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Title: Each of us have limits as to the things we're willing to put up with at a job. What's taking you near your threshold?
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Title: This isn't necessarily an ideal question for HN, but as an Irish person living in the UK I'm increasingly nervous of the fallout from the inevitable no-deal Brexit on the horizon and I trust the opinion of HN users.<p>What do you think the consequences of no-deal is going to be? Is it as bad as everyone thinks?<p>When I think it about it rationally it seems like it's going to be absolutely chaotic and potentially violent in Northern Ireland.
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Title: We're Lisa and Alexa, co-founders of Revel (<a href="https://www.hellorevel.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellorevel.com</a>). We help women over 50 build their community by hosting and attending small, local gatherings.<p>We're two women in our 30s who decided to work on this problem after seeing how important and how challenging it has been for our mothers.<p>Lisa's mother raised her as a single parent while working as a public school teacher, and that meant that she didn't have much time to focus on her life outside of parenting. When Lisa left for college, her mother retired, and found herself longing for a community of like-minded women, which wasn’t easy. Alexa's mother is similar in need but different in circumstance: she's a physician with a high-powered career and a robust social life, living in a dense urban area, who nonetheless feels that she doesn't know where to turn for genuine connections with women her age.<p>In the United States alone, there are 50 million women like our mothers. They are a dramatically underserved demographic. We sometimes hear talk of "elder tech" and "silver tech" but our customer is not "the elderly"—she's in her 50s, 60s, or 70s, statistically healthier than ever before, with some disposable income to spend, and she wants to enjoy life alongside women her own age.<p>How Revel works is that any woman over 50 can sign up to join as a member for $15 a month. As a member, she can then browse our listings of Revel events being hosted by other members in her neighborhood. All of our events are user-generated and any member can apply to host at any time.<p>We're operating only in the Bay Area for now, but obviously our plan is to expand geographically as soon as it makes sense. Since we launched in late July, we've had hundreds of women sign up as members, and have had dozens of member-hosted gatherings in living rooms and backyard gardens across the Bay Area. If your mother, aunt, or family friend lives nearby, we'd love to meet her!<p>We'd love to hear your ideas and feedback and questions, and your own experiences in this area!
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Title: When Microsoft acquired GitHub, there was speculation (and fear on my behalf) that GitHub would end up axing Atom in favor of Visual Studio Code.<p>Taking a look at the commit activity for Atom on github.com [1] shows that since the end of June 2019, development has basically stopped completely. Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening here? Has GitHub abandoned Atom development?<p>Before you angrily shout that "Visual Studio Code" is better, or "just use VS code", please recall the current situation with Google Chrome mono-culture. Say what you will about Atom, but (especially in the last twelve months) the product had become very fast and in my opinion, provided a much better user experience that VS code.<p>[1] https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/commit-activity
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Title: Do you know any websites that have weird UIs ? Something like a ZUI [1] for example.<p>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
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Title: Hello,<p>Context:
- Dev with 10+ years of experience
- Last 2 years in an architect role with technical leadership responsibilities
- Planning to apply for senior roles at FAANMG<p>Question:
I am fairly good at solving system design and scenario based questions, but I am confused about what resources to use to prepare for whiteboard/programming questions (not 100% sure if these are relevant at senior level?). Below is the list of resources I was suggested:<p>1. Cracking the Coding Interview
2. Elements of Programming Interviews
3. Online Judge - LeetCode, HackerRank etc.<p>I have used cracking the coding interview for my interviews right out of school, but I was told that it is not relevant anymore and I should focus on Elements of Programing Interviews.<p>Same with Online Judge, I was told to use an online judge (LeetCode, HackerRank) over books.
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Title: Who are the Apple's of this generation? What is a young Wozniak or Jobs doing in the 21st century? Where can you find them?
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Title: Also, how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?<p>Keep in mind that these arguments have to be made to laypersons who aren't necessarily from the United States, and who don't usually have a lot of technical knowledge.
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Title: We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.<p>https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss<p>There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life!<p>We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best parts of chess apps into the real world?” So we did!<p>A camera passes a feed of the board through our machine learning model which interprets the state of the board and passes it off to Stockfish to display move suggestions in real time.<p>We didn’t quite get to recording the state over time in PGN but we hope to continue this project and add that soon!<p>Would love to know what you think. We’re working on enhancing other board games with computer vision as well; if you want to help us beta test sign up at https://boardboss.com
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Title: Things like drones, e-bikes, vapes and 3d printing have already received varying amounts of regulatory attention - I'm curious if anyone can think of very early trends that aren't regulated now but may be in the future.<p>I'm asking partially out of curiosity, but also to get ideas for interesting project areas to brainstorm.
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Title: I am a Software engineer right now with over 4 years of experience. I have been having this feeling lately, that I feel the excitement I experience is not enough and I need more. So, I have been thinking about doing other things.<p>Has anyone else here felt the same? Or felt like being done with Software engineering? If so, I would like to know when did you figure this out and what are you doing right now, and how did you end up doing what you are doing?<p>Asking for Software Engineering in particular, because I have seen people from other professions find coding as a passion and wanted to know if there are people who went the other way.
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Title: As per the title, where do you guys get your cheap servers? I mean subscription-based, not server hardware. I'm a student and I'm looking for something cheap for hosting personal experiments and websites. Thought that people on HN might have the answer and be interested in the answer, too.
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Title: I've been looking at some textbooks for algorithms and I came across the Skeina book and CLRS, but they seem to be pretty advanced. I've been programming for almost 2 years and never really formally taught myself the fundamentals like algorithms, and it seems as if data structures would be far more useful to learn about BEFORE algorithms (heaps, hashes, stacks, etc...). I'm looking for a book like SICP, something classic and easy to understand. Thanks!
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Title: Looking at my career, I held my first job for almost 5 years until I burned down and quit with a 2 day notice.<p>From there, it was downhill. Next job was 3 years, then 10 months, 12 months. Seemed to recover briefly and held another job for 2 years until burning out again. Previous job was only 8 months at a NGO doing really important work.<p>I've been at my current job for 6 months now and I couldn't get out of bed to do the work (I've been working from home for the past 5 years). This is what leads me to post here.<p>I've been diagnosed with depression a few times and I'm currently on SSRI's and feel okay.<p>So hanging jobs doesn't help, getting treating doesn't help.. I'm burning out again.<p>I love what I do (DevOps) but I'm coming to the conclusion that I don't work well with others. They start to drive me crazy and then I only have indifference towards the work.<p>Any advice? I'm feeling like I should quit IT.
