.org/en/laptop/" rel="nofollow">http://laptop.org/en/laptop/</a> project idea (worldreader.org also) but their price is still high for our target clients and we try to avoid donations as much as possible.<p>First we thought about low cost white label tablets (most are china ODM/OEM providers), but from experience and reviews, they seems to be less performing with intensive usage.
Now we have two solutions, either we use an already proven SOCs like PINE A64, Raspberry pi or we develop our custom pc.
Any pointers, suggestions or collaborations will be highly appreciated!
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Title: I keep doubting my own ideas. It seems no matter what idea I come up with I find something critical in it that prevents me from its implementing. Is it my fear to fail or inability to think positive? How would I fight this or find a work around?
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Title: I'm a developer for almost three years, i (like) to think that i'm good, i have deep knowledge of my stack and i can design and implement almost any feature that the seniors at my team can implement, but i have i problem with the final quality of my code.<p>My code is clean and follow the guide-lines, but i feel that i make to much mistakes, there is always a corner case that i don't think about or some test that is trivial to the QA team but i didn't do, and my code end up being broke.<p>This 'behavior' also happen with maths, i know the theorems and the content that i need to know to solve questions but i always miss calculate something and end up with the wrong result, one clear example of this was my last "calculus 2" exam, all the steps were right, but all the results were wrong;<p>TL, DR: I know my stack and the tools but i make silly mistakes that end up breaking my code; how can one get better at this?
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Title: What are the good channels for developers on YouTube to learn about e.g., programming techniques or best-practices?
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Title: I'm a self-taught JavaScript guy / solo-preneur & have been thinking of seeking part-time / contract work.<p>Skill-wise I consider myself (FWIW) between 'mid-level' & 'experienced', but having never worked professionally as a dev, I'm uncertain about hiring expectations, particularly wrt code samples. Most of my code is closed source, so I'm looking to build-out my public stuff.<p>When you review an applicant's publicly available code, what's important for you to see? My assumption is that reviewing a repo is akin to reviewing a portfolio / resume (i.e., very quick), so how have applicants "wow'd" you in the past? (I mean short of obvious rockstar qualifications, like 'React core developer,' etc.)
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Title: Just wondering if anyone has any advice on finding gaps in their programming skills?<p>My mind turns back to how musicians drill repeatedly on aspects they are weak at.<p>I'm wondering: how do you find those weak areas?
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Title: I'm curious how people find excellent remote developers. We chose to make our company 100% remote in large part because we wanted access to a wider range of developers from all over the world. The trick of course is you have rely to a larger extent on advertising and methods that can't take advantage of your social networks.<p>Are there any places you've found particularly effective for advertising? Any other tricks or best practices you've found effective and finding and retaining great developers?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I was contacted about a remote position today. They asked for my expected rate and I told them. They replied, "Can you consider coming down since this is a remote position?"<p>I really struggled to come up with a response to this. Yes, I'm willing to negotiate on principal, but it has nothing to do with being remote. In fact, I consider remote a reason to pay more money.<p>My thinking is that it's difficult to find the type of people who has the focus and skills (focus overrides skill, I think) to really do remote work well. The employer is not paying for the office, not giving me free coffee, not paying for the computer I'm using, and (if it's important) no ping pong, and no social interaction with coworkers. In return, I give full-on focused work with no cruft.<p>I understand that it is a trade off, but I'm never sold on the thought that remote is some exclusive benefit.
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Title: There are some cool YouTube channel suggestions on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16224165
But I wanted to know which of those are great to progress into advanced level of programming? Which of the channels teach advanced techniques?
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Title: Hi folks,<p>Long time HN member here. Using throwaway account for obvious reasons.<p>I am a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits in different industries. Right now I operate an adult business with millions of daily users.<p>I am moving to the bay area soon and trying to understand how I should present and market myself there. I have heard mixed things about adult industry reputation in the bay area. Some say that the environment is very liberal and people actually have a good reaction to this industry, others say that VCs don't do business with anyone who has touched adult.<p>Please keep in mind that I am going to sell this business in a few years and will start something non-adult related after. So it is important for me to not let reputation from being part of the adult industry hurt my chances for getting investments and talents for my next idea.<p>Thanks in advance for your insights!<p>Cheers!
