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Title: Our 11 person startup had an expression of interest from quite a reputable VC and we had few months of communication regarding growth, revenues etc.<p>Finally the VC agreed to invest he wanted to do due-diligence by going through the customer's list rather than checking our business bank accounts. I was a bit hesitant but wanted the funding to go through, to take my mind off it and focus on the startup.<p>I sent the list of customers, their contact details and the revenues from each of them and the investor just vanished after that.<p>I know PG said that in silicon valley a verbal commitment is as good as a deal. This VC gave us verbal and email commitment and then vanished without the common courtesy of explaining why.<p>There has been no response to my multiple emails or phone calls. The VC is very well known and not a flyby shop.<p>The main issue is that the investor already has a startup in his cohort that is in the same space as us. Few months later my customers started receiving emails from this other startup.<p>I have no idea how to ask this VC , who has infinitely more money and power than our startup, to destroy all of our data and not use it in any way whatsoever.<p>I don't want the funding and I don't want to burn the bridges but I want to protect our customer data.
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Title: I recognize that people have asked if HN is GDPR compliant, but I haven't seen an official or unofficial response. Given that HN is a marketing tool for YC, that YC has LPs from Europe as well as portfolio companies, and HN is used in the application process, I think the HN community would interested to understand how you'll be dealing with this and what you're recommending to your portfolio companies as it would be helpful for many of us that don't have the resources you do.
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Title: I've been working on a startup for ~9 months (as the technical cofounder) in the event tech space (B2B tradeshows) and I'm pretty sure we've failed to do anything productive (find product/market fit, find a problem/solution fit, learn anything valuable, etc.). We still have ~100k left but the main investors/advisors (from the 220k friends/family/fools round) pretty much feel like it's time to pull the plug. My personal opinion is that that's the most responsible thing to do (return money pro-rata) but there are simultaneous voices (paradoxically same investors) pushing to keep going (continue running pilots, building out the team [we just finally found a bd cofounder], crafting a pitch for a seed round). I don't know what to do since in my understanding we've failed at the most important thing: finding product/market fit. others on the team (advisors) believe that that's not the case and we can keep raising based on negative results.<p>re pilots: we got 5 pilots (some paying some not) by basically being persistent and doing really really high touch sales. two of them ran this week and they were miserable failures (for every reason from poor marketing/education to last minute catastrophic product failures). absolutely all of the metrics skew heavily towards 0.<p>i realize i'm being vague and maybe there's not enough detail in the post to give substantive advice but regardless any would be appreciated.
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Title: Hi HN - I have always enjoyed being part of this community. I am turning 40 within a month and would love to have any personal and /or professional life advice you might have to give a curious person (and a techie) who is married and a father of two. Look forward to all you have to offer!
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Title: My most productive hours are 12AM-6AM. I find myself falling into this schedule despite trying to change it multiple times.<p>Before I throw in the towel and accept my fate as a nocturnal creature, has anyone successfully switched from being a night owl to a being on a regular schedule or (gasp) even being a morning person?
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Title: Sci-Hub started failing earlier today with a SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE error, which affects all alternative Web addresses. Don't know about .onion.<p>Is this some kind of planned maintenance, or a sign of further trouble?
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Title: I keep seeing references online taht a lot of people in Silicon Valley are taking prescription medications such as modafanil, adderal, etc. Is this actually common? Anyone here take those things and do you need them to survive?
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Title: After reading this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306 I thought about the small sites I like to visit. Things that started out like hobby projects such as Lobsters and HNews. I wonder, is HNews GDPR compliant? It doesn't really seem to be. Some topics mentioned in articles about GDPR:<p>- Ability to export data
- Ability to delete your account
- Disclose tracking (the voting ring detection must do some sort of tracking)
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Title: As a user, I think GDPR is great, tracking is pretty much getting out of hand. But as a web tinkerer I wonder how do you get your side projects compliant. Where do you start?
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Title: I've worked on companies big and small (relativley; smallest was around 400 people, though engineering was closer to 160-200). One thing that has struck me is that, in my opinion, smaller companies seem to get much more done per engineer than bigger ones. I'm curious-- has everyone else has seen this too? In your opinion and experience, why do you think this is?<p>Is this the overhead of decision-making (one person or the engineer deciding vs a chain of command)? Is it that people are just more motivated when they're the underdog? Is it that the inherent size and complexity of a codebase grows exponentially as people grow linearly with time? Is it that some products seem to be "done", and changes are iterative and pedantic, not risky and exciting? All of the above? Maybe even some more?<p>I'd love to hear your stories and thoughts!
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please 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: I've made a Hacker News skill for Alexa so people can get tech news while driving, cooking, or cleaning. The first version lists post titles and summarizes articles:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CKVDXC3" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CKVDXC3</a><p>I'll have lots of time over the next few months to refine it and add things like<p><pre><code> - comment summaries
- selecting posts by topic, and eventually
- answering questions about articles
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What do you think of the skill? What I should add to it? What do people think about voice assistants in general?<p>To keep in touch, talk to me on Twitter or by email:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AdrianBPatter" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AdrianBPatter</a><p>[email protected]
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Title: Remote code injection vulnerability wild in public npm package, plausible-sounding 'express-cookies' and its dependency 'getcookies'. >10K downloads during April.<p>Vulnerable code: https://npm.runkit.com/getcookies/test/harness.js?t=1525249320108<p>https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-cookies
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Title: I'm looking for a book that will give me insight into the expectations of the person on the other side of the negotiation, with the assumption that they are well practiced in the art. And having that insight, how to negotiate in good faith.
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Title: Of all the hard learned lessons, which do you most wish you could’ve learned an easier way?
