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Title: I've been looking through my paper based notebooks recently and noticed that chop and change between note taking systems, and there is no structure to my notes.<p>I was wondering if anyone could point me to structured note-taking systems or methods they use to bring some consistency to their note taking.
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Title: Experience is a nice thing, most of the time. We can see through the BS and concentrate on important things to make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory, to a point where I think I am as productive, maybe even more, than I was 20 years ago.<p>The negative consequence of experience though, in my case, is I'm less excited about new ideas, more skeptic in general, which makes it more difficult to find the motivation that is needed to build something really significant.<p>And I mean, it's not very surprising, if you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects, that makes it harder to believe you can change that.<p>Maybe some older folks here on HN, but younger people comments welcome too of course, could share their point of view on that question?
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Title: I'm applying for internships for summer 2019, and as the title suggests, am unsure of whether to apply for swe or data science positions. My background and skill set are mostly in statistics and machine learning, so I'm inclined to apply for data science, but many of the postings I've looked at list a PhD as a minimum requirement, and I am an undergrad. On the flip side, there are lots of swe postings looking for undergraduates, but they expect knowledge of data structures/algorithms and programming languages that I don't have (I'm not a CS major).<p>I think I'm a reasonably strong applicant, but am unsure how to navigate between the Scylla of having the wrong degree and Charybdis of having the wrong background. Any advice would be much appreciated!
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Title: Any tips on the best beginner books for learning computer networking? I'd really like books/courses that explain 'why' something is done along with (or more than) the 'how' something is done.<p>Similar request for network security...if anyone has good tips to share. Thanks!
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Title: Can anyone add any information on what the "Advisor Track" is for Startup School? I was just accepted, but I only see Founder Track in past applications, so not sure what Advisor Track means or the differenct if any.<p>Thanks!
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Title: One of my competitors has been scrapping my site and providing service to their users without paying anything. And now they surpassed me on google ranking.<p>I've created a website which gets around 5K unique hits every day. It's a free service for users but I've to pay a monthly fee to a third party service provider.<p>Because my site is free for users and doesn't require users to register it's been very hard to keep up with this guy. If I change certain things, they counter it immediately and make it work. And they use several proxies to send the request, it's virtually impossible to block based on IP.<p>Please suggest, if there is anything I'm missing that can be done.
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Title: The only option you have is to cancel your subscription, its also impossible to change account settings without an active sub.
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Title: I used to be a hacker.<p>I used to bounce around like a molecule, colliding with everything untiI I discovered every crack and backdoor by sheer persistence.<p>I used to sit in my parents basement for 14 hours straight without a single thought unrelated to the screen in front of me entering my head.<p>I once made $5 in a day. The money was meaningless, just a way to keep score.<p>I used to be a hacker, I was driven by pure curiosity and the joy of finding out.<p>I once made $100 in a day. I could actually buy stuff in real life.<p>The money wasn’t important to me. I wasn’t concerned about my future, my career, or what other people thought.<p>I once made $1000 in a day. I probably don’t need a real job. That’s nice.<p>The money wasn’t that important to me. I just wanted the freedom to travel and keep hacking without having to work for
someone.<p>I once made $27,000 in a day. My parents were proud of me because I was successful now.<p>The money wasn’t the most important thing to me. My expenses increased, but I lived below my means. I should probably invest in a tax deferred retirement account and make a linkedin profile.<p>I once made $1 million dollars in a day. I was now a professional internet entrepreneur.<p>I was no longer a hacker. I wanted to build a robust internet business with low overhead and diversified recurring revenue streams to be attractive for an eventual acquisition.<p>I was concerned with the landscape, the competition, and that guy on the cover of Inc magazine.<p>It became harder to figure things out. I felt like I was consuming twice the mental resources. I’m a successful internet entrepreneur now, and my identity is tied to the outcome.<p>Me today could never have done what I did back then. I don’t have the curiosity, the scrappiness, or the delusional optimism to even try.<p>To those just starting out who haven’t yet made a dollar and a cent, block out all the bullshit and hack.
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Title: Recently I joined a relatively small company (50-100 employees) as a medium level software developer. For a while I was very excited about this opportunity.<p>After few days/weeks of getting to know the whole codebase I finally moved to a specific project I was suppose to work on and I found out the code is a complete mess.
Often I find parts of code that unintentionally affects other parts of code. Some parts are just copied and left there doing nothing. Even names of classes/variables are sometimes useless and project structure is unintuitive and seemingly without rules. It's spaghetti and relatively big spaghetti (tens of thousands of LOC).<p>I started "repairing" the project but there're no tests to check whether my adjustments are correct.
I'm so frustrated and depressed by it. The job basically turned into something I hate - I'm just rewriting the code!
The person in charge of this project was working on it alone and from the outside it all looks fine and it's working. So this makes the higher people think that it's all just fine.
I really don't know what to do.
Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job? I don't feel very comfortably doing that because (a) I'm a relatively new hire, (b) the person in charge is working there for about two years and (c) I'm much younger than she/he is both professionally and biologically.<p>I've already made some comments about rewriting it and the response was basically "ok".
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Title: I've been a professional software developer for 3 years now, but I've been programming for about 6 years prior to that. Both as a hobby, but also as a side-effect of my education in mathematical modelling and decision making.<p>I love programming and developing applications, but due to my background in mathematics-economics I tend to have a very economical focus on the impact of what I do. To be frank, it is making me depressed.<p>It's not that I can't generate positive ROI for my time spent. The problem is how it affects society. My job (and education) seems primed to benefit shareholder at the cost of other stakeholders.<p>Automating people away seriously affects the livelyhood of those affected. To make it worse, cuts in costs often never make a difference to the price of end products, unless the market for those products are very competitive. Prices doesn't simply go down when costs go down. They go down when your main competitors prices go down.<p>It feel like I'm making everyone slightly worse off, except for my employer.<p>How can I make a living with my skills, serving the wider public? How can I make a positive difference in other peoples' lives?
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Title: I am curious what others success with posts on "Who is hiring?" has been. I have been posting a couple of positions for two different companies over the past two years and only got a hand full of applications from medium to lower quality candidates (not good matches for the respective positions). I don't think location should be the issue (Berlin) and Visa was also always available. Stacks not absolute cutting edge but modern and interesting products. And of course I tried to optimize the content for the audience looking at other posts in the past threads. Anything I might be missing?
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Title: I've seen people speculate if they've been pigeonholed in their career, in terms of being stuck with certain technlogy stacks, or tools, or a type of industry. I wonder about something else, if you can get pigeonholed to a limited set of company sizes and cultures.<p>I feel like I'm pigeonholed with only being able to be hired by very small companies. Fewer than 20 employees small. No fortune 500's, not even any full-time benefits or 401(k). They're very unstable too. I usually lose my job before I could get another one lined up. I had roughly $8000 in my bank account when I graduated and today, ten years later I have only about $400.<p>I want out of companies that constantly make me walk a tight rope of self-care. I want to ask am I pigeonholed? Because I cast a wide net with job applications, going to larger companies. Even some major ones like Amazon, Cloudflare and Coinbase have phone interviewed me. But they don't want to hire me. Like maybe these smaller companies are giving me a stigma.<p>Am I stuck in the small company loop forever? Unless I make some major lifestyle change like getting a master's degree or completely changing my personality it seems to be the case.<p>So what do you think about this sort of pigeonholing? Have you been pigeonholed in a similar sense whether stuck with large companies, small companies or anywhere in between?
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Title: I usually come to work 15-20 mins early and start by bringing up 7 or so tabs in my browser. I'll browse for 10mins or so save any longer article I'm interested in for later.<p>What websites do you check every day?
