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Title: Okay this might be a bit of an odd one, but here goes!<p>I've come to the realization that when I'm communicating online, particularly in chats, I'm really argumentative. It's like if someone writes something that I disagree with, I'm compelled to launch into a logical argument with them right there and then. I've realised it's a bad habit and I likely come across as boorish.<p>The weird thing is, I don't think I used to be like this. I love debate and hang around forums and HN a fair bit when online - maybe that's the issue? It's not that I actively want to 'prove someone wrong', but part of the way I learn is through argument; expressing my disagreement in the hope that the other person will prove me wrong and I might learn something.<p>So I'm throwing it out there to the HN community - anyone else in the same boat? How did you deal with it and break the habit?
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Title: A colleague at work is leaving the company soon saying "I don't feel like I'm a fit for <xyz> company". I'll be speaking to them in unofficial capacity soon. What all should we talk about? A few things that came to mind:<p>- what all do you need to get a new job?<p>- why do they feel they are not a "fit"<p>- is there a systemic problem?<p>- when did this feeling arise since they joined with lots of enthusiasm?<p>- what could I have done personally / in official capacity that might have stopped this<p>- how do you think we missed this?<p>To the HN community: What other things can I ask them to prevent/improve this situation in the future? Is there even something to improve here?
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Title: Feeling a little too comfortable where I'm at now. In the last couple years I had some side projects in distributed systems.<p>Those were fun, learned a new language, came to the conclusion that Go is overhyped and immature and helped me appreciate that Java ain't that bad after all. Feel like the project did help me be a better developer, understand load balancing, databases, storage systems etc better.<p>What new tech have y'all learned in the past 6 months - 1yr that you found to have made you a better developer?
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Title: All in the title.<p>We are transitionning from Macs to "whatever you like" and I would like to look around for a good linux laptop equaling what we can get for the price of a MBPro (13", 512Go disk, 16G ram for 2400€).<p>I bet the competition can do better (I'd certainly fancy 32Gb of ram), but I don't have much experience in PC type laptops. I use linux a LOT at home so I'm confident I'll be able to install it, but I don't have the compatibility story.<p>What would you suggest?
Dell XPS?
Lenovo something?<p>THanks!
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Title: I’m curious what everyone would recommend for a new blog? I really want to focus on the writing and not deal with updates and viruses. But I’d still like to do a good degree of customization and plugins and a custom domain name.
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Title: Oracle now requires you to create an account and login when you try to download JRE from the JRE download page at https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html
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Title: I can't find any articles about this online, but Facebook just deleted every single post that was posted via Social Report. Social Report is a legitimate social media scheduling platform. They were approved by Facebook and listed as a verified Facebook Partner. On Thursday night Facebook suddenly pulled Social Report's API Keys, and deleted every single post that was ever posted via their platform.<p>Social Report claims that they were given no warning, and no reason why their keys were pulled. Social Report also claims that they have been trying to get in touch with Facebook over the issue, and Facebook is not responding. Social Report also claims that they have an SLA with Facebook guaranteeing them a response within 1 business day. Being that Facebook has not responded to their requests, Facebook is in breach of the SLA.<p>There are rumors flying around social media, that claim Social Report was scraping data from Instagram and that's why this happened. Social Report denies all of these claims and states that they have abided by all of the TOS listed in their agreement with Facebook.<p>The impact of this issue is pretty large. We have a pretty good guess that they service well over 200 customers. Being that most of their customers are agencies that serve anywhere from 10-100s of businesses, we believe that over 10,000 businesses have had their posts deleted. Many users affected by this issue have been complaining that they have spent $1,000s of dollars boosting the posts that have been deleted. The impact of this issue could easily be over $1,000,000.<p>My girlfriend and I run a social media marketing agency, and every single post that we have posted for the past two years are completely gone. I am not sure if Social Report violated the TOS with Facebook or not. Regardless if Social Report was a bad actor, I find it incredibly unfair that Facebook would punish thousands of innocent businesses for using a legitimate "Facebook Verified" marketing tool.
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Title: Hi everyone!<p>We're Chris, François, and Tyler, founders of Memfault (<a href="https://memfault.com" rel="nofollow">https://memfault.com</a>). Memfault helps firmware teams find and fix issues before customers start calling (or worse, tweeting!) by providing a small <3kB SDK to include in the firmware and a web dashboard to manage releases, monitor devices, and view crashes. In the software world, Crashlytics, Sentry, and other error monitoring systems have been offering similar solutions for years. Memfault is the first such solution for firmware.<p>Embedded devices today are very different from ones built 10 years ago. Then, a device would run a small piece of firmware in a while() loop, capture input, compute some logic, write to a small 7-segment display, and that was about it.<p>Today, new products have a wireless connection to the internet, a bright 320x320 full color LCD, a high quality microphone and speaker for Alexa integration, and sometimes even run machine learning or computer vision algorithms on device! Building hardware products in 2019 is a significant software project, it requires software tools.<p>The three of us met at Pebble in 2013, where we shipped 4 watches together. Chris and Tyler went on to work at Fitbit, while François went to Oculus. Each time, we found ourselves building all of our tools from scratch which slowed us down tremendously. Imagine having to build a log collection solution every time you want to build a new web app!<p>As a result of the effort required to build them, the tools available to firmware engineers are not up to the task. For example, the state of the art in debugging requires connecting a physical debugger to your board. To investigate an error report from the field, customers must be contacted, devices shipped back, and enclosures disassembled. By the time this is all done, flash logs have rolled over, variables have reset, and developers are left scraping together raw data from flash to debug the issue. It can take weeks to get to the bottom of an issue that would be root caused in minutes with reasonable tools.<p>We've long wanted to show people what Memfault can do without the hurdle of integrating our SDK into their code. Today, we are launching a zero code, try-it-at-your-desk version of our tool available at <a href="https://memfault.com" rel="nofollow">https://memfault.com</a> (click on the "Try Memfault" button"). In about 5 minutes, you should be able to connect a ARM Cortex-M based development board and upload an error report using a GDB script. If you do not have a board, you'll be able to interact with an example error report.<p>We could go in at length about the implementations (ask us questions in the comments!). One thing we're especially proud of is the "Globals & Statics" tab which lets you query the state of any static or global variable in your system. To get this to work, we cross compiled libdwarf to wasm via emscripten and used it to implement parts of an in-browser debugger which can be used to look up values for a known symbol given an elf file and a Memfault core file.<p>We'd love to hear what you think, and find out what other tools you've found helpful in this space. Looking forward to the discussion!
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Title: I am currently listening to Opening Arguments, Revisionist History, 99% Invisible, and Thinking Allowed but I feel like I'm missing some podcasts that may be less current but offer more substance/significant and profound content (instead of looking at tidbits of interesting topics)
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Title: Hey HN. Working from home a fews days per month can be pretty great. Less distractions, more time to think deeply about stuff, more natural to take breaks and, let's not forget, better coffee.<p>But what about working remotely still sucks? Be it from home, from a beach on Bali, or from a WeWork in Amsterdam.<p>(Im trying to get my company to be more remote-friendly and would like a nuanced view before I make my case.)
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Title: In high school I did the lowest tier maths and then jumped in the deep end by doing a year of electrical engineering. I’ve now done those harder math classes but I feel like there’s holes here and there. I think when I took physics it really brought out these flaws and lack of intuition.<p>Would anyone have a good resource for building this up?<p>Thanks
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Title: I've been using Jira on a Starter licence since I was in university. Over time I've found that it's become steadily more bloated, heavy and costly. Several key features which were previously built-in are now plugins with a fairly high aggregate cost.<p>I've been out of the open-source bug-tracker loop for way too long. Are there any good alternatives to JIRA?<p>Essentially I need a bugtracker which can handle multiple projects and separate the bugs out on that basis. Custom workflow support would be good, but not essential (as nerdy as it sounds, I sometimes use JIRA as a digital to-do list).
