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Title: I really enjoy using a command-line interface instead of a graphical user interface, and was wondering if anyone had any solid recommendations for applications that one can use in a terminal window.
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Title: Also, how do you keep sticking to that schedule?
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Title: PROBLEM: Not enough time / method to practice job interviews, public speaking engagement before the big events. We get anxiety and panic attack when the time comes. There is no way to know how people perceive our conversation style.<p>SOLUTION: App Airsessment. Connect you with people to practice run pitches / job interviews / public speaking on demand by video calls, receive constructive feedback/ metric rating too.<p>Let's fill out a Quick / Fun 20 seconds form with a special discount attached as well. https://goo.gl/forms/gamJpB2QaNbikzxv2.
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Title: For the security folks out there, what is the market like? How much weight is put on having some of the various certifications out there?<p>I have always had an interest in security, especially the red/blue team side of things as well as the forensics area. I have spent my entire career in the world of sysadmin/SRE/shitty dev however so nothing on my resume shows "security". The last couple of weeks I have been looking at some of the certification classes and... wow, they can get pretty crazy. The SANS online stuff is like $6k per course!<p>Being close to 40 and making six figures (not a brag, just using it for background) I am worried that it's too late to make the jump and still be able to provide for my family. It seems like a pretty big risk to drop multiple thousands on certifications only to start at a salary much lower than I currently have. I'm not willing to impact my family by taking a potential 50% pay cut. I realize there are risks with any kind of career change, I just want to make sure I'm not going into this blind.<p>Does it make sense to go after some of these certifications, even if they are not from SANS? Is the security world hiring and paying well these days? Am I looking for too much and should just except the fact that a major pay cut would be part of the process?<p>TIA
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Title: Long story short: I've been working in this position for a couple of years with a colleague at the same level as me. We both lead a few product team giving them advice on technical implementation, best practices and architecture.<p>I've been doing a lot of work to clean up the debt that was accumulated and, meanwhile, I improved the reliability and the efficiency of the infrastructure. I wrote common components and library to avoid duplication and shared it with wiki pages on how to implement certain things correctly.<p>On the other hands, my colleague, is more focus on building relationships and acting like he's the manager even tho he's not. In a couple of circumstances he event tried to give me orders which is not what he supposed to do. In meetings with our manager he brag on stuff that I did sharing it as a "we did", while when he does something alone (which most of the time asks to me as well) he would say "I did".<p>Most of the team members know it as they always asks technical informations to me. Most of the new architectural design has been done by myself same as the library that they use daily bases.<p>This kind of behaviour was ok at the beginning but since our boss left and he got promoted as manager is not sustainable anymore.<p>So here I'm asking for some advice. I started to look for a new job already, other than that I can't find a way to make my life easier has it might required some time (European market is not that good) and I got a break to travel a bit and clean up my mind.
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Title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493519<p>I've been struggling to put this in to words for a while now. The above thread on crypto currencies tanking has me bothered and has driven me to try and express myself.<p>Crypto-tokens are useless without utility. Because there is no value (not even fiat acceptance) intrinsic to any coin, they are useless without a utility function.<p>Some blockchain models have tried to solve this (lack of utility) with smart contracts. Smart contracts are also broken, though, for distributed trust systems. Sure, they might work on chain, but when someone needs to author a real-estate deal there is some trusting that happens off-chain. And when trust (the entire point of the blockchain) occurs off-chain there is no guarantee that what you expect to happen has actually happened (did they sell the property, is it in the condition described, etc.).<p>So, the only utility (smart contracts) for distributed trust systems can't be trusted when it comes to real applications.<p>The only other way any fiat currency gains utility is mass acceptance (which all crypto currencies lack). If I can't buy a cup of coffee with it, why would I accept XYZ coin as payment for anything.<p>So, I argue for utility. If any currency/blockchain technology is going to be successful it needs to be useful for <i>something</i>. In short: can I buy stuff I want with it?<p>My question is: how can the ideas of crypto currency and blockchain be leveraged in a way that is actually useful on a mass market scale? (ie, how do we bring utility to an idea that has been fluff - 'mining', really?! - so far?)
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I'm a junior dev and have been employed at my current work place for over a year.
I love technology and code, less so humans. A lot less. If I had to guess I would say that I probably have some form of social anxiety/autism that makes it really painful/difficult/demanding for me to interact with other people, so I usually try to keep these "interactions" to a very strict minimum required to achieve the tasks I am attributed.<p>Now, recently, I've come to realize more and more, how much trouble this actually causes in the end for me, as I am perceived as that "odd" guy, that never says a thing, never hangs out at work place events, that you simply give tasks to, and ultimately the job gets done.<p>As I was searching to limit human-human interactions as much as I could, I ended up being treated like a machine, go figure...
I get attributed tasks almost exclusively by sales/marketing people with absolutely no understanding of anything appart from the end result they want. Sometimes that ends up being a 2 word "spec", an unachievable task, some month long back and forths where they realize every other step of the way that what I implemented, which was what they asked, was not what they wanted, etc. So I am starting to get a little fed up by all of this and am at quite a loss when it comes to actually addressing these issues. I try, but I figure that I might as well document myself on the process instead of the usual trial and error one could go through.<p>Anyhow, as stated in the title of this Ask HN, does anybody have any ressources to recommend to someone that just started his carrier and has a demonstrated history of complete lack of such skills ?
Anything is welcome really, books, documentaries, blog post, whatever you might have come across.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I just came across one of Gartner's most recent publications (predictions, trends, ...).<p>I'm finding it hard to distill through the fluff to find meaningful insights.
Their trends are dated and it feels as if someone has spilled the buzzword paint on a slide deck.<p>I'm experiencing first-hand the mess they have caused by suggesting an operational/outsourcing model that makes it extremely hard to get anything done other than planning.<p>How are they still relevant?
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Title: Sometimes it's hard to see in the moment that a product will be used for evil or will have a negative effect on people. Can you look back on any of your work now and wish you didn't do it?