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Title: About 3 years ago, after researching payment processing options, we chose Braintree. The thing is, they were still riding on the goodwill they had built up thus far pre-paypal purchase.<p>Paypal is a total nightmare for some people (especially if you plan on growing fast), so the fact that they were recently purchased by them, should have been a red flag, but customers and reviews still seemed positive.<p>One of the selling points with Braintree was always that once you are underwritten, they are going to work and grow with you. Unlike Paypal, who will arbitrarily freeze your funds at the most inopportune moment.<p>Apparently, Paypal has now applied this same policy at Braintree. One of the features we offer our customers is allowing them to sell event tickets through our software. They can use their own merchant account, but we encourage them to use our in house system (braintree marketplace) because it is usually faster and easier.<p>And so it worked fine for 3 years, slowly growing, processing more and more payments through more and more sub-merchants. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then they just decided to shut down 2 of our newest customers and hold 100% of their funds ransom for 180 days. More than $50k for a single customer which is a terrible burden. Reasons given was that we had a sudden increase in marketplace sales from this new customer and they don't want the exposure (even though we processed even more than this from a single sub-merchant last year in a short period of time).<p>So just wanted to put it out there that Braintree is now up to the old tricks of Paypal. Lull you in to a false sense of security, then lock up your funds suddenly for whatever reason with no recourse.<p>If you currently use Braintree, be careful, even with a good growth history on file with them, they are no longer startup friendly as they can't seem to handle spikes in activity or at least have no desire to do so.
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Title: Life Hacks is for using best practices in life.<p>I love this one from Reddit:<p>Staying at a hotel? Ask the Front Desk to borrow one of the hundreds of phone chargers left behind by guests, and leave yours in the car.
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Title: I am toying with the idea of building a house, as autonomously as possible. I am thinking about a massive, concrete house. with basement, ground floor and upper floor.<p>Has somebody here experience in this area? Any useful pointers?
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Title: Using a throw-away because it is career suicide to express these thoughts so candidly. This post might trigger people with different views on work than mine.<p>I'm an average developer. I can write decent, legible code, with tests, and solve a business problem according to specs. I didn't study CS and learned it all out of sheer curiosity and passion. I have about five years of experience, all at web startups.<p>So far, so good.<p>But here is the thing: I only like to stay for a year or less at a given place and then quit (or get laid off, even better because I get employment insurance). I go on a 1-6 months break to recharge before I have to look for work again.<p>I'm perfectly fine staying an average developer. I want to do my 40 hours a week, sit out of office politics, go home, and do things I enjoy more with the rest of my time. I have no interest in becoming a lead or a senior dev: the extra stress isn't worth it, the Kool-Aid doesn't taste good, and I'm paid well enough as it is.<p>It feels like I'm living a lie though because hiring managers would much rather get docile, "hungry", "passionate" people who aren't going to leave after 9-12 months. So I have to pretend while interviewing so I can get my next job and pay my bills until it's time for me to take a break again.<p>I don't enjoy doing this because it feels dirty.<p>So this time around, I'm looking at alternatives: how can I work on my own terms and take long breaks in-between while staying employable? Should I look for agencies and only go for 3-6-9 months contracts? Should I give up tech entirely to avoid the broken interview process and avoid burning out at work?<p>I can't believe I'm the only one thinking this way, I know there are plenty of so-called "clock punchers/pragmatists"[0] who refuse to play the game. So I'm asking you: how do you pull it off? How do you survive? What do you tell your managers and your interviewers?<p>[0]: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/
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Title: The landscape for online course creators is not satisfying.<p>The most significant player is Udemy. The problem with Udemy is that I can't build my own audience and have no control over the sales price due to ongoing discount offers (the price setting is a joke, regardless of what amount I set I rarely sell for more than 10$. I'd have to opt-out of their marketing channel but then why host with Udemy at all?)<p>The other problem with Udemy is the low barrier of quality. They do some quality control but only checking the sales page and sound or video quality but never the content itself.<p>There are other providers with higher quality control, like Pluralsight, but here the barrier is too high (plus you still can't build your audience).<p>Then there's the option to self-host using a Saas provider. For example, I found Teachable quite useful. But of course I'm on my own here, there's no network effect I can take advantage of, and I can't have a public review system to gain customer's trust.<p>Are there any other alternatives I'm not aware of?<p>I wish there were a platform where independent creators come together to build a brand. It would have some voting system to control who can publish, and a creator would have to pay some small percentage to keep the platform running but retains control of everything else.<p>There would be a public course review system for students ala Amazon or Udemy.<p>What are your thoughts on that?<p>To get started I could imagine finding a small group of creators who come together to build a common landing page with a review feature that then just redirects to each of the creator's self-hosted site. If interested contact me.
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Title: 10-15 years ago, I worked a corporate job, which I genuinely enjoyed for many reasons. While there, my imagination and energy exploded as I discovered and drank up all that Joel Spolsky, Paul Graham, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Jeff Atwood, and Michael Lopp had to write. It was a renaissance for the industry and for me personally. Their thoughts introduced and propelled me into the software startup world, made me a valuable asset to my employers, and led to me being in leadership positions. I'm looking for that sort of learning and insight again but not really finding it organically. These greats certainly haven't lost their mojo. They weren't a fad like most thinkers and writers online are or have been. I'm simply wondering if there are additional folks I should be following this decade because they're building the next renaissance.<p>Please list any up-and-coming changemakers you follow below.<p>Thanks!
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Title: In the last few years I have collected a large amount of ebooks, papers, articles, movies, pictures, etc. (all digital).<p>I am at a point where I would like to organize these items into a cohesive, searchable and maintainable system. I have looked at various methods (e.g. Niklas Luhmanns "Zettelkasten", Zotero, Org-Mode) and I am not satisfied yet. Any tips?
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm looking around for a new work setup for a software development environment. I can choose freely both for software and for hardware and since I like macOS and use it myself for quite some time the choice seemed obvious.<p>My problem is, for a decent upgrade both in RAM and disk space I have to go for a $2199 model (the new MacBook Pro touch bar with 16GB RAM and 512GB disk) which seems to leave almost no budget left for anything besides the monitor.<p>So, having said this, I do have a question: do you believe that this year's MacBook Pro is worth this value? I'm willing to give up some things from my setup (likely a usb-c dock that I'll buy on my own later for example) if it really means I'm getting a laptop that's worth it.<p>The primary reason I'm inclined to go with this year's model is the T2 chip that I believe to be of significant value for its added security during boot, Touch ID, disk encryption and camera and microphone processing. This is something I personally value but I wasn't able to find much technical reviews about this chip that would prove its worth to me.<p>I don't particularly care for the touch bar (I admit it may be useful, but in my opinion they should've only added it above the function keys and only if it didn't mean a great bump in price) so, apart from the reason above I'd be open to choose another model.<p>What's your opinion on the current MacBook Pro offering?<p>PS: I do have to say though that all their pro hardware seems to be very overpriced for their current offerings and even though I love their products I have to admit that if I really were in the market for a personal laptop, I'd have a very difficult time choosing myself between a Mac or a PC.
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Title: The prevalence of food allergies is increasing in the USA, at least, if not around the world. In my case, I have two daughters with serious food allergies and sensitivities. I’d like to educate myself on this issue, and I’d be grateful for some recommendations about where to start. Thanks!
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Title: I've seen many companies attempt to use AI/ML as a business model.<p>Personally speaking, I left my own job earlier this year due in part to deep disagreements about how my previous company was utilizing and marketing itself as AI-based, even changing its name to include "AI".<p>But when I left fintech to work in the healthcare industry (totally different role), people started coming to me to pitch their products/solutions. I started getting pitched AI products (harness the power of AI & predictive analytics!), and the use of buzzwords was pretty outrageous. I started wondering...do these companies have any real customers? Who are buying these products, and are they seeing a sufficient-enough ROI to justify these purchases?
