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Title: I am currently starting work on a new app/website. Currently planning to have 1 BE API set to start, probably graphql (which will be user data/information and need to check with the auth server about being protected). I will also have many client apps (web, mobile, potential partners) that will need to make queries to that BE. Do you usually roll your own authentication or use something like auth0/fusionauth/gluu/etc? This product is going to need to be secure as it will be in the healthcare space (so think oidc).
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Title: Our team’s engineering and project managers are based overseas. This year I’ve been acting as the local manager as well as a developer on some projects.<p>The company has recently hired an additional project manager overseas who has already started excluding me from project meetings. Another project manager has been hired to work in the local office and is starting next week.<p>I get the feeling I’m now meant to be sitting in the corner with my headphones on.
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Title: Any books you cannot wait to read next year? Or is there something you really wish to learn? Curious about <i>all</i> kinds of great book suggestions for 2019. Thanks for sharing!
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Title: I really like programming but I quickly get bored at work. I often work on personal projects during work hours because they're more interesting. The success or failure of a business, even one I depend on for income, does not motivate me. None of my personal projects are monetizable. They're just things I do to learn. It's the experience of learning that excites me. I have a little experience teaching (after-school program) and writing about what I learn. I enjoy that too. My ideal life would be one where I am free to explore things that interest me and share that knowledge with others.<p>Unfortunately, I can't afford not to work. So I need a career of some kind and am looking for a career that's more aligned with what naturally motivates me. I've contemplated going back to school but am not convinced this is a good idea. I have a degree from an art school, no formal computer science education, and no math since highschool. I also don't have much money. If I wanted to study computer science, I'd have to start at the undergraduate level and borrow a lot of money. School as an investment makes sense to me but I'm not sure what I would be investing in. I don't think a career in academia would appeal to me, and borrowing that much money because I'm bored at work sounds like a bad idea.<p>Does anyone have a suggestion for what I can/should do to improve my circumstances?
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Title: I have 2FA on one of my web apps. Most users are using Google Authenticator which uses TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password). On first login, we show them a QR code. We instruct them to save a copy of this QR code in the event they get a new phone or want to install a new 2FA app. However, I am running into a situation where users are not doing this. I can easily enough reset their account to show a QR code again on next login, but my question is: What is the safest way to "authenticate" them for a reset? I could do things like send a reset email to the email associated with the account, but I am just wondering what others are doing for situations like this. I want to make sure I am doing it as securely as possible.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I'm curious how others store their photos. Right now I use Arq to back up to an AWS Glacier instance. I also back up to Shutterfly. And I use Time Machine to an external HD.<p>Problems:<p>0. I'm using a ton of local HD space to store them. I want to free up a bunch of space.<p>1. But if I delete photos from my computer, Arq will eventually delete the backups that contained them. Could be months or years but if they're not local, they'll be gone when the cost to store them exceeds the monthly budget I've set with Arq.<p>2. Additionally, Shutterfly apparently will let you upload videos up to 2GB. But I've randomly found a couple of videos well under that size that just don't get backed up.<p>I think this is what a good storage situation looks like:<p>1. Photos and videos are automatically backed up to the cloud from my devices (nice to have)<p>2. Photos are retained forever in the cloud even if they're deleted from my devices. I have to go to cloud storage to delete something.<p>3. Very nice to have: photos are encrypted locally before getting sent to the cloud like with Arq.<p>4. Bonus points: the UI for browsing cloud photos is nice (Shutterfly bought the company I was using, which had the best UI I'd found).<p>What do you use? Have you solved any of the problems I've laid out with my approach?<p>edit: thanks for all the great replies. I'm in the middle of a lengthy process of moving off of Google services, so Google Photos sounds great but isn't something I'm into. Will look at iCloud and other solutions mentioned below.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I just published on Leanpub a free book, "Clean Architectures in Python". It's a humble attempt to organise and expand some posts I published on my blog in the last years.<p>You can find it here: https://leanpub.com/clean-architectures-in-python<p>The main content is divided in two parts, this is a brief overview of the table of contents<p>* Part 1 - Tools
- Chapter 1 - Introduction to TDD
- Chapter 2 - On unit testing
- Chapter 3 - Mocks<p>* Part 2 - The clean architecture
- Chapter 1 - Components of a clean architecture
- Chapter 2 - A basic example
- Chapter 3 - Error management
- Chapter 4 - Database repositories<p>Some highlights:<p>- The book is written with beginners in mind<p>- It contains 3 full projects, two small ones to introduce TDD and mocks, a bigger one to describe the clean architecture approach<p>- Each project is explained step-by-step, and each step is linked to a tag in a companion repository on GitHub<p>The book is free, but if you want to contribute I will definitely appreciate the help.
My target is to encourage the discussion about software architectures, both in the Python community and outside it.<p>I hope you will enjoy the book! Please spread the news on your favourite social network
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Title: I was playing with the idea of a Facebook profile cemetery. It would be a tool to structure your profile data after you download it from Facebook, in order to self-host it on a space you own. The idea would be to keep alive your profile history, but on your own website, for friends and family to still browse it, or just as a way to claim and still show data that's fundamentally yours to show around.<p>Before I try to figure out a way to do that and start building something, do you know any tool useful for this purpose?
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Title: I've already posted yesterday, but I'd really love to get comments, any kind of questions, suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated as it's an Open Source project of mine (and was for others during my studies at the University of Konstanz 6 years ago).<p>Since then I spent countless ours to bring forth the idea of a versioned storage system, especially well suited for analytical tasks for timd-varying data.<p>Especially I'd love to discuss what documentation you need, which next steps are necessary (JSON, Cloud...), API additions or changes...<p>I've updated the README quiet a bit, such that the set up of the asynchronous, RESTful HTTP(S) Server is easier :-) however I could use some help with the Docker stuff.<p><a href="http://sirix.io" rel="nofollow">http://sirix.io</a>
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Title: Do you think it's a viable solution for doing online business? How is that working out for you in general?
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Title: I'm in high school. Soon, I will be in college. Before, I’ve focused mainly on studying and pursuing solitary passions, but not doing social activities. However, I now feel that I'm missing out on typical teenager life, and I'll have regrets when I'm an adult.<p>I just watched an anime following a group of close friends in a band as they pass through high school. I've seen people online state that the anime reminded them of their own high school lives, but it doesn't remind me of my current life at all; it's way too carefree and fun.<p>My online friends have told me that they don't have close friends either, so my life is normal.<p>Today, I saw this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aanfmf/whats_a_very_common_thing_that_you_just_cannot/ecuao12. Granted, the person is saying that they don't relate to looking back on high school. However, the topic is about common things that one can’t relate to, and some repliers said that their own HS lives were carefree. Now, I again feel I am missing something.<p>I like programming, and I've become interested in type theory. I doubt that other people in my school care about this stuff.<p>I take art class, but it's a solitary activity between me and my teacher, not together with other students.<p>I don't know how to make close friends. I can talk to people, but I can't suddenly form a close relationship with somebody. Friendship can’t be forced; it develops naturally. Yet, I've never made a close, loyal friendship, only casual friendships.<p>Before, I've been looking forward to college so I can study my interests. Now, I feel afraid of ending high school.<p>Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary? Am I missing out on anything?<p>What hobbies do you advise me to adopt that I can do in a group, with camaraderie?<p>Will college be the same or different than high school? Can I have the same kind of youthful fun when I'm an adult?
