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Title: Or why is it hard to get a decent raise?
In my experience it is pretty much industry standard to favour new employees versus old ones, but to me it does not make any business sense (apart from showing who is boss).
It cost time and money to cover for turnover and still new employees can be hit and miss. Also, they most probably need some form of training and it will be years until they have the same experience.
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Title: I'm curious, what questions do you think are the most important before you accept a job offer from a startup? I'm curious, how do you know when to join or not to join a startup?
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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: 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 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=19055164" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055164</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055165" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055165</a>
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Title: We are talking about abusive privacy issues that several agents in our society are practising, some countries have laws regulating some issues like what a company can ask for a job applicant.<p>Today I received an email inviting to participate in the selection process for a company that praise privacy in it's main product, but surprisingly it doesn't seems to apply the same in it's internal workflow, for example see what they ask in their invitation (the company listed it's offer here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055166 ):
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Title: I recently had the opportunity to read the famous personal finance book - "Rich Dad, Poor Dad"<p>I'm thoroughly inspired by the book. The bottomline being, use income to maximise assets and eventually use assets to maximise income.<p>In my case I'm starting at ground zero. Reasonably good income. Minimal liabilities. Absolutely no assets yet (except my software-making skills that I've acquired over these years)<p>I've decided to write softwares (likely a SaaS product) that would generate passive income, which would serve as my first asset and then start from there to maximise them.<p>I know this isn't as easy as it sounds. Anybody who've gone down the same road that I'm about to take? Stuff that I should watch out for? Is this too silly?
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Title: I'm sick of waiting for Google's Keep team to improve their app, or even to respond to feature requests. (Crickets.)<p>So I'm going to attempt to build my own - despite being a real noob when it comes to JS-based tech stacks. What would you use as a starting point for a tech stack, if you want:<p>- public/private/sharable card options
- import/export to a couple of mainstream alternate formats
- reasonable response times
- an improvement over downloading the entire DB upon page load
- markdown-capable cards
- sort/filter/tag options<p>I'm assuming this is going to be some flavor of Angular/Vue/React. Suggestions?
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Title: The Open Source Society University is basically a GitHub repo which has all the components of a traditional CS major with resources in one place. Does somebody know of something similar for a mathematics degree?
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Title: I keep building startups and side projects, and they keep failing. Initially I was doing it to make money, now I'd just be grateful if anyone used any of the stuff I build. My first project launched in 2003. It was a competitor to bunk1.com but I couldn't get any camps to sign up to it because I was crap at sales. Since then I've spent untold numbers of hours building various projects. Some, where I was in between jobs would be full time efforts. Others would be done evenings and weekends but still consume nearly all my free time.<p>There's something about the idea of running my own software business that appeals to me in a way I can't describe. Now, 15 years later I have nothing to show for it. I can live with the fact that my projects have never made money but it hurts to think I've put so much effort into something nobody wants.<p>I used to have a "build it and they'll come" mentality but I learned about lean startups and started validating ideas. Now I try to make sure there is at least some interest in what I'm building and then mention in in related forums, groups etc I usually get a positive response but this never translates into traction.<p>I often see 'Show HN' posts blowing up and sometimes I don't understand how they get as many votes as they do. After 15 years I feel like I've exhausted every resource and I'm just not cut out for this.<p>Where am I going wrong HN?
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Title: Hiring or applicant side, is there a question you’ve found that over time has helped you out the most in getting a better understanding about the people on the other side of the table?
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Title: We've hired a bunch of fresh graduates from college for a software dev job. This could be hard to comprehend but let me try to put it in the best way possible. The part of the world where I'm from, we don't necessarily hire only CS folks for such job.<p>Most of our IT / Software Dev hires could be ranging from CS to Aeronautical to Mechanical Engineering students. All we look for is an engineering degree to validate analytical skills.<p>With that background, I've been assigned a couple of absolute beginners who I'd be working with to ship a feature in a __couple of months__.<p>While I strongly believe it's my responsibility to get junior devs on par in terms of knowledge & execution speed, I really don't have any previous experience working with absolute beginners who'd barely qualify as devs let alone junior devs. What best to do in this situation? Should I accept I suck at this and bail out for everybody's good? Is there anything I __can__ do, to comfortably work with beginners?
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Title: I assume it will boost initial conversions significantly, but does it produce a long term net gain?<p>As a consumer, I've seen approaches ranging from very generous "no questions asked", to "you can have a refund if you jump through 100 hoops", to "all sales are final". Are there any guidelines around which approach to use?<p>I'm specifically concerned about one-time digital purchases, where once the customer has the file/valuable info there's nothing to stop them from keeping it and requesting a refund.
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Title: How many hours do you work every day? How many hours do you spend with family? How do you manage health? Any productivity tricks you wish to share?
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Title: Management is the obvious answer, but I was curious what other paths people have found to be resilient to agism. Or even antifragile, i.e a little grey is a positive.
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Title: I was reflecting today about how often I think about Freakonomics. I don't study it religiously. I read it one time more than 10 years ago. I can only remember maybe a single specific anecdote from the book. And yet the simple idea that basically every action humans take can be traced back to an incentive has fundamentally changed the way I view the world. Can anyone recommend books that have had a similar impact on them?
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Title: Hey there, there are lot of disposable email services, but as I was thinking I realized 95% of the time, I don't care about my inbox. I just want to "verify my email".<p>That's why I created a startup with no website, it's called [email protected], it's a credible domain (you don't say) and it will click on any "verify" links you send it to it.<p>You can use aliases to get around of duplicate emails in the target system, so like<p>[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]<p>so choose an alias and start using the service!<p>I will provide a website to see the inbox of your alias. (maybe for services who send your pw in the email, but then you might be better off using other established servers.)<p>Gmail API is a bit slow so it might take 30 seconds for email to be received on my end, keep in mind while testing!<p>Best,
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Title: Obviously, my tendency is to do what it is I did that got me here in a sense. I plan and I scheme. Maybe I should just be in the couch binge-watching Netflix, or double-down on physical exercise with the extra time on hand (not that I wasn't active before).<p>I'm really struggling to figure out what it is that I should be doing now to get back to wellness and then stay there so I was hoping it would help to read other people's experience.<p>Briefly, high-performance knowledge worker that places a lot of self-worth in the quality of his work and that subsequently spiraled as a work performance degraded as burn out symptoms started to set in that was caused by issues and events on multiple frontiers in life simultaneously. Some of those stressors remain, and are Intrinsic moreso than extrinsic and removing them doesn't really have a tangible timeline.
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Title: If you don’t listen to podcasts, radio programs would work too.
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Title: If we look at the current programming languages & frameworks, there is a trend away from dynamically typed languages and monolithic high productivity frameworks like Rails. Considering new famous languages, Go, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Nim & Crystal, main focus seems to be on static typing & AOT compilation to improve performance. There is a definite push towards adopting functional paradigm mixed with OO, which seems to be a push towards improving accuracy and parallelism. However, there is little groundbreaking in order to increase programmer productivity by a huge margin. (Not discounting the memory safety and other improvements, but they seem incremental.)<p>On the other side, there is a definite shift towards "backendless" applications, where frontend talks directly to the DB, either via autogenerated ReST or GraphQL APIs or via proprietary tools like Cloud Firestore. This is good for MVPs.<p>Frameworks like React & Angular give you decent building blocks to create SPAs, but the learning curve & effort required to create ambitious applications is very high.<p>There is a proliferation of "Low Code" frameworks which allow you to design drag & drop UIs & connect them with APIs. But, it feels like going back to "RAD" tools for the late 90s which led to a lot of spaghetti code. Also, some of these are prohibitively expensive.<p>One noteworthy change is UI design products which are trying to produce the code from UI Mockups. Relatively primitive at this stage. A breakthrough here can definitely be a big productivity booster.<p>Another productivity booster is Cross-Platform frameworks. It's already here, tried & tested. We know the trade-offs well. It requires a huge amount of effort to create & maintain a cross-platform framework. Big companies are already tackling this.<p>Considering this background, what do you think will be a breakthrough innovation in programming which will enable programmers to deliver ambitious web/mobile apps at a very high speed.