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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 company, 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
<a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>, or gadogado's <a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</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: Hello,<p>I'm interested in learning more on the psychology of religion. Can anybody recommend any books on the subject, and why you recommend them?<p>Thanks.<p>edit: Upon second thought, I'm more interested in the psychology of virtue/morals.
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Title: I feel like I’ve missed the boat when it comes to home ownership here in the Bay Area. Furthermore, my wife wants stability in home ownership for our nascent family, and renting is hardly affordable, not to mention lacking in the potential for growth in equity.<p>The usual option of Austin doesn’t excite me.<p>Where else are people going that has a Tech scene?<p>Currently, I’m working as a Director of Engineering, making 300k+, but it doesn’t seem to matter; all I can afford is either under a freeway or under power lines, it seems. I don’t want to overextend across 30 years.<p>Any suggestions? I’d be happier, I think, somewhere else, with a lower paying job, incredibly, but I’m having a hard time figuring out somewhere with a good mix of weather, jobs, properties, schools.
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Title: What kinds of questions would you ask coworkers before you begin working with them and accepting a role?<p>Disclaimer: my role will be in info sec.<p>Thanks
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Title: What are the best non-fiction books you have read that expanded your views, hobbies, interests etc.
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Title: About three weeks ago I launched my app as a solo dev and without any marketing or buzz I've been able to convert paid subscribers and sell products. I know its an app with a viable market, and has potential. However I have a high churn rate (install/uninstall ratio) of about 70-80% that I know I could improve. Just to put into perspective I am getting an average of 150 installs/day and about 115 uninstalls. So I gain about 20-30 users/day and of those I am getting 3-5 free 3 day trial signups.<p>Currently my app has a couple of issues with a few crashes a day which I am working to resolve but I don't think that is the culprit. My design is decent, it performs decently and its not too convoluted. I use google analytics to track events but they are more of a way to report how much activity my app gets rather than reports on how people feel about my app.<p>I have about 500 active users and about 1,300 accounts. I used mail chimp to retrieve feedback about two weeks ago when I had about 200 active users and 400 accounts and I received only a couple of responses from people saying they really liked it, with just a few minor suggestions but nothing really enlightening. Just today I used to the new search keyword feature in the play console that allows you to see by which terms your users found the app. I have two keywords which I am targeting and have a very nice 50% conversion rate but mostly all of my installs come from keywords that are not listed and get placed in the "other" category. So I am a bit lost since I feel like the app could be optimized right now as its still very new before I try scaling out and just churn through more potential customers.<p>I am looking for advice in general since I work alone but more specifically are there any tools/methods that could aid me? I came across https://www.appsee.com/ which looks great to be able to see how users interact with my app but I was unable to get a response? (maybe they don't like the little guys)
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Title: I read comments and stories here most days, occasionally comment on or submit things, and hold HN in high regard for the variety and quality of discourse.<p>I'm 40 this year and as a milestone birthday it has me ruminating on how to steer my life in the coming few years. At 20, I was a technical support manager with 20+ staff. At 25, I was travelling the world as a technical trainer and event speaker. At 30, I was self-employed with a good income from podcasting. At 35, I was divorced and had to start from scratch. For nearly 5 years, things in my life have been a lot harder to do achieve than they should be. At 40, I'm at a crossroads with a metaphorical blank canvas. I want to be more content with life at 45, 50 and 60.<p>My job (technical consultant, proactive and reactive) keeps the roof over my head, but I'm not jumping out of bed in the morning to do it. My motivation is at an ebb. I don't exercise enough, but I'm starting over with that. I've started intermittent fasting for mental clarity and that seems to be helping -- and this Ask HN post wouldn't have happened without it.<p>I have anhedonia, but I've accepted that when I find something fun that'll go away. It's a symptom of the low-level depression that comes and goes, and the best medicine I've found for me is fresh air and exercise. This should not be considered a cry for help, it's something I have a rational control of, most of the time.<p>And so, I Ask HN: I'm 40 this year, and mentally damaged -- any words of wisdom?<p>Thanks very much for reading.
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Title: Is there a tool you'd recommend to diff tabular data / TSV files?<p>Every day I have a snapshot of a database stored as TSV. Given two days of snapshots and that every item in the TSV has a unique ID, I'd like to get a list of which lines are new, changed, unchanged, and deleted between the two days. These lists will then be used to update an external service with an awkward database-like API.<p>I can kind of do this with normal diff but perhaps there's something better suited for the task? It reminds me of data joins in d3 but I'm not working with a UI or Javascript.
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Title: Clipboard Plus is a Windows utility to view and manage the Windows clipboard.<p>Download : <a href="https://github.com/oormicreations/ClipboardPlus/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oormicreations/ClipboardPlus/releases</a><p>It maintains and can display up to five copied items or clips.<p>Clicking on a clip loads it back into the clipboard and it is ready for pasting into another application. You can clear or save individual clips or all clips by clicking on the corresponding menu items.<p>You can edit the clips and open urls directly from the clipboard plus.<p>The clips can be added to sticky clips, which is like a built in sticky notes with reminders etc.<p>You can enable or disable password mode. When enabled, it masks the copied passwords. You can minimize the Clipboard Plus window to the tray.<p>This tiny but useful utility is completely free and open sourced.
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Title: Most startup stories describe how the founders at some point were not getting any salary, sharing rooms, sleeping in a couch, and barely sleeping. Is that the only way to be successful in a startup? What if you have two kids, a wife and a mortgage, should you just trash all your startup ideas and forget about starting one? What's your opinion and can you share any relevant story?
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Title: I've been out of touch with Javascript for about 5 years. Before that I used to do a little bit of frontend programming. I first learned javascript from "Javascript the good parts", a book by Douglas Crockford. I want to learn it again now. Is there a modern day alternative to the same book. An online resource will also work. The real requirement is that it should be concise and engaging.
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Title: So, it turns out Chrome 69 is a lot more than just redesign of the tabs and removal of the www from the url.<p>I'm using the Mac version of Chrome (Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) (64-bit) to be pedantic).<p>Up until two days ago, logging into gmail and logging into chrome were two different things, as they obviously are (one is a web service the other is a web browser, to be pedantic again)<p>I would usually be logged into gmail in the browser, but would only log into Chrome on special occasions and/or with specific accounts.<p>As of today, if I hit www.gmail.com and log in, I'm automatically logged into Chrome. If I log out of Chrome, I'm also logged out of gmail.<p>This can't be a bug... can it?
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Title: I taught myself how to code and ended up doing a PhD in a computational discipline. Programming has been a big part of my life for at least the last decade, during which I've written code almost every day, but always by myself. After graduating I joined a medium-sized company (~10^2 developers) as a machine learning engineer and realized how much I don't know about software engineering. I feel very comfortable with programming in the small, but programming in the large still feels mostly opaque to me. Issues like testing / mocking, code review, management of dev / stage / prod workflows and, most importantly, the judgment / taste required to make maintainable changes to a million LOC repository, are areas where I can tell I need to improve.<p>Former academics who moved into software engineering, which resources did you find most useful as you made the transition? Python-specific or language-agnostic books would be most helpful, but all advice would be welcome.
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Title: Long story short: bought a couple of Chromebooks over the years (as they're nice multi user machines), created Google accounts on each but never gave a phone number. Now after years of use, Google pops up an "unrecognized device" roadblock AFTER I enter the password to log in, with the message "enter a phone number to get a text message with a verification code".<p>There is no mention of suspicious activity. The only trigger I can think of is a recent modem reset that changed my Public IP, and my new IP doesn't appear to resolve to my old physical location in Google's geoip db.<p>Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers? I don't even understand how giving them my phone number proves anything as I definitely did not ever give them one previously.<p>Unfortunately burner phones are not available in my country, so that's not an option.