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Title: For instance what they use for stuff like<p><a href="https://git-lfs.github.com" rel="nofollow">https://git-lfs.github.com</a><p>Or I don't know how to describe it, because right now I can't find an example, but more "comic" like maybe. I know that Venka Subramanian once had such a nice article about Akka with beautiful diagrams, but can't find it either :(
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Title: One of my big goals for 2019 is to become more charming and charismatic. What resources have helped you guys?<p>One that helped me a lot personally was this book "never split the difference"
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Title: I am a EE, hardware engineer with about a decade of experience in PCB electronics and systems engineering experience which includes a brief stint at a FAANG that also happens to be an E-tailer. I have been "dabbling" in Python for about a year now and just recently started with DL using PyTorch and find it quite interesting. To be clear I don't write code at work, atleast not until now. I intend to utilize any free resources (MOOCs) to teach myself the latest techniques in DL for CV. What I am not clear is the next logical step.A part of me wants to Boostrap a SAAS using Python stack to build something that I can market using the traditional channels(PH,Show HN,Reddit,answer SO questions) and show it to potential employers but am not sure if I will even get to the interview stage with a resume but that doesn't look anything like a programmer with a tradional CS background and work experience to boot. Sorry about the long and winding question, but what should I do to get noticed by recruiters at FAANG and non-FAANG to stand apart from the CS crowd?
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Title: Are there any banks that offer great checking accounts and credit cards for start ups?<p>I'm based in NYC for reference. Thanks.
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Title: For someone with a reasonable background in software development, what new skills might need to be acquired to move specifically into NLP (natural language processing)?<p>Does doing NLP essentially mean having to learn ML at this point?<p>Also, how to showcase skills to potential employers?
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Title: I have an idea that I want to work on during the break. And I think this is something that would suit a graph db, (a service that would link users together depending on their choice profile). So what was your experience of working with one? Which graph db did you use?<p>Edit: What sort of problems are well-suited to graph databases? In other words, what are some scenarios where something like Postgres is not suitable anymore?
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Title: I'm a manager in one of the biggest startups in our field. We're currently big in consulting, but we've been trying to move into SaaS.<p>Problem is, we're growing, but can't keep engineers. In the beginning of the year we had half the number of employees we have now, but twice as much engineers as today. An engineer left us three weeks ago and two more gave notice and are leaving in January. Hiring is extremely hard because of economy.<p>We have a strong culture, but it is widely felt by the rest of the company that the engineering team doesn't adhere to it. Complaints from other workers range from the decision they made to isolate themselves in their own building, how they actively engage in bickering and in-fighting between their own teams, how they have extremely limited communication to the rest of the company (users of their products), and reports of sexual harassment and racism.<p>There's zero consistency between the message they're sending. Some engineers believe the team is moving too fast, while a different group believes they're moving too slow. In the exit interviews we had complaints of micromanaging mixed with complaints of lack of management. The new flagship application we're building is extremely simple, but has way too many lines of code compared to all our other (more complex) applications. The development process is indeed slow and full of fail-safes, but there's still an astounding number of bug reports for a simple app.<p>Has anyone dealt with such a situation and has some advice?<p>EDIT: I'm a manager but I'm not in the engineering team itself.
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Title: Academics: junior academic researchers including phd students, postdocs and early career profs.
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Title: Edit: Sorry everybody! This should have gone out tomorrow, since Jan 1 is such a standard holiday. I'm going to kill this thread now and we'll have the real one tomorrow. We will also modify the code to get this right for next year. -- dang
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Title: I went on a job interview for a Quant position.<p>I wrote out some c++ and I used namespaces like: std::cout, std::merge, etc. I did not write: using namespace std;<p>The interviewer just lost it. Went on this rant that "how can programmers now write such confusing code", "just name space it ahead of time".<p>And he was just plain mad. Uncomfortable mad. I tried saying "what if functions have the same name"..he spouted off about "how compilers are smart enough to know what the programmer wants based upon parameters provided and why would any programmer use functions with the same name and how so many people he talks to don't know how to code but call themselves coders...and why didn't I write my own code to merge 2 files. Did I need to use the std.."<p>What does everyone else do?<p>using namespace std;<p>cout << "blah" << endl;<p>merge(...);<p>or<p>std::cout << blah" << std::endl;<p>std::merge(...);<p>and I always use std:: instead of writing my own. I mean "time tested" versus "have I had enough coffee...". In 25 years of c++ I always used std:: before re-creating.<p>Has anyone else had a horror interview like this?<p>Edit: I didn't shout or get mad. I practiced my Buddhist learning and turned the other cheek without emotion.
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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>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807015" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807015</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807016" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807016</a>
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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: Talented in terms of general knowledge and practical skills
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Title: I ran a popular D* pod for about 7 years, called Cryptospora.net. We had approximately 30,000 users signed up. It was with much regret that I I shut my pod down, permanently, last month. Here's why.<p>There were certain neo-Nazis who would get banned from pod after pod, but they just kept signing up at new or foreign-language pods, and it was impossible to prevent neo-Nazi content from being shared to my pod and being displayed in my feed. There is CURRENTLY a large amount of child pornography being shared on the D* network. It became impossible for me to stop child-porn content or neo-Nazi hatespeech content from being shared to my pod and displayed to my users.<p>I made a thread in the Discourse channel for Diaspora podmins, and a github issue ticket. I suggested that the programmer community within D* come together to implement some form of OPTIONAL federated moderation system, so that I could import ban lists from other pods (ones with an actual staff) and make my ban lists available for other pods to import, based on some standardized TOS formats.<p>The D* core devs BANNED me from their CENTRALIZED forums for podmins, including their Discourse channel, their Github issues system, and their reddit sub. Apparently discussions about moderation are a bannable offense for these guys, and they are ADAMANT that there will NEVER be any effective network-wide system for preventing child-pornography abuse being posted to their network.<p>I would suggest that if YCombinator still owns shares in the Diaspora Foundation, they should consider rescinding ownership of those shares, and potentially suing the Diaspora Foundation for their money back. YCombinator should not be an unwilling share-owner of a child-porn sharing network.
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Title: After reading (and resonating quite a bit with) "Developer Hegemony" by Erik Dietrich, which was one of the recommended books in the "what did you read in 2018" posts, I think about steering my career to a manager instead of a developer position.<p>For all those of you who've done the same or planning to do the same: What are the most important skills or what's the most needed knowledge in such a position? Where can I learn it? What should I read?