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Title: So recently I did a couple of minor patches on the FreeBSD and NetBSD kernels and played with some linux kernel. It was the first time in a a few years, I've been excited about programming.<p>Unfortunately I'm still completely lost. It seems that there's so much to learn and every kernel update breaks whatever you just finished writing. I see terms in unfamiliar with and often find myself googling basic OS concepts.<p>Are there any recommendations reading materials to get a better grasp on OS theory and / or the Linux / UNIX kernels and programming for them?
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Title: I'm familiar with the rfs page, but I'm curious what HN thinks about trends/opportunities for solving problems. Could be massive problems or just low hanging fruit.<p>Maybe this thread could be a lifting off point for a startup - in which case I'd consider it a success :)
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Justin Wenig, a co-founder of Coursedog (<a href="https://www.coursedog.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursedog.com</a>). We build enterprise resource-planning software for higher education, starting with schedule and curriculum planning. As of today, 40 universities such as Columbia and BYU use our platform to build their class schedule,
manage degree programs and publish the
catalog to students.<p>My co-founder Nick Diao and I were CS majors at Columbia. We were motivated but mediocre students, skipping class and constantly
building sorta-used not-product-market-fit apps that never took off.<p>During our Junior year, we realized how difficult it was to register for the CS classes we wanted to take, and had the unspecific but weirdly prescient lightbulb moment that all university students have where they say "wow university software sucks".<p>We reached out to Columbia University's IT department and learned that most universities build their schedules with a combination of excel spreadsheets, manual horse/brain/caffeine-power and SQL reports to clean up inevitable errors. It seemed like an obvious opportunity to take a swing at a business.<p>We spent that summer working out of a sweaty lounge at Columbia, awkwardly cold-calling University Registrars and building a Vue/Node web app
to help universities optimize their class schedules. We utilized a mixed integer programming algorithm to optimize time and room assignments based on student + faculty preferences and space constraints, and reluctantly built a user interface for manual edits when university politics inevitably messed up our Moneyball-esque
optimization. And we had bugs. Luckily for us, compared to the existing on-prem solutions and excel spreadsheets that could make the most dedicated investment banker blush, 40+
universities tolerated us enough to buy our $150K+ multi-year contract solution within a year and a half.<p>Although we’re focused on schedule and curriculum planning for now, it turns out that all higher education administration software is sort of
very bad. Fun fact: There are 5 universities in the country on a cloud based enterprise resource planing solution. 5. As such, we feel pretty good about going down the line and rebuilding the whole thing from scratch: registration, advising, financials, all of it. That's the long-term vision. If you might want to work on something like that, please get in touch. We're hiring for the long
term, but also right now 30 schools call us at all hours of the night, we launched 4 products this year and will be launching another 4 next
year, and we could use engineers with brains that are more developed than ours.<p>Nick and I would like your feedback on all of the above, are happy to answer questions, and look forward to hearing about your experiences
and ideas to improve university software. Fire away HN!
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Title: Hi!<p>I work as the backend developer at a mobile app startup, and we don't currently have any centralized logging.<p>So... how do you do it? Is there any way to have something similar to AWS X-Ray, to trace a single chain of events across platforms? Unless it's a bad idea? I really don't know ^^'
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Title: The Skype for web -> https://web.skype.com/ does not support Firefox. Urges the user to use Microsoft Edge or Chrome.
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Title: whether it's monetized or just a hobby<p>should you disclose it if there's no conflict of interest?
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Title: I am a undergraduate student and my courses don't include much of the modern technologies. I consider myself to have a solid base in CS and have tried many times to learn new things but I always get bored with the courses and start another topic leaving the previous incomplete. Please share your ways of learning.
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Title: Personal life, career, dev work, trying to be "clever" about saving money: anything will do. What were/are some of the biggest time wasters in your life?<p>This is anonymous account, so can be candid about mine... Things I regret as of today:<p><pre><code> * Taking too many business/economics courses, e.g. Managerial Economics, Marketing, etc..
* Some DevOps stuff, particularly Ansible
* Django/Python - should've started with Rails
* Failed side projects that I kept working on for a long time
* Facebook - deleted it several years ago
* TV - havent watch it for more than 5+ years
* Porn - havent watched for several months
* School, memorizing useless facts - nothing can be done about that, I suppose?
* Studying Calculus/Linear Algebra because I wanted to go into AI/ML
* Some video games
</code></pre>
EDIT: added mine
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Title: I failed an onsite interview for a senior position because I didn’t have a mental model of the subtask before coding each function during a 90 minute pair programming test. I only used javascript in a text editor. I ran node in console after small changes and additions to print, test, debug.<p>The feedback was you can’t do this when compiling time is long and development will be slow. I’ve heard of developers that don’t use debuggers because they have a mental model in their head.<p>Do most senior software engineers take time to build a mental model before coding and testing?<p>I prefer to create a draft quickly to build a mental model. Is my way of logging to console frequently and coding before building a mental model a junior habit that I should work on?<p>Am I unlikely to pass a FAANG interview like this?<p>Edit: It wasn’t a LeetCode problem. I had to implement an API where each call would change the state of the application on certain conditions. I heard the problem and clarified it on the whiteboard. I coded each function while talking and ask for clarifications.
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Title: I am currently learning Machine Learning and I am curious as to how I can use what I am learning for commercial purposes.
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Title: Hi HN, I'm looking for your help to brainstorm problems that need solutions. I'm in a program where we create teams and find challenges that the world or community around us is facing; however, many of us struggle to find realistic or 'not too broad' problems due to a lack of real-world experience. Based on your personal or anecdotal experience, what types of problems would you like to see a solution developed to? Are there places or websites to source ideas from? Thank you.
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Title: Hi HN. Recently I have been wondering how other people read. I recently realized that once I finish a book I immediately replace it for the next one on my to-read list. As soon as I swap titles it kinda feels like the value of the previous book slowly starts to fade and gets lost. Obviously not all of it, and especially on novels I'm in for the ride and getting into the story. But in more informative/instructive stuff I feel like there must be a "better" way to read and get the most out of each book.<p>For example, recently, I started taking notes into the margins and I find I feel more "engaged" to the reading experience and the content. So I wonder what is other people's take on reading?
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Title: Services like Facebook ads/stripe are wrongly closing Venezuelan accounts<p>Venezuelan users have been reporting that different services such as facebook/instagram ads [1], heroku services [2], stripe atlas [3], sedo [4], and others, have been blocking venezuelan users and terminating accounts due to sactions that they didn't even care to read, the sactions are pretty explicit at targeting only individuals and officials of the government [5] and there is even licences that allow these services to operate [6] and a faq [7] where this is explained<p>Even kayak.com (and all booking holdings sites) stopped accepting venezuela as a country of origin for flights, (see: https://i.imgur.com/nAouvUB.png) with a learn more link that goes to [5], and it makes no sense at all despite how much we need to buy plane tickets as people is fleeing the country.<p>So, what's the deal with these services closing their doors to 30million venezuelans when the sactions are targeting a defined list of individuals?<p>---<p>[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20ads%20venezuela&src=typed_query&f=live<p>[2] https://twitter.com/gonzalezlrjesus/status/1167833470116225025<p>[3] https://stripe.com/docs/atlas<p>[4] https://www.sumarium.es/2019/08/06/empresa-alemana-sedo-suspende-todas-las-cuentas-de-venezolanos-por-las-sanciones/<p>[5] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/venezuela.aspx<p>[6] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/venezuela_gl25.pdf<p>[7] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Pages/faq_other.aspx#venezuela
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Title: I’m currently in a country with low speed internet and the entire ‘modern’ web is basically unusable except HN, which still loads instantly. Reddit, Twitter, news and banking sites are all painfully slow or simply time out altogether.<p>To PG, the mods and whoever else is responsible: thank you for not trying to ‘fix’ what isn’t broken.
