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Title: Uploaded another batch of designs to https://uidesigndaily.com/ - a few hundred more in the queue.<p>Also fixed some bugs and made some adjustments based on the feedback received from the soft launch.<p>Note for developers:
If you don’t have Sketch or a Mac, and you’d like to use a <i>.sketch</i> source file, remember that Figma is free to use, available for Windows and it opens the format!<p>What does open source design even mean?
You can download the design source files and look under the hood. If open source code is checking out the recipe of a piece of software, open source design is the same thing for a design.<p>The designs on the site are also free to use, modify etc.
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Title: I developed a Coronavirus tracker app for iOS and macOS and open-sourced the project on GitHub [1]. I tried to publish the app on the App Store, but it got rejected by Apple because it's not from a health organization [2].<p>Today, I found my app published on the App Store by "The Saudi National Health Information Center", a Saudi government institution, after they made slight changes and additions [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/mhdhejazi/CoronaTracker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mhdhejazi/CoronaTracker</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/apple-rejects-coronavirus-apps-that-arent-from-health-organizations.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/apple-rejects-coronavirus-ap...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/sa/app/corona-map/id1503046302" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/sa/app/corona-map/id1503046302</a>
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Title: I know many of us are probably experiencing some anxiety about potentially or actually losing our jobs.<p>For those of you who made it through the 2008-2009 financial crisis or the dotcom bust before that, how did you do it? Do you have any particular advice for weathering this storm?
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Title: What physical product do you make for your job? Perhaps you are working in more traditional hardware, firmware, and systems engineering? Tell us about your work!<p>If you're building a website or app, sorry this Ask HN isn't for you. This is for those makers who are creating physical things: headphones, medical devices, cars, furniture, etc...
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Title: Hi,<p>I recently published my ebook on GNU awk one-liners [1]. It starts from the basics of awk syntax and then discusses one-liner examples. There's a chapter on regular expressions as well. The github repo has the details on how to get the PDF version, all the example files and code snippets used in the book, sample chapters as well the markdown source used to generate the PDF.<p>I made all my ebooks [2] free last month amidst the pandemic fears. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed and three books on regular expressions (Python, Ruby, JavaScript).<p>I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :)<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk</a><p>[2] <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/" rel="nofollow">https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/</a>
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Title: The lockdowns and stay-at-home orders as measures to slow the spread of the virus has greatly affected the aviation sector.<p>Amid the worsening coronavirus crisis, the airline industry has taken a hard blow with a drastic decrease in passenger travel.
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Title: Economics enthusiasts of HN: The Covid-19 crisis - when it settles down, what kind of economic impact can we expect? Especially in the tech sector?<p>1) In what scale can we expect the economic slowdown to be?<p>2) Will this be as bad as the 2008 recession?<p>3) What kind of economic climate can we expect for the next one year?<p>4) What will governemnts across the world do to overcome the crisis?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Nick here. We're super excited to officially launch PDF.js Express [1].<p>PDF.js Express wraps a modern React UI around the PDF.js rendering engine to enable PDF annotation, form filling, and signing inside your web app. We've also made some improvements to PDF.js text search, and taken a different approach to how the viewer uses the PDF.js rendering API, resulting in sharp graphics at any zoom magnification [2].<p>Based on our research, more than 70% of those who try to implement these features on top of PDF.js find it too difficult or time-intensive [3]. For those who are successful, supporting the new functionality is also challenging. To help these developers in achieving their short-term goals, and to support them as their needs evolve, we built PDF.js Express.<p>Check out the demo and let us know what you think or if you have any questions [4].<p>If you're helping fight COVID-19, it's free [5].<p>[1] <a href="https://pdfjs.express/blog/introducing-pdfjs-express" rel="nofollow">https://pdfjs.express/blog/introducing-pdfjs-express</a><p>[2] <a href="https://pdfjs.express/pdfjs-vs-express" rel="nofollow">https://pdfjs.express/pdfjs-vs-express</a><p>[3] <a href="https://pdfjs.express/blog/build-vs-buy" rel="nofollow">https://pdfjs.express/blog/build-vs-buy</a><p>[4] <a href="https://pdfjs.express/demo" rel="nofollow">https://pdfjs.express/demo</a><p>[5] <a href="https://pdfjs.express/blog/pdfjs-express-free-to-those-fighting-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https://pdfjs.express/blog/pdfjs-express-free-to-those-fight...</a>
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Title: This is dang testing something. Please carry on.<p>Edit: bah! you guys upvoted it and ruined my test. I think I can cancel that out.<p>Edit 2: I've changed the title from "Launch HN: Test" so that this thread doesn't appear on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/show" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/show</a>, where it didn't belong.
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Title: It's 6 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 5 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with but as much as possible I’d like to focus on the impact of the pandemic on U.S. immigration. 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 am going to take a break for about 30 minutes. Thanks.<p>Edit 2: Really good clear questions. It’s 3 pm EST and I need to jump off for a couple of hours to deal with a client issue but I’ll return this afternoon/evening.<p>Edit 3: I'm signing off now. Thank you again everyone. It's been a pleasure responding to your questions. Stay healthy and safe.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Pablo and Oriol here, founders of Belvo (<a href="https://belvo.co/" rel="nofollow">https://belvo.co/</a>), a financial data API platform for Latin America. Think Plaid for Latam.<p>We were previously building a payments startup (something like Venmo) in Europe and when expanding to Latam realised how hard it is to connect to legacy infrastructure, whether it is to access data, validate bank accounts or process payments. We’ve also been working in fintech in Europe for the past few years (at companies like Revolut) and one of us comes from a traditional financial services background. We’ve seen the impact open banking technology, which has become common in Europe, has had on providing end-users with more transparent
and fair offerings and on lowering barriers for fintech developers to get started and launch innovative new products. But this technology hasn't made it into Latam yet, so we saw a big opportunity and started Belvo to solve that.<p>Belvo allows end-users to connect their financial data to new fintech apps across Latam. We’ve seen a number of relevant use cases for our product so far. For personal and business finance apps, we allow users to connect bank accounts and view them in one place through account consolidation. This allows developers to provide better spending analytics and proactive recommendations. Business-oriented finance apps can reduce manual errors and costs via automated accounting by syncing bank feeds and reconciling transactions on a recurring basis. We’ve also seen that digital-first banks and wallets can use us to build in-house personal finance managers and authenticate the owner of any bank account - thus streamlining their know-your-client (KYC) processes. We also enable credit providers to build better and faster experiences for borrowers. Instead of having to build onboarding flows or asking users to self-report or upload their information, data can be synced via our API. Fraud risk can also be reduced and scoring improved by accessing more granular and broad data.<p>Currently we allow end-users to connect banks and bank-like sources to fintech apps. That being said, our goal is to aggregate all relevant financial data sources, not just banks. This is particularly important in Latam, where 50% of the population is unbanked. In this context, sources such as service providers (think prepaid phone, prepaid TV, electricity bills), digital wallets and gig-economy apps are relevant for both users and fintech apps. These are typically paid in cash and don’t go through a bank statement or debit card but all have portals where consumption and spend can be analysed and categorised. Becoming the “source of truth” for all this data is pretty tricky as all data sources have different formats, ways to access, granularity, etc. and that’s something we’re looking to solve.<p>The process of connecting accounts to fintech apps is built on the premise of full and strong user consent to data sharing. Security / privacy is something we’ve been focusing on since day 1. Our engineering, infrastructure and data teams have past experience in working on products with similar complexities.<p>We went live in January in Mexico, our first market. We will soon be expanding to Colombia and Brazil and working on some additional products and sources to complement the core data API.<p>Belvo has been built by developers, for developers and our API documentation is public. The way to get setup is directly via our developer portal (<a href="https://developers.belvo.co/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.belvo.co/</a>). Upon signup, you’ll be able to retrieve your API keys for both our Sandbox and Production environments.<p>Oriol and I would be delighted to get your thoughts and feedback on what we’re building.<p>Fire away HN!