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Title: Are there any real consequences to having your data leaked in a breach? If yes, what?<p>Assuming not passwords. Things like name, address, passport number, etc.
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Title: As a long time software developer who hasn't done full stack in awhile (since 2013), what's everyone's go to web hosting stack today? Wanted to quickly put together a simple website with react/node.
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Title: Other than upwork, are there other sites that I can get started with? I don't have any contacts or a great portfolio (all my projects are corporate, behind logins) to show off. This is for some quick cash, so I am not looking for some anything great
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Title: Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 operating system kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware. The kernel implements basic operating system services like booting, memory management, thread scheduling, local and remote file systems, TCP/IP networking and DLL loading and linking. You can use Sanos as a small kernel for embedded server applications written in C or as a JeOS (Just enough Operating System). Sanos has a fairly standard POSIX based API and an ANSI Standard C library.<p>The kernel was developed as part of an experiment on investigating the feasibility of running java server applications without a traditional operating system only using a simple kernel. A win32 layer allowed the Windows version of a standard HotSpot JVM to run under Sanos, essentially providing a JavaOS platform for server applications.<p>While Sanos is self-contained in the sense that it can build itself, it can be cross-compiled under either Windows using Microsoft Visual C, or under Linux using GCC. Sanos applications can either be built under Windows using MSVC or under Sanos itself using the Sanos SDK.<p>WWW: http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/index.htm
Source: https://github.com/ringgaard/sanos
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Title: A little background:<p>I'm half of a development team at a young (but very promising startup). We have angel funding and seed funding and are working our way towards proving our product is profitable for the next round. I was brought aboard by the other half of the development team, the subject of this post, who recommended me to the founder/CEO.<p>During my first few 3 months of being hired, we re-wrote the entire application to meet the requirements that the previous developers couldn't meet due to them being junior and inexperienced (who were later fired). When I say "we", I really mean "I". This is where the problems lie. The other developer on the team has productivity issues. He has the title of "principal engineer" but he his full time duties are development oriented. And he cannot perform. When tasked with debugging software issues, he cannot solve them on his own. When tasked with developing new components, he cannot make decisions or create them on his own. He's been in the business for many years, and I worked with him at our last job together, where he was let go for productivity reasons. He is a smart individual, but he cannot produce, and he cannot "play jazz" to solve software problems.<p>On top of this, his personal life is a chaotic mess, and he is constantly clocking in late and signing off very early to babysit his young children. Even if he could solve the issues he is tasked with, his personal life is so burdened with responsibility that he cannot put in the hours or focus required to complete the tasks. His days are frequently interrupted by needing to pick up his kids or drop them off, or whatever else he needs to do. These were the exact issues at our last startup job as well.<p>I, on the other hand, work my ass off. I pull long hours all week. I've always been productivity-oriented and have a high engineering standard for excellence. I build big systems fast with great test coverage, and they meet requirements. I don't need anyone to hold my hand to step into a debugger or provision machines in our infrastructure. I'm busting my ass to pull his weight along with mine. I schedule work, prune our stories, assign what needs to be done, and then do my part in solving it.<p>I'm beginning to form a toxic opinion about this coworker. I'm feeling very resentful towards him that he gets cut so much slack for his personal responsibilities. I'm resentful that he can be pretending to work all week but have nothing to show for it at the end of the week except excuses about why he had trouble. He's not putting in what the founder and I are. But he technically outranks me, so I cannot "sit him down" in the way someone with more authority could. I could sit down with him as a peer, but he is known for snapping at people (even the founder) who question his productivity. And I don't think the discussion would have any positive outcome anyways. His issues are systemic.<p>The founder knows all about this, and I've made it very clear to him how I feel. He knows that I've written the vast majority of the systems and solved the vast majority of the issues we've encountered. He knows we cannot rely on the underperforming employee for anything serious. However, he won't act because of how it looks to the outside. It will look like he doesn't know how to find good people. It will look like internally we chaotic if we let him go, and that will hurt our chances of raising more funding. I told him very recently though that it's reaching a breaking point for me, and I cannot work with him any longer.<p>I need advice on how to proceed. I am willing to walk away from the job if the founder won't fire the other employee. But I don't want to be that guy that is like "it's either me or him." I just want the founder to act on what we've agreed the situation to be. He needs to fire this guy. He costs money and drags down productivity by slowing the rest of us down. And he kills morale. How do I convince the founder that he can massage the staff change into something more palatable? I know he doesn't want to lose me...he's made that abundantly clear. But I also don't want to be the one to put a gun to his head to make a choice. But i'm at my wits end at dealing with this guy.
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Title: By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?
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Title: In other words, how do you decide between what you want to work on and what should be worked on?<p>I've been stuck with trying to figure what to do with the rest of my life. I can't decide whether I should be working on what I want to work on (Energy, AI) or whether I should work on what I believe should be worked on (Healthcare).<p>It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets. Because I can't decide on this, I end up not getting anything done. Time continues to march on, while I'm still stuck with not knowing what to do.<p>Has anyone had any experience with this before? If yes, then what and how did you make your decision? What was the outcome? Is there a middle ground or silver lining, where you managed to work on both cases?
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Title: Hi Hackernews, I am a developer with lots of random creative thoughts, especially when I am in shower or after a few shots of caffeine. I have yet to find a perfect solution to keep track of my random thoughts.
Here are a few things that I've tried at least for a few months:<p>1. Physical notebook: still using, but some times my notebook is in my backpack/left at home/in office
2. Evernote alike: never works for me. I hate the constant changing features/UI and the overhead of simply opening it
3. (My pick) use instant IM to send messages to myself: the IM tool really doesn't matter. It could be mail app, facebook messenger, slack. Laptop and phone syncing is free and always reliable.<p>I know these are my throw away thoughts. I am wondering whether there are some amazingly good solutions that I didn't know of. Otherwise I am planning to create one for myself.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Any lecture, TED talk or anything that one's talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see?
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Title: So I never graduated from college but have been working on web apps (Ruby on Rails and Ember are what I mostly work on) since I was 19 (I am 25 now).<p>I always wondered what I would do if for some reason the market for software developers would go down. I worry I would not able to find an interesting job, let alone a lucrative one.<p>Is tech the best path out there for interesting and/or well paid work without a college education?
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Title: Hello HNers,<p>I am an aspiring web developer. I have been self learning for around six months and still have not found a solid path to follow. Six months sounds like a lot but realistically it has been a few solid weeks of learning since it is a side hobby that I hope will turn into my career.<p>Is the Web Dev job market in a good enough state that I should risk more time and money?<p>Thanks for any advice…
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Title: Hello Hackers,<p>I am looking for suggestions on online mathematics degree options (something similar to OMSCS from Georgia Tech). I have background in CS but have always wanted a degree in Math. Cannot leave my job and study - have mouths to feed.
I can self study but I find myself switching my topics of study too often. Following a strict regimen of syllabus will discipline me to complete what I start.
