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Title: This question might come across as dumb, especially for a 30 year old, but I come from a culture where this aspect of work was never emphasized and at this point, I don't know who to ask.<p>Basically, since as long as I can remember, I've had issues motivating myself to work and focusing on a single task.<p>I've used everything from rewards ("If I work for X hours, I'll play a video game") and punishment ("If I don't work for X hours, I'm a complete failure") to get myself to work.<p>I have to come up with elaborate new schemes to get myself to focus. I've tried awarding myself "points" for doing a task, turning my work into a virtual RPG. I've tried keeping elaborate spreadsheets of my work habits. I've tried the Seinfeld method of mapping out my "win" and "fail" days.<p>Essentially, I come up with a new tactic to motivate myself every couple of months. If I don't do so, I find myself struggling to meet my goals and distracted.<p>Part of the reason for this is perhaps the nature of my work. I'm a freelancer and have been one since I graduated from college. I make a decent enough earning because I've acquired a niche set of in-demand skills. But I struggle to meet deadlines and never have enough dedication to meet any of my long-term tasks (such as building an app or starting a business).<p>For years, I thought this was "normal". But I'm now starting to think that maybe I just don't have a regular case of procrastination.<p>Does anyone else feel this way? Is work such a complicated endeavor for you as well? Am I suffering from some form of undiagnosed ADHD?
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Title: I am not sure "knowledge" is the right word to put it but this is something I've been struggling with, how to manage all the things that are not in your mind yet<p>Things to Do, Things to Learn, Things to Consume (Watch/Read/Listen), Save good things to find later (Articles, Infographics, Quotes etc), Quick Note, Unsorted Web Links, Thoughts on various topics (Impact of various tech on specific domains, better team building, various design practices etc ), etc<p>I sometimes spend a couple of days or so restructuring all these and then slowly I drift away to reach the same point where I started from (usually takes less than 3 months) and when I reach that stage my productivity comes to a halt, and the cycle continues
Every-time I try a different Method (Bookmarks, Google Keep, Plain Text notes, OneNote) but nothing seems to be "just right"
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Title: Hello HN people!<p>I do have questions (tons of them btw) and I do think that it is the good place to ask.<p>Got:<p>1. The idea<p>2. Two developers<p>3. The MVP (actually working prototype, to say mo I'm already using it for my own purposes together with my family)<p>4. A very small feedback (14 guys interested and waiting for the start of the project) after a few posts on the internet boards.<p>5. All the tech-related things like certificates, scaling, tests, ci\cd, etc (don't really think that it worths mentioning here, but why not...)<p>6. Vision (don't like this word) of how to scale and apply the idea to different markets and integrate with my current main project (or similar) where I'm working as a developer<p>Want:<p>1. Run the prototype and test it in the live-mode.<p>Problems:<p>1. This is the side project running in the parallel with the main job. So the time is the problem.<p>2. I do not have the experience of running the c-corp or something to legally start the stripe integration for payments. And I can't actually run the project without it.<p>3. The project already has the expenses related to the Google cloud and some of the others 3rd-party providers.<p>Questions (I know nothing about the investments and startup stages so please forgive me the stupid questions):<p>1. Does the project on the right stage for searching for investments?<p>2. Do the investors willing to help me with the legal issues?<p>3. Do I need to look into startup accelerators?<p>4. What is the best\fast\safe option to run the project?<p>5. What are the good articles to read about the process of building and funding the startup\sideproject?<p>p.s. I don't think that you guys like the advertisement so I didn't put the link to my weird landing page here. (ping me if we need it for the discussion)
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Title: In the movie Moneyball, we learn that the Billy Beane character, when he entered baseball as a young player, was judged as a potential superstar by scouts. But he turns out to be a bad performer in the real game. He gave up other opportunities to play Major League Baseball. So those baseball scouts actually ruined his life.<p>I think I'm a lot like him. How can I break out of this?<p>I happen to be very good at a-ha problems, which show up often in interviews. I know a lot about how to optimize algorithms. I can talk learnedly about the tradeoffs between various paradigms. Interviewers are often very impressed.<p>The problem is, the job has nothing really to do with the above skills. It's mostly about slogging through poorly documented Java framework code, and getting some masochistic buzz from it. The desire to craft perfect code is an <i>obstacle</i>. Know how to do it better? Congratulations, you will be permanently dissatisfied.<p>And let's be clear, most of the job, even under the best of circumstances, isn't about coding. At best it's about communication and careful risk management. At worst it's cutthroat office politics in an industry that has too much money to ever treat people in a sane or humane manner.<p>I get depressed about this, and then those same people who judged me a potential superstar start collecting evidence to fire me.<p>So I'm in a job search right now. I just aced another interview. It's a company that wants to pay me way, way too much money to work on updating their legacy app. I have money woes right now but I'm considering turning it down. I am sick of being a disappointment.
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Title: As a white, midwestern software engineer, it's easy to live my life day to day without ever leaving my little bubble. What are some ways that I can apply my skills to help the under-priviliged?
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Title: I'm Van Duesterberg, and my cofounder is Min FitzGerald. We're the founders of Nutrigene (<a href="http://www.mynutrigene.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mynutrigene.com</a>). We ship tailor-made liquid supplements based on your body composition and scientific research.<p>I'm a biophysicist and epigeneticist who spent more than 10 years studying how environmental factors influence the expression of our genes, focusing on the mechanism of metabolites (including vitamins) in both plants and humans. Min has spent more than 10 years as a personal trainer, health coach and behavioral scientist working in the food and consumer product goods space.<p>This all started because I wanted to be healthier and was frustrated with a lack of answers from our healthcare system, which only sees our data through a “survival” lens (oh you don’t need to be in urgent care or surgery now). I wanted to live beyond just surviving to truly thrive, by reducing chronic pain and fatigue and feeling more energetic. As a PhD in Biophysic and Epigenetics, my natural state to a frustrating, unsolved problem is to start conducting experiments and collecting data on myself. So I started getting involved in tracking and monitoring (using many Google sheets), through collecting blood panels, heart monitor data, and wearables for my activity and sleep. I’ve experimented with different remedies and diets to recover my health after a relatively difficult pregnancy. Eventually this led to the idea for a startup that would make it easy for people to take action based on their health data, by coming up with tailor-made products for the individual. We're beginning with high-quality liquid vitamins.<p>Why vitamins? Despite trying to eat as well as possible every day, I found it tough to do as a startup founder and new mom. And the data showed it’s not just me. Almost 90% of Americans are deficient in something or another, because we can’t eat perfectly every day, and recent research shows from NHANES and CDC shows that more Americans are not reaching their recommended daily allowances.<p>Why liquid supplements? The supplements industry is broken - there’s lack of quality, transparency and attention to purity. The majority of the vitamins and supplements you buy through Amazon, or Walgreens degrade, 50% after 6 months on shelves. Our goal is to send you the freshest, ready-made liquid supplements in our lab that are 1) unadulterated (no fillers such as starch or sugar), 2) pure liquid to maximize absorption (not breaking down any sort of tablet or softgel coating e.g. gelatin), and 3) an easier form factor to swallow than a pill. Plus, it’s easier to measure the purity of the supplements on mass spectrophotometry and HPLC in liquid form.<p>Why tailor-made? One of our advisors, Professor Bruce Hollis, has spent more than four decades studying Vitamin D deficiencies that show how we should be taking more Vitamin D than the RDA, in particular Vitamin D3, but off the shelf producers still use outdated information. The isoform of the vitamin matters, and we’ve incorporated hundreds of other papers across other vitamins, minerals and amino acids to provide the right unique mix to each person. We "tailor-make" it for you based on two factors. (1) Body composition. A 150lb man should not be getting the same dose as a 210lb man. Different fat and muscle composition determines whether fat soluble gets stored or how vitamins get metabolized. Most of this research is done in the nutritional sports space. (2) Genetics. The type of vitamin matters (isoform). Certain people who are more Vitamin D deficient should take Vitamin D3 which is one step away from metabolizing to its active form, 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, in our bodies. Another common vitamin that has been an issue for many women in particular is folic acid. A set of SNP mutations prevent anyone from properly methylating folic acid and hence many practitioners recommend taking methylfolate and same goes for Vitamin B12 (cobalamin), which its methyl form is methylcobalamin.<p>Degradation/oxidation is a big issue and we try to resolve that by making it just-in-time and capping it immediately after production. We also experiment with different formulations to prevent digestion of vitamins so they can be absorbed further down the line in your gut. No fillers, no starch, no sugar. Just vitamins.<p>High quality liquid vitamins are just the beginning. We want to see if vitamins do work using trackers, wearables, blood work, and even quantifying improvements in performances. Anecdotally, I’ve been seeing a drastic decrease in my base heart rate and more frequently see this low base heart rate during the day. My aortic heart stiffness has become less stiff giving me an age heart of 31 (I’m 33). These data are preliminary, but even blood work says I’m all good which isn’t indicative of whether I’m performing better or feeling healthier. We continue to find other ways to biohack ourselves but most importantly create a community of people who also want to take control of their health. And of course, my qualitative feedback is that I feel more energetic even with all the fatigue that comes with running a startup and being a first time mother.