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Title: We, as many others, use Slack to communicate. But this only works well for real time and short term projects. Those teams that do document stuff for the long term, either does it poorly (structural, and does not maintain it) or uses different services (Google Drive, Quip, Dropbox, different wikis, etc) more suited to their needs. I'm both talking about high level technical documentation and organizational documentation. This makes it hard do on-board new people, hard to get to know other parts of your organization and hard to search for answers without bothering others.
I really want to hear from you what success stories you have growing a documentation oriented culture and what others can do to encourage the behavior.
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Title: What is your specialty/tech stack? How have you gotten around age discrimination? How do you suss out whether a company is right for you?<p>(I'm in my late twenties but I'm very curious to hear all your experiences.)
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Title: Wells Fargo is completely offline. How does this happen? Been this way since 6am PST!
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Title: Particularly with regard to new software projects, languages, concepts, etc.
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Title: I've been considering creating a personal website where I can post software projects I've done and write blog posts about them. I've found a couple inspirational engineers that produce a lot of interesting projects and content on their personal pages, but I'm sure there's a ton of people who have great blogs that I've never heard of.<p>Who are some of your favorites?
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Title: TL;DR — A user named haxorlife took over 65 domains today, by exploiting a security flaw in the custom domain configuration in GitHub Pages.<p>Earlier today, my GitHub Pro subscription expired. I let it expire, because a month ago, I decided to downgrade to the Free plan. I downgraded because a month ago, GitHub announced that Free plans would have unlimited private repositories. However, there was a detail I didn't catch. On the Free plan, you can have Pages on a public repo, or a private repo without Pages. But you can’t have Pages on a private repo. So what happened when my plan downgraded this morning? My GitHub Pages configurations got quietly deleted. No warning was given. My websites just disappeared. I only learned about it with an alert from Keybase.<p>In the time between my sites getting deleted, and my discovery, a GitHub user by the name of haxorlife created a repository at https://github.com/haxorlife/iosref.com, named after one of my affected domain names, iosref.com. And they configured iosref.com as the custom domain for that repo. So when I went to my website, I was suddenly faced with "pwned by FA Haxor [!]".<p>It turns out that GitHub doesn't require proof of ownership in order to set a custom domain. (Other services like Gitlab require proof via a TXT DNS record.) Worse yet, if I try to re-add my own domain to my repository, I'm shown the error: "The CNAME iosref.com is already taken." And the support page only says: "If you don't own the repository that contains the CNAME file with your custom domain, try to contact the owner and ask them to update their custom domain."<p>There are 65 repositories owned by haxorlife with identical contents, which means that up to 65 domains are affected by this one user. I personally deleted my GitHub-related DNS records for my domain, and later moved my site to DigitalOcean. If you have an affected domain, I urge you to do the same. I contacted GitHub support four hours ago, but haven't heard back yet.
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Title: Interested in specifics around team dynamics, communication, learning, decision making, physical layout, etc.
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Title: I'm a software developer, and I barely know nothing about electronics. Where do I start to bootstrap this project ? My current plan is to learn and try to build a prototype, then setup a kickstarter. Any advices welcome! Thanks
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Title: Is it recommended to use redux to share state across different components while you are using react-apollo client to sync remote data between client and server?<p>Looking forward to your views
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Title: I have £5k to spare and want to make 5 separate investments, VC-like, such that even if 4 fail, one grows 10x over 5 years. What should those investments be?
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Title: I remember reading somewhere that many (most?) software developers don't read even one technical book a year. I was curious what books the HN community is reading?<p>I recently picked up Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces because I need to brush up my OS knowledge for work.
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Title: I've bounced around my fair share of online forums since ~2006.<p>Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.
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Title: I made a simple virtual machine that runs C in the browser.This project is made as an experiment to see if C can be learned easier if the lower level is covered in paralel.<p>Sandbox: https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting<p>Tutorial part 1: https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/?0<p>More info: https://github.com/vasyop/miniC-hosting/blob/master/README.md<p>Please support this project: https://github.com/vasyop/miniC-hosting/blob/master/support.md
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Title: I’ve never owned a device that is not a Mac. Currently I have a Macbook Air that is getting slower. I was considering buying something else to run Ubuntu or a Surface, mainly to do some Clojure/JS development.<p>Any suggestions?
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Title: I want to use modern tunneling tech like horizontal directional drilling and pipe-jacking to build networks of tunnels under major cities to allow high speed "just in time" deliveries using small autonomous vehicles.<p>Looking for someone with ability to move to SF in summer 2019 for YC (or another program).<p>I am: 36, ex medical doctor, have a decent amount of seed capital. Interested in small lithium vehicles, construction and the environment.<p>You: Happy to move to SF for YC (and probably even if YC app doesn't work out). Hardworking and ambitious and upbeat :). Any robotics or construction or civil engineering experience would be useful, but not essential. PR/public speaking/sales/communication abilities would be great too. Qualities matching those of the YC application would also be useful eg. cool projects you've worked on in the past.<p>[email protected]
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Title: Past few days(weeks?) I find myself more and more frustrated with google search. It seems to frequently omit the most important keywords I'm typing. I constantly have to click "Must include 'Keyword'", because more than half the links on the first page miss it, even if it's the first one out of 3 words in my query.<p>I'm not the kind of person who thinks about search quality, this is the first time in my life I have ever noticed it being frustrating.
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Title: I came across a twitter thread on resources for engineers new to system design* - there are some great recommendations there. What would (or do) you recommend that first-time system designers read?<p>* https://twitter.com/HenryR/status/1094033131399565313?s=19
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Title: My working life changed recently after leaving my last role just before Christmas. I’ve done freelancing on and off for a few years and I just feel like the whole process of freelancing is fragmented and broken.<p>I’ve started digging into the issues others are facing too.<p>I’d be keen to hear what problems others have in this area? I put together a little survey here: https://adamfarah.typeform.com/to/abznqs
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Title: We're Daniel, Jaime, and Jonathon - the founders of Aura Vision. (<a href="https://auravision.ai" rel="nofollow">https://auravision.ai</a>)<p>Aura Vision is like Google Analytics for physical retail stores. Our mission is to ensure that physical retailers can innovate and improve their stores with data, in the same way their eCommerce counterparts do, while protecting customer privacy.<p>Retail teams often know very little about what shoppers do in-store leading up to a purchase. To try to increase sales, they change layouts, products, and media in their shops based on anecdotal knowledge, and experience. That’s because it’s hard to get good quality data about what consumers actually do in their stores at the moment. Many retailers periodically place people in doorways with clipboards recording shopper demographics and behaviours, which of course is costly and not very scalable.<p>We use existing security cameras in stores to detect the demographics (age, gender, staff/customer) and behaviour of all visitors using our proprietary computer vision technology. This creates an anonymised feed of aggregated data for the retailer, giving them new tools to improve their stores. E.g.<p>- To increase footfall, retailers can A/B test window displays, selecting the one with the highest peel off rate (the ratio of entries to people walking by)<p>- To uncover why a product is underselling, retailers can learn about the movement and dwell times of different demographics around products.<p>- To increase sales, they can select products that are suited to the demographics in that store.<p>- To increase conversion rates, retailers can identify where customers spend most of their time in-store and locate staff accordingly.<p>We started out in the UK during the birth of GDPR, so we’re acutely aware of the need to protect customer privacy. Video is deleted as part of the processing, and never stored thereafter, and our system never identifies people, nor stores identities. All data is aggregated into 15 minute chunks, which fully anonymises the counts, so you are left with information on the behaviours that the camera observed in that period. Those chunks are supplied back to the retailer through our dashboard and API as heatmaps and counts. We don’t rely on facial recognition, instead taking in visual cues from all features across the body.<p>In contrast many other retail tracking solutions, like Bluetooth and WiFi, aren’t GDPR compliant as they store MAC addresses, or other phone IDs without consent, which count as personal data. This means they can re-identify you when you come back to the store, or another store on their network. While regulation will do a good job at getting rid of these tracking solutions, we want to help by showing retailers there’s an option that gives them more useful data anyway.<p>Daniel and Jaime studied under the same supervisor at the University of Southampton during their computer vision PhDs. They saw plenty of opportunities for using deep learning in people tracking. A key part of Daniel's PhD was estimating people's demographics from CCTV footage and this led to the end result we are running now. Myself and Daniel went to primary school together, and my background is in APIs and frontends.<p>Thanks for reading! We know the HN community has many people interested and knowledgeable in computer vision and deep learning, so we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts. If you or someone you know has experienced similar challenges in retail, please reach out! [email protected]
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Title: We hear success story all the time. That is good but I think failure stories can give more learning.<p>What is your business or startup or carrer failure story?