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Title: Hey HN,
Me and a friend of mine want to do a series of screen casts of walking through and modifying open source code of popular libraries. The idea is to help people dig into OSS and to understand how the software they use work under the hood!<p>I plan to start with JavaScript based front-end libraries. So other than the editor and terminal, there is the browser as well that needs to be shared.<p>Any hints on what tools I can use to collaborate with my friend online? Final product is a open video playlist on YouTube. Ideally I'd like my friend to also modify the code when we're playing with it!
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Title: Hi guys! At our startup, Galiboo, we've created an AI-powered API for music, which can do things like:<p>- searching for music with natural language
- extracting hundreds of moods & emotions from any track
- finding tracks by tags
- get similar-sounding music
- and more.<p>The website is <a href="https://galiboo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://galiboo.com/</a>, and the API docs are at apidocs.galiboo.com.
We've also got a live demo at demo.galiboo.com.<p>We also have a Python client library at <a href="https://github.com/galiboo/galiboo-python" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/galiboo/galiboo-python</a>.<p>Our APIs are in beta, so we'd love to hear your thoughts & feedback! :)<p>Thanks!
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Title: Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.<p>Developer site: <a href="https://developers.google.com/photos" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/photos</a><p>With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).<p>API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java & PHP (and more in the works!).<p>Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.
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Title: Experience and connections don't seem to matter when you're old and crazy. I'm 40 years old, and I've been working in tech in some fashion since I was 12.<p>I've managed a dozen datacenters, implemented CFEngine, Chef, Puppet, Salt. I've started 2 failed web apps, a boutique bicycle company, a successful "devops" consulting company that I sold, and a dns company that I sold.<p>I'm also crazy, bi-polar 2, and have burned many, many bridges. I'm unable to learn to code at this point, I'm unable to focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a time, and that's a good day. I've tried most attention drugs, meditation, every other armchair psychology technique you might suggest. I'm just incapable of becoming more than just another old sysadmin who writes shell script and a cut and paste coder.<p>I was fired from my last job for daring to ask my boss to narrow the $50k gap between me and everybody else in my team who had the same title as me. I was desperate to find a job and had to accept an insultingly low salary.<p>Now I've applied to about 500 positions with exactly 5 responses. 2 lead to embarassing coding interviews with 22 year old children. The other 3 were polite "go away, old men".<p>What do you do when you're too old to learn like a 20 year old kid, you're too worn down to pimp yourself out, and you can't deep throat a shotgun because you have a kid to support?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I am Vincent of Sterblue (<a href="https://www.sterblue.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.sterblue.com</a>). We build software for drones to inspect power lines and wind turbines automatically.<p>We are three drone enthusiasts. I met Nicolas in 2006 during our Aerospace Engineering studies at ISAE, in France. Small drones were still in their infancy and we eagerly enrolled in the brand-new student micro-drone club. Nicolas later met Geoffrey when working in India for a large aerospace company, while I was working on my PhD in Computer Science.<p>In 2015, we shared a feeling of disappointment that the vision people had for drones back in 2006 had not fully happened yet. For example, utility companies need to inspect millions of power line pylons. They still mostly perform inspections using helicopters or rope access technicians. They sometimes use drones for short distance inspections, but they could not scale it up to inspect all of their grid.<p>We decided to try to make drone inspections happen in the renewable energy industry.<p>In the beginning, we were super optimistic: we started by designing and patenting actual drone hardware configurations, building and testing drone prototypes. Then we realised that hardware is really hard! and worse, that new drones are not what this industry needs right now. Even with super high-performance drones, you still need a top-gun-level pilot to capture precise photos 8 hours a day from a drone flying high in the wind. And then you need to spend ages trying to find small anomalies on thousands of captured images.<p>So our approach became to automate most of the inspection process, using off-the-shelf DJI drones. We built two core technologies in the last 2 years to try to get there.<p>The first one is a mission planning and execution engine based on ideas developed during my PhD. It allows drones to fly on complex 3D trajectories that wrap tightly around structures, flying the drone sometimes less than 3m away from the objects to inspect. Most other drones companies fly high above the objects to inspect, so their apps show trajectories on 2D maps. Our app shows trajectories on 3D views because our trajectories are intricated closely around objects. As an example, we had to take into account the fact that wind turbine blades bend under their own weight. Here is an image of power grid inspection with our software: <a href="https://imgur.com/KRE1Oce" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/KRE1Oce</a><p>The second is a deep learning framework built on top of Tensorflow, PyTorch and Caffe2. It allows to detect 130 classes of defects on images: corrosion, broken equipment, and other safety hazards. The typical use case for drones today is photogrammetry, in order to create 3D models from captured images. This is not super useful for wind turbine and power line inspection, so we focus on our thing: finding defects directly on images, just like human operators do now. For several classes of common defects, our software has 98% recall and 80% precision. We run up to 18 different neural networks on some images in order to find defects on all kinds of equipment. Here is an image of our algorithm detecting an anomaly on a wind turbine: <a href="https://imgur.com/iGIxtAZ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/iGIxtAZ</a><p>These two technologies are linked to a GraphQL API and cloud platform. Our customers get to visualize inspections results on PDF reports and 3D interfaces online. Our UIs are made using React and React Native. Here is an image of an HTML report for distribution grid inspection: <a href="https://imgur.com/dkznc6o" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/dkznc6o</a><p>In the last 6 months we had successful pilot projects with utilities in 7 different countries, and some have even started to use our software in production mode now. This is exciting for us. But we still have a lot to learn, and we’d like to hear your feedback and ideas in this space!
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Title: I've been thinking about writing my own programming language for some time. This to gain a deeper understanding of how programming languages, and by extent, computers work. I've bought the Flex and Bison book by John Levine to have a resource on parsing and lexing. I have come to realize however, that writing a complete language like Java, Python, Ruby, from bottom to the top, is of course not a small task. So therefore I started to think of writing maybe a compiler for another language, writing a "simple" language like SQL, Markdown etc. to begin with.<p>What are your experiences when writing a new programming language, where and how did you start?
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Title: I worked on a mobile application for a project that I was really invested in but after graduating, different developers with different coding beliefs - the project just fell apart. I still love the idea and put so much time into it. Has a lot of potential I think. Can I just complete it on my own. Do I even have an obligation to ask them if I can do it? When is their idea no longer "thiers". Also did not like the direction they were going with the business.
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Title: For me it was this very old book, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
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Title: All things considered, when someone asks you this question which software comes to your mind immediately?
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Title: Is 4 years of going to school really worth it? Or should I just try to learn as much as possible on my own and carve my own path?
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Title: Compared to say, offering a product or service directly to customers/users? Because from what I've seen over here, the vast majority of tech companies seem to be obssessed with delivering work for corporate clients or attempting to be the next Moz rather than offering a service for average Joes. You don't see many Uber/Airbnb/Facebook/Twitter/Apple/whatever type deals aimed at normal people.<p>So why is this? I did hear at one startup event (from a VC) that UK investors were hesitant to back user facing companies like their US counterparts, but that can't be all the reason, right?<p>Why are European tech companies so much more interested in being B2B businesses?
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Title: I believe in what the startup does but they are at very early stages and the salary they offer is 1/3 of what Google offers but I get about 6% options over 4 years.
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Title: This is just insane. Photoshop takes less space than that, most fully functional desktop apps take less space than that. If you work for FB, or know someone who does, can you enlighten us as to what in the hell is in that HALF a GB (!!!) app?
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Title: This week I read google are closing down Inbox by gmail. Curious to see what alternative everyone are considering or is everyone simply going to use gmail.
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Title: We recently decided to move from AWS to OVH, primarily for saving money. We realized that the bulk of our AWS bill was made of EC2 and Data transfer costs. So, leaving S3, Cloudfront and SES, we moved everything away from AWS. The costs have become less than half.<p>My question is:
<i>Why is OVH not as popular as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure among startups when it is so much more cheaper?</i>.