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Title: That is insane for a text editor. For comparison VS Code is only 192 MB on my Mac.
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Title: I'm primarily interested in the network stack on linux, with a focus on TCP (but it would still be good to understand the lower layers)
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Title: I just wonder if it will become the language of choice for things like game development and embedded applications in the future, and I wonder if people are already starting to use it for these purposes, and I wonder why people so far choose <i>not</i> to, if indeed that is their choice.
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Title: Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it's something I'm seeing/experiencing at present.<p>It seems like twice a week or more I read there is an industry shortage of devs, but I never hear about any companies, of any size, looking for junior devs -- or generally competent devs that might have a specific knowledge gap -- to hire and give on-the-job training to. Not even a contract-to-hire situation that leaves the company with very little risk if the developer isn't what they needed.<p>Is on-the-job training just flat-out dead?<p>I ask this because I'm 4-years-experienced as a front-end UI/interaction dev, nothing but glowing references, looking for another, similar, position (regular, not senior or lead) and have had...way too many interviews and rejections, and can't understand why companies are such sticklers for interested devs to have Every Single Box in their list of requirements checked when it would take days or a couple weeks to learn XYZ framework/library/whatever to the level of competence that is required for the position.<p>To further stack up the frustration, it's not uncommon to see the same position listed and re-listed on LinkedIn and Indeed for months: certainly somebody could have been hired and trained to the level needed in that time. (Maybe even me!)
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Title: Now that VSCode is clearly the winner - and not only that, Microsoft acquired Github, is Atom now dead in the water?<p>Why would Microsoft continue to support Atom, when VSCode is 200% better?
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Title: Despite having the 'architect' title for about five years now, I still sit for hours in Visio & Powerpoint to painstakingly drag boxes and lines around to describe systems.<p>While the system definitions themselves have arguably improved as my skill as an architect has increased, there's been no such improvement in the speed or method I use to describe them. My visuals are perfunctory, powerpoint-fu is lacking, and the end result always has plenty of room for improvement. It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.<p>So much craft has been put into better languages, better compilers, and better IDEs for the software developer, I'm absolutely confused - where is the modern 'IDE' for the Software Architect?
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Title: I think it’s clear now that Facebook is a horrible company that operates with machiavellian efficiency, lacks any human empathy, and has applied deplorable methods to deflect fundamental problems of the platform instead of actually fixing them.
Still, they keep on going just fine with a slightly dented image, while ads dollars keep pouring in.
So, what needs to change for Facebook to pass a point of unsustainability?
It looks just like another “kill someone on 5th avenue” scenario to me.
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Title: In their article and review paper from last year(https://deepmind.com/blog/ai-and-neuroscience-virtuous-circle/) the team at DeepMind indicated that while neuroscience inspired the first generation of artificial neural networks, the two fields aren’t collaborating.<p>I think formalizing computational paradigms in the brain and then building new models and topologies could be huge, what do you think?
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Title: Thanks dang and team for taking care of the HN community!<p>Many years ago, I stumbled upon HN. I just lurked. Then one day I posted a comment.<p>I am thankful for HN because many years ago it provided a community for someone who was desperately seeking social interaction during my very boring corporate job workday. It was my water cooler. It still is even though as it has grown in popularity, it is almost like a meme for some people to say 'Don't read HN' because they maybe read one divisive thread once or only read divisive threads and thus see it as a monoculture...
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Title: There are a lot of fields I'm interested in, such as machine learning, but I struggle to understand how they work as most resources I come across are full of complex mathematical notation that I never learned how to read in school or University.<p>How do you learn to read this stuff? I'm frequently stumped by an academic paper or book that I just can't understand due to mathematical notation that I simply cannot read.
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Title: The 2 google products which I have to frequently use are gmail.com and chat.google.com. Google chat has very bad user experience. And so is the new gmail update Which focusses so much on fluffy design that it diverges away from simple yet powerful gmail.tasks in gmail are unhandy now. your thoughts!!
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Title: I'm interested in building p2p applications.<p>I've checked into IPFS, GNUnet, Freenet, libp2p, and a few more.<p>My main tools are Rust and Python.<p>I haven't found anything (I could be reading things wrong of course) that I can directly build GUI applications on top of, with great documentation, and minimal head banging.<p>Does anyone have experience building p2p apps? Can you recommend/suggest a route to take?<p>Definitely don't want to have to implement my own thing.<p>Thanks
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Title: Dan and Scott do an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to make Hacker News what it is. I have never met two more thoughtful community stewards. They usually get more hate than thanks, which they deal with cheerfully. This community means a lot to a lot of people.<p>So today I wanted to say thanks, on behalf of the HN community.
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Title: Two weeks ago, I woke up one morning with slightly blurry vision and a big, opaque, dark circle getting in the way of many things (especially if I close my right eye). Visited the doctor and I'm told that I have macular degeneration in my right eye and a retina problem in my left eye. It's surprising because I'm not yet 40. Doctor said I won't go blind and prescribed me some medicine for an initial treatment. I'm now looking into treatment options and researching this. I am supposed to go back to the doctor soon for a checkup. The dark circle has never left me; in fact, it's now been joined by a transparent, shimmering circle.<p>I'm not worried about going blind based on the doctor's opinion, but I am concerned that I will have to deal with long-term vision issues. Currently, I cannot read the text on my screen if I close my right eye, as the dark circle gets in the way of everything.<p>It left me with an interesting question. I'd read about blind people working as developers and sysadmins before. But I never really thought about it, because my vision was so good. I'm curious now, depending on how bad my eyes get, how would I transition so that I'd be able to continue my chosen profession? Are there blind developers and sysadmins here who can toss a few resources my way?<p>Much appreciated to the HN community in advance, thanks. I'm currently based in Asia, so about to sleep soon, hopefully I'll wake up with a big load of comments to read. ;)
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Title: Song URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac</a><p>Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.<p>Here is what I'm planning on for next steps. I'm always open to feedback!<p>1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)<p>2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)<p>3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don't know much about video cameras)
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Title: I travel to exotic countries to live and work remotely. If suddenly my credit card is blocked or stolen, are there any online banks where I can open an account and order a card by post to anywhere in the world, confirming my identity online?<p>For example, there are several banks which allows me to open a bank account without German registration and no non-residence, being in Germany. Unfortunately, they send cards only to a limited number of European countries. Even if they are ok with my passport I have to ask somebody to receive my card and send it directly to me.