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Title: I sort of stumbled onto a consultancy job two years ago in cryptocurrency that's sadly just come to an end... going back into an office full time feels like a step back at this point.<p>I also don't really want to be anywhere near cryptocurrency for a while... and to make matters worse I live halfway around the world from my home in a country that doesn't speak English - I'm a reliable remote worker but I know that's going to put people off, how to alleviate concerns here?<p>I'm planning to fly home tomorrow, I rented somewhere for a month and I'm already printing business cards and trying to get myself out there on local subreddits. Perhaps other social media too?<p>Anything I've missed? How can I advertise myself out there? I absolutely kick ass on cloud migration and architecture (and while I know they're not everything, had the certifications to prove it).<p>Sysadmin stuff, troubleshooting and cloud work was my thing for a decade but I'm trying to catch up with two years worth of developments as well - I can also code but it's mostly hobby stuff.
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Title: Is it even possible? How do you as a developer, not become a lifetime maintaimer?
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Title: A friend and I wrote a book on how to build and train Deep Learning models in Go. We wanted it to be a useful reference for deep learning basics for Go programmers.<p>Deep Learning is slowly seeping into everything we use every day and we thought it would be great if more people could do it in Go.<p>The book is available here and on Amazon as well.
https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hands-deep-learning-go<p>We would appreciate any feedback and we're always looking to improve.
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Title: Please add timestamps to your posts!<p>Thanks,
thisguyrob
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Title: #1 - Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could? Why or why not?<p>#2 - Would you do it if it also meant you made 80% of your current comp? Why or why not?<p>Someone asked something similar about 4 years ago, but I wanted to see how the sentiment has changed and what you think :).
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Title: I noticed a worker at a demolition site using power tools to extract cylinders from an old concrete wall. While I'm sure this particular project isn't aimed at scientific research, it made me wonder if there's a demolition-materials equivalent of ice core research.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core</a><p>After all, steel has a different level of radioactivity depending on whether it was manufactured before 1945 (!).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel</a><p>Could there be similar properties in old concrete where one could learn interesting things about the composition of the nearby air at the time the concrete was first poured?
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Title: I am looking to buy a new laptop for web dev. I will be running Debian. Which laptop would you guys recommend? My main criteria is that it should be light and work without any hiccups with Debian based OS. And my budget is not much.<p>What are people using?<p>Thanks for your suggestions!
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Title: I'm curious to see how many of you have been impacted and how you bounced back? I'm building a project around this and would love to hear about your experience.
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Title: I am curious how posts from the "new" tab ever make it to the front page. Most posts there have 1 or 2 upvotes only and the posts disappear within an hour. With such low votes on the new posts, how do they ever come to the front page at all?<p>I see there are many interesting posts in the "new" tab. I vote on them but they don't stand a chance to come on the front page because I am the only one voting.<p>Do HN members really look at the "new" tab to see what interesting posts are there and upvote them? Or do you only see the front page and upvote posts there?
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Title: I'm familiar—as I'm sure many are—with the big names: BBEdit, Fantastical, Transmission, etc. I want to hear about great, lesser-known Mac apps, and about the design elements that made them so great.<p>It's fine if the app is no longer actively supported. At a time when the Mac platform seems to be shifting direction, I'm as interested in old apps as new ones.<p>(I suspect someone will ask what "Mac-Native" means, and I'm not particularly eager to weigh into that discussion. The apps do not need to be Mac <i>exclusive</i>, but they should feel highly tuned to the platform. No electron!)
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Title: How do you move into senior positions, and then lead positions as a remote developer? Is it even possible? As a remote software engineer I have low visibility and do not work with a team of on-site developers so I feel stuck in a holding pattern. Not to mention half the time my roles are temp roles. How do I cement myself as a bigger team player while staying remote, and gradually take on more leadership?
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Title: Hi HN<p>I'm an engineering VP in a (maybe) unicorn looking seriously at an exit and the vibe has ... already changed.<p>Looking at the current climate, I am probably going to be able to pay off my mortgage and send my partner to grad school, but financial independence or FYM isn't on the cards. I like it here, and am not planning to move on yet.<p>I've been wondering where the stories about what happens (what goes wrong/right) after an exit, like an IPO.<p>What should I be looking out for after the exit? Any experiences from senior engineering staff? Or even good blog posts or books?<p>Thanks
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Title: I know this is has been posted before but that was a few years ago so I wanted to restart the discussion, as I love hearing about what people host at home.<p>I am currently running an Unraid server with some docker containers, here are a few of them: Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Ombi, NZBGet, Bitwarden, Storj, Hyrda, Nextcloud, NginxProxyManager, Unifi, Pihole, OpenVPN, InfluxDB, Grafana.
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Title: Inspired by the thread about Mac OS, I'm curious what are some really well done applications for linux.<p>I know there will be a ton of CLI apps/tools, which are welcome, but I would love to hear some really nicely done GUI applications as well.<p>Sublime Text, Sublime Merge, ripgrep come to mind.
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Title: Any company needs processes, they are clearly more necessary for a remote-first company.<p>It's important to be pragmatic and don't over-design processes. I believe some companies take advantage of being remote to micro-manage or add extra layers of control over their employee's work-life.<p>Besides that, there's no point on generating extra information that no one will ever review or use to take action.<p>For me, key processes should focus on:
- Team communication
- Simple day to day reporting
- Self-management tools and goal-oriented thinking<p>I've learned a lot from Zapier's guide but I think some stuff might be an overkill https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/<p>Here is a draft we are working on at my company
https://www.notion.so/piio/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Work-at-Piio-fb3b341e30be454cba6cc760aee4103e
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Title: meetup.com is changing its pricing policy https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges?mpId=9038<p>"Members will pay a $2 fee when they reserve a spot at your event."<p>So what are the most realistic options for meetup.com alternatives?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We're Théophile and Thibaut, and we're building Multis (<a href="https://multis.co" rel="nofollow">https://multis.co</a>): an online bank account designed for companies holding cryptocurrency. We're helping them store it, spend it and earn interest.<p>We have been in this industry for the past 3 years. Thibaut used to lead sales at Stratumn, a Nasdaq-backed company helping companies securing their shared workflows through cryptocurrencies. Théo built several decentralized applications before starting the company in 2018.<p>Wallets are the cornerstone of the industry: you need them to store and transact with cryptocurrencies. But these wallets are not designed for business. You cannot perform simple business operations like running a payroll, paying vendors, or earning interest, which you can currently do from your modern business bank account.<p>Cryptocurrencies - and particularly stablecoins - are a reliable, fast and cost-efficient medium of exchange. It’s a technology that enables anyone to move value and assets across borders, with no intermediaries. We believe it can help companies save a lot, since most of them are now actively transacting with partners abroad, from suppliers to foreign contractors.