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Title: There is a monthly “Who is hiring” post, but I thought it might be helpful to have a laid off post with unemployment rates rising.<p>Share your experience and what you’re looking for.
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Title: I noticed something really peculiar this morning when I was invited to a Zoom meeting. I had uninstalled Zoom the night before but when I clicked the Join Meeting link, I was still prompted by the browser to open the zoom.us application. I went ahead and clicked OK to open it and I got the OSX popup: "You're opening the application "zoom.us" for the first time. Are you sure you want to open this application?" (<a href="https://imgur.com/nsOV3d5" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/nsOV3d5</a>)<p>I checked my Applications folder and didn't see Zoom there so I clicked the "Show Application" button in the popup and it ended up opening the Applications folder from one of my Time Machine backups with Zoom installed.<p>I tested this with both Firefox and Chrome with the same results. Now I don't know if this is an OSX specific issue, a browser issue, or a Zoom issue.<p>Can anyone else confirm the same or similar behavior on Mac? If anyone can also shed some insight about this behavior, it would be much appreciated.
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Title: Hello HN!<p>As part of my learning in data science, I need/want to gather data. One relatively easy way to do that is web scraping.<p>However I'd like to do that in a respectful way. Here are three things I can think of:<p>1. Identify my bot with a user agent/info URL, and provide a way to contact me
2. Don't DoS websites with tons of request.
3. Respect the robots.txt<p>What else would be considered good practice when it comes to web scraping?
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Title: I’m curious as to the tools or techniques people use to keep track of things like bookmarks, snippets of code or text, etc.?<p>I’ve used a variety of tools (simple browser bookmarks, Pinboard, Evernote, a text file, etc) but have never been very happy with any of the solutions.<p>Anyone have great tools or methods of storing bits of info for later access?<p>I’m thinking something that at a minimum has:<p>- Search<p>- Tagging<p>- Support for different content types (links, text, video embeds, photos, etc)<p>- Also would be nice to have mobile app, browser extension, API, Zappier integration, etc<p>Any suggestions?
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Title: My wife died recently. I had to close various accounts. From an IT perspective, the results were shameful. For example, I called her cell-phone provider and closed her account. The agent was very respectful. He offered condolences and closed the account, and said there would be a refund. The next day, there was an email, addressed to my wife, using her first name, asking her to rate her recent experience.<p>I had to use text messaging to close her NY Times subscription. I texted "I need to cancel a subscription" The bot asked me why<p>1. No time to read<p>2. Price concern<p>3. Service issue<p>And I was told I had to answer 1, 2, or 3! Really?<p>Then a human got involved, and he/she was good, but obviously the bot still has some control because at the end I got this:<p>"Thank for contacting the New York Times, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day."<p>Come on.....this is terrible. The human realized this and immediately added<p>"And also before you go, I wanted to express my most sincere condolonces to you and your family"<p>There is more, but this may be enough. My question for those of you working on apps that have registered users or subscribers: how do you deal with notification that one of your clients has died? Did you even give this use case some thought?
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Title: What are you learning right now? My last side project was recently derailed and I am curious to hear what other people are spending their time studying/learning about.
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Title: Since low-coding is super trendy these days, I was wondering if there are actually useful apps not only for non-devs but also for lazy-devs?<p>I tried couple of no-code apps, but found them inflexible –not really giving you the opportunity to dive-in and customize.
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Title: COBOL is operating for a number of practical reasons in the US.<p>Universities stopped training because it was not—glamorous.<p>Now NJ needs 100s of programmers—TODAY.
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Title: I wrote a short JavaScript snippet to export HN Favorites to a CSV file.<p>It runs in your browser like a browser extension. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page.<p>Setup and usage instructions are in the file.<p>Check out <a href="https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFavorites.js" rel="nofollow">https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFavorites.js</a> or to view the source code, see getHNFavorites.js on <a href="https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io</a>
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Title: I'm a web developer and DevOps engineer. I know a few languages and frameworks very well, I can find my way around with a good deal of other languages and frameworks, and I'd like to learn a lot more.<p>My problem is that I cannot seem to be able to pick a project (any project) and stick with it long enough to do any meaningful progress, let alone finishing it.
It's been several years since I've managed to work on a side project for more than two days continually.<p>I sit before the computer thinking: I know! I'll write a roguelike in X! Five minutes later, I'm thinking: fuck roguelikes! I'll write a graphical solitar card game with Y! Five minutes later, I don't care for it anymore, and would rather write an isomorphic strategy game in Z.<p>The same thing happens with tools I might need, applications I think about, experimental stuff, etc.<p>Has anyone else experienced this, and, more importantly, found their way out? How?
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Title: Given ACM's Digital Library is currently free to access thru June 30, 2020 what are must read/watch resources you recommend and why?
https://dl.acm.org/
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Title: I know the title sounds foolish but...I think I noticed this during undergrad, and it happens every once in a while now, years later:<p>most days I'm my usual self, but every now and then (maybe a day every few months?) I'm just...dumber. And I can pick up on it pretty quickly, for example when I try to think about something that's not ingrained in my routine (such as a work task), it just feels like my mind is...foggy?<p>And it's not food or exercise or sleep, because especially with the pandemic, my routine is the same.<p>Does this happen to anyone else? Google searching warranted no lead on the matter.
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Title: Looking for awesome new places to read things written by actual human beings.<p>So where can I find your blog? why is it awesome? And why should I (and everyone else) read it?
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Title: All subdomains on .js.org pages are down with the message "<i>GitHub Pages is temporarily down for maintenance.</i>" But on https://www.githubstatus.com it shows: "All Systems Operational"?<p>Anyone running into errors?
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Title: Which book would you say is a gentle, yet highly foundational book for a programmer that would take their self-taught knowledge to the next level? Would it be a book about data structures, algorithms, or even operating systems? If so, which resources specifically?