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Title: I’m specifically talking about an abstracted language that compiles down to nucleic acids. I know projects like Cello exist to generate plasmids and genetic circuits, but do we need ML? Do we know any determiistic rules?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>We're James and Angel, the founders of CSPA (<a href="https://cspa.io" rel="nofollow">https://cspa.io</a>).<p>The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA) is a standardized assessment for software engineers. We find software engineers to take our exam, and then share the assessment results with employers, who can then hire these candidates for free.<p>James was the founder of Crunchyroll and oversaw product and engineering. Angel also worked at Crunchyroll. We decided to start CSPA because:<p>1. There are many self-taught programmers out there who are really really good, but don't get a fair chance because they don’t have a degree. We want to give these people an equal opportunity to pursue their career. That's why there are no eligibility requirements to take the CSPA. You can come from any background, and if you get a high CSPA score, you’ll stand out.<p>2. As hiring managers at Crunchyroll, it was challenging to find great software developers. We wanted a service that <i>quantitatively</i> compares job applicants in an <i>unbiased</i> way, and ALSO did that assessment for us. In short, we wanted candidates to come to us pre-assessed. It would have saved us and the applicant a TON of time.<p>3. As software engineers, we hated applying for jobs. We did the same phone screens, the same coding challenges, and same whiteboard exercises over and over again, company after company. It's a huge waste of time. There has to be a better way. Why couldn't we just do it once, and then reuse the results at every company we apply to? Keep it DRY, right?<p>If you want to take the CSPA, you can register here: <a href="https://cspa.io/winter-2018/register" rel="nofollow">https://cspa.io/winter-2018/register</a>. The first 100 people to sign up can use code "LAUNCHHN" to waive the exam fee.<p>If you're an employer looking to hire a pre-assessed candidate, sign up here: <a href="https://cspa.io/add-employer" rel="nofollow">https://cspa.io/add-employer</a>. We don't charge a recruiting fee.<p>If you're interested in joining the Technical Steering Committee, apply here: <a href="https://cspa.io/tsc/apply" rel="nofollow">https://cspa.io/tsc/apply</a>
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Title: Recent, old, perhaps anything that is interesting to read.
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Title: What would be a good reference to learn C language (I presume ANSI C) today? It used to be K & R book, not sure if that is still relevant. I'm not looking for a resource that's for programming newbies but for someone who can already program in higher level languages.
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Title: As a single founder with a strong idea, how would you about founding your startup and possibly attracting co-founders and talent to work with you.
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Title: I started coding when I was 11 years old and I am 26 now so thats about 15 years.<p>All through this I have always enjoyed coding which is why I chose to study CS at college and then have been working as a dev post college. But of recently it has started to feel more monotonous and boring.<p>Last year I started my own company and then got acqui-hired into a startup. I realised that talking to customers and solutioning is more fun than wiriting code. How many of you have felt or feel the same way and what are you doing about it?
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Title: I signed my company up through Stripe Atlas thinking it would be more convenient and save me time, boy was I wrong. It's been a time suck dealing with this company and their banking partners, I would recommend other founders who value their time to avoid this service. I've created an LLC in Delaware before using certain other googleable companies and it's gone completely smoothly, so this isn't my first rodeo.<p>First problem, Stripe will create a new, separate Stripe account for you to use with Atlas. So if you already had some transactions (hope you do if you're forming a company) then you're going to need to migrate them. For my company, they just created another account with exactly the same name and just one capitalization difference, pretty confusing. Migration is likely automatic with a cool company like Stripe, right? Nope, they only can migrate your customers -- everything else, subscriptions, coupons, tx data you need to write a script and DIY! Have fun wasting an afternoon updating all your API keys and re-testing too.<p>Side note, if you had special things like the Stripe startup school discount applied to your account, you'll lose it on Atlas. Unless you open up another support ticket with Stripe and wait for a couple weeks.<p>Second problem, if you form a c-corp Stripe will create an account through SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) for you. You can go ahead and read the reviews on that bank yourself, but the biggest annoyance for me was a $25/mo account maintenance fee. OK, not atypical for a business bank, but most banks don't have a $25k+ min. balance for that fee! I do care about $300/year for my company when I specifically payed for Stripe Atlas thinking it would be more convenient and save me money.<p>Third problem, want to switch to Azlo bank so that at least you don't have to pay monthly fees? That's great except Azlo will tell you that you need to talk to Stripe to do that, and <i>surprise</i> Stripe will tell you that... <a href="https://gist.github.com/mikob/3cd3d141c60596ee50c0ab2603b5bdb9" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/mikob/3cd3d141c60596ee50c0ab2603b5bd...</a>
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Title: Udacity is getting ready to kill its mobile app. I got following email from them today. I think its a good thing. Mobile apps should die..for they add little value but cause massive privacy problems. I hope this means less intrusive "download our app" requests on websites<p>When we launched the Udacity app over 4 years ago, we were pleased to offer Udacity students our learning experience from the convenience of a mobile app. Ultimately, ten percent of Udacity students downloaded the app, and many enjoyed using it as an additional learning path.<p>In 2019, we are prioritizing massive upgrades to the Udacity classroom and service experience. We are focusing our efforts to support, motivate, and drive not only learning and career success for our students, but also to provide a world-class online learning experience.<p>Because the Udacity app has not significantly advanced students' ability to achieve their learning and career goals, moving forward we will not support many of these product upgrades on the mobile app and will sunset the mobile app as of January 9, 2019. After this point you won't be able to download or use the app anymore. The Udacity classroom experience, including Knowledge and Student Hub will remain supported on mobile web as it is today.<p>If you have questions, view the FAQ doc or reach out by responding to this email.<p>Your Udacity team
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Title: I am curious what internal documentation tools people are using. My current use case is an engineering handbook and internal documentation that isn't related to any specific codebase.<p>Some basic requirements are:
- searchable
- code snippets
- hyperlinking<p>I know of a few tools and I've even worked at companies that use git repos with markdown. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.
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Title: 1. Anyone considering or currently practicing unschooling/self directed education [0]?<p>2. Were you home schooled/unschooled/practiced self directed education ?
What’s your story?<p>I am considering this approach for my children. Just finished reading free to learn [1] and Peter gray makes a compelling case for this approach. Also the documentary “schooling the world” covers some of the chilling effects of compulsory schooling. [2] it has made me seriously question our current education system. A system that seems designed to surpress all of the critical skills one needs for the future.<p>Would love to hear your story And thoughts?<p>My daughter starts grade one this year so decisions have to be made on the school. We currently have her enrolled in a Montessori.<p>I have been doing some research and not think the current education system is the best for the skills that would be needed in the future.<p>originally started as a comment but think it deserves a full Ask hn.<p>[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling<p>[1] https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Reliant/dp/0465025994<p>[2] https://schoolingtheworld.org<p>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSIgZWNR9M<p>Edit:
If you do not feel comfortable telling your story here mail me on username at ZyeLabs net.