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Title: Basically how will life be different from now ? What elements of it will be significantly better/worse ?
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Title: Share your hiring experience of getting best person for the job.
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Title: I always want to be a better version of myself, but it's unclear how to quantify my quality. In sporting, there're many stats about athletes to look at. In academia, you can look at some indirect indexes about your research quality. But as a programmer at work, I often receive feedbacks from 1 or 2 persons at most. It's easy to think that I'm good enough, when the truth may be not.<p>So, as a programmer, how do you quantify or estimate how good you are?<p>Thank you,
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Title: I have been using golang at work and personally for more than 2 years now. A problem i faced when I started and the problem new gophers even today is how to structure the project. Most (if not all) golang tutorials seem to be very simple and do not describe how to structure a large application. Following project is an attempt to Showcase a manageable project layout for services in golang.<p><a href="https://github.com/spy16/droplets" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/spy16/droplets</a><p>This project is far from complete. Would like to hear some feedback from the community before continuing on this.
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Title: I often hear these things touted by blockchain advocates: data ownership, supply chain, and "cutting out the middleman"<p>I want to debunk these statements once and for all.<p>Myth #1 Blockchain changes data ownership, giving power back to the consumer<p>Anyone who becomes privy to some data has some ownership of it. Blockchain doesn't change that. If you want to share something with only a few select people you need inherent trust or an NDA.<p>Myth #2 Blockchain can revolutionize supply chain<p>Its a datastore with some cryptographic identity checks and tamper proof guarantees. It can't prove that a package made it from A to B or that it stayed at some ambient temperature IRL. It only records that someone attested to that, not whether its true.
An ordinary database will do for an audit trail.<p>Myth #3 It cuts out the Middleman<p>You dont need blockchain to cut the middleman out of indusrty X. Any service trying to do this wants to be the new middleman with lower service fees cos' blockchain!<p>Here are some axioms which I think will drive future blockchain use cases<p>1. The transfer of value must occur on the chain<p>This is why digital currency is the #1 use case. We're already accustomed to digital value transfers when we use modern banking, the transfer of value is a few digits on our screens.<p>2. If you can't do 1) then it must be enforcable off-chain<p>Take for example buying a house. I sign some papers at the bank and some more with an agent and then we all agree I own a house and owe the bank some money.
We sign the papers because then its enforcable by law. Keyword "enforcable". If the legal system agrees a cryptographic signature on a digital record achieves this purpose then its as good as the paperwork.<p>We're a few years away from proper legal recognition of smart contracts. Ricardian contracts seem to be a step in the right direction.<p>Thanks for reading and hope it clears things up.
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Title: Interested in initiating a discussion about what worked for you to keep your productivity up. What'd you learn about yourself working for so far and what'd you think most of us are doing wrong?
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Title: How did you deal with it? (Reverse engineer requirements + rewrite, convincing higher-ups to cut ties with the code, something else?)
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Title: Doesn't exactly have to be a MOOC.
YouTube playlists and any other way of learning is fine too. Paid ones are fine as well.
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Title: We have always complained about the developer interview process being broken. According to you, what does an ideal process look like?
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Title: Modular/Multiple Neural networks (MNNs) revolve around training smaller, independent networks that can feed into each other or another higher network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_neural_network<p>In principle, the hierarchical organization could allow us to make sense of more complex problem spaces and reach a higher functionality, but it seems difficult to find examples of concrete research done in the past regarding this. I've found a few sources:<p>https://www.teco.edu/~albrecht/neuro/html/node32.html<p>https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/27998/etd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y<p>A few concrete questions I have:<p>Are there any tasks where MNNs have shown better performance than large single nets?<p>Could MNNs be used for multimodal classification, i.e. train each net on a fundamentally different type of data, (text vs image) and feed forward to a higher level intermediary that operates on all the outputs?<p>From a software engineering perspective, aren't these more fault tolerant and easily isolatable on a distributed system?<p>Has there been any work into dynamically adapting the topologies of subnetworks using a process like Neural Architecture Search?<p>Generally, are MNNs practical in any way?<p>Apologies if these questions seem naive, I've just come into ML and more broadly CS from a biology/neuroscience background and am captivated by the potential interplay.<p>I really appreciate you taking the time and lending your insight!
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Title: Crafting awesome digital experiences is difficult. Let alone create a good set of rules of a good reading experience!<p>In the last days I spend some time dissecting Medium.com typography to find the secrets for their secret sauce.<p>Usually a great reading experience require a great font. Like Medium.com does.<p>However using google fonts in your web projects is always a good idea as their cdn's are lightning fast (and they are free).<p>I tried all fonts in google fonts website and found out that you can recreate their reading experience very very similarly with free fonts.<p>The best fonts (in alternative to Medium ones) in my opinion are:<p>- Lora, as content font
- Playfair display, as brand font
- Montserrat, as UI font<p>I recreated their reading experience for a blog post in a live demo: https://codepen.io/lucagez/full/bQObBe/<p>I found myself always struggling for for a basic set of rules to make a decent reading experience. So I made a minimal boilerplate useful for bootstrapping a project. I hope someone will find it useful.<p>Git repo: https://github.com/lucagez/medium.css<p>Happy typography,<p>Gez
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Title: I'm incredibly fortunate to have a chairman on our board who brings so much clarity of thought to the business.<p>He's unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn't have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions.<p>So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...simple tricks he uses when he has a mental challenge to overcome. A couple of his insights were very useful to me, so I thought I'd share them here and ask HN for their personal brain hacks in response.<p><i></i> Artificial deadlines <i></i><p>He has a clever technique for bringing tough choices to a conclusion and avoiding procrastination. This is especially useful for life changing decisions such as moving country or taking that new job.<p>To put an end to the decision making process he sets a deadline for the decision to be made. Say 6pm on Monday. At five minutes to 6 he usually doesn't know the answer but in those 5 minutes something clicks, and by 6pm the answer is always there.<p><i></i> 10/10/10 rule <i></i><p>This is something I've read before but he applies this. The 10/10/10 is the framing of the outcome of a decision across three timeframes:<p>How will he feel about the outcome 10 minutes from now?