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Erika and Arnelle, friends since high school and co-founders of Edlyft (<a href="https://www.edlyft.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.edlyft.com</a>). We help college students pass their most challenging computer science classes, by offering them group tutoring sessions, study groups, and guidance from peers who’ve done it before them.<p>Arnelle and I came into college as freshmen not knowing how to code, but wanting to graduate with a CS degree. We found the steep learning curve discouraging, the lack of support frustrating, and felt like everyone else was always ahead. Impostor syndrome hit hard. But we made it through! In the end, what made the difference was connecting with students and mentors who had come before us. My junior year out of desperation, I wrote a letter to a grad student who was willing to meet with me weekly to review concepts and connect me with other CS students. Without that support system, I probably would've been weeded out from the CS major and not here writing this launch today.<p>Despite almost being weeded out, Arnelle and I were fortunate enough to land internships and jobs at fine tech companies. However we kept thinking about all the talented people who could and should be succeeding and don't have access to the same tools that we did. If they'd had the same kind of support that we were able to create for ourselves, they could’ve not dropped CS and maybe pursued their dream job in tech. Finally we decided to quit our jobs to build the support program that can make this difference.<p>If you got into programming before college and/or grew up in an environment where you were encouraged to play with tech, it may be hard to appreciate what an enormous head start that is. For many people who didn't take that path before college, there's a huge culture shock in the beginning to learn the basics of computing. It's all too easy to get discouraged and think that you don't have what it takes, and the sink-or-swim culture of academia unfortunately encourages these outcomes. Just having access to someone who was once in your position and knows that you can do it--because they did it--can be a game changer, especially in STEM.<p>You might be wondering why universities don't provide this already. That's what we ourselves wondered while we were going through the experience. For a while, we were fighting within the departments to get more support implemented. But it turns out that the incentives just aren't there. Colleges mostly aren't incentivized to increase CS enrollment, as Professors want to focus on their research and budgets are tight. Instead schools cap the major and struggle to increase support as demand goes up. Students wait for hours in line at office hours to get help--sometimes as long as 6 hours. At Cal, almost half of students who take the intro CS class will not receive a qualifying grade for the major. For universities, this is just an attrition number, but we know that much of that so-called attrition is people who have every ability to succeed at the material but need the right kind of orientation and support. Given the incredible value and growing importance of CS in our economy, this is not a minor difference in outcome. This is a broken system that we’re determined to solve.<p>Once a student joins Edlyft, they are immediately connected to a group of students in their CS class and an older student mentor from their school who has aced the class before. We hire compassionate and patient student mentors who host weekly group tutoring sessions and on-call q&a hours. Every Edlyft student gains access to up to 6 more hours of CS help per week and becomes a part of a larger community of CS students. They answer each other’s questions over Slack, work together over Zoom, and rely on our growing school-specific playbooks that are kept up to date by the student mentors. This is the supportive ecosystem we wish we had.<p>We’re currently launched at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz. But the vision does not stop there; We plan to expand to other schools beyond California as fast as is sustainable and see a clear path to expanding into all high growth STEM fields, like Data Science and Pre-Med. We charge a monthly subscription for students to join, and offer need-based financial aid to ensure Edlyft is accessible and inclusive. Our hope is that the students who succeed through this program will become mentors to the ones who are coming up later, and make some money in the process.<p>If you have any memories struggling with Computer Science, please share them below! Although many people on HN were programming from an early age, we also know that there many who came late to computing and have done very well for themselves. We’d love to hear your stories and share them with our students to remind them that it’s normal for CS to be challenging and they’re not the only one.<p>Most importantly, if you know a college student struggling through CS, encourage them to find a mentor who can guide them through. And put them in touch with us! We’d love to talk to them.<p>We’re excited to hear your thoughts on how we can make computer science better for college students!
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Title: Hey y'all,<p>I've been using docker compose a lot in my local network, and managing setup between machines is a bit of a pain in the ass for me. I wanted an easy way to share complex configurations. At the moment most docker compose package management is done by adding a docker-compose.yml to your repo, adding a bunch of setup instructions, and hoping they are well followed. This didn't feel like a smart way to go about it to me.<p>I wanted to create a way to create a complex package, say a series of related or linked services, and provide some meaningful way to have users install it. That's why I built DCPM. It provides a few things for you:<p><pre><code> 1. A nice CLI to interact with
2. A place to store these files and configuration
3. A way to setup new projects that's not just reading a readme
</code></pre>
To achieve these goals I built the @dcpm/cli and blobs.dcpm.dev. The cli allows you to upload and download blobs, and the back end allows you to have a persistent storage to use. I've also built a really simple front end for searching packages.<p>This is a very early alpha. There is a lot left to improve, but I feel enough of the core concepts are here to get some early feedback and improve the tool. Any and all feedback are super welcome. Here are some links for you:<p>Docs: <a href="https://docs.dcpm.dev" rel="nofollow">https://docs.dcpm.dev</a><p>Search: <a href="https://app.dcpm.dev" rel="nofollow">https://app.dcpm.dev</a><p>CLI: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dcpm/cli" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dcpm/cli</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/hweeks/dcpm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hweeks/dcpm</a><p>fyi: there's a nonzero chance that the DB will be wiped once we exit alpha and enter beta<p>- hamsolo/hweeks
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Title: I have what is possibly a very simple, cheap and quick solution to solving the COVID-19 pandemic. The problem is I am in Australia and only someone like with clout in the USA or Europe like Bill Gates can put it into practice. Any ideas how I can get their attention?
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Title: A Logitech 925e ($99 USD MSRP) currently goes for $180-$260 on eBay and $358 on Amazon.
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Title: I am not able to connect to firebase services. All my applications running on firebase seem to be down. Anyone else facing this problem?
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Title: We launched http://hallway.chat a couple weeks ago and since then hundreds of teams have signed up. They're all free users, but daily usage is pretty high.<p>Hallway started as a fun side project / "toy app". It creates temporary video rooms in Slack for teams to connect and make working from home less lonely.<p>I wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas about how to think about turning this into an actual business given there seems to be some interest?
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Title: We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (<a href="https://useparagon.com" rel="nofollow">https://useparagon.com</a>) - we're working on a platform for visually building API workflows.<p>As a frontend engineer and product manager, I've always wanted a way to quickly build out backend services without having to manually spin up a server, manage database connections, or write a ton of code. We wanted to create Paragon to make it easier to build and manage some of these services without being an expert backend engineer.<p>Paragon is a visual workflow builder that provides "steps" like API requests, database queries, and conditional logic that you can drag and drop to build microservices or integrations. Many workflows can be built without writing code, but we also provide Cloud Functions as a native step type in case you need to add some custom logic to your workflow. You can deploy workflows in one click and visualize the flow of data through each execution for easy debugging.<p>Today, we're focused on helping build integrations between your product and 3rd party APIs. We know there is a history of visual programming tools that promise more than they deliver. Paragon isn't designed to build your core product or replace your API, but we do hope to make it easier to extend functionality and microservices that integrate your product with other services (especially if you're not a backend engineer).<p>For example, our users have built workflows that sends weekly Twilio messages to their Firebase users, or that parses user file uploads via an OCR API and saves them to MongoDB. Here's an example workflow that finds your inactive users in Postgres and sends them re-engagement messages with Twilio or Sendgrid: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVU8GCBMZj4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVU8GCBMZj4</a><p>We launched Paragon in beta about a month ago and we charge a monthly subscription based on usage, starting at $30 for 1,000 tasks per month. If you're interested in trying Paragon, you can sign up on our website and and I'll fast-track you to the top of our waitlist!<p>We'd love to hear your experience building API integrations. Thanks, and looking forwards to your thoughts and feedback in the comments!<p>Edit: We don't currently offer a free tier or trial. The reason is that we currently provide custom onboarding for every user where we help setup your workflow(s) over a Zoom call, then add you a Slack channel where we provide realtime support. We invest a lot of time and effort to ensure each user is successful and are happy to offer a full refund if we can't. That said, we do plan to add some free version of Paragon in the future. I hope this clarifies some people's comments about our pricing, thanks!