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Title: So, due to family reasons I can't move from where I live (Ireland). The available jobs and salaries are incredibly poor here, I am struggling to make ends meet.<p>I feel I should try to aim for a remote job with a company that is willing to pay a much better salary (I am thinking $100k). I am a fairly competent web developer. Web developers are a dime a dozen, so I doubt if companies would really want to pay for a remote worker when they could easily get a handful just round the corner.<p>I am thinking I would need to become competent in a more niche area - an area that companies really need, but it is harder for companies to find recruits for. It would also be easier to become a leading expert in the field due to reduced competition.<p>Say I want to get this job in 1 years time, what skill sets would be the best to focus on - AI, networks, operating systems, compilers etc..? How should I best develop these skills? Presumably I will need to develop a decent portfolio to market my skills.. What would the best way to go around this be?<p>This is probably a fairly vague fingers in the air question, but any pointers or inspiration would be appreciated..
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Title: I started my career 15 years ago in a startup. Worked there for 4 years and went from zero clients to over a 1k enterprise customers. I learned a lot and it's still the job experience I'm most proud of.<p>Somehow I ended up getting seduced by a position at a big name IT enterprise, joined other enterprises and now working remotely for 3 years for a medium-sized company.<p>I think companies look at my 8 years at big enterprises and think I'm not a good fit for a startup. The truth is, I never felt at home in enterprises and was always fighting the processes and complaining. Go figure.<p>What could I do now to make myself more employable at startups?
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Title: I'm working on a PC game as a personal project. I am primarily a game designer and developer, but I'm interested in working towards making my game friendly towards AI research. I tried reading TF/PyTorch docs but couldn't find a guide on how to make my game a friendly environment that exposes the necessary surface area for AI research.<p>I would love advice from anyone who has experience building API layers for video games for AI (BWAPI, OpenAI's DOTA team, deepmind SC2 AI, etc) for pointers.
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Title: This has been done two other times before:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638 (2016),
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 (2015)<p>Both threads generated a lot of really interesting discussion, and I was curious what the discussion would sound like if this were asked again in 2018.
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Title: Seems appealing to me but curious to hear others' experiences. Please share the details! Where were you originally based + where did you move to? What's been good/bad about it? In what ways did it change your perspective on various parts of your life?
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Title: I have a few Ideas and I would like to know which one has the best chances of success:<p>a) A dating app like tinder (Android/ios) but you post just one 20 seconds video (no text, no pics)<p>b) A Chrome extension to seamlessly merge facebook and whatsapp on a single tab<p>c) A Chrome extension to edit videos online (right click "edit video" get simple edit options: cut/copy+paste/add-text/add-png)<p>d) Webapp to easily slice photoshop files (PSD) to generate responsive CSS (with JSX exporting)<p>e) A Webapp that autoplays all reddit front-page gifs+videos one after another, with option to log in to only do it with the channels you are subscribed; or click any channel to do it with those ones<p>I'm open to ideas that are not too far off those ones (yeah; I know r/AppIdeas exist)
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Title: The title and why?<p>Recently discovered CMus and am a big fan of Pandoc and youtube-dl.<p>This has me wondering what else I'm missing out on.
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Title: I'm in a pickle. I have a funded enterprise B2B startup that seems to be going well, but it's clear that the industry is highly competitive, but we are growing quickly. I recently stumbled upon an entirely unrelated business idea, simply because of long conversations with customers in a particular vertical and it's very clear that there's a huge opportunity there (possibly bigger than what we are doing now). How should I handle this? I feel a responsibility to run the current company to the current investors hence I wouldn't want to be distracted, but at the same time, this opportunity is bigger and requires more capital than the current company can finance. I have verbal validation "if you do x, we will partner with you" and I'd like to experiment. There are several concerns:
i) How to handle the current team and investors, it can't seem like I've given up on the current business; it still has a lot of potential
ii) the reality is that if I run it under the current umbrella we will all be diluted significantly
iii) I'm thinking of having a separate c-corp below the current one wholly owned, how do you present this to the board without seeming to be fully distracted?<p>Any ideas would be very welcome
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Title: We’re four years into a bootstrapped B2B startup that set out to solve two ambitious technical problems for our industry. Last year we turned over more than 1m USD. Each of was responsible for one side of the business.<p>However there were still a lot of technical issues to be solved when we launched. Over the last year I’ve been able to clear all the problems on my side, but he has pretty much done almost no technical work since launch two years ago. Instead he sees his role as the figurehead of the company who basically just does sales and ideas and treats everyone at the company including myself as incompetent PA’s.<p>This worked for a while because we had a lot of hype around us in our industry and the money was rolling in. However the next round of potential buyers are wisely waiting to see how things turn out with our first round of customers.<p>My co-founder responds to complaints by telling them that their problems aren’t really problems in a very professional and well written manner, but that’s not working anymore. I now find myself having to mend bridges with customers which causes a lot of conflict because I am “overstepping my bounds.” Additionally I have to “overstep my bounds” to engage with his talented direct reports who now openly despise him, in order to convince them to not leave the company.<p>Now the money has nearly run out and we need what seems like a miracle.<p>I feel like I’ve tried everything I could think of to try and turn this relationship around but I don’t I just don’t see how anymore. We struggle to have any meaningful conversations about anything related to the business even when I manage to maintain my composure in response to nearly constant put downs.
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Title: what is the generally accepted best practice to be monitoring web logs for anomalous accesses ?<p>do you guys just throw cloudflare in front and forget about it ? Or do you have engineers who work like data scientists - eyeball the logs ?<p>I have heard suggestions of using a firewall - but I'm genuinely curious on how do security focus companies discover things like "oh, we got attacked by Bitcoin miners from North Korea". Are there sophisticated tools that do this for you.. or is there a generally accepted practice that has evolved for even regular engineers to do this ?<p>P.S. I'm personally more interested in an API-focused answer, but I guess the same thing applies for websites.