How about 10 months from now?
How about 10 years from now?<p>The answers to these questions provide a different perspective and usually help him to find the correct answer without being misguided by circumstances at the time of making the decision.<p><i></i> This will all be over by 6pm <i></i><p>If there's an important meeting with stakeholders, a scary appointment with the doctor or a tough chat with an employee - he simply keeps in mind the fact that by "X time", the thing will have passed and won't matter anymore.<p>If it doesn't matter after X time, chances are it probably doesn't matter now.<p>Edit: Formatting.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: 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 company. 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 if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, or <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>And don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589704" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589704</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589703" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589703</a>
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Title: How do I read a large piece of code that has a lot of header files and source code files? Is there any method or is it just about reading it one by one? How do you do it efficiently?
Thanks in advance.
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Title: Going anonymous for this. I am just an average project manager who happened to be at the right tech company at the right time. They had a big exit and suddenly my stocks are worth $8M (the money came in my account last week).<p>I am just an average guy. I am 43 and middle level tech manager.I know coding (but nothing superb). I know business (but nothing much). I am not particularly very hardworking or particularly super intelligent. Not dumb or lazy - just average.<p>The point is I can probably find another similar job but probably nothing much higher.<p>I have two kids and a nice wife. I have a nice, small house and two small cars. Everything paid for. I have no debts or “vices”. I do not like smoking, drinking or going out. I do not think I have any real hobbies.<p>Just a simple guy with simple life and then this happens. What should I do? Should I donate it? Should I hire a personal wealth manager? Should I retire?<p>I am freaking out. Please provide some guidance.
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Title: Digital, physical,.... metaphysical? Whatever it is, feel free to share it here.
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Title: <a href="https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth</a><p>Hi HN!<p>For the past year I've been getting into programming in Z80 assembly (especially for the TI-84+). More recently I've been learning about the Forth programming language and after a lot of searching online (in vain) for a Forth interpreter for the TI-84, I decided to write one myself. It's been fun demoing this to others, because it's a very unexpected use of a calculator.<p>It's my largest project to date, and I'm interested to know what the HN community thinks, please feel free to critique my code!<p>-- Ben
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Title: I've shared copy-able G sheet with full script that calls stock trading API.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RLvSmDEfS7U2OrqlUYvv_8KpHJ15tzACK_JvmRYXm1k/edit#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RLvSmDEfS7U2OrqlUYvv...</a><p>I'm sure many of you guys do some trick over stocks in spreadsheet. Full explanation: <a href="https://medium.com/automation-generation/manage-your-stocks-from-google-spreadsheet-using-api-43026db44289" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/automation-generation/manage-your-stocks-...</a>
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Title: Thanks to a new design Next is now available for Linux!:
<a href="https://next.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org" rel="nofollow">https://next.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org</a><p>What is Next? Next is a Lisp based productivity focused browser. You can read more about that here: <a href="https://next.atlas.engineer/article/the-next-thesis.org" rel="nofollow">https://next.atlas.engineer/article/the-next-thesis.org</a><p>You can download a binary from here: <a href="https://next.atlas.engineer/download" rel="nofollow">https://next.atlas.engineer/download</a><p>You can view our GitHub here:
<a href="https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next</a><p>Thanks for your time, I'm very interested in the HN Community feedback, thanks!
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Title: Just found this gem recently and was wondering that there has to be more this kind of projects.<p>http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net
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Title: I have recently enabled the "resistFingerprinting" option in Firefox[1], in order to prevent tracking based on browser fingerprinting. However I have found out that once I've done that, Google's reCAPTCHA becomes almost impossible to solve.<p>Normally I wouldn't care too much about Google, the problem is that in Australia, reCAPTCHA is used by Westpac bank, for processing payments on behalf of the Department of Education of New South Wales. In other words, you can't pay your child's public school fees online, unless you agree to Google tracking you.<p>How to test:<p>create a form with reCAPTCHA or just use a pre-existing one like [2], then try and solve the reCAPTCHA while resistFingerprinting is set to false (default setting)[1]. Now change it to true, and try to solve the reCAPTCHA once again.<p>[1] <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/" rel="nofollow">https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/</a>
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Title: I work from home and occasionally travel. My wife an I are expecting our first child this year and I’m curious what pro-tips other remote employees with kids have.
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Title: Like a lot of you I have mostly worked in back-end or systems software. My CSS/UI/UX skills are very minimal. I get disheartened by how my project looks or don't start the project because I fear it would look crap or I despise doing the UI/UX work.<p>How do I solve this?
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Title: All these hackerrank/leetcode tests + White board tests + all day interviews. How is it possible to work a full time job and dedicate enough time to get another job? Especially if you have been out of school for while. I got like 100 on my algorithms classes, but its been so long ago and its not like most developers write red black trees, suffix tree, heaps etc. I have started to review this stuff and it takes so much time.<p>Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code, and then interviews aren't so time consuming.