<p>The number of companies building and transacting with cryptocurrencies is growing (e.g. Stateofthedapp listings grew by 250% since 2017), despite still being in its infancy. Most of these companies are operating in the cryptocurrency industry, or are e-merchants willing to reduce payment fees and optimize working capital.<p>These companies struggle to manage their assets and make the most of them. They typically have between 5 and 10 wallets, none of them being designed for a business environment. This makes business spending and accounting still to painful and time-consuming. And cryptocurrencies sit idle, because there are just too many frictions.<p>We realized what was really needed: an application to manage cryptocurrency the same as a modern online business bank account, with features and financial services powered by both crypto and traditional currencies. In short, a crypto-first bank. Here are our main features today:<p>- Store - multi-user wallet with dashboard and transaction history<p>- Pay - spending policies and streamlined payment flows (1)<p>- Exchange - swap 70+ tokens with ethers, dollars and euros (2)<p>- Earn - savings account yielding interest on stablecoins (3)<p>- Soon: EUR and USD bank accounts<p>We will make revenues through commissions on financial services like fiat ramps, and through monthly subscriptions for premium features like accounting exports or fiat accounts.<p>Our goal of making a unified front end that works like a business bank account is challenging to achieve because the technologies we're using are very heterogenous:<p>- we have two databases: the Ethereum blockchain and Cloud Firestore<p>- we have two backends: smart contracts and Firebase Cloud functions<p>- we have two authentication systems: private keys stored on individual wallets (we're self-custodian) and email addresses<p>- we have two authorization systems: the multisignature contract owners and the owner/guest roles in our security rules<p>- we have two type of assets: cryptogoods and traditional currencies<p>- we will have two storages: IPFS and Firebase Storage<p>You can read more here about our architecture (4) and our approach to security (5).<p>Cryptocurrency is still a recent technology that generates understandable skepticism.The ICO craze did not help. We feel that payment is becoming a tangible use case though, and companies ranging from Facebook to JP Morgan are now actively investing in it. We believe more will join. There are still many uncertainties about regulations, accounting, and each new SEC or FinCEN guidance make the teams' hair turn grey. But things are moving forward on the ground, despite the excess of hype in the space.<p>We want to make Multis useful, so we have one question: what would be the key features and financial services you would expect as a company? They don't have to be related to crypto directly. We'd also love your feedback, your questions and your ideas. Thanks!<p>(1) <a href="https://medium.com/multis/introducing-direct-transfers-a-new-way-to-streamline-crypto-spending-with-your-team-ab44945e5a5e" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/multis/introducing-direct-transfers-a-new...</a><p>(2) <a href="https://medium.com/multis/multis-launches-first-token-swap-catered-to-companies-with-kyber-integration-8eaae3977d40" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/multis/multis-launches-first-token-swap-c...</a><p>(3) <a href="https://medium.com/multis/our-new-compound-integration-lets-your-company-earn-interest-on-crypto-80e7f4379b7d" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/multis/our-new-compound-integration-lets-...</a><p>(4) <a href="https://medium.com/multis/imagining-a-leaner-way-how-to-ship-a-highly-dynamic-webapp-as-a-static-website-5088f83c3813" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/multis/imagining-a-leaner-way-how-to-ship...</a><p>(5) <a href="https://medium.com/multis/security-at-multis-9609d346c91b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/multis/security-at-multis-9609d346c91b</a>
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Title: Couple of my favorites:<p>* https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians - All things history. Quality of discussions are way better than on most other subreddits. Highly moderated<p>* https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm - bootstrapped businesses<p>* https://lobste.rs - kinda like HN but for tech only<p>* https://slatestarcodex.com - it is more blog than a community, but great nevertheless<p>I used to frequent other communties but these are the ones that stood the test of time
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Title: We've all heard the ghost stories about undefined C programs that delete hard disks or set the computer on fire.
However, usually, C programs with undefined behavior either crash or seem to be working.<p>So, has anyone ever experienced behavior that went beyond that?
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Title: Please I will like to read your opinions on how to deal with depression.
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Title: The MBP is by far the best laptop I’ve used. The graphics are amazing, and the touchpad is ergonomic. However, Apple has demonstrated their inability to be reliable. I bought my MBP in January of this year (2019) and tomorrow I’ll pick it up from its 3rd repair. I’ve grown tired of this repair routine. And after the 3 years runs out, they will start charging me.
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Title: I find it hard right now to share knowledge with everyone on the team and to turn knowledge into actual learnings.<p>I don't know how you guys do it, but I would love to know. We are now 50 people in the company and I don't know anymore how to make this scale. What is your process? Do you use any tool for it? How good is it? What needs improving?
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Title: I run Slack on Firefox and it's gotten to the point where the app is unusable, mostly because of the ridiculous memory consumption.<p>This was noticed not just by me but by my entire team.<p>So, at this point, it makes sense to move away from Slack.<p>What are some alternatives? In terms of features:
* channels and private messaging
* share images and files
* (maybe) support for some of the automated commands you can integrate with Slack.
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Title: I'm relatively new to CS (4 years) and I've seen a lot of great book recommendations here. But every discipline has it's most fundamental books ... e.g. philosophy -> Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, civil law -> code civil, christianity -> bible, etc. one should read to get a truly deep understanding.<p>What are those books for CS?
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Title: I recently joined an early-stage startup and while I feel like I come out of negotiations with a fair compensation package, I was sorely disappointed by the lack of public information on how much startup employees can expect to make. While there was some information (e.g., the Andreesen Horowitz salary leak), most of it was outdated, incomplete, or not clearly from a reliable source.<p>In an effort to make this more transparent for others in a similar situation, I’m hoping to collect and publicize compensation details from current startup employees. If you currently work at a startup, please fill out the attached form in as much detail as you can and feel comfortable with. Note that while the questions are somewhat targeted at US-based employees because that’s what I’m most familiar with, this information should be equally valuable for other locations and I encourage those working elsewhere to fill out the form and suggest changes/questions that would make this information more relevant for you.<p>The responses to this form are available at the second link, and please feel free to comment with suggestions of other questions to add!<p>Survey:
https://forms.gle/imnTvSV35UjY5EC28<p>Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZX_bcVE9bbuFbz20N4fMbFYVgltxsVeFpQ7gXlJpBrI/edit?usp=sharing
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Title: I'm a youngish developer (28y/o), and the constant recent comments of people predicting a new burst have made me curious about how life changed for developers at the time, and maybe what to expect if such a thing were to happen again.<p>I've heard stories of rich startup founders losing everything back then, but not much about what happened with the average devs. What was it like, living through those times? Did many people change careers? was there still a thriving industry in less risky tech companies? did salaries drop? I'm basically clueless about the whole thing.
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Title: What's an area that people think is up and coming? (e.g. like social networks were in 2004, mobile apps in 2010, or vlogging in 2014)<p>I've finished several projects simultaneously and I'm looking to work in an area with lots of users, but as yet few producers. Wouldn't even need to involve programming, but probably would need to be online, as I'm pretty introverted!