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Title: I've decided to bite the bullet and release Bitbox.co and get some feedback. I've been coding for years and one of the things I constantly see companies do is write and rewrite a document storage system, so I decided to write one for them. Bitbox.co uses cloud storage (currently Azure) to store documents but can be coded to use any cloud service. Documents can be public or private and URLs to that document can be used directly in HTML. There are currently a list of WebAPIs for developers to use as a tool, or build an entire system around.<p>This is an MVP and it's simple. Upload a file, get a token; like a valet or coat check. When you want that file back, send the token and you get a byte stream. There is also a built in file converter, so you can can upload a docx file and retrieve it as a pdf by appending .pdf to the URL, for example: <a href="https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.pdf</a>, or perhaps a tiff: <a href="https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.tif" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.tif</a>. Files can be marked as public or private, and account owners can invite other users to join their team with read, write or admin privileges.<p>There are some directions I want to possibly go:<p><pre><code> - Allow users to select their own cloud store (Azure, AWS, etc) rather than the built in store.
- Allow users to replicate their files between cloud stores, so you would store your documents on all your cloud stores in Azure or AWS, etc.
- Folder structures for organization
- Integration with third party platforms like WordPress or SurgarCRM
- Cookbook for code examples on how to connect through the WebAPI in various languages.
- Local install so developers can use their internal SMB shares to store files.
- File level security, and / or folder level security for users / files.
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This was designed for IT departments without a strong development team to save money. Does anyone have a need for something like this?<p>www.bitbox.co
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Title: We're starting a new company focused on solving the problem of talent war by helping late-stage startups have successful remote collaborations with tech talent. However, we're still trying to figure out which vertical to focus on. Which of these verticals is most pressing?<p>1. Sourcing & vetting candidates?
2. Managing international payroll?
3. Bootcamps?
4. Infrastructure & working space?<p>Let me know your thoughts!
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Title: Lastly, I wonder whether there is a good collaborative resource providing consensus-based good parenting practises and guidelines, from a general point of view: Which, of course, would include, techniques, methodologies or guidelines depending on the age, type, culture or context where children grow up.<p>Am I requesting for a kind of an impossible-to-find asset?<p>I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
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Title: I am a university student in CS, and I have been programming for over three years now. The initial motivation for studying CS came from the ability to make a computer do anything I wanted, but over the years, this feeling has dissipated.<p>What keeps you going over the long term? What makes you wake up every morning and sit down to code again?
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Title: If you could send a single sentence of advice to your younger self, what would it be?<p>Let's assume it could not be a lottery number or investing advice.<p>For me it I would tell myself to find a successful mentor
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Title: Hi HackerNews!<p>Anirudh here, from Compile ( https://www.compile.com/company/ ). We are a data intelligence company that uncovers insights hidden in data, structured and unstructured. A bootstrapped company since our inception in 2011, we are acutely aware of the challenges in getting a company off the ground.<p>Which is why we would like to offer our space at Bangalore for small teams who are incubating their ideas, for up to 3 months. No strings attached! If this sounds interesting, head to https://goo.gl/gueNYf and fill the form.
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Title: It could be anything. I'm curious to hear about new ways to become or remain happy :)
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Title: What are the popular common tools today for (visually) documenting architecture, component, and interaction diagrams?<p>The core purpose is to facilitate the efficient communication of technical information between software engineers on the team at a high level / bird's eye view (as opposed to a more granular level line by line comment inside of code).<p>Specifically, something persistent & electronically scalable (not just a temporary whiteboard sketch that goes away!)<p>Not just for a one-off communication, but something long-term so that institutional knowledge stays with the organization, even if people come and go.<p>I'm thinking out loud here but some kind of product / solution that can be baked into a code review process.
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Nearly an year ago, I faced a life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view. Since then I have rebuilt up from scratch, and I have found that a lot of the things that I used to believe were false. Books such as Man's Search for Meaning have been very pivotal in that regard. What books could you recommend for the same?
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Title: I have seen stories like these - Productivity boost of working from home (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045308) multiple times recently. However, my experience was quite contrary. I worked from home for almost 1.5 years and it was full of ups and downs, mostly downs. Multiple distractions (kids [3yr and 8yr], wife, guests, network disruptions, etc) along with home office setup issues (chair, workstation, monitor height, etc) were always nagging every week.<p>However, every case is unique and mine was very specific to me. So, wanted to ask those for whom WFH eventually worked out, what is your setup? Chair, desk, monitor, IP phone, headphone, "do not enter" boards, other hardware setup? Timings, schedule, kanban, scrum, GTD, meditation, long walks, other discipline rules? Any tips/tricks which boosted your productivity?
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Title: I'm a javascript developer working in London and I want to become a remote contractor so I can travel the world while working remotely.
Where can I find people or companies that can help me getting into the world of contracting and even be a intermediary?
Is anyone in this situation that want to share how they did it and how is going?
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Title: I have a strong desire to improve my critical thinking and analytical ability. I am aware of a few cognitive biases but not so much on how to actively combat them.<p>Maybe I should have started another thread too but I felt like critical thinking would be useless if I can't communicate my thoughts well.<p>What resources have helped you in either area?
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Title: I have been researching hiring in the tech industry and this is the glaring elephant in the room. In the very least, the widespread acceptance of this abstract category opens up a convenient laundering term for abuse. And in reality, it’s glaringly exactly that.<p>The general HR rhetoric seems to only highlight the problem. If ‘culture fit’ is merely a matter of good/bad attitude, why are we referring to it as “culture?” These are very clearly separate items. The way they are being treated as interchangeable is beyond suspicious to me. “Culture fit” is used in broad contexts while any query is answered with concerns amounting to attitude differences. In a time when “identity” also suffices for “culture”, how can this possibly be reconciled?<p>I argue it can’t be and this is another shameful chapter in the tech world’s going list of hypocrisies. Prove me wrong.
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Title: The question if we can comfortably do development without a MacBook has surfaced (unintended pun) many times here. Do you think that a Pixelbook (or any Chromebook) is finally ready for that? Google claims so:<p>https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/linux-on-chromebooks/
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Title: In other words, what public tech company can engineers work at where you’re not battling for visibility and preference?<p>Obviously, at large organizations, things aren’t going to be uniform across all teams, and people’s experiences will be limited, but I’d like to hear what people have to say all the same.