Upvote: | 99 |
Title: I’ll be here for the next 2 hours and then again at around eleven for another 2 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!<p>Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>
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Title: Hi All,
I released an EVM/Solidity decompiler recently, here:<p><a href="http://www.eveem.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eveem.org/</a><p>Since it uses symbolic execution underneath, the results are quite awesome.<p>There is also an api that delivers a .json / middle language representation of every contract here: <a href="http://eveem.org/code/{{address}" rel="nofollow">http://eveem.org/code/{{address}</a>}.json<p>The plan is to open-source it as soon as I clean up the code a bit. Spent the last two month crunch-time to get it delivered from scratch :)
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Title: I'm interested in setting up my own server just to make it easy to run and play around with web projects. Does anyone know if there is a heroku like service that I can host on my own server to manage web apps/sites.<p>Think connecting to a git repo from the UI. connecting to a domain to create development urls: projectname.domain.com, that sort of things.<p>I'm not sure what to look/search for online to find what I'm looking for.
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: Hi all!
Sometimes the best days seem to be behind us, even in software development.<p>What closed-source, proprietary software that you once loved is not being developed/enhanced any more? What more features would you like to have it in the future? Would you pay for it to be resurrected?
Upvote: | 478 |
Title: I recently got done reading David Goggins book Can't Hurt Me where he advocates being uncomfortable as one of the key factors in developing mental toughness but his book was rather focused on how to do this via physical means, what are some tactics you guys use to develop intellectual mental toughness?
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: New legislation requires companies to secretly install backdoors if the government asks or risk multi million dollar fines.<p>Will Apple, Google, and Amazon install Australian backdoors?<p>Or will they just exit the country?
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: Growing up Aaron Swartz's blog post series Raw Nerve was one of the most influential readings for me, the website that hosted them is now down:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve<p>Here is the archived version of it: http://archive.is/8uu5x or http://archive.fo/8uu5x
Upvote: | 433 |
Title: I work for a small regional shipping company, mostly building CRUD apps and doing EDI integrations. I'd like to find a practical side project using machine learning and/or data science that could add value at work, but for the life of me I can't come up with any problems that I couldn't solve with a relational database (postgres) and a data transformation step. I've spent some time learning pytorch, numpy, and pandas but I know that if I don't use it, especially at work, I'll just forget everything I've learned. My boss is a dev and is generally supportive of learning new things and finding ways to innovate independently, so if I can come up with a good idea I'm sure he'll let me pursue it in my spare time. Has anyone tried to do this before? Any suggestions would be great.
Upvote: | 169 |
Title: I'd like to know which books HN read in 2018. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects.
Upvote: | 578 |
Title: For designing websites like Stripe, Airbnb, Slack etc...?<p>What tools do they use?<p>What books they read or have written?<p>Which school teaches modern UI/UX?
Upvote: | 542 |
Title: I work in a startup which is growing at a steady pace. We are competing with some of the other companies in the market with similar revenue.
Started working here right after college and
was learning a lot of things on my way. I have worked on some challenging problems which make me learning and advance as a developer.
In the past 4-6 months though, the shift has all moved to not just delivering release but to manage them end-to-end. We don't have any tech leads in the company and this is an expectation from individual developers like me, about 1 to 4 years into the industry to run the project, not just develop them which includes talking to customers, defining a plan, and executing it while also developing it usually in team of size not bigger than two.<p>This is the only workplace I've worked at yet. And I'm confused if whether to grow as a tech lead yet when I still want to learn to better and bigger software with good architectures and good code quality. Should I take a detour and focus on learning project management?<p>Is this also even advisable to learn project leadership of this sort?
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Title: I am exploring an idea of using Postgres + Timescale for storing very small volume of log data and having a "search based" web UI like Kibana's to let me and other users explore the log data.<p>Anyone here hacked around with such idea? have any open source projects to recommend?<p>Notes:
ELK will work, but it is an overkill for my needs, plus, I want to build this for fun with PostgreSQL.<p>I'm not good at Javascript and UI development in general (systems background), and would prefer to hack around some existing project rather than building something from scratch.
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: I have switched to Ubuntu 16.04 from MacOS two years ago. Compiz is one of the things helped me manage my workspace and windows which really boosted my productivity. I wonder what other tools I might be missing out.<p>Thank you.
Upvote: | 90 |
Title: I've created an Insomnia workspace to make it easier to debug your stock trading code and learn the Alpaca API. You can read about how here:
<a href="https://medium.com/automation-generation/using-alpacas-stock-trading-api-with-insomnia-client-a796f064a5d7" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/automation-generation/using-alpacas-stock...</a><p>The actual workspace JSON for you to import into Insomnia can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/alpacahq/insomnia-workspace" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alpacahq/insomnia-workspace</a>
Upvote: | 71 |
Title: I'm a senior developer at a small startup managing a team of three co-ops and one junior dev. My team members are great: eager, smart, curious, and effective. I rarely have to teach them how to solve a problem; they naturally research and implement solutions.<p>But I didn't get a CS degree because I'm great with people. I've had some limited management experience, mostly interviewing applicants and running standups. I'm now responsible for the performance and well-being of a team of junior devs, and I'm definitely out of my comfort zone.<p>I want these guys to succeed, and I want to succeed in helping them succeed. But I'm mostly flying by the seat of my pants and I'd like to learn from others who have been in my shoes.<p>What are some good resources I should look at? What are some things I might be neglecting that I need to pay attention to? How can I best be effective in my new role?
Upvote: | 60 |
Title: For the remote workers out there (and anyone with a mobile career, really), where do you live? And how did you decide to live there?
Upvote: | 229 |
Title: The following is from Lucky Green's announcement on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lucky.green.73/posts/10155498914786706):<p>Tim May - Cypherpunks co-Founder, Discoverer of Radiation-Induced Single Event Upsets in Integrated Circuits, Uncompromising Firearms Proponent<p>Word has reached me that my dear friend, co-conspirator in many things and for many years, fellow Freedom Fighter Tim May passed away earlier this week at his home in Corralitos, California.<p>Death appears to be from natural causes pending autopsy. I.e. Tim did not die in a hail of bullets as so many who didn’t know Tim all that well and largely from his public writings had predicted.<p>(...)<p>Tim’s realization that any Manifesto, Constitution, or Bill of Rights wasn’t worth the paper it was written on absent a broadly armed (and heavily armed) population left many of his critics and admirers alike confused. As with so many of his assertions, Tim was correct in this analysis, though his assertion that “private ownership of firearms is a public good” will likely not be as soon widely accepted as his assertion that “private ownership of strong crypto is a public good” was. As such, Tim leaves behind a very large firearms collection.<p>Please raise a glass of Bourbon, can be any brand, doesn’t have to be the expensive stuff, it didn’t have to be for Tim, to Tim May!<p>Ad Astra, Tim!
