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Title: because switching to another email provider is not enough if most people are still using gmail...
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Title: There are lot of stories about success but I wanted to know about any failure stories.
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Title: In first quarter of 2018, what percentage of you users have been using social login (Facebook/google/etc) for you projects? I've never liked the idea of using social login as a customer, but I don't want to alienate users as a dev.
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Title: I'm curious what you consider your "mission" in life & work?<p>I recently read "So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love" by Cal Newport [1].<p>The book is divided in different "rules". Rule #4 states that having a "mission" is important to having a meaningful and happy life, which, I understand and can agree with.
Chapter 12 uses Padris Sabeti, a "Professor @harvard @broadinstitute using computational genomics to understand & impact infectious disease." [2], as an example. The chapter tells her story and concludes with her having a clear mission "to use new technology to fight old diseases".<p>I try from time to time to take a few steps back and review my own career and the path it's taking. Having my own mission statement seems to fit into this review process quite nicely.
Currently, my most accurate mission would be something the lines "(using new technology) to help people build what they themselves can't build".<p>I find this an interesting topic and simply wanted to know if any of you was willing to share their own "mission" :)<p>Thanks in advance for your precious time! =)<p>- [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-can-t-ignore-you<p>- [2] https://twitter.com/pardissabeti<p>// edit: formatting
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Title: Hi,
I am an undergradute student of Applied Mathematics in Brazil. This semester, I will do a Real Analysis course and I am keen on learning this subject!<p>I love HackerNews. This is a great community with awesome people and marvelous content going on. It would be nice to receive some advice from you guys.<p>The professor is using the book "Analysis", from Terrence Tao. I am looking forward to supplementary material that will help me absorb this and gain some intuition.<p>1 - Is there a YouTube content particularly good for this topic?<p>2 - Is there some specific good strategy to study Analysis?<p>I really like to study doing exercises and, then, checking the answer. Not just the final answer but the whole answer.<p>This is not always available. Slader is a great website for that. Maybe there is an even a better resource than Slader that I do not know.<p>Thanks in advance!
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Title: I want to query the web based on specific criteria (ie keywords), no what Google or Bing <i>thinks</i> I <i>really</i> meant.<p>Ideally I'd love an interface to a large database including the text in each webpage that has been crawled. But something like Google the way it was 10 years ago will still work. Are there any such search engines left? Even ddg is switching to semantic/NLP results.
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Title: You can find around 500+ data structure and algorithms problems here (http://www.techiedelight.com/list-of-problems/) that are helpful to improve your algorithmic skills and also to crack coding interview of top tech companies.<p>From: Discussion on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/86seey/i_would_like_to_share_500_data_structure_and/
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Title: I am currently a first year student at university and wondering what I can do in the next few years to get a career that is not in corporate America. I know that the obvious answer is to start a startup, but wondering if you all have other unorthodox jobs.<p>My dream has always been to work as a creative. Although I am currently in the business school (parent wanted me to), I have a huge passion for user research, graphic design, and more recently web development.<p>Thinking about switching out of business school as I have no interest in becoming a consultant or investment banker. In all honestly I do not think I am good enough at math to switch to the engineering school and do computer science. I am taking computer science classes which I really enjoy, but I don't really want to take calculus 3 or differential equations.<p>Curious to hear the opinions of this community.
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Title: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/<p>The only thing keeping me with google is gdocs. But I'd rather not keep my private data with them. Libre office online does not appear in google search an an alternative and hn has mostly ignored it. Is it not ready for prime time?
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Title: How do they feel about Facebook's business practices etc?
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Title: I 'left' Facebook a couple of years ago, but only deactivated my profile at the time. Today I decided to delete it fully. Maybe I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but whatever, I've been meaning to do it for a while.<p>I went to log in but had forgotten that I used to use the Facebook app for 2-factor auth. I've also changed my phone number so I couldn't receive a code via SMS. I do have the recovery codes [0] from when I set up 2-factor auth, but cannot find any part of the login process that will accept a recovery code.<p>I then received an email from Facebook saying "Welcome Back to Facebook", telling me my account has been reactivated! Despite the fact that I never successfully logged in to my account. So apparently my profile is now back out there on Facebook, and there's nothing I can do about it until I (somehow) gain access to the account.<p>There seem to be two huge flaws here:<p>1. Why can't I log into my 2-factor protected account using saved recovery codes? That's what they're there for. (if anyone knows how to do this, please share!)<p>2. It seems anyone can reactivate a deactivated Facebook account by simply attempting to log in? <i>EDIT: Perhaps it reactivated because I gave a correct username and password, but it still shouldn't do this until after the 2FA step</i><p>This seems like yet another dark UX pattern / security flaw from Facebook.<p>Just another reason to #deleteFacebook... (if only I could)<p>[0] https://www.facebook.com/help/www/148104135383285?helpref=faq_content&rdrhc
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Title: Adobe has sort of a monopoly on the creative tools market. Nobody seriously considers an alternative for their Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc, and for some people, these are truly the only products which can satisfy their sophisticated needs. However, there are more and more small (independent) creators of all kinds, who do not need all the uber features of the professional products but would rather appreciate an intuitive UI, cheaper price, and friendlier customer support. Every kid today is either a blogger, vlogger or web designer and it seems to me like quite a big market that would easily turn away from Adobe, had anyone created an alternative product with 40% of functionality that works flawlessly (!).<p>I recently had to interact with Adobe support, and my experience was quite terrible. I was also looking for a simple software to stitch together my GoPro videos but was left out with either free iMovie/Quick, which are too basic or a super-expensive Premiere.
Both times I was wondering, how come there's only Adobe on the market, why nobody dares to compete with them. So, HN, what do you think, why?<p>P.S.
I tried using Pixelmator (non-free), GIMP, OpenShot and a few more open-source editors - they don't stand the competition.
On the other hand, I use and love Sketch, and would really appreciate Sketch-grade competitors for the above mentioned Adobe products.