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Title: Preferable multi platform. I can't believe, it's not solved yet.
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Title: So Coinbase's disastrous customer service has come up on HN before [1]. But my issue is rather more extreme than a wire transfer that takes a few weeks to go through - I've been waiting for over <i>five months</i> for Coinbase to unlock my account and allow me to access my funds. Since August 20 of 2017 to be exact.<p>I've never experienced or even heard of such a long wait time for action to be taken on an open customer support ticket and I honestly have no idea how to proceed. Should I start contacting the CFPB or BBB, writing registered letters, etc?<p>To be clear, I have had contact with various Coinbase customer service reps since August. I also have tried emailing and tweeting at the CEO and Coinbase executives. The refrain is always the same: "We're expanding fast and adding to our customer service team. Your case has been escalated for further review. Please bear with us." I've been patient for months now and am thinking that maybe I'm not following the right strategy - any advice?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106793
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Title: Recently I started reading about erlang[1][2], And I started feeling why its not widely popular as python or go. Though I have very little knowledge about functional language and tradeoffs when it comes to using them. Just wanted to know more about it and any other languages which are underrated<p>[1]blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/
[2]https://stackoverflow.com/q/2708033/2577465
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Title: Not only this, but why has the recruiting profession exploded with the growth of the internet?<p>You would think that recruiting would have been made obsolete by a system where anyone can browse for jobs and apply from anywhere provided they have an internet connection.<p>Is there some underlying economic reasoning that explains why the middlemen persist?
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Title: Hi I’m Bilal, cofounder of ClearBrain (<a href="https://clearbrain.com" rel="nofollow">https://clearbrain.com</a>). ClearBrain helps you automatically build predictive models for which of your users are most likely to convert or churn in your app. Think AmazonML for marketing analysts.<p>Our founding team comes from Optimizely & Google where we built similar predictive tools for our marketing teams. At each company, we kept building the same components of a predictive pipeline - javascript snippets to collect data, ETL jobs to transform that data, and cron jobs to run a regression. We were spending hours a week maintaining these pipelines, but the time-consuming part wasn’t the algorithms (as they’re open sourced) it was the transformations.<p>So with ClearBrain we decided to automate the data transformation steps. We built our system in Spark ML (scala), Data Pipeline, and Go. Instead of instrumenting yet another Javascript snippet, we use existing data in Segment (YC S11) and Heap (YC W13) through standard integrations. And because every Segment/Heap dataset has the same schema, our system can process it with the same transformations into a machine-readable feature matrix. When a customer selects a user action tracked in Segment/Heap to predict, our transformed matrix is run through a logistic regression via Spark ML, and outputs a probabilistic score for each user to perform that action based on users who performed it in the past.<p>This distills the predictive modeling process to a simple UI to identify high-probability users in minutes. We’ve built the tool with marketers in mind, to help them identify which users may convert or churn, and export those users to marketing tools like Facebook Ads, Hubspot, etc. We’ve also found good reception from startups that have marketing objectives but lack the resources to deploy ML-driven campaigns themselves.<p>We look forward to feedback from the HN community! :)<p>Bilal
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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.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't
a household name, please explain what your company does.<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: This morning - once again - I got charged 5usd for cancelling a ride even though I had good reasons to do so. This happens too many times because of Lyft/Uber's fault, not mine:<p>- I cancel a ride because the driver goes in the opposite direction
- The app keeps showing 2/4 mins and it's been 10+min I have been waiting
- Drivers calling me to ask to cancel the ride
- ...<p>If I want to get a refund, I need to spend too much time: DM + email -> https://twitter.com/julienbarbier42/status/959105112223264768 + wait for the refund to show on my bank account. (note: when I do ask for refund I always get it, the customer support is nice with me, all the time).<p>When it comes to paying Lyft/Uber, this is automatically done, they don't have to send me a DM and email to ask me to pay them for the service I used. Why would we have to spend so much time to get reimbursed for a service that we did NOT use?<p>Please Lyft/Uber, add a button "refund" WITHIN the app. You technically can EASILY do it. It should be as easy to get reimbursed than to be charged. Of course, you can review complains / claims, but I should not have to spend that much more time asking for reimbursement, especially when I right, I am a customer for a long time, I already have a good track record, and all claims I made in the past were confirmed by your team.<p>Why is this not already done?