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Title: Tired of the hype on the web/js (every week new library to learn about), I am thinking to switch career in the next 1-2 years, and move lower in the stack. I am into Rust in the last 3-4 months and I really enjoy it, but I would like to learn more, what would you consider essential books/papers/resources that a system's programmer should know?
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Title: Issue trackers are something every development team needs, but no one ever seems happy with. Jira is slow and crusty, Trello doesn't scale well for large organizations, and so on.<p>If you could manifest it just by imagining it, what would your ideal issue tracker look like?
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Title: there have been some great CTF[0][1] links here in the past[2] but many of them are from 5 or even 7 years ago[1].<p>Anyone still actively playing CTF in 2019 and if so what is your experience? Anyone here hosting CTF themselves?
Anyone providing advanced puzzles (hardened systems that have no built in flaws?)
Anyone building CTF puzzles for IoT? E.g. focus on gateway level protocols such as MQTT, COAP etc?<p>I played a few times until 2009 but then had other things on my plate. What are the latest & greatest communities today?<p>thanks ^_^<p>[0] https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/intro/<p>[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9989-what_the_flag_is_ctf<p>[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=capture%20the%20flag&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all
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Title: I keep categorizing ideas that I really want to execute into groups like work, personal life, projects etc, and then try to allocate time to them. But even when I try to focus and narrow the list of things I want to do, life still gets in between. So how do you go about it?<p>In the end I spend more time reorganizing my ideas than working on them >.<
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Title: I have µMatrix in my browser, and by default it blocks the AMP CDN. The result of this seems to be horrendous white-screen times for web-pages, beyond what I would expect it to take for a web-server to load these pages, and the delay in loading is very noticeable across all of them.<p>I have a vague idea of the point of AMP, which is to speed up the delivery of web pages. However:<p>1) I'm not convinced the web pages were really _that_ slow to start with, so it feels like an unnecessary project (well, excepting the fact that web-page bloat has massively increased as people use more and more javascript libraries &c.).<p>2) Perhaps I'm being a bit old fashioned, but I don't really understand what was wrong with a browser serving a web page made out of some HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It feels like we're replacing one technology with another (and that latter one comes from Google, which makes me nervous). Do we really want AMP to be the way we serve the web?<p>3) I haven't properly investigated, bt I'm assuming that this delay is some script which is waiting for the data to load from the AMP CDN, and once that times out it displays the underlying content (I did check and loading this page [1] is almost instantaneous yet the content only displays after three seconds). Any insight into why it's seen as acceptable for this to be so slow when it is unnecessary for displaying the page?<p>[1]: https://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5840711_test-electrical-outlet-digital-multimeter.html
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Title: Burnout gets a fair bit of discussion here on HN, but I'm wondering what the community thinks are the differences between a few subtly different challenges:<p>1) Burnout<p>2) Depression<p>3) Laziness<p>4) Being in the wrong job<p>Given that they all have very similar symptoms, how would you determine which one an individual is dealing with?
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Title: What was the Internet like in its purest form? Was it mainly information sharing, and if so, how reliable was the information?
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Title: I loved @ajus's comment about Stansislaw Lem's ebook prediction in 1961[1].<p>Another favorite is E.M. Forster's prediction of video calling and more in 1909 with The Machine Stops[2].
"But it was fully fifteen seconds before the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow. A faint blue light shot across it, darkening to purple, and presently she could see the image of her son, who lived on the other side of the earth, and he could see her."<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896513
[2] http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
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Title: What are the best, most useful aliases or functions etc for bash that you've collected or written? Or bash scripts. Please give explanation/usage if necessary. Ones you actually use often. Thanks!
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Title: What's the most important piece of code you've written?<p>My answer is as follows... The most important piece of code I've written was a rudimentary 2d tile engine in QB64 for an RPG I never finished. It's memorable and important to me because of what writing it did for my confidence as a developer. At the time, writing a tile engine "from scratch", in my mind, would make me a "professional".<p>I had been following a Game Development YouTube series called "Adventures In Game Development". I wanted to be a game developer! It was my dream! I was a novice developer when I took on that challenge. After a few articles and discussions with some people in various IRC channels, I began.<p>A few hours later, I saw a map appear that I had hardcoded which contained 0's, 1's. When I saw the square patch of grass with water in the middle (my clever map design), I thought I could accomplish anything. It was one of those moments that changed my life.<p>I'm not kidding when I say I had wanted to write a tile engine for a year, at least, before I was actually able to do it. I was probably around 14 years old, at the time.<p>I hope you enjoyed reading my answer to this question and I look forward to reading yours!<p><i>EDIT</i><p>I found the link to one of the articles I read when writing the tile engine.<p>http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tutorials/rpg_tut2.txt<p><i>EDIT 2</i><p>Another important piece of code I've written was the prototype for this game.<p>http://hdfgame.com/<p>I helped with the commercial version a bit but it was awesome to see my prototype turn into the first commercial game that I helped release. The prototype was simple but it had the basic functionality that Hexapod Defense Force has.
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Title: How did you escape your meaningless 9-5 job to work full time on what you wanted to work on[1]?<p>Did you have a strategy or was it a leap of faith?<p>Did you regret it later on?<p>Are you happy with the decision you made?<p>Where do you think you would be today if you had decided to stay in that job?<p>If you are currently in a job like that, then do you have any plans of escaping to work on your passion[1]? if yes, then please share your plan.<p>[1] Your passion may be a dream job, a special course (masters, software bootcamp, course in another field like marketing or airplane pilot etc.) or a startup. It just has to be something you love but are not doing because you think you're job is currently the safest option for you.
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Title: essentially for backend software engineer (Java, GoLang, Microservices, *nix)
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Title: I've been working on a small issue tracker for a few months, and it's been ready to release for a while, but I have one more hurdle that I just can't convince myself to overcome: billing. I <i>hate</i> working with the payment provider I've chosen (but they really do seem to be the easiest thing, others I've looked at are no better). I end up with horribly messy code from their terrible Go SDK, everyone says their documentation is great, but as far as I can tell there's a lot of it that all leaves out important information at every step, so I have to tease out how to deal with their million edge cases, etc.
I've been putting off a billing rewrite for weeks now and not working towards an actual release; it's to the point where I'm questioning if I even want to be in this industry (although to be fair, I've been questioning that since before I got into software).<p>What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something you hate to work on but is necessary.
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Title: Time to ask again :)<p>Any side projects, Games, OSS.
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Title: I help out with a positive news podcast at my high school and we're looking to interview people that have made a positive impact! We've currently interviewed people like Austen Allred and TurboVote.<p>You can find the podcast here, https://anchor.fm/somethinggoodhappened<p>Please give interview suggestions!
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Title: Over the course of my career I've been fortunate to have able to develop as an engineer and sysadmin, and did very well at tackling the projects and tasks that came with those roles. With success in those roles, I found pleasure in managing people and technology, and worked to get promoted to manager, and later director and VP roles in my organizations. The challenge I have faced the further up in the org I go is in changing my work style, tactics and approaches to be more effective. I often find myself overwhelmed with tasks, while projects also need attention. The question for HN is: How do senior level technology managers, directors and VP's manage their time, projects and tasks to be effective at those levels?