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Title: I noticed while installing WebEx today that the installer immediately terminated itself after popping up the pre-installation script.<p>Running `strings` on the installation plugin (CWSPkgPlugin.bundle) shows why - it's using a similar process to what Zoom does [1]<p><pre><code> +[CWSUtilBase unzip:to:]
/usr/bin/unzip
Clean up temp unziped app done: %i
unzip:to:
[...]
Cisco Webex pkg plugin, begin init work.
Install CWS result: %i
Launch CWS result: %i
Terminate installer: %@
Terminate self: %@
[...]
/usr/sbin/lsof
forceTerminate
</code></pre>
Previously discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.imore.com/zooms-preinstallation-script-workaround-macos-very-shady" rel="nofollow">https://www.imore.com/zooms-preinstallation-script-workaroun...</a>
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Title: I'm a systems developer. I have been trying to learn web development using React so that I can create MVPs for some ideas I have. I've enjoyed learning React and I'm sure I can handle the backend code as well. What I struggle with is designing a layout. I've been using a layout library (material-ui) but I struggle with how to layout two elements horizontally or vertically etc. (Container element?). Is there a tutorial that can teach me enough to get by on this front ? I get too bored while learning the nuances of CSS.
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Title: I have a lot of APIs for different apps that I've built for customers.<p>And most of the time it is when the customer calls me I get to know that the API is down!<p>Maybe after some data changes, or some random code changes.<p>I'm now having nightmares about API services going down.<p>Do you continuously monitor your APIs and get notified when something goes down? (It's not just like monitoring a website using Pingdom, but the actual data responses, like for example check if a particular JSON field exists in the response)
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m John Friel, cofounder of Art in Res (<a href="https://artinres.com" rel="nofollow">https://artinres.com</a>). Art in Res is an online marketplace where painters sell their art directly to buyers, instead of needing to work with an art gallery.<p>I studied art and moved to New York in 2008 dreaming of making it as an artist. It wasn’t easy. I lived in a maybe-legal warehouse space that doubled as a poorly-ventilated art studio. My first day job was stocking shelves at Trader Joe’s, which covered my rent and groceries but, at New York prices, not much else.<p>My best friend in NYC had a side hustle making artist websites by hacking them out on top of WordPress. He was great at it. Through that side-hustle, he got approached to make an online store for a small business. Shopify wasn’t wasn’t widely known back then and he needed help. So he proposed to me: “Hey John, I know you have a nerdy side. Do you think you could learn to program and we could make the website together?” I told him “No way! That’s crazy! It would take me years to learn to program!” But he said “Look, there’s this new thing called Ruby on Rails. At least just Google that before you say ‘no’”. So I did a Rails tutorial and thought “Hmm, maybe I _could_ do this.” We accepted the gig and I’ve been a happy coder ever since. (We did _not_ ship the site on time.)<p>I’m all in on coding now, but most of my artist friends are still making art, and still working day jobs. Their studios are full of amazing paintings that barely anyone gets to see. And for every one of my friends there are a thousand other artists out there, cranking out amazing work and not selling it because they don’t have galleries selling it for them.<p>A couple years ago, my cofounder John (we’re both named John) told me that he had bought a painting from an artist he’d met. He couldn’t believe how great the paintings were, how cool the artist was, how the artists’ studio was this cool warehouse space that was overflowing with unsold paintings. He knew me as a programmer – but wasn’t I a painter before that? He had the idea that we could put our experiences together and make a website where people could buy art from all the amazing but not-famous artists around them.<p>We started Art in Res as a nights-and-weekends project. We found lots of people who liked the idea of buying art – but we also realized that most people who aren’t hardcore art collectors think that paying over $100 for a painting is hard to swallow. The thing is though, that paintings are made by hand, often painstakingly over long periods of time, and so they don’t benefit from the economics of scale that create the prices that modern consumers expect.<p>We resolve that by having our buyers purchase art on _installment plans_, where each payment results in a payment to the artist. In normal circumstances, revenue for artists tends to be spiky and unpredictable. Once an artist on Art in Res gets a couple installment plans going, they have a nice, predictable revenue stream. And a buyer who is purchasing this way gets to live with a unique, hand-made painting for ~$30-60 per month. It works really well for both parties.<p>We’re working on Art in Res full-time now and our team has grown to 5 people (all creatives in some capacity or another.) We’re John, Dan, Noni, Emily and me. We think art should be affordable and artists should get paid. There’s so much amazing art out there, collecting dust in studios. It deserves to find loving homes. <3<p>Thanks so much, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts!<p>–<p>PS - I’ve been lurking HN for close to a decade and this is thrilling for me!
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Title: My university just provided us with free Coursera accounts until the end of summer. However, there's so many courses to choose from that I don't know where to start! Please recommend me a course that you liked, preferably from the following areas:<p>- UX design<p>- bioinformatics<p>- statistics for data science<p>- mathematical analysis<p>- algebra or category theory<p>But of course, you don't need to stick to those categories, I'd love to learn about anything new!
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Title: Hi. I'm the PM for a small fintech startup and the business team is constantly changing priorities based on new client requests, so the tech team cannot cope with all the new features and these end up suffering continuous delays.<p>Do you let new customers drive your product roadmap, or just decide your own roadmap and stick with it? Which approach works best in order to gain more product velocity?
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Title: Context upfront: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203</a><p>I'd really like to have a decent (let's say >13") display to hang on a wall in my room and display weather, my todo list, etc. It doesn't necessarily have to be E-ink proper, but I like the idea of having something that doesn't emit its own light. More like an electronic whiteboard.<p>Alternatives include something like the Vestaboard, which is <i>not cheap</i>, and probably fairly noisy.<p>Are there products I'm missing here?
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Title: I'm a well-educated man yet I find it very difficult to process the information that is coming at me. The number of issues that hit me every day just makes me want to hide in a foxhole until it's all over like some soldier. Yet I know it will not be over. In fact, I know it will be progressively worse.<p>I'm educated and aware and I can't cope. How can anyone cope?
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Title: I'm coming out of an extended spell of mental fog, and I would like to investigate self-administered cognitive behaviour therapy as part of my recovery and treatment. My local health service is running at capacity and so I'm looking at doing this myself, at least initially, in a responsible fashion.<p>I have a budget for ebooks and online courses. I would be grateful for advice or feedback on what is and is not worth investing time and money in. What works or worked for you or someone you know?<p>Thank you in advance.