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Title: Whats the future of Quantum Computing. Can any software engineer start his career in Quantum computing? What does it take to train in this technology?
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Title: After a few days of seemingly bizarre network errors from some, but not all, apps, I realized my phone wasn't getting an ipv4 address. After three calls with poor tech support bodies who didn't know what an ip address is, I tried Sprint's chat support. I was surprised when they promptly told me that all internet data is now ipv6. However, they said they could do a workaround for me.<p>Moral, ipv6 is coming. Google says it is at 18% worldwide, and 34% in the US. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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Title: Hello,<p>I am using Gitlab EE at work and have noticed recently that we had some issues with our registry validation process.<p>I was specifically wondering how to handle the history associated with any given tag. I realize that in our Gitlab registry, we have4 tags which have specificity. However we don't have the source branches for these, hence we don't exactly know what these specificities are.<p>Are there any best practices in this particular area? What is your experience with such issues?
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Title: Hello! I am a software developer and over the years I found that I am extremely unproductive when it comes to finishing one task and then starting another right away. It is best noticeable when I complete something that took me more than one day and then I am guaranteed to not do anything productive for the rest of the last day(doing something for 3.5 days - unproductive for the half of the last day). Same applies to working on side projects. I am focused when I research one problem, implement it, but I have no willpower to continue to the next problem. This affects my career in a bad way and I am sure I am not unique and there are ways to fight it.
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Title: Please share what tools & approaches you use - it may Scratch, Python, any kids specific like Linux distros, Raspberry Pi or recent products like Lego Boost... Or your experiences with them.. thanks.
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Title: Hi HN. I’m a journalist who wrote ‘The Lawyer, The Addict’, a story that ran in the New York Times in July. The story was about my ex-husband, Peter, who was a high-flying powerful partner in Wilson Sonsini (the prestigious, Palo Alto-based law firm) and who died in July 2015, a drug addict. Almost everyone in his life missed the signs. The story wound up with enormous traction and was the 55th most read story in the entire paper in 2017. It also generated several threads of commentary on HN, including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776864, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931209 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14777919.<p>I’m now writing a book based on that story for Random House. Although it is about what happened to Peter, the broader story is about the problem of substance use (and often abuse) in white-collar professions, where the users are well-off, well-educated, working long hours, often with all the outward trappings of success.<p>What can you tell me about drug use as a professional or in your profession?<p>I know there is drug use in law, finance, medicine and technology, and am hoping that some of you will be open to discussing with me what you see and what you've experienced in your profession and professional environment. I’d like to use some of your comments in the book and will not know or need to know your names, so I hope you’ll feel comfortable being as candid as possible. I’m not here to make judgements, all I’m looking for is the truth about what’s going on.<p>I'm interested in whatever you can tell me about drugs you are using or observe being used in
your field: which drugs, what effects you see, any stories you have, any details you can share. Thanks.
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Title: Hi HN! We're Jared and Gabe (YC W18), the founders of Pagedraw (<a href="https://pagedraw.io" rel="nofollow">https://pagedraw.io</a>). Pagedraw is a UI builder that turns mockups into React code.<p>Pagedraw lets you annotate mockups with extra information (like how to connect to the backend, resize for different screens, etc.) to get full, presentational, React Components. They’re React Components just like any others, so they can be interleaved freely with handwritten ones. They don’t require any new dependencies and work well with any existing JSX build system.<p>You can import the mockups from Sketch or Figma, or draw them from scratch in Pagedraw.<p>Working as full stack devs, we constantly had to do this translation by hand. It was our least favorite part of our jobs, since the creative work had already been done by the mockup designer. It's so repetitive and mechanical that we decided to stop hand-coding divs and css and write a program to do it instead.<p>There have been many attempts to automate this stuff in the past. For 20 years, people have been trying to solve the problem with tools like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and so on. Broadly speaking, they tended to fall into one of two buckets, each with their own problems. In one corner are tools like Dreamweaver, which can produce correct code but have to expose some of the underlying HTML model, making their users play a puzzle game to do something as simple as move an object around. In the other corner are freeform design tools that generate position:absolute code. That doesn’t work if you care about working on different screen sizes, or reflowing the layout around variable-length content as simple as “hello <username>”.<p>We think the problem is that you have to look at it like a compiler. Past tools never fully worked because they tried to unify two fundamentally different mental models: the designer’s mental model of a free form canvas like Sketch or Photoshop, and the DOM’s mental model of <div> followed by a <p> followed by an <img> and so on. What always happens is one of two things: either the computer’s mental model is imposed on the designer, or the designer’s mental model is imposed on the computer. The former results in a clunky design tool, and the latter results in position:absolute.<p>What we do instead is recognize that these are two fundamentally different models. Designers work with Sketch by saying “put this button at this pixel”. We can let them do that and still generate flexbox code without positon:absolute, and let everything resize and reflow correctly. Pagedraw does it by inferring constraints from the relative geometries in the mockup. For example, if object A is to the right of object B, we infer it should always remain to the right, regardless of resizing or content reflowing. Sometimes, the developer does have to ask the designer about their intent regarding resizing, which is why Pagedraw also needs you to annotate that information. We then compile those constraints, inferred and annotated, into HTML layout mechanisms like inline-block and flexbox.<p>It turns out that a lot of other nice things follow from a compiler-like architecture. For one, we separate codegen correctness from codegen prettiness by cleaning up the generated code in discrete optimization passes. Another is the ability to easily retarget for AngularJS, Backbone, React Native, and so on by just swapping the compiler backend. We even have some nice editor features that fell out from hacking a Lispy interpreter onto our internal representation.<p>We’re excited to see what you all think and hear about your experiences in this area! You can try it at <a href="https://pagedraw.io/" rel="nofollow">https://pagedraw.io/</a>
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Title: Hello HN community,<p>I've been meaning to start blogging for a while now but I never got around to it. I do have some time this weekend and I thought I'll give it a whirl then.<p>I recently read about Hugo and I was wondering if it's good enough for me to start with? Has anyone used it? How has your experience been so far?<p>My posts will mainly focus on little programming tidbits that I learn while I'm working so yes, it will involve code snippets. Markdown support is a huge pro for me as well. I am aware of Jekyll as it's one of the biggest players in this segment but everyone's been complaining about its speed which is why I'm not leaning towards it.<p>If anyone's got some advice on what SSG I can use, fire away. If you can, highlight both the pros and cons so I can make an informed decision on this.<p>Thank you for your time! Cheers!
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Title: I've been using Heroku for several years now, and as it happens to everyone eventually it becomes just too expensive.<p>I'm curious to know what people here use to deploy, and where are you hosting your apps.<p>Personally I'm looking for an experience as similar as possible to Heroku, any recommendations?
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Title: I compiled a list of numpy practice exercises related to data analysis. Might be helpful if you want to practice some data munging problems. Feedback welcome!<p>https://www.machinelearningplus.com/101-numpy-exercises-python/
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Title: Hi HN! I'm Chris, founder of Slite (<a href="https://slite.com" rel="nofollow">https://slite.com</a>). We’re building a tool for modern teams to write down and retrieve things that matter.<p>I've launched two companies in the past and basically ran them on note-taking apps. The first was a hiring SaaS and the second an on-demand fashion-delivery service, and while the two were pretty different, I needed to write down a lot of stuff: interview notes, mentoring, email and article drafts, notes on customers and so on.<p>I had this habit because notes are versatile, incredibly user-friendly, and immediate. They made up my personal knowledge base but the biggest frustration I had was sharing those with teammates. So I decided to build a note app that would work with teams from day 1.<p>This is in line with the current problems in team collaboration. A lot of people were thrilled to dump email to get on Slack, but recent conversation has shifted towards Slack killing team productivity and leading to loss of information. This topic even trended on HN a week ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16355454" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16355454</a>.<p>We’re building an asynchronous writing tool for teams to organize their work with one simple yet crucial goal in mind: make sure teams stop losing valuable information and find it more quickly. We want to remove the back and forth you have on Slack, via email or even offline to find information.<p>We use the same channels pattern as Slack, mainly because this avoids the folders structure where content is hard to find, organize and where permissions are a nightmare. But using Slite allows you to separate use cases: channel chat a la IRC or Slack to communicate instantly, Slite to write and retrieve information.<p>Another major product focus is search: existing tools such as Google Docs or Dropbox Paper make it hard to organize and navigate through content (not to mention Slack where everything get lost between cat gifs). We put huge efforts on making it seamless in Slite.<p>With these basic differences we've already convinced hundreds of teams and thousands of active users to switch their content over from Google Docs, Dropbox Paper or other tools. We’re now entering a new phase where we’re focusing on integrations, allowing teams to push and access their information from anywhere in their workflows.<p>It’s an exciting time and we’d love for you to check it out and give us your feedback. And we're eager to hear your ideas in this space. Please share your thoughts in the comments!
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Title: Without going too much into my own product. I have recently found out after watching the AWS conference that I am now directly competing against an Amazon product... I am looking for stories of how your company reacted and maybe the successes or failures...
