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Title: Would like to know what are the best options for healthcare when working for yourself in California. How much should I expect to pay?
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Title: Last year, we revived the "Work at a Startup" event for YC companies and prospective hires to meet each other in person (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367707" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367707</a>). The format has proven to work well, so we're doing it again. The 2019 event will be on Saturday, June 29 at YC in Mountain View: <a href="https://workatastartup.com/expo" rel="nofollow">https://workatastartup.com/expo</a><p>Many engineers are interested in working at smaller companies. But there aren't many efficient ways to meet a bunch of them at once, and it's a ton of repetitive work to seek them out one by one. Meanwhile, hiring is the biggest challenge most YC startups are facing. That's an obvious matchmaking problem, and bringing everyone together in one big event is one thing YC can do to help address it. It's a fun and interesting day, too!<p>This year, we're bringing together 40 YC companies in one place. Rapid-fire company presentations—like Demo Day, but for engineers instead of investors—will give you a way to quickly survey the companies. Following this, we'll have a casual open house for you to engage one-on-one with any founders and early engineers who you thought were interesting.<p>New this time: We've heard from people who are interested in joining somewhat later-stage startups, because they think their skills may translate better to roles there than at the classic 2-to-10 person early stage. So this year we've included a number of larger startups, like Gusto and Sift Science. These companies have specialized needs across data, infrastructure, security and more. We hope this gives you more options to match your skill set, interests and risk appetite.<p>Working at a startup is for sure not for everybody! Justin Kan covered this in his post here: <a href="https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/" rel="nofollow">https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/</a>, and HN users are never shy about pointing out the downsides. But I can tell you from personal experience that the upsides are powerful if you're in a position to go for it. For me, working at startups has been a unique opportunity to work closely with talented and experienced founders. (Many founders at this year's event learned to ship products at places like Square, Google, Linkedin and even Gusto.) The magic of working with a small, closely aligned team and the feeling of true ownership and impact is something many of us long for in our careers. The intense learning curves, the chance to personally grow rapidly along with a company—these are experiences which those of us lucky enough to have would never trade away.<p>Of course, there are no guarantees: it's a classic risk/reward tradeoff. But if you're tired of feeling stuck and uncreative in a corporate situation, or no longer really believing in what you're doing, and part of you is longing for greater ferment, impact, and adventure, come and spend the day with us and check out the other side of the equation.
I hope to see you there! <a href="https://workatastartup.com/expo" rel="nofollow">https://workatastartup.com/expo</a>
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Title: Changing to an em or even an en-dash would be a significant improvement.
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Title: A friend once told me Google starts software design by designing data structures. I'm looking for information on how FAANG companies approach software design, are there any resources out there?
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Title: Is it the historic innovation, American culture in general? There are so many other countries with brilliant minds, we live over the internet. Yet foreign companies are ignored for Google, Apple, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle. I dont hear anything elsewhere, China being the only exception. And they're feared, to the point where Huawei's banned.<p>Do you think another country will take its place? Will growing internet adoption lead to growing patterns of geographic decentralization in the industry? Is it possible cryptocurrencies will cause a rise in an internet centered tech industry?
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Title: I am learning Python. I want to create some passive income streams while learning Python.
I have free time available around weekends.I am working on few ideas of my own, but those will not necessarily generate income.<p>Which method of the following would you recommend?<p>ebook in a niche technical topic SaaS product that solves a niche issue mobile or web based game
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Title: Are there any good alternatives for reCaptcha? It has come to a point that traditional text/sound captcha challenges are trivial to bypass today, and the more distorted we make them, the more challenging they are for humans.<p>Google went Sparta with their reCaptcha be, and nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users, specially from an adtech company.<p>What solutions do you use to thwart bad boots from submitting your forms and automating things where it should not have been?
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Title: Hello! I need some tech “show and tell” ideas for 5th graders.<p>I've been asked to come to a 5th grade (ages 10-11) at a school with mostly underprivileged kids, from low income, immigrant families. The presenters are encouraged to do a cool "show and tell" about their job, get the kids excited etc. For example, I heard a lawyer set up a fictional courtroom and gave the kids a script to perform. A baker came in and had the kids decorate cupcakes. A FBI agent came in and let the kids try on a bulletproof vest & an FBI windbreaker.<p>I'm a software engineer, now R&D product manager at a cloud platform software company. Aside from programming, I'm into video games, photography, video editing, drones, and similar techy/creative hobbies.<p>I'd love to hear what ideas you all might have to totally wow some kids, get them excited about science/tech... And obviously out-wow any firemen, FBI agents, that might be presenting. Give me a fighting chance anyway!!<p>Thanks!
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm looking for a couple of midium-size project ideas that are not just following tutorials.
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Title: I have a couple of projects that are gaining traction, generating revenue, and slowly turning into a full-time job.<p>Recently, I saw a discussion on whether a dot io domain is really a good domain name for a business, which made me start thinking: do people still view companies running websites with a non-dot com domain to be any less worthy? All my projects run on a dot io domain, and I'm starting to wonder whether this choice would affect my business's creditability.<p>All my projects are aimed at businesses working in tech.
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Title: <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com</a><p><a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003</a><p>Status page reports all green, however the outage is affecting YouTube, Snapchat, and thousands of other users.
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Title: I've worked in the US for a while now, there doesn't seem to be any chance of me getting a green card or citizenship anytime soon. While I love the country, I am wary of the current political climate and also the heavy restrictions on my visa.<p>I would like to move to a different country, but I am 41 now. Is it realistically possible to move to another country? If yes, which ones would you recommend? I have less than 2 years to get ready, before my current work permit runs out.<p>To clarify : I am not super smart like many of the HN folks here and I don't have any money to invest. I am just a normal dev, who likes to build interesting and useful things and I am a pretty good worker.<p>Any advice?
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please state the job location and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <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=20083793" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083794" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083794</a><p>This month only: thinking of working at a startup? Join us for the 2019 Work at a Startup Expo on June 29! <a href="https://www.workatastartup.com/expo" rel="nofollow">https://www.workatastartup.com/expo</a>
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Title: I just came across this YCombinator-backed company careers page (https://www.bottomless.com/jobs) and saw this:<p>"Be part of our founding team. Note, this is not a "lifestyle job". Our goal is to build something great for a lot of people, not to maximize work/life balance."<p>I am genuinely curious what type of people actually decide to take these jobs? I understand that working at a startup will be different than working at BIGCORP, but what kind of people decide to go for a company that clearly announces long works hours (and probably below average pay) like that?<p>It's difficult for me to understand whether the founders of these companies are genuinely deluded, or whether they just hope to find someone dumb enough to buy into their "mission"? As long as you're an employee, then being a part of the "founding team" doesn't mean anything. Am I missing something?
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Title: Looking for guidelines to self-publish in various journals/conferences(especially related to computer science). Most of the wisdom related to processes in this space is passed on in a streamlined way to incoming grad students and researchers in an academic setting. But let's say I am a clerk sitting in a patent office and I have few experiments that I worked on with thorough proofs and results. How do I get this officially published(not about formats but about the processes)? In general, these are my questions(TIA):<p>1. How to choose journals/conferences to publish?
2. Do top publications prefer submissions from universities only? (What's the ground reality here?)
3. Any blogs/articles explaining in detail about this?
4. Would Arxiv let me publish without associating myself with a university?
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Title: I usually work on multiple projects at once, using several computers and phones and need to get better at tracking progress I made (for my personal purposes), managing TODO lists and taking personal notes.<p>I'm quite unorganised in this regard and I'm looking to change this so that I can finally stop worrying that I forgot about implementing a feature or that I forgot how I solved a particular problem a few months ago.<p>I need to obtain inner peace to be able to focus more on solving actual problems rather than living in fear over note-keeping.<p>My "system" so far is like this: I keep one Markdown file per computer I work on. Each file contains:<p><pre><code> - TODO lists for multiple projects
- personal, general TODO lists (not related to particular projects)
- my insights (regarding e.g. newly read papers or notes when learning new algorithms)
- links to materials I find interesting and want to read later (papers, tutorials, links to HN :), etc.)