I am aware of the following drawbacks of OVH:<p><pre><code> * No disk replication i.e unlike EBS or Google disk, if my disk fails, I am at the mercy of my backups (given no RAID)
* No private network for all the servers by default. Unlike AWS security groups or Google Cloud private networks (which are setup by default), I will have to pay for vRack to setup a private network and is more complicated.
* Decreased flexibility i.e I may not be able to spin up instances instantaneously or shut down instances to save costs in off peak times.
</code></pre>
These maybe big factors for large corporations but I think that a startup which starts with a small monolith (or a handful of services) and is focused on eventual profitability may benefit from using services like OVH.<p><i>Am I missing something here?</i><p>Also, please let me know of any better and cheaper services out there than OVH.<p>Edit: I would add that we have moved to OVH dedicated servers not VPS.
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Title: Currently I am watching Daniel Shiffman (example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5IH0L63wo) and I really like his enthusiasm. I've watched a whole bunch of high production, paid courses (udemy, udacity etc) and somehow Shiffman's free videos are more fun to watch and learn.<p>Any other teachers you like? Doesn't need to be math or computers, other subjects welcome too
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Title: I'm trying to cultivate my ability to identify worthwhile topics to invest time in learning since I have only recently graduated from university, so for the most part have been sticking to the yellow brick road laid out for me thus far.<p>What would some of you guys think about learning if you were just starting out in the industry? Or even better, what does your process for orienting yourself and making these kind of decisions look like?<p>Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Title: I recently moved to Vancouver, Canada after working for 3 years in the SF Bay Area and it has been a little bit of a shock. The companies I've seen here are not doing terribly exciting things and don't pay very well.<p>The biggest difference is they are much less willing to take a chance on people with only 3-4 years experience like me. On paper I don't have a whole lot of experience, but I've been obsessed with technology since I was very young and HAVE learnt a lot. In the right jobs, given responsibility, I have done more than people my "level" would typically do in a more conservative place. But I didn't realize just how special that is to SF - it seems like companies in Canada still treat software engineers as interchangeable cogs with "X years of experience/knows Y technology, does not know Z" stamped on their forehead.<p>I'm willing to move anywhere within Canada. Can anyone recommend companies and locations with a more optimistic/SF-ish culture willing to take a chance on passion & talent? Or even how to find places like that?
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Title: Hi guys, I've created an open source web builder framework (<a href="https://grapesjs.com" rel="nofollow">https://grapesjs.com</a>) years ago, which I'm still maintaining, and now I'm excited to publish a side project based on it, Grapedrop (<a href="https://grapedrop.com" rel="nofollow">https://grapedrop.com</a>). It's a simple web page builder which allows you to design and publish your web pages very quickly. The project is still in beta with a lot of stuff to improve but I'd really like to share it and hear what people think about it and maybe also get some constructive feedback.
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Title: How did you land your first customer? How did/do you market yourself? ...
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Title: Hi HN, I've been a long term user of both Thinkpads and Macbooks. Back in the old days I loved to work on Thinkpads and loved their robustness. I'm owning a X1 Carbon and have to say that the quality is rather disappointing to me, display broke already presumably from lots of traveling. Macbook is okay, but for running and developing on Linux not very optimal. The keyboard on a Thinkpad is also nicer to use (imho). I moan that we don't have the old days where Thinkpads used to be what they stand for, that is, being robust laptops for everyday development. Any experience / recommendation with rugged laptops (e.g. the rugged Latitude)? If you were to buy a new (<i>robust</i>) laptop to work with and travel often, what would it be?
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Title: It has been a few years since I got my masters degree, and I never had the ambition for an academic career. Pursuing a tech one at the moment. Still miss writing about topics that interest me. Is there anyone here who incorporates (academic) writing with a non-academic career? How do you manage?
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Title: This is the 2nd time in my life that I turn to HN for help. The first time, I already thought I was kind of in a bad shape. But tonight, I reached a new low point. I have been out of a job for a long time. Currently, my only income is from a small remote job that requires no special skills. I can only survive on it, because I moved to a developing country in Southeast Asia. But this is a dead-end. I need to change - everything. I know the best way would be through a job that would allow me to gradually learn new skills. I don't really care that much about pay. I can survive on a few hundred dollars a month. Although I would like to say that I'm willing to do almost anything, I also know my limitations. I previously created some websites on my own using Ruby on Rails. But I'm probably quite far from a 'real' hacker who enjoys coding so much, they do it in their free time as well. For me, programming is just a tool to get what I want. Also, I always struggled a lot with front-end development and would often get frustrated when things didn't work. I never quite gave up on becoming a real developer - however, at the same time, I never had enough motivation to practice on my own until I would have reached a professional level. I believe the only way would if I could receive a lot of guidance. I did think about attending one of those coding bootcamps, but 1st, they are very expensive, and 2nd, they seem to be high-stress environments - and there is my other big weakness, I really don't respond well to stress at all. So, I guess what I'm hoping to find is some sort of coding internship where I could really very slowly grow into the role - without much pressure. I don't know how much sense that makes or if it's even remotely realistic. But I just thought I would give it a shot. If anyone thinks there is a chance that they could use my help, please do let me know. My gmail is [email protected]. My native language is German.
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Title: Its main purpose is to let you use components (.vue files) in your vuejs app, without a full nodejs stack. Just use python2 or python3. BTW, it provides a method to minimize your js scripts (es2015 compliant).<p>(It provides methods to help you to build your vuejs app without nodejs)<p>Available on <a href="https://github.com/manatlan/vbuild" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/manatlan/vbuild</a> (MIT licence)<p>Available on pypi : <a href="https://pypi.org/project/vbuild/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/vbuild/</a>
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Title: I love building small tools which solve problems I myself face in my day to day life. Having been worked in different companies over the last 4 years, I feel I've acquired enough knowledge to develop big applications(big enough to make money) on my own.<p>I was wondering, how one can come up with side project ideas which can generate few hundred dollars per month on the side. Any inputs, resources and wisdom are appreciated!
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Title: Many software projects seem fail or go over-budget from poorly defined or changing specifications. It seems we have excellent tools to manage the delivery of software, but less so at the design/scoping phase.
What are your thoughts of using better tools that leverage, say, Domain Driven Design or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) that would engage end-users early on?
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Title: I am a faculty member of a CS department currently designing a new "Advanced Programming" course for undergraduate students in their 2nd year. What programming languages are an absolute must to know when they graduate? Currently they learn Python, Matlab, Go in various courses. The dilemma we are facing is to choose between old languages like C/C++, Java, C# or move on to modern languages like Rust or functional languages like Scala, F#. Is it bad if a fresh undergraduate doesn't know C/C++ or Java? Are they here to stay for decades to come?
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Title: <a href="https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/hdom/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/hdom...</a><p>Lightweight UI component tree definition syntax, DOM creation and differential updates using only vanilla JS data structures (arrays, iterators, closures, attribute objects or objects with life cycle functions, closures). By default targets the browser's native DOM, but supports other arbitrary target implementations in a branch-local manner, e.g. to define scene graphs for a canvas element as part of the normal UI tree.<p>Benefits:<p>- Use the full expressiveness of ES6 / TypeScript to define user interfaces<p>- No enforced opinion about state handling, very flexible<p>- Clean, functional component composition & reuse<p>- No source pre-processing, transpiling or string interpolation<p>- Less verbose than HTML / JSX, resulting in smaller file sizes<p>- Supports arbitrary elements (incl. SVG), attributes and events in uniform, S-expression based syntax<p>- Supports branch-local custom update behaviors & arbitrary (e.g. non-DOM) target data structures to which tree diffs are applied to<p>- Suitable for server-side rendering and then "hydrating" listeners and components with life cycle methods on the client side<p>- Can use JSON for static components (or component templates)<p>- Optional user context injection (an arbitrary object/value passed to all component functions embedded in the tree)<p>- Default implementation supports CSS conversion from JS objects for style attribs<p>- Auto-expansion of embedded values / types which implement the IToHiccup or IDeref interfaces (e.g. atoms, cursors, derived views, streams etc.)<p>- Only ~5.5KB gzipped
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Title: With the recent thread on privacy in Chrome, I'm thinking of switching off Gmail. What email service is best for privacy? Or if you self-host, what email client do you like best?