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Title: Share the format you use for your resume so that it looks good, but still professional. All of my "creative" friends (graphic designers, marketing people) have cool resumes, but mine is boring. What did you use to make yours look good?
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Title: I'll be applying for jobs soon. I'm a Rails dev with 4 years exp, currently learning Elixir. I've just created a blog for my future employer and potentially future clients, gotten testimonials from my previous clients, reading interview questions, anything else that I can do to improve my chances/add value to the company I'll be joining?
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Title: How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: Inspired by the quitting google thread, I was curious how a new programmer can excel at a company. That is, on paper.<p>How can we better play by the rules and earn raises instead of having to switch companies?
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Title: I'm looking for a good alternative.
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Title: I am a solo founder looking to bring on a co-founder. My original idea came to me over a year ago and I've worked on it evening and weekends. Four months ago, I left my job to work on my startup full-time.<p>I'm in my early 30's and my background is in investments and software. After college, I was a software engineer for two years before moving into asset management in a front office role. My product is built on the domain knowledge I gain in this area. It's B2B SaaS with target ~$15k-$100k p.a. revenue per customer. I've finished my MVP and am about to go full tilt into sales mode.<p>I would love to bring on someone to do sales. I'm in early stage discussions with a potential co-founder who is a friend and someone
I have worked with. He's in his late 20's and recently completed an MBA at a top school. His background is in business strategy and analytics (sales focused). He hesitates when it comes to sales because he does not see himself as a sales person. Having said that I think he could do it and his role would evolve over time away from direct sales into more of a management role.<p>I feel like he would be a good fit because we get on well, he's smart and has decent experience. He is interested in startups and told me he wants to jump in with both feet. He doesn't want to make a rash decision so is holding back a bit.<p>His initial thoughts are he would work one day a week + weekends (his work situation is flexible) and eventually go full-time. I would love to have him full-time. He has a one month notice period on his contract.<p>Equity vesting would start once he is full-time over a 4 year period.<p>If he starts full-time in one-month, how much equity could I give him?<p>If he continues to keep his full-time job and goes full-time with me in X months, how could I think about the equity split?
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Title: It could also be someone else's. What happened that day, and what techniques have you developed to try to recreate that day?<p>I'm asking because I've been more productive these past weeks since I completely blocked out social media on my machine and I put my phone in another room during work hours, and I should have done that years ago. :(
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Title: As an American looking to move overseas, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite possibilities and the lack of curation of resources.<p>Looking for insights from people who have already been through this. Especially if you didn't already have a professional network at your intended destination, how did you start?<p>Did you find and contact specific companies? Apply to openings on job boards? Find recruiters? Something else?<p>If you went the recruiter route, how did you locate them and select the ones worth working with?
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Title: Please state the job location 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>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't
a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's
off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
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Title: What does the process looks like? What are the primary inputs? Do you use any tool to capture peer reviews?<p>What's your take on the whole process?
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Title: I was wondering, what were really valuable resources for you as a dev, either when you were starting out or when you had a bunch of years of experience. What's some event that changed the way you approached programming?<p>---
For me it's these:<p>- Watching DHH/the video that introduced me to Rails. I was a student coding in PHP/CodeIgniter, and it blew my mind re: the speed at which things got done. (Now, not so much, hehe.)
- Watching [Destroy All Software](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/), I think that was the first time I saw someone with a high mastery of the Vim editor, and the first time I saw someone write tests/talk about app/class design. The next week, I was pulling my hair out trying to learn Vim.
- Non-programming: [Cracked article on harsh truths.](cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/) I read that several years ago, and every year I try to add a new skill to learn. It's still my auto-complete when I type in "cr" on my browser.
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Title: So I am searching for something that would let me generate some income on the side. I recently came across the idea of drop shipping, but whenever I read something about it on the internet it feels like a too-good-to-be-true marketing pitch.
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Title: I'm a father of two and I do a lot of housework in the evenings, cutting into my project time. Lately I've been obsessed with finding ways to reduce the amount of time spent on household chores any way I can. Gadgets like dishwashers, bread makers and steam cleaners have made my life easier, and I'm looking for the next thing to shave 10 minutes off my housework. So what are your best domestic time saving tips? Do you defragment your cutlery drawer? Do you swear by a roomba? Did you build a robot to pair socks?<p>Maybe you just identified some big time sink that you could eliminate? For instance, I'm considering taking up the carpet in my hallway as I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time vacuuming that area vs the rest of the house.<p>What are your top tips?
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Title: I am specifically looking for free pdf or online materials for mathematics needed in ML, DL and Data analysis which doesn't necessarily go in depth. My primary aim to have a good top level view and if possible get hold of the most basics stuffs as soon as possible.
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Title: A lot of people are happy to pay $10/month for https://www.stratechery.com. Interested to see who else out there has loyal readerships willing to pay them!
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Title: I'm looking for something more flexible than apache ab, but not as heavy weight as JMeter. Ideally I'd like to be able to specify some random values in urls or post requests. My environment is linux/ubuntu. What are you using these days?
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Title: Just recently discovered meditation and fasting, and while I've only been doing them for a few weeks, they've had a big effect on me. I'd like to see what other helpful routines are there. How do you go about your days?
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Title: Hi all,<p>I need some advice from all the wonderful people on Hacker News. I am a Backend engineer looking to move into a product management role. I have no experience in product management. In addition, I am 35. Does age matter? Are certifications such as the one from Product School worth it and help in the transition process? How do engineers typically transition to the role? I’d appreciate any advice from anyone.
Thank you.
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Title: I’m using passport.js with a local strategy for authentication, and I’m using sessions/cookies for keeping state and keeping the user logged in.<p>I’m not very knowledgeable in security (that’s why I’m asking here), but will using JWT (with the token stored in the cookie) to keep the user logged in instead of sessions/cookies make my application more secure when the passport middleware executes req.isAuthenticated? I thiiink somewhere in that call it checks cookies or jwt, depending on implementation.<p>Also, I do not plan on opening the API to other sites, so OAuth is unnecessary. Is my understanding correct?
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Title: I am thinking about all the occasions a developer writes words related to writing code. Pull requests descriptions, email communication with colleagues (devs and non-devs), commit messages, specifications, documentation.<p>Eventually a technical article or blog post too. But I am mostly concerned about day-to-day needs of writing that every developer has.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>This is Atif and Aziz, co-founders of Tarjimly (<a href="https://tarjim.ly" rel="nofollow">https://tarjim.ly</a>) - a nonprofit that allows bilingual speakers to volunteer as translators for the 23 million refugees worldwide using anonymous chat, phone, and video. All for free.<p>Aziz and I graduated MIT during the Syrian refugee crisis. Our friends and family all told us about the dire situation, but one problem stuck out: refugees desperately struggled to communicate with the medics, lawyers, and aid workers trying to help them. We built Tarjimly as a way to remotely translate by connecting over Facebook Messenger.<p>A year later, our community of 3000+ volunteer translators has helped over 1500 refugees and aid workers globally.<p>- Translators come back because it finally gives them a way to do more than just donate money or post online.<p>- Refugees come back because machine translation (e.g. Google Translate) for refugee languages severely lacks accuracy and situational awareness.<p>- Aid Workers come back because paid translators are expensive and don't even come close to meeting demand.<p>We validated these problems by interviewing over 300 refugees and aid workers and doing a 2-week field study in Greece: <a href="https://medium.com/@tarjimly/greece-trip-research-reflections-900889b3e6f5" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@tarjimly/greece-trip-research-reflection...</a><p>We built a model to predict translator response based on their previous interactions and ping those who are most likely to respond at the time of request. It takes an average of 90 seconds to get connected to a translator from our passive pool and our current match rate is 92%.<p>We see Tarjimly growing into an organization that provides micro-volunteerism at macro-scale. We want to work at the front lines of the world's humanitarian needs, in any country that may be. We're looking forward to hearing your feedback and any ideas or experiences you've had in this area. And if you or your friends are bilingual, consider signing up as a translator!<p>TC: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/bilingual-tarjimly-lets-you-help-a-refugee-or-aid-worker-right-now/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/bilingual-tarjimly-lets-yo...</a><p>Video: <a href="https://tarjim.ly/explainer" rel="nofollow">https://tarjim.ly/explainer</a>
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Title: We are working on an ML project (Computer Vision specifically) and we are in the process of productionizing our models. What kind of tools do you use and what's your workflow for integrating, testing and deploying your models? Do you have any suggestions or tips about what to do and what to avoid?