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Title: After Brian Krebs published an article about coinhive, in which he also revealed the identity of the people behind pr0gramm.com, a german imageboard, the users are expressing their protest by donating to the german "Krebshilfe" (Krebs is german for cancer) with the subject "Krebs ist scheiße >_" (Krebs is shit and the pr0gramm-Logo). This lead not only to ten-thousends of euros in donations but also crashes the servers of the NPO and also of pr0gramm, as the users are uploading pictures of their donations to the board. German source: http://www.t-online.de/digital/internet/id_83466874/pr0gramm-community-laesst-mit-spenden-gegen-krebs-seite-der-krebshilfe-abstuerzen.html
Hashtag on Twitter is #krebsiscancer
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Title: I studied a business degree but taught myself Ruby at some point. I loved it so much that at some point I joined a company and became a full-time Rails developer, but because of my background, I moved into a product owner (customer-facing) role after a year.<p>Currently, I'm working as a scrum master at a different company in a different country. While I enjoy this, I get this crazy and fleeting desire about once a month to just jump back into full-time development. When I then seriously consider this, my partner tells me to just do it as a hobby (which is sound advice for a variety of reasons).<p>The problem with "just programming as a hobby" is that I lack a good goal (I'm not the kind of person who can't just program for the sake of programming - I want to actually make something).<p>So, how do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?
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Title: Ask HN: With the GDPR coming, the 'right to be forgotten', and the FB privacy flare-up, will HN ever allow comment and account deletions?
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Title: Looking to hear where else you are visiting.<p>I flip between Reddit, HN, and instagram. Currently losing interest in IG since I feel like I see lots of repeated content.<p>Where else are you visiting?
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Title: Some of mine:<p>Tim Ferriss with Naval Ravikant, also Naval with Shane Parrish/Farnam Street - who: people interested in business, philosophy, and self-improvement<p>Austin Allred with on IndieHackers - who: people who want to hear about a cool business and a thoughtful founder<p>Tim Ferriss with James Fadiman - people interested in psychedelics
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Title: I have read Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, anything else?
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Title: Software development companies are often willing to hire developers who need a lot of guidance and direction. (Developers who can’t excel without help.) But a large segment of these companies have no strategy or program in place to help such developers reach proficiency and independence.<p>What are some good, holistic approaches for helping train up-and-coming developers all the way to “senior developer” skill level?
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Title: I've been unemployed for 12 months, went to jail 7 months ago for 2 months, applied for dozens of jobs per week for the past 5 months straight, and almost every single one of them has turned me down because I have a felony.<p>I've tried not disclosing it, disclosing it early, disclosing it in the middle of the interview process, and disclosing it at the end when they make me an offer. They all turn me down.<p>Half of them are judgmental turn-downs - they won't return my call and never get back to me, because they think poorly of me.<p>Half are policy - Goldman Sachs made me an offer last month, but withdrew it this morning due to their policy against hiring felons.<p>I only have enough money to last us through April, and that's literally because our local parish gave us a $1,000 check out of nowhere, which adds to what's left over from our tax return.<p>I'm a hard worker with a wife and 5 kids to support. I just need a job, but nobody will hire me due to my background. Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated. Especially any pointers on where to actually find a job.<p>Because I'm still on probation, I can't move out of state and can either work remote or local (greater Chicago area). Most of the jobs out here require 3+ years in C# which I don't have and don't feel comfortable lying about either.<p>For more background, the felony is from flashing someone (while drunk) who was just under 17 years old. This was the second offense (the other was years ago). They are inexcusable and disgusting offenses, but they are permanently on my background.<p>EDIT #1: my crime was in 4 local major newspapers, and all 4 online news articles show up when you google my name, so hiding my background is not really a possibility here. About 4 months ago, a small local software firm, which would have been an amazing job, said "I know you said you're looking for 70k, but we'd like to offer you 75k", and I asked them to give me a few days to think it over, which he was happy to do. Then they never responded to my calls after that, presumably because they found out about this.<p>EDIT #2: I am no longer able to reply to anyone here, since HN now says "slow down, you're posting too fast" when I try, so, um, sorry if I don't reply to you before that resets (probably tomorrow).
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Title: Has anyone of you guys gotten that message?<p>I'm still not sure why they targeted me nor how? I'm neither famous nor a journalist or blogger or scientist or something like that.<p>Nonetheless,what can I do to find out how they tried it? Or if they broke in or if my network is comprised?<p>And what can I do to prevent in future? Beside 2fa.
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Title: Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
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Title: Working in a corporate enterprise type environment. Very crufty. Unfortunately my application environment, which is very modern, relies on an old, old corporate DB. I have spoken with the dbadmins and they are not willing to help out to make things more reliable, they're pretty siloed off from everything else and don't answer to anyone to help. The team has no SLOs and the best I can see is about 90% uptime. In the end this may be a policy question, but for the short term I need to manage reliability of my applications so I can hit my SLOs.<p>So from my perspective, how do I manage this? Back up the DBs in my environment as best as possible and serve traffic from there, or cache everything? Data is constantly being added to the old DB, which holds user data. I was thinking about creating a bunch of DB shards in my environment with LBs in front of them with long-lived connections to the old DB, and if the user makes a request, if the old DB is down, serve from the backup shard. Maybe sharding is too complicated for this scenario. Advice?
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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:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: I really enjoy reading articles like these:<p>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis<p>https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/
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Title: I just noticed this. HTTP 301s to HTTPS. I say "quietly" because I can't find any official announcement.
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Title: I'm looking to follow a few more people from my GNU Social instance. Who do you follow, and why?