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Title: I learned about a ton of useful CLIs, desktop apps, and SaaS products from this thread (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237</a>).<p>But it was posted 3 years ago, and perhaps some useful stuff has emerged in the interim, hence my starting this thread.
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Title: In the spirit of "Programs that saved you 100 hours?" ¹, - I'm curious to hear of experiences with software systems, languages, apps, or services that led you down an unproductive rabbit hole, only to come out at the other end (if ever) with not much to show for the effort.<p>¹ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208</a>
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Title: Years of skimming text online and rapidly flicking between browser tabs has severely impaired my ability to just stop and read something in print or online with my full attention and concentration. I can't even enjoy a novel sometimes because my mind won't quieten down and instead will wonder off to another thought.<p>As soon as I attempt to devote my full attention to a text - not skimming but properly reading all the text and concentrating of the meaning of the text - my mind fires off a myriad other thoughts that dilutes any attempt to concentrate on just one thing: the text in front of me.<p>Have you ever been in a similar situation? How did you overcome it?
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Title: Hello,<p>I have often been somewhat confused when it comes to hourly rates for freelancers in IT.
While it is pretty normal to charge more than 60€/h here in Europe I’m always shocked to come across postings like these from the US:<p><a href="https://soshace.com/jobs/python-back-end-web-developer-remote-soshace-16-09-2019" rel="nofollow">https://soshace.com/jobs/python-back-end-web-developer-remot...</a><p>This is a remote python job for an intermediate or senior developer that pays 20-30$/h. And not the first one of that kind I came across.<p>That would mean a freelancer makes less than half the money as compared to a 9-5.<p>Is this normal?
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Title: This question was asked last year (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072</a>) by gajus, 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.<p>> Has recent shutdown of economy affected your business?
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Title: I remember in my teens I used to love programming. After 20 years of a career, I don't enjoy it anymore.<p>Have you rediscovered the joy of programming? Any advice?
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Title: With so much happening so suddenly, what are you reading to make sense of the Economy and markets.
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Title: Hey everyone,
I'm a full stack JavaScript dev in London with 10 years experience, working as a tech lead in a big company. Because of the Coronavirus directly impacting our revenues, we are being put at 80% pay / 80% time.<p>Do you think in the current climate it would be doable to start freelancing / consulting? I've already got an LTD setup because I used to be a contractor, but would like to look at turnkey work, where I'm given a project for a fixed price.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We are members of the C Standard Committee and associated C experts, who have collaborated on a new book called Effective C, which was discussed recently here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716068" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716068</a>. After that thread, dang invited me to do an AMA and I invited my colleagues so we upgraded it to an AUA. Ask us about C programming, the C Standard or C standardization, undefined Behavior, and anything C-related!<p>The book is still forthcoming, but it's available for pre-order and early access from No Starch Press: <a href="https://nostarch.com/Effective_C" rel="nofollow">https://nostarch.com/Effective_C</a>.<p>Here's who we are:<p>rseacord - Robert C. Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group, and author of the new book by No Starch Press “Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” and C Standards Committee (WG14) Expert.<p>AaronBallman - Aaron Ballman is a compiler frontend engineer for GrammaTech, Inc. and works primarily on the static analysis tool, CodeSonar. He is also a frontend maintainer for Clang, a popular open source compiler for C, C++, and other languages. Aaron is an expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and is a chapter author for Effective C.<p>msebor - Martin Sebor is Principal Engineer at Red Hat and expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and the official Technical Reviewer for Effective C.<p>DougGwyn - Douglas Gwyn is Emeritus at US Army Research Laboratory and Member Emeritus for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and a major contributor to Effective C.<p>pascal_cuoq - Pascal Cuoq is the Chief Scientist at TrustInSoft and co-inventor of the Frama-C technology. Pascal was a reviewer for Effective C and author of a foreword part.<p>NickDunn - Nick Dunn is a Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group, ethical hacker, software security tester, code reviewer, and major contributor to Effective C.<p>Fire away with your questions and comments about C!
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Title: What's your story? What do you do now? Any regrets? And how come you still follow HN?
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Title: Zerzar & David here from Zynq - we built a calendar extension for Google Calendar to help you easily book meetings with your colleagues, even if they are spread across timezones. You can check it out here: <a href="https://zynq.io/remote" rel="nofollow">https://zynq.io/remote</a><p>Both of us worked on G Suite and quit last year because we felt enterprise calendars really needed an upgrade and they weren’t a strategic priority for Google/Microsoft. As a product manager, I spent a bunch of time organizing meetings and moving them around which was probably the least valuable thing I could have been doing. David, as an engineer, would frequently get interrupted by meetings people would schedule in the middle of his day when he was trying to get work done.<p>We built Zynq to make scheduling intuitive: just tell us who you want to meet & how long you want your meeting to be and we’ll find the best time that works for everyone. Our algorithm looks for open slots during work hours where everyone is free in their timezone & not out for lunch. We rank these slots via a scoring algorithm which prioritizes focus time for everyone invited & picks the top slot. We then create the meeting and automatically add a Zoom/Hangouts link so you never need to set that up manually again.<p>We are launching this for free given the current WFH situation to help teams move faster, but we also have a separate paid product that optimizes for meeting room utilization and that’s how we make money. We don’t plan to charge for this version, but may release paid features on top in the future geared toward larger enterprises. Our goal is to build a complete end-to-end meeting solution for smart offices including meeting room tablet software, guest check-in experience, and an analytics back-end which helps plan future office space.<p>Our long term vision is to automate away the many boring tasks you do at work so you can focus on the creative aspects of your job. We hope this is a step in that direction - please let us know your honest feedback and how we can improve!
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Title: So far I've heard of:<p>* Apartment List (13% per The Information)<p>* Carta (16% per The Information)<p>* Opendoor (35% per The Information)<p>Any others? Interesting that they were all announced on the same day, is it possible that there was some coordination, especially by VCs trying to staunch the blood loss within their portfolios?
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Title: With reference to the other post here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875106" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875106</a>), I’m once again fascinated by Emacs and the following it has. I know vi (learned it quite sometime ago) and though I’m not a power user, I can do a lot of things in vi without putting in much effort or searching online for solutions.<p>So I’m here to ask for resources — text based tutorials, video tutorials and what not — that would help someone grok Emacs (from a novice level) and get into the Emacs way of doing things (including elisp?).<p>I would also like recommendations on what (package/source) you consider as the best to install on macOS and on Linux.
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Title: Times are bleak.
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Title: I wonder where these tools fit today and how they are used. Since a lot of applications are moving to containers and Kubernetes I'm struggling to understand what's the current state these tools.