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Title: We're Finbarr and Nick, co-founders of Shogun - a storefront builder for eCommerce sites. We started the company 3 years ago. Initially it was a page builder for Rails apps[1, 2]. After about 9 months, we couldn't convince many companies to pay us for that, but one of our prospects wanted to use it for a Shopify store. So we wrote a Shopify integration, waited a week, and gave up.<p>Within a month of giving up, we had some paying customers, so Nick and I continued to work on it as a side project. I went to work as a software engineer, and Nick moved to Thailand. We continued to work on it in our free time, and figured maybe someday it could be a lifestyle business.<p>But it continued to grow. And grow. And grow. By spring of 2017, it was making enough to pay Nick and me a modest salary, so I left my job and Nick came back from Asia. By fall, our growth wasn't slowing down, and we figured that this could be a full-on software company.<p>We applied to YC, and Shogun grew 30% during the month between our application submission and our interview. We got in to the Winter 2018 batch.<p>Today Shogun is one of the most popular apps on Shopify. We just launched on BigCommerce as well and are now building out support for other eCommerce platforms.<p>In regard to tech, the hardest part has been implementing workarounds for all the bizarre quirks of each platform. We also build our pages to co-exist with the existing CSS and theme elements, so we have to be really careful with styling conflicts.<p>There are a lot of page building tools out there. Our major differentiator is that we focus on eCommerce specifically and integrate into your existing eCommerce platform/backend. Shogun is also developer friendly with strong controls over details like padding and margins. We also built in a "custom elements" feature that allows developers to code re-usable drag and drop templates. Finding the right balance where developers love it and non-developers can learn it is very difficult.<p>We're looking forward to hearing feedback and ideas from the community.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257363" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257363</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9571603" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9571603</a>
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Title: I've been programming professionally for the better part of 7 years now, and can pretty confidently say I will not be doing that anymore. Worked in the bay area for a company and quit after a few years following a series of layoffs hitting my department. Then basically had two jobs where I only lasted for less than a year in each. Washed out.<p>Moved out of state and had two other jobs programming. The first didn't have enough work to keep me around, and started the second. I just quit that one after 8 months. It is probably my last as a programmer, my resume just has too many red flags from a hiring perspective, and are probably right in their assumption, along with my wariness of the field as a whole.<p>My question is, how did you folks out there find another career? DJing a strip club, no joke, is not going to be a viable long term solution, and for the first time have _no_ clue what to do next. No debt, children or any serious obligations, only caveat would be lack of higher education, so I can entertain a bunch of options.<p>What did you do to start a new chapter? Not trying to drum up a pity party, just looking for fresh perspectives out there on stepping into the unknown.
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Title: As I get older I have needed to perform digital forensics on friends and family members online accounts and assets. This has me thinking how can I automate this for my own things?<p>For example I've built a password protected web-site that I try to keep updated with important information for family and a paper in my desk that reads "In the event of my passing visit this URL ...". This is a place to give survivors the keys to my password vaults and allow them to memorialize my social media profiles.<p>However no amount of documentation will cover cases of GitHub repositories and NPM modules. Are there ways of transferring repo ownership to others or bots to auto-reply to pull requests long after the authors passing? How do others plan to handle the case were their code and digital assets will live on past their own life?
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Title: Do you have some good advice or know any useful resources to learn in a proper way how to code in C++? For the context, I know some C, but C++ seems a different kind of beast, and it's easy to get lost in the huge variety of features and libraries it offers.
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Title: I am wondering how do experienced sysadmin document and manage their infra.
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Title: As Slack has evolved over the years, we’ve built features and capabilities — like Shared Channels, Threads, and emoji reactions (to name a few) — that the IRC and XMPP gateways aren’t able to handle. Our priority is to provide a secure and high-quality experience across all platforms, and so the time has come to close the gateways.<p>We know this may affect your workflow in ways that are frustrating or disruptive, and we’re here to help and answer questions. Thank you in advance for making this transition with us.<p>Please note that the gateways will be closed according to the following schedule:<p>* March 6, 2018: No longer available to newly-created workspaces<p>* April 3, 2018: Removed from workspaces where they’re not in use<p>* May 15, 2018: Closed for all remaining workspaces<p>If your workspace currently uses gateways, your experience won’t change until May 15th. But we encourage you to prepare for the transition soon. Feel free to contact our support team for help.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Alvin and George, the founders of Airship (<a href="https://www.airshiphq.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.airshiphq.com</a>). We built Airship to help companies roll out new features carefully, instead of blindly deploying.<p>You may have seen that a million users are revolting over Snapchat's redesign, dropping their App Store rating below 2 stars. You might also remember when Digg launched a redesign in 2010 that caused a 30+% dip in usage in a matter of days. To avoid unpleasant surprises, companies like Facebook and Airbnb have developed their own sophisticated tools to carefully roll out their new features, test and measure their impact incrementally, and roll them back when signs of trouble appear. This way they can be informed about how users receive the features, and can fix mistakes without jeopardizing their entire user base. Then they can publicly release the new feature with reasonable confidence about its likely reception and effects.<p>Alvin and I discovered the importance of controlling feature launches and monitoring them carefully when we worked at Zenefits together. Many companies would like to be able to mitigate risk through controlled feature rollout and rigorous testing, but don't have the resources to do it. This approach is proven to work, but remains expensive, since only companies that can afford in-house tooling, and often a dedicated team to maintain it, can do it. It struck us that there was a need here for a product, so we started Airship to build it and make feature rollout accessible to everyone.<p>To use Airship, you install one of our SDKs. Then you can flag or gate code with if/else blocks calling a single function provided by our SDK. This automatically gets wired up to controls in the Airship dashboard which allows you to control targeting rules, rollout percentages, and whitelists/blacklists.<p>Key features of Airship:
- Gradually roll out and A/B testing of entire features, not just copy and superficial changes
- No performance hit (checking whether a customer has a feature takes < 0.1 ms)
- 0% downtime (no dependency on Airship’s services, so effective downtime is 0%)
- Complex experiments using attributes of Users, Groups (e.g. location, purchase amounts, device types, etc.) as well as other object types (Product Listings, Pages/Posts, etc.)<p>We'd love to hear your feedback and hear about your experiences, ideas, and needs in this area!
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Title: 11:14 -!- Message of the day<p>Hello! We have news to share — we've decided it's
time to close down the IRC and XMPP gateways to Slack.<p>After years of evolving, Slack is at the point where
the gateways can no longer handle all of our features
or security needs.<p>If you've been using the gateways for accessibility
reasons, we're glad to let you know that it's now
possible to navigate Slack by keyboard and with a
screen reader — and we're making more improvements
on a continual basis.<p>Still, we know this is a disruptive change, and we
want to help with this transition in any way we can.
Please follow this link to learn more about the
upcoming changes:<p>slack.com/account/gateways<p>11:14 -!- End of MOTD command
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I get between 2-5 spam phone calls every day. Often, the callers' numbers have the same area code as my own number. I believe the calls are automated there are many identical messages and on the occasion that I do answer, it's usually a recording.<p>I've blocked dozens of phone numbers but the calls and voicemails don't stop. I keep my phone perpetually on "Do Not Disturb" excepting calls from favorites and repeat callers. Sometimes I pick up the phone and repeat "Put me on your do-not-call list" a couple times. Sometimes the recording says to press a number to stop receiving calls, and I do that as well. I've also added my number to https://www.donotcall.gov/<p>Nothing seems to do the trick. It's really annoying and time-consuming to check my voicemails for real messages. The red notification badge is no longer a useful way to know if I've missed a call from someone I care about.<p>I don't want to get a new phone number either, and I don't know if that would even solve the issue.<p>What can I do?
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Title: I'm looking to learn Spanish. I live in Costa Rica right now so that helps a lot, but there are so many different language learning apps + websites + guides + books etc. I am learning a decent amount but I am struggling to keep up with the speed of locals talking.<p>I watch a decent amount of Netflix shows in Spanish, but most speak super quickly as well.<p>I'm in between using Memrise (free) or Lingvist (paid... quite pricey for an app too) right now.
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Title: Hi HN! We're the founders of SafetyWing in the current YC batch. We're working on a global safety net for online freelancers, starting with health insurance, which you can get here: <a href="https://www.safetywing.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.safetywing.com</a><p>When we quit our jobs to become digital nomads, we discovered that if you are not a full-time employee, you're pretty much on your own. You lose stable income and most benefits when you earn money as a freelancer or entrepreneur, and lose the rest of your safety nets by being abroad. We decided to do something about this, and the result is SafetyWing.<p>We're three Norwegians: Sondre is also founder of freelancer platform Konsus.com (YC W16). Sarah is CTO, former lead engineer of ad-network Tapdaq & she’s also a musician. Hans a is lawyer and former head of legal at Auka, which is like white-label Venmo.<p>Our first product is $37 per month (4 weeks) for worldwide travel and medical insurance ($30 add-on for US, since US healthcare is much more expensive). It only works when you’re outside your home country, although there is 30 days home country coverage every 3 months so you can visit home (15 for U.S. residents). Covers hospital, doctor, prescription, etc.<p>The hardest thing about making the product has been licensing and getting trust from an insurer. To do that we hired two senior insurance experts who have been in the industry for 30 years. They helped us design it, and get the deal with insurance giant Tokio Marine.<p>Why is it so cheap? 1. Three major exclusions: preventive care, long-term cancer treatment and pre-existing conditions.