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Title: Maybe I'm out of the loop, but agriculture seems to be an overlooked industry in the startup world, even though there is a ton of opportunity there.<p>What are some startups who are solving tough agricultural problems? Who are some more established players?<p>I'm curious about any ag startups, especially those attempting to curb climate change through agriculture. For instance, new takes on outdoor farming techniques (like Indigo), indoor farming startups, folks working on agricultural hardware, machine learning, organic farming, folks developing apps to help farmers, distribution/sales/marketing, etc.
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Title: Many of us remember the early batches of captchas. Annoying and sometimes next to impossible to get right. Googles "one click" captcha was a fresh breeze when it came. I'm not so sure anymore though. Now instead we have to use brain power to press 2-4 images in an AI quiz or said differently "help Google improve their ML data-set for free" which I'm not at all comfortable with. Isn't there a better way to fight bots? Could not the community make a FOSS alternative? How hard is this really?
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Title: Wish HN did something like this monthly. 24 year old, software engineer here.
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Title: In relation to the Technological and Geo-political landscape.
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Title: This question was asked 2 years ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535</a>) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.<p>> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: I'm looking for a good solution to build a personal knowledge Base. What are your experiences? Which Tool you are using? How long is it in use?
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Title: We have launched important updates to our Terms of Service surrounding our use of telemetry services. Starting with GitLab 12.4, existing customers who use our proprietary products (that is, GitLab.com and the Enterprise Edition of our self-managed offerings) may notice additional Javascript snippets that will interact with GitLab and/or third-party SaaS telemetry service (such as Pendo).<p>For GitLab.com users: as we roll out this update you will be prompted to accept our new Terms of Service. Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause in service via our API until the terms have been accepted by signing in to the web interface.<p>For Self-managed users: GitLab Core will continue to be free software with no changes. If you want to install your own instance of GitLab without the proprietary software being introduced as a result of this change, GitLab Community Edition (CE) remains a great option. It is licensed under the MIT license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) and will contain no proprietary software. Many open source software projects use GitLab CE for their SCM and CI needs. Again, there will be no changes to GitLab CE.<p>Key Updates:<p>- GitLab.com (GitLab’s SaaS offering)and GitLab's proprietary Self-Managed packages (Starter, Premium, and Ultimate) will now include additional Javascript snippets (both open source and proprietary) that will interact with both GitLab and possibly third-party SaaS telemetry services (we will be using Pendo(https://www.pendo.io)).<p>- We will disclose all such usage in our privacy policy, as well as what we are using the data for. We will also ensure that any third-party telemetry service we use will have data protection standards at least as strong as GitLab and we will aim for SOC2 compliance. Pendo is SOC2 compliant.<p>If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected]
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Title: I find that auth is always a personal pain point whenever I start a new side project. I'm curious what other people find as their common stumbling points.
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Title: Hello guys!<p>We constantly analyze over 300,000+ blogs, forums, portals and social media accounts to keep track of the emergence of new trends at the earliest stages.
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Title: I have started re-learning college level Physics and am thoroughly enjoying Feynman's Lecture on Physics. Are there similar books available for Mathematics (& Chemistry) - books that are fundamental and easy to read?
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Title: Hello everyone!<p>We're Jaleh & Nikhil, the founders of Mutiny (<a href="https://www.mutinyhq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mutinyhq.com/</a>). We help companies personalize their website for each visitor to close more sales.<p>We are built for B2B companies that are actively growing their website traffic. For the majority of these companies, 97-99% of their visitors don’t convert to a trial or sales conversation. Typically the reason is that when potential customers come to their site they don’t understand why the product is great for them. This happens because customers from different industries and company sizes are looking for different things when they land on a website and are motivated by different social proof.<p>Mutiny enables B2B companies to dynamically customize the website’s message, images, and call-to-action to match the visitor. For example, one of our customers Amplitude, a product analytics company, changes its website’s customer logos on their pricing page and signup form to match the visitor’s industry. This specific personalization generates 54% more leads. Another customer Carta, an equity management product, changes their homepage headline and messaging to highlight product features that matter most based on the visitor’s company size. They have seen 80% more leads in their smaller customer segments as a result.<p>Mutiny was inspired by our own experience. Nikhil and I were early Gusto employees and helped grow the company from 500 to 50,000 customers such as startups, restaurants and accounting firms. I led marketing and quickly learned that the same message did not work for all the businesses we served, resulting in low conversion rates. This problem got worse as we started to spend more on advertising/content and attracting customers who had never heard of us before. Personalizing the buyer experience helped increase conversion rates, but doing it well required a lot of expertise and engineering work. And after speaking with other marketers and growth teams we realized that virtually every B2B company serves multiple audiences with different needs, but doesn't have sufficient engineering support to personalize their experience.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>Set up: User adds the Mutiny javascript to their website and defines their website conversion events in the Mutiny UI.<p>1. Understand visitors: We have pre-built data integrations (e.g. Clearbit, Segment, Salesforce, UTM) to identify visitors by their industry, company size, funnel stage, advertising campaign, free user v/s paid user and more. We also display how many visitors fall into each segment and what their conversion is.<p>2. Prioritize the highest impact segments: Mutiny analyzes visitor traffic, conversion & CRM data to recommend the best audience segments for personalization. It then suggests personalization playbooks that fit with the recommended segment & walks the user through best practices for personalizing each segment’s experience.<p>3. Personalize any website element: Users can load any page on their website inside Mutiny’s visual editor, and change any html element such as text, image or call-to-action for that segment.<p>4. Measure results: Every Mutiny experience has an automatic control group that never sees personalization, allowing users to measure the impact of personalized experiences compared to non-personalized.<p>Mutiny is being used by Brex, Segment, Elastic, Amplitude, Carta & others who are seeing 40-200% more leads with Mutiny. Our detailed case studies including screenshots of personalized web pages are available here: <a href="https://www.mutinyhq.com/cases/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mutinyhq.com/cases/</a><p>We have released 30+ personalization playbooks that we have seen work well across b2b companies here: <a href="https://www.mutinyhq.com/playbooks" rel="nofollow">https://www.mutinyhq.com/playbooks</a>. If you are a smaller startup with little website traffic, but are actively reaching out to potential customers through email or LinkedIn, check out the “ABM” (Account based Marketing) playbooks.<p>We are super excited to be on HN today and will be around all day to hear about your experiences, any ideas, and feedback you might have.