</code></pre>
All of these MD files are unorganised (TODO lists for a single project can be found at multiple places in the file, interleaved between links and unrelated notes). I tried synchronising the MD files using Git, but that seemed like an overhead for me. I think I need something that does <i>automatically</i> save history and it would be nice to show the date and times when a note was taken (so that a graphs of my activity could be made over time - but this is not required).<p>I guess I would like to have a solution that not only synchronises across all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS), but most importantly is secure as my notes can contain sensitive information. If there is an open-source solution for this problem, I have no problem with self-hosting such system.<p>How do you keep your notes/TODOs/track progress?
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Title: Here is the full list of currently whitelisted sites:
https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/unblocked<p>Lunduke made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqkeZIPLY5M<p>Highlights:
amazon, aol, yahoo, google, microsoft, vimeo, tumblr, pinterest, nbcnews, feedburner/instagram (facebook), cbs, winamp, gravatar, mapquest, engadget, adobe,
...
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Title: We are Roman and Dmitry, co-founders of Termius (<a href="https://termius.com" rel="nofollow">https://termius.com</a>). Termius is an SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. The big difference with other SSH clients that Termius syncs data across devices using end-to-end encryption.<p>DevOps, sysadmins, and network engineers benefit from using Termius because they can keep all the information for managing their servers in one secure place, e.g., snippets, connection strings, history, etc. Our product vision is to rebuild the command line experience around an engineer, not around the mainframe where it all started. For example, Termius will help engineers to safely keep information about their servers, shell commands, and terminal logs. This information will be accessible from any device and used to improve productivity, e.g., autocomplete commands in the terminal.<p>Dmitry and I met when we both got our first job in a small game development studio in Omsk, Siberia. Actually, at that time, it was an advertising agency with an ambition to become a game development studio. We were students, and it was a perfect place to learn on our own a ton about software development in C++. After four years of hard work, we managed to release a 3D game for PC with real-time physics. We involved kids in testing the gameplay, which allowed us to watch other people using our software. It was a life-changing experience when we saw how software could drive emotion, especially with kids and games. After that, we got hooked on building products that people love.<p>After the commercial failure of the game studio, we went to work for an outsourcing company. We were working on some enterprise software, which was not a lot of fun. Therefore we were working after-hours and weekends on many ideas. After two years, we decided to start our own outsourcing company. We planned to use outsourcing company resources to develop our first product.<p>Roman started Termius as his pet project at our outsourcing company about seven years ago. Roman needed a way to start a C++ project compilation from my iPhone. The project used a lot of Boost::Spirit and a complete rebuild could take around 15 mins. This time was ideal for a cup of coffee with colleagues or a short bout of office-chair fencing. However, some compilation or linking errors could come up, so he needed to keep an eye on it. It was hard to justify paying $10 for iSSH for such a minor use case. Free SSH clients in the App Store were ugly or had ads in the terminal window. Roman thought that a basic SSH client with the terminal must be available on all platforms for free and ad-free. SSH is as universal as email, and most operating systems have at least one basic and free email client. That is how it is all started.<p>First, we needed to solve a couple of UX challenges. SSH client requires terminal emulator support to render the output. Also, the mobile keyboard doesn’t have some necessary keys like Fn, Ctrl, Alt, and Tab. Besides, these keys must support sequences(Ctrl-Alt-x or Ctrl-x Ctrl-f) to support Emacs. That was our first UX challenge. Initially, we developed Ctrl and Alt in the shape of a lollipop
pinned to the sides of the terminal window. Those were special buttons with two states: tap for single usage(for Ctrl-C) and drag to the center(locked state) for combinations like Ctrl-Alt-x. We have changed the design of the terminal window three times to make it easier to grasp. We ended up emulating a lot of what native OS does because users are familiar with those patterns already. In the recent versions, all the additional keys are grouped and sit on top of the system keyboard. Ctrl and Alt work a lot like Shift(double tap to lock) which was introduced later by Apple.<p>Once we released Termius (at that time was called Server Auditor) for iOS and Android, we started to get quite a lot of feedback on the missing features and bugs. Frequently this feedback was in the form of one-star review with a typical comment like “Will switch to 5 stars if you add blah”. In some cases, we had no idea why users needed those features and had no way to ask about it. App Store did not provide the response feature at that time. Therefore we integrated the feedback channel and the feature voting straight into the app(UserVoice). After that, we were able to communicate with our users a lot easier. This tight feedback loop kept us engaged and motivated to keep working on the product. We also got to hear stories from users who used Termius in different life situations. Some users fixed a server being on holiday or saved their bacon because they could continue working from their iPhone. One of the fascinating cases was a story from one visually impaired user who was managing a server on his iPad using Termius and VoiceOver.<p>Initially, we released Termius as a free app for iOS and Android. After a year of continuous work, the apps got to the first places in both app stores when you search for SSH. Organic search traffic combined with good ratings drove pretty good daily downloads numbers. We realized that we are building something that people want.<p>When we were researching user churn, we realized that we could solve even a bigger problem. Some users stopped using the mobile app because it was daunting to keep the information up to date on the mobile device. They downloaded Termius to use when they are away from their desk. However, when an emergency happened, they didn’t have all the things to deal with it, e.g., connection strings, keys, commands to restart a service, you name it. As a result, a standalone mobile SSH client was useless for them, and they had to run to their desk. We realized that if we add a desktop app and secure sync with end-to-end encryption, then all the data would stay fresh on all devices and users would be able to rely on the mobile apps.<p>Moreover, having sync enabled us to rethink the whole command line user experience. For example, Termius could accumulate all the commands when you work in a shell and use them for auto-complete an all devices. Another example, that engineers encouraged to invest a bit of their time to keep the information in order because it stays with them all the time. Termius supports groups and tags to maintain a list of hundreds of hosts.<p>What is next? Tens of millions of engineers use the command line to interact with remote computer systems. Many of them maintain infrastructure together. Our next step is to bring more collaboration to sysadmin and DevOps teams based on their interaction with the command line. Things like terminal logs, recently executed commands and lists of currently runnings systems could be shared among all team members with Termius. That would make the whole process more transparent and new member on-boarding a lot easier. The similar transition that Google Docs brought to collective document creation.<p>HackerNews community probably has the highest concentration of engineers who might use Termius daily. Therefore we would love to hear your feedback!
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Title: Curious to know if people still use IRC? Why or why not? What do you use it for? I frankly miss IRC from heavily using it in the 90s.
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Title: I've read many times in comments here on Hacker News that the speed of your database or disk access is the biggest bottleneck for your server-side web app. Therefore, the speed of your server-side programming language is not important (or less important).<p>Does this still hold true? Given that SSDs are now commonly used by many hosting providers - is database/disk access still a bottleneck for server-side web apps?
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Title: I think it's hard to argue that the current version of skype is an improvement over classic skype. It's much worse when switching between concurrent calls, and almost unusable with multiple people. Options to keep notifications on a single device only are missing. Skype contacts and calls end up into the phone's contact list. Why is it taking years for microsoft to put out a decent version of skype , or at least one that was as functional as skype classic?
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Title: Plaid imitates major bank account UIs in their login forms to make users more comfortable submitting their bank credentials to Plaid. This issue was addressed in this Github issue (archived from WaybackMachine): http://web.archive.org/web/20190415103059/https://github.com/plaid/link/issues/68<p>The Github issue has since been deleted, as shown here: https://github.com/plaid/link/issues/68. I'm hoping this isn't a repost, but this behavior seems ridiculous to me, and I'm hoping to bring it to wider attention (if it isn't already).<p>Edit: post flagged for some reason. Oh well.