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Title: January 19 2001 - at 07:53:56 in the morning - i first logged in to Discworld MUD. This was about ten years after it first launched. Since this date I have spent roughly 20000 hours actively playing this game and I'm not even close to "winning" or "finishing" the game.<p>No matter when you login there's roughly at least 100 people logged in playing. It's social people from all around the world.<p>I just felt like writing a sentence about this game to spread the word a bit. Games evolve so quickly these days. New games are released daily making all other games obsolete. Discworld MUD however has a quality I still haven't found in any other game - be it World of Warcraft, Elder scroll online, TERA or whatever. Discworld MUD is a game with so many small variations that you can never finish - and even now, 27 years after it was first launched, you can still create a new char that is possibly unique compared to any other that ever played.<p>Have a nice day!<p>( Link: http://discworld.starturtle.net/ )
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Title: I chat with my teammates (who are ready to agree on a particular messenger)<p>So, far we've tried<p>1. Telegram - The problem here is that E2E encrypted messaging (secret chat) is not available on the desktop.<p>2. Tox - Works everywhere but qtox crashes randomly on Mac. Antox also doesn't work well on Android either. Utox crashes randomly on Linux. Qtox has no way to disable notification on Linux.<p>3. Whatsapp - You always need your phone android<p>4. Signal - Message syncs is very slow if you switch between desktop/phone often.<p>I've reported these issues to all these projects but it's been a long time and nothing resolved so far.<p>The situation is still pathetic. What do you recommend?
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Title: How many of you have received contracting or job leads purely from blogs/articles you've written? What sort of posts were they, and for what sort of client? Are they heavily domain-specific, or more broad in nature? How valuable is this as a source of leads vs. other means (e.g. in-person networking, referrals by past clients, etc.). Do you have other advice here?<p>My own short story stolen from a co-worker: they had written an article on basic vagrant setup of popular open-source online school software (think edX, Canvas, etc.). This had eventually resulted in a contact by an agency doing work on that platform, who needed contract hours. I was always struck by how relatively "cheap" an ad this article was, and liked that it did provide value in the dev community.
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Title: What books do you find yourself referring to frequently? Any field, not just software engineering.
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Title: I am interested in pursuing an entrepreneurial side-project hopefully serving a business problem rather than a consumer-facing service.<p>I really enjoy researching different industries and learning about how systems operate, but I've found it's hard to identify specific areas of inefficiency/pain points that I could solve with software. Short of getting a job in that industry, does anyone have any methods for gaining the level of insight where they are able to confidently identify problems and begin sketching solutions?<p>Things I have tried so far are reading trade journals, blog posts and books, but those don't really provide the level of insight I'm hoping for.
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Title: We are in month 20 of our busines and I’d like to think we have achieved positive things both with technology and commercially (£1m+ ARR and profitable).<p>I’m a software engineer and also the CEO, we have a great team (mainly all tech) and our product is great to work on and use, customers really like it.<p>I get home and feel like this is really difficult to keep up.<p>We have lots of things to do and it feels like we don’t have time to do it all which leads me to being sat here at home on the sofa in a state of questioning whether I’m over reacting at the subtle elements of start up life. I feel like “gah, what am I doing here?”. People need things from me constantly and I try get through as much as possible, delegating where I can.<p>I have co-founders who are amazing at their technical job but don’t seem to have that same feeling as me. They are driven but I feel like maybe they don’t drive forward or worry “in a good way” about the next thing that needs to be done to continue to grow.<p>I guess as I’m writing this it feels as though I’m saying: “I feel it’s all on my shoulders and it’s heavy, getting heavier by the day”.<p>Is this a normal occurrence in these situations? How do I relieve the pressure?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (<a href="http://aigrant.org" rel="nofollow">http://aigrant.org</a>). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: <a href="http://aigrant.org/#finalists" rel="nofollow">http://aigrant.org/#finalists</a>. We just started accepting applications for our third batch!<p>The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete.<p>AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply in under an hour. Fellows get:<p><pre><code> - $2,500 in cash.
- $20,000 each in Google Compute Engine credits.
- $5k in CrowdFlower data labeling credits.
- ScaleAPI data labeling credits.
- Access to the network of other Fellows
</code></pre>
Our long term goal is to build an online community of people working on interesting side-projects in AI, supporting each other. We've built some infrastructure around this (chatrooms, group video conferences). We'll continue to expand this over time. I'd be very curious to know what HN thinks about this idea, and how we might make it better.
Thanks!
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Title: I almost never come across women on HN in the comments section or anywhere else.
I am interested in knowing about women in tech and their journey, stories and challenges.<p>Feel free to share anything you like.
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Title: If you were about to start building a very vital brand new application for your company that needs to be maintained long term what tech stack would you choose? Put aside what devs at your company may already be comfortable with and lay out what you think is best.<p>When I ask tech stack I'm talking the whole dam thing, for example:<p>DB engine : ie MySQL, Postgres<p>API layer : ie Node w/joy, Java w/spring, PHP w/laravel, Elixer w/phoenix<p>Frontend SPA : ie React, Vue (do you use typescript or flow, webpack etc)<p>Caching : ie Redis, Mongo<p>PaaS : ie AWS, Google, Azure<p>Interested to hear your thoughts, and don't want any flame wars stating x is always better than y etc.<p>Feel free to just specify the stack but better to also back up why you think it is best in a few sentences.
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Title: Asking from the point of view of the employee: how many days a year do you actually take as annual leave? Please provide company name or country if possible. Asking for a friend.
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Title: What techniques would you use to build an internet scale web crawler/search engine.<p>* How would you schedule and manage the crawlers?<p>* How would you collect and parse incoming data?<p>* What would you use to store the data?<p>* How would you process and draw meaning from the data?<p>* What information would be important to build a pagerank system for searching?<p>* What other major components are missing?
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Title: I'll start:<p>My friend's first startup took a dive after spending $80,000 to work with a local development company. It turned out the development firm was just a front to outsource all of the work overseas and take a big cut.<p>Long story short, 5 months later he ended up with no app, no money, and a lawsuit that he couldn't much afford.<p>Has anyone else had an experience like this?
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Title: I work on an open source project with a small community.
https://github.com/jtablesaw/tablesaw<p>I want a place for our users to hold discussions, ask questions, etc, that aren't bug reports or feature requests. We'd be lost at Stack Exchange, as the community is too small.