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Title: I have added OpenZones to Flowx, my Android weather app[0]. OpenZones are regions covering disaster zones where all the pro data in the app is freely available.<p>I have created an 1200km diameter OpenZone over Florida with Hurricane Dorian approaching. So if you add Florida to the app, you can view radar, NOAA's GFS, NAM and HRRR models, CMC GDPS and RDPS models, and the DWD (Germany) ICON model. There are also predicted hurricane tracks from the NOAA and CMC ensemble models which I find extremely valuable to predict the possible paths of Dorian. This YouTube video[1] shows an example of the hurricane tracks.<p>The reasoning behind OpenZones is that meteorological organizations solve weather simulations and release data to the public with the aim to reduce damage, injury and fatalities. It's only right to support this purpose and open up all data in disaster zones.<p>The idea for OpenZones came from the fires (Camp Fire) in California last year. I was part way through adding HRRR smoke simulation data to Flowx when a user asked if I could release the smoke data early for the California fires. I did so in the free version of the app and then rolled it into the pro version after the fires.<p>Sorry there is no Apple version of the app.<p>[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enzuredigital.weatherbomb<p>[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5do7dYfYfQ
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Title: I have ported "The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL" series, <a href="https://www.howtographql.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.howtographql.com/</a>, from Javascript to Clojure/script.<p>Blog post:<p><a href="https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_fullstack_learning_project_part_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full...</a><p>Source code GitHub repo:<p><a href="https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame</a><p>Suggestions and corrections, more than welcome.
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Title: A lot of online schools / programs seem to fall under one or more of the following categories<p>- For profit online scams (University of Phoenix, Full Sail, etc.)<p>- No online undergrad degrees or useless online undergrad degrees (it seems that the few reputable schools with online programs fall under this one)<p>- Not flat out scams, but the education seems subpar and I don't trust them after a cursory look? (SNHU, WGV, etc. A lot of these almost seem like slightly better bootcamps)<p>My question is, is there any decent online bachelors programs for fields like CS?
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Title: I’m looking for suggestions beyond the basic “use a password instead of a pin”, “use 2fa”, don’t connect to public WiFi”. I think I’ve got my iPhone setup pretty well, but I suspect I’m missing more than just a few things. Any suggestion is appreciated, I’m willing to at least try it.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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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=hn" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hn</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</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=20867121" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867121</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867122" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867122</a>
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Title: Recently I was looking at how much we spend on SaaS, and it made me wonder -<p>For those who don't mind sharing, what's your total monthly SaaS spend? Where?<p>Here're some SaaS expenses that I can share off the top of my head: (amount in USD)<p>- Video Calling/Screensharing: 60<p>- Internal Docs: 80 (docs, spreadsheet)<p>- Emails: 60<p>- Team Communications: 60<p>- Customer Success: 90<p>- Survey/Feedback: 35<p>- Calendar Scheduling: 30<p>- CRM: 90<p>- Email Client: 60<p>- Lead Enhancement: 50 (get more details about given email/domain)<p>- Accounting: 70<p>- Private Beta Launch: 75<p>- Project Management: Free<p>- Analytics: Free<p>Total -> ~750 USD<p><i>+ PLUS</i>
Few hundred dollars every month, while testing out a few SaaS, that requires credit card upfront, which you forget to cancel. (Q2 - Does this happen to you often?)<p><i>PS.</i>
• This does not include tech expenses. I'll sync up with our tech team and update soon.
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Title: I am based in the USA, and am hard at work on building services for my company. My goal is to launch and have customers by the end of the year.<p>While I 100% support GDPR, I do not know anyone within the EU who could act as a Data Protection Officer or EU representative for privacy concerns. I am funding myself at this point, and don't really want to shell out hundreds of dollars to some law firm just because they have an address within the EU. Outside the EU, I plan to handle support concerns on my own (for the time being).<p>What are my options here? My initial thought is that I will just have to prevent those living in the EU from using my service, which is unfortunate.
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Title: I've been working remotely for the last 4 years of my life. In my latest company, I just realized how little literature has been written on the topic of remote working. I've been seeing some forms of reports on the status of remote working [0], but I couldn't find any in-depth materials (whether blogs, essays, papers or even books) with some qualitative thinking on remote work and the future of work. We have been flooded with solutions and tools without a deep understand of our working flow and caveats.<p>Ie: why are things happening in a certain way? What are the school of thoughts? What are the best practices (synchronous vs. asynchronous, remote vs distributed)? What is the Keynes vs. Hayek of the subject? What are the implications of remote working on organizational structures (eg. functional vs. divisional)? What can and cannot work? What's the tool stack one should adapt depending on the org configuration?(Slack + Zoom for sync, etc) How does this should adapt as the org changes over time?<p>Do you have specific resources you could recommend me to read on the topic?<p>This write-up I just published on the blog is the closest example to what I'm looking for: https://sametab.com/blog/future-remote-working/<p>[0] https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019
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Title: As an mechatronics/research-engineer with great interest in pentesting and cybersecurity I'd like to make a career change. Where do I start? - comptia or cissp certs or is a university degree the only way?
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Title: It's 9 months since the last thread, so time for another. Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.<p>I'll be here for the next 2.5 hours and then again at around 11:30 am for another 2.5 hours. As usual, there are countless possible immigration-related topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!<p>Edit: I will be signing off now but checking in throughout the weekend for questions and comments I might have missed as well as new questions and comments. As always, it's been a pleasure and great learning experience for me. Thank you.
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Title: It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
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Title: Today I googled "follow famous readers online" and this is the top result:<p>https://www.nytimes.com/programs/better-reader/day-1<p>Google shows that the term is on the page. But when I try to access it, it redirects me to a signup page.<p>What's the deal here?<p>Does Google not notice that? Does it turn a blind eye? Does the NYT trick Google by displaying something else to Google then to me?<p>Or are pages that only members can read now part of the Google index?
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Title: jumproot.com
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Title: I’d be really interested in reading about multiplayer servers for big title FPS games with matchmaking and lots of players
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Title: Even though cloud based password managers have been around for a long time now, I never felt comfortable using them - the idea of handing over my important login details to some third party company seemed really weird to me. Most people might not care but the HN crowd are generally security conscious or say paranoid about security(for good reasons). But from password managers related threads, its apparent that many of you use them. So I wanted to get a general idea of how HN users feel about them.
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Title: Imagine you are a junior software developer who is entering a relatively large and complex project with 150,000 lines of code. It is not some web software, but something way more complex, say an embedded system, or a navigation system, or a digital camera, or maybe a complex device for medical imaging. It is a lot of code in different languages. What you know is that the major aspects are working but there still might be some problems.<p>And of course, management is eager for you to get stuff up and running, as the project is already severely delayed, needs to be shipped as soon as possible, and the customers and investors are getting impatient.<p>There is only one problem - all the three senior engineers which were working on the codebase have left suddenly, only their manager is still there, and you have to start with reading and understanding the code, and what needs to be done. It is somewhat commented, but, of course, it is not easy to understand. And as it looks, the previous developers did not had any time to leave you proper technical documentation! What are you going to tell the manager?<p>But then, suddenly, a fairy godmother appears, which has a magic wand in her hand. It is a kind and witty documentation fairy, and she says: "I will fulfil you a single wish. By my magical powers, I will give you exactly the documentation which you think is most important. It can be anything you want. Anything! The only condition is, it must not be more than a good software developer can produce in a month."<p>What do you wish for?