Acute onset of pre-existing conditions is covered though; 2. The price is for ages 18-39. Other ages can buy though at higher prices—sorry, it’s the way this industry works; 3. Lower commissions compared to insurance sold via agents.<p>This is the first step in a plan to build a global safety net for online freelancers and entrepreneurs.<p>Look forward to getting feedback and hearing ideas from HN. We know there are digital nomads frequenting here, and we’d also be really interested in hearing about your experiences with health care or safety nets in general.
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Title: In your opinion how should a job description page look like?<p>What information should include?<p>If you were to create the job description page (or careers page) for your company what will you put there?<p>What information will you add there?
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Title: I've been thinking about trying out AWS Lambda for my next project and would just like to survey the community: how are you currently using Lambda (i.e. current setup, the product, etc)? How has the cost, performance, and scalability been? Any issues or deal-breakers? Would you use Lambda for your next project?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I know the good old answer, practice.<p>But are there any tricks that work for you while learning a New Language or you just get better.<p>I want to learn Swift as my new language so how do I approach it.<p>I know a lot of different languages but they have basically same syntax (C, C++, Java, JavaScript) but it takes me a lot of time to get a good grip of it and I am not sure if experienced developers feel the same or do they learn it faster.<p>So what's the best way to learn it and maybe the fastest?
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Title: Ive programmed in 8+ languages, and up to this point Javascript was unused.<p>It was recommended to use javascript and react/react native so I only needed to program once.<p>However, seeing the differences between react and react native, this seems overstated.<p>What were the other benefits? I thought there was already built components/libraries I could drop in for data management. Maybe its bad googling, but I feel like react-native is like any other app I'm building from scratch.<p>Looking for any recommendations to get a intermediate programmer going?
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Title: with say 30 tabs open, 3+ GB is gone, chrome is such a dominant memory consumer! in fact it takes about 10X more memory than everything else combined on my ubuntu all the time, why?<p>Yes I use onetab extensions etc to save memory, just wondering why one tab takes so much memory, is this a design fault?
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Title: I'm looking to find out what tools people use (software, apps, or otherwise) to increase productivity. It could be things like task management systems or more specific development tools (like a certain CI provider).
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Title: Curious if there's a high signal source of knowledge for other highly technical industries.<p>If you don't work in tech, what else do you read daily?
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Title: I know that frameworks such as React and Vue have taken over most of the mindshare, but I still find jQuery easier to use and often more productive, especially for smaller websites.<p>Even when using a framework I usually include jQuery to smooth out the edges where the framework does not behave as I would have expected, or seems to make implementing a part of the intended UX awkward or complicated.<p>Is anybody else still relying on jQuery in some capacity, and if so, what value do you get out of it? Do you use it along with one of the major frameworks, or together with smaller libraries? And do you plan on dropping it soon?
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Title: I have a new found appreciation and fascination for maths and would love to study maths from the bottoms ups. I'd love to know the paths I should take and books I should read.<p>EDIT1: If the question is very broad, it'd be much helpful to know how did you learn math? What courses you took, books you read.<p>EDIT2: My current proficiency level is pre-high school mathematics as I didn't pay much attention in high school, learning effectively nothing.
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Title: Its been quite a while since ARKit and/or ARCore came out, was wondering if there were any apps built on this technology that became popular.
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Title: Just wondering how many other people are feeling overwhelmed by technological "tools" thst are supposed to save us time and headache. Especially from those that are older, I am wondering if completing tasks was easier in the past than it is today.
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Title: I'm in the interesting position of setting up a team from scratch: hiring the first software developers in a well-funded company. There is a team of data scientists who have been creating models in Python (which end up as docker images). I have no legacy code of any importance for all the surrounding code (UI, data fetching, data storage, etc.) that I need to support or maintain.<p>The guidance I'm getting from the CEO is that he wants to build a cutting-edge, next-generation company. There's budget to hire 10-20 tech staff.<p>I'm comfortable enough in all three languages (and others besides).<p>I don't want this to turn into a flamewar: the main criteria I care about are:<p>1. Long-term supportability<p>2. Bugginess of typical code generated in the language.<p>3. Availability of developers<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: Often times I see threads on HN about good Compuer Science books, but I'd like to find out which books have helped you the most in your career growth (which may not specifically be CS type books) or professionally (which may be CS type books).<p>Edit - having a few words describe how the book was helpful would be really useful!
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Dane, the founder of EnvKey (<a href="https://www.envkey.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.envkey.com</a>). EnvKey is an end-to-end encrypted 1Password-like service that lets dev teams manage API keys, credentials, and configuration easily and securely.<p>For some background, you can check out <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/envkey-wants-to-create-a-smarter-place-to-store-a-companys-api-keys-and-credentials/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/envkey-wants-to-create-a-s...</a> as well as a Show HN from when EnvKey first launched: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757</a>. The Show HN is what got EnvKey its first batch of production users, and I probably wouldn’t have gotten into YC without it. So thanks HN! I owe a hell of a lot to this community.<p>On where the idea came from: I had the first inklings at my last job. We were in the MVP stage, so we ended up with a bunch of separate apps and services as we experimented. These were split between CloudFoundry and Heroku, and we also had an in-house test server running CI for everything on TeamCity. Keeping stuff like API keys, puma server settings, and other environment-specific config in sync everywhere was a serious headache. Bugs and failed CI builds due to missing keys were common, and our Slack quickly filled up with requests for API keys and .env files. We knew this wasn’t secure, but there didn’t seem to be any solution out there that was worth the additional complexity it would introduce.<p>One day while wrangling with TeamCity build variables, I had the thought that this could all be so much easier. Why were we painstakingly copying big blocks of config from one place to another? It was like dealing with code pre-source control. And sure, our secrets were out of git, but was spraying them all over Slack and email any better? That night, I started typing out some notes for an 'Env Vars Locker' service that would use PGP and environment variables to solve this issue in a minimalistic way.<p>A bit later, I left that job to do something on my own. After a false start with a different idea, I decided that the 'Env Vars Locker' had potential. I did a round of problem interviews, and people were enthusiastic. It seemed like almost every team had this issue, and it only got worse as companies grew.<p>6 months later, I had a working beta and some early users. 6 months after that, EnvKey officially launched. Now we have many customers using it happily in production. It’s growing rapidly, and lots of new features are in the pipeline.<p>So that’s the backstory. Now for the good stuff: how it works.<p>With EnvKey, configuring any development or server environment becomes as simple as setting a single environment variable(ENVKEY=F4U4jGkZuo24zKxxgJsR-4f1g2w3VpHYpYC2x). It lets you edit configuration and set access levels for all your company’s apps, environments, and teams in one place with a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop ui.<p>It keeps developers and servers in sync securely and automatically so that people don’t resort to sharing secrets over email, Slack, git, spreadsheets, etc. (a serious security risk, even with 'development' secrets, since the line here is fuzzy). It also removes a whole class of config-related bugs, simplifies updates and secrets rotation, and prevents developers from interrupting each other or getting blocked when they don’t have the latest config.<p>Our servers are not trusted by any EnvKey client and cannot read or modify encrypted configuration (apart from deleting it). Public keys are verified by a web of trust during every crypto operation, and no third party gets access when you invite a new user to the system. The crypto is all vanilla OpenPGP, and all clients are fully open source. The security details are documented here: <a href="https://security.envkey.com" rel="nofollow">https://security.envkey.com</a><p>Apart from the cloud service, we're also working on an on-prem version and a hybrid option that will allow you to store the encrypted config in your own S3 account without having it ever touch our servers.<p>For reliability, we run a high availability Kubernetes cluster on AWS, and also back up encrypted config to S3 in a separate region on every update. If any of the client libraries can’t load from the server for any reason, they’ll fail over directly to S3 (you wouldn’t even notice).<p>Unlike other tools that require heavy lifting on the ops side and complex integrations, EnvKey typically takes less than 15 minutes to setup and integrate. With a line or two of code and an ENVKEY environment variable, all your config can be accessed just like local environment variables in your code.<p>With node, for example, it’s just:<p>$ npm install envkey —save<p>require ‘envkey’ // in main.js<p>Stripe.api_key = process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY // this will always be in sync<p>Other languages (Ruby, Python, Go) work similarly, and there’s also a bash library called envkey-source that lets you set shell environment variables with a single line:<p>eval $(envkey-source)<p>This allows you to use EnvKey with any language. It also pairs well with Docker.<p>If you already use 12-factor or a similar approach, it’s extremely easy to switch. There’s an importer for bringing in your existing config that accepts bash KEY=VAL, json, or yaml format.<p>EnvKey is designed to be both simple <i>and</i> easy, and to make a previously messy and error-prone part of your system into something you hardly ever have to think about because it just works.<p>There are a lot of interesting possibilities for the future. Why are we dealing with API keys in the first place? I think this can all be abstracted over. Imagine that when a developer leaves a company, you click once to remove them, and then all the API keys and credentials they ever had access to are all automatically rotated behind the scenes. Or imagine integrating APIs like Stripe with your whole stack in one click. That’s the kind of thing that EnvKey enables and is why I believe this approach can have a huge impact. I hope you’ll give it a try and tell me what you think! I'm super interested to hear about your ideas and experiences in this area, since HN is obviously one of the places where people are most affected by these issues.