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Title: Hey HN community,
I've been looking to get deep and build my math skills from the foundation up. I have the time to dedicate to this endeavor and I'd love to hear if you have any specific resources/curriculums you recommend.<p>Something like https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics would be ideal, but more focused on applied math.<p>One idea I had was to complete the MIT open courseware courses for the Applied and Pure math fields
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Title: I received 14 spam calls in the past two days. I just called back one of the numbers and the person on the other end was not the person that called me. She told me that this has been happening to her too.<p>It looks like spammers are using other people's numbers to make these calls. What can we do to stop this?
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Title: with all the website builders that are available, is there any money in doing web design for small businesses?
I had a prospective customer whom I was offering website design and maintenance service. He ended up doing it all by himself using an online website builder. I suddenly felt like I don't have anything to offer that business. I feel so discouraged. I'm a decent programmer but it seems everything small businesses need is already built and is way polished that I could build. What should I do?
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Title: In my day job I’m a web developer who has spent the best part of the last 10 years writing software to help sell tickets to arts venues and extract as much money from the customer as possible, it’s not a noble way to earn money but it pays the bills.<p>I recently started wondering whether I could use my programming knowledge and experience for something better, something other than trying to extract money from rich arts lovers. For the moment I’m stuck at that job but it got me wondering if there are open source projects for things that actually help people. I stumbled on https://hollieguard.com (sadly not open source) recently and it was a reminder that as software developers we have the ability to make real, positive, differences to people’s lives. I’m just not sure where to start.
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Title: Can you recommend some great board games, along with a little about why it's great?
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Title: Suppose I want to learn graphQL - most of the tutorials are a combination of express, react and 20 other things, when most of these aren't going to help me learn what I originally came to learn. I saw a course on blockchain which explicitly stated it is for beginners ("no coding experience necessary") and they picked JS along with 5 other JS frameworks to build a simple toy blockchain when Python would have been a much simpler choice (most of the students were struggling to understand JS Promises and unable to complete the exercises).<p>Isn't this crazy? I can understand paid courses doing this - maybe they think they're providing more value for the money by tacking as many tech as possible, but free resources? Even they do the same!
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Title: All technology moves quickly but front-end development evolves at a whole different level. What is popular one year is “old” the next and often a totally different menthodology. Why do you think front-end development is in such a constant state of change?
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Title: I find it hard to keep off from mindlessly browsing the web because I'm so dependent on it as a web developer.<p>It's become second nature to Ctrl+T and 'fa' for facebook, 'news' for HackerNews, 'red' for reddit, etc. that I barely notice I'm doing it.<p>I also regularly stay up another hour instead of going to sleep, "to catch up" on things that really don't matter or I can view tomorrow.
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Title: Hello,<p>Some time ago I did a data logger for fun, just to check if I could beat the performance
of an old C++ project of mine (mini-async-log) and to avoid letting my multithreading-C
skills rust when on a non-programming gig (using Yocto/OE, very little programming).<p>This project is a BSD licensed, producer-wait-free (when using thread-local storage) generic
message logger with high performance, decent test coverage, and type-safe C
strings (requires C11 or C++ compiler).<p>It was a shame to let this project to die unknown, as I think that it has
potential to be used on some niches as network programs, HFT, games, etc. so
here I am sharing it.<p><a href="https://github.com/RafaGago/mini-async-log" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RafaGago/mini-async-log</a><p>This was an evolution of a similar logger I did, this time I wanted to achieve wait-free
producers, so this implementation can use thread-local storage to achieve that. Some other
non allocation-free strategies are also available.<p>I still aimed for as easy as possible usage/learning curve and maintenance vs
lots of features.<p>It has some interesting things too:<p>-It has one modification on Djukov's MPMC queue to make it MPSC and accepting
variable (but limited) bucket size allocations (at the expense of unfairness
towards bigger buckets). There are more modifications/variations on this
Djukov queue on the library where I'm collecting all the generic stuff that I
use when developing C programs.<p>-The project still maintains automatic type detection of the string formatters
by using "clever" hardcore C preprocessor abuse mixed with C11 type-generic
expressions. It still accepts most non-type printf modifiers. This is at the
same time beautiful and ugly (you know what I mean), for the uglyness part,
automated testing is available.<p>NOTE: Untested on Windows.
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Title: I’d like to learn more about backend development but most of what I find while searching are results like “Build a nodejs backend in 20 minutes” or “learn backend development in an hour.” I think part of the problem is I don’t know enough to ask the right questions.
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Title: Got this via email:<p>Since 2010, we have been committed to bringing fresh, local, and delicious meals into your homes along with all our customers across the country. We’ve been delighted to work with world renowned chefs, experiment with diverse and unique ingredients and recipes, and be a part of of your holiday feasts and traditions. We have also enjoyed giving back to our community through meal donations, volunteer service, and so much more.<p>Today, with a heavy heart, we’re reaching out to announce that Munchery is closing its doors and ending operations effective immediately. Any outstanding orders with Munchery will be canceled and refunded. Please allow 2-3 business days for these refunds to process.<p>More than anything, we want to say thank you. Thank you for all of the love and support you have shown us over the years, for sharing us with your friends and family, and for including us in your special life moments.<p>We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to share our dream with you-- it has been truly wonderful. Happy Eating!<p>Team Munchery
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Title: Inspired by https://steveblank.com/2011/09/22/how-to-build-a-web-startup-lean-launchpad-edition/.<p>List your favorite tools, share your experience if any.
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Title: I started using caffeine with coffee and tea around 5-6 years ago, and had major benifits cognitively and enjoyed the mood boost also. However, my caffeine intake has gotten to the point where not having a cup of coffee for even 24 hours leaves me with a bad headache and fatigued. I have tried to stop using caffeine in the past, but my productivity has always dipped significantly, and with school/ work I know that a dip in productivity would have big negative effects on my life that would not be worth it. So, knowing a lot of you guys consume a lot of caffeine, is there any methods you guys have used to stop using it besides going cold turkey?