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Title: Hello Googlers (former and current ones),<p>What have you learned at Google, as a Software Engineer, that you think was interesting and helped you up your game as an engineer? Anything you can share with people outside of Google that can help them improve as engineers?
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Title: What skills, technologies etc.<p>Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/d1fqwd/people_of_this_sub_who_have_jobs_as_data/
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Title: For example, "On The Shortness of Life" by Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
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Title: Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)<p>Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See "Controls").
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]<p>1. https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist/<p>2. https://medium.com/@littleblah/my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2<p>3. https://github.com/littleblah/senior-engineer-checklist<p>Feedbacks/Pull requests solicited :)
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Title: Where things = products, services, tools, strategies, books, systems, etc.<p>For me:<p>* Internal Family Systems made me more peaceful<p>* "The Sleep Book" by Meadows made me sleep better<p>* Apps: Otter for taking notes, Superhuman for email<p>* Websites: Wirecutter<p>* Books: How to Get Lucky, Self-Therapy
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Title: Some US companies flourish in China (e.g. KFC, Costco) while most end up being defeated by local rivals due to multitude of reasons. For those that entered, has the money and effort been worth it? What ended up costing more of your time than expected?
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Title: When I graduated Uni few years back i was very interested and excited about programming and would constantly work on side projects. Now after having worked for a few companies, it almost completely killed my motivation and interest in programming. Working on boring, crappy projects for a living is just killing me, and you never know until you get on the job. How do you deal with this?
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Title: I grew up in the late 90s on obscure message boards and in many ways it was my real introduction to the Internet. I really miss the community and authenticity of that world, which seems to have been replaced entirely by monocultural mass social media like Reddit.
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Title: Basically, I was on a shitty team at a zombie startup. I only stayed there because I wanted a "year of experience" ASAP. Some cliffs:<p>* 30% of their engineering team quit as I joined (apparently there was a big fight between the lead designer / founders, the designer got canned, the engineers quit in response)<p>* constant check-ins / viewing of our screen<p>* pile tech debt on top of tech debt (while not even acknowledging there’s tech debt in the first place)<p>* mandatory meeting at 5pm every friday, where we sit around a powerpoint drinking hard alcohol giving status updates<p>My manager was a negative person. He would constantly talk about how this is "garbage" or how that is "trash", and I was expected to agree with him. Always talked and about things he hated or how things sucked. Rarely anything positive. He never admitted he was wrong and the rest of the leadership was clearly upset with him, but could not fire him because of politics.<p>When I joined, I had a lot of suggestions for improving the codebase but my manager shot every single one of them down with, in retrospect, bullshit explanations. For instance, he has said:<p>* There is no reason to use Objective-C<p>* Nobody writes C anymore<p>* Killing an app in iOS via the app switcher is the same as `kill -9`<p>* It's impossible for anyone to understand our [60KLOC] codebase - BIGGEST RED FLAG EVER<p>After a while I told him I didn't like the job, and the only reason why I didn't quit was because I wanted a year of experience. I exercised 1 year + 1 month of stock options. I took vacation that would end 2 weeks before my 1y + 1mo. When I got back from my vacation they fired me for "performance".<p>I don't know what I'm gonna do in next interviews. Do I keep it on my resume or take it off? I don't want to go into my interview, have them ask about my experience at this company, explain I got fired and say "the company was shit" because that will be just me complaining.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions?<p>EDIT: More clarification here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20946023
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Title: <a href="https://www.ruok.org.au/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ruok.org.au/</a><p>My Australian friend just linked this to me and I thought it would be good question to ask HN. IME HN and perhaps software development in general contains a lot of at-risk personalities in stressful work environments that don't get asked this question enough. I think you are all interesting, intelligent, hard-working people and mental health is unfortunately still stigmatised in the tech community. Feel free to ask any coworkers today who have been struggling as well.
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Title: For a data sensitive home grown project I want to integrate an open source voice assistant or roll my own.<p>Do you guys have any tips or experience with this and how to get started? I expect there to be so
me gotcha’s that I am unaware of.<p>The voice assistant does not need to be perfect but does need to be good. It should capture at least 80% of what I say in formal non-slang English correctly. I want to be able to speak in sentences, like I do with Siri.<p>What would your approach be to build or integrate this? Is it even feasible?<p>I am willing to invest one to two months full-time on learning the required machine learning. I currently know basic neural nets (Michael Nielsen’s book), basic statistics (e.g. logistic regression) and basic machine learning (SVM, Knn, PCA, random forest, decision trees, bag of words).
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Title: I've never been able to find a list so I figure I would ask y'all.<p>Examples of corporate power moves:<p>- Showing up 5 minutes late to a meeting, to show someone your time is more valuable.
- "The Hard CC" where you cc someone's boss to throw them under the bus for not being accountable.
- Having someone prepare a report or do a lot of work on something and then tell them to "simplify it" or just give you the "key points" in a meeting<p>What are your favorite (or least favorite if something drives you nuts) corporate power moves?
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Title: New Free and Open-Source storage device w/ Open Hardware running Debian. It's doing all the encryption on the device and not sending private keys anywhere, has sync and share. https://privacysafe.ai/indiegogo
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Title: After asking this question at indie hackers, I would like to know if anyone over here would like to share recent lessons from failures.<p>Let's celebrate failures & grow.
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Title: For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.
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Title: I'm currently working 40h/week as a backend php developer and I think I can put an extra 20 hours every week to increase my earnings. However, I struggle finding remote work or above the average freelancing projects. Basically I don't want to waste my time on sites like freelancer.com where I have to compete against many low-quality programmers who place low bids just to win projects and then they mess them up.<p>Where could I find jobs like these?
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Title: From your experience, do you check domain name availability before naming a company? It looks to me like this is becoming less important...<p>There's many companies that either use alternative TLD's like; example.app or example.shop<p>Or prepend "get" or append "app" to the name to obtain the dot com TLD.<p>I also think that SEO and search engines make the actual domain names less important now right?
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Title: I'm starting to get worried about online privacy. I'd like try and remove some of my online identity. I'm not sure if there is any point. My plan is to shutdown all social media accounts and email. Re-opening new more anonymous ones.<p>Is this going to actually do anything or will Google and other marketers figure out I'm the same person and I'll be tracked all the same?<p>My concern comes from tools like this https://github.com/Greenwolf/social_mapper. Given this sort of thing it seems too easy for online blackmail/extortion scams to get hold of my information.
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Title: What is your pick, if you are starting mobile app development today?
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Title: Niall Ferguson's the Ascent of Money and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The former is extremely informative, the later is a work of art.