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Title: It seems like every VPN's relies on me relying on them telling the truth which to me defeats the purpose. Am I missing something?<p>Any security researchers have any recommendations if I am?
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Title: A little about me. I'm close to 30. I recently left my job, I was burnt out. I want to take 1-2 months for myself to reflect and figure out my next steps. I'm a software developer and I have been working with various small to medium software companies for the past 4-5 years. I currently live in a small city in the south (gf and I want to move to NYC or another big city). I can build CRUD apps from the ground up. I have around $60,000 saved and with my current bills, I have a runway of 1.5-2 years. My life goal is to build a successful business and entrepreneurship has been something I have always been interested in. However, I have never successfully built anything that gained traction, so I consider myself more of a wantrepreneur.<p>Options:<p>#1 Spend my time studying and finding a new job in NYC. I'm pretty confident that if I spend my time on leetCode and networking I will land a good job. I feel like this is the safe route.<p>#2 Spend my time pursuing a couple ideas I have. It's nothing new or innovating, a productivity app and a yelp like service working with small businesses. Reading all the content here is super motivating and inspiring, I feel like I could make these ideas work, but it's also super risky. I don't want to spend 1-2 years working on these ideas only to look up and realized I wasted my time and money.<p>#3 Some combination of both? I was thinking that I can pursue my side projects and look for a new job at the same time. However, I feel like having a clear focus on one thing is important.
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Title: Hi Everyone,<p>So I've been working on a mobile game engine for Saito (https://apps.saito.network/arcade) and am running into testing issues.<p>Right now I'm having to manually run the applications on whatever cellphones and tablets we can find. Is there a better way to do this? Asking as I figure if anyone has solved this problem with an automatic testing suite or something similar it will be someone who reads HN....<p>Goal is to test mobile browsers to see which ones work and eliminate avoidable failures. Most of the problems we are flagging to date are javascript-implementation issues or things like auto-transaction "features" on foreign-language browsers that strip events from the page and/or stop them from running very quickly.<p>Any suggestions? Anyone have a startup that tackles this sort of problem?
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Title: Sorry for calling you old.
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Title: I am doing a new sub-system, for analytics, which I can design / implement from scratch. I get a bunch of unique users (say a few thousands). Now I need to track each of these users and do some analytics (Which places are they logging in from ? How long do their sessions last on average ? What are the usual links/endpoints that they visit ? etc.) in my API server. I have a few thousand active users and about two dozen parameters on which I want to track and analyze these parameters.<p>I have never implemented such an analytics type system. I want to learn about people who have already implemented similar systems. Are there any good tech talks, engineering blog posts, video courses, etc. that highlight the design/technology/architecture choices and their benefits.
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Title: I'm sure a lot of us feel the same way, I know I do. We have great ideas for software but when we actually start thinking about creating a business, there are many legal hurtles we have to jump over in order to make everything "official."<p>To those who have done it, can you share advice with us? Is it possible starting a one-man business? Are there companies that help startups get their feet off the ground with the necessary resources?
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Title: Or, why are they not free?<p>Many times during my professional career I've wanted to read the underlying standard for a product or a system, and I can't ever be bothered to cough up the ~100 CHF they seem to demand. As a result I've never actually read a standard.
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Title: Sometimes I think the amount of political/social/sales submissions is just to great and I would like something more technical to read.<p>What are your suggestions?
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Title: If so, what flavour of Basic? (PowerBasic, PureBasic, VB.NET, or some custom flavour)<p>What are your reasons for using Basic? Do you enjoy it? How do other developers react when you tell them you program in Basic?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>My Twitter account was recently hijacked using what I believe is either a vulnerability or exploit within Twitter. My username was one that I consider to be somewhat sought after (I had offers to sell it).<p>I am not able to contact anyone at Twitter support. The Twitter support platform is just automated steps that do not help in any way.<p>My followers, tweets, and most importantly the connections I’ve made are gone. Simply vanished. My e-mail address is no longer associated with a Twitter account. Ifound a user on HN who had a similar issue [0] but my mobile device wasn’t hacked.<p>Here’s what I know:<p>I received an e-mail from Twitter stating that my e-mail address was changed. Prior to this I did not receive anything else from Twitter - no login notice, no two-factor authentication code, etc…<p>My Twitter password is/was 64 characters and is stored in KeePass. I had two-factor auth enabled on my account which was linked to my mobile. I retain sole access to all of my devices and that e-mail address. As far as I know, nothing that I own has has been compromised.<p>Whoever has control of my Twitter account joined Twitter in May of 2019. I suspect they may have bypassed the existing username restriction during registration.<p>I’ve opened multiple support requests with Twitter. All of those have been closed. I submitted a bug bounty report on Twitter’s HackerOne page [1] but it was promptly closed citing no access to individual accounts.<p>I reached out to some current and former employees on via Twitter and only had one response from a former employee. I also reached out to a few Twitter employees via e-mail to no avail.<p>I’m hoping that someone here might be able to at least offer me some advice. I doubt I’ll ever see my account again but figured this was worth a shot. Thank you for your time.<p>Scott<p>[0] - https://medium.com/@simon/mobile-twitter-hacked-please-help-2f65c691edf8
[1] - https://hackerone.com/twitter
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Title: I love science & tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer/entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting/contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I'm ready to work full time on this.<p>Ideas revolve around<p>* indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better; Other projects exist though: Google Scholar; semanticscholar.org, academic.microsoft.com, https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science/projects-meta<p>* generative design<p>* bioengineering (not sure exactly what, eg microbiota simulator)<p>* materials simulator (eg how can we get a material having a given set of properties)<p>I don't need immediate financial returns, but I do need the work to be used & have an impact in real life projects.<p>What ideas do you have on how one can accelerate scientific research?
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Title: I am looking to purchase advanced communication device manufactured by specific vendor - but every single website has this "Contact us for pricing" links.<p>This certainly is an invitation to sales dance and subsequent spam.<p>I'd rather avoid that and buy from reseller/store that is clear and opened about their pricing.<p>This "contact us for pricing" approach certainly doesn't help to win business (at least mine).<p>Just wonder if this kind of policies are dictated and enforced by actual manufacturer or is that a habit of a specific industry?
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Title: I recently finished thinking in systems and i want to learn more.So i am looking for book reccomendation.If possible any books related to programming and math and systems thinking.
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Title: There are 100s of businesses, I'm only familiar with the one I'm in. For ideas, i need to know about problems that exist then to brainstorm and analyze. But I can't do that if i have no idea what's happening. So how can I learn about more industries. Go To businesses and ask them to let me sit there for no reason?
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Title: My son and daughter are growing up and after setting them up with Linux machines and kids coding activities (Scratch, Coding Minecraft w Java, Shoes.rb and more) a few years back I think it’s time to teach them to code proper.<p>I have experience in ruby and react and currently work as a Digital Media Designer.<p>What resources would you suggest?
A. As a curriculum To run a small code club with them and a friend or two with homework in between<p>B. Self directed online resources they can use to level up themselves?<p>I’ve always loved ruby but am aware that JS is king and also want them to have exposure to functional languages also.