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Title: I just saw this interesting discussion on Reddit and thought to open it here aswell.<p>>After being a contributing member, answering and getting a lot of reputation and upvotes, and after posting 6 (good) questions in stackoverflow, which were barely seen and mostly not answered, I got a question ban:<p>>"Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more."<p>>My questions were very technical and did not attract much attention. They were not downvoted though. I am an active software developer, and I only ask questions when I read the whole documentation and search for answers for at least a day. I only ask questions when I am unable to do my job at my firm because something is really off about a software dependency we are using.<p>>I use to get good answers when opening issues at the software project in github.<p>>But, of course, github is not for asking for user help. So, it's interesting that I get better answers at github than at a Q/A site like stackoverflow.<p>>I didn't know about the existence of a question ban at stackoverflow. Knowing about it leaves me worried about the state of software development in general. It's not much better than Facebook or the Chinese Government digital crap for that sake.<p>Original post:
https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/dh06m1/we_need_a_better_alternative_for_qa_than/
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Title: If you do, specifically on a personal website, how do you protect yourself from getting spammed all the time. Do you have another secret email address or special email filters you use?
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Title: As a company gets older it seems like politics are inevitable, no matter how hard or well you work.<p>In your experience, how can you smell the B.S from a mile away?<p>How do you deal with it?<p>Thank you
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Title: Hello app developers of HN!<p>My team owns an Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) app. The app is responsible for processing data, submitting to ML models, and then displaying results in a UI. We chose to do a lot of that processing in a shared Rust component. What we have found is a high overhead of bridging Kotlin/Swift to Rust. Some core logic has also seeped into our bridging code resulting in some duplication (exactly what we were trying to avoid).<p>With that, those of you who have found yourselves in similar situations, which language would you choose to be shared between your Android and iOS app (if any)?
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Title: 3 times in SF this week, a Cruise AV has driven past my car and triggered my automatic windshield wipers, even though it was totally dry out. (probably the LIDAR interacting with wipers' infrared sensors).<p>Got me thinking about what unintended consequences can spring up because of new technologies. Anyone have other examples, current or historic?
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Title: I'm fascinated by Netlify, by its speed and neat developer experience. I want to learn more about the inner workings of such platforms and thought that the best way to do it is to build something like Netlify myself. Nothing stellar, just a simple proof of concept clone.
Any suggestions on where to start and where to learn about the architecture of platforms like Netlify? I'm a moderately experienced frontend developer, I have some backend and DevOps skills, but it's mostly "street knowledge," and I don't have a CS degree.
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Title: My name is Coach Darek. I work at Google and I run a program that helps people get FAANG jobs for no upfront-payment.<p>Thought I'd reach out and answer any questions you have about the process/what you'd need to do here.<p>If you're interested you can check out my program - www.codebreakersacademy.com.<p>EDITED: Since this has been asked in a couple of comments. There is no age, location, or CS background restriction for CodeBreakers. We're fully remote and all ages/backgrounds are welcome and encouraged.
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Title: Hi,
I am founder of a chatbot startup... it's a b2b..
I am interested to know how to sell to corporate America? how does it work?
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Title: Tech lead was promoted from individual contributor during a time the company was struggling to hire. He didn't want to be the lead but succumbed to the pressure (and the inevitability of looking bad and never be able to grow within the company).<p>Long story short, he's terrible and it shows. The team is a mess, lots of silos, morale is low, difficulty in meeting commitments, etc.<p>I think I can do better (and have done at other companies but was hired as an individual contributor here) and I also think no amount of coaching can help him after all these years.<p>What do I do?
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Title: What products or services (software or not) do you wish existed for your startup?<p>I'm taking 6 months off and looking for projects to work on (most of my experience is in B2B software, so ideally would work on a project in that space). Any ideas like "I wish someone produced X or Y" would be helpful!
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Title: Preferably an elegant snippet rather than an entire (well engineered) codebase.
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Title: Just curious about scripts and things you guys have automated
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Title: Hi HN-crowd,<p>Is anyone using Svelte (https://www.svelte.dev) in production? What are your experiences with it? I can't seem to find any experience reports.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We're Amos and Sam, co-founders of Carve. (<a href="https://www.drivecarve.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.drivecarve.com</a>)<p>Carve is a car sharing marketplace where you can rent cars from local dealerships. So if you don’t own a car but need one for a few days, you can get a car that fits your needs at a reasonable price.<p>We built this product because when we moved to New York after college, we both gave up cars, and even though most places we needed to be were easily accessible via Subway or Lyft, there were still lots of things we wanted to do that we couldn't using public transit or ride share apps. When it came to leaving the city to ski in Vermont or hike upstate, for example, the existing options were all either expensive (Zipcar, Car2Go), inconvenient (Avis, Hertz), or inconsistent (Turo, Getaround).<p>Sam and I are both from the Midwest, so neither of us are strangers to car dealerships—drive ten miles in any direction from our childhood homes and you'll see massive lots filled with cars waiting to be sold. We started speaking with these businesses and realized that keeping all those cars sitting around is really, really expensive. Compounding this problem is the fact that new cars sales are falling and dealership inventory levels are historically high.<p>In response to the issues that dealerships face and the slate of bad rental options, we built a platform on which dealers can list their cars to be rented. It's good for dealers because they can offset financing costs and depreciation of idle inventory without much effort. For renters, it means a short-term rental option that’s on average 30% cheaper any other comparable option, offers a wider selection of cars, and allows for human-free pickup and drop off.<p>It works as follows. First, browse our site for a car. Once you make a reservation, we'll email you an Uber voucher for $20 off your trip to and from the vehicle pickup location (a 24-hour valet lot in the city). When you arrive at the pickup location, show the attendant your reservation email and they'll fetch you your car. Once you’re done with the car, drive back to lot and hand the keys to the attendant. Use the Uber voucher to call a car to bring you back home.<p>At the moment, we're only operating in San Francisco, but we'll be expanding soon to Oakland and LA. If you're in SF, try us out and use the promo code HN10 to get 10% off of any rental!<p>We’d love to get some feedback and are happy to answer questions!
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Title: Hey folks,<p>I've been building a rendering engine for a code editor the past couple of days. Rendering huge chunks of highlighted syntax can get laggy. It's not worth switching to React at this stage, so I wanted to just write a quick diff algorithm that would selectively update only changed lines.<p>I found this article:
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/<p>With a link to this paper, the initial Git diff implementation:
http://www.xmailserver.org/diff2.pdf<p>I couldn't find the PDF to start with, but read "edit graph" and immediately thought — why don't I just use a hashtable to store lines from LEFT_TEXT and references to where they are, then iterate over RIGHT_TEXT and return matches one by one, also making sure that I keep track of the last match to prevent jumbling?<p>The algorithm I produced is only a few lines and seems accurate. It's O(N) time complexity, whereas the paper above gives a best case of O(ND) where D is minimum edit distance.<p><pre><code> function lineDiff (left, right) {
left = left.split('\n');
right = right.split('\n');
let lookup = {};
// Store line numbers from LEFT in a lookup table
left.forEach(function (line, i) {
lookup[line] = lookup[line] || [];
lookup[line].push(i);
});
// Last line we matched
var minLine = -1;
return right.map(function (line) {
lookup[line] = lookup[line] || [];
var lineNumber = -1;
if (lookup[line].length) {
lineNumber = lookup[line].shift();
// Make sure we're looking ahead
if (lineNumber > minLine) {
minLine = lineNumber;
} else {
lineNumber = -1
}
}
return {
value: line,
from: lineNumber
};
});
}
</code></pre>
RunKit link:
https://runkit.com/keithwhor/line-diff<p>What am I missing? I can't find other references to doing diffing like this. Everything just links back to that one paper.