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Title: Here's the screenshot[0] of the survey widget Google just sent me to. Did anyone else here just get a "Privacy Checkup" notification in Chrome for something like this? I think it happened when I opened a new tab.<p>I was a bit upset to find out that Google ignored my request to turn off tracking my location, which I remember disabling a few weeks ago. I don't recall ever turning these settings on.<p>In the lower right corner, they asked me a bunch of questions about how I think they are handling my privacy.<p>[0] https://imgur.com/Esgtwlp
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Title: Has any of your detected early signs of trouble at your company and were able to move out to better opportunities before shit hit the fan ? What were the earlier signs , what would you look for ?<p>Over 6 months ago, our "C" team was shaken up. Since then almost all execs have been let go or left. No layoffs have been announced and no big news have come up. Current execs are saying not worry about anything, this is a public company.<p>The reason I dont want to jump the gun too quickly is because great internal projects are starting up and its a good opportunity for me to grow here.<p>Thanks
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Title: I recently interviewed with two startups and the offers came in last week. I need to make a decision by end of this week. Both are doing interesting and challenging work. Both are also using the same set of technologies that I prefer. The base is in the market range with some differences. Here are the differences.<p>Startup A:<p>* Series B: ~50m<p>* ~20K more base<p>* ~20K less stock options<p>* No signing bonus<p>* Free lunch<p>* High premium for family health insurance ~300/paycheck<p>Startup B:<p>* Series C: ~200m<p>* ~20K less base<p>* ~20K more stock options (will be offered options at Series B strike price)<p>* ~10K signing bonus<p>* No free lunch<p>* Low premium for family health insurance ~80/paycheck<p>Thank you so much!<p>Anonymous-for-a-reason
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Title: I see all this posts about Google (with it's massive services), Twitter, Instagram, [any other sites], collecting data and building a profile of you to serve you personalised ads and maybe other stuff. I understand that. But, apparently not enough! as I can't seem to leave the convenience of it. Maybe it's because it isn't tangible?; as in I can't visualise how all this will affect my day to day life, so I always give in to the comfort. Can you please convince me otherwise?
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Title: Heads up: Chrome 70 (due in October) will restore a content policy that breaks most/all WebAudio content that hasn't been fixed to follow the policy.<p><i>Edit:</i> Note that in general, content will break even if it follows the intent of the policy (by only playing sounds in response to user input). This is due to the nature of Chrome's implementation of the policy.<p>If you maintain any WebAudio code the fix is below. For any code that hasn't been fixed and isn't maintained, expect it to stop working soon in Chrome. :(<p>--<p>Background:<p>This is part of the "no autoplaying" policy that rolled out in Chrome 66, and was reverted for WebAudio a few days later because it broke everything (including Chrome's own webaudio demos). Chrome 70 apparently restores the same implementation, so any content that broke before will break again, unless patched.<p>Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079724<p>Policy info: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#webaudio<p>--<p>Fix and tech details:<p>The easiest fix is to add a redundant `ctx.resume()` call to any user input event handler. Once that fires, the audioContext will work normally.<p>Basically Chrome's implementation of the policy doesn't look at when an audioContext <i>plays sounds</i>, it only cares when (a) the context is created, and (b) `context.resume()` is called. If either of those happens inside a user event handler, that context can play sounds. But if you create a context at startup and never call `resume` (like most WebAudio demos), the context will be muted regardless of whether it waits for user input.
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Title: Hey, HN!<p>This post is not about useless meeting tips, nor about some new tool that drains remaining calendar hours.<p>Like most of us, I’m very frustrated by the amount of time wasted by meetings. Why most of us here hate meetings is well described in PG’s essay: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html</a><p>There is also a great solution that worked for YC: office hours. Ok, but how can this help a regular maker in a regular company?<p>Most makers struggle with the meetings scheduled by their colleagues, so let’s focus just on the company internal meetings.<p>What if every maker will have her/his own office hours few times a week at different times? Yeah, that probably won’t work. Makers & managers often need to meet in 2+ groups...<p>OK, what if all makers within the company will have office hours at the same time? Would be nice, but that won’t scale as it will require too many conference rooms and switching rooms fast enough may not be possible if someone has six 10min meetings with different folks…<p>Oh, wait, but what about video meetings? There is no room limit there and switching rooms takes seconds. Many of us work in distributed companies with a lot of meetings online already. Great, but there is still a problem with agreeing on times and booking small meetings within those hours. Also, what to do if there is urgent discussion and everything is overbooked ahead of time with non-urgent managerial stuff?<p>OK, so that is what we are trying to solve with <a href="https://www.Meetter.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.Meetter.ai</a> and would love to hear what you think about the early version. Please check How Meetter Works section on the landing page for more details.<p>Here is an open demo account just for HN: <a href="https://hn.meetter.ai/signup-demo" rel="nofollow">https://hn.meetter.ai/signup-demo</a> After sign-up, just try to post few agenda topics with random people and see if you can join office hours scheduled Tue/Wed/Thu at 8 AM PT.
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Title: I'll start. Here's what sucks about NYC:<p>1) Home<p>- Apartments are expensive. Can get 4x more space in Chicago for same price.<p>- Difficult to shop for home. Wanted a desk for my bedroom. None of the stores in the city, included Target, offered reasonable-priced desks that could fit. Had to buy online, which came with own issues.<p>2) Services<p>- Services are expensive. Want to get your hair dyed blond from someone you saw on Instagram? It's $600 and they ruin your hair.<p>3) Food<p>- Groceries are expensive and inconvenient. Get delivery or Whole Foods and pay 30-70% over Trader Joe's price. Or you need to walk/Uber to Trader Joe's, wait in line, then walk/Uber back. Local bodegas? Usually bad quality and high prices (eg watermelon is $25).<p>- Restaurants are expensive. Entree's in Manhattan are usually $25-35.<p>- Food isn't uniquely great. I recently went to a well-rated David Chang restaurant in Chelsea. Meh.<p>- Grocery delivery is usually done by foot. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it leads to food being delivered hours late, warm, and gross. This happens across platforms.<p>4) Transportation<p>- Can't have a car in Manhattan. Parking is $600/month in my building. Btw, the doorman gets 50%, so $300/month (yay!).<p>- Car rentals are quite expensive in the city. Want to rent a van to go camping? That's even worse.<p>- Uber and Lyft is extremely slow in the city. I generally prefer taxi's since drivers understand how to get around faster. They're also priced competitively.<p>5) Airport<p>- Traffic between airports is quite bad. Usually about an hour. Makes me jealous of the 20 min SFO commute.<p>6) Healthcare<p>- Want to book a doctor or therapist? Go to Zocdoc, enter your insurance, try to book - they call you in a day saying they're booked or don't take your insurance. Great healthcare providers are tough to find.
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Title: Every other HN profile lists a Keybase public key and a proof, but has anyone actually needed to prove their identity on HN? Does anyone use Keybase for encrypted communication?
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Title: Sharing an internal tool that accelerated my development work 10-fold, especially with API debugging. Thought fellow developers here might find it useful.<p>As a developer, I often have trouble reproducing errors at the client end. <a href="https://intercept.rest" rel="nofollow">https://intercept.rest</a> lets me debug and monitor API requests and responses. It is similar to the Network tab in Chrome Developer Tools but works for any API: mobile apps, webhooks, frontend etc.<p>After I shared it with a close circle of friends, they found it incredibly useful and even found new use cases, I never imagined. Been a long time lurker here and have found several such tools that made my life easier. So, wanted to share this here and keen to hear if you folks find it useful too.<p>Some of the Use cases (Look forward to other use cases for this tool):<p>- Reproduce error requests at client side, helps to debug faster.