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Title: Currently, I'm a single founder with an idea for an initiative. It's not exactly a startup yet but might become one in its later stages. On what basis should I select co-founders, and if I might need them?
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Title: Languages, libraries, and frameworks are pretty much all open source. Is there anyone out there translating docs? Can you write JavaScript or Python or something using Japanese or Cyrillic characters?
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Title: The big services (Google, Cloudflare, etc.) provide DDoS attack mitigation (and seem to succeed), but details on their tactics are rare (at least I did not find in-depth information on that).<p>I guess to make this work well you have to do classification (regular request vs. malicious) on several protocol layers and then reroute or drop packets accordingly. But how does that prevent severe service degradation - you still have to do some kind of work (in computation and energy) on the listening side or can fat edge-servers just eat that up?
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Title: Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting
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Title: Was there any change from the time New York Times article was published? And does the pay + stock compensate for the bad work culture (if there is?)
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Title: The canonical answer to this question apparently used to be ESBs, but the rise of the microservice paradigm eventually pushed them to decline and left a void I'm not sure how is currently filled.<p>HN, how do you handle your days-long sequences of business steps?<p>Some seed questions:<p>* Is your system more P2P or orchestrated?<p>* Do you leverage some existing tools or built your own?<p>* Are you confident in your monitoring of errored workflows?<p>* How do you retry errored workflows?<p>* If your system if more P2P, how do you keep a holistic view of what's happening? Can you be certain that you don't have any circular event chains?
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Title: Hey, we're Ben and Adam, the founders of Necto (<a href="https://nectolab.io" rel="nofollow">https://nectolab.io</a>). We're enabling local entrepreneurs to start their own Internet Service Providers by providing network engineering, monitoring, and business support as a service. We've seen huge improvements in last mile distribution technology in the last few years (cost, reliability, thoroughput, ease of deployment), but it hasn't translated into an explosion of ISP operators. We want to change that by allowing non-network-engineers to deploy their own networks and compete with the incumbents. Necto handles the networking setup, deals with the backbone providers, helps with distribution planning, and provides ongoing monitoring and support. The operators pick the markets, set the prices, and provide a great overall experience to their customers.<p>We started our own ISP here in the underserved San Francisco markets of Bayview and Portola, with more neighborhoods to come. If you live in SF, we'd love to be your ISP (<a href="https://joinnecto.com" rel="nofollow">https://joinnecto.com</a>). If you're interested in starting an ISP, we're looking for an initial batch of 5 operators. You can learn more about that here: <a href="https://nectolab.io" rel="nofollow">https://nectolab.io</a> .<p>Our product is a combination of a few important requirements for running an ISP effectively: a centralized Network Operations Center (NOC), a Operational Support System (OSS) to manage the subscribers and get visibility into issues, and an Operator's Handbook that covers the how-to's of running an ISP (both technically and our advice on the business side). Our NOC will handle things like BGP, routing, reachability, hardware issues, upstream connectivity, and distribution provisioning. The OSS supports managing subscribers, diagnosing common issues, and performing installations. Our handbook provides a list Standard Operating Procedures for day-to-day management of the ISP and, in combination with our community of ISP operators, strategies on how to effectively launch and grow an ISP.<p>We charge an initial setup fee and an ongoing percentage of revenue. The initial setup fee covers us designing your initial network, sourcing your backbone connection, and the cost of the core routing stack. The ongoing percentage of revenue aligns our incentives with our operators and covers monitoring, the NOC, and ongoing enhancements for the software and community. The exact numbers depend on the scale of the network the operators are building.<p>We're staunch supporters of Net Neutrality and increasing broadband penetration without sacrificing privacy. We don't sell personal information or throttle traffic (and our operators won't either). We believe that the future is in highly localized ISPs competing on service quality. We're excited to tackle this problem because we've had to deal with poor internet service before, and we now know that you can make a great business out of providing better quality access. Our backgrounds are in enterprise automation technology and the home services industry (air conditioning, plumbing, electric). We're happy to answer as many questions about any of this as we can! If you're at all considering starting an ISP in your neighborhood after reading this, let us know at nectolab.io and include your HN username!<p>Thanks,
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Title: I'm in my early thirties and I feel I've not really made any significant effort in learning math/physics beyond the usual curriculum at school. I realize I didn't have the need for it and didn't have the right exposure (environment/friends) that would have inculcated in me these things. And perhaps I was lazy as well all these years to go that extra mile.<p>I have (had) a fairly good grasp of calculus and trigonometry and did a fairly good job working on a number of problems in high school. But over the past 12-13 years, I've really not had any need to flex my math muscles other than a problem here or there at work. Otherwise it's the same old enterprise software development.<p>I follow a bunch of folks on the internet and idolize them for their multifaceted personalities - be it math, programming/problem solving, physics, music etc. And these people had a natural flair for math/physics which was nurtured by their environment which made them participate in IOI/ACPC etc. in high school and undergrad which unfortunately I didn't get a taste of. I can totally see that these are the folks who have high IQs and they can easily learn a new domain in a few months if they were put in one.<p>Instead of ruing missed opportunities, I want to take it under my stride in my thirties to learn math/physics so as to become better at it. I might not have made an effort till now, but I hopefully have another 40 years to flex my muscles. I believe I'm a little wiser than how I was a few years back, so I'm turning to the community for help.<p>How do I get started? I'm looking to (re)learn the following - calculus, linear algebra, constraint solving, optimization problems, graph theory, discrete math and slowly gain knowledge and expertise to appreciate theoretical physics, astrophysics, string theory etc.