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Title: Hi HN -<p>Chris Gardner here, founder of Sequence Bio (<a href="https://sequencebio.com" rel="nofollow">https://sequencebio.com</a>). We’re researching Newfoundland’s enriched genetics and medical records to find and develop better, safer medicines.<p>First things first, let me tell you a bit about Newfoundland. Not only is it my home, but it’s also a pretty unique place. Perched on Canada’s most easterly coast, Newfoundland has its own 30 minute time zone, a Broadway musical about how nice we are (Come from Away), and a front row seat to humpback whales and 10,000 year old icebergs. Newfoundland’s settlement pattern is also unique because it was settled in the 1700s by about 25,000 Irish and English people and there’s been little inmigration ever since. In fact, it’s estimated that about 90% of our 500,000 residents descend from those original settlers. This high degree of relatedness among residents, coupled with large families, makes Newfoundland a ‘genetically isolated’ population.<p>Because of this unique history and high degree of relatedness, genetically isolated populations like Newfoundland also have high frequencies of genetic variants that help explain the link between genetics, health and disease. Newfoundland itself has some of the highest rates of type 1 diabetes and colorectal cancer in the world. These links are important to pharma because they can help double the success rate of their drug programs, and over $4 Billion was spent last year to access genetic and medical data to find these links. But, not all data is created equal. The most valuable data come from populations with two characteristics: isolated genetics and uniform medical records in a centralized healthcare system. There’s only a few places on earth with these characteristics (including Iceland, Finland, Japan and Qatar). One of them is Newfoundland.<p>Despite the opportunity for important discoveries in Newfoundland, genetic research here has a troubled past. In the 90s, researchers from Baylor University were dubbed the ‘Texas Vampires’ for flying into small Newfoundland towns and telling people they were at risk of dying suddenly due to a rare heart condition. These researchers coerced patients into providing blood samples and never returned to Newfoundland with the findings they promised, including insights that could inform treatment options for those with the rare heart condition. This was highly unethical, left Newfoundlanders skeptical of genetic research, and led the local Government to enact strict regulatory barriers.<p>My family has lived in Newfoundland for over 200 years and I wanted to see commercial genetic research done in a way that puts Newfoundlanders first. Genetic research has the opportunity to help us understand the diseases that impact Newfoundlanders the most while also having a positive global impact. People from outside Newfoundland have tried, and failed. And that’s why I started Sequence Bio.<p>Sequence Bio is a local company that spent 5 years building the right ethical and legislative framework to access and study this data in a way that ensures Newfoundlanders are protected and benefit from our research.<p>Two key parts of this framework include:<p>1) Helping amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to outlaw genetic discrimination and protect the rights of those who donate their DNA for research; and<p>2) Fighting for (and winning) the right to return medically actionable findings. These findings include information on 59 medically actionable genes that have known treatment options (including the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes associated with elevated risk for breast cancer), and a person’s carrier status for certain diseases, including cystic fibrosis. We hope these findings will help Newfoundlanders make informed decisions about their health and care.<p>It wasn’t easy getting these measures passed, but we built our business with a participant-centric approach that puts trust and privacy at the core of everything we do. We want to be a company that makes all of Newfoundland proud. Because when it comes down to it, the people who are taking part in this research are (literally) our family, neighbours and friends. Our success depends on their support.<p>This June, we started recruiting Newfoundlanders for our research project, called the NL Genome Project (NLGenomeProject.ca), and over 1,200 people have already donated their genetic and personal health information. It was a long road to get here, but it was worth it to do it right. All participants of our research are fully informed of how their data is used and shared, and there is no obligation to take part.<p>Now the real work begins. With this information, we’ll combine it and study it at scale to find different mutations or variations - almost like finding typos in our genetic code - that better explain the link between genetics, health and disease. This information is highly valuable because it can be used to discover new medicines that are more likely to succeed in phase two clinical trials. By leading the early stages of this research and forward-integrating into drug development, Sequence Bio can capture long-term value of new medicines through licensing and other transactions which could generate anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per transaction.
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Title: This story was on the HN frontpage and then disappeared after a few hours. Why did it get off the frontpage so quickly?<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
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Title: Dear senior developers on HN,
What are some examples of design choices that helped you reduce the effort needed to change your code according to change in requirements?
What are some of the architectural choices you made that made your codebase easier to work with?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>We're Hugues and Max, co-founders of Dashblock (<a href="https://dashblock.com" rel="nofollow">https://dashblock.com</a>). Dashblock turns any website into an API. People use us to access product information, news content, sales-related data or real-estate offers for instance.<p>As a data scientist, Hugues realised how complicated it was to access web data programmatically when a website doesn't provide an API. You have to build a script to pull the HTML, render the page in some cases, find selectors for the information you are interested in, distribute your tasks to scale and if the structure of the page changes, you have to update your selectors to find back the information.<p>We decided to build Dashblock to make it really simple to access web data through an API. Our software is basically a browser that allows you to access a website, right-click on the information you want to extract and preview your API on other pages.<p>In order to create long-lasting APIs, we developed a machine learning model that is resilient to website updates. For now, we mainly handle changes at the level of the HTML structure but with enough training data, we will also be resilient to UI updates.<p>Besides, our model detects similar content on the page to facilitate the selection process. When you call your API, we launch a headless browser, render the page, classify the content of the page using structural, visual and semantic features, and structure it by minimizing the entropy to give you a list when needed.<p>Our pricing model is related to the number of API calls our users make per month and if you want to give it a try, we currently offer 10k API calls when you sign up! You can download our software here : dashblock.com.<p>If you have any questions, we would be happy to answer them and if you have any related ideas, feedbacks or experiences, feel free to share them :)<p>Thank you !
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Title: Hi everyone!<p>I’m Trey, the founder of Sparkswap (<a href="https://sparkswap.com" rel="nofollow">https://sparkswap.com</a>). We've built a new desktop app to purchase Bitcoin with USD directly into your wallet using the Lightning Network, instantly. This is not Bitcoin held in your name by an institution - it’s your wallet, and your private keys.<p>Today, the vast majority of the billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin^1 traded on a daily basis is done on custodial exchanges, meaning users deposit their currencies with the exchange, trade within the system, and then withdraw their new currency balance at a later time. This runs counter to the original goal of Bitcoin, which was to give users full control of their money through a system without central authorities or middlemen. Unfortunately, users historically haven’t had much of a choice, as using custodial exchanges has been the only way to get reliable pricing, use a bank account, and achieve reasonable settlement times for transactions.<p>Then came the Lightning Network (LN), first introduced in 2016 in this white paper: <a href="https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf</a>. One of the original goals of the LN was to solve Bitcoin’s scalability problem. It works by creating a second <i>local</i> consensus layer between two parties on top of the main Bitcoin blockchain, only going back to layer 1 for final settlement or dispute resolution, thereby decongesting the main blockchain and enabling faster transaction speeds. At Sparkswap, we’re taking advantage of Lightning’s fast transaction speeds to build an alternative to existing custodial exchanges: for the first time, you can have fast, convenient trading without custodial trust.<p>I started working on Bitcoin after two years in wealth management technology at BlackRock, where I got to see how the financial system operates at a mechanical level. As an engineer, looking at the antiquated way that money actually moves around the system (you’d be surprised how many FTP uploads and CSVs are involved) and how reliant it is on a small group of institutions that have to trust each other, it was immediately clear to me that we can do much better. Bitcoin offers a way to re-architect our financial system in an internet-native way that removes reliance on those central parties, opening opportunities for more people to access it, and for new service providers to thrive like they have on the internet. But there is still a lot of work to be done to solve fundamental problems like custody - and that's why I started working on Sparkswap.