I'm looking for an app like Discourse that is integrated with github. I've used gitter on other projects, and found the endless stream format awkward. What do you use for your projects? The only 'must haves' are sign-on-with-github-account, and asynch communications.
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Title: Currently, programming languages seem to be largely isolating[0] and invariant rather than inflected[1].<p>Could operands such as variable names be usefully inflected (probably agglutinatively[2] for simplicity's sake) to indicate type or other contextual constraints?<p>How about more extensive stacking[3] of operators (an existing example would be += that combines addition and assignment) the way some languages do verbs?<p>Could we use tenses[4] somehow to make parallel and concurrent programming easier?<p>Could articles[5] be used to do things like pass variables or instantiate objects?<p>Anyway, there seem to be opportunities to make programming languages more expressive by borrowing human language features rather than using ever more complex typographical conventions. What do you think?<p>[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language<p>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection<p>[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language<p>[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_verb_construction<p>[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense<p>[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)
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Title: Is anyone still using meteor.js or planning on using it? Any advantages over just using node?
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Title: I've been taking a break from working to relax and visit some friends in a few countries. So I don't have a lot of money, but with my newfound free time, I've been inspired to take a shot at a few ideas I've always wanted to build.<p>One idea is particularly media heavy. I have 5+ TB of media that I'd like to build something around.<p>Services like S3 are pretty expensive, especially bandwidth. Backblaze has been trying to market their storage solution (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html) against S3.<p>But I can get even cheaper by using low quality hardware and bandwidth like Kimsufi's 2TB machines for $10/mo (https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml).<p>Does anyone have another ideas for stretching a dollar?
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Title: From business perspective, I am simply tired of $5.99 domain register fee that turns $59.99 a year later.<p>Then comes the security aspects, after all, the NS records are to be managed by the registrar.<p>So, kindly share where have you chosen to run your domains, and I am sure the community will benefit of hearing about a decent domain name service.
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Title: Hi,<p>I'm writing this on my late 2012 MacBook Pro. Time goes by and I know rather sooner than later I'll need to replace it with a new machine. In 2012 I paid around 1000$ for MacBook Pro + Samsung SSD (256GB) + 16GB RAM, I made modifications on my own.<p>I check notebookcheck from time to time. I read reviews, opinions about new laptops. The point is, I don't know if there is any machine that could be recommended in reasonable price. At work I'm using some new MacBook Pro which (i5/16GB/128GB SSD) which is noticeably slower than my current machine.<p>Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it's even worse). From time to time I work on web projects, so handling several instances of docker shouldn't be a problem for a new machine. I prefer Linux over MacOs over Windows, so good support for Ubuntu/Fedora would be nice.<p>I checked some computers in details but most of them fail in one or more aspects:
- hinges - MacBook has superior hinges, if I pay more than 1000 - 1500$ I expect to have great hinges
- price
- performance
- Linux support<p>Price is quite important for me, I'm from Eastern Europe. What computer would you recommend in, let's say, <2000$ ?
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Title: I'm looking for peer to peer framework recommendations to build a distributed app. In particular, a framework that supports seeds and peer discovery, message passing, maybe firewall / UPNP support, etc.<p>I'm not particular about language (Java, Go, Javascript, etc), since it's for a new project. I found this thread from 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145691), it had some interesting recommendations, but quite a few were out of date, and with the big push to distributed apps nowadays, I thought it might be a good time to readdress the topic.<p>Some of the solutions form the other thread or that I've found:<p>- Smokesignal (Javascript / Node, not updated in >10 months) https://github.com/marcelklehr/smokesignal<p>- ZeroTier: https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml<p>- Maki: https://maki.io<p>- Telehash: http://telehash.org/<p>- A whole host of blockchain projects, Bitcoin, Ethereum, HyperLedger, Scorex (Scala blockchain)<p>Bitcoin is an interesting option, it certainly has a large user base and is well tested and secure code, but forking it has it's own set of issues.
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Title: I am learning English. My communication skills are not good. How can I improve and become fluent in English?
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Title: 1. Apple iCloud Documents<p>2. Dropbox Personal<p>3. Dropbox Business<p>4. Google Drive<p>I have bits and pieces on each service. I’m interested in decluttering. Which should I choose?
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Title: I'm a 26 year old software developer with no degree from Canada. Navigating the waters of under 30 work permit visas for all European countries is turning out to be quite complex and I feel like I'm missing information.<p>My goal is to find work and live in a European country before age 30, ideally with a possible path to stay. If you have information on non-euro countries, I'd be very curious about that as well.<p>Part of the confusing bit is that some countries have working holiday visas with no highly skilled restrictions, Germany has the blue card and specific restrictions, all have separate skilled worker (with qualification) permits, and the list goes on. I feel like the job market is good, but I have no idea where I stand.
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Title: Amazon FBA, Dropshipping etc. Please share your stories.
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Title: I'm in my early 40s and live in a rental condo with my family in a West Coast city. I have a high paying job in one of the FANG companies, making close to 500K/year. At the same time, I have a decent amount of savings (600K 401k and 1.1M in cash in my bank account from a property sale).<p>The only problem is that I can't really stand my job. I had prestigious positions in other major companies but I pretty much hated them all.<p>Yes, I should be thankful to have a gig at a major tech company. But just because I'm okay at what I do and was able to profit from my skills, it doesn't mean that I like it...<p>I'm considering moving to a cheaper area of the country (also due to family reasons) to start my own company. I'm not ready to share what I'll do, but just for the sake of my question, it will be something I love with a risk profile similar to creating a mobile game company - high chance of failure, average to low chance of making some money and low, but not zero, chance of making a lot of money. I'm decent at this particular activity, but not world class (yet)! This company will need at least 2-3 years before actually having a chance to make good money. Due to my savings, I can wait this much and then some.<p>The reason I'm writing this is because I'm panicking at the prospect of throwing away my high income, high stress, low happiness career for a risky enterprise that will likely not work out. I'm particularly concerned about having to come back to the job market if my company fails, likely working on an even worse job outside the major tech centers (the bright side is that if the company fails, given its small costs, I'll still have ~500K in bank)<p>My question is: has anyone here, in a similar situation, done something like this? And if your company failed, have you been able to come back to the market in a good situation?