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Title: As the title suggest, I’m trying to learn more about remote work to find better opportunities than what is available to me locally. Where should I start? Any tips about where to look for work, how to make my resume attractive, what to look out for, etc. I’m not in a hurry to change, I want to learn what I can before and make an informed decision. I’m interested in a full-time job preferably as an employee.<p>I don’t know if it helps, but I’m a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience, located in Canada. Up-to-date with the latest web frameworks (React/Angular/Node.js/TypeScript) and have mostly worked with C# before that on enterprise software, with a bit of React Native on personal projects. Have worked in both back-end and web front-end projects depending on the need of my employer. My GitHub profile is pretty bleak, but I have personal projects that are public.<p>Also, will I need a work visa if I’m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada? Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I’m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary.
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Title: I’ve had a history of mental health issues (diagnosed with depression and ADD).<p>I left my last job in part to symptoms of depression caused by stress.<p>I assumed that removing the stress would allow me to recover, but a new set of stressors caused me to quickly “regress” back into a deep depression.<p>While my work has been commended, my attendance and work relations have suffered, and I was put on a performance improvement plan.<p>I only recently started to seek treatment again, and the performance evaluation period is almost up. I believe it is likely I will lose my job.<p>What steps do I take from here? My small amount of savings were mostly wiped out between moving to the new job and a few mishaps since then.<p>I want to take a break and work on my mental health, but I honestly can’t afford it. Even a week or two of joblessness would financially ruin me currently.<p>I know I waited too long to do something. By the time I had mustered up the courage to do something, it was too late. The constant anxiety from the thought of possibly losing my job and possibly worse is only making things worse.<p>It feels foolish to almost “dump” my problem here but I feel crippled and don’t know what to do. Does anyone have suggestions?
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Title: I enjoy doing this stuff but it's tough to find others with similar interests since I moved to the boondocks many years ago although it's super easy to find people looking for financial engineering jobs.
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Title: I think this question may have already been asked, as one variant or another; but let me give you my situation.<p>My daily routine involves going to a job I absolutely despise, going home to screaming kids and nagging wife, and then finally going to bed to start it all over again the next day.<p>I understand that most people have jobs they hate, but you typically have a release when you go home, and that balances things. What if you have no release, and you don't really have any friends because you're new to the area.<p>How do you cope? I feel like a little bit of me is lost every day, as my mind just spirals out of control. I hate waking up, because I know it will be the same thing over again, day after day.<p>Most of my career I've been a contractor (software engineering), and the past 5 or so years I've focused more on architecture and start-ups. My most recent job is for a very large corporation, and it's completely not what I normally go for, but it was the only option in the area I live (offering the money I wanted). The wife thinks I should be here at least 1 year, or else it'll look bad on my resume.<p>Anyone else feel like their life is a prison? I know I have choices, but given our situation, quitting this job just isn't an option right now. I suppose I can look for something new, but this area is very dry when it comes to my kind of work. Remote is an option, but the competition seems fierce (everyone wants remote), and architect roles are typically on-site, unless I go back to development.
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Title: Which VPN do you recommend?
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Title: What business would you start in 2018?
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Title: After reading one of the Krebs security posts about the various credit agencies I decided to look into the NCTUE agency I hadn't heard of, and decided to get a free copy of my report after freezing with this organization<p>Much to my surprise the report showed that both Comcast and Verizon have charged me "disconnect fees" that I never agreed to, heard of, or received any bill for despite them having all my contact info and it not changing for many years. Verizon did this in 2012, and Comcast in 2015. Both accounts are now marked as "delinquent/unpaid" despite these charges appearing to be fradulent.<p>I was quite surprised by this since I've maintained a flawless credit score for 20 years now, and didn't even know there was this secret way to mark me as a deadbeat from this organization I had never heard of, and most importantly, that these charges appear to be wrong and somewhat hidden.<p>Has anyone else looked into their NCTUE report and found odd info?<p>https://www.nctue.com/consumers
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Title: For example I know that for designers there’s designer news. Is there a place where all the mathematicians hang out and share links?<p>Or is reddit pretty much the de-facto place for online niche communities?
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Title: I own an iPad and an Android phone. The text on HN is simply too small for me to read.<p>Before HN added CSP headers, I used a bookmarklet to change the font size. But since the CSP headers were added, FF and Chrome both refuse to execute the bookmarklet.<p>Some might suggest to use an app instead. But I don't use apps. As a programmer I know how bad the app security models are.<p>Is there any solution, or am I effectively cut off from HN?
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Title: We are a building a messaging platform ina specific vertical which allows users to exchange text/photo and voice messages. We have hired a lawyer to write a privacy policy and terms of use but they have not been updated for GDPR yet. However, my (technical) co-founder thinks we are leaving ourselves open to litigation because of how are system is designed. When a message is deleted, only the user's access to the message is deleted. The message is preserved until all recipients have deleted it at which time the full contents of the message are permanently deleted. This was done for efficiency, otherwise we would need to keep a full copy of each message for each recipient. To me this isn't much different from email: when you delete an email you only delete your copy, not other people's.<p>We are about a month from launch (we have both been working on it part time for 6 months) but my co-founder is having second thoughts. He doesn't want to spend the time and money to bring us into GDPR compliance. I have been learning to code and I feel I could maintain our current code but not redesign it all to comply with GDPR. I am hoping some more experienced startup folks can provide some advice about what I should do
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Title: I'm curious to learn reasons why your company is not use a public cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.?
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Title: I've been developing web apps for 5+ years and in my next project I've been tasked with building a mobile (iOS and Android) app that we can also run as a web app. I would obviously like to try keep a single code base for simplicity as we have limited resources. I've investigated writing a PWA but I'm put off by the arbritrary heuristics that Google are placing on whether or not the apps are presented as "installable".<p>After that, it seems the only options are Ionic, or React Native + separate web app.<p>What is your experience writing apps for both mobile and browser?
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Title: I rarely listen to anything, but I'm going to give it a try for a week and how it affects my productivity.<p>Looking for playlist recommendations.