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Title: Which books do you wish read when you were younger?<p>Alternatively:<p>Which books that you read while younger do you wish you'd followed more closely / taken to heart more?
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Title: Often times when I have an idea about something I dare not submit it on "Ask HN".<p>The reason for that is that I noticed that the tone of answers on Ask HN is mainly affirmative and definitive for the person writing an answer.<p>Which makes it up for good debates about stuff, but not so much for constructive exchanges about burgeoning ideas.<p>Wouldn't it be a good idea then to normalize some "Think HN" side channel, where ideas would be constructed together rather than assessed and answered ?
Upvote: | 42 |
Title: From a technical perspective, how do you validate a new product/app idea? What tools/frameworks/etc. do you use to collect enough information to know if you should invest more time and money?
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Title: Hello All!<p>what are techniques you all used to learn and understand a large codebase? what are the tools you use?
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Title: I've been at Google for 2+ years and am pretty happy with the salary/benefits, but I'm really strating to question the overall direction of the company. It's not clear to me that Google is still innovative like it used to be. I'm a bit torn because I don't want to be cavalier and forego the opportunity that was given to me, but it seems like a lot of smaller companies are doing much more interesting work. How do I know when it's time to leave? What sort of criteria should I be looking for in other companies? I've always been interested in aerospace but most of those companies (SpaceX, etc) seem like a stretch.<p>(Note, I'm new here, let me know if there's anything I can do better when writing textposts)<p>Edit: It seems like maybe my particular role isn't that interesting. Which orgs within google are good to work for?
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Title: Been working for a startup for about 5 months while I bootstrap my own stuff to ramen profitability and I feel like I can get away with not working as much as I should at my day job. I don't really enjoy my relatively new job (but who does), which consists of working on shitty enterprise software, on one of the worst code bases I've ever seen (what’s new).<p>Managers are very hands-off here, not many meetings either, outside of a weekly stand-up. I get just enough done each week to seem mildly productive to management which seems to be working.<p>Thing is, I spend a good 40% of my time working on growing a couple Android apps and a SaaS business I've built which make up ~40% of my income so that I can finally quit working for The Man and focus on my dream full time.<p>Posting this to get some thoughts from people who may have been or currently are where I'm at. I get that it's wrong, but that hasn't stopped me from doing it.<p>Am I the only one that does this?
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Title: Is the profession getting stale or boring?
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Title: I invested a w 6-figure number on bitcoin and etherum 2 months ago. Watched a profit turn into a large loss. Pretty uh I am paralyzed. Work going downhill. My life feels ruined Any advice
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Title: Fellow HNers,<p>I'm collecting data on how companies of various sizes handle sharing and deploying secrets like API keys, database credentials, etc. in both production and development.<p>If you have a minute, I would love to get your answers to this anonymous, 4 question, multiple choice survey:<p>https://goo.gl/forms/Mx97T9HD3s91DFLv1<p>In a couple days, I'll aggregate and post the results along with some analysis and pretty graphs.<p>Full disclosure: I'm the founder of EnvKey[1], a secrets management service, which is why I'm especially interested in this topic.<p>1 - https://www.envkey.com
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Title: I've been using Apple products since 2003, starting with the iBook G4. Since then, it seems as if Apple's software quality has steadily gone downhill. My iBook wasn't the fastest, but it was certainly the most steadfast and predictable Apple computer I've owned.<p>Now, on my 2017 MacBook Pro running High Sierra, I get random freezes, slow/failed wakes from sleep, kernel panics, strange APFS behavior, trackpad unresponsiveness, etc.<p>iOS 11 is even worse, freezing during calls and sometimes keeping calls active even when the display shows no trace of an active call.<p>What gives? What, internally (to Apple), causes this?