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Title: My book on "GNU grep and ripgrep" is free to download today and tomorrow [1][2]<p>Code snippets, example files and sample chapters are available on GitHub [3]<p>The book uses plenty of examples and regular expressions are also covered from scratch. The book is suitable for beginners as well as serves as a reference. Hope you find it useful, I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions.<p>I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf.<p>[1] <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[2] <a href="https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep</a><p>[4] <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/" rel="nofollow">https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...</a>
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Title: Hi HN! I'm Pierre, the co-founder of Sqreen (<a href="https://www.sqreen.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqreen.com/</a>).<p>Sqreen is an application security platform made for both engineering and security teams. We use dynamic instrumentation libraries that monitor web applications internals to detect security anomalies and block triggered vulnerabilities at runtime. Pretty much what an Application Performance Management tool (like New Relic) is doing, but for security.<p>Before founding Sqreen, I led the Red Team (Offensive Security team) at Apple. I was brought on in 2006, so we're talking iMacs and iTunes at the time. The focus was initially on breaking DRM implementations (FairPlay). Over time, I had a team of 4-5 people, and had to cover most of Apple's portfolio. We needed to provide security assessments to hundreds of developers at Apple in ways that they could trust and find useful. We faced two major issues time and time again: scale (single digit team serving hundreds), and usefulness (how could we make security something that devs felt was actionable and relevant for them?). So why were these obstacles so hard to overcome?<p>First, security culture is broken. My team and I had to act in secrecy for years - like most security teams in companies. Our job was to break things (and we did a pretty good job there!), but we were mainly blockers instead of enablers. As is the norm, the way things were set up, our job was to say "no" - for the sake of product security—not to work collaboratively with developers on improving security together.<p>Second, most of the tools the industry is using today were invented in the 90's and haven't changed much since. Legacy security solutions rely on lists of known signatures of attacks that can't keep up and that generate a high number of false positives. They slow down releases and are nearly impossible to properly maintain for security teams.<p>The function of security within companies today is where Ops was 15 years ago, before the DevOps "revolution".
Security as a function has yet to make the leap that Ops has. For small and mid-sized teams, security is either not present, or is bottlenecked by a one or two person team. For large companies, their security teams are flooded by irrelevant security alerts. And there aren't enough security professionals to improve the situation by just increasing headcount.<p>We saw a need for a self-service solution that brings security and developers closer together, so that security can better scale and become more useful for developers. My co-founder JB and I started Sqreen to build that solution.<p>Sqreen's microagent is a lightweight library that can be added in just a few commands to any web application, API, or microservice. We support Ruby, Node, PHP, Go, Java and Python.
Our microagents use dynamic instrumentation [1] to automatically monitor sensitive app routines (Database calls, I/O processing, rendering of pages and more) and they use the execution context of the app to identify how the request is being processed and detect if it's triggering a vulnerability. The attack can be blocked at runtime (stopping the execution) and stack traces are provided on a dashboard. We embed a sandboxed VM inside the applications, so the CPU footprint is limited and we can't mess up with the app.
Sqreen is built as a platform and security modules like Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), in-app WAF, or account takeover can be turned on or off.<p>We protect over 600 companies in production today. We've blocked SQL injections just hours after being deployed, we've identified massive account takeover tentatives, we're helping engineering teams with no security resources kickstart their security efforts, and we're helping security teams scale their security efforts without slowing down developers.<p>We would love to hear your feedback about Sqreen, as well as answer any questions you might have!<p>[1] - <a href="https://blog.sqreen.com/building-a-dynamic-instrumentation-agent-for-node-js/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.sqreen.com/building-a-dynamic-instrumentation-a...</a>
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Title: I live on a Pacific island. I've been considering buying a house (instead of renting), but if I think about a timescale of more than 20 years, it seems like a poor investment, considering that it may be very uncomfortable to live here by then. Considering the climate changes, but also social and economic factors, where would you move, or where would you avoid (e.g. how I am considering avoiding living here long term)?
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Title: I'm interested in pursuing a few new concepts, and I'm looking for the best free resources for startups that aren't going through an incubator. Specifically looking for free tier or startup credits beyond what AWS / DO / GCP has to offer, or for off-the-beaten-path programs that single-founder startups might be able to take advantage of. I'll be using Stripe for processing any payments.<p>What do you folks use when you're looking to stand up your MVPs?
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Title: Hi! I'm trying to find a good online program to get Bachelor's degree in CS, my goal is to switch careers and get into AI and Machine Learning. I will also likely need the degree to apply for the AI/ML Master's program(OMSCS).<p>I'm a self-taught programmer(web developer), I have a bachelor's degree in a field unrelated to tech.<p>I want to master the fundamentals of Computer Science, and all the Math I need to be ready for an AI/ML Master's program (and for studying ML on my own). Getting a degree is also important to me - so I need both the knowledge and the credentials.<p>Can you recommend some good options? What criteria should I use to pick the best one? What should I keep in mind?<p>I would really appreciate any help!
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Title: Overheard that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. I am relatively new to software engineering professional field (about 2.5 years).
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Title: I am a fairly experienced programmer (10 years) and have always worked with startups building prototypes and getting products to product-market fit. I have worked in all kinds of languages Java, C#, Ruby, Elixir. However, I am not good with data structures and algorithms. What do you reckon I should do in order to get good? Any books, tutorials, course, etc that have helped you?
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>Throwaway account. Been on HN since 2008, but first time asking anything.<p>Here's the situation - we have a mature desktop product, IT-oriented, with a very good reputation and strong loyal following of people who know about it. Started as a side project, so didn't spend much thought on naming it and just picked something. It finally grew to a point of being worthy of proper marketing and promotion and... that name choice is now a problem. It is hard to pronounce and it doesn't sound nice if you manage to do that.<p>This complicates things when trying to sponsor video channels and podcasts for obvious reasons, but these are one of our best options for reaching people we are interested in.<p>Obviously, we can rename it, but this translates into a massive amount of work, in part because of several years worth of accumulated support/kb/forum material, all of which refers to the existing name.<p>Another option is to adopt the "Called Hahaha, but written HxHxHx" approach. This feels needlessly complicated if not forced.<p>Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product. This seems workable, but also a bit too experimental for comfort.<p>---<p>Anyone's been in a similar situation before?<p>Do you have any experience with renaming a _mature_ product?<p>Thanks!
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Title: We are big fans of Netlify [1] (it powers our website and blog!) and we wanted to scratch our own itch to comply with GDPR, as well as various upcoming data security regulations [3]. So we, Very Good Security [2], just released an add-on that lets you securely collect sensitive data (e.g. payments, PII, SSNs, identification, etc.) via web forms on Netlify.<p>With the new add-on, Netlify customers are shielded from data liability, breach risk and the compliance issues that come with holding sensitive data. So you can inherit PCI compliance from VGS (a level 1 service provider) and can fast-track other compliances like SOC2, HIPAA, etc.<p>You can read more about our add-on for Netlify on VGS’ blog:<p><a href="https://blog.verygoodsecurity.com/posts/securely-capture-sensitive-data-with-vgs-and-netlify/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.verygoodsecurity.com/posts/securely-capture-sen...</a><p>and on Netlify’s blog:<p><a href="https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/06/06/very-good-security-add-on-collect-data-securely/" rel="nofollow">https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/06/06/very-good-security-a...</a><p>Watch a quick video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYzLdpSeJo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYzLdpSeJo</a><p>Try it out and let us know what you think! We’d love your feedback.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.netlify.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.netlify.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.verygoodsecurity.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.verygoodsecurity.com</a><p>[3] California Consumer Privacy Act<p>[3] Colorado Protections for Consumer Data Privacy<p>[3] New York’s SHIELD act (<a href="https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S5575" rel="nofollow">https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S5575</a>)
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Title: Hello World,<p>My dev team has switched to a workflow using merge requests and code reviews (mostly by commenting the merge request). Our tool is Gitlab.<p>I needed to embed a visually impaired co-worker in my team but I face some difficulties:<p>- Gitlab accessibility seems to be really bad and my co-worker is unable to use the interface to create Merge Request (he uses accessibility tools, of course). I dont'even speak about reading and writing comments in merge request.<p>- I don't know how to handle the code review process with him. We could do physical Code Review sessions, but it's difficult because I've a very chaotic schedule and so it's difficult to find a common timeslot. Furthermore, it's very difficult for my co-worker to handle all the remarks in one session for any Merge Request with a significant amount of code.<p>- I need to keep in place the existing tooling for the rest of the team<p>Does anybody knows of tools interfacing with Gitlab (or the git repository) or methodologies that could help us ?