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Title: Some recent events have led me to believe my employer is pitching the sale of our small startup. I have a small amount of equity in the company that is nearly fully vested. I know that its a long process and nothing is inevitable, but is there anything I can be doing now to be prepared for the exit in relation to my equity? I'm not concerned with being out of a job and prepping for my next gig but I'm sure others who find themselves in the same position might be.<p>I'd also love to hear anecdotal stories of sales from an employee with equity.
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Title: I want to start writing a technical blog (related to computer science and development), but almost every topic I think of has been written upon by someone, probably better that what/how I would have written it.
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Title: Greetings HN!<p>My name’s Nadav Hollander, and I’m the founder of Dharma Labs (<a href="https://dharma.io" rel="nofollow">https://dharma.io</a>). At Dharma, we are creating a suite of protocols, standards, and developer tools for issuing and administering tokenized debt agreements on the Ethereum blockchain.<p>After three extensive external security audits of our smart contracts, we are releasing the public beta of Dharma Protocol v1 on the Ethereum mainnet -- developers can take a crack at building decentralized lending applications at docs.dharma.io, and non-developers can try out borrowing and lending a wide variety of crypto-assets using Dharma Plex (<a href="https://plex.dharma.io" rel="nofollow">https://plex.dharma.io</a>).<p>I first became interested in the cryptocurrency ecosystem in 2015, when I took Dan Boneh’s class on Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies at Stanford. Though the technology was (and still is) quite immature, I fell in love with the nascent space, and subsequently worked as an engineer at Coinbase.<p>At Coinbase, I was struck by the fact that a huge amount of users’ cryptocurrency was sitting idle in cold storage, instead of being deployed in some capacity as dollars would in a savings account. The advent of generic, programmable blockchains like Ethereum presented an intriguing possibility -- what if we could build borderless infrastructure for borrowing and saving that wouldn’t require a company like Coinbase to sit in the middle?<p>That’s why I started working on Dharma -- a framework for originating, issuing, crowdfunding, and trading debt on blockchains like Ethereum. In essence, what we do is create tools, standards, and smart contracts that developers can use to build profitable lending applications that can tap into a borderless pool of credit liquidity. These tools are all fully open source and free to use -- there is no native “Dharma token” that users are forced to leverage in some capacity.<p>We look forward to hearing HN’s feedback / thoughts!
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Title: How hard is to deal with tax/legal issues? How helpful Stripe's customer support/community is? Is LLC option suitable for a bunch of side projects that one would want to throw under the same "roof"? Would like to hear about your experiences.
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Title: I wanted to get two things from building an App<p>1) I wanted to learn how to build and deploy an app with react-native and google cloud.<p>2) Also, I recently purchased an item in a department store and gave my personal email address and I received my receipt as expected. But I also received a load of emails about promotions over the coming weeks which cluttered my inbox.<p>My App can be found here:<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/recbox-io/id1378437194" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/recbox-io/id1378437194</a><p>and<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox</a>
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Title: I & my partner launched an app a year ago. It took half a year to build something sustainable and month ago we finally reached 30k / mo profit. Yesterday after technical release (just to change title in the AppStore) the app got rejected. We didn't violate any concrete guideline, Apple Review Team just decided that we use VPN in an anapproved manner. We use VPN to analyze traffic and show reports to the user. Of course users are uknowledge and ok with this solution. Needless to say that that dozens of our competitors use exactly this solution but apparently it’s not enough for Review Team.<p>Now I'm lost and don’t know what to do. Situation seems unfair. How come that developers give away half of their earnings to the monopolist platform and are still treated like kids. I mean, people will lose jobs and funds just because of "unapproved way" of using public (!) API. Honestly I liked this platform and I invested a lot into it but I'm sure I will stay away now.<p>Any thoughts or advices?
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Title: Hi All. I am struggling to find/understand the best path to improve my knowledge/skills. I have a decent knowledge/experience in Java and now I am facing the dilemma either mastering Java or looking to other options to extend my programming language tool set mainly looking at: Javascript/Python/Scala/Kotlin/Elixir/Haskell/Swift.<p>I am interested in distributed system/data engineering and also in finding easily new well payed job. I know it's not possible to learning and master them all in a short time so I would like to pick 2. What I am struggling the most is how well to evaluate the language and get the best from it. Each time I pick one I end up giving up after 2 weeks as I always go back to Java.<p>The way I evaluate is simply by going to project euler and go through the problems from 1 to 20 then I don't know the next step to take from there. I find myself going through the crazy articles comparing languages and lose focus and give up.<p>Would be appreciated if you can share how you manage to focus on learning a new language or if it's worth at all learning/moving to a new language.<p>Update: forgotten also to ask what language do you advice and in 1/2 sentences why.
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Title: I am curious to know what saas or apps are HN user's paying out of their own pocket for? Not business apps, but for your own personal use.<p>Personally, I pay for feedly (rss reader), G Suite domain (for my personal email), beyondpod (podcast app for android), mighttext (syncs sms to gmail), todoist premium (task/to do app).
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Title: So I've been working on animation software for over two years. Part of me is very excited for launch so I can have money again ( I've been freelancing a minimum amount these last two years, and went car-less, moved, cut lifestyle into a third ). I should be wholeheartedly excited, but I'm feeling tired and generally sluggish regarding the project. I still make consistent progress, but it takes a lot of will power.<p>Part of me thinks it might be an aversion to sales. Part of me thinks this could have been built up so much in my head that anything short of overnight millions would be a disappointment (though I would be happy with 1500 bucks a month ), part of me thinks I might be scared of success ( or scared of surpassing my parents )(media attention), part of me fears the attacks that might come with success ( having something to lose ), part of it is the un-fun-ness of mature projects where the focus is on polish and bugs rather than broad new features, and part of me is scared of commitment: if I succeed I have to stick with this (freedom value), part of me wonders what will happen when more people become involved, if I will be able to maintain my creative direction, since I'm scratching my own itch. Part of me wonders if diet and exercise isn't a factor.<p>A combination, likely...
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Title: I posted a thread for just over 4 years ago (time flies!) - I think it's time for an updated 2018 version.