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Title: Today, we're launching https://NeighborPledge.com to support your favorite local businesses, 90% of which can't offer takeout/gift cards. And 50%+ of small businesses say they will go out of business in the next 2 months (https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1250453327420293122).<p>This site was created to help the places that aren’t getting any help right now. The places that had to close their doors completely.<p>It’s for the dry cleaner that always greets you with a big smile. The little yoga studio that makes you feel calm after a stressful week. The florist that saved you on your anniversary.<p>It’s for your go-to dive bar for happy hour, that hardware store that always has that thingamajig you need and that old childhood arcade you want to take your kid to one day.<p>This site is for businesses in your city. Your neighborhood. Your hometown. Your college town. This is for all of them. Because these local businesses don’t have anyone else to turn to.<p>So pledge a little. Pledge a lot. Pledge something. So they can still be here when we all get through this. Because the only way we are going to get through this is together.<p>Visit NeighborPledge.com and pledge to the businesses you care about. Share it with your friends. And we’ll all make a difference, together.<p>It's a work in progress, so please comment here with ideas and suggestions. And we are looking for collaborators to join us in this effort to help.<p>NeighborPledge.com is a labor of love, it's not a for-profit entity. We don’t take fees, charge subscription, or ask SMBs for $ in any way. We just want to connect them w/ local supporters so they'll still be here when we all get through this.<p>Who's behind NeighborPledge.com? It's been mostly Dustin Rosen (https://twitter.com/du_ro) and me (https://twitter.com/aloukissas), with help from some great people like Abha Nath (https://twitter.com/abhanath) and other folks from the LA tech and venture scene.<p>Thanks,
Dustin + Alex
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Title: I'm sitting in front of a computer at least 8 hours every day and have noticed that my posture is terrible, constantly hunched over especially when I'm at my desk. Has anyone developed any tricks or tips about improving posture? It seems like a simple problem but requires constant reminding, otherwise you will fall back on your old slouched posture. Thanks!
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Title: As the title suggests. Interested to see how (and what) companies are using Go to make production grade backend services.<p>- What are you using for tests?<p>- Do you use dependency injection or any mocking frameworks?<p>- Are you using any routing frameworks?<p>- HTTP web frameworks?<p>Would love to know the ins and outs! What is good, what do you not like about Go, any pain points? Anything you would want to improve?<p>Thanks!
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Title: There might be several different categories of problems, from the literal "unsolved" (i.e. mathematics / physics) to systemic (i.e. human resources / advertising).<p>Some examples that come to mind:<p><pre><code> Brand Influencer — "The Algorithm" prevents exposure, sales, etc.
Customer Service — Explaining warranty status, other than "because it's the least we have to do legally".
Mathematician — The length of pi is continually increasing, and there doesn't appear to be an end.
Software Engineering — Thoroughly understanding a codebase in a reasonable amount of time.
</code></pre>
Ideally, this would be less of a "here's why X field is bad" thought exercise, and more of a "that's interesting, I wonder if X problem could be solved" thought exercise.
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Title: My wife and I run a small winery with about $400,000 in annual sales and a monthly payroll of about $4,000. The COVID-19 situation dealt a blow to our sales and cash flow so we submitted an application for a PPP loan with Mechanics Bank, where we keep our business checking account. So far, the process has looked like this:<p>On April 6 we submitted an application to the bank's portal, which included the standard federal form with information like average payroll and headcount.<p>On April 8 we received an email saying that we needed to submit some additional information, which just turned out to be repetition of payroll information we had already listed on the federal form.<p>On April 13 we received another email asking us to submit ownership details for any equity holders in our LLC.<p>It's now April 17 and we have not heard anything back. If I call the bank's number, I get a recording which says they'll process our application as soon as possible and they're unable to provide status updates over the phone.<p>Now I'm reading reports that the program is already out of money. If this is what's supposed to help small- and medium-sized businesses weather the pandemic, it is not inspiring much confidence. Have others had a similar experience?
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Title: After all these years and consecutive versions, Bluetooth in my experience is still a hugely unreliable experience.<p>I constantly have to forget devices, turn them off and on again etc. I have regular drop outs and I’m forever trying to re-pair.<p>This is across connection types (keyboard, music etc), brands and devices.<p>Why is Bluetooth in general so flakey?
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Title: I found this post about ARPA Net a few months ago and finally had time to read it. Anyone have other great reads or know of books on computing technology?<p>I think knowing the history of how we got to where we are helps to understand ot more.<p>Link: <a href="https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/arpanet-part-1-the-inception/" rel="nofollow">https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/arpanet-par...</a>
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Title: I've been eyeing Lisp out of the corner of my eye for years. I know I <i>should</i> learn it and it will likely change the way I think about programming.<p>What is the best way to learn Lisp in 2020? I tend to learn best when I have a project to work on that plays to the strength of the language.<p>Some questions:
- Should I start with Common Lisp, or some popular dialect (Clojure?)
- What are the big patterns that I should be aware of? What is easier to do Lisp than is missing from functional languages like Python?
- What are some big projects built in Lisp (other than this site)?
- If it's so good, why isn't it more popular?
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Title: There are many startups and companies involved in blockchain technology.<p>I’m wondering what kind of ‘significant’ problems they solve and by this is not possible with regular technology.<p>I have a strong sense that blockchain technology is a solution that has yet to find a relevant problem to solve.<p>I think the same is true for cryptocurrencies but I would like to keep those out of the discussion, if possible.
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Title: Amid the severe backlash that tech companies currently face (Google and FB amongst others), how do you consider your own company from a moral POV?
Do you think the current backlash is justified?<p>No judgement, just curious.
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Title: I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss.<p>I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are:<p>- Are there blind frontend engineers?<p>- What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only?<p>- Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?<p>- Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they?<p>I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste.<p>Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!<p>Edit:<p>Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community.
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Title: A developer/sysadmin friend of mine has been job hunting for a while now. He told me that he doesn't want to work his entire life away and as such he's only looking for part-time work, but that it has been impossible to find something.<p>Why are all companies only using full-time employment?<p>Why are there so little flexibility? It's like everyone is "brain washed" into this robot way of working eight hours a day.<p>I must admit, I'm only really productive the first 4 hours, after that I just want to go home!