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Title: 88% of people never read the terms and conditions of websites or services they use. However, most people want to know what they are agreeing to in those terms. That is why we created Legal Leaf. We strongly believe that everyone should have easy access to those agreements, in language they can understand.<p>Legal Leaf works behind the scenes, in your browser, to read and summarize these terms using powerful AI. We're constantly working to improve the accuracy of these summaries. The results are displayed in the top right corner without affecting web speeds.<p>Legal Leaf is a beta product still going through development, but it's improving rapidly and we would love a group of willing beta testers.<p><a href="http://leaf.legal" rel="nofollow">http://leaf.legal</a>
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Title: My wife has shown interest in learning how to code in order to find flexible (or, even better, remote) work in the future, i.e. after the kids start going to kindergarten and/or school. She has no prior CS experience and has a Bachelor's in French and Norwegian Literature.<p>I was leaning towards starting her journey with Python, since (1) it's pretty popular and can be used in many different contexts (backend, data analysis, ML, etc.), it's (2) quite beginner friendly, with great learning resources and (3) I have prior experience with it.<p>Lately, however, I started wondering if I shouldn't push her towards front-end, i.e. HTML/CSS and eventually JS and a respectable framework or two. I did some substantial AngularJS projects a while back, so I could support her if we chose this direction. She is quite inclined towards design and has a good sense of color palettes, fonts, arrangements, etc. (IMHO).<p>We are located in Germany, and, as far as I've seen, there are many more freelance jobs looking for JS/Angular/React or similar than anything with Python. That might not be a problem when looking for remote work, but some local customers might be interesting for building her portfolio. I could imagine getting some clients under my name and having her "on the team" for the beginning.<p>Does anybody have any experiences worth sharing? Any pointers, valuable lessons, must-do things?
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Title: This article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576569) was flagged and removed from the news pages.<p>Not even a flimsy excuse was given.<p>It is such an important topic - a person who ran a black site and destroyed the evidence before Congress could see it is now able to look at all our dick pics. This one shouldn't be shoved down the memory hole.<p>My comment on it is permanently compressed (even when the thread is opened in an entirely different browser) and has been stuck on 11 points. It's fucking weird, and I've never seen that on HN before.<p>As another commenter pointed out, informative and well sourced comments on the thread are flagged and grayed to oblivion. While most commenting has stopped since the page disappeared, there are a number of suspicious commenters still deflecting and inciting people in dumb directions.<p>Is this who you are HN?
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We’re Fil, Lambert and Matt, the founders of EasyEmail (<a href="https://easyemail.ai" rel="nofollow">https://easyemail.ai</a>). EasyEmail is a Gmail plug-in that helps you write emails quickly. We train our software with your inbox and quickly suggest what you should write based on your previous responses.<p>We started working on improving how email is used about a year and a half ago, when Fil was organizing the MIT Fall Career Fair, an event for 6,000 people and 450 companies. He was sending 200-300 emails a day and feeling suffocated by the volume. We started chatting about some sort of a solution, and after a long journey (including a car crash on the way to our YC interview!) we finally have a working product and some happy users.<p>Our current product is a Chrome Extension helps you write emails with
two main components: autocomplete, and hotkeys.<p>Autocomplete searches through every sentence you’ve ever sent in the past and suggests 5 sentences you might say at this moment. An example could be me typing “how a” and the autocomplete suggesting “How are you doing?” together with 4 other sentences. This feature turned out to be harder than we expected because users say things that start similarly a lot (I have 207 unique sentences starting with “how a”). The question is how to sort all those sentences so they’re most likely to choose one of the top 5. Our sentence-matching algorithm includes things like frequency, recency, and context from the email you’re replying to.<p>Hotkeys are a quick way to enter snippets of text that you repeat a lot, but that aren’t sentences, like a link that you send a lot, or pieces of text that you send often but don’t merit a new template.<p>It’s very exciting to work on this problem, because email is so universal. That also makes it very hard, because we need to satisfy a lot of different email users. There's also a lot of competition - most prominent is probably SmartReply by Gmail (those 3 buttons saying “sounds good” on your mobile app). The most important difference between us and them is that our suggestions are always personalized, since they come from your own mailbox.<p>This may sound like we’re trying to remove thoughtful emailing by just making our users repeat the same sentences over and over again, but that’s the exact opposite of what we’re going for. Our initial users tend to already send repetitive emails, and we’re just reducing the amount of typing they have to do. The goal is to give everyone more time to put into the non-repetitive parts of emails!<p>We’d absolutely love to hear your thoughts on the product and your experiences in this area. If you’d like to try out our product, it’s easier to go right away to the Chrome webstore: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easyemail-ai/giagehiaomegelcgdpihbdjihofogede" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easyemail-ai/giage...</a>. Please let us know what you think!
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Title: I'm looking to see where geeks hang out in mountain view? Coffee shops, co-working spaces, etc.<p>Suggestions?
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Title: HN is the cream of the high-octane tech intellectual powerforce out there so I have no doubts many and many will contradict my point: online self-education is a delusion because passive enthusiasts and desperate folks do not just really need tools but a purpose or a market. A purpose is needed to apply that knowledge in a domain (but few have a domain knowledge), a market is needed to get money from the effort (but remote work is actually not so easy & available). More in general, the very recent democratisation of knowledge opens the average joes and marys from marginal markets, minorities etc. etc. to a nice range of personal opportunities to climb the ladder but also to exploitation and depression, once they understand they are still where they started from. I want to say that the world still needs local hubs with real persons from different backgrounds with different needs to create and sustain a market, so possibly knowledge dissemination should come on top of other actions to make a real impact for a great number of persons.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm Kevin, co-founder of Pathrise (<a href="https://www.pathrise.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.pathrise.com</a>). Pathrise is an online replacement for career services that helps students get better jobs and make more money. If and only if they get hired during our program, students pay us back a tuition fee of 7% of their income for 1 year.<p>For more context, you can read about us here: <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/09/pathrise-wants-to-be-the-y-combinator-for-tech-students/" rel="nofollow">https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/09/pathrise-wants-to-be-the-...</a>.<p>The problem: universities aren't directly incentivized to get students good jobs since they make all their money in upfront tuition. As a result, college career services centers aren't results-driven and can't properly support their students. Most students are essentially left to figure things out on their own, and they think to themselves, career services are useless. The easiest way to verify this is to ask your average student how many times they've visited their career services center in the last year.<p>In reality, career services (that actually work) are probably one of the highest value things a student can receive. You can take any step of the job search (e.g. online applications), train students on one technique (e.g. lead gen and cold emailing), and produce significant and measurable returns (e.g. we've measured that this technique in particular can 4X response rate from under 5% to over 20%). Pathrise does this with every step of the job-hunting process, from training students from a 2/6 to a 5/6 in technical interviewing scores based on real company rubrics to helping students get a 10%+ higher salary through negotiation.<p>In this sense, we're kind of like YC for students instead of startups. Founders give 7% equity to YC because they know YC will increase their company's prospects by more than 7%. Students give us 7% of their first year's income, and our program is designed to increase their job prospects by more than 7%. They know we'll do everything in our power to provide them that value because we have aligned incentives - we only make money if they do.<p>What this ends up looking like is an online accelerator for students that takes place in 12 monthly batches a year, followed by an average of 3-4 months of support until a student is placed. Instead of focusing on a technical education (like our friends at Lambda School), Pathrise is entirely about optimizing your job search. This involves services like resume review, prospecting, referrals, interview preparation, and negotiation advice. Again, unlike career services today, we track every data point so we can hold ourselves accountable to actually produce significant and measurable value for our students.<p>Thanks for reading! I'd be happy to answer any of your questions and would greatly appreciate your feedback.
Upvote: | 89 |
Title: I've been a proud macbook user for the last 10 years, but I've been using the latest touchbar model for the last 5 months and I'm starting to lose my mind with it. I have 200 dollars worth of dongles, and yet I constantly find myself without the one I need on hand (usually a usb-a to usb-c). Its frustrating as hell . The lack of SD card slot is nothing short of infuriating as well. And.. on top of that OSX on this is a load of garbage and crashes nearly every time I undock from my external monitor.<p>For the first time in 10 years I'm considering trading in my shiny aluminum slate and going back to using a linux/windows machine as my daily driver (or maybe just buying a used 2015 model).<p>What are you using and are you happy with it? What are your recommendations for a good linux daily driver machine with good build quality? Is there anything out there on par with a macbook?
Upvote: | 46 |
Title: I am looking for writings/tutorials/videos which describe a specific technology or feature by implementing them, ideally in no more than few thousands lines of code (and not just 10-20 line code snippets). Idea is to teach about underlying technology by a hands-on project, which is not overwhelming like trying to implement full-feature game engine and yet captures the essence of technology. Some examples are -<p>* Build a simple database (https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/)<p>* Containers in 500 lines (https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html)<p>* Malloc tutorial (https://danluu.com/malloc-tutorial/)<p>* Nativecoin - build your own crypto-currency (https://lhartikk.github.io/)<p>I'm sure there are great such projects/tutorials in domains like networking, filesystem, databases, compiler, web design, messaging, game design, fintech, etc. If you have come across such writings/projects, kindly share.