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Title: Is there a recent review of the environmental cost of semiconductor electronics covering the full life-cycle from resource acquisition (including mining footprints) through manufacture (including release of greenhouse gases) through disposal or recycling?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We’re Julia and Lena, the founders of Dyneti (<a href="https://dyneti.com" rel="nofollow">https://dyneti.com</a>). Our first product is DyScan, an SDK that helps apps stop fraud and process payments faster by taking a picture of a credit card (<a href="https://youtu.be/3gzDECAsqXs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/3gzDECAsqXs</a>).<p>We met about 3 years ago at Uber, where we worked together to fight fraud on the platform. (Merchants are liable for fraud losses on digital transactions). One thing we noticed is a problem industry-wide is that while there is tons of investment in detection (rules and models and features), barely any work goes into figuring out what to do to someone after tagging them as fraudulent. Most of the reliable actions - the ones that actually stop fraud - are very severe (e.g., account banning). In order to minimize good users impacted, fraud systems are built to detect very specific fraud behaviors. It is therefore easy for fraudsters to reverse engineer models and rules and iterate around them, which means even more investment into detection.<p>Along those lines, we noticed few companies realize card scanning is a powerful tool to reduce fraud and improve digital transaction security. Stolen credit card fraud is a major contributor to payment fraud losses. Fraudsters attempting to pay with stolen cards rarely have the physical card on hand, but rather, are running through a list of stolen credit card numbers, expiration dates, and cvvs. Having people enter payment information through a card scan will only allow users with a physical card present to go through with payment. It’s extremely rare to have a tool that both improves customer experience and improves security - but an accurate card scanner accomplishes this.<p>In addition to being a powerful tool for fraud prevention, DyScan also provides a nontrivial conversion boost at checkout by reducing time and effort required to enter payment information (under 5 seconds for DyScan, compared to 21 seconds for manual entry). DyScan is also the only card scanner SDK that works on all credit card formats, including non-embossed numbers, numbers on the back, vertical cards, and Quick-Read format cards (those are the weird ones you may have seen around with a four-digit groups stacked on top of each other). Card.io, which is the card scanner experience you may have seen in other apps, works on only one credit card format (embossed numbers on the front of the card).<p>Other card scanners aren't great because they were constrained technologically at the time they were built. Due to PCI compliance, credit cards must be scanned on device, and it hasn’t been possible to get a good deep learning model small enough to do this until very recently (due to more neural net processing power on devices and better tooling). The additional benefit of this approach is that it means zero latency, which can make a huge difference in terms of user experience and user friction.<p>How it works: After an app integrates DyScan into its checkout process, their users can enter payment information by holding a credit card up to a smartphone camera. At the same time, DyScan verifies that the card is real and non-fraudulent. This results in more good transactions while bad transactions are blocked.<p>We’ve been working hard on DyScan for the past few months and are very excited to share it with the HN community and get your insights on what we’re building.<p>Thanks for reading!<p>Julia & Lena
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Title: The longest I've been at a place has been 2.5 years. I find that I'm usually itching to get out around after the 2 year mark due to various reasons like boredom from doing mostly the same thing over and over, lack of change in environment, no new challenges, people I know having mostly left/transferred to better places.
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Title: How to get better at indexing?
How to get better at joins?
How to get better in SQL optimization?<p>Must to know things about SQL and maybe relational databases?
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Title: I have immigrated to France for a better life a little over 2 years ago, and I have been working as a frontend developer ever since.<p>I have managed to move from a little under 2000€/month as a starting salary to around 2500€ now. Which is OK but not great.<p>But since money is a delicate subject here and people try not to talk about it, I'm clueless about how to progress and what kind strategies I should be taking.<p>I was wondering how all the people are landing the big bucks? How can I move to a bracket that would allow me to eventually buy a house and start a more stable life.
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Title: Hello, HN!<p>We're Antonio, David, Jason, and Mark. We’re building Glide (<a href="https://glideapps.com" rel="nofollow">https://glideapps.com</a>). Before this we worked on Xamarin, quicktype, Ubuntu, Mono, and GNOME Do :D<p>Glide makes it easy & fun for anyone to create apps without code. Pick a Google Sheet and Glide assembles a polished, data-driven app that you can customize, share as a PWA, and publish to the App Store and Google Play if you desire.<p>We've spent the last decade building developer tools. In that time we've watched thousands of developers struggle to design, implement, and maintain apps, and most developers we know avoid mobile development altogether.<p>Apart from developers, we hear worthy app ideas from non-technical colleagues, friends, and family every day: apps for work, new business ideas, and silly apps just for fun. All of these people can make websites, so why can't they make apps?<p>We were dismayed to find that there are hundreds of 'low-code app builders', but none that excited us. They're enterprisey, they output kludgy apps, and their low-code contrivances often felt more complicated than the code they replaced. Why hasn't anyone made the Google Docs or Figma of apps yet, we wondered.<p>That's our ambition. Glide makes app development web-based, collaborative (coming), and fun by combining data-bound components with a familiar spreadsheet model. Spreadsheets are the most successful programming model of all time, and smartphones are the most successful computer, so we're bringing them together to enable anyone to create apps without code.<p>We've implemented a component model based on self-adjusting computation (<a href="http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation" rel="nofollow">http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation</a>), which allows Glide apps to update efficiently and continuously just like spreadsheets. You can see the benefit of this in our Comments component, which syncs comments in real-time to instances of the same app. In other words, Glide apps are multiplayer by default.<p>We're just getting started and would love feedback on the approach. There are many technical/design challenges ahead of us but we are encouraged by the useful apps our users have created with this early version. We even use Glide to build Glide–internally we've created dashboard apps, an app to share updates with our advisors, a directory that shows us which Glide apps are trending, and an app for our YC group.<p>Next on our roadmap: forms, improved image handling, notifications, and offline.<p>- Get started: <a href="https://go.glideapps.com/?signUp" rel="nofollow">https://go.glideapps.com/?signUp</a><p>- Video demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNwrz9wMxU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNwrz9wMxU</a><p>- App templates: <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/samples" rel="nofollow">https://www.glideapps.com/samples</a><p>Thank you.
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Title: Hi there HNers,<p>Last summer I worked on a startup as lead developer. I learnt about running a startup and talking to users while working there. I have now quit working there to focus on my studies (second year university in London).<p>I would like to work on a side project that eventually would lead to some revenues this summer. My question is, how did you find problem(s) to solve ?<p>I have read books and blogs suggesting that the best problem is the one that I have faced before. I find it difficult to do this when almost every problem that I found, there has always been existing solution or the solution can be solved with some quick searches.<p>Any idea or thought is really appreciated. Thank you.
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Title: For someone comfortable with programming in C (say, enough to pass tech interviews with the language) what are some good textbooks or other resources to learn more about operating systems.
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Title: Someone stole my phone 2 weeks ago.<p>I could have walked across the street and purchased any of the 50+ models the store had on display, in under an hour. But I had specific requirements (USB-C, NFC) and didn't want to spend over $200.<p>I spent over 10 hours searching for a replacement online. I found a good candidate, and a store in my city appeared to have it in stock. So I spent 15 minutes trying to memorize how to get there, walked for over an hour to get there (didn't want to pay $2 for a ride), waited 30 minutes until an employee became available, asked if they had the phone in stock, and learned they they didn't. I then walked back home, got lost, and eventually arrived 2 hours later. I then started my search over, slightly tweaking my criteria.<p>After 2 weeks without a phone, over 20 hours of research, and visiting 5 different stores, I finally bought a replacement. It's second hand, not exactly state of the art, and I just just found out the vibration motor is broken. But it's too late to return it, as I already left the country. I probably would still be searching for a phone if I didn't have a flight yesterday as a hard deadline.<p>I'm now looking to buy a case for it. I must have spent 4 hours on this already. Today, I'll visit a few different stores to see if they have it. I found a few online, but shipping makes it expensive and inconvenient.<p>I do this all the time. Every decision, big or small, is treated as if it's a matter of life or death. I can't seem to make a decision without a non-arbitrary external deadline. I'm doing 99% exploration and 1% exploitation. I value my time at 0.<p>How do you make rational decisions? What if they're complex? When do you stop? Do you use any tools?