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Title: Supermedium is a full VR browser for web-based VR content. Download the browser at <a href="https://supermedium.com" rel="nofollow">https://supermedium.com</a>, put on a headset, and navigate dozens of full VR sites. Pages load quickly and are built with Web standards (WebGL, WebVR, JS). Anyone can publish and share VR content, regardless of whether that content is bite-sized, wacky, lower fidelity, a store’s homepage, an educational outing for a few students, a meme, or something taboo. Anything goes.<p>Back in 2012, I was researching for headsets that I could watch movies on. I thought it would be cool to have a giant TV anywhere at home or on the go. Soon I became a lurker in the MTBS3D.com forums. I followed the first conversations between Palmer Luckey and John Carmack experimenting with VR hardware [1]. I was one of the 50 members that sent money to Palmer Luckey’s personal PayPal account to get a DIY prototype kit of the early Oculus Rift [2]. I got to try an early version of the Rift and an early 3D-printed prototype of what would become the HTC Vive. It felt the future was approaching quickly and I did not want miss out on the next technological revolution. I was on a quest to find a way to combine my knowledge of the Web with my newly discovered passion in VR.<p>Kevin and I were teammates on the original Mozilla VR team that kicked off the WebVR initiative. Together we created and grew A-Frame, an open source framework to help Web developers build VR content in the browser. Two years later, we continue to volunteer our time to maintain A-Frame alongside its community.<p>We are kids from the Web; we formed as programmers using browsers as our playground. We loved learning from others using the built-in developer tools and sharing our experiments with just a link. But we witnessed first-hand how slowly the Web reacted to the rise of smartphones and app store ecosystems. The Web became an afterthought.<p>We know it is still the early days for VR. VR hardware is expensive, clunky, and software feels undercooked. But we believe that in the future, headsets (whether VR or AR) will replace traditional displays, transforming the way we interact with computers. We want the Web to be a first-class citizen on VR and on immersive platforms going forward. We founded Supermedium to try to help establish the Web as a valuable foundation for the next big shifts in personal computing. We want to bring the best ingredients of the Web to VR. And it starts with a browser.<p>Looking forward to hearing feedback!<p>Diego and Kevin<p>---<p>[1] <a href="https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=14777&sid=a8d3e6cc4e8d94c6d6d0d0e907cdbeb9&start=195" rel="nofollow">https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=14777&sid...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777&p=76940#p76940" rel="nofollow">https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777&p=7...</a>
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Title: I am looking for an equivalent of Google Keep for project management. Appreciate any help in advance.<p>thanks.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie, the founders of Substack (<a href="https://www.substack.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.substack.com</a>). We’ve built a tool that makes it simple for a writer to start a paid email newsletter. Sign up, connect to Stripe, and go. Our first publisher, Bill Bishop, writes a newsletter about China (<a href="https://nb.sinocism.com" rel="nofollow">https://nb.sinocism.com</a>) and got to six figures of annual revenue on his first day on Substack. Bill had been publishing Sinocism as a free newsletter for five years and had 30k subscribers. Now he can make a living from it.<p>Hamish is a journalist who has done everything from writing about indie music in Hong Kong to being lead writer for Tesla. We bonded over our shared love of reading when he worked at Kik, where Chris was the technical co-founder. Last summer, Chris was taking time off and asked Hamish to read an essay he was trying to write about the incentive structures of social media for writers, and how growing outrage and polarization was making it hard to have reasonable conversations. At the same time, we both loved Ben Thompson’s newsletter, Stratechery, which was doing really well off paid subscriptions. We wondered: what if it were easier for writers to start something like that? That felt more like a company than an essay, and so one thing led to another...<p>An example of a Substack newsletter you might enjoy is Versioning (<a href="https://versioning.substack.com" rel="nofollow">https://versioning.substack.com</a>), a daily reading list for web developers and designers. We also recommend Mallory Ortberg’s The Shatner Chatner (<a href="https://www.shatnerchatner.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.shatnerchatner.com</a>) and Helena Fitzgerald’s Griefbacon (<a href="https://griefbacon.substack.com" rel="nofollow">https://griefbacon.substack.com</a>).<p>The product is still in a pretty early phase but we’ve just launched our self-serve beta, where anyone can create a newsletter, free or paid: <a href="https://www.substack.com/beta-signup" rel="nofollow">https://www.substack.com/beta-signup</a>. At this stage, it’s completely free until you start charging, in which case we take a fee: 10% for people who start during the beta.<p>We know a lot of folks on HN care about this stuff too, so we’re keen to hear your feedback. Also: if you know any writers you’d be happy to pay to read (or if that’s you), we’d love to hear about that too.