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Title: I have realized that I easily give up when I face a hard problem. This is hurting my career prospects. I have been thinking and it may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you. How do I change myself ? I have observed that a lot of times I have a vague idea of a problem I am trying to solve but I don't put in the effort to nail it down. This affects my confidence and I don't want to lead whenever I get an opportunity. How do I get out of this habit ?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost"<p>Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing.<p>It is a 3 steps procedure:
1. Make an API that solves a problem
2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture
3. Distribute through an API Marketplace<p>That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI.<p>Source code of API: <a href="https://github.com/kotartemiy/extract-news-api" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kotartemiy/extract-news-api</a>
Subscribe to API on Rapid: <a href="https://rapidapi.com/provider/4109621/apis/extract-news/users" rel="nofollow">https://rapidapi.com/provider/4109621/apis/extract-news/user...</a>
I'm on ProductHunt today: <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/extract-news-api" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/extract-news-api</a><p>Full article on how I did it: <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/api-as-a-product-how-to-sell-your-work-when-all-you-know-is-a-back-end-bd78b1449119" rel="nofollow">https://towardsdatascience.com/api-as-a-product-how-to-sell-...</a>
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Title: I've been wondering for a while whether it's worth enrolling in [the OMS CS program](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/specializations) and after thinking for some weeks I came to the conclusion that it's a good opportunity to take. I decided that I'll try to enrol in the next possible semester.<p>From the four specializations they offer I'm only interested in Computing Systems or Machine Learning. I believe Computing Systems is the way to go but Machine Learning seems pretty nice with a good future in innovation meanwhile Computing Systems looks like too theoretical - not in a bad way.<p>To put it in other words, Computing Systems sounds like academic oriented and Machine Learning looks more oriented to technology development. So I'm asking for your opinions or experiences if you have already taken these courses. Were they good? Do you recommend them?<p>Also, more in specific I'm having problems understanding how I'm supposed to chose the courses I want to take. I'm not familiar with the US college system.<p>I understand I have to take 30 hours (10 courses), which are divided in core and elective. However, for the [Specialization in Computing Systems](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-computing-systems) it says it's 18 hours, 3 core courses and 3 elective and for [Machine Learning](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-machine-learning) are 15 hours, 2 core courses and 3 elective. Where are the other remaining hours?<p>Some background, I'm Mexican with a bachelor degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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Title: My experience with learning almost any new language / framework / library goes like this:<p>1. There are plenty of beginner tutorials. Often they just go through the examples from the docs or show a very simple proof of concept. Not very useful if you can read the docs.<p>2. Then you are left on your own reading through uncommented GitHub repos to understand how to put these things actually into production for use cases that go beyond 'add a todo to this list'.<p>You almost never find tutorials on how to structure your application, best practices, common mistakes etc.<p>That's the knowledge that is really helpful though and that I would pay $$$ to learn. Not 'how to create a simple todo app'. Why are there barely any learning resources that target the intermediate level?
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Title: I feel absolutely shit when I am trying to be relevant by spamming the trending tags, repeating what is already there in the form of SEO spam, email spamming, asking people to subscribe to thing they probably don't even care about.<p>How do you handle this?<p>Trying to keep track of what's trending tires me out. Why is it always hate, hate and hate. Why is it always politics or some celebrity expressing their "concerns" or cute puppies.
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Title: I already know that if I have to inquire about the price or ask for a login that the service is going to be some antiquated 90's bs.<p>But occasionally I experience this for something I didn't expect, like cloud computing.<p>I encountered a cloud service that had obscure hardware I was looking for, and unlike Amazon, Google, Azure, DigitalOcean etc <i>this</i> service needed for you to email them to get signed up!<p>"Thank you for your interest! Where are you located and what does your work involve?"<p>Okay "Sales Engineers", why is that relevant. Why is a human even answering this email?<p>"I'm experimenting with deployments but latency isn't a big issue for me so any data center will be fine". You know, like you would say with Amazon, except in a dropdown.<p>I jump through the hoops. Finally, I get to see what the interface is like, I'm poking around with no surprise that graphic design is an afterthought when suddenly<p><i>You've got mail!</i><p>My email client doesn't say that but his probably does.<p>"I wanted to do a quick check-in and.."<p>Aw that's nice and I also would have been totally fine contacting support whenever I got around to it!<p>I checked out the interface, got my fill, decided it wasn't for me and moved on!<p>All in all in one week it took:<p>10 emails to get signed up<p>1 email to tell me that "the system" should send me an email about my new account login<p>2 emails to get the account login and confirmation<p>4 emails to troubleshoot the broken account login system<p>1 automated onboarding email<p>3 checkin emails<p>1 automated 1 week anniversary onboarding email<p>What's the way to tell people I want a self serve option? Reducing this email chain down to 3 emails. Why is that person employed? This was during the best market in the history of mankind and I was questioning that, and <i>now</i> everyone with a talent more relevant than customer "retention" should be just as annoyed, given how coveted a continual flow of oxygen is now. xx
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Title: I'm so fatigued with my job. Opening up my work laptop gives me anxiety. Getting slack notifications gives me anxiety. I'm fatigued with the codebase, I don't care about the product or the customer (banks) and want to be done with it.<p>On the other hand I'm saving good money and I don't have to deliver to a particularly high level, but even this level of output is an emotional grind.<p>Feeling stupid because I should be feeling grateful to have a job. Had coworkers furloughed, furloughs at other companies across London, etc. Yet here I am looking to quit?<p>Facts:<p><pre><code> - almost 2 years out of uni, 'Senior' Engineer doing Scala
- London based, under lockdown saving 50-60% of my paycheck
- cheap rent (£650), no dependents, no mortgage, subscriptions: contact lenses, spotify and PAYG phone
- good physical health
- by the time I'll have served out my notice period, I'll have:
- 8 months runway @ £25 a day for groceries and discretionaries,
- 10 months runway @ £15 a day
- got a good amount of social stimulation at my place of residence. Not reliant on virtual happy hours for getting my fix.
- got a software project I'm enthusiastic about. Would be keen to put more time into it.
</code></pre>
I think I've already made my decision but it's been good to type this out. Any further input greatly appreciated.
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Title: There are several reasons for maintaining a personal tech blog, among them:<p>- Create a personal knowledge base<p>- Learn something yourself by teaching it<p>- Improve your writing skills<p>- Build a personal brand<p>Besides that, as someone who started maintaining a blog quite recently (9 months ago), I was curious in what (unexpected) ways writing a blog affected your career, in both positive and/or negative ways. And if it didn't, that would be interesting to know as well.
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Title: Does anybody else have the same problem?
I have been working on an App for months now but now I wanted to submit it to the App store, but I cannot create Apple Developer Account (Enrollment) because my Account is somehow blocked. My Issue at Apple (Case Number: 101043480563) has been open since March 11th, but no progress has been made. I was inquiring almost weekly, but the very friendly senior Advisor is also waiting for an internal team to give her feedback. No progress for almost 2 months.<p>Been working hard to get this App online. All the infrastructure (backend etc.) is in place, but now it is all falling apart because of this.<p>My App will greatly improve knowledge sharing in an entertaining way and will be really helpful in the current times.<p>If anybody with contacts to Apple can help, it would be really appreciated.
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Title: Web ninjas:
What is your go-to cloud service for running a small website served with python + jinja2 + sqlite? The website does little besides searching an sqlite table, serving a form, and writing the form response to an sqlite table, all with minimal computation and bandwidth. Wants are:<p><pre><code> Low price
Low maintenance time/cost
Simplicity
</code></pre>
My strengths do not include web development/servers but I know the basics. I'm particularly interested in the gotchas like: difficulties setting up SSL, transfer limits, and "X is perfect except that ____".<p>If I'm asking the wrong question or not providing enough info, please say so.
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Title: GitHub is down once again!
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Title: I vaguely recall something along the lines of an online "how to computer for CS" resource or class for incoming computer science students.<p>It covered things like using a terminal and a package manager. It might have been MIT. It might have been a free online course.<p>Does anybody remember something like that?
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Title: GitHub informed us of something supposedly new: we could upgrade our pro personal account to a free organization account. Yay! Quoting the github page: "Everything the personal account has"... plus more fine grained permissions control.<p>Note the upgrade is a one-way process. Thinking it was free so why not upgrade we did.<p>Except we had a wiki. With a lot of valuable information. Which is now gone:<p>While its not documented anywhere in the happy sounding announcement, wikis aren't included in the free organization plan. Bye data! Or if you need it, thanks for upgrading your $4 plan into a more expensive one. All the best, Microsoft.