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Title: I recall the days when IRCs and even AOL chatrooms were all the rage. Back then, I was able to join and chat with a group of people for almost any topics, be it, #nba, #movies, #math, #sql, etc ... you name it. There were always people, helpful ones too.<p>And now, the only thing that comes closest in chatting is Reddit/Twitter. It is more of a QA forum though and not really real-time.<p>Oh the good ol' days, anyone here miss them too?
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Title: Is it practical to launch a model rocket and have it land in a controlled manner, like Falcon 9, using hardware on the level of arduino and open-source software?
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Title: I've seen a couple[1][2] of posts recently about personal websites/blogs where some people seemed hesitant to post their own site, and perhaps more didn't post at all to avoid self-promotion. So I thought, why not ditch the modesty and just have a post where you can shamelessly plug your own website. I love reading your comments here, so let's see what you all have put on your websites.<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19188760<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114037
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Title: I will follow up with a long post documenting timeline etc and all correspondence with them (it's not that much since they never respond). I have been a (paying) DigitalOcean user for more than 2 years for personal projects, and recently convinced a start-up that I work for in Tokyo to move off of Heroku and onto Digital Ocean. Everything fine for 2 months, then all of a sudden I get user reports that the site is down. I check and my account is locked and all it says is to submit a support ticket. No warnings of an issue, not even a mail saying that they turned off instances etc, just silently they lock my account. I submit a ticket and they don't resopnd for a week, I submit another, finally after 5 weeks, yes 5 weeks, I get a response saying that I login from too many locations and the lock is now removed, but they destroyed all instances. How can this even be anything close to standard practice to without warning destroy all instances of a paying user for over 2 years?! All databases everything completely gone forever. I guess this goes to show why you should always not trust 1 cloud provider, but this is just so incredible to me that they can on a whim without warning or justification just destroy all your data, is there any legal recourse against this?
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Title: LBRY uses a blockchain to store metadata related to digital content and provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent. The blockchain also provides publisher identities, human-friendly URLs (e.g. lbry://@MinutePhysics/magnetic-levitation), and a payment mechanism.<p>You can learn more at https://lbry.tech. https://lbry.tech/spec provides a detailed technical description of the protocol.<p>Unlike most blockchain companies, we did no ICO, no token sales to VCs, and have spent zero energy hyping or pumping the price of our coin.<p>Nonetheless, we were able to bank several million dollars at the peak of the cryptocurrency boom (we provide full transparency at https://lbry.io/credit-reports).<p>HN is regularly and rightly skeptical of blockchain. So our questions are:<p>- Do you see this as a promising use of blockchain?<p>- Does https://lbry.tech/spec provide a clear and thorough description of what LBRY is?<p>- How can we make LBRY better?<p>HN users seanyesmunt, lyoshenka and jiggytom all work on the LBRY project.
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Title: Hi HN!
We’re Árni, Sölvi, Thora, and Stef – from Iceland. We make Avo (<a href="https://www.avo.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.avo.app</a>), a tool built to minimize human errors and overhead when implementing analytics. We’re going for “simple made easy” for maintaining tracking for cross platform consumer products, where a 1% change in conversion funnels makes a difference. It’s a code-generated, type-safe tracking library to accurately implement analytics events that are defined and maintained in a single-source-of-truth web app.<p>We’re solving a personal pain point of broken analytics and how much effort it was to have an overview of what was being tracked across product teams and platforms. We all worked together on a game called QuizUp (100M+ users) where we used metrics to make decisions. The problem was we repeatedly “broke” conversion funnels and retention charts we relied on when we shipped product updates, by mistakenly removing or changing analytics implementation.<p>It was driving everyone involved mad – so we built internal dev tools and processes that made implementation easier and our data more reliable. What we built was never perfect, and it was clunky in many ways:<p>1) There was no one that really <i>wanted</i> to maintain this – but developers ended up agreeing to maintain it because it was better than the alternative of frustrated data scientists requesting a fix for analytics implementation that the developers worked on weeks or months ago.<p>2) JSON files (or the crappy web apps we invested time in building on top of the JSON schemas) didn’t give us a “human-accessible” overview of what was being tracked and when. So people who weren’t working on analytics every day had no idea what data they should look at to dig into user behavior.<p>We also discovered that a lot of companies build similar stuff – i.e. some version of internal tools for data validation, either through code gen or through server-side validation, often based on JSON schemas. The same seems to apply for those companies; it’s clunky to update, doesn’t give a proper overview, and no one <i>wants</i> to maintain it – yet it beats the alternative of not having it.<p>So now, six years after we started maintaining tools like these internally, we’ve built Avo, to solve these issues for more people.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>1) The web app is built to optimize the experience of maintaining and version controlling complicated event schemas. That means a few things, for example:<p>- we built a “differ” that feels similar to git, but instead of line-based diff, it’s object-based<p>- when you make updates, Avo gives you suggestions to maintain casing and reuse properties across events.<p>- you can view the historical change of each object similar to Asana tasks<p>2) The code gen is optimized for bringing type safety and rigour to analytics implementation:<p>- You install a CLI to easily update (`avo pull`) your tracking library according to the latest version of the event schema. The generated code contains a type-safe function per each event.<p>- For example: A "Cart Updated" event with an "Item Count" property, would generate `cartUpdated(itemCount: Int)` for Swift. For dynamic languages, as well as for limitations which cannot be expressed through type systems, such as min / max, the runtime validation logs warnings or errors for data structure errors.<p>Things to note:<p>- Avo does not store, process or access your data – so no GDPR approval required.<p>- The Avo code generated libraries wrap whatever analytics SDK you already use. You can use the Avo library alongside the tracking you already have, or do a full migration to make sure all your events are according to the specs in Avo.<p>- Avo is not another analytics or data pipeline vendor. We love the ones that exist already. We’ve just built Avo to make sure we can use the data we send into them.<p>Thanks for reading, HN. We would love to hear your feedback, as well as stories of when you built this internally or when you wish you had this.
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Title: I'm finally starting to wrap up the MVP of my web app which is my side project. Now I'm starting to look at how I'm going to host it, and I'm getting overwhelmed with the number of options. My background is in desktop\embedded code, so I've not really had to deal with this much before. My app is written in Rust on the Rocket framework and uses PostgreSQL and PostGIS.<p>I was originally looking at Digital Ocean, however I'm thinking that managing that might be too much work for me, and it will be too easy to make a stupid security mistake. I'm currently looking at https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/rust-hosting which seems safe and easy. Are there better options?<p>Should I not try and ignore this stuff and spend the time like learning something like Docker instead?<p>Any other tips? Anything I'm overlooking?
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Title: What does HN think about leaving a posh job at big tech giants for creating a startup?
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Title: Especially for those who switched careers to become a machine learning practitioner, data scientist, data engineer vs.
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Title: What has your experience been with companies like Triplebyte, Hired, AngelList / A-List, Vettery, etc.? Have they helped you find candidates as a recruiter or find jobs as a candidate?<p>What companies are actually "fixing hiring" and what are the largest problems you still see in recruiting today?
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Title: .. and be as productive as if you are in the office or even more productive.