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Title: I'm a software developer wondering about starting to keep an engineering journal/notebook and curious about other peoples' experiences and practices. If you keep one, have you found it useful? How often and what do you put in it? What format/tools do you use?
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Title: Several years ago I bought a used copy of the original x86 manual and wrote a proof-of-concept OS. I’m interested in getting back into it, but with more of a focus on HPC and utilizing the more advanced features of modern architectures. Where should I start? Even back when I wrote my toy OS, the contemporary Intel manual was 10x the size of the original that I worked with. Does anyone even work with assembly anymore? (If not, how is software keeping up with hardware advances? Do newer low-level languages like Rust and Go really utilize the massive advances that have taken place?)<p>My history: I’m a devops guy with about four years of experience in IT and about a year of experience writing Python at a professional level. My degree is in general mathematics, though I did best in the prob/stat courses (and enjoyed them more than the others).<p>Side note: I wonder if I “33 bits”’d myself above...
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Title: As someone with a decade or more experience in the .NET Framework and now with .NET Core, and a healthy interest in startups, I find it frustrating I cannot apply my experience more widely.<p>What are you thoughts as to why .NET hasn't taken off at startups?
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Title: I teach machine learning applications to masters students. Many students ask me whether it’s legally OK to scrape websites without using an API and use the data for their projects for my course. I usually just direct them to use APIs with authentication or use tabular datasets on Kaggle, data.world, etc., because I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know the legality of web scraping. The most relevant article I know is from EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/scraping-just-automated-access-and-everyone-does-it) but it’s more than a year old.<p>Can anyone who knows the law please guide me on this issue? Note that the concern is less about what’s ethical and more about what’s legal. This will also help me in my research because these days some reviewers are raising this concern when they see authors used web scraped data. Online there are a ton of opinion pieces but nobody is clear on the legal side of it. Mostly people oppose scraping because they think it’s unethical.
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Title: Do you use some sort of framework/tool for creating the APIs needed for your product/service/application/ecc, for example (https://loopback.io/), or do you code by hand?
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Title: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/Linux%20Bootstrap/x86/cc_x86.M1
It also appears to be bootstrapped from hex
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Title: I have Raspberry Pi and I mainly use it for VPN and piHole. I’m curious if you have one, have you found it useful? What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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Title: For all HNers seeking a cofounder
Pro tip: Leave contact info in profile, not everyone sees post the same day
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Title: Some people know about SBIRs (small business innovative research grants), through which federal government gives away more than $1B of R&D funding to small businesses. There are many more opportunities open for small businesses. For example, AirForce recently opened a $100M solicitation looking for machine learning technologies.<p>I know government grant process can be very cumbersome but so is trying to raise VC money (especially outside of SV). And government money is non-dilutive.<p>I am noticing more startups (e.g. Palantir, Anduril) starting off of government opportunities, but they seem very rare.<p>Why isn't gov funding a more common way of starting a startup? Is it mostly because people don't know about these and/or don't know how to navigate the process?
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Title: I’d like to know what is the percentage of actual work you do at your job. I have a feeling that nobody is hitting 80% of work except the people that work 150%.
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Title: From an email to old customers of DYN services:
"Oracle is announcing the end-of-life for the free Standard DNS service in favor of the enhanced, paid subscription version on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the Standard DNS will be retired and will no longer be available."<p>The following capabilities are not currently supported in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS:<p><pre><code> Webhop (HTTP redirect)
Dynamic DNS
Zone transfer to external nameservers
DNSSEC
</code></pre>
The migration to the new services is apparently a copy&paste DNS zone export to the new cloud.<p>https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/migrate-your-services/
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Title: If we were to design a brand new internet for today's world, can we develop it such a way that:<p>1- Finding information is trivial<p>2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document<p>In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Can we design a hypothetical alternate internet where search engines are not required?
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Title: Structure Interpretation of Computer Programs
- enough is said about it here. must-read.<p>The Algorithm Design Manual - Skiena
- a formidable way to learn algorithms and associated concepts. still challenging to read, but war stories offer great prose and I actually laughed several times. if you couple this book with Robert Sedgewick's online Princeton algorithms course you will be quite formidable with algos.<p>Designing Data Intensive Applications - Klepperman
- Mind blowing for me. Finally felt like I could reason about data-driven design by understanding modeling, stores, and distributed, as well as event-driven systems. Absolute must-read especially to fill the gaps if you don't have a CS degree.<p>These 3 have been above all the rest for me, would love to add another one to this list, please share!
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Title: I'm an individual contributor at one of the big software companies (FANG). I'm curious about what middle level managers do in these companies. Specifically, my manager's manager, the ones between the CEO and first level management. They seem busy all the time (they are usually not at their desks). But they are never in any meetings. They never send any emails. And they don't <i>seem</i> to affect the direction of projects in any way. And I'm just too scared to talk to them. So asking here: what do they do everyday?
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Title: "Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires," says my new "Declaration of Digital Independence" (<a href="https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-independence/" rel="nofollow">https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-indep...</a>), which you can sign. So I'm calling a massive social media strike (<a href="https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/social-media-strike/" rel="nofollow">https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/social-media-strike/</a>) for July 4-5 to raise awareness of the possibility of decentralizing social media, which in my experience is wildly popular whenever proposed.<p>Read the FAQ (<a href="https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/faq-about-the-project-to-decentralize-social-media/" rel="nofollow">https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/faq-about-the-project-to-dec...</a>) and use some collected resources (<a href="https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/socialmediastrike-resources/" rel="nofollow">https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/socialmediastrike-resources/</a>) to learn and spread the word far and wide. Look for lots of news about this soon. And get ready! Maybe we can make a long-held geek dream finally come true.
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Title: I was recently hired as a Project Manager at a small company. I've only been on the job a few weeks when I was told an employee had filed a complaint against me for creating a hostile workplace. When I asked how I exactly did this I was told I said a curse word at a meeting.<p>Has anyone ever dealt with this situation before? What is the best thing for me to do? I dont want a hostile workplace environment on my end where I have to keep looking over my shoulder either.
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Title: Some relatively new or popular languages are not object-oriented, although they may have object-like features. Examples include: Rust, Go, Julia, Nim.<p>I have always struggled with OOP and have never found it a natural way of programming. But many other programmers will disagree of course.<p>I find it fascinating that some new languages have chosen to eschew the OOP model. Why do you think that is? And what do think of this trend (if it is indeed a trend)?
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Title: Not trying to start a flame war. I am finally switching away from my trusty Nokia Lumia 920 because the browser wouldn't load m.uber.com and WhatsApp says app will be gone at the end of the year. I like the snappiness of Windows Phone and iPhone UI. Haven't checked Android phones recently but years ago the UI was laggy and no one except I seem to notice.<p>Also know that sideloading apps, blocking ads in apps etc. is much easier on Android so I am hard pressed to decide between the two.
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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://findwork.dev/?source=hackernews" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hackernews</a>, <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=20325923" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325923</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325924" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325924</a>
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Title: Just a simple question, I have seen stories of people who were hired based on the job postings threads. Never once have I heard of anyone getting anything other than recruiter spam from the Ask HN: Who wants to be Hired threads. I think it might be useful to hear stories either way.<p>Were you hired after someone contacted you?<p>Did you receive responses that weren't recruiter-spam from your posts there?
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Title: I'm coming up on my summer leave, and have absolutely no plans other than doing various things related to house maintenance or renovation. Evenings are mostly free. If you could recommend one book I should plan on reading this summer, what should it be and why. No limitations on genre, it doesn't have to be related to CS.