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Title: I'm writing in total desperation. I feel like I can't make it through another day of meaningless, constant back pain. I've had it on and off for 7 years now, since I was 24 (now 31)<p>It's this weird vibrating, tingling, burning, muscle sore combination that moves between the left side of my neck, under my shoulder blade, my left trap, and sort of out to the back of my ribs right below my shoulder blade. The pain moves around and sometimes I'll get a similar feeling on the other side of my body which makes it all the more confusing.<p>I've been to doctor after doctor after doctor and I have absolute no more info then when I started.<p>I'm on the verge of quitting my job because I feel like I can't go through another day tomorrow.<p>The only thing I've ever correlated with more or less pain is how hydrated I am (ie less pain if more hydrated) and even that is pretty loose.<p>Has anybody ever gone through anything like this? Has any body ever gotten over it or am I doomed to this for life?
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Title: The latest rounds of bugs in both macOS and iOS are so severe that it is crippling the productivity of some employees in my business (all-remote) who either can't see emails because of bugs like this one [0] (which is also affecting me now for a few weeks and is extremely annoying), or problems with Catalina preventing a solid WiFi connection, and many others.<p>The bugs are so extreme, and Apple is mute on most of them, pointing us to very generic FAQs that have nothing to do with the problems, rather than acknowledging and trying to work with the community to address them.<p>I fear this is just the beginning of a new era of problems with Apple software, like the company has become so big and successful it is falling into the traps that hit Microsoft two decades ago that caused so many people to move to OSX and Linux in the first place (among other reasons).<p>The problem is, we've invested so much in Apple technologies, workflows, the ecosystem, that I don't know if we should just wait it out and keep our fingers crossed, or make a dedicated effort to become less reliant on any single tech provider. I strongly fear that this is a new reality and will be a pattern for a long time.<p>I'm sure we aren't alone with this -- any thoughts from others?<p>[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250699892
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Title: What costs are exponentially dropping? I.E. dropping Solar panels, Body scan medicine, Chip costs. Cell phone tech?<p>-
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Title: Time to ask again :)<p>Any side projects, Games, OSS.
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Title: What do they do?
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Title: My earnings have dropped since last few months. So, I would like to know if anyone is making a good earning from Google Adsense or the earnings have dropped like mine?
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Title: Let's face it, Google has monopoly in the ad space business. Many times, they terminate the account without any clarification and cease the earned amount too. So, is there any good adsense alternative available out there?
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Title: I've seen some methods (e.g. inverting one stereo channel and cancelling it out with the others) but I was wondering if someone has achieved how to do this relatively well.<p>I was looking online for some AI solutions, but I couldn't find anything, would the collective knowledge of HN have an answer to this question?
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Title: Looking for some ideas about some stuff that might already kind of exist, but could be improved on in terms of features/UX. Also, it could be something completely new.
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Title: Hello Community!
My name is Charles-Eugene Loubao, I am a software developer who recently turned into an Indie Maker and I am sharing my new product with you today.<p>Micro CRM is a Customer Relationship Managment web app built to be easy to use and intuitive. Most CRMs can be complicated to use and come with an expensive price tag. Micro CRM is built to fill that need for a much simpler and cheaper contact managment platform that offers compeling features without being overwhelming.<p>What can I do with it ?<p>- Keep all your contacts in one place - Timestamped notes can be used to keep track of events associated with your contacts, or as a call log.<p>By getting the Premium Plan you also can also:<p>- Import your existing contacts from Excel CSV files - Organize easily with tags - Create email reminders to help you remember follow-ups<p>What's next ?<p>Micro CRM is in it's early days and I am planning on adding the following features:<p>- Search - Sorting and Filtering - Custom fields - Contact attachments (files, links, images, etc) - Team Collaboration - Possible Integrations (email, calendar, Slack, etc)<p>How much does it cost ?<p>Micro CRM is free to use for manual entry and simple contact managment. The premium plan is $5/month and for a limited time I am offering a free 30 days trial with no credit card required when you create your account.<p>Head to https://microcrm.cc and create your free account today!
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Title: When building services that rely on relational databases, in my case postgres, what are some best practices and tools to help manage schema changes?<p>We've been using migrations and doing it all manually but it's become a bottleneck and a little bit of a nightmare with multiple consumers of the database needing to make schema changes.<p>Another concern is multiple environments, from local development to staging and production. We're using docker-compose for local development which runs the entire "full" schema and then I'm manually applying the migration files to staging and production before we deploy.<p>I've looked at some projects like flywaydb[1] and liquibase[2] but both are not completely free and seem proprietary. Does anyone know of another open source system that could help manage database schema versioning and migrations?<p>Thanks so much HN, this is something that I have been struggling with.<p>1: https://flywaydb.org/<p>2: https://www.liquibase.org/
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Title: In the past few years the news around biology has been getting more exciting and frequent, between CRISPR and biotech firms working on niche drugs. I'm really interested in learning more about the skills needed to start a biotech company, but I'm lacking the masters degree in biology. What skills are actually needed to get into the field and does anyone know any good resources to learn them?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>We’re Jerome and Robin, the founders of zeroheight (<a href="https://zeroheight.com/" rel="nofollow">https://zeroheight.com/</a>).<p>zeroheight is an online editor that lets companies create a wiki site to document their design process. The documentation is integrated with their design tools so that it’s always up-to-date, which enables large design and development teams to stay on the same page, ship faster and deliver consistent user experiences.<p>Documentation is the first piece of the puzzle – our vision is to enable any company in the world to have a "design system": a system of reusable UX and front-end components, tools and guidelines. We want companies that don’t have the resources of design giants like Salesforce, IBM and Shopify to be able to create design systems which are just as powerful e.g. <a href="https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com</a> (Salesforce), <a href="https://www.carbondesignsystem.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.carbondesignsystem.com</a> (IBM), <a href="https://polaris.shopify.com" rel="nofollow">https://polaris.shopify.com</a> (Shopify)<p>Our startup journey started 4 years ago at a YC Startup School event in London – it was the final push of inspiration we needed to make the jump and quit our Big Finance Co programming jobs :) We joined Entrepreneur First (a pre-seed incubator) with a list of startup ideas (including some really bad ones!) and spent most of our time emailing people and going for coffees. For two coders who were excited to code and build a product, this was a tough reality check of what starting a startup can be like in the beginning!<p>At the time, one problem that really resonated with people was that the design-development handoff process was pretty painful. This was something we had experienced at work: designers sending manually annotated PDF specs and PNG assets as email attachments etc. We thought it was an exciting space, so we went ahead and built a design-development handoff tool.