If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
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Title: I'm going through a lot of "Why Rust?" reading material, and starting to wonder why is there no memory safe subset of C?<p>While going through Rust tutorials, I'm realizing how much more sophisticated Rust gets than C in terms of the language. So many syntactical things to remember.<p>Could there be a less powerful subset of C that we can use in situations where we're not building operating systems or distributed systems?
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Title: There seems to be a broad range of different approaches to job postings. Some have salary info, some don't. Some describe their interview process, some don't.<p>If you had it your way, what info would every job posting include?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I’m Alex from Parabola (<a href="https://parabola.io" rel="nofollow">https://parabola.io</a>). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing.<p>I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. The amount of time wasted on menial tasks was astounding. Things like cleaning data, generating custom reports, creating human workflows to solve shortcomings in third party tools, etc.<p>Non-technical people have to rely on doing things manually or using fragile spreadsheets that solve only part of their use cases. We don't think everyone should have to learn to code in order to work productively (<a href="https://medium.com/parabola-labs/not-everyone-needs-to-learn-how-to-code-32f47ea7a171" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/parabola-labs/not-everyone-needs-to-learn...</a>). That’s why we’re building the tools to help people stop wasting so much time on manual processes, and instead focus on their actual core competencies.<p>We’ve made some interesting decisions in the design of Parabola’s visual programming “language”. We’d love to hear what you think and are happy to discuss our thought process in the comments.
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Title: Has it been abandoned totally?<p>It would be really helpful if anybody who has used WebDav can actually share their experience on what worked and what didn't work for them?
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Title: Looking at liquefaction maps of the Bay Area, it really seems like we're in for a huge disaster at some indefinite point in the future. Many buildings are very old, made of brick, and seem unlikely to survive a big earthquake.<p>1. Why is it that we have people working in San Francisco in buildings that we know will likely collapse in a large earthquake?<p>2. How is this legal? How are companies able to ignore the obvious safety implications of having people work inside deathtraps?<p>3. Will the families of workers get paid when workers are inevitably buried under tons of rubble?<p>4. Is there something workers can do to force their companies to provide earthquake life insurance and/or move out of unsafe buildings?<p>https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/sfgeo/liquefaction/maps.html
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Title: Hi all,<p>I run a pretty popular site that is constantly experiencing some form of abusive traffic- most notably attackers running password dumps against our login endpoint (sometimes from 10k+ ipv4 addresses among several subnets and ASNs). We've mostly mitigated this with rate limiting, captcha and other forms of "suspicious login" detection. But I've been recently pondering ways to waste their time or resources to make password dumping less appealing.<p>The most recent attack could be accurately and precisely detected, and I noticed the abusive traffic would follow 301 redirects, so I decided to redirect all requests back to their own IP addresses.<p>I don't think it really slowed them down, but got me thinking of otherwise to stop/slow them down:<p>* 301 redirect them to a "honeypot" server that holds onto sockets for as long as possible and/or causes the client to waste time/cpu cycles (perhaps, constantly asking the client to renegotiate TLS)<p>* 301 redirect to https://nsa.gov so they might get on someone's radar with the time and resources to stop them<p>* Redirect them to a non http protocol, like geo:, potentially blocking the abusive client with a dialog "Want to open this with <Maps Application>?" (Some attacks originate from Android devices- I'm not sure how deeply the custom protocol hooks are registered and if that would even work)<p>I know abusive web traffic is pretty widespread and was curious how others dealt with it other than standard captcha, rate limiting and iptables rules
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Title: GDPR will undoubtedly have an effect on most businesses. I'm curious what the impact has been. Is it mostly financial? Have you had to make changes to the services you integrate with or create new technology to service users looking to view or manage their data?
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Title: What's one book that changed your life?
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Title: I am positive that there's a huge difference between the theoretical model and reality here.<p>Let's assume it's 30 celsius inside the room and <20 celsius outside.<p>Enjoy your Monday my thermodynamics friends!
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Title: The past couple years have been dominated by the hype cycle of cryptocurrencies as an incentive mechanism for decentralization. Hundreds of “N sided marketplace” problems have been reframed to fit within decentralized solutions. And yet, none of them have really succeeded. There is no “killer app” representing the decentralized marketplace du-jour.<p>I can’t help but wonder if many of these projects are approaching the solution the wrong way. The fundamental problem underpinning decentralization is one of governance and direction. Too many cooks in the kitchen means solutions can become diluted with unnecessarily indirect incentive mechanisms.<p>Decentralization is a spectrum. There is a middle ground between a decentralized solution and a centralized solution. That middle ground is federation.<p>To me, federation has always seemed a better solution for decentralized marketplaces than full decentralization, because it decouples economic incentives from those of technology suppliers. As long as we live in a world where fiat currency and nation states dominate transactional and regulatory environments, it is unavoidable that any large enterprise pursuing legitimacy will need to interact within the bounds of laws and regulations. Given that, it seems that federation offers a better solution than decentralization because it allows service operators to define their own economic processes according to their own jurisdictions and regulations, whereas decentralization is more of a free-for-all that can meet only the lowest common denominator of regulatory and economic restrictions.<p>What does HN think? Is decentralization overhyped? Would many projects be better suited to a hybrid model of decentralized infrastructure and federated transactions?
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Title: I've noticed quite an increase in non-commercial project developer communities that use Slack as their primary medium of communication, particularly for help and developer-related inquiries.<p>My gut reaction to this is a negative one, where I feel like the siloing of developer releated questions and answers is against the nature of the web, and more importantly detremental to the community itself, as it prevents discovery of previous discussions in forums, Google Groups, Stackoverflow etc.<p>How do you feel about these?
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Title: In goland, usage of frameworks for web dev is discouraged. The favored way seemsu to be to take the modules from the Go Standard Library and create your own webserver.<p>I would like to know which is the best resource to have an comprehensive understanding of web app development using Go. I have often used django for my previous projects. Django has some decent defaults in terms of handling security. So not having the safety net of a framework sometimes gives me the jitters. How to handle security in Golang applications? Are there some established best practices or is it to be implemented by the developer?