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Title: I have a popular YouTube channel about classical music called "ClassicalMusicOnly", https://www.youtube.com/classicalmusiconly the channel is more than 10 years old and is probably the most popular classical music YouTube channel with more than 270,000 subscribers and around 190 million videos views as of today. Also I developed a social website around classical music (where one can create lists and listen to them, discuss works and composers, ask for recommendations, get recommendations according to his followed composers and starred works among other features) with the same branding name https://classicalmusiconly.com/ and launched it in December 2017 and it was featured in many top websites (please see my SHOW HN post in my user profile) and its traffic has been slowly but steadily growing in both Google search and direct traffic. Also I have social media accounts for the project (Facebook+Twitter+Google plus) with more than 70,000 combined followers. I've been maintaining and developing this project for the long term (there is no advertising on the website, no promotions whatsoever on my YouTube channel or my social profiles beside my own services links). The popularity of my project outlets is entirely built on organic traffic and I haven't spent a dollar on advertising or promoting my own services. How I can sell this project in the most fair and fastest way possible?
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Title: I'm in the market for a new device (and also an OS), having used exclusively Mac OS for the most of last decade.<p>Recently I used Chrome OS, in break time, and I like the simplicity. I'm wondering and interested to know if Cloud9, EC2 and such platforms kind of enable remote development well enough?<p>Specifically, mostly interested in how it would work out for web-development and Data Science.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We are Modern Labor (<a href="https://modernlabor.com" rel="nofollow">https://modernlabor.com</a>). We pay you to learn to code. We take people with little or no software skills and pay them a livable wage[1] for 5 months while they learn to code, using our content, most of which is open source. In return graduates pay us 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000.<p>The company is born out of a phenomenon I’ve been fascinated with for a long time: many people wake up every day at 7am to work at a low-paying job but they often have difficulty completing a class that might help their future. For some people, it might just come down to money. A job pays now, a class pays off in the future and only maybe. For many reasons--time, energy, motivation, financial pressures--many choose or are forced to choose the job that pays now and their long-term income sometimes suffers as a result. So we had an idea: Why don’t we just pay people to learn? So that’s what we do: we pay people, now, to learn an in-demand skill.<p>I remember back when we were building Leif, a startup we sold last year. I told Dickie, one of our co-founders, if I only had an extra $10,000 I could build out the product to an acceptable quality for a couple months. Otherwise I had to work. He ended up giving the money. We sold the company the next year for a good outcome. That couple months of being able to focus made a big difference in the quality of the product and I think ultimately on how successful we were with customers. We think Modern Labor can give people enough time to make a real change in their lives.<p>Our program isn’t for everyone. It’s full time. We pay $2000 for 5 months. Sometimes that’s more than enough to live on, sometimes it’s not, especially in the Bay Area. Nearly impossible with a family. You need the right to work in the US. The program is mostly self-directed and online. We guide students with a learning pathway and code reviews, but it’s ultimately up to them. If they don’t do their lessons, we don’t pay. It’s far too short for some people. Right now the curriculum is JavaScript (React, Redux) and Python and focuses on the web, which is only one sliver of the software universe. Most of the content is open source. Some of it’s from places like Freecodecamp, which is available for free. If you have money, you don’t need us.<p>15% of gross income is a lot. Why so much? It comes down to simple risk/return: returns must be adequate given the risk. If it sounds a lot like Lambda School (YC S17), you’re right. Our former company Leif arranged financing for them. We discovered Austen (CEO) here on HN. It’s a big space, though, and our program is different from theirs. We have fewer mentors and our focus is on giving money to students.<p>How many people will do our program? About 50,000 people pay to attend coding bootcamps in the US each year. We believe, and may be wrong, that a lot more people will choose learning when we pay them to do it.<p>Thank you HN -- HN was the first thing people told me to read when I was learning to code and it’s been a big part of my life ever since. Happy to answer any questions and looking forward to hearing your ideas and feedback!<p>[1] Right now it’s $2000/month
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Title: Reading HN in the dark and burning up my eyes. Can we have darkmode ?
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Title: We have a lot of articles here about how to be productive and successful. But what are those highly productive people doing on weekends ?
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Title: Inspired by the 2018 version here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286939<p>I'm curious if there have been any new developments or changes in thinking since the sentiments expressed in that thread about a year ago.<p>Have the Pros and Cons changed much? Any new considerations? (e.g. Softbank, M&A patterns, potentially looming economic slowdown)<p>In general, what do you think in 2019 HN?
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Title: I never understood this. They indicate when your mic, location and even mobile hotspot is on, but there is no indication of whether your camera is on. Apps with permission to use the camera can use it without you knowing!
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Title: And would you recommend it? I've decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:<p>1. It should work with OpenVPN<p>2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)<p>PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>We’re Hannah, Esteban, Jaiden and Max, the founders of Our World in Data (<a href="https://OurWorldInData.org" rel="nofollow">https://OurWorldInData.org</a>). We’re a nonprofit in the YC W19 batch.<p>Our World in Data is a website that shows how and why global living conditions and the earth's environment are changing. Is the world becoming more violent? Is an end to poverty possible? It's hard to know because daily news focuses on negative single events, and misses long-lasting changes that reshape the world.<p>We’re a group of researchers from the University of Oxford trying to solve this problem. We bring together data and research from many different sources often buried under jargon in static, outdated documents. We present a global perspective on living conditions and environmental change through interactive data visualizations and short explainers.<p>Max started Our World in Data in 2013 whilst working as a researcher at the University of Oxford. The project was born from a frustration that we are so poorly informed about how the world is changing—we fail to notice the important developments shaping our world and are not aware what is possible for the future. It has now evolved into a full-time project with a small team of researchers and web developers (we’ll be looking for a new web developer this week!). We’re all driven by the same motivation: to make sure data and research on how the world is changing is free and accessible for everyone.<p>We cover many topics, ranging from poverty to health, environment, energy, education, and violence. Our data and analysis are available at global, regional and country levels. And we try to provide the longest-term data we can, often going back many decades or centuries.<p>We average more than 1M users per month; these range from policymakers to journalists, academics to school teachers. But we’ve also had some use cases that took us by surprise: To many readers it’s unexpected to see that the world has made substantial progress in important aspects and psychologists have recently told us that they use our website to help patients with depression and anxiety. We did not expect this use of our work at all and asked them for more details. One of them explained: “Facts can be a powerful weapon against fear, a gloomy worldview, learned helplessness. So I help clients find facts at Our World in Data.”<p>We usually work remotely, because we are not all based in the same country—this is the first time that we were able to find a 3-month window of time to move to California and work together.<p>We come from a university environment and applied to YC because we wanted learn from the startup and the technology world. The work at YC and the contact with the partners and other founders have definitely given us an entirely new perspective on how to work.<p>We’re here at HN because we are sure we can learn a lot from the community here. We knew there had been HN threads on aspects of our work before – but after a recent search (<a href="http://bit.ly/OWID-searches-on-HN" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/OWID-searches-on-HN</a>) we had no idea there were so many. It’s amazing to see that these posts created such great discussion within the HN community.<p>Our website is here: <a href="https://OurWorldInData.org" rel="nofollow">https://OurWorldInData.org</a>. We are a non-profit and all our work is entirely free; open access research (Creative Commons licensed) and open source code. If you’re interested in supporting this with a donation to us you can do so here: <a href="https://OurWorldInData.org/Donate" rel="nofollow">https://OurWorldInData.org/Donate</a>.
Or if you have any other queries, you can reach out at [email protected].<p>We would really appreciate any feedback you have on what we can do better. Thank you!
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Title: I've got 9 years of experience in tech, mostly as an engineer in high profile startups and some big companies.<p>I'm increasingly finding it harder to get any interest from employers, it seems like they all have better, younger, candidates.<p>Every new rejection brings me deeper into depression, to the point where I'm about to be homeless and I don't see a way out anymore without ending my life.<p>And at the same time, I realise my attitude to interviews has become worse: I'm more nervous, less excited, less happy... because I know it's not likely to lead anywhere.<p>Is there any hope? I can't afford any kind of therapy or get help anymore. My parents are dead, my friends don't understand or just tell me to keep trying.
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Title: I have just started working with one of the client who have existing nodeJS code which they build in last 3 years.<p>Is there any guiding principle which is beneficial while working with existing code base?