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Title: Hey HN — I wanted to share some data to show how useful it can be to have a decent audience on the internet.<p>Earlier this week, I spent no more than 16 hours prepping and recording a short video about I topic I know well. Yesterday I put it for sale on Gumroad [1], tweeted about it [2], and I already sold 234 copies for $14,379 worth of videos [3].<p>Last December, I did the same thing with a short technical ebook about AWS [4]. Since then, I sold $78K worth of PDFs in just under 4 months. At the time, I had 11K followers on Twitter. Now I have 25K.<p>I've been building an audience for 14 months. I started selling online 4 months ago, and now I'm close to making $100K [5]. I'm really fascinated by the opportunity of making a living from my own digital creations, and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them if I can.<p>---<p>[1] https://gumroad.com/l/twitter-audience/hn<p>[2] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1252963753647316992<p>[3] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253447751779487744<p>[4] https://gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts/corona<p>[5] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253161719108493313
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Title: When visiting reddit today some users (including me) have been experiencing a popup to a suspicious domain straight after load of reddit.com and when interacting with posts. I'm concerned such a high value XSS would be being used for something more serious than spam ad clicks<p>Reddit security team are aware<p>(I will avoid linking to relevant reddit posts for obvious reasons but you can find them on my account /u/haxiomic)
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Title: please, I need to know!
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Title: After resisting for years buying a coffee machine, I finally got one. At work I'm drinking 2-3 a day but staying at home all the time seems to make me drink more.
How much do you drink? What's your normal intake?
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Title: Hi HN!!! I'm a big fan of podcasts. My favourite podcasts are Joe-Rogan-Experience, The Portal By Eric Weinstein.<p>What are your favourite podcasts? (Anything related to Life, philosophy, science, startups, coding, VC, art, marketing, design etc...)
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Title: Repeating the fun question originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284918
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Title: So I've been working in the industry for a while, and as a hobbyist for a good bit of time before that. Currently my career have consisted of writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that. I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method. Thi bis true not just for CS and software development, but other technical and mathematical subjects I've attempted to learn.<p>The typical suggestions for people in my situation dont interest me. These seem to be roles adjacent to what I do now and often, but closer to business then tech. These might include becoming a business analyst, technical salesman, fast tracking to management, etc. These are sound even worse to me than what I do now, and given the choice I'd just stick with development.<p>Now I'd likely have to return to some sort of schooling and I'm young enough to do it (I guess), but given my intellectual limitation and my stubbornness on what I take interest in, I'm not sure what options I have.
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Title: I've been studying viruses lately, and have found that the line between virus/exosome/self is much more blurry than I realized. But, given the niche interest in the subject, most articles are not written with an overview in mind.<p>What sorts of topics make you feel this way?
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Title: I've been really interested in VR as a way to socialize with others. I often play games online with friends with voice chat and it's a good way to stay connected and maintain a social outlet but I wonder if VR would be an even better way to experience this and satisfy my social needs.<p>From what I can tell Oculus products are the most popular and accessible but I refuse to buy into an ecosystem that is owned by Facebook. Valve index also looks very good but the price is very high. I wonder if the new Playstation will continue to push VR as a feature.<p>Does anyone use VR for socializing? Playing games together in VR sounds fun but even just chatting with avatars seems like a great way to stay connected.
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Title: Bookmarks which you wanted to read, but simply forgot...<p>It happened to me all the time. I bookmarked the articles to read later and simply forgot about them. Forever.<p>I built Mailist to help with that. Already 2350 users enjoy their "weekly digests" composed from their bookmarks. It makes me super happy!<p>So now, https://mailist.app Pro account allows you to send an email newsletter every day, built from your bookmarks.<p>Does it sound interesting?
The free version (weekly email) is available for everyone!<p>Let me know what you think.<p>PS. Unlike other tools, we care about your privacy and don't suggest promo content based on your saved links.
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Title: Of the mailman, ecartis, etc. genre; not the newsletter marketing mass shot genre.<p>Ecartis has done sterling work for years but even back then it was effectively abandonware. Something nice and simple I can run in Docker or a single binary would be perfect.
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Title: Reclaim the side of your screen as lighting to illuminate your face on video calls. Show up more clearly (and reduce visible screen flicker if browsing tabs!) https://goldenhourapp.com
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Title: I am beginning to learn these tools and I noticed that Ansible is used to configure servers and Terraform does something similar but I can't figure what makes Ansible poor choice when doing provisioning?
NB: I am still learning please bear with my poor use of technical terms.
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Title: I would like to write some short stories but I don't know where to publish them. Should I go for Medium, or a personal blog ...<p>Whatever you are writing, fictional or not, which platform do you use to publish ? And what are the pros and cons ?
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Title: I’ve been reading, writing and speaking English as a second language ever since I was a kid. I can conduct hour-long conversations at work or when on holiday with native speakers without getting tired or feeling strained. I give presentations, tell jokes and would sometimes even speak in English because I find it easier to express my current thought in it.
And yet it doesn’t feel like a mother tongue. I still feel some sentences are direct translations of the way I would say something in Hebrew, and that a native speaker would have said it differently.
I’m also aware of my grammar not being perfect. Knowing which preposition to use is sometimes challenging.<p>So, how do I improve my English further? What’s the next step after reaching this level?
Obviously online classes wouldn’t do. The only option I could think of is living in an English speaking country, but that currently not an option.<p>PS this entire post was written without any help from online resources, so you can take that as my current level of English writing. If you spot out anything you might have articulated differently, it’d be great to hear! Thanks!
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Title: I live in a country with less than ideal Internet freedom standards and I have a suspicion that a popular publishing site is being rate limited. How can I know for sure? Is it possible to show a smoking gun?
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Title: I saw lots of password sharing (especially at work, between family members or friends, purposely or non purposely) with plain text in the wiki, or restricted permission of doc.<p>Are there existing tools (or non-existing tools) that can simplify password sharing experience securely?<p>(Password manager seems a way of securely sharing password, but it usually requires registration and is guarded behind a paywall. Not simple enough IMHO)
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Title: Whilst my world is on hiatus for the foreseeable, I've decided to learn enough web development to ship a few product ideas I've had on the back burner, for a mix of fun, profit and self development.<p>Plan A was to just learn front-end development (HTML, CSS, JS, framework, UI/UX) and use a baas like Firebase or AWS for the back-end.<p>Now, I'm a little concerned that relying on front-end and baas will bottleneck me in some way that isn't obvious to me as a newbie.<p>Given the above, how valuable would a back-end education be (node/express or ruby on rails), even if I end up going the baas route?<p>Notes:
My product ideas are run of the mill Reddit for dogs, news aggregator, to-do list app type stuff.<p>I'll be following one of the Odin Project's curriculums. They offer both front-end and full stack learning tracks.<p>-Front end https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/3<p>-Full stack Javascript https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/2<p>-Full stack Ruby on Rails https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/1
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