<p>After almost two years of hard work, we’ve just launched Sparkswap Desktop, our Lightning-powered app for buying Bitcoin. With the app, because every purchase is executed on the LN, it’s both instantaneous and you never have to give up control of your Bitcoin private keys. As the saying goes, not your keys, not your coins^2.<p>Here's how it works. When you deposit USD via ACH in the open source Sparkswap app (<a href="https://github.com/sparkswap/sparkswap-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sparkswap/sparkswap-desktop</a>), it is sent to a US-domiciled bank account that Sparkswap (the company) doesn't own or control. Then later when you buy Bitcoin in the app, the Bitcoin payment to you is put in escrow (called a Hash/Time-lock Contract, or HTLC) locked by a cryptographic hash on the Lightning Network. This means that if you can produce the preimage of the hash, you get the Bitcoin, but at this point only Sparkswap knows the preimage. Then the app creates an escrow payment to Sparkswap for the USD price of the Bitcoin locked by the same hash using our payment partner. Since Sparkswap has the preimage, we can then immediately claim the escrowed dollars by sending the preimage to our payment partner. This gives you access to the preimage through our payment partner’s API, which the app then uses to claim the BTC on your behalf. The escrows also have timeouts so that they can be canceled if they aren't executed after a certain time. This whole process results in USD being swapped for BTC with a level of security that popular services don't provide, and in most cases swaps complete in just a few seconds.<p>In addition, every Bitcoin you buy with Sparkswap is instantly available in a channel on the Lightning Network. That means that you can easily spend that Bitcoin on the dozens of games, apps, and merchants building Lightning-powered services. And since Sparkswap opens Lightning channels to you, after initial setup you can transfer funds from your bank, buy Bitcoin, and spend it on the Lightning Network all in a matter of seconds, making it one of the easiest ways to get started on Lightning.<p>The first version of the app is designed for users that run LND (a popular Lightning node, <a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd</a>) already. If you don’t, we recommend Zap (<a href="https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases</a>), a desktop Lightning Wallet that lets you run a light client so you don’t have to sync the full blockchain. The current release of Sparkswap Desktop also only supports purchasing Bitcoin with USD. However, we have plans to support selling Bitcoin, as well as other Lightning implementations and clients (and mobile!), so stay tuned for updates.<p>We know cryptocurrency certainly has its issues, and we’re working to try to fix one of them. In just the first half of 2019, almost $500M^3 was stolen from custodial exchanges. We believe it’s critical to the value and future success of Bitcoin to establish trustless, non-custodial trading. We don’t have a token, and we’re not selling vaporware - we’ve shipped a real product that solves a real problem and enhances the biggest proven use case in the cryptocurrency industry: buying Bitcoin.<p>We'd love feedback on the product from all — Lightning Network enthusiasts, critics, and those that don’t know much about it. If you have any trouble getting started, please ask us for help! (support at sparkswap.com)<p>Thanks!<p>Trey<p>[1] <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-trading-volume-tops-11-billion-for-first-time-in-nearly-a-year" rel="nofollow">https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-trading-volume-tops-11-bill...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/2018-a-record-breaking-year-for-crypto-exchange-hacks" rel="nofollow">https://www.coindesk.com/2018-a-record-breaking-year-for-cry...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/exit-scams-swindled-3-1-billion-from-crypto-investors-in-2019-report" rel="nofollow">https://www.coindesk.com/exit-scams-swindled-3-1-billion-fro...</a>
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Title: I know there are plenty of benefits of working remote such as flexibility. I would love to know about some of the issues you face and how you/your company works to address them.
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Title: This question has most likely been asked before, but since our industry moves fast I want to ask it still. You guys that roll your own operation, what is your business (no need to out yourselves) and what tech stack did you choose to complete it?<p>Also, if you don't mind, do you think the tech you chose had any effects on your success? If it did, why?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I'm going to be putting a significant percentage of my income aside going forward in order to combat climate change.<p>Let's say, as an order of magnitude estimate, between $250-$2500/mo.<p>I've already made a lot of changes to lower my personal impact and I'd like to go further. It strikes me that, for example, though I own an electric car, this is almost certainly not the most effective use of funds.<p>Possible ways include:<p>- supporting protests globally with funds<p>- buying carbon offsetting directly<p>- buying / funding research into carbon capture<p>- funding renewable energy in general etc<p>What does HN think? Opinions on specific businesses, charities, platforms, etc?<p>How can individuals use their earning power to make a difference?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>lately I realized I'm struggeling to keep myself accountable, mainly for work I am the main stakeholder in.<p>When working "after spec" or together with someone else on the same code, I can to stick to it and deliver quality I'm satisfied with.
But as soon as I work for myself my standards, quality and even goals start going down hill. Short term I'm okay with less and sloppy work, and after a while I regrett no doing a better job.<p>Do you guys have ideas, techniques etc. to deal with this behaviour?
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Title: I've had discourse with about a dozen folks over the last few weeks who have wanted to keep in touch, but their profiles are missing contact info.<p>I have usernames in an XLS to revisit later, but for now, I cannot contact you.<p>Make sure you have an email address in your bio if you'd like to stay in touch!<p>Edit: the <i>email</i> field is not visible to others. You would need to put it into the <i>about</i> textarea to make it publicly visible.
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Title: I'm posting this as a warning to other small business who might be thinking of using Stripe to process payments. I own a small boxing gym & we signed up with Stripe based on recommendation of someone I know. At first everything was great - easy on-boarding process, clean interface, etc.. We have been working w/ them for 4 months & have several hundred payments without a single chargeback.<p>Then out of the blue I received this email:<p>[b]"Our systems recently identified charges that appear to be unauthorized by the customer, meaning that the owner of the card or bank account did not consent to these payments. This unfortunately means that we will no longer be able to accept payments for<p>Refunds on card payments will be issued in 5–7 business days, although they may take longer to appear on the cardholder's statement. Please refer to your dashboard for a list of the charges to be refunded[1]."[/b]<p>I have NO idea what payments they could possibly be referring to & support doesn't respond to my numerous messages. They won't tell me which payments are being refunded (dashboard link they provided just sends me to the list of ALL our payments).<p>Worst of all, when I attempted to process a refund for a customer who had been injured & was unable to continue training, I get an error message stating I am unable to process refunds! Am I supposed to tell my customer that my payment process won't refund his money? FYI - The payment I am attempting to refund HAS NOT been paid out yet - the money is sitting in my stripe account - but they refuse to refund it or even dignify me with a response.<p>I can't express how disappointed I am in Stripe's total lack of communication and indifference both it's customer's and our customers. Big, BIG mistake I made in choosing them as our payment processor - just warning you guys before you make the same mistake
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Title: I recently got a Frontend Engineering offer from Facebook. I have dabbled in backend work earlier in my carrier but never did anything beyond simple API’s on a single server. I set a goal for myself that every year I pick a computer science topic & study it thoroughly. I dont have a CS background but I am begining to love CS.<p>I started with Data Structures & Algorithms last year, studied & did over 250 leets, this is why I was able to land an offer with FAANG.<p>Next on my list is Databases, I want to know how they work internally, build a simple RDBS from scratch, learn SQL(I know simple CRUD operations) advanced concepts like procedures & the latest that is being used today.<p>I have googled yes, but I havent found any resource that meets my needs. I also plan to switch to backend soon.<p>Thanks in advance<p>Edit:
I know I will not be building databases at Facebook, & I also know they probably have internal tools or ORM to access databases. My goal is not to become a database developer but to have a good knowledge of how they work just to satisfy my curiosity.
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Title: I just logged into my AWS account and I noticed every charge has doubled for my September usage, literally overnight!<p>I called AWS and they said this has been reported by multiple people and they still don't know how many accounts are affected, did this happen to you too?