<p>The problem was that there were already some great products in the space that had a head start – such as Zeplin (YC S15) :) – so despite gaining some customer traction, it wasn't enough for us to raise money. This led us to go back to basics: talk to users...<p>So we went for coffee with our customers to figure out what other problems we could solve in the space and built the following series of insights:<p>- Good design is now the default, most products need a great user experience to compete<p>- Because of this, companies are spending a lot more resources on design/UX and growing their design teams rapidly<p>- In order to be able to collaborate at scale, design teams have started adopting a component-based workflow – similar to how engineers have worked for years<p>- But breaking designs down into components is not enough. In order to successfully collaborate at scale, designers and front-end coders need written documentation on _how_ to use the components. The design components are the lego bricks and the design documentation is the much needed lego instruction manual.<p>So what’s the problem? We dug deeper and found that there are two hurdles that tend to prevent companies from creating successful documentation for their design system.<p>1. Companies that _do_ have the front-end engineering resources to build custom design documentation in-house (or leverage a tool like Storybook) often end up with engineer-driven documentation that is up-to-date with production code, but is hard for non-technical designers to contribute to. This leads those designers to create their own, separate documentation, which in turn causes fragmentation between design and development teams — one of the problems that having a design system is trying to combat in the first place!<p>2. Companies that _don't_ have the spare front-end engineering resources to build custom docs use tools like Confluence, Google Docs, Notion etc. but these types of wiki tools aren't built for purpose and the documentation can easily end up out of sync with the latest designs and code<p>Based on this we built a minimal yet powerful editor (in the spirit of Dropbox Paper or Notion) that makes it very easy for anyone to document their reusable UX components, tools and guidelines (their “design system”). The editor is integrated with both design and development tools so that the docs stay up-to-date. On the design side we provide Sketch, Figma and Adobe XD plugins to sync UX components and styles. Designers can update the designs inside the docs at the click of a button without having to leave their design tools. On the engineering side we offer Codepen-like interactive previews as well as the ability to embed Storybook stories – so designs and front-end code can live side-by-side in the docs.<p>In order for it to be easily accessible by the entire company (and possibly made public), the documentation can be published as a standalone website and shared with anyone using a link (or protected with a password)<p>To get a better idea of what a zeroheight docs site looks like when shared, check out this example site from one of our users (<a href="https://zeroheight.com/22mjgbuf6/p/56796c" rel="nofollow">https://zeroheight.com/22mjgbuf6/p/56796c</a>) or our demo site (<a href="https://demo.zeroheight.com" rel="nofollow">https://demo.zeroheight.com</a>)<p>That’s all for now... we’d love to hear your thoughts on what we’re building in the comments below!<p>PS: if you’re a full-stack / front-end engineer in London that would like to help us build zeroheight, I’d love to connect :)<p>PPS: our office is nice and leafy → <a href="https://secondhome.io/cmsimage/image/TB3BWi41LGEQLWbI.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://secondhome.io/cmsimage/image/TB3BWi41LGEQLWbI.jpg</a>
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Title: I get nervous very easily and my heart starts throbbing when it comes to speak to anyone. It is affecting my career. How can I fix it?<p>What are the resources to improve speaking skill?
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Title: Hi all,<p>I have OverSight installed on my macbook (https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html), which lets me see which apps activate the microphone.<p>Up until now, everything was quiet and expected.<p>As of today though, Chrome (Version 78.0.3904.70) tried on several occasions to activate the microphone. It crashed when I denied the request. I have not been on any website requiring microphone use and no website is allowed microphone access.<p>This seems to happen in particular when I reopen the lid of my macbook and it is taken out of sleep.<p>This is the log entry from OverSight:<p>2019-10-31 19:27:22 +0000: Audio Device became active (Built-in Microphone, process: Chrome Helper, /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/78.0.3904.70/Helpers/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper)<p>Any of you noticed a similar behavior?
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Title: I mostly enjoy my day at work. There are people to talk to and somewhat interesting projects to work on. However, when I go back home, all I see is the home computer and the television. Yes.. I could go on with those, but I feel there's more. What is that? Please help!
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Title: I've tried so many different tools, both digital and the good old pen and paper. A new note taking app comes out and I'll try it for a few days and then get lost. Same for paper notes. I scribble during the first few meetings but never follow up.<p>What are your strategies on taking good notes without missing the actual conversation or meeting?<p>How do you make sure you consistently keep track of notes?<p>And also how can I improve following up on notes and using them as a base for next meetings and decisions?
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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://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=21419534" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419535" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419535</a>
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Title: I'm curious what everyone else around here is watching.<p>Here's a few videos from channels that I like:<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhuhnXvSCOE 'Journey across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' (channel: #ILLEGALFREEDOM, ~540k subs)<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2o_Sp2-aBo Apollo Electroluminescent glass display (channel: Applied Science ~580k subs)<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlJDxN2zlE 'Building a shipping container castle tower' (channel: Andrew Camarata ~359k subs)<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_S6fvUBAYE ~400lb guy attempts the pacific crest trail (channel: Second Chance Hiker ~26.8k subs)
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Title: Every time we visit a GDPR compliant site, we are greeted with the all too familiar (yet far from homogeneous) popup asking us to either accept or deny the site's privacy policy and cookie behavior.<p>I'd like to point out how this law is hurting the web.<p>When the onus is on the developer to ask a user for permission, the user is forced to trust the developer. For example when a website asks me if they can store cookies in my browser, and I say no, there is no easy way of me knowing if that site is actually listening to me.<p>Wouldn't it be cleaner if the burden was on the browser to ask us for permission?<p>In iOS for example, the operating system asks you if you'd like to grant an app access to your camera... not the app itself! Imagine we had to blindly trust an app to not use our camera, without any help from Apple. Mayhem!<p>Instead, the EU mandates that developers ask permission. Developers place a stupid looking div filled with legal jargon on their homepage. We roll our eyes and click accept. Good actors (who respected our privacy in the first place) continue to respect our privacy. Bad actors continue to ignore it.
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Title: I just started reading about things like Header Enhancement and SuperCookies and find them to be quite egregious. Does anyone know how much of this activity is being used by big known companies?<p>For example, I just found out that my account settings at Verizon Wireless were allowing them to use Header Enhancement (UIDH) adding a unique identifier on every http request I sent. So, if I log in to a site, they can associate the UIDH with my account so next time I’m in browser incognito mode, they already know who I am (or have a good guess).
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Title: Once you have pushed code to production and realized there is an issue, how do you roll back?<p>Do you roll forward? Flip DNS back to the old deployment? Click the button in heroku that takes you back to the previous version?