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Title: When first learning to program (back in high school 10+ years ago) I played around a lot with JavaScript, building 'cool' websites that did all kinds of things in JavaScript. I haven't really touched it since.<p>I moved on to Java and now program professionally in Python and C++ (desktop apps development) and do some webapps development as side projects.<p>I've found myself doing lots of data visualisation and analysis (performance benchmarking etc) and for the most part I used Matlab and various python libraries to achieve this - but I've been lately using the great Charts.js library. I would love to get up to speed with how 'modern' JS works for frontend development. I'm not so concerned with learning particular frameworks in depth (but should I be?) - moreover what particular programming/design paradigms are considered the most effective?<p>What resources have people in a similar situation to me found to be useful?
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Title: FB should definitely be held to the fire, but it frustrates me that there is more momentum to regulate FB and prevent a similar situation than what happened with Equifax.<p>The latter has more implication on damaging a person's prospects of living productively in society (think about all the stuff your credit score impacts) than the Facebook data leak.<p>At least FB is voluntary - you can't opt out of social security numbers.
Upvote: | 116 |
Title: In the world of collaborative systems and wikis, what are some good resources for learning how to organize and structure knowledge at a company level?
Upvote: | 190 |
Title: Recently there was a thread about someone making ~$500k/year at a FAANG company and seeing that there's people who hang out here and make ~$300k/year I always have questions for high income earners. Since I don't know any personally (or at least I think I don't) I'm hoping some are lurking and willing to answer some questions. I've set it to $300k because I think at this range the salary is exceptional even in LA/SF/NYC.<p>These are my questions and I'm adding my own answers though my income is not really in this range; some are slightly fudged to prevent de-anonymizing.<p>* What do you do?<p>* What is your job title?<p>* What is your total comp?<p>* Who do you work for?<p>* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?<p>* How long did it take you to get here?<p>* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?<p>* What do you do?<p>- I do frontend development for financial applications; think trader dashboards, openfin, etc. I have done backend work previously and actually prefer it to frontend work<p>* What is your job title?<p>- Associate; a generic corporate title in banking<p>* What is your total comp?<p>- Last year I made $118k including my yearly bonus and 401k matching<p>* Who do you work for?<p>- JPMorgan<p>* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?<p>- A large Texas city; one of Dallas/Houston/San Antonio<p>* How long did it take you to get here?<p>- 5 years from my first job as a developer<p>* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?<p>- It's been a gradual climb; whenever I feel there's no more to learn at my current job I look for another, each move included a pay bump. This job I managed through an acquaintance who offered to put my resume in although I was not looking for a job at the time
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Title: Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.
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Title: A common fear I hear from people who don't want to open-source their projects is that a competitor might steal their code. I've personally never heard of this happening, but I'd be interested to hear any stories about it.
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Title: Looking for something where the Value of the Product is shown in real time like Grammarly's Text correction.
Upvote: | 76 |
Title: Reddit is pushing the new redesign which seems half-baked attempt at competing with facebook.
What sites/forums can be considered as alternative to reddit or its parts?
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Title: Curious about what other people do to maintain the energy (and money) to work on side projects after work. What's your side project working schedule like?
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Title: Would love to hear any tips from someone who has made the transition successfully (or unsuccessfully!).
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Title: Hey guys,<p>I'm trying to find a tool/a way to add notes while I'm at work(code snippets mostly). For those of you who already do this can you recommend me one?<p>I tried gist.github.com, but I don't really like the UI. I'm checking boostnote.io, but I'm curious if there are better ways/tools for doing that.
Upvote: | 60 |
Title: Could be related to software engineering or any other field that is enabled via technology.<p>Do include a link to the talk if it is available online.
Upvote: | 701 |
Title: Do you do Code Review? Any good tool or suggestion?
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Title: Proponents of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum argue that we need to have fully decentralized systems. While these systems are operational and decentralized, they have an abysmally low performance. At the moment Bitcoin can only process 3 transactions per second, and Ethereum can only handle 15 transactions per second globally for all applications.<p>At the same time, we already have less decentralized systems like Ripple (for payments) and NEO (for decentralized applications and smart contracts). The performance of these protocols is orders of magnitude higher than the performance of fully decentralized systems. For example, NEO at its current state can process around 10,000 transactions per second.<p>It is hard to speculate if Ethereum and similar systems will ever outperform other blockchains, but it can be reasonable to assume that fully decentralized systems will always have lower performance since they need to provide stronger guarantees. In this case, if less decentralized systems will have higher performance, are there any practical reasons to strive for full decentralization?
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Title: I bought a CO2 monitor. They are a bit expensive but very worth it ($100 DIY or more for a ready product). Even if you have ventilation, it might not be good enough. My office often goes up to 1000 ppm and I start to feel a bit drowsy. But there's a simple solution, just open a window.
Upvote: | 125 |
Title: If it works, which method are you using now?
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Title: My girlfriend came to check out some open houses with me yesterday after work. By 10 PM, she was seeing ads on Instagram for new houses. She hasn't shopped for a house before, or even done any searches on Google on that topic. I simply invited her to come with me and she did.<p>Similarly, we were at her place the other day and watched a kung fu movie on <i>my</i> laptop (connected to her wifi), and then went to bed. The next morning she started seeing ads for martial arts schools in the area.<p>What is happening?<p>She doesn't have an Amazon Echo or anything else that might be listening, although she does have an Android phone. She most likely has the default (stock) settings and apps. Regardless, I want to help her improve her privacy. What steps should I take (other than installing ad-blockers on her phone)?<p>Corollary: Is this what the Internet is like for "regular" people? If so, holy shit. I'm glad I use uBlock Origin on my computers and an iPhone.