– Easily switch between mock, dev, staging and production
– You can even record requests and run load tests to see how your server behaves when 100,000 hit it
– debug/monitor webhooks.
– Share requests with the backend team for debugging.<p>If you would like to take it for spin, DM me at <a href="https://twitter.com/intercept_rest" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/intercept_rest</a> , I can hook you up with credits.<p>Also made a blog post on how this tool could be used to monitor network requests in real time. <a href="https://medium.com/intercept-rest/how-to-monitor-network-requests-in-the-app-ce05ed6c5252" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/intercept-rest/how-to-monitor-network-req...</a><p>Let me know what you think :) Happy Developing!
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Title: Partially inspired by recent discussions on HN and other places.<p>I've made a single-focus site to introduce your friends/colleagues/neighbours/family to RSS and web feeds.<p><a href="https://www.youneedfeeds.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.youneedfeeds.com/</a><p>The site is meant to give the elevator pitch for feeds, show a newbie what feeds are and how to use them, set them up with a reader, and give them some nice starter content if they want it.<p>So much tastemaking and newsmaking power is concentrated in the hands of Facebook/Reddit/Twitter, but I'm convinced it's because much of the general populace doesn't know about feeds.
Many people just don't know of any other option than the core three social sites for keeping up with what they like! They're forced to endure all the anger and fighting of social media, just to keep up to date.<p>The more people know about feeds, the more they use feeds, the more sites support feeds, and then more people learn about feeds in a virtuous cycle.<p>I hope to create more uptake of feeds amongst the general population, a more decentralised internet, and maybe just make the average user's day a bit nicer.<p>Let me know what you think. Questions, comments, all appreciated. Spreading the word is <i>very</i> appreciated. :)
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Title: After 18 months of tinkering and iterating, we want to show you our Memex: An open-source browser extension to effortlessly organise your web-research.<p>We'd love to know what you think :)<p>Check it out at <a href="https://worldbrain.io/hn" rel="nofollow">https://worldbrain.io/hn</a><p>Memex features:<p>- Instantly find websites you visited with the fuzzy memories you have about them, instead of bookmarking everything or keeping dozens of open tabs. Search for every word of every website you’ve seen, and filter by time, domain, custom tags or bookmarks.<p>- Add your thoughts to websites via comments & annotations, directly in the browser - not in external, disconnected apps.<p>- Cite websites with precision: Share links to pieces of text on any website.
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Title: That was a monumentous achievement for mankind, all but glossed over in my news feeds.<p>https://www.space.com/41957-japan-amazing-asteroid-photos-hayabusa2-rovers.html
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Title: Looks like Google is rolling out the new Gmail UI to users, and removing the option to revert back to Classic UI.<p>The new UI is painful to look at, to be honest. Anyone from Google here want to mention to the Gmail team that the new UI is going to chase long-term users like myself off the platform?
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Title: What things (books, activities, courses - anything really) have richly rewarded the time you invested in mastering them?
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Title: I'm a relatively junior software engineer, a little over a year out from university, with a cushy remote job working for big-co. And I <i>never</i> know how much work to do on a given day.<p>Right now, my daily rule of thumb is to try to have my butt in the seat for ~8 hours. I clock out at 6 and stay disciplined so I don't end up overworking as many remoters do. The main disadvantage of this strategy is that it just doesn't align with the reality of the job. Some days I work on something complex and want to work more hours, while others I'll knock out a few small things and want to call it early.<p>Strategies I'd like to use but can't:<p>- Show up and leave with my coworkers. We're a remote team, and have a few serious workaholics on the team (not to mention the issue of timezones).<p>- Leave when I've done my tasks. This might work if we had actual sprints. Our reality is an endless stream bugs and features for us to work on before we launch our product, and we just grab tickets as they come. Hopefully this improves after launch.<p>What do you do? I want to do enough work to feel good about myself, without burning out. I have very little supervision from management, my coworkers seem to respect and like me, and I am generally productive. Help me, HN.
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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 company, 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>To search the thread, try kennytilton's <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
gadogado's <a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</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>.<p>Did you know? There are actually three regular hiring threads. The other two:<p>- Who wants to be hired? <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113146" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113146</a><p>- Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145</a>
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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: I have taken an Introduction to GPU Programming Course in my college and I want to do a project which covers all the details that I have learned. Something in the image processing field would be nice.
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Title: Hi one and all. I've created an encrypted personal organizer I wish to share with you all. I know.... you are sighing and thinking "Oh! No! not another one".<p>doogiePIM is different in that it's built by the same coder that created one of the very first PIMs that came out around 18+ years ago and creator of TexNotes way back then (it was actually called Scribillo. Wow, I feel old). The original PIM was sold then abandoned by GemX Software and that made me feel really bad. So, I obtained the full code and started to build a far better version of the information manager. One that will (hopefully) stand the test of time. The work is still ongoing, taking out the bugs, improving features and making it available to everyone around the world with localisation of the UI.<p>(Warning: I'm going to invoke Obi Wan Kenobi logic here....)
Therefore, it's not another PIM - it's one of the oldest on the Internet... from a certain point of view :P<p>After a couple of years of work, I think it's almost there. I've rewritten a huge chunk of code, implemented a more modern UI and reworked a lot of the database encryption. I can now start implementing some needed new features and quality-of-life implementations that help rather than hinder. Features such as Android connectivity and better importing of Cloud data. I'm pretty sure you guys will give me a guide as to what you need in a solid PIM.<p>I want to invite you all to take a look at my vision of a single focus PIM. Go ahead and try doogiePIM, tear it apart. I'd love to read anything you have to say about it.<p>You can read my latest dev blog here:
<a href="https://bitespire.com/community/274-around-the-world-in-80-development-days" rel="nofollow">https://bitespire.com/community/274-around-the-world-in-80-d...</a><p>Download here:
<a href="https://bitespire.com/download.php" rel="nofollow">https://bitespire.com/download.php</a><p>Of course, read about the features and usual blurb here:
<a href="https://bitespire.com/details_doogiepim.php" rel="nofollow">https://bitespire.com/details_doogiepim.php</a><p>Kindest regard to all,
Chris
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We're Alex and Julien, the founders of Station (<a href="https://getstation.com/" rel="nofollow">https://getstation.com/</a>). Our free desktop app unifies all your work applications in one neat interface. Think of it as an efficient workspace for all your web tools.<p>We've always had a love / hate relationship with our browser: it's been our main work environment for the last 6 years but we keep struggling to stay focused and never found an efficient technique that would fix my natural impulse to open a new tab and get distracted.<p>After trying quite a few methods (Pomodoro, White noise, Do Not Disturb, ...) & tools (Franz, Toby, Rambox, OneTab, etc.), we came to the conclusion that distraction is a core-design issue in modern browsers that can't be solved with cosmetic changes or simple hacks. If you look at the very first Chrome interface (released 10 years ago!) you'll notice that it isn't significantly different from today's v69. What has dramatically changed is the number of working hours you spend in it.<p>That's why we built Station: it's a SaaS focused, distraction-free platform (600+ apps) that's not meant for browsing but solely for working with web apps. This translates in the first features we shipped: a "Quick-Switch" (a la Alfred) that allows you to quickly change page without losing focus, a "Smart Dock" that segments your workspace by automatically linking all pages to an app, a "Focus Mode" that kills all notifications with 1 click and an "Autosleep" (a la The Great Suspender) that intelligently unloads unused apps from your computer's memory.<p>We realize we still have a long way to go to offer the delightful experience we aim for, but we're committed to it. There are quite a few technical challenges, the main one being pushing the Electron framework to its limits: copy/pasting is sometimes erratic, CPU load can spike, embedded Chrome is constantly obsolete, support of extensions is experimental, multi-window is a bit laggy, and I could go on and on :)<p>We won PH's Product of the Year award last year (<a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/station-3" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/station-3</a>) which led to a huge boost in active users. This comes with increased pressure to ship features and kill bugs: the community-fed roadmap (<a href="https://community.getstation.com/" rel="nofollow">https://community.getstation.com/</a>) is completely crammed but our team of 8 is truly grateful for the user feedback we've been getting. It's been really precious, both motivation and product-wise.<p>This is just the beginning. Our vision is to build an entire operating system for SaaS applications. We want to provide a platform so 3rd party developers can build new features on top of existing web apps, offering users a more native and integrated experience across all of their work tools. Ultimately, anyone using web apps at work would find value in using Station.<p>We're really excited to get your insights on what we're building. On average, our users are active 5h per day in the app: we hope you find it nearly as useful!<p>PS. You can download the app here: <a href="https://getstation.com" rel="nofollow">https://getstation.com</a>.