Upvote: | 576 |
Title: Hi HN — we’re Marlon and Neil, founders of Piccolo (<a href="https://www.piccololabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.piccololabs.com/</a>). Piccolo is a smart camera that lets you control your TV, lamps, fans, speakers, and other devices with simple gestures. For example, you can point at your lamps with your hand to turn them on or off.<p>The two of us have had an interest in computer vision for a long time and were in Udacity’s first self-driving car nanodegree cohort in 2016. We started this as a side project to control one lamp and soon had our entire house connected. For some actions, we found gestures to be much faster and more intuitive. For example, pointing at a lamp to turn it on is way more natural than saying “Hey Alexa, can you turn on my left living room lamp?”<p>To set up Piccolo, you can place it anywhere (near the TV is usually best), and then on the app you can indicate with bounding boxes where the devices are. After that, you connect those same devices (Chromecast, Hue lights, smart plugs, etc.), and you’re good to go. Some processing happens on-device, but the more complicated models are run in the cloud. Since we’re not a security camera, there’s no need to store video and so no image/video data is ever stored.<p>We’re excited about the experiences you can build when you have a camera and apply computer vision techniques. With recent progress in human pose estimation, object classification, and object tracking, there’s really a lot you can do. We’re starting out with gestures, but our goal is to build a platform that lets anyone create and deploy vision apps. Here's a few things we're excited about:<p>- New apps. For example an app that detects medical emergencies (like an elderly person falling). We'd also love an app that can tell you where you left your phone and keys.<p>- App integrations. For example, letting Netflix know which people are in the room to get tailored recommendations for everyone vs. just the person signed in.<p>- Smarter hardware. For example, an Espresso machine that, with one click, makes your favorite drink because it knows who pressed the button.<p>- Voice-vision fusion. You should be able to trigger Alexa just by gazing at the Alexa device instead of saying "Alexa". You should also be able to hold something and say "Order 5 more of these".<p>We're giving away 20 pre-release units next month to anyone that joins the waitlist. We’re happy to answer any questions and look forward to your feedback. If you want to follow up, our emails are [email protected] and [email protected].
Upvote: | 98 |
Title: I commute a lot now and find it much more convenient to listen to a book sometimes. However if it's something non-fiction or technical I understand the value of having a physical copy to be able to grab, or even an ebook to access on screen. Thoughts?
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Title: Hi, we're the founders of Hexel (<a href="https://www.onhexel.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.onhexel.com</a>), in the current YC batch. Our product lets anyone create a cryptocurrency (an ERC20 token on Ethereum). You don't sell it or do an ICO, you just create it and start using it right away. It's supposed to be fun!<p>Cryptocurrency is still in a very experimental phase, but most cryptocurrencies out there seem aimed at a serious, large-scale technical problem (not to mention the get-rich-quick schemes). We're helping people create currencies for interesting things they actually want to try using now.<p>So far, we've seen some cool use cases. To name a few:
A gaming streamer is rewarding his most loyal viewers with tokens they can redeem for shoutouts or merchandise.
A hip hop website is giving tokens to content curators and using them for giveaways.
A few Discord channels have created tokens to use as a form of upvotes in their communities (and we think this could be cool for subreddits too).<p>We also provide tools for managing and tracking the token you make. This is free, but we plan to make money by charging for advanced features in the future. Right now on Hexel, you can do the following:<p>1.) Mint tokens and airdrop them to anyone with an Ethereum address<p>2.) Share a public page for your token, with information and a UI for sending that token to others<p>3.) Explore other tokens created on Hexel, subscribe to the ones you like, and request tokens from the creator<p>4.) Message your token's subscribers with updates or info about things you're doing with your token<p>5.) View a feed of payments made using your token<p>Although the ICO bandwagon and hype have left many people feeling cynical about cryptocurrencies (we feel that way ourselves), we're optimistic that there are many more potential applications and cool use cases out there. Our goal is to widen the space, make it interesting again, and make other use cases easy to explore. We'd love for anyone to poke holes in the use cases you see on the site, and even better would be feedback on use cases were you think this could be really useful. Thanks so much for any ideas you have!<p>Thanks!
John & Marcus
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Title: I am one guy with a web app which makes $14k per year. Is having a blog alongside my website clever marketing or just a waste of my time?
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Title: Hi,
the Irish company I am working for offered me to work remotely.<p>I have heard that in Portugal it is possible to have a very good tax rate 20% with the NHR system.<p>I am a software engineer (Data Scientist).<p>How does the system work? Would I pay 20% on my gross salary?
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: I don't know if I could pinpoint exactly when this started for me, but I realized the other day that I never read the questions when I'm trying to debug something and SO pops up as part of my Google results. I just read the title, then scroll down to the answers to see if any of the proposed code will work for me. Maybe 1 in 50 I'll flip back up to the question to see if a specific variable or setup is mentioned and therefore used in the answer.<p>I have been wondering with the discussion around SO culture and community if maybe this is important. For all the discussion about "good" questions and wanting to archive generally applicable programming advice, would it change the assumptions about the value of either if it turns out that people aren't reading the questions anyway?
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Title: Did you leave your job and then start a business, or was it a side project that evolved into a full-time gig?
Upvote: | 278 |
Title: Facebook is now getting so much negative press, is 2018 the year it will go the way of MySpace... a rapid fall off, a decline in minority?<p>Can Zukerberg turn things around?
Upvote: | 132 |
Title: With over 227 million active paypal accounts why is there seemingly no pressure on them to stop enforcing a password length limit?
Upvote: | 112 |
Title: Hi HN,<p>My name is Cameron Sadler, and I'm one of the founders of TrapFi (<a href="https://www.trapfi.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.trapfi.com</a>). Our service makes it easy for freelance developers to get paid per pull request. Instead of waiting months after work is complete to get paid, freelance devs use us to generate payouts as they work.<p>Nigel, Eric and I have been freelancing on and off for the last five years. It was undoubtedly feast or famine. Late or slow payments from clients made this more difficult. With TrapFi you know precisely when you'll get paid next.<p>Before TrapFi, I ran a co-work space for freelance developers. Here I connected with people who loved freelancing but eventually went back to corporate because cash flow was unpredictable. This was due to most of their contracts having net 30/60/90 terms or clients just flat out paying late (or not paying at all). We searched for tools to solve this problem, but none triggered payouts from clients automatically at the point of work approval.<p>Here's how we solve this:<p>1. Freelancers add clients<p>2. Clients receive a project link where they can connect their bank and track pull request submissions in real-time<p>3. Freelancers complete work, submit a pull request and add an hours' tag (or flat rate) to the PR body (i.e. {TF10} for 10 hours)<p>4. As soon as the client or a repo admin approves your pull requests, we charge the client the amount specified by the tag<p>You can still bill clients for the non-code work that went into a PR using TrapFi's tagging system. Your clients don't have to do anything special to set up this process; they simply receive a link to pay and track the project. When you complete work and they approve it, you get paid automatically. It's money you've earned, delivered instantly.<p>We also automatically generate invoices with line items that link to your PRs for you and your clients. You never have to leave git to get paid. Like most payment tools, we earn a % of each transaction (1.5%). We expect additional revenue to come from a marketplace, where we connect developers with solutions to developers who need work done.<p>We look forward to hearing feedback, ideas and experiences from the HN community. We know there are a lot of freelancers here so our goal is to learn from your experiences and knowledge of the freelance space.
Upvote: | 81 |
Title: I thought this would get better with docker, but it seems to always be a multi-day process to get up and running. How does your team solve this problem and how long does it take a new dev to be writing code?