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Title: We all know about the big4/unicorns in the US. But what about companies in Europe with interesting work, good pay, and sane work/life balance? They don't have to be one of the "top" tech companies, just good places to work. Thanks for the answers.
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Title: Hi HN! We are building enterprise software that prepares patients for surgeries (<a href="http://www.medumo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.medumo.com</a>). Millions of patients go through these things every year. The problem is that patient instructions are provided months in advance, in the form of paper handouts or verbal instructions that are easily forgotten. As physicians, we saw firsthand how poor patient experience can impact hospital operations and surgical outcome. For example, when patients forget to stop medications that can cause bleeding, the surgeries have to be cancelled last minute which is costly. Or worse, poorly prepared patients get the surgery and have avoidable complications.<p>Our team came together to solve this problem with patient navigation software that gives turn-by-turn instructions, reminders, and educational material through friendly, accessible medium (SMS/email) to deliver the best experience and surgical outcome.<p>Unfortunately, health systems are notorious for moving slowly, so introducing a new digital platform can be challenging and slow. We are overcoming this by starting with simple use cases like colonoscopy, proving our value quickly and expanding to other areas. Another challenge is that patients respond differently to instructions; so instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we are constantly varying instructions and A/B testing patient behavior to improve outcomes.<p>12 hospitals use our software to date. We have demonstrated improvement in show rate and procedure preparation quality. Here’s an example: <a href="https://bwhbulletin.org/2018/02/01/endoscopy-center-sees-success-with-text-message-reminder-system/" rel="nofollow">https://bwhbulletin.org/2018/02/01/endoscopy-center-sees-suc...</a><p>We know HN has a lot of people who have experience building or selling software to hospitals and faced tough obstacles with the scars to prove it. We'd love to hear your thoughts around hospital enterprise sales, pilot design, patient engagement, and anything else that you've seen come up on your journey!
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Title: A lot of good content is posted on HN. However, I am unable to read/watch most of it. I do use Pocket to store articles for future reading. But the list gets big too quickly and I find it overwhelming to finish all of it.<p>Any specific technique or tool you use to manage all this content?
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Title: So yesterday we figured out that facebooks Facebot crawler will crawl _every_ url that was recorded by their tracking pixel.<p>I find this highly concerning since:<p>1. they are crawling potentially sensitive information granted by links with tokens<p>2. they are triggering potentially harmful and/or confusing actions in your website by repeating links<p>3. they are repeating requests in a broken way by not encoding url-parameters correctly, for instance url-encoded %2B ends up just as a "+" thus becoming a whitespace (same goes for slashes etc.)<p>4. I could not find a warning or note on their tracking-pixel documentation that pages tracked would be crawled later
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Title: I have tried Jekyll, Hexo and few other static blog generator but not happy with theme. I want to build something in which I have total control. Like I have few scss/css files, few markup files and some other templates for design and based on them I can create a complete html files so that I can publish them on GitHub.<p>Many of you might have some scripts that generate your blog posts from some setup. If it is possible then can you share your setup configuration?<p>I am looking for following things with setup:<p>* I should have backup of my all posts if I want to move other other configuration.
* I can easily tweak css or html.
* I can generate a complete html blog that can be publish over GitHub or any other places.
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Title: If you were to start again from scratch after losing all your programming knowledge, what would your plan look like?