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Rohan Pavuluri, co-founder of Upsolve (<a href="https://upsolve.org/" rel="nofollow">https://upsolve.org/</a>), a nonprofit in YC’s W19 batch. We provide software for low-income people in America that makes filing for bankruptcy less painful and expensive, just like what TurboTax did for filing taxes. Bankruptcy is a lifeline for low-income people in the United States who fall into debt from job loss, medical emergencies, and payday lenders. It allows them to get a fresh start. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for most people to file for bankruptcy because they cannot afford $2,000 for a bankruptcy lawyer. Our average user erases ~$40,000 in debt.<p>I started Upsolve when I was a law school research assistant in college. We were testing out the effectiveness of legal self-help packets for people who could not afford attorneys. I set out to turn these paper packets into a digital product. My co-founder Jonathan Petts spent ten years doing pro bono bankruptcies in his spare time as a corporate attorney. This is where he saw people turned down by brick and mortar legal nonprofits because demand for attorneys far exceeded supply. A judge introduced us in 2016 when she saw we were working on the same idea.<p>Here’s how it works. A user comes to our website and takes a screener to see if they’re a good fit for our service. If they are, they answer a series of questions about their personal finances, upload their tax returns/pay stubs, and take a pre-bankruptcy education course. Our software then generates their forms, and one of our in-house attorneys reviews their forms for accuracy and completeness. If there are any issues, we follow up. When the forms are ready to file, we send them to the user. We track the user’s court notices so that we can fix any issues that may arise after filing. In 2018, we erased over $16,000,000 in debt for 400+ users.<p>We believe that 20M Americans would benefit from filing for bankruptcy. We currently allow our users to donate what they think is fair to us after they complete the process. While we’re mostly funded by foundations and the federal government now, we hope to be sustainable through donations that we receive from our users in the future. Regulations around bankruptcy only permit attorneys providing full-representation to charge clients.<p>We’re looking for any feedback you have on our product or how to reach new users.<p>User stories: <a href="https://upsolve.org/fresh-starts/" rel="nofollow">https://upsolve.org/fresh-starts/</a><p>TC: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/upsolve-bankruptcy/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/upsolve-bankruptcy/</a><p>If interested in donating: <a href="https://upsolve.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">https://upsolve.org/donate/</a> or email [email protected].
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Title: A big one for me is otherwise smart people who immediately start bashing/complaining about a language/framework that they just learned or aren't familiar with. A lot of times they make mistakes due to not knowing it well and end up putting the blame on the language/framework.<p>I once worked for a small startup doing React development. One day we hired a new developer who came from an Angular shop. Literally on day one he was questioning why we weren't using Angular and suggesting that it might be easier to just rewrite from scratch. This guy complained for the next couple weeks and was super bitter towards using React despite the fact that most of his problems were caused by not understanding React well enough.<p>I guess it boils down to: just because you're used to something doesn't mean its better.
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Title: I’ve read the Michael O. Church article and quite a bit of other stuff about how bad Scrum and the like are, and I’m trying to find some counterpoint info. Unfortunately, most of what I find when searchig for information on the other side of the coin is from firms trying to sell scrum certifications and training. Are there any devs out there working in a scurm shop who think their team is actually successful because of scrum? Does this actually work from the Devs/Engineer’s perspective or is it as much of a scam/fad that it seems?
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Title: Greetings,<p>I am in my late 30s without a formal CS education. I write software for a living and have this itch to learn to write a compiler / interpreter.<p>DO I have to take any courses (e.g. Discrete Maths, Automata Theory) in order to do it?<p>Do I have to take any courses? If so, do you have recommendations for those as online courses?<p>I really want to do this in 2019 but the thought that I have to study Maths, then Automata, maybe OS, then Compilers sounds like a long path.<p>Is there who has learned to write compiler / interpreter without CS background? How did you do it?
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Title: Ask HN: What are some of the best online resources to jump into practical machine learning
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Title: We'd like to show you Storex, a database abstraction layer that allows you to move your database interaction code between client- and server-side. By surrounding it with modular, recombinable packages for common problems such as schema migrations, it's possible to re-use logic touching the database across a wide variety of databases, allowing you to develop your code entirely in-browser in your daily development workflow, and then move your database to PostgreSQL/MySQL back-end once you're ready. Storex was designed modularly enough to easily be adapted to mBaaS like Firebase, which is coming up soon. Right now it's being used in WorldBrain's Memex (worldbrain.io) to provide you with a client-side full-text searchable database of every page you've seen online and your annotations on them (up to 5GB of data for some of our users.) We'd appreciate your thoughts very much, and don't hesitate to get involved! More info: <a href="https://medium.com/worldbrain/storex-a-modular-and-portable-database-abstraction-ecosystem-for-javascript-c38194335c66" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/worldbrain/storex-a-modular-and-portable-...</a>
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Title: On Github: <a href="https://github.com/oormicreations/OormiPass" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oormicreations/OormiPass</a><p>Features:<p>* Stores passwords securely using AES encryption.<p>* Requires only one master password to access all passwords.<p>* Stores other useful info like usernames, urls, notes etc.<p>* Items are categorized neatly into groups, which can be accessed easily by simply clicking their names in the list.<p>* Users can customize the groups and all items in the group.<p>* Open URLs directly from Oormi Pass and paste your username and password. Save precious time.<p>* Functions to auto log out and change master password.<p>* Hide or show passwords.<p>* Built in password generator.<p>* Minimal UI.<p>* Runs on MS Windows 7 to 10, Linux and Mac OS.<p>* Code::Blocks 17.12, MinGW, C++11, wxWidgets 3.1.2<p>* Dependencies: wxWidgets 3.1.2, wxSmith, Crypto++ 5.6.3<p>Binary for Windows (exe) is available.
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Title: In continuation of the title, what would you foresee in 2019 as the moments of 'selling shovels in a gold rush'.
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Title: Coworkings are still on the rise and people from startups, freelancers, and corporates are moving in.<p>To all my fellow coworkers - do you actually like working there? Why/ why not?
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Title: Looking to make 500$ a month - any examples of super simple SaaS that make at least 500 USD per month?
I don't know where to start, so looking for inspiration/examples etc
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Title: Hey. I am currently writing a blog post about my experience with Elixir. I aim to write about things I liked, but also I want to describe stuff that I just hated or disliked. Because I've noticed that people always try to praise the new tech they are using, but rarely point out bad things. And the truth is that learning a new technology is many times very time/money consuming process.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I'm a seasoned backend developer and systems administrator, with over 10 years of full-time programming experience. I've worked with anything from Assembly, C, Rust all the way to Python, Erlang, Elixir, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Clojure.<p>When it comes to frontend, I have used React, Vue.js, ReasonML, Clojurescript and Elm extensively, and I know my way around web technologies in general. However, ever since I first started programming, I was NEVER able to get the gist behind CSS. I can't center my divs properly. I can't say "hey, CSS, this is the parent div, and all child divs must obey its size". I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help.<p>Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me.<p>I'd like to know the experience from fellow programmers. Is CSS an "art" thing? Is it common for other developers to have issues with it, or is it just me? Is there any material out there that made CSS "click" for you?
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Title: I have 10 years of FAANG experience (Senior SWE). I'm looking to move closer to my family and my current team isn't very remote friendly so I'm looking for a change. What should I be looking for?
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Title: I was flummoxed with this question when I started re-learning about Algorithms & DS (after years of regular backend software development) along with Competitive programming. The fact that I suck at it hit me like a brick. I took way way longer than necessary to solve even basic algorithm problems.<p>Now at work, I am pretty good at creating reliable software (mostly in Java, Scala and Python), but I won't probably pass the first tech round at companies like Google or Amazon. And this is hurting my ego bad. After so many years developing software, I am bad at the fundamentals.<p>Is this something that worries you? How much percent time do you spend on strengthening CS basics? Do the best tech companies only judge based on Algo/DS knowledge?