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Title: Idea shamelessly stolen from petercooper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16859287<p>With the grow of paywalled content getting to the first page, could we please start marking it somehow? It could help avoid disappointment when a link leads to an inaccessible content.
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: I have been working on AI/recommendations(for music) for a while now and run a few experiments with some ALS models which have shown promising results during A/B tests. Would like to build a proper recommendation system with online and offline models. I have searched around and elastic search and Solr come up as good ways of building one (reduce the recommendation problem to an implicit search problem) but after talking to a few folks at work it seems like it may not be the most scalable or simplest solution for us. What are some other architectures to consider? Are there any good resources for this? After a lot of searching, I have not been able to find much other than the aforementioned Solr/elasticsearch solutions.<p>Here are a few links I found online while researching this.<p>https://www.elastic.co/blog/looking-at-content-recommendation-through-a-search-lens<p>https://mapr.com/blog/inside-look-at-components-of-recommendation-engine/#.VSv8o_nF81J
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Title: It seems every tech company has fallen for the open floor plan. I'd love to find a company that respects the desk as a workspace that facilitates concentration and deep-thought. It seems the answer to this problem has become headphones.<p>How is this acceptable?
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Title: Whenever I try to explain my concerns about online data privacy to other people (family and friends, mostly), the most common response I get is:<p>"Oh it's fine, <Facebook/Google/etc> can collect whatever they want, I don't have anything to hide."<p>I try to explain that the kind of data collection (and use/sale) we see from these businesses can be a much bigger concern than just "Facebook knows where I work", but I can never really articulate my thoughts well.<p>What are some good ways to explain to (primarily non-technical) people why it might be worthwhile being more aware of what data is being collected on them?
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Title: I've spoken to a few people who got rejected by YC and they take it too personally.<p>In this business, you're going to be rejected a lot! If you received the famous YC rejection email, keep pressing forward.<p>Honestly, if this slows you down, then you're most likely doing something wrong anyhow.
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Title: I'm specifically wondering about Todd Motto's Ultimate Angular, but I'd welcome any suggestions/advice on whether or not it's worth paying for courses online.<p>I'm usually of the opinion that anything could be learned for free if you have the patience. But I'm wondering if a well-explained training all in one place would just be easier. I'm hoping it would prevent any blindspots in learning a new framework (e.g. being unaware of useful functionality for specific cases) and reduce time looking for and evaluating different tutorials. Thoughts?
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Title: I imagine the HN readership loves to automate things.<p>I'm curious to know what tools you use to automate your business operations (if any).<p>For example, https://zapier.com is one such automation tool.<p>If you don't use any tools, do you use any frameworks or systems you've made yourself?<p>If you don't automate any parts of your business, why not? (I'm interested in the reasons why, not disputing the choice)
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Title: A platform called Switter took off 3 weeks ago in response to the FOSTA/SESTA bill which lead to the shutdown of sites/accounts and silencing of accounts on like Craigslist, Twitter, Reddit, Skype and Gmail. With 47,000 members Cloudflare banned the site from their services Wednesday evening without notice.<p>The last documented time Cloudflare terminated services was when they terminated the account of a white supremacist website last year.<p>The network, Switter, was started by a company in Australia and runs on the open-source social platform Mastodon at an Austrian domain.<p>"Cloudflare has now effectively kicked two groups offline: Neo-Nazis and Sex Workers. There is no comparison. One used their site to call for death, the other used theirs to stay alive"<p>https://twitter.com/AZMos/status/986819643661791233<p>Cloudflare are still yet to comment on the matter.
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Title: Hi HN! We're Ed and Jeremie, the founders of SharpestMinds in YC's W18 batch. We're building a free online community for ML/AI developers through which they can access job opportunities. (You can apply to join it at <a href="https://www.sharpestminds.com/members" rel="nofollow">https://www.sharpestminds.com/members</a>)<p>We're ML developers from non traditional backgrounds. Ed did a PhD in biological physics, and Jeremie studied quantum optics before dropping out of grad school to work on SharpestMinds. We started looking for ML jobs after school, thinking it shouldn't be too hard to get one. We found to our naive surprise that we fell short on a number of skills that are needed to do good work in industry. You just don't learn much devops in grad school.<p>As a result we decided to build something that would make it easier for ML devs to develop (and discover!) skills they might be missing, and then get their first jobs or internships. From the outset we also wanted to build a community around the process, since looking for your first job is usually a pretty lonely experience. Because we monetize directly through hiring, we can afford to create a space for discussion without ads or algorithmic distractions :)<p>Our typical users so far have been grad students who know ML material well, but don't yet have much, or any, practical experience. However, you don't need a degree at all (a few of our users are self-taught high school dropouts), and anyone who knows the material is welcome. In fact, that's one of the advantages of our system: we test directly for knowledge, so it doesn't matter how you got that knowledge or how long it took you to get it. One of our goals is that by the time we present you as a candidate, things that would otherwise be holes in your resumé don't matter so much, and we can make that case to companies that are hiring.<p>To qualify for joining, you do an online deep learning quiz (here: <a href="https://www.sharpestminds.com/members/apply" rel="nofollow">https://www.sharpestminds.com/members/apply</a>), followed by a technical interview. If you pass both, we invite you aboard. It's possible to retake the quiz a month later if you don't pass it, and we'll send you tips on what to study in the meantime.<p>Once you join you get access to a job board with exclusive (i.e., not scraped) internship and full-time opportunities on it. We've created an application system where your profile gets customized to the job you're applying for, to maximize the odds that you'll get an interview. We also have lists of common interview questions, mentors that you can practice interviewing with, and periodic AMAs with ML hiring managers from companies like Skydio and Airbnb.<p>The hardest part about building this has been figuring out the best way to present our users to employers. Early on we found that hiring managers were passing on qualified people, because their eyes would glaze over from reading too many CVs. We ended up building application profiles that let our users display their most relevant personal projects prominently in their application. The interview rate has increased significantly as a result.<p>If our approach works for the ML/AI field, we'd like to build communities like this for other fields too.<p>We're looking forward to getting feedback and hearing ideas from HN! We know there are lots of ML devs / enthusiasts on here, and we'd also be very interested in hearing about your own experiences making the transition, or similar programs you might know about. We'd also be interested in hearing about what, in your experience, are the most important programming skills needed by someone with a good knowledge base but little practical experience to be a strong contributor at their first job or internship.