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Title: Monitors that are both cost a lot, so which would you prioritise?
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Title: Who really cares about algorithm on daily bases. How often you solve algorithm-heavy tasks at work?
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Title: In the last hour a few HN threads came to my attention [0][1][2], from which it seems that the overt kind of bullying that is known from movies and television series is actually a real thing. I am talking about repeated physical abuse from peers (but if somebody has deeper insights about bullying in general, I would not mind hearing about that too), because that is the thing that I thought mainly existed on TV.<p>If you have witnessed or, especially, suffered from bullying; I would like to read about it, at what education stage did it happen and where it happened. The last part is because my first thought about the beatings being real was that it is something that is exacerbated in USA schools.<p>As for my own experience (since I am asking others about it, I feel obligated to share my own experience); I was a socially inept introverted kid with little confidence and an outsider who could not really connect with other kids (and quite an annoying little prick, as I understand now), but despite those circumstances I was not repeatedly beaten (although a troublemaking kid that was shortly in my school during the lower education stage once tried to beat me up with two other people from my class, they failed). In high school there was even less bullying.<p>Now, I may have been lucky, it is possible that my schools were uncommonly nice ones in Croatia, and the fact that I was encouraged to stand up to beating attempts (on me or my friends) after reading the "Ender's game" (because of Ender doing the same ...); but really my understanding is that beatings do not happen in Croatian schools as described in those threads. Is it because of the Croatian nondemocratic socialist government heritage? Or is it an European thing? That is why I am asking this question.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212587" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212587</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5284664" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5284664</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21447459" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21447459</a>
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Title: During a recent HN discussion about the walrus operator I came to realize yet another advantage of notation. I used APL professionally for about ten years, which made it an obvious source of inspiration for an example that, in my opinion, demonstrates why the Python team missed a very valuable opportunity to take this wonderful language and start exploring the judicious introduction of notation as a valuable tool for thought (borrowing from Ken Iverson's APL paper with that title [0]).<p>To simplify, I'll define the desire for this walrus operator ":=" as "wanting to be able to make assignments within syntax where it was previously impossible":<p><pre><code> if x = 5 # was impossible
# and now
if x := 5 # makes is possible
</code></pre>
A more elaborate example given in the PEP goes like this:<p><pre><code> Current:
reductor = dispatch_table.get(cls)
if reductor:
rv = reductor(x)
else:
reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None)
if reductor:
rv = reductor(4)
else:
reductor = getattr(x, "__reduce__", None)
if reductor:
rv = reductor()
else:
raise Error(
"un(deep)copyable object of type %s" % cls)
Improved:
if reductor := dispatch_table.get(cls):
rv = reductor(x)
elif reductor := getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None):
rv = reductor(4)
elif reductor := getattr(x, "__reduce__", None):
rv = reductor()
else:
raise Error("un(deep)copyable object of type %s" % cls)
</code></pre>
At first I thought, well, just extend "=" and be done with it. The HN thread resulted in many comments against this idea. The one that made me think was this one [1]:<p><pre><code> These two are syntactically equal and in Python there's no
way a linter can distinguish between these two:
if reductor = dispatch_table.get(cls):
if reductor == dispatch_table.get(cls):
A human being can only distinguish them through careful inspection.
The walrus operator not only prevents that problem, but makes
the intent unambiguous.
</code></pre>
Which is a perfectly valid point. I get it.<p>Still, the idea of two assignment operators just didn't sit well with me. That's when I realized I had seen this kind of a problem nearly thirty years ago, with the introduction of "J". I won't get into the details unless someone is interested, I'll just say that J turned APL into ASCII soup. It was and is ugly and it completely misses the point of the very reason APL has specialized notation; the very thing Iverson highlighted in his paper [0].<p>Back to Python.<p>This entire mess could have been avoided by making one simple change that would have possibly nudged the language towards a very interesting era, one where a specialized programming notation could be evolved over time for the benefit of all. That simple change would have been the introduction and adoption of APL's own assignment operator: "←"<p>In other words, these two things would have been equivalent in Python:<p><pre><code> a ← 23
a = 23
</code></pre>
What's neat about this is that both human and automated tools (linters, etc.) would have no problem understanding the difference between these:<p><pre><code> if reductor ← dispatch_table.get(cls):
if reductor == dispatch_table.get(cls):
</code></pre>
And the larger example would become this:<p><pre><code> if reductor ← dispatch_table.get(cls):
rv ← reductor(x)
elif reductor ← getattr(x, "__reduce_ex__", None):
rv ← reductor(4)
elif reductor ← getattr(x, "__reduce__", None):
rv ← reductor()
else:
raise Error("un(deep)copyable object of type %s" % cls)
</code></pre>
This assignment operator would work everywhere and, for a period of time, the "=" operator would be retained. The good news is that old code could be updated with a simple search-and-replace. In fact, code editors could even display "=" as "←" as an option. The transition to only allowing "←" (and perhaps other symbols) could be planned for Python 4.<p>Clean, simple and forward-looking. That, to me, is a good solution. Today we have "=" and ":=" which, from my opinionated perspective, does not represent progress at all.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426338" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426338</a>
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Title: How and how well do you keep track of your mental health, particularly for those with a history of mental health issues, and those with a family history of mental issues.<p>As for me I like to think that I try really hard to monitor my mental health, I suffer from anxiety disorder and my father and mother both had mental health issues at one point in their life, which makes me constantly fear for my mental health and hence my monitoring of my mental state of mind like a hulk.
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Title: I'm running a small business on AWS as a solo founder. It's just me. Yesterday I had a service interruption while I was in the London subway. Luckily, I was able to sign in to the AWS console and resolve the issue.<p>But it does (again) raise the question I'd rather not think about. What if something happens to me and there's another outage that I can't fix?<p>So - how do you make sure that your servers are up as a one person founder? Can I pay someone to monitor my AWS deploy and make sure it's healthy?
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Title: I am switching career from a low paying job to web dev. What tech stack should I be learning to start earning income to pay my bills?
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Title: Hey folks,<p>I'm asking because I'm curious how one would go about doing something like this in 2019. What are the things you need to think about, and what measures would one need to take to ensure continued anonymity over time. In particular, I'm curious about just information transfer, like a simple, not-for-profit blog.<p>Since the threat model can get pretty vague, I guess I'm thinking about two main scenarios:<p>1. Easier case: how to prevent being de-anonymized by curious individuals and specific corporations (e.g., multiple ISP's colluding together may be able to de-anonymize you, but for example a specific company like Google can't).<p>2. Harder case: ensuring anonymity even from state-level actors.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I’ve been out of the 3D graphics game for many years and would like to pick it back up. Things have moved on a lot so I’m looking for a good book on modern 3D graphics and the state of the art.
Upvote: | 72 |
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