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Title: Hey HN! Haiku is a UI-building tool for both designers and developers. You can import vector and bitmap assets, animate them with a visual timeline, make elements respond to events, script behavior (if you like to code), then publish as production-ready UI components. Haiku components are versioned and can be pulled into codebases via Git or npm.<p>We are a remote, international team of six. We've all spent years in various design/development roles, and we've all run into the same problem: When building software, teams waste too much effort creating designs in design tools, then reimplementing those designs in code.<p>Here's how we're working to solve that:<p>1. Create a common tongue for design tools and codebases to communicate. We're starting with a simple JavaScript file format that can capture both how designs look and how components behave, where animation is a first-class citizen. We call this format Haiku Core and we've open sourced it under the MIT license, along with a standards-driven interpreter/renderer for that format on the Web. We'd love to hear from the community about how to improve our format or Web renderer.<p>2. Create a design tool that speaks that language. Our desktop app, Haiku for Mac [2], brings a familiar visual design/animation experience to designers, while remaining connected to the world of code. Haiku tracks designs with Git and delivers versioned components to developers. Haiku automatically sets up and hosts Git infrastructure and npm registration for your components. (This infrastructure is optional. Your files always sit on your computer, and you own them.)<p>3. Integrate with the tools that design/development teams already use. If you like to draw, you can keep designing in Sketch and see changes sync on stage. If you like to code, you can edit Haiku source files directly in your favorite text editor. Out of the box, Haiku components are compatible with vanilla web codebases, React, and Vue. Haiku also supports exporting to Airbnb's Lottie format, allowing native animation authoring for iOS, Android, or React Native.<p>Thanks for reading, HN. We know this subject is close to many people's hearts here — we'd love to hear what you'd like to see in a UI-building & collaboration tool like Haiku.<p>[1]: <a href="http://github.com/HaikuTeam/core" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/HaikuTeam/core</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.haiku.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.haiku.ai</a>
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Title: The idea: Customer requests account or item deletion, you set it to "deleted" in DB without actually deleting it and it helps for documentation purpose should the dispute arise over some issue in future.
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Title: I'm not talking about switching professions at some point in your life. More specifically, doing your career over again in the same profession, in order to redeem your past failing career.<p>Either you got "too comfy" in your job, didn't learn much, then found a very tough time being a good fit for other jobs. Or you simply have stopped being a good hire for other reasons. What did you do to redeem yourself in the eyes of your respective industry?
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Title: Generating traffic, funneling traffic, converting traffic.<p>How have you gotten better at this? What do you recommend other developers do to successfully grow their projects?
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Title: I've been writing my own implementations and using 20 year historical stock data. Have been test trading to see how my logic is working.<p>However, I have an issue. When I think I am ready to use real money how do I do this? Do I need to get ETrade or Robinhood to actually start automated trading?
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Title: "Agile" and "scrum" were the hotness a few years back, but now it seems that the hype mostly subsided. It's reasonable to assume that the Agile practices are put in context and incorporated into the mainstream now. Are there any recent works on project management that systematically present modern best practices? What have we been left with few years since the Agile revolution?
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Title: I’m Katherine Homuth and I founded Sheerly Genius - indestructible sheer tights made from bulletproof fibers. We just launched our product on Kickstarter (<a href="http://www.2e.go2.fund/tights" rel="nofollow">http://www.2e.go2.fund/tights</a>).<p>Every year $8 billion dollars worth of sheer tights/pantyhose end up in the landfill after only one or two wears. Ripping sheers is as easy as accidentally catching them on a fingernail, or simply pulling too hard while putting them on. Our goal is to replace these disposable products with Sheerly Genius, which has been tested to last up to 50 wears.<p>We have been working on this for about 12 months so far and it has been quite an adventure. When I started out I didn’t think we’d be developing our own fiber and machines, but that’s what it ultimately took.<p>The first fibers I looked at were aramids, like kevlar, which of course were attractive for their strength. To be considered sheer (as opposed to opaque), a pair of tights needs fibers that are 30 denier or less. Denier measures the thickness or fineness of a fiber. I quickly learned that the lowest denier kevlar came in was 1000 denier! So it was a non-starter.<p>It turned out that none of the fibers on the market today were both fine and strong enough to make an indestructible sheer product. Ultimately we had to develop our own fiber: a finer, colored version of the non-dyeable polyethylene fibers used in higher end bulletproof vests and climbing equipment. To use these fibers we had to retrofit circular knitting machines with new feeding systems and blades, because the fibers are so strong they break typical knitting machines!<p>My background is in software and manufacturing - building and selling two companies prior to Sheerly Genius. But this is my first journey into textiles. In my last startup I worked directly with many hardware companies, but became increasingly skeptical of the trend in IoT towards “connected” anything. One thing I love about this project is that we’ve been able to innovate in wearables without being connected.<p>Fun Fact: Half of our backers on Kickstarter so far have been men!<p>I’m looking forward to talking manufacturing, textiles, and crowdfunding. Can’t wait to hear your ideas and experiences in these areas. Also happy to answer any questions about our journey in developing the product so far!