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Title: Are there any active HN meetups? Where are they announced? Also: Anyone in germany interested in a meetup? :)
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Title: For example
Uber in-app hacking challenge
https://danonrockstar.com/uber-hacking-challenge-decf3276207a<p>Googles foo
https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job<p>I remember finding a really cool one all over network requests at one time but can't remember the company. What are other great hidden interview processes?
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Title: Which niche technology today will have high impact in coming 10 years ? share your thoughts in couple of sentences please.
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Title: If you're a CTO for a growing startup, this might be a familiar challenge for you.<p>On top of building the product, finding product engineers is becoming one of the hardest things for a CTO to do in 2019, especially in tech hubs like NY and London due to higher demand and competition.<p>This problem is no longer exclusive to the Bay Area. Hiring is time-consuming and expensive, and many startups feel that they can’t compete with some of the top salaries and perks offered by deep-pocketed alternatives.<p>It makes sense to rely on your network to hire the initial few developers, but this approach is not sustainable in the long run.<p>Job boards are getting crowded. Recruiters are generally worse.<p>I've read a lot of stories about using recruitment platforms. Few are great, but many are unpleasant. The flaw with many recruitment companies is they don't reliably deliver enough good candidates to build trust.<p>Asking for profile A and getting profile B is a common frustration. For startups, this tends to be a deal-breaker because hiring the wrong candidate has a significant cost and impact on backlog and team.<p>Is it that most recruiters or on-demand marketplaces aren't highly technical? Is it that they also suffer from talent shortage?<p>Remote work has been getting a lot of love in recent years to bypass the talent war. Although it has come a long way, it's still hard to pull off, especially for companies that are trying to do both local and remote but are not remote-first (think infrastructure and payroll primarily).<p>With that being said. How do startups in hubs currently find great engineers quicker? What's an approach that you have been investing in recently to hire product hackers?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>We’re Everest, Andrei and Sabera, the founders behind Fuzzbuzz (<a href="https://fuzzbuzz.io" rel="nofollow">https://fuzzbuzz.io</a>) - a fuzzing as a service platform that makes fuzzing your code as easy as writing a unit test, and pushing to GitHub.<p>Fuzzing is a type of software testing that generates & runs millions of tests per day on your code, and is great at finding edge cases & vulnerabilities that developers miss. It’s been used to find tens of thousands of critical bugs in open-source software (<a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list</a>), and is a great way to generate tests that cover a lot of code, without requiring your developers to think of every possibility. It achieves such great results by applying genetic algorithms to generate new tests from some initial examples, and using code coverage to track and report interesting test cases. Combining these two techniques with a bit of randomness, and running tests thousands of times every second has proven to be an incredibly effective automated bug finding technique.<p>I was first introduced to fuzzing a couple years ago while working on the Clusterfuzz team at Google, where I built Clusterfuzz Tools v1 (<a href="https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz-tools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz-tools</a>). I later built Maxfuzz (<a href="https://github.com/coinbase/maxfuzz" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/coinbase/maxfuzz</a>), a set of tools that makes it easier to fuzz code in Docker containers, while on the Coinbase security team.<p>As we learned more about fuzzing, we found ourselves wondering why very few teams outside of massive companies like Microsoft and Google were actively fuzzing their code - especially given the results (teams at Google that use fuzzing report that it finds 80% of their bugs, with the other 20% uncovered by normal tests, or in production).<p>It turns out that many teams don’t want to invest the time and money needed to set up automated fuzzing infrastructure, and using fuzzing tools in an ad-hoc way on your own computer isn’t nearly as effective as continuously fuzzing your code on multiple dedicated CPUs.<p>That’s where Fuzzbuzz comes in! We’ve built a platform that integrates with your existing GitHub workflow, and provide an open API for integrations with CI tools like Jenkins and TravisCI, so the latest version of your code is always being fuzzed. We manage the infrastructure, so you can fuzz your code on any number of CPUs with a single click. When bugs are found, we’ll notify you through Slack and create Jira tickets or GitHub Issues for you. We also solve many of the issues that crop up when fuzzing, such as bug deduplication, and elimination of false positives.<p>Fuzzbuzz currently supports C, C++, Go and Python, with more languages like Java and Javascript on the way. Anyone can sign up for Fuzzbuzz and fuzz their code on 1 dedicated CPU, for free.<p>We’ve noticed that the HN community has been increasingly interested in fuzzing, and we’re really looking forward to hearing your feedback! The entire purpose of Fuzzbuzz is to make fuzzing as easy as possible, so all criticism is welcome.
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Title: As I was schlepping boxes with a man 15 years my senior from curbside up to my unit for a $25 tip, we were talking about how back at UofA he developed a 5 carbon ring synthesis method that uses free radicals to protect functional groups. He told me of his kids one finished grade 12 math in grade 10. How is this possible, in fact common, that the lowest paid people in society often have advanced degrees? I'm terrified that I'm going to end up the same way.
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Title: Motivated by this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19260700 that talks about Redis, Dropbox, etc
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Title: Hello, I'm wondering how to automatically by domain names. It seems like there are companies that swoop in and buy them faster than the manual process. I can't seem to find a reliable way to buy them automatically.<p>Anyone have more insights on this?<p>Edited - fixed title.
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Title: Hi HN community! We’re Anna and Kerry, co-founders of Searchlight (<a href="https://www.searchlight.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.searchlight.ai</a>). Our software helps candidates be judged by their past performance rather than their resume or where they went to school.<p>We built this product to help job candidates and hiring managers. With platforms like Linkedin and Indeed, hundreds of applicants with indistinguishable resumes apply for the same job with just one click. Kerry and I both have backgrounds in software engineering, and we were frustrated by how time-strapped hiring managers increasingly over-index on the “snob test” (a.k.a. where the candidate went to school) or contrived technical screens [1][2]. We’re also twin sisters who went to the same school and worked at the same companies. We look indistinguishable on paper, so we are especially keen to bring a new product to the hiring space that will allow candidates to express their individuality beyond their resumes. When we looked at the landscape of current hiring tools, we realized that the majority of them are self-promotional (resumes, personal websites, Linkedin, etc) and difficult to substantiate at first glance. This disadvantages people who aren't good at promoting themselves, or don't like to, and these are often the best candidates! We saw that a poorly conducted technical screen can penalize the most talented engineers. Worse yet, we learned that take-home coding challenges are a real pain point for certain demographics, like parents who don't have the time to thoroughly attack a 24 hour coding challenge because they have to take care of their kids.<p>This made us think - why are we ignoring the the perspectives of people who actually know what it's like to work with a candidate? This data is the most indicative of success on the job [3][4], but isn't currently being leveraged until the end of the process, if the employer conducts reference checks. This is why we built Searchlight to better assess candidates early in the hiring process. Currently, we work directly with employers to invite their applicants to the platform. Job seekers can invite as many advocates as they want to speak to their accomplishments and capabilities (some invite as many as 10). The references share feedback like specific examples of how the candidate demonstrated desired competencies and how future managers can set the candidate up for success. Then, we analyze this feedback to assess candidate-position compatibility by matching the requirements of the role to the candidate's strengths. Our recommendations for strong candidates are based on a mix of quantitative factors like average ratings of core competencies, and qualitative factors like work style and environmental fit (which we currently human QA). One of our core beliefs is that every candidate is exceptional in their ideal environment, so all the feedback gathered on Searchlight - regardless of whether the candidate gets an offer - is saved and available for the candidate to use and share.<p>We aim to make the hiring process more fair. We are building trust and legitimacy into our platform by tying each reference to a specific job experience, verifying references through work emails or Linkedin profiles, and keeping the feedback hidden from candidates. While no tool is perfect, we know that the insights surfaced by Searchlight allow for better decision-making than traditional resume scans, with no extra time commitment for employers. We are especially excited to see that Searchlight is already helping diverse applicants get to the on-site interview stage after being initially screened out.<p>We'd love to hear about your experiences in today's hiring process and if Searchlight would be helpful to you! Thanks for reading.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688972" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688972</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175147" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175147</a><p>[3] <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/208/docs/Ouellette.Wood.1998.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/208/docs/Ouellette.Woo...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-predict-on-the-job-performance-30-minutes-lou-adler/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-predict-on-the-job-perfor...</a>
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I've been working on a book about WebAssembly over the last few months, and it's finally available at <a href="http://levelupwasm.com" rel="nofollow">http://levelupwasm.com</a>!<p>Why a book on WebAssembly you ask? Well... WebAssembly is awesome (obviously ) but it's certainly not the easiest thing to learn. So I wrote this book as a practical intro to using WebAssembly in your web apps.<p>I would appreciate any feedback!