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Title: Hey HN! We're Tejas and Kashish, co-founders of Carry (<a href="https://carry.travel" rel="nofollow">https://carry.travel</a>).<p>Carry is your executive assistant for travel. Just message us (i.e. "I need to be in Boston for a meeting at 2pm on July 1st"), and we'll get everything done for you— flights, trains, cars, hotels, Airbnbs... you name it. Carry is not a chat bot— we function like a traditional agency with in-house travel agents, but unlike traditional travel agencies that use terminals (similar to Bloomberg in Finance) or manually search websites like Expedia, we're building in-house tools to make our agents' jobs easier and help them work faster. Imagine automatically going from a customer message ("I need to be in Boston Tuesday for a 10am meeting and return for a 9am meeting Friday") to parsed trip requirements (from: SFO, to: BOS, arrive by: 10am, return by: 9am) that are then merged with your calendar and user preferences to search all data sources. Our agents then interpret the results and propose options to the user. Over time, we want to add more automation and intelligence using each user interaction as training data (but first we need volume... lol).<p>We built Carry because we hate booking travel— it's just way too time-consuming and inefficient. It's tedious to check multiple sites (Skiplagged, Google Flights, Skyscanner, etc.) before finding the cheapest price, filling out all of the airline information, and then, searching for a place to stay. And, even when you have all the information, choice paralysis prevails.<p>9 months ago, we set out to build a chat bot because we asked ourselves "Why can't Siri book travel?" Working backwards, we quickly realized why bots don't work— they're robotic, formulaic, and take lots of back and forth to convey what you want. We also realized that consumers don't know what they want, which makes it really hard to choose travel options for them. With these learnings in mind, we looked to corporate travel agencies for inspiration.<p>It turns out 70% of corporate travel is booked without any tool or agency— employees book their own travel and expense it. The other 30% uses tools at two ends of the spectrum— 1 old school travel agencies (think phone calls) 2) new-age corporate travel portals (imagine a clunky, worse Google Flights). We found that no one actually wants to use these tools— they just have to, and that the only people who were satisfied with the state of things were folks who had assistants they could offload the work onto.<p>Thus, we decided we'd create an assistant for everyone. Carry is the first travel tool built for employees-first. Employees get all the points, all the options, and the ability to save time an assistant provides. So far, we've been working with corporations directly, but today, we're doing a soft launch of Carry for individuals with a waitlist at <a href="https://carry.travel" rel="nofollow">https://carry.travel</a>. That said, for the HN community, just email me (tejas [at] carry [dot] travel) if you want to start using us for work immediately.<p>If you travel frequently (or even if you don't!), we'd love to hear about the inefficiencies and pain points you've experienced while traveling that you wish a product like Carry could solve. We want to hear your feedback on the product and work with you all to develop features to save even more time.
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Title: tldr: client has paid me $4k/wk for internal tools. They’re replacing me with a team based in India bc they can get 1 US pm and 2 devs for $4k/month. They think progress will be faster and less expensive.<p>They’ve been pleased with my results, and I’ve done everything from working onsite and modeling out their workflow to deployment on Heroku to Django api to front end development.<p>Without going into too much detail, what can I do to in the future to either 1) change my process so they don’t think this is a better option, or 2) suss out which prospects don’t have the stomach for the realities of developing their own software?<p>I’m not bitter, more just somewhat frustrated. I understand that from their perspective, that sounds like an obvious choice. I’m simply concerned with how I can operate/communicate more effectively going forward.
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Title: I guess this is sort of an open-ended question, but I just wanted to know if people on HN were hopeful about solving environmental change/damage.<p>Last June is now officially the hottest June ever recorded. I guess you can add that to the laundry list of environmental issues we have. My worry is that its looking more and more like we need some sort of technological miracle (or everyone <i>everywhere</i> just stops buying <i>most stuff</i>). And tech seems to be a step function - sometimes you get big things like the Internet and the Engine which can spawn lots of smaller things. But those big things historically have seemed to come about by chance and happenstance as much as hard work. I sometimes worry that we might not solve the environmental crisis because we just won't get lucky.<p>Does anyone else feel this way? Or are people here mostly hopeful that this thing will all work itself out (please say how!)? Anyone here working on that next big thing?<p>PS<p>If you don't believe in a coming environmental catastrophe, that's fine and I'd be happy to have your opinion on why you think so in this thread. But tin foil hatters and political partisans are boring and this isn't really what this thread is about - please spend your time elsewhere. Thanks!
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Title: How did you handle it?
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Title: I installed Kubuntu on an old PC and am currently using it as a remote dev environment & FTP server. Any other cool use-cases for a spare Linux box?
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Title: On my phone I have a micro SD card with thousands of Mp3s on it yet I catch both Google Play Music and VLC player playing the same progression of music over and over when I have the random button set to on... I thought this was because it was a tactic to get me to upgrade the music players I was using, but it also happens lately on all kinds of devices I use.<p>YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud provide revolutionary services yet it seems like a lot of the time I am listening to pre-arranged and designated music playlists rather than a truly honest music stream.<p>In the days of the 5 disk CD changer, people truly knew what random meant. no tune was played twice until all of the tunes were played...
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Title: So yesterday I posted this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339865) and it seems that a lot of people are very pessimistic about the future state of the environment. And today I've learned that insects are dying at an alarming rate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352002). It seems like every day there is a new piece of bad news.<p>Well...<p>Are there any people who are actively working on fixing the environment? It seems like if we don't do anything then in ten or twenty years (my lifetime!) there will be a "crunch" where something truly horrific may happen. In one sense, fixing the environment is the <i>only</i> issue we have because if we don't fix it then nothing else will matter in the face of how horrible the consequences will be.<p>How are you fixing it? What technologies are you using? How did you get into this? I'd like to know everything and anything people on HN are doing that's geeky to solve this thing.
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Title: What do you spend most of your time on these days? Do you have a side-project you'd like to talk about? What is the community working on?
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Title: It seems one of the few opportunities to meaningfully help the planet and avoid the worst of climate change is to plant trees (1).<p>After learning this, I googled "donate a tree" and "plant a tree" and was met with dozens of results for nonprofits, many of which I had never heard of.<p>Which of the nonprofits was the best run? Which was the most efficient at converting donations into trees? Where were the trees being planted to ensure the planting was protected and sustainable?<p>My idea is to create a simple campaign website, trilliontrees.org, that serves as a rallying call to plant trees and that compares and provides guidance on the myriad of nonprofits involved in planting trees.<p>Anyone interested to partner on this?<p>(1) <a href="https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/04/world/forests-capture-two-thirds-of-carbon-emissions-scn-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/04/world/forests-capture-two-t...</a>
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Title: I recently started a day job where I'm expected to work a normal 8 hour workday. No one is holding me accountable that I stick to that so it seems the requirement is more of a formality, but that's besides the point.<p>As I've experienced trying to keep up this 8 hour work, I've come to realize that sticking to this old assembly line convention makes absolutely no sense for our field of work. On a good day I can work even 12h+, but usually my limit is somewhere around 4 and ½ hours. And after six hours I'm just burning myself out trying to force myself to focus. At 8 hours I can feel physical pain and it will take me whole evening to recover when I get off the clock.<p>It's silly how many companies are still sticking to this old rule. Nobody wins when employees are wasting their time being inefficient. If the 8 hours workday is actually enforced, employees will just come up with coping mechanisms against the stress the overly stretched workday is causing them and they will end up loosing motivation.<p>Conservative improvement would be working 6h * 5 + 4h on Saturday (remotely), which would make employees more efficient, mentally healthy and that's 6 hours less work time per week.
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Title: I often find myself trying to do many things and often times I end up just procrastinating. This creates a negative feedback loop and I'm wondering how do you manage your time to achieve things.<p>As a list of things I'm trying to constantly do:<p>1. Write a personal journal / meditate / exercise.
2. Read (as per on a reading list of books)
3. Work
5. Study (learning / improving my general CS skills, frontend skills, etc.)
6. Maintain a healthy relationship
7. Socialize<p>I'm trying to organize myself to wake up @6am and go through journaling > meditating > work > exercise or read. However, I often find out I'm kind of overwhelmed or I can't spend qualitative time in my relationship / don't have time to do other chores.<p>Are you in a similar situation? What are your coping strategies to work things out?