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Title: I have been working on a collection of short children’ stories with my farm as the hub. The main characters are all critters and creatures and trees in the farm. The guardian is a crone witch that is the spirit of the Elderberry tree known as The ElderMother. It has a certain magical quality to it, but I really want it to be enjoyable reading for everyone. I would also like to use it as a platform to explain STEM concepts(I am from the bookshelf encyclopedia generation with giant illustrations). So far, I have little stories (less than 5000 words) that includes ‘human concepts’ like how to a stock taking of a pantry(sorry..I started out as an accountant. That’s what grabbed me first as subject), an enchanted nestery run by a pigeon who puts magical spells on birds nests to illustrate different kinds of nests and eggs of various birds, a Beauty Salon for insects whose markings fade...again, to illustrate markings on ladybugs, butterflies and cleaning bee pollen baskets etc. It’s turning out to be more of a picture book. I would like to introduce subjects that teach something of the natural world and the physics in it. My favourite has always been time and the uni directional arrow of time. I also want to write a story that explains why we are carbon based life forms. About the night skies. Also..photosynthesis, on soil biology, migration, hibernation etc are easy to include in a farm setting. How to weave in hardcore STEM topics into a plot?
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Title: What is best free software for managing and scheduling backup procedure of folders/databases in many clients? I want a centralized system that have fine-grained schedule and can show backup status of folders and databases in different clients. It's better to have plugins for supporting backup using different kinds of tools like PostgreSQL(pg_dump), MySQL, Redis, SSH ,... . Backups can be stored on different places like S3, Dropbox and local folders.
Upvote: | 133 |
Title: For past some time, on a lot of websites I visit the usual one click 'recaptcha' doesn't work, and it asks me to click various images. That would be ok, but while previously you generally had to click just one category of images, recently I've been noticing they keep on showing multiple images in multiple categories (cars, bicycles, cross walks, buses etc.) and force us to click on all of them. Google is making us do slave work for free, and we don't seem to have many options if we want to use a particular website. Just wanted to check if anyone else has observed a similar pattern.
Upvote: | 63 |
Title: Hey HN,<p>I’m Scott Stephenson, one of the cofounders of Deepgram (<a href="https://www.deepgram.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.deepgram.com/</a>). Getting information from recorded phone calls and meetings is time-intensive, costly, and imprecise. Our speech recognition API allows businesses to reliably translate high-value unstructured audio into accurate, parsable data.<p>Deepgram started when my cofounder Noah Shutty and I had just finished looking for dark matter (while in a particle physics lab at University of Michigan). Noah had the idea to start recording all audio from his life, 24/7. After gathering hundreds of hours of recordings, we wanted to search inside this fresh dataset, but realized there wasn’t a good way to find specific moments. So, we built a tool utilizing the same AI techniques we used for finding dark matter particle events, and it ended up working pretty well. A few months later, we made a single page demo to show off “searching through sound” and posted to HN. Pretty soon we were in the winter batch of YC in 2016 (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/27/launching-a-google-for-sound-deepgram-raises-1-8-million/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/27/launching-a-google-for-sou...</a>).<p>I’d say we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. Speech is a really big problem with a huge market, but it’s also a tough nut to crack. For decades, companies have been unable to get real learnings from their massive amounts of recorded audio (some companies record more than 1,000,000 minutes of call center calls every single day). They have a few reasons why they record the audio — some for compliance, some for training, and some for market research. The questions they’re trying to answer are usually as simple as:<p><pre><code> - “What is the topic of the call?”
- “Is this call compliant?” (did I say: my company name, my name, and “this call may be recorded”)
- “Are people getting their problems solved quickly?”
- “Do my agents need training?”
- “What are our customers talking about? Competitors? Our latest marketing campaign?”
</code></pre>
It’s the most intimate view you can get on your customers, but the problem is so large and difficult to solve that companies pushed it into the corner over the past couple decades, only trying to mitigate the bleeding. Current tools only transcribe with around 50-60% accuracy on real-world, noisy, accented, industry-specific audio (don’t believe the ‘human level accuracy’ hype). When companies start solving problems using speech data, they first want transcription that’s accurate. After accuracy, comes scale — another big problem. Speech processing is computationally expensive and slow. Imagine trying to get into an iterative problem solving loop when you have to wait 24 hours to get your transcripts back.<p>So we’ve set our sights on building <i>the</i> speech company. Competition from companies like Google, Amazon, and Nuance is real, but none of these approach speech recognition like we do. We've rebuilt the entire speech processing stack, replacing heuristics and stats based speech processing with fully end-to-end deep learning (we use CNNs and RNNs). Using GPUs, we train speech models to learn customer’s unique vocabularies, accents, product names, and acoustic environments. This can be the difference between correctly capturing “wasn’t delivered” and “was in the liver.” We’ve focused on speed since we think that’s very important for exploration and scale. Our API returns hour-long transcripts interactively in seconds. It’s a tool many businesses wish they had.<p>So far we’ve released tools that:<p><pre><code> - transcribe speech with timestamps
- support real-time streaming
- have multi-channel support
- understand multiple languages (in beta now)
- allow you to deeply search for keywords and phrases
- transcribe to phonemes
- get more accurate with use
</code></pre>
Some of those are better mousetraps of things you’re familiar with and some are completely new levers to pull in your audio data. We’ve built the core on English but now we’re releasing the tools for all of the Americas. (aside: You can transfer learn speech and it works well!)<p>Accuracy will continue to improve for transcription, but I think we can do more. It's such a large problem, and we really want to make a dent in “solving speech”. That means asking, truly: “What can a human do?“<p>People can, with little context, jump into a conversation and determine:<p><pre><code> - What are the words? When are they said? Who said what?