Upvote: | 46 |
Title: Hi HN,<p>We are Phaedra and Diana of Promise (<a href="http://joinpromise.com/" rel="nofollow">http://joinpromise.com/</a>). We provide a cost-effective, more humane alternative to incarceration.<p>We work for government agencies to monitor and support individuals who would otherwise be in jail or who are under some form of community supervision.<p>There are almost 2.3 million people behind bars in the US and another 4.5+ million people on probation or parole. Almost 450,000 people are in jails pretrial, meaning they have not been convicted of the crime for which they were arrested. The majority of these individuals remain in custody because they cannot afford to pay for their release. This is costly for governments and devastating for the individuals who remain in jail who can lose their job, housing, children and more while incarcerated. Believe it or not, many of these people never even end up being charged with or convicted of a crime.<p>Phaedra had a background in politics (she ran the South Bay Labor Council) and Diana had a background in law (as a criminal defense attorney and co-founder of the Ella Baker Center). We then worked together at a non-profit (Green For All), in the music industry (for the musician Prince) and in technology (at Honor). We decided to start Promise because we saw a huge need for innovation in the criminal justice system and wanted to use what we had learned in tech to build something that actually helps change lives for the better and can scale.<p>Here's how Promise works: We work in partnership with governments who release people from jail on condition that they work with Promise as an alternative to being in custody. We also provide support to people under community supervision. We use an intake assessment to create an individualized plan that is based on the risks and needs of each participant. We provide each participant with an app and a wearable tracking device (only when required). Our goal is to always use the least restrictive means necessary and to use a step-up, step-down approach: that is, we reduce restrictions when possible and increase only when needed. While there are still restrictions on freedom, participants will no longer be in custody so that they can return to their jobs, families, and communities until their case is resolved or they no longer have any required supervision.<p>We then monitor and support participants to help them succeed with their plans. We provide an intelligent calendar of their obligations (court appearances, drug testing, substance abuse treatment, etc.) and adaptive reminders to help them meet these obligations. Research and experience have shown that simple intervention like this does work: for example, it makes people more likely to get to court. We also provide referrals and support so participants can receive services that may help (job training/placement, housing, counseling, etc.). We provide reports to courts or other involved parties as needed. We also allow the participants to easily view their upcoming obligations, overall plan and progress on their plan.<p>We believe this approach can support participants' needs, keep communities safer, and provide a cost-effective and more humane alternative to incarceration in the US. Our business model is simple: we charge governments a fee. Incarceration is so expensive that we can make a profit and still save governments—and ultimately tax payers—money.<p>We would love to get feedback on Promise and in particular to hear about your ideas and experiences in this area, whether working in government agencies, selling to such agencies or as individuals who have been impacted by this system. There is a huge amount of work to be done here!<p>Thank you!!
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Title: a few years ago i posted a question:<p>Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS @ 30+ ?
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7997624 )<p>after reading all the answers and recommendations, i decided to study CS in 2015.<p>it was quite challenging in every sense: time/money management, high drop-out rates (~80% fail or stop studying cs at my university), lack of math skills - school was far far away.<p>now, i finished it and i can say, i definitely don't regret it. it sharpened my mind and changed my mindset in a positive way. i've got absolutely no problems finding job offers (mainly as consultat or junior software engineers (i.e. IBM)) although i am now in my mid-thirties.<p>thank you, hn community
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Title: Today Youtube has started to roll out bans on gun sales, accessories and howto channels. Reddit followed with multiple bans on content including sales of multiple products.<p>Youtube policy update.<p>https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605?hl=en<p>Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g.,
private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items. These accessories include but may not be limited to accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (e.g., bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, conversion kits), and high capacity magazines (i.e., magazines or belts carrying more than 30 rounds).<p>Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above.<p>This also includes instructions on how to convert a firearm to automatic or simulated automatic firing capabilities.<p>Shows users how to install the above-mentioned accessories or modifications.<p>Reddit policy update.<p>https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/863xcj/new_addition_to_sitewide_rules_regarding_the_use/<p>We want to let you know that we have made a new addition to our content policy forbidding transactions for certain goods and services. As of today, users may not use Reddit to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services, including:<p><pre><code> * Firearms, ammunition, or explosives;
* Drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, or any controlled substances
* Paid services involving physical sexual contact;
* Stolen goods;
* Personal information;
* Falsified official documents or currency</code></pre>
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Title: With a plethora of resources on google, Quora and HN, I would love to know :-<p>1. Detailed roadmaps for a beginner
2. Prerequisites and resources for every topic.
3. How you taught yourself Machine Learning.
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Title: I've been off work for a year, and been doing minor projects/freelancing for some small companies as I backpack and travel around Asia.<p>Recently, I've been trying to find remote gigs/office jobs, and I've gotten feedback that my resume gap is troublesome.<p>I pass tech interviews, and I've gotten an offer or two that I declined due to not meeting salary/lifestyle requirements (but now looking back maybe I should've taken them.)<p>Should I just add a few projects I did on my resume? They're really minor and involve basic Windows sysadmin stuff that can be done in a week or two.<p>Or, alternatively, how do I re-word it so it doesn't seem like I'm desperate? I've had recruiters from the typical bucketshops of Apex, Cybercoders and misc say "you're a good candidate but that gap is troublesome" in not so nice words.
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Title: Facebook for me is mainly a self updating address book. So is there any other recommended service that could possibly even import all or some of my FB data and is able to help keep in touch with my acquantances?
Upvote: | 54 |
Title: I'm a software engineer with a full-time job, but I have lots of spare time in my off hours. I'd like to monetize this time, but finding freelance work has been extremely daunting.<p>I don't have a ton of networking skills, so I don't have a network I can tap for opportunities. I don't really know how to find opportunities otherwise. I have the approvals I need from my full-time job to do this, but it's still not something where I want to splash my name all over the place. I also don't have a lot of public code, so no big portfolio I can point people to.<p>I'm not looking for massive pay, just something to occupy my time and some side money. But I want to leverage my skills, not do mechanical turk work.<p>How do you find freelance work?
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Title: I'm confused. When I read these pieces, the CLOUD Act seems like a huge deal, but it's no where on Hacker News. Can anyone share a TL;DR -- how concerned should I be?<p>https://actionnetwork.org/letters/congress-is-trying-to-sneak-through-a-new-bill-that-would-hand-police-in-the-us-and-around-the-world-extreme-spying-powers<p>https://gizmodo.com/congress-rushes-to-pass-spending-bill-packed-with-disas-1823988864<p>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-expansion-police-snooping-cross-border-data
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Title: Can somebody explain to me why the Slack app drains >3.5GBs of memory.<p>I am using the version 3.1.0 on 10.10.5 OSX.<p>Am I the only "lucky" user getting such a poor memory performance?
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Title: As much as I want to comply to GDPR, I think its articles difficult to understand, like many other law documents.<p>https://gdpr-info.eu/<p>As an engineer, I found it is very difficult to translate from the regulation text to code, to actual implementation.<p>Taking the following statement as an example:<p>https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/<p>>>><p>(Personal data shall be) processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’).<p>===<p>"In a manner". In what manner?<p>What's "appropriate security" and "appropriate technical measures"? How to interpret it? There seems to be much flexibility?<p>Every website has some security measures to protect data to certain degree. How do I know if that's "appropriate" or enough to meet GDPR?<p>Do I need symmetric encryption? Or Do I need asymmetric encryption? Which kind of crypto hash is considered "appropriate"? What if I use a database which is insecure by flaws, but I don't know or don't have the technical strength to know it? What if encryption on my backend caused performance penalty? What if I run a hosted, non-profit BBS based on certain open source BBS program that might be insecure? Should I patch the server with OS Update JKB8948, which is known to fix a security hole but opens another? is it an "appropriate measure"?<p>I found this regulation put too much burden on small businesses. Just to understand this GDPR text may require consulting cost. What if this law will be abused as a tactic to attack business competitions? I'm worried.<p>How do you understand this "security appropriateness" of the above text? How can you be sure your understanding is correct?
Upvote: | 71 |
Title: Mon-Fri - Up by 8 am EST and asleep by 3 am to 3:30 am the following day
Sat-Sun - Up by 11 am EST and asleep by 1:00 am the following day.<p>My schedule looks like this by choice. During the day, I'm a software consultant, and by night I'm working on my product. I know, it doesn't sound as cool as me saying "superhero by night."<p>I find it hard to sleep when I have something that needs to get done, outstanding questions, or worse.. when I'm just "that close" to having something completed that brings my ideas to life.<p>What is your schedule like and what keeps you up at night?<p>P.S., I don't buy into the idea if you don't share my schedule, you're not working hard.
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Title: Hey everyone! I'm a self-taught full-stack web developer. I've spent the past few years learning webdev, working on personal projects, and building a portfolio (https://startuplab.io/portfolio).<p>Now I want to find good clients, or work remotely for a startup, and to do that I need to make a resume(or CV?).<p>So I wanted to ask a few questions:<p>- What should I put on my resume?<p>- Can you share some examples of how a great resume should look like?<p>- What are some of the best tools for making one?<p>- What do you look for when deciding to hire a developer?<p>- Can you share some advice that would help me increase my chances of finding a good job?
Upvote: | 161 |
Title: Over the last 6 months, I've been building a lightweight automation product called plainflow.com<p>You?
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Title: Specifically, does HN/Y Combinator plan to allow contributors from the EU to request their contributed content to be deleted after May 25?<p>Note that they currently do not allow bulk deletes of one contributor's messages, "as that would wreck havoc in the discussion threads".<p>Basically you can ask nicely to delete some few posts, but if you want to delete all of your contributions you will get a no. This is at odds with the GDPR.
Upvote: | 81 |
Title: I've been writing code forever but took a break to pursue some other interests. Now I'm ready to come back.<p>I'm looking for an open-source project to busy myself with while I resume networking and freelancing.<p>Ideally, I'd like to revive an practical OSS project that's been abandoned. Something useful but left untended for whatever reason.<p>What are some candidates? What project is broadly useful but seems to have lost its maintainer or their interest? What do you wish somebody was actively working on so that you didn't have to?<p>I've chosen not to offer constraints so that this can be more of a wishlist for the community than an answer just for me. I know there's some other people out there that would be eager to do the same thing I am.<p>Thanks, all!
Upvote: | 54 |
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