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Title: This question is mainly directed at people who work all their hours remotely and have no hours working in person at an office. Especially if you've worked this way for several months or years, how has it affected the way you interact with people? Has it made some things more difficult to you? In particular if you are living single, and aren't living with anyone to take care of (no SO, or no children or other family).
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Title: Also, in a relatively open ended project, llike Google Zero, how do people there decide upon a course of research?
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Title: Hello HN!<p>It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra.<p>I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API (<a href="https://thePdfApi.com" rel="nofollow">https://thePdfApi.com</a>) and would love to have some feedback on the following points:<p>- is it clear upon viewing the landing page what the product is about?<p>- are there any questions that you have that are not answered on the page? I'm thinking about adding an FAQ once the first questions pop up.<p>- would this product provide value to you if your startup needed to generate PDFs? If not, what would you use instead?<p>Thanks for helping a fellow hacker out.<p><a href="https://thePdfApi.com" rel="nofollow">https://thePdfApi.com</a>
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Title: Hi,
Currently, I'm pursuing a masters in Control systems. After looking for a couple of blogs by researchers and graduate students I've had some trouble understanding in how to document/write the things I'm learning in graduate school.<p>Ideally, I'd like to write to help understand how deep my understanding of the subject is but also be a way to contact people who are interested in the field of control systems & machine learning as two overlapping fields via a personal blog.<p>A few of my concerns involve:<p>1. How to maintain a technical blog without sounding like an academician i.e examples of other good blogs.<p>2. How to spread the knowledge from the courses I'm taking legally i.e. how much out of class homeworks/material is it okay to share?<p>Thanks for reading!
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Title: Note: Here, when I say "community," I really mean "online community."<p>To me, the most puzzling thing about programming is that there is no real place to actually <i>discuss</i> programming.<p>As weird/absurd as that sounds, it seems like three major avenues where most discussion occurs are:<p>1. Reddit. Subreddits are nice and very effectively organize discussion of different topics. On the other hand, Reddit is virtually anonymous, and it's generally frowned upon to share anything of your own creation, in order to not be flagged as spam/self-promotion.<p>2. Hacker News. It's more than acceptable to submit your own content, or other people's content you found interesting. The downside is that it's very difficult to get to the frontpage, and most posts not on the frontpage are forgotten. There's also the fact that this site is far more anonymous than Reddit, and that features like downvoting are blocked off for most users.<p>3. Twitter. I like Twitter because it's very personal, and you can actually put faces to names (unheard of elsewhere). The downside here is that for anyone to hear anything you're saying, you truly have to have tens of thousands of followers. I have 4,000, but most of those people are not programmers, and thus there's less than a smidgeon of opportunity for any sort of programming discussion there.<p>So, I've always wondered.<p>Is the reason that there is no real online community, the fact that maybe we just don't need one?<p>Thoughts? Just wanted to discuss...
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Title: 3blue1brown is a popular one I see referenced on here. Any others? Clips from popular TV shows are probably popular as well.
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Title: There exist lots of material about trending companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Apple and the people behind them such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, etc...<p>But what about companies such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Intel, Red Hat...and people involved in tech such as Tim Berners-Lee, Marissa Mayer, Brian Kernighan...?<p>For instance, I read the "iWoz" book by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and loved it because he describes lots of technical challenges he faced, as well as what problems had Apple back at the time. Lots of fun facts, anecdotes and info, mainly from a technical perspective.<p>Another nice book was "Just For Fun", by Linus Torvalds. It provided a human perspective on Linus, who is usually depicted as a tyrant. In addition he describes the initial development of the Linux Kernel as well as the whys behind it, a nice introspection for those who are into programming.<p>Those are the kinds stories I'd like to read, material about tech companies: how they got created, what struggles did they have to face, the people that founded them and developed them.<p>Do you have any recommendations in the form of books, documentaries, blog posts or other sorts of material?<p>Thank in advance!
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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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>To search the thread, try kennytilton's WhoIsHiring browser at <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a> or
kristopolous' console script at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
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Title: The internet is noisy, books are usually 200 pages too long and the most important ideas can be condensed into the essay format. Can you help curate the best?
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Title: I am still frustrated with the amount of incidental complexity required whenever I want to do this. My latest attempt was to use a Digital Ocean droplet with Django pre-installed. I guess the biggest issue there was setting up something so that I could easily deploy my local version to the droplet (ended up using git/Github), and ensuring those two environments were in sync. I looked into Docker in some detail about a year ago, and I think it's the only pretty good solution for this I've come across—but there's a steep up front cost in learning/setup etc. (or so it seems).<p>What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I'm wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local/production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I am a software engineer in Europe and I would guess the average software engineer makes ~40000 (around ~28000 net) euro a year (~47000 in $) if (s)he does "average" software dev (so between junior and senior).<p>Now obviously you can negotiate salary (which I recommend) and exceptional senior devs <i>do</i> make around ~80000 here in Europe I guess, but here on HN I always read that most devs make around 100K (even if not a team leader or just fresh from the university or even self-taught), but if I would propose that kind of compensation to some company I am sure that it won't work out. I know that Google & Co <i>do</i> pay decent salary here in Europe, but other (software) companies would roll their eyes if I would demand a salary in this category.<p>Of course it is not that easy to compare as you are automatically insured in Europe (I don't know how that works in the US, I often read about some 401-thingy) which I highly appreciate but I don't think that you guys pay 50000 for taxes and social benefits/year?<p>So is my view biased as I hang out on HN too much, or is salary in the US really that much higher?<p>Or is it implied that you just make your 50 - 60 hours a week (at least in my area most people that do full-time are <=45 hours a week)?<p>Thank you for your comments.<p>//edit: Obviously not everybody, but let's say the 50% percentile.
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