- Is this person young/old? Male/Female? Exhausted/energetic?
- Where is there confusion?
- What language are they speaking? What’s the speaker’s accent?
- What’s the topic of the conversation? Small talk or real? Is it going well?
</code></pre>
Some of those things are being worked on now: additional language support, language and accent detection, sentiment analysis, auto-summarization, topic modeling, and more.<p>We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas.
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Title: What did you plan to learn in 2018 and what did you actually learn?
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Title: Github recently announced the ability to download all your Github data[0]. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google all offer similar services. Is there a way to do this for my comments, votes, and submissions on HackerNews?<p>[0] https://blog.github.com/2018-12-19-download-your-data/
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Title: I heard a lot of slack accounts has been closed down today. I was wondering if there's a decenteralised alternative to it?<p>I also saw a post in HN that MailChimp suspended accounts without prior notification. What's with these tech companies and closing accounts? It's scary.
Upvote: | 51 |
Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m Shaan Hathiramani, the founder of Flockjay (<a href="https://www.flockjay.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.flockjay.com</a>). My team and I created Flockjay to make tech accessible for people from underrepresented communities. We're doing this by targeting a branch of the industry that itself has been neglected in this age of engineering bootcamps: a $0-upfront online sales academy that gives underserved jobseekers the tools and training they need to break into tech.<p>Startups are building formal sales processes earlier in their life cycles. Many struggle with predictably hiring top talent for sales. Skilled sales reps are critical for growing startups, as they accelerate revenue (4-5x their compensation) while understanding what customers want. Top performers are hard to find because they often come from non-traditional backgrounds. They are conscientious, curious, and emotionally intelligent, and have honed their skills through experience and mentorship.<p>As an industry, we focus most of our energy on teaching people to code. Yet, in a recent poll of 250 US college and university officials, not one school offered coursework in tools like Salesforce. Meanwhile, the best sales reps are amongst the highest earners in tech. Providing this training can create economic opportunity that changes lives.<p>I have witnessed the power of education and access in my own life. As a son of non-white immigrants, I grew up with a narrow view of opportunity. Then, 22 years ago, my parents crossed the street and asked our neighbors why their kids’ bus went one way, and mine went another. I applied for a scholarship to their private school, and my entire worldview changed.<p>After college, I taught financial literacy in inner-city Chicago and NY. Many of my students felt overlooked in tech job searches despite being qualified. They didn’t speak the tech language, rarely had an industry connection, and lacked fluency in business software. If they did land the dream job, there was often a steep learning curve with little training or support.<p>We built Flockjay to bridge this skills gap. Over 12 weeks part-time, students receive expert coaching, interview with top companies, and join a community of mentors. Our hired graduates make 2x or more their current income, while making real impact at breakout tech companies. They develop life-long skills for any professional transition.<p>Our team has 10+ years of domain expertise, and with help from world-class professionals (Facebook, Flexport, Google, etc.) we’ve developed a fully-immersive curriculum that uses cutting-edge tools (Summary: <a href="https://flockjay.com/applicants" rel="nofollow">https://flockjay.com/applicants</a>). Our students pay nothing until hired, after which we take 10% of their first year income.<p>We are working with groups representing different races, genders, sexual orientations, socioeconomic/educational backgrounds, geographic locations, and ages to attract high potential applicants. You can read more about our view of diversity here: <a href="https://flockjay.com/diversity" rel="nofollow">https://flockjay.com/diversity</a>.<p>We are from places like Mississippi and Ghana, and we are building a radical company to reflect the change we want to see in the world. What we’ve learned so far is there is no single story of success. We want to hear your experiences, ideas, feedback, and stories about breaking into tech. They have been the most meaningful part of our work.
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Title: I have 5 years exp in .net and am looking to move to NYC in the new year. I live in a considerably smaller metro area currently and am finding the scope and breadth of the market intimidating. In the past I have had the normal programming job hunt hurdles to leap; whiteboard interviews, multiple phone/in person interviews, flakey HR responses or no responses. All of that are things I feel are standard in the job hunting process I am comfortable about going through again.<p>Currently I am finding that even looking for and settling on a place to start is overwhelming. The potential of places to work seems 100x the current market I am in (and it probably is). This leads me to think I should connect with a recruiter but that brings a whole new host of issues I am unfamiliar with, since I have never used a recruiter in the past.<p>With that being said, I was wondering if people here had advice or experiences worth sharing with regards to job hunting and the issues that might not be as recognizable before you went through the process. Pay negotiations, setting up in person interviews, traversing a larger job market, whether or not to use a recruiter and how to find a good one. Anything that could be helpful or pertain to a large market job jump.
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Title: I have the opportunity to shadow a CEO/Founder of a $25 million dollar company. The company is in the fresh produce sector - not an industry that I ever really considered, but the founder has been able to build it up from nothing to one of Inc’s fastest growing companies in just 6 years. I have free reign to attend meetings/calls in all departments, and I have committed to 4 hours, 3 days a week. The CEO is a friend so there’s an established relationship. My longterm goal is to own my company and I want to learn how a successful business is run and the leadership skills required.<p>I’ve never done this before, so my questions are how do I get the most out of this great opportunity? How can I add value to him? How long should I continue this internship? Any other best practices/recommendations?<p>Thank you so much in advance!
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Title: I have a Facebook account that I setup in 2011 and never used. I made one friend, which was my wife and then disabled the account. No posts, no photos, no likes, nothing.<p>A few months ago I started receiving update notifications to the email account it was setup with that I've been ignoring. That was until I noticed I had received a suggestion to join a colon cancer support group a few weeks ago.<p>To send me that came across as highly invasive and instantly had me wondering what Facebook was silently compiling and inferring about me and my family.<p>I recovered my password and logged into my account, had a look at what details I had in there, changed my DOB wondering why I had added it (I normally enter a fake (correct year but Jan 1), who was being suggested as a friend, where it was suggesting I live, and then attempted to download the data dump that Facebook had on me before I delete the account permanently.<p>I'm now locked out unless I upload a driver's license or passport id to prove my identity.<p>Given that Facebook shouldn't know anything about me: no photos, no address or phone number (unless they have that from my now deleted WhatsApp account); they shouldn't be able to confirm my identity, unless they are storing information I have not given them or by inferring information via my wife.<p>So I'm stuck. Any suggestions other than going back to ignoring Facebook?