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Title: I'm a sophomore in college, and feeling pretty bogged down by the not-so-relevant required courses at my school. I love the CS courses but I keep finding myself looking at entry level code monkey jobs and thinking of dropping out. I work part time as a developer right now and I enjoy working far more than doing any of my homework, so this is something that is on my mind a lot.<p>What are some lesser known areas of CS that would be worth studying while I have the chance? I would say the subjects that excite me the most are Machine Learning, p2p tech like IPFS, UX-design, and alternative computer-interface things (like brainwave sensors, VR, and that jawbone thing from MIT that was posted a few weeks back [1]).<p>[1] http://news.mit.edu/2018/computer-system-transcribes-words-users-speak-silently-0404
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Title: At one end are single-function npm libraries that led to the left-pad fiasco[1].<p>At another end are things that you should only be implementing yourself in highly unusual circumstances, such as cryptography libraries.<p>Where on this spectrum do you usually implement the thing yourself, and what is your thought process?<p>What are the costs of importing a library, and how are those costs different for different projects? Are there security risks? What are the benefits?<p>Conversely, what are the costs and benefits of implementing something in-house?<p>Has there ever been a case where you've tried to roll your own and it ended in disaster? Or where you'd wished you'd never added a dependency on some library?<p>[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
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Title: I keep seeing more and more products being launched in Show HN or Product Hunt that present themselves as a "decentralized alternative to X" (GitHub, Youtube, Facebook, Soundcloud).
Is this just a hype train that people board or is it the future of web?
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Title: Given how pretty much everyone on the planet drinks Coca Cola, I am surprised that, given the enormous budgets that are spent on research and prevention of serious illnesses, there is no clear and honest (and formally acknowledged) list of the ingredients of Coca Cola.<p>See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula<p>If you want to release a medical drug, you need to document - at molecular level - how the drug is built up.<p>In the Netherlands, where I live, people go to expensive supermarkets to buy ecologically sourced meat and vegetables because of a so called chain of trust that no weird ingredients and antibiotics (if meat) have been added to their food.<p>Can someone from the HN community tell me:<p>1) Why is Coca Cola allowed to sell their beverages (e.g. by the FDA) when there are "secret ingredients"?<p>2) Have any proper studies been done on the health effects of Coca Cola consumption (not just sugary carbonated drinks)? Do we know how large populations are affected?
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Title: I've started to post URLs I find interesting to Twitter and Facebook but both platforms are terrible for finding stuff again.<p>What do you use? What's the del.icio.us of 2018?
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Title: docker is hot these days and it is everywhere. But someone who likes to tinker with servers using scripting like bash etc, I don't get docker. Ok I get that it allows you to "containerize" things so you can re-use wherever using same set of stuff. But what are some of the disadvantages of "containerization" specifically using docker ?<p>Just trying to convince myself to start using it but so far, my run_install.sh script beats everything. Why the hassle of containerization ? What overheads does it add which may not be worth it in some cases ?
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Title: I have been receiving spam emails in my gmail inbox that are marked as being sent from my gmail account. The email headers show a non-gmail mail server, so it appears that someone is spoofing my email address to send me spam to get around the gmail spam filter. Several friends also mentioned that they are experiencing the same issue, and I see reports on reddit as well [0]. I'm curious how widespread this is. Normally <1 spam email makes it through to my inbox each month.<p>Is anyone else experiencing this?<p>[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/8dztcj/spam_getting_into_my_inbox/
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Title: According to VLC devs from their mailing list, VLC 3.0 was never approved for Amazon Fire TV store. Now the 2.1.1 got removed as well, and even got uninstalled from the sticks, where it was installed previously through the store.
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Title: I would like to continue using the service, but I have no interest in maintaining my account. Why is account deletion not an option?
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Title: Was having a discussion with a programmer when this popped up. He has applied to various (remote) positions without success. (I tried this as well earlier, but gave it up to found a startup)
How can he stand out ?<p>Lets leave out AI and ML for now.
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Title: When you visit the goo.gl homepage, this message appears:<p>> Starting March 30, 2018, we will be turning down support for goo.gl URL shortener. From April 13, 2018 only existing users will be able to create short links on the goo.gl console. You will be able to view your analytics data and download your short link information in csv format for up to one year, until March 30, 2019, when we will discontinue goo.gl. Previously created links will continue to redirect to their intended destination. Please see this blog post[1] for more details.<p>[1]: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html?m=1
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Title: Hi HN—<p>I've been chewing on different side project ideas and I've become fixated on creating an alternative Apple Music player.<p>I spend ~10h a day (or more!) at my desktop, mostly coding and listening to music. And iTunes, my primary music player and browser, is awful -- bloated, slow, and tied to an ecosystem of hardware music players that's basically irrelevant to how I listen now.<p>I want to build a new, minimal Apple Music client that lets you play everything from AM with a clean, attractive interface, and consumes minimal resources.<p>Some potential features/additions:
- Daily/weekly links to reviews from AllMusic, Pitchfork, NYTimes, etc, so you can listen to albums alongside the reviews
- Better sorting and organization of albums in iTunes -- eliminate duplicates/remasters, categorize into "real" albums vs EPs and compilations, etc
- Social features that don't suck, based on your existing social networks (email, twtr, fb, etc)
- Better recommendations by artist, album, genre, etc
- TimeHop-style features for music from different years<p>Anyone else have this problem with iTunes? Any thoughts/feedback?