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Title: Hi — we’re Chandan and Jon, co-founders of CoinTracker (<a href="https://www.cointracker.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.cointracker.io</a>). CoinTracker is a cryptocurrency portfolio manager that automatically pulls balances and transactions from top exchanges and wallets, and delivers tax information to users.<p>We built CoinTracker because, as cryptocurrency investors, we were let down by the existing tools for basic performance tracking of our investments. We started by simply creating a spreadsheet that enabled manual entry of transactions, and eventually hacked away with Google Apps scripts to import prices from various exchanges. This quickly got out of hand, so we built our own tool. We casually told a few friends who are into cryptocurrency about it. They found it as useful as we did, and to our surprise started telling their friends about it. We started receiving a steady stream of feature requests, and since then we have been steadily improving CoinTracker.<p>One of CoinTracker’s foundational aspects is that balances and transactions are automatically synced from exchanges and cryptocurrency wallets. Before CoinTracker, we hated the idea of manually entering every transaction into a tool. This approach also enables us to calculate cost basis, ROI, capital gains, and other tax-related information for you. There are technical challenges of ensuring that we correctly handle transfers between your wallets and transitively handle cost basis — something that a lot of other tools struggle to do correctly. We think this direction is enabling us to build the best cryptocurrency portfolio tracker with important services like taxes built on top.<p>We'd love to get feedback from the HN community on CoinTracker and how we can improve. Thank you!
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Title: It seems like there are so many choices in each category that there's nothing left to do.<p>I mean things like RDBMS, NoSQL databases, time-series databases, key-value stores, message queue, web servers.<p>I remember many years ago if you were building something you'd notice the missing solutions and tools because there were things you couldn't do easily (like lightweight application-level caching before redis/memcached popularity).<p>Nowadays it seems like there's nothing missing.
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Title: I’m thinking about algorithms that generate money. First one comes to my is the Bellman Ford algorithm. It can be used to find the shortest path in arbitrage cycles.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>In short: Is there any way to become a part-time PM (or similar)?<p>You helped me tremendously getting my first properly paid and interesting full-time PM job at a bigger company (and luckily with little overtime, but part-time is probably no option).¹ I plan to do this job for at least a year (for vita, experience and money), but ultimately I want to work part-time.<p>I could easily live on my current salary (just with less savings) and want to have more free time for side-projects and a generally better work/life balance.<p>All I have right now is vague plans on how to find something part-time: I will stay on the lookout on job-offers, hoping for startups that can't afford full-time positions. Alternatively I thought of freelancing, but here the generalist qualities of a PM (project or product) might make it a bit harder to sell myself and I'm not the very best at networking either. And freelancing is never part-time, right? Should I apply for full-time positions and try to convince them of doing part-time?<p>With product management, or more precisely writing concepts and non-technical requirements I could imagine contract work. But I don't really know if this is a thing.<p>About me: 30yo; in Germany; OK with leaving the country for a while; with a slightly off masters degree;<p>If you got any ideas or took a similar path in the past, let me know! Thanks you :)<p>¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409239 (thank you so much for all the answers here)
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Title: I wonder what opportunities, interesting insights, or otherwise has this community given to you. Thanks for the answers!
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