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Title: Have you ever experienced burnout in your career? If yes, two things I would like to know<p>1) How did you burnout? so that we can look for red flag situations in the workplace.<p>2) How did you get out of it ?<p>Thanks
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Title: I'd love to know what everyone is doing to scope out a workplace before they take a job there.<p>Do you email people who work there?<p>Do you just jump in and hope for the best?<p>Are there apps or sites you like?
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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 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=19281832" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281832</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281833" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281833</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We are Keeper Tax (<a href="https://keepertax.com" rel="nofollow">https://keepertax.com</a>). We help US contract workers automatically find tax write offs in bank statements. We do this by monitoring their purchases for tax deductible expenses -- like phone expenses, insurance payments, and home office expenses -- using a team of accountants aided by fancy computer stuff.<p>The company is born out of frustration with how many people doing 1099 gig work -- rideshare, taskrabbit, online tutoring, and so on -- are overpaying on taxes. By our estimates, the average gig worker overpays on taxes by 21% (for context, that’s around $2,000 if you earn 40k) [1]. A fancy accountant could prevent, but fancy accounts are expensive. That’s why we’re building Keeper.<p>But it’s more than just a low price. We want to make something accessible to people who don’t actually know much about taxes, or care to (i.e. most of us). That’s why we think the solution is to tell, not ask, when it comes to tax deductions.<p>Your monthly phone bill is a great example. Many gig workers wouldn’t think their phone bill is a tax deductible expense. However, it’s partially deductible since you undoubtedly use your phone for work. But that sword cuts both ways -- many people will eagerly try to deduct haircuts, clothes, and other personal effects. The IRS is very strict that these are not tax write offs, so these folks risk getting themselves in trouble for an understandable mistake.<p>The user experience is: we text you yes / no questions a few times a week. Examples include “Hey, was today’s lunch at McDonald’s shared with clients / coworkers?”, or “Do you use your Spotify account to play music for your rideshare passengers?”. The text messages are partially automated, but we hire an accountant to monitor things and jump in when needed. At the end of the year, you can export your write offs seamlessly into TurboTax, H&R Block, etc to file.<p>We’re currently piloting the service with +100 paying users. We charge $10 per month because it’s simple, but eventually want to move to a model where we charge a small percent of the tax write offs we find for you. Aligned incentives :)<p>Thank you HN! Looking forward to hearing your ideas and feedback!<p>[1] 21% stat is based on comparing a sample of eleven 1099 contractor’s 2017 tax returns against what we found when digging through their bank statements. Biggest sources of this discrepancy is missing the home office deduction, forgetting to claim car insurance payments and other non-obvious transportation expenses, and forgetting to track business meals.
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Title: I was made redundant yesterday, and I've found myself with some free time, and a woefully empty Github account.<p>I published my first npm module today, https://github.com/coughlanio/pocketcasts and I'd like to write a few more to help beef up my portfolio.<p>Any ideas or fun things you can think of?
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Title: Books, courses, practical experiences or just <i>a-ha</i> moments that made you feel differently about a language/design pattern/etc.
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Title: What made this particular codebase stand out above others? What did the original authors of the code do well?<p>Documentation? Tests?<p>Perhaps nothing about the code itself, but rather the surrounding environment?
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Title: So Im close to finishing an electron (yeah, I know...) application that helps run competitive weightlifting events. Im not really looking to build a business out of it, but I would like to monetize it in some way.<p>Normally this would be relatively easy... just have a subscription model for $x/mo and move on. But the weightlifting events are rarely held at locations with internet. So the software is written to 100% functional offline... but Im having trouble thinking of a way of monetizing it.<p>So far my idea is to encrypt the results of the competition after it is complete. The user would then need to connect to the internet after the competition, log in, pay, and then could get their decrypted competition results. Alternatively, I could just sell it like a normal product, $x/per download...<p>That all feels so obtuse though... Id love any feedback, better ideas, or discussion.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>recently there have been a lot of discussions about Chrome's dominance on the Web leading to many websites being broken for alternative browsers.<p>I think one of the reasons for this is that browser automation is hard and manual testing is often limited to the browser developers themselves use.<p>I've distilled my best practices for browser test automation into the following project and hope it helps other developers to test their projects with more browsers:<p><a href="https://github.com/blueimp/wdio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blueimp/wdio</a><p>It's a Docker setup for WebdriverIO with automatic screenshots, image diffing and screen recording support for containerized versions of Chrome and Firefox.<p>It also includes Webdriver configurations to test an app running in Docker with Safari Desktop, Safari Mobile and Chrome Mobile via Appium and Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge in a Windows 10 virtual machine.
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Title: What do you use to manage Linux full disk encryption centrally (like BitLocker and FileVault let you do)?<p>I know you can do FDE with LUKS but would prefer a more enterprise solution where I can store a recovery key centrally that a user can’t remove.
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Title: What is your experience so far?<p>How do you cope with basically not having deeply nested components?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m Drew, founder of Saratoga Energy (<a href="https://www.saratoga-energy.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.saratoga-energy.com</a>). We make better carbon nanotubes at one-fifth the price. Carbon nanotubes are a form of nano-scale carbon fibers (5,000X thinner than human hair) with remarkably high strength, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity properties. This makes them useful in a variety of commercial applications.<p>Lithium-ion batteries designed for electric cars already use carbon nanotubes to reduce heat generation during charging and to improve electrical conductivity. This results in faster charging and improved battery life. However, the cost is so high ($300/kg) that battery manufacturers are forced to use the minimal amount, rather the optimal amount.<p>Our breakthrough in manufacturing cost enables battery manufacturers to use the optimal amount, allowing electric cars to safely recharge in 10 minutes or less. This could give electric cars the boost they need to replace gasoline engines.<p>The idea to start the company grew from an idea posed to me by my Dad back in 2012 - is there a way to transform carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into something valuable? I thought this would be an exciting challenge because most carbon dioxide technologies at the time were focused on storing it in underground caverns or converting it into commodity chemicals where it would be difficult to profit without substantial government subsidies.<p>After reading an article about Tesla’s intentions to only source raw materials that were sustainably produced in North America, we settled on developing a low-cost electrochemical process to convert carbon dioxide into graphite. Graphite is an essential energy storage material used in lithium-ion batteries. After deciding on the product, my Dad and I put together a small team of chemical engineers to help with the patents and applications for grants from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.<p>When we received our funding, we began work with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to construct small batteries to test the material we had made. We noticed that some cells would charge three, or sometimes five times faster than commercial reference materials. So we pulled the cells apart to have a look at the graphite with a high-powered microscope. All of the fast-charging graphite was matted with tiny hairs (I later learned that it sounds cooler if you call them “carbon nanotubes”).<p>We thought about it for a few days and did some research. We eventually figured out that certain metals we had tested in our production process were likely responsible for the growth of carbon nanotubes. So we isolated those metals to test the theory. It worked!<p>Now we had a process that could either grow carbon nanotubes or graphite - both at an estimated cost under $5/kg. The difference being that the market price for battery-grade graphite is $10/kg and the market price for battery-grade carbon nanotubes is $300/kg.<p>If the price of graphite is reduced from $10/kg to $5/kg, electric cars get a bit less expensive and the market expands a bit more. If the price of carbon nanotubes is reduced from $300/kg to $5/kg, electric cars cold potentially charge in about the same amount of time it takes to refill a tank of gas, which could create exponential growth in the electric car market. We discussed this with our grant manager and agreed that it made sense to pivot and scale up the carbon nanotube process - which leaves us here today in W19.<p>What’s different about our technology is that we produce carbon nanotubes through the electrolysis of molten carbonate salts. The electrochemical reaction produces carbon (nanotubes), oxygen gas, and metal oxides, which are further reacted with carbon dioxide to re-generate the carbonate salt starting material. So the net reaction is the input of energy to drive the conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon nanotubes and oxygen.