It's available for free on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Title: Having in view the latest Facebook security blunders, I have no memory of ever seeing a news as big about Google.<p>A company that big has an almost 100% chance of making a security mistake at least once, so why don't we hear about it?<p>Yes, I am implying that they maybe use their internet search dominion to censor these news (among other things), but I am open to changing my mind. What do you guys think?
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Title: See my friends getting tested and what interest me is the genetic conditions you may be more pre disposition for. But having a private company with my DNA is privacies of all privacies out the window. Is it worth? General thoughts?
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Title: Three weeks ago I joined a fast growing startup on the West Coast to improve their dev operations and processes. The company is seeing crazy growth but they are still doing things like pushing directly to master and using prod deploys to test things out. I was hired to help improve this and implement things like staging environments, autoscaling of resources, and other DevOpsy stuff.<p>Since joining I've received considerable pushback on my ideas. Obviously I am the new guy and don't expect to just dictate people around nor is that my intention. However what really gets me is that the founder just straight up does not seem to trust me. Every suggestion I give - even things as industry standard such as the use of a staging environment - is met with suspicion and doubt and the insistence that I hadn't done enough proper "research" on the idea. I find this highly offensive considering I've been working in DevOps for almost seven years and before that was a SysAdmin.<p>So after two weeks, I got the approval to create a staging branch. I wrote up a huge document on the staging workflow, covering edge cases such as hotfixes and rollbacks. I put time on people's calendars and walked them through it including the founder. Yet he still continues to resist the change and pushes directly to master, ignores the new processes I put in place, and generally just does what he wants. He also keeps harping that I need to "earn his trust." I find this baffling - I mean, I was hired for a reason right? Why would they hire me if they didn't trust me?<p>I am starting to get frustrated, especially since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app. I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this diplomatically. Do any HNers have some pointers or advice to give? I've worked with difficult clients before but I've never faced such a huge lack of trust.
Upvote: | 79 |
Title: Hi HN,<p>I write a bunch of open source software. I also make and sell closed source products. I'm a small shop and sometimes my clients worry about platform risk should I just decide it's no longer worth bothering to support the product I'm trying to sell them.<p>What I'd like to be able to do is put a clause in my standard EULA that says "If I ever stop offering this software on the market, I promise I'll give you the source under a BSD licence."<p>Is anyone aware of prior art in this space? I'd love to learn from history before trying it myself.
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Title: I want to start a payments bank in India but it requires a 13M+ USD initial capital just to get the licensing fee.<p>Wondering if people have any examples of how one might cross this barrier to entry.
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Title: I'm learning the harmonium (a middle Eastern instrument, similar to an accordion). I'm teaching myself and I want to be able to play by ear. I can play a few tunes, and can slowly work things out by trial and error and <i>some</i> intuition.<p>I want to know what it feels like to be able to play an instrument without needing so much trial and error. How do those that can play "fluently" know which keys to press? How long does it take to get to that level of fluency?<p>I'm hoping that by understanding the mindset of someone who has achieved that level, I can have something to aim for when I'm practicing.<p>Thanks :)
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Title: I'm particularly interested in housing prices, but if it's different for other industries I'd love to understand that as well.<p>It's strangely hard to find a good answer. Googling yields "housing is overvalued (2011)", ... "housing is overvalued (2014)", ... "housing is overvalued (2018)" but with no particularly rigorous explanation on why, nor the difference between "overvalued" and "yep, that's normal now".
Upvote: | 66 |
Title: I'm trying to figure out my motivations behind specific online habits. One of them is reading HN.<p>I'm curious if reading HN bring anything valuable into your life or is it just pure entertainment. Did you learn something valuable, found a job, meet your wife. :)
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Title: I am a software engineer, working on a side project. The project consists of platform in the area of real-estates, I already have consumers (real estate agencies). I would like to know when should I incorporate LLC, how, and where to do it.<p>- I checked Estonia as an option, but I am not sure how to manage taxes in this case (I am in EU). I am paying taxes as a citizen, and as part of my daily work. In case I start a company, do I need to care about paying other taxes https://investinestonia.com/business-in-estonia/establishing-company/<p>- Is it a good idea to incorporate an LLC while having full-time job ?<p>I am getting mixed signals whenever I read similar discussions, those who are interested in reading more about the topic:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441846<p>https://www.mycompanyworks.com/create-a-company-to-manage-your-side-projects/<p>http://stu.mp/2010/09/why-you-should-probably-have-an-llc-for-side-projects.html<p>P.S: In case you are wondering, I am based in Germany. Feel free to suggest contacts to get legal advises (I couldn't find any one)
Upvote: | 74 |
Title: Do the expectations the site give match up with what you have experienced?
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Title: Years ago I was able to make the front page by having my friends upvote an article/side project I'd post, but I've even been posting articles from big publications lately and they don't seem to make the front page at all.<p>I've seen these unnecessary articles about gaming the front page: have you friends use an IP proxy, time your article at some crazy hour...has it really come to this?<p>As a personal example, I had an article I worked pretty hard on about web performance[1] with very tactical examples aimed to help an audience like HN. I tried posting at the right time, getting friends to upvote: nothing. Now I see this article[2] ranked on the front page (ranked no. 5, in fact) which is very much lacking in substance, doesn't really offer anything new or novel, and it's just climbing to the top.<p>I'm just kind of beside myself. I don't want to have to game HackerNews to get relevant content to this audience, an audience I've been a part of for over 8 years. I have a decent amount of karma, I participate in the community, and I'm not just trying to peddle my own content. And yet, I just don't even know how to engage this audience anymore. Am I doing something wrong?<p>[1] https://userinterfacing.com/the-fastest-way-to-increase-your-sites-performance-now/<p>[2] https://kiboit.com/performance
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Title: Can you share some helpful material for aquaponics?
Plans, instructions or even opensource projects you are using in aquaponics.
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Title: Hey all, On Oct 13, 3:00 CDT, 4:00 EDT 1:00 PST I'm going to do a 51% attack against the cryptocurrency Einsteinium (i'll do the biggest, most established coin I can afford to attack, I'm putting in $50 of my money and if you want to donate you can 18YvVAxEMYxowSYEmWVtY75ZUdKXXk2vQc (If that's against the rules feel free to remove it Admins)) :<p>1. Demonstrate how easy these attacks are for anyone to do.
2. Generally teach people about the nuts and bolts of these attacks and potential mitigations.<p>If you want to watch it, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/geocold" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/geocold</a><p>Event link: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/events/NyJSsF3hQkGHdnsKA2f4JQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/events/NyJSsF3hQkGHdnsKA2f4JQ</a>
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Title: I know there are quite a lot companies remote working possibilities. I was curious about the work culture in most of these companies. Any company doing this particularly well? Which and Why?
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