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Title: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/contact_history/<p>Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/?tab=contacts
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Title: I have four questions related to SQL<p>1. PostgreSQL or MySQL? And why?<p>2. Is it possible to build a hybrid database schema? For example, SQLite+JSON?<p>3. Is it possible to convert XML(XMI) schema to SQLite schema automatically?<p>4. Is it possible to build a custom file format based on SQLite or hybrid one based on SQLite+JSON?
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Title: I am having my first child a few months from now, and am looking for all sorts of perspectives. I am told things will never be the way I picture it in my head anyway, so there's no use in preparing. But still, it'd be nice to have some clue about what we know and what we don't.
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Title: Hi.<p>I made a video crash course about Terraform 0.12. It's one of four I want to do. I would love to show you what I've made so far and get your feedback and thoughts.<p>The course is financially free but does require an email to signup (a limitation of the platform I'm using): https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform-crash-course<p>Let me know if you have any questions.<p>Thanks.
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Title: I'm sure many here need to juggle different servers or services between jobs, clients, playgrounds, and projects.<p>1. How do you organize your private key(s)? One for all, one per client, one per project, one per client/project/machine?<p>2. How do you move your keys between devices/machines? USB copy? File in password manager? Something like Keybase? This point is obviously moot if you have different keys per device.<p>Personally, I'm trying to segment my projects logically and share keys as little as possible, but not to the point of obnoxiousness. I certainly try to keep devices separated in case one gets compromised.<p>As for key management, I've been simply keeping them in directories, but I've been looking into Keybase's git integration lately for that, hence the question.
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Title: I wonder what's the best/recommended way to prepare for being a first time parent?
Any recommended books/blogs/videos... ?
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Title: I'm having some trouble figuring out how to handle my local Python. I'm not asking about 2 vs 3 - that ship has sailed - I'm confused on which binary to be using. From the way I see it, there's at least 4 different Pythons I could be using:<p>1 - Python shipped with OS X/Ubuntu<p>2 - brew/apt install python<p>3 - Anaconda<p>4 - Getting Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/<p>And that's before getting into how you get numpy et al installed. What's the general consensus on which to use? It seems like the OS X default is compiled with Clang while brew's version is with GCC. I've been working through this book [1] and found this thread [2]. I really want to make sure I'm using fast/optimized linear algebra libraries, is there an easy way to make sure? I use Python for learning data science/bioinformatics, learning MicroPython for embedded, and general automation stuff - is it possible to have one environment that performs well for all of these?<p>[1] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython/dp/1449319793<p>[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/46r8u0/numpylinalgsolve_is_6x_faster_on_my_mac_than_on/
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Title: I'm curious if the recent pile on remotely matches the sentiment among employees right now. Are you paying attention to the recent news or is it business as usual? Are you concerned about the value of your equity? Has your opinion changed on Neumann or were his quirks fairly well established internally?
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Title: Hi there,<p>We are 2 co-founders - I own 40% and (let’s call him) Jim owns 60%. Jim invested $12.000 (funded the development), I’ve invested about $1.000. Most of the work except of programming (we hired freelancers to develop a sharing economy app) was done by me - I’ve done the initial sketches & app flow based on Jim’s idea, created us a website, got us a payment gateway, communicated with accountants, handled app submissions, marketing & social media, whole design & branding stuff, handled Android programmer, etc. Jim mainly handled the iOS programmer and a lawyer. The overall hours spent (and work done) are maybe in 85:15 ratio.<p>The app was released a few months ago, got some first users and great feedback from the startup community, but some huge bugs occurred so it’s currently in the stage of fixing them (it’d be done in like 2 weeks)<p>Now I’ve decided to leave after almost 2 years. I’ve proposed to Jim that my share from the potential sale of the startup will be reduced to 30% immediately and will be gradually reduced ever further over a period of 4 years to 5%.<p>Jim said that it’s absolutely unacceptable for me to retain ANY equity after I leave. He wants to pay me my share of the incorporation fee that I’ve paid and that’s it. He argues that once I leave the company I’m not entitled to any money he gets from the potential acquisition.<p>Do you think this is fair? I’ve tried to explain to Jim that what I want is a norm in the startup world and that the equity that I would retain is a compensation for the work that I’ve done to this point, but without any success.<p>If we don’t agree on my exit (taking my share of the incorporation fee) I think he will create a new company and operate the app like that - the thing is that he paid for the app development with his own money (not the corporate ones) so he argues that he owns the app.<p>I’d be really glad to hear your opinions & I will share them with Jim too<p>Thanks :)
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Title: We're Aneesh and Kevin of Quilt (<a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/" rel="nofollow">https://open.quiltdata.com/</a>). Quilt is a versioned data portal for S3 that makes it easier to share, discover, model, and decide based on data at scale. It consists of a Python client, web catalog, and lambda functions (all open source), plus a suite of backend containers and CloudFormation templates for businesses to run their own stacks. Public data are free. Private stacks are available for a flat monthly licensing fee.<p>Try searching for anything on <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/" rel="nofollow">https://open.quiltdata.com/</a> and let us know how search works for you. We kind of surprised ourselves with a Google-like experience that returns primary data instead of links to web pages. We've got over 1M Jupyter notebooks, 100M Amazon reviews, and many more public S3 objects on over a dozen topics indexed in ElasticSearch.<p>The best example, so far, of "S3 bucket as data repo" is from the Allen Institute for Cell Science <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/b/allencell/tree/" rel="nofollow">https://open.quiltdata.com/b/allencell/tree/</a>.<p>Kevin and I met in grad school. We started with the belief that if data could be "managed like code," data would be easier to access, more accurate, and could serve as the foundation for smarter decisions. While we loved databases and systems, we found that technical and cost barriers kept data out of the hands of people that needed it the most: NGOs, citizens, and non-technical users. That led to three distinct iterations of Quilt over as many years and has now culminated in open.quiltdata.com, where we've made a few petabytes of public data in S3 easy to search, browse, visualize, and summarize.<p>In earlier versions of Quilt, we focused on writing new software to version and package data. We also attempted to host private user data in our own cloud. For reasons that we would soon realize, these were mistakes:<p>* Few users were willing to copy data—especially sensitive and large data—into Quilt<p>* It was difficult to gather a critical mass of interesting and useful data that would keep users coming back<p>* Data are consumed in teams that include a variety of non-technical users<p>* Even in 2019, it's unnecessarily difficult and expensive to host and share large files. (GitHub, Dropbox, and Google Drive all have quotas, performance limitations, and none of them can serve as a distributed backend for an application.)<p>* It's difficult for a small team to build both "git for data" (core tech) and "Github for data" (website + network effect) at the same time<p>On the plus side, our users confirmed that "immutable data dependencies" (something Quilt still does) went a long way towards making analysis reproducible and trace-able.<p>Put all of the above together, and we had the realization that if we viewed S3 as "git for data", it would solve a lot of problems at once: S3 supports object versioning, a huge chunk of public and customer data are already there (no copying), and it keeps users in direct control of their own data. Looking forward, the S3 interface is general enough (especially with tools like min.io) to abstract away any storage layer. And we want to bring Quilt to other clouds, and even to on-prem volumes. We repurposed our "immutable dataset abstraction" (Quilt packages) and used them to solve a problem that S3 object versioning doesn't: the ability to take an immutable snapshot of an entire directory, bucket, or collection of buckets.<p>We believe that public data should be free and open to all—with no competing interests from advertisers—that private data should be secure, and that all data should remain under the direct control of its creators. We feel that a "federated network of S3 buckets" offers the foundations on which to achieve such a vision.<p>All of that said, wow do we have a long way to go. We ran into all kinds of challenges scaling and sharding ElasticSearch to accommodate the 10 billion objects on open.quiltdata.com, and we are still researching the best way to fork and merge datasets. (The Quilt package manifests are JSONL, so our leading theory is to check these into git so that diffs and merges can be accomplished over S3 key metadata, without the need to diff or even touch primary data in S3, which are too large to fit into git anyway.)<p>Your comments, design suggestions, and open source contributions to any of the above topics are welcomed.