<p>Industry has been using chemical vapor deposition to make carbon nanotubes since they were first discovered in 1991. We believe that our platform is better for a few reasons: 1) electrochemistry is tunable and this gives us control over the size and shape of the nanotubes, so they can be custom-tailored for specific battery chemistries and applications outside of energy storage as well; 2) the energy requirement for our manufacturing process is estimated to be 27 kWh/kg, five times less energy intensive than chemical vapor deposition; and 3) our technology represents a value-added use for carbon dioxide, and if powered by electricity from renewable sources, would have a negative carbon footprint.<p>I think the reason nobody has commercialized this production method yet, or come up with some other high-efficiency process, is because chemical vapor deposition is relatively simple to operate and relatively simple to scale. Billions of dollars worth of chemical vapor deposition infrastructure are already established, and historically, there haven’t been many new market opportunities that would justify investing in new technologies to drive down cost.<p>Only recently have researchers demonstrated the potential for carbon nanotubes to improve the performance of new applications like advanced energy storage, high-strength carbon fibers and composites, lightweight electrical wiring, and concrete composites for roads that don’t crack. If carbon nanotubes were less expensive, these new applications could be worth billions while also creating sizable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It is our mission to bring new markets like these to life and to develop new products that best take advantage of what our carbon nanotubes have to offer.<p>I believe that we are best positioned to break this cost-curve and bring this technology to market because molten carbonate electrochemistry is not a well-known science. What we’ve learned since our foundation in 2012 is not commonly taught in universities. Our knowledge was acquired through hands-on experience and in-house development of intellectual property.<p>Hopefully some of you folks are also interested in carbon nanotubes, or at least share a mutual dislike for carbon dioxide. I’m looking forward to sharing some ideas with everyone!<p>-Drew
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Title: Throwaway account here, but been on HN for a long time. I'm going through a big life change, and this post is going to ramble a bit. But I need your help, HN.<p>I've also been running my own business for a long time, mostly B2B consulting/development/training in the Microsoft/Office world. But I don't want to be pigeon-holed.<p>For my own company, however, I've done a lot. I've written many, many chatbots with various functionalities for many platforms (some incorporating NLP—spacy.io is a particular favorite of mine); developed many non-throwaway, high quality apps/services with NodeJS, Python (Django), and Ruby (Rails); done video post-production and ingestion automation (latter via AWS, including Lambda); created many custom Wordpress plugins and themes; created more back-end mashups (NodeJS/Python/Ruby native, or via NodeRED/Huginn/Zapier) and built more web sites (I favor SSR—I guess because I'm an old?—but have a functional working knowledge of React and Vue) than I can count; I've "done data science" well enough to talk the talk (for text-processing and basic statistical domains); I've worked on "citizen journalism" projects that were well-received in, ahem, certain social media circles (my politics trend toward the more liberal end of the spectrum); I am an <i>EXCELLENT</i> public speaker (I've spoken at many conferences in my industry, and consistently get the highest rankings); and a lot more.<p>(…see my reply for more…)<p>I'd love to be doing something where I am making a difference, either with code, or maybe as a public-facing (speaking/writing/coding) developer evangelist.<p>I am the geek renaissance man of the 21st century, with the arthritis of a retiree, the dark humor of a comedian with their own Netflix show, and the ADHD-superpowers of a whole fleet of college grads.<p>Am I hirable as a contractor (or more)? How do I craft a resume that both honestly reflects this kind of history and does justice to the breadth of knowledge I have?
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm a late 30's devops / SRE guy who previously worked as a sysadmin in financial services. Suddenly, the jobs in my area seem to ask for only 5 years of experience of Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and CICD, my salary demands are too high and I'm being interviewed by people in their 20's who think I'm an idiot. I'm struggling with the whole process I have several paths and I was hoping you could pick what YOU would do:<p>A) Continue learning more Python - I'm good but I don't know the math and sorting questions I'm getting asked. Continue with AWS. Take a lower-paying job with folks 15 years younger just so I can pick up Docker, Kubernetes, etc. That's a 30-40K pay decrease in New York.<p>Downside: I have grey hair and I think I'm competing with cheaper people.<p>B) Go independent contractor. I have done this but I am very bad with marketing myself, and my network isn't wide enough to score jobs, so I'm stuck with recruiters. I like this the most but I'm also struggling.<p>Downside: Everything else is perfect, but my marketing skills are 0 after all these years.<p>C) Go management. I've already been a manager on the infra side. I shied away in future roles thinking I preferred hands-on (even though I got accolades as a people person and a well-organized improver of infrastructure).<p>Downside: Narrow job listings to choose from, also weak at marketing.<p>What would you do and why?
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Title: We're Emil and Yuva, co-founders of Dockup (<a href="https://getdockup.com" rel="nofollow">https://getdockup.com</a>). Dockup spins up on-demand environments so engineering teams can quickly test their code changes. When you open pull requests, Dockup creates disposable environments automatically and delivers URLs to your chatrooms; engineers don't have to wait their turn to manually deploy to a staging server for testing their code changes. Anyone in the team can then click on these URLs and preview features before merging pull requests. Because each environment has all the services in the tech stack, it lets you catch bugs which usually happen only in production.<p>My co-founder and I were colleagues at our previous job (for ~6 years) where we worked as consultants, mostly working on Rails, React and Elixir projects and had the luck to work closely with many engineering teams. We often saw that teams would slowly lose confidence in their code as their codebases and team sizes grew and code changes would take longer to ship. At a payments company that we worked for, things often worked fine in dev but broke in production and eventually they started having company wide meetings before teams could deploy anything to production. Wanting to help developers ship faster and with more confidence, and also to scratch the itch of writing something in Elixir, we started building a tool as a hobby project, which eventually turned into our product.<p>Honestly, at first I thought that if we could build it, anyone else could build it internally too and no company would pay money for this, until we actually started talking to companies which have done it. We learned that it usually takes a few months for a developer to build an internal tool that automates PR review deployments. Most engineers told us they don't like having to support this set up and keep it running after they've built it and moved on to solving other problems. We faced many problems on the way, for example - the need for pre-seeded prod like databases for testing features, being able to support architectural changes (for example, adding a message queue in the tech stack and testing it with Dockup) etc. We have now reached a place where we are able to onboard most of our customers without having to build custom features each time. We are excited to share what we have built with all of you! We are sure the HN community will have many knowledgeable engineers who have tried solving this problem and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts.<p>If you want to try Dockup now, you can do it by running the Dockup agent on your servers. If you don't want to run your own servers, you can request access for the managed Dockup cluster by going to our pricing page and we'll roll out access in a couple of days. Pricing starts at $75 for small teams.<p>Thank you for reading!
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Title: I'd like to create a service similar to Patreon, I know how to do the technical side but not so sure about financial side: how do I charge users to send the funds to other type of users (creators), while subtracting a small percent? How does it need to be set up from the POV of financial compliance? Can it be reported as "payment to support Creator xyz" without a specific product? Does the company need to register as a bank or something similar to a bank? Financial services company? Where can I find some relevant resources, and how can I narrow down my research so that I don't have to read everything about all types of financial services but only more or less relevant info? (located in the US).
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Title: In the past I tried a couple of setups using different protocols (VNC / RDP) with varying server / client software but was never really satisfied. Since this is a common problem, I am sure that some people here on HN have a well tested configuration for this and might be willing to give some advice.<p>Scenario I am interested in:
* Server machine runs graphical applications (potentially GPU / OpenGL intensive)
* Client can connect via SSH and is supposed to see graphical application (full desktop or just application)<p>Thanks for any recommendation!
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Title: Another day, another story of Facebook's reach overextending, breaching privacy unnecessarily, and generally acting in some form of bad faith.<p>But business is clearly still good and it seems like they're still able to recruit plenty of talent. So what's the other side here? Internally, are there feelings of consternation about all the negative press or is there a bigger piece that is missed by it?<p>I'm really curious what the other side is here, especially given FB hasn't slowed down at all despite all the press.
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