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Title: Just checking in on the community. I haven't found anything that suggests I should change my best-practices of not running and not suggesting others run anti-virus packages on their MacOS machines.<p>Is this still best-practice in the wider community?
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Title: Its so cheap to start a company these days that I'm surprised more aren't trying to do it without VC.<p>Most VCs are very sharp and can add value beyond investment, but I'm amazed at how much focus is placed on securing funding - rather than building a cash-flow generating business. Building with VC is only one way to build a company.<p>A team can build product as a side-gig, test the market and run until enough cash is generated to start paying salaries and working on it full-time. You won't have a fancy office in SoMa and catered meals, but you also don't need to live in the bay area. And you won't need to worry about fundraising, dilution, down-rounds, and liquidity preferences.<p>Why are entrepreneurs so wired to think about starting companies that require VC?
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Title: I built this app over a week as a way to learn how to use TensorFlow with Mobilenets and to get some experience with Google Play (and partly as a dare). It's written in Java, as I wasn't able to find a Kotlin API for TFLite. It was built with Bazel.<p>I'm pretty satisfied with the actual detector's performance, although I expect I could improve the UI a little bit.<p>It's a weird UX, as you want it to be as simple and fast as possible (loss/notloss) but you also want it to have some sort of recognizability. I would love to hear your thoughts.<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=party.eigenloss.android.isthisloss" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=party.eigenlos...</a>
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Title: As software engineers, on average, we earn a lot more money than a lot of people. Hearing that a fresh college grad is clocking six figures is normal at this point. I'm only about 5 years into my career, and I make more money than I could ever imagine to. A good portion of the industry might ask me why I'm not making more, but that subset of professionals probably come from more privileged upbringings.<p>I'm a Black man, in my late twenties, and I come from one of the poorest areas of New York City. To boot, I don't even have a college degree. I've been extremely lucky, and I'm ridiculously grateful, but I don't know how to manage what I'm making and how I should think about what I earn going forward. My parents and other close relatives can only speculate, and like many others in similar positions, I don't know who to trust with guiding my reality. So I'm curious: what do you do with your money, generally? Buy a lot of video games? Books? Courses? Food? Real estate? Stocks? How do you generally split up your expenses? Are you shocked at all by the money you're making? It sounds like a weird problem to have, and it's sorta embarrassing to ask, but I'm starting to feel overwhelmed by my growth.
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Title: I like to build simple IoT devices and code around them. While I am comfortable with the dev part, I have problems to understand the electronics.<p>This is why I started with modules (arduino, nodemcu, sensors, audio amplificators) but there are issues the weird resistor, capacitor and whatnot which is plugged beyween, say, the arduino and the sensor.<p>Is there a place I could learn this "modular" electronics, where I could find "cookbook" advices on these elements needed for the modules to work correctly?<p>Since this is the way I lend to develop (take a problem, look at the solution and understand the details on the go) I would love to get into electronics via this path, if possible.
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Title: Is there anyone here making money on smaller trading strategies (i.e. in the stock market or cryptocurrencies) that would not be interesting enough for larger algorithmic trading firms?<p>I'm aware the standard advice is that you will lose your shirt attempting to compete with algorithmic and HFT firms. But are there opportunities out there for smaller strategies to generate alpha? (I'm assuming yes, but would be great to find people who actually do this -- no need to disclose _how_ you actually do it, obviously)
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Title: We’re Luke and Lauren, the founders of Caelum Health (<a href="http://caelumhealth.com" rel="nofollow">http://caelumhealth.com</a>). Caelum is a digital therapeutic for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. We optimize your diet and figure out which foods are driving your stomach problems.<p>Lauren is an MD from UPenn who saw how patients with stomach problems (IBS alone affects 15-20% of people) couldn’t get the care they need. The best treatments - diet and lifestyle changes - work in clinical trials, but are extremely hard to execute in the real world without continuous expert guidance. Very few patients have the resources to afford this type of guidance.<p>Our app fixes this by providing 1-on-1 digital coaching (via messaging). We guide patients through the leading IBS diet (the Low-FODMAP Diet) with turn-by-turn directions and daily lessons/exercises.<p>Currently, the diet requires several stages of eliminating food groups and then adding them back in to see whether symptoms change - forcing each patient to “start from scratch” even though many other patients have gone through the same process. We leverage user data to personalize each patient’s program based on their eating habits, past food trials, and demographics (age, gender, ethnicity, etc).<p>We’re launching our consumer-facing product and will be starting our clinical trial soon.<p>We’re a sibling team and have wanted to start a company together since we were kids. When Luke went into tech and then business school, and Lauren into healthcare investing and then medical school, we thought it probably wouldn’t happen. We were obviously wrong. We became pretty obsessed with bringing data to medicine and applying it to the treatments right in front of us: food, exercise, sleep, stress-reduction.
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Title: Looking for some inspriration and ideas!<p>What has been your most fulfilling job/project and why?<p>I've been looking to make a change away from typical enterprise development (full stack web developer) as it's not just about the paycheck any more. Recent events have given me a different perspective. Perhaps looking to join a team of great people doing something worthwhile or start my own consultancy helping people solve problems in a sector I can feel good about. Just not sure what that service looks like yet.<p>The best bit about being a developer I've found is when working directly with the customer who is in some distress and the look on their face when you solve the problem and make their life easier, even if it was easy to solve. I'd love to find something where every day was like that!
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Title: And where can I find ones that aren't? I want to improve my skill but I don't feel like I should pick up advanced algebra or number theory just to do a coding assignment.
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Title: I've been bumping into a lot of x86 assembly lately and, unrelated, recently read about the stellar reputation of SQLite's code base.<p>This got me thinking: what are some examples of high-quality and/or beautiful x86 assembly? In fact, what about for other processor families as well?
Upvote: | 278 |
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