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Title: Hey HN community - Before I fill out the general contact form for YC, I thought I'd check here first.<p>My situation is that I haven't been able to get in touch with the founders of a YC company for a few months after engaging them on a project, signing agreements, and wiring them a considerable sum of money (tens of thousands).<p>The last communication from the company was an informal email from the CEO in July saying they were dealing with funding issues, but that's the last I heard from them, which feels totally unacceptable.<p>Is there a channel for communicating this type of issue directly with YC?
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Title: I am 46 years old male and have been addicted to Porn for the last 15 years. I am married and wife does not know. I have not had sex for the past two years with her (or anyone). Seems like the only times I get turned on is when I am chatting with someone in IRC sex channels or when I am watching Porn.<p>I want to quit because it breaks me to see my wife think I do not desire her physically, because she is getting old. She is a lovely and beautiful woman.<p>I also want to quit because I find this addiction high, leaves a trace of depression behind.<p>If you did quit, how did you manage? Any help is appreciated.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We are Cristina, Maria, Radu and Alex, co-founders of Listle (<a href="https://www.listle.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.listle.io</a>). We provide audio versions of articles. Instead of sitting in front of your computer reading your favourite blogs or news articles, you can listen to them while you commute, run or cook.<p>While being in YC over the last three months, we’ve developed both the iOS and Android apps. You can find these here: <a href="https://listle.app.link/m2DbuzvEDZ" rel="nofollow">https://listle.app.link/m2DbuzvEDZ</a>.<p>We started this out while still being in university, back in London, a few months ago. The idea was born as a solution to the painful process of using crappy text-to-speech software to listen to articles on the commute to lectures. We used Instapaper, Pocket and open source solutions for text to speech, but none were great. We noticed that as much as technology has evolved, listening to a robotic voice for more than five minutes is still simply terrible.<p>The success of podcasts and audiobooks shows that people enjoy listening to content. However, most of the content out there is still in written format. Listle aims to bridge the gap between these two worlds and enable people to listen to any article on the Internet. For example, you can listen to Paul Graham’s, Michael Seibel’s and several other YC partners’ articles. We’re also actively partnering with independent authors and enabling them to distribute their content in audio, through an embedded player on their Medium page / personal blog. Find examples of what this looks like here, <a href="https://medium.com/hackernoon/wtf-is-the-blockchain-1da89ba19348" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/hackernoon/wtf-is-the-blockchain-1da89ba1...</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/the-mission/your-college-degree-is-worthless-504d6f9e394c" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/the-mission/your-college-degree-is-worthl...</a> and here, <a href="https://medium.com/skilluped/the-3-most-important-skills-to-learn-now-to-thrive-in-2019-be7a29bb16bf" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/skilluped/the-3-most-important-skills-to-...</a>.<p>Every morning we release top new audio articles from that day — curated from HN and Reddit, all read by humans. We realise people have different preferences. Because of that, we’ve included a “request” feature within the app. For any article that you find intriguing, you can copy / paste the link into the app and get a top-notch AI narration, instantly.<p>We’re very excited about this and really hope you give it a try. We’re eager to hear any thoughts / suggestions / requests!
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Title: I have been happily using Thunderbird for years now. But for some reason it get's slower and slower to start it. Even though all my email accounts are IMAP. And I set it up to <i>not</i> query them on startup. So startup should be immediately. But it takes 8 seconds.<p>So I am playing with the idea to switch.<p>What do you guys use?
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Title: Monitors turn off automatically,
Processor: Intel Zeon E5-1660 16 core, 3.2 GHz,
Memory: 64 GB,
Typical apps open: IDE's and browser,
OS: Linux Ubuntu 16.04.6<p>How much energy am I wasting?
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Title: This thread on Twitter took off (https://twitter.com/pjrvs/status/1176945769598705664), so I'm curious to ask the same question on HN.
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Title: If I make a mistake at work and people are aware of it I am afraid that it reflects negatively on me more than the good things I do reflect positively.<p>That fear of making mistakes makes it difficult to appreciate constructive criticism. I do appreciate it on an intellectual level but on an emotional level I feel more fear than appreciation. That the risk is that making any mistake could cost me my livelihood.<p>I don't mean like imposter syndrome where someone doesn't believe they are capable at something they can do. I mean when someone makes a mistake that needs correcting and it could reflect poorly on their performance.
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Title: Hi Everyone.<p>My name is Mike. I've created a free Ansible Crash Course. It's a course aimed at people who are new to Ansible and want to get up and running quickly. It goes into a fair amount of detail on most topics, but should something be missing just let me know and I'll add it in.<p>Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Just note an email address is required to register for the course - this is a limitation of the platform I'm using to host the course. Sorry about that!<p>The course can be found over here: https://www.thecloud.coach/ansible-crash-course<p>Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!<p>Thanks a bunch,<p>Mike.
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Title: I'm 25M from India and looking into settling in either Berlin or Toronto to build my career in tech. I'm not considering the US because of its visa issues.<p>Both Berlin and Toronto seem to have some tech scene going on. Cost of living in Toronto is quite high compared to Berlin. It seems it'll be easier to save money in Berlin to work towards financial independence.<p>On the other hand, tech companies in Canada pay peanuts and the high cost of living leaves quite a small amount to save each month. However, once a Canadian citizen, there is a possiblity to get transferred to a Silicon Valley arm of a US company from Canada (using the TN visa) and hence receive a higher compensation.<p>How would you compare between the two countries for building a career in tech for an immigrant?
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Title: Hi there,<p>I'm at the end of my MSc. studies in CS. At the moment, I can choose to graduate in a month or two, or stay-on for another 9 months doing research in interactive theorem proving that will potentially lead to a PhD opportunity.<p>I'm doing my MSc in a foreign country and I'm very unhappy here. Another ~9 months seems like a huge hurdle to me. The current situation is if I choose to graduate soon, I will likely surrender my chance for a PhD.<p>I don't particularly <i>love</i> studying. I think interactive theorem proving is quite cool, but the actual practice of studying/research hasn't been that enjoyable to me, but I enjoy having the knowledge once I've acquired it. In many ways it seems like "the future" to me, and it'd be really neat to be one of the first passengers on that train, so to say.<p>I have no desire to become a professor/researcher. After I acquire my PhD, I surmise that I would go to industry.<p>The issue here is one of bad information: I don't have industry experience and I don't really know how any of this stuff plays out. I'm worried that if I chose to forego the PhD, I'll really regret it in a number of years. I'm afraid I won't be able to find interesting work with just a MSc, and I'm really afraid of getting a boring software engineering gig.<p>I'm concerned that without the expertise/knowledge/academic maturity that I would gain from a PhD, I'll be stuck doing things that bore me after a number of years, with no room to grow to more interesting things. Equally concerning to me is that I think I'd likely be miserable during the PhD process. It seems very lonely, and I don't find much enjoyment from, say, sitting in my office reading papers all day. I much prefer creating things. I also think I'm just not that bright and that a PhD would be a huge intellectual challenge for me. I'm also absolutely sick of living like a student with little financial freedom.<p>Does anyone have any guiding 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.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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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=hn" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hn</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=21126012" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126012</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126013" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126013</a>
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