Upvote: | 63 |
Title: Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I will not go into details, but I am personally facing some legal charges in Santa Clara county. I am not staying in the U.S. but I need to find a lawyer to represent me there. Do you have any lawyer firm you could recommend?<p>Extra points if they provide an "online" service where the case can be discussed electronically, as phone calls are a hassle due to the time zone differences. And preferably be able to pay using regular credit card, I guess hourly for initial consultation.
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: Hey HN,<p>We’re Sachin and Rutika, founders of Scribe (<a href="https://www.tryscribe.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tryscribe.com</a>). Scribe 1.0 provided sales call scheduling service managing client’s sales inboxes, scheduling sales calls and updating their CRM based on email and calendar events. We did this through a human in the loop (software+service) approach. In the process of managing external conversations we built an internal SAAS product which helped us stay on top of all the email and CRM updates. We are opening it up today for others to use as a standalone product calling it Scribe 2.0<p>It’s an extensively customizable workflow builder which allows you to receive events from your email, calendar, salesforce and Stripe accounts either as Slack DMs or notifications in slack channels of your choice. You can configure any number of API actions on top of these events and based on the event contents decide what actions to take with couple of clicks right from slack. We also have a HTTP/webhook option to support custom events or events from other integrations as we explore expanding the workflow builder for more usecases.<p>Some of the sample usecases we have been used for include<p>- Share selective emails in slack and based on the email information, you can reply, send a calendar invite and update CRM with single click buttons without opening any other website.<p>- You can setup custom reply templates for different email categories, and have them personalized based on the incoming email information<p>- Create support tickets, add assignees and deadlines, from email in slack<p>- Trigger ML jobs with updated parameters based on previous job’s success/failure and performance accuracy.<p>- Trigger code deployments and task pipelines from Slack<p>In effect, users can configure workflows to send data from any of their SAAS apps to Slack, update it in real time, and send it back to anywhere else. And all this can be done collaboratively allowing for broad visibility and accountability across teams. We also have a cool gif feature that allows one to attach changing gifs based on incoming event data allowing for some nice surprises<p>Some of the interesting feedback we have received from our customers are<p>- They go without logging into gmail and salesforce for days<p>- We are like a mother who nudges them to do the right thing at the right time<p>Technically, we have built a unified layer for authentication, resource and crud schema inference. We can therefore integrate with any software that is openApi compliant in a matter of few days. Pubsub management however has been quite nasty given the scale, lack of api standardization and the asynchronous nature of the platform. We also have selectively exposed our email AI from the original Scribe 1.0 product, that categorizes sales email into more than 22 different categories allowing users to setup personalized templates and actions based on the intent of the email.<p>We are looking to HN to get feedback on the product as well as explore new usecases on how we can extend the service to cover more integrations and usecases. Given our history, we have mostly built with sales usecase in mind, but we do believe that now, this can be extended perhaps more effectively to other markets and would love to get HN’s thoughts. Apart from more integrations, we can also provide option to schedule time based notifications as well as ability to define slack commands to pull data/trigger workflows if there is a usecase/market need.
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: I work as a client-facing software consultant for a medium-sized firm. They bill me out at $165/hr. What would a fair salary given that number be or how should I think about my salary relative to that number?<p>SKILLSET UPDATE:
- I work across both mobile and front-end projects writing major features on multi-month projects in iOS/Java/Typescript/React/Angular.
- I am the only mobile person in the entire company and am one of two that has a Mac (the only real way to dev iOS).
- I've also contributed to mid-tier areas in C#.
- I've always delivered.
Upvote: | 118 |
Title: It’s pointless to block every single spam number that can call in. If we can’t end spam calls, why don’t phones let you at least block all except numbers in your contact list?
Upvote: | 319 |
Title: Hey HN,<p>We’re Victor and Tony, founders of DevFlight (<a href="https://devflight.com" rel="nofollow">https://devflight.com</a>). We help open-source maintainers make money. Think of us as agents for open-source maintainers.<p>We met last year through the Indie Hackers community. It’s one of the luckiest things that’s ever happened to us. We clicked immediately. It became clear we share an obsession with building things to make developers’ lives easier. We began working on small developer-centric projects together.<p>We started DevFlight after recognizing maintainers are the most underserved developers. They provide immense value and get little in return. We’ve spoken with many maintainers who’ve told us the current open-source development model is unsustainable for them. Their projects often end up being a second full-time job without pay. Some have to stop supporting their projects altogether due to a lack of resources.<p>It’s time to start paying maintainers well for their work. Making open-source development sustainable will benefit everyone in the long-term. Our vision is to make it possible for maintainers to receive a stable income that accurately reflects the value they bring to companies. We’re accomplishing this by connecting maintainers with companies who will pay them.<p>If you’re a maintainer, apply now on our website to join the waitlist. We’re currently working with a small group of maintainers from popular projects. We’ll gradually expand this group. Shoot us an email to learn more. We’d love to chat with you.<p>We aim to make the process of hiring maintainers dead simple for companies. We communicate when maintainers are available and what types of work they can provide. If your company is interested in learning more, please reach out to us.<p>Companies are paying for things like priority email and on-demand support from maintainers, feature request prioritization, continued development of the project, faster bug fixes, and guaranteed project stability. This is not an exhaustive list.<p>We take 10% from every contract we negotiate. We’re aware the contract model doesn’t work for everyone. We’re exploring other revenue models based on what’s best for our maintainer network. We’d be particularly interested in hearing any ideas about this from the HN community.<p>This is a difficult problem to solve, because it’s fundamentally more of a human problem than a software one. Companies often aren’t aware of all the open-source software they’re dependent on. Many also have complex purchasing requirements and no clear understanding of how their company can directly benefit from paying maintainers. Solving this problem requires better communication, more transparency, and new systems.<p>We know the HN community has a wealth of experience and knowledge on this topic. We’re excited to listen to any thoughts and experiences you’re willing to share with us. We want to continue to learn and evaluate how we’re approaching this problem, so fire away!<p>Victor and Tony
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Title: I have seen dozens of times that people direct to the language manuals etc. to understand something in depth. I am a new college grad working as a Software Engineer and I mostly reference the manual when I cannot find something on Stackoverflow or some blog.
Whenever I have tried to go through the manual, the kind of language used has diminished my interest and ended up in my giving it up. Also, I don't have an eidetic memory, so I don't see how manuals can be useful in the real sense but I really want to go in depth of some topics like PostgreSQL, Spring, Javascript, Python etc.
It would be great to hear if someone actually reads the manual and is able to successfully apply it in their lives...
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Title: I'm not satisfied with the challenge, mission, technologies, or quality of the projects I've done web development for. Are there more interesting, impactful, challenging, lighthearted, or otherwise more satisfying areas of programming?
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: I am curious what kind of algorithms and rules you all follow to stay on top of your finances.
Upvote: | 67 |
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