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Title: What's your favourite talks of 2018? It can be anything, programming, management, life, anything.
Upvote: | 710 |
Title: What are your favorite nonfiction books of 2018 (Read in 2018)
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Title: I am getting really angry. What is happening to me?<p>I am literally getting worst at programming. When I was a beginner I could solve any problem those "coding challenge" websites, but now I simply can't. I haven't stopped coding since then, I was doing it every single day and I still got worse. Maybe I am just overcomplicating things when programming.<p>I feel like the thousands of free (not good quality) tutorials that I watched online are now showing their flaws. I just have piles of trash "programming knowledge" in my head that I don't know how to clean or replace.<p>How do I relearn programming? Relearn it in a way that I don't have to watch or read tutorials with the stuff I already know. Cuz I seriously can't watch another video of someone explaining what a variable or function is.<p>Do I just have to go heads first and it will all just "fit in place"? I will finally become a good and confident programmer one day?<p>I wanted to share this because I don't want someone wasting two years learning programming and get to the state that I am in. :(<p>If someone had this problem before or has advice to get back on track please reply.
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Title: What technologies have you invested time in learning that you are going to keep using/experimenting/learning about in the next year?<p>I'm a professional Android engineer, and as for me: I learned Kotlin and use it at work every day, and so far I like it a lot. I also learned a little bit of iOS development with Swift. I also experimented with Flutter developing non-trivial "Hello world" apps, and I feel that it reduces a lot of friction that a lot of native mobile developers encounter.<p>What's your favorite tech in 2018?
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Title: First a little background:
I`m in my mid 20s, worked my way up from a help-desk position. Done 4years of sysadmin work and i am currently employed in of the largest Scandinavian based firms.<p>My day to day jobs consists of daily operation of various software solutions (mostly java applications), projects (kubernetes is the new hot thing) and various other sysadmin related tasks.<p>I have been approached by several people that want me to jump ship and join another department and or firm. But I`m not sure what i want going forward in my IT career.
I have two offers coming to me in early 2019, one is joining a penetration testing team, enrolling in a 6-12 months insane learning program. The other is joining another firm where i will become an Azure architect.<p>The problem or rather what i feel insecure about is that i don`t know enough, especially for the penetration testing gig. I don`t know programming in general, yes i have tweaked some php/bash/python/go code but never made anything from the ground up.
So I`m debating if i should move away from my "comfortable" position where I`m usually praised and involved in a lot of projects and I`m making a big positive impact, for both customers, colleagues and the firm. To a new position where this will be limited (atleast for a couple of years) in both skill, earning potential and possible impact I`m able to do.<p>I`m basically looking for advice, if someone has been a similar dilemma and would like to share their experience, then that would be really appreciative.
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Title: Similar to this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465 but I'm looking for fiction, poetry books to read next year.
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: What are your favorite fiction books that you read in 2018?
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Title: This year I learned a hard lesson in personal life and realized that playing a "Providing Hero" is a poor life choice. It just makes you open to exploitation especially by close family where your guards are down.<p>What lessons did you learn this year?
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Title: Starting at episode 14 : https://agilenoir.biz/series/agile-thoughts/
Upvote: | 43 |
Title: What solo or indie projects you started in 2018 that all ready generate some revenue
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Title: Over the last year or so, pinboard.in's paid archiving service has become increasingly sporadic. The process used to be nearly instant, but bookmarks are crawled maybe once a month now and frequently fail to archive correctly or are skipped completely.<p>From Pinboard's Twitter mentions, I can see I'm not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.<p>Overall, it's left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I'd also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.<p>I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it's still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?
Upvote: | 104 |
Title: I really enjoyed this year, the thing that made it quite interesting for me was the amount of people streaming in all kinds of languages with all kinds of approaches.<p>For me I found it quite a nice learning exercise, though oddly enough ( I was trying to do them as fast as I could ) I often resorted to mega functions and basic data types to solve the problems. This worked out well early in the event, but later it would lead to many simple bugs. I also found that it's nice when your language has a lot of toys to make life easier. I started with Go, as a learning exercise, but swapped to C# as so many problems fit nicely with "Linq", however there were lots of missing niceties, so I spawned a NuGet package with a library of extension methods which I hope to polish now that AoC is over<p>What are your takeaways?
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Title: Curious to know which books you read in 2018. What made a true impact? What made the best learning experience?<p>Thank you for sharing!
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Title: Merry Christmas fellow HN'ers.<p>2018 went so fast. I hope that 2018 was good for everyone and that you all have a prosperous new year.
Upvote: | 226 |
Title: If you were to quit your developer job today and move away from the tech world for a little while, what job would you do? Or what domain would interest you?
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: What programming languages are popular there? Is code written in a mix of the local language and English (for the keywords)? Is Agile used?
Upvote: | 183 |
Title: Learning, startup or anything.
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Title: Inspired by
https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/<p>What are the tools and services you use?
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Title: Opensource IPTV service based on gstreamer can relay/encode/shift streams and many many other features.
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Title: Do you know famous inventions whose authors have always remained completely anonymous and never reveled their identities ? Other than Bitcoin.<p>PS: In any field, not only technology, and any time in history.
Upvote: | 180 |
Title: I quit my software development job 4 months ago to take some time to travel, develop some ideas, and improve myself. I have a very flexible schedule, and I'm eager to make the most out of 2019.<p>What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone in my situation (or anyone else) should consider acquiring in 2019?
Upvote: | 218 |
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