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Title: I'm looking for an office chair that I can spend 6-10 hours a day in. Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions. I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn't not perform as expected.
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Title: Looking for different approaches<p>Would love to hear your experiences
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Title: I've seem some resources scattered around but I was looking for something more "definitive". Any ideas? Thanks!
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Title: Any programming language that someone might find useful but has likely not heard of like Nim, Elixer, D, etc
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Title: This is a long-running project that started as the proverbial need to scratch my own itch and then somehow evolved into a full-time job of the past 6 years.<p>Link: <a href="https://bvckup2.com" rel="nofollow">https://bvckup2.com</a><p>I thought I'd do a Show HN for two reasons.<p>1. I obviously want to show my baby to those who haven't seen it.<p>Its primary purpose is to do very fast file replication. If you are familiar with "robocopy /mir" - same idea, but on steroids. Lots of them. It can be used for both mirroring and archiving backups, among other things.<p>It is light, very small and it is really quite fast. Half of the development time was sunk into the UI/UX design, so there's that too.<p>Existing version is a result of 5 years of a _very_ careful evolution, focusing more on perfecting existing features rather than adding new ones. Said No to more feature requests than I can remember. The blog captures some of that in a form of development screenshots, sketches and what not [1].<p>2. Secondly, I wanted to add an anecdotal data point that the desktop software development <i>is</i> still very much an option despite of all the nasty rumors. The demand for well-written Windows software is still there. The biggest takeaway has been that there is LOTS of people, on Windows, that recognize software quality as a feature. They acknowledge and compliment it, and they are actively looking for it.<p>That's <i>the</i> niche. If you are thinking of trying the Windows ISV path, I'd aim there.<p><pre><code> --
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By the way of introduction - I'm in my mid 40s. I've been a programmer for my entire life, mostly on the sysdev side of things - firewalls, network stacks, VPNs, etc. - which is one of the reasons I still like things to be as small and as fast as possible. I'm also the original author of Hamachi VPN, there's a chance you might've heard of it.<p>Any thoughts or comments on the program itself, would appreciate to hear them. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them if I can as well.<p><pre><code> --
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[1] <a href="https://bvckup2.com/wip" rel="nofollow">https://bvckup2.com/wip</a>
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Title: I’m a hungry for knowledge dev, but have a family with 2 kids, one being 4 months old. How do other devs in similar situation find time to work on personal projects or just find time to learn?
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Title: So Stripe Atlas makes it easy and fast to start and register a company.<p>What is the experience if we want to close, dissolve and erase the company?
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Title: Any kind of channels are ok! I am specifically interested in urban (balcony) gardening, guitar and gaming (Apex Legends).<p>Would be interested in what other people are watching and what other cool channels are out there.
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Title: This Thursday I'm invited to a privacy roundtable with Facebook Legal and Privacy Policy teams in Amsterdam. The round table will be with other entrepreneurs and experts in the privacy field. I'm invited because I'm the founder of Simple Analytics - a privacy friendly analytics SaaS business [1] - and critical about Facebook on Twitter [2].<p>Some people advised me not to go there because it would only do harm to my name and brand, but I think I should. The Facebook teams are going to give a presentation with some new plans where they want feedback on. For internal push back they need critical people from outside Facebook, which I'm happy to contribute for.<p>To make it more interesting for the outside world I'm going to ask a few questions for Facebook in general (privacy wise). And that's where I need some help. What questions do you want answers for from Facebook?<p>Facebook agreed I could use the answers outside of the meeting (with the exception of sharing from non-Facebook attendances).<p>[1] https://simpleanalytics.com<p>[2] https://twitter.com/adriaanvrossum
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Title: I met up with a young aspiring entrepreneur the other day, to give some pep-talk and guidance. After about half an hour of explaining leads, relationships & a-ha moments, it dawned on me that I don't have a solid book on sales to recommend.<p>Would love to hear what your favorites are. Obviously, blogs are also a great place to start. Thank you for sharing.
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Title: We’re Tim and James and we’re building Cloosiv (<a href="https://cloosiv.com" rel="nofollow">https://cloosiv.com</a>), an order-ahead app for independent coffee shops.<p>We started working on this because we believe that coffee is the most overlooked sub-vertical in retail. Coffee is the most repeated purchase that Americans make every day, with over 220M cups purchased daily at coffee shops, cafes, bakeries and diners. Starbucks is the largest chain, but they only process 2.5% of those daily sales. It’s the 50,000 independent merchants across the U.S. that sell the largest percentage. Starbucks' order-ahead app is actually the most-used mobile payment app in the US—more than Apple Pay and Google Pay. Their users know that they can use the same mobile app at any Starbucks location. But the rest of the market, the other 97.5%, haven’t had a similar option. We’re focused on providing that experience across independent coffee shops in the US.<p>We consider the two of us meeting as our luckiest milestone to date. James had set out to build his own development agency at the same time that Tim was looking for help building v1 of Cloosiv. We met on Upwork and quickly realized that our skillsets complimented each other. That contract was James’ first and last while running his own agency.<p>Since our initial launch in 2018, we’ve processed over 35,000 orders for $250,000+ in revenue on behalf of our coffee shop partners, with orders and volume growing 40% monthly. Our network includes over 200 local coffee shops, with another 150+ locations currently onboarding. We’ve been able to win these early customers by building our product alongside them. In addition to gaining their trust, this process has resulted in features that set us apart from incumbent ordering options. For example, our merchants can log in from any device and make on-the-fly changes. If they’ve run out of almond milk, they can remove that option with a single click, so that customers can’t order almond milk and be disappointed when they arrive.<p>We're sometimes asked: why is no one else doing this? There are many mobile ordering apps, but they've all but ignored the coffee market. This is probably because the average coffee receipt is so low in comparison to the merchants they typically support. Another reason is the level of specificity that’s required to win the support of coffee merchants, who are keenly aware of customer expectation when serving time-sensitive, hot-temperature items like espresso. It turns out that a good app for ordering pizza is not the same thing as a good app for ordering coffee. We’ve been able to win coffee shops by remaining focused on their market and its specific needs. This is an opportunity to build the most-used mobile payment option for the most commonly purchased commodity in the country.<p>Most of our current locations skew towards the east coast, because we’re based in Charlotte, NC and it’s where we gained initial traction. Our priority right now is to increase our presence on the west coast. If you wish your local coffee shop had an order ahead option, we’d really appreciate if you shared Cloosiv with them. We’re going to prioritize the most requested-by-HN shops for the next few weeks. You can submit a referral by clicking “Invite a Coffee Shop” on our website or in the app to get a $10 reward - mention Hacker News in the submission and we’ll do everything we can to get them on board!<p>We'd also love to hear your ideas and feedback about anything and everything in this space! If you want to check out the app, download Cloosiv on your Apple or Android device and if there’s a shop around you, enter promo code HN-2019 at checkout and get 50% off any item. Ok, that's all from us. Please share your thoughts and ask any questions you’d like.
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Title: Thought I'd share this with the HN community.<p>Link to the Escrovery paper:
<a href="https://github.com/pickhardt/escrovery/blob/master/escrovery.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pickhardt/escrovery/blob/master/escrovery...</a><p>I came up with an interesting way to do totally decentralized account recovery. Why might this be useful? Suppose you have some account on Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc and you lose your secret key. Worse, you also lose (or never had) any way to recover it.<p>Escrovery gives you a way to recover it, and without simply using a centralized service like Coinbase or needing secret shares from k of n friends. This could also be used as a recovery method with self-sovereign identities.<p>The way it works it using escrowed payments to deter malicious recovery attempts. Any user may make an Escrovery challenge to recover any account by first placing an amount of money in escrow. If the original account owner responds to the challenge in a certain amount of time, they earn the escrow. Otherwise, the challenger takes ownership of the account and recovers their escrow.<p>The main limitation is that it requires users to be regularly active in checking for challenges to their account. For some use cases, this would be fine. For others, perhaps it wouldn't work.
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Title: Hasn't hit their status page yet, but our error rates are spiked up again, and they just posted a tweet -> <a href="https://status.stripe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.stripe.com/</a><p>5:35 Eastern -> Their status page has been updated
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Title: I'm Muneeb, CEO & Co-founder of Blockstack PBC (YC S14). Blockstack is a decentralized computing network. We currently have 165+ apps built on top (<a href="https://blockstack.org" rel="nofollow">https://blockstack.org</a>). Today we're launching Stacks to the public, the first SEC-qualified crypto token offering.<p>First, a little about our journey: I grew up in Pakistan with a single state-controlled TV channel. I've been obsessed with the internet since the dial-up days of the late 90s. I researched computer networks as a grad student. I took a leave from Princeton in 2013 to start Blockstack with my co-founder. Our rather ambitious goal was to build a better internet. We went through YC in 2014 and have raised $50M in capital so far.<p>We believe that the "traditional internet" became dependent on a handful of companies. We want to take the internet back to its decentralized roots. We've done 4+ years of R&D and infrastructure building. We're focusing on giving developers the right tools to build decentralized apps. The big difference between these and traditional internet apps is that:
(1) apps mostly run client-side (no servers or databases),
(2) users are in control of their data with encrypted private data lockers, and
(3) users have universal cryptographic logins without any third-party providers.<p>Blockstack PBC is a public benefit corporation. We build the core protocols and developer tools for decentralized computing. Developers use our open-source reference implementations and SDKs to build decentralized apps. These include Graphite (decentralized Google docs), Dmail (encrypted email), BitPatron (decentralized Patreon), and others (<a href="https://app.co/blockstack" rel="nofollow">https://app.co/blockstack</a>). The Blockstack software stack gives developers decentralized solutions for auth and storage. Further, developers can program smart contracts.<p>The Stacks blockchain is a foundational layer of our architecture. It executes smart contracts and enables our decentralized auth and storage to work without centralized operators. Users register their usernames on the Stacks blockchain and link their storage credentials. Technical details of our full decentralized computing stack are at <a href="https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf</a>.<p>Stacks is the native crypto token of Blockstack. Stacks are used as "fuel" to register digital assets and execute smart contracts. Compared to other decentralized app platforms like Ethereum or EOS, we:
(1) keep on-chain logic to a minimum,
(2) scale apps by localizing state changes, and
(3) enable developers to write general-purpose apps, not just smart contracts.<p>Our regulatory approach is also very different from typical “ICOs” you may have seen. For distributing Stacks to the general public, we decided to work with US regulators. We wanted to open up the US market to our offering instead of blocking US investors. Yesterday, we received qualification from the SEC. The SEC has never qualified any token offering until now.<p>Regulation A is often compared to a “mini IPO.” Our filing has fully-audited financials and seeks to provide fully transparent disclosures. There were a lot of legal and accounting treatment questions that we had to work on with the SEC. It’s new territory for everyone. It took us almost ten months to reach this stage and we spent close to 2M USD in legal fees and other expenses. I joked at a recent event that I consider our expenditures a donation to the rest of the crypto industry. Other projects now have a legal framework for regulated crypto-token offerings.<p>I know that many on HN are skeptical of the cryptocurrency market, which has become over-hyped with many bad actors. We share a lot of those feelings. We want to build on solid scientific foundations and give developers the right tools for scalable decentralized apps. Alternatives to centralized big tech monopolies can and will, eventually, exist. The SEC-qualified token offering is our effort to help mature this industry.<p>You can find our SEC offering circular link at <a href="https://stackstoken.com" rel="nofollow">https://stackstoken.com</a>. We'd love to get feedback from the HN community on our regulatory framework and tech design. Thanks!<p>P.S: Given the regulated nature of this offering, I need to give disclaimers. Realize it’s not typical HN culture :-)<p>— Muneeb<p>Important disclaimer
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has qualified the offering statement that we have filed with the SEC. The information in that offering statement is more complete than the information we are providing now, and could differ in important ways. You must read the documents filed with the SEC before investing. The offering is being made only by means of its offering statement. This document shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.<p>An indication of interest involves no obligation or commitment of any kind. Any person interested in investing in any offering of Stacks tokens should review our disclosures and the publicly filed offering statement and the final offering circular that is part of that offering statement at stackstoken.com/circular. Blockstack is not registered, licensed or supervised as a broker dealer or investment adviser by the SEC, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) or any other financial regulatory authority or licensed to provide any financial advice or services.<p>Forward-looking statements
This communication contains forward-looking statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the following words: “will,” “expect,” “would,” “intend,” “believe,” or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements in this document include, but are not limited to, statements about our plans for developing the platform and future utility for the Stacks token, our Reg A+ offering and launch of our network, and collaborations and partnerships. These statements involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different. More information on the factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause or contribute to such differences is included in our filings with the SEC, including in the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion & Analysis” sections of our offering statement on Form 1-A. We cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. We disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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Title: An innocent woman was arrested today (while working in an informal job without any personally identifiable documentation) in Rio de Janeiro. The automated facial recognition systems (FRS) identified her as another woman, wanted for murder - it turns out the actual criminal is _already in jail_ and the police organization operating the FRS wasn't informed about it yet due to delays between the systems.<p>This is the second day of operation of the system, according to the press. However, a restricted version of the same FRS was used for 15 days during the Carnaval festivities with no alarming failures and reportedly resulted in a few arrests.<p>It has now been deployed in 25 locations in Copacabana. (Anedoctally, I live here and can't tell you where they are - the equipment, cameras, etc. must be well hidden, or I'm terrible at spotting them).<p>Source, in Portuguese:
"Facial recognition fails in its second day and innocent woman confused with criminal is arrested"
https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/reconhecimento-facial-falha-em-segundo-dia-mulher-inocente-confundida-com-criminosa-ja-presa-23798913<p>Related previous submission (with zero comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19074434
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Title: I'll start by saying "Agile Project Management Is Farce and does more harm than good". I've been researching tech turnover for a bit now, with a focus on programmer turnover, and with no reservations I can say that so-called Agile project management is a leading cause.<p>The goal of Agile project management is to make software development a more customer-centric and more iterative. This is a noble goal. Agile however, whether intentionally or unintentionally, has had a secondary effect of robbing developers of job satisfaction.<p>Here let me give you an example. About 10 years ago I worked with somewhat of an influential in the Ruby community. We both worked at an "Agile" software consultancy. After finishing a task on our project work board I remember watching as that developer went back to claim the task the followed logically from what he just finished. He was shocked when he saw that the task's card has been claimed by another. He then said, right there in the office, quite loudly and openly "I am not getting the satisfaction of completing a thing when working like this."<p>So Agile robs developers of sense of satisfaction of ownership and completion. Well if the developer is being robbed of this satisfaction then to whom is this satisfaction being transferred? Well, project managers. Who get rewarded for the "velocity" of the team, which is more of a product of the hard work and less of a product of task management.<p>So developers have three things making them want out:<p>1) No ownership satisfaction
2) No completion satisfaction
3) Someone else taking credit for their work<p>Ok, this are not the only reasons for developer turn over but this is a big one. There are others like toxic environments, Title VII discrimination, and so on.<p>It can be denied that 1.5 - 2.0 year developer turnover at tech companies is pretty woeful. We are dropping the ball somewhere and its hurting business bottom lines and developer careers.
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Title: Suppose you find a library that kinda does what you need, but not really. Do you adapt it to your needs or do you build a version from scratch that really suits your needs